a peek into the au where mike works at the pizza plex and he and vanessa are work besties :^}

BONUS

future interpretation of the gang, ill prolly add jacob later on, but i really like how it came together with the help of @giantrobotslug

(notes below)

- The burners here are in their mid to late 20s

- claire officially moved into motorcity, rocking her own style (smth like cyberpunk/futurepunk? with a mix of retro space chic, and racer outfits as well, similar to the amazons episode) i will probably design more outfits for her since shes so fun to draw

- dutch works along the cablers with tennie, so he picked up a bit of their equipment into his everyday outfit (outside of driving), always has his mask and wrench on him, but also uses a coat from time to time when taking time alone to make art

- texas picks up workout, and gains weight and strength, but his suit's sleeves cant fit his arms in, so he just ties them by the waist and calls it a day lol

- julie around this time has already cut off ties from kane, completely changing her look, piercings, a nine lives cat sleeve tat on her left arm, and a burner flame tattoo sleeve on her right arm (that i forgot to add) matching mike

- mike's still holding onto his iconic jacket with a few stitched up rips here and there, loosely worn with the bottom tucked in, he keeps his sleeves folded to show off his tattoo, plus practicality, he also has his spark staff clipped to his belt

this was the second time i drew him, since his first draft looked kinda off

- chuck takes up a more loose/casual and comfy look, with a coat resembling the design for his matching ride, blonde thunder, he also has longer hair

Can we get your scoop to Michael head cannons? (If I ask this and forgot then Elizabeth :>)

I think you already asked that but my memory is awful and it doesn’t really matter, you can have some more scooped Mikey headcanons:

It hurts him to speak but he does it anyway because while Ennard was in control, it was basically the only thing he could control because Ennard/the funtimes just used their voice box. It brings him a strange sense of comfort to have at least one thing they didn’t take from him.

His body is very weak and he can’t do too much at once or he’ll get exhausted very quickly. Just standing up and walking can be hard after some time, which is why he often uses crutches when he goes out (though he hates it at first)

He became taller too, because Ennard miscalculated and he was a bit bigger than Michael was, so his body was stretched to accommodate. It made it hard to walk at first because he had a whole new centre of gravity (add to that the sudden change of weight because of the lack of organs, and he basically had to learn how to walk all over again).

He always hated looking at himself in the mirror, because of how much he looked like William, and that didn’t particularly change at first because he felt absolutely disgusted by the sight of himself. With time (and Jeremy’s neverending comfort and reassurances), he ended up getting used to it and even preferred seeing himself as a corpse than as William

He used to wear the mask everywhere he went, including at home, but Jeremy slowly managed to make him feel comfortable enough to not wear it inside at least. Though every time someone comments on his appearance or he brings a new ghost child home, he ends up having to start the process all over again. He is just very self-conscious and doesn’t handle well stares and mean comments

And here you go for Liz, because she deserves some attention too:

She is the middle child in my AU (just because I like the idea of Evan being the youngest). She is also the one who died first in the family.

She acts a lot like a spoiled kid and always demands to be offered things and be the centre of attention, but she is not really that spoiled in reality. Her father ignores her a lot and only gives her things so that she’d stop bothering him. Mike tries to please her, but he doesn’t have much money to give her as much as she wants. She easily gets jealous of other kids as a result.

She comes off as very selfish and bratty to other kids in her class, but it’s just because she tries to imitate William. At home, she is really kind and always tries to help her brothers and spend time with them. She plays and draws with Evan a lot and they often watch Fredbear and Friends together. She also tries to help Mike around the house because she sees that he’s tired and doing his best to care for them so she wants to participate.

She would get jealous of her brothers, but she could see that they weren’t really getting more attention than she was. The three of them were actually pretty close before everything went to shit when William killed Charlie. Grief is what ultimately drove them all apart.

She didn’t really have any friends in school and it really bothered her a lot because she couldn’t understand what she was doing wrong. Her brothers tried to cheer her up but it didn’t always work.

She idolises William all the way up to fnaf 6, when she finds out he planned for her to kill Mike at SL and she feels betrayed. She sticks with Mike from then on and considers him her new dad/father figure because he always was there for her and William can go rot in Cassidy’s hell.

She never wanted to actually kill the nightguard, but she had been alone, scared and in pain in the SL basement for decades and she just couldn’t take it anymore. She felt awful the whole time Ennard was using Mike’s corpse as a skinsuit and was trying to convince the funtimes to leave now that they were free. She really hoped that the nightguard was not conscious of the whole thing (she was horrified to find out he was).

Masks Ch.4

Pairing: The Rogues Gallery (Syverson, Mike, August, Walter, Geralt) x Sophie (OFC)

WC 1922

Warning: A/B/O smut (with protection)

@liecastillo @kmuir1 @ms-betsy-fangirl 

They gathered in the living room again the next morning and they all noticed the change in the air, the air less heavy around them and the smell of her heat less.

“Something’s different.” Mike remarked and Geralt grunted.

“One of us was with her.” He said and that’s when Syverson came out of her room, closing the door gently behind him to not disturb her as she rested. August fixed him with a hard gaze as he sat down in a chair with sigh, running a hand over his head.

“I forgot how…demanding Omega’s can be in their heat.” He said and they all looked at him. “What? I didn’t break the door down, she let me in.”

“Did you knot her?” Walter asked but he shook his head.

“Did you Mark her?” August asked but there was another shake.

“Resolve of a saint.” Walter said and he gave a weak chuckle.

“Trust me, it was hard not to.” Syverson said, “In between…rounds, she laid out some ground rules she wants me to go over with you guys.”

“Rules?” August asked with a perk of his brow as if the mention of it offended him.

“Yes, rules, you fuckin’ Donkey, it’s not gonna be a free-for-all.” Syverson said. “She’s agreed to let us help her through it, but when it gets too bad again, she picks who. Stay nearby and keep your phones on you, she’ll text you.”

“Okay.” Walter said.

“Number two: everyone here except for Mike has been with an Omega in their heat, if it gets too bad before she reaches out, fights may break out. She doesn’t want that so she’ll try to keep it from headin’ in that direction. However, if someone picks a fight over who she chooses, the ones that picks it gets benched, no arguments.” August sniffed at this, clearly not happy with it. “Number three: no knotting, no Marking. If she wants you to, she’ll let you know.”

“She’s going to need to be knotted at least once before this is over.” Walter said.

“I let her know that, she’s going to think about who she wants to.” Syverson said. “Number four: it gets wrapped before you tap. Again, you argue about this, you get benched. She feels awkward enough about this as it is, we don’t need to add a potential pregnancy to the mix.” There was a pause as a shudder ran through the room as they all pictured her large with one of their children. Damn hormones. “I know,” He said, his voice strained, “Knotting with protection is kind of an impossibility, with what comes with it.”

“What comes with it?” Mike asked.

“You’ve never knotted someone?” Walter asked but he shook his head.

“I’ve never been with an Omega in their heat before.” He reminded them.

“When you knot an Omega in their heat, you’re essentially locked inside them until the knot recedes. It can take a couple of hours and you’ll come more than once.” Walter explained.

“Shit.” Mike said, running his fingers through his hair. “Well here’s hopin’ she picks me.” He said with a grin and Walter smacked him upside the head. “Hey!”

“Has she ever been knotted before?” Geralt asked and Syverson shook his head, “Ever?”

“She never let any Alpha do it.” He said.

“She’s been with other Alphas during her heat?” August ground out.

“She wasn’t a virgin before I was with her, August.” Syverson said and the man growled. “Yeah, I know, I want to rip them apart too, but it’s the past.” August just stretched his neck, a hard set to his jaw.

“Anything else?” Geralt asked but Syverson shook his head.

“Think with your brains, not your dicks.” Syverson said, “She doesn’t want to be used as a fuck-toy. If you can’t see yourself with her outside her heat, then don’t step up, she won’t take it personal.”

“I mean,” Mike started, “That’s all of us, right? We’ve all thought about what it would be like, yeah?”

“I think we’ve all been a little in love with her since we met.” Walter said with a sigh and Geralt grunted in agreement.

“Hard not to be.” Syverson agreed. August didn’t say anything, just crossed his arms over his chest, a scowl on his face.

“It’s settled then,” Walter said, “We’ll help her through her heat, and whatever happens after, happens after.” They all took a collective breath in through their nose and a moment later Geralt’s phone dinged at him. Digging it from his sweatpants pocket, he looked at it and got up from the couch, heading to Sophie’s room. From their vantage point, they saw the door open slightly and slender hands come out of the dark of the room, weaving in his hair and grabbing at his shoulders, pulling him into the room, the door closing with a bang.

Geralt hummed at the feel of her lips against his, her hand in his hair. She hadn't put clothes on after Syverson left her and for that he was grateful, they probably would have ended up shredded anyway. Her skin was smooth under his rough palms as he held her waist, guiding her back into the room.

"Wolf." She whimpered against his lips and he growled, picking her up with strong hands holding the backs of her thighs, her legs wrapping around his waist. Carrying her over to the bed, he sat on the edge with her in his lap, hands pressed into her back as they met again in a deep kiss. Feeling his hard length against her core, she started rocking in his lap.

"Fuck." He whispered, his already deep voice made deeper by his need for her. His hands left her back as she pulled his tank top up and over his head, her head dipping down and nipping at his neck and collarbone gently. She didn't try to Mark him, but he found himself wanting her to, wanting to wear her teeth marks on his skin. "Sophie."

"I need you, Wolf." She said and he nodded, standing with her in his arms and turning, laying her back against the bed. Pushing his sweatpants down and off, he looked down at her laid out for him, could see the way she glistened on her inner thighs.

"Where." He said.

"Nightstand, top drawer." She said and he pulled out the drawer, reaching in and tearing one from the ribbon. Sitting up, she took it from him and opened it, casting the foil aside. A low groan left his lips as she slid it over him, her fingers wrapping around his length and giving him a gentle squeeze that made his hips twitch. His hand went to her hair as she stroked him, his hips swaying into her touch.

"Sophie, stop." He said, looking down at her. "This is about you."

"I don't want it to be just about me." She said, her hand not stopping or slowing. "You all agreed to take care of me, let me take care of you too."

"You will." He said and bent to kiss her, pushing her back on the bed. She moved with him as he crawled onto the bed, but when he went to settle between her legs, she wrapped a hand around his bicep and hooked a leg over his thigh, rolling them so he was on his back, looking up at her. He tried turning them again with a sound but she just smiled at him, pushing him back against the bed with her hands on his shoulders. "Sophie." He said, his tone warning but she just sat over his hips, leaning over and sinking her teeth into the hard muscle of his chest. She didn't bite hard enough to Mark but it still made him groan, especially when she pulled back, her tongue moving over his skin to soothe the indents she made on him.

Taking him in her hand again, she aligned him and sank down on him slowly, whimpering against his chest as he stretched her open.

"Fuck." He gasped as she gripped him tightly, and she sat up on his hips, pushing him further into her. She didn't do anything for a long moment, breathing heavily. "Move." He said, his hands gripping her hips and she chuckled, her hips starting to move against him, rocking and riding him slowly. The muscles of his chest and arms bunched and corded as he fought against taking control, letting her take it at her own pace, but he lost that fight, holding her hips with bruising strength and thrusting up into her, making her gasp. He didn't turn them, letting her stay above him as he planted his feet on the bed, moving up into her quickly. She leaned over him, resting her forehead against his and looking into his eyes as he claimed her. He pressed his lips to hers, kissing her deeply as his pace never slowed or faltered, even as she sat up again with a cry, her release hitting like a wave. The feel of her clenching and releasing around him was enough to tip him over the edge and he shouted roughly, pulsing inside her.

Her head rested on his shoulder as he pumped up into her slowly, riding out the ends of their release before stopping, and relaxing on the bed.

"Damn, Wolf." She panted, a smile in her voice, and he wrapped his arms around her, keeping her against his chest, humming against her temple before pressing his lips to her ear. "You always like that?"

"Not always." He said and she kissed his shoulder.

"I'm a special case, then?"

"You are special, yes." He said and she picked her head up from his shoulder to kiss him, fingers at his jaw. He was also still hard as he slipped from her, his arms shifting as she lay against his side. Geralt lay there for a moment before getting up and getting rid of the condom, seeing the few already in the wastebasket from her time with Syverson.

"You leaving?" She asked.

"No." He said simply, going back to her on the bed and pulling her into his arms as he laid down again.

He spent the rest of the day with her, taking her several more times as her heat reared up again and again before he left as she was sleeping. The rest of them were still in the living room, watching a movie, and looked over as he emerged, his shirt in his hands. There were a few more teeth prints on his chest but again, none of them were deep enough to Mark. August gave him a hard look when he saw them, but Geralt just stared right back, as if daring the other man to say something. Sitting down on the couch, he reached over and grabbed a piece of pizza from the box on the table, folding it and taking a large bite.

"Hungry?" Syverson asked and Geralt grunted, making him snort. "Girl's got stamina." Her room door opened and they looked over as she came out, dressed in her bathrobe.

"Need a shower." She said simply.

"Back in your room, Sophie." August said and she flipped him off, making his jaw clench.

"Walter, feel like joining me?" She asked and he got up from the couch, going to her, and wrapping his hands around her waist, pressing a kiss to the side of her neck and making her laugh. "Come on, Bear."

my complete, organized thoughts on volume two of stranger things.

spoiler alert: i'm really fuckin upset.

obvious spoiler warning for under the cut.

so. where to begin. lets start with... well, there's too much i'm disappointed in to pick a notable one to lead the pack, sooo a random one it is:

continuity between the seasons

there was none. there were so many plot holes and things left unmentioned from previous seasons that were important and completely left out. starting with will's birthday- what the hell? they made a specific point to mention it in season two. it was important enough to be one of the few confirmed birthdays in the cast of characters (actually, is it the only? a quick google search tells me that apparently, of the main kids, only mike and will have a confirmed birth date, and of the two, only will's was actually mentioned in the show). and yet, they somehow forgot it- with a team of hundreds of people, no one caught the fact that the date they used at rink-o-mania was one of the few dates ever mentioned in the show.

moving on from that fiasco, we have the fact that the upside down's air is harmful. they have to use hazmat suits in season one, in order to safely enter the upside down without getting sick. hopper gets sick in season two from the particles, when he's in the tunnels. yet, when steve/robin/nancy/eddie/dustin go into the upside down this season, they're perfectly fine with no masks or anything? that makes ZERO sense. there are a million other continuity errors, but i simply do not have time to name them all.

chekhov's gun

for those unaware, chekhov's gun is "a dramatic principle that suggests that details within a story or play will contribute to the overall narrative. This encourages writers to not make false promises in their narrative by including extemporaneous details that will not ultimately pay off by the last act, chapter, or conclusion" (courtesy of masterclass.com). in even simpler terms: a detail that was important enough to be brought up in the story isn't going to be shelved and ignored. it's a fairly important concept in writing; it confuses the audience when you bring something up then don't ever address it again. so why did that happen so much this season?

hopper's broken ankle wasn't ever addressed after he escaped from prison, even though an injury to that particular body part is detrimental to one's mobility (trust me- i ran cross country for years. when i fucked up my ankle, even a little bit, like simply twisting it the wrong way, i couldn't run. and while his situation was life or death, there was NO MENTION of it). max's letters were unopened and unread, except for billy's- so why did they chose to make such a big point of her writing them for everyone of her friends? mike's behaviour at the airport was COMPLETELY unexplained, and just made him more of a douchebag this season. and again, the upside down particles and the general atmosphere of the upside down being harmful was completely ignored.

all of these things add to the shoddy continuity, and lazy writing of this season- particularly volume two.

max's story line

what. the. fuck. i am so beyond angry at this. volume one featured max, a deeply traumatized girl struggling with PTSD, survivors guilt, and suicidal thoughts, choosing life and deciding to fight as hard as she could to survive. that story was and IS so deeply personal to me. however, they chose to resolve that plot by having her FUCKING DIE as a self-sacrifice. i should NOT need to explain to you why that's so shitty.

harmful tropes/stereotypes - part one

so, i'm dividing this one into two parts, one for what i'm about to bring up and another to put with all my byler/queer rep thoughts (i told you it'd be organized :0). this season (although this is NOT the first time), they employed SEVERAL overused stereotypes for POC as a main feature of various character's stories. i'm the first to admit that i am not the best person to talk about this, because i'm white, so i'm going to link a post by meembyers, who did a quick summary of the tropes.

mike and eleven's relationship

i'm going to be upfront about this, i'm particularly biased on this front because i'm a byler shipper, but hey- none of this is unbiased. you clicked to read this because of bias. plus, i don't think any milkvans follow me, so whatever.

their relationship has deteriorated to the point that it is genuinely laughable. i used to think that it was so that they could set up byler, but i now i don't fucking know whether that's actually what they're trying to do or if the duffer brothers just can't fucking write a good relationship between the two characters- we've seen them do well with lumax, so what the hell is the problem with el and mike?

if we're forgetting about byler for this analysis, their relationship is such. a mess. mike couldn't say 'i love you' for months, and in fact has never said it properly to her face in a way that she could respond to. he says it himself, that he practically worships her. there's a complete disconnect in his mind between jane, a very real girl who is in love with him and just wants a happy relationship with him, and eleven, the teenage superhero who can move things with her mind.

mike is the first person that she met outside of the lab. everything that she liked was just stuff that he liked. el latched on to him because she was a traumatized, abused child who had no one else in her life, nowhere safe to go. she didn't know what a boyfriend was, let alone the meaning behind a romantic relationship- and while we can see that this is what she wants now, that is not at all how it started.

mike has been reduced to nothing more than el's boyfriend. he has no development- even when he finally managed to say 'i love you', it was only because will told him to, encouraged him. and again- he has never been able to say it in an environment where she can respond to it.

mike's character assassination

i said it in the above paragraph, and i'll say it again- mike has been reduced to simply being el's boyfriend. gone is the mike of season one and two, the mike who yelled at his friends for being the only one who cared about finding will, the mike who stepped off a fucking cliff to protect dustin, the mike who could instantly tell whenever something was wrong with will, the mike who tried so hard to carry will out of the lab when hopper had to go back for joyce. all of that is gone.

he's one-dimensional, a massive jerk to his friends, painfully oblivious (and not in the funny or plot-moving way), and again- he only cares about el.

i mean, for fucks sake, he couldn't even tell that will was sobbing in the van next to him. season two mike would have noticed instantly and tried to make things better- but nope. none of that.

the fucking queerbaiting? what the fuck?

holy fucking shit it was bad. it was. so bad.

QUEER PEOPLE ARE NOT AN ADVERTISING TACTIC.

i mean, for fucks sake, i don't even want to talk about this. it might sound stupid, especially to casual viewers (although, lets be honest, what casual viewer is reading this- it's longer than essays i've written for a grade), but i feel so, so heartbroken. i've linked a post i made last night about why byler meant so much to me, if you want any extra context, but it's really not necessary to read.

https://hey-its-bucky.tumblr.com/post/688553205043511296/this-will-probably-be-my-last-post-before-i-go

queerbaiting is fucking horrendous. i'm not going to talk about any more. it makes me genuinely sick to my stomach to think about.

harmful tropes/stereotypes - part two

now, this one is about queer stereotypes- and this, i feel like i'm equipped to speak about, with my own personal experiences.

will's whole story line this season was an overused trope. it was the 'gay person is in love with their best friend, but oh no the love is unrequited, so gay person steps up as the "bigger person" and hides their feelings and helps best friend with their relationship while feeling broken inside' mixed with a little bit of 'sad gay boy' and then some 'in love with a straight person' thrown in for spice.

i'm not going to say that this doesn't happen. that would be a lie. this is word for word, something that i experienced. but that doesn't mean that it isn't a trope or a stereotype.

some people are going to fit a stereotype, and as long as that's actually who the person is and not just a caricature of them, that's okay. the issue arises when it's the only thing we see in the media, because it reinforces the idea that there's only one type of gay person.

i'm not going to go into this much more, because i know a large portion of people on this website are queer and very much understand what i'm talking about, but if you're really curious you can do some research on your own.

and, now, for the grand finale of my rant:

will's feelings for mike being used as a plot device

dear fucking god.

they used will's feelings for mike as a way to push mike towards saying 'i love you' to el. his personal connection, his love for mike, was only seen to progress a straight relationship. again- i should NOT have to tell you why that's problematic.

conclusion

i'm so tired, guys. physically, because it's 12:40 am, i've been writing this for an hour and a half, and i got like. five and a half hours of sleep last night. but i'm tired mentally, too.

i'm so fucking sick of the treatment of queer characters in media. i'm sick of lazy writing. i'm sick of stereotypes, of poorly-thought out decisions, and especially: I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF QUEERBAITING.

i'm tired, and i'm angry, and most of all, i'm disappointed. so, immensely disappointed.

i'm going to bed. i hope this all made sense. i'm sorry to those of you who feel the same way as me, because we all deserved better. best of luck to everyone. take some time for yourself- it might seem silly, but i know how much disappointment on this scale hurts. remember to drink water, and, of course:

fuck the duffer brothers.

Weirdest dreams I’ve had

I’ve posted about some of these before but what the hell

-Anatole from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 became a furry and changed his name to Anatole Furagin. Dolokhov was inconsolable.

-Death Note took place in the Beastars world.

-I was the protagonist from Rebecca, crashed my car on the way back to Manderley, and blamed Rebecca

-Tim Shepard from The Outsiders was a car. He looked like Lightning McQueen with a human forehead and eyes on the windshield. Steve got into that car and drove it to the middle of the woods, where he died.

-My mom pretended to be a Russian immigrant to get on a cruise where the cast of Diary of a Wimpy Kid was going to roller skate in unison and sing Jingle Bells, complete with a rap solo for Greg, which I distinctly remember contained the lines, “You can sing, sing, sing; you can dance, dance, dance.”

-L from Death Note had a one night stand with Matsuda. Then I woke up and realized I was sick from my second COVID shot. 

-There was an episode of Johnny Bravo where the whole plot was that he got a dog and it died.

-I got sent to reformatory school because I got pregnant. Hatsune Miku was there and started throwing up gang signs at Meiko. This enraged her so much that she shot the place up.

-Mikami from Death Note stabbed Chief Yagami, traumatizing him. I was Matsuda for some reason, and a bunch of the NPA went to visit him in the hospital. I said something that triggered his PTSD and while apologizing, said that I would help him recover, and that it would be like the recovery arc in some action movie called Billy Hill (which I’m pretty sure was the Legend of Korra). Aizawa sighed and told me I got the name of the movie wrong, so i asked “Billy Joel?” and he shook his head again, so I asked, “Billy Crystal?” I woke up laughing because of how in character it was. Then my sister came in and told me a friend of the family had three weeks to live, so you win some you lose some I guess.

-I was stuck in a time loop where I kept coming to school naked.

-Jeff from Total Drama staged a coup against my elementary school, won, and became a totalitarian dictator. A kid I still know broke one of his rules so Jeff called us down to the gym for a PUBLIC EXECUTION. He beheaded the kid and wore his face as a fucking mask. What the hell is my brain trying to tell me?

-Back when Donald Trump was president, I dreamed that he got assassinated, and all the people that hated him were really happy. They started throwing parties and dancing in the street and shit, but then they all started crying because they realized Mike Pence would replace him.

Might add more if I realize I forgot something.

All right so

This year questionnaire includes a question to name your 5 favorite NPCs. This may or may not mean they will be implement as playable someday. Maybe is for merch or CE, but it’s worth a shot. So if you had a JP account, whether you still use it, log in, or abandoned it to use NA, I still suggest to sign it up to answer this. Here’s the list of the ones you can vote for:

Asha (India Lostbelt girl) Akuta Hinako Agravain Akechi Mitsuhide Ajai (Asha’s father) Adele (Olympus helper twin girl) Aphrodite Black Artemis (the unit from Atlantis) The Alien God Priestess  Winky (the hooded goblin, Mash’s friend of Avalon) Woodwose (the Lord of the Fang Clan of Avalon, Percival’s adopted father). Ector (the dwarf-smith from Avalon Le Fae, who raised Arturia Caster) Aurora (the Wind Clan Lord of Avalon) Onao (Hokusai’s daughter, and Oui’s sister , appears in an interlude. Onui (Shimousa NPC) Ohana (NPC shrine maiden who knew Okuni from latest Guda Guda) Ophelia Phamrsolone Olgamarie Animusphere Onfam (a dwarf who greeted Guda in the village in Avalon) Male Kama  Kadoc Zemlupus Han Xin Kirschtaria Wodime Christopher (young Columbus from Summer event) Marie Alter Goetia Gerda (Scandivania Lostbelt girl) Coral (Aurora’s right hand fairy in Avalon) Divine Gorgon (from Babylonia) Goredolf Musik Sita Sion Eltnam Sokaris Siduri Shibata Katsuie (big armored old man from Guda Guda) Xu Fu Silvia (Chaldea Blonde NPC) Jingle Abel Meuniere Scandinavia Peperoncino Spriggan (Fairy leader of the Earth Clan, who is actually a human from Panhistory) Zeus Kiara Lily Serizawa Kamo (original Shinsengumi commander from Guda Guda) Zolken Solomon Shinsaku Takasugi (the redhead that caused a lot of online drama and probably the source of why they asked for this from Guda Guda) Takechi Hanpeita (Izou’s boss) Tasuke (the baby from Shimousa) Dustin (Chaldea engineer from part 2 prologue). Tanaka Shinbei (redhead masked guy from the latest Guda Guda) Dahu Tiamat Daybit Sem Void Demeter Dumuzid Professor Tokiomi Nezha Alter Non-named Fairy (”Hope” from Avalon) Knocknarea (Fairy Medb) Patxy (Russia good boy)

Pierre Cauchon (I forgot him, he is the Bishop Jeanne Alter burned in Orleans).

Fergus Lily Fujiwara no Michinaga (From Hell World Mandala) Beryl Gut Boggart (the lion fairy who Mash nearly marries) Marble Macintosh (the NPC Kiara cosplays as in CCC collab) Mike (Grand Canvallo’s boss/friend in Avalon) Makarios (the male twin ally of Olympus) Matthew Hopkins Maxwell Matsudaira Nobutsuna (the MVP from Ooku) Minotaur (Lostbelt Asterios) Muryan Megalos (Heracles roided) Yamanami Keisuke (Megane Shinsengumi) Lavinia Waitley Rasputin Randolph Carter Lev Lainur Ronald Rob (the bulky goblin, Mash’s friend from Avalon) Romani Archaman Wag (the last of the goblin trio)

If they forgot someone add them in the box.

ok ok, so, @saltybatman​ asked me how i manage to bring colors out in a gifset without it becoming too grainy or overpowering. and because i love her so much, i made this tutorial for her but i decided to post it because more people asked for a tutorial before, so here we go

i use photoshop cc 2014

for this tutorial you need to know the basics of making gifs

if you have any questions just send me an ask or IM me, you won’t be bothering me (i may take a little while to respond, though)

there are at least 4 methods in this, so enjoy

from:

to:

ok, so, here are a few of my methods

note: i’m gonna add links of the images so you can enlarge them to see better

i’m gonna start with this gif from IT:

so, first of all, i always use my base psd on my gifs, which was based in this tutorial

after adding the base, i adjust it with more layers. like brightness, contrast, color balance etc. but i NEVER change what’s inside the folder of the base.

the gif will look like this:

not much difference, right? right

now, i’m gonna change the color

at first i was going to turn it into blue, but then i tried using color balance and this is what happened (note: i only used the midtone tab):

so i was like “wow, look at this!!”

so i decided to make it purple.

but can you see the pink/red in the background? i only want the purple color, so i need to get rid of that

for that, i’m gonna use hue/saturation

these are my settings:

(the settings in the reds tab)

(and in the magentas tab)

it doesn’t look so red anymore, so it’s great.

now, i want to make the gif a bit more dark and i wanna change the purple a bit so it’ll look like the other gif i made (this one)

my settings in the blacks tab:

and in the blues tab:

and it’s done! now i just need to sharpen it and post! and for that, i always use this sharpening action

then: 

and now:

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another example of how i made this:

turn into this:

this is a bit of a pain in the ass, tbh. and this worked because the gif was small (so you can’t see much of the details and can’t find errors, per say) and they (the characters) didn’t move so much in this scene, so it was easier to change the colors

as usual, i’ll use my base and adjust it with more layers.

the result:

now i’m gonna change the color, for that, i’m gonna use hue/saturation again, and i’m gonna change the settings of the yellows, greens and cyans tabs

the result:

i don’t want their faces to be affected by the color changes, so i’ll use a layer mask and use the brush tool to paint over their faces and where i think it’s necessary

it’ll look like this now:

but now i need to get rid of the yellows/greens/cyans.

i’ll add another hue/saturation layer and mess with the yellows/greens/cyans tab:

(yellow)

(green)

(cyan)

ok, now it looks a lot better.

but i still want to change it to a more vibrant pink, i’m gonna use the selective color for that.

(reds tab)

(magentas tab)

but i still thinks this isn’t enough, so i’ll add one more selective color layer

(reds tab)

(magentas tab)

ok, now i’m satisfied, hOWEVER, this still looks dark, so i’m gonna have to use A LOT of brightness for this

my settings:

i’m too perfectionist, so i think i should add another layer of selective color and darken it a bit.

(blacks tab)

I KNOW, there’s practically no difference, but my perfectionist ass thinks that there is, so yeah,

and now a tiny little bit more of brightness/contrast:

and it’s finally done, thank god

note: i could’ve added a layer mask over the second layer of the selective color because you can see that ben’s face, mike’s clothes and bev’s hair are way more vibrant than they should be, but when i made this, i didn’t notice much at first. and when i noticed, i was too lazy to fix

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for this next example, i’m gonna use a psd from another person, because mine wasn’t working with the scenes and i was getting angry so instead i used the psd

from this:

to this:

the result after adding the psd:

adjusting a bit more with brightness/contrast under the psd folder:

changing the colors with selective color (cyans and blues)

and finally, more brightness/contrast:

done!

i tried coloring this scene again, but this time with my base, and this is the result:

and the one made with the psd:

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the final example:

from:

to:

as always, the same steps

but in this case, the yellows were showing too much and i wanted the blues to stand out.

i used the color balance for it (only the highlights tab):

then to turn down more, i used saturation (reds and yellows):

then i made more adjustments with the blues, added more brightness/contrast etc etc, however, there was still too many yellows for my taste, so i added one more hue/saturation layer:

and done!

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and last but not least, a few tips:

if you want to change a scene from blue/cyan to purple/violet/crimson/(even green depending) etc all you need to do is play with the selective colors. but if you want to change the blue/cyan to, say, red, yellow, orange, (”a different”) green etc you can use hue/saturation.

i’m gonna take that gif from rdr2 as example

in case of this scene, i can use only the master tab to change the color because there aren’t many colors in this, so you can turn it into this:

or this:

or this: (and use more selective color to give more “personality” to the orange)

or you can use the selective color to change it to red:

and more hue/saturation to look more red:

but there are scenes which have many other colors together, so for those, you gonna have to use the specific tab of the color you wanna change. because if you use the master tab, it’ll screw with all the other colors

oh, i almost forgot! if you want to turn a white-ish scene into cyan/blue, all you have to do is use color balance to turn it a bit more blue (in this case, i only used the highlights tab), and add a layer of selective color and mess with the whites tab

then:

now:

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ummmm, i think that’s all?? but if you want to ask anything else, feel free to!

Reunion

Summary: could you do a stan x daughter where she meets the losers club for the first time? like maybe at the restaurant scene from CH2? 

warnings: swear words

In spite of the fact that the temperature didn’t differ much from outside, Dalia’s glasses fogged up instantly upon entering the restaurant. The abundance of spices assaulted her sense of smell, but the combination of herbs formed a plenary attraction, opening a black whole in her stomach from hunger. Her last meal was a sandwich she ripped from home, hours before landing in the airport of Maine and purchasing the first rental car they found.

Her dad offered to buy her something to eat on the way over, but she declined. She picked up part of Stanley’s quirks growing up, and though not nearly as bad, food originating from a place she didn’t thorough investigated was a big no go. Not only that, but finding food that qualified as kosher is hard to do, and Dalia didn’t think it was worth the hassle.

Blind thanks to the fog clogging up her specs, Dalia removed her glasses and squinted around the entrance hall, waiting patiently for the mist to retreat.

Her dad did the same thing, only he didn’t necessitate the usage of them, so he tucked them away in his front pocket. Dalia could tell his hands were dithering, aiming wrong twice before finally managing to slip them in.

‘Dad, are you okay?’ she asked him, worried for her father’s sanity. She had been repeating the question ever since they left Atlanta to reclaim Derry, but so far Stan dodged the truthful answer.

‘I’m okay.’ He lied again, a sweat drop slithering down his forehead, smiling reassuringly.

The haze cleared, Dalia slipped her glasses in place and returned the favor, coming to grips that whatever it is that her father is struggling with, he’s not about to spill the beans.

‘Chin up dad, I for one can’t wait to meet your friends I’ve heard nothing about for so long. Should I tell them you did? Should I introduce myself with: ‘I’ve heard so much about you?’

Stan laughed winded, shaking his head dismissively. ‘No, that’s alright. They won’t mind, trust me.’ A waitress approached them with two menu’s in her hands, her heels clicking on the marble floor.

‘Good evening, how may I help you?’

‘Good evening, I am meeting my friends tonight. I assume the name the reservation is placed on is Hanlon Mike?’

The warm and greeting smile on the waitress face turned sour, scrunching her nose up in distain. ‘Of course, follow me.’

She led them deeper in the restaurant, and the more distance they bridged to the reserved table, the more it became clear why she didn’t appreciate two others joining. The ruckus the group havocked audible from the buffet counter, loud voices banding together in loud and abrasive symphonies. A chair was left unattended, presumably for Dalia’s dad, in between a man she watched on tv occasionally, against the wishes of Stan, and a smaller, pensive man.

‘Here you are,’ she explained, halting just outside their line of vision, making a getaway as fast as possible, forgetting the menu’s in her hands.

‘Okay, okay please. Come on guys is Stanley coming or what?’

A loaded silence fell over the group, but Dalia’s father suppressed his announcement, simply looking at the group and letting his gaze swipe over all of their faces.

‘Stan?’

‘Stan, Stan urine’, The famous man murmured, tasting the name on his tongue. Dalia witnessed the exact moment it caught on who they were talking about, his face breaking open in a grin.

‘Stanley Urine, no he’s a fucking pussy he’s not gonna show.’

Dalia snorted, curious as to what the reaction of her father would be, while Stan grinned extravagantly. ‘Are you going to let him talk about you in that way dad?’ She elicited a response, dying to get to know the people who unhabitable spoke about Stanley Uris in such a way. As far as she knew, people in Atlanta held Stan in high regards, only to slander his name behind his back, but they never dared refer to her dad as Urine.  

‘Speak for yourself Tozier, as I do recall correctly, I jumped down from the barons to retrieve your coke bottles. Would a pussy do that?’

The group was surprised Stan showed up, their faces betrayed their mindsets, but they were even more flabbergasted at the girl Stan brought with, her hair and stance a carbon copy of Stanley Uris himself.

“Tozier” jumped on his feet first, enveloping his former best friend in a hug, patting him on the back at the same time.

‘Can’t believe you fucking showed up dude.’

‘Believe it’, Stan added dryly, his full warms already filled with the only girl in the group, a hug between two people that obviously care for the other. “Tozier” then addressed her, not hugging her but instead offering up a high five, as one does to a toddler renouncing, but Dalia grants him one anyway.

‘Guys, this is Dalia, she is my daughter. Dalia, these are Richie, Eddie, Ben, Beverly, Bill and Mike.’ Stan point each of them out, a wave hitting your way at each name.  Mike nods thrilled, sticking out his hand for you to shake, which he then does excessively. ‘We talked on the phone’, he reaffirms, the brief two second conversation you engaged in as you answered Stan’s phone brought to the forefront of your memory.

‘Yeah that’s right. Nice to add a face to the voice.’

‘Here sit, I’ll ask for another chair, I wasn’t sure you were coming along or not.’ Mikes eyes dash over to Stan, searching for something there, retreating after Stan gives a firm nod. An extra chair is shoved along side the table, a bit to tiny to fit everyone perfectly, your arm squashed against your dad and Eddie on the other side.

It’s not as cumbersome as Dalia feared, everyone reverts back to their rolls in the group, easily distinguishable even to an outsider like herself, the losers club Bill elucidated they preferred to be called, and they take her in as if she always belonged in that spot.

‘Wait, wait I have to know, is your daughter into birds as well?’

‘Kinda, I grew up with bird facts so I know a lot about them, but I don’t do any additional research.’

‘Oh Stanley you’ve made your kid into the same dork as you were?’

‘As I said all those years ago, birds are intricate little things and if you cannot wrap your brain around that that is your loss.’

Richie narrowly avoided sticking out his tongue, a piece of food landing in his hair, the culprit being Eddie in retaliation.

‘Hey’, Richie called him out, fishing out the bit with a giant smile.

‘Dalia’, Bev addresses her, hands clasped around her glass, ‘do you have any stories you’d like to share with us?’ A glint of a twinkle sparks in her eyes, fishing for juicy stories about her friend, and quite possible on Dalia herself.

‘Eum, well there was that time dad forgot about date night with mom and was in the doghouse for a week.’

S-s-stan, tell me you didn’t, that’s grounds for a d-d-divorce.’

Richie yawned. ‘Boring.’

‘What can I say Richie? Some of us have common sense and prefer a household over binge drinking at forty.’

Dalia’s mount gaped. Never had her father spoken to anyone in that regard, the wit and dry humor he bounced of Richie sure was a sight to behold.  

‘Stan the man I am offended. How are you so sure I don’t have a wife waiting for me, her beau? She’s terribly sad to see me go, but I promise her I’ll never meet anyone as cute as her ,’ he grinned shark like, teeth baring and preparing for the backlash of the joke about to emit.

‘Don’t you dare’, Eddie grit out, catching on to the joke.

‘Well, no one besides little Eds of course.’

‘I’m not fucking little, I’m average sized. Stan tell him.’

Dalia’s dad raises his hands in surrender. ‘Do not involve me in your antics, I have nothing to do with this.’

‘You are tiny Eds, always have been and always will.’

‘Fuck you I’m not.’

‘Wow there are children present Edward, language.

Dalia twisted in her chair to face her father, inching closer to whisper something only he was to hear. ‘Are they always like this?’

‘Oh you have no idea,’ Stan confirmed, fondness hiding behind a mask of indifference.

‘Yes,’ Ben staunched with hopeless eyes. 

‘They’re fun.’

‘Yeah they are.’

‘Thank you for taking me with you dad, for sharing your friends with me.’

Stan squeezed her wrist softly, smiling tenderly in lieu of a hug, the motion still having the same effect as the hug would have had.

‘Anything for my little bird.’

‘Does that mean I got to play around with calling our last name Urine.’ 

‘Oeh better watch out there Stanny boy, I seem to be having influence on your family already.’ 

‘This was a mistake.’ 

Artsy Folk

Summary: Funny how working at a high school makes you feel seventeen again.

A/N: Teacher!Ash!

Content: Fluff. Almost cuss word free.

Word Count: 2.8k

And away, and away we go!

~~~

You frowned as you looked at your box of decorations and around your bare classroom walls. Just how the hell you were going to decorate in time for the first day was beyond you. What you needed was help, preferably from someone who was tall. But, that wasn’t in the cards for you. You were on your own.

You cracked your knuckles and set out to work. In two hours, your fingers were sore. In four, your back ached.

You wiped the sweat from your forehead as you caught your breath, looking around the room. It was certainly better than it had been, but still not exactly how you wanted it. You thought the heavy pounding was coming from your chest, but as you rested your hand on your chest, you realized the noise wasn’t coming from you.

You got up and walked over to your opened classroom door, peeking out across the quad. Another classroom door was swung open and the pounding had gotten louder. Curiosity took control and you found yourself strolling towards the music pouring out of the other classroom.

Your knuckles rapped politely on the door as you poked your head in. “Hello?” you announced.

The man at the drumkit didn’t hear you as he drummed with his whole body, lost in the music. The midnight hair covered his face as the drumsticks twirled effortlessly in his large fingers. You could see the swell of his arm muscles and the thickness of his thighs as he beat mercilessly on the kit- a fast-paced, steady rhythm.

“Hello?” you said a bit louder, moving deeper into the room.

There was a thunderous finish, before his fingers gripped the cymbals to silence them, the notes still reverberating around in your ears. Those same fingers pushed his hair out of his face and then a startled pair of the prettiest eyes you’ve ever seen were taking you in. “Oh, hello,” his voice called out and you detected the trace of an accent.

You blinked and he was in front of you, taller than you by a foot, and reaching out a hand. “I’m Ashton.”

“Y/N,” you breathed back, wondering when you had blacked out as you shook his hand.

“I wasn’t bothering you, was I? I keep asking admin to soundproof this room, but they never get around to it. I swear one of these days, I’m just gonna do it myself.”

You shook your head to clear it, his words filtering foggily into your head. “What? No, you weren’t bothering me. I… uh… it was good! I thought I was alone.”

He giggled and you saw stars. “Nah, I’m always here.”

“Hard time separating work and home?”

He giggled again as he shrugged. “Not much to go home to. Plus, I spend so much time teaching music, I don’t get around to playing it a whole lot. So, I try to fit it in when I can.”

You nodded, “I get what you mean. Too busy teaching our passion to partake in it ourselves.”

“Exactly,” he smiled and you melted at that dimple in his cheek. You, you decided, were in big fucking trouble. “So, what do you teach?”

“Oh, I’m the new drama teacher.”

“Oh, sweet! We’ll have a lot of the same students then.”

“Probably work together a lot too, huh?”

He nodded, smiling wider. “Oh, for sure. What kind of productions do you have planned? Or have you got that far yet?”

You laughed, shaking your head. “Today is just a decorating day. Hunting down age-appropriate productions is tomorrow’s job.”

“Did you need any help decorating?” the words rushed from his mouth. “I mean, I…” he started to falter, his cheeks flushing as he passed a hand through his raven locks. “I’m tall so I can… I mean… if you don’t wanna stand on a desk.”

“That would be great actually! If you don’t mind?”

“Nah, not at all. Us artsy folk gotta stick together.”

~~~

You felt a flutter in your stomach every time he flashed you a smile across the quad as you both held the door to your respective classrooms open for your students.. You couldn’t stop your own smile how you heard his voice boom out after every bell with a welcoming, “Alright class!” Was working on a high school campus destined to make you feel like a lovestruck teenager yourself?

The flutter in your stomach got more pronounced on your lunch breaks when he’d spin a chair around to lean his chest against the back, his dimple indenting his cheek as he popped an orange slice in his mouth.

“How was your break?” he asked after the holidays had finished.

“It was good,” you smiled at him, wishing for the millionth time to be that orange slice that brushed up against his perfect lips. “How was yours? Get to put your passion to good use?”

“Did you?” he challenged, tapping the screenplay you had next to your own lunch. “Seriously, how many of these do you read?”

“A lot,” you laughed. “Mostly to get scene ideas for the kids to practice. But this is for the spring musical.”

“Sound of Music, huh?” he asked, glancing at the title. “I always loved that one.”

“Me too. I’ve always wanted to do it.”

“Have you talked with Luke and Mike?” he asked, referencing the tall choir teacher and the wild art teacher.

“No, I need to,” you said, pulling out a pen and scratching the note down on the back of the script. “Thanks for the reminder.”

“No problem,” he grinned, swallowing another orange slice. “Lemme know if I can help with any musical arrangements.”

“Would you?” you asked, eyes hopeful and wide. His name had been first on your list of people to ask for help when you got the rights to put on the production.

“Us artsy folk gotta stick together.”

~~~

You sighed, rubbing your eyes as the teenagers on the stage looked at you with sheepish smiles on their faces. You glanced down at your phone to note the time. You had an hour left of rehearsal time. Sixty minutes to nail your favorite scene. The students were hard-working, there was no denying that. But nothing about this scene felt right to you. It felt forced. And you hated that. Maybe it was the long hours getting to you. Maybe there was a pressure you were putting on yourself to put on the perfect production of your favorite musical. Either way, something wasn’t clicking today and it was driving you up a wall. “What’s going on, guys? Is it the lyrics? Do we need another day with Mr. Hemmings? Is it the blocking? Do I need to break it down again? Help me, help you, guys. C’mon.”

“It’s just not clicking, Miss,” Charlie, a lanky sophomore, said, rubbing at his neck.

“He keeps throwing me around like a ragdoll!” McKenzie, a petite junior, turned on her partner, hands on her hips.

“I’m supposed to spin you! That’s the scene!” he fought back, towering over her.

“Not so fast! And do you have to grab me so hard?! Miss, he’s bruising my hips!”

“I’m not doing it on purpose!”

“Alright!” you shouted above their bickering, waving your hands. “Fighting’s not gonna get this done. Kenz, Charlie’s right. Spinning you is the scene. But Charlie, slow it down like half a step. Go with the beat of the music.”

“Miss, it’s a little much. The music, the lyrics, the blocking,” Charlie admitted with another sheepish look.

You sighed again, glancing at your phone again. It was Charlie’s first production and he had landed himself quite the role. You had specifically cast him alongside McKenzie so the older girl could lend her experience on the stage to the boy. It had been working, or so you thought. “Why don’t we take it one piece at a time? Just do the blocking. Then add the lyrics. Then the music. 3 more takes.”

Charlie and McKenzie nodded in agreement.

“Alright, Mr. Irwin, keep off the music cue, please,” you said, turning to where Ashton was a little ways off with the band.

Ashton nodded with a small smile that had your insides doing somersaults.

“Alright, take it away.”

The action on stage was gawky as the two students moved in silence, the only sound being the scuffling of their shoes. All three of you shared a collective frown as they moved back to run it again. The second take flowed better as the lyrics they sang provided structure to their movements. “Alright, better,” you approved, smiling as they moved back for the last take. “Now, let’s add the music. Mr. Irwin?”

Ashton led his students through the music as you trained your eyes on Charlie and McKenzie’s movements. Charlie’s foot stumbled as he picked up McKenzie, falling into his usual half-step behind the music. He spun fast and hard to catch back up to pace, but forgot to spot his turn, so the toes of his sneakers lost their grip and with McKenzie in his arms, he couldn’t regain his balance. Both teenagers tumbled to the stage floor, Charlie graciously taking the brunt of it, “oof,”s falling from everyone’s lips as you winced.

“We good?” you checked, your face a mask of worry.

Charlie stood up, dusting off his jeans, before reaching a hand to help McKenzie to her feet, both breathless with laughter. “Yeah, we’re good, Miss. Sorry, Kenz.”

“You forgot to spot,” McKenzie scolded, patting the boy’s chest. “Miss, he always forgets to spot his turns.”

“She’s right, Charlie,” you told them, with a soft chuckle.

“Miss, it’s too much. Every time I think I got it, my brain messes it up.”

“You’re doing fine, Charlie. This is a process. That’s why we have rehearsals. Do we need to take a small break?”

Charlie and McKenzie shared a look that bordered on dangerous before Charlie spoke up. “You know, Miss… I’m a visual learner… maybe if you showed me how this scene goes…?” his eyes fluttered over to Ashton suggestively as you felt heat rise to your cheeks.

You narrowed your eyes at McKenzie in particular. You had gotten to know the girl pretty well over your stint as her teacher, and she gave you relentless teasing when she had caught you subconsciously biting your lip when you and Ashton shared your smile and wave between classes. You also knew that a lot of the students thought you and Ashton shared something that went beyond those small smiles, a rumor that was growing with how close you were becoming to the music teacher now that you were working on the musical together. Teenagers, you had come to realize, were incredibly observant when it came to matters of the heart.

You pulled yourself onto the stage and moved to stand between the teenagers, ignoring the eyes on you, Ashton’s in particular. “It’s like this,” you explained. “Pick, twirl, land,” you demonstrated, going through the motions. “It’s not even a full spin, Charlie. It’s a 180 degree turn, not a full 360.”

Charlie shared another look with McKenzie before he flashed you a grin. “Yeah, Miss, I still don’t fully get it. Can… hey, Mr. Irwin! Can you come help?”

A smirk threatened to overtake Ashton’s face, his hazel eyes wide as they looked at you. “Uh…” he faltered, a hand running through his ink-like hair.

“Clearly there’s only so much teaching I can do before I require reinforcements,” you told him with a shy smile and small giggle, sweeping your arm before you in silent question.

A matching giggle came out of Ashton’s own lips as he effortlessly swung himself up on stage with you. “You know the scene?” you checked.

“Course I do,” he confirmed.

“Alright, from the top then,” you said, directing your attention away from his close proximity to look at your students. “Charlie, watch Mr. Irwin’s movements. McKenzie, watch mine. As much as the pressure is on Charlie in this scene, you’re playing an important role, too. Keep him grounded,” you explained as you and Ashton took your marks.

Ashton gestured for his students to start playing the music and your eyes went wide for a moment as he started singing. You were surprised you were so surprised by his singing voice. His regular talking voice was as smooth as honey, of course his singing voice would be even more magnificent.

Your bodies moved in sync through the scene, his hand there to guide you up to step onto the bench, before his strong hands were on your waist and you were lifted into the air. You bit on your lip to keep in the schoolgirl like giggle bubbling up inside as he pivoted in a graceful half spin and placed you gently on your feet, the music and your voices fading out across the theater.

Your heart was racing and your ears were ringing as his hands stayed glued to your hips, eyes locked on each other.

“Oh!” Charlie’s voice sounded, and you and Ashton jumped apart, his fingertips lighting you up as they slid across skin, keeping contact until the last possible second. “I think I get it now!”

“Yeah?” you asked, a smile on your lips and your eyes shining as you kept your gaze on Ashton.

“Yeah!” Charlie said, excitedly.

“Alright, take your marks. Run it from the top,” you said, biting your lip as Ashton’s tongue poked out to wet his own.

When Charlie and McKenzie ran through the scene, they didn’t mess up once. You raised your eyebrows in suspicion at them and they just grinned at you. You shook your head, your shoulders shaking in a silent chuckle before your eyes darted over to see if Ashton was looking. When he wasn’t, you mouthed a thank you to the conspirators. “Alright, great work, guys. Let’s call it early,” you said loudly, gathering everyone’s attention. “Back here at 3:30 sharp tomorrow.”

~~~

You stood in front of the auditorium, watching the last of the students get picked up by parents or jet off into the evening with their friends. You crossed your arms over the chest to ward of the chill, desperately wishing for the parking lot to empty so you could seek the warm shelter of your own car.

“Hey,” a voice piped up and you jumped. “Sorry, didn’t mean to scare ya,” Ashton chuckled.

Your hand fluttered to your racing heart. “I figured you would have left already.”

“Nah,” he said, leaning up against the wall of the building, a leg kicked up so his foot rested against the wall along with his shoulders. “Just got finished locking up the band room.”

“Mmm,” you nodded, looking out across the parking lot, not wanting to look at the man who had set a fire in your soul not even twenty minutes ago. How someone could ooze sexiness without even trying made you shiver at what he was capable of when he used his charm full force.

“I didn’t make you uncomfortable in there, did I?” he questioned, his eyebrows furrowing together.

“What? No! No,” you laughed, “not at all.”

He let out a small chuckle of relief, “Good. Cuz I was gonna say, I think they’ve been plotting that one for a while.”

“Me too. Wonder where they got such a crazy idea from,” you wondered out loud.

He pushed off the wall and stuffed his hands in the pockets of his jeans. “Dunno. Kids get these crazy notions sometimes.”

“Crazy,” you said, biting into your lip as you turned to look at him.

“Totally,” he agreed, swallowing thickly. “It’s like I can’t smile at a pretty girl without the whole school thinking I got a crush.”

“And do you?” you asked, your cheeks warming at his dropped compliment.

“Do I what?”

“Have a crush on the pretty girl?”

His shoulders shrugged and his eyes danced away. “Maybe…” his voice murmured the answer.

“Maybe the pretty girl has a crush on you too,” you admitted shyly.

“Yeah?” You noticed the hopeful lilt in his voice and the heat in your cheeks grew in intensity.

“Night, Ashton,” you smiled, walking off slowly in the direction of your car.

He didn’t answer as you continued to walk away and you let out a small sigh of discontent. Maybe it was best to have kept your attraction a secret from the music teacher across the hall. Better to have the small moments of affection and tenderness rather than lose it if things went by the wayside. So when his fingers danced onto your waist, you nearly jumped out of your skin before instinctively relaxing into his touch, wondering how someone so big could move so silently. Those same fingers you had spent many a sleepless night imagining exploring the expanse of your body tugged at your flesh, spinning you around to face him. “You have no idea how long I’ve been wanting to do this,” he breathed down at you before his perfect lips were on yours.

“You have no idea how long I’ve been wanting you to do that,” you replied, melting into him, his kiss, his touch, craving more and more.

“Us artsy folk gotta stick together.” His eyes were shining and his voice was breathless and you were thinking things that left you wet between your legs.

“That we do,” you said before reaching up on your tiptoes to kiss him again.

~~~

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Finley’s Fnaf Lore (1960(?)-1985)

TW - Child death, murder, su!c!d3, just a lot of really creepy and horrifying stuff. Don’t read if you’re easily disturbed, please.

So it starts off with William Afton meeting Henry Emily in high school. They both discover they have a love for robots and building. They start to work together and create their first creation, Prototype Fredbear. They end up losing connection for awhile, each having their own family. William marries a very nice and beautiful woman who is a ballerina. She is named Elizabeth, which they do name one of their twins. Henry marries a softhearted yet determined woman named Clara, who starred in a soap opera! (heheh).

William and Elizabeth have Michael, and Henry and Clara have Sammy. William and Henry reconnect and Mike and Sam grow up together as best friends. Meanwhile, Fredbear’s opens, and it’s the biggest thing in all of Hurricane Utah. Fredbear and SpringBonnie are loved so much, and the Puppet is added after Sammy designed him.

William eventually comes out that him and Eliza are having twins, and Henry and Clara are so happy for them. The twins were named Elizabeth and Cassidy. They grew up loving plushies. Years later... Cassidy and Lizzy have grown and Michael is 14, Henry and Clara have their baby girl, Charlie Emily... William is happy, but jealous. He wanted his children to stay small and pure forever...

He starts to work on a solo project, Circus Baby’s Pizza World! He designs Baby after Elizabeth, Funtime Freddy after Michael, Lolbit after Cassidy, Funtime Foxy after himself, Ballora after his wife, and Funtime Chica after Clara, who he had... a strange obsession with, to say the least...

It opens in 1982, and Elizabeth is ecstatic. She loves Baby, but her father refuses to let her go see them. But he had a reason... This solo project was to see if he could keep children young and precious, by killing them and keeping them in these robots... He didn’t want his little girl to get hurt.

He leaves to talk to a parent, who’s twins have gone missing, Rose and David, and leaves Mike and Cass to stay with Lizzy. Michael and Cass were very close at the time, so they got distracted with their dumb stories. Lizzy runs off to see Baby, but while reaching for the ice cream that was served by CB, another scooper like design shoots out and grabs her. She screams and Mike rushes to try and get her. However, he misses, and Lizzy is forever trapped inside Circus Baby. William is heartbroken.

His baby, his sweet little girl... gone forever.. He decides to close down the place. This is due to three children, four including Lizzy, going missing inside the restaurant...

They are stuck there for years.

Michael and Cassidy’s relationship starts to break as William becomes harsher and their mother more distanced. The Emilys are doing great, though. Of course they are, they ALWAYS are.

Will and Henry decide to add Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Balloon Boy, JJ, and DeeDee. They are finished by the end of 1982, beginning the new year.

Oh! I know who I forgot to mention, Fritz. He was a taller ginger haired boy with green eyes. He was close to Cassidy and Lizzy, their best friend. After Liz’s death, he is forced to stay away from Cassidy for awhile. Michael goes through his own thing and forms a groups. Jeremy, Sammy, and Bella. They each wear masks, to take their anger and fear out on poor little Cassidy, who is tormented by animatronics after watching his own twin sister die inside one. This causes his to have nightmares every night, and traumatized him further.. Him and Fritz reconnect in the summer, and the ginger is the only one to arrive at the birthday party.

Cassidy had also been having visions of gore and terror after the nightmares. He wasn’t sure what they were at the time, so he ignored them. The day of his party was going to be great. Just him, Fritz, his momma and papa, and his Fredbear plushie. He had no idea Mike and his friends would be there. He tried to stay away from them.. He had no idea this would be his last birthday. Cassidy and Fritz were playing Fruity Maze, but only Cassidy heard his mother call for them. He ran off to get the pizza, while Fritz stayed in obliviousness. Cassidy found Mike and the others there. Unfortunately for him, his mother had already went to find Fritz. Michael and his friends pulled poor Cassy away, just leaving Fredbear Plush on the ground. Eliza and Fritz were startled by the screaming and crying. Fritz, being athletic and fast, ran across the entire diner to find Cassidy. He only saw what was left of the incident.

Absolutely horrified, Fritz grabbed the Fredbear plushies and ran home. He was never the same.

... William had it. He was done. He had to save his little boy. He tried and tried, but nothing really worked... He got frustrated and left his body at Fredbear’s, right next to the Fredbear animatronic. The remnant of Cass’s soul ended up creating another, fake version of Fredbear, which Cass deemed to be named Goldie, as a body. He woke up scared and alone, and wanted to just go home. He only had Fredbear and Spring, who could feel human emotion. The others couldnt, but at least he had two friends.

1984, a year after Cassidy’s death rolled around. That meant it marked the death day of both Cassidy and Eliza, who k!ll3d herself out of grief from her children dying. Of course, William blamed this on himself and Mike, taking his anger out by either yelling at Michael or just leaving for hours. Mike started to design animatronics himself to seek approval from his father, which eventually worked. However, it was Charlie’s birthday. Henry and Clara were extremely happy to see their little girl growing up, and Sammy was too (though he was never the same after what happened to his best friend’s little brother)

It was the night William made the biggest decision in his life.

Springbonnie was his prized creation, and she looked up to him like a god. He used her as a pawn to lure Charlie outside and lock her in the rain while he got to the car and drove to the front. Charlie tried to get in, and Puppet (her favorite) searched for the little 3 year old desperately... Charlie was losing hope until she saw Uncle Will’s car. She beamed with excitement, going to him. He told her they could get in the back... that was a lie.

Charlie was found dead an hour later with Puppet next to her.

1985, the year of misery and mystery. Four children, each of them never found. William had friends who had a little girl, named Susie. The Aftons also had a dog named Marigold who had recently had puppies. The entire litter except for one died, and that one was given to Susie. She was so happy, she named him Cookie. He was a golden puppy with one black ear.

There was another family, and they had no connection to Will. They had a little boy named Jeremy. he was the shyest kid in the class, but the smartest. No one knows how he befriended the most popular girl.

The final children... Gabriel. A sweet kid who was the leader of the group. It was Susie, Jeremy, and him against the world.. and occasionally his cousin... Fritz.

A few months after Susie had gotten Cookie, they took him to see Marigold. Cookie, scared of Will, ran away. Susie and her family/friends couldn’t find him and eventually gave up.

Driving home one night, William accidentally hit something. Getting out of the car, he realized it was the poor puppy. He didn’t really care, he just laughed and drove off. Problem was, Gabriel’s birthday was that morning. And the pup’s body was found outside the diner, mangled, by Susie. She, however, stayed strong and went to Gabe’s birthday anyways. The biggest mistake of her life. And the last, too.

Fritz had always hated animatronics since his best friend died. He hated the diner... but he liked Foxy a little. He was only there for Gabe and his friends.

The fear that filled him when Susie suddenly went missing. She was last seen crying by Fruity Maze.

Meanwhile, two familiar children were panicking. A golden bear, and a long strange marionette. Only one was visible to the children, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t get them to not follow the golden bunny. She didn’t know Cassidy was an afton, he was just Goldie to her. To Charlie, that is. They watched as another child was lead away.

Poor little Jeremy, he only wanted the Bonnie plush from the claw machine. He ran out of money, but a nice green eyed rabbit offered her money to him. He just had to follow her.

Gabriel and Fritz decided to go and look for them. Cassidy froze in fear. Anyone but him, anyone but his best friend.

The two dead children could only watch as the two were stolen away. Gabriel was convinced because this rabbit said she knew where their friends were. Fritz didn’t go, until the rabbit whispered that she could show him Cassidy once more. That convinced him. When they got to the backroom, all they saw were Susie and Jeremy. Dead, bloody, no more.

Gabriel tried to scream, but was snatched up by Will in the Spring suit. Fritz went to run away to tell someone, but William threatened to kill Gabriel if he told. He said he would leave them if Fritz gave up. The 12 year old, however, refused. He grabbed a wrench, charging at the rabbit. William immediately killed Gabriel, dropping him and grabbed Fritz, cutting off the hand that the wrench was in, which also costed the child his eye.

Everything was a blur for them for what seemed like hours.

Fritz woke up to a red eyed crocodile, and golden bear, and Puppet staring at him. He noticed his friends were there too, each with a mask of an animatronic on their face. He looked back and was handed a Foxy mask.

“Is this for me?”

“Yes, put it on, and you will be given your second chance.”

He woke up once more in a strange body. He felt cold and afraid, but he saw the golden bear in front of him again.

“Hello, Fritz, I am Goldie. I’m happy to meet you.”

“Where am I?!”

“Your new body.”

It was at that moment, Fritz realized he was no longer human. He started at his new metallic hands, but he was not scared. He was worried about the others, the younger children he had seen.

The fox took his first run in the new body. He found them by Puppet, and was followed by Goldie. The three of them were broken down, letting out terrified wails.

Oh... this was all his fault. From that day on, he dedicated himself to keep the others safe with Puppet and Cassidy.

Hits and Hugs

"Call Me Master" By Frank Robbins, art Irv Novick and Dick Giordano. Batman # 215.

So, I know it's cuter to post pictures of Batman/Bruce hugging his kids than hitting them. But when you start looking, the discrepancy between how many times that Bruce Wayne has hit Dick Grayson, and how many times he has hugged him, it is staggering…

Let's be honest: Bruce seldom goes further than a hand on, or an arm over, the shoulder when it comes to being affectionate. And to be completely fair, there are fairly few times when Bruce punches Dick out of the blue. Most common, he is under some kind of mind-control. Sometimes, Dick is trying to stop him from being overly violent. Once, in the examples I have here, it's Dick that starts the fight, and for a while, Bruce chooses to evade, until he hits back.

In the 40s and at least a few decades after that, spanking or a box on the ear was considered legitimate disciplining. For some people, it still is. Which explains some of the incidents here.

I got an interesting comment to an earlier blog post, from atqh16. That the reason Bruce tends to get physical with Dick more often than the others is that he sees Dick more as an equal, not his kid. It's a good point. On the other hand, Bruce has admitted that Dick is like a son to him several times, from the Golden age and onward.

I could still buy that Bruce and Dick's relationship is complicated enough that Dick is both /like/ his son and more of an equal; Bruce doesn't feel he has to guard himself as much around Dick as the younger boys (not that he's doing a stellar job, these days. I would also like to add that I’m no expert on Jason; for all I know Bruce has hit Jason as Red Hood several times over the years). 

I've left out a few panels that never were in continuity – a scene from a what if-tale and the hug from "All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder" – as well as when it wasn't Bruce but something that looked like him. Also, a few times when Dick was mind-controlled and Batman had a legitimate reason to defend himself.

This post is about comic books, but off the top of my head, I can remember that a mind-controlled Batman fights Robin and the others in "Young Justice" season one, and he's also mind-controlled in "Batman: Bad Blood" when he fights Dick and (I think) breaks his arm. (Don't you also wish we sometimes could get a scene where Bruce feels terrible about this, and perhaps even apologizes...?)

If you know of something I've missed, please let me know so I can update! it would be nice if there were another hug or two out there...

"The Strange Case of the Diabolical Puppet Master". By Bill Finger, art Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. Batman # 3. Batman is hypnotized (it should be noted that Dick knocks Batman out cold and carries him away, after this…)

"The Ghost Gang Goes West". By Bill Finger, art Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson. World's Finest Comics # 4. Batman wants Robin out of the way from a dangerous situation.

"The Isle that Time Forgot." By Joseph Greene, art Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. Batman # 10. Birthday spanking...

"Your Face is Your Fortune." By Jack Schiff, art Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. Batman # 15. Bruce doesn't like that Dick teases him about being too old to understand.

"The North Pole Crimes". By Bill Finger, art Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson. World's Finest Comics # 7. Dick is succumbing to the cold, Batman hits and taunts him to get him on his feet again.

"The Case of the Valuable Orphans". Writer unknown. Art Win Mortimer. World's Finest Comics # 24. It is a ploy to get Dick adopted into the house of suspected criminals.

Teen Titans # 53. By Bob Rozakis, art Juan Ortiz and John Fuller. Batman and the other mentors are under the control of the antithesis.

Teen Titans: Year One (by Amy Wolfram, art Karl Kerschl and Serge LaPointe). A retelling of Teen Titans # 53 (this episode is also retold in Teen Titans Secret Origins).

"Call Me Master" By Frank Robbins, art Irv Novick and Dick Giordano. Batman # 215. Bruce is under hypnotic influence. Dick tests his hypotheses by ordering Bruce to hit him.

The New Titans # 55. By Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, art George Pérez and Romeo Tanghal. After Jason's death.

The same scene in The New Titans # 57. By Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, art George Pérez and Bob McLeod.

Robin vol 4 # 86. By Ed Brubaker, art Jacob Pander and Arnold Pander.  Batman hears the news that Jim Gordon has been shot and gets so violent with a criminal that Nightwing tries to stop him.

Batman # 600. By Ed Brubaker, art Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens. Bruce Wayne is accused of murder. He tells his coworkers that he doesn't intend to prove his innocence because Bruce is an ineffectual mask. Dick is upset and, to be fair, throws the first punch.

Superman/Batman # 55. By Michael Green and Mike Johnson. Art Rags Morales, John Dell and Drew Geraci. Bruce accidentally gets Superman's powers, but it also affects him mentally, for instance, he beats up Catwoman. Dick tries to stop him.

Nightwing vol 3 # 7. By Kyle Higgins. Art Eddy Barrows, Geraldo Borges, Eber Ferreira and Paulo Siqueira. Bruce is stressed by the Court of Owls, and he wants to get out Dick's talon tooth. Why he can't just explain it and remove the tooth with pliers is anybody's guess – not to mention that he manages to strike exactly the right tooth...

The same scene in Batman vol 2 # 7. By Scott Snyder, art Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion.

Nightwing vol 3 # 30. By Tom King, Tim Seeley and James Tynion IV. Art Javier Garron, Meghan Hetrick and Jorge Lucas. Bruce forces Dick to fight to make sure he's up to going undercover in Spyral.

The hugs:

"Bruce Wayne Loses the Guardianship of Dick Grayson". Batman # 20. By Bill Finger, art Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson. Bruce is upset because he is losing custody of Dick.

"How Many Times Can a Robin Die?" Batman # 246. By Frank Robbins, art Irv Novick and Dick Dillin. Robin is almost killed. And it's almost a hug, at least, isn't it...

JLA # 75. By Joe Kelly. Art Doug Mahnke, Yvel Guichet, Darryl Banks, Dietrich Smith, Tom Nguyen, Mark Propst, Wayne Faucher, Sean Parsons. Batman and several other superheroes were dead. Nightwing leads the JLA, and they manage to get the dead people back. (Perhaps it shouldn't count since Bruce is obviously not doing the hugging…)

Forever Evil # 7. By Geoff Johns, art Richard Friend and David Finch. Lex Luthor killed (stopped Dick's heart) to stop a bomb, but revives him (if it's because Batman loses it, or whether he would have revived Dick anyway, is open for discussion).

Batman vol 3 # 54. By Tom King, art Matt Wagner. 

Flashback – Bruce comforts little Dick who has recently moved in. (New edition thanks to a comment :-) )

thoughts on this week's ep?

**spoilers for broadway brawl**

***Before we start, I remembered as I was typing this one of the important notes I lost from last week’s recap: Interesting that Christmas seemingly went off without a hitch. I expected Santa to come back into play somehow (like, someone would check on him to make sure Christmas was still on or he’d call them in to help or something) but he hasn’t, at least not yet.***

My guys, my guys, my guys. Was that something or was that something?

I think I am on record as saying that combat is my least favorite part of ttrpgs generally speaking because I’m here for the RP but when a combat episode shines it really freaking shines (see eg: that first combat ep of Bloodkeep where everyone went full Galaxy Brain except for Matt who couldn’t hit a single thing) and this is such a good example. This is easily a top five ep of the season for me, maybe top three so let’s get into it and break down why it was so awesome.

We start right where we left off with Titania and members of her court having come into the theater to beat the tar out of Misty mid-show.

Quick note: At the end of last ep, it was set up so that Misty was thrust on stage right after hearing the mirror was on stage which would place this fight right at the top of Act 2 but at the start of this ep, Brennan seems to indicate that it’s taking place during what would be the closing number. Which would make more sense but imagine you go see a play, the first act is super dope, and then the second act is an insane, minute long fight that’s pretty unconnected to the plot and then a buff, naked, beautiful man tells you the show is over and you should leave. Wild. Anyway.

Pixies with tommy guns in inherently funny.

So one of the things that makes this fight really great is the way it directly ties into the story in a way besides “These bad guys are in our way.” Misty is using this show as a part of her reincarnation spell so if the show is messed up, it fails and she’s on her last life. Brennan has a cool mechanic of making her roll death saves every round at a difficulty lower than her modifier (which is s/t crazy like 11) but that gets harder with damage done to her and performance checks failed by other players who decide to jump on stage. It’s a great way to make the battle feel like it has more personal stakes and it’s my fave original Brennan mechanic since the Family in Flames Sophie’s Choice situation.

(I love that the death save counter is changed for theater comedy/tragedy masks for this. Nice touch.)

Em, Esther, and Wally are also at the fight which is clutch.

Also, Sondheim is specifically here which is an insane detail to add just because.

WILD that no one knows what’s going on with the ritual initially because, as Lou almost does, getting all the civilians out is the smart move and it would COMPLETELY ruin Misty’s plans instantly.

Lou having Kingston take the stairs bc’s he’s 50+ years old and has no time for that nonsense has equal but opposite energy to him doing extra rolls for Fabian to do unnecessary parkour before a simple attack because Fabian’s Like That.

Murph fireblasts the hell out of Titania’s foot soldiers right off the bat from outside of counterspell range which is very cool.

“Give me a performance check for the cockroach.”

“You’re upstaging me bitch?”

Another great thing about this fight is that because of it’s theatrical nature, everyone’s RPing it more than a usual battle ep (or more intensely maybe is what I mean).

Titania hypnotizes Don Confetti and his goons into fighting for her.

“She doesn’t know she’s in a play but she does sing most of her dialogue which is helpful for you.” Titania is just Like That.

Pete drops an erupting earth and drops a sick 37 damage on those same minions Kug got.

I didn’t notice before but yeah, Ally does roll die like a f-ing beyblade champion.

Emily hearing Murph’s low key, offhand comments and cracking up is great.

“Get Sondheim!” (Emily and then Ally: WHAT?!)

Actual living dude Stephen Sondheim being involved in this fight is just so ridiculous and fun and crazy.

We go around to Misty’s turn and she has to beat a 28 (upped from 10) and she fails which feels worse than a normal failed death save somehow.

Lou, in a very good RP move, tells Pete to tell Misty to end the show so she can tell them not to so the group has a valid reason to not evacuate which is a thing they (or at least him and Ricky) would obviously want to do.

Sophie, the madwoman, jumps out of the balcony, grabs a costume, then runs on stage. Emily’s glee at being told that her grabbing the costume will give her advantage is great. She’s always trying to figure out how to make the most of her moves. She is the living embodiment of the concept of method to madness (which is from Hamlet since we’re talking Shakespeare today). 

Ox is constantly dying (Brennan!) but also it’s like, why was he even there before the fight started? I’ve never seen a non-service dog in a theater.

Ricky: Is this part of it?

Oh, forgot to mention that everything that happens on stage is kinda shielded by the Umbral Arcana so everyone watching thinks it’s part of the show, which is a cool plot detail.

Ricky gets fULLY NAKED (Emily, with perfect comic timing: Now do I roll with disadvantage?) and leaps into the fray. He casts Protection from Evil and Good on her which (1) He does by Magic Mike body-rolling on her while he’s naked and considering how much shorter she is that her raises some interesting questions about positioning and (2) is the most clutch use of this spell I’ve seen in a while. It’s a spell I always wanna take as a Paladin because it makes sense character-wise, but I’ve never been able to actually use it because we’re never fighting fiends, fae, or celestial.

Brennan’s dime change change reversal of the critic’s comments on Ricky’s body rolls when Zac re-rolls his 11 makes me glad I never had to face him in a debate team setting.

Ally: What’s Esther’s deal ;)/Brennan: *Esther’s Weapon Stats*

“Your only secret you’ve ever had in your life is that you have a crush on her.”

Wally has a beautiful singing voice and a working knowledge of Midsummer's which is wild.

Lou’s periodic, “My man”’s when Ally/Pete does something cool. He’s very dialed into being Kingston.

Ricky’s aura keeps everyone near him from being charmed and Misty saves everyone else w/ a nat 20 counterspell. Few things in D&D are more satisfying than a well executed counterspell.

Titania trying to get Pete to be her consort or something when he just over the super posh Priya is very funny.

“I mean between me and Sondheim, get Sondheim!”

“DO WE HAVE HOMEWORK TONIGHT?” (“We did have homework.”)

Anyway, Misty has one success now!

Misty tries to use puppet to get Titania to drop her crown and it doesn’t work. Brennan says the crown is Crown of Stars which I looked up and it’s actually a spell, not a physical crown, but I’m assuming he used the mechanical effects of the spell on a physical item.

Brennan doing all these musical/singing bits when he absolutely doesn’t have to. I love it.

I love Ricky and Sophie being the two martial fighting heavy hitters of the group. Like, the two fighters, having the spellcasters’ backs.

I hope the one kung fu fan in the back of the theater never sees another Broadway show again because he’s gonna be so disappointed. 

“I’m just so inspired by that beautiful penis.”

Murph, out of character, verbally acknowledging how insane what they’re doing is. I love when someone pauses in a game of D&D to just recite what’s currently happening out of context so everyone can appreciate how crazy it is. D&D. Gotta love it..

Emily and Siobhan have a quick conversation in the background about whether Sondheim did Les Mis or not (not, that’s Claude-Michel Schönberg) while Brennan and Murph are Ring nonsense.

I also was mildly suspicious of Alyssa so I’m glad Kingston checked her out.

The entire roast of Brennan when he’s selecting D6s is an instantly iconic D20 moment. I can’t do it justice. You kinda just have to see it.

“Someone call Wizards of the Coast!”

Em, Wally, and Alyssa go out when Titania puts out a huge spell that blinds Kug.

“Yummy, yummy, tastes like ass.”

On Misty’s next turn, she rolls a fail which makes it 2 failures to 1 success. Brennan mentions that a nat 1 counts as 2 failures and a nat 20 counts as 2 successes. I’m sure that won’t be relevant later because you can’t foreshadow things when dice rolls are completely random.

Misty fails on puppet again again and Titania goes full Wicked Witch of the West on her and starts Jonesing for those shoessss.

Emily’s Emily(tm) move of the session is doing a flying leap at Titania, hitting her with a stunning strike and having Brennan retract the Box off Doom he was pulling out because she can’t save when she’s stunned. She just plummets out of the sky.

Don Confetti respecting the sacrament of marriage as he goes full Opera ghost and tries to garrote Sophie.

Ricky (still naked) grabs the crown from Titania, tosses it to Misty, and, with some improv and a good charisma roll, makes the show suddenly make sense to the very confused but entertained audience.

I’m so glad that Murph decided to turn into a bear and that they made the Winter’s tale ref. I should have had faith in Brennan and Siobhan, the theater nerds. Exit pursued by a bear y’all.

Lou and Emily bonding over being proud of their die for rolling well when they lend it out for a big roll.

Really wish Pete had wild magic surged in this fight. Just to add that extra bit of chaos. 

With a very good turn (no damage taken, no performances failed) Misty only has to avoid snake eyes to get through this turn. She leapfrogs over that low bar and rolls a nat 20, instantly fulfilling her win condition. At this point, the play is superfluous and Titania is still down.

“Brennan lost and now he knows reddit is gonna eat his ass.”

OK, remember how I said earlier that Misty seems like the kind of character you nudge a little temptation at just to spice things up? Yeah, her killing Titania and getting the crown of the Seelie Fae makes me a liiiitle apprehensive, but we’ll see how that turns out.

“I killed my queen! This is America we don’t have royalty here.”

“Bear, I don’t know who you are, but take me on your back, let me ride on stage.” —creator of West Side Story, Stephen Sondheim

Misty charms the critic at the show to make sure they get a good review which is such a fae thing to do.

Kingston’s clearly not loving attacking Don and Co. post “real fight” what with his whole Do No Harm thing (well, that’s Dr’s but same principle applies I assume) is a good character detail. For that matter, so is Ricky just taking Titania’s crown and not beheading her which he super could have done while she was down but it would have been very incongruous with everything else about him.

Brian “This isn’t Loony Tunes” Murphy throws Sondheim as a projectile weapon at a pixie who snaps the pixie’s neck and then does a monologue at the audience.

I love it when someone rolls low on an insight check and Brennan gives them useless info and then they repeat it in their character’s voice.

4 mins from the end of the ep, Siobhan realizes there are two Perrys in this story for the first time and has a bigger reaction to that than almost everything else in this ep except her nat 20.

Ricky looks for costume faun legs to cover his fully out dick instead of costume pants or even his own pants.

Misty starts glowing with reincarnation energy and she runs into her dressing room for privacy. Also, she still super hasn’t told anyone what’s going on. (ALSO, assuming she’s gonna make the world think she died, it’s gonna be wild for the company of the show to have their leading lady put on the performance of her life and then die on opening night).

“Who am I to refuse a crown when it’s placed so deftly upon my head?”

You know that behind the scenes thing where Brennan is like, “Yeah, I knew Siobhan was gonna steal that book,”? I got some of those vibes during the crown scene.

The implications of what Misty did are gonna be left until next ep but Brennan says something about her creating her own court and it looks like she’s recruiting followers in the promo. IDK how I feel about that (these stories tend to have great power--especially tied to powerful magical items--as a corrupting force) but I am very excited to see how it goes down! See you then!

Best That You Can Do               Chapter 2:  The Surprise

Not-dead Mike Dodds x Original female character (Of course there’s smut, he deserves it)

Read Chapter 1    Read it on AO3

Mike Dodds.  Mike fucking Dodds.  Kaitlyn can’t get him out of her mind.  She has to give it to the Chief; his kid is everything he said he was. He’s also a cheating piece of shit. Kaitlyn hates everything about what happened that night.  She hates that she was so blown away by him the second they met, she hates that she came on like a thirsty ho, she hates that every moment they spent together had been electric, and she hates that it all ended because his damned girlfriend called while he was still in her bed.  But more than all of that, she hates that she absolutely cannot stop thinking about him.

It’s been three days now, and she can still feel the way he kissed.  Still gets aftershocks thinking about his body and the way he made her feel. It’s not helping that she works with his father, whom he looks an awful lot like, and who has about a hundred pictures of him all over his office.  The Chief actually jokingly asked her if she was avoiding him, because she has been avoiding his office, and all those damn pictures.  But she’s got a job to do, and she’s old enough to be able to get over a mistaken one-night stand.  She needs to pull it together.  

The Chief had asked her about him the next morning, and she’d almost jumped out of her skin.

“How’d you like Mike?” He’d asked.

“What?”  She’d practically shrieked.

“I didn’t realize you two hadn’t met before.  But now that you have, you seemed to hit it off.  What did you think?  Did I lie?”

“No, Sir, you didn’t lie. Here are the talking points for our meeting-“

“What, you didn’t like him?”

“No, I thought he was nice. Tall.  So, talking points?”

He’d given her a look then. Chief Dodds isn’t stupid.  “You don’t like him.”

“Sir, you’re freaking me out a little here.  What is it I’m supposed to say?”  OK, maybe that was a little snippier than she’d meant to be.  But damn.  

“Oh, I don’t know, I just thought you looked like you hit it off.  You’re both important to me.  I’d like it if you got along.”

“We did, Sir.  We mostly complained about you.  There might have even been a little mocking.”

“All right, all right.”

“Well, you asked. Repeatedly.”

“You’re right.  I did.  So, you did like him?”

“Yes, Sir, I can honestly say I liked him.  Now can we please get to work?  This meeting is going to be delicate.”

“OK, Boss.”  The Chief had given Kaitlyn that smile that means he’s pleased with her.  She’d felt a flash of irrational annoyance.  Why the fuck did he have to be so obsessed with his perfect son, who is actually a sleazy creep?  

Now, sitting at her desk staring uselessly out the window, Kaitlyn wonders what the Chief would say if he knew she’d fucked his perfect son’s brains out a few hours after they met because he conveniently forgot to mention he had a fucking girlfriend. Ugh.  Her phone rings.  It’s Eleanor.

“You have a visitor.”

Kaitlyn blinks.  “I don’t have an appointment this morning.”

“She says she’s a friend.”

“Oh.  OK.  I’ll be right out.”

The woman in the outer office is pretty, and her outfit looks expensive.  Her reddish-blonde hair is shoulder-length and shiny.  But Kaitlyn’s never seen her before in her life.  

“I… uh…”  She says as she crosses the outer office to where the woman is standing glancing out the window.

“Are you Kaitlyn?” The woman asks, a note of superiority in her voice.  She’s speaking too quietly for Eleanor to hear.

“Yes.  And you are…?”

“My name is Susan Eisenberg,” she hisses.  “I’m Mike Dodds’s girlfriend.  And you aren’t.  So I would ask you to please stay the hell away from him.”

Kaitlyn feels a cold brick form in her gut.  What the actual fuck.  “That won’t be a problem.”

For a moment, the women just look at one another, Susan giving Kaitlyn the once-over with a barely-controlled sneer, Kaitlyn resisting the urge to punch her in the nose on general principle.

“Is there anything else?” Kaitlyn asks, trying hard for a neutral tone.

“Don’t make me tell you again.”

Susan turns to leave, but at that moment, Chief Dodds returns to the office from his breakfast meeting.  He’s obviously surprised to see Susan here, and Kaitlyn doesn’t think it looks like a good surprise.  Hmmm. Interesting.

“Susan!  What are you doing here?”  He asks, missing a beat before his pleasant politician’s mask takes over his features.  

It doesn’t even occur to Kaitlyn to go back to her office.  It’s like watching a reality show.  Although Kaitlyn doesn’t notice, Eleanor’s glued to the scene, too.

Susan steps up and hugs the Chief, who does not look like that’s something he welcomes.  

“Hi, Will.  I just stopped by to tell Kaitlyn something.  I’m in a hurry, though, so I need to get going. It’s lovely to see you, though.  ‘Bye!”  Susan glides gracefully but quickly out the door.  

The Chief looks at Kaitlyn with raised eyebrows.  “You know Susan?  I didn’t know that.”

Kaitlyn has to resort to the cheesy tactic of faking a cough to give herself a second to think.  She has absolutely no idea what to say.  But she knows Eleanor didn’t hear the conversation and her generous nature takes over.  She covers for Mike, the scumbag.  “I don’t, actually.  She’s, um, a friend of a friend.  She just came in to give me a message.  Never met her before.”

The Chief looks relieved. “Oh.  She used to date Mike, you know.”

Kaitlyn can’t help it. It comes out before she can stop it. “Used to?”

“I don’t think it was very serious.  I’m glad, actually.  She’s a little spoiled.  Not somebody I’d want for him.”  

“Did it…  end recently?  She seemed happy to see you.”

“Oh, that’s kind of what she’s like.  Presumptuous, if you ask me.  Anyway,” he says vaguely, and heads back toward his office.  

Kaitlyn realizes he hasn’t answered her question, but she can’t really ask again.  

 That afternoon, Kaitlyn is supposed to be polishing a speech the Chief has to give that night. Instead, she’s thinking about Mike Dodds’s abs.  Again. She hears her phone ping softly to let her know she has a text.

Mike Dodds: Dad says Susan came to see you today. I can imagine why.  I’m SO sorry.  Please let me explain.  I swear it’s not as bad as it looks.

Kaitlyn sighs at the surge of adrenaline she feels when she sees it’s from him.  But fool me once…  She texts him back.

Kaitlyn Myers: Don’t care.  Your problem.  

She hates that she’s disappointed he doesn’t try to text her back.

Part of Kaitlyn’s job is to staff the Chief when he’s at events, like the banquet where he’s giving a speech tonight.  She’d really like to be able to just go home, but she puts on the black dress she brought for the event.  It’s not a formal event, but it is an evening banquet, so her work suit isn’t really appropriate.  She does like her dress, though.  It’s fairly simple, which is appropriate for her background role here, but it has off-the-shoulder three-quarter sleeves and a heart-shaped neckline she really likes, plus the skirt is puffy and short, which makes her legs look great.  Bare, as it turns out, but great.

She’s not in the mood for nylons any more than she is for the banquet itself, and she swears a blue streak when she puts two fingernails through trying to get them on, making a huge hole that immediately becomes a three-inch run in the fabric.  She doesn’t have a backup pair.  Great.  One more wonderful aspect of this glorious day.  She angrily tosses the brand-new nylons in the trash and gets out some lotion to rub on her legs.  It’s going to have to do.

When she’s dressed, she leaves her office to see if the Chief’s ready yet.  He’s already waiting in the outer office, looking amused.  

“You all right?  I thought I heard some colorful language in there.”

“Nylons.  ‘Nuff said.”

“I’m starting to think I should add a line item in the budget for hosiery for you.  You don’t have very good luck with those things.”

“Tell you what.  Stop making me go to these blasted events and you’ll save the Department a lot of money.”

“Not on your life.  I rely on you for about ten thousand things. You know that.  Anyway, tonight you’ll be glad you came with me.”  Chief Dodds opens the door to the hallway for Kaitlyn and they head for the elevator.

“Why’s that?”

“I have a surprise for you.”

“I’ve worked for you for over three years, Sir.  You know I hate surprises.”

“You’ll like this one.”

“That’s what you said about that Estonian restaurant.  Remember?”

“Will you ever let me forget?  Anyway, this is a sure thing.  You’ll see.”

“Sir-“

“Shut up and enjoy your surprise.  That’s an order.”

“You’re not paying me enough,” she grouses.

The banquet is a snooze, as most of them are.  The best that can be said for it is that the Chief’s speech goes well and there are, in fact, no surprises.  Kaitlyn’s a little confused by that, but relieved.  As the evening winds down, she begins to see the telltale signs that the Chief is, at last, ready to leave.  Thank God.  She can’t wait to take a long, hot shower and collapse into bed.  

Except that, when they leave the hotel’s banquet room, the Chief leads her into the bar instead of out the door.  “Come on. It’s time for your surprise.”

“The surprise I don’t want? That surprise?”

“The surprise I ordered you to like,” he smiles.  His eyes are twinkling alarmingly.  “C’mon. I’ll buy you a drink.”

Kaitlyn doesn’t want to stay, but she does want a stiff drink, so she agrees.  Plus, she can’t help but be a little curious about what kind of surprise he could be planning to give her in a bar.

And, as if this day couldn’t get any longer or more exhausting, the Chief leads her to a booth where his supposedly perfect but actually really fucking flawed son is sitting expectantly.  It is unequivocally not a good surprise.  In fact, it takes every ounce of energy Kaitlyn has not to turn around and stomp out, or scream any of the angry, bitter things that go rocketing through her mind.  She tries to sit next to the Chief on his side of the booth, but he insists she sit with Mike.  Of course he does.  Oh, fuck, she realizes, he’s matchmaking.  Kill me now.  She doesn’t know what the hell Mike’s doing, but she really, really should have known this is what the Chief was up to.

A waiter comes immediately to the booth and asks what they’d like to drink.  Kaitlyn orders a double Dewar’s, because Mike looks like a fucking snack.  He’s still wearing his work clothes.  He also looks really anxious.  Good. You should be, you snake.  I could out you to your father anytime I want. She knows she won’t, but he doesn’t.

“So, surprise,” the Chief says.  “Mike agreed to join us for a drink.”

“I was kind of hoping it was a raise,” Kaitlyn says, and the Chief laughs as if it’s funny.  Mike smiles dutifully, but he doesn’t laugh.  He hears her message loud and clear.

“How’d the speech go?” Mike asks his dad, and for a minute the Chief goes on about the evening, and the crowd’s reaction.  

It gives Kaitlyn a second to think, and what she thinks is that she’s been had.  The Chief’s just a romantic sap with a soft spot for his son, which is why he’s trying to set them up.  She doesn’t appreciate the blindside, and she thinks he should know her better than to think she would.  But she gets it.  Mike, though, gets no similar consideration.  Mike has deliberately tricked her.  Again.  He’s trying to force her to listen to whatever sorry-ass explanation he has for cheating on his girlfriend, as though Kaitlyn gives a rat’s ass why.  Cheating, for her, is an absolute, permanent dealbreaker.  Nothing he could possibly say will make the slightest bit of difference.

“Kait, you’re not saying anything.  Why don’t you tell Mike the story of how you got Channel Four to kill the hatchet-job piece they were going to run on the Millar case?”

“Mike doesn’t want to hear that story.”

“Of course I do.  What happened?”  

The look Kaitlyn gives Mike is, she hopes, enough to freeze his blood.  “Nothing.  They called me for a quote, and I happened to know the woman who called.  Simple as that.”

“Oh, it was nowhere near as simple as that, and you know it.”  The Chief thinks she’s being bashful.  God bless him, he’s a brilliant politician, but he’s got a total blind spot when it comes to his son.  It would never occur to him that Kaitlyn is refusing to play because she loathes him. So the Chief tells the story, in charming, humorous detail that is far more flattering to Kaitlyn than the real facts deserve.  Mike’s making all the appropriate noises, but he keeps trying to catch Kaitlyn’s eye and she keeps resolutely refusing even to look at him.  Meanwhile, the Chief goes on with the conversation he’s having, while the silent argument simmers between Mike and Kaitlyn.

It goes on like that, until they’ve finished their drinks and the Chief pays the bill.  “Keep a tab open,” he tells the waiter.  “Bring them each another drink, and whatever else they want, just put it all on that card.”

“No, Chief, it’s late. I really need to get home. Besides, you’re my ride-“

“Nonsense.  Mike will get you home.  You two stay here, get to know each other.  On me.”

He says goodnight with a self-satisfied smile, fully confident in each of them to charm the other. Kaitlyn wants to scream.  Still, she just doesn’t have it in her to tell her boss that his beloved son is a bottom-feeder, so she doesn’t push it. She’ll just wait until he leaves, then tell Mike to leave her the fuck alone, and get a cab home.  She does, however, get up and switch sides of the booth. It’s been entirely too pleasant to feel Mike’s warmth along her side while she’s been sitting next to him.

“Don’t do that again,” she growls to Mike when the Chief’s gone.

“I’m sorry.  I know I put you in an awkward position, but I need to explain.”  Mike looks adorably earnest, the asshole.

“That may be what you need. What I need is for you to understand that I do not want to see you.  Or talk to you.  Your girlfriend has to deal with your cheating.  I don’t.”

The waiter arrives with their fresh drinks, so they have to be quiet for a moment.  Kaitlyn can see that Mike’s dying to say whatever it is he has to say, and he starts in immediately as soon as the waiter takes the first step from the table.

“She’s not my girlfriend-“

“Stop.  I don’t care.  As far as I’m concerned, you’re scuzz.  There is nothing you can say to me that will change that.  I get that your dad wants us to be friends, and he’s important to both of us, so I’ll be polite to you when I have to.  But don’t kid yourself.  I am not, nor will I ever be, interested in you, or any explanations you might think you have for sleeping with me when you have a girlfriend.”

“She’s not my girlfriend!”

“Well, she thinks she is, and that means you gave her reason to.  I don’t care.”  Kaitlyn tosses off half her drink and starts to slide out of the booth.

Mike puts a hand out and lays it on her arm.  She hates that the feeling of him touching her derails her completely and she stops moving.

“At least finish your drink. Let me get you home safely.  If you don’t want to hear it, I’ll respect that.”

Kaitlyn has no control over the way she scoots back to her seated position and picks up her drink, taking another fairly healthy swallow.  She’s scowling at the table as she fights not to hear her mind saying that she’s playing with fire.  

“Can I at least apologize for you having to deal with Susan coming to your office?  That, at least, won’t be happening again.”

Kaitlyn shrugs.  “She’s got spunk.  I like her.”

“She’s psychotic.”

“Don’t care.  If you must speak, let’s talk about something else. Tell me about the time you got shot in the arm.”

“Yeah,” he grins, and Kaitlyn’s guts twist in a way that would be pleasant if he wasn’t a troll.  “Makes sense you’d want to hear about me getting shot right about now.”

So he tells her the story while they finish their drinks.  She can see he’s nursing his to prolong this, but she’s going to leave the second hers is gone, so it doesn’t matter.  It’s a very interesting story, and pretty soon he’s telling her the whole, long saga of Greg Yates.  She’s drawn in despite herself.  She’s only reminded that she hates Mike when the waiter returns to ask if they’d like another drink.

“No, thank you, I’m leaving,” Kaitlyn announces.  Mike gets up, too.  

“I’ll take you home.”

“I can get a cab.”

“Don’t do yourself a disservice just to spite me.  My car’s right here, you’ll get home faster, and it won’t cost you anything.”

That makes sense, actually. She’s a tired and she’s fairly buzzed. What the hell.

“Fine,” she sighs.

In the confines of the car, she realizes just how damn good he smells.  She doesn’t know if he’s wearing cologne, but there’s some kind of scent there, on top of the delicious smell of his skin, which is giving her a body memory that’s not helping the situation.  They’re silent on the short drive to her apartment building. Miraculously, there’s a car just pulling out from a space right in front.  Mike pulls in.  

“Kaitlyn, I wish you’d let me talk to you about this.”

She sighs and opens the door.  Stepping onto the sidewalk, she thanks him brusquely for the ride and closes it again. She’s a tangle of feelings as she fumbles in her purse for her keys.  She finds them quickly enough, and opens the heavy front door, but not before he’s standing just behind her.

“Mike, what the hell?” She moans tiredly, noticing in the back of her mind that she keeps going into the foyer and up the stairs.

He doesn’t answer, just follows her.  She lets him.

As soon as the door to her apartment is open, his arms are around her and she’s turning toward him. They tear at clothes, shedding the bare minimum because, when Mike tries to move them toward her bedroom, she growls into his mouth, “Fuck you.  You’re not getting back in my bed.”

He groans at that, which she thinks might be a combination of lust and disappointment, but she loses that train of thought because, since she’s already torn off her panties, he turns them and moves into her until her back is against the wall of the little hallway through her apartment.  There’s moaning and panting, but no talking.  Mike tries once to say something, but Kaitlyn cuts him off.

“Just shut up and fuck me.” With that, she pulls his mouth back to hers, pushes his pants and briefs down around his knees, and wraps a leg around his waist.  

He picks her up easily, moving their hips so that he’s lined up, and shoves his huge cock into her. She’s not complaining.  In fact, she’s pulling him into her with her arms and legs, and she’s gasping with what is obviously pleasure.  

“Fuck…” Mike hisses, beginning a hard, fast rhythm.  She’s pinned between him and the wall, which means he’s in control.  She wonders where his “thing” about consent went, although she’s making it very obvious that this is what she wants.  

“Dammit… Mike… you… shit…” she pants, in rhythm with his thrusting.

“Fuck, Kaitlyn…”

“I’m… throwing you… out… soon as I… come…”

She can feel his deep chuckle through the shirt he’s still wearing.  

It doesn’t take long. She feels a deep, pulling, tingling begin and lays her head back against the wall, concentrating on rubbing her engorged clit against his pubic bone with every stroke.  Later, she’ll regret the fact that she begins to cry his name, and keeps it up as she crests the wave of her orgasm and feels him speed his thrusts as his shouts join hers.

They stay like that, him leaning against her with his hands under her thighs, her with her back against the wall and her head thrown back, clinging to him with all her limbs, as they try to catch their breath.  It’s minutes later when he finally lets her down.  

She huffs in annoyance as she smooths her dress back down her body to try to regain a little of her dignity.  “Go home,” she says as she picks up her panties and shoes, and begins to walk down the hall to her bedroom.

She hears him chuckle as he’s re-doing his pants, which irritates her further and she turns around. She notices then that he was wearing his coat and tie through that entire event.  But what really pisses her off is that he’s grinning at her smugly.

“You like me,” he drawls.

“I like sex,” she retorts. “Get over yourself.”

“Uh-huh.”  

She turns back around and goes into her bedroom.  She’s reaching back to unzip her dress when she hears him let himself out.  Muttering to herself as she pads down the hall to engage the locks, she doesn’t realize she’s wearing a big, involuntary smile that’s entirely inconsistent with the things she’s telling herself she thinks about Mike Dodds.  

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sister location ask is a 100% yes you think id leave mikey and the gang outta this party

💖 - Relationships between characters?

talked abt that before in a previous post but that was a while back so lemme try and add-on to what i said in there

Phone Guy n Jeremy is still something im trying to figure oUT but i might do it we’ll see what happens when i redesign everybody

i completely forgot i wrote down Fritz and Robin having a short relationship but im gonna upgrade that: Fritz has had a crush on each member of the masked squad at least Once. Robin was the only one he had a relationship with tho

After she and Will divorced Martha went on to marry Dave Miller, which lasted up until Dave’s disappearance shortly after the bite of ‘83

jumping ahead a few decades V and Phone Dude sorta got a “we do a lot of stuff couples do but we swear we arent a couple” thing going on, friends with benefits i guess? V has too big and fragile of a heart to dive into a actual relationship so the two of them just do whatever feels comfortable but dont change status basically

outside of romantic relationships lets go onto family time- ill put this under cut in case i go off the shits and ramble too much again

Mike Schmidt is a character in my AU!!! isnt around for long as both he and Dave left the whole project of Fredbear’s to Henry and Will, on top of him disappearing around the same time Dave did. kinda weird how two dudes related to Fredbears who were just barely out of town suddenly disappear after the diner shuts down, huh?

im getting sidetracked- ANYWAY Mike has two kids, Eddie and Gabriel, im pretty sure ive stated what happens to those two, poor kiddos.

Michael and Laura have a, okay relationship. despite the whole step-mother thing they’re on first name basis with each other, but Laura does her best to show nothing but kindness to Michael, even after Elizabeths death, she can tell they’ve had it rough.

in terms of father-daughter time, both Henry and Will adored their daughters, and would spoil them any chance they got. however with Will being so caught up in his work all the time Elizabeth didnt get too much attention. Henry was on a similar boat but he would always take some time off to spend with Charlie and take some time during his work to make toys just for her

both of the girls didnt mind too much, since they had Michael to hang out with most of the time

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playing her for their own advantage here in the show that warmth is totally extinguished compassionand appeals to goodness her friends not as a strength but as immature weakness that she needs to outgrow sheep little guy was she dreams you never learn new empowerment sunset doesn’t act like someone who would take pity on a drunk night in Joffrey’s wrath or someone who would have any ounce of empathy for someone like the house like she didn’t seem to something the Crips doesn’t bother trying to call me other womenand children what she did during the siege of King’s Landing in season two new empowerment song to spend the whole battle trash talking to NARA’s between final Dragon Queen who unlike salsa is out there risking her life out the tool will be dead season it keeps telling us what something is she thought that she smart that she shrewd but nothing in her actions support that earlier something would know to keep her mouth shut about someone she was suspicious of me while new empowerment sunset won’t shut up about how much she doesn’t like to NARA’s Y during some of the entire Kings landing storyline keeps herself alive by feigning loyalty to Joffreyand Circe with you paying for the cost have mercy on us all to me even if she did plan on undermining to NARA’s I guess the Indy kind of forgot that one of salsa’s most important lessons is when to feign respect to Delhi what dragons eat anyway whatever they want something evolution mirrors the Starks as a whole the compassionand ability to define the Starks is one of their biggest asset in the end they’re no better than the Lancers’s trust you will don’t know you know she’s not one of us change their house motto from winter is coming to you got mine because that’s female empowerment of the show runners I’m glad I got raped actually Mr the hound it made me a cool girl badass finger stayed in the so something is a northern separatist now for some reason even though now is not the time they remember what happened lost dragons both yet nothing nothing happened when a on the Conger invaded the North Bend the knee immediatelyand join the seven kingdoms without a fightand nobody died the countryside was not burning aided the time was called the King who knelt for a reason I guess someone kinda forgot they remember what happened lost dragons both sworn I read the lowest king in the north was tarring stock human needs my ancestor egg until Gary there are cases to be made for an independent North doing well in the past this whole situation in winter felt we have written for season eight data actually makes pretty good case for United seven kingdoms will you sure dead howling to feed the great the good thing we got to reach a part of the seven kingdoms which also happens to support the nurses claim it wasn’t even that they had it on lot before the NARA showed up with all these mouths to feed this time he wouldn’t have enough food special enough the armies of the North back to defend with how are we going to feed our own people was a problem at the beginning of the season is set upand promptly ignored what dragons eat anyway you know what salsa it doesn’t matter don’t worry your empowered little head about itand join us dragonsand supplies from other regions now that it’s winterand you all have a common enemy you seem determined to dislike like they did yesterdayand will get to the nearest but what they did the sauces depressing sauces only purpose the season is to have an unfounded suspicion of the nearest which only proves to be found in when the nurse does something completely nonsensical otherwise the nurse has essentially given all of her resources to defend winter felt east on the promise of the guy in chargeand salsa still like now I don’t like the cut of her gym Y by the end of the stupid dumb battle of winter felt the nurses prove yourself worthy of being a queen about as well as one can expect in this universe is forging alliances doing battle keeping her promises to her followersand to her allie The stink eye over to NARA’s makes no sense she never even lived to the target area is hurting her family the operative word Matt King burned her grandfatherand uncle to death but she sure did Circe you know their common enemy whose family wiped her own out sauces mistrust of the nurse only makes sense if you’re writing from the end forward telling us she is smartand her intelligence is really just writer clairvoyance giving salsa suspicions without giving her any reason to have them other than the writers know how the show will landand they want something to look smart Dragon Queen does not have to do them or maybe I do know sauces jealous because the nurse is pretty surely they would never come I anyway within the fan favorite recall that my seasoning held late season five is nothing to doand no reason to be here that people like him so here he is planning a different ending for bronze plate when I had some character development seven during the Lutra attack Ron loses his goal in a very symbolic moment even leaves it to risk his life in a big way to save Jamie with no mercenary reason for doing so is this a sign of character development is Braun changing his ways knowand guess who gets the worst subplot of all time you do you do you boys are of goldplated so Circe asked Bron to go murder her brothers as you do she do the trees Bron fast travels to winter felland holds the Met arrow pointand tells them he thinks their side will win because dragons so he blackmails Jamieand Terryand into giving him our God will hike better than okay so for those of you playing the home game high garden is the capital of the reach of the now extinct house Tyrelland the breadbasket of the seven kingdoms the most populous yes there are probably still many Tyrell’s next in line to claim the reach to say nothing of the other great houses in the reach with a much better claim to theand install certain no name is Lord of high garden because of black male under a queen that was only clean for five minutesand yeah that’s going to go over well with all these other lesser houses in the reach high God but okay we do not see Bron again into the finale where not only is now the master of coin money before the rules but hearing is apparently made good on that whole promise made it gunpoint thing so Braun will go to Fargo paramount reach of most of you should have written offand that good night liked Ariana Harris but okay here he is still cooland in a season has turned pretty much all the charactersand the stupid dumb dumb Zakaria situation for shit because the plot needs them to be open there is one character who tactical nosedive probably hurts the most one character was arguably done dirtier than the nearest season it’s Lord Ferris the best there is the master of whispers becomes the master of loud treasonous conversations great creek like Ron Taveras is a fan favorite but the show runners clearly had no idea what to do it after season for because his character starts wildly deviating from his passion but like to stuff you should select to pick up your shit out of I guess in his case they’d figure right around this laterand they did so by making the smartest guy in the realm of total dumb dumb there is in the books wants to instill a guy on the throne who may or may notand probably is not be the lost son of Ray Gardner egg on target areaand the next in line to the throne if we have a target area restoration fans call him saying on the show we don’t have they gone but there is need something to do so at the beginning of season five interiorand cross the narrow sea with the express intent to support the nurse now even though there is totally try to have her assassinated in season 1 last night it asked how to I do would have to be done apparently she’s willing to move past that is when the training of the Eno in a world where executions are routine this seems like kind of a reasonable threat he has tried to have her assassinated beforeand here we are one season later again with poisoning dragons but then in season eight he will she make a sad face at dinner meeting you’re not really getting to me runners I guess she does ignore his shitty advice which has no consistently been shitty ever since they got to West Roseand is in this case as it turns out wrong from a tactical perspective they do in the battle easilyand with minimal casualtiesand know they did next need to restand no food was never an issueand resources were never an issue so why bother having this conversation but there is finds out that John Snow is the actual egg on target areaand was he has the better claim to the throne does what he wantsand you know what is the season for some trees in the well I will dedicate myself to seeing you behind because I want to dragons in the best rationality can come up with Rivera’s wanting to support John over to NARA’s is the philosophy that the best person to rule is the person who specifically doesn’t want to rule if you consider the best to be someone who doesn’t want Robert was neither not local recently have no interest in being well meaning as John keeps failing upward so that tracks mentioned nominally being for the good of the realmand then immediately reversing your state the moment you see a young guy whose neighborhood County love him be like wow yeah that some leadership material right there is a map which makes them more appealing to the rules of Western the problem is only makes sense if you are the audienceand you seen John Snow’s temperament for the last eight seasons there is on the other hand has not there is no reason to like or trust John Snow other than he likedand trusted Ned gas who wasn’t actually his father anyway there’s only just met John Snowand in universe has no reason to think that he’s a better more tempered choice than to NARA’s unless he knows what the audience we the audience know about John Snow but from the outside looking in the narratives all over the place John Snow’s only been in charge of the North for like a weekand it’s kind of been a shit show came back sure what for the first three episodes of season she’s a war hero dragons that sacrifice half for troopsand one of those dragons to save humanity the only thing she doesn’t upset for that mildly questionable is the patient about wanting to takings landing except she’s not wrong about anything mentally have left exhausted the fight better if you have time to restand recuperate well clearly they don’t I promised you I would look you in the yardand speak directly if I ever thought you were making a mistake well maybe your advice shouldn’t have been so uniformly badand maybe he was mad that she went against his advice but that particular advice again ended up being wrong King landing was stupid easy to take because battles are easy now because we need to wrap this shit up the city last time it was attacked by note better than anyone it will for tomorrow’s based on what those dragons have the fortitude of hummingbirds up until now it seemed pretty evenly matched you know whatever Solaris who has sacrificed all the rally much power to the nearest immediately switches sides the second he discovers that there’s a poutyand decisive male alternative with great hair but the nearest has at this point done nothing to make Barris logically want to switch sides one time she went against her advisers advised before this was to save John Snow you know that guy that there is wants to betray to NARA’s forand so he starts telling everyone who John Snow is doing so makes more or less the exact same mistake that led start date in season one only way stupider this is way more recklessand way less motivated than what Ned did in season one John abdicated that other thing you can do I don’t want to never tell John Snow knew a guy who did abdicate until your mama screw this of John Snow Jones there’s a scene in the second episode of game of thrones season one in which John Snow asks Ned Stark met his motherand then responds with this stream burden motion to’s this is eventually going to come to something emotionally charged an important so are you even start with this long section from the moment in many ways John Snow is emblematic of everything wrong with the way the series handled its resolution a big emotional profound set up with the flaccid confusingand meaningless pay off from a plot perspective most of the major letdowns from all of the moment to set up are pretty much tied in the John Snow the Whitewater plot of which John was the key point of view character are plus L equals J the mystery of John’s parentage which kind of indirectly kicked off the plot of the whole show John Snow being brought back from the dead by the Lord of lightand of course John’s love for to NARA’s culminating with her murder done in an uncharacteristically dishonorable way after Johnson is resurrected they keep making this big deal about how he must’ve been brought back for a reason to you wants realize why I don’t know what indeed was the point well considering the call you did during the long night I’m guessing the Lord brought you back so you can blue ball to NARA making her go crazyand ultimately instill brand the broken on the throne good job Lord of late like her plot was this existential threatand been built up for eight seasons predicated on a historical long night that lasted an actual generationand nearly wiped out humanity last generation casos is making was John’s principal antagonistand his main motivation for the run of the show but not only was the big bus easily stepped away by a character that had nothing to do with the Whitewater plot the long night was about as long as a viewing of Titanic with a couple of bathroom breaks downand instead of merely living out humanity it wiped out about one half of one Army seamstress the author argues actually Western Markand we learned that after that’s done it doesn’t enter that the world of men was to preoccupied with political squabbles to worry about an endless fortified zombies because all you need to do in the existential threat is the one special knife of no importance is a recurring problem which ties in with what we were talking about the last episode subverting expectations despite the fact that it doesn’t work for the story are used training as a faceless man builds not at all to this could have been anyone with a strong tenure jump yeah the fact that the 19 focuses is wrap on Brandon John Snow means that Brandon John Snow should have been involved here is a Mina Jones now needed to do this but he needed some resolution other than spending the battle screaming at his new archenemy on the Dragon tended I also saw one idea that Shearman Cheney killed 19 you know bring that old Kingsley are thankful for that would’ve been cooland give Jamie a reason for existing but enough of it made sense John’s main motivation is farting out of existence without any of his involvementand after it’s overand the only thing that has materially changed apart from the bloodletting of a couple of supporting characters is that the nurse finds out about John being a target areaand which not only has nothing to do with the why walkers really think they have in this world it probably would have happened eventually anyway but with regard to John learning the truth about who he is never really reacts to it the King go talk to supervisionand protection of the realm of revelation is momentous especially someone like John Snow whose entire identity was wrapped around his pastor Ness starts Boston installed bus the dog Boston is about the ship. And I saw the importance of being awake and after I had my child I thank God every day for knowing what I know about these fucking every single one of them told their victims what we did is a secret don’t tell mommy or daddy that’s not a roll that’s how they roll but the story I wanted to you about my daughter was when she was an infant she was probably about a month or two old and you know they were people in the family that didn’t that had a problem with me for some reason they would always call DCF and send DCF to my house all the fucking time never came to visit the child will call DCF down these yet that child is sick and needs to be examined when this motherfucker has never been to the house to visit the fucking child once right now is ridiculous in itself so one day I get a call DCF and S Department of child children and families are important so I called these yet is cold it is rainy that they right and the DCM woman says we got an anonymous tip that your daughter was sick and we need to date we need to take a downtown for an examination

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