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Yellowjackets 2.07 Reactions

CW: Baby Death Discussion/Grief; Suicide Mentions/Attempts; Cannibalism; Cancer

I couldn’t make it thirty effing seconds into this episode without tearing up at these girls staring awake into the darkness, all shattered with grief. Taissa’s right next to Shauna. Of course she is. And Lottie’s right there too.

Oh, my God. She’s still holding the baby.

Her absolute silence. The way she refuses water. Her shrugging off every attempt that Tai makes to comfort her. My heart fucking aches for her.

And she has to bury that wrenchingly small bundle under rocks because the ground isn’t thawed enough for a proper burial. I wanna note here that it was so respectful of the show not to show the baby’s body. We didn’t have to see it to know how tiny and tragic that it was.

“It’s you and me against the whole world.” Goddammit. Because she died with the baby. Literally.

Oh??? A very muted version of the title song?

“I’m sorry, have you two joined a cult since we last saw you, or… / “We are an intentional community. / “What is the intention exactly?” KQQMKQOQJEDIDJSJDJ.

The fucking euphoria I feel at seeing all six adults together.

Nat admitting to the suicide attempt. Shauna’s horrified, “Oh, my God.” Taissa’s broken expression. They love her.

Tai, crying: “I really thought he was going to make it.” I’m so fucked up about these girls.

“But even if the baby made it… for a while… it wouldn’t change the fact that his mother is starving. We all are. I just think it’s time we woke up.” Heartbreaking and so correct. Heartbreaking because its correct.

“That doesn’t sound like you.” And it doesn’t. Van has always been a believer between her and Tai, and even in the group as a whole, but now she’s lost that faith.

“You helped me hear… see… sleep… and I would be dead without you. I need you, Van.” I’m so fucked up. Like, not even five minutes into this episode, I have teared up multiple times.

Natalie being all in for her girlfriend’s wellness remedies AMDMFJSNSNSN.

“All my rational instincts are just kind of, uh, screaming.” SNDNWND. Babygirl chooses self-care. <3 She needs it. She’s been doing hard work this season threatening to skin people and covering up murders.

BABY GOAT!!!

SHAUNA JUST IMMEDIATELY CONVINCED SHE HAS TO SACRIFICE THE GOAT. HELP ME

Bruce, the goat, ily. And it has not escaped my notice that the goat is a boy, and he’s brown, the same color as that horribly small bundle.

Ben is goddamn losing it. The hallucination of Paul is voicing Ben’s greatest insecurity—that he no longer has a place in the cabin. “It’s just time. We all love you, Ben.”

“Um, I would hate for my bladder to guide me into peeing in that thing.” NADIFNSNDNS. Misty’s reluctance to engage with therapies is notable.

LMAO @ HER SNEAKING AWAY. She said, “Nope. Ur not making me confront my deepest traumas today, bestie.”

Misty overhears the girls praising her, and it’s an echo of that moment before she smashes the black box.

MARI ACCUSING HER OF KILLING CRYSTAL. GIRL, MISTY IS GONNA MAKE SURE YOU’RE PITTED.

Misty putting on a performance about looking for “Crystal,” and here’s another parallel—some of Kristen’s last words to Misty were denigrating her for being a bad actor.

“It gave us what we wanted. Shauna lived.” And Lottie’s right here. When Mari prayed to the wilderness last week, she prayed for Shauna alone.

The shot of the girls and Travis holding hands is reminiscent of a team huddle up. 😭

HELP ME WKDNDNDNSND. The girls are, like, well, if she is dead, that, uh, doesn’t entirely suck for us. <3 (I’m sorry. I don’t know which one is Gen and which one is Melissa yet.)

But on a more serious note, this is an interesting beat because it shows that cannibalism in the cabin is not just a “trance-like survival tactic” anymore. It’s something that can be indirectly alluded to when everyone is fully aware of themselves. (We got an inkling of this earlier when Misty and Kristen were discussing Jackie bone broth.)

All that fucking blood. Shauna’s blood.

This Lottie and Tai conversation is so fascinating to me. They’re the two individuals who have had the most interaction with the supernatural—which makes them peers—but the ways they approach their abilities are drastically different. Embrace versus repression. And it’s something we see in their adult selves too.

Adult Tai actually going to Lottie for help about her sleepwalking.

“I need help.” Taissa Turner admitting this is so huge.

“She just doesn’t want to be suppressed. She’s still a part of you, Tai. She will always be a part of you.” Hhhhhhhhhghhhhhhhhhh.

Shauna nearly on the verge of crying in the woods, disassociating and lost.

SHE LOST HER GOAT.

SHAUNAMISTY RISE!!!!

Misty hoarding food is such a good detail. It makes sense after the woods.

“Why did I give one single shit about this goat when Lottie’s goons are just gonna make me kill him?” 😭 MY POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW IS SO CONVINCED THAT SHE HAS TO KILL THIS GOAT.

have you guys clocked that I’m insane about shauna yet

“Hey, newsflash. I am the only person who took your killing with the seriousness that it required.” YEAH, TELL HER, MISTY!! AND SHE DIDN’T EVEN LISTEN TO YOUR COOKIE ADVICE QOWKDJDNS

“Well, you’re not that innocent either.” / “I know that, Misty. Do you think I don’t know that?” Shauna utterly hates herself, but listen, yeah? They all fucking do. Each and every one of the Yellowjackets.

Shauna is mothering this goat.

“If you think I’m gonna carry you all day, you are delusional, as well as dumb.” ANWKQNDNESN, Melanie Lynskey, I fucking love you.

“I’m not gonna let them eat you, Kristen.” OH, I FUCKING LOVE THIS. YEAH. Sure, Misty may have 100% caused her death, lmao, but she’ll be damned if she lets Kristen be eaten. And I love that she calls Kristen by her real name too, keeping that knowledge alive, even within herself.

The contrast between Shauna/Jackie and Misty/Kristen is big here. Shauna desperately needing to consume Jackie and granting the others the permission to do so too vs. Misty actually kinda being normal for once about what is owed to a body.

Shauna is back in the Jackie shed, and she’s staring at the corner where her body used to be. OH, GOD. SHE’S CALLING OUT FOR JACKIE.

“Jackie, I really need you right now. Please?” SHE’S SO ALONE, AND LOSING THAT BABY IS TIED UP WITH LOSING JACKIE, AND I’M FUCKING UPSET. Those sobs are guttural.

And Jackie won’t come back and haunt her when Shauna calls. Goddamn.

“The kid’s care is entwined with your own.” That’s such a triggering phrase for Shauna and you can see it in her eyes.

“Because it is one thing if I stab this goat later, but there’s no fucking way that it’s dying while I’m supposed to be watching it. So someone is going to make sure this goat is okay. Right now.” She couldn’t save her baby in the woods, but goddamn, she can save this goat.

The tears in Shauna’s eyes as she talks to Lottie. This is all about motherhood to her. This entire season, from the past to the present, has been.

“I’m not gonna kill this fucking goat, okay? Fuck you!” EKWMDNEND

“Wait. Really? I really don’t?” The fucking break in her voice, all the spiraling cracks. Melanie Lynskey is making me cry over a GOAT.

“Oh, Bruce.” AND SHE SOBS.

“I find it gives a person clarity to have to care for something so innocent.” God, God, God, and Lottie knows the significance of that to Shauna specifically.

“I’m not crying about the goat. I don’t really know, um, what’s happening right now. Um, I think it’s just that I’ve always kept my daughter, you know, Callie, like, at arm’s length. I think just out of fear that she would… die, I guess. Or maybe that she was never even real to begin with. I don’t know. I try to tell myself it’s okay. That I’m safe to… to think of her as-as mine, you know, and to just be her mom. But I think something is broken, Lottie. I just can’t do it.”

I’m so fucking unwell about this. I think I’m gonna do a fuller write-up on this moment later, so for now, God, Melanie Fucking Lynskey. And also, that she has this breakdown to Lottie is powerful. In the past, she’s hated Lottie, hated her for trying to encroach on her baby, hated her for becoming their shaman, but here, she confides in her with this terrible pain about motherhood that she’s been keeping inside.

Ahhhh, just a little bit of self-promotion here, but in my Shauna + Callie fic, I was thinking a lot about Shauna’s relationship with motherhood: “But goodness has never come naturally to Shauna, and motherhood is a gaping wound that won’t ever stop bleeding. (A placenta on the dirty floor. So much red, streaming out of her, simply pouring. Don’t you hear him cry? Why can’t you hear him?)” And I think the crux of that, which holds true in this scene, is the fundamental idea that motherhood continually hurts Shauna, and it always goes back to those woods.

CALIGULA AWNIQOWJWKWKWIDJWJDJS.

“OF ANY MOTHERFUCKER WHO GETS IN YOUR WAY.”

THIS IS FUCKING SUBLIME.

GOD, THIS IS WKWKEJWNSJEJKEJD. HELP ME????

“Caligula, when people look at me, do they just see someone desperate for love? Just some murderer?” GOD, THESE TWO QUESTIONS PAIRED NEXT TO EACH OTHER. Desperate love and murder being synonymous with each other.

“How many times did you get the ball over the goal line? Take it from a bird named after a Roman emperor who was also unjustly accused of heinous acts.” SOBBING WKWKKSNWOQOWIEJD

“You are not a murderer, Misty!” HELP ME WOWKWKWKDJWIIEKDJSNSJDJDJD

MISTY’S SUBCONSCIOUS IS REALLY LIKE, “Haha, bestie. You’re soooooo well!! There’s nothing wrong with you at all!!”

Elijah Wood is having the time of his goddamn life aawkdjdjdnwj.

That was so fucking funny. I have no words.

MISTY, THIS VOICEMAIL DKWNDNEN. IT CAN BE TAKEN AS A MURDER CONFESSION.

The human manifestation of her bird named after a Roman emperor was so right. She. Is. Perfectly. Okay. <3

Misty can’t find Kristen’s fucking body. Hhhhh. It isn’t at the bottom of shit cliff anymore. 😭

God. Ben.

He’s been so isolated all season; he feels like that this is his way out.

“Could you just push me off?” So fucking fucked up, but it tracks with what has been going on in his psyche, as well as in the flashbacks with Paul. Ben’s defined by his emotional paralysis and fear. So he’s not acted and just accepted the consequences that come from that. And this is another way of doing that. If he jumps, that’s making an active decision, and that’s fundamentally not what this man does. But if Misty pushes him, it’s just another action that he’s the recipient of and not the doer.

“… if you kill yourself right now, we will eat you.” Jesus fucking Christ. She states it as a fact. It is a fact. The cabin has reached this point.

MISTY TRYING TO FUCKING BLACKMAIL HIM TO KEEP HIM ALIVE. GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD

“I tried so hard to keep the baby alive. I really did.” I’M SO FUCKING UPSET. THE SAME CLIFF WHERE KRISTEN DIED.

Oh, thank GOD, he stepped back. I could not handle losing Coach Ben today.

Tai taking off her wedding ring. Girl ANJQNDNQNWNDNWNSNWNW, you’re such a fail wife.

“I just can’t believe I’m back here again.” / “Making offerings to the dirt.” Man, the wedding ring as an offering.

TAIVAN KISS YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

But then they both pull back, Tai apologizing profusely.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

FUCK OFF SHOW NO

NOT MY VAN

NOT MY FUCKING CONSUMMATE SURVIVOR, WHO LIVED THROUGH A PLANE BURNING AND A WOLF ATTACK AND THE WILDERNESS.

I have actual goddamn tears running down my face again. What the fuck is wrong with this show

“Van, what are you telling me?” Van has told her every which way but directly. Taissa can’t accept it unless she hears it.

“I have… months.” I’m sick actually. I’m so sick.

“Jesus fucking Christ, Van. You’re just deciding to tell me now?” Taissa’s first reaction is anger. She lashes out, so goddamn terrified.

And between this and her breaking down to Van a few episodes ago, this is the most emotionally invested we’ve seen Taissa. Her life with Simone and Sammy aren’t real to her—as she’d explained to Shauna last season.

But this is real to her.

Van is real to her.

“This is what it wants—us to be together.” Yeah, me too, Lottie.

“We hurt each other. People died.” God, God, God. They hurt each other. They loved each other. They ate each other. They loved each other.

THE FUCKING ANTLER QUEEN. THIS IS SO FREAKY.

“Does a hunt that has no violence feed anyone?” OH MY FUCKING GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD??????

OH THE THERAPIST ISN’T FUCKING REAL

OH MY GOD

DOES A HUNT THAT HAS NO VIOLENCE FEED ANYONE???????

Van tapping Misty with the bottle. Misty’s being included in the girl circle 😭

TNENFNEND, Shauna taking a huge, ‘ole swig and Taissa smirking at her.

“From Van.” / “Oh, you narc.” AKKQWKJERN

Oh, God. The women are being utterly careless with Nat. Shauna telling her that they should just hang out. Van offering the bottle.

“I lost my goat, but I found him again.” MAQMQKKWKQJEJRNRNEJEJFIEEFEIE

FLORENCE FLORENCE FLORENCW

“I think you should all go home.” Lottie has realized that it’s dangerous that they’re together again.

And the women are like FUCK YOU!! WE BELONG TOGETHER. I LOVE THESE WOMEN

Every time I look at Van now, I wanna cry.

“I think it might be time for you to stop resisting.” This line just made it into 20 new fanfics. <33

LOOK AT MY FAIL WOMEN BEING HAPPY. I KNOW IT’S NOT GONNA END WELL, BUT THEY ALL LOVE EACH OTHER SM. THEY’RE HOME.

THIS FLORENCE SONG.

THEY’RE FREE.

LOTTIENAT GODDAMN CHEEK KISS.

Now they’re having girl talk. 😭

“Does he know?” AAaWjejfuwjjwsj

“He doesn’t have a job, job. He’s dedicated to his passionate pursuit of knowledge.” / “Nice, so where does he go to prison?” ANqKQKWIWWOWJDJS. Van and Tai making little asshole asides is so good, lmao. They do that in the cabin too.

“Well, he wasn’t goth when we fucked.” HELP MEEEEEEEEE. HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

“Was she watching some parts?” WKNWWNQKMWDNWJNEND

I could watch 60 minutes of these women talking like this, lovingly taking the piss out of each other and ignoring all their extensive trauma. <3

Most of the women don’t want to revisit the woods. It’s too hard of a wound for them.

… all of the girls having hazy memories. They know they’ve fucked up; it’s harrowing that they don’t remember the specifics of how.

“Well, if I’m, um repressing things I don’t know about, I am very okay with never figuring it out.” Jesus fucking Christ, that delivery was so sad.

“I mean, compulsive behavior, addiction, disease.” And Van stands up and walks away. She’s more than familiar with what Lottie is saying.

LOTTIE CALLING NAT MADAMMMMMM!!!!!

“Lightning crashes, a new mother cries…” GOD, WHAT A LINE.

VANSHAUNA DANCING!!!

SHAUNA IS FUCKING WEARING JACKIE’S BUTTERFLY SHIRT. I’M SICK. THAT IS SO SICK.

SHAUNA THROWING A PUNCH.

THE GIRLS EXCITED AT SNOW.

“YOU KILLED MY FUCKING BABY.” / GOD GOD GOD.

AND IT’S LIKE, YOU HAVE TO PAIR THAT WITH MISTY’S BREAKDOWN WITH BEN. SHE TRIED EVERYTHING TO SAVE THAT BABY.

“You all fucking ate my baby!” / Shauna can no longer discern reality from a dream. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK.

LOTTIE STEPPING IN.

LETTING HERSELF BE THE MARTYR.

THE WOMEN HOWLING. THEY’RE PRIMAL. THEY’RE A PACK. THEY’RE WILD. THEY’RE TOGETHER.

“Travis, take Javi to the bedroom.” 😭😭😭😭😭

LETTING HERSELF BE THE WILLING MARTYR.

“Shauna, we need you. Let it out.” MY FUCKING GOD

IT GOES BACK TO THE STEEL MAGNOLIA MONOLOGUE. SHAUNA WANTS TO MAKE SOMEONE FEEL AS BAD AS SHE DOES.

ALL THE GIRLS JUST FUCKING STANDING THERE AND LETTING IT HAPPEN. THEY WON’T INTERFERE. THIS IS RITUAL VIOLENCE.

THE CUTS BETWEEN THE WOMEN BEING SO HAPPY AND THIS SCENE.

LOTTIENAT HOMOEROTIC DANCING.

LOTTIESHAUNA DANCING TOGETHER IN THE PRESENT, AND SHAUNA JUST FUCKING KILLING HER IN THE PAST!!!

LOTTIE IS BARELY RECOGNIZABLE

LOTTIE SHAUNA ADULT HUG. I CAN’T I CAN’T I CAN’T

“Is Callie okay?” Shauna’s immediate goddamn fear when she hears urgent is that her daughter is hurt.

THE FUCKING TORSO.

GODDAMN IT. YES THE TORSO WAS IMPORTANT

MORE FLORENCE YEAH!!

THAT PROMO. WHAT THE FUCK

MARI BACKING AWAY IN FEAR?????

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #s: yellowjackets #it’s 5am whatever #I’M ALIVE and UNWELL #maggie blogs

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onyxolay · 11 months

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Archie meets Kritten part 6: Confession, aggression and depression

“You heard me.” Kritten said confidently; on the inside he was nervous as all get out. He wasn’t sure how Archie would take this, in the moment he looked pretty shocked. “It’s why I love you so much Archie! We’re one in the same practically, may not be physically but you’ve done more for me than anyone ever has..! So yeah, I love you a lot Archie, so do you understand?” Archie was shocked, blushing, stunned, he didn’t know what to think or say. He feared for a second that he would misinterpret Krittens words and ruin the whole friendship they had together.

“I-I believe so, I mean- are you saying what I think you are? T-that.. you have.. feelings for me?” Kritten blushed and sighed, he hugged Archie and looked into his eyes… “yes, I do. If you don’t have feelings and/or don’t wanna date me that’s completely okay.” Archie blushed even more, “I-I-“ “what’s the matter? Are you alright?” Asked Kritten. “I-I just-“ Archie attempted a reply, he had been so good with words before so why weren’t they working now? As Archie tried to find a reply Kritten quickly kissed him. “Please speak Archie are you okay?”

“Y- yeah I’m okay.. I just..I love you to my love and I’d love to date you, I just…my last relationship ended so poorly and plus there’s a bunch of drama going on with Thord- I wasn’t sure weather or not to except Becuase I don’t want you hurt In the midst of all of this! Trust me when I say that me and Thords rivalry goes farther beyond me being a cruel king.. beyond our fiascos at the mansion… He has hurt everyone who I have ever loved and cared about and I don’t want you hurt in the process!” Kritten could have screamed with happiness. Kritten pounced on the illager, hugging song kissing him. They also felt immensely bad though, they hated that Archie had to worry like that…

“Don’t worry about me getting into trouble love! I got you with me and we have Ollie as well to protect us! And I am so so sorry about Thord dear.. i wan promise I will do everyone I can to make sure he doesn’t hurt our little family we got goin here!” Kritten smiled and Archie held them their, letting them savor and enjoy the moment. “So..are we together now?” Kristen nodded and kissed his forehead, it was now Archies turn to scream in happiness. Kritten just chuckled as they load there cuddling for bit. “Hey love.” “Yes beautiful~?” “Haha-! Wanna go out and look at the stars??” “Sure!”

Meanwhile with Ollie, the kid was roaming around in the woods just trynna find resources and make randum things for the sake of kicks. He was doing just fine until he felt some strong hands hold him by his waist and pull him down into a cave. “What the hell are you doing in my territory?!?” Ollie looked shocked at what he saw, it was Thord… All healed up and with a glimmer in his eyes that exposed his blood lust like nothing else. “Thord-! Why the hell are YOU here?” “I was just walking around when I found you walking here! In MY territory!” “And what’s makes this YOUR territory?” “Because I said so!” Ollie face palmed. “Bitch that’s not a valid excuse!” Thord smirked evily and chuckled, he looked into the fourteen year olds eyes and it creeped Ollie out. “HA! No wonder your parents kicked out! Hell, I’d go as far as to say that you deserved it!” Ollie was shocked, how did Thord know this? Did he know why he was kicked out too? Thord said to the boy: “I did some..research on you Ollie… you see.. I know why your parents kicked you out~! It because you are a freak! They lived you out Becuase you’re transgender, honestly I don’t blame them! I wouldn’t want a daughter like that either!” Ollie yelled with tears rolling down his face: “IM A BOY! AND HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL OF THAT?!” Thord rolled his eyes. “Don’t pretend you’re a boy little girl, I can see your tits right there; and I figured out by asking around! And besides… I know Wayyy more on you than you think I do… I know everything, form your being trans, to what you did with your cousin, all the way down to this…” Thord held up a diary of Ollie’s, the things in that diary would haunt Ollie forever so he tried to hide it… It that diary was written down some of his strongest emotions, his most disgusting Fantasies and even worse… Ollie was now crying, Thord didn’t care and laughed in his face. He taunted him with more transphobic and demeaning comments until Ollie couldn’t take it anymore and punched him, taking the opportunity to run away…

TW: Underage drinking

Ollie eventually makes it to Archie and Krittens house, but he doesn’t go there… He goes to HIS house, the nearly abandoned home in a rough country side neighborhood that he didn’t know how it was still standing at this point. The house was painted white and had green trimmings, but the paint was chipping and washing off every time it rained… The young boy walked into the house and went into his messy bedroom. He flipped on the bed and cried there for over and hour, he went into the Kitchen and took some Vodka out of the fridge that he somehow managed to steal form a shop in the city. How he manages to get away with stealing he’ll never know; he just hoped Archie didn’t come looking for him and saw him drinking, Archie would be pissed he saw this…

Ollie took a few swigs off the vodka and sat at the table sitting his Vodka down in the process. He took that moment to think, really think about what the fuck just happened back there… All he could think was: “if Thord knew about all of that… how much else did he know? Was he stalking Ollie right now as he spoke? Does he know where he live?! Ollie’s train of thought was interrupted when a knock on the door filled his ears. Ollie put the Vodka back in the fridge and looked through the peep hole, it was his villager friend Joseph. He opens the door… “Hey J…” “Hey Ollie! Damn you look wrecked tonight what the hell happened?” Ollie sighed and told Joseph to come inside… He explained his dilemma earlier with Thord and what he told him etc etc. Joseph was shocked and gave him a hug and some encouragement before leaving…

When Joseph left Ollie went to bed, he hoped that one day his life would be better… That one day he wouldn’t have to deal with all of the monsters that crowded his life, metal illness, having to steal to live, being a bitch to people for no reason when he’s upset, being a fourteen year old in an abandoned home he knows he can’t fix, and will someday soon loose forever… The next morning he woke up and fixed breakfast like usual. He made himself some fired eggs and had a glass of milk to go with it, he smiled while eating but then his intrusive thoughts started to kick in and it made him extremely uncomfortable. As Ollie ate he thought about what would happen if he lost this house, he would be homeless that’s for sure, and he was pretty sure Archie would be more than happy to take him in. The problem though was that Ollie didn’t wanna burden Archie with having to look after him, even if Archie really didn’t mind doing so. Ollie wanted to make his life better, but all of the doors have been locked for a very long time and Ollie wasn’t sure if they were gonna open up… All Ollie could do right now hope… Hope for a better life, and hope for a way out of this hell hole…

@multifandomidiot01 sorry I haven’t posted earlier, had an event. Everyone enjoy this cute but depression filled chapter

#minecraft #good stuff #minecraft au #archie #au #minecraft dungeons #lucasolay #cute #rise of the arch illager #arch illager #illager #minecraft illager #minecraft legends #piglin #conffesion #trauma #traumatic childhood #abandoned #abandoned house

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daysofourlivesrecaps · 10 months

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Susan Banks (the cat)

I see that I’ve picked up a couple of actual followers — which is honestly a development that I never expected. Sorry that you just happen to have jumped on when I decided to hit pause on these for a couple of weeks. (I will be resuming soon though, I promise!) In the meantime, let me regale you with the cute story of our very cute cat, whom we named after a not-especially-cute Days of Our Lives character. This is Susan Banks.

She looks like this (and this picture doesn’t really do justice to her crazy novelty teeth) and speaks in the most comedically broad southern accent you’ve ever heard. Despite being EJ DiMera’s mother (the E is for Elvis!) and having a couple of other fairly grounded connections to fairly serious characters, she really gives the overwhelming impression of being a sort of throwaway joke. Because, in addition to the accent and the teeth, she’s a psychic. Mind you, this is the show that became infamous for its devil possession storyline in the mid-90s. So much so that they revisited that storyline with many of the same characters in 2021-22. Which gave Susan, despite her strong “12:50 sketch on SNL” energy, something to do in the story. So she was around a lot when I first started watching. Side note: Susan has always been played by the same performer who plays Kristen DiMera. That used to be Eileen Davidson, and is currently Stacy Haiduk.

When Stacy assumed both roles, she reportedly sat herself down in the makeup chair next to the guy who plays EJ and said “I’ll be playing your sister and your mother.” Which absolutely delights me.

So. Yeah. When the Devil came back to Salem for another crack at Dr. Marlena Evans’ immortal soul, Susan Banks caught on pretty quickly, being, as she was, a psychic. So Satan, using his Satan powers, sidelined her by transforming her into a small cat. No, seriously.

The incident in question only lasted about one episode, but Susan managed to bring it up regularly for months afterwards. You know that ol’ devil, she’d say in that hilariously awful accent, he turnt me into a li’l kittycat! This became one of those things we’d repeat from time to time in our household. (Don’t pretend you don’t have things like that in yours.)

Last December, they killed off Susan Banks. Well. Maybe. We never actually saw her body and I’ve read enough comic books to know what that means. But she was in a car that plummeted off a cliff and I’m almost certain the stock footage they used to depict this was the same footage they frequently used in Toonces, The Cat That Could Drive a Car sketches.

Also last December, we adopted this tiny kitten.

(Not pictured: the fact that she’s missing one of her back legs. I completely forget this most of the time, but you might notice it in subsequent pictures and wonder what’s going on. So I’m telling you: it’s that. She has three legs.)

It did not take us long to determine that, even though she wasn’t the same kind of li’l kittycat, Susan Banks was the perfect name for this little fellow. It would also be an excellent tribute to the now-definitely-for-sure-dead character from Our Stories.

Here are a couple of us together.

And here she is with the dumb picture of Stefano DiMera we put in our living room.

Sadly, we snapped that picture a few seconds too late, because she actually had per paw up on it briefly. Almost like she knew. (She doesn’t. She’s a cat.)

#Days of Our Lives #DOOL #soap opera #Peacock

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a-reader-and-a-writer-for-all · 2 years

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A Kiss with No Feeling (Takeshi Kovacs Drabble)

Fandom: Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs

Word Count: 906

TW: Heartbreak, Loss, Abandoned

Notes: Some slight spoilers for the end of Season 1 of Altered Carbon

Most people avoided AI hotels anymore because of their bad reputation of obsessive hosts. Yet, since you had been staying at The Raven Hotel for the past few weeks, you had come to love everything about it. The atmosphere, the decor, the coziness, and of course, Poe. The AI had become a very close friend during your stay. But of course, the biggest draw was the man you shared your room with. Tak had taken some time to warm up to, but once you did, he had become your whole heart. And it seemed as if he felt the same about you.

However, since the moment Poe had been destabilized and reduced to a pile of nanodust, the hotel felt lonely. Empty. Like it had lost its soul, which, in a way, you guess it had. This place that had once felt like a home had now turned into a tomb. But as much as you wanted to leave, you knew that this would be the first place Tak would look for you. It had been three days since Head in the Clouds had fallen and there was still no word from him. The Elliots had stopped by to tell you everything that had happened: Tak had gone down with the satellite, and no one had heard from him since.

But you refused to believe he was really gone for good. Takeshi Kovacs was the strongest, most capable man you had ever met and if anyone could survive something like this, he could. So, you remained at the hotel, just waiting for him to come back for you.

And finally, finally, your patience pays off. As you are straightening up in the lobby, you look out the front windows to see the familiar form of the man you love walking toward the hotel. Your heart leaps in your chest as you struggle to believe your eyes.

“Tak!” The second he steps through the door, you are in his arms. You reach up and frantically pull his lips down to yours, your body surging into his. But it takes only seconds to realize something is wrong. He is stiff, almost tense under your touch, and as you continue to kiss him, you realize there is nothing behind his lips. No heat. No tenderness. Nothing.

Pulling back, you gaze up at him questioningly. The face that stares back is the one you have come to love over the past few weeks, the one you had begun to call yours. Yet there is something missing in his eyes as he stares at you and it finally hits you.

“Ryker.” The name isn’t much more than a whisper on your lips.

The man nods slightly. “I’m sorry. I know I’m not who you were expecting.”

You stumble back away from this stranger with the face of the man you love. Although, you guess the face had always belonged to Ryker. Tak had been the stranger behind it.

“Is he dead? Like, RD’d?” The idea that Tak could be gone for good, not just sleeve dead, but real dead, stack blown to pieces, created an intense ache in your chest.

But Ryker just shakes his head. “No. He gave up my sleeve so I could come back to Kristen. They resleeved him in someone else but he was gone before I was spun back up. However, he left instructions for me to find you here and to give you this.” He pulls out an ONI chip and drops it into your hand.

Carefully, you take it from him, place it into the ONI reader on your wrist, and hit play. The voice that began speaking in your head was 100% Tak. Even though it sounded almost identical to the man who now stood before you, you can hear the subtle differences. The slightly more intense, gruff tone in Tak’s voice, the love and pain that rippled through his words.

I’m sorry it has to be this way but I’m not coming back. I’m not going to get you killed because I’m too selfish to let you go. We both knew this was doomed from the start and maybe that’s why I clung to you so tightly. Doomed relationships just seem to be my fate. He chuckles mirthlessly. But it doesn’t have to be yours. Go. Live your life. Find someone who brings you happiness and light not just darkness and pain. You deserve that and so much more. So, thank you for everything that you did for me, all that you gave me. And while I will remember you until the end, I hope you can forget me and move on.”

As the message ends, you realize tears have begun streaming down your face. Ryker shifts uncomfortably as he glances around the room, focusing anywhere but on you. He might not have been able to hear the message, but you assume he has a pretty good idea of what it had said. “Can I… do anything for you? Help you in any way?”

You sniffle softly as you wipe your hand across your face. “Do you think you could drop me off at my friends’ place? The Elliots? They live over in Bridgetown.”

Ta-Ryker smiles softly. “No problem. But are you sure you want to leave this place?”

You take one last look around the hotel that had held your everything only days ago. “Yes. There’s nothing left for me here.”

#sfw repost #drabble #takeshi kovacs drabble #takeshi kovacs #takeshi kovacs x reader #elias ryker #altered carbon #joel kinnaman #heartbreak tw #loss tw #abandoned tw

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laurenceslife · 1 year

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Chapter 31

Next morning, Kristen was the one who felt unwell, so neither of them had breakfast, and the girl didn't dare to travel by bus, so she didn’t go to the set with Larry. He was traveling next to Martin like he used to.

- Haven't you realized that Kristen's nauseated more times than you? - the man asked on the bus after the boy had told him why his girlfriend wasn't coming then.

- Yes, I have - the boy said with pity in his voice, staring into the air.

- What do you think, by what can it be?

- I don't know. While she already hardly eats. I have no idea what to do - Larry said bitterly.

- Oh, if she hardly eats, then...

- Why, what did you think, what could be her trouble? - the boy asked, frightened.

- Oh, nothing but that she has to raise a child being a kid, beside school and without a husband! - Martin's voice was indignant - Or she has to have him or her killed by a doctor, but maybe even this would be better than if a druggy mother was bearing a child! - then he switched into a sober and low voice - Although pregnant women rather eat much than little... - he reflected.

- The reason why she eats little is that she's afraid she'll be taken ill... - Larry reflected, too - But she surely didn't get pregnant after one occasion! - he continued indignantly and angrily, looking at his friend and knitting his brows - You're saying it again so I’m a Catholic, too!

- I’ve never told you to convert to my religion, and anyway, I've told you that I think she's still not pregnant! - the man said angrily, too.

During some minutes, they weren't talking to each other, then the boy began to speak:

- Sorry, I didn't wanna have a quarrel with you over it again. It can be hard that your kids don't wanna live on the score of your religion, you still haven't tried to convert me instead of them. You’re the only adult here who doesn't treat me like a kid.

- Thanks - the man said when they had arrived in the jungle and gotten off the bus.

- I was also thinking about something else, and maybe you were still right. Maybe Kristen’s still pregnant – the boy said restlessly.

- I don’t think it likely since you two only once didn’t use contraceptives and she hardly eats, but she still should see a doctor.

- OK – Larry sighed still tensely.

During filming, sometimes he was terrified that Kristen was pregnant, and sometimes he was terrified of the reason why she felt so unwell, was because the drug had already so much ruined her organism that she became very ill by it.

For a while, he couldn’t be concentrating on his scenes so his scenes were needed to be shot a lot of times, and Francis was yelling at him of course, and threatened with suicide again; later, that solution came into Larry’s head that he would be sympathizing by playing to flee from reality that his girlfriend was either pregnant or death-sick, and this idea was working.

After filming, when they had started back to the hotel, he was overcome by the terror again, and then he was considering how to tell the girl what came into Martin’s and his head, so she would see a doctor.

- How are you feeling? – he asked Kristen as soon as he had arrived in her suite. He went there as soon as they arrived at the hotel.

- I’m feeling much better. I was only feeling unwell in the morning – the girl said cheerfully – And I’m feeling good especially now, that you’re already here! – she embraced her companion’s neck.

- In the morning, were you also having a headache or were you only nauseated? – Larry’s voice and look were frightened.

- Why? – Kristen asked, frightened and wonderingly by it.

- You feel unwell more often than me. Maybe something else is also wrong with you – he began walking up and down in the room.

- Is it possible that I got and I have to use such a harmful drug that I already fell ill by it? – the girl asked, frightened but in a low voice.

- You’ve got to go to a doctor.

They spoke to Kristen’s parents, and the next day, the girl went there with them and Larry.

- Maybe I’ve got to speed the detoxification up or to immediately stop using drug not to be even more ill, and I‘ll still have a lasting illness – Kristen said in terror during holding each other’s hands with the boy and going to the doctor’s office what wasn’t far anymore - And if I speed the detoxification up or immediately stop using drug, I feel even more unwell!

- It’s not necessary to think about the worst possibility – Lauren said – Probably you realized the illness in time yet, and you won’t have any lasting illness.

- I hope you learned for a lifetime not to let your drink without your or one of your friends’ watch in any party – Jacob said in a strict voice – If it’s necessary to speed the detoxification up or to immediately stop using that narcotic, at least you already surely learn it for a lifetime – he continued furiously.

- Couldn’t you talk to her in a normal voice at least now?! – Larry began to speak angrily – Besides, we agreed that you would get off us with your paroxysms while the detoxification is lasting. And who said that the drug was what caused him to fall ill?!

- That’s also possible that she’s not even ill, just that drug which she takes, causes withdrawal symptoms more often in case of detoxification because it causes bigger addiction than what you smoke!

- And if it causes bigger addiction, isn’t it necessary to speed the detoxification up? – Kristen asked, being afraid.

There wasn’t time to answer it because they had arrived at the waiting room, where they didn’t want to talk about it before strangers.

- I’m feeling unwell! - the girl said, still frightened, as soon as they had sat down.

- We’ll go out, speak when it’s her turn - the boy stood up; Kristen too, immediately after it.

- OK - Lauren said in a low voice, and Larry and the girl left.

- Maybe we came here in vain, and you’re not even ill – the boy said, fondling the girl’s face as soon as they had been out, and then kissed her.

- OK – Kristen said, and they began kissing. They didn’t even dare to stop it until the girl was called in, so she wouldn't begin thinking and wouldn't be restless, and wouldn't feel unwell again.

But when she was called in, Larry and she were scared to death again.

The girl went into the office, and the boy sat back in his place and was waiting, leaning his head on his hands and watching the floor.

- She’s surely not even ill - the woman tried to repose herself, her husband and Larry with a laugh, but worry was heard in her voice.

- That’s possible - the man said furiously, looking at the boy - But maybe she’s pregnant, and by that, all of us will have a big problem.

- So what? We will also have a big problem if she’s very ill! - Larry answered, looking at Jacob furiously, too.

- Leave the poor boy alone now, he’s as much keeping his fingers crossed for her as we are! - Lauren said.

- But if she’s pregnant, that’s his fault! - the man raged.

- Like it’s Kristen’s fault, too! - his wife said emphatically - And who said she’s pregnant? It’s also possible that it's an illness. Probably she didn’t get pregnant after one occasion. You’ll begin to rage when it comes out that she’s still pregnant! At least till then keep to your agreement that nowadays, you normally speak to them! Or do you want them not to be able to bear the withdrawal symptoms besides they would also have to endure you, do you want them to stop the detoxification? - she spoke the last sentence into his ear.

- If she’s pregnant, maybe an abortion should be done because Kristen uses a drug so it would be very possible that the child would die, anyway, or at least he or she would be very ill! - Jacob spoke into his wife’s ear furiously - Or she would immediately have to stop using the drug, and there’s no much chance of her succeeding in doing that!

- Maybe she also immediately has to stop using the drug if what causes her frequent nausea is that she fell ill by that!

When the examination had come to end, Kristen came out of the office in a state of shock.

- The doctor didn’t find any sign that would suggest illness, so he said to me to go to the gynecology ’cause probably I was pregnant - she said, bursting into tears as soon as she dropped to the chair like she immediately fainted.

For a few seconds, none of them couldn’t begin to speak.

- It doesn’t matter; at least you’re not ill - her mother tried to sooth her, hugging her.

Larry had still been watching the wall with a wide mouth, startled.

Jacob furiously dashed away, and slammed the door after himself.

- I’m unwell - the girl said, and stood up from the chair, but then fainted.

The boy was taken ill, too, he hurried out of the building, and was holding his head, leaning against the wall.

If Kristen was really pregnant, maybe Jacob would forbid them to meet with each other - he thought - Moreover, maybe he would do it already now. They could only trust in Lauren’s logical way of thinking that they needed each other to do the detoxification till the end together. But she might be so much shocked for a while, too, that she would forbid them to meet, too.

He was gasping, leaning against the wall for minutes, and then the woman and Kristen had appeared.

- Are you OK now? - he asked the girl.

- I’m a bit better - Kristen said but it was visible that she had still been unwell.

- Only the fright caused the swoon - Lauren said.

- Dad went back to the quarters? - her daughter asked slowly because of the nausea.

- I think so - the boy said.

- So good that you didn't leave! - Kristen said, hugging Larry, and kissed him. They began kissing, embracing each other, and during it, Lauren was considering if Jacob would forbid them to meet with each other already. The woman thought if the girl was pregnant, then they would need each other even more to also bear this quite a blow together with the withdrawal symptoms.

Next day, Larry didn’t speak to anybody about what happened, but only to Dennis. He didn’t want to tell it to Martin and Emilio because maybe Martin would say that he told what can happen if one sleeps with someone before marriage, and he didn’t need it. He didn’t want to tell it to his parents either because they only would have told him off well. He didn’t need to call Bruce or Zac to tell them either after he had already had a heart-to-heart talk about that thing with Dennis, and anyway, he thought the less people knew about that, the less chance of his parents hearing about it.

- Till when do you wanna hide it from the others? – Dennis asked on the bus, after filming, while going to the quarters.

- Until it’s sure that Kristen’s really pregnant – the boy said – Till then, only an unnecessary quarrel would be caused by that. Maybe her organism is weaker than mine, and that’s why she more often feels unwell from the withdrawal symptoms, or her drug causes more frequent withdrawal symptoms – he tried to calm himself too.

- And what if she told the doctor that she used a drug? Maybe then he wouldn’t have said that she’s probably pregnant.

- But she surely told him that she felt unwell more often than one of her friends who used a drug, too.

- Then do you think just her organism is weaker or her drug causes bigger addiction?

- I don’t know but these are possible, too – Larry sighed, watching the ground.

- Let’s cherish the hope that either of them are true. But what if Kristen’s told about that to your parents ‘cause she thinks you had already told them?

- It’s not probable but I’ll still ask her about it – the boy set off for her suite, nauseated, when they had arrived at the hotel already.

He ran into her in the corridor.

- You’re not going to my parents, are you?! – Larry asked, frightened and restlessly.

- No, I set off for your suite ‘cause I knew that you were gonna arrive about now, and I couldn’t be waiting anymore – the girl said restlessly, too.

- So that’s OK – the boy said with relief. He immediately kissed her, they began kissing, and during it, he was rummaging among Kristen's hair who embraced him, and Larry was already completely well. After that, they went on together to the boy’s suite, and in the living room, they met Hattie.

- It just came into my head that we really should tell your mom too – the girl began to speak when she noticed the woman.

Larry and Hattie looked at her, frightened and startled.

- I’ve been at the gynecology today – Kristen immediately set about it, very seriously.

By the shock, the boy’s feet weakened so much that he flopped down to the armchair.

From it, his mother also already knew what the girl wanted to say, so she semi-consciously sat down on the sofa, too.

- I already understand why you were hurrying to my suite so restlessly – Larry said, still in a state of shock, watching the ground, and pressing his aching head with one hand.

- I immediately and completely have to stop using the drug – the girl said in a barely audible voice.

- So you keep the baby – Hattie began to speak, staring into space, being scared to death.

What came into the boy’s head, wasn’t anymore that Kristen’s parents may forbid them to meet with each other, but that came into his head that he would be a father at sixteen.

Someone knocked on the door.

The woman answered it. And what was after it, so big conflict had never been between the two adults since their children had been dating. The man was yelling at Larry too, who was only brokenly listening to him. He was right about everything.

This night, Larry and Hattie were only sleeplessly waiting for the morning all night. The boy was considering whether it would have been better to tell his mother what happened, but he couldn’t know that she would get to know it that way. For most of the night, what he was suffering from was that he was forbidden to meet with Kristen and that it seemed like nothing would bring the girl back into his life anymore.

Hattie was still startled, she was watching the ceiling, laying in her bed. She didn’t want to believe what happened – And what he committed to that girl! – she thought – But how dared her father speak to Larry like that while it was Kristen’s fault, too?!

- Laurence, say that what Kristen said yesterday, isn’t true – she began to speak the next day, while having breakfast, and she was only shuffling the omelet on the plate.

- What to say now? – Larry was only watching the food that was in front of him.

- Say that you didn’t get that little girl pregnant – she continued in a begging way.

- And say that her parents didn’t forbid her to meet with me! That they don’t watch all her steps to know if she meets with me! Will it be better by it?! – the tension emerged from the boy passionately – We’ll pay the child-support payment. We can do nothing more – he cooled down but was still destroyed.

- Well, if this is what she wants… - Hattie sighed – But I think it would be better if she had an abortion. Although still she knows it… Doesn’t matter how she would decide, it won’t be up to your reputation too much if it leaks out – she lamented.

- Mom, I just lost my love! To you, always only my career and fame are important! – Larry stood up from the chair furiously.

- You’re right; I came here with you to be next to you and so you could always depend on me, and it’s gonna be this way in the future too – she also stood up, and hugged him - After a while, Kristen’s parents are gonna admit that the detoxification isn’t going without you, so they are also gonna want you two to do it till the end together, as a couple.

- But then it already might be late, she might stop the detoxification by that time, and for the third time, she won’t be able to start it again with me either anymore, especially this way, that because of the baby, she immediately and completely has to stop using drug – the boy said, frightened – Talk to them before it’s late!

- You’re right; they surely wanna travel home or they have already started, and they don’t listen to you. It’s the best if I talk to them already now – Hattie said restlessly, and had already set off in haste.

When she knocked on the door of the suite, Jacob answered the door, and the suitcases were already there in the living room.

- You still have the cheek to come here?! We’re gonna go away from here today; there’s nothing for us here, near your son anymore! – he raged.

- And what do you think, till when will Kristen bear the withdrawal symptoms and the morning nausea without Laurence? – Hattie asked a lot less furiously.

- Here everything reminds her of him. At home, she’ll nicely recover – the man continued in his own tone, just in a lower voice.

- And what’s gonna compensate for her suffering that’s gonna be much more powerful by completely withdrawing her from the drug?! I believe her hobby is swimming, which she can’t do till she gives birth.

Then Lauren came up there, too.

- You’re right, but as soon as the detoxification comes to an end, we go home to America and we don’t let Kristen meet with your son, neither when the filming comes to an end – she said stiffly.

- And if he appears at our house, we call the police – the man continued furiously.

- And you lie that he committed something?! – Kristen appeared, too, being freaked out.

- We tell the police that he uses drugs.

- But then he’s not gonna do that anymore! – the girl continued, crying.

- Once, he started it already, by his own decision, not like you - her mother said – You can never tell it about such people like him.

- If you two forbid me to meet with him, the detoxification won’t work if we know that when it comes to an end, you two part us!

- She’s right – Hattie said – You will cause an even opposite achievement; the children won’t want to stop using the drugs exactly because of that, so they won’t make enough effort for it because they know that then they lose each other.

Lauren was reflecting.

- So be it – she sighed.

- But then you and Laurence’s father also help us in looking after and raising the child – Jacob said strictly.

- That’s OK – Hattie said, and Kristen was already running to Larry – I think you two only said these for Kristen’s sake, and in secret, your aim is to part her from her love when her withdrawal symptoms wear off – she said after the girl had left.

- You’re right – the other woman said firmly.

- And you two don’t care if you two can also kill my son by it – Hattie’s voice was furious – If you two don’t wait until he stops using, too, he won’t have enough strength of mind to do the detoxification till the end, either.

- That’s his problem; he did it to himself. He shouldn’t have started using drugs – the man said.

- What do you think, still which man’s worse: who’s so broken down that only drugs can help him and forgets to use contraceptives, or who sends someone into death? – Hattie asked furiously.

- You’re really good at quibbling! – Lauren was indignant.

- Besides, using contraceptives could come into your daughter’s head too.

- When he blitzed her with his sudden inspiration?! – the man continued furiously, too.

- If it was a sudden inspiration, then he had as much time to think as she had.

- OK, we’ll wait until both of them stop using, but after that, we are through with you guys! – the other woman said.

#laurence fishburne #francis ford coppola #martin sheen #emilio estevez #dennis hopper

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k3rm1e · 3 years

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cuddling headcanons! ★~(◡﹏◕✿)

this is more of a test thing to see if i like writing this way and if this blog does well

other imagines and headcanons won't include everyone i write unless it is specifically requested and is a prompt i really like

includes: wilbur nihachu karljacobs quackity dream georgenotfound sapnap p!tommyinnnit p!badboyhalo p!skeppy p!eret p!philza p!tubbo p!ranboo

cw: cursing

wilbur:

wilbur is a very cuddle-y guy

to me he seems very soft

i always see people saying he would like spooning, but i disagree

i feel like he would do more of a half-spooning thing with his head on your chest or the other way around

mans would DEFINITELY make you run your fingers through his hair

i feel like he would lay on your chest and just *nuzzle* into the space between your shoulder and neck

anytime you tried to leave him, whether it was because he had to do something or you had to, he would whine. so. fucking. much.

It would probably always go something like:

you - i need to piss

wilbur - no <3

but the moment he decides its time to stop cuddling its fine

and if you complain that you’re gonna miss him he’ll just call you clingy and tease you

like??? sir???

all in good fun though, no bad intentions :)

nihachu:

i feel like you and niki would face each other

with your head like under her chin and in her chest (this is a bad description but look at the “honeymoon hug” on the list for better explanation ;-;)

she would always want to protect you

so she does that by like almost guarding you and keeping you close

niki would definitely do the arm thing where she just lightly moves her hand up and down you arm

i’m so sorry if you don't understand that, it just feels like something she would do

if you haven't experienced that it kinda sorta feels like spiders??? but in a good way???

but generally she is very protective

she just holds you so close the whole time

even if she doesn’t want to let you go, she’s more understanding about it

she would be upset but wouldn’t show it because she doesn’t want to make you feel guilty

niki is generally just an amazing cuddle-r (is that a word?) and has a super comforting presence

karljacobs:

karl would definitely keep your head on his chest

the whole time he would just absolutely squeeze the life out of you

he would constantly bend his neck down to kiss your head

and instead of just like leaving his head down so he could kiss you it would just be:

*inner monologue karl* hmmm i wanna kiss them on their head

and he would lean down to do so which, cute

but then five seconds later he would do it again

and again another five seconds later

and again

very cute karl but please sir, your neck is gonna be so messed up after this

when you had to leave he would be upset, but like niki, would try not to show it

except karl is very bad at that and his pouting would be so obvious

so you would feel guilty and layback down with him

immediately he just becomes (●´ω｀●)

like a happy little puppy

karl is just too adorable for you to deny

quackity:

now we all know this, quackity is a huge dork

which is why i believe he would DEFINITELY use your butt as a pillow

not even in a weird way

i just feel like quackity isn’t too comfortable with touch so this is sorta his way of being close to you without it being a whole serious thing

like he still is able to be goofy and comfortable without it being a whole big thing

him doing this would almost always come with a flatty patty joke from you

which always causes him to threaten divorce, even though you aren’t married

while it isn’t a very good position for things like physical touch, it is good for talking and having conversations

for some reason i feel like he’s the type of person to text someone when they’re right next to each other

so while he’s laying down he’ll just send you random photos of himself

very annoying when your phone is spammed, but also good blackmail material >:)

i don’t think he’d be too clingy

obviously, he enjoys spending time with you

but if you told him you need to go do work or something he wouldn’t throw a fit or pout

big q just seems like he’d be more rational about stuff like that

overall a 420/69 cuddle partner

dream:

one word: spooning

mans just envelops you and has no shame

very big: “no you are mine! >:(“ energy

while he’s sleeping he’ll unconsciously nuzzle his head into your hair/the back of your neck

when you guys got to bed patches usually climbs in and you hold her

i love patches so much i could write headcanons just about her

dream always wants to be cuddling you

if you try to leave he won’t pout, there simply isn't a discussion on whether you’re moving or not

incase you haven’t caught on yet, the answer is no

you need to do work? just bring the laptop to bed

he needs to edit? just sit in his lap at his desk, duh

obviously, he knows at some point you guys need to stop cuddling

he just isn’t too stoked about it

when it comes time where he absolutely can’t cuddle with you, i feel like he’d be more chill

mainly just annoyed

georgenotfound:

i feel like george, like quackity, also wouldn’t be too touchy

i’m pretty sure he has a hard time expressing emotions (please correct me if i’m wrong!!) and i think that would crossover to his sleeping habits

i think he would prefer a sort of back-to-back cuddling position

it seems cold, i know

but also he would most definitely kick at you

so every night while trying to go to sleep suddenly you would just feel *kick*

and then instead of sleep you’re suddenly playing footsie

lots of laughter and warm feelings involved

george would probably pretend that you kicked his leg hard or something and act like you hurt him

the first few times you were actually worried

but then after a few months your only response was a sarcastic “cry about it”

which just led to more laughter

sapnap:

sapnap and you would do a sort of leg hug thing

you both you try to go to sleep in a cute spooning-type position

but the moment one of you fell asleep it all unraveled

you would wake up apart but you’re legs would still be touching

sapnap would joking blame it on you

“wow can’t believe you don't wanna be close with me even when we’re asleep”

“it’s not my fault! i can’t control where i end up when i sleep!”

“no, no. you don’t have to lie. i see how it is.”

“>:(“

but it's okay!

your legs are the first thing to react in a flight-or-fight situation, so they usually react in an honest way

which is like your legs are both reaching to hold each other!

p!tommyinnit:

i don’t get a very touchy vibe from tommy

i feel like the most he would do is put his arm over your shoulder

not in a flirty way, just in a “hey, there isn’t a lot of space, this will make sitting down more comfortable” way

he will let you sorta fidget with his hand/arm

i don't know if that makes sense but what i mean is that he’ll pretty much let his arm go *flop* so you can control it (by like moving it around or playing with his fingers)

in the beginning he would get annoyed

but eventually he would get used to it and wouldn’t really care

it sounds a bit strange but i personally find it very comforting to just have something to fidget with while watching youtube or netflix in bed with my friends

and it’s entertaining (sometimes i do this to me sister to annoy her :>)

he would act like he didn’t mind if you left him

but holy shit he is so clingy

If you try to leave it’ll just be “no, why??? stay here dumbass”

you would be slightly annoyed when he had to leave but knew he had to film and stream and all that so you would be okay

p!badboyhalo:

you would kinda sit within bad’s lap

like not on his lap, but more of in between his legs

he would have his arms around you

and his phone would be in front of you so you two could scroll through twt or instagram together

or you guys could watch skeppy’s youtube ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

rat would sit in your lap

she’s just;;;;;;;; so adorable

rat is just so soft and fuzzy in your lap and everytime you move to pet her she just melts

rat is the the superior cuddle buddy to any of these block people

p!skeppy:

skeppy, similar to quackity, is a total dork

he would make sure you guys were in a position where he could effectively troll you

so if your head was near his lap he would just flick you or some

“dude can you please stop hitting me in the head”

“it turns out i am not actually hitting you in your head because based on the perpendicularity of the bisector multiplied by the photosynthesis of the dividend, it is impossible for me to do so”

“wtf”

lya is so goddamn sick of you guys

she's trying to get him to actually do something but instead he’s just sitting there throwing paper airplanes at you while you sleep

he’s an annoying asshole but it's okay because he gives you money for absurd reasons

p!eret:

eret has such a comfortable presence

i feel like she wouldn’t be up for cuddling too much

more of like putting your head on a friends shoulder so you can see the tweet their showing you

but they do like to hold hands

holding hands isn’t very intimate but it's also just such a sweet comforting thing

she even holds your hand when you guys are out walking around

like if you guys were getting food somewhere (post-covid of course)

you most likely would get addressed as a couple

and he would just be like”...wut?”

it’s happened so many times at this point you just go along with it

“you guys look like such a cute couple!”

“oh we aren't-” “thank you!”

can you tell that i love eret?

p!philza:

phil always has such dad vibes

i feel like the closest he would get to cuddling is hugs and hand holding

even though cuddling isn’t inherently romantic, he is married to kristen

so i fell he would get most of his touch in with her

but with you he’s just so fatherly

hello dadza

whether you have a good or bad relationship with your father, everyone can admit that philza minecraft is dadza

this is such a dad thing, but tries to hold you hand when you cross the street

no matter the age, he just feels the need to protect you

hugs are similar

uses hugs as a way to comfort you and protect you

just so amazing all around

p!tubbo:

tubbo would love cuddling in any way, shape, or form

if you guys are hanging out at like the park or something and lying down

get ready to become this mans pillow

this is really fun to do with your friends but imagine you guys are hanging out in a field type area (with my friends we hand out in the field next to the cemetery but it can be any open grass area)

tubbo would just use your lap as a pillow the whole time

and when you guys were walking back to his house he would sorta drape his arms over your shoulders (assuming he’s taller than you)

he would do the same thing when you guys were sitting in chairs or at a desk

just drapes his arms over your shoulder with his chin on your head

if it's really late and he's tired he’ll just hug you

p!ranboo:

if you thought tubbo is bad, ranboo is even worse

not even really cuddling, he just likes having a sort of skin-to-skin contact

so handholding and laying on top of eachother

if he’s streaming he will legitimately message ou to just sit next to him

so sometimes if he’s just chilling by himself on the smp you’ll end up on his streams

he’ll have you next to him just because he likes be near someone

and so randomly it’ll just be like “chat, a real human is here, behave”

chat does not behave

(they heavily bully him)

he’s pretty clingy but when you HAVE to leave he’ll understand and just be a bit bummed out

holy shit this took me so long-

if you read this whole thing thank you!

#mcyt x reader #wilbur soot x reader #karl jacobs x reader #nihachu x reader #quackity x reader #dream x reader #georgenotfound x reader #sapnap x reader #tommyinnit x reader #badboyhalo x reader #skeppy x reader #eret x reader #philza x reader #tubbo x reader #ranboo x reader #kermie's headcanons #kermie spent so long on this and is dying

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thebiggestporridgefan · 3 years

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Not bad for an arranged wedding

I sigh as Niki tightens my corset "Do I have to do this?" She sighs "I’m sorry you have to, I don’t want this for you either but he’s really not as scary as they say" "Wait my brother told you who I’m marrying?" She nods shyly "He said me, dream and sapnap should know, he didn’t want you to not go through with it" I groan "He won’t tell me anything" "Do you want me to tell you?" I shake my head "I’d rather not know. If I know, I won’t go through with it and…I know I have to. For the people" "At least I’m coming to the kingdom with you" I nod and give her a gentle smile, letting her hold my hand "Yeah, I’m glad you’re coming with me"

After I’m dressed we leave my room and go out to my awaiting carriage where my brother sits. Niki sits in the other carriage and I sit beside my brother. "Where are your shadows?" He rolls his eyes "Dream and Sapnap are in the other carriage" "Oh so they let me sit with my brother for once?" He looks at me with some sympathy "I’m sorry I’ve not been spending much time with you, we’ve been busy with the state of the kingdom" I nod "I’ve just missed you" He sighs "I’ve missed you too" the carriage stops and I try to open the door but dream opens it for me making me roll my eyes "I do have hands dream" "Your majesty it is my job to make sure…" "That I’m completely content in all aspects of my life blah blah blah, if that were true I wouldn’t be getting married next week" George slaps my hand "Stop it, you can’t act up while we’re here" I sigh and get out of the carriage immediately standing beside Niki.

We walk up the grand castle steps, into the large marble structure. I look around in awe, wherever I’m marrying into is fucking loaded and extravagant with their money. This kingdom is thriving, no wonder George doesn’t want me to fuck this up. We’re lead to large doors that open, exposing the throne room. George, Dream and sapnap bow as Niki curtseys. I don’t until george glares at me. "King…" "Philza, we’ve met an alliance George please" he smiles at me "Princess y/n, lovely to finally make your acquaintance" I let a forced smile run across my face "Philza, it’s lovely to meet you too" I’m not completely lying, he seems nice enough except I do have to marry his son.

"This is my wife, Kristen" she gives me a warm smile and I return it. "So your son…" Kristen interrupts "Technoblade? He’ll be joining us at dinner, he’s training right now" Training? He trains too? I wonder if I’ll be able to train while I live here, George only reluctantly let me train at our own castle. George nods "Your bags will be taken to your rooms and you’ll be shown to them later by Tubbo, one of our knights" Tubbo gives me a wave and I smile at him, he seems like a sweet kid. "Now that that’s out of the way, would you like to meet our other sons?" Other sons? I nod curiously and kristen gets up from her throne, holding her arm to link with mine, I take it and I’m lead out of the room.

We walk to a large garden full of flowers and foliage, covered as far as the eye can see with colour. "This is beautiful" she smiles "I selected all the flowers planted here, I wanted somewhere to come and think. I hope you’ll use these gardens too" I nod "I definitely will" she leads me to a large lake where a tall brown haired man around my age is fighting a blonde haired boy around Tubbo’s age with a wooden sword. "Training again boys?" They both turn to us "Woman?!" The blonde haired boy shouts in surprise. The brunette rolls his eyes while I giggle "I’m Wilbur, techno’s brother. You must be y/n. This idiot’s Tommy" "Oi! I’m not an idiot!" "Don’t insult your brother, Wil" he smiles "Alright, anyway. Have you met techno yet?"

"Wait, you’re the woman marrying the blade?" I nod shyly "Yeah, I suppose so" he laughs "Never thought I’d see the day techno would accept…" Kristen glares at him and he stops "Sorry mum" I turn to her in confusion and she sighs "Techno isn’t very…accepting of most of his suitors" I nod "At least I know we can relate in that way" she nods and we start walking back inside "I understand, I wasn’t accepting of mine either, then I met Phil and I fell in love" I smile at the story, I really, really hope that I can get that too. We walk back inside and I smell food from the I assume nearby kitchens. "That smells amazing" "Our chefs always make the best"

The doors to a large dining room open and I try to sit down next to George but he stops me, pointing to a seat with an empty one beside it. I realise he wants me to sit next to technoblade when he arrives and my stomach drops, a nervous chill runs through me. "George…" "Y/n, please" I sigh and sit down, the doors open and Wilbur and Tommy walk in, playfully joking with each other, I remember when me and George could do that. They sit down and the food arrives, we eat comfortably, having small conversations until the doors open again. A man…a tall, muscular, handsome man walks in holding a sword. "Sorry I’m late" Phil gives him a small look but he sits in the only empty seat, beside me. "Techno, no weapons at the table" his gaze softens at his mother and he puts the sword in its sheath, placing it under the table.

I sit, moving food around my plate and not joining in the conversations. Nervous at the man beside me. That is until everyone but us is talking "I’m sorry" he turns to me confused "What?" "We have to get married? This isn’t the way I wanted my life to play out either, all because of my kingdom" he sighs "That’s not your fault" I shrug "Still, I’m sorry" he looks down at his plate before responding "You know? I’ve heard about you" "You have?" He nods "I know you like reading, flowers…fighting" I smile "Yeah" "I’ve always liked a sparing partner" "Really?" He nods again "Well, should we see who’s better in a little spar tomorrow?" He chuckles "Sounds good to me"

#techno x you #mcyt #ph1lza #fanfic #technoblade #sbi #sbi x reader #royal au #wilbur soot #dream smp

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a-broader--sensibility · 3 years

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hi, I was wondering if u could explain "being sexualized" vs "expressing sexuality" bc tiny clothes (so men can look at u), songs abt abuse=cool etc are sexualizing and seem slimy but at what point is it women "feeling sexy" and not being pushed into it for others benefit, idk if this makes sense

This is a great question, and I’m sorry I’m so late to respond. Before I answer, please keep in mind that this is the opinion of one person on the internet and you should consider many perspectives before making up your own mind.

I want to reverse your question a bit and begin with the idea of “expressing sexuality” rather than “being sexualized.” Plenty of ink has been spilled on the topic of objectifying women, so I want to discuss this idea that there is a way of expressing your own personal sexuality via clothing in a way that is empowering. Frankly, given that sexual desire is usually about desiring other people (besides yourself, unless you’re a narcissist), it doesn’t really make sense to think that the clothing you yourself wear can express your sexual desires. As a straight woman, I definitely find certain types of clothing on men attractive, but what I myself wear has no bearing on how attracted I am to a given man. If I were to wear lingerie, that wouldn’t affect my desire for another person. I am not attracted to myself.

Some women have expressed that wearing sexy clothing or lingerie makes them “feel sexy.” I would counter that feeling sexy means feeling that you are sexually attractive to others—i.e. pleasing to other people, not yourself. Feel sexual =/= feeling “sexy.” Sexual feelings (arousal, desire, etc.) are about your desire to engage in sexual activities either with a partner or alone, whereas feeling sexy or beautiful is a type of confidence about how much your appearance pleases other people. It is possible to feel beautiful or desirable to others without feeling any arousal at all. Similarly, it is possible to feel arousal in a private setting where you aren’t even thinking about how you appear to other people (for example, while masturbating.)

It is true that many men are especially turned on by skimpy clothes or lingerie, but we also know that sexuality is extremely diverse and complicated. The notion that lingerie or short shorts makes you sexy is predicated on the presumption that most people (let’s be honest—most men) are turned on by the same narrow set of Western commercial beauty ideals. My experience of dating—however narrow—has been that even “straight cis” men are actually attracted to a variety of body types, types of clothing, and choices to wear or not wear makeup. No matter how you are dressed right this instant, someone out there would probably find you irresistible and someone else would find you hideous. It depends on who you ask.

A lot of women mistake being desired with experiencing arousal. Kristen Roupenian really explored this notion in her short story Cat Person. Here’s a quote taken from a sex scene where the main character, Margot, has sex with an older man she has earlier admitted to finding a bit disgusting and unattractive:

“As they kissed, she found herself carried away by a fantasy of such pure ego that she could hardly admit even to herself that she was having it. Look at this beautiful girl, she imagined him thinking. She’s so perfect, her body is perfect, everything about her is perfect, she’s only twenty years old, her skin is flawless, I want her so badly, I want her more than I’ve ever wanted anyone else, I want her so bad I might die.

The more she imagined his arousal, the more turned-on she got...”

I’m not judging anyone who makes this mistake, because it’s super normal for women—almost universal. We are so programmed to believe that other people’s desire for our bodies is our own sexual desire that we feel defensive when feminists point out that crop tops, mini-bras, corsets and the like are schmattes. They are garments sold by Hot Topic and Victoria’s Secret and whoever else. They’re fabric. Your sexuality is your body, your physiological response to complex scenarios that are personal to you, and they cannot be purchased for $19.99 at a mall. Clothing doesn’t make you sexually aroused, but it can make you more sexually appealing to others.

If we say that Billie Eilish wearing a corset in Vogue is an expression of her sexuality, then what does that mean about Billie? Is she sexually attracted to her own body, like an extreme narcissist? Was she meant to be have been sexually aroused during the photo shoot (a professional event, a workplace environment, surrounded by probably 20+ photographers, assistants, aides, stylists, cateres, etc.)? Are we to understand that the desire that anonymous male viewers of her images feel for Billie is the same as Billie Eilish’s own desires? I know your question wasn’t about Billie, but I feel it’s relevant.

Anyways, I hope this was useful to you. I know this was a wordy response, but I felt the need to clarify exactly what I meant. I’m not against female sexuality, but sexuality is desire and arousal—not pride in one’s appearance.

#radical feminism #female sexuality #radfem #2nd wave feminism #women's liberation

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the-suicidal-lizard · 2 years

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Does Edward Nygma love Oswald Cobblepot? No. Does The Riddler love Oswald Cobblepot? Yes. A Semi-Deep Dive. - Nerd Time

And, why I believe Edward Nygma has DID...

Warning: I am not an expert in DID, this is what I have searched up and the bare basics. If I have offended anyone, I am sorry, I know little, but I try and be respectful. If you have DID, I hope you know, I do not intend for it to sound like I’m saying YOU are a psychopath, or killer, or any of your Alters, since that is just not how it works. Okay, thank you!

Deals with Sexual Abuses, Parent Abuse, DID, Drugs and Alcohol, Suicidal Thoughts, and Unhealthy Relationships.

Right, the first thing you should know about me, is that I’m a huge Nygmobblepot Shipper. I hated Isabella, I fully love and support the theory that Isabella was a distraction, created by “The Court of Owls”, and I do believe they could have ended up together, had the writers not decided to fuck it over. But, they did. So before you continue, let’s get that straight. I am a Nygmobblepot Shipper.

But, with the way the show went, this is what I believe...

In Season 1, I believe Edward Nygma had a his “Bisexual Awakening” with Oswald Cobblepot, in which he realised he could like two genders, in this case, a male and female. He likes Kristen Kringle, as seen in the cupcake with a live bullet sticking out of it, the poetry, and eventually getting to go on a date with her, but I believe he also liked Oswald. The reason for that is, he didn’t shy away from him in Season 1, in fact, he stood right in front of him. He said, “Did you know that male emperor penguins keep their eggs warm by balancing them on their feet?”, and obviously, the eggs would be a baby, so sure, it’s a stretch, but that’s alluding to a family. But, this is Season 1, in which Edward is just starting out, and is nervous, and a bit “odd”.

When he kills Officer Tom Dougherty, that’s when the Riddler is unlocked, though of course, he’s not known as that yet, just “a figment of [his] imagination. A projection of impulse”, but in the series, Edward clearly suffers from DID, (Dissociative Identity Disorder), which means someone who has multiple, distinct personalities. The various identities control a person's behaviour at different times. The condition can cause memory loss, delusions or depression, and they can also be violent (not all the time, I cannot stress that enough). DID is usually caused by past trauma.

Now clearly, I believe this, and I'm sure others do, or some might not have thought this. Here is my proof below;

Let’s tick this off; it can cause memory loss. Check. He doesn’t remember where he took Kristen Kringle’s body after killing her, Riddler claps his hands and says “I can make a body disappear”, and when Edward look’s there’s no body, and a riddle, he asks, “where is she?”, and he doesn’t remember writing the riddle, as he has to figure out that riddle, and another riddler before finding her.

It can cause delusions. Check. He’s imagining Riddler, isn’t he? When Kristen Kringle questioned him if he knew anything about Officer Dougherty’s disappearance, he’s hearing all the voices and the yelling about how “odd” he is. Kristen Kringle showing up in the mirror when he’s with Isabella, Oswald Cobblepot soaked to the bone after Edward’s killed him; though that is a combination of drugs and DID.

It can cause depression. It's possible. This is never confirmed. But, after killing Oswald, he falls into a depressive state, but is he depressed from DID? Who knows. It wouldn't be shocking if he was depressed given his past (read below), and how he was treated at work.

Past trauma? This might not be as common knowledge to the passing fan, or it might be, I’m unsure. But, Edward Nygma was abused when he was younger, all starting when he cheated in a contest because he wanted a riddle book. He was found out, and his father beat him, after that, his father never believed him when he passed tests, and believed he had cheated. Then I believe it went from cheating to just plain abuse. So, trauma is a yes.

Riddler controlling his body? Yes. When Riddler went to The Toy Maker, and paid him to get Lee Thompson killed, and again, Edward doesn’t remember that. Riddler moving Kristen’s body, cutting off one hand...

Safe to say, Edward has DID (in this version of "The Riddler").

After he’s killed Officer Dougherty, he starts dating Kristen, he’s no longer “Edward”, but he’s also not “Riddler”, he’s more... as Lee Thompkins put it “strange, sort of cool” about him. Probably just delighted he’s dating Kristen. But, when Kristen is horrified to learn the truth about Edward, that Edward killed Officer Dougherty, she slaps him, and calls him a “psychopath”, in which he promptly (accidentally) kills her, Riddler takes over making her “body disappear”, and buries her body in the woods.

It should be noted, he only get’s violent after she slaps him, and she calls him a “freak”, he says, in a rather dark tone, not akin to the “Edward” we know, but more like someone else, “please don’t call me that”. This all has a point, I promise!

So, when Edward is burying Kristen, he then runs into an injured Penguin, in which he takes Oswald home, and heals him. Thus, the feelings start, and him realising he can’t have this normal, picture perfect family he always saw, the same one his father probably wanted him to have, but he could have a happy life. Sure, at first, Oswald doesn’t like him, but they slowly get along, and all throughout it, Oswald is treating him as him, as both Edward and Riddler (even though Oswald doesn’t know about Riddler).

Singing Penguin’s Lullaby, eating Chinese Take Out, killing Leonard together, this was them bonding. Edward clearly respects Oswald, stepping back when he was told “you’re standing too close” in Season 1, allowing Jim to his place after Oswald told him to, answering Oswald’s constant phone calls despite getting annoyed. He turned Oswald away when he was “reformed”, because Oswald was “kinda freaking [him] out”, but he was delighted seeing Oswald again, a wide smile on his face, turning into a stuttering mess seeing his friend, and I’d like to believe, crush, and was clearly concerned with Oswald’s fearther-y appearance “what’s-what-what happened?”, again stuttering.

But, when Oswald is back to normal, he still cares for Edward, and is clearly concerned about the man while he’s away in Arkham, as at this point, Edward has been arrested for his crimes.

When Oswald goes to visit Edward, as a friend at this point, he gives him a gift, and asks “did you get the biscuits? And, the sweater - I know how draft these rooms are —”, he’s been showing care and concern for Edward, worried about the man who took care of him. And Edward, despite being “freak[ed] out” the last time he saw Oswald, still holds him to respect “Mr. Penguin”, something he does showing the man respect when they’re teetering on the edge of uncertainty between them. Oswald corrects him with a nervous smile “Oswald”, showing that he’s not angry Edward turned him away.

Then, Oswald get’s him out of Arkham, for an admittedly selfish reason, but Edward at this point is madly in love with Oswald; he’s made sure he was okay in Arkham, got him out of Arkham, with a certificate deeming him “sane”, he’s also powerful with a name that holds weight. And, if you still don’t believe Edward loves Oswald, let me direct you to this quote; "I can't be bought, but I can be stolen with a glance. I'm worthless to one, but priceless to two. What am I?", literally drawing a heart!, and it's said on two occasions; one time Oswald stops him, and the second time Oswald says "they love me". Edward still believe's Oswald is amazing - taking all the money back for a clean election, though his love is dwindling, though they reason he grasps on is because Oswald made him his Chief of Staff; there's still hope.

Cut to, the night in which Edward saves Oswald's life, being strangled by Butch. When Edward is lying motionless, and Oswald has knocked Butch out, this is the moment Oswald realises his feelings aren't just friendly. I would have liked it if they kissed on the stage, but they didn't. Then let's go to that sofa scene. "Oswald, I would do anything for you," this is Edward, in what I believe, is his last ditch attempt at wooing Oswald Cobblepot, and this is the moment in which Oswald realises he's in love with Edward, but instead of kissing, which I believe should have happened, they hug. This seals the deal for Edward, he needs to move on.

After this, Oswald is a stuttering mess, bashful, shy, but Edward is now moving on, such as in his bitter, awkward "and yet I still have so much to learn from you", though this is the first time both of them have felt awkward. He thinks it's because he let Oswald down, but Oswald assure's him he'd be "lost without [him]". Oswald even nearly confesses, "there is something that I need to tell you", immediately this has Edward's attention, he's not tense, he's loose, and blank faced, but there's something with the way he holds himself, akin to hope, and when he asks "what is it, Oswald?", he leans in very slightly. But, then Oswald says "I forget! In and out of my head, just like that!", and Edward look's sad, upset, and disappointed, and when Oswald says "don't you hate when that happens?", Edward replies in a quick, snappy-ish tone "that never happens to me". I believe this is the second point of no return for Edward.

When Oswald tells Edward there's "something [he'd] like to discuss... dinner at the mansion?", and Edward say's he'll pick up "a nice bottle of wine", this smile is off. This isn't the Edward we've had throughout Season 2 and Season 3, this is akin to Season 1, being polite and friendly. Then enters the woman we all hated, Isabella.

Yes, Isabella walks in, a direct clone of Kristen (besides the blonde hair), right down to the same glasses. It's sets off Edward's hallucination's, but... this is a girl, he spends all night with her, and believes he's in love. He could be picturing that normal life with her, the one he can't have with Oswald. Edward loves her, and we have to accept that. He, at this point, has fallen out of love with Oswald Cobblepot (I believe this could have been better than bringing in Isabella, making Edward love Oswald in Season 1 and 2, and make him need to let go, seeing Oswald didn't love him back, for Oswald then to fall in love too late, and that could have been the conflict). Oswald is still in love.

Edward spends less time with Oswald, gaining more feelings for Isabella, and sure, he's being less of a friend, and then, in a fit of jealousy, Oswald Cobblepot has Gabe cut the wires on Isabella's car, killing her. When Edward finds out, he's rightfully furious, and kills Oswald, thus more hallucinations.

Now, this is Edward and Riddler, fighting to become one, or the other. And it's unclear who pictures Oswald Cobblepot singing "Wake Up Alone" by Amy Winehouse, the outfit Hallucination!Oswald wears in a suit, and rather refined and put together, and the lighting is red, dark, almost with a romantic feel to it all. So, not only does either Edward or Riddler listen to Amy Winehouse, he also hallucinates Oswald seducing him.

Now what is this song? In “Wake Up Alone”, Amy Winehouse soulfully sings about her desire for a man’s love, and lays bare her struggles with depression and alcohol within the lyrics. Winehouse describes being deeply in love with a man and being unable to control her intense feelings for him, even after a break-up. The man she sings about is presumably her then-on again/off again boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil, who was known to have a tumultuous relationship with Winehouse. Replace this with Edward, Riddler and Oswald.

Edward makes Hallucination!Oswald seduce him with this song, but don't forget, this also means deep down this is what Edward is feeling. As Hallucination!Oswald tells Edward, "the trouble with talking to projections of your psyche... is that they know everything you know. Including the things you’re trying not to know.” Therefor, Edward is Amy, describing being deeply in love with a man and being unable to control his intense feelings for him, even after Edward has supposedly fallen out of love with him, after he's dead, after he killed the woman he loved. Oswald is Blake Fielder-Civil, being the on and off again romance interest. Edward, as of now, bares his struggle with depression of not knowing who he is, and drugs.

Not to mention, Winehouse was always open about her sexuality; friends claim that she said, "there is something about being with a woman that is very satisfying. I don't care what people think about me being bi — I do what feels good.” Therefore, this could be alluding to Edward also being bisexual.

The lyrics Hallucination!Oswald sings are, "He's fierce in my dreams, seizing my guts. He floods me with dread, Soaked in sorrow, he swims in my eyes by the bed, Pour myself over him, Moon spilling in, And I wake up alone." This song isn't just a "love song", but is to do with addiction to alcohol, or in this case, drugs, and Hallucination!Oswald. Now, the meanings I got were from Genius, but I'm also adding my one, because I did English combined in college.

"He's fierce in my dreams, seizing my guts," let's start there. These lyrics are mirroring Edward's emotions. He feels psychically sick due to his feelings toward him, and that's because how dare he love the man who killed his girlfriend. Edward has butterflies in his stomach; a fluttering sensation caused by a feeling of nervous anticipation.

"He floods me with dread," this could also connote the water that filled Oswald's lungs. But, it also alludes to Edward being anxious of seeing him because of the hold he has over him. His love for him is so undeniably strong that he feels powerless. This also ties into later, when Edward says "I admit killing you, killed a part of me". He knows that, but he doesn't want to admit it.

"Moon spilling in," while this line, read literally, paints a clear image of Edward's empty bedroom at night, or in this case, Edward being alone in the world again, no lover or friend, or teacher, it also holds a deeper metaphorical meaning. The anthropomorphic description of moonlight likens the moon to Amy, or in this case Edward. Like him, the moon has been "liquefied" with dread/anxiety, and thus is "spilling". Although moonlight is often associated with romance, its now a symbol of encroaching anxiety and romantic despair.

Then Oswald comes back, and Edward Nygma is now "The Riddler", if you agree with the fact Edward (in this version) has DID, then this is where I say, Riddler likes Oswald, but the reason he never dates Oswald, is because of Edward. Now, here me out!

Riddler is an "alter", which just means a distinct personality, and people with DID can have multiple, each alter can have a different role. "Persecutor", alters that purposefully harm the body, system, host, core, or other alters, "Introject", alters that are based off of an outside person or figure, and may or may not see themselves as the individual that they represent, and so on and so forth. Now, there are more, but I'm focusing on one.

Protector: Protectors are alters that protect the body, system, host, core, or other specific alters or groups of alters. Physical protectors might take or try to prevent physical abuse or become aggressive in an attempt to defend against physical abuse. Verbal protectors might take verbal abuse or lash back verbally in order to counter verbal abuse. Emotional protectors might take emotional abuse or comfort other alters to soften the effects of emotional abuse. Sexual protectors might take sexual abuse or attempt to instigate sexual abuse in an attempt to feel more in control of the situation. Caretaker alters are a unique type of protector that is focused specifically on taking care of younger, weaker, or more vulnerable alters or external children. Persecutors are another specific type of protector that are often not seen as such but that protect by harming the system themselves in order to avoid outside harm.

What proof do I have for this? You mean, besides ridding of Kristen's body... well kinda. See, this theory I have both falls flat and doesn't. He protects Edward by "making [the] body disappear", because if he hadn't, Edward would have "half the mind to turn [him]self in", but "luckily [Riddler] has the other half", that's Riddler protecting Edward from Arhkam, while trying to convince him that this is Edward's new life, and it's okay.

Then, there was the time in the bird cages; where Riddler sees Oswald alive, and well, and Riddler tries to protect Edward, smacking on the forehead "just had to make sure", had to make sure Edward wasn't hurting himself with imaging things, and, he even get's snappy when Oswald calls him "Edward", "I told you not to call me that", as if he doesn't deserve to call him that. And, when he shoots that dart at Oswald, and laughs in dark delight, that's him getting not just himself out, but Edward out too. Until Oswald calls the guards, but still!

Another way is, when Edward had fallen in love with Lee in Season 4, and he's trying to become "The Riddler" again. When Lee is being targeted, Griffin (Toy Maker) says, "You paid me good money to kill The Doc. Used your alias: The Riddler.", then it shows The Riddler paying Griffin to kill Lee through a flashback, Griffin then says, "said The Doc was holding you back". Say what you want about Lee/Edward, personally I hate it, but Lee clearly did not like Riddler. Lee tells Edward, "I haven't been looking for a cure for your brain, Ed, because there's nothing wrong with you... I was afraid that if I told you the truth, you would go back to being who you were before, The Riddler. And I like who you've become... Ed Nygma. The Ed that you were before. My friend." First of all, ouch, rude, mean, cruel; Edward clearly has DID, so this is like dismissing someone's actual condition. Second of all, how is The Riddler going to be happy with this? He's not. Clearly, Lee is using Edward, using his brain, "you knew every move that Sampson was gonna make before he made it", and keeping him "normal", this is not how you would help Edward. The Riddler is trying to protect Edward by getting rid of the problem, getting rid of Lee. Even Edward felt betrayed by this reveal, as he has no idea who he is. "Who am I?" he asks after Oswald doesn't freeze him a second time, is he Edward Nygma, The Riddler, or if you go by some other accounts Edward Nashton.

Edward is now panicking, at the prospect of having Riddler back. "I am in control!" He yells, slamming his hands onto the sink. "Me. Ed Nygma!", and Riddler, his protector, sure he's taunting him, "we had so much fun when we were me", but also, there's a look of disgust, or blank worry, "You're in love with Lee Thompkins, you pathetic loser", Lee has been lying to him, Lee doesn't like him for him, she likes Edward, not Riddler, and not Edward and Riddler together, she's using Edward, which becomes more clear in the second half of Season 4, ("what's your record for how many banks you've robbed in one day?... I think you can do better.") Of course, Riddler's going to be wary about Lee.

"The only way you'll get rid of me is to kill yourself." This was Riddler, giving advice to Edward, sure it was back handed, but he can tell it's tearing Edward apart. And, when Edward says, "I guess you are smarter than me." The Riddler stops smiling, shocked and worried, "you wouldn't actually...", Edward nods, "oh, yeah." Sure, to killed Edward is to kill the Riddler, so he's saving his own neck, but he's also saving Edward's, because that's what a Protector does, he Protects the host from bodily harm.

Then it comes to... does The Riddler love Oswald? Short answer, yes.

Back in the bird cage in Season 3, when Riddler asks why Oswald was there, he says, "I didn't love you back", now that's important "didn't", it's past tense. Edward didn't love Oswald back anymore, but Riddler might, this is Riddler. He might like Oswald still.

In Season 4, Edward goes to visit Oswald in Arkham to "gloat", and he leaves behind a riddle "I am held captive all day. My brilliance locked away. This prison must be broken. The key? My name, which must be spoken.", but what's so shocking about that? It's an origami penguin, something Edward did back in Season 3, when he still likes Oswald. Not to mention, this is a riddle, something Edward is still not good at, as Oswald sends him a letter soon after, he doesn't see the hidden message, and at Riddler's riddle "what has two eyes but can't see?", Edward is confused, "what has two...?", he still can't do riddles. Therefore, that entire "visiting Oswald" scene, in which Edward is happy, (though it all feels off, Edward doesn't gloat, at least not like that), Edward is giving him an origami penguin, like he did previously... it's not Edward, it's The Riddler. When Edward receives the letter from Oswald, he's furious that Oswald dared to asked "can [they] be friends?", and he says in a fit of rage, "I'm never gonna forgive him!", and what does Riddler say? "Oh, I think it's a nice letter," he has that dark, grumbled voice, and dark, yet clearly happy smile.

Then it comes to Riddler being released. Edward is terrified, while Riddler is delighted, leaning over Oswald, being close to Oswald while mocking Edward. And Oswald, the Riddler trusts, as the Penguin sees them both, "I'm not talking to you, Ed. I'm talking to him." That's something nobody else has seen. Then comes, "I need you, Riddler..." Edward gasps, taking a sharp intake of air. This is the Riddler taking control. His hands caress the side of Oswald's face, and Oswald flinches terribly, as if afraid he is going to be hit, or worse, and his hands shake. I can't be the only one who thought they were going to kiss. Riddler stops signing the papers (again, ever the Protector), and says "shall we get to work?".

He doesn't give up Oswald... well... okay, he does, those riddles lead to the answers "doctor" and "narrow", so yes he does give up Oswald, but they're through difficult riddles, with two answers that you'll need to add and think about, put together to get the correct answer. And this is one of the times Riddler allows Edward to be injured. But, this is when Riddler knows he likes, possibly loves Oswald, "you gave up your revenge for me?", he's in such shock and awe.

But, if the Riddler loves Oswald, why doesn't he date him? Again, that's because he protects Edward. He tried to stop the romance with Lee since she was using him, and he's proven right at the end of Season 4 when she no longer has a use for him, and she stabs him - the second time he's allowed Edward to be hurt in such a fashion, so he stabs her, and the reason there was a romance was because Edward loved her, and was trying to make him love her too. And so, to keep themselves together, to keep Edward from hurting himself, he allows himself to fall into that fantasy.

"So you don't think I'm using you?" Lee asks, after running from the bank heist, in which Riddler betrays Oswald and Grundy. Riddler confesses, "no, I know you are." Lee asks if he's Ed, and Riddler says, "no, I'm me." He tells her, "Ed didn't understand you. He didn't see how deeply you had changed. I do. I know that that virus woke up something deep inside you, and you let that something loose when you shot Sofia. And you love it. And I love it, too. And I know that you don't feel the same way about me. But you will. And when you do, I will be here." This is him giving her a chance, for Edward to have the girl he likes, but Riddler doesn't like her, but he's trying to get her to be like Oswald, wearing purple like clothing, "you let that something loose when you shot Sofia... And I love it..." it might not be Oswald, but he can pretend.

Not to mention, in Season 5, when they're having that whole Mind Control thing, Riddler is shocked that Oswald kept him alive, "you paid Hugo Strange to save me?", and he clearly buys into that "fate has different plans for us" speech by Oswald, which mirrors Edward's "do you believe in fate?" back in Season 2, and helps Oswald build S. S. Gertrude, and this whole segment of "I'm the only one working!", is literally an old married couple! But, I'm not focusing on that.

Let's not forget, "Oswald. I accept you for the person that you are. Just as you accept me for the cold logician that I am. That's why this friendship is great. And as friends, I think we can both agree that that lunatic had to be stopped." This is basically Riddler saying "I can't love you after what you did to Edward, but I'm willing to be friends", and Oswald, who clearly cares for him says, "Perhaps, Edward... we really are meant for each other.", I do also think this is the moment he fully realises that he love Oswald. It should be noted, Oswald calls him "Ed", and Riddler doesn't snap out in anger once. He's allowing Oswald to call him "Ed" and "Edward". He doesn't mind Oswald calling him "Ed", something Riddler snapped at with Lee, and Oswald after Oswald came back; again Riddler being that Protector, keeping Edward safe.

When Riddler stays back to help Lee and Barbara escape, I think that's due to Edward's remaining feelings, he still cares for the original host of the body. And, because just like how Lee would always care about Jim, even with Mario, Riddler/Edward will always care about Kristen, Isabella and Lee.

Now, onto when Oswald sacrifices his eye to save Edward "Riddler" Nygma. Riddler is distraught, "I'm so sorry," which let's be honest, Riddler doesn't apologise, "I saw the grenade and I froze," he's clearly upset, he looks so sad, as if he's just betrayed Oswald all over again. And when Oswald asks "does it look bad?", Riddler lies, or well tries to given the fact he's not a very good liar, "No, it's just a scr —" then gags, as the wound is clearly horrific. Yet, he still lies, "looks fine," now "fine" means its neither good nor bad, but it also means looks attractive; he still sees Oswald as attractive.

And, let's not forget that iconic "we're brothers" scene (more like lovers). Do I need to say much more? When discussing how insulted they are at being common criminals, Oswald says, he has "the guns...", and Riddler is quick to point out, "Gordon took them. Why? Because he still sees you as Fish Mooney's umbrella boy, and he always will.", indicating he'll never forget Oswald. Most people wouldn't care, or have moved passed Oswald's starting point, but not Riddler, not Edward, he'll remember because he does like him. When they "make a pact", to "take what [they] want from who [they] want... together.", and Edward asks, "Shall we shake on that?", "Please, we're brothers. A hug." Oswald replies; it's intimate. And, it mirrors Martin's drawing back from Season 4, of two stick figures hugging, knives raised. However, in this, they're tense, swallowing back saliva, and instead of killing the other, Oswald closes his eyes, and Riddler tightens his grip. They don't kill each other, and instead they work together.

But, now we need to see the last episode. Ultimately, this isn't my favourite episode, it's rather iffy for me; but if you like it, that's great! I'm glad you can enjoy something I don't enjoy. It's my silly personal opinion.

When Edward is freed from Arkham and it seems Oswald had broken him out via letter, Edward is quick to believe it. He laughs, and says "Oswald... what are you planning?", he fully believes it's Oswald, and he will follow through to a t, and when he finds out it's not, he's shock and furious, and confused. Yet still, who comes to save the day? "Oswald," Edward practically breaths out, a smile on his face. Oswald rolls up and saves him from the police, despite not being involved "thought you mind need some help". And you know something? Edward is thrilled to see him, "damn, it's good to see you, Oswald.", they compliment each other "you look well", "you too. A little thicker around the middle," but the grin on Edward's face tells us that he doesn't mean it in a rude way. And, when Batman get's the drop on them, they cling to each other in fear. When they're tied back to back, in a behind the scenes photo, it shows the two actors holding hands.

Therefore, I believe Riddler loves Oswald, and Edward has DID. Maybe in time, Edward will love Oswald again, but until that time comes, it’s just the Riddler, who is protecting his host.

Again, I might have put waaaayyyyy too much thought into it but... oh well!

Right, onto my receipts:

DID Information, Cleveland Clinic, DID Research, and I spent a day with MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES (Dissociative Identity Disorder).

Amy Winehouse lyrics, lyric meanings, and song information from Genius, and her sexuality information, from Famous Bi People.

As for the “doctor” and “narrows” riddles, I got the answers from Reddit.

#gotham #edward nygma #oswald cobblepot #riddler #penguin #oswald x edward #riddler x penguin #nygmobblepot #essay #gay #bisexual #lee thompkins #kristen kringle #isabella #nerd time

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secretlyblue12 · 3 years

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Day 9: Costume

Day 9 is here! We're almost a third the way through the month already, what? It's going by so fast XD This one has a lot of people, it's another irl fic but yeah.

“Welcome! Come in,” Phil said, opening the door wide. “It’s about time you got here Wil, everyone else is already in the living room.”

Wilbur shuffled through the door, smiling at the older man who was clad in fake wings, a bathrobe, and his iconic hat. It was Halloween, and he had invited everyone over for a little party amongst their friends, so of course, they all had to dress up as one of their characters. “Sorry, got stuck in traffic, but made it here in one piece.”

They talked and walked at the same time until Wilbur could finally see everyone else. Tommy was just wearing his usual, and it seemed like he was being bullied for it by Jack who had gone all out for his main Minecraft skin costume. Niki was playing mediator of course, though he ould see her giggling more than peacemaking as the two bickered. She was dressed up with a mermaid theme and looked amazing.

On the other side of the room were Tubbo and Ranboo who seemed to be in a similar argument, only Tubbo was holding a Jack o’lantern in front of his face and Ranboo was explaining that “It doesn’t work like that, I can still see you Tubbo.”

“No, you can’t! You’re an enderman. Get into character Boo.” Tubbo teased. “Ooh, I’m spooky- HEY! You can’t hit me, you aren’t meant to be able to see me.”

Ranboo was dressed as a full enderman, mostly just in a suit, but he had made little ender eyes out of paper and cardboard he could throw at people. Tubbo was currently being subjected to that, one of them knocking against the fairy wings he was wearing, and another hitting his bee headband.

“Alright, all you calm the fuck down,” Phil chastised from the doorway. Everyone turned to look at the elytrian at once, their debates fizzling out.

Tommy was the first to react, “Wil! You made it.”

Wilbur chuckled when the younger ran up to hug him, “Yeah, party can start now that I’m here I guess.”

Tommy pulled back, looking at Wil’s costume before pointing out, “See, look! Wil’s just gone as himself too so you can’t be all pissy to me for it!” Which wasn’t true.

“No,” Wilbur said, stopping it before Tommy could get too ahead of himself. “I’m a phantom, don’t get it confused. See, look, I put on make-up to make myself paler.” Which he had, he had even gone out to buy it earlier that week to make sure he’d be ready.

Everyone laughed when Tommy let out a frustrated whine, and the party started back as it had been, people mingling and making their way through the snacks Kristen, who was dressed up as her Goddess of Death, had made for them.

It wasn’t long until the debate over superpowers was brought over to him. Tommy decided to make Niki carry around a glass of water, and whenever Ranboo wanted to walk anywhere he had to throw a pearl in the general area. Tubbo had to jump if he wanted to walk, and Phil had started to chirp in the middle of conversation. It was all good-natured fun, but Jack had pointed out that Wil wasn’t taking on his characters traits.

“What do you want me to do,” He asked, “Turn invisible?”

Jack mumbled something to himself, and Phil turned to look at him, “Yes. We’ll check every once in a while.” He said before reaching out to poke Wil’s side.

Wil squeaked, jumping away from the jab that had sent a shock up his spine, and Phil laughed at him. “Sorry mate, forgot you’re too ticklish for that. Maybe we’ll have to find a different way to test.”

Jack’s eyes lit up though, “No, no, no. That’s perfect. Here, let me try,” He said through a smile that stretched across his whole face before reaching out to tase both of Wilbur’s sides at the same time, only getting more excited when Wil jumped back again with a giggle and tried to rub away the leftover tingles. “Hm, it isn’t working for me either Phil.”

“It’s not going to work you idiot, I can’t go intangible,” Wilbur said, hands coming to lay over his stomach. The others were all distracted in their own conversations, but he didn’t want to risk putting ideas in anyone’s head. Tommy would be poking him nonstop if he saw what was going on. Jack laughed, putting his hands up and looking mischievous.

“Alright, alright. Just checking.”

And Wilbur thought that was going to be the end of it. They chatted for a while longer before everyone joined other groups and walked around. It wasn’t until Wilbur felt hands on either of his sides that he was reminded once again. He squealed, trying to curl up and twist away all at once to face Niki who was giggling excitedly. “Still not intangible then, sorry, just checking.”

Oh, that bastard, Wil thought. He knew Jack had to have been the one to tell her. Tubbo and Kristen just laughed it off, both of them delivering their own few pokes making Wil spin back around to look at them. By the time he had rubbed away the leftover tingles, Niki was gone, and Tubbo was grinning up at him like the cat that got the cream, or more like the bee that got the honey he guessed. “Is that how we’re testing you then? That makes sense. I think that’ll make it fun, I was going to say that you weren’t allowed to stand on the floor but this is so much better.”

Wilbur blushed, giving Tubbo’s face a well-intentioned shove. “Oh, hop-off Bee Boy. We aren’t testing anything unless you think you’ll actually be able to reach through me tonight.”

Tubbo just laughed along, sticking his tongue out at the older. “We’ll see then I guess.” He said, but then decided he was going to go see about getting another one of Kristen’s spider cookies, praising her for her delicious work, and Kristen and Wil were left to talk on their own for a bit. She kept Wil on his toes though, every few minutes she would reach out with her nails, evil nails he decided, and scribble over his side or stomach until Wilbur wiggled away.

Wil pouted at her and whined that he was going to go hang out with Tommy and Ranboo instead, god knows what they were getting into left to their own devices.

He went across the room, finding the duo sitting on either end of the couch, and plopped himself down right in the middle.

“And then I of course I’m going to put fake worms in his bed because, well, who do you take me for. And- Wilbur! My man, come to join the cool kids then?” Tommy said, interrupting himself. Wilbur didn’t think he wanted to know what Tommy was talking about.

“Sure, though I think this is more of the gremlin corner.”

Ranboo laughed while Tommy whined, leaning into Wil’s side and complaining into his ear until he was pushed off. “You’re so loud, going to blow out my eardrum.”

Tommy continued to mope, but Ranboo turned to look at him. “So, I could see everyone’s been testing your power too.” He mentioned casually, and Wil felt his cheeks go a bit pink.

“Don’t you even think about it Ender Boy.”

Tommy perked up though, “Wait, what? I didn’t see anyone doing anything, what’re they making you do?”

Wilbur sent Ranboo a look that said ‘don’t you dare or I will make you pay,’ but the boy must have been feeling bold because he turned to look at Tommy over Wilbur. “They’ve been touching him to see if he’s on the same physical realm as us, it’s really funny. Try it.”

Tommy smacked Wilbur on the side of his head, and Ranboo was sent into a bought of cackly laughter. Wilbur turned to glare at the blonde, While Ranboo stuttered through an explanation of, “N-nohot like thahat! I- Oh my god,” before he reached down and squeezed Wilbur’s side.

The man in the middle jumped, crashing into Tommy, and letting out a stream of giggles when Ranboo didn’t stop at just one. Weakly, he tried to push away the slightly taller teen’s hand, but after the entire night of being tickled every few minutes he couldn’t muster up enough strength to do much.”Ah- Nahaha, Ranhanboo! I-ihihe.”

Tommy’s eyes lit up, and Wilbur could feel laugher rumble through his chest. “Oh ho ho, I see. Here, let me try.”

And then Tommy grabbed his other side, squeezing much faster and with less of a pattern than Ranboo’s steady pace. “TOHohomehehey! NOho- thihis isn’t faihair!”

Wilbur was stuck wiggling between the two boys, not sure which was worse. If it were only one he thought it wouldn’t be as bad, but both of their styles were so different than one another. Tommy dug in more, and Ranboo’s were lighter. Tommy was being fast and rough, as opposed to Ranboo who was lighter and more teasy about it. It really wasn’t fair, he decided.

It only lasted a few minutes before Phil called out from the other side of the room. “Alright, you’re going to kill him at this rate and then he really will be a ghost.” And begrudgingly the two came to a stop. Wil hadn’t realized that everyone was looking at the trio fondly and with content smiles on their faces until he looked to Phil with pink cheeks and saw they had formed one big group. “I think that is enough of testing if Wil can go ghost or not for tonight, besides it’s time to start the movie.”

Wil found he was still in a giggly mood all throughout the rest of the night, but no one else poked or prodded at him, just looking over with a knowing glance and maybe wiggling their fingers in the air every once in a while. He found he didn’t mind, not really, though the teasing gestures never failed to turn him bright red. He could have just agreed with Tommy at the beginning of the night and pretended he was just going as himself, but if he had he wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun.

#mcytickletober #mcyt tickle fic #lee!wilbur #ler!philza #ler!jackmanifold #ler!tubbo #ler!ranboo #ler!tommyinnit #ler!mumza #ler!niki #day 9 #blue's fic

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raindownforme · 3 years

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Charlie Slimecicle x reader [they/them used]

They stared at the box in front of them. In it was a camera that would easily hook up to their computer. It would easily record with OBS. It would easily reveal what they looked like to thousands of people, including their closest friends.

“You don’t have to you know.”

“I know Wilbur. I mean I want to.”

“Then why not?”

“What if they’re disappointed?” y/n poked at the box. “What if they thought my eyes would be a different shape and my nose would be smaller or my hair was a different length or color-“

“You don’t have to worry about that. You look like you. That’s all.”

“Yeah but they don’t know what me looks like. They just see the animated icon and they’re used to it.”

“You don’t have to start fast. You could do a little bit at a time. You could show, I don’t know, me, or Phil, or Niki first.”

y/n sighed and turned back to their monitors. One had discord pulled up, where they were in a call with Wilbur, one had a paused spotify playlist, and one had the instructions for installing the camera. “I could start with you.”

They could hear Wilbur clapping on the line. “Yeah! Let’s get it goin!”

The two kept talking as y/n installed the camera. Not before long it was ready to go.

“Okay. All you have to do is turn it on. Here I’ll do mine.” Wilbur’s face flickered to life on the front monitor.

“Okay. Just a second.” They looked at the mirror next to their desk and frowned. Maybe they could’ve done their hair a bit different. Or they could’ve worn a different shirt. Maybe some mascara? Would that be what Wilbur was expecting?

“Come on! I’m excited now.”

y/n nodded and pressed it on. They stared at the monitor, watching their face show up. Wilbur gasped a bit and stared at it. “What? Is it alright?”

“I owe Charlie money. He said your eyes would be a different color.” y/n felt their face flush and looked down at their keyboard. Wilbur laughed and smiled at them. “I can see you get embarrassed! Oh this is so cool!”

“I’m gonna turn this shit off.”

“No no! Keep it I like it. Here wait smile.” They smiled at him and he cheered again. “That is exactly how I thought you’d smile! Oh I’m so good at this.”

They both laughed together, but stopped when a ringing noise came through discord. Tommy and Tubbo were calling. “Wilbur, I-“

“Hey, it’s okay.” The ringing kept going. “If you’re not ready you can turn it off. If you are then we pick up. Which is it?”

y/n paused, holding their breath, then picked up the call. Everyone’s icons came onto the screen, then they all slowly turned the cameras on.

“Sorry didn’t realize we’d have- wait who’s that.” Tubbo moved closer to his screen, as If studying what he was looking at.

“Is that y/n?” Tommy stared wide-eyed as they nodded. He began cheering as did Tubbo. “FUCK YEAH! FUCKING POGGERS- sorry mum. What-“

Tommy walked off from his chair and y/n laughed at him. They looked up at Tubbo and saw him smiling. “What?”

“That’s not how I thought you’d look at all! Does anyone else know?”

“No just you three. I had just showed Wilbur when you two showed up.”

“We should show Philza! Or Niki! She would love to see this.”

“y/n doesn’t have to show anyone they don’t want to.” Wilbur’s voice was cautionary, but they just shrugged.

“Maybe it would be alright. We should start with Niki.”

“Yeahhhhh!!” Tommy cheered as Wilbur went to ring her. It only rang a few times before Niki joined. She turned her camera on and began talking about something or other, but paused and looked back at discord.

“Who’s on y/n’s account?”

“I am.”

“Oh. Oh! y/n......” She dragged out the name as she stared on. “Awe, you’re cute! I love it.”

“Right? I wasn’t expecting it but look!” Wilbur gestures to his screen with an exaggerated smile.

“Philza’s next right? Let’s get him on!”Tommy seemed overly enthusiastic for the reveal to the group father figure, but y/n was excited too.

“Do it! I wanna know what he thinks.”

It rang for about a minute before Philza answered. He didn’t turn on his camera though. He sat there in silence.

“Phil? You there?” Tommy leaned in closer to the camera.

“y/n? Is that what y/n looks like?”

“Hey Phil!”

“Oh my god! Wait can I show Kristin?”

“Of course!”

He called his wife into the room and everyone heard her gasp. “Oh you’re so pretty y/n.”

“Philza I’m going to steal your wife.”

“Okay that’s enough.” Kristen chuckled as Philza took the headset back. “Maybe I don’t get divorced today.”

The group laughed and fell into a comfortable silence. y/n wasn’t sure what to do. “It’s weird being able to like. Smile at you guys and stuff.”

“I’m sure you’ll get used to it. It’s like face time. You can leave it on when you play games or you’re streaming, and only we can see if it help you get adjusted.”

“Yeah!!! You get used to us you get used to everyone.” y/n laughed at tubbo’s excitement.

Tommy rubbed his hands together. “Who we showing next? Charlie?”

y/n tried to keep her composure but still felt her face fall a bit. The idea of showing Charlie was terrifying. Probably more so than showing her audience. Charlie had no idea what they looked like, but they knew what Charlie looked like. They knew his laugh and his smile and that they absolutely adored it. But if Charlie saw what they looked like? What their smile looked like and their laugh? Their eyes and their nose and everything else, would he like it? Would he treat them the same?

“y/n?” They snapped their head up at Wilbur’s voice. “Are you okay?”

“Yep!” They forced a fake smile and Wilbur frowned.

“Is there a problem with showing Charlie?”

They didn’t want to talk about this in front of everyone. Having a crush on Charlie was one thing. They’d had feelings for him for a long time now. But they hadn’t admitted to it. Ever. “I think I’m alright with just you guys for now.”

“That sucks. He just asked to call.” Tommy was glancing away at other monitors.

y/n stared blankly at the computer in front of themself. “You guys go ahead I think I’m gonna go.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah. I’ll come back on in a bit and play. I just need to do a few things.”

Wilbur furrowed his brow. “Alright. I’ll see you in a bit then.”

y/n nodded and their face disappeared from the screen. It was quickly replaced by Charlie’s.

“Hey goofy gamers what’s up?” He smiled as he turned on his face cam, but was only met by a crowd of confused or disappointed looking people.

“y/n was on just now.”

“What they were?” Charlie sat up quickly and smoothed his hair down, blushing horribly. “I- are they coming back or-? What were you-? Wait, why-?”

“She bought a camera and did a face reveal for us.” Wilbur fiddled with a pen between his fingers.

“Oh that’s so cool! Tell me what they look like! Are they pretty? Wait, are you allowed to tell me? Did I win my bet?”

“You won your bet. Charlie I think they’re afraid to show you.”

“Why? I’m gonna love them no matter what it is.” Everyone froze as the gears clicked in Charlie’s head. Tommy and Tubbo, the children the are, did a terrible job at trying to not laugh at Charlie. “Love it! Their face! I bet it looks great I’ll love their face! Wait that’s just as-“

“You have crush! You have a crush!” Tommy started yelling as Charlie tried to gesture at him to shut up. “You love y/n! I’m gonna tell them!”

“Listen I will fly across this goddamn ocean and kill you-“

“I think it’s cute.” Phil tried to speak up over the sound of the children.

“Me too! If anything they like you too.”

Charlie paused and stared at the monitor, his face growing redder by the second. “They do?”

Wilbur nodded. “Charlie, trust me they do.”

He smiled to himself. “Uh. We should- uhm. Minecraft gamer time.”

“Charlie? Are you-“

“Processing.” He cut Wilbur short. “Planning. Proceeding. Gamer.”

“Gamer.” Tommy echoed the flustered boy.

“Gamer.” Charlie booted up the Minecraft world and examined his wooden house. He bounced his game character over to y/n’s house. When they had joined the game they had picked to be a shulk, so they lived in a dug out home near the Pube.

Charlie’s character ran into the cave home. It was quite lovely for what it was; wooden floors with support beams and plants everywhere. There were pots on the floors and on the shelves and vines from the ceiling. As he looked around the room he felt the gears clicking in his head. Knowing exactly what to do.

A few hours later, y/n signed back into discord. They could see a few people being active in solo vc’s, including Charlie. They did their best to ignore it, simply moving on to open Mojang. They logged themself into the Origins SMP server and checked around where they were. They had last logged off in Wilbur’s house, so they were very ready to move around when they got a set of private messages from Charlie.

Are you streaming?

y/n didn’t hesitate in saying no. It was an honest response. They had only logged on today in the hopes of grinding towards gathering ores and other basic needs. But if Charlie needed something, who were they to say no?

Can you meet me at your house?

y/n responded and went on their way towards the familiar cave. It wasn’t a long walk. They were there soon and were greeted by a closed door and a sign telling them to join Charlie’s VC.

“Hello? Charlie?”

Looking over at discord, they watched as Charlie’s camera turned on. He was sitting in his streaming room wearing a blue button-down shirt with short sleeves. “Hey, uhm, so, I wanted to say something before you go in your house.”

“If I go in will you be there?”

“Well yeah but-“ y/n opened the door and gasped. The entirety of their floor was made into grass and there were flowers blooming everywhere. Every single floor block had been made grass, actually.

“Charlie, how did you do this?”

“Well, bonemeal, and some Ranboo help.”

“Charlie, it’s gorgeous. Aww, and the flowers…” They just now noticed that most of the flowers in the room were their favorite - blue cornflowers.

“Yeah! I just,” Charlie took a deep breath. “I wanted to say that I know you don’t think I want to see you or that I wouldn’t like what I see, but I know that I would feel the same way about you as I did this morning, or yesterday, or four months ago. Because it’s you, and I’ll always feel the way I feel about you. But, until you feel comfortable, I’ll be here. waiting.”

They sighed, making sure their camera was plugged in before they turned it on. “Charlie, this is the sweetest thing.”

“Oh fuck.”

The two of them seemed to freeze. Charlie looked mortified, his face pink as can be, while y/n looked incredibly confused. “I’m sorry, what-?”

“No no no you’re just really pretty.” The words spilled from Charlie’s mouth faster than they’d ever been. “Like gorgeous. Top tier. 10/10. On God. Have I told you I’m in love with you-? Your face! In love with your face! Please tell me this is going well.”

y/n giggled. “So you’re in love with me now?”

Charlie sputtered, stumbling over his words. “No-! Maybe, I- that’s not what I meant-“

“Charlie it’s okay.”

He paused, pointing at his own chest. “You? Me you? You do? Me?” y/n nodded and watched as Charlie threw himself backwards cheering. “SHIT-“

“Charlie?”

“Yes! Yes I’m here I’m here for all of this. Oh my god I’m so happy.” y/n watched Charlie’s Minecraft character dance around and jump. “Oh my god. Oh my god! Wait does this mean I can meet you now? If I meet you can I kiss you? Please?”

“When I meet you, you can kiss me all you want.”

“When? When!” They watched Charlie’s camera as he got up and danced around. He stopped and dashed back to the camera, getting absurdly close. “I love you. I can’t wait for when.”

#charlie slimecicle #charlie slimecicle x reader #slimecicle x reader #slimecicle #dsmp x reader

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selfless| ryan atwood

summary| ryan seems to keep getting into trouble revolving around you so you decide to leave orange county, however, ryan has the same mind set.

note| I’m still in season 1 of the O.C. and even though I know Luke leaves and he isn’t really a villain, I need a bad guy for the story so I’m using Luke.

“Oh my God Y/N!” As the officer help you from the back of the police car, wrapped in blankets, wet and shaking uncontrollably you fall into the first pair of arms to grab you. your boyfriend, ryan atwood.

When you had decided to attend a private prep school across the country for your junior year, you hadn’t intended to fall for your host families foster son however here you were. apart of the cohen family.

From the adjacent driveway marissa and summer stood in shock watching as there somewhat friend froze in his arms. And the question raining over everyone mind... what had happened.

“Y/N, you’re freezing.” Ryan states the obvious as his hold tighten in an attempt to warm her up. As the scene unfolds the lifted truck of marissa’s boyfriend luke pulls up and he moves to marissa’s side, watching in guilt as you practically can’t stand on your own.

“She needs to get warm as soon as possible, a hot bath and then warm blankets, you need to get her body heat back.” The officer explains to Sandy and Kristen who are at Ryan’s and your side along with Seth, who for a second went to try and help Ryan hold you up however decided against it when he saw the look on his ‘brothers’ face. ‘Will do officer, thank you.” “We’ll be in contact in the morning to learn more about what happened but get her inside first, if her body heat doesn’t go up in the morning, she’ll need to go to the hospital.”

“Where were you?” Your voice was small and Ryan almost missed it as Sandy removed you from his hold, picking you up to get you into the house quicker. “Y/N what are you talking about?” Ryan questions rushing after Sandy. “The pier, you didn’t come.. Luke he dropped me off-” Ryan had texted you before to cancel as something with Seth had come up and he knew you would understand, however, he now realized that your phone wasn’t on you... You had forgotten it at the house and hadn’t gotten the text. At the mention of Luke his head snaps in the direction of the Cooper house and as he made eye contact, Luke turns away in guilt. Marissa put the piecing together... No, when they arrived to drop you at the pier and Luke offered to walk you to where you were meant to meet Ryan, he didn’t hand you off to Ryan, he had pushed you into the water as a joke... no knowing you couldn’t swim nor that the water was freezing temperatures.

Even with your consciousness was fading in and out, you were so sensitive to the heat around you that you could feel Ryan’s body moving from besides you. With your remaining strength you reach out to grab a hold of Ryan’s sleeve, stopping him in his tracks. “Ryan don’t.” “Y/N, he could’ve killed you.” He gritted threw his teeth, attempting to keep his anger from boiling over. “Ryan that isn’t important right now, we need to get her inside... Do not go over there.” Sandy voice came out as a threat. He was putting his foot down. They would deal with Luke when you were taken care of, which you weren’t at the moment still shivering in Sandy’s arms. Ryan stops, staring at you and Sandy for a moment, before shaking his head in ‘sorry’ and rushing off down the driveway in the direction of Marissa’s house. “Ryan!” Sandy yells after him, Kristen stepping in quickly. “Sandy we need to get her inside, Seth go with Ryan.” She meditates the situation. She knows well that Seth isn’t going to be able to stop Ryan, however, you needed to get taken inside. Ryan fighting Luke again or you possibly getting hypothermia... hypothermia wins.

“Dropping the charges? Are you being serious Y/N? He could’ve killed you.” Seth was going ballistic that morning at you sat at the kitchen island drinking hot chocolate against your will... you needed something warm and hot chocolate was better than coffee, but still wasn’t your drink of choice. “He didn’t know the water was that cold or that I couldn’t swim plus if I drop the charges against him, he won’t go after Ryan.” You mumble back as you pull the sleeves of your sweatshirt over your hands, still colder than usual. Seth scoffs looking to his dad for help, who was standing off to the side reading the morning news paper. “Dad, a little help here.” Sandy looks up, “I’ve already tired, Seth.” He replies in defeat and then at the sound of the sliding doors opening, the kitchen falls silent as Ryan enters the kitchen. Ryan’s eyes quickly fall to you, but yours just as quickly fall away suddenly becoming very interested in your mug of hot coco. It was visible that he got into a fight, you often question if he’s truly from Chino because every time he fights with Luke, Luke somehow ends up winning and Ryan comes out with more damage. “I’ll drive today.” Ryan pipes up, trying to break the uncomfortable silence that was waying on the kitchen. “Yes, and we should get going before the pressures of awkwardness crush us all.” Seth jumps at the opportunity. “It’s just gonna be you two today, I have to take Y/N to the doctors.” Sandy explains as Ryan lags waiting for you to join him and Seth. “Doctors? Are you okay?” Ryan’s concern is obvious from his tone. “I’m fine.” You mumble before Sandy speaks again. “It’s just to make sure her body heat is stable and back to normal, nothing serious.” “I’m coming with.” Ryan demands, dropping his backpack from his shoulder. “No you’re not. You’re going to school. After last night you’re lucky you’re even still here.” Sandy snapped, he was right. If Luke pressed charges Ryan would be taken from the Cohen’s and put back in juvie.. and it would’ve been all your fault.

“Sandy?” The tone of your voice made his head snap in your direction. You sat in the passengers seat as Sandy drove back to the house after the doctors. You were okay, you’ve just caught a small cold and were now on antibiotics. Not to serious. “I wanna go back home. I’ll finish the year back home.” Shock over took Sandy’s face. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “Y/N finals are coming up, you’ll have to repeat the whole year if you transfer back now. What about summer, I thought you were staying to go on vacation with us this year? You felt tears form in your eyes and it didn’t go unnoticed to the man sitting besides you. “Ryan could’ve gone to jail last night because of me. Everything bad he’s done since I’ve gotten here as been because of me. I’m not good for him, I’m going to ruin his life. I have to leave.” Sandy signs as he pulls into the driveway of the house you’ve called home for the past year. “You two are insufferable.” He mumbles and you look at him confused, what does he mean by that? Sandy sighs again, debating on weather to tell you or not. “Last night I went to talk to Ryan and he was packing a bag. He was planning on running away last night because he’s ‘causing trouble in your life’, the two of you are selfless with each other. You want to leave because you feel like you cause trouble for him, Ryan thinks the same thing about you Y/N.” Your jaw hung as Sandy spilled the secret from the night before. Ryan was going to give his life up for you. So that you could live a drama free life with the Cohen’s minus him of course. “Why is he such a dumbass?” You seriously ask, which makes Sandy chuckle. “I’m sure he’s say the same thing about you. Y/N, Ryan needs someone like you in his life. I promise I’m not bullshiting you when I say he’s the happiest I’ve seen him since you’ve come here.” “I can’t ruin his life Sandy. Even if someone is happy if someone is ruining everything else in that persons life, the happiest isn’t worth it, is it?” “Y/N, I can’t stop you from leaving, but think on it. At least talk to him.”

“Ryan, can we talk?” Your voice and the knock on his open door spooked him as he laid staring at his ceiling. It wasn’t abnormal for you to come to the pool house at night to see him. It wasn’t abnormal for you to sleep in the pool house with him just like it wasn’t abnormal for him to sleep in your bedroom inside of the main house. In the beginning Kristen and Sandy tried to stop it from happening, however as time progressed and a pregnancy hasn’t occurred it’s just become normal for one of your beds to be empty at night. The sound of your voice had spooked him as you haven’t spoken more than a few sentences to him since his brawl with Luke. “Yeah, totally.” Ryan shot up, sitting on the side of his bed as you closed the door behind you and joined him on the bed with a large space between you. Strange. The two of you are normally attached at the hip while around each other. It wasn’t something you two did on purpose, most of the time you don’t realize you’re as close until it’s pointed out by a third party. Ryan clears his throat, not liking the silence hanging in the air between your two. “Are you alright?” He questioned noticing you still swearing a sweatshirt even in orange county’s early May weather. Then it hits him, jealously at the notice of the sweatshirt being Seth’s. he ignores it, looking away from the sweatshirt and moving to your face. You’re not looking at him and he feels it in his chest. Pain. You finally nod, “Just a cold, I’m on antibiotics for like 2 weeks.” You explain not going into more detail than needed before letting the silence fall again.

“I might be going back home.” Ryan’s head snaps so face that you’re surprised his neck didn’t break. “What?” “You don’t have to runaway, I’m most likely going back home after final exams.” Ryan was dumbfounded, A by your confession and B by the fact that Sandy told you about his antics. Ryan goes to speak, however he stops himself, shakes his head and changes what he was going to say. Realization hitting him as his conversation with Sandy from the night before spilling into his mind. “We’re being ridiculous.” Confusion covers your face as he continues, “Just the other night you were here saying you were planning on staying in orange county for the next year and now you want to leave just because I fought Luke, who could’ve killed you might I add!” He was now on his feet. Anger and desperation slipping into his tone. “Ryan you could’ve gone to jail because of fighting Luke and that would’ve been my fault! How did you expect me to live with that if that happened?” “You would’ve gone on and been more concentrated on school and go on to continue to live with the Cohen’s-” “If I go back home I’ll be concentrated on school and you wouldn’t have to leave the life you built-” “Y/N you hate your mom!” Silence falls again and regret covers Ryan’s face but he continues with his point, only now talking instead of screaming. “If you go back home you’re not going to go to art school cause your mom won’t let you. You’ve said it before Y/N you’re mother is suffocating, I can’t put you back in that position.” “Ryan all you have is the Cohen’s.-” “They’re all you have too, Y/N.” You both stop speaking and you feel the tears in your eyes again as the realization washes over you. “I have you Ryan, and I need you with me, but I can’t live with the weight that you’re going to put yourself in harms way for me.” Ryan’s face falls as the first tear rolls down your face. “I couldn’t just let him get away with hurting you.” He defends himself again for the millionth time. “I know, but promise me you’ll stop fighting people and stop getting in trouble.” You plead with him and the next moment you’re knocked back as his body collides with your and his arms wrap around you so tightly you almost can’t breath. “I will, just, stay.”

The next morning you followed Ryan hand-in-hand into the kitchen where the Cohen’s all resided, and all stopped dead in their tracks upon you both entering. “Well good morning you too.” Seth says as he notices his parents shocked expressions. The glares sent by you both make Seth uncomfortably turn away to face his parents. “How do they do that? One glare and you perfectly understand. Witchcraft I tell you.” He whispers to them making both parents chuckle before he excuses himself from the kitchen, attention turning back to you and Ryan. “So y/n,” Sandy begins already knowing the reply to his next statement. “We have a meeting today with the dean about transferring your credits back home-” “No need.” Was all you said, stealing a glance at Ryan which he return, a smile on his face in gratefulness and happiness as you both turn back to your breakfast in silence. Sandy grinning from ear to ear... his house was back to normal.

#the o.c.#ryan atwood #ryan atwood imagines #seth cohen #the o.c. imagines #the oc imagines

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corysmiles · 3 years

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Little streamer AU prompts!

-Thinking they were all humans, either Wil or Phil bought tickets for them all to go to an amusement park....but Tommy’s too short to ride. Where does it go from there? Does Wilbur feel bad and sob out apologies? Does Tommy say it’s fine and that they can go without him, only to get kidnapped/lost? Does Tommy say f*ck it and try to sneak on with Tubbo? Your choice :)

-The bois at the arcade during the meetup. They try to cheat the games by having Tommy roll skeeballs into the best slot, or go inside machines to fix the game in their favor

-While Tubbo has Lani, and Phil has probably had like a borrower coworker or something, this is Wil’s first time heavily interacting with someone so small, and constantly watches the others and stays up at night googling how to best handle a borrower. Some of the suggestions he gets from online are way too formal and Tommy is confused as heck at where he’s getting these ideas. Like Wil you don’t have to wash your hands before picking me up if we’re RUNNING LATE C’MON LETS GO

-(the angst prompt) Tommy was so excited to meet others his size and during the meet up he doesn’t feel included or something, and he ahas a mental breakdown. Maybe he hides in a small space so the others can’t find/reach him

-If you don’t have plans for techno yet, maybe he’s also a tiny and thought he was the only one of any of his online friends, but the group FaceTimes him and he sees Tommy is small too but doesn’t make a big deal out of it, just a mentions it in the conversation at some point. Tommy feels instantly better. “Technoblade’s a bigger bad ass than any of you talk freaks!” “Techno was already the coolest, but none of you have a chance now.”

-Tommy wrestles with everyone’s hands

If you can’t tell I love this idea so much lol

-🦎anon

omg I love your ideas so much thank you and I’m so so sorry this post is so long I was gonna split it up but then I was motivated and got really excited (also pls forgive me for any spelling errors this is long and I didnt want to go back and edit it) :]

Little streamer au drabbles

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When Phil and Kristen had originally been planning out all the things they could do at the meet up they didn’t take into account the possibility that any of their friends might be well...tiny. So when the day came for the group to go to the amusement park and they were stopped by security at the first ride Phil knew the day wasn’t going to end well.

“Sorry sir,” the man said to Wilbur who currently had Tommy in his front pocket, “Tinies can’t go on the rides here, it’s too much liability for the park.”

Wilbur just stared at the man in mild confusion, “What if I hold him though, there’s no way anything could happen.”

The man just shrugged, “I don’t know it’s the park’s rules not mine so you can either stay out here with him or pass on rides for today.”

Wilbur looked down at the small teen in his pocket and could tell he was getting upset by the confrontation. Tommy’s shoulders drooped and he kept his eyes down as if to not show the others his disappointment.

“Its alright big man, go on I can stay down here,” Tommy whispered and patted Wilbur’s chest reassuringly. The attempt at comfort just made Wilbur’s frown grow.

“Hey it’s alright Will I’ll stay down here with Tommy,” Tubbo said, “I’m not the biggest fan of heights anyways.”

Wilbur reluctantly agreed and handed over the tiny to the other teen who walked over to one of the benches to wait for the others.

When Wilbur and Phil got off the roller coaster they panicked when they couldn’t find the two teens until they found Tubbo riding on a carousel horse with Tommy hanging off the pole.

Safe to say Wilbur didn’t let Tubbo take Tommy the rest of the day. (Sorry i didnt do angst for this one)

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Tommy was so excited to go to the arcade with his friends. When they got there though and Tommy saw all the prizes he could win he started to form a plan.

Tubbo of course would be the one to help him out though since he was the only one that was willing to let Tommy cause any chaos.

It started with small things like having him help them cheat on skeeball or hit targets with his hands on shooting games until they started to look for more ways to cheat.

For the final plan, Tubbo watched as Tommy climbed through the slot of a crane machine and tried to push a large bear toy into the hole.

When he saw the bear he thought Wilbur would like it and while Tubbo was usually opposed to crane games since it’s just a “waste of fucking money” he wasn’t necessarily opposed to helping Tommy get into the machine.

Everything was going fine until a woman with a child came over to the machine to play for themselves; immediately Tommy ducked down beneath the plushies so they wouldn’t get caught and Tubbo began to panic when he lost sight of the tiny.

It was at that moment that the rest of the group came over to Tubbo and asked where Tommy was.

“Uhhh hes in the bathroom,” Tubbo said nervously.

Phil tilted his head at the boy, “Uhuh...where is he Tubbo?”

“Ummmm so about that big man we uh-“

However, Tubbo was interrupted by his phone dinging and his face went pale as he read the text from Tommy.

-Pls get me out of here big man I can’t get this shit off me anymore-

“Uhhhh...oh fuck,” Tubbo muttered, “Um I have not the best news for you.”

“And what’s that?” Wilbur asked.

“Ummm do you have any coins on you?”

Phil looked at Tubbo with confusion, “Yeah, why do you ask mate?”

Tubbo turned back to the crane where the mother and daughter had left and laughed nervously, “well....ummm so by bathroom I kinda meant uh the crane machine? Yeah, Tommy’s in there.”

The adults immediately freaked out at the situation because what the fuck were the kids thinking. And when Tubbo told Wilbur they were just trying to get the teddybear for him cause Tommy thought he’d like it, he felt even more dread.

After almost an hour of Wilbur and Phil putting in money into the claw machine they finally got enough toys out of the way to see the tiny.

With one more try Tommy was able to grab onto the claw and let himself fall out of the machine. Wilbur immediately scooped him up to scold him for being a dumbass but when he saw that Tommy’s face was red and swollen he decided instead to just slip Tommy into his pocket to rest.

With the extra cheated tickets though they were able to buy Tommy a tiny plastic nerf gun from the arcade before they left.—————————————————————

Wilbur was surprised at how quickly Phil and Tubbo were okay with Tommy’s size. While Tubbo apparently had a tiny sister and Phil had had tiny friends before, Wilbur couldn’t recall ever actually interacting with someone so small expect for in passing.

He really cared about Tommy as both a friend and as a brother and he was so afraid of messing up with the teen. He didn’t want to hurt or offend Tommy in any way so of course he went to the best place to figure out what to do: wikihow.

The articles were strange for sure but anything to make Tommy feel more comfortable with him would be worth it.

So the next day when Tommy was supposed to be eating breakfast at Wilbur’s house and Wilbur wouldn’t pick him up to put him on the table he thought the taller man was just being a dick.

Then when Tommy asked him if he would pick him up Wilbur walked away from him to go to the bathroom instead of helping him.

After a minute the brunette man walked back and reached a hand down to lay besides Tommy. Tommy stepped onto his palm and expected him to pull him up towards him but when he didn’t he started to get really annoyed.

“Hey you can move what the fucks up witb you right now you’re being all weird and shit man,” Tommy grumbled.

“Huh? Oh I just...I was looking up some stuff about uh tinies and I thought maybe it would make you more comfortable?” Wilbur whispered with embarrassment.

“What?” Tommy laughed, “Why the fuck would you do that you were fine before I would tell you if I wasn’t comfortable big man you don’t have to worry about that.”

Wilbur felt his heart swell at the comfort and slowly lifted Tommy up to the table for them to eat together. It was still strange having someone so small around but Wilbur would get used to it for Tommy.—————————————————————

Tommy usually didn’t have any problems with having bigger people around. All his friends at home and his family were all humans so he knew he was overreacting about none of his online friends being tinies. But when they went out to dinner together and Phil, Tubbo, and Wilbur were all talking together while Tommy sat next to Wilbur’s cup something broke inside him.

The reason he loved streaming so much was that he thought he finally had met other people like him, but he guessed it was his own fault for never really checking.

As the three laughed loudly Tommy felt himself becoming more and more overwhelmed by the chaos in the restaurant. He couldn’t cry now though his friends were having fun, it would be a dick move for him to ruin the meet up for them just because he expected them to be tinies.

Throughout the meal and on the way home Tommy was mostly silent, he sat in Wilbur’s pocket as they arrived at the man’s apartment. Wilbur waved goodbye to Phil and Tubbo as he took Tommy inside.

Wilbur sat Tommy down on the counter as he changed and Tommy finally felt a few tears fall from his eyes. He heard the sound of a door opening and quickly hid behind a tea box so Wilbur wouldn’t see him in this state.

He started to shake as the tears kept coming while he heard Wilbur searching around for him.

“Tommy?” Wilbur called out but Tommy couldn’t even get a solid breath much less respond.

After a few moments Tommy felt the tea box he was hiding near shift as a large hand wrapped him up gently.

“Oh jeez Tommy are you okay?” Wilbur asked as he lifted Tommy to his eyes.

Tommy wiped his eyes and slowly nodded to Wilbur who looked heartbroken by the tears.

Wilbur sighed, “Do you want to talk about it?”

Tommy shook his head no and Wilbur gave the boy a sad smile.

“I’m sorry Tommy, we’ll talk about this later okay,” he whispered as he tucked Tommy up against his chest. He held the tiny until he heard soft snores replace the sobs and promised himself that whatever made him this sad would never happen again.—————————————————————

Techno had been tweeting at the rest of the sleepy boys since the start of the meetup. The American wished he had gotten to meet up with his friends but sadly because of covid there was no way to safely visit the UK, so instead they settled for FaceTiming one night so that Techno wouldn’t feel as left out.

Techno grabbed his specially made phone and anxiously waited for the call. When Phil’s contact showed up Techno opened it immediately and was greeted by the familiar blonde human’s face along with Tubbo in the corner.

“Hey Techno!” Phil smiled as Tubbo waved aggressively.

Techno smiled and waved back, “Hullo.”

After a little bit of shuffling Wilbur appeared on the screen with something cupped in his hands.

“What you got there Will?” Techno asked with an amused expression.

“It’s me bitch! Ayyy Techno,” a loud and annoying but familiar voice yelled form the taller man’s hands.

“Oh hey Tommy,” Techno laughed, but besides that there was almost no reaction to Tommy’s height.

“That’s it? No big ‘wow you’re small’ or like ‘poggers’ or anything?” Tommy asked.

Techno hummed in response, “Nah why would I care your nothing special cause you’re small.”

Tommy huffed and crossed his arms at Techno, “I’m not special bitch? I’m the only tiny here I’m amazing!”

A small chuckle left Techno as he realized the situation.

“And why are you so sure you’re the only one huh?”

Tommy blinked wide eyed at Techno before a wide grin spread across his face.

“Wait you’re small too?” Phil asked.

Techno nodded to his friends who all had different ranges of shock on their faces.

“Oh fuck yeah!” Tommy screeched causing everyone to laugh.

“See I knew this is why you were so much cooler than these bitches were alpha men you see,” Tommy laughed.

“Yeah,” Techno smiled, “I’m sure that’s why.”

The rest of the call was calmer however Tommy continued to insist that Techno and him were much cooler than the rest of the them. —————————————————————

The first time Tommy had been grabbed to try to get him to calm down or stay still it had been by Phil when he was trying to cook breakfast and Tommy kept getting too close to the stove top. Phil placed his hand over Tommy to keep him still when he felt the kid latch onto his pointer finger and try to pull it away.

“Ay what are you doing mate?” Phil laughed as the tiny continued to struggle with his finger.

“I’m wrestling you big man can’t you tell, and I’m fucking winning!” Tommy grinned.

Phil chuckled at the kid before flipping him over with his thumb.

“Yup you’re winning sure,” he said slyly.

When Wilbur and Tubbo walked in to Phil trying to pin down Tommy with his fingers while the small boy laughed and pushed them away as much as he could they had no fucking clue what was going on.

#🦎 anon #mcyt gt #mcyt g/t #little streamer au #t!tommy #g!wilbur #g!tubbo #g!philza #t!techno #corywrites

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jq37 · 3 years

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The Report Card – Fantasy High: The Seven Ep 5

Through a Glass, Darkly

Welcome back to the Temple of the Earth Defiant where the girls and their magical horses (and one pony!) have found refuge from the strange, twisted, fae creatures that have been chasing them. The statue of Asha Hammerheart that Ost animated last episode is still alive and wrecking house on the remaining harpies and beasts that are foolish enough to keep fighting and the rest soon get the hint and flee.

Ost does some healing (boosted by the ambient Hallow effect of the temple which gives everyone a short rest) and then, seeing the damage to the temple caused by erosion, starts using Mending to fix things up. Her friends help out too with Sam and Yelle being most effective--Sam by repairing water damage and Yelle by creating tree cover and other druid-y tricks. But of course, we can’t overlook Katja’s crucial addition of carving “A Horse is a Home” into one of the walls of this sacred temple.

Anyway, the girls are nesting super hard, the horses are having their scrapbooking reviewing club (an insane thing that was established last episode) and then Sam asks a question. Did y’all mention something about a photo of me going viral? Everyone’s like yeah, but don’t worry, you looked super hot. That’s not the part Sam was worried about. What she’s worried about and what all the girls except Zelda don’t really seem to know is that Sam doesn’t really have a social media presence. So like, 180k and climbing views (as decided by a dice roll) isn’t really what she wants. She scrolls through the comments really quick and sees that they’re not awful but one person is like, “Hey that girl looks a lot like that character from that old show”. Which Sam doesn’t love. She says that she’s fine but also that, even without an Insight check, she’s obviously not.

Sam kind of looks to Zelda to bail her out and Zelda is like, “Hey, I’m gonna delete this video.” The other girls follow suit, even though they don’t quite know what’s happening. When they have to split up to investigate, Sam has Zelda kind of bail her out again and they split up to go check a nest outside--Zelda waving off Danielle when she wants to go with. Ant and Yelle decide to check out a cache of some treasure they saw earlier and Ost and Katja stay with the horses to keep fixing the temple up. Penny initially goes with Ant and Yelle but rushes back to be with Ost and Kat when Ost discovers a hidden lock while she’s fixing a wall.

So, the girls are split up, let’s run all these scenes.

Antiope and Yelle

Ant and Yelle go see the pile of treasure (near the statue of dwarven paladin Yvonna) which they learn is like a “take a penny leave a penny” situation for weapons and items. They were left by adventures who were similarly chased here and you can take what you need as long as you leave something to help others. Like, “Oh no I only have an ice sword and I need flaming arrows.” It doesn’t have to be equivalent exchange, you just need to leave something useful.

In this space, Yelle feels a weird melancholy and like they’re within the watch of something vast and powerful. She tries to check for TK’s presence but rolls low. Antiope leaves her Kalvaxus killing shortsword and takes some really nice, white feather fledged arrows with mirror tips and an ax Kat wants as a present for her dad. Danielle takes a bandolier of potions (3 healing and 2 mystery I believe) and leaves a bunch of mushrooms. Some of them are psychedelic and Ant takes one because this is probably a good time to be high, right?

It’s not messing with her competence obviously though because she rolls a 25 on Primeval Awareness and gets a weird sense, like something is closing in on this place. And like something very powerful is bleeding, which combined with the chaos of the mountains might explain the weird harpies and the cat/dogs. But she’s high so she explains this is a very spacey, stoner way. Probably a good thing she’s with Yelle.

Sam and Zelda

Sam can fly and Zelda can basically walk vertically with her goat legs so they check out the nest. Well, ostensibly that’s what they’re doing. Really they’re just having a heart to heart. Sam thanks Zelda for saving her ass and apologizes profusely for being so short with her. Zelda gives her a huge mid-air hug and says it’s not a big deal because she knows Sam is just lashing out because she’s hurting but Sam says it’s not a good enough excuse and she’s truly sorry. It’s been her coping mechanism for so long but she doesn’t want to be that way. She tells Zelda that the Everpetals are divorcing and that she’s living alone and Zelda says that any one of the girls would be happy to have her stay with them. Sam further explains that this is a big part of the reason she’s been so broken up about the possibility of their group splitting up and Zelda immediately takes out her crystal and texts her “I’m in” in the thread, breaking Sam again.

Since they’re in heart to heart mode, Sam tells her that she talked to her bio-mom and an agent and she’s not sure what to do. Zelda says that she’s gonna be spectacular no matter what she does and she doesn’t have to do any of them but it’s cool doors are opening for her but also Antiope and Penny are gonna be PISSED that she’s out here making side plans after she gave them so much shit for theirs. Lol, well it’s a nice moment in the meantime and we cut to…

Penny, Ost, and Katja

While Penny is lockpicking (and also trying to teach one of the horses to lockpick because sure) Katja and Ost go talk to the statue of Asha Hammerheart. It seems to be animated with at least some level of her true consciousness from beyond the grave and that she can kind of woge into her statue when she wants, which is cool. She’s been there for like 250 years so that’s a lot of history to see.

Ost is maybe the most polite we’ve ever seen her talking to Asha (at least to begin with lol) and they ask her about TK. Asha says she saw TK show up 12 years ago but she never left, at least not through the front door. And then about 2 years ago (right around when they were in the crystals) that’s when the harpy queen showed up. At first they were normal and then they started mutating. Also, recently, Korra (one of the other statues/heroes) saw a woman in the mountains--not TK.

Ost then takes a page from the book of one St. Kristen Applebees and asks, “Hey. What’s the deal with our god? He never talks to us, does he just suck?” Asha--who has never talked to him even though she’s a martyred hero and literally in dwarf heaven makes some excuses for the guy but Katja scoffs at them. “If people wanna take care of you, they do.” Ost then straight up asks if Logran Soulforger is even real which sets Asha off but Ost isn’t mad AT her, she’s mad FOR her. You go and do all this cool shit to the point where you have this cool ass statue, you fully DIE for him and he doesn’t even say hi? With a 21 Persuasion check, Asha admits that yeah, she would have liked some recognition. She decides she’s gonna go do some talking to some people and leaves after getting Ost’s number but before they can ask more about the woman Korra saw (who they think is Charity).

OK, that’s all the small group stuff! Everyone comes back as Penny finishes up with the lock and they go down into this room that’s full of polished, precious stones. This is probably where people who were upkeeping the temple stayed. While everyone else is going down, Sam feels some powerful magical pull--much like her episode 1 Lightning Lure--calling her from the top of the stairs so she goes back up. We’ll get back to her in a bit.

Penny rolls a high check to clock what’s going on down here. First off, she finds flintlock bullets and airship uniform scraps which makes it seem like there was a battle here involving some airship guys from the Baronies. Which is not just the place of origin of Riz’s imaginary Romance Partner. It’s a cluster of nations known for high rates of monarchical turnover and renaissance style intrigue. I’m picturing just a nation of [REDACTED]s from Crown of Candy.

With all of this stuff, Penny finds an emblem of a billionaire airship mogul named Lord Talcidimir Tallbreeze who is a friend of her dad’s. Yelle is immediately like FUCK billionaires which isn’t plot relevant but it’s nice to know she’s always on brand.

Oh also, Penny just casually finds the Legendarium so that’s neat.

To be safe, Ost casts Protection from Energy on Ant (who is the one who knows how to use it) and brings out her Spirit Guardian (who is a combo of her mom, nona, and Asha, with her dad’s rings). Ant checks it out and sees that there are currently no A, B, or C quests in all of Spyre. While Penny cross references the bylaws to see if there’s a way to get around this, Yelle does some druid BS that I still do not understand to use the crystals in the cave to jailbreak this super powerful magical Artifact so they can just have copies on their crystals. While that’s happening, let’s check on Sam.

Sam goes back up the staircase where she sees Ending who doesn’t look menacing at all, just extremely sad. She’s looking out the mouth of the cave and, when she turns, Sam can see she’s crying blood.

“What’s wrong?” asks Sam, the acid-tongued but good-hearted. “Can I help you?”

With a 25 Persuasion check to get her to talk, Ending apologizes for scaring her and her friends before. She didn’t mean to. She sometimes forgets that her very nature can be frightening and dangerous to others. She says that when she escaped, she tried to rejoin her sisters but found their mirrors shattered and them gone. Sam thought they escaped but that doesn’t make sense to Ending. If they had, why wouldn’t they have freed her as well?

Sam asks who her sisters were and we finally get true names for Ending and her sisters:

Chrona, Terra, Pyrria, Nira, Zefira, Anima, and herself, Talura (which is what I’ll be calling her now that we know). Talura is the baby, the youngest. Sam realizes she’s talking about the Eidolons and Talura seems surprised and a bit pleased that Sam recognizes them.

Sam asks if she can hug her and Talura hugs her tightly in a very cold embrace that doesn’t hurt. Downstairs, she hears her friends (Penny specifically) freaking about about the lack of quests but she doesn’t break the hug.

“My own sisters are struggling right now but I’m gonna stay with you because you don’t know where yours are. But maybe we can find them.”

Talura clocks that the way that Sam is being is her true nature, not the bitchiness she often uses as a shield. Then she starts to talk about her history. That she and her sisters were sealed away when the gods were done with them (Sam can relate to being used and set aside) and the only way out was death. Talura has been crying and looking for her sisters to no avail. Her tears of blood leaking seems to be what caused the monsters to mutate which is in line with what Yelle and Ant were sensing.

Talura doesn’t think anything could have destroyed her sisters so she’s very confused. Sam offers Talura her Mirror of the Past because it almost knocked out Sam to get god-tier information but Talura presumably won’t have that problem. Talura offers her a boon in exchange for this great kindness but Sam says she doesn’t need any quid pro quo. “This is just because you’re hurting.��

Talura is supremely touched and still wants to do something for her new...friend? Sam accepts the title and says that what she needs is some help on her GED quest. Once she explains what she means, Talura again recognizes Aguefort and is like, Oh, you need a quest? I can totally help with that! As we learned earlier, these guys are kinda genie connected so it’s not super surprising when Talura very happily goes full your wish is my command.

Downstairs, a Class A quest suddenly appears in Spyre on the screen.

Back upstairs, Talura says that it’s been too long since she got to grant a wish and seems really happy about it. Sam gives her the mirror so she can check what happened to her sisters but when she does, she totally flips out and gets super angry--not at Sam, just at whatever she’s looking at. She can hardly believe it. Sam tries to figure out what’s wrong but she just gets super big and then disappears into a puff of smoke, leaving Sam's mirror on the ground, covered in frost.

Downstairs, the Class A quest expands across the entire globe and then the Legendarium cracks. Ost’s spirit guardian disappears because of alarm bells ringing in the afterlife. And the girls learn that a Class A quest is a quest that affects the whole MULTIVERSE. Yikes!

So anyway, they girls go upstairs to check on Sam (on a bear that Penny makes because sure) and they see that something clearly just happened with Sam. Yelle asks if she’s good and Sam is like yeahhhh I don’t think ANYONE is good right now. Sam seems like she’s about to cry and Antiope instantly forgets all the petty bullshit going on between them and rushes to make sure she’s not hurt.

Sam gives the girls a rundown of what happened and Yelle concretely puts together what I said earlier about Talura’s tears messing with nature.

Sam wants to check her mirror to see what Talura saw and Brennan says she can do it the safe way with risk of failure of the surefire way with risk of personal harm. She, of course, picks door 2 and rolls a 13 on her con save which means she rises into the air like Storm from X-Men, eyes wide, and then instantly passes out and goes into shock. Antiope is there to catch her as she does.

Also, she looks SUPER hot while falling on a 31. Honestly, it’s a shame she doesn’t allow herself a social media presence.

Anyway, we’ll get to what she sees in a bit. Yelle and Ant make sure she’s OK (she is, but the has to be knocked out for this or she won’t be able to handle it).

Penny tells them what she knows about each Eidolon from her earlier research which is what element each goes with:

Chrona: Time (Related to astral and elemental planes)

Terra: Earth

Pyrria: Fire

Nira: Water

Zefira: Air

Anima: Life

Talura: Death

They also talk about TK never leaving via the front door and all this airship stuff being around. Maybe she left out the top of the mountain on an airship? Katja has the hookup with this Tal guy (she’s met him when she was younger) so they decide they need to check it out once Sam is good.

The girls fix the Legendarium and Ost, when she goes to pray for her spells for the night, doesn’t pray to her usual god. She prays to Asha. And not only does she get her spells, she also gets a new one--Commune.

And now let’s get to what Sam is seeing in her Vision Coma.

She was told by Talura that the only way out of the mirrors given to them by the gods was death. And what Talura saw that drove her to do whatever multiverse threatening thing that she did was every one of her sisters walking out of their mirrors and choosing death. I will specifically highlight that the oldest sister leaves almost immediately with a small, “Oh,” of realization and Anima, the closest sister to her seems terrified before coming to a joyful realization and leaving.

And that’s the end of the episode! Join us next week when apparently there is talk of a masquerade ball?????? Brennan, you shouldn’t have!

Superlatives

Sam: Most Likely to Accidently Snag a Brand Deal

Did you guys ever read the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche? Where Psyche was born so hot that it was basically a curse and she was miserable because she was so hot that Aphrodite hated her? That’s Sam. She is incapable of almost dying in a non-aesthetic way. It’s like a Pantene commercial every time. This is my favorite running gag.

Random Thoughts

Man, I have so many feelings about Sam. She’s such a BITCH in so many ways but it’s so obvious that she has a good heart. Every time she has an opportunity to be nice with no gain--helping Lola find her dog, magically turning the pages for the horses during book club, fully refusing a boon from Talura--she does. And I’m glad she gave Zelda such a sincere apology and didn’t let the extenuating circumstances absolve her because she said some pretty uncalled for things. But at her core she’s so kind and I want only good things for her.

Also those of you who know me from my FH recaps know I’m a messy bitch for sister stuff so Talura and Sam both referring to the other maidens as her sister had me dead. You can tell when something in this show is f’ing me up when I just start directly quoting instead of paraphrasing.

Katja being richer than Helio but having no idea what any of the brands Ost is mentioning are is peak comedy.

As is Ant’s response to the take and penny leave a penny translation from Ost, “No, Penny didn’t come with us.”

Ost: I get service in the afterlife.

You could really tell which of the players watched Sophomore Year because the Baronies came up and all of them went into fight or flight immediately.

Very Elsa vibes from Sam during the top of the scene with Talura. (Sam is, of course, a better sister but we simply do not have time to get into my feelings on Frozen 2 right now).

I was wondering why this season was called just “The Seven” when it dropped initially. Like, was it snappier? Did they not want to use the word “maiden”? But they still call themselves the Seven Maidens in the show so it’s probably not that. Now I’m wondering if it’s just to parallel the 7 of them w/ the 7 Eidolons.

So it seems clear based on the reactions of the first and sixth sisters that they didn’t just “go gently into that good night” as Ant would say and ditch Talura. It seems like they figured something out. Also Brennan isn’t really a “and then they all died, the end” kind of DM, you know? Credit to my friend @camwritery for getting here before I did but the gods said the only way out was death and she is death so you know? Those def seem like puzzle pieces that go together.

The only crit rolled this episode is a 1 by Penny which she gets to reroll as a halfling.

#the seven #the seven spoilers #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers

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