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quinloki · 6 months

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Kinktober 2023 - Day 20

Those moments when it all goes up in... Smoke.

Character: Smoker Reader: gender neutral Reader Warnings: angst, some smooching, completely genderless description of reader and no pronouns used.

Summary: A Thief and a Marine. Romeo and Juliet probably had better odds, but you're not trying to risk 6 peoples lives inside of a week. So maybe it's better to kiss and run. -:- 1585 words

Bondage

You clicked the cuff around his wrist and he snarled, reaching out for you and missing as you clicked the other end of the seastone cuffs to the metal post. Dodging another swing you slipped out of his reach and smirked.

Smoker took a step toward you and his legs buckled. He was down on one knee as the seastone sapped his strength.

“Damn pirate!” He growled, tugging at the binds he had no hope of breaking.

“Not a pirate.” You say for the dozenth time. “Thief. There’s a difference.”

“Law breaker.” He grumbles in response.

You shrug. “You’re a marine, don’t try to be so sanctimonious.” You say looking down at him. “Dogs of the Celestials is all you are, protecting the biggest criminals in this entire world.” You spit onto the ground near him.

“Though, credit where it’s due, as far as marines go, you’re not so bad.” You tilt your head, admiring a physique you’d admired many times before now. You and the white hunter crossed paths with some regularity, but usually you only had to put him on the scent of a pirate crew, and he’d leave you alone.

It was kind of a shame he was a marine, and not a pirate himself. He’s hot when he’s glaring, and the look he’s giving you right now is delicious.

You look around, having been listening out for signs of any other marines. “Gave your crew – er, sorry, squad, the slip it seems.” You crouch down to be more at eye level with him, as he’s worked himself up into enough exhaustion that he’s barely holding himself up. “You really gotta learn to relax when you’re cuffed big guy. It’s no fun to play with someone who can’t even sit up.” You muse.

You reach out and caress his face without really thinking, and you feel his entire body tense. He grabs your wrist with his free hand and starts to bark something, but your grab his wrist back and pull him in.

You hadn’t planned on snogging a marine on the deserted streets of an abandoned town, but that’s where you were. His two cigars were in your free hand, and your tongue was in his mouth. He’d already established you as a criminal, why quibble over something like permission at this point.

He tasted like you expected, smokey, hot, something like malt and spice. He was so red you could feel the heat radiating off his face, and to his credit he only reflexively returned the kiss for a split second before he just seemingly froze.

You leaned back, licking your lips and smiling before you pulled your hand free easily.

You were on your feet quicker than he was back to his senses, and with a click and a tug you had his back to the pole and his other wrist shackled to it. Just regular iron, carrying around too much seastone was a pain. You stuck his jitte in the chains and twisted, pulling the whole set up tight.

Now you had Captain Smoker of the Marines sat on his ass in the street, cuffed and bound against a metal street lamp that had seen better days.

“You know, Smokey, you’re down right tempting like this.” You hum, practically prowling around him. “The things I’d do to you if I was half as terrible as you think I am.”

His heavy boots scraped against the concrete and rubble as he struggled against the chains.

“Oh save your strength you big lug.” You roll your eyes stepping over his legs and sitting on them “I’m good at getting out of shackles and ropes because I’m good at using them.” You explain resting your hands on his knees. “And that seastone’s pretty concentrated, big an’ burly as you are, you’re not going to be able to toss someone like me around."

He shifts underneath you, but your point remains and you hear the soft scrape of metal as he tries to move his arms despite it.

“Now what?” He growls, and you smile.

“Well, now, there’s a few options to be had.” You begin, scooting up just a little bit closer, sitting just above his knees instead of just below. “I could just do what I’ve fantasized about since the first time we ran into one another.” You look pointedly at his crotch for a second before looking back up to his brown eyes. Watching his face go red was an immense delight.

“I could sit here and keep you company until your companions get close.” You continue on, looking around. “There might not be many other actual people around, but it’s getting late, and the beasties will begin to stir. Regardless of what you think, I don’t actually want you maimed or dead.” You assure him, and see something other than a scowl flicker across his face for a moment.

“Or, since you despise me so much, I could just leave you here. Statistically, you should be fine.” You admit, leaning forward a little.

Smoker leans back as much as he can, but he’s not looking away from you. “What?”

“Would you kiss me back if I wasn’t a thief?” You question. Smoker’s body twitches underneath you and he looks at you dumbfounded for a moment.

“What?” He questions incredulously.

“Do you find me attractive, White Hunter?” You question more directly. “Moral implications of my profession aside, am I ugly in a purely objective manner? Ah, objective in, specifically your tastes, not in an objectifying way, before you decide to get pedantic on me.”

“… You’re not ugly.” He says, looking away after a long silence, and you smile.

“That wasn’t my question.” You assert, grabbing his face and pulling his gaze back to yours. “Would you kiss me back if I wasn’t a thief?”

There’s another long silence, and finally he sighs. “Yes.”

You smile, letting his face go and leaning a little closer. “If I stopped being one right now,” you whisper the words, looking at his lips for a moment before you looked into his eyes. “Would you kiss me?”

“I -.”

“Don’t worry about tomorrow.” You interject. “The next minute, the next hour, none of it matters. I’ve given up being a thief, Smoker, will you kiss me?”

“Yes,” he says it so quietly it’s almost hard to hear, need and desire hissed between teeth trying to hold back a word in his soul that fights against his head.

You put your hands on his shoulders to steady yourself, a whisper away from his lips. “Then kiss me.”

Soft, warm, searching lips. The first brush of your lips makes you shiver in a way you’d bottle and hide away from the world if you could. The second connection is hungry, hot, almost desperate. The chains rattle as Smoker reflexively moves to hold you, your hands slipping through his hair as your mouths open and you sink deeper into one another.

A pleased moan bubbles up in your chest and rattles against your bones, and you don’t care if he hears it. You don’t care at this moment if he comes to know just how tangled up in him you are. How much you should be in irons for how bound to him you are.

There hasn’t been the lock made that can hold you, but if Smoker commanded…

You lean back, breathing heavy and listening to the rough breaths coming from him. You kiss his lips softly, once. Twice. You can feel his body tense and you know he’s seen the errant tears slipping down your cheeks.

It feels so good to finally, truly kiss him, but the pleasure is bittersweet.

It’ll never happen again.

“You’re-.” you both start to speak. He stops, you don’t.

“-the one thing I can not steal.” You admit softly. “The one thing I wouldn’t dare.” You let out an exasperated sigh, setting your head on his chest and taking a few deep breaths.

“Damn it all, I wasn’t ever going to say it.” You laugh bitterly. “A marine, after all they’d done to me, and you had to be a marine.”

You put a hand over his mouth before he can say anything, and heaved one last sigh. Looking up, you give him the best smile you can manage, but you know you probably looked wretched.

“I hope whatever you meant to do when you decided to become a marine is something you get to do, and, well, I’m really sorry for this.” You say apologetically, throwing a smoke bomb onto the ground.

The next few actions are just a little too fast for the bewildered captain. Your weight disappears from his hips, there’s slack in the chains, and something in his hands, but he didn’t realize it fast enough to grab your fingers.

It only takes him a few seconds to get free of the cuffs with the keys you left him. The smoke of your device becomes his, and a few seconds after that, the area is clear. It doesn’t matter how far you got, once you’re out of sight it’s almost impossible to find you again without a lucky break.

Thinking back to your words, he wondered if any of his breaks were lucky. The idea that you crossed his path of your own will every single time…

It was his turn to take in a deep breath and let out a long sigh. Lighting a cigar, Smoker wondered bitterly who was actually bound to whom.

#Release the Quin #Kinktober 2023 #x reader #reader insert #smoker one piece

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glitter-lisp · 3 months

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AU ask game question! (You're getting a D20 one from me because it's where we overlap, though I know it's not your main fandom):

An AU where the corn cuties fight didn't go quite so bad and Arthur Aguefort lives the first day but is being poisoned through his tea - the fight still happens, Kristen and Gorgug just don't die.

HELP ME THIS IS MY FOURTH ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THIS LETS GO

First and probably most obvious it takes Kristen a while longer to split from Helio, since before meeting him most of her doubts seemed to revolve around her family and other people in the church and how they worshipped instead of who they worshipped. THAT SAID for no real reason i think she switches from a cleric to a celestial warlock. Like aight fuckboi I'll still be your chosen but me and my new friends all just almost died and the principal of our school is clearly losing his marbles, so we're gonna do things a little differently to make sure I can actually protect the people I care about

Aguefort is CLEARLY losing his marbles but he's got so few marbles to begin with that not many people can tell the difference. The bad kids are probably some of the only ones who can, mostly because Aguefort keeps trying to talk to them about what happened in the cafeteria and then getting distracted by nothing and starting to ramble about phoenixes and pirate libraries before wandering off

I think Doreen survives too!! Like my Pitch for this au is that Fig doesn't drop during the fight, which turns the tides and means having another healer on hand (could Fig heal at level 1 I don't remember but I'm gonna say yes), and let's be totally real with ourselves here that early in the campaign Fig would absolutely choose Doreen to save over the bad kids

THAT SAID I don't think Doreen actually sticks around. Both because wow what a horrifying start to the school year, and because she knows something she's not supposed to know, and she doesn't want to stick around and wait to see what happens if Daybreak realizes she knows who brought the corn cuties to life. She drops her "don't trust the faculty" hint and goes into hiding, starts training as a rogue for safety's sake, and comes back as a one off character during a live show or smth to mentor Riz

I don't have a real reason for it or way to make it happen easily but I think Zayn becomes friendly with the squad before he beefs it, both because I love him and want him around more and because I think his death would hit a lot harder if they had known him as more than just an occasional villain. Adaine finds out Edgar is a registered emotional support familiar and goes "oh my god that's brilliant" and ends up summoning Boggy back in season 1

#remidyal #fantasy high #dimension 20 #you're timing is so funny I got this ask 10 minutes after screaming at a friend about lunacy

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dragonwars · 21 days

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LORE PREVIEW: REN SÁRON

City in the clouds; the last dragon city to survive the Cataclysm; a reminder of the grandeur of the Second Age; a relic of the past; bastion of magic and knowledge; domed rooves and elegant buildings; waterfalls cascading off the edges into the clouds below; lush greenery; a dragon rider's home amongst the mountains and clouds.

Ren Sáron is the last dragon city to survive the Cataclysm - the concluding events of the Second Age. The city still echoes the past Age's grandeur and opulence, with elegant and beautiful architecture, and blending the power of magic with beautiful nature. The architecture of Ren Sáron is characterized by graceful spires, domed structures, and intricate designs that blend seamlessly with the surrounding landscape. The islands of Ren Sáron were chosen because of its lush greenery and plenty of rivers. Thus, the floating city has many of its buildings strucutered around waterways and lush gardens, with sparkling waterfalls cascading off its edges into the clouds below.

The city is divided into three different elevations that stretch across a vertical range. It is arguably three settlements or three sections of a city that are layered on top of eachother. Floating 'islands' remain stationary, thanks to the ancient magic which built this ancient city from the Second Age, and Ren Sáron boasts its own woodlands, waterfalls and lakes across these diverse islands.

The Lower Islands, colloquially known as Lower Ren Sáron or the Lower City, are accessible via a mountain path and intricately designed bridges that connect to the bustling town of Icewind. This lower realm serves as a vibrant nexus where trade, culture, and camaraderie flourish. Taverns, markets, and entertainment venues dot the landscape, fostering interactions between dragon riders and commoners alike.

To scale up into the true parts of the dragon rider city, one has to either have a dragon or be able to complete the Aetherwalk - a complex and dangerous test for hopefuls to become dragon rider cadets. If accomplished, one finds themselves in the true heart of the city. The Central Islands (often just called 'Central') are the exclusive domain of cadets and the esteemed dragon riders, where they hone their unique skills and form unbreakable bonds with their celestial mounts. This is the largest area of the vertical settlement containing residential barracks for cadets, flying grounds, libraries, many training areas, duelling grounds, and more.

High above, the Peaks of Ren Sáron stand as sacred sanctuaries reserved for the dragon riders' private retreats and rigorous training grounds. Among these lofty realms, the Dragonflight Islands house familial squads, each reflecting unique architectural motifs aligned with the core themes of their respective Dragonflights. For instance, the Guardians' Island, home to the Guardian Dragonflight, abounds with herbs and flora, essential for their healing arts and medical supplies.

Notes: This will act as one of the main areas for characters to interact outside missions/plots. Writers are welcome to submit their own worldbuilding suggestions via the submit box about specific areas of the islands or particular taverns and markets. It is an enormous metropolis, split into three cities, and connected at ground level to Icewind via the Lower areas.

#fantasy rp #fantasy rpg #fourth wing rp #dragon rider rp #dragon rp #dragonwars: preview #literate rp #preview

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wilygryphon · 1 year

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My Miraculous Ladybug Rewrite - Season 4

This would be very similar and very different compared to canon's Season 4. Right out of the gate, we have: Ladybug and Chat Noir know each other's identity since the Season 3 finale, and they are dating; they are also dating Kagami, but she doesn't know their identities; Chloé is still a friend and a part of Team Miraculous. Many episodes are the same or very similar to canon, while others are completely replaced due to a different direction of the plot or personal taste (Rocketear, I'm looking at you, or rather not), and it also has a very different ending. And no Sentikids (except Félix). I'll probably go into further detail on him in another post.

Episodes: 501: Canary- Gabriel fixes the Peacock Miraculous and combines it with the Butterfly Miraculous to become Shadow Moth. Jagged Stone overhears Chloé talking with Sabrina about her theory that he and Luka might be related. He confronts Anarka over it and is Akumatized into Canary, with the power to force people to tell the truth ("Sing like a canary"), and aided by an immobilizing Sentimonster called Spotlight.

502: Lies- Kagami becomes upset that Marinette and Adrien are keeping things from her and bailing on their dates and is Akumatized into Lies as a result. Ultimately unable to reconcile their unwillingness to trust her completely, she breaks up with her partners.

503: Gang of Secrets- Marinette struggles with her responsibilities, and Adrien tries to convince her to let others share the burden. The Girl Squad tries to reach out to Marinette, only to be rejected, and are Akumatized as a result. Marinette tells Alya her secret identity.

504: Mr. Pigeon 72- With Alya's help, Ladybug figures out how to create magical charms that can protect someone from Akumatization. After Mr. Ramier's seventy-second Akumatization, she gives him the first charm. Chat Noir learns that Ladybug has shared her secret with Alya, and Alya learns that Chat Noir is Adrien but also realizes why Kagami broke up with them.

505: Psycomedian- Marinette takes Adrien to see Harry Clown's comedy show, thinking he would like it, but finds out that it was her who had made him laugh earlier.

506: Furious Fu- The Celestial Guardian Su-Han appears and demands that Marinette relinquish the Miracle Box to him, but she and Adrien stand up to him. After he causes Master Fu to be Akumatized and the hero duo save his bacon, Su-Han reconsiders and allows them to keep their Miraculouses and the Miracle Box. He stays in Paris to become acquainted with the modern world and to watch over the heroes.

507: Broken Bonds- Chloé's half-sister comes to Paris to stay with her mother's other family, but everyone is shocked to discover that she even exists. Chloé introduces Zoé to her classmates, who eagerly welcome her. Saddened that Audrey lied about the Bourgeois knowing about her and ashamed of the awkwardness and tension that formed around the family, Zoé is Akumatized.

508: Wardrobe- Chloé becomes insecure as her friends quickly bond with her newfound half-sister. Chloé gets into a fight with her mother, who is Akumatized and provided with a Sentimonster called Wardrobe. Since Chloé is quickly taken out, Ladybug gives the Bee Miraculous to Zoé so she can help out. Chloé effectively disowns Audrey as her mother, and André files for divorce.

509: Gabriel Agreste- Gabriel holds a gala and invites Marinette, Kagami, Chloé, Zoé, and Félix. Félix seeks proof that Gabriel is Shadow Moth while Gabriel attempts to take his wedding back from Félix, creating a Sentimonster of himself and Akumatizing it into The Collector. Chloé and Zoé bond while awkward tension brews between Marinette, Adrien, and Kagami.

510: Reigncloud- Mylène leads the class in protesting against Project Oxygen, and André, who had naïvely advocated for the environment-wrecking project, is Akumatized into Malediktator and provided with a Sentimonster called Reigncloud that splits him into thousands of tiny copies to take control of the people of Paris. Ladybug chooses Mylène to wield the Mouse Miraculous as Petite Souris.

511: Guiltrip- The class learns that Rose had cancer as a child and that there is a chance it could come back. Feeling guilty for leaking this information and affecting how everyone treats Rose, Juleka is Akumatized into Reflekta and lets herself be sucked into the Sentimonster Guiltrip, which threatens to pull everyone into a black hole of depression. Ladybug chooses Rose to wield the Pig Miraculous as Pigella.

512: Crocoduel- Jagged Stone visits to bond with his son on Luka's birthday. Jagged's presence makes Juleka think about and miss her deceased dad. Jagged and Anarka argue about the former's efforts to become a part of their son's life and both are Akumatized, clashing with each other in the sky above Paris. Ladybug recruits Juleka to wield the Tiger Miraculous as Purple Tigress.

513: Optigami- Shadow Moth and Nathalie had a Sentimonster spying on the heroes whose identities have been revealed by Miracle Queen for weeks. Gabriel lures the heroes to a fashion award show and Akumatizes Audrey to take them out so he can replace one with a Sentimonster and hide Nathalie's spy Sentimonster in a Miraculous in order to discover Ladybug's identity. Marinette makes Alya the permanent holder of the Fox Miraculous.

514: Sentibubbler- Shadow Moth holds the Césaires, as well as Marinette and Nino, hostage to force Alya to betray Ladybug and Chat Noir. As she currently has the Fox Miraculous at all times, she instead turns the tables and ensures the rescue of her loved ones.

515: Pixelator 2- (Taking the place of Glaciator 2) After a team-up, Ryuko asks Ladybug and Chat Noir out on a date. They ultimately determine that the duo cannot date her as Shadow Moth would target her to hurt them. In the meantime, Present!Alix Kubdel makes her first onscreen appearance as Bunnyx alongside the team in the opening mission, while Alya has taken on a secret observer role as Rena Furtive.

516: Hack-San- Having to leave town for the weekend, Marinette gives the Ladybug Miraculous to Alya, who calls herself Scarabella. Shadow Moth uses a Sentimonster to infect Markov so he can Akumatize him into Robostus and keep him loyal.

517: Lockup- Sabrina puts too much pressure on herself to help people, so Marinette and Zoé suggest that she take a mental health day. Roger has an overload of his obsession with upholding the law and is Akumatized and provided with a Sentimonster called Lockup that captures civilians and heroes that he deems to be "lawbreakers". Ladybug recruits Sabrina to wield the Dog Miraculous as Miss Hound.

518: Slander- (Replaces Rocketear) Zoé auditions for the Ladybug and Chat Noir movie sequel casting, but upon learning how the writing treats Queen Bee, she quits and enlists her friends to make their own film. A former victim of Chloé's bullying is enraged that his peers would make a film to "glorify" her and is Akumatized into a villain who fans the fires of rage in the people around him. Ladybug and Chat Noir recruit Nathaniel and Marc to wield the Rooster and Goat Miraculouses as Falun Feather and Capricorn.

519: Wishmaker- Marinette and Adrien evaluate their dreams for the future. Alec Cataldi faces the fact that he built a career out of tormenting others in response to being bullied as a kid and breaks down, becoming Akumatized. He vows to turn over a new leaf afterward. Luka discovers Ladybug and Chat Noir's identities.

520: Theatrickster- (Replaces Simpleman) A student who writes her own play wants the theater instructor to put it up for the school to perform, but is turned down, and she is Akumatized into a villain who mind controls anyone who enters the auditorium into part of the cast and crew or audience members. Ladybug recruits Ivan to wield the Ox Miraculous as Minotaurox.

521: Qilin- Due to a misunderstanding (and a ticket collector's bigotry), Sabine is wrongfully arrested, and as a result is Akumatized. Roger learns that strictly following the letter of the law does not always align with what is right.

522: Dearest Family- Tikki gets an insatiable craving for the King's Day galettes that Tom and Rolland make. Marinette's parents and grandparents argue over Gina wanting to give Marinette a motorcycle, and all four are Akumatized. Sabine's Magical Charm limits the effect on her, so she keeps control of her thoughts and fights to protect Marinette.

523: Safari- (Replaces Ephemeral) Shadow Moth sets a trap for Ladybug and Chat Noir, Akumatizing Nathalie into the hunter Safari and providing her with a Sentimonster copy of Stormy Weather. Sentiweather leads the duo to Shadow Moth, and the ensuing confrontation leads to the heroes and villain learning each other's secret identities. Ladybug and Chat Noir reveal Shadow Moth's identity on the news, and all three (plus Marinette's family) are forced into hiding.

524: Riposte 2- (Replaces Kuro Neko) Realizing that Ladybug and Chat Noir are in love with Kagami, Shadow Moth has Lila set her up for Akumatization to lure the heroes out. After Deakumatizing her, Ladybug and Chat Noir reveal their identities to Kagami. She forgives them and they get back together.

525: Queen Aurum- (Replaces Penalteam) Chloé discovers that Zoé is Vesperia. Fearing that she is being replaced on both friend and hero fronts, she is made vulnerable to Akumatization and Shadow Moth's attempts at corrupting her, gaining the power to transform those she hits into golden copies of herself, the transformed heroes retaining their Miraculouses. Zoé surrendering and offering the Bee Miraculous to Chloé makes the latter realize that her sister would never replace her and she restores everyone and rejects the Akuma.

526: Replicator - The Final Akuma Part One: (Replaces Risk) Allies use the locations of Akumatizations to narrow down Shadow Moth's new hideout. Félix cuts a deal with Gabriel, offering to become a powerful Akuma to capture the Miraculouses for him in exchange for the Peacock Miraculous. As Replicator, Félix creates copies of just about every past Akuma under his control and forms an army to battle the full Miraculous Team.

527: Shadow Moth - The Final Akuma Part Two: (Replaces Strikeback) The Season Finale. The full Team Miraculous, aided by groups of civilians, battles against Replicator and his army of Akuma Replicants. Ladybug and Chat Noir allow themselves to be petrified and brought to Shadow Moth so that Rena Furtive and Viperion can track where Shadow Moth is hiding and Viperion can reset to report this to the team. The heroes engage in a final showdown with Shadow Moth, defeating him and reclaiming both of his Miraculouses.

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ramrodd · 26 days

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Jesus' Final Week: A Post-Easter WrapUp

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This is the official Jesus Seminar version of Jesus after He has been taken apart and put back together with an example of an academic method based on dialectical Marxism , It's a pretty typical product of the critical historic method of Post Modern Historic Deconstruction adopted universally by the liberal and Conservative draft dodgers adopted as the dominant cognitive paradigm, rejecting Hegel, From the perspective of the dialectical synthesis of Hegel, Jesus is remanded to the Romans at 0600, We are within a month of th Equinox and the 60 base numerology of the Maji really kicks in, Twice a year, you can adjust your chronometer to the great celestial movement by which time is usually recorded. Greenwich Mean Time, On the dot. The narrative is the synthesis of a stacked reality precisely like a modern Police murder book and a movie producer's budget and time table. The Roman military standard time is based on the Maj Magic of 60 base numerology which has been revealing the mind of Elohim the verb since 3760 BCE, The Gospel of Mark is the essence of the epistemology of Jesus and the Bible, Which Kant's Categorical Imperative provided the universal cognitive template of all humanity, including Jesus, I estimate that Jesus is an off-the-charts ENTP but totally engaged in the SP universal connection as a tool of leadership in the Army Ranger kind of way, Anyway, Mark 15:1 - 16:8 is the essence of the euangelion Pilate sent to Tiberius regarding the Talking Cross. Jesus was held over night in the Praetorium as the entertainment of the 800 - 2000 Roman soldiers in the barracks as Pilate's body guard and as a quick reaction force for crowd control, All the festivals of the Jewish Calendar were DEFCON 3 status and Passover DEFCON 4. The Romans put two legions in a very visible ring around Jerusalem in a manner like bouncers at a WWE cage match in a bar. So, these soldiers didn't have anything else to do but hang out and be ready to rock and roll and there was this dead man walking with nothing better to do than what they did, And, the next morning,, a centurion and a routine crucifixion guard mount of what we call squads in the modern organization, 15 hous after he got there, they brought Him out carrying the crossbeam across his shoulders. If he fell, he was going to do a faceplant. He was officially crucified according to the report of the Centurion at 0900 and died suddenly just before 1600 when the sacrifice of the lambs had begun According to Jaohn 19:34, Jesus was split by the Romans at the same time the lambs were being split of Passover, That's he whole point of the bread and win thing, That's the basic details of what happened as reported by Pilate to Tiberius, Euangelion is a transit status for military communication, A Tidings of joy for the Emperor's eyes first so he could take credit for it. We don't have Pilate's autograpy or written hint of his communication, but we know from the Gospel of Peter that is was a whole lot more lurid than any of the Gospel's versions, The Talking Cross was the Tidings of Joy, that the jewish god had performed a blood covenant with the Italian Cohort of the Preatorian Guards as represented by Cornelius, That particular detail is left out of the Gospel of Peter because Cornelius wouldn't know, himself, until the Holy Spirit hooked him up with Peter. in Acts 10 The Book of Acts is the playground of the Holy Spirit, Cornelius is the author of the Gospel of Mark and his narrative is the synthesis of the flow of events around Jesus that Pilate didn;t know exesited when he wrote Tiberius, The Resurrection was one thing: all the major Roman players were God Fearers, It comes with the Profession of Arms. I mean, there is a universal connection between the Fear of the Lord and the Pucker Factor, The Romans had some Latin version of Pucker Factor in their training manual, So, Resurrection wasn't in their playbook, anywhere, bu, basically, it confirmed their own experience of The One, But the unilateral covenant cutting ceremony initiated at John 19:34 and ratified by the talking Kross as the analogue to the unilateral covenant cutting ceremony in Genesis 15, You see how the doubling works? Genesis 15,, Mark 15. The Holy Spirit wants us to make the connection for ourselves, It's an issue of Free Will, The thing is, the Jesus Seminar and Pro-Life Apologetics are different sides of the same Post Modern coin, There is no synthesis possible between the two ou you, However, Nt.T. Wright's interpretation of Pauline Theology will restore the Christology missing from both of your Marxist versions, The buture of your career, Jemmy, remains in your intuition of the fusion of Mark and John, This fusion will creatd th e missing synthesis of the Jesus Seminar.

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princess-of-riviaa · 4 years

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Wet Dreams

Pairing: Captain Syverson x Reader

Summary: You wake up in the middle of the night craving to feel your husband deep inside you.

Author’s Note: This is my first time writing for Captain Syverson and I was really nervous about it, which is why this took so long for me to publish. I apologize for how short it was but seeing as how I’m still trying to get comfortable with his character, this little oneshot proved a bit of a challenge to write.

Warning(s): wet dream

Word Count: 912

He’s so deep inside of you, brushing against your g-spot with every thrust, his cock so thick that your walls are being split open but the pain just spurs you on, and his hand is wrapped tight enough around your throat that you can only breathe with every other thrust

Your vision fades in and out and pleasure so intense and powerful burns you alive, licks up every inch of your body until you’re a goner, and you swear this man is going to kill you from all the pleasure he’s giving you--

“Logan!” You cry his name out with such ferocity in the dream that you do in real life too, and as soon as your brain registers that this is all a dream you open your eyes.

Your husband is hovering over you. It’s too dark to see his expression but the way he holds you tells you that you’ve worried him.

“You were dreaming,” he assures you. Despite having been asleep a minute ago, his voice is alert and anxious--his captain’s voice.

You struggle to calm your shaky breathing. As soon as you shift your body you feel the heat that was burning you alive in your dream. You still feel it, though now it’s located between your legs. You clasp your throat, feeling the ghost of your husband’s hand clenching around it.

“Either you were having a hell of a nightmare,” Logan says through the dark, “or you were enjoying that dream a little too much. From the way you screamed out my name, I’m hoping it’s the latter.”

Your eyes finally adjust to the darkness of your shared bedroom and you see your husband smiling down at you, that same smile that he gives you just before going down on you. As if on cue, your pussy throbs and you clench your legs together.

“It was… the latter,” you admit, albeit shyly.

His grin only grows. “And what was happening in this dream of yours?”

You close your eyes, remembering every beautiful second of it. “We were having sex. We were spooning and you had your hand around my throat--”

He hums in approval.

“--and my back was pressed against your chest so I could feel every flex and movement of your body.” You swallow as the heat in your core burns even warmer. “You made me cum and you wouldn’t stop, not until I was coming again and again and again.”

His thick, muscled arm wraps around your front and pulls you against him. Logan’s body heat wraps around you in a warm, protective blanket. You can already feel his cock begin to hard from your words and it makes the heat in your stomach intensify.

“I need you,” you confess to the dark.

“Mmm, you always need me,” he jokes, though he’s clearly sleepy.

“Logan,” you whine.

“Babe.” You can tell he doesn’t have enough energy for sex. “It’s, like, three in the morning.”

You huff. You could always get yourself off, but it’s not the same as feeling your husband deep inside of you.

Finally Logan caves. “If you’re really desperate, you’re gonna have to ride me, babe.”

Your body perks up at the idea. He never lets you take control in the bedroom, since it’s the role he enjoys playing too much. But with you on top, things could change.

He laughs. The vibrations tickle your back. “Don’t get ahead of yourself. Just because you’re on top doesn’t mean you have the reigns.”

We’ll see about that, you think as you adjust in bed to straddle his waist. You wish the lights were on--you love seeing his face when he’s fucking you--but the thought of adusting your eyes to the bright light doesn’t sound good. You settle for the lights off, just this time. Logan stays still as you climb on top of his body. He’s clearly enjoying you doing all the work. You have to spread your legs far over his thick thighs, but it’s worth it to feel the warmth of him underneath you. You let out a quiet moan when you feel his erection press into your core. Since both of you prefer to sleep naked, there’s no barriers between you. You grind your hips into him and you both let out a mixture of sighs and moans as he grows harder with the movement, sliding between your folds and teasing the wetness from your pussy. You rest your hands on his pecs. His thick, curly chest hair tickles your hands as you lean into him to control your movements better.

“You better hurry up and put my cock inside that soaking pussy,” he demands in that husky, lustful voice he saves for intimate moments like this. “I won’t let you be on top much longer if you keep playing, babe.”

You’re needy too, so you listen instead of giving him backtalk. Rising up onto your knees, you grab his thick, heavy shaft and line it up with your entrance before slowly lowering yourself onto him. No matter how many times you sleep together, he’s still too big. It feels like he’s ripping you in half every time he enters you. It’s a pain that you welcome.

“Good girl,” he grunts as he bottoms out inside of you. His hands latch onto your hips and he begins to move your body against his, controlling the rhythm and the force of your colliding bodies. “Now tell me about that dream again.”

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**METAPHYSICAL BEASTS EXPLAINED**

When it comes to THE FIVE METAPHYSICAL BEASTS of Buddhism/Taoism and THE (MEDIA) TROPE that goes along with it...

I COMPARE AND CONFLATE THE MAIN FOUR WITH ACCORDING TO THE TROPE:

Yusuke with The Vermilion Bird (Phoenix) [Red Oni Type]

Hiei with The White Tiger [Red Oni Type]

Kurama with The Azure Dragon [Blue Oni Type to Hiei's Red Oni]

Kuwabara with The Black Warrior (Snake Chimera, is also known as "The Dragon Turtle") [Blue Oni to Yusuke's Red Oni]

Note: Red Oni are passionate and wild. Blue Oni are more friendly and even tempered, usually seen as the "laid-back" types.

And as a BONUS...

Koenma with The Yellow Dragon (The Emperor).

Yu Yu Hakusho features "The Four Saint Beasts", a Quirky Miniboss Squad of demons based on the Four Gods. In sequence, they were:

(Color-Coded for your convenience.)

Genbu, defeated by Kurama

Byakko, defeated by Kuwabara

Seiryū, defeated rather quickly by Hiei (17 slashes in a split second!)

Suzaku, defeated by Yusuke.

...Yusuke defeated a Phoenix as being a Phoenix himself.

Dragon defeats Snake, Snake defeats Tiger, Tiger defeats Dragon, and Phoenix defeats other Phoenix. Wood/Air vs Water, Water vs Metal, Metal vs Wood/Air, and Fire vs Fire.

Looks like they'd all get along if they had reconciled their differences. The Four Saint Beasts weren't exactly in the wrong...

You can also see why Kuwabara is considered to be and comes off as being the weakest. Metal contains Water, that is, it HOLDS and CONTROLS Water, which is probably why it was not Kuwabara who ended up killing Byakko who was instead killed by his partner, Seiryu (The Dragon)...ironically. The Dragon Character Role is by far one of the most lethal.

Water is such a flexible element. Fire does not always have to be extinguished by Water, Fire can boil Water and even turn it into STEAM. Wood absorbs water and Metal carries Water. Water can be at everyone else's mercry! However, water is fluid and water is patient and water will inevitably win in the end anyway. Think of a hurricane, a tidal wave, a flood, and endless rain. Think of how water shapes the earth and the entire planet. Along with Earth (represented by The Yellow Dragon), Water is the substance of ALL LIFE.

Water is the most Psychic of The Five Elements and Water is a HEALING Element as well.

We can see Yoshihiro Togashi well intended for Kuwabara to be of the Water Element Archetype...to be the Turtle-Snake and the Dragon Turtle of the Team.

"A dragon turtle (Lóngguī) is a legendary Chinese creature that combines two of the four celestial animals of Chinese mythology: the body of a turtle with a dragon's head is promoted as a positive ornament in Feng Shui, symbolizing courage, determination, fertility, longevity, power, success, and support."

-- Wikipedia

Moreover, The Turtle-Snake deals with the Occult and the Occult associates with Magick. Magick contains ALL EXISTING ELEMENTS. In Magick, one must learn to YIELD and CONTROL these Elements.

When it comes to The Phoenix Birds, Kuwabara is The Dark Phoenix. When it comes to Dragons, Kuwabara is The Turtle Dragon. When it comes to Big Cats, Kuwabara is The Lion to Hiei's Tiger:

Lions can defeat Tigers rather than the other way around:

Lions are very noble and are the symbol of Royalty. LIONS also represent majesty, strength, courage, justice, and military might.

* LINK: PROOF OF HAVING MENTIONED THAT KUWABARA WOULD HAVE BEEN A LION DEMON IF A CAT DEMON BACK IN JUNE OF 2021.

In YYH, Kuwabara is both Darkness and Light, mostly Darkness. He is the Sun and the Moon. He is THE ECLIPSE.

Yeah, Kuwabara is The Avatar in the story.

The Five Heavenly Beasts

January 5, 2019 Thoth Adan

Chinese, Taoist cosmology knows five elements and five cardinal directions (including center), represented by the five heavenly beasts, also called the five celestial animals. This fundamental, fivefold conceptual scheme is described as Wu Xing and used by many Asian traditions, such as Feng Shui or TCM, to explain a wide array of phenomena.

Wu Xing, Giclée Print

The Diagram of interactions: The “generative” cycle is illustrated by arrows running clockwise on the outside of the circle, while the “destructive” cycle is represented by the star shaped arrows on the inside, also running clockwise.

五行 – Wu Xing

Wu Xing litterally means moving star and describes the five types of Qi (all the vital substances) cycles through various stages of transformation. As yin and yang continuously adjust to one another and transform into one another in a never-ending dance of harmonization, they tend to do so in a predictable pattern.

It is widely translated as five elements. This translation arose by false analogy with the Western system of the four elements. The classical Greek elements are concerned with substances and qualities, whereas the Chinese elements are describing processes and changes. Other common translations talk about the five phases of transformation or the cycle of the elements.

The five elements are described as followed:

Water (水 shui) is associated with the potential of new life hidden in the dark ground beneath the snows of winter.

Wood (木 mu) is associated with the exuberance of new growth as it shoots up from the earth in the spring.

Fire (火 ho) is associated with the process of maturation that takes place under the warmth of the summer sun.

Earth (土 tu) is associated with ripening of grains in the yellow fields of late summer.

Metal (金 jin) is associated with the harvest of autumn and the storage of seed for next years planting and a new cycle.

The lists of correlations for the five elements are endless, but there are two cycles explaining the major interaction. By increasing or decreasing the qualities and functions associated with a particular phase, a practitioner may either nourish a phase that is in deficiency or drain a phase that is in excess or restrain a phase that is exerting too much influence.

The Creation Cycle:

Wood feeds Fire

Fire creates Earth (ash)

Earth bears Metal

Metal collects Water

Water nourishes Wood

The Destruction Cycle:

Wood parts Earth

Earth dams (or absorbs) Water

Water extinguishes Fire

Fire melts Metal

Metal chops Wood

五象 – Wu Xiang

Chinese astronomy knows five mythical figures, called the five heavenly beasts or the five celestial animals. They’re symbolizing the overarching principles of energy in Taoist cosmology: the five elements.

Each beast represents an element, a season and a cardinal direction – and each beast is associated with specific colors, shapes, temperaments, virtues and many other traits.

Xiang means symbol or image and some writers talk about four symbols, neglecting the yellow dragon of the center. For the sake of completeness I’m going to present all five of them here. They are: Black warrior of the North, azure dragon of the East, vermilion bird of the South, white tiger of the West and yellow dragon of the Center.

The five animals are fundamental, particularly in the form school, the environmental Feng Shui. However, from the very large to the very small: the principles of the five elements pervade every level. Some times even a carefully selected Feng Shui tool cannot work optimally, because the entire energy system of a house or an apartment is out of balance. In this case it is important to strengthen and improve the five cardinal points (or a single weakened element) and bring the Qi back into the flow. Hereby, the five celestial animals can be of great use.

Black Warrior Of The North, Giclée Print

北方玄武 – Black Warrior Of The North

The Chinese character 武 (wǔ) means warrior and turtle at the same time, no wonder the constellation of the North is also often called the black tortoise. The compound term xuan-wu (black warrior) can also translate as snake. Three meanings slumbering in one term – and in fact the warrior of the North is traditionally depicted as a turtle fighting with a snake.

The Northern constellation of the black warrior is also known in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

One of the most famous legends around this constellation is about a young prince named Xuanwu. He showed no interest in ascending the throne of his father, the Chinese Emperor. He left his parents at the age of sixteen, to study Taoism instead. As a master of this philosophy, he later attained enlightenment and was worshiped as a godlike constellation.

In Chinese thinking, the turtle is connected directly with the North, the element water, the winter and the night. The turtle was always considered as a mysterious and very symbolic creature. Its shell is compared with the celestial vault, the underside with the flat disc of the earth. It symbolizes happiness, stability, longevity, help in difficult phases of life, endurance and mental agility.

"The tortoise, as old as the other three but incorporated into the group a tad later, is a well-revered entity in China. Ancient mythology has it that all tortoises are female and to reproduce they take snakes as mates and this divine union is considered a symbol of good fortune. For this reason, the tortoise commonly gets depicted as being a two-headed tortoise/snake hybrid, a tortoise with a snake coiled around it, or straight-up a tortoise and a snake having sex. The alternative name and identity of the Occult Martial is a conceptual fusion between the tortoise and the Warrior of the North from the Four Heavenly Kings, another group of four associated with the cardinal directions. Why this happened specifically to the tortoise is unclear, but might have been influenced by the similarity of a tortoise's shell and a warrior's shield as well as the fact that there are several turtle-based insults in Chinese that you should definitely not call someone if you so much as remotely doubt you could take them in a fight. Hence why "Xuánwǔ" omits a regular word for "turtle" and uses "martial" instead. Other instances might refer to the said tortoise as a chimera of some sorts instead."

-- TV Tropes

* SOURCE LINK: GO HERE.

Azure Dragon Of The East, Giclée Print

東方青龍 – Azure Dragon of the East

In some languages one rather talks about the green dragon, in English it is known as the azure dragon. Well – both interpretations are correct. The Chinese color 青 (qīng) refers to a whole range of colors from green, turquoise to blue. The symbolism of the azure dragon is equally ‘iridescent’ and colorful.

The dragon is one of the most complex symbols in China and the most important symbol in feng shui. The oldest portrayals of dragons are about 5000 years old, 2000 years ago their importance grew significantly.

Chinese dragons were considered to be divine beings, creating order out of the chaos. As one of the five celestial beasts the azure dragon of the East symbolizes the element wood, life, sunrise, spring and health. He embodies strength, luck, fertility, vitality and power like no other being.

At the same time the dragon stands for spirituality, wisdom and the energy of transformation. He represents the forces of the yang, the positive, creative, masculine, virile principle.

Vermilion Bird Of The South, Giclée Print

南方朱雀 – Vermilion Bird of the South

The constellation of the South represents summer, the element fire and vigor – it embodies a strong yang energy.

According to the legend, the vermilion bird was born in a vermilion cave at the South pole, before he was worshiped as a constellation and as the king of the feathered.

The vermilion bird of the South is often compared with the phoenix (fènghuáng) or even equated – however their relation is more vicariously. As one of the five celestial animals the vermilion bird stands for the cosmic principle, the phoenix represents rather an earthly variant of this idea. Their symbolic meaning is nevertheless (or just therefore) very similar. Like the phoenix, the vermilion bird is full of elegance and beauty and represents the five human qualities: virtue, duty, ritually correct behavior, humanity and reliability. It is regarded as a guarantee for favorable opportunities and financial success.

Simultaneously it stands for energy, fire, zest for action and public reputation. The bird evokes the feelings of joy and confidence. Like any winged creature it embodies freedom, overview, self-confidence, ease and spontaneity.

Yellow Dragon Of The Center, Giclée Print

中心黃龍 – Yellow Dragon of the Center

Among all the different, Chinese dragons this guy plays the first fiddle in the Taoist cosmology.

The yellow dragon (sometimes referred to as yellow snake) is considered god and guardian of the element earth, the center, heaven and the sun. He’s the most powerful creature, master of all dragons and as such he is invincible – depending on his goodwill there will be a rich harvest or a poor crop, life or death.

4000 years ago, this celestial creature gave a ride to heaven to a brave emperor and donated wind and rain to the people.

Similar to that myth it is said, that the legendary emperor Huang Di attended immortality at the end of his reign and transformed into a yellow dragon, ascending to heaven. Since then, Chinese emperors are considered as the earthly representative of the Huànglóng (yellow dragon). The use of the figure was reserved to them alone.

Often the appearance of the yellow dragon is accompanied with lotus flowers: The concentric petals of the lotus symbolize perfectly the qualities of the element earth: Everything revolves around a center, expands and carries the power of transformation.

White Tiger Of The West, Giclée Print

西方白虎 – White Tiger of the West

The white tiger embodies the West, the fall, the harvest, the evening and the element metal.

Other than its powerful appearance may suggest at the first sight, the tiger represents a feminine energy (yin) and embodies the polar opposite to the male dragon in the East. The king of animals, or should we rather say, the queen of animals is worshiped since the Han dynasty.

According to the legend the tiger gets its impressive, white fur only at the proud age of 500 and she only shows up when a kind and just ruler sits on the throne and there is peace in the world.

The white Tiger is headstrong, maverick and proud and she is rather a loner. Her wild nature is difficult to control, therefore you should always make sure that his opponent, the green dragon, retains the upper hand – together they are unbeatable.

In China you often find images of tigers on doorjambs and graves – protecting the house or the resting place. It is said that the tiger repulses demons, and he is therefore considered a symbol for bravery.

In Feng Shui the symbol of the tiger is also used to promote intuition, vision, clairaudience, motherhood and unconditional love. Even so our tigress is powerful, self-willed and dangerous, everyone knows that it is gentle and caring to its babies. On the hunt she is very prudent, calm and focused. Her sixth sense may help us to recognize and take advantage of business opportunities others may easily overlook or miss.

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hello!! if u don’t mind and u still want to do more of these, maybe ☯️ or ♦️ for ves?? <3

Ves! The most butch lady of the entire franchise, one of the most memorable in-game characters imo. Haven’t really sat down and written for her before, so this is absolutely thrilling for many reasons! Would absolutely consider writing more for the Temerian stripies like Roche and her :D With that, I won’t drag the intro further, let’s just get in!

(Before I start, I decided to split the text in half, because holy cow I wrote a lot :’D)

☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon

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☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon

Likes

Being surrounded by people she trusts, such as Blue Stripes. Just the sight of them makes her feel better, especially after a rough field day or accidents during jobs. She wouldn’t confess to it, even under Nilfgaardian interrogation, but the reason why she may have such an attachment to the company is the fear of being alone. She has gone through being alone amongst enemies several times, this ultimately led to her being dependent on the presence of others. Marceau (OC) is extremely alert when it comes to his comrade’s mood states and will stick to her like glue whenever she feels “off”. Ves doesn’t often say it out loud, but she’s thankful for his presence.

Astrology. She absolutely loves relaxing under the vast space and gazing upon the different constellations. Many wouldn’t even think of her as being “knowledgeable”, especially to such bookworm-related topics, they simply view her as a barbarian or thug. Truth be told, she isn’t the typical “know it all about everything” kind of a nerd, but she has a grand knowledge when it comes to whatever she’s currently fixated over. If you let her and she’s comfortable with it, she will talk your ears off about the constellations, types of celestial bodies, and so on!

Being useful/able to help. When it comes to doing tasks during their fieldwork, such as setting up the tents, fetching wood, or hunting, she’s the first to offer help. It gives her a specific task to do, where she can focus her wandering mind on. Besides that, she also doesn’t want to be viewed as someone lazy and being picked on based on that.

Dislikes

Boredom. She despises the sole thought of being forced to sit down and do absolutely nothing! It’s both non-productive and makes it easier for her mind to wander aimlessly, which only leads further to be counterproductive and a dead weight for the rest of stripes. This kind of thought has led to Roche using it as a scare tactic, when she’s being too hyper for a job or going against his orders (which to be honest, happens more often than it probably is accepted). The worst thing to happen for her is when she ends up being bed-bound for whatever reason, that’s equal to a death sentence in her opinion. Paradoxically, in her mind, she shouldn’t be allowed rest while she keeps others in check, whenever they are forced into bed. Because - truth be told, none of the Stripes have any self-prevention skills. (Maybe, besides Shorty, he’s a father after all lol)

Anything related to femineity. Dresses, makeup, jewelry, you name it, she doesn’t enjoy any of those things on herself. It doesn’t make a difference on some pretty lass, but her? Ves argues that whenever she’s forced into any incognito job, she finds herself not feeling like “her true self”. Simply put, she just doesn’t vibe with the feminine stuff, she’s more of a “tomboy” when anything else.

Anyone who poses a threat to her family. If you find yourself on her “bad list” you most likely have a time counter above your head, from the thing you do against her or her family – to the time where you have one of her polished knives in your eye. Though that’s usually for simple folk or even small nobles, her biggest fish on the list is none other than King fucking Foltest himself. The title and importance make a big stop in the “off-list” but nonetheless, she’s got her eyes on him each time he walks up to either Roche or Marceau.

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon

Quirk – Being the “wing women”. Usually, when the squad is off duty, she tends to be on the lookout for potential hookups for both Roche and Marceau. Neither of them takes the offered men but Marceau jumps in on the fun and does the same for her, though of course, he looks for some pretty ladies rather than a man.

Hobby – Wood carving. As I mentioned in a previous ask, she likes making wood carvings/figurines! It gives her something to do whenever she’s being forced to sit down for whatever the reason may be. Plus, it’s easier to create a gift than buy an overpriced one from the market, wouldn’t you agree?

Hobby – Archery. Wouldn’t in all honesty trust herself with a bow on the battleground. Nonetheless, Marceau tries to drag her into friendly contests or general training whenever he can. She isn’t the absolute master at it, to be honest, she prefers the crossbow, but she enjoys making her friend/little brother in arms happy, so she bites the bullet and hangs around with him during his training.

Quirk – Hair ruffles. Ves will immediately snap your entire arm in half if you even think about touching her head. Wouldn’t hesitate even with the other Stripes, she despises it that much. It reminds her too vividly of her time with the Scoia’tael, where they considered her a mere pet, which obviously led to mocking like petting her. That’s the reason also for her decision in hair length, it is so short that no one can touch it without her knowing beforehand.

Hobby- Bird watching. She often refers to this hobby as “reverse stargazing”. It’s an alternative whenever she’s unable to sit during the night, plus she loves when the treetops respond with their unique tunes when she’s whistling. Compared to her stargazing, she prefers walking while being on the lookout for birds, by doing so she still gets to do whatever she needs as well.

Quirk – Eye contact. She’s known for being one of the few (Roche and Marceau being some of them) to manage to uphold a long visual contact without blinking. It’s her way of “seeing the vibes” to whoever has been forced to interrogation or simply when meeting someone new. Ves is also on high alert whenever the persons she’s conversing with avoids eye contact, it leads to her being hyper-aware of her actions in fear of being weird or too revealing. Or it also tends to be her hint for when the person in question is stressed or fearing her.

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Happy Birthday, jbsaucy!

Happy belated Birthday, @jbsaucy! We hope you had a wonderful day back on the 16th, and that you celebrated in style! To bring your party back around, the lovely @mega-aulover has written a story just for you!

For this year, I am recently divorced and trying to get the nerve up to get out there. So I would like to request a 30/40s Everlark, post divorced meeting

Jbsaucy

Dear Jbsaucy I hope you had a wonderful birthday. I apologize for the lateness, and I hope you had a wonderful day. This prompt BTW was amazing and I had a great time writing it. It was a blast. Thank you to Norbertsmom for Betaing

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Title: OFF THE MARKET

-kpkpkpkp-

Divorce sucks. SUCKS.

Getting divorced sucks, being divorced sucked.

But nothing, not the tedious nature of dividing unwanted movies, the fear of root canals, or getting a speeding ticket, compared to dating. Dating, ladies and gentlemen, after being married for ten years sucked royally.

ROYALLY!

After my divorce, my attorney suggested I get a hobby or join a club. I really wasn’t a social person. Not much of a talker, and avoided any and all spotlights. It was this fear of the spotlight that originally brought me in contact to my now ex-husband, Darius.

My best friend Gale pushed me to do one of those karaoke nights. I panicked and ran straight into Darius. He thought I was cute, and I was grateful he went up with me to the karaoke microphone. He sang and I laughed. The rest is history; the marriage only lasted ten years. But I knew we weren’t right for one another, partially because Darius was a very sexual person, for me sex wasn’t important. I got more enjoyment out of getting my teeth cleaned. He found someone who revved his engine and I got the fica and dates.

Yup Dates.

How did that happen you ask?

Well, I’ll tell you I followed my divorce attorney’s suggestion. Preface-OUTSIDE OF A COURTROOM NEVER EVER FOLLOW YOUR DIVORCE ATTORNEY’S ADVICE.

With that warning sign, I digress. Taking a deep breath, I pinch the bridge of my nose. Wait for it... I joined a book club.

It was the only natural course of action. After our divorce I got all of the books. You see one of the things Darius and I loved to do was go to bookstores. We’d buy all of these books with the intention of reading them, and we never did. We had bookshelves filled with books from the 100 Must-Read Classic Books by Penguin. So after my divorce, I sat in my newly minted apartment with a box of wine and all of these books.

I was looking at the boxes, my divorce papers jutting out. Amongst them there was a note - with the name of a book club, the real 451 book club, with an address. I called them the Squad 451 or the Squad. The women were a hodgepodge of personalities; the right blend of sweet and crazy. There is Mags, the motherly type. She has boatloads of grandchildren. Then there is her neighbor Greasy Sae who runs a diner in town. I used to go to her diner as a kid and consume her mystery meat soups. The older woman is bawdy and half of the things she says makes me blush redder than a red bean. Next is Annie, a shy, slightly mad girl who is a librarian. Delly has the personality of the southern bell who wears pink and believes in romance. I’ve known of Delly forever; she and I went to the same high school.

Foxface, has one of those names with multiple consonants and vowels but prefers to go by Foxy or Foxface. She is freakishly smart and sometimes, I think she has blackmarket dealings because she’s so secretive. Then there is Effie, the middle aged, tightly wound woman whose book choices are as repressed as she is, like Jane Eyre. And last, but not least, is my divorce lawyer, yes the very same one who suggested I get a hobby, Johanna Mason who is, well, a sex fiend.

I started meeting up with them, and six months after my divorce, that’s when the ladies conspired against me and set up my profile on one of those dating websites looking for men, for me. I had no idea, and on my birthday, they presented me with their “gift.”

It was the gift you didn’t want, like a pimple on your wedding day or the runs before an important interview, or bad breath before a first kiss.

Greasy said that if I didn’t use my, well, feminine - looks around - petals. That they’ll dry up and turn into ugly petunias. I announced sex wasn’t important, and even friged Effie said a lady needed to literally, figuratively, and metaphorically, occassionally let her hair down.

I said NO.

I demanded.

I scowled.

Nothing helped.

They created a profile based upon themselves, and yet through describing themselves they pegged me. I was nurturing. I had a sexy edge. I was introverted, and yet mysterious. I was smart, honest, loyal and a closet romantic. But if you tell anyone that, I’ll hunt you down, even after I’m dead.

They split me up like a kid of divorced parents being schlepped from one house to the other. They set themselves up in teams and each team got to pick my dates. And everytime we met for a book club meeting, I was to dutifully report on the date. Based upon their success, a second date would be permitted.

It was a simple proposition.

I was naive. A stupid idiot, or as Bugs Bunny say’s, a maroon.

Because I hadn’t really ever been out there.

To be honest, I met Darius right out of high school, at my first college party, and we were married - okay it wasn’t a big wedding. It really wasn’t a wedding at all. It was a spur of the moment, we got drunk and ended up at one of those Elvis chapel impersonators. Annnnd bada-bing.

I never really dated, so I agreed with the book club’s plan, because how hard could dating be?

And thus began my nightmare.

I must state, or emphatically note, not all of my “dates,” were catastrophically bad. To be fair, most of the time I wasn’t interested. Delly said I wasn’t romantically pulled. Johnna said my engine wasn’t revved up. Greasy said if the man didn’t make me want to orgasam with a look, then he wasn’t worth my time. I posed this question to the universe: How in blazing blue inferno does a man make a woman...well you know, with a look? Was that even possible?

A hazy yellow fuzz enters my head and my mind wanders. I conjure up blue eyes and translucent lashes that never tangle.

Sigh.

…. (my brain just short circuited at the thought of large hands)

Earth to Katniss.

Okay sorry, I spaced out for a little bit, and their words spurred me on to continue my journey. And one year after my divorcce I had stories, no I have battle scars. To prove my point, the following are my top three worst dates. In no particular order.

Date Disaster # 1 was with an artsy type at a chique Italian restaurant. He arrived late, and was drunk, high, or both. Then fell asleep on his plate of bolognese. Yup, in his plate of spaghetti and meat sauce. I paid for my half, tucked my tail between my legs and left.

Date Disaster #2 was with a small man with glasses and a massive intellect who didn’t stop talking about flamingos. FLAMING PINK FLAMINGOS. My brain shut down. I didn’t hear the music in the jazz themed restaurant. I didn’t even taste the heat in the gumbo. The only factoid I remembered when we said goodnight was that flamingos were gray when they were born. I couldn’t even tell you how they became pink. The man was the human form of anesthesia for my soul.

Date Disaster #3 was a nice man. We laughed. And everything was going well. We ordered drinks, a cranberry and soda for me, the bartender special for him while we waited for our table. Turns out he has a milk allergy and the bartender special had milk. When we sat down at the table and we were talking about our hobbies, his stomach began to grumble loudly. He became pasty and then as the waiter brought out our appetizers, he threw up all over the place. It was a good thing that throwing up didn't bother me, but it bothered our waiter who gagged. Needless to say, I burned the outfit I was wearing.

Those were the top three...but there were more, just simmering to become the top one. And for a time I thought I wasn’t made to date. But the ladies had faith and they were really trying to choose nice, interesting guys. However, nothing, nothing that I could ever imagine could top my latest date.

I’m rushing along the sidewalk. I don’t want to be late, but at the same time, I don’t want to tell them how much of a calamity my latest date was, but to be completely honest, I don’t want to miss it. Tonight is also the night the group meets at Mellark’s. The friendly cafe style bakery with its rich and yummy pastries, both savory and sweet. It is my favorite place to meet. Squad 451 meets twice a month in different locations, including one of the two meeting rooms in the library, one of the community rooms in the Justice Building, and on our birthdays, we meet in a restaurant, but the bakery on Main Street is our favorite location. The Mellarks owned several locations. The flagship store was always managed by one of the original family members.

If George Senior, or the middle son Ryan Mellark is at the helm of the bakery, they allow us to cavort in the shop until close. When his older brother George Junior or their Mother Muriel was in charge, we tended to be quiet, relegating our conversations to the books. When Peeta is in charge, there are free cheese buns and chaos.

Please, stomach gods, let Peeta be there. I skipped lunch today because I had a deadline. I also forgot my wallet at home. Thankfully, my license was at the bottom of my backpack. I need food before my stomach eats itself. I am starving when I walk into the bakery. When I see Peeta, I stop. His blue eyes meet mine and my stomach flip flops. He gives me a slow sweet smile, before his eyes slide back to the customer who is ordering.

“Katniss,” Delly squeaks, waving frantically.

Somehow, my feet carry me over to the table and there is a plate of cheese buns and I thank every celestial being in the universe. His buns are heavenly. Sitting down, I take a napkin and snatch one. My mouth waters and my lashes close as I bring the cheese bun to my mouth. The smell of melted cheese, fresh bread, and the hint of dill, assuage my nose, before I bite into one of Peeta’s coveted flaky concoctions. The combination of the oozing cheese, the herbs and the buttery bread elicit a moan from deep within my being. These freaking cheese buns will be the death of me.

“Wow.” Peeta’s voice causes my lashes to fly open.

Peeta is standing near me with a cup of tea; his face and neck splotchy and red.

My mouth is full of delicious food, but I forgot how to chew.

Delly is looking between us. Her pale blue eyes quizzical, like when she’s trying to understand a concept or theme in a book.

“Okay, bitches,” Johanna says, slamming her brief down. “Where’s the rest of the motley crew?”

“Mags and Greasy just arrived,” Delly answers absentmindedly.

“Hey, Peeta, I need a strong black coffee.”

“Sure,” Peeta says, all the while staring at me. I finally remember to chew. “Here Katniss, your tea.”

Taking the paper cup, I can’t help feeling bashful. “Thank you.”

“Peet,” the girl behind the counter calls.

Whenever Peeta is here, the business is brisk. He is charming. He was always charming, even back in high school he was the most popular guy, not only because of his looks, but because he was genuinely nice. I, like all of the other girls, had a mini crush on him.

Looking over his shoulder he says, “I’ll be right back with your coffee, Jo.”

Now Jo is looking between him and me, but hers is a wicked grin, like right before she nails a sleazebag who doesn’t want to pay for his children. I quirk an eyebrow, clueless as to what has Johanna showing off her predatory gleam.

“Oh, it’s chilly outside,” Mags says.

“It’s colder than Rudolph’s balls outside,” Greasy says, her gruff voice is booming. Several patrons look at her. Greasy does not care. She’s well past her sixties and it’s her motto that she should live each day as if it was her last.

In walks Effie, Annie, and Foxface, and they all say, “Hello,” in unison.

The book of the month is actually a YA fiction called, The Fault in Our Stars, about teens with a terminal illness. I cried when Gus...I tear up once more...at the memory. But I know we aren’t going to discuss Hazel’s predicament with her parents.

“So,” Delly says, bouncing in her chair.

I can’t help but grimace.

“How did it go?” Foxface says. She has an accent, but I can’t place it.

“He looked like he belonged on one of those erotic books Johanna loves to read,” Greasy says, grabbing a cheese bun.

She’s not wrong. Gloss was a blond adonis, with slate blue eyes. And abs that have a flipping twelve pack, I ought to know, I counted them. The words are out of my mouth before I am aware of what I am saying. “He really does with a twelve pack,” I say drinking my tea.

“Did you say twelve pack?” Johanna sat up.

My eyes widen.

“Wait, why are you blushing Katniss?” Foxface narrows her eyes.

“Did you and he…” Annie trails off. Her doe eyes are wide.

“Did you have your first sleepover?” Effie leaned in.

“Or did you dry hump him like a horny-toad dog?” Greasy’s voice bounces in the bakery.

Peeta’s pauses , wiping down the counter and looks directly at me.

“NO!” My voice sounds half strangled.

Jo and Delly exchange a look. “Peeta,” Delly calls him over.

Oh, no, no, no, I say to myself, eyeing how quickly I can get from the back corner to the exit. It is one thing to tell the squad, it is another to have Peeta know. I think I can sprint around the chairs and clear the table near the door like an olympic hurdle jumper.

Peet walks over. “Hey Dells, can I get you ladies anything?”

“Katniss was going to regale us with her latest date,” Delly says.

“She’s going to tell us how she knows her date has Thor’s body.”

“You’re dating?” Peeta asks, looking at me intently.

He doesn’t know I am dating or rather, being raked through hot coals.

“Oh,” Foxface chortles. ��She’s dating.”

“Remember the guy who was texting with his mother during the entire date,” Effie said.

“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Mags saids grinning.

“Only the part when he had Katniss talk to her, and it turned out she was psychoanalyzing her to make sure she wasn’t an ax murderer,” Annie said laughing.

“Or what about the guy who kept on mentioning his ex and cried through the crème brûlée,” Greasy slaps her knee, laughing.

I can’t help but laugh.

“Man, those are pretty bad,” Peeta says.

I hold up my finger. “No, those are tame.”

“Tame?” His blue eyes are sparkling. “You mean there are worse dates?”

Delly snorts. “Oh there are worse. I am so glad I am out of the dating pool.”

“Yeah, Gale just loves you,” Annie sighs.

Delly and Gale met when I joined the book club. And while I floundered, they fell in love and now Delly was pregnant.

My eyes shift to Annie. “It’s so much easier when you fall in love.”

“Oh?” I say.

“I met someone,” Annie says softly. “He wants to meet all of us.”

I wonder what type of guy would date quiet, shy, introverted Annie who sometimes says things that remind me of that song from those Freddy movies from the 80’s. I shake my head. Then I narrow my eyes. “Bring him to the next session,” I hear myself say. I want to meet this man, and make sure he will take care of my friend.

“Really.” Annie clasps her hands.

I nod, but I notice Peeta is looking at me with this strange gleam in his eyes. “Ah...yeah.” My voice sounds breathy. I frown, wondering why the heck I sound like one of those girls. You know the ones that always appear in the music videos washing cars and dancing on super yachts. Darius was fascinated by those girls, heck, his new girlfriend looks like one of those girls.

The women are chatting with Annie about the new guy in her life.

“We'll discuss Annie’s beau later,” Mags holds her hand in the air. “I want to hear about Katniss’ date.” Her white hair spills over her shoulder as she fixes me with a look. “So tell us, how do you know Thor has a twelve pack?”

Somehow or another I knew the scrutiny on Annie would be short lived. My time to shine would come, but when I open my mouth to speak I can see a conspiratorial glance between Mags and Annie. And it hits me that they chose this man, because he looked like Thor. I scowl at the women who set me up on this one. Mags and Annie both have a pink tinge to their faces. I would have expected this from Jo or Greasy, but Mags and Annie, well it’s INCONCEIVABLE!

I begin to speak. “He asked me to meet him at the edge of town, near route twelve.”

“Isn't that where Ripper’s place is?” Effie questioned, and she couldn’t hide her revulsion.

“Yup,” I said, popping the ‘P’, thinking of the bar that disguised itself as an eatery. It was a seedy diner with cracked linoleum floors, yellowing formica, booths that had patches, blinking lights, and rickety chairs.

“That’s where he asked you to meet him?” Mag’s sounds outraged. “That place is…is-”

“- a bedhaven for unsavory characters,” Foxface finishes.

“You're brainless,” Jo mutters darkly. "Ripper's isn't the type of place you can go to Katniss. You should have called me."

As protective as I am about my friends, so is Jo. She's tough on the outside but has a really soft center. It's what makes her a perfect shark in the courtroom. Not that Darius was a jerk during our divorce. He actually wasn't. Johanna was present at the restaurant where he announced he wanted a divorce. Johanna later said it was my face, the vulnerability I tried to hide was why she took my divorce pro-bono.

“I drove and brought my bottle of mace.” I know what everyone was thinking. The area in town where Ripper’s is located at, made the bad side of town look like a tourist destination. I didn't mind meeting my date there. I was looking forward to a basket of fries. Ripper's had amazing beer-battered fries.

I've been to Ripper's once. I was with Gale and Thom who needed to score fake IDs. I ordered the fries, since I wasn't there for an ill gotten identification. But let me tell you, those fries. Oh! Holy mother of fries, no other fries can compare.

Shivers!

I love food; it's why I'm a food critic now. What's so funny is that it was those fries that began my career as Buttercup, the elusive food critic. Back then I was Buttercup, the fussy eater. I blogged about them, no, I lavished them with love. I love my job. I can go into any restaurant, order anything on the menu, blog about it and get paid handsomely. And, most importantly, I can do it anonymously. Not even Darius knew I was Buttercup. He thought I was a boring housewife. Getting back to the fries, I wasn’t deterred from getting my fries.

“So then what happened?” Annie asked.

“He was there waiting for me. He stood up and smiled. And he's massive-"

"Just like a book cover," Foxface mutters.

"He said his name wasn't Anthony, it’s Gloss.”

“Gloss?” Everyone said at the same time.

“Yup.” I sighed. “It was a sign. I should've left." Damn those fries!

“So Gloss…" Peeta's sparkling eyes are on mine, his are an amazing hue of blue, like the indigo milk cap mushrooms. "Looks like Thor." He frowns. "Thor with the long hair or short?"

"Long." The women around me answered as one.

Peeta turned those gorgeous eyes back to me.

Thor isn’t my cup of tea. I shrugged to show my indifference. "Gloss was sporting the Ragnarok look, short hair with facial hair."

I swear I watch Peeta mouth, "short hair."

"Anyway, we sat at a booth. It was packed, actually." That should've been clue number two. Men at a joint like Ripper's at 8:30 on a Friday night, it was by the highway, plausible. But packed with just as many women. "The waitress who took our drink order could barely hear me."

"Was he nice?" Annie asks.

"He was sweet." Truthfully Gloss was a sweet guy. He talked about his mother in a positive way, even if she gave him the name that was another descriptor for shiny objects. "He was attentive too. He told me his mother worked in the makeup industry. "

"That doesn't sound too awful," Delly says.

"He sounds delightful." Mags pushes her reading glasses up the bridge of her nose. The gang is getting tired of the story and I hope they will move on to the reason we are gathered, discussing the book we were reading. I begin to reach into my backpack because I really hate purses.

"If he's so delightful, why did he ask you to meet him at Ripper's?" Johanna says in her cross examination voice.

I wince as I take out my book.

"Yes, you must explain." Foxface demands.

"It's not nice to leave us dangling." Effie levels a look at me that has me squirming, feeling like I was being summoned into the principal's office.

"I wanna know how you know Gloss has a twelve pack," Greasy says.

Peeta looks at me expectantly.

Anndddd were back. I sigh. Will he run for the hills when I tell him? Most likely.

"We were talking about dancing.” My voice loses all it’s warmth. “I don't dance."

This causes a rumble of laughter and giggles amongst the women. Peeta looks confused. Finally Delly wipes the tears from her face and gasps, “You should never dance. Ever!”

"That poor man’s toes,” Mags says, her shoulders shaking.

“Do I need to know?” Peeta looks between them.

“I don’t dance!” I growl. The group erupts into another bout of laughter.

“It was a scheme, a dirty underhanded scheme,” Effie says.

The guy I was supposed to date was a dance instructor. He used the dating app as a way to drum up business. When the women meet him, he pairs them with guys who were there for a lesson. He paired me with a poor man named Harry. My nerves got the better of me, because I don’t like to be touched. Harry’s hands were sweaty. Harry tried to dip me as per my date’s instructions. I tripped, and in the process his toes were crushed, and I ended up with a sprained ankle.

When I arrived in crutches to the next book club, well, that was one of those dates that simmers at the surface vying to be in the top three.

“Gloss didn’t believe me. He said anyone can dance. I told him no, and explained that there are people who are predisposed to fly in airplanes, and some who get motion sickness in a car. “

“What happened next?” Foxface asks, moving to the edge of her chair.

“He went to the jukebox.”

“Oh no,” Johanna mutters. “Did he end up in the hospital?”

“Is that how you know he’s got a twelve pack?” Greasy questions. The ladies, and Peeta are all staring at me.

I shake my head. Why couldn’t there be a rush of customers right now? It is calm and I know the odds are against me.

“Spill it!” Johanna demands.

“Well, he queued up a song and waited a beat, and then Lenny’s Kravits’ American Woman started blaring. Gloss started sauntering and spun and did the splits on the floor. Next thing I know, the women in the place go nuts. They surround him, like a rabid pack of wild dogs.”

“Wait, what!” Delly exclaims her pale eyes bright, she grips the book in her hand.

“That doesn’t happen,” Peeta says.

“It does to her,” Foxface said, her eyes shining with ferocity, like the eyes of those women at Rippers.

“Shut it blondie,” Johanna orders.

“Yeah,” Annie says.

Taking a deep breath I continue. “He started dancing...hips…” my brain flashing to his hips gyrating. “...jutting out and…”

“Ohhhhh yeah,” Greasy cackles.

“Gyrating, his hips gyrating,” Foxface gasps.

With eyes closed I nod. “His hips were doing that all over the place. He then jumped on the table and proceeded to rip off his shirt. He shouted my name and told me his next move was his favorite. He spun onto his knees and slid up in my face before dropping his drawers.” I lower my eyes.

“What,” Delly squeaked. “His pants?”

“It’s like Magic Mike,” Mags whispers.

I know the movie Mag’s is referring to. I’ve never seen it. “Yes.”

“Was he naked-” Foxface began.

“-or was he wearing-” Annie cut Foxface off only to be cut off herself.

“A G-String!” Greasy shouted excited.

I shook my head no. He wasn’t wearing anything, I can feel the heat burning my ears.

“Well don’t stop! What happened next!” Even Effie has lost her sense of propriety.

“As I looked for an escape. It’s then I noticed the poster on the wall, for the Slag Heap.” I pause and sigh, “Men’s Magic Friday Night Extravaganza, and Gloss was the headliner. I realized he’s a stripper.”

And the place erupts in laughter.

“What did you do?” Peeta asks.

My eyes connect with his.

“I slunk down to the floor and crawled my way out...drove to the hospital and made my sister administer a tetanus shot.”

“Can I have his number?” Johanna says laughing but her eyes are dead serious.

Peeta is smiling at me and I grab a cheese bun because they are as delicious as the man staring at me.

Eventually we do get to the book, and it’s a pretty good discussion. Peeta let us stay until closing. Mags and Greasy are the last of the ladies to leave. It’s just me and Peeta since he let the staff go home. I’m loitering because I feel like I need to explain to Peeta why I let the ladies talk me into dating.

I’m putting up the chairs on the tables when Peeta comes out.

“You’re still here?”

“Yeah.” I look down at my feet.

“Katniss.”

“Peeta.” We both say at the same time, followed by a nervous chuckle.

“You first,” Peeta insists, rubbing the back of his neck.

“Dating wasn’t my idea.”

“It wasn't?” He raised an eyebrow.

I shake my head.

“So what happened?”

“The ladies, they got me a year long subscription for my birthday, and knowing I wouldn’t go through with it, they choose who I date...until I find someone,” I can feel the heat rising from my neck and reaching my cheeks, “I like.”

“Really?”

I nod, incapable of speaking. I cannot stop watching the way he blinks, those darned translucent lashes that never tangle.

“Dating is pretty brutal.”

“Yeah,” I snort because dating is horrible.

“My family is constantly setting me up. I went out with a girl who sang through the entire meal. She chose the pasta and sang On Top of Spaghetti.”

“What?” I laugh.

“That was my dad’s doing. My mom’s choice was a lot scarier. She made me do an obstacle course and made me do it three times until I beat the time she wanted me to reach.”

“Wow.”

“I was dressed in dress slacks, a nice shirt, and a tie.” He deadpans, “I even had on dress shoes.”

“I am so sorry.”

“Don’t be,” he shrugs.

I couldn't help but smile.

“Dating sucks until you find someone who makes you laugh, someone who makes dancing easy.”

He approaches or maybe it’s my own feet that carry me to him. But it doesn’t matter because when his arm slides along my waist, and the other cradles my hand, I have no fears. There is something familiar with him as I dance with him. A slow shuffle, that has the room spinning but none of it matters because I feel at home.

“Will you dance with me Katniss?” His voice rumbles in my ear and my heart is pounding in my chest.

His scent is a warm heady mixture of spices, dill, vanilla, and cinnamon.

“Would you go out with me Katniss?”

“Yes,” I answer, and just like that my dating profile goes up in flames. Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially off the market.

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phantomwarrior12 · 4 years

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Hazardous

Prompt: @idabbleincrazy mood board

Word Count: 1,219

Summary: Eternity with an archangel isn’t always what you imagine

Warnings: Blood, intimidation, swearing, creepy-vibes

A/N: Hey folks!

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~Phantom

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"Gabriel, you're hurting me." Your fingers curl into a fist, eyes darting between his vice grip on your wrist and heated whiskey that bears into your soul. Your back is pressed against the wall, his frame kneeling over you in a suffocating cage that sets off every nerve in your body.

This isn't him.

"Gabriel, let go." His grip is tightening and the firmness in your voice falters, giving way to the panic building in your chest. You feel around blindly behind you, fingertips brushing over the cool edge of metal as you locate the angel blade secured in the sheath along your back. Your hand curls around the hilt, "Please."

"Don't like it rough, sweetcheeks?" There's a twinge of condescension in his eyes, a flare of something so warped you're not sure what it is you see in haunted honey.

He tears you from the silent confusion with a crushing kiss, an icy chill that seeps into the once vibrant traces of your soul. It's battered. Beaten. You've been in the archangels "care" for too long - long enough to realize that each touch, each kiss, each caress eats away at your delicate human soul and edges you closer and closer to the dark side. Maybe he's lonely. Maybe it's some twisted game. But you can feel it ebbing - the empathy, the affection, the last trace that makes you feel human.

Maybe that's why he gave you an angel blade. Maybe he wants you to kill him, put him out of his misery before he does something you'll both regret. Maybe it's his way of showing you that he's already won, one last dramatic flex of marred celestial power to break the spirit he'd once admired.

But you won't let him.

He's corrupting your soul with dark grace but you won't give up. He can take your soul, he can take your life, but you can't surrender your spirit. You don't know if saving Gabriel is even remotely possible anymore and after everything - you don't think you want to try. But you're not lost yet.

Granted, the Winchesters don't know where you are and Castiel is too weak to find you after his last encounter with the corrupted archangel to track you.

You're on your own.

You know that. Gabriel knows that. He's exploited a deep-seated fear in every hunter: being left for dead to whatever force they were trying to kill. Of course, the only thing worse than death is becoming one of them - and he knows it. A mixture of the two has forced you into a state of utter dread. You're not going to die. You're going to be like him and there's nothing you can do about it. You're going to be like him and that's a fate worse than death itself.

Unless you can stop him.

So, when he drags you into another kiss and glacial wisps seep into your skin, you jerk the angel blade free from its sheath, burying it into the former archangel's shoulder and twist. He jolts back, landing on his ass and clutches at his shoulder in utter confusion.

"The hell was that?"

"I told you to let go," you manage to make it up to your feet, watching as crimson seeps and stains his shirt and the scowl that etches deeper and deeper into his features. All you can hear is the pounding of your own heart, the dizzying hum of adrenaline that spikes when hazel levels on your weakened frame.

"You're getting ballsy, sweetheart. If it weren't so, bloody...I'd say it's kind of hot." There's a dark lilt in his voice, a twinge of malice mixed with amusement and you're not sure which is worse: his eyes or his voice. So when he jerks the blade from his shoulder with a hiss, you stumble back a few startled steps, tripping over a chair you'd forgotten was there and land on your back.

"Oh, you really didn't think this through, did you, sugar?" It drips like venom from his lips, heated tension that settles on your skin in an icy glaze.

"Stay away from me," you slide back until your back meets drywall and you scramble up to your feet. You won't face him as a cowering child, if this is the end, you'll face him as a hunter.

"You know this blade won't kill me. You need an archangel's blade for that." He twirls the bloodied weapon in his hand, crimson slipping down the blade and over his hand, "But you knew that. Is it really so bad to spend eternity with me?"

"You're not Gabriel. You're a monster. And you need to stay the hell away from me--"

"Or what? You'll stab me?" He gestures with the blade, "No, I don't think so. You can't do anything. I win. You lose. Now it's time for all good little hunters to give up and let me finish this."

"Go to hell, you warped fuck." Your gaze darts to the window, a raging storm igniting the pane with a brilliant flash of light and it's enough to draw his attention for a split second.

You grab the chair, shattering it across his shoulders with as much force as you can muster. His knees hit the floor and he turns in time to catch your fist inches from his face. You watch as the amusement dissipates, giving way to ironclad fury as he twists and you drop to your knees with a scream.

Every nerve is on fire. Every tendon bends and bends and screams. Every bone cracking in protest as seething crimson overtakes whiskey.

"You couldn't make this easy, could you? You had to make me hurt you." There's a surge of ice along your skin and fear tears down your spine in a violent tremble.

"Gabe--please," you whisper, managing to grasp ahold of the collar of his jacket with your free hand, y/e/c locking with flaring crimson as tears cascade down your jaw.

There's no trace of warmth. No twinge of mercy or affection. No sign of your archangel.

And you're out of options.

Outside, the storm pounds against the windows and doors in a furious attempt to enter. Outside, the house trembles beneath the force of the wind and the thunder that cuts straight to your bones. You don't remember hearing it start but you can't think about that now. You fight. You strain. You beg and plead. The storm surges as his grace does, shattering the windows and whipping through the room. Rain pours, silencing your cries in a cacophony of thunder. His eyes never leave your features as his grip tightens and the defiance drains with the last ounce of humanity.

He watches as you crumple forward into his arms, unconsciousness overtaking your exhausted frame. As crimson ebbs, his fingers smooth over your soaked hair, tucking it back behind your ear gingerly. His warm breath fans across your skin, soft and tender as he heals the marred remnants of your hand and wrist before gathering you close. Outside, the storm fades to a soft drizzle, a quiet mist that settles over the overturned furniture.

"I've got you, sugar. It's all right," he whispers, pressing a tender kiss to your forehead, "I've finally got you, now and forever."

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vasilibox720 · 5 years

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What’s next for the MCU?

Please note spoilers for Avengers: Endgame follow.

Future Films

There’s only one Marvel film officially announced, filmed, and prepping for release:

July 2nd, 2019 - Spider-Man: Far from Home

Beyond 2019, Disney/Marvel has dated several untitled projects:

May 1st, 2020 - untitled Marvel Studios film

November 6th, 2020 - untitled Marvel Studios film

February 12th, 2021 - untitled Marvel Studios film

May 7th, 2021 - untitled Marvel Studios film

November 5th, 2021 - untitled Marvel Studios film

February 18th, 2022 - untitled Marvel Studios film

May 6th, 2022 - untitled Marvel Studios film

July 29th, 2022 - untitled Marvel Studios film

There are a handful of films in development, but not officially announced. This is a way of maintaining some secrecy about Avengers: Endgame and its immediate aftermath until Far from Home releases.

A Black Widow solo movie starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, and David Harbour begins filming in the UK this June, with a script from Captain Marvel script doctor Jac Schaeffer and Ned Benson, and directed by Cate Shortland. Rumors about the plot suggest it’ll either be an origin story set before The Avengers, or a midquel set between Civil War and Infinity War.

An ensemble movie about The Eternals (highly evolved, nearly immortal humans created by the Celestials) is in the works from writers Matthew and Ryan Firpo and award-winning director Chloe Zhao. The film will begin production in Atlanta this August. It will star Ma Dong-seok, Kumail Nanjiani, and Angelina Jolie.

Shang-Chi is being fast-tracked with Chinese-American screenwriter David Callaham and Japanese-American director Destin Daniel Cretton. Kevin Feige recently did a Reddit AMA where he confirmed there are plans in place for the “real” Mandarin as hinted at in the One-Shot All Hail the King, fueling rumors he will be the villain for the Shang-Chi film.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is set for filming in 2020, after James Gunn finishes work on DC’s The Suicide Squad. While the ending of Endgame hints that Thor will be joining the team on a quest to find past Gamora, the script was written before Endgame released and there’s no guarantee it’ll be a sequel to Endgame.

A Doctor Strange sequel is in the works with Scott Derrickson returning to direct.

A Black Panther sequel is also in the works with Ryan Coogler returning as writer/director, to the surprise of no one.

Michael Douglas has said there are discussions about a third Ant-Man though nothing’s official yet.

A sequel to Captain Marvel is in the planning stages and could possibly be set between Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame.

A fourth Thor movie has been discussed according to Tessa Thompson, and given Endgame’s splitting up of Thor to go with the Guardians and Valkyrie to be the new king of Asgard it could literally go anywhere. Chris Hemsworth has been very open about wanting to continue to reprise the role.

Tom Holland has a third Spider-Man solo film on his contract.

Marvel Studios executive producer Jonathan Schwartz was working on a Power Pack film as of June 2018, but development had been put off in favor of working on Captain Marvel at that time.

Though Marvel now has the rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four again, any development could not officially begin until the Fox deal went through in March, so it is unlikely these properties will join the MCU any time soon.

Future Ongoing Television

The following shows have been officially announced for development by Marvel Television:

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6, running 13 episodes, is currently airing Fridays on ABC.

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7, also running 13 episodes, will air on ABC in 2020.

Marvel’s Jessica Jones season 3 (the final season) will drop on Netflix in June.

Marvel’s Runaways has been renewed for a 10-episode season 3, airing on Hulu sometime in 2019 or 2020.

Hulu has also ordered Marvel’s Ghost Rider and Marvel’s Helstrom to series in 2020, a pair of shows spinning out of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 with Gabriel Luna reprising his role as Robbie Reyes.

The following shows may or may not be coming soon to TV:

Marvel’s New Warriors was ordered to series for 10 episodes by Freeform in 2017, but is currently without a broadcaster.

A pilot commitment was made in 2015 by ABC for comedy show Marvel’s Damage Control, but no news has been heard about the series since.

Future Limited Series

Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige are producing a handful of limited series for the new Disney+ streaming service:

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will run for 6 episodes in August 2020, with Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Daniel Bruhl, and Emily VanCamp all returning as Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, Helmut Zemo, and Sharon Carter from prior MCU films. The show will take place after Avengers: Endgame, but no word how the Captain America development will factor in.

The MCU multiverse that will be introduced in Far from Home will be further explored in What If?, an animated series coming to the service in 2019-2020. Each episode will tell a different story, with one of them being a universe where Peggy Carter got injected with the Super-Soldier serum instead of Steve Rogers.

WandaVision, a series centered on Wanda Maximoff and the Vision’s relationship, will be released in 2020-2021. Jac Schaeffer, writer on Black Widow, will write at least the first episode. No confirmation yet on whether this is pre-Infinity War or post-Endgame, though comments by Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany suggest either way the show will have 1950s family sitcom vibes.

Loki, titled after its main character, will be a show where the God of Mischief interacts with (and probably alters) different events in human history each episode. It will air in 2020-2021. No word on whether this is a prequel to Infinity War with our main MCU Loki or a sequel to Endgame with alternate 2012 Loki.

Hawkeye, set to air in 2021-2022, will star Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton once more as he passes the torch off to new, younger Hawkeye Kate Bishop. This one is almost definitely a sequel to Endgame.

Feige has gone on record saying each of these shows (well, perhaps not necessarily What If?) will affect future films and vice-versa, and will be completely integrated into Phase 4 of the MCU.

Future One-Shots

There aren’t any One-Shot short films currently in development, but Marvel Studios does have a large number of backlog ideas and scripts should they decide to produce another one. The lack of new shorts has been attributed to the larger theatrical (and now television) output the studio is dealing with.

Future Tie-In Comics

Lately, Marvel has moved away from introducing new elements into their MCU tie-in comics and has instead been producing “prelude comics” that are straight adaptations of previous films in the series. This is unlikely to change in the near future.

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Molly/Yasha headcanons

because I have Feelings from the last episode.

-Molly is the only person currently allowed to touch Yasha. This is because he built it up gradually, over a long period of time, and asked for permission every time until one day she quietly told him he was now An Approved Person and it was all good. Is secretly very fond of his affectionate little head kisses and shoulder pats (he never really goes in for the hug unless there was a near-death experience, he is approved but she’s still not super big on the touchy-feely thing)

-Yasha always has Molly’s back. Always. And she 100% will Loom over anyone who even thinks about giving him shit. Like, he’s getting a bit of shit off a couple of guys for being a tiefling and he’s just being sarky and his usual self about it, but they’re starting to get a bit rough and approximately 0.6 seconds later this gigantic, hulking aasimar barbarian woman appears towering behind Molly and just “Do you have a problem with my friend?” Shockingly the answer is no.

-Molly always buys her a drink after this. She always insists he doesn’t need to, and he insists harder, and then they just end up getting drunk together. (Or, well, Molly gets drunk while Yasha sits at the same table as him, drinks twice as much, and suffers apparently none of the effects. Molly whines about this every morning after when Yasha is just...Yasha and he’s banging on death’s door begging it to take him now, please gods, release him from this torment. Yasha rolls her eyes at his dramatics and makes him tea.)

-Molly gives Yasha a tarot reading every morning as a kind of ritual thing, (”free of charge, naturally.”)

-Yasha likes being around Molly because he’s one of the few people she’s met who is completely, utterly, 100% without a shadow of a doubt completely comfortable with the fact that she’s a woman who is a)- stronger than him and b)- definitely strong enough to crush his head between her thighs with ease if she so chose. (Every time anyone mentions Yasha being strong/a good fighter, Molly is right on in there and just ‘yes, yes, she absolutely is’ and I love it)

-Molly will still occasionally go nonverbal every now and then when his batteries just flatline. During these times, Yasha will just hover protectively around him like a really well-muscled shadow and glare at anyone who even thinks of approaching him.

-On the nights Yasha can’t sleep Molly will sit up with her all damn night and keep her company. He’ll drink with her, talk to her (Molly can prattle for days on end when the mood takes him), play cards with her, do readings for her, juggle, literally anything to keep her occupied. At least once this has led to her quietly falling asleep against his shoulder at which point he gently lies her down and covers her over with a blanket, but he stays close.

-Once you’re on Molly’s ‘approved friends list’ he will straight up kill and die for you without thought. Like you name a time and a place and he’s there. Yasha is the only person on said list at the moment but he’s beyond ride and die for her. Yasha is for him, too, she’s just...Quieter about it.

-Yasha frowns a little bit when people (Beau) accuse Molly of being a heartless asshole because....He’s an asshole but he’s also got a good heart and she dislikes hearing that criticised.

-They both love music, and are both fairly musically inclined (Molly can play something, I don’t know what but he just can) and Yasha has a beautiful voice that Molly has heard one (1) time in his life when he actually succeeded in getting her a little bit tipsy. (He will never speak of it. She will kill him. He knows this.)

-I feel like Molly asks Yasha to teach him Celestial and she just kind of shrugs and agrees without really thinking about it because like why not? And it takes six months for Molly to admit the entire reason he agreed to this was because he thought it’d be really funny for a tiefling to be able to speak Celestial. Get it Yasha??? I’m a tiefling but I’m speaking Celestial. He tries to teach her Infernal for the same reason but she just kind of rolls her eyes and no, Molly.

-Yasha has broken up a LOT of bar fights in her time and a solid 93% of them were entirely Molly’s fault. (She sighs and curses him to shit but she always goes to rescue his useless purple ass. Always.)

-Speaking of, she’s the one who dabs at his split lip and puts in stitches in the cut over his bleeding eye after said bar fights while he whines and squirms like a kitten in a cat carrier and she tells him not to be such a baby.

-One time one of these bar fights was actually started by Yasha because this dude had been trash-talking Molly all damned night and would not stop and Molly just kept shushing her and buying her more drinks and insisting it was fine, he’d heard much worse (but his tail was twitching just a little bit, and there was a muscle going in his jaw) And she restrained herself for like a solid half an hour but then the guy just took it a step too far and she just straight up fucking decked him. Like one punch to the face and the guy went down and out cold and Yasha settled back down to enjoy her drink in peace.

-Molly swooned at the sight of her for like a solid two weeks afterwards and called her his ‘knight in shining armour, out to defend his honour!’ She told him she’d knock him out if he didn’t stop (but also smiled just a little bit when he was looking.)

-Definitely have little whisper moments like they did in last nights episode where they talk together and because they know each other so well it dissolves into a series of ‘yes’ and ‘mhm’ and ‘no’ and ‘I get you’s that none of the others can make sense of.

-Depending on how long Molly was nonverbal for, I can totally see him and Yasha having a crude kind of homemade sign language they used to communicate to each other with. They’ll still occasionally use it in battle together if things get really loud, or across a bar, or if they want to say something privately to each other, or just to fuck with the group because it’s Amusing sometimes.

-Speaking of them in battle like if these two tag-team you in a fight you’re dead. Like be you fiend, fey, or fucking deity, I don’t care. You’re dead. Scarily in-sync. Epic, physics defying combos. They’re just like a tornado of back-to-back death it’s great. (Not pictured, the rest of the squad just being like O_o in the background of the first fight this actually takes place in)

-Molly encouraged the others to bring Yasha into the carnival and take her with them because he recognised her as being a little lost and adrift and in need of a home and some good people around her, like he was, and she’ll be forever grateful to him for that, even though he very genuinely insists it was nothing.

-Yasha knows about Molly’s amnesia, or at the very least bits of it, even if she doesn’t know the full extent of it. She’s always supportive and gently nudges people away if they get a little bit too prying.

-Molly is 100% cool with Yasha vanishing into the wilderness whenever she feels like it. He just kind of shrugs and ‘eh, she’s like a cat, she comes and goes as she pleases.’ But he’s always happier when she’s around, and is relieved to see her, because the girl can take care of herself and he knows that, but also he’s a mother hen and his job is to worry, dammit.

-Yasha can actually be surprisingly soft and gentle when needed, and has been this way with Molly on a few necessary occasions.

-Molly found the four-leafed clover that’s pressed in Yasha’s book and gave it to her when they were travelling with the carnival.

-They genuinely, deeply trust and respect one another. And like...neither of them really trusts or respects, well, anyone, but they do each other.

-FRIENDED BONDED FOR LIFE, Y’ALL.

I’ll maybe add more to this at a later date, or maybe I’ll make a part two bc this is Long but I had feelings so here you go, you’re all welcome.

#critical role #yasha #mollymauk #taliesin jaffe #ashley johnson #i'm so glad they're sitting next to each other the potential for CUTE MOMENTS is peaked and it's great #I NEED MORE #GIVE ME MORE MOMENTS #GIVE ME ALL THE MOMENTS #that i can gif in hopefully non-glitchy quality dear god this week's was a disaster A DISASTER I TELL YOU #anyway #do with this what u will #molly headcanons #yasha headcanons #cr2 headcanons #my headcanons

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CASTIEL AND HIS SACRED OATH - 12x10, 12x12, 12x23

This scene here. This split second glance is so so important. I don’t know why people aren’t talking about it (I couldn’t even find any gifs of it and had to take pictures coz I’m computerly incompitent). But I wanted to give my own analytical response to this millisecond glance, because I think it demonstrates properly why Cas has never done anything about his feelings for Dean.

First, some context from my behalf: I always assumed Cas had never admitted his love for Dean for one of two reasons, 1) he was an angel, therefore not quite understanding his feelings himself - perhaps confusing them with familial love, Dean style. Or 2) he was afraid his love may not be reciprocated. But after watching 12x10, 12x12 and 12x23, I can thoroughly rule out reason 1.

Now, I’ll be talking a lot about 12x10 as that ENTIRE EPISODE and THIS LOOK are so closely correlated.

Okay, so 12x10 (Lily Sanders Has Some Regrets). I’m sure you’re all familiar with this episode as it gave us some truly awesome Destiel moments as well as fem!cas. Now my initial reading of this episode (as well as many others, I’m sure) was that this was a detailed explanation as to why Cas hasn’t opened up about his feelings. The reason to this: God. Yes, Chuck, I’m looking at you, you huge cock-blocking celestial dork. You are the reason Cas is so fearful and closed-off.

Lets delve into this episode a little bit for those who need a refresher: Ishim (an angel of the lord™) falls in love with a human and convinces Heaven a nephilim has been born, all so he and his squad can dispose of this child and the angel who stole the love of his life. Just to hurt Lily and free himself from the pain of rejection.

I was somewhat surprised with this episode (because hot damn! The symbolism and themes are just SO BLATANT), but mainly by Cas. He seemed so concerned and disgruntled with Akabel who (supposedly) fathered a nephilim and fell in love with a human. Previously (in 12x08) he refers to this as an “abomination” (a word that prompts us to think of another so called “abomination”). Cas sounded quite just damning Akabel, explaining he “broke our [Heaven/God] most sacred oath.” This is important.

This surprised me, and it felt wrong. Here’s why:

He was a soldier and angry at Akabel for laying with a human, falling in love with her, and birthing a nephilim… But, like… Isn’t this exactly what he’s done with Dean? (maybe not the nephilim part, but you get my point). If we’re to believe that for all these years Cas has had a huge crush on Dean “Humanity” Winchester (which he has), why then is he so stoic and cold when another angel does the same? Obviously this was many years ago when he was still a loyal servant of Heaven, and you can argue that that’s all it is - however - during this episode, Cas still seems uncomfortable with the whole angel/human relationship concept. It came off as very hypocritical, and that’s why it felt wrong.

Now, it was one thing for Cas to act this way hundreds of years ago - before Heaven lost its controlling iron grip, before he fell, and before he met Dean. But Cas still appears justified with this “abomination” ruling. As he, Dean, Sam, and Ishim sit inside that church (the home of God), discussing the situation, Cas has nothing to say in regards to Akabel. He doesn’t seemed phased about getting him killed and only appears to offer a hint of remorse in conjunction with the child, calling it “horrific, but necessary.”

After watching this episode I came to some pretty amazing conclusions and realised I was wrong about a few things. Cas wasn’t unsure of his feelings for Dean - he was ashamed by them. Much like I believe Dean is surrounding his sexuality. So now we have both Cas and Dean seeing their feelings as ‘wrong’ in some way. With Dean it’s in regards to his own perception of masculinity. And with Cas its believing his father sees human/angel relationships as “abominations” (this is often explained through the nephilim narrative). This makes Cas’s views way more intense in my opinion. He wouldn’t just be defying himself if he admitted his feeling, he’d be defying God himself - his father. He sees Chuck as believing angels and humans should not be together romantically. And I mean, when your father - the literal creator of everything - says something is wrong, you may feel inclined to obay.

I also believe this is a parallel to Dean/John - mirroring their early relationship. The reason Dean isn’t comfortable admitting his bisexuality and subsequent love for Cas, most likely stems from his relationship with his dad and his upbringing. John never let him be a kid, never let him play around and shoved masculine behavior so far down his throat that he became frightened to do anything outside these teachings. Which most likely included homosexuality, as he grew up in a time where this subject was often stereotyped with femininity and weakness. John’s word was law in Dean’s world. And we’re only now starting to see him break free and come to terms with who he is.

Doesn’t this sound a lot like Cas and Chuck? God created humanity and with that came rules - God’s law. One of which being “so like, all my angel children, don’t go around sleeping with my humans, that ain’t cool. Just don’t - in fact, its an abomination.” We know Cas isn’t one for following rules and has certainly distanced himself from Heaven in recent years, however, he is still an angel, and despite falling, he is still loyal. He cares for his brothers and sisters, even when they’re pieces of shit to him (*cough* Ishim *cough*). He is still seen helping heaven and other angels even though they may hate him. Because he remains loyal to them to an extent. This is why he still follows their most sacred oath.

I’ll break down very basically the two rules Dean and Cas are currently controlled by, thanks to their fathers.

Dean: “Man shall not lay with man. It is an abomination.”

Cas: “Angel shall not lay with humanity. It is an abomination.”

I believe this is the simplest way to put our two boy’s dilemmas. And although Dean isn’t exactly religious in a lot of aspects, this is the basic outline for their fears (as well as Dean’s being “can’t be seen as weak, can’t be seen as girly”).

Some of you may say (just like I did while writing this): “What about April? Cas had no qualms sleeping with her and he thought she was human, so waddup?” April, as you may recall, was that piece of crap that slept with Cas and stabbed him the chest before Dean rightfully kicked her ass. Well you’re right. When Cas slept with her, he did in fact think she was human (and not a reaper like we later find out). But don’t forget Cas was also human during this moment. Metatron had stolen his grace. If he really feels being with a human (love or sex) is as bad as I think he thinks it is, he must have convinced himself of that fact. “She’s human, I’m human - this is fiiiiiine.” You can even see the confused and conflicting fear skim across his face as he kisses her.

I’d also like to point out that this episode is literally called “I’m No Angel” with Cas repeating this line after they have sex.

Next up, we have Daphne (also human and practically the female equivalent of Dean), who was his wife for the briefest of moments during 7x17. But again, Cas wasn’t himself, he had amnesia, thought he too was human, and therefore saw no wrong in this. Other than these two examples, I don’t believe Cas has ever had another human love interest (excluding Dean, obviously) in all of the 9 years we’ve known him, which is a hell of a long time. So I think its safe to assume that Cas (when he’s fully sound of mind and all graced-up) believes it is wrong to be with a human.

So, to recap:

Cas loved Dean and is fully aware of this.

Sees human/angel relationships as wrong (thanks to the rules of Heaven and Chuck which are hard-wired into his brain).

Hasn’t done anything about his feeling because he is AFRAID (of Dean’s response) and ASHAMED (of what God would think).

Has only been with Humans when he is human, or thinks he’s human.

Okay, now its finally time to get back to those first three stills (thank god, you must be saying). Here is the scene that plays out directly before the glance:

This is then where we’re presented with that half-a-second glance at Dean from Cas. Pay close attention to what Luci says here and when it cuts to Cas. Directly after: “We can’t, daddy’s watching.”

LOOK AT HIS FACE! Note how the frame LINGERS ON DEAN AS CAS FADES INTO THE BACKGROUND! LIKE!!???!?! I see no other reason for this exchange unless it is specifically related to something Lucifer is saying. The only other explanation I can think of is perhaps Cas is worried about Dean because Satan is mocking Sam and clearly not bothered by the threat of God, and he knows how Dean could get aggravated by this, but that’s stretching it. No, what we have here is Cas connecting to something Lucifer is saying. Its reminding him of his own fears. Namely, “Dean and I can never be together because daddy is always watching, and he would hate me. I can’t break my oath.”

BOOM! There it is - the moment that made me sure of why Cas has never opened up to Dean and why he couldn’t keep eye contact during his group love confession. Because he is ASHAMED AND SCARED. I didn’t notice this glance my first watch through, but when I did the second time, HOLY SHT. This just drove home suspicions I had after watching 12x10 that Cas is fearful of his emotions and worried about how his father would react to them - even if it may be subconsciously.

I may be slow to this realisation, but I really wanted to bring up this scene in 12x23 as I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it. I just hope we get more of this, more of Cas confronting his feelings and dealing with why he hides them. Maybe we could even see him disregard his fears and start to accept himself and become less closed-off, like we’ve been seeing Dean do in the last two seasons.

Anyway, that’s all I have. Thank you to anyone that read all the way through.

EDIT: I wrote this before Season 13 came out and I feel compelled to mention Cas’s depression/empty!cas scene in 13x04. This entire post was about me believing Cas was ashamed of his love because he thought God would judge him (even if that may be wrong from what we - the audience - know of Chuck, but Cas certainly believes it - maybe subconsciously). This episode just further solidified my analysis with the whole “I know who you love, what you fear” line.

Empty!cas is most Definitely referring to a secret feeling Cas harbors for someone (yes, singular) for which he feels shame. This is just more proof (fool proof proof that’s finally being rammed down the antis throats) that Cas is in love with Dean and thinks what he feels for him specifically is wrong and something he should be ASHAMED of. I am so happy with my reading after seeing this episode and empty!cas spelling out all my beliefs in the most obvious way that SPN could possibly present. I even appreciate empty!cas kicking Cas while he’s down by pretty much saying “I know what you hate (yourself, your emotions, why you are the way you are), who you love (Dean), what you fear (him not loving you back, and the ramifications you would face if you ever did anything about it)”.

Beautiful. This episode was just beautiful. I could not have wished for anything more. LollyDragon out.

@tinkdw @olympiahell @postmodernmulticoloredcloak @elizabethrobertajones I’m interested in your guy’s response, if ya’ll have the time

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The first Eternals trailer has finally arrived, but it doesn’t show much of the film’s new MCU villains. Directed by Academy Award-winner Chloé Zhao and starring an ensemble cast including Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry and Angelina Jolie, the movie will bring Jack Kirby’s near-immortal superhero squad to live-action for the first time. Eternals is set to release on November 5, 2021.

Though they aren’t Marvel’s best-known characters by any means, the Eternals have featured in some of the biggest events in the lore of the comics. Having been created by the godlike Celestials via genetic experiments on early humans, the Eternals have existed on Earth through all of recorded history in the comics, living in secret amongst humans or in hiding in cities of their own. Through the years, the Eternals have helped defend humanity from various threats, most frequently from their rival race, the Deviants.

Related: Eternals Origins Explained: How The MCU Heroes' Backstory Compares To The Comics

Disney has confirmed that the Deviants will feature as antagonists in the Eternals film, but details surrounding their role have yet to be released. It’s possible that they may not be the primary villain of the story, and there are a few other likely picks for the primary bad guy. Here’s what's known so far about the villains of Eternals.

Eternals’ first trailer is epic in scale and visually stunning, but it doesn’t show much of the movie’s actual story. Throughout its two minutes, Gemma Chan’s Sersi narrates a very general version of the Eternals’ story – how they’ve watched over and lived amongst humans for thousands of years, and served as protectors. About halfway through the trailer, Sersi says that the Eternals “have never interfered… until now.” It’s a foreboding line, which sets up the main conflict of the film.

Presumably, that conflict will come in the form of the Deviants, but that isn’t necessarily the case. The trailer shows a shot of Barry Keoghan’s Druig at the very moment Sersi says “until now,” which could be hinting at his role as a villain in the film. Without more concrete details, it’s hard to know exactly who will be the eponymous heroes’ biggest threat in Eternals, and it’s possible there could be more than one.

In the comics, the Deviants are the main antagonists to the Eternals. They, too, were created by genetic experiments conducted on early humans by the Celestials, though the result was quite different. The Deviants vary in shape, size, and power, but they are generally seen as violent and monstrous beings, often resembling classic mythical creatures like goblins and trolls. Despite their grizzly appearances, the Deviants are still highly intelligent, and as such, they were able to construct empires and devise advanced technology far early than ordinary humans, all in the hopes of conquering Earth.

Related: Why The Eternals Didn't Interfere In Infinity War & Endgame

It’s already been confirmed that the Deviants will be antagonists in the movie. Per an official release from Disney, Eternals will tell the story of “a group of immortal heroes forced out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s oldest enemy, The Deviants.” That suggests the Deviants are up to their same old nefarious schemes from the comics, but it doesn’t confirm that they will be the main villains of the movie. They could simply be the reason for the Eternals to return, kicking off a different storyline later on. After all, Marvel movies are no strangers to major villain twists.

Another likely choice for Eternals’ main villain is Druig, played in the movie by Barry Keoghan. Though he’s an Eternal himself, Druig has a complicated history in the comics. Known as a selfish schemer constantly on the hunt for power, he’s been the cause of some of the Eternal’s bigger problems through the years. At different points, Druig has been a KGB operative, a torture specialist, a tyrannical leader, and occasionally a self-serving ally to his kin.

Because of Druig’s aforementioned conspicuous placement in the trailer, there’s a good chance he’ll be, at the very least, a troublesome force for the other Eternals to deal with. At most, he could be the film’s true main villain, even briefly aligning with or taking advantage of the Deviants. Such a storyline would fit with Druig’s comic book self, and he could be a great mastermind for the movie’s overall plot. Along with all the powers wielded by the Eternals, Druig has particular influence over the thoughts of others – even to the point of brainwashing and mental control. He could easily use those powers to influence the actions of the Deviants from the shadows, all in the interest of some grander scheme for power.

In addition to Druig and the Deviants, there are other classic Marvel characters who could show up as villains in Eternals. Since the Celestials haven’t done much in the MCU so far, and since what they have done is largely villainous, they could be spun out into more direct antagonists in the movie, pulling strings from the background. That would be especially interesting if Marvel intends to have the cosmic beings play a big role in later phases of the franchise.

Another possibility is that Eternals will bring in the Titanians and Uranians – exiled groups of Eternals who split from the Earth clan thousands of years in the past. In the comics, the Titanians and Uranians have their own storylines filled with civil wars and betrayals, and altered versions of those stories could feature in Eternals. Including even more new characters might be too tall of a task for one movie to handle, but it’s definitely a possibility.

Lastly, Eternals could set up some larger MCU villains for the rest of Phase 4 and beyond. Names like Nightmare, Mephisto, and Chthon have been tossed around a lot in fan speculation circles recently, and any of those characters could make their MCU debut in Eternals. Or maybe the time-travelling Kang the Conqueror, who’s set to appear later in Phase 4, could even be involved. Fans will be able to unravel the mystery when Eternals finally releases.

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