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nevertheless-moving · 2 months

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gnashing my teeth over vetinari and vimes in this au because you know what happens when you take 'not close but the closest another human can come to understanding me' and then give a thirty year headstart to the slower guy?

Harold, its just actually understanding . It's just understanding and being understood by another human, if only for brief, precious moments.

Sure vetinari understands vimes, that's not exceptional. (Except it is, it is, already so few knew him anymore, and now in the past again, having lost everything, everything - but this fresh faced dictator to be. This man who looks into people's souls and then gives vimes a double look).

But who really gets vetinari? Who else looks at children playing with garbage and sees the arteries of a world that could, must be? Who looks at pisstained ruins and sees the schools that will be built overlayed with every grueling step it will take to get there? Who's only weapon and only constraint is his own flesh and time, too much time, never enough time? Who has a Duty to The city beyond religious, ordained by the creator of their universe, something above gods and yet far, far beneath them.

Vimes doesnt need someone to direct his life. He's never needed that. Except holy shit he does, he definitely does, he needs a whole fucking support team but hes making less than minimum wage now. Give him something, anything to believe in.

Vetinari doesn't need to be believed in . He's never needed that. But he is still a man, and whoooo booooooy it is a heady thing to be trusted so recklessly, especially by someone like him, who mistrusts everything.

take that late canon Synergy, break it apart and then put it back together with a little bit more breathing room, a wee less intense power dynamics...!

Anyway they're friends. Best friends. By default possibly, since they don't have any other ones, but still. Two friends with souls too weathered for the lives their bodies have lived, bodies which are, at least at one point, and I'm not joking, teenage guys.

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I just think they're neat.

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Is it homerotic? Well first we have to remember that Samuel Vimes is doing Bad. We remember that? Ok. Now, let me ask you - is vimes the type of depressed that masturbates to feel something, or the type of depressed that cannot fathom human contact without pain. Exactly. It's like the cat that's both in the box and not or whatever. Sometimes one of them will be laying on the ground staring at the sky through the ceiling and the other will come and lay down next to him and their fingers will lightly brush against eachother and it will be the singular most intimate moment of not just their lives but also the life of the assassin that was watching in confusion from the window.

#Nightwatch au #discworld au #My au #discworld #Sam vimes #Honestly you could call this au 'everyone has a slightly better time than canon except for one cop specifically'#I CAN NOT EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH - THEY GO ON VETINARIS CANONICAL RICHBOY DISCWORLD EASTERN EUROPEAN BACKPACKING TRIP TOGETHER #The au could probably stand firm on that fact alone ngl

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wooahaes · 5 months

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war & snowballs

pairing: non-idol!han x gn!reader

genre: silly fic. kinda fluffy. established relationship au.

word count: 1.2k~

warnings: intense snowball fight.

daisy's notes: i believe minho could single-handedly destroy the rest of the group if he chose to. would he? probably not. but COULD he? yes. also thank u to loml isa @sseastar for helping me w this one <3. also ngl the other idea for this fic involved jisung finally confessing to reader after hyunjin (hyunjin + minho would have been readers teammates) took him hostage and left him with reader to watch but i liked dramatic couple han/reader being silly too much <3

This was war.

You’d built up a small barricade for yourself in the park, snow piled high and sturdy enough that you could take cover behind it. In the distance, you could hear Felix taunting anyone he could think of as he moved about the park. No doubt he was on the hunt, and you already knew that he likely had Chris and Changbin with him. How unfair, honestly: of all the people to draw out of the bunch, he got two of the buffer people in the friend group! There was no way you could take him down with power alone. You looked to where Minho was crouched at the end of the barricade, snowball in his gloved hand, as he listened out. When you peeked your head up, you only saw Felix alone, still calling out your names in that shrill, playful voice. How you hated this being war: you liked Felix plenty.

“Minho—”

He shook his head, seeming to already know what you were going to say. With a nod, you followed his gaze to where you could see a bit of black fabric from behind a tree: Chris was watching, and you figured Changbin had to be somewhere close by, too. You looked around, trying to find where Jisung had gone. The moment you heard heavy footsteps, you looked up to see Jisung dive into the snow next to you, out of breath. He called out to Minho, who crawled back over to the two of you.

“Hyunjin’s alone,” Jisung said, panting. “On the other side of the trees,” he pointed off toward a path further away. “We can—We can bring him back—”

You rested a hand on his back, “Jisung, breathe.”

For a moment, he panted, and looked up to you with a soft thanks. “I saw Seungmin and Jeongin further away. If we take down Hyunjin quickly and bring him back, they won’t spot us.”

Minho frowned, thinking over the idea. “It’s risky, but…” He looked up at the two of you, “I can distract them while you bring Hyunjin back here. We’ll decide who stays with him once we take him prisoner.”

You craned your neck up, looking out to where Felix had disappeared—presumably with Chris, too, since you couldn’t spot his jacket anymore. Minho laid out the plan: he’d go until he could see Seungmin and Jeongin, and signal you and Jisung to go after Hyunjin once he caught sight of them. Everyone knew Minho has the biggest threat of the entire group, and therefore they’d go after Minho first. With the plan set, the three of you set off, moving through the trees as you spotted Hyunjin just standing in the middle of the snow. He’d bent down to gather another snowball, and you glanced at Jisung with a firm nod. The two of you could handle anything, including Hyunjin.

Minho edged forward little by little. The moment you saw him give a signal, the two of you took off.

“Hyunjin! I’ll protect you!”

Except Changbin barreled out of the trees with a yell, startling Hyunjin as he jolted up. You saw him immediately move to take off, only for Changbin to tackle him into the snow. Before you or Jisung could turn back, Seungmin and Jeongin had rushed out from where they’d taken cover. Logically, you should have focused on getting out of there and regrouping with Minho and Jisung. Except for the fact that during the last road trip you took with Jisung, Seungmin, and Jeongin… only one of them ate the rest of your fries while you were driving, and that meant death.

You’d already scooped up snow, compacting it as you planned to get revenge on Seungmin. Only to see that he’d set his sights on Jisung instead. The moment he lobbed a snowball at him, you shoved Jisung forward and dove into the way, crashing into the snow after the snowball hit you instead. The sound of Jeongin laughing caught you attention as you felt snowballs pelt your body, barely pausing long enough for you to peek up at him and Seungmin as they continued to scoop up snow.

“Honey?” Jisung called out, a few steps away now, stared at you. “Come on—”

You waved him away. “Go find Minho!”

Jisung, being Jisung, returned to you instead. He went to pull you up by your arms, only to get smacked with a snowball that sent him sprawling into the snow next to you. Despite the cackles of Seungmin and Jeongin, who were taking way too much glee in this situation, your hand found Jisung’s.

“Jisungie…” You frowned at him. “You should have ran…”

“I’m not leaving you,” he said, slightly giggling. “You sacrificed yourself for me—” Only for him to throw his other arm up in front of his face as a snowball narrowly missed it before crunching into the snow. “Hey! That would have hurt!”

Seungmin stood over the two of you, just watching for a moment, one final snowball in his gloved hand. “... This is boring now.” He threw the snowball at Jisung’s stomach, looking over to where Hyunjin was bickering with Changbin for “saving” him from you and Jisung.

Jeongin craned his neck as he looked back, “He’s not even on our team.”

You watched Seungmin brighten with realization. “Let’s go find Chan,” he looked at Jeongin. “Maybe he won’t have Felix around…”

You and Jisung just laid in the snow as you watched Seungmin and Jeongin disappear into the trees. Minho probably took off the moment the ambush mission failed (thanks, Changbin), leaving the two of you in the snow. Sure, you two could probably dust the snow off and get back into the fray… but you liked admiring Jisung for a moment instead. The two of you were only officially out of the game if you were taken captive, and Seungmin must have not cared enough to drag you two back to his team’s base. When you looked back at Changbin, you watched as Hyunjin lead him away by the hand, no doubt taking him hostage… although Changbin seemed completely fine with that, loudly saying something about how Hyunjin could just let him go and they could have a secret alliance.

“Hey.”

You turned back to Jisung, who was smiling at you. You curled your gloved hand around his. “Hey?”

“Thank you for sacrificing yourself for me,” he giggled. “My hero.”

It earned a snort from you as you crawled over, stealing a kiss from him. “Anything for my Jisungie,” you giggled, too. “We could go find Seungmin and get revenge.”

“Nah.” He wrapped an arm around you, pulling you in closer. “I’m good. Let’s just stay here.”

Snuggling closer to him, you shut your eyes with a smile. “I’m okay with that. We’re gonna lose, though.”

“Nah,” he said again, patting your back. “We have Minho.”

True. “Think he’ll be mad?”

He shook his head. “He probably thinks we’re captured.”

(It only took half an hour before Minho found the two of you, announcing your victory alongside Felix. Apparently all it took was offering an alliance for Felix to jump ship to the winning team—and, truly, you wished you could have seen Chris’s face when Felix hit him with the “Long live the king,” before lobbing a snowball at him.)

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