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maolong · 2 months

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Yesterday I ended up spending too much time creating this diagram in order to describe yuri, and now I feel a need to actually go in and explain the description.For the purposes of this diagram, Yuri is described as some level of relationship between two girls (This will be explained why girls here is in part inaccurate) that is deeper in some form then their relationship is with others too a degree that it is an important aspect of the narrative, characters, and/or framing of the story in such a way that it can be construed as having a romantic or similar tone to it either in an overt or an implied manner. Similar tone here can be used to describe things such as rivalries, sexual attraction, pure lust, hatred, basically anything that is in some way an intense emotional relationship between the two. In this case, two characters who are friends may be excluded from being considered Yuri because they do not have an intense emotional bond in the relationship, because it is secondary to their relationship with other characters (In terms of emotional depth usually, narrative importance has never stopped yuri shipping or yuri bait from being applied), or because the friendship is largely unimportant in it's role for the story or the characters. Other reasons are possible but are often less used.

Now it's time for a definition of terms, I will try to use specific examples of relationships when discussing these, and as such it will contain spoilers. I will make an attempt to give proper warning but if Tumblr has a way of spoiler text I don't know what it is so expect spoilers to be forewarned but not hidden.

Starting off we have 'Pure Yuri,' I'll be using Sakura trick as an example later on so if you don't want to be spoiled for it (Not that I'm sure that you can really be spoiled about it). Pure Yuri is yuri that is emblematic of the common image of yuri from the mid to late 2010s online or in general culture that would be aware of such. Pure Yuri tends to be Yuri where both characters are aware that they have feelings for each other, and reciprocate them in a way that acknowledges both parties feelings, and in a way that has genuine affection involved. While it doesn't show a problem free existence, it's typically one in which issues that are a result of the relationship are quickly resolved and/or meaningless or alternatively ones in which they are primarily a result of others people not either of the people involved in said Yuri. Sakura Trick for instance, has the two main characters of it 'Yuu' and 'Haruka' engaging in a romantic relationship with each other through kissing and spending time with just the two of them as a solution to being split apart in class. The issues here are ones that are largely irrelevant, but they do serve as a framing for the focus which is on the relationship between Yuu and Haruka as well as how it's special compared to their other relationships. This focus on the relationship, and it's focus on it as something that is uniquely pure is the cornerstone of a lot of pure yuri. This applies to many forms of Yuri in which the focus is on a lewd relationship as well, and even in these cases it is often times framed as something that is more pure then other forms of lewd behaviors and even sex. Some forms of pure yuri that are focused on lewd behaviors, Virgin's Empire for example doesn't show those involved in the lewd shenanigans afoot as inherently pure (Often times quite the opposite) however, there is still a focus on it being something that all parties are aware of the emotional investment of desire and lust between the parties involved, and being more then happy to engage with those feelings. Pure Yuri ends up being something that is primarily about the relationship between the two girls in a way that is in many ways celebratory of the relationship as well, and this ends up being what defines it. This doesn't mean that the two will end up together, in fact due to some japanese cultural beliefs about the relationships young girls should hold and ideas of tragedy, it is common in a lot of works for them to explicitly not end up together. This has been changing as more and more works come out where the girls do get together in the end.

#yuri #pure yuri #yuri triangle #How much is too much to write about Yuri?#THere's never enough yuri #idiot yuri #toxic yuri

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moonshine-nightlight · 1 year

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Hi, I'm always very impressed by your world building skills, even in shorter stories! Do you have any advice for aspiring writers on how to build their fantasy world?

So i drafted a response to this in between working just far too much and then my computer crashed and i lost it. Then i was even busier so i never got around to writing it again but i am making some time this weekend, so worldbuilding post - take 2

My main, high level worldbuilding tips are:

Rule of Cool: worldbuild things you think are fun and interesting. not only is that the best way to get ideas you like and are motivated to write about, but other people will also think they're interesting too. have fun with it.

Iceberg theory: know more about the world than ever makes it into the story. people can sense when worldbuilding is shallow, so even if they never see the true depths of the world they can often sense it's there. plus if u know the whole picture, everything the readers do see will seem more coherent

Integration: i heavily integrate the world i'm building into the story i'm telling--so dig into the plot and characters and make sure that the world and the story serve each other well. your world is there to contribute to the story so make sure its fulfilling that purpose

For more specifics about how i personally world build and for some examples from my stories of the above guidelines, see below.

So firstly, i love worldbuilding. i just think its a ton of fun and could easily spend hours just thinking about worlds in my head. (i mean what else is there to do when ur commuting to work, amiright?) i think that does make it easier for me to take the time to do it right and makes the world come through more vividly in my writing. it can get annoying or tedious or be more challenging at times, but since i like it/find world building interesting, i'm more willing to put in the time and effort to whip it into shape and i get less frustrated with that part of the process in general.

i'm also always thinking about world building to some degree in the back of my mind. picking up interesting information, facts, snatches of cool ideas or images or whatever. then i throw all that in like a junk drawer in my brain so when i sit down to more officially write or flesh out a world, i already have spare parts at my finger tips to use or drawn on.

Reading and consuming other art and worlds also makes it easier to make your own, just lik reading is a key part of writing practice. i don't just mean fiction, but just anything about the actual world makes it much easier to make up your own--that can manifest as awe at the fireflies that actually exist or spite that dragons dont. Whether that's random youtube video essays about the history of musicals or drinks or fashion to books and articles and documentaries or just my friend's niche interests (or their regular jobs). i'm always taking worldbuilding notes in the back of my mind.

For a more writing specific example, i read this short guide '50 Ways to Kill a Mermaid' (its locked for AO3 so u hav to sign in to read it) and it was super fun and cool to read that info from a writer who had studied marine biology. then when i was fleshing out Don't Shoot the Messenger a year later, the problem of Satrasi being a sea demon in a fresh water pool and bloating came to my mind because i'd stored that tidbit from the article away for later use.

My personal method for worldbuilding and plot outlining is sort a brainstorming/Q&A i have with myself (i hope this makes sense when i'm done writing this all out lol).

I've mentioned this before but the prompt that inspired Dale was: "You’re pretty sure your boyfriend was replaced by an eldritch being that can barely emulate being human. Weirdly, you enjoy a better relationship with them than your actual boyfriend."

So when that idea grabbed me, i started brainstorming about the world and asking myself questions. Why is the reader with the boyfriend if they don't really like them? What would make someone stay in a relationship like that? Do i want to make this a dark story? And i did not, i wanted it to be fun, so the arranged marriage angle came to mind. And if that's the premise then when is the story? is this our 'past' or another world entirely? diff world means more freedom so i automatically leaned in that direction.

Can the reader tell the 'boyfriend' has been replaced? Are demons a thing people know about? does the reader know that's an option? which is more fun? if the reader is worried about Dale getting caught, that's more room for hijinks so then yes, demons are known, but not common otherwise too many people would notice.

So my plot and worldbuilding are evolving in tandem and informing each other, based on the type of story i want to tell and how the characters i have in mind will react etc.

i run through a lot of ideas and turn them over in my head--trying out diff pieces to see if they fit--and am always willing to drop an idea or save it for another story if i don't think its working for the current one

For iceberg theory, i mentioned above for Dale would be the religions in that world. When i decided to introduce a priest like character (for discovery danger) i knew i needed to focus more on the religions than i previously had noted. the majority of what i came up with isn't int he story, but i think the fact that i know it helps me write when did end up in there, helped make it consistent, and means i can more easily work in allusions to it without having to work so hard those singular times.

For example, i'd decided to call the demon realm "the Depths" early on, which to me already invokes deep water and darkness, so i followed that through to sort height and air and light as being perceived more positively. fire and light are important symbols in this world and they primarily burn their dead--to bury someone below ground would be seen as almost condemning them and someone drowning is also seen as like, not good for their soul because what if it is 'pulled down' rather than 'ascending'. some of this was alluded to in the chapter, but most of it is not. this also helped me come up with the various "by the light" "dawn's ire" and other similar little 'religious' phrases and exclamations different characters use at times.

Meanwhile, in Sacrifice, the people living their are relatively non-religious--thats why they both don't pray to any other deities and it takes 5 years of problems to even bother trying an old god. it's not sacrilege because they're desperate people trying a long shot, not violating or abandoning a different belief. because i wanted the reader's main problem with it all to just be that they didn't think it work.

And why is she a translator? because i wanted to use the idea from that one post that goes around about how ridiculous it is in movies when their translated prophecies rhyme in english. why are they arguing about the translation? because its a dead language so no one really speaks it, that means the people who came up with it were here a century ago or longer. why aren't they here anymore? nomadic so they left and ended up staying away because of a natural disaster elsewhere. why is this town here now? a particular export/resource in this area became valuable enough for people to try to live here. the fact that its a lumber town due to some rare wood native to the area doesn't come up in the story, but i know it and i think that i know that about the town helps it feel more real, makes it easier for me to reach for new details when i need them

and going back to anything can be inspiration, let's talk about the doorlock in the very beginning of Finally Woken. its literally just a magical keypad/number pad but with different colored tiles instead of numbers because i wanted the reader to be able to get in, but i felt it didnt make sense for them to hav a physical key. and i thought it would look cool in Heshi's door and it went well with the fact that he's a glassblower . also, why is Heshi a glassblower? because i frickin' lov blown glass - i just think its so cool and pretty. that helped lead into the sort of artisan economy feel that world has.

Each of these stories has an outline and notes doc at a minimum. the notes doc is where i throw lik pics, inspiration posts, random worldbuilding ideas etc. only much shorter stories or stories that are heavily based in 'modern' world don't hav extensive random notes.

my Dale folder has subfolders for characters and the setting, as well as random worldbuilding files such as "demon summoning/magic" "spiritual belief and org" "fashion - feminine" and so on. Even excluding the plot outline and chapter notes (and not counting pics) i've got like, over 4k of random notes saved. dale is the one i hav the most of that for, but all my fics have some little section with stuff like that jotted down

in the end, i think the best way to sum up all that is with my three original rules of: put stuff u think is cool in your world, known more than you tell to help everything fit together and seem deep, and build your world around your plot and characters because they should all be working together to tell the story you want to tell.

honestly, i could ramble about worldbuilding all day so if anyone has any questions or wants more examples, just let me know ^^

#asks #writing asks #story asks #man did i apparently really want to talk about anything that isn't work or what?#this is why 'rambling' is in my other tumblr username #worldbuilding #fantasy world building #world building #i really do enjoy world building a lot #writing #i rly hope this made some sense #sorry for the delay in answering #i'm still kinda salty my original answer got eaten by my computer #look sometimes ur worldbuilding is because you learned a lot about operetta in a documentary #sometimes its because the idea of a secret corset busk knife is cool #ur guess as to what's gonna show up in dale next #but one of them will and yes that is a threat

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dualitysdownfall · 5 months

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fic sketch: solkat reunite

hi i saw this post and it made me contract a solkat disease but i'm incapable of not letting things turn out happy so i spit out this scrap of comfort food and its not quite long enough for me to feel justified in putting it on ao3 it's just like one scene so here

Both of you stand side by side, leaning against the the countertop, both too tense to dare sit down. It's painfully quiet; the only sound in the spacious room is the two of you breathing.

"S-so," you start. Weak. "You've. Built a nice life here, huh. With. Dave."

"Yeah," Karkat says. "It's nice." He pauses, and even after all this time you know his mannerisms like the back of your own hand - when he pauses for just a fraction of a second you can hear that he's scrambling to find anything to say. All he comes up with is, "He's really great."

"I'm sure," you mumble.

The silence settles once more. It claws at your sponge clots in a way that only silence can, a way that you're not entirely used to. Long ago you would have given anything for a shred of silence. But THIS silence… it's unbearable.

You heave a sigh. "I can't do this, man."

"What do you mean? You're not leaving already, are you?" The disappointment in his voice could shatter you.

"No, no," you blurt immediately, and you feel him relax a little, "I just can't stand this tension, it was never this awkward. We've never had NOTHING to say to each other, we could talk for hours and never fall silent for HALF as long as we just did! We're both some of the most obnoxious motherfuckers I know, you could write me a novella about the intricacies of ashen vacillation or whatever without breaking a sweat, hell, we'd spend all night ranting about personal shit we'd never breathe a word of to anyone else! We used to share everything! And I just…"

…You just wish you hadn't lost that.

You have no way of knowing for sure, but you sure hope your colored glasses lenses conceal the fact that you're starting to tear up. That's about the only purpose those glasses can serve you these days.

Karkat sniffles.

"I…" Your voice falters. You clear your throat and start over. "I miss you, KK."

Karkat lets out a shuddery breath. He's already crying, of course he is. "I miss you too, Sollux," he sobs. "After you left, I was inconsolable, everything reminded me of you, I couldn't imagine going on without you!"

"But then you did!" you blurt, and as you say it you know he didn't have a choice in the matter. That was all you, wasn't it?

"I didn't want to, idiot! But YOU were the one who left, and it took me a really long time to make my peace with that!"

At that, you just break. Glasses or not, there's no hiding it now. You cover your face with your hands and just sob. "I know, I know, I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I should never have left, I'm the worst, I hate that I didn't stay, I wish I could have done both because I couldn't just leave AA like that, but I hate that I just fucking ditched you like that, I'm the worst friend in the universe and you were right to move on…" You curl in on yourself, collapsing down to sit on the floor. You bury your face in your arms and cry. Through your own whimpering and sniffling, you hear Karkat kneel down beside you.

"You're not the worst," he states plainly, though you can hear that his voice is still tight from tearing up. "I missed you so much, Sollux. I'm so glad to see you again."

"I'm sorry I left," you mumble. "I never should've left, I never should have put you through that."

"It's okay," Karkat breathes. He shifts a bit, then stops. "Is it okay if I hug y--oough!" You fling your arms around him before he can finish asking. You squeeze, with all the longing and love and, let's face it, pity that you held inside you for so many sweeps with nowhere to put it. It doesn't even begin to account for how much you missed him, how much he matters to you. But it's a start.

"I never blamed you for leaving," Karkat mumbles into your shoulder as he clasps his hands together behind your back. "I was never mad at you for it, I never hated you for it. I just missed you."

"I know, I'm sorry…" you mumble helplessly. Gog damn you did not think you would break down like this so fast.

"It's okay, it's okay," he repeats softly. "I'm just really glad to see you again."

"Me too… I missed you so much, KK."

Awkward though it is to be embracing in the position you are on the floor, neither of you let go for a long, long time.

#homestuck #solkat #sollux captor #karkat vantas #my writing #harper babbles #if i had the patience i would flesh this out #have d4ve come home while sol and kk are catching up or something #but god. i just do not have patience #fic sketch

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anonzentimes · 8 days

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Chiaki to me is kind of an odd character in that I think she actually has good potential, especially in possible interactions with Nagito (seriously, Komanami is probably the ONLY really great Chiaki ship in my eyes). I've seen some great fanfics that play around with her. Especially ones that explore a Despair!Chiaki. But canon just...doesn't really do a great job with her.

In fact I actually find her role kind of detrimental, in that it almost vindicates elements of Nagito's worldview. With her being an angelic embodiment of hope. Which is just...not a very healthy way to present a character in my eyes.

To go back to that stuff about Despair!Chiaki, a really neat interaction that a writer friend is considering implementing into an AU is her and Nagito talking after being rehabilitated. And her admitting that the embodiment of hope he was desperate for was something she could never be. Chiaki says something like "I guess...I'm sorry I could only ever be a girl, Nagito.". To which he responds "...And I'm sorry that wasn't enough for me."

hmm, If I'm very honest I don't ship any mlw ships with Nagito lol! It's mostly because I think the idea of Junko finding a gay man who's lonely, terminally ill, traumatized, and desperate for someone to love him, then exploiting and warping his affection, one of the only things that remains healthy about him, warping it to where he can't understand his own sexuality anymore is pretty brutal. Nagito loving despair is something he can accept, but loving Junko is so fundamentally mind boggling that he goes spiraling when he thinks about it. The idea of Junko convincing a gay man he loves her and robbing an important part of himself from him is super interesting. Also just him never really showing any interest in a woman but showing interest in hajime and Izuru gives that impression. But don't let me discourage you that's just my opinion! His sexuality is not confirmed in any way and that is my interpretation. Just wanted to touch upon that to give insight on what I think just in case it makes me sound too biased at any point in this discussion.

I think making Chiaki real and using her again plot wise to use the same strong suit of her character, empathy, can be seen as a little clumsy. Although I do thoroughly enjoy the fact that Hajime heard her advice but only truly understood it in Danganronpa 2 after she was gone. It's really tragic and I enjoy that Ai Chiaki and Real life Chiaki are indeed different. It's a little indecent but I enjoy the story of the franchise overall.

If I'm honest I think a lot of things about hope's peak in general are detrimental to Nagito because his world view is specifically influenced by Hope's peak. Nagito believes Chiaki is an "embodiment of hope" for the class and likes her status and impact on everyone. Junko sees her the same way and wants to crush that so called hope to create despair for the class! I think that all makes sense and is decently done considering the characters and world. It's important to remember hope is practically absolute good, and Chiaki was just an absolutely good person to the class and when that's lost it creates despair. Even those who she wasn't really That close with, like Nagito, respected her and her impact a lot! Enough to be devastated and have the brainwashing work more.

Chiaki serves a purpose and I think criticism with the fact that she mostly is there to be the support role and impact for everyone else is absolutely valid. My only personal criticism is I'd like to have seen the different ways the class cared for Chiaki, basically just how close each person individually was with her. I'd like to have seen more of their hangouts to know that, but I understand it's an anime recapping a story with limited time. They spend episodes expressing how much they all cared but not how personally close they were, so the fact all of them cared so much isn't entirely sold for a lot of people including me at first. You kind of have to infer a lot which is a little sad? It's for a lack of words a missed opportunity I think.

Fanfics do a really good job at showing those things the anime misses about real life Chiaki, and honestly overall I'd say Chiaki is most often well characterized in fanfics! I think a despair Chiaki is an interesting idea too like you said, you'd have to explain how they became despairs without her though. But fanfics are all about being creative and it's an au in the first place so I'm sure people can figure it out and have fun! All of it is interesting fun ideas and I'm glad you and your writer friend are having fun and enjoy the ship.

I do think the dialogue they've come up with is pretty interesting and a cool approach to an au like that. "...And I'm sorry that wasn't enough for me," feels a little odd for him to say to me at least? I mean, I definitely don't know the direction or the entirety of the work that led to that interaction though of course, and I think it's definitely interesting dialogue, but for Nagito to say that feels a little off for me personally. Like, I think after rehabilitation supposedly it would go something like the Dangan Islands where he learns Hope was inside him all along through spending time with Hajime.

"You provoked the hope that was already inside all of our hearts Chiaki, and for that I am grateful. We all fell to despair, but the hope always wins, Right?" or something like that feels better to me personally but I'm just being silly and don't know the full context anyway

Thank you for your ask, please let me know if I misinterpreted anything you said and didn't respond accordingly, It was nice reading somebody else's take on things and trying to respond with mine as respectfully as I could <3

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mondrise · 2 years

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kageyama tobio being a good senpai 🥺

sophomore kageyama tobio is a lot better at the communication thing than freshman kageyama tobio. it would really suck if he wasn't, especially when it comes to the court—considering he spent nearly a year learning to play knife nice with his teammates, he's grown used to people counting on him, and he never complains because he's confident in his skills. of course, that confidence doesn't necessarily carry over into other aspects of his life.

communication, for example. just because he's better at it doesn't mean he's great. or good, even.

to the newer members on the team, he's still a bit rough around the edges. a couple of the scrubs muster the courage to make small talk every now and then, but the majority of them can never seem to say more than two syllables to him, much less continue a conversation. hinata is always the first to point it out, which is sort of annoying, if only because it's a known fact that hinata is their favorite out of all the upperclassman.

"maybe you should do something about that," hinata says.

tobio frowns. "you're gesturing to all of me."

"i didn't want to miss a spot."

"dumbass."

"i’m kidding," hinata grins. "don't worry so much about offending them, bakageyama. that’s not to say you should be rude on purpose, but at least you're not still being rude accidentally, either."

"still?"

"it was a compliment."

"me accidentally offending people?"

"you not accidentally offending people anymore."

"it's different when they're younger than you," tobio grumbles. "you're probably used to it, though, being the eldest child and all."

on the contrary, everyone in tobio's life has always been the same age or older, and he looks up to all of them one way or another. that's why he knows firsthand what it means to have heroes like that for kids like him. he isn't sure how to step into that role, if he wants to at all. the first years on the team are clumsy and curious, but what can he teach them that the others can't? it took him this long just to stop accidentally offending people.

"you're worrying again," hinata teases.

tobio swats at him. "shut up."

"what would our senpais do in this situation? i mean, you're definitely not as cool," tobio attempts another swipe at his head, but hinata avoids it with a laugh. "okay, okay! i just figured you could use them as inspiration without following in their exact footsteps! when i was gesturing to all of you, i was pointing out the best parts!"

tobio gives a grunt to end the conversation and promptly shifts into position. as he starts his serve, he begrudgingly takes the advice, thinking about his grandfather, his sister, his senpais, his friends—even dumbass hinata—and he arrives at the conclusion that all the best parts of him are an amalgamation of them.

then the ball flies. and so does tobio.

by the time he becomes vice captain in his third year, the younger members of the team can talk to him without stuttering like they once did when speaking to his second year self. had he done anything differently? no, not really. he just decided to do something, and people happened to notice.

as far as tobio knows, he isn't a hero to anyone, but he is a senpai—kageyama-senpai who spends so many of his breaks teaching the first years how to send a ball soaring over the net. kageyama-senpai who keeps coins in his pockets so he can buy them drinks after a late practice.

kageyama-senpai who throws his jacket over their shoulders when they doze off on the bus. kageyama-senpai who stays to toss for them even if he's exhausted from playing five straight sets. kageyama-senpai who isn’t the best at everything. or great. or good, even. but kageyama-senpai always tries.

the kids who look at him see all the best parts of themselves, too. there's no real way to put it into words until they hear hinata-senpai say them aloud.

"as long as you're here, i'm invincible."

kageyama-senpai might not consider himself a hero, but he sure has a way of making you feel like one. and that means more to them than anything else.

#haikyuu!!#hq #haikyuu scenarios #haikyuu imagines #haikyuu fluff #haikyuu headcanons #kageyama #tobio #kageyama tobio #kageyama tobio scenarios #kageyama tobio imagines #kageyama tobio fluff #kageyama tobio headcanons

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jojotichakorn · 7 months

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Hello :) I love MarcPawin and I’m enjoying the GuyNawa breadcrumbs. But with 3 episodes left, I’m worried there won’t be enough time to develop the GuyNawa storyline and it’ll end up as a bromance or there won’t be much scenes between them in the last few episodes :(

hopefully MarcPawin gets a series together as the main couple again for 2024. Hope you have a good day ahead!

heey!! hope you're having a good day! totally understand the anxiety that you're feeling, but to be honest i'm pretty confident they'll be alright.

i think they are spending too much time on guynawa rn to leave them hanging. i was so sure this week's episode would be a "capsule" episode where we'd only see sailom and kang (think, like, ep 11 of bad buddy). and while their brother and father respectively also making an appearance makes sense, the inclusion of guynawa is very deliberately for their benefit alone (and honestly, their scenes were very poorly connected to the main plotline of the episode, because yes, technically they went out to find kang and sailom together, but that was the biggest random excuse in the world and it did not end up affecting kang and sailom in any way, we didn't even see what was happening on the other end of the calls when they were talking to them, so the whole thing was definitely to give guynawa some more moments together and for no other reason at all). if they were not going somewhere with them, they would not waste runtime on them, especially considering the fact that this particular drama technically has three background couples in some capacity, and they could all use some development.

you are not wrong when you say that there is very little time left for development, but that's more likely to result in in guy and nawa simply ending up together in a way that might feel a bit rushed and unexplored rather than them not ending up together at all.

as for the possibility of a marcpawin series for 2024 - i've been watching what gmm has been doing with the boys in the last half a year and it is very... suspicious. but in a good way kgjfdkgjfkdjg. them suddenly dragging marc to the our skyy 2 x never let me go set and casting the spell of homosexuality on win's character who was a pretty straight-forward antagonist and bully in the actual series seemed to serve no purpose other than to reintroduce marcpawin to a newer audience, three years after they appeared together on screen. i highly doubt that was for the benefit of their storyline in dangerous romance either, because - while yes, there is some time devoted to guynawa in the series - they are still a background couple that will not be bringing in virtually any viewers on its own, so there is no need to give them that support. so both our skyy 2 and dangerous romance feel like they are building up to something else that actually requires viewers to be familiar with the actors and the dynamic (as, let's be honest, a huge chunk of people watch a romance drama because their fave(s) are playing the leads or because they know the actors have really good chemistry together).

whether i'm right or wrong, this definitely feels like a very now-or-never situation, though, and they are either getting their own series in 2024 or marc is most likely getting locked in the basement, while win gets officially hexed with the aj/jj curse, since he has been acting as the secondary-plotline-antagonist or the-protagonist's-friend for almost two years now. unless they are planning to drag this out longer and will cast marc and win as a background couple again in one (or multiple?) of the 2024 series, but that does not seem particularly likely to me.

#i missed responding to asks with this much speculation kgjfdkgjkfdljgfkldgj #thanks for sending this!#archer responds #anon #dangerous romance: ep 10 #win pawin #marc natarit

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snorkling-in-sodasea · 7 months

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Moments of Stupidity 2

Quick recap - I feel like listing instances of characters being stupid because I'm thinking that's just how the show is. Plots in this show only happen or at least progress because characters are dumbasses

Loo Loo Land -

And the first instance is a big one, on Stolas's part. Inviting Blitz to be security. Because even just taking out how self-serving it was for Stolas to have his affair coming along on what he promised was father-daughter time, it was stupid. Even if Stolas really had good intentions behind the trip, the way he went about it was stupid. The whole damn purpose of suggesting the trip to the theme park in the episode was for the sake of distracting Octavia from the drama at home. Yet he invites the most physical reminder of the family drama along on the trip as security?

Oh,, and this is a layered moment of stupidity, too, because Stolas spends a good chunk of the time flirting with Blitz right in front of his daughter AND acts shocked when Octavia storms off. Not just Octavia storming off when she did but I'm sure he was shocked that she stormed off at all.

Finally, there's Stolas saying shit like 'I take it you're not having fun?' It's like, did Octavia ever seem like she was having fun. And yeah, I did read a post explaining how Stolas had little to no interactions, especially not meaningful or insightful ones, growing up. So it makes it that he has a hard time reading people, especially ones not straightforward with what they're thinking and feeling. Except I don't want to excuse Stolas on this layered moment of stupidity because 1) smart people are vulnerable to making stupid mistakes like how anyone else is. In fact, some smart people can make stupid mistakes precisely because they believe themselves too smart to do so. And 2) if Stolas didn't think through on what the fuck he was doing, then that means I can't exactly call it smart. And seriously, who would call it smart when someone does what Stolas did in this episode? Some things are just so obviously stupid you shouldn't have to actively search for the stupidity to find it

I guess one extra moment of stupidity on Stolas's part was thinking that it'd calm Stella down when telling her that. Not that Stolas ever faced major consequences - the most being Octavia's anger at him that lasted for only an episode - but if, at that moment, they were gonna act like it was important in whether or not Stolas even trying to keep the affair secret, then it wasn't going to be a good thing that you apparently would have wanted to check into a motel. As in, going out in public and risk being hounded by paparazzi and letting out much easier that there's an affair going on

Onto other characters, there's Moxxie just spending money after money on the same rigged game. I guess Moxxie's childhood makes it that he wouldn't often go to amusement parks and not often enough to learn the open secret of the games there being rigged. I'm thinking it still counts because one would think that Moxxie would eventually catch on that he's just wasting money on a target that isn't even budging, let alone falling down

Then there's Millie just letting Moxxie spend all that money in the first place. She should have realized that Moxxie fell for a common trick that is amusement parks' rigged games, especially since she has a higher chance of knowing about it than her husband does. Yet she never does and all that money goes down the drain

Oh, and on the game stand guy, a moment of stupidity for burning the money he scammed out of Moxxie. You wanna taunt Moxxie, fine, but why burn it? Who the fuck burns money? It's not even like Granny from that Looney Tunes short where she's a rich widow and could literally afford to burn money in the fireplace. That guy looks like he can't afford to burn money

Wally and I guess by extension Mammon for the sale of hell fire torches. Seriously, that's a fire hazard. This episode proved that. So they should have thought that someone could - would - get careless and spill some hell fire and burn down the damn park. Even if Mammon didn't give a fuck about anyone and everyone who could - again, would - die from that, you'd think he would care about having to pay for repairs and/or replacements and/or workers to do the jobs. Maybe he could threaten lower-ranked demons to do it for free and give away things for free, though, so I guess there's that

There's Blitz for escalating a fight to the point where the park catches on fire. Sure, he told Millie and Moxxie to go check on Stolas and Octavia but he still decided it was more important to bicker with a robot who began insulting. If it was just words, like in the beginning, okay, but like I said, he decided to escalate it to a physical fight and that increased the threat to his and his employees' lives. And all over what? Petty grudges and fragile egos?

Now the most painful character to call out on being stupid... Octavia. And I say painful because it's like, I love Moxxie but I won't ignore it when he does stupid things - trying to be fair here; fuck, Unhappy Campers will be so fun (definitely sarcastic) - but Octavia... something about doing it to her is nagging at me but there's really something she's doing that I can't call smart. And it's for being confused about Stolas's affair and that's despite the whole worry of being left behind for Blitz. Because yeah, the show goes in and out of shit, like the whole thing about Stolas not being ashamed about openly and blatantly flirting with Blitz to being ashamed. That means the show has done a retcon at the very least concerning the family situation with the Geotia family. Instead of being at least decent enough for Stolas to marry and have a kid with, Stella has always been evil since birth and never keeps quiet about things she hates, which is just Stolas and being married to him. So it doesn't make much sense for Octavia to be upset that Stolas doesn't love Stella

What makes Octavia's moment even more noticeable is that, since her mother constantly shouts at Stolas or shouts that she hates Stolas and her marriage to him, then how the fuck is Octavia still under the impression that her parents didn't hate each other? Viv says that Stolas has always managed to keep it a secret from Octavia but that so fuck doesn't work given the beginning of the episode. The part where Octavia wakes up to screaming. Her first instinct was to put in earbuds and put on music to drown it out. Her question to Stolas was if the screaming was finished for today. That had to have happened so many times that that's the learned behavior and responses and it's doubtful that Octavia acted that way so naturally in a short amount of time. It had to have been happening long enough for her to do those things or act that way like it's been learned. Yet Octavia apparently still thinks that her parents didn't hate each other

Octavia's moment of stupidity only gets layered with Seeing Stars (which I'll save it for then) and possibly leaked episode content. From what I hear, it's about Octavia still being upset that her father doesn't love her mother and fuck, if that's true... anyways, given that I don't know how Stolas kept Octavia in the dark and probably away from the entire world for most of her life but, unfortunately, Octavia has to not be so bright if she's going to think that her parents didn't hate each other until this episode. Kids are normally nowhere near as stupid as adults like to dismiss them as so stupidity is more of an individualistic thing. So the fact that Octavia never picked up on the lack of a spark between her parents until 17 years old and only when an affair happened is... not good. Especially when, as far as we know, the mother never agreed to keep it a secret in the first place. It's a good thing that this is a fictional character because this sharp contrast of awareness and obliviousness doesn't feel like anything a real person would have, at least on average (because yeah, given the billions of people on this planet, I can't completely rule it out so maybe it's possible)

#helluva boss #stolas #octavia #moxxie #millie #blitzo #ranting

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tybaltsjuliet · 1 year

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What are some places I should go next time I'm in LA?

off the top of my head, and i will add to this as i think of more neat places:

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER. the cemetery of the stars. my favorite place in maybe the whole city. forest lawn is gorgeous and westwood’s got marilyn monroe, of course, but there’s just something about hollywood forever, right in the middle of the neighborhood, a few blocks away from paramount studios. judy garland’s there. mel blanc’s there. maila nurmi’s there. when i’ve been running too many errands on the boulevard and i can’t bear to look at what it’s become a second longer, i go and sit on the bench at tyrone power’s grave for a few hours and leave him a kiss and i am at peace. you can get little maps that show you where everyone’s at, but i think it’s fun to just walk around and see who you meet, too.

heritage square. the most cohesive collection of victorian architecture still standing in L.A. (most of the buildings here were moved from elsewhere in the city, to be saved from demolition.) besides the regular guided tours of the houses on the grounds, they host all sorts of cool events throughout the year: artisan markets, a night circus, historical fashion shows, the annual mourning faire. (N.B.: here, you will be walking on a whole lot of gravel. do not wear heels. i forget this every single time i go.)

the mystic museum, a very fun horror/occult-themed museum and shop in burbank. every few months they change up the exhibit - right now, i think, it's a celebration of '90s slashers, and the first time i visited, it was a history of witchcraft in pop culture. the shop runs the whole Goth Stuff gamut, from tarot decks to vintage horror movie poster prints to whimsical taxidermy.

valley relics. a dope, eclectic collection of cars, clothes, obnoxious neon signs, whatever they can get their hands on, really, to honor The Once And Future SFV. this place serves much the same emotional and spiritual purpose for me as hollywood forever, actually, except for my alternate existence as a 1980s valley girl (or girl-adjacent being) instead of my alternate existence as a 1930s screenwriter.

the lake shrine, up in the palisades. run by the self-realization fellowship, although the Transcendental stuff is not overbearing for anyone who’d just like to come and enjoy an exceptionally pretty park. it’s a great place to spend a morning or an afternoon decompressing, if you’re worn out from running around the city. (fun fact: the memorial services for tom petty, judee sill, and lux interior were all held here.)

the academy museum. it’s huge, and it’s full of incredibly thorough and thoughtful exhibits on the history of cinema. the tourists might come just to see the ruby slippers or the midsommar gown, but so help me, they WILL learn about oscar micheaux and pedro almodóvar on the way. my personal favorite parts: the documentary hallway, the oscars gallery (with several notable statuettes on display, like sidney poitier’s for lilies of the field and eiko ishioka’s for the coppola dracula), the spike lee gallery, and the “behold” installation. if i die, just put my remains in "behold" so i can spend eternity there.

#it breaks my heart that i cannot recommend attending a lunacy party at black phoenix alchemy lab anymore because THEY MOVED TO PHILADELPHIA #;ask me your questions and get some answers.#;the city of angels.

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daemians-n-daemons · 1 month

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Journal Questions for Dæmons - Day 5

Spend some time reflecting on the differences between yourself & your daemian; ways in which your mentalities, tastes, opinions diverge.

He is easily anxious. His mind wanders a lot, it never stops. I am more sure of myself and my thoughts aren't so wild. I tend to be more grounded and he tends to think of the what and ifs, though he's gotten better at focusing on the present moment. His is a mind of endless imagination.

He's a lot more concerned of what people think. Presenting himself a certain way, trying to plan for how others might react, trying to mitigate conflicts and be inclusive and kind. Not to the point of erasing himself or not setting his own boundaries. But going along with others is important to him. I don't have external people to get along with. And at this point, I have gotten used to being invisible. I can speak my thoughts out loud without thinking of offence. I can take whatever form I want without judgment. I don't owe it to anybody to speak to them, no social rules or norms dictate that I do and it fact social rules and norms dictate that I don't. There is a comfort in being invisible, a secret. It feels safe.

Fred also has a more... a better sense of who he is, a better sense of where his life is going, or who he is, than I do. Exercises at school don't ask you to write about the thoughts of your daemon. Friends and colleague and family don't ask me about me. So it took more time for me to be introspective. Exercises like these prompts encourage it, though. I don't usually get that much time to focus on myself.

We like to switch roles sometimes when it comes to being responsible. If he's being very serious about something, I might start joking about with it. If he's been too strict with himself, I might encourage a little rule breaking. Play that video game until midnight. But at other times, I'll be the one to say "time to save and stop that game or you'll be in a mood tomorrow". Depends.

For tastes... we tend to like the same things. Though I have my particular aesthetics that I prefer. If I was the human, I would dress differently to him. Co-fronted one time while he was eating oats. Nasty stuff. Apparently he likes it.

Where are these differences most prominent? What purpose do these differences serve?

I think where we really diverge is one of us exists externally and the other doesn't, and most of our differences come from that. I'm a bit anti-social because I wasn't raised to be social. I took on the role of companion because his childhood friends weren't reliable or nice. I cannot be as anxious as him or we'd spiral ourselves into being a mess. It's not so much a matter of purpose, it's a matter of the consequences of our roles as daemon and daemian, and a matter of naturally balancing each other in some aspects.

#daemonism #dæmonism #journal questions for daemons

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locoladydukez · 2 years

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Can't remember the last time I just flipped through Tumblr to be inspired or just cause I was bored. Or too high stuck on my phone blindly scrolling hours on end. Thank god or not him really more like thank you Lucifer you literally saved my life. Haven't been flipping through these feeds turned into me flipping in to a new me. I function. I actually am out here trying to functions. Didn't know what that meant for me but now I do and yes I do. Totally a better person than I use to be. Didn't think I was gonna come out like I did or be this far right now. The road cleared up out of the blue and I been working a job I just fell into. I fit in and I really like it. Hoping I don't do anything to loose it. Trying my best to kiss ass while the booty is open. Lol so to speak haha jk sorry have to tame the old me some times. She pops out like she is me or something lol not much different but just have this drive I didn't have before helping me through the day to day functioning dope fein. More like a finally getting it all done finishing and hoping it all keeps going this good. Love not being out there. Love not being friends with people who don't serve a purpose to me. Not like I'm using them I mean. I'm just not trying but just doing it without thinking. Mind over mentality really changed up on me for the good of things. Support from my loved ones and a family actually trying to be strong as one. Need to get this ball rolling with steady checks to help my family financially to ease some minds and help these women in my life relax more. Less stress looks beautiful on them. A smile or two here and there doesn't hurt nobody I learned. I'm going through the hardest time of my life right now but I'm here. I'm literally fucking her. I'm present in the moments that most in my eyes and I'm trying. Got to let no one stop me just because they hate me. For what? They never say any real reason. Till then I'll wait...doesn't seem like it'll ever produce the right things the right relationships the right situations. Left useless and left that wrong way behind me hopefully for a long while. While I just keep venting like this for no rhyme or reason yet. Till it comes together and makes more sense or cents... imma keep clocking in, watching this change happen your like dollar for dollar type person,if you can match me like my savings...ill give you my time. Trying to stop rhyming but all I can do is stop on a dime. Real dumb right, right. But watch this dummy make a comfortable life for me and my kids with a minimum wage job and high hopes. Happy kids happy mom for the moment but we a minute from that to remind ourselves this picture is missing the best thing that ever happened to us. Knowing him, in his time. He spent that here. We would give anything I mean anything to have him back. We love you too much, it hurts to much, it is too much but you are the reason why I am doing so good. I imagine having your strength pushing me through. Everyday to work like you, no complaints just do it because you got to. Spend weekends having family time because you earned that. That's when life becomes a blessing when you realize it's worth living because im only living it for you now a dayz. Just have to get this off my chest because I know it'll make more sense written out loud then bunched in my head repeating over and over again endless thoughts. Hitting a dead end not literally for you a pun taking too long to just say stop. That's why periods exist right. To put a stop to the things we keep running on and on. Thanks I know I'm annoying but you've reading this far you wouldn't dare just leave it dead sentence.see why I hate the fact that I get it now. Cause I never got it then. Never wanted it like I do now. It's still dumb as hell. A dream having a dream while I'm wide awake so surreal. Ism is a m. Time 30. M30

#poem #nonsense #m30 #perks #wasted time #venting #weirdo #stupidity #self healing

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brwnicons · 2 years

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HELLO! LOVED THE ITTO SCENARIO ITS 1AM I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND ME BEING A GAY ASS TROGLODYTE BY SENDING IN A SECOND REQUEST

Anyway, Hi! I hope you're doing well! i just rolled for xiao again today and instead i got a Yunjin which makes her C3 now ack. i just want an anemo character pls. m kinda bummed out but the plus side is, i get ideas when im frustrated.

may you write for kaeya x male reader fluff?

Reader is a powerful knight of favonius who has a pyro vision but isn't really taken seriously cause he's kinda air headed and skittish? like he will absolutely one tap all the hilichurls but he's kinda floating in the clouds when doing normal things.

The reader is often goes in expeditions cause he has a tendency to set things on fire when feeling strong emotions. he gets frustrated? arm on fire. he's excited? oh no, hair on fire.

Enter Kaeya.

Since he's a suave mf, he regularly flusters the reader and reader just goes. "AH! NO! NO! STOP! PLEASE!" just begging for dear life while Kaeya barely complements him and the next thing they know, the table is on fire.

Hope this ain't too long and hope you're doing good! :DD

☆ I'm really sorry for the delay, I loved the request and I hope that you like it and that, by this time, you had already got your anemo beloved !! ☆

Kaeya x Male Pyro Knight of Favonius Reader

-> Summary: Male Reader, scenario in divided parts

-> Triggers: Mentions of fire

-> Warning: Don't tag this as yaoi!

Please tell me if you find any mistake

-> Everyone loves the pyro knight !!

• Everyone in Mondstad knows about the friendly knight of Favounius with the friendly face and the flaming eyes who is always willing to help

• And among the Knights of Favounius, everyone knows about the strong man that carries a pyro vision but also probably not more than five neurons

• Don't misunderstand me, they love and admire you! It's just that master Jean prefers giving you missions more... in the field

-> Not quite on the sharp side

• You are a brilliant knight and your pyro techniques are really something, allowing you to rarely take more than 1 hour on your missions. But, when speaking about finding lost pets, carrying packages or attending to meetings, you are quite a disaster

• When you first started serving the Knights of Favounius and doing these kind of quests you would often forget them and end up doing something completely different. Also, when attending to meetings, you would daydream and dissociate most of the time, unable to pay attention.

-> Well, maybe ice can start a fire

• It is also know that when you first entered the Knights of Favounius, the fire rate in the headquarters increased suddenly. And looks like you seemed to always manage to be there when it happened though they didn't notice that most of times Kaeya was also with you

• At first, the Knights thought you were doing it on purpose and even a rumor about you being a Fatui started to run, but all of their suspicions vanished the day you attended a meeting and turned into a fire ball as soon as Kaeya praised your job

• "A truly splendid job, y/n. Who could known that besides being a so handsome man you could also hold so much power", he praised while a smug smile painted his lips, but you began shouting as soon as you felt the heat inside you grew. "NO! NOT AGAIN!"

• It was a very romantic moment indeed, if it weren't for the other 10 people in the room that glared at you and the fact that all of your skin released 5-feets flames that ended up burning the main table.

-> The Cavalry Captain right eye hand

• However! Your kind eyes and determination made their way into Jean's heart who, over time, kept acknowledging your achievements and kept promoting your position.

• Eventually, you reached a position that allowed you to receive direct orders from Kaeya

• This meant that when you woke up and went to work you could either fight some angry hilichurls or having to spend all your day in sorting alphabetically the library

• You turned out being more something like Kaeya's personal attendant. Not that you would mind though, not when sometimes you could do things like serving him a cup of coffee and chat with him for a bit

• You two started growing more and more close, until the expected confessions arrived and the news about the Cavalry Captain's boyfriend went viral in Mondstad like wildfire.

-> A warm couple

• On the private side, Kaeya enjoys teasing you and try your resistance by flirting with you. Soft caresses on your arms, ghost kisses on your neck that light up your hair ends and eyelids on orange flames, and sweet praises and compliments that create flames on your arms.

• He prays to every archon that you never get used to it

• To your dismay, he also enjoys doing it in public. He sometimes calls you to his office only for him to state: "Oh, don't worry, I am just checking how my handsome man is doing today. You look breathtaking today, dear."

• Thankfully, Jean is aware of Kaeya's plans and has already retired every carpet in the Captain's office and is now waiting outside with a bucket of cold water

Needless to say that, by strict orders from master Jean, you have absolutely forbidden to play or even interact with Klee

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jaehyunzzmilk · 3 years

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dinasty (part 2)

pairing: prince jaehyun x concubine reader

word count: 3.4 k

genre: Historical Mafia AU, smut, light angst

summary: after the perfect escape, you have to find a way to fit in your new life, leaving the past behind may seem easy when you're working for 4 princes and one of them is interested in you, right?

notes: hello again, part 2 is up and we have a new love triangle, thank you for liking the first part so much, and prepare for even more surprises

this doesn't have any relation to real facts and history, it's just pure fiction for entertainment purposes

warnings: violence, blood, cheating, unprotected sex, oral (female receiving)

main characters: jaehyun (prince), yuta (samurai, villain), ten (thai mafia, villain), kun (China's emperor warrior)

Reality - Part 2

Part 1 here

"- Nice tattoo!" the man says.

It was dark and his face was only visible through the moonlight.

You freeze, the man stays still looking at you like you were his prey.

You try to cover your body but your only reaction is to grab your stuff and run, praying he wasn't gonna come after you.

Arriving at your room, breathing heavily you try to think about what just happened. A guy like that had to be a prince or someone really important. Ms. Lee told you to be lowkey and on the first day you let a man see you naked in the bath area. "Whatever" You were just too tired to think, you didn't do anything wrong anyway, so you were gonna pretend that it didn't happen. The Korean Palace was gonna punish you for going to the wrong bath?

Suddenly you realize Kun's necklace isn't with you. "Fuck, I must have dropped there" but now it's too risky to come back and look for it so you decide to do that tomorrow. You lay down on your mattress and try to fall asleep.

Next morning Ms. Lee showed you the rest of the Palace, the kitchen and assigned your tasks. It was a lot of work and details, each of their meals had to be perfectly planned. They had someone even to taste the food before them so they know it's not poisoned.

"- I'm gonna be responsible for the King's meal and you're gonna be responsible for the four prince's meals."

-Four?

"- Yes, Taeil, Doyoung, Johnny and Jaehyun. Now you should prepare their tea, they always drink green tea in the morning."

While preparing the tea you wonder which one you saw at the bathing area and if you should tell Ms. Lee what happened yesterday.

You're walking with the trays to the dining place when you try to talk to her.

-Ms. Lee!

-"Yes"

-So yesterday...

You realize you still don't know much about Ms. Lee and even if Kun trusts her, you don't. Also you can't help but think that serving tea was much better than your life at the concubine's house, so you try quickly to think of something else to say.

-Well, yesterday… Before I met you… this man helped me at the harbor, he was wearing black clothes and had a samurai sword.

-"Stay away from him!" She turns at you. "They are dangerous, they will kill everything and everyone on their way, people you don't want to mess up with."

By Yuta's facial expression when you mentioned Ms. Lee's name you weren't surprised she said those words, you wonder why but she wasn't gonna be the one to give you the answers. Otherwise, you still weren't afraid of him, he was gonna be the last of your problems here.

-"Now let's get in there, first you bow and then you serve them the way I showed you, don't look at them in the eye and don't say anything." She says.

In silence, you enter the dining room along with the other servants behind you bringing the food plates and you stop in front of the tables on the floor where all the princes are. There are two on each side, the two oldest and the youngest, all of them are sitting on cushions, they all have long hair and are wearing beautiful hanboks.

-"Your highness, may I introduce you to your new servant 'y/n', she is my niece and she is gonna work with me in the kitchen from now on." Ms. Lee said while you bowed, you were still too nervous to look up and look at them. "Now, may we start with the tea." Ms. Lee turns to you and signs that you can go and serve them.

Holding the teapot you go to the first prince, the oldest, Taeil, he is very handsome, with his light brown hair, face delicate and mature at the same time. Slowly you pour the tea into the cup by his left, he doesn't do anything, just stays still looking down and you wonder if you did something wrong. On his right it's Doyoung, after you pour the tea he gives you a small nod which makes you feel calmer. He is also very handsome, shiny black long hair, perfect posture, he sure looks like a prince. On the other side, Johnny, you can feel he is looking at you, the first to say "thank you" after you pour the tea. His face is gorgeous, even if he is sitting down you can feel how tall and strong he is. And then, Jaehyun, the man from the bath. You freeze when he looks directly at your eyes, you try to stay calm and pour the tea but can't help but shake a little bit. He is the definition of perfection, he had perfect skin, perfect face, everything about him.

Jaehyun keeps staring at you even when you stand up and comes back to Ms. Lee side.

-"Seems like someone likes our new servant!" Johnny says laughing. The other boys look at him but Jaehyun remains silent and serious, still looking at you.

They give the first sip to their tea. Taeil stops and smells the cup.

-"Did someone… put ginger on the tea?" He asks.

Ms. Lee turns at you with her eyes wide open.

-"Did you put ginger when you were making the tea?" She says in a low voice. - Yes, that's how we usually drink it in China, I'm so sorry.

-"Don't..." Taeil says taking another sip "- From now on keep in that way". You see Jaehyun smirking with the corner of your eyes.

Your whole body relaxed, you felt like you were going to faint. Ms. Lee bows and tells them to excuse both of you. As soon as you enter the kitchen's door she grabs your arm.

-"You have no idea how lucky you were this time young lady, Taeil is the most picky to all the food we make, when he started speaking I thought I was gonna have a heart attack"

-Me too! But I'm so sorry, I swear I'm not doing anything again without asking you first.

-"Good! Now get back to work"

Later after you finish your schedule you come back to the bath area to look for Kun's necklace. You look everywhere but it's nowhere to be found.

-"Looking for this?" Jaehyun stops behind you holding your necklace.

You turn around and he comes closer to you.

-"I asked if you're looking for this?" Now he is inches from you.

-Ye- yes!

Jaehyun walks behind you and gently moves your hair to the side, putting the necklace on you.

-"Does that belong to your boyfriend?" He is so close it's almost he's whispering in your ears. You get goosebumps.

-Excuse me?

He smirks and comes back to look you in the eyes.

-"I fought in the war 2 years ago, I remember those from the chinese soldiers." He tilts his head to the side and looks at you from head to toe. "Or you did?"

-A prince fighting at the war?

-"And a very bloody one but yes... it would be a shame being a prince and let your people alone bring victory to your country"

-It does… belong to my boyfriend.

You hold your necklace in your chest.

-"And where is your precious boyfriend when a pretty face like you is talking to the enemy in another country?"

-It's complicated!

-"I have time!"

-Why? Do you want the full story to snitch on me?

-"Sweetie if I wanted to snitch you out I would have already!"

He was right.

-You wouldn't believe if I told you anyway!

-"Try me, I've seen it all"

You both sit on a stone beside the water.

-Well, when I was 9 my family was struggling, we didn't have food, money, anything… so my father sold me and my sister to a concubine's house. She went to a different house than mine so I never saw her again actually. But anyway after years of being a slave in all forms to that house I fell in love, to someone from the thai mafia, of course things got out of control, I was so dumb. When I tried to run away he found out and did this tattoo on me, I was in so much pain because I fell off the roof trying to run away that I didn't even felt the pain of the needle, I just stayed there, still. Then I met Kun, I fell in love again, he helped me to escape, and it worked.

-"And I assume that story of being Ms. Lee's niece is all lies."

-Yes! She helped to raise Kun and met his mother so it's the only reason she's doing this until he arrives.

-"Oh so he's coming."

-He works for the Emperor and he said they would kill both of us if he ran away, so he is gonna wait a little bit and ask to retire, he wants to do it the right way, then he'll join me.

-"If you allow me to say this but… I would never have let you to come alone, sometimes you don't have to do it the right way" He gets up and walks to the exit of the bath. "But I'm glad he did and we could meet"

You give a small smile with the corner of your lips.

-"Oh and by the way..." He turns at you. "The staff's bath area is on that way." He points to his left.

-I know now. Thanks.

He smiles and leaves.

Weeks passed and you were getting used to your new life. You were doing your job right, even making some different dishes from your hometown to the princes. Meanwhile you unexpectedly started spending time with Jaehyun. Since your conversation at the bath, you both got closer in a natural way. On every free time you had you spent time together, you mostly liked to walk on the garden because it was more private, he told you about his childhood, how he had to give up on so many things to be who the kings expected him to be, how he felt like he was on a prison his whole life and how he found joy on learning how to fight because it was the only way he had to express himself and not follow the rules. You were surprised at how wholesome he was, he made questions about your life in a way that you know he wasn't being just pity, he was interested in how other realities exist outside the Palace.

One afternoon Ms. Lee asked you to go to the flea market to buy fruit for the dinner's banquet. You went alone since now you were familiar with that.

Because of the summer there were a lot of different kinds of fruits on sale. You bought peaches because you knew Jaehyun likes it. After buying everything you needed you see some crowd gathering between the market, you approached them and notice some weird men you've never seen before. They were thieves. They were on their horses, destroying the sellers' stands, pushing everyone in their way, they even tried to put a food stand on fire. You saw a little kid who got lost from their parents and was crying right in the middle of the path where the thieves were. You run in his direction and catch him, putting him safely to the side of the road, when one of the men slaps your face "Get out of the way slut!"

The slap was hard so you fell on the ground when suddenly you see another group of men coming that way, they all had black clothes and katanas. The samurais. They were so fast, they fought the thieves in a blink of an eye. There are people running and dust everywhere, you feel a hand on you. "Let's get you out of here" you recognize the voice, Yuta holds you and takes you to a safe place.

-"Why every time I see you, you're in trouble? Didn't I tell you to not walk around alone?"

-I was just buying stuff at the market when they came out of nowhere.

-"You're bleeding, let me see your lips" Yuta takes the fabric that was covering his mouth and carefully wipes the blood on your lips.

-"You're gonna need ice if you don't want to get bruises..."

-Don't worry, I've had worse wounds! - You laugh.

-"You didn't tell me where you came from"

-You didn't either, and why are you doing this? Helping me when you told me to stay away?

-"Well you should!"

-I'm not afraid of you.

Yuta looks at you, his mysterious gaze turns into vulnerability.

-So, I will tell you my story if you tell me yours! - You say.

-"Years ago the king had a deal with Osaka’s emperor, since he traveled there and they proposed to do an alliance and protect each nation together, but when the war happened and the emperor asked for the samurais to fight on their side here in Korea. We came and it was all a trap, a lot of us died, the emperor stole our ships and made all his people be afraid of us spreading lies, that we were dangerous. Since we couldn’t come back home we settled ourselves here, but the funny thing is every time the small villages are in danger, like what you saw today, it’s us who come first to help them. You asked me why I saved you, where I came from, we take care of everyone, no matter what."

-I'm sorry!

-"Now your turn, what’s your dark pass?"

-Apparently like you I was also a victim of the war in my country, but other than having a sword and fighting I was just a concubine trapped in a house for so many years, let’s say I just involved myself with the wrong people and ran away.

-"It’s called a katana… the sword. And maybe I can teach you how to fight." He smiles.

-Me?

He gives you the sword.

-It's much lighter than I thought.

-"Careful, it's lighter but the blade is gonna be the sharpest of all swords. Here... You must hold like this!" He took your hands and taught you how to hold the sword, carefully he showed you some self defense moves.

-"Now if someone ever tries to slap your face again, you do this..." Yuta grabs your wrists and pins you agains't a tree, you can't move obviously, he is so close to you and you feel the sexual tension building.

-"Get away from her!" You hear a familiar voice screaming. It's Jaehyun.

Jaehyun gets off his horse, he was mad, you never saw him like that. You jump in front of Yuta.

-No wait! He saved my life! - You scream.

-"What? Y/n do you know who he is? He is a murderer." Jaehyun looks at you.

-"If you arrived 10 minutes earlier you could have joined us but the little prince was busy at his Palace right?" Yuta provokes him.

-"That's enough!" Jaehyun comes closer but Yuta doesn't even flinch.

-Please Jaehyun, let's go!

You grab his arm and take him away from Yuta.

- "This doesn't end here bastard!" - Jaehyun spits at Yuta's direction.

You come back to the Palace with Jaehyun and he takes you to the bath area.

He is sweating, you could see his veins popping because of how mad he was.

- Jaehyun please, everything is alright, you need to calm down!

- "No it's not, look at you, you're hurt" he grabs your face and touches your lip with his thumb.

- It's ok now, I was at the market when some thieves arrived, I was protecting a little kid who was gonna get hit by their horses, they got mad because I was in the way but I swear it was nothing and Yuta helped me and everyone in there!

- "What? How do you know his name?"

- When I arrived from China he saw me at the harbor, I was so weak from the trip he helped me and even took me to Ms. Lee! I don't care about your old family issues, he helped me and that's all.

- "I'm sorry I'm just… the Palace guards heard the thieves were at the market and when I knew you were there I got my horse and went after you, I just couldn't let anything bad happen to you y/n!"

He grabs your face with both of his hands and kisses you. You try to push him but still can't open your eyes and break the kiss completely "Jaehyun we shouldn't..."

- "If you don't want it then tell me to stop" your heart is beating so fast, you swallow hard and look up at Jaehyun, "I know I'm not the only one feeling this" He says kissing you hard again.

He is right. "Touch me" you say, grabbing his hands and placing them on your breasts. When he is caressing his hands on your breast he removes your necklace, dropping it on the ground. He unties your dress and slides the fabric until your lower body, he is on his knees in front of you and he passes his hands on the back of your thighs until your butt and kisses your thighs slowly. He keeps eye contact with you and licks your clit, you moan and grabs his hair in response to his tongue going faster.

In your head it felt so wrong because you were in love with Kun, but Jaehyun made you feel so needy, mind and body.

Jaehyun gives a hard lick on your clit and makes his way up to your stomach leaving a tray of kisses until your breasts, he sucks one nipple while his other hand and flicks the other one. He gets up and kisses you, the kiss was so wet, for a moment you forget that anything else exists while he kisses you hard, licking and sucking your bottom lip. He takes off his clothes, his hard dick slaps on his toned abs, pre cum leaking over his tip. Jaehyun lifts you up "Let's go inside" taking you to one of the hot tubs.

When you felt the heat of the water on your body, the feeling of pleasure and lust took over you, Jaehyun pulled you down onto his lap and gave you another kiss, you wrapped your arms around his neck when you feel his tip on your core. "Oh my god" you scream while his hands holding your waist puts you down until his whole length was inside of you. The feeling was so different, you got a harder friction because of the water and you start moving up and down to get used to his size. Jaehyun's shoulders and biceps tense while his cock is stretching you out. You bounce on him screaming in pleasure, body trembling as he helps you to move faster.

He was pushing all the way into you, hitting your g-spot. You arch your back and moan his name, clenching every time he enters you. You're almost out of breath when he sucks your neck and presses his thumb against your clit. "Jae, I'm gonna..." you can see he is close as well as he sucks your neck even harder and moves his finger faster. You scream when you feel your orgasm, your arching pussy made his cock tighter while he couldn't hold it anymore and released into you as well.

You both stay in the water for a bit recovering from the climax, he pulls you to his chest and you close your eyes.

-Am I dreaming?

-"I think the reality right now is better than your dreams."

"Reality" you thought, back at your own senses you couldn't help but be disappointed at yourself. Because of you Kun was risking his own life to help you to run away and now you're with the prince of the place he arranged you to work for. Maybe you were just a filthy concubine, maybe you deserved everything they did to you, even your tattoo. You roll your body and rest your head at the border of the hot tub, a tear coming out of your eye.

Part 3 coming soon

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snake-snacc · 3 years

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Fandom: Twisted Wonderland

Topic: The "Fuckboy" thing

DISCLAIMER: This is my opinion and my thoughts! You are free to have a different opinion! Take it with a little bit of humour!

forgive my bad english

You know what guys? I think it's kinda funny how a part of the Twisted Wonderland Fandom really goes with "Yes XY is a total fuckboy! You see it in his eyes!" And from what I saw the most characters that get into this discussion are Leona, Malleus, Ace, Jamil and Floyd. BUT LET ME BURST YOUR BUBBLES GUYS AND LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL "FUCKBOY" OF TWISTED WONDERLAND!

First of all, I'm gonna tell you why the pretty boys above are not really fit for the title of "Fuckboy". :3 [I will refer often to female partners but I try to keep it gender neutral most times!]

Let's start with the sleepy the lion, LEONA KINGSCHOLAR

— No, my argument is not that he's too lazy. No, no. But he probably was raised to totally respect women. He even stated that he is afraid of the women in his homeland because they are pretty tough ladys! So, they wouldn't hesitate to slap a bitch if they find out he fucks around and leaves them heart broken

— Also, he probably doesn't have the strength or the motivation to handle all the drama

Next! Horny (no pun intended) boy, MALLEUS DRACONIA

— Let's be honest, he probably doesn't know how to really communicate with people, beside Yuu/MC, Lilia and maybe the rest of his dorm. Yes he can talk to others but get them into bed? I don't think so.

— He probably doesn't even know what even kissing is

Next boy! ACE TRAPPOLA

— He would go all out about stuff like "Yes, I totally would bang that girl/that boy" but in the moment the person would be stripping down in front of him, with the intention to do naughty stuff with him, he would panic. He would straight up panic and would get out of there

— Look at him. He doesn't even know how to use his dick

Next Boy! JAMIL (I'm a whore for you) VIPER

— As sad as it makes me, this pretty boy is way to stressed for fucking around! He couldn't even use it as a stress relief because while doing it, he would stress himself with stuff like "Is this good enough? Do I have enough time left? Does Kalim need help? Is the food ready?"

— Plus I see him more as a "I choose a partner and stay by their side" kinda guy. But even then he wouldn't get a partner because he knows he wouldn't have time for them so he doesn't even starts dating

Next and last! FLOYD LEECH

— He would start it, get bored and leave. Facts. This boy would just straight up leave the second his partner wouldn't play along. Maybe he even just goes before they even started because "I don't want to anymore"

— His mood swings would keep the people away from him and I don't see that he really appeals to all the naughty stuff

SO! Now that I bursted your bubbles, let me tell you about the real "Fuckboy" from Twisted Wonderland…

*dramatic music*

……

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞KALIM AL-ASIM!☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)

Yeah I know I know

"But he is so baby and naive and innocent!"- quit that! No! He is not! Yes he is very naive, but in the way to trust and believe people way too easy and to believe they wouldn't do bad things twice. (This whole chapter broke my heart… my poor boys! ;-;)

But let me explain to you, why Kalim is (in my eyes) the one that should/could wear the title "Fuckboy":

— Let's start at the beginning: From what we know he has over 30 siblings, is probably the oldest, so there for he saw his Dad with the Mom. Or should I say, the Moms?! Kalims Dad probably had more than one wife, and not like "She died, or, we fell apart after 10 years", no, probably like "you look pretty, give birth to my kids, you are my wife now for a few years". (My theory/opinion on what kind of dad he has) So he had an Idol which had more women on his hands that a normal man would ever. I can see that Kalim is totally used to stuff like that from his homeland, his familie, and that the idea/concept of multiple partners at the same time is something totally normal to him.

— He will be the next Sultan. You can't tell me the girls at his homeland didn't throw themselves at him at some point of his life. "Oh you're so handsome~ And so sweet~ omg you make me laugh~", etc. And with his carefree and happy nature he probably doesn't even have a problem with that. "Oh thank you, you too ^^ Your hair is so pretty, your eyes are enchanting~", etc.

— If this sweet, so happy, smiling boy would throw a party and ask a random girl to dance with him, they wouldn't say no. They would dance with him, smile and be happy. He could get all of them wrapped around his little finger, by just smiling and asking nicely. Yes he is a little over the top sometimes, but that probably don't stand in his way

— If he doesn't get what he wants, he cries. He is so used to getting what he wants the second he recommends it, that a "No sorry, I don't want to dance/talk/come over" would be the instant start of big, wet puppy eyes and stuff like "But it would make me so happy! We could have soooo much fun! *sobbing*" (He kinda is a pick me boy not gonna lie, but i love him) and who wants a happy nature like Kalim to cry? No one! (Besides Jamil) So they would probably feel bad and be like ".. Okay.. just this one time.. and not so long.." and in the end they would be at his side for more hours then they could count.

— I can see that if he would directly ask for a person to come with him in his room and they say no, that he would be kinda sad. Puppy eyes and everything BUT he knows that he can't force people to do that stuff with him, so he just gets sad and is like "Can we at least cuddle..?" And you know what? In the end it's not just a cuddle. BUT WITH CONSENT! He respects a No, but he can't do anything about it if the person changes their mind because little Kalim is all sweet talk and praise while cuddling

— Fact is, Kalim would totally flirt talk or at least very flirty praise people without even realising. (I mean.. have you ever listened closely to how he talks about Jamil..? Way to much praise and simpness) You know, while just casual dancing with them, out of nowhere something like "Your body looks so beautiful in this light and the way it moves, mesmerising"

— Because of his "It's totally normal to have multiple partners" thingy, I can see him just living that. Party here, party there, oh you look pretty, you're mine now. And yes he knows some would just be at his side for the chance of getting some money, but why would he care? He doesn't plan to marry one of them. He would care for that when it comes to the one he should marry and when he finds out they are just after him because of the money, yeah, well bye bye then

— He is probably in general way too touchy with people, so accidents happen, right?~ (that sounds wrong) I mean with that, that probably some people would get his closeness a little wrong think he is interested in them, so they get interested and in the end, Fun~

— He calls people casually with sweet nicknames. He called Yuu/MC "My Love". So why wouldn't he just call other people too by stuff like that? The pretty dancer lady he had invited with the green eyes? "My shining emerald" The handsome boy he met at a feast in his homeland with the sun-kissed skin? "My golden sunshine"

— Just saying, who in his Homeland, from the young ladys that need to get married and stuff, wouldn't instantly say yes, if Kalim would ask them to spend time with him? The moment he would invite them into the palast, they would fall in love with him (or his money)

— He knows how the world is working. Money does big things. A soft smile, a nice ask and a little bit of "One night at the Sultans Palace / One night treated like a princess/prince, getting served from servants" and he has a partner. Kalim isn't stupid, maybe school related stuff, but not about life.

— By the way: "One night treated like a princess/prince", come one. Tell me this boy wouldn't absolutely treat his partner, even just one night stands, like total princesses/princes. He would praise them so much, tell them all the way how beautiful they are, how they are his treasure right now. Surely he could also go easily into the mood of "Serve me I'm the Prince", but I think he would make this the first few times by accident (because he was taught to be served from everyone) but quickly realize that that's not how it works.

— Facit:

Kalim could easily be a Fuckboy, or a very popular and successful Pick me Boy. But I think he would get himself in the way with his "I don't do that on purpose" nature.

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dragon-kazansky · 3 years

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Made with love | Helmut Zemo

Chef Zemo AU! 👨‍🍳

Gender neutral reader

Collage by @realremyd

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Part 8

Helmut Zemo was waiting outside of the airport with his car. He parked as close as he could to the doors, right where you should be able to see him when you came out.

It had been a month. You had gone back home to sort out your affairs, with the help of your darling friend Wanda Maximoff, and had done everything you needed to. Things you had sent over were now tucked away safely at home.

Your home. The one you would now share with him.

He checked his watch for the hundredth time in the last ten minutes. He had closed up the restaurant today, wanting to spend it all with you. He just wanted you back in his arms.

Every time the doors opened he would wat h the crowds with Ken eyes, waiting. Yet, you hadn't come out. He sighed as he waits.

Both you and Wanda assured him you would arrive in time. You were even bringing another friend to stay a while.

Over the last month you had been constantly messaging and calling one another. Mostly about all these plans you had cor the restaurant, but also about the two of you.

Helmut promised that once you had moved in, he would spoil you. He was going to make you so very happy.

The doors opened again. His eyes focused on the crowd. His heart began to race and his lips curled into a smile.

There you were. Just as beautiful as he remembered.

Your eyes found his. Friends instantly forgotten, you run toward him. Helmut pushes off his car, opens his arms wide, and meets you about halfway. You collide into him. His arms are instantly wrapped around you and his lips claim yours.

Wanda and Natasha stand by, watching you.

Natasha had heard lots about this Helmut Zemo. Though Wanda was your best friend, Natasha was a special friend too. She was protective over you and wanted to meet the man who had stolen your heart.

Wanda coughs loudly.

You pull away from Zemo, but kept your arms around him, turning to look at your friends with a sheepish smile.

Helmut wasn't even looking at your friends. He could see only you.

"This is Natasha, my other friend. I've told her all about you," you say, looking at him.

"It's nice to meet you," he says, glancing at her. She nods.

"Likewise."

His eyes turns back to you and he has that goofy smile on his face again. He unlocks the car and let's you all in, obviously with you sitting upfront with him.

"Any news on Stark?" You ask, once the car sets off.

"He is doing well. His restaurant is a success."

"And Escorpión Morado?"

"Still open."

You don't like the look on his face or the tone of his voice.

"Helmut?"

He glances at you.

"Stark is stealing my customers. Business is declining and I don't think we have much time before it's out of control."

You look at him, lips tugging into a frown.

"Good thing I'm here then."

He glances at you again, his own lips curling into a smile.

"Yes. It is."

He drives you to the apartment, the girls follow you both up to where Zemo lives and you all enter the main living space.

"My new home."

Helmut comes up behind you and snakes his arms around you, pulling you into his chest. He kisses your cheek and then rests his head in your shoudler.

"Our home."

Wanda taps Natasha on the shoulder and they make their leave, going to stay at the hotel. Once the door closes behind them, Helmut turns you around and kisses you again.

"Welcome home."

You smile softly.

"Thank you."

You were a Sokovian citizen now. It was a lot more straightforward than you had thought.

You're very happy to be here.

"So, the restaurant. I take it it's not open today."

"No. I let Sam and James have the day off so I could meet you and bring you home. Your things are in your room."

"Thank you, but still, are you prepared to go through with this?" You ask.

"Yes. Help me save my restaurant. I need you."

You smile.

"I know you do."

You take both of his hands in yours and hold them, squeezing them lightly.

He smiles handsomely at you. He's never felt so lucky in his life before.

"Where do you want to get started?" You ask.

"What did you have in mind?"

"Well, obviously the menu is important, but what if we start planning the new look for your restaurant. Let's show Stark that with have both good taste in food and interior design. I was doing some shopping and found a fee things. Want to check them out?"

He nods. You ask him to take a seat while you fetch your laptop. You open it on the table in front of you, as you sit next to him.

You're sitting nice and close. His arm settled right next to yours. His knee nudges yours lightly as he rests his elbows on his open lap.

You open up all the tabs you had saved.

"You really have been doing your research," he chuckles.

"I have. New furniture, new floors, new decor and lights. You can pick everything, it is your restaurant. Remember, we're not replacing the restaurant, we are sprucing it up, giving it a new look."

He smiles softly as he looks at you.

"Well, take a look, Helmut."

He turns his eyes back to the laptop, wishing to look at you little longer. He scrolls theough the choices and you make notes on all the things he likes. You help him because what looks good with what, and before you know, you can almost see how it will look.

A couple hours later you get a message on your phone.

Wanda: Breaking in the mattress yet? ;)

You: OMG, WANDA, STOP!

Wanda: What have you been doing then?

You: Redesigning the restaurant. What about you and Nat?

Wanda: Drinks!

You roll your eyes and reply:

You: Not surprised. Have fun! See you later.

You put your phone down and ignore any incoming messages after that.

"Are you hungry?" Helmut asks, raising from the sofa.

"Yeah, actually."

He holds out his hand. You take it and let him pull you up and lead you into the kitchen. He only let's go of your hand to grab his apron and put it on. He then, very smoothly, moves around the kitchen grabbing ingredients.

"What are you making?"

"Schnitzel," he grins at you.

"Is there anything you can't cook?" You chuckle. It's very clear this man has done some globe trotting of his own.

"Many things, but I can also make many things too," he winks at you as he sets up a pan, ready for cooking.

You come to stand beside him. He presents two pieces of pork which he quickly works on pounding thinly. He sprinkles them with salt and pepper.

"Have you ever had schnitzel?"

"No. Which I should be ashamed of considering I have been to Germany."

"Then it will be my honour to give you your ever first!"

You chuckle softly.

He slides over to the empty space of his counter and puts down a bowl and two plates. One plate with flour and salt, the bowl with eggs which he let's you beat, and the final plate with breadcrumbs.

This man's own kitchen is stocked with everything he could need. As you look at him in his own kitchen, which you suppose you can also call your own now, you realise just how much he loves cooking.

"I'll do the first one, you can do the second one, alright?"

You nod.

You watch as he picks up the first piece of pork. He coats it in flour on both side, then into the egg on both sides, and then into the breadcrumbs. He shakes off any excess and pops it into the pan he prepared.

"You next."

You pick up the other piece and do exactly as he had done. Into the flour, into the egg, into the breadcrumbs. You shake off the excess like he had done and he steps back as you place it in the pan.

What you didn't expect was for him to cage you in. He lifts one of your hands to the pan and stands right behind you as you now both cook.

You can hear his soft breathing in your ear. The hand he has resting on your hip make your spine tingle. You're very much aware of how close he is to you.

His lips brush against your ear.

You shiver involuntarily.

He chuckles softly, his breath brushing the shell of your ear.

Before you can think too much about what he's doing, he promptly take the schnitzel out of the pan and onto a plate with paper towels on it. He leaves you rather quickly, going to pick up some leafy salad from fridge.

You take a deep breath and try to keep your composure. God, the way he makes you feel!

He returns and plates up the schnitzel, slicing a lemon and placing the slices on top of each one, serving with a bit of the salad.

He turns to you with a smile.

"Schnitzel."

You chuckle and take one of the plates. You both sit down and tuck in. Once again you're left blown away by this man's skill, but there was also the fact you helped.

Zemo makes a low moan after eating some of his.

"This is good."

"I should hope so, you made it."

He chuckles, looking at you.

"Actually you did. This is the one you prepared."

You look down at his plate. He had purposely taken the one you had done. You smile softly.

"You're eating my one?"

"Yes."

You bite your lip shyly. Once again he leaves you a shy blushing mess.

When you finished eating, Helmut cleaned up, though you did make a fuss about helping him. After losing that little argument, you headed to your room.

For a spare room it was big enough for you. You could fit in quite nicely here. You unpacked your cases and spent a bit of time planning on where this is would go or what you would need to buy. This was your space. You would make it your own.

A knock on the door had you sitting up on your bed. Your handsome chef enters the room and smiles at you.

"What do you think?" He asks.

"I like it."

Helmut sits down on the bed with you and pus you into his side. You cuddle against him, feeling content.

"I'll get to see you every day now."

You chuckle softly.

"Yes. Lucky bastard, aren't you?"

"I'd say so."

You kiss him softly. He places a hand on your cheek and looks at you with the softest gaze.

He almost wants to say it.

He doesn't.

Not yet.

You smile softly as you close your eyes and sit with him in the quiet room.

Today is the beginning of the next chapter of your lives.

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unofficialadamtaurus · 3 years

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As someone who became properly aware of RWBY in like late V7 and thus having never had any longstanding headcanons about any of the characters before that... It's the problematic elements that bother me. It's the fact that characters have problematic shit tacked onto them, with some of them being pretty much made of problematic shit hello "we decided to make one of the most-hated characters in the show into an ex-child slave turned child soldier who literally got branded on his face by his oppressors and lost an eye from it and never addressed how a racist and uncaring society played a significant roll in turning him into a monster, he's just spite and the humans and the system they built aren't to blame at all". And then they made Cinder, the other widely-hated and abusive character, into an ex-child slave too. Like I'm sorry. That character concept will never fail to gross me out.

I watched the trailers and up to the end of V3, then I didn’t watch RWBY (or even think about it really) until a bit into volume 7, when YouTube recommended the red trailer and I rewatched it to feel something again. So, same; I also never really had headcanons or a deep investment in certain versions of the characters. And yeah, that kind of character is gross, and I’m about to spend far too much time angrily explaining why I’m frustrated with it and with the writers’/fandom’s seeming indifference to (or even support of!) it.

Basically, the “cool motive, still murder” idea (as succinctly stated by Brooklyn 99) has done irreparable damage to fandom’s ability to critically engage with fundamental character- and world-building flaws.

RWBY, when it deigns to engage with the systemic issues it chose to include in its setting, often reduces those issues to one-dimensional representations packaged in individuals that can be dealt with relatively quickly/simply and thus considered "over.” The real kicker of this strategy is that those individuals are always villains or evil in a way that “cancels out” (/s) their tragic backstory. Adam is the most egregious example of this, but all of the White Fang, Cinder, Salem, and apparently even fucking Neo these days suffer from it to varying degrees.

RWBY isn’t the first piece of media to use the tragic backstory trope or even use it on villains. I’m going to go with Marvel here (sorry) just because it’s pretty widely known. So, in Black Panther, the villain Killmonger grew up in a poor neighborhood. His father was murdered. He struggled as a Black orphan in America, then grew into a man with few moral boundaries and a singular drive to empower his people, which he chooses to do by using the technology offered by the hero’s country. Killmonger is eventually defeated, but the movie makes a point that the hero, T’Challa, has to change. It dedicates an entire scene to T’Challa telling his ancestors explicitly that they were wrong for ignoring people like Killmonger and the movie ends on T’Challa taking concrete steps to address the problems that Killmonger’s actions brought to light. Killmonger’s tragic backstory served a purpose. It wasn’t just there to make him a sympathetic villain; it was there to force the hero to confront an aspect of his society, of his world, that he had not needed to consider before. It wasn’t just “Cool motive, still murder”; it was “Cool motive, still murder, but here’s how we’ll address the root cause so this doesn’t happen again.” In my eyes, Black Panther serves as an example of a tragic villain backstory (when the backstory ties into systemic issues) done well.

RWBY does not do it well.

What blows my mind is that when writers insert a badly done tragic backstory (read: justification) for their villains, they usually do it for cheap sympathy points. But for Adam, they couldn’t even manage that. Or maybe they didn’t care about sympathy; he was, as you point out, anon, hated. So it’s possible that the writers didn’t even consider that maybe, maybe, revealing the branded child slave backstory in the way they did to make Adam look like more of a manipulative asshole was a bad decision. It’s not a subversion of the trope; it’s a badly done rendition, a joke that wants to be taken seriously. As the linked article above warns, “much writerly skill is generally needed to pull this off and make it poignant rather than pathetic.” Adam’s iteration very much falls into the pathetic category, never mind the implications when you take into account what minority group the faunus very closely mirror.

Basically, the bar was on the floor and they dug a new basement to avoid it. Why introduce a tragic backstory for a villain that highlights the injustices of their world if you’re not doing it for sympathy or to identify a problem the protagonists must confront? Why? What does that communicate to the audience? “Oh, Adam suffered,” the writers say, “but don’t worry, you can ignore the implications of child slavery in our world and withhold your sympathy because he’s an asshole.”

Now they’re seemingly trying to play the trope straight with Cinder, which makes me feel like I’m going mad. “Oh, Cinder is an asshole,” the writers say, “but please still ignore the systemic issues implied by her backstory while sympathizing with her because she was a slave who suffered.”

(For those of you who love to interpret things in bad faith: when I say “the writers say,” I don’t mean that they spoke/wrote those exact words. I mean that those words are uncomfortably easy to infer from what they’ve written, which yes, is a responsibility of the writer.)

When you build a story, the pieces should serve a purpose proportionate to their weight and implications. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who thinks that a piece of trivia concerning character’s favorite ice-cream flavor demands more than a throwaway line. On the other hand, something like resorting to extreme actions for civil rights because of a history of child slavery is not on the same level as killing a dude for love and shouldn’t be dismissed just as quickly.

I am on my hands and knees begging the people who blindly love the show to understand that this is not good writing. There are such good stories out there that genuinely improve the craft or iterate on it in fascinating ways, stories that have rewarding setup and payoff, stories with intricate worldbuilding you could spend weeks teasing apart. Please, please engage critically with other media, particularly well-known media. I don’t mean well-known as in popular; I mean pieces of media that are widely regarded as seminal works or masterclasses in their fields. Read analyses of them. Read reviews. Understand why they work, and then understand why RWBY, the vast majority of the time, doesn’t.

If you’ve read this far, then please, enjoy this blurry photo of my cat when he was a kitten:

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