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Pepperony As Parents Masterlist
A Car Named Arleen (ao3) - SelenitaLunar G, 4k
Summary: Parenting hasn't been easy for Pepper and Tony, but their daughter is ten years old now and she seems to grow up happily in a family that loves her so much.
A New Day Has Come (ao3) - Amy (InnitMarvelous), I love Tony Stark 3000 FOREVER (InnitMarvelous), InnitMarvelous, tsg (InnitMarvelous) G, 3k
Summary: Tony has a quiet talk with his newborn son a few hours after he's born.
Coming Home (ao3) - inkinmyheartandonthepage G, 59k
Summary: AU – Peter Stark was kidnapped when he was just three years old. Tony and Pepper never stopped looking for their boy. Years later, Peter finds his way back home.
Cut from the same Cloth (fanfiction.net) - Elizabeth Bathory G, 3k
Summary: Set in the world of How Many More Chances - Children are so much like their parents, even in the tinest of ways.
domestic life (was never quite my style) (ao3) - imposterhuman G, 1k
Summary: Pepper had never really wanted children. Most of her life had been spent chasing her ambition, climbing ladder after ladder in a cutthroat world. She was distinctly not maternal, at least in the traditional sense.
Sometimes, she imagined having a baby, a little piece of both her and Tony, and she wanted. But she looked at her life, looked at Tony’s life, and knew that it wasn’t feasible.
Family Business (fanfiction.net) - FriendLey G, 1k
Summary: Pepper and Tony Stark's only child, Maria, is going on her first day of school and everywhere they look kids are crying. COMPLETE
Head Above Water (ao3) - sahiya G, 15k
Summary: “FRIDAY has all the emergency numbers,” Pepper said, “including Morgan’s pediatrician. There’s food in the fridge––soup for Tony and Morgan, lasagna and mac and cheese for you. Make sure Morgan is drinking her Pedialyte, and see if you can get her to sleep in her own bed tonight. And don’t let Tony go on a fever-driven work binge.”
“Got it,” Peter said, nodding. “FRIDAY, fridge, Pedialyte, no work binge.”
Metamorphosis (ao3) - art_deco_deity G, 11k
Summary: How Peter Parker changed Tony Stark; seen through the eyes of one Pepper Potts.
My Dad is My Hero (ao3) - velarisstars G, 1k
Summary: It’s dress up as your hero day at school. So who does Peter choose to dress up as? His dad, of course!
Ft. Toddler Peter and cute pepperony moments
Perfectly parental (ao3) - Bergen T, 110k
Summary: Snippets from the daily life of Peter trying to settle into his new life with his family of Avengers, and Tony trying to get used to being ‘perfectly parental’.
Proof That Morgan Stark’s Parents Are Still in Love (ao3) - akasharpiegirl T, 4k
Summary: In which Morgan Stark starts to think that her parents aren’t in love anymore and separating, so her parents try to ease her anxiety about it.
The Strange Ways of Adult Fun Time (ao3) - deervsheadlights T, 3k
Summary: Morgan was beginning to understand that saying about curiosity killing the cat.
It mostly made her feel bad for the cat.
Also, who knew her parents could be this flustered?
Tony's Birthday (ao3) - flyingorfalling G, 20k
Summary: This was supposed to be a drabble for Tony's birthday, but it became 3000 words of tooth-rotting fluff, so I decided to add more chapters and turn the whole thing into a series.
Twist of Fate (ao3) - karenninaaa T, 72k
Summary: A single picture triggered Tony Stark to suspect that Peter Parker was his son, biologically.
Uncle Rhodey (ao3) - books_entertain_the_mind G, 2k
Summary: Rhodey comes to visit the Starks one morning to find the most bizarre scene he never thought he'd see in Tony Stark's kitchen.
A.K.A. Rhodey meets Rowan Stark and becomes an uncle.
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ellylon · 2 years
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Auctober 20: Special Interests ✨
(sorry it's late)
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As a kid, my special interests were mainly mythological things; fairies, goblins, and the likes. When I was in 5th grade, I probably read all of the Mythology Around The World (not the actual title) books at least twice.
6th grade was when the "Twilight," book series came out. I wasn't interested in the book series, but I became interested in vampire lore, and was fascinated by how it differs from place to place. That's when I started looking into darker mythologies 😼
In high school, I became fascinated with other cultures and history. Not in a "this is the model of tank used in WWII," kind of way. In a, "This is what it was like living in the Victorian Era," kind of way.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE "The Royal Diaries," book series and anything of a similar format, because it's fascinating to me how humans lived long ago, and how things have changed or stayed the same. Some people I had a particular interest in were...
° Marie Antoinette
° King Henry VIII and his 6 wives
I ✨LOVED✨ how the show "The Tudors," threw in little personal details, like how Anne Boelyn would crave apples when she was pregnant.
° (King Henry VIII's daughters) Bloody Mary and Queen Elizabeth
° Anastasia Romanov
° Elizabeth Bathory 😼 My mom got a little freaked out when she saw me reading THAT biography.
I'm starting to think this might have been a special interest as well 🤔 When my mom was pregnant with my sister, I was WHOLLY fascinated in how babies developed in the womb and how so much change/growth happens in the first few years of life. I just LOVED babies and toddlers, to the point that I'd inch closer and closer to random strangers if they had a baby 👶 and ask to touch/hold/play with the baby. I grew up with the dream of having a big family with lots of kids.
But now that I've grown up and realized I'm a sex-repulsed asexual 😅 I don't really see myself having children of my own anymore. So, instead, I work with kids as an assistant teacher 😋 I get to pour my love and fascination with child development into my job.
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erazonpo3 · 3 years
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WOWM
so What Once Was Mine came out and I read it.
My General Thoughts are that this book was something of a rollercoaster but in like a pop up carnival with dubious safety regulations and diseases in the DIY log flume water kind of way. I had some fun reading it but I also feel like I picked up a rash.
If you're like me and you enjoy picking a book apart for morsels of interesting concepts then you might enjoy it, if you think holy shit why the fuck is a literal real historical serial killer in this book I need to see this then you might enjoy it, if you care about engaging plots and character beats then you probably won't.
If you want to ask me anything specific go ahead, but otherwise for more in depth thoughts: spoilers ahead
Basic Summary of the Plot
Okay so here's the deal. The story has the framing device of two siblings in a cancer ward, where one tells the other a story. I'll get into that later, but that's how it starts. Our actual story starts with a pretty long prologue: We learn that the King & Queen got the Moonflower thinking it was the Sunflower, Rapunzel was born with silver hair, and then baby Rapunzel kills a maid who accidentally hurt her when brushing her hair.
Oh, by the way, Max is a human man named Justin Tregsburg. Yeah.
Anyway, the royal family puts out feelers for legit witches who can safely take care of Rapunzel because the baby is too dangerous, and Gothel shows up to take her away. Queen Arianna visits Rapunzel once (but is only allowed to watch through a peephole) and decides watching another woman raise her child is too painful and throws herself into restoring the kingdom's orphanages instead.
Now we're in the present. Rapunzel is nineteen and she wants to go and see the lanterns (a mourning tradition of the Dead princess in this story). She tries to argue with Gothel but gets shut down, and Gothel makes her kill a chicken to prove the point that she can't go outside because she's too dangerous. However we as the audience already know Gothel plans to sell Rapunzel off as a bride or a servant or a weapon to some other nobles, because she's evil.
Also by the way Gothel still has access to our Sundrop Flower and is using it to live forever that's just a thing that happens in the background.
When Gothel is gone Rapunzel watches as a man (Flynn) stores a satchel in a tree outside of her tower, and that motivates her to leave the tower for the first time. Then she goes back inside the tower with her prize of a crown, and a skink she found and named Pascal. Rapunezl and Gothel have another spat, and Rapunzel decides she will run off to see the lanterns and she will find Flynn and make him her guide.
She ends up at the Snuggly Duckling and she doesn't find Flynn but she does find Gina, a young career criminal girl looking to break the glass ceiling. Gina agrees to help her find Flynn. They find Flynn, and he agrees to help guide Rapunzel to see the floating lanterns for a split reward of the crown with Gina.
The Snuggly Duckling gets burned down by Countess Bathory (yes that Elizabeth Bathory) and the Pub Thugs are pissed about it and also they're helping Rapunzel even though she didn't sing the I've Got A Dream song don't worry about it. We learn that the nobles that wanted to buy Rapunzel are now hunting her down so she can go to auction.
Gina takes them to her adopted mother's cottage. Gina's mother is a white witch, who goes by the name of Goodwife. She doesn't get an actual name she's just The Goodwife. Anyhow, the cottage is a magic safe space (for now) and Goodwife teaches Rapunzel that her hair isn't inherently evil and may not even be all that deadly! Rapunzel learns that her hair has other powers too, like the ability to turn skink Pascal into a sentient Chameleon. Yeah.
Also Goodwife tells Rapunzel she's the dead princess but this isn't like, an immediate call to action. Not a lot happens until we get this story's version of the Mother Knows Best Reprise where Gothel finds Rapunzel again but has to flee, but this Rapunzel has a bigger support network and isn't buying it. Flynn and Gina decide the safest course of action is to bring Rapunzel to the castle, but along the way she gets kidnapped by the Countess.
Gothel is pissed because she still wants the money for Rapunzel, so she rallies the armies of all the opposing bidders. Flynn and Gina convince Max the Man to send for his troops, and he joins them in going to the enemy castle. Flynn tries to sneak in, gets caught, and meanwhile there's a bloody battle out the front between the noble armies. Max jumps into the fray, Gina turns around and rallies the Pub Thugs.
Rapunzel uses her shrinking magic (!) to disappear half the castle and escape with Eugene, and the Pub Thugs arrive and basically end the battle. The Captain is dying but it's okay! Rapunzel turns him into a horse :) Also Rapunzel sees Gothel and tells her to fuck off.
The story ends with a tearful reunion between Rapunzel and her parents, Eugene and Gina are implied to be biological siblings, and things are good but of course in direct parallel to Cass Gina leaves at the end to become an adventurer. The end.
(There are a few other smaller plot beats, but you get the idea.)
MY THOTS
So here are my thoughts™.
Framing Device
I'll just state that I didn't like that the story was told via the vehicle of an older brother telling his 16 year old sister a different version of the Tangled Movie in a cancer ward. From what I've heard it also isn't normal for the Twisted Tales series to use a framing device for the AUs either.
I sympathise with the author's personal story, of course I do. That doesn't mean I'm stirred with compassion every time the flow of the story is interrupted to remind you to be sad because this is a story being told to a girl sick with cancer. It feels more than a little tragedy-porny rather than emotionally touching, and maybe that's because I'm too burnt out on real life tragedy to waste emotional energy on fictional cancer patients but we don't need to do Fault In Our Stars discourse again.
Real World References
This story goes heavy with Real World references. And another issue with the framing device as above is that you do feel like this is a story being told by someone namedropping every historical figure they know which makes it harder to get into the story.
There's like... a lot of references to Christianity, particularly in the prologue. There's a priest that thinks Rapunzel's hair is the work of the Devil or whatever. It's a lot. The Patriarchy is a thing. And that's not even getting into the Countess. I put it very succinctly in my notes so I'll paste it here:
I wish she’d just been an OC who could exist to chew scenery because the fact that she was a literal historical serial killer is super. Off putting. Like, she could have been an obvious reference to Bathory, but it feels like Miku Binder Hamilton levels of uncomfortable to me.
I miss Lady D.
Which basically sums up my problem with trying to take the setting of Tangled and put it somewhere in the Real World and somewhere on the Timeline. Who thought this was a good idea.
Misc. Thoughts
So, I used the five highlighter colours my ipad allows to organise my thoughts and organised them accordingly: Yellow for out of place IRL references, Blue for worldbuilding/character points that aren't plot relevant but still interesting, Pink for when something I find personally amusing happens, Purple for when the story feels like it's trying to 1-up the movie in some kind of way and Green for Heterosexual Nonsense. I'll touch on those last two in the Character sections but be prepared.
Also: for a book about giving Rapunzel killer hair, her hair isn't very dangerous. I wanted to see Rapunzel kill someone, and I'm disappointed that I didn't.
Characters
I'll do a deep dive into my thoughts about the characters before wrapping it up. I'm starting with Gina because she's honestly the easiest to get through.
Gina
Gina is a new character introduced for the story. She's a young woman trying to make it as a career criminal but keeps hitting that glass ceiling. So here's the down low, for all those who want to know: Gina is basically Cass, only not really. She's implied to be Eugene's biological sister, as previously mentioned, but you can imagine she's Cass the entire way through without breaking your immersion because if you imagined Cass if she were adopted by a Goodwitch rather than the Captain and had a looser, more wilderness survivor than trainee guard upbringing then you get Gina.
I liked Gina! I think she's fun as her own character too, and her best moments are when she's interacting with her mother Goody Goodwife, and she of course picks up a natural sibling rivalry with Eugene, but I was disappointed with how little she really bonded with Rapunzel because she needed to make room for Eugene and Rapunzel's romance.
Rapunzel
Okay, here's our protagonist. There's a notable effort to make Rapunzel more active in her destiny and whatever, and sometimes it works but sometimes it doesn't. I was worried they'd try to go full butt-kicking girlboss with her but I was pleasantly surprised that Rapunzel was pretty useless in most scenes, genuinely love to see it.
With a more intimate look into Rapunzel's psyche through the medium of prose, we see Rapunzel really questioning Gothel's behaviour even before she leaves the tower, and while I appreciate that she can develop her own cynicism I feel it starts unnecessarily early. This is my purple colour; the movie needs to be "fixed" by showing the readers that this Rapunzel is quicker to distrust Gothel. She's also quicker to hatch a plan to go outside of the tower on her own, and she makes a plan to make Flynn her guide for the lanterns even though he never stumbles upon her in the tower- and even though she has a perfectly rational reason not to trust him which is that he is a stranger and a Wanted Thief.
In the moments where it does work is when Rapunzel is surrounded by her new support network: Flynn, Goodwife and Gina, who encourage her to question Gothel's sincerity, and Rapunzel comes up with her own defences for Gothel so that she can poke through them herself.
I have some other thoughts about Rapunzel's hair and her powers, like how the story provides the interesting concept that her hair gets different powers with the different phases of the moon, but a lot of the powers are uhhh stupid and also I feel like it really robs the story of the whole gripping conflict of "Yes I'm Rapunzel Yes my hair kills people what of it".
In as far as just Rapunzel herself though, she still felt pretty in character nonetheless, and maybe that's all I can ask.
Flynn Rider / Eugene Fitzherbert
My boy I am so sorry. They neutered my boy.
Long story short: Eugene in this story is the sexy lamp. He contributes nothing to the plot except to be there for Rapunzel to drool over. And of course because he won't get any character development, he starts from the very beginning as a sweet soft boi with none of the Flynn Rider characterisation from the movie because we don't have time for that, he needs to be husband material stat.
His whole character is the colour green for Heterosexual Nonsense.
So, here's the problem. In the movie, there's not a lot of time for ~friendship~ between Rapunzel and Eugene because they kind of immediately see each other as a romantic prospect. And whatever, it's a movie and there's only so much time. But this book had the opportunity to take things a bit slower and instead chooses to make Rapunzel get jealous whenever Eugene and Gina interact and for her to be constantly wishing he was holding her hand.
Say what you will about Lost Lagoon, but it tells a good romance story just by virtue of not intending to be a romance story, because the author is trying to convey a strong bond between Rapunzel and Cassandra without using "and they kiss" as a cheatcode. What Once Was Mine says "he was a boy, she was a girl, could it be any more obvious?" and leaves it at that.
Now as for how this all pertains to Eugene's character? Well, it just robs him of any flavour. In the movie there's a clear distinction between Flynn and Eugene, when we learn Eugene's real name about halfway through. We see a clear difference between the Flynn we knew- kind of an asshole, wanated to drop Rapunzel off at the Snuggly Duckling and get rid of her- and Eugene, who is sincere and chooses Rapunzel as his New Dream in opposition to his Old Dream of living alone on an island with a bunch of money.
This version of Eugene is basically Eugene all the way through, because the plot doesn't really need Eugene there but he has to be there because it's a Tangled AU so there's no Rapunzel rescuing Flynn from the guards and healing his hand scene, he just loves her immediately and that's that. They have a little spat at one point but it's cleared up later and not because they actually communicate but because they kiss.
Rapunzel only learns Eugene's real name at the very end of the story, and gives a speech about how Eugene is the real him, but it's just so flat because 'Flynn' has been sincere this whole time? Anyway he does nothing of value for the entire story except be there for Rapunzel to lust after. Eugene I'm so sorry.
Gothel
Gothel's sort of the Big Bad and is characterised as an abusive asshole, the usual. I wish there were a bit more nuance to her character but then again in this story she's not just being passively evil- taking care of Rapunzel for selfish reasons but nevertheless maintaining the status quo- she's being actively evil in trying to sell Rapunzel off.
It's notably funny that Gothel sees the Countess Bathory and is like "what the fuck".
Anyway Gothel in this story also feels very weak in part because this Rapunzel is more critical and in part because this Rapunzel has a new support network. It's for that reason the Mother Knows Best Reprise scene doesn't really work, because the original has Gothel pit Rapunzel against Eugene, whereas she can't do that here so it remains a Gothel vs Rapunzel thing.
She gets a boring death as an epilogue addendum that someone rips out the Sundrop flower, which tbh? lame. It would be a lot more fun if it were open ended but I am also preferential to Rapunzel actually using her killer hair to kill someone. Please
Captain Justin Tregsburg
It's Max. He was a human but then he got turned into a horse. what the fuck you guys
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Welcome! To Countess Bathory’s Traveling Wax Museum
This is 100% legal and not a cover up we swear.
All jokes aside the Traveling wax museum is a cover up for an attempt to revive Historical figures through some…definitely not humane means of consciousness recovery,and placing said consciousness into a mostly robotic body.
Though that’s not really important right now,so let’s meet the figures!
Main Figures
Amelia Earhart
Low key my favourite
Based physically on Amelia when she was in her mid-late 30’s
An adventure loving daredevil who can keep a level head under pressure,highly adaptable and intelligent
Probably one of the few 100% sane people here
Has amazing advice for you.
Speaks in weird 1930’s English,and also knows ASL
Her plane does work,but,since it’s usually kept inside,she can’t go anywhere.
Had her memories messed with,can’t exactly remember how she died.
Favourite drink is tomato juice and she will 100% look at you like you’ve lost your mind when you judge her for it
Fred Noonan
Amelia’s companion,they are displayed together all the time.
Kinda just….a guy
Likes to dress smart.
Easily bribed with the promise of good alcohol
Amazing navigator outside,halfway decent inside. Celestial navigation,he’s great at it
Used to do navigation on ships before he changed to navigating for Airplanes
Speaks in a similar dialect to Amelia,the two often communicate in weird 1930’s talk that pretty much nobody understands
Also had his memory messed with,can’t remember how he died
Would find the portrayal of Amelia in Night at the museum something rather at the Smithsonian absolutely hilarious. Amelia would not.
Elizabeth Bathory
First figure to be successful created,hence why the museum is named after her
Not…stable. Literally everyone else is disturbed by her
The threat of her bathing in your blood could and would probably happen.
She thinks she’s the main attraction but nobody wants to see the wax museum for her,they come to see people like Earhart and the Red Baron,so she’s….kinda pissy
Dramatic.
Speaks Hungarian accurate to 1590-1610,and English that is a mix of 1590-1610 English and semi-modern english.
Not a nice lady.
Remembers how she died very clearly.
Manfred Von Richthofen
The RED BARON BABY
Know the song ‘Red Baron’ by Sabaton? Yeah that’s accurate. TBH the Wax museum can be very accurately described by a lot of Sabaton songs.
Doesn’t know what fear is,very ambitious and kinda cold. Knows his goals and will stop at nothing to complete them
Usually displayed near Amelia and the other pilots,not particularly intimidating on the ground.
Would be very confused by the Snoopy-Red Baron connection
Much like Amelia,his plane also works but,again,inside,can’t go anywhere.
Doesn’t talk much about the war,not even if asked. He’ll only talk about it when he think’s it’s important
Usually seen with Raisa Aronova and her navigator.
Speaks German and 1910’s English,accent is heavy but you can understand him.
Most of the other’s just call him ‘The Baron’ instead of Manfred,he doesn’t mind.
Does remember being fatally shot down but doesn’t remember actually dying.
Raisa Yermolayevna Aronova
One of the Night Witches from WW2
Like…19,probably. She’s not that old but is somehow still absolutely terrifying.
Memory was very fucked up,can’t remember any of her life after her service in WW2.
Always seen with her Navigator Polina Gelman.
Does things ‘the Russian way’ aka never giving up and refusing to die.
Fuelled by spite
Again,plane works but can’t really be used for obvious reasons.
Speaks Russian and 1930-1940’s English with an accent,which is heavy but understandable.
People just call her ‘The Night Witch’
Has heard and jammed to ‘Night Witches’ by Sabaton.
She’s very blunt,but doesn’t usually mean to hurt people with the things she says.
Decked Manfred in the face when she first met him,the German accent made her think he was a Nazi. He was not a Nazi and was very confused. They hang out now,mutual bonding over war pilot stuff and flying in….not exactly durable biplanes.
Polina Gelman
Raisa’s navigator. Much to her annoyance people just call her the Navigator sometimes.
Slightly more chill then Raisa.
Good navigator,knows what she’s doing
Speaks similar Russian and English to Raisa.
Not much to say really she’s kinda just there.
Also can’t remember any of her life after her service in WW2.
Refuses to sugarcoat anything.
Francis Pegahmagabow
The Ghost in the Trenches
Master of stealth,even when just walking normally.
If someone was to scare a nighttime visitor it would probably be him
Goes by Peggy.
Can’t remember any of his life after WW1,but knows that he did have a life after a war.
Will pickpocket you just to prove that he can. Don’t worry he’ll give it right back afterwards.
A pretty good guy all around.
Balls of steel.
Speaks 1910’s English and Ojibwe,might also speak some French but he won’t confirm.
More open about the Great War then Manfred,doesn’t like to talk about Passchendaele
His Ross Rifle still works,nobody knows where everyone gets the ammo from,but he doesn’t use it much,at most he’ll aim it at a threat to scare people off.
Smart dude,very wise and gives great advice.
Simo Häyhä
The White Death
Very humble,blames all his skill on practice.
Not depicted with his scarring from taking a round to the face,but remembers what it looked like.
Much like Francis,he still has his gun and it still works.
Patient,very patient
Also really short,but he doesn’t seem bothered.
Speaks Finnish and 1930’s-1940’s English,accent is distinct but not hard to understand.
Hangs around with Lady Death and Francis a lot of the time.
Remembers up to the end of WW2 and nothing else.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Lady Death
People have a hard time pronouncing her name so they just call her Lady. She doesn’t like it but would rather that then her name being butchered constantly
A strong,kind of intimidating Russian woman
Will kick you in the groin if you mention how her being a woman sniper is in anyway bizarre for the times.
Usually found with Francis and Simo.
Didn’t like Simo at first,but grew to tolerate him over time.
Russian and 1940’s english with a pretty distinct accent.
Gun still works,of the three(other two being Francis and Simo) she probably fires at people the most. Have fun explaining that to your boss.
Remembers parts of her life after WW2 but not much,troubled by the fact that she has/had a husband and son and can’t do anything to find them now.
Gives excellent speeches.
The others
Probably also important but I’m too lazy to develop them right now so just enjoy a list so you know who exists
Marilyn Monroe
Inmate 4859
Charlie Chaplin
Winston Churchill
Genghis Khan
Carolus Rex
Mad Jack
Audie Murphy
Nancy Wake
Ching Shih
Maria Bochkareva
Tomoe Gozen
Boudicca
Alvin York
Rasputin
Obviously this narrative is based completely in fiction and is not meant to actually represent anything the historical figures have said/done.
Don’t jump down my throat. Also feel free to point out any historical inconsistencies,I consider myself well researched but you can never be too sure.
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Hi KC Readers,
After a long break, we are back with our weekly releases! We apologize for the delay but we have reached the end of the week which means we have new weekly releases for you! The stories below were updated during the week of May 22nd - May 28th.
Happy Reading!
FanFiction.Net
Something Like Love (Chapter 8)
Author: Recklessnesspersonified
Rating: M
Length: 20,346
Summary: Klaus Mikaelson was a bad boy, the quintessential jock or so Caroline Forbes had thought until one night their paths cross in the school hallways. He was different, intense and she was falling for him, but soon she finds out it was all a sham. Will she forgive him or would they break up before they confess their true love? AU/AH
Date of update: May 23 2021
Klaus POV - The Trouble with Spells (Chapter 26)
Author: ilovetf
Rating: M
Length: 105,863
Summary: I think the title is self explanatory. The Trouble with Spells as seen through Klaus's eyes and his POV. Over the years, people kept liking this story and some even asked for Klaus POV, so I decided to give it a try. Hope you enjoy it. All feedback is more than welcome. Good or bad.
Date of update: May 23 2021
High Stakes
Author: stardancer10
Rating: M
Length: 4,105
Summary: When Klaus died something in Caroline broke. She could not take anymore of Mystic Falls and she left. In her travels she finds herself doing things that she knew others wouldn't agree with, but she did what she felt was right. It was a gamble she was willing to take, something she felt that she owed him.
Date of update: May 23 2021
Purgatory (Chapter 22)
Author: Scarletborn
Rating: M
Length: 333,312
Summary: Caroline Forbes always thought that evil creatures and demons belonged to Hell. What she did not know was that vampires belonged to Purgatory. A place worse than hell where the only thing that mattered was survival. A place where enemies turned into allies and foes into friends. [Klaus/Caroline AU story set mostly in New Orleans]
Date of update: May 24 2021
The Wolf II (Chapter 11)
Author: yokan87
Rating: T
Length: 4,718
Summary: The Guerreras' threat still looms over the Mikaelson house as Caroline tries to adapt to life as a vampire, away from her daughter. But an unexpected family reunion makes everything worse, taking away the little peace Klaus, Caroline and Elijah managed to find after the war that nearly broke them. [It's TO S2, but Caroline was a witch, had Klaus' baby and now she's a vampire]
Date of update: May 26 2021
Vampires suck (Chapter 4)
Author: Miss.Mystic.Falls
Rating: T
Length: 5,583
Summary: What would happen if Caroline knew about vampires way before the Salvatore brothers come to Mystic Falls.
Date of update: May 28 2021
Archive of Our Own
No Reservations (Chapter 3)
Author:  PumpkinDoodles
Rating: M
Length: 6,890
Summary: Caroline Forbes is having a tiny crisis: her restaurant partner and co-chef has disappeared again and isn't returning her calls. Caroline cannot function without Stefan. Her kitchen staff starts making jokes about getting her meds for irritability and she takes out her issues on helpless chicken breasts. It's not fun on a good day. But when tragedy strikes, Caroline's forced to work with a new chef. She doesn't remember meeting him in New Orleans--but Klaus Mikaelson remembers her.
Date of update: May 22 2021
Sibling Rivalry Redux - Adventures in Polyamory (Chapter 3)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: M
Length: 4,105
Summary: In which Klaus and Rebekah are both bi, their taste in men and women overlaps infuriatingly often, and they argue over their newest shared interest. In which Caroline feels like she might be a sugar baby, but no one’s dating her and she hasn’t gotten any in so long. Like, basically since meeting her new best friends, Klaus and Rebekah. Weird, right?
Date of update: May 22 2021
Darkness Becomes Thee (Chapter 6)
Author: BelleMorte180
Rating: E
Length: 32,424
Summary: Austria 1300s When Klaus met a young girl on a riverbank, he knew that he would one day come back for her. When he looked into her bright blue eyes, he could see a reflection of his own soul, a darkness that lingered inside both of them. When the young girl turned into a beautiful woman with a thirst for blood, his fascination with her turns into obsession. He wants not only her loyalty but her eternity, a possessiveness that is equally returned. or my "Caroline is the serial killer Elizabeth Bathory" au.
Date of update: May 23 2021
The Big Bad Wolf (Chapter 9)
Author: MorningStarGirl666
Rating: M
Length: 66,087
Summary: He was the Big, Bad Wolf of this story, there was no doubt about that. But Caroline? She was the light to his darkness, the moon that shone brighter than even the stars in a sky of endless void. Like every wolf, he fell in love with the moon, and every month, he was destined to cry for a love he would never touch.
Date of update: May 23 2021
Klaus vs the Soulmate Goose
Author: kcatdino
Rating: T
Length: 2,129
Summary: Klaus has met his match in the form of a goose as immortal and obstinate as he is: The Soulmate Goose of Enforcement. Will he succeed in killing the magical creature or will it force him to accept what’s in his heart?
Date of update: May 23 2021
Louder Than Thunder (Chapter 28)
Author: khaleesiofthewolves
Rating: M
Length: 179,641
Summary: All Hell was about to break loose. After dying while protecting a grieving Klaus, Caroline finds herself sent back in time, and she's not who she once was. She's more. Back in Mystic Falls, something else is stirring. After the arrival of a mysterious figure from Klaus' past, it all comes to a head. It really is louder than thunder.
Date of update: May 24 2021
We are young (Chapter 17)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: T
Length: 20,572
Summary: Basically, Klaroline flirt in front of their kids who they are barely older than, and Landon is appropriately confused. Edit: Now a series of one-shots! Edit 2: Oh my god, this has plot now!
Date of update: May 24 2021
Our Time Now (Chapter 4)
Author: perfectpro
Rating: M
Length: 52,838
Summary: Caroline is going to spend her senior year getting into the law school of her choice, leading the cheerleading squad to a nationals title, and passing her sorority presidency to someone who will continue a legacy of excellence. She doesn't have time to figure out what's happening with her relationship with Klaus - not that it's much of a relationship to begin with.
Date of update: May 24 2021
I See Dead Cheerleaders (Chapter 4)
Author: PumpkinDoodles
Rating: M
Length: 7,865
Summary: When Caroline saves Jenna from Klaus's sacrifice ritual and is killed instead, she vows to haunt Klaus Mikaelson forever. Never underestimate the determination of Miss Mystic Falls.
Date of update: May 25 2021
Finding Out the Truth in a Year or Even in a Century
Author: klarolineshipperxoxo
Rating: G
Length: 1,348
Summary: Caroline goes with Stefan to New Orleans in search of Klaus 18 years after the events of TVD 5x22 and TO 1x22 but things don't go as planned and buried feelings are unearthed.
Date of update: May 25 2021
Klaroline Returns (Chapter 2)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: T
Length: 8,010
Summary: The savior of Gotham, Catwoman, is Caroline Forbes, flighty heiress by day. But what happens when her worlds collide in the form of reporter Klaus Mikaelson and her worst supervillain, The Hybrid?
Date of update: May 25 2021
witchy business (Chapter 4)
Author: MaddestMaid3n
Rating: M
Length: 13,783
Summary: "A little birdie told me you might have a book or two that might pique my interest,” “Well, that depends on your interests," Caroline's just trying to survive Marcel's New Orleans. Colluding with an Original was so not on her to-do list.
Date of update: May 25 2021
Klaus’ Thousand Year Plan to be Her Last (Chapter 3)
Author: anncatherine
Rating: T
Length: 4,022
Summary: So these are some missing Klaroline scenes from my Elena/Elijah soulmate fic that I couldn’t include because they either didn’t fit or needed to be form Klaus or Caroline’s pov. I think it would be helpful to read at least the first couple chapters of that for background, but basically at twelve people’s soulmate’s birthday shows up on their wrist.
Date of update: May 26 2021
what a wave you have made
Author: sekretny
Rating: T
Length: 3,413
Summary: “Do you really hate me this much?” She shouts in frustration. Klaus looks her in the eye, their gazes locked in a battle of fiery tempers. “Hate you…” He repeats with every ounce of venom he can muster. After ransacking the contents of his backpack, he removes a sketchbook Caroline has never seen before. He starts to flip furiously through the pages, “You have given me more than enough reasons to hate you, sweetheart,” he spits while he looks for a specific page. He finds it and turns the sketchbook around to show her. Klaus makes his feelings for Caroline visibly clear.
Date of update: May 26 2021
The Concept of Time (Chapter 3)
Author: BelleMorte180  
Rating: E
Length: 19,640
Summary: Pairs, France 1864 After learning some distressing news, Klaus seeks out the advice of a friend in the middle of the night and meets a mysterious woman who leaves him with more questions than answers. She hands him a journal filled with the mad ramblings about time by a man named Lorenzo St. John and sees a curious date tattooed on her shoulder. Klaus can think of little else after their first meeting and tracks her down at a burlesque club in the wrong part of the city. Klaus begins to wonder if he can solve the mystery of Caroline Forbes or simply be lost in what has deemed to be impossible.
Date of update: May 26 2021
Revenge of the Fifth - TVD Edition (Chapter 3)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: M
Length: 6,168
Summary: A star wars AU for vampire dairies for May the Fourth Be with You! Caroline, Bonnie, and Elena are padawan learners at Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi training academy, desperate to prove themselves by taking down some of the new Sith Lords that have popped up. The problem is, those Sith Lords are the Mikaelsons, and each girl has a Mikaelson brother obsessed with them, unwilling to let them come to harm. Will that make it harder or easier for them to triumph over the Dark Side?
Date of update: May 26 2021
Smoke Signals
Author: misssophiachase
Rating: T
Length: 3,017
Summary: "You, you must have been looking for me...sending smoke signals" Professional photographer Caroline Forbes and firefighter Klaus Mikaelson keep running into each other. It’s either the universe playing a joke on them or Katherine’s ‘accidental’ matchmaking. Or maybe it's a bit of both?
Date of update: May 27 2021
Reasons Not to Date a Mikaelson (Chapter 8)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: T
Length: 15,851
Summary: Bonnie and Caroline gain a new roommate for their freshman dorm when a vision leads them to tracking down a pregnant Hayley in the Rockies. Also, Bonnie may or may not have raised a certain dead Original instead of Jeremy and Klaus takes a job at Whitmore teaching, to be annoying. He’s very good at it. This is a season 5 rewrite where the Originals never leave for New Orleans. But you know, with comedy. And increasing angst with every chapter.
Date of update: May 27 2021
if you want me to fall (Chapter 2)
Author: FeyresUnbecoming
Rating: T
Length: 1,807
Summary: Caroline and Klaus scramble out of bed before Rebekah can find the two of them, lest she find out they've been sleeping together.
Date of update: May 27 2021
Good to you - Side Stories and Prompts
Author: originalhybridlover
Rating: T
Length: 801
Summary: So this is going to be a set a side stories or prompts related to my Klaroline story, Good to You
Date of update: May 28 2021
Genuine Beauty: Klaroline Canon-ish Drabble Collection
Author: Klauscarolove
Rating: M
Length: 30,884
Summary: Klaroline Drabble Collection: Close Canon, Canon Compliant, Canon-ish, Canon Universe....... basically if they are vampires in the drabble, it will go here.
Date of update: May 27 2021
Klaroline Storybook (Chapter 44)
Author: misssophiachase
Rating: T
Length: 63,904
Summary: A new selection of Klaroline drabbles
Date of update: May 28 2021
Lost Through Time (Chapter 7)
Author: Life_is_a_fantasy
Rating: Unavailable
Length: 4,173
Summary: What will happen when Hope, Landon, Lizzie and Josie fall through a time portal? Will they change things, even if they don't mean to? How will Klaus react to knowing his daughter has a boyfriend?
Date of update: May 28 2021
When your family is too nosy.... (Chapter 3)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: Unavailable
Length: 4,349
Summary: Klaus’s plan to get back at Rebekah by staying friends with Stefan backfires spectacularly when Stefan and Stefan’s ex-girlfriend Caroline convince him to fake a relationship at his family’s get-together at the beach. Sure, Rebekah will probably assume Caroline’s a prostitute and the rest of his family are too nosy for his own good, but what could go wrong? (I will add a rating later when I decide how explicit the smut will be)
Date of update: May 28 2021
LITTLE TENSE (Chapter 4)
Author: wincefish16
Rating: T
Length: 4,462
Summary: Klaroline's life together as they work in Mikaelson and co. Different snippets of their life. HUMAN, FULL OF FLUFF AND LITTLE BIT OF ANGST.
Date of update: May 28 2021
Like snow we melt, like rain we fall, like the sun we burn, in love. (Chapter 3)
Author: BlackRaven475932
Rating: M
Length: 4,088
Summary: after episode 5x11, Klaroline sex scene. Klaus and Caroline have a secret relationship. Teasing in public, a lot of smut, no one knows. WARNING, this story contains a blood kink in later chapters. If you don't like this then I advise you not to read it. It will occur in later chapters and I will give a warning before the chapter.
Date of update: May 28 2021
The Allure of Darkness (Chapter 2)
Author: Loveyou3000Klaroline
Rating: M
Length: 5,127
Summary: “Anything that’s worth anything is dangerous.” Or... Klaus Mikaelson is the big bad hybrid, but he is the only one who can make Caroline’s world stable. Especially after the lie of her life gets unraveled.
Date of update: May 28 2021
That Pesky Phone
Author: timetravelercat
Rating: T
Length: 1,029
Summary: "What was that?" he asked her curiously. She looked at him, embarrassed— —Wait, Caroline Forbes? Embarrassed?" Just Klaus," she answered simply, not giving him anymore details and averting her eyes. Huh, suspicious.
Date of update: May 28 2021
Ok, Cupids
Author: timetravelercat
Rating: T
Length: 795
Summary: Klaus and Caroline sign Stefan into an online dating site.
Date of update: May 28 2021
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FFN: The Traitor and the Coward (Chapter 6)
AO3: The Traitor and the Coward (Chapter 6)
Author: Uppity Bitch
Rating: M
Length: 10,677
Summary: Klaroline AU supernatural multi-chap - Original!Caroline has spent lifetimes running from her lover and his family. Despite the centuries of loneliness, she regrets nothing. Soon, she'll bring an end to this madness. Or bring the madness full circle.
Date of update: May 23 2021
FFN: What You Always Wanted
AO3: What You Always Wanted
Author: Eliliyah
Rating: M
Length: 2,646
Summary: After waiting a thousand years for her husband to break his hybrid curse, Caroline realizes Klaus neglected to mention that his next step was to build an army. Furious, she leaves him alone in Mystic Falls. Knowing there's only one way to make it up to her, Klaus shows up on her doorstep with the one person who can get him back in her good graces: their old friend, Stefan.
Date of update: May 26 2021
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This isn’t quite right. You’ve lived this before. Lingering on memories will do you no good.
...Go Back to the Present...
Have you seen OCTOBER ROULETTE around Faerune? They’re a VAMPIRE who REJECTS restoring the Seelie Court. People have heard they’re SPONTANEOUS, CHARMING & PASSIONATE but can also be MANIPULATIVE, CONTROLLING & CRUEL. We’ll see where they fall when the revolution arrives, but until then they can be found working as a FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST.
A BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE
“Name?”  “October Roulette.” “Real name.”  “What are you, a cop? October Roulette. You need me to spell it for you? Say it in a different language? Spanish. Ruleta de Octubre. Italian. Roulette di Ottobre. and a personal favorite for simplicity’s sake, German! Oktober Roulette.” "Right. Any nicknames, aliases?” “Eight, White Girl Season, Roo, Toby, Spoiler, King of the Lab, Mr. Bones, Boaty McFakenameface, ‘My deadbeat, good for nothing baby daddy,’ and oh. Doc Ock. On account of the doctorate, and the being... the eighth month.” “Pronouns and Sexuality?” “He/Him, and I’m kinda like a cheap fairground ride, everybody’s welcome to take a spin. So, Pansexual, I guess. Romantic inclinations.... unknown.” “Occupation?” “Forensic Pathologist. Meet an untimely demise at the hands of people you shouldn’t have fucked with, and chances are the empty husk you leave behind will be hanging out with me for a while, at least until the police lose interest in figuring out who bumped you off.” “Species?” “Vampire. I get it, some crass dickhead gets a taste of power and it’s all over but the shouting- and you would be so fucking right. I’m good at two things, my job, and winning people over by being the most delightful bloodsucking sack of shit they’ve ever spent a few minutes around. Sure, some part of that’s probably compulsion and the incredible fuckin’ high that comes from me getting my teeth in them, but who am I to deny anybody the thing that thrills ‘em? I live to serve.” “Age?” “232, but I’ve been told I don’t look a day over 33. I’d like to thank my skincare routine and the blood of virgins, specifically. It’s a real Elizabeth Bathory situation... Don’t look at me like that I’m kidding. It doesn’t have to be virgins.” “How’d you come to be er... who you are, Mr. Roulette?” “Man, isn’t that just the rub of it, I don’t rightly know...”
TW: NA October Roulette’s memories of his past are fuzzy and disjointed, and the few fragments he’s managed to remember have made it clear enough that he’s probably better off in the dark. Born sometime in the 1600s, October should be among the echelons of supernaturals wise beyond their appearances, three centuries of life to witness war, love, growth and loss- and yet he remembers only fifty years. October woke up one day on the streets of Faerune with no memory of his past, a throbbing in the back of his head and the lingering red marks of shackles around his wrists and ankles. Plucking himself off the ground, he took a moment to take stock of what he did know: He was a vampire, he had several tattoos on his arms and chest, and he was absolutely starving. So with little more to go on than those simple facts, and no name to speak of, he set off to right at least one of those wrongs.
It was amazing what a good meal could do for the mind, as he quickly decided he must have had some clue as to what his name may have been with him, and starting with the pockets of his clothing, he began to piece together the image of the man he must have been before he awakened on the sidewalk. A torn piece of paper bore the name of a woman, ‘Odette Wrenth’ written in handwriting that, once he took a moment to track down a pen and paper, was confirmed to be his own. The name meant nothing without context, and the remainder of what had once been a letter of some kind was not, in fact, in his pockets. His next clue came in the form of the tattoo just behind his ear; ‘Take me for a Spin’ in careful script. In fact, he realized, that most of the tattoos marked into his flesh seemed to indicate a cruel game of chance, bullets and revolvers crawling along his forearms, the implication that he, or whoever had seen fit to have him tattooed, had a penchant for toying with fate in the most dangerous ways. That was... well, it was certainly more than he’d known before, and with the last thing on his person to go on little more than a handwritten receipt for an “October R.” from a local tailor, he determined that October Roulette was as good a name as any. Of course, that left him with only a place to start- a name didn’t feed him, or keep him housed, after all.
So he started. For a long time working odd jobs and doing backbreaking labor for the people of Faerune, ferreting his money away and taking housing where he could find it, often passing mornings in barns or the mausoleums of the local cemetery when he could stay up no longer, accepting the kindnesses of strangers who offered him room and board- and often repaying them with a bite on the neck and a substantially lower amount of blood in their bodies than previously. Eventually he managed to save enough to begin night classes, and with time, earned his medical doctorate, a veritable prodigy with anatomy that seemed to come as second nature, something he didn’t bother to question, as it got him his position with the police department as a forensic pathologist, picking apart the pasts of strangers who met a terrible end for his paychecks, while ironically making no headway on his own. He’s largely stagnated since then, satisfied with his day job and the freedom it affords him to spend around town and the comfortable apartment he’s called home for the past twenty years, October has made very few changes since his time as a student.
Which wouldn’t be so bad, if October Roulette wasn’t such an asshole. Charming to a fault, he has a gravitational pull that’s hard to resist, a natural comedian with a winning smile and the gift of gab that made him popular both as a handyman and a student, but these gifts only made his more troubling traits more difficult to pick up on. Manipulative and  underhanded, October refuses to be outdone by anyone in his career or even life in general. A silver tongued bastard happy to lie his way through his immortality, he’s possessive of those he likes, and cruel to those he does not. Apathetic to the suffering of anyone who he hasn’t already elected to throw his chips in on, he can come off as blunt in the best cases and openly unkind in the worst. An impulsive hedonist, he’s a shameless flirt with a tendency for drunken flings and seeking pleasure on demand, unwilling to work too hard for his reward.
{More to come over time}
CONNECTIONS
Ex-Lovers: So many, never not open typically not big fans of October Best Friend(s): open Friends: Open Current FWB: Also usually open Enemies: Open Family: He’s got a couple kids, all vampire hybrids, all within the age ranges of 45 to 3. Open to both adult children, and characters with his younger children in their care. Coworkers: he works with the police force of Faerune, even if they tend to keep him in the morgue most of the time. Open.
TIDBITS
Theme Song: The Mystic, Adam Jensen - “no one’s gonna worry/notice when I’m gone/They won’t know I’m missing/til they pull me out the Mystic.” Common Smells: Leather, Clove Cigarettes, Formaldehyde, Sandalwood Tumblr Quote: “I can fix him; I can make him worse.” Vices: Liquor, cigarettes, sex, gambling, just being generally the worst. Virtues: Musical talent, skilled in anatomy and medical science, respect for the dead despite who he is as a person in general, loyal friend once you get past all the everything about him, genuinely pretty funny.
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Kombat Kids react to RE Village's antagonists?
Sorry about the delayed response. I was halibut fishing for my birthday so there pretty much no cell reception. I had to wait to get back in town to do this. But I’m here now - so let’s do this thing! :D
4 Kombat Kids meets 4 RE antagonists! Well... let’s just say the Duke could have given them a liiiitle heads up about the Four Lords. But hey, what could go wrong if they all split up and tackle a lord each before Mother Miranda?
A lot... a lot of horrible tomfoolery could take place. (This is one of those times I wish I could draw instead of type it out 😅)
Jacqui takes on Moreau, not because she wants to, but because she just ended up getting that short straw. Well let’s just say she feels kinda sympathetic for him... well before he transforms into Moby Dicks hemorrhoid. Then... let’s just say she gets the job done Crocodile Dundee style - blasting her cannons into his hide like Dundee throwing dynamite into the Hudson River to “fish.” It’s effective, but there’s no way she’s gonna get that smell outta her clothes for a while. 😬 She should have picked the doll house.
Takeda thinks that Lady Beneviento and her doll Annabelle Angie will be a piece of cake. No big deal! Just creepy dolls! 😁 He’s had worse.... until he sees the fucking gigantic nightmarish baby fetus roaming the hallways. He’s done. He’s sooooo done. Fuck this village. Fuck it in every grotesque orifice it has. He can’t even. When he gets back to the ceremony sight, he asks Duke if there is anything he has that can wipe his memory of Ragedy Ann’s Acid-Trip House.
(Insert It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia meme here) Duke: “Can I offer you a nice plate of herbed fish in this trying time?”
He should have picked the fish-man...
Cassie, being Cassie, just has to take down Supersized Countess Elizabeth Bathory and her feral Blair-Witch Daughters. So many Skarlet and DVorah vibes to be honest. And honestly, she’s just having a blast breaking all of Dimitrescus valuable shit and punking the zombies in the basement to step on land-mines. No wonder the Lady of the Castle has made it a habit of stomping down the corridors wanting to cut Outsiders into ribbons now. The daughters are pissed Cassie found the fly swatter. She wacks them on the face and flees.
Kung Jin gets Karl “Frankenstein/ Van Helsing” Heisenberg and honestly, it’s not only a battle of wits, but a banter of snarky comebacks. Honestly, Heisenbergs a little sad he’s gotta kill the punk - he’s just a sassy delight (albeit an irritating one). He was actually entertained watching that failure Strum get bested by the stealthy Shaolin. It wasn’t hard for Jin- he side stepped out of the way each time the prop- plane maniac charges. Nothing like a dog fight on the ground! He’s impressed - Jins got spunk. Jin tells him to shove his hammer ALL the way up his ass when Karl asks him if he wants to help take out Mother Miranda with him. Battle-Bot/Transformer fight ensues.
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Chaldean Master Vy (Character Profile)
Roughly inspired by @panyum​’s enthusiasm for my most recent artwork, it’s about time I divulge more on the Mastersona/main protagonist of Passing Days, Vy. Here we go.
Name: Vy
Age: 17-18 (beginning of Part 1), 19-20 (by Lostbelt 3)
Gender: Cis-female
Orientation: Asexual/Demisexual (questioning) and Demiromantic
Closest Servants: Mash Kyrielight (Level 80), Arturia Pendragon (Level 100), Achilles (Level 100), Marie Antoinette (Level 80), Robin Hood (Level 100), Archer EMIYA (Level 80), Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Lancer - Level 70), Medea (Level 70), Chevalier D’eon (Level 80), Sieg (Level 80), Chiron (Level 80), Scathach-Skadi (Level 90), Sitonai (Level 90), Ereshkigal (Level 90), Ruler Martha (Level 80), Katsushika Hokusai (Level 90).
Notable Facts: 
In another place, Vy would have lost her life in a car crash and reincarnated into another world as a civilian pianist, but in FGO’s timeline, she was scouted by Chaldea before she could start her second quarter in college. Chaldea had noticed her family lineage having some kind of Mystic aspects through a blood test she had taken for a yearly checkup before donating blood to a local blood drive. It resulted in them reaching out to her for an “extracurricular volunteer opportunity” that no college student could refuse. Vy would accept, albeit with her parents encouraging her, not realizing it would later lead her to becoming the main Chaldean Master in the Grand Order. 
Vy went into Chaldea thinking she’d be a medical assistant from her resume stating her interest in science and medicine, only to find herself drafted into the Rayshift training that the FGO protagonist went through in canon as a result of her impressive stamina (thanks to biking miles around their home in America with her parents when growing up), tiring herself from all the shifting to the point of nearly dozing off in one of Chaldea’s hallways if not for Mash.
The “Mystic” part of Vy’s blood that drew Chaldea’s attention was something Vy’s parents nor grandparents were actually aware of, no thanks to how all grew up in poverty in Vietnam before coming to America and later, Japan, but it is actually from one of Vy’s ancestors coming in contact with a mage from the Mage’s Association. No one really knows what exactly happened between said ancestor and that mage, but it seems to explain Vy’s uncanny luck in getting some of the bigger names in the Throne of Heroes before confronting Goetia, including Arjuna, Minamoto no Raikou, and Achilles by the dawn of Camelot. Her luck has definitely made the Crypters scratch their heads, since Vy had used a nearly Fully Ascended Scathach-Skadi to take down Kadoc before having reached Scandinavia. 
Vy adores Mash a lot, both from how earnest Mash is and her eagerness to learn about everything of the outside world past Chaldea’s blizzards. Dr. Roman at one point commented that they looked like sisters, just once, and Vy latched onto Mash as a surrogate little sister since, being conscientious of Mash’s health whenever they Rayshift together. 
Since Vy’s family took her on a lot of cross-country road trips when growing up, including visiting national parks such as Yosemite and Zion to hike and sight-see, one of Vy’s goals when going into the Grand Order is making sure Mash gets to experience all nature has to offer one day like she did, wanting to introduce her to her parents when the fighting is all over. She has jokingly asked Dr. Roman and Da Vinci for adoption papers for her parents to sign for Mash.
When starting in Singularity F, Vy was initially scared of paving the way to Humanity’s salvation, but sucked it up once Mash saved her. At that moment, one of the thoughts running through her head was, “Mash is fighting so hard, so why can’t I?!” Since then, Vy has made quite the distinct image of herself when fighting with her Servants, being a no-nonsense leader who can and will sarcastically snark at anyone, including Kiara and BB of all people, when they are opposing her. To allies, she is both understanding and empathic, usually not asking any imposing questions and issuing orders only when emergencies call for it. 
Anyone who tries to “bed” her will spark a loud and angry reaction, since Vy is not interested in any sexual relations and instead is still loyal to her family and friends that were left to the dust by Goetia and later the Foreign God. Expect some cursing too. 
Vy’s romantic orientation is why Agartha is an untouched subject amongst all the Servants when bringing in new faces, because when Dahut in Drake’s body proposed rape to her outright during the Pseudo-Singularity, Vy’s reaction was basically, “I AM ACE, YOU JERK! SEX IS NOT FOR ME, CONSENT MATTERS, SO SHUT UP AND FIGHT ALREADY! IF NOT, I WILL KILL YOU WITH A RUSTY SPOON MYSELF, GODDAMMIT!” It’s another reason why Fergus and some of the other romantically inclined Servants such as Kiyohime and Elizabeth Bathory have kept their distance since, because Vy’s rage point back then was that unsettling. Robin Hood doesn’t bring up the subject of picking up girls in front of her anymore. D’Eon and Astolfo both have tried to keep Vy away from thinking about Dahut since.
The first Servants Vy ever summoned in the Grand Order was Lancer Diarmuid, Medea, and Chevalier d’Eon. The first 4-stars she ever summoned after them was Marie Antoinette and Archer EMIYA, so because of this and a lot of other things, all five Servants still find themselves in the occasional team because Vy grew that attached to them.
Her only Grailed Servants so far are Saber Arturia Pendragon, Rider Achilles, and Archer Robin Hood, both because they were there when fighting opponents such as the Lion King, Tiamat, and the Alter Egos in SERAPH, and how she loved all three of them for their legends even before coming to Chaldea. 
When Vy first got a Holy Grail, she tried to give it to Mash as thanks for Mash protecting her for so long, but because of Mash’s status as a designer baby and Demi-Servant, she wasn’t able to take it. Instead, Mash still finds herself at the front lines team Vy has for mixed enemy battles, since Vy can’t find it in her to leave Mash behind. 
Some of the Servants who have been with Vy longer find themselves getting a nickname for Vy to call out to just them, all because Vy sees them as part of her family and wants to be good to them. Robin Hood is a prominent example, where she calls him “big Robin” as a way to boost his confidence about being a Heroic Spirit, and in turn, he calls her “little sparrow.” Marie Antoinette is sometimes called “my Queen,” and some of the more younger Servants such as Illya and Miyu are called with the “-chan” honorific or “baby sis.” Mash never got a nickname simply because to Vy, “Mash is Mash, and I love your name.” There were many “awww”s. 
It’s because of how she affectionately considers a majority of her Servants family that a lot of them tone down their arguments and bad qualities in her presence, simply because she’s there. An example is how during Babylonia, Vy had answered at the Underworld’s gates, “Ereshkigal is more beautiful!” to Ishtar’s face, both because she had summoned Ereshkigal long before entering Babylonia and that she had known Eresh longer. Eresh, who hadn’t Rayshifted to the Singularity at the time, could be found later hiding her red face in her hands as Da Vinci laughed out loud. Dr. Roman meanwhile had looked like he had swallowed a lemon at the time because of how blatantly Vy had put down Ishtar, and Ishtar barely reacted. Vy’s only reasoning afterwards was, “I did not appreciate being made into a makeshift cushion in our first meeting, Ishtar, thank you very little.” 
There were a lot of times during Singularities where Vy, feeling bad for Dr. Roman being a butt-monkey of jokes, brought home a souvenir or two for the good doctor to take part in some of the better moments of the Grand Order. One such souvenir was a butter cake slice from Siduri in Babylonia, because he expressed wanting to eat it one night and she carefully preserved it with Mash to give it to him before confronting “Solomon” in the Temple of Time. It’s because of this that she dearly misses him, having found him as another surrogate father when he’d call her in for daily check-ups and talks over how Mash was doing.
When the Lostbelts happened, Vy started working a lot harder to raise her Servants and the morale of the rest of Chaldea’s staff, resulting in her gaining eyebags from losing sleep over too many Golden Apples and farming quests. Most of the Servants are all at Final Ascension and Max Level at the cost of this and QP, but it’s helped in making the Crypters lose some of their momentum. 
Hope this helps in giving some nice insight and lore!
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rhywhitefang · 4 years
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Quarterly reading highlights for January - February - March
Not gonna give summaries because I don’t feel like it. Click on the Goodreads link asfhdoauefhi
Crier’s War by Nina Valera - This is such a fun mix of fantasy and Scifi. A call back to classic YA, without any of the uncomfortable parts of that, and with a few unique spins. The stars of this book are its main characters, Crier and Ayla 
Blood Countess by Lana Popović - I kind of feel guilty putting this on my list, because it feels self-indulgent to do so. Which is kind of a silly thought on a list of *my* favorite books of the first quart. It’s just that this book is precisely my overly specific shit, in so many ways. The main character is a midwife who also does medicine, there’s a dark and complicated f/f romance, it’s about Elizabeth Bathory, AND the protagonist is flawed in a way where it’s her fear and hesitation that make her flawed. Like... what more could I ever want?
Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer - In this house we love Artificial Intelligence that have emotions, awareness, and caring connections to other people. As well as found families and internet friendships, hell yeah!
So You’ve Been Publically Shamed by Jon Ronson - This was such an interesting book. While I don’t fully agree with everything that was being said here and sometimes the tone rubbed me the wrong way, I still believe that everyone should still give this book a read and think about the principles that are being discussed in here. 
DIE, Volume Two: Split the Party by Kieron Gillen - The first volume of this almost made it on my post for favorite books of 2019. It was so good! It has a really fun concept and is like, indulgently edgy, while it also retains its humanity as it explores those darker themes. And I just love the art of it. This is the same team that is behind The Wicked and the Divine, which is my favorite comic series!
All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell - This is a very quiet and character exploration about a girl who is still very traumatized from being raped when she was a child (nothing is explicitly shown, it’s about the emotional impact the trauma has had on her) being forced to deal with her past and her feelings again after she discovers a body in the woods. It’s well done and emotional.
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - A moving and powerful memoir about Machado’s experience in an abusive relationship But at the same time, this book is much more ambitious than being just a recounting of her experience. It’s a literary experiment, with different layers forms, and structures. It’s brilliant. 
The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh - historical vampires in New Orleans, baby. Need I say more? Give me that extravagance. 
The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker - Here you have just a very fun, very plot-twisty novella about a philosopher who makes a deal with a demon, told from the point of view of the demon. Lots of mind games, lots of intrigue, very entertaining!
Black Iris by Elliot Wake - This is a thriller revenge story about a bunch of fucked-up, edgy young women, who do drugs and destroy people’s lives. It’s not without it’s problems (oof, the portrayal of mental illness & addition) but it’s very well written and extremely compelling.
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Do you have a favorite story/myth/legend about any of the heroic spirits?
I’m gonna be a basic bitch and say that Gil’s whole myth and legend is probably my favorite.
I honestly never would’ve started liking Gilgamesh as much as I do if his myth hadn’t resonated with me the way it did, and prompted me to do hours and hours of research into the original Epic. Just... the drama, the tenderness, the homoeroticism, the angst....... It all resonated with me and made me Feel Things, and I loved every minute of it.
Elizabeth Bathory is a close second, cause I had a weird obsession with her and her legend throughout high school. I did like. 3 different school projects about her cause I was so fascinated by her (and also I was gay but baby me didn’t realize that).
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themculibrary · 3 years
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Pepper And Tony (Pepperony) Masterlist 2
part one
5 Valentine's Pepper and Tony didn't Spend as a Couple +1 They Spent as a Family (ao3) - Kizmet Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: Pepper and Tony's relationship going through ups and downs over six valentines between 1994 and 2021 (and Rhodey keeps sneaking in somehow).
5 Ways Pepper Fails to Stop the Civil War +1 Where She Does (ao3) - Kizmet Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: Versions of the Civil War in which Pepper is fully engaged in the Avengers’ decision making process, corrects most of Tony’s mistakes and everything still goes to shit because she only has influence over half the equation.
A Slice of Life (ao3) - sareliz Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: Witness the beginning of the relationship between Tony Stark and Pepper Potts.
Between the Darkness and the Stage (ao3) - marinarusalka Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: When Tony goes missing and the authorities can't help, Pepper does what she must to rescue him. As it turns out, the rescue was the easy part.
Box of Memories (fanfiction.net) - Elizabeth Bathory Rating: General
Summary: Tony denies being nostalgic but Pepper proves otherwise when he is away and learns more about the man she has worked for and loved, using this info for a surprise for Tony.
Drawing Near To Your Heart (fanfiction.net) - NCISVILLE Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: Pepper just broke up with her boyfriend and needs a plus one pronto for her brother's wedding. When she enlists the help of her boss, Tony Stark, will they draw closer together like he wants?
Drive (ao3) - roboticonography Rating: Mature
Summary: Tony and Pepper attempt a friends-with-benefits relationship. It goes about as well as you’d expect.
Eden in a Box (ao3) - cincoflex Rating: Explicit
Summary: Tony and Pepper work at a relationship, with Jarvis' help.
Five Times Pepper Potts Took Care of Tony Stark (and One Time Tony Stark Took Care of Her) (ao3) - zauberer_sirin Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: In Pepper's defense she really did try to keep things professional.
i fell for mantle photographs (ao3) - imgoingtocrash Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: Tony assumes that their relationship will leak to the press with some sort of scandal. (Okay, so specifically he says that it will be after their first fight as a couple goes explosive and that the pictures of Pepper throwing things at Tony’s head outside of his mansion will be mocked on TMZ for a few weeks, but that’s the gist.)
Pepper assumes that their relationship will never actually be released to the press. Tony is a notorious flirt as it is, and since her promotion to CEO, everyone already thinks she slept with him to get the position. Of all the things the press could possibly speculate about them, the fact that they’re actually working on forming a committed relationship seems far too mild.
The actual first picture released of Tony and Pepper after that first kiss above the raging fires of what was left of Stark Expo is something far less dramatic.
AKA: 5 pictures that are taken of Tony and Pepper recently after they get together + 1 picture they take for themselves.
inches and miles (ao3) - jdphoenix Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: Nine times out of ten Tony's the one taking advantage when Pepper gives him an inch. But when they both slip up in the one way that matters most, fate takes the reins, taking them both that extra mile and then some.
Like It Never Happened (ao3) - MelissaBosquez Rating: General
Summary: When Tony and Pepper get stranded alone in Colorado after a long (mostly) working weekend they learn more about the other in one night than in the five years they spent working together. Not only that but they discover there may be the possibility for more for them in the future. What started as the weekend from hell blossoms into something unexpected and life changing.
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There was only one bed. - "Hey, Pepper. Want to make out?"
My Best Friend's Baby (fanfiction.net) - Snoot37 Rating: Mature
Summary: The followup story to "And the Party Continues." Tony and Pepper have finally had their first night together. But the next morning, Tony is too hungover to remember. Hurt, Pepper was prepared to pretend it never happened and never mention it to him again. Until the positive pregnancy test. What happens when she tells Tony it was someone else?
Pepper Potts and the Mysterious Soulmate (ao3) - FriendLey Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: Based on the tweet that said “Soulmate AU where wizards and witches have each other’s patronus tattooed on their bodies. The tattoos show the emotions that your soulmate is feeling.”
The days we don’t know yet (ao3) - everythingispoetry Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: After the battle of New York Tony can't sleep. It takes Pepper a few weeks to notice and when she does, she tries to help him as much as possible. Everything seems to go well until Tony is kidnapped - and when he comes back, Pepper realizes that he might react to his name and look like himself, but he is not Tony anymore.
the last five years (ao3) - tonystarktrash Rating: Mature
Summary: “Oh, Tony,” Pepper murmurs, cupping his face in her hands. She always knew what to do, had known him for so long that all of his idiosyncrasies were second nature to her. After New York, when his nightmares had woken her with terrible screams, she had learned when to touch him and when to comfort him with only words. He’s so starved for her touch, he wonders if he’s giving off some sort of signal to her, like a neon sign. Touch me, Pepper. Touch me, and help me survive, help me come to terms with this.
filling in tony and pepper's five years of bliss in avengers:endgame.
Walking in These Shoes (ao3) - redfiona Rating: General
Summary: Pepper Potts is the woman she'd always wanted to be. It's probably not all Tony's fault that her well-ordered life has just been blown to pieces. But it's definitely mostly his fault.
You're All I Have (fanfiction.net) - xxhiphuggersxx Rating: Teen And Up
Summary: She couldn't believe she was going to do this. It was hard enough asking for favors when it was work related, but it was a whole new ball game when it was a personal favor. She knew he'd never agree, but it is worth a shot asking. Nevertheless is she shocked at the response.
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A Little Ass and A Lotta Sass Chapter 49
When Negan came upstairs, I had already put Kiara down for her nap, lunch was on the table and he was sighing as he sat down across from me.  I waited until he tucked in, taking up my own fork and asking him what was wrong.
“Do I want to know what Porn Stache found so important to call you away?”  I asked, biting into lunch with relish.  
Negan snorted around his own bite and shook his head.  “Bullshit,” he offered, once his mouth was empty.  “He wanted to discuss complete and utter fucking bullshit.”  Another sigh, and he kept eating and told me that Simon wanted him to know that not all of our Saviors were excited about the peaceful end to the conflict with Hilltop and Kingdom.  And I imagined by “not all” Simon meant him and some other assholes I could give a shit about on the daily.
“Should we worry?”  I asked, still eating carefully while watching my husband ponder my question.  
Huffing out a breath, he seemed conflicted.  “Knee jerk reaction is ‘no, of course fucking not’, Callie, but-”
“But you know I think Simon can’t be trusted,” I leaned back in my chair and considered our options.  “You could nip it in the bud and fucking kill his traitorous ass.”  Negan was smirking, but he was also giving me that dark eyed look that spoke volumes about whose ass he was actually thinking about.  
“Or you could,” his voice had gone lower, to that deep dark place I loved.  
“I swear, Negan,” I offered, as I got the dirty plates gathered and in the sink.  “The thought of me murdering someone turns you on,” his arms wrapping around me as his body pressed against my back confirmed it.  I rocked my hips back and felt just how fucking hot he got from the IDEA of me killing Simon.  “Homicide is an aphrodisiac?”  His lips meeting my neck had me thinking that I didn’t fucking care what turned him on, as long as he was ready, willing, and fucking able.  
“You covered in blood?” He growled and his teeth took a turn on my sensitive skin.  “Fuck, baby doll, that could be hotter than you wearing damn near any thing.”  
I leaned back into him, letting Negan’s mouth and hands take me along for a hot ride.  “So you want to see me coated in blood?” Gasping when his hips thrust into me, still fully clothed but not for long.  “Like Elizabeth Bathory?”  He paused so I chose to paint a truly fucked up picture.  “She was a Hungarian countess, accused of bathing in the blood of peasant girls to keep her youth.”  His hands were tugging my clothes off as I spoke.  “You want me to walk up to Simon and tell him that I’ll be bathing in his blood like the Countess, and as though he were a simple peasant girl for my fucked up beauty regime?”  
I didn’t get to give Negan anymore history lessons, since he had me filled full before I could go on.  
The weeks went by as we took heart in the new normal that came from using negotiation instead of headsmashing to win over allies.  Laura told me that Simon’s insinuation that there was disagreement in our course of action was over exaggerated.  Were there pockets of discord? Yes, and I had more than a suspicion that those pockets were stirred by the man himself.  Fucker.
Negan was watching me like I was a ticking bomb and I was thinking he was on pins and needles waiting for me to take him up on his offer to let me help Simon take his final breath on this planet, until I missed my period.  Fuck.  That was the point, as I watched his fucking eyes light up like he’d inserted fucking glowsticks in his ears, of his constant studying my person.  Damn it, I’d been so wrapped up in the intrigues of our fucking community, that I missed the obviousness of his interest. 
He was whistling as he brought me a pregnancy test to our rooms, saving me the trouble of going to the infirmary.  I rolled my eyes and took it from him, while he picked up Kiara and bounced her, making her giggle wildly.  Since my husband was occupied with trying futilely to get our daughter to say ‘dada’, I got to tinkle alone.  I came out, leaving the test on the countertop, to see his eyes wide and thought maybe she’d finally given him his wish.  
“Fuck,” our daughter said, with such certainty that I felt my own eyes go round.  “Fuck, fuck, fuck.” Shit, I thought, that wasn’t ‘dada’ either.
“Negan?”  His eyes met mine and I could almost see him trying to come up with an explanation.  Biting my lip to keep from laughing, I shook my head.  “We could always tell people she thinks that’s the word for ‘dada’?”  I shrugged as his eyes narrowed.  “I mean, I say it and you come running.”  
“Callie,” his voice was sounding like a threat, but his eyes were twinkling.  “You and I both know that when you’re saying it, I’m cumming inside you, and I’m not running.”  That did it, we both started laughing as our daughter began basically chanting her newest word.  “Princess,” he was trying to fight his laughter, and look serious at our little one.  “That’s not a word that little ladies should be saying.”  
This made me snort so loud that both of them stared at me.  “Sorry, but I happen to know that is complete and utter-” I stopped just in time to NOT say ‘bullshit’.  Let’s not add to her vocabulary just yet.  “Nonsense.  Mommy says that word ALL the time, Dada.”  I raised an eyebrow and realized that our apartment was going to start being far more Sesame Street and a LOT less Tarantino.  
Three LONG minutes, for parents of a toddler who liked the word ‘fuck’ more than she liked the word ‘Pop-Pop’, later Negan happily handed over tot wrangling to me to check the pregnancy test.  Silence descended as I waited, even Kiara had grown quiet.  Then, after hearing the toilet flush, and realizing that he’d taken a beat to take care of nature, he was in the doorway staring at his two girls.  
“‘Tomato’?”  My grin started growing as I realized we’d managed to make a second person.  “I think we’re gonna have to think of a better name, sweetheart.”  And then he was on the bed with Kiara and me, hugging us both and telling our little girl she was going to be a big sister.  
And then, clear as a bell, she did it.  She made him even fucking happier.  “Dada.” Out of the blue, no coaxing, and it was out.  “Dada.”  She bounced a little and then, since clearly we could never have a simple family moment without a little embarrassment added in, she clapped and said, “Fuck.” 
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Once you get this it would be cool if you posted ten facts about yourself and then passed this along to your ten favorite followers :)
1. When I was a kid, my very South American family told me that a sweet little mouse was the one responsible for exchanging the baby tooth under my pillow for money. The consequence of this was that I developed a really assbackwards sense of superiority around other kids- "tooth fairy? Don't be a CHILD, that doesn't even make sense- it's a mouse."
2. I was also raised atheist and my family didn't believe in things like ghosts or anything. I think I always tried to be too practical at too young an age, so I wasn't afraid of ghost stories or monsters despite being real small. But then, in catholic school, I read a book about Elizabeth Bathory. And then another. And then I googled her. I must've been ten at most. I didn't know what a virgin was, but I was terrified for months on end that i could potentially be one and that Elizabeth Bathory would drain me of my blood because of it.
3. Spanish was my first language. I was born in America, but raised in Colombia until schooling age so going to school was full immersion into English. In the first grade, a full year later, they thought I had a reading disability for months until they realized there was a language barrier.
4. Frankenstein was formative for me. It was the first classic novel I had ever read and the teacher who put it in my hands was the first to make me feel challenged and listened to. As Mary Shelley would've wanted, I finished the book while a thunderstorm was happening outside. I fell asleep immediately after finishing it and had a nightmare. That following morning, I set myself to studying literature.
5. My first childhood crush was on a girl. In hindsight, I had been having queer experiences and was attracted to girls since a very young age but denial is a hell of a drug. I should've known something was up when my high school friends believed I was serious when I sarcastically went, "no, I'm into girls." Their loaded silence .... said a lot lmao
6. I never had a nickname growing up. When I went to study abroad in Scotland, one of the chaperones (who I worked for for two years by then) struggled to introduce me to someone. He admitted then that the reason he never called me by my name in the time we knew each other was because my name gave him a lot of struggle because of a speech impediment. We came up with 'Nia' and everyone we met in Scotland from then on just took to it, thinking it was a thing. I really love being called Nia now and it makes me really happy that it's become such a thing with my Tumblr friends 💗
7. Baking was my gateway into learning my way in the kitchen, but I don't like sweets. I'm good at baking, but I seldom eat what I make.
8. I've gone to most concerts alone because no one I know IRL shares my taste in music. I used to feel really awkward about that. Still, seeing Daughter and Ben Howard in concert was one of the greatest nights of my life.
9. Living in New York, I've seen a fair share of celebrities. I literally ran and slammed into Anderson Cooper. I ordered coffee before Hetienne Park did and was ships in the night with Matt Damon once, as he walked out the door with coffee while I walked in. There are others, certainly. I never really feel any impulse to bother actors when I see them. The only times I've gotten starstruck was when I literally bumped into Hugh Dancy on the street, when I met Janet Mock at a book talk, and when Misha Collins followed me on twitter. Also, when I saw the Black Sails cast at Comic Con. I was too anxious and timid to approach them.
10. The two passions I wish I could return to, if I only had more time, are watercolor painting and playing violin.
I was tagged by @old-long-john! Thank you for tagging me, darling! I'm going to tag @twobrokenwyngs, @kambarbay, @e-sebastian, @adamoparrish, @nookienostradamus, @silversflint, @mishcollin, @blondecolinfarrell, @sickburnsides aaaaaand that's it. Forgive me if you didn't want to be tagged! I hope this wasn't too boring.
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hedgiwithapen · 7 years
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So, after hearing a rant on Snape, I noticed something. Movie Snape seems to have been... shall we say, dialed back. A lot of the worst things he did were cut from the movies. So, if I recall correctly, then just going off the movies, Snape was an emo kid who turned bitter when his crush rejected him for his bully, but he still loves her. Ok, tragic and sympathetic, if you ONLY go off the movies. I'll be over here in the group who's read the books and knows he's a horrible, petty, dick.
if you go by the movies only, a third of the characters don’t exist and the potters look like they were in their forties when they were murdered rather than being, y’know, 21. tiny babies. if someone’s only seen the movies, they do not get to talk accurately about the deeper nuances, much less declare someone a hero.  they can do it all they like but they will be wrong. 
god i will never stop being angry about snape. I hated him as a child, because I was the victim of a lot of bullying and while i had some teachers that, shamefully, contributed to that, i had good teachers too! so I knew that Good Teachers do not threaten to poison their student’s pets. [Elle Wood’s voice] they just don’t. a good teacher should never even bring up the concept of poisoning a struggling student’s pet. like. how the fuck. why the fuck. if you have a struggling student you fucking help them. assign the kid a damn tutor. i’m sure you have an upperclassman you can force to tutor neville, a ravenclaw or some shit. and his shit with hermoine vs the slytherins.. I was so furious as a tiny kiddo, and still am. I remember classmates who bullied me getting away with it all because people in authority covered it up (including That One Time Someone Tried to Kill Me) and to see snape doing that just...god i hated him. I waited, book after book, for someone to call him out. i insisted to anyone who listened that Snape Was A Bad Dude.
and then, oh god, let me tell you, he killed dumbledore. Snape fucking filled Dumbledore and i mean yeah I cried that book was sad but I was fucking gleeful because AT LAST no one could tell me, not even my own father, that Snape was a Good Person (tm)
and then the straight white boy bullshit in book seven. fuck that noise. he literally calls her slurs that he was /calling other people/ and hanging out with, you know, wizard supremacists and had expressed interest in a group that was not only calling for the murder of lily and most of her friends and her entire family but was /already starting to kill people/ 
and he has the gall to feel betrayed by her, to be upset with her, when she tells him “ my dude, you have no ideological issue with genocide of everyone like me, maybe this whole friendship thing isn’t gonna work out”
and here is what’s telling. what does snape do after lily calls him out for. like. you know. hanging out with deatheaters in training and using slurs against her? does heA) apologize and mean it, distancing himself from the fucking genocidal creeps that want to murder her and her friends, realizing how fucked up it is and throwing himself into heliping the Order and championing the rights of muggles and muggle borns everywhere out of earnest understanding that he fucked up
B) apologize and awkwardly try to distance himself from the fucking genocidal creeps, not joining the war but not fighting for Tom “I though elizabeth bathory had a good plan” Riddle, mostly because he hopes doing this bare minimum of not being an asshole will make lily love him
or C) apologize but then actively join voldemort for like three years at the height of voldemort’s terror, assisting in god knows what capacity of god knows how much torture and murder, actively betraying some unknown sap of a baby-- willingly! totally chill with a baby dying because why the fuck not?? 
the answer is C. i will never understand how anyone can see that he picked C and still think he’s a good person. 
and even then, even then. he doesn’t give a shit about, you know, innocent baby, or any of the others voldemort wants murdered. he doesn’t even genuinely care about lily’s happiness. spare her life, kill the rest of everyone she loves. hat the fuck do you think that’s gonna accomplish, snape? “ oh my husband, whom i loved, and my infant child, along with all of my family and friends, are murdered. Sev, good to see you, wanna bang?” like. Snape, this is why you weren’t in ravenclaw. 
(it’s been a while but they kept a lot of the lily snape shit in the movies and I feel like if that’s the case people should be able to infer that whole a/b/c choice. also casting Alan Rickman, whom many of my classmates thought was hot, was probably a bad move. like great actor, do not get me wrong, but they needed to cast some greasy haired 30 year old. i guarantee if they had, people would have been less conned into thinking snape was a good person) 
sorry nonnie, i just have a lot of fucking feelings about snape.
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klarolinelibrary · 3 years
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Hi KC Readers, 
Happy Friday! 
We have another weekly releases for you to check out. The stories below were updated during the week of April 17 - April 23. 
Grab a snack and drink, then dive right into the new stories and reimagined characters of Klaus Mikaelson and Caroline Forbes!
FFN
Klaus POV - The Trouble with Spells (Chapter 21)
Author: ilovetf
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: I think the title is self explanatory. The Trouble with Spells as seen through Klaus's eyes and his POV. Over the years, people kept liking this story and some even asked for Klaus POV, so I decided to give it a try. Hope you enjoy it. All feedback is more than welcome. Good or bad.
Date of update: April 17 2021
SKULLS (Chapter 9)
Author: Lovely Vero
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Vampiro and El Diablo, aka: Klaus and Elijah Mikaelson, heads of the bikers SKULLS are fighting Gabriel Desperaldo, aka: El escorpión - head of the Spanish mafia - and his human trafficking in their city of Los Alamos in New Mexico. Never in a million years, did they imagine that the love of two captured women would change their life forever.
Date of update: April 17 2021
In the shelter of your light (Chapter 3)
Author: Clarity23
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Caroline expected to face some challenges when she decided to foster a teenage girl. But she did not expect that the girl's older, annoyingly handsome brother would be in the picture as well. AU
Date of update: April 17 2021
Everything and anything for you (Chapter 13)
Author: thelibrarianofalexandria
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: She had it all planned ahead. Graduate early, go to an Ivy League college, make her dreams come true. However, she has to change it a little when her whole life is thrown upside down and a handsome original takes an interest in her, the younger, shy, sister of Caroline Forbes.
Date of update: April 20 2021
You can't run from your past (Chapter 2)
Author: CookieDuo
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Caroline Forbes is an FBI agent with secrets. Three years ago she fell in love with a target before she helped put him behind bars, and she faked her own death. Now he's escaped from prison and he's learned the truth, about who she is and the secret she's been keeping since he got sent away. Now she has to run, but he's determined to catch her. And he always gets what he wants.
Date of update: April 20 2021
Take on the world
Author: Logan27
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Starts near the end of 4x14 (I would rewatch that episode up until Klaus comes out onto the porch just for a refresher). Caroline makes a life altering decision and takes a big chance in order to move forward, heal and discover.
Date of update: April 21 2021
A Failed Sacrifice (Chapter 4)
Author: CookieDuo
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: She ruined the sacrifice to save her own life, and in order to survive she turned to the only other vampire who'd been able to survive the wrath of Klaus Mikaelson. She gets away, and learns from the master, but when Klaus eventually catches up to her, her life will never be the same again.
Date of update: April 23 2021
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Step Up Or Step Out
Author: ThrowMeAStory
Rating: E
Length: One shot
Summary: 4x16 au, Part 7. For Caroline it's been a long time coming.
Date of update: April 17 2021
no goodbyes (Chapter 9)
Author: deadofwrite (dead_of_write)
Rating: E
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: “Last night shouldn’t have happened,” Caroline whispered. Guilt. Shame. Regret.It was all the emotions he feared. And it was written all over her face. aka. a college/cheating au
Date of update: April 17 2021
Turned Off or Turned On?
Author: Anonymous
Rating: E
Length: Drabble
Summary: Caroline-that-has-flipped-the-switch seeks out one Klaus Mikaelson. Deep down Caroline knew that seeking him out was wrong on so many levels, he had been responsible for so much death and destruction, but that didn’t stop her. Truthfully, it made her want to go to him more, now that her emotions had been turned off. There was nothing from keeping her from having him. Had she had them switched on it was doubtful she even would have gone out of the door, she would have just wistfully thought about going instead. Thinking about what might have been.
Date of update: April 17 2021
One of a Kind, Two of a Kind, or the Three Musketeers (Chapter 10)
Author: Phandancee74
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Caroline recognizes how hard it is for Elena to be a doppelgänger, her fate predestined as well as her face. It's pretty tough being the last of your kind too though, and Caroline is determined to protect them both, with some very helpful Bennetts on their side. A fic that integrates Malivore and the larger supernatural universe into TVD from the start.
Date of update: April 17 2021
A Blonde, A Brit, and A Baby (Chapter 3)
Author: Books4eva180
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Caroline Forbes life is right on schedule for her Twenty-Year plan that she created at 16 years old: at 23 years old she is a junior editor at a magazine company in NYC and she has fantastic friends; one of whom is about to get to married. Life couldn't be more perfect or at least that was until she slept with a British asshole. What was only supposed to be a one night stand has turned into a life changing night because Caroline is now pregnant. Klaus Mikaelson has always enjoyed the simple things in life. Bourbon, art, and an endless stream of girls who are more than willing to fall into his bed. This all changes when he is forced to move to America to join his father's law company and he isn't even really his father. Then to make matters worse he ends up sleeping with a girl and even worse she ends up pregnant. Forced together in a situation that neither of them could have planned for will feelings blossom (yes they definitely will) Will Caroline be able to handle this life changing event? Will Klaus be able to escape the demons from his past? Will the both of them be able to provide a happy and healthy home for their baby?
Date of update: April 18 2021
Darkness Becomes Thee
Author: BelleMorte180
Rating: E
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Austria 1300s When Klaus met a young girl on a riverbank, he knew that he would one day come back for her. When he looked into her bright blue eyes, he could see a reflection of his own soul, a darkness that lingered inside both of them. When the young girl turned into a beautiful woman with a thirst for blood, his fascination with her turns into obsession. He wants not only her loyalty but her eternity, a possessiveness that is equally returned. or my "Caroline is the serial killer Elizabeth Bathory" au.
Date of update: April 18 2021
Reunited (Chapter 13)
Author: CandyCane1287
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Set after 5x12 TVD, where Caroline confesses what she did with Klaus to Katherine and Tyler hears. Katherine reveals that she’s dying and knows of a witch that could help her. But the witch is in New Orleans and that’s where Elijah and Klaus. Baby included but nice Hayley doesn't stick around. Also, Elena is supportive here.
Date of update: April 18 2021
A smutty anniversary (Chapter 6)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: E
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Caroline and Klaus celebrate 3 months together with a day full of smut.
Date of update: April 18 2021
american dream prom queen
Author: trashcanbarbie
Rating: T
Length: Drabble
Summary: “What would they say, if they knew you were here, on my birthday doing something almost…” she trails off, because she doesn't know the word. “Nice?” he suggests, then grins like a wolf, “They’d roll in their graves, my siblings.” “They're not dead.” He grins, and Caroline feels as if he’s laughing at a private joke when he says, “Aren't they?”
Date of update: April 19 2021
We are young (Chapter 12)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: T
Length: One shot
Summary: Basically, Klaroline flirt in front of their kids who they are barely older than, and Landon is appropriately confused.
Date of update: April 19 2021
Nowhere Else To Go (Chapter 2)
Author: NerdyNostalgia
Rating: G
Length: Drabble
Summary: Klaus has an unexpected visitor while in New Orleans and is determined to show her a good time. He isn't going to let this chance pass him by, and if it means he and Caroline get closer...well, that was a bonus. But is Marcel planning something?
Date of update: April 19 2021
Part of Your World
Author: perfectpro
Rating: G
Length: One shot
Summary: After trading the loveliest thing she possessed to a sea witch in order to walk on land, Caroline realizes that she'd accidentally bargained her voice away. Human legs shouldn't always feel this sort of pain, should they? With only a week to go before the spell wears off, the bargain can be undone entirely with true love's first kiss. The only problem is... Who falls in love in less than a week?
Date of update: April 19 2021
I Don’t Want You To Die
Author: klarolinexluv
Rating: E
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary:
Date of update: April 19 2021
Sibling Rivalry (Chapter 9)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: In which Klaus and Rebekah are both bi, their taste in men and women overlaps infuriatingly often, and they argue over their newest shared interest. Edit: This is going to be a full series now, I love it so much. Edit 2: Oops, I dropped a whole bucket of angst on Caroline's backstory. If only there were some Mikaelsons willing to help her work through it...
Date of update: April 20 2021
What Could Have Been (Chapter 37)
Author: TNaPKI
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: My impression of what Season 6 of The Originals would have been like post 5x13 where Klaroline becomes endgame. Is Klaus really gone or is there more to the story? Find out! FINAL CHAPTER out in a month!
Date of update: April 20 2021
The Salvatore Sisters (Chapter 19)
Author: 1Jemmagirl22
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Caroline and Davina Salvatore are Stefan and Damon's younger sister's, and they are far more than meets the eye. When Stefan and Damon's younger sisters show up during the beginning of season 2, what could possibly go wrong. The Salvatore girls have a dark past littered with their brother's enemies, the same enemies that just so happen to be their family. With Mikaelson's as husbands, miracle powers that could crush a Bennet witch, and whole life their brothers never knew about just how much have can these sisters and their family cause.
Date of update: April 21 2021
YOU ARE NOT HERE
Author: wincefish16
Rating: T
Length: Drabble
Summary: PROMT - HUMAN. KLAROLINE LOVED EAC OTHER, HAPPY IN A RELATIONSHIP WHERE CAROLINE IS THE ARTIST AND KLAUS IS A LAWYER. THEY HAVE AN ACCIDENT AND CAROLINE SLIPS IN A COMA. SHE IS LIKE THAT FOR 1 YEAR. KLAUS , AS A TRIBUTE TO HER STARTS PAINTING. DOES HE FALL INTO NEW RELATIONSHIPS?
Date of update: April 21 2021
Compromise Coffee (Chapter 3)
Author: BelleMorte180
Rating: E
Length: One shot
Summary: Caroline Forbes has a coffee problem; or better described as a crush on the cute barista, Klaus, who knows how to make her large, non-fat latte with a caramel drizzle and two extra espresso shots just right. After years of coming to Compromise Coffee, Caroline thought he would have made a move by now, but he hasn't. Caroline has decided that it is time for her to make the move herself.
Date of update: April 22 2021
Soulmate visions (Chapter 4)
Author: kcatdino
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: On your soulmate's eighteenth birthday, you see through their eyes for an hour, but they don’t know. And if your soulmate turns eighteen before you are even born, you never get a vision. Klaus gets his soulmate vision right after he orders Tyler to bite Caroline on her birthday….
Date of update: April 22 2021
Give Me A Sign (Chapter 6)
Author: PumpkinDoodles
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Caroline Forbes is happy that she left founders' parties, competition over guys she'd known since elementary school, and even Mystic Falls itself behind years ago. She's not second-best to Elena anymore. Even Liz would be proud of her new life working on the side of the law. Mostly. (If you need to compel someone into giving up stolen goods, is it really a crime?) Of course he's the one person from her past who comes looking for her. Klaus does that.
Date of update: April 22 2021
Secrets Inside Us
Author: 1Jemmagirl22
Rating: T
Length: Drabble
Summary: Klaroline as actors falling in love on set.
Date of update: April 23 2021
Destination Wedding (Chapter 2)
Author: PumpkinDoodles
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: The first rule of going to your ex's wedding is 'make sure you look good,' but Caroline's seriously worried that this British Guy is going to make her late. And she cannot be late to Rebekah Mikaelson and Matt Donovan's wedding at a Virginia winery.
Date of update: April 23 2021
There Is Nothing I Would Not Do
Author: ThrowMeAStory
Rating: M
Length: Drabble
Summary: 4x16 au, Part 8. Caroline and Bonnie reconnect.
Date of update: April 23 2021
Cloud 9: A Collection of Klaroline Fusions and Crossovers (Chapter 10)
Author: klarolineagainnaturally
Rating: G
Length: One shot
Summary: Various fusions and crossovers with Klaus and Caroline including Much Ado About Nothing, Ready or Not, and Tangled!
Date of update: April 23 2021
FFN/AO3
FFN: The Traitor and the Coward (Chapter 5)
AO3: The Traitor and the Coward (Chapter 5)
Author: Uppity Bitch
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Klaroline AU supernatural multi-chap - Original!Caroline has spent lifetimes running from her lover and his family. Despite the centuries of loneliness, she regrets nothing. Soon, she'll bring an end to this madness. Or bring the madness full circle.
Date of update: April 17 2021
FFN: Heartless to Heartfelt, Redone (Chapter 10)
AO3: Heartless to Heartfelt (Chapter 13)
Author: SmallTimeWriter
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: Daggered and buried deep within the ocean, Klaus has spent the last 9 years in a torturous state. Haunted by memories of the past and images of a child he never got to meet. Now awakened, but not the same. He is faced with a decision, can he forgive those who wronged him when a threat larger then they could anticipate appears? They must reunited to survive. All Main Characters.
Date of update: April 18 2021
FFN: Divine Intervention (Chapter 13)
AO3: Divine Intervention (Chapter 13)
Author: Uppity Bitch
Rating: M
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: This takes place in an alternate universe after Klaus seeks assistance from a certain blonde Norse goddess after Katerina has become a vampire and foiled his attempt at breaking his curse. Later chapters will follow this spicy "power" couple as they stir up all kinds of trouble in Mystic Falls. (Dark Klaroline) *Nominated for 2016 Klaroline Award - Best Original Story Concept
Date of update: April 19 2021
FFN: A Beautiful Symmetry (Chapter 154)
AO3:  A Beautiful Symmetry (Chapter 154)
Author: Uppity Bitch
Rating: M
Length: One Shot
Summary: A collection of random AU one-shots featuring Klaroline. *2019 KC Award - Best one-shot series* Chapter 154: Dimples and Domestics. The Mikaelsons are spoiled, selfish snobs — and unfortunately are art student Caroline and her parents' main source of income. At least she only has to put up with them over her summer break...
Date of update: April 21 2021
FFN: Through his eyes (Chapter 6)
AO3: Through his eyes (Chapter 6)
Author: TheAlllureOfDarkness
Rating: T
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: The story of Klaus and Caroline, from Klaus POV.
Date of update: April 21 2021
FFN: Judgment Call (Chapter 5)
AO3: Judgment Call (Chapter 5)
Author: Eliliyah
Rating: T/G
Length: Multi Chapter
Summary: As a Federal Agent, Caroline Forbes has always lived by a strict moral code. But when new evidence comes to light that Klaus Mikaelson, the first man she helped send to death row, may not be guilty hours before his execution, she begins to question everything she's ever known. As the investigation leads to the heartbreaking truth, she's forced to choose between right and just.
Date of update: April 23 2021
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Lizard Elizardbeth Elizabeth Bathory (with some Carmilla too) for @xenodile
Elizabeth Bathory is, well, Elizabeth Bathory in child form. She has horns and a tail because of the Innocent Monster skill, public knowledge has her family associated with dragons, so a dragon she is. She also has Mad Enhancement, which technically makes her a rare dual-class servant, but it’s VERY low rank and it’s only real purpose to let you know she’s, well, absolutely fucking bonkers.
Just like the real Bathory, Elizabeth is mentally ill: truly narcissistic, and also a psychopath. She actually can’t understand the pain of others and generally, pre-character development, doesn’t have a moral compass outside of “I want to do this”. The real Bathory was a noblewoman who killed young women and bathed in her blood to keep herself looking young and beautiful, because she loved attention, and loves beautiful things. When she was outed as a serial killer, she was entirely unrepentant, because her serfs were her property, they exist for her amusement, etc.  Because of her vanity, they decided the best punishment was to lock her in house arrest, and ignore the shit out of her until she literally died of loneliness. Fate Bathory is that, and has those memories, but her psyche and body has regressed to a time before she was too far gone into crazy-town to learn that she was doing bad things.
Also because of her regressed mindset, she doesn’t entirely know how to process her fear of being ignored, so it gets projected into “I want to be a GLORIOUS IDOL!”. This leads to her general cutesy act, her NP taking the form of loudspeakers, her nicknaming the only ‘fan’ (in her mind, at least, they’re her fan, and not the only one) she has, Hakuno, as little piggy (male), or baby squirrel (female). Elizabeth wants attention, she wants adoration, and she wants it in incredible quantities.
So, obviously, when she was first summoned into the CCC moon cell timeline, and got freaking Lil’ Ronnie as a master, that wasn’t gonna fly. So she murdered poor Lil’ Ronnie, got approached by BB, and since BB is beautiful, hooked up with her immediately, and gets glued to Rin, who’s gonna be her master. This is.... Acceptable. And, also obviously, Elizabeth needs to beautiful herself, right? And there’s all the programs, programs being indistinguishable from humans laying around.... string ‘em up, drain and bathe in their blood.
While she’s with Rin, she encounters Hakuno, and Hakuno’s blank, lifeless stare of a particularly rare breed of cave moss starts working its magic, along with his servants’ comments. Eventually, she betrays Rin as well, and gets stuck with Shinji. She returns as an antagonist, and Shinji’s INCREDIBLE stupidity (fucking Shinji Tank) also helps Hakuno’s case.
After you fight said Shinji Tank, it’s revealed that she has a crush on Hakuno, and you enter her SG. SG being Secret Garden, the innermost part of a servant, where you essentially slap them with every flaw in their personality and mercilessly destroy them (this part isn’t a joke; it’s actually what happens).
Before that, however, you have a few interactions with her. Eat the dinner she makes, (almost die), shoot the shit, etc. It’s honestly a bit cute. Once the SG gets down to business though, that all goes up in smoke: she has her crimes laid out in front of her, and still has absolutely no understanding of wrongdoing. She’s irredeemable. She is forced into an endless Ice Maze, where she’ll be alone, for all eternity, and has a complete mental breakdown.
She shows up one more time however: when you enter your servant’s origin. She takes their place as your servant for the duration, and by the end of that is able to admit that she was at fault for her situation, so there’s still hope for her yet.
In Grand Order, the stable environment and all the kindness and attention she gets from servants during events is implied to completely rehabilitate her, or near it (see: her Halloween version). F/GO is arguably not canon on that point, however, because technically only the Singularities are canon, and Mashu is your only real servant.
In Extella, she carries over the knowledge from CCC that She Done Wrong. She has the misfortune of bringing that to a Tamamo in full relapse to Demon Courtesan Mode™, of all people, however, so it’s a crapshoot. She also brings her crush (and nickname) for her ‘fan’, Hakuno, who by the end of CCC sees her as a pretty adorable little scamp, but is pretty wary of her.
There isn’t much to expand upon here, if you’ve gone through Tamamo’s route it’s pretty heads up minus interpretation. Tamamo pushes her way too far, and Elizabeth eventually decides she’s done enough “atoning” and switches over to Velber’s employ with Archimedes’ meddling.
It’s worth noting, however, that she was this close to telling Tamamo and Hakuno about Archimedes, but was pushed too far away and Hakuno’s kindness wasn’t strong enough to pull her back. She keeps her crush on him, however, but she’s still a murderous narcissistic psychopath, and he’d be more a pet than anything else.
Essentially, CCC Elizabeth is a brat that eventually learns her lesson, tries to atone in Extella, but Velber happens. F/GO Elizabeth is that atoning Elizabeth in a proper environment for it, which also includes a Tamamo post character development.
Carmilla, on the other hand, is essentially a “what-if” Bathory, similar to Jeanne Alter Santa Lily eventually becoming just Jeanne Lily, because she embodies a childhood wish Jeanne had to see the ocean.
The “what-if” here being “what if we had Bathory in her full unrepentant, crazy glory?” She’s horrible, tortures people, murders young girls, and even traps Ritsuka in her Death Maze during one of her interludes. It is mentioned however, that she does have affection for them, in her own way, and will retaliate to anyone that harms them out of that affection. Though, she sees them more as a toy than anything else. There is a VERY slight hinting that she does harbor some guilt for her crimes, but it’s a stretch.
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