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#also i really liked the music when they were first showing dori
bloodweep · 4 months
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HIHI! DO YOU WRITE FLUFF? YOURE LIKE ONE OF MY FAVORITE WRITERS ON TUMBLR SO I WANTED TO ASK🤭 IF YOU DO, I WAS JUST THINKING ABT BROZONE (OR JUST JD) WITH A READER WHO ALSO MAKES MUSIC? YOU CAN HAVE THE HCS TURN OUT HOWEVER YOU WANT I JUST HAD THAT GENERAL IDEA🙏🏽🙏🏽
OKFG PLEASE IM NOT THAT GOOD
And yes I do 🥺👉🏻👈🏻 it makes me so happy and giggly like the bitch I am jfjfhfhfhfh
YOU KNOW MY HEART IS GONNA GO TO JD FIRST I WANT HIM IN EVERY WAY I CAN
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JOHN DORY:
‗ ❍ I love him so much but I just know he would be a bit of an asshole at first, far better than before, don’t get me wrong! But he will still ask what you’re going and provide “tips” to make it better, but will be quickly silenced if you glared at him
‗ ❍ he is literally the definition of “oh I hate that man, I hate that man! But oh cara mia how I love him”
‗ ❍ after a while he would be silent and just listen to you, he would highly enjoy your music btw
‗ ❍ would get stuck in his head constantly where he is humming it wherever he is, bobbing his head to the beat
‗ ❍ would so just hold you close, arm around your shoulders watching you write away, nuzzling into your hair
‗ ❍ would beg to have a duet with you, no lie, will literally beg on all fours to have one
‗ ❍ UGH ITS STUPID BUT HE WOULD SO GRAB TOU AROUNF THE HIPS AND PULL YOU ALONG THE ROOM TO DANCE
‗ ❍ he would hold you so tight and kiss along your head while he sways with you and sings
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Bruce:
‗ ❍ he would be so fun to write songs with, so attentive, leaned back and just listening
‗ ❍ wouldn’t say anything until you were finished and asked for tips
‗ ❍ “play it again” he would say just so he can hear your voice again and listen to the melody
‗ ❍ he would do this a few times before you caught on and playfully punched his knee
‗ ❍ he would just laugh and shake his head “nothing needs to be changed it’s wonderful ”
‗ ❍ he would so sing the songs you make while surfing too
‗ ❍ he’s your number one biggest fan, will fight anyone to get that position
‗ ❍ he will be the loudest person in the audience and dancing in the crowd
‗ ❍ sings it for his kids any song you create
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Clay:
‗ ❍ he’s such a little nerd, would be vibing to anything so hard
‗ ❍ he will fight whoever even if it’s his own brothers to be the number one fan
‗ ❍ he would so teach you how to dance to whatever you’re writing
‗ ❍ his hands holding your hips to help you move better
‗ ❍ begs to hear you sing all the time because he likes it so so much
‗ ❍ makes up all your choreography for you, and isn’t upset if you desire to change it
‗ ❍ he would so so beg to dance with you on stage at least once (he’s a lair all the time he wants to dance with you forever)
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Floyd:
‗ ❍ He would be so happy to see you write and create music
‗ ❍ he would relax back and listen with such a peaceful smile on his face
‗ ❍ he would so love to do duets with you too
‗ ❍ they would be so soft and gentle; you’re very mindful of what happened to him and don’t want to push him to hurt himself - even if he says he’s fine and can handle whatever
‗ ❍ holds your hands while you practice with him, showing you his full attention and encouraging you whenever you stumble or feel like you can’t get something right
‗ ❍ UGH his smile will be so fucking soft and gentle as he looks at you
‗ ❍ when he watches you from the crowd he is just smiling and dancing slightly the whole time
‗ ❍ UGH tells you how proud he is of you all the time, and you deserve all the fans and happiness
‗ ❍ if he ever preforms with his brothers he definitely invites you in and puts you right next to him - holding your hand tightly the whole time
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‗ ❍ GOSH that stupid look he gives when he really loves someone??? That look the whole time
‗ ❍ fully understands if you don’t feel comfortable singing with him or in front of him just yet
‗ ❍ or even if you just want to do it on stage only
‗ ❍ if you feel self conscious about a song he will preform it with you and his brothers so you feel better
‗ ❍ never ever tells you to change it because there’s no such thing as “perfect” and a song is what is felt from within - things no such thing to be perfect
‗ ❍ every time you do sing in front of him he will drop everything he’s doing and listening to you
‗ ❍ he’s so giddy to hear you sing but doesn’t go over the top to stress you out
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Im sorry it’s so short I struggle with sfw for some reason because fluff makes me so giddy and excited and I feel gushy
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kittyball23 · 9 months
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Photoshop cleanup of a few of the BroZone posters found in the Dreamworks Facebook post of Poppy's dream bedroom :)
Also, here are some more headcanons of the boys, this time about the relationships I think they had among each other:
John Dory and Spruce
Were closely bonded in their youth, being the two eldest of the bunch. They did a lot of duet performances together for talent shows and other events, and came up with the idea to start an official band after Clay’s egg came into the picture
John Dory and Clay
Enjoy working together primarily in organizing the band’s onstage routine, JD mostly deciding who does what vocals and Clay helping out with the choreography
John Dory and Floyd
JD admires the way that Floyd can hold his notes when they sing their songs and will compliment him about it, though secretly, he is slightly envious of it as well since he, leader of the band, can’t quite reach the same vocal range. As Floyd has a talent for writing songs as well, JD is usually the first one that he shares anything new with so that it can get the official BroZone seal of approval (AKA, just JD stating whether it’s bro-dacious enough to sing in their performances or not)
John Dory and Branch
JD barely got any real moments to spend with Branch in their youth, given that his focus by that point had gone to ensuring that the band’s needs were met and keeping their other brothers in check. When they were together, JD would work on teaching Branch how to sing, believing that he had lots of potential. In their adulthood, Branch gets annoyed by his cocky behavior (milder than it was when he was young, but still there) and JD likes to tease him with his childhood stage name ‘Bitty B.’ JD is very physical with him, pulling him into side-hugs that are a little too tight for Branch, trying to give him noogies, playful punches on the shoulder, and sometimes a sneaky slap on the rear
Spruce and Clay
Bonded over a love for rap music and will often try to “outflow” each other. Clay is also appreciative that Spruce is the most chill with his pranks, as he usually doesn’t really get too upset about them like the others at times will and instead praises him
Spruce and Floyd
Spruce tried his hardest with Floyd to give him love advice, but Floyd never showed interest and found some of Spruce’s tactics “gross” when it came to girls. Both have a soft spot for Branch, however, and sometimes have their bout over who will take care of him. They also bonded over a shared interest in their appearances - Spruce because he wanted to 'dress to impress' and Floyd because he wanted to nail the rocker look
Spruce and Branch
Spruce enjoyed toting Branch around as a baby (it helped him grab attention from girls, after all) and helped him get his suave on when performing. As adults, Spruce is super supportive of Branch and his relationship with Poppy, and amps up the love advice
Clay and Floyd
Floyd initially believed that Clay would be his closest brother prior to Branch’s birth, given that they would’ve been the two youngest, but quickly learned of Clay’s pranking ways. Clay at first liked making Floyd the target of his pranks, since Floyd would always be the most reactive due to his sensitivity. After a while, he feels bad when most of his pranks end up making Floyd cry one too many times and decides to lay off, instead having Floyd help out with a prank on the others every once in a while. With Floyd’s hobby of writing/journaling, he’ll sometimes write little made-up stories, which Clay in turn loves to read and compliment him on
Clay and Branch
Became great pals and pranking buddies, Clay often recruiting Branch to help him with pull a prank on the others
Floyd and Branch
The closest brothers in bond out of the bunch; Floyd initially just looked forward to Branch joining them so that he would not be the youngest anymore and his older brothers would no longer treat him like the baby of the group. That quickly changes when Branch is born, and Floyd takes joy in looking out for him and being the best/most responsible older brother that he can be. It works out, as JD (having already dealt with three other brothers) can take a little bit of a breather on sibling responsibilities to focus on leading the band. Being a more sensitive guy means that Floyd really enjoys the quieter moments with Branch, teaching him how to write, singing him lullabies, rocking him to sleep and feeding him his bottle. He'll sneak in quick hugs throughout the day and sometimes give Branch an extra treat when Grandma Rosiepuff is not looking
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I don’t know why asking but I’m curious.
How did you first find out about Trolls? What did you think about Trolls? What were your favorite character?
About TBT
How did you think and feel about Branch when TBT first released? About fact he has four brothers? How do you feel about JD, Clay, Floyd and Bruce when you first saw them? Sure they have reasons why they left but they weren’t thinking straight, their reasons were stupid and worse they even decided to leave and BOOM! We know what happened in TBT.
(Poor Baby Branch being left in Trolls Tree in the middle of Bergen Town and poor JD…)
How did you think about bunker that it was the originally for his brothers as Branch built?
What’s your favorite member of BroZone, other than JD and Branch?
Where did you think Clay was after he left? There was a theory that he didn’t leave Trolls Tree but I’m not sure about that one.
Did you know that Branch was originally going to be kidnapped by Velvet and Veneer but that was changed to Floyd, that I heard about that. It would have been so much angst! :(
What do you think Trolls 4 going to be about if there’s one? (Idk why I’m asking that 😅)
Oh boy... I'm not sure about the first time I saw Trolls.
I have several younger siblings so I have watched a TON of animated movies over the course of my teenage and young adult years (I'm still a young adult, I'm not that old I promise lol) and several of my siblings do NOT shy away from the animated kids stuff. My guess is one of my sisters put it on and since most of us like the musical movies, it kind of worked out. Why I latched onto it for my hyperfixation a few months ago? I have ZERO idea.
My favorite character was Branch. Introvert, sarcastic, organizational nut, overthinking paranoid? Yeah, might as well be me with a little extra trauma and crazy. (After my fixation started, JD was added to that favorite. I'm sorry just that's how it is) I had watched movie one and two and whatever before but I didn't think much of it. And then the third movie came out and my sister watched it and I decided to rewatch the entire movie series - with most of the tv shows - as well because that is what I do.
I binge watch shows and movies and draw. I'm a big homebody and most of my time is spent drawing so that's kind of what worked. And then I watched the third movie and then watched it again and upon the second watching, zeroed in on John Dory's "thought you were dead" and "came back" parts and well, hyperfixation galore.
I didn't really watch anything as it was released; as I didn't really follow Trolls that closely. Like I said, my fixation isn't very old. So I didn't really care? Okay so when I watched TBT for the first time, my favorite character was Branch and the other brothers, I didn't have much opinion on? Except for Floyd who I LOATHED. The others leaving? Fine, whatever, I didn't really see it as much as child abandonment in the sense that others do at the time because he was left with his grandmother who, as the adult - should have been raising him anyways - so I guess I didn't see it the way some others did.
For my dislike of Floyd in the beginning, it was because of that promise. The others didn't promise to come back so I didn't really hold them to that standard but Floyd promised to return (there is also him telling Branch to take care of grandma which... I GET why he said that and it makes sense too for a kid but Branch... Branch probably didn't take it the way kids normally do) and he never did. Twenty years. Look, I get that the writers probably did not have that backstory when they were first writing the first trolls movie, I get it but AUGHHHHH
The second time I watched TBT, I got a bit more of a opinion on the brothers. Eventually my dislike of Floyd softened, mostly because I figure he's not as grudge-holding as some of the others. Trust me, I know how holding grudges can eat you up. Clay kind of annoyed me; like he felt so childish with the whole "I'm serious and boring thing" like dude, just chill. I like Brandy, don't get me wrong, but the whole giants/muppets thing threw me off guard and it kind of wigs me out just a bit. Idk, it's probably just me.
Also them getting so upset with JD when he slips up on Bruce's name in kind of a heated situation irritates the heck out of me. Don't ask my why, it just did.
Anyways, I don't have a good memory so idk on most of this stuff lol
I think it's really sweet that the bunker was built for his brothers too. I know Branch does that specific thing for Floyd, like, that's his favorite and whatever, but it's nice that everyone was included. It was kind of like that holding onto hope that they would at least come and visit or something; like they would always have a place with him. Which pisses me off more about none of them coming back. I'm not saying they had to stay but geez, they coulda called or whatever. This is mostly with Bruce and maybe Floyd. We don't really know what Floyd was up to so idk. Bruce literally just settled down and pretty much entirely forgot about his family point blank. Clay has a bit of an excuse, since Viva was protective and he had to lead people. John has a bit of an excuse too considering he thought Branch was dead.
I think the Clay one is kind of hard. I don't... I'm not sure if I think that Clay and Viva were friends before the escape. And I'm not sure if Clay stayed in the tree or not. Like, that's a hard one. Cause idk if that would be worse, if he was in the tree and never even visited Branch. I know the timeline between everything is SUPER sketchy and aging for Trolls seems to be... confusing at best (considering Branch is like a couple months old when he's performing?? Or something?? Idk) so who knows how much time passed between the band breakup and the escape.
My guess? Not a lot of time is between the two. I know Branch seems to "look" 5-6 or whatever in the first movie flashbacks but who even knows with Trolls; everything about them is wild and uncertain and the writers certainly don't seem to care about timelines/continuity that much. It's fine, I don't really mind, since it is a kids movie but whatever.
I did hear about Branch being the one to be captured once upon a time. I think that's a bit too much angst; the dude is literally full of angst. I'm kind of glad that it wasn't him but I'm also not entirely fond of how Floyd is treated as a character? Idk, I guess that is mostly up for interpretation. I think it would also be really hard to find John Dory, considering he travels a lot and thinks everyone is dead lol. Or at least, Branch. Well, up until after TWT. So... I'm not sure?
Trolls 4... hmmm. I'm curious on how long they are going to milk this. I'm a little worried if they do because if the brothers are in it, John's just going to be treated like the butt of the joke like in TBT and I'm not a huge fan of that, as much as I would love to see more of the bros. I'd like to think they'd do something either more world-wide centric with the other tribes or something a bit more Poppy-centric, since TBT is pretty much solely Branch-centric. Maybe some Viva and Poppy bonding.
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sorry-mom-ive-sinned · 11 months
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Listening a bunch to What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, It's Teavee Time!, and That Little Man Of Mine, all different versions of Mike Teavee's intro song in the various musicals, I have a few different opinions.
First off my order of favs are: 1. Its Teavee Time! 2. That Little Man Of Mine 3. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, and I'll tell you why. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Is too focused on a narrative that I feel just... doesn't really apply to Mike? At least not to this Mike. Like the lyrics "We teach our kids that when they lose they're winners. That everything they do, they do the best". This is clearly a commentary on america, like the whole song is, but this version of Mike isnt a kid that would be told that. He's a genius. A evil shit nose kid of a genius, but still a genius. He hacked his way into a golden ticket for God's sake. I feel like the lyrics of this song (and broadways Vidiots) apply the most to 1971 wwatcf Mike. That Mike is definitely not a genius and kind of stupid, with a clearer obsession with guns and fictional dumbed down violence. Musical Mike is a genius whose obsessed with real genuine violence.
And the rest of the song just, doesnt feel that much about Mike? All the versions of the musical focus too much on his mom for my tastes, but the broadway version is the most egregious here with Ethel. Theres more time devoted in the song to her being overwhelmed by her sons antics then what his antics actually are. This is why I like Its Teavee Time! the best. It devotes the whole song to talking about Mike's violent streak as well as Doris' direct reaction to how extreme he is. I honestly find Doris much more empathic than Ethel, given that West end Mike comes across as more of a terror in my opinion, and she seems more genuinely exausted by it all. Thats just my perception though.
That Little Man Of Mine is good, more focused on Mike which I like, but Mike barely sings in this version of the song which makes me very sad. Honestly Mike barely sings in the musical period, at least compared to some others, and that makes me so sad as he is very much my favorite of the bunch. Idk, I just like how the West end version focuses in a bit more on how much of a little shit he is, and the message in Vidiots seems more directed at him and the musicals interpretation of his character. Honestly I think the broadway version would be improved if they went for a more book/wwatcf version of his character, even though I like that interpretation a bit less overall. I think it just would of fit more with the messages they seemed like they were trying to convey surrounding him.
Also Doris seems more like she wants the best for her son, while Ethel seems more like she's already given up on him. Doris line of "...Where he'll make some brand new friends. I pray to God he fits in with the gang" and later on in Strike that, Reverse it when she tells him to "Play Nice", shows me that she cares more. Ethel doesnt have lines like that, and instead its more focused on her alone, with added jokes about her alcoholism. Idk, I just dont like it.
Conclusion: Doris>Ethel (in my opinion)
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joshscurlyhair · 2 years
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☽ 𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦 - 𝕛𝕠𝕤𝕙 ☽
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Summary: Y/N has been dreaming of an unknown man for a while now that it is making her wondering who he is. After doing some research she finds out he’s a musician for a band. One day she walks around her town to get some air when suddenly she bumps into the man who’s from her dreams. Has he been dreaming of her to?
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Everything about him was ethereal
His pretty brown eyes
His fluffy curly hair
His perfect smile along with his perfect teeth-
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Your thoughts were then cut off by your coffee machine beeping. You poured yourself a cup of coffee into your mug for the morning. You then walked over to your windows and opened the blinds letting some light into the house showing the pretty leaves that were outside on the fall crisp morning. You sip on your coffee and softly smiled at the sight. You then decided to sit down at the kitchen table and wrote in your planner, writing some to-do’s for the week. As you were writing your to-do’s you couldn’t stop thinking about that man in your dreams you were dreaming months about.
MONTHS!
You’ve never seen this man in your life before and you were dreaming of him for months now. You snap out of your thoughts and quickly grabbed your laptop and headed to Google and decided to do some digging on who exactly this man was, or even if he was real. You took another sip of your hot coffee feeling the hot liquid in your mouth. You pushed your clear glasses up to your eyes and started to stare at the screen for a bit thinking exactly what to search for first and how to word it.
You close your eyes to see if that would help you remember him more.
You were at their concert, all you could focus on was him and all he could focus on was you just staring into your eyes
His beautiful brown curly hair
His perfect smile
His facial hair that rested above his lip and on his chin
“Goddammit what can I type?” I say to myself staring at the Google search bar trying to think what to type. You shook your head and began to type:
Lead singer with brown curly hair and facial hair
Your eyes began to look through the images seeing if any of them were him.
Nope nothing
“Umm” you say as you began to think again of what to type.
Singer with curls and wears jumpsuits
You began to search with your eyes again looking at the images and found nothing again. You let out a loud groan and began typing more things that could possibly fit to get any picture or information of who this man is.
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It’s been almost two hours now searching this man up and no luck. You let out a groan and started looking at the ground thinking what to do.
Guess I’ll never know who this man is
You stood up and put your coffee cup in the dishwasher then began to make some lunch for the day. You opened the fridge and start to assemble a sandwich. You decided to bring your computer up to the kitchen counter and put on a YouTube video while you made your lunch. You opened the YouTube app and began analyzing the recommended videos that popped up. You then just decided to click on a suggested playlist that was on your feed and began jamming to a couple of songs, swinging your hips side to side along with the music.
Once you were done making your lunch you sat your plate down onto the kitchen table about to sit down when suddenly you hear a guitar riff coming through your computer speaker. You never heard of the song but it sounded really good. You bobbed your head along with the music. Sounded like it was a live version since you heard what sounded like people screaming in the background.
“Champagne, caviar anyone?”
A male voice said though your computer speakers. You look up from your plate and furrow your eyebrows. Something about that voice, you couldn’t put your finger on it. You decided to turn your computer around so it was facing you and you laid eyes on the video that was right in front of you.
“Holy shit..” You let out
It was HIM
You dropped your fork on the table and pushed your plate away and brought the computer to you watching the video. “Holy shit it’s him”
You watch them preform, he was so angelic to watch. The way his hands moved, the way his hair swayed along with his movements, the way he flashed his perfect teeth with a smile.
You look at the bottom of the screen and saw the title, “Greta Van Fleet - Live at the Red Rocks Amphitheater”
You then clicked onto Google straight away and typed in the bands name. You looked at the images and saw him and his band mates, you gave a smile seeing him. He’s so pretty
Josh. Josh Kiszka is his name
You looked up his name onto Google now. You press ‘ enter ‘ and look at the thousands of pictures of him that laid before you.
Wow, this is the man I’ve been dreaming of. A man who I’ve never seen till today. He’s so fuckin beautiful
But why? Why am I dreaming of him?
You shut your computer needing to clear your head
2:30 pm
Read your phone
You stood up and got your coat so you could go for a walk to clear your mind
You closed the door behind you and heard the crunches beneath your feet from the leaves. You look around in awe at the sight of the beautiful fall day. It was just so pretty.
You continued to walk for a while until you felt like getting another coffee
“Ugh should I?” You say looking at your favorite coffee shop in front of you stopping you in your tracks. “Yeah I should”
You headed inside and ordered your per usual fall coffee order.
“For Y/N!”
I looked up from my phone and grabbed my coffee and said thank you before leaving the café.
I look down at my coffee in my hand while walking as I took a small sip closing my eyes
I felt a harsh bump on my shoulder. The hot coffee then splashed out of my cup and onto my hand. “Ow, shit” I say because of the coffee being hot.
“Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry are you okay?-“
The man says before we both look at each other and immediately stare into each other’s eyes for what seemed like forever
It was him, Josh. The man who I’ve been dreaming of
Why was he looking at me like that? Like he knew me? Could he have been dreaming of me too?
He clears his throat and began to talk again, “Please let me buy you another coffee”
He says still staring into my eyes like he’s seen me before
Wow, he’s just as beautiful in person
I nod to his response and we both headed inside the coffee shop both getting our coffees. “Um, do you mind if we sit down together?” He says holding his coffee in his hand looking at me giving me warm eyes. I nod and we both sit down looking at each other once more.
“I’m sorry for staring-“ he starts
“-No I’m sorry as well” I say as my cheeks flush a deep red looking down.
“It’s just… This is gonna sound crazy but, I think I’ve been dreaming of you. And it’s odd because I’ve never seen you before til now.. That’s why I was staring at you, I just couldn’t believe it. Apologies if I made you feel uncomfortable” He says looking down at his coffee feeling embarrassed thinking you probably thought he was crazy.
Holy shit.. He was dreaming of me too
“I’m Jo-“ He starts but I finished for him, “Josh”
He looks up and stares at me giving me a warm smile now knowing I was dreaming of him too.
“Were you dreaming of me too?” He says now leaning a bit closer. I give a warm smile and nod. Josh let’s out a huff in relief, “Holy shit this is crazy” he whisper yells getting excited showing his perfect white teeth. I get excited along with him and chuckle.
“May I add that you’re just as beautiful in person then you were in my dreams?” He says looking up at me giving me a smile showing his dimples. I chuckle and start to blush, “You as well Josh” I add.
We both then began staring into each other’s eyes
RING RING RING
Josh’s gaze now drifts at his phone that was buzzing. “Ugh it’s my brother, hold on darling”
I blush again as I take another sip from my coffee trying to hide the redness that spread across my face.
“Okay okay” He says a bit annoyed on the phone. He then ends the call and looks at me. “That was my brother, he says he needs me now for some new album ideas”
He notices your face forms a bit of a frown, “Hey, this is crazy that this happened and I think both of us are still trying to process it haha but, I think you’re absolutely beautiful and I wanna get to know you even more” He says in awe at the sight of you.
He drops his phone on counter in front of you. “Put your number in darling” He says winking at you. You then started to type your number in the new contact, putting your name as well. Once you were done he takes his phone looking at what you put, “Y/N.. That’s a beautiful name for a beautiful person” He says smiling showing his dimples that were engraved into his cheeks. “I’ll text you and we can plan something soon!”
You nod and he headed out the door giving you a cheesy smile and a wave goodbye
Wow… The man of my dreams is absolutely adorable
You then chuckle at your thoughts and took another sip of your coffee
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themosleyreview · 4 months
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The Mosley Review: The Iron Claw
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A film based on a true story can be one of two sides of a coin. On one side, you can focus on the rise and success followed by the glitz and glamour and eventually the hard realities and eventual fall. One the other hand, you can focus on the personal life of the subject and lightly focus on the rise to fame, but push it aside to get more in depth with the subject's family. Well this film sits right on the spine of the coin. Yes it does primarily focuses on the real story of the Von Erich wrestling family, but also glosses over all of their achievements, accolades and stardom rather quickly. You almost don't really get a chance to see why they were considered to be one of the greatest families in the history of the sport. What you do get is the heartbreaking story of a family being led by someone that never left the past and pretty much forced their dream on their sons. What was fascinating is the depiction of the wrestling world almost being a co-antagonist to the life story of the Von Erich’s. The immersion into the psychologocial ramifications of the sport is explored in a sad way that we've seen in many other true stories and it leaves you in a more melancholy state throughout the film.
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Zac Efron delivers a stirring and hard hitting performance as Kevin Von Erich. The amount of weight he bares of the family name in the world of wrestling was huge and you see first hand of how he tries to please his father's ambitions. You see the amount of pain he endures from the doubts that are placed upon him. His wrestling matches were the most intense and sometimes brutal and Zac shows great dramatic and athletic prowess. Harris Dickinson was great as his younger brother David Von Erich and I loved that he was the most charismatic one of the family. Harris had the most chemistry with Zac and their conversation in the bathroom scene one was one of their best moments together and his mic skills were excellent. Jeremy Allen White was strong as Kerry Von Erich and loved his dedication. He accurately portrays that desperation to hang on to whatever athleticism he has left after a possible debilitating injury. The amount of sorrow in his eyes was heartbreaking as his story progressed. Stanley Simons was so heartfelt and innocent as Mike Von Erich. He nailed that boyish charm and joy of playing music instead of following the family business. He was truly the most lovable and hardest to watch as he should've never been in the ring. Lily James is always great and she was great as Kevin's love interest Pam Adkisson. The moment Pam and Lilly meet, you could see the sparks between them fly as her flirtation turned into pure love even with Kevin's awkwardness. Maura Tierney was absolutely wonderful as their mother Doris Von Erich. You see the love she has for her family in a fantastic dinner scene. She bears the heaviest amount of emotional weight as the family curse strikes and it was very hard to watch. The stairs scene really hit me. Holt McCallany was great and truly toxic as their father Fritz Von Erich. He was an excellent businessman and the amount of motivation he would give to his sons was great, but horrible at the same time. He never really let go of his dream and became more of a coach and less of a father. Holt nailed that horrific nature of a person past their prime and delivered a performance that is in the lexicon of great villains. Aaron Dean Eisenberg was outstanding as Ric Flair and he nailed his eccentric, larger than life, and villainous persona.
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The score by Richard Reed Parry was good when present and added to the heartfelt moments and sadness to the more somber scenes. The wrestling sequences were shot very well and I liked the sort of Creed approach where you are in the ring with the characters. It was immersive and sometimes jarring since the main focus wasn't really about the showmanship. That's where I felt this film lacked. It was a great study on the family, but I think this held back by its runtime. I really wanted to connect a little more with each brother and truly delve into the reason why they were considered one of the greatest wrestling families in the industry. The performances were outstanding across the board and although this may not be the greatest wrestling film ever made, but it sure is up there. Perhaps this would’ve been a better miniseries than a film. Let me know what you thought of the film or my review of the film. Thanks for reading!
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1x05: Davon - Analysis, Part 3
TWDMusicBoxMystery:
Okay, so I finally got some good notes on this episode. I'm just going to go through them chronologically.
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First, he wakes up in the woods, handcuffed to Amanda’s corpse. It occurred to me that we have something where he's asleep and he wakes up, similar to Beth at Grady. Of course his glasses are on which gives it an eye theme.
It even occurred to me that being handcuffed to a walker is kind of like being handcuffed to death. He just can't get away from it. But he's also hallucinating things. Immediately the walker is alive and trying to get him. He kills her again with his spring leg, but then she wakes up. So, much like we think is the case with Beth at Grady, where she wakes up in a strange place and doesn't know what's going on.
There's a lot of smoke in mirrors and illusion going on. Of course, just the fact that he took off his foot to hit her makes it part of the lost foot shoe symbolism. In 7x12, Rick grabbed a hold of a walker's foot, and it came off in his hands.
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I also noticed that in the opening credits, we see a walker stumbling toward the camera down a dark alley. The next moment, something like white paint obscures the walker and we can't see anymore. 
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I think this is meant to show that we don't really know what's going on here. It's a mystery. And there's a lot that's unseen.
I noticed that when he first heads back into town, he says, "where are we?" And the Amanda walker answers, "you don't remember." It's not even question. It’s a statement. He then asks, "am I going crazy?" Obviously, the “you don't remember” reminds me of Beth being asked if she remembers her name. The part about going crazy is all part of the hallucination.
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It occurred to me that if we think of Davon as the Christ figure here, one who was nearly sacrificed even though he was innocent, the two women could represent Mary and Martha care for and waiting on him. They were sisters, too. Of course this is the horror version. Mary and Martha were not murderers. But it's an interesting juxtaposition.
By the way, the name Davon means “beloved.”
It also occurred to me that he actually almost died twice. The first time was when they first found him, and his leg was messed up. If they hadn't picked him up in the woods, cut off his leg, and nursed him back to health, he would have died there. And of course the second time is when they put them in the car and tried to kill him.
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It's also significant that he wasn't actually bitten by a walker. I don't think I picked that up right away. When they found him, we get shots of his leg, which looks rotted. But he wasn't bitten. He later tells them that he met a bad man in the woods who shot him, and Davon refused to shoot back. Just kind of interesting. So, much like Beth, Davon was shot at some point.
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Someone mentioned something above about this being a horror noir genre episode. I agree. It had the strange noir music all throughout it. And for the most part, that music seemed at odds with what was happening in the episode. But I think it's more of the noir mystery/detective theme. Just like when Eugene was trying to figure out the mystery of Stephonie. And when Zach suggested Daryl was a homicide detective. This truly is a mystery because at the beginning, Davon has no memory. I can't help but wonder if they'll do this with Beth. Have her wake up with no memory and then try to remember, through flashback, what actually happened after Grady.
When the Amanda Walker says, "this is where you killed me," I can't help but think of John Dorie, Sr. in Fear and when he saw the ghost of the woman that Teddy killed.
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We see Amanda saying, "sometimes murder is mercy," while she clubs a fish. They’ve established before that fish equals life and perhaps even innocent life. So, it's important that she says that while killing a fish. Foreshadow.
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Also, when they were at the table, I noticed they were eating carrots. I want to think about that a little more. Because once again, we saw them with Amanda and Arnaud, who were the two evil characters. I wonder if carrots could simply mean a sacrifice. Beth was sacrificed, and Arnaud was sacrificing children. Arnaud also says, "the scar’s worse than the wound." Just sounds like something Beth could say about her scars. Or Daryl, for that matter. I also noted that Arnaud had lost his father at some point, the same as Beth.
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Then we have the piano scene, which you will discussed extensively already. The only thing I have to add is, I wonder why Nora is crying when Davon walks in. She's wiping away tears, and we never find out why she's crying.
I looked up information about the Hanlons. They were real troop and the poster on the wall is actually part of the Library of Congress now. 
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The Hanlon brothers were in acrobatic troop and pantomime act. They are considered to have had a significant influence on common acts of that kind, including vaudeville. I didn’t find anything that really jumped out at me in their history, but admittedly I just skimmed through it. But the point is, they were illusionists. So, it might just be part of the whole. ‘what you see is NOT what you get’ theme.
I also noticed watching it the third time that the glasses they gave Davon originally belonged to Martin. They say they’re Martin's glasses, but because Davon’s were broken, they’re the only ones they have to give him. Martin is the dead child that Arnaud killed first. Arnaud mentions him to Davon when he's talking about his mother, and says she tried to save Martin, but she realized what would happen if Martin told. So, Martin was Arnaud's first kill. And Davon is wearing his glasses (eye/see theme).
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Martin is also the name of the guy Tyreese killed in 5x01, who showed up in his death hallucination with Beth in 5x09.
@wdway, you mentioned the British and Revolutionary war above. They actually do talk about it a little bit directly in the episode. When he wakes up in bed and the two women are talking to him and folding laundry, they say that there are descendants of the French. Originally when America was colonized, this was French land, until the British decided it wasn't. I suppose that's not so much the American revolution as the French and Indian war. That came about 75 years prior to the American Revolution, I think. So, we still have similar historical war talk going on.
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Does anyone have any thoughts about the flavors that the kids mentioned? Obviously, strawberry and peach we’ve seen a lot, as symbols. I'm wondering about banana and lemon. Lemon is a citrus fruit, so I suppose it could be used interchangeably with orange. And perhaps bananas are a monkey reference? Just throwing out ideas.
We’ve already talked about the red car they put him into kill him quite a bit. The backhoe is yellow, which could be a hint that he would survive the situation. There was also a similar backhoe in S5b near Abraham. I don't know if we should be connecting that or not. 
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This whole sequence, though, it reminded me a lot of Go Getters, when Maggie ran over at the green Gremlin with the John Deere (kinda) tractor. It’s kind of opposite, but also kind of the same. In both cases were talking about a car being crushed. And if Davon equals Beth, the music box in the green gremlin also equals Beth. Again, not sure if we should consider them the same or perhaps foils to each other. Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts.
I had one really fun epiphany. When Davon looks up at the drawings of the children and recognizes that one of them, Garen, is still alive, I thought of the pictures above Maggie's desk at Hilltop. One of them (Beth) is also alive.
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When he escapes from red van, he goes out to the front windshield. I thought that might be parallel to the walker in the front seat that we've seen so often representing Beth. Also, when he first gets out, he falls onto the ground. A blonde female walker tries to bite him. He kills it pretty quickly and it's not focused on, but it might be another hint of this being a parallel to Beth's arc.
He goes back to the small house on the water that has the wheel. (Wheel theme.) I noticed that when it shows it, there's a cross in the foreground. Which could make it similar to a church, a cemetery, or Leah's cabin.
Does anyone have any insight on what Arnaud is actually feeding the kids? He's obviously trying to pass them off as candy, but I think he slowly poisoning the boys. He gives them those and they seem to become semi-unconscious and will eventually die. So, it could be part of the poison or poisoned water theme. As far as I can tell, they didn't actually tell us what was in them.
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When Davon is fighting with Amanda, she throws him against the car sitting there and it very specifically shows the windshield splinter. It looks identical to the windshield in 5x09, which looks like a bullet went through it. It was a very intentional thing to show, and the camera focused on it for a moment, so I think it's important.
It also occurred to me that we have a good and evil sister here. Much like Lizzie and Mika. And when they open the grave, where Arnaud has buried the two boys he killed, we had part of the walker side-by-side theme. 
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And obviously this isn’t a male and female walker. They’re two little boys, almost more reminiscent of the two little princes murdered in the tower by Richard III. Because they’re both male, it’s closest to the two cops we say laying on the ground side by side with Rick and Shane in 18 Miles Out. But it also reminded me a lot of the walkers in the greenhouse from 6×06. Because at first when we see them, they’re still and silent. But then they wake up and end up killing and eating Arnaud. Very interesting. But it's definitely a resurrection theme as they are clearly buried in a grave and then come back to life.
Davon’s final speech is super interesting. He's talking about how it wasn't him and would they even have felt guilty if they killed him for it. And then he says, "or would my memory be lost? My name erased?" 
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I think it's interesting that he's talking about memory when just last episode in Amy and Dr. Everett, she has a line about how memories are all we have left. And then the name being erased. Kind of reminds me of Beth being asked whether she can remember her name. It's kind of synonymous with losing one's identity or losing one's soul.
Then he says, “we don't have to live like this. We don't have to be like this. There still life out there. There's still hope. You will see, (said in French) if you let yourself."
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So, I actually had this thought from reading what you all wrote above, before I re-watched the episode. But anyway, it reminds me a lot of what Dawn told Beth. That there’s still something out there. That people are coming. It almost feels like Davon knows that there's something out there that he's not saying. As you’ve all said, we don't know where he's coming from or where he's going, but I have to think because of the PPP card, that he has had some dealings with the CRM in some way. Maybe he was with them before, or maybe he's trying to get back to them. But it feels like something he knows, beyond what he is obviously saying.
I looked up a few other little details. Nora means ‘light.’ Arnaud means ‘eagle power.’ Remember the Eagle/Thunderbird near Beth in Still? And Garen means ‘Guardian.’
Also, the scene where Davon brings Nora the strawberries? There is a French song playing in the background. I translated some of the lyrics. Here they are.
In French:
Le soleil, seus soleil,
suplombe tout
Le soleil, seus soleil
survoles nous
(Later…they talk and so don’t have captioning for all the lyrics.)
le soleil me devore
quand viens l aurore
Grand serf volant,
viendre de temps en temps Me perdre
Translation:
The sun, only sun, dominates all
The sun, only sun, flies over us
The sun devours me
when the dawn comes
Great flying serf,
come from time to time Lose myself.
So, new dawn theme. And I can’t help but think of the sun from the prison, and featured in 5x09. And the grandfather clock in still that talked of escaping from time. And of course people can lose themselves in illusions, and often do on this show. That’s about all I have for now. Thoughts?
@wdway:
As usual you caught things that I totally missed. I always find it interesting how we all see things slightly different but that just adds to the interpretation of the episode because they're always so many levels and meanings to what we're watching. I love your line that being handcuffed to a walker is like being handcuffed to death. I did not get the fact that he had not lost his leg before he got there. That they removed it and they were the ones that gave him the spring leg.
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7 weeks ago. So a month and a half. Why do we need to know that? Would someone come looking for him after a curtain amount of time?
The opening credits. I just realized the walker is coming out of a tunnel. You can see a small light at the other end in the first shot.
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You said Davon wasn't bitten. After Alicia and possibly Beth and Rick I'm now always questioning people possibly being bitten. Maybe that's why the guy shot him he thought he was going to turn because he had been bitten. Total head canon on that one.
Great tie in between Amanda and the murdered girl hallucination in Fear.
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Amanda clubs the fish. Fish a Christ reference. What stood out to me was of course the ground cloth cover that looked like the same pattern as the Alone wallpaper but also the keys with the yellow round emblem lay between the fish and the cloth. And remember they're at a river in that scene and the wallpaper in Alone had the painting/print of a river hanging on it.
I thought Arnaud was feeding the boys some type of jelly. He refers to it as a sweet treat or something to that effect and at some point, he had said that it was something that his mother would feed him when he felt bad (in the head,) apparently there was some type of hallucinogenic in it that would let them have good dreams and possibly too much of it is what would kill them.
I thought about this season and last we heard of and saw mushrooms. I'm not saying there was magic mushrooms in the jelly but I'm sure there are other natural berries or plants that would cause hallucinations. I just thought that the jellies would be something that they would make themselves.
And when I started thinking about the different fruits that were mentioned by the boys, banana, strawberry, lemon and peach, it just occurred to me that I don't think of any of this type of fruit is grown in upper Maine unless they had hot houses are greenhouses. Even though Davon brought back strawberries that he supposedly had found that just does not ring true. I think we're supposed to catch this, that it's actually a hint.
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Davon hearing a child's voice through the vent. It just occurred to me the look of the vent reminds me of the slats we saw between Beth, Edwards and the Walkers and Slabtown. You know that episode that Channing Powell wrote. We also saw that type of look of slats in one of the Andrea Governor episodes.
Speaking of Channing Powell the writer of this episode and of e3 Dee, s5e4 Slabtown and guess what Liesel, she also wrote s7e5 Go Getters. So if you thought this episode felt familiar to that episode there is a good reason.
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You wrote about memory, being remembered, about names being erased. Well, isn't that one of our pet peeves that for years no one said Beth's name? When's Glenn mentioned the people that he had lost to Enid and did not include Beth's name TD was ready to riot over it. Rick said he was sorry he couldn't save Beth or Glenn to Herschel in his hallucination, that was season 9.
Many viewers have forgotten Beth. I think it's important that we acknowledge that Beth was a person who remembered the important things. In Inmates, (CP co-wrote) Beth talks about finding her journal how she had forgotten it, but she writes about Hope and Faith.
During her fight with Daryl in Still she tells him how she remembered that he was like her when he saw the little girl come out of the barn. In Alone she told Daryl that it was beautiful that people remembered that walkers were once human. I'm sure Daryl remembers everything about his time with Beth.
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This is something that none of us have talked about yet Arnaud mentioned "the plague." Saw this shot when I was looking through pictures and I just did not want to miss sharing.
@frangipanilove:
That’s an excellent point! I think at least banana and lemon would be near impossible to grow without any type of heated greenhouse. Maybe you could grow certain lemons if you were able to create an optimal microclimate, but definitely not banana. It indicates some sort of trade or some sort of advanced technology that allows them to grow tropical fruits. I agree that it must be some hint of a greater society where trade and technology exist.
@wdway:
Yes, my thinking exactly. This town is not what it appears to be. It's not obvious, you have to look deeper than just the surface.
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I realized I had not mentioned the wheel house. This is another thing that was off. Isn't this a mill wheel? Where grain is milled. The water wheel would turn the mill wheel. This would be an important part of a community but in this community the wheel is still/dead no run water to move the wheel. Maybe a symbol of something getting stuck in the gear box.
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897? Episodes? Seasons? Either way the numbers are out of order. If episodes this would be s2, TF losing Sophia, Carl getting shot and settling at the Greene's Farm. If seasons this would be meeting Negan, losing Glenn and Abraham, AOW, losing Rick and the 6 year time jump.
@twdmusicboxmystery:
Love all your insights and connections! I don't think I even realized there were keys next to the fish. That's super important. I'm also thinking a little about the club she uses. It's not a full-sized bat like Negan's Lucille is, but it's shaped like a small/short baseball bat. So, it may be trying to invoke Lucille in some way. For one thing, it's "murdering" the fish. Not really but only because when she does it, Amanda says "murder is mercy." And we still have that whole unresolved thing about Michonne and Negan's bat. So, not sure what it might be pointing to, but it's interesting.
@wdway:
I thought of Negan's bat too. Which says to me that that was the writer's intention.
@galadrieljones:
Really interesting note. I'm intrigued by the idea that this place is not as it seems. I didn't really think at all about whether they would actually have access to bananas and lemons. I wondered if perhaps he was feeding them flavored honeys, but it's the same basic thing.
There is that line Arnaud says about the "plague beyond our walls." Are they like, locked in there by choice? This makes me think about the prescription pill bottles we see in the basement. They are prescribed to a "Victoria Fuller," but you can't see the names of the medications or dates of the RXs. I imagine they're an opioid, like hydrocodone, which Arnaud is crushing up and putting into the jellies/honeys. When administered modestly, they can produce hallucinogenic effects, but one would easily be able to overdose a child.
Remember how the Commonwealth is managing a poppy farm? All of these things are connected. And Ann you've suggested that the CRM uses smaller communities to farm goods. Is the CRM commissioning poppy farms and dealing heroin? Really interesting questions...
If this is the case, is Amanda's community somehow connected to the CRM? I don't know. Are they supplied by them? For what in return? Indira's small little colony is similarly bankrolled and protected by the CRM in WB, in exchange for scouting and information. I'm very intrigued!
That’s it for today. More of @galadrieljones’s thoughts tomorrow!
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Avy, my lovely! I’m here to uno reverse you 💌
If Ethan and Luz were in charge of the music anywhere, what would play? What’s in their respective playlists and what are their favorite songs? ❤️
HILDE, MY LOVELY 🤗 Thanks so much for the ask!! I never tire of talking about music, so I really appreciate the uno reverse <3
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Being the son of baby boomers, Ethan grew up listening to his parents’ favorite ‘60s and ‘70s music. Simon and Garfunkel were Alan’s favorites, and Ethan not only likes them for their beautiful harmonies, but they also remind him of road trips and happy childhood memories. (Paul Simon’s show in Central Park in 1991 was Ethan’s first concert.)
Bill Withers, Doris Day, and the Rat Pack are a few of the singers he likes.
Ethan’s always been an old soul, so he was never really partial to any mainstream modern music. Although in his teens and early 20s, he did casually listen to some songs by Oasis, Coldplay, The Wallflowers, and The Shins.
Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me album, however, has been a favorite of his since its release. He and Luz slow dance to it all the time<3.
George Harrison wrote Dark Sweet Lady about his Mexican wife, so it’s a song he loves that reminds him of Luz <3
Anything too heavy has always been rambunctious noise to Ethan. Given how stressful his job can get, as well as his temper, he prefers easygoing and soothing sounds to help calm his mind.
Classical, jazz, instrumentals, and opera is what he mostly enjoys.
He’ll put on music in the car, when he’s cooking, or working out. He’s kept some of his old cds but mainly streams music on Pandora (his preferred streaming service since his med school days).
But the one musician whom he loves above all others will always be his famous pianist son, Marcelo <3
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Luz grew up listening to her parents’ favorite Mexican and oldies music, so it’s always nostalgic when she listens to it.
She was not immune to the emo craze that swept the millennial nation; a lot of 2000s pop punk remains in her playlists.
Ethan doesn’t particularly like this type of music—it hurts his old man ears—so Luz listens to it with AirPods on. He’ll catch her jamming out and finds it endearing how into the music she gets.
She loves a little bit of everything, but she’s mainly a pop girlie. Anything feel-good she can belt out and dance along to is right up her alley.
She’s put on a show for Ethan once or twice. If it makes her body move like that, he has no problem with it whatsoever 😉.
My girl loves to sing and let loose, so if there’s a karaoke bar anywhere in her vicinity, she’s there.
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5 GIFs that show your Candy's hobbies
Guuuuuys, I was searching for a specific post that I saw a long time ago on my old account and I ended up not finding it.... INSTEAD, I found this really nice post by @candysoupkitchen! Since I want to make some friends here, I guess this is a good way to connect with other people 🥺
Okay so basically, I don't really have a different name for my Candy bc my creativity for names is literally 0, so I just use mine... But since I love the name Helena, now we're going to refer to her as Helena or Lena, idk, you choose.
1) Chatting/Hanging out!
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Okay, so Lena loves loves loves to talk to her friends and to spend some time with them! She can be a bit shy at first, but that's until she gets to know you and vice versa. She prefers to be around her friends, but if she's feeling alright she doesn't mind starting a conversation with someone new. Lena loves to get to know other people and their stories, she's a really good listener. And she loves hugs too!!!!!!
2) Dancing and listening to music
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Lena loves music. Since she was really young, her mom would put some music to play while doing the chores, or would put the most recent music videos to play on TV. So even if she doesn't play any instruments and doesn't know how to sing, music is part of her life and she shows it with her dance. She probably has all the versions of Just Dance.
3) Painting/Drawing
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Bob Ross enthusiastic, but not as patient as the legend himself. I guess she would be really good friends with Violet. She likes to paint and to draw (mainly landscapes!), because it helps her relax..... Which is very ironic, bc she's a perfectionist and gets upset easily when something doesn't go the way she expects. Her school/university notebooks are probably full of doodles.
4) Reading
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A true bookworm (I should follow her example, I haven't read anything in two months 🥲🥲). She likes to read about anything that catches her attention, since she's a really curious girl (she wouldn't be Candy if it were the opposite), so that means that she'll have many random references and my random facts to throw in a conversation. For school subjects, she loves to read about History, Sociology, Arts, Literature... Basically anything that doesn't have numbers in it. Some other stuff she likes to read about are things about astrology, tarot, mythology, etc. She doesn't like to read conspiracy theories bc that makes her anxious.
5) Journaling
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Helena is a creative girl with a terrible memory. Journaling helps her not to be 24/7 like Dory from finding Nemo🥴 she likes it BC she can make art while being "organized" at the same time... Her journal is a mix of journal, scrapbook and diary (I really don't know how she does it, I don't go that far with mines but it seems to work for her)
That was my Candy, fam🥰 I hope you like her, and I also hope you like this post! If you want to try that with your Candy too, don't forget to tag me (bc I want to get to know my besties 🥺).
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Usually our classes in school, not including college, would be more of a generalized concept. History is for all of history, not just any ancient or modern history. Actually... The way you're explaining it seems like a lot of your schools are similar to college classes? At least similar class in college. That's what it seems like to me though. But I can be wrong about this though. That's just what it seems like to me. I don't know.
I don't read. Well.. I do. I might read manga occasionally, and I want to read original stories (like fan fiction stories). But I don't read novels so I technically don't read in the traditional sense of the word though. So there's that. I never did summer reading in my school either. We had a lot of summer reading, but I just never once participated in that at all.
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Are you reading my mind? Because that's what I was thinking! Like... I don't know if I would have a dormouse character. I don't know. But if I ever did decide to, I would want to try having a shorter character only because mice are small animals. Not sure if I'd have a cat/mouse ship though. But I know that is a funny that when I first thought about you saying she would be in a relationship with Chishiya. But I would really want some short characters. Especially if I have a ship with Chishiya's character. I remember Nijiro complaining the female actresses were a lot taller than him, so he needs a short girlfriend. Someone who could make him happy being taller than someone for once in his life. So this concept is interesting to me. Apparently we have the same thoughts.
As an introvert, I don't think I was ever 'adopted' by extroverts. And.. I rather keep it that way. Because they'd have too much energy for me.
I can't tolerant that. I don't think I could pretend to either. Which is so funny considering that half of my original characters are extroverted.
If you wanted to avoid disorders, then maybe you could just make her as a character who sleeps a lot. Like someone who sleeps longer than an average person. Longer sleep hours? Someone who could nap any time she has a chance to, someone who can sleep anywhere. Or... I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't know much about most disorders. If I've ever written a character with disorders, actually disabilities in general, then that is because I have some knowledge about the disability then - whether I have those disabilities, or someone I know probably has it.
Obviously the dormouse's canonically associated with Alice, Hatter or Hare. So the mouse should have some connections with them. Only if you are being canonical about the relationships. So yes.. There's that.
I don't know about games yet. I will have a lot of planning to do, when it comes to the Borderlands story. Characters, games, music. Just so many things I have to figure out soon. I should rewatch AIB very soon though.. Not sure when. But I'll definitely have to rewatch the show.
I don't know how many games either. So maybe you should only start with just a few games? Then create more as the story continues. But.. Remember some violence should happen, like more violence than the other games should be thrown in. Like high stakes of losing someone then. In the same way as the tag games, hide and seek games, those types of games. Not that anyone has to die. But more drama involved for some characters. And maybe more suspense in these stories too.
Dori is still attractive. But I won't lie.. I knew he wasn't overly muscular but I thought he would be more toned though. I don't know. Since I've known that he was a model in real life, so I did really imagine his body differently. But it also makes sense? Because, originally, Niragi's really supposed to be a diamond person instead of spades. And! During any scenes he tries raping women, then he's having other people hold the girl down. Like in the scenes with Usagi for example. Apparently, he is definitely a bully who prefers harassing people weaker than him every time he is bullying someone. Which isn't surprising since he is a bully.
Yuki is muscular in a lean and toned way, not overly muscular, but the type of athletic type of build that you could see on spades specialists.
They should've given Noboru some shirtless scenes too. Actually.. I'm wishing some of the H&L cast had more shirtless scenes, but it really never happened. Cobra had one shirtless scene (when he's tortured).
Actually! If I remember correctly.. In the Retry sequel, I believe Arisu's career was also in designing video games? I can't remember. But if he did end up having a career in making video games, that could make a lot of sense for his character. And if he were to ever meet Niragi again if they worked in the same company anyway. But seriously.. If Niragi's a game designer too. Why did you think that he thought the concepts of Borderlands being played like a video was ridiculous. At least when Arisu would bring it up. If Niragi creates games, that should make the most sense to him other than the one person who truly plays games.
I get that Niragi doesn't like Arisu because he's pathetic. And maybe.. There's a chance that Arisu reminds Niragi of his weaker self. But that could have brought them together? I don't know. But yeah. They both enjoy video games, playing or designing games in some way. And if it was ever possible they met in the real world maybe after the very first time, maybe they somehow become friends, but then what may even happen if they got trapped in Borderlands a second time. Because it's obvious you would forget your Borderland memories in the real world after the survivors make it, but you do remember your real memories in Borderlands. And I'm curious on if Chishiya and Niragi would really have become friends too? Doubtful. But still. Because they were even talking to each other for some time, reminiscing about their lives a lot of the time. But that was for every character though. Not just them.
Horologist could work for the white rabbit. Or maybe someone if their family, like grandparents who work with jewelry and accessories, so it could make sense in a way. But the rabbit being athletic seems fitting too. Because rabbits run and 'hop' around. So the rabbit being a hiker and mountain also makes sense in a way too. Then maybe that would be used for part of Usagi's backstory? I might do that. Maybe she had a grandfather, or grandparents, who enjoyed working on accessories.
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Now I actually want you to watch Iron-Blooded Orphans, after you did catch up on other shows and movies. Because I want you to see what I see.. How I'm envisioning these characters. And how I'd work on any canon and original characters, ships and just about everything else in the plot too. OCxRocky, OCxCobra.. Not sure about the other ships in the story yet but Naze's relationship with Amida officially reminds me of how I want the relationship between Rocky and my character to be though. If you were ever curious on how I'd imagine that ship being.
I know! That's weird. Obviously you can see that I can write.. Just any message I send you is like a fucking essay for most people. So I might be able to write stories. But I can't place my dreams and visions into a lot of words for some reason that I don't know. So then what the fuck.
I'm always living in my daydreams though. That's one of my problems that I can think of. But I can write when I think of words to use.. I hate this so much. This annoys me way more than it should. I hate writing.
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If I was ever in that situation.. I guess it depends on who, and what, or why that happened. I might have all of those reactions if I was even in those situation so I can't blame your characters on their reactions. So yeah. I don't blame them. Anyway. As for my characters.. I don't know how they would react if they were caught kissing or having sex. Since I can't really imagine Cobra and Orange having sex in public, and I am not sure how their public affections are going to be between them for whatever reason. I'll have to figure that out the details about this ship.
Blue's already a shy character. So she might be even more shy if she's ever gotten caught being affectionate with another person in public. I could see that happening. She might be scared too, in the sense that, y'know, she might never be able to look people in the eye ever again.
I don't know about my Red or White/Green characters yet. So I'm just going to have to work on these characters soon.. To figure them out.
Blue would be embarrassed in a mortified way. Orange, Red and even White/Green are unknown in their reactions in the situation right now though. So I will have to tell you whenever I figure that out with them.
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So she was trying to observe her, get a read on the female cop just so she could figure out if she could trust her or not. Not that she would.
Oh! Well.. That's awkward. Even if the don made some attempt at the more lawful life, and not the lawless criminal life, he's actually already committed the crimes throughout many years now. On record. And it would also be problematic since the two cops are already married like this for many years. The don is going to be betrayed. He is so fucked.
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yea a lot of our classes were broken into specifics from like 10th grade to 12th. science got broken up into chemistry, biology, physics, and a basic overall science class. maths was broken into these (or four?) different difficulties. ancient and modern history and study of society and a kind of ‘intro to law/crime studies’ class. two different difficulties for english classes. we had a regular art class and a wood/metal workshop class that i cant rem the actual name of. but yea. lotta classes to pick from.
i didn’t finish the great gatsby when it was assigned in class but still got an A-grade overall for that term. i still read a little nowadays but not as much as i used to. i started buying the aib manga but haven’t started reading it yet. i also started the percy jackson series again this year, finished his dark materials, and i have song of achilles half-finished.
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the dormouse just has to be short. pretty sure it’s one of the smaller characters in wonderland too. i mean, march hare and hatter could stuff it in a teapot. even in the original illustrations from the book, though larger than normal, it appears smaller than both the hare and hatter. at least in the movies (live actions and disney), they made it more regular dormouse sized. so i’m making her shorter. maybe an even 5’ or 4’11”.
kinda sucked for nijiro because a lot of his scenes were with tall babe kuina, as opposed to the one main girl who was shorter than him, usagi. rip ashklhddsgk
fun fact, did you know dormice aren’t true mice? they’re closer related to squirrels! it’s very obvious from their tails; they have fluffy tails in comparison to scaly mouse tails.
idk how much connection she’ll have with arisu, but she’s definitely connected with aguni and hatter. and chishiya obviously. she ends up being close with kuina and ann eventually too.
the card soldier is closest with hatter, aguni and the dormouse. as well as karube and niragi. he gets close-ish with heiya in the second season.
i’m mostly trying to make up games as needed for this. i made a bunch when i was doing edits for my previous two ocs, but now i’m being a little looser with it so i don’t get tied down to specifics.
of the actual canon games, i think i could see the dormouse in 2♠(since dormice are arboreal and i think it’d be a fun challenge for her), 10♥, J♥. maybe 4♣, 2♥, and J♣. then i’d have to make up others. there’s not a lot clubs games listed so they’re up for grabs. hearts too, with only one more game specified than clubs.
dori is just very lean and pretty. hell i don’t call him pretty so often in my fics for nothing agshdjdl. i don’t think it’s too surprising, since when i think ‘model’ i do think like. svelte and slender. unless it’s specified as an ‘athletic model’, like for sportswear and stuff. niragi’s a skinny smart nerd, not a strong athletic dude.
arisu becomes a psychologist iirc. probably inspired by mira, since they had a closer relationship in the manga.
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pretty sure my daydreaming is the only thing that gets me through my work shifts most days. probably helps that i can think better when i’m walking around and i walk around for basically my whole shift.
i wish i could just plug in and put my thoughts down on paper without having to actually write it, but nope. gotta use my brain to figure out words. struggles of being a writer i suppose.
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he’s so fucked 😔
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ep11! one episode left!!
the boss wants the wife to move in with him. he bought this big fancy house for them to live in once he’s finished with his last piece of gang work.
the cop is being jealous again. he saw the necklace the boss gave her. very combative, seems like he doesn’t trust her, and is thinking she’s trying to protect the boss by telling him to stop the case. on her side, she’s worried it’s messing with her husband’s head - because he killed a couple guys in front of her and shredded the achilles of another. even the cop’s police boss was worried he was getting in too deep.
the semi-competent cop is digging into the wife because he saw her with the boss. he knows who the wife and the cop are now - but doesn’t know the cop’s face. yet.
the boss and the cop’s car got hit by a truck driven by one of their ex-drug dealers while they were transporting the drugs! it was supposed to be the drug transfer that got the boss arrested but now it’s fucked! the boys almost got blown up but boss got the cop out. that’s his bestie, his buddy!!!!
hi ex-friend came back to fuck with the boss! he told the drug dealer the route the boys were transporting the drugs on and stole all the boss’ money.
the boss’ knife guy captured the cop’s boss and beat him and the called the cop in to stab him after finding out the guy was pretending to be the wife’s husband.
another episode ending with a gunshot sound and a black screen. they sure do love using that.
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twistednuns · 1 year
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December 2022
A ticket to the planetarium at the kids museum on a bland day in a bland city. Glow-in-the-dark stars and planets, a moving tunnel just like the Hexenschaukel. Golden glitter curtains reflecting the sunlight (El Salvador seems to be obsessed with Christmas). A kitty sleeping in the park. Pupusas. The girl from El Salvador/Texas who called her cousin for me and helped me find out where to buy bus tickets.
Mastering the blueberry challenge - recording a video of me making a blueberry hover over my mouth.
A very plushy and luxurious bus seat on the way to Honduras. A faint rainbow. Green valleys and mountains.
How my friends showed up for me when I told them my mum was very sick. Frank kept asking me how I was, offered support. Was suddenly really there. Doris stayed up very late for me so we could talk on the phone. Compassionate messages and offers.
Talking to my mum via Skype. It helped me accept and understand the situation when I could see/hear/feel her and learned how she felt about her illness.
Blanca picking me up from the bus station, listening to me, getting me back there the next day.
Listening to podcasts for hours and hours.
Palm tree forests with cow herds grazing. Passing a Chiquita banana farm on the way to the ferry terminal in La Ceiba.
The completely artificial and overly syrupy cocktail cherry on my smoothie.
I saw five cats one morning. Obviously they all thought I was there to deliver breakfast. One even tried biting into my forearm to see if I was the snack.
Diving! Seeing a huge puffer fish. Not fucking up. Everything went smoothly.
Being able to almost cross my legs? I'm obsessed. And want to keep losing weight!
Strutz, Jonah Hill's documentary about his therapist. I learned about some interesting thoughts and concepts. But it was nothing new - actually it all comes down to the same work but Strutz has a different way of explaining things. And that was nice to learn as well - I already know what I need to know. I have to stop looking for teachers and guidance and put the wisdom I already have to practice.
I went over to the freediving centre. Didn't get the introduction course right away but was invited to come out on the boat to watch and snorkel. Walter, a red female cat, showed up and was super affectionate. My emotional support animal. We took out the boat, it was raining. Marc gave me his jacket. Everyone prepared for their training and I watched Marc doing line dives. Tried a few myself. I enjoyed using the long fins, how easy it is to get down. The plankton, the air bubbles, like a marine whirl pool. Marc's air rings. The last one was perfect, almost like a hula hoop. Diving some more. Seeing the sheer mass of water and light above me coming up. The blue abyss below me.
Seeing the reflection of the sun and sky in a puddle on the boat deck.
More scuba diving. Seeing a funny fish with some feather headdress in black and white. A spotted eagle ray. Diving though narrow passageways.
Drinks with the divers. Just a bit of socialising. It was good for me not to be alone all the time.
A gorgeous sunset and the last full moon of the year.
Loving kindness meditation.
A very good cup of coffee after lots of Nescafé fails.
A consoling online therapy session. It's nice to have another mum figure in my life.
My first full month of meditation milestone.
Feel Good on Netflix. I'm attracted to Mae Martin. But I obviously identify with her girlfriend in the series.
Music trivia quiz at Sundowners! KC and Alex were very good. Also, I love them as a couple. They seem to really enjoy their life! And I bonded a little with the other Alex, a girl from Texas who works at a space agency and has racoons living under her house. I love her assertiveness and taste in jewellery.
Freediving! Getting my certificate. Successfully "saving" my instructor from drowning twice. A barracuda hanging out with me. All the sexy/tan/heavily tattooed diving folks on the boat. And they were all so nice and friendly. Marlene from Montreal gave us rambutans. Lisa from the UK was extremely lovely. What an awesome community. I mustn't forget Marc and Walter the cat! And the diving is just gorgeous. I love the feeling down there. Just hanging on to a line. The efficiency of wimming with long fins.
A green kolibri just whirring around outside the terrace where I had my Sunday breakfast.
Extra foamy foam on my cappuccino. Cocoa powder. Good scrambled egg with veggies, avocado, cheese and hot sauce.
A tiny little discount on my rambutans.
Getting the plane seats I wanted without having to switch or pay for anything. And finding out that I don't have to pay for checked luggage! What a relief.
I got to know some divers at Chillie's (Ash and her dad Marc) and we all went out for dinner. I had such an interesting conversation with Marc, an older artist and furniture designer who'd recently lost his wife. We talked about life, design, the power of thoughts and breath, karma and so much more. Connecting with Brandon, Ash and Alex over drinks on my last night on the island.
The last Roatan sunset was a good one, too.
Leftover pizza for my airport oddyssee.
Finding out that my belly fits under the fold out table in the airplane by now. Loving this.
Watching old movies. I especially enjoyed 28 Days. I'm having a Sandra Bullock moment.
Annika picking me up from the airport on the coldest day of the year. Everything was frozen and covered in frost or ice. Crunchy steps. She's even brought a hat and gloves for me. We ended up driving around for almost three hours because it turned out I had the wrong keys and needed to get a Covid test for the hospital visit.
Moving in at home. Taking care of my mum. Driving and cooking for the first time in a while. Helping her with everything. Feeling effective and useful.
My mum feels so much better at home. Seeing her on the first day in the hospital was scary.
IKEA veggie hot dogs with Lena and Christian.
Chocolate, herbal tea and truffle mustard from Lena. And Sash gave me another big box of Zotter chocolate for Christmas.
Seeing the Friendzone for dinner.
Cuddling with Do. She visited me on my second day back in Germany.
Meditation with visualization. Visualising a garden in summer. Cats, planting seeds, the sunlight feeling warm on my skin. The smell of the soil. Buzzing insects.
Crosswords and sudoku to pass the time.
Thai massage. Ing triggering a smiling reflex when she hit exactly the right spots.
Making Haluschki for my mum. Baking cheese biscuits.
It was so good to see Becky and Manu and finally talk again after such a long time. Then I picked up Doris from school. We went to Erding, walked around a few stores and had Indian food for dinner. Then we cuddled and held hands at the cinema.
A new puffy bag.
Spending the evenings talking to my mum. Asking questions, listening to stories about her past.
Semolina dessert with cherry jam.
Meeting Lena for long walks along the river.
Visiting Dory at home for the first time. I got so many unexpected Christmas presents and loved every single one of them. We tried out a few toys, had breakfast at the bakery and watched Nous finirons ensemble while eating Nidar Smash.
A quick visit at Sash's parents' house on New Year's Eve. Maya fed me her homemade Russian food. We half-watched a classic movie and toasted with champagne at midnight.
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amxranthiine · 3 years
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BRUTAL (thorin's company x fem!reader) (platonic)
imagine: you, a 17 year old girl from our world, being thrown into middle earth. how would the company react to you listening to, and singing, brutal by olivia rodrigo? (she/her pronouns)
- [ ] it was like a weird dream come true when you were tossed into middle earth like a puppet, and adopted by the company when they found you in the woods.
- [ ] even weirder when you found out you had your phone and earbuds on you, and they worked without wifi!
- [ ] though you didn't bother checking to see if your phone worked until after 2 and a half weeks with the company, and on particularly boring day, you decided to check and see just for funsies (and you were going absolutely bonkers with all the masculine energy around)
- [ ] so, like any normal person would do, the first thing you did was put in your earbuds and turn on your favorite playlist.
- [ ] brutal just happened to be the first song that played, and boy were you overjoyed. in a way, you related to the lyrics. emotions from the expectations from two worlds, as well as being a teenage girl, were built up and in desperate need of release.
- [ ] you were dancing around, well, dancing as much as you could, seeing as you were on a pony
- [ ] singing the song like it was going to save your life! and in a way, it had.
- [ ] but it had also caused quite a few mini heart attacks when the company heard the song blaring out of those little wires. what were they called again?
- [ ] they had never heard anything like it! and your singing, boy oh boy did it terrify them.
- [ ] because you were singing. about dying. and being insecure. and hating your life.
- [ ] i don't think they understand the fact that it was just a song.... even though they've put on quite a few shows in their days.
- [ ] and i'm so tired that i might quit my job, start a new life. and they'd all be so disappointed cuz' who am i, if not exploited?
- [ ] the way you sang so passionately, and aggressively, they were shocked! who the hell are these awful people you were singing about?
- [ ] and i'm so sick of 17, where's my fucking teenage dream?
- [ ] woah, okay, baby human just swore like a sailor. ori nearly got a nosebleed from blushing so hard!
- [ ] kili and fili were silently jamming out to your singing, finding it amusing, and kind of a good song! (don't tell dori that, he was steaming out of his ears for saying these things around ori!)
- [ ] dwalin was kind of getting into it too... a head bop once in a while, or a foot tap in his stirrup.
- [ ] thorin ignored it, as usual.
- [ ] all i did was try my best, this the kinda thanks i get? unrelentlessly upset.
- [ ] gloin was glaring at you. he didn't like you in the first place, and he just found this annoying and needless.
- [ ] nori and bofur were, albeit, trying to sing along with you, but it just came out as muffled words and off-key hums
- [ ] they say these are the golden years, but i wish i could disappear. ego crush is so severe, god, it's brutal out here!
- [ ] at that you were playing an invisible guitar with your hands, banging your head and having no care for anything other than your music.
- [ ] balin, bombur and gandalf were laughing, highly amused by the scene. they all needed something to lift their spirits, and this was... unexpected?? but highly appreciated.
- [ ] bifur and oin were slightly confused... hot really understanding what was happening but still having a grand old time.
- [ ] bilbo was even humming along! he didn't understand what was happening, but he had a grin on his face and was enjoying the show.
- [ ] thorin was thorin. but in a good way? kind of? let's just say, it was easy to tell where the princes got their humor from. the smirk and bright eyes gave it away, mr king under the mountain.
- [ ] they were all kind of concerned for the self-deprecating lyrics, but you didn't seem at all upset by it, so why would they be?
- [ ] by the time the song came to an end, your face was red and sweaty, your throat was sore from singing, and your hair was an absolute disaster. it was still a shock to find 13 dwarves, a hobbit and a wizard all staring at you with smiles on their faces
- [ ] gathering your breath, you huffed and looked at them all one by one
- [ ] "what? it's a good song!"
- [ ] chuckles were heard from everyone, even dori... who had to admit that it was kind of funny.
- [ ] you made the company's day go from bad to great in three minutes.
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maddiwrites · 3 years
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The Hybrid (Prologue)
Pairing: JJ x Reader
Summary: The Pogues rekindle their friendship with their old childhood best friend and JJ’s first crush, Y/N. Old feelings resurface for JJ and Y/N, possibly leading to a summer neither one of them could ever forget. Due to past trauma, Y/N is reluctant to let anyone into her heart, but JJ never backs down from a challenge, even if he knows it will come back to haunt him in the end.
Note: So happy to be back with another series!!! I honestly really missed posting. Unlike Secrets of the Shore, updates will be slower because I don’t have them all written out yet. A couple things I wanted to let you know before you read. I based Y/N’s family off of Gilmore Girls. I thought they were the perfect fit for this story and the show in general and I just love their dynamic. (Including Luke who I renamed Steve for obvious reasons). Chapter 1 will explain more obviously but I wanted to give you guys a little snippet of the characters and relationships. So let me know what y'all think!
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Outer Banks. Paradise on Earth. It's the sort of place where you either have two jobs or two houses. Two tribes, one island. As you know, the Outer Banks is essentially divided into two groups. If we want to be blunt - it’s the rich and the poor. Figure Eight is home to the rich. Aka the Kooks. With houses bigger than necessary with extra rooms that go untouched, boats the size of homes on the Cut - the other side of the island. Most people who live on Figure Eight are your naturally raised assholes. People who don’t know the value of a dollar and take advantage of people who do most of their dirty work that lets them prance around the island with perfectly manicured fingernails. These hard workers are the Pogues. They live on the south side of the island where most Kooks wouldn’t be found dead. They serve fancy meals at the country club for shitty tips, mow lawns, and work their asses off at any other job for minimum wage. The drastic difference in lifestyles tend to cause many spats and arguments between the two communities. Especially between the teenagers who still don’t know how to control their raging emotions or know when to bite back their tongue. For the Kooks, every fight is a fight for dominance where as the Pogues fight for equality - to put the Kooks in their place. Many of these fights happen at summer parties where the two groups clash to find a good time with their friends filled with alcohol, drugs, and good music.
That’s where they find themselves tonight. The infamous Pogues. John B, JJ, Kie, Pope, and now Sarah Cameron. Although born a natural Kook, she’s earned her spot next to the adventurous teens and her boyfriend. Unlike her brother Rafe who basically is the leader of his notorious group. Topper and Kelce are his best friends who follow him blindly.
The Pogues watch them from their spot surrounding the keg. Kie purses her lips in distaste as the boys cat call for the ladies around them. Somehow most of them finding it flattering. Sarah sips on her beer to hide her embarrassment, often wondering how she and her brother grew up to be so different. Pope and John B stay mostly disinterested, only worried if they try to make a pass at an unwilling girl or fire a degrading comment at their short tempered friend. JJ Maybank is known around the island for his trouble making behavior. Usually if he gets in trouble for fights, no one ever asks who the other people were in the scuffle. Because if JJ Maybank is in the fight, he’s the one who started it, right? Wrong. In fact, JJ usually is never the one to start it. He’s good at keeping his head down and only speaking when spoken to when it comes to the Kooks - the only form of advice worth taking from his father. But his short temper is something the Kooks his age loved to take advantage of because they liked getting a rise out of him. It was like an adrenaline rush.
Luckily, tonight both groups were keeping their distance, either only talking to each other or random Tourons that have found their way to the party. This is usually JJ’s favorite part of a boneyard party. Finding his one fish in a sea of many that he can reel in just for the night and never have to worry about seeing them again.
He has his eyes set on a beautiful blonde making her way to the bonfire when all of a sudden Kie’s voice pulls him out of his trance.
“What’s she doing here?”
JJ follows her line of vision, spotting you walking down the wooden steps that lead to the beach, pulling your best friend behind you by his wrist. He first notices your smile and how it brightens up your entire face. Then of course his eyes scan down your slim but athletically toned body. You’re wearing a pair of jean shorts and a cropped white T shirt that says UNC across the chest. Who knew someone could look so good without even trying?
Well JJ did. He’s known it for a while.
“Careful. I think you’re drooling,” John B whispers in his best friend’s ear.
JJ pushes him away and mutters, “Shut up. No I’m not.”
But maybe he was.
Y/N Y/L/N is a unique resident of the island. Unlike majority of the island, she doesn’t fall in either Kook or Pogue category. She’s what everyone calls the Hybrid.
People who work hard for what they have but haven’t fallen to be Pogue status. Quite literally living in the middle in a place they call the Crest.
Your story is well versed among the gossipers of the island (which tends to be just about everybody).  And mainly that’s because of who your grandparents are.  Claude and Doris Y/L/N. Two of the riches people on the island, living in a three story house on the beach. Many people fear them, others envy them. Most feel both. Even Ward Cameron walks on egg shells around them, which is quite often, considering he works for Claude. They’re the kind of people who have never heard of Barefoot wine or Walmart. They keep their noses up and turn a blind eye to the suffering communities around them. Thirty four years ago, Doris gave birth to a daughter that couldn’t be more opposite than them. Lorelai Y/L/N was a wild child. A rule breaker. She snuck out at nights, dated boys her parents would never approve of, dabbled in breaking the law here and there. It didn’t matter how many times her parents disciplined her. She always managed to make her parents’ life a living hell. 
No one was surprised when word got passed around that Lorelai had gotten pregnant at eighteen. Although it was with another Kook, she brought shame upon her family name when she refused to get an abortion, even when her mom tried dragging her by her hair. 
Lorelai risked everything by running away from her parents’ home in the middle of a windy night. With only one suitcase, the baby daddy out of the picture, and less than a grand in her pocket, she managed to make a life for herself on the South side of the island. She worked two jobs, found an affordable apartment for cheap rent, and managed to save some money before her babies were born.
Yes, babies. As in more than one. Five months after running away from home, she gave birth to twin girls and they instantly became her entire life. With the help of her best friend Steve, who she met one month after being on her own, meeting him at his automotive shop when she very much literally rolled her junky car into the garage, she raised you and your sister on the Cut. The two of you are her greatest accomplishment. Every now and then, she mentally throws up a middle finger to everybody who doubted her, proud of who the two of you have become. 
Right before you turned ten, your mom took a business risk and opened her own Cafe. The Bikini Beans cafe, very popular amongst both Kooks and Pogues. The business did so well that she was able to move the three of you out of your shitty apartment into a beautiful one story home with three bedrooms in between the Cut and Figure Eight, aka the Crest, the summer going into your freshman year.
You actually used to be best friends with John B Routledge, JJ Maybank, and Pope Heyward. It was easier being friends with them than the girls, finding more joy in sports and rough housing than makeup and gossip. 
Doing the same summer that you moved, your mom pulled you out of Kildare County High and placed you in Outer Banks Private Academy. Aka Kook Academy. Around this time, your grandparents had also become more involved in your life, and you wondered if they had somehow bribed your mom into forcing you to transfer schools. You tried asking her during one of your many fights that started with you begging her to keep you at Kildare County High, but she quickly shut you down and told you to be grateful. That was ironic coming from the woman who ran away from the people giving her an expensive high school career. 
You had no choice but to do what your grandparents wanted and attend Kook Academy. Making friends was a lot harder there than it was in Kildare County High. You managed to make one friend in your freshman year. Andre Cortez. Due to an incident a couple years back, you built thick walls and Andre was the only one able to break them down. You were grateful for your friendship, but hanging out with him was nothing like hanging out with the Pogues. 
When you transferred schools, you lost touch with the Pogues slowly. Your life became busy with school and playing dress up for your grandparents and the boys were starting to work. Eventually all contact was cut and ever since, you’ve felt a void in your heart.
“Look,” You tell Andre. “I told you I would be your wing woman and I’m not backing down from what could possibly be the most important role in my life.”
You didn’t notice the Pogues or any of the stares around you. It’s true you’re not much of a party girl. I mean, you’ll go out here and there, have a drink or two, but you felt more comfortable at places where you weren’t surrounded by drunk and horny teenagers. 
“He’s probably not even here,” Andre says. He’s trying to look nonchalant but you notice the way his eyes dance from face to face of the people around him. 
“He told you he was going to be here, right?” You ask him with one brow raised. Andre nods. “Then, we’ll find him.”
Sarah and Kie never made any effort to talk to you at school, but to be fair, neither have you. You’ve heard mixed reviews, some people call them spoiled brats, ungrateful...some even go as far as calling them ‘The Cut Sluts.’ Of course you never take any of those things to heart. You can’t judge a book but it's cover. Plus, they’re friends with your old best friends. They can’t be that bad for John B and JJ and Pope to be hanging out with them, right?
“You think she'll come over here?” Kie asks. No one’s ever said it out loud, but her friends wonder if deep down, Kie was a little jealous of you. Because you were their first real girl friend. You were the first girl they ever let in and opened their heart too. That was a tough pill for Kie to swallow when she originally thought she was that girl. Of course the boys don’t like you any more than Kie and vice versa. But sometimes Kie wishes she could have grown up with the boys the same way you had. 
“Probably not. Unless she’s drinking,” Pope says and motions towards the keg they’re near. 
“I have an idea,” John B says and fills up a red solo cup. He hands it to JJ. “Why don’t you go offer her a cup.”
JJ snags the cup out of John B’s hand and glares at him. “Fuck off, dude.” 
“Do you guys ever see her around at school?” Pope asks the girls.
Sarah shrugs. “Not really. She doesn’t really get a long with my old group of friends.”
Kie rolls her eyes. “No one gets along with your old group of friends.”
Sarah playfully shoves Kie by the shoulder and they laugh. 
“I heard she turned down Raymond Easterling a couple weeks ago and he didn’t take it very well,” Pope says, remembering the words he heard from the kids in his class roaming the school hallways. 
Raymond goes to Kildcare County High with the Pogues. He’s known to be a trouble maker and a class clown. He works with JJ at the country club. The kid can make JJ laugh sometimes, but he wouldn’t necessarily say he likes him all that much. He can be an arrogant asshole with an ego bigger than it should be.
“She turns down everybody,” Sarah says. “Some people at my school call her ‘The Heart Sucker’ because she can pull people in with the snap of her fingers and break their heart just as quickly.”
Something stirred in the pit of JJ’s stomach.
“Hey! Where you going?” John B calls out to JJ who’s making his way deeper into the sea of people on the beach. 
“Taking advantage of a good boneyard party, my friend,” JJ calls back and slugs the rest of his beer. Looking left and right, he searches for the blonde he had eyes on earlier. Because right now, he needed a distraction. 
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 
The party starts to die down a little after midnight. Some people leave to find another party, some are passed out in the back of their cars, and others had already found what they were looking for - someone to leave with. 
The boneyard party wasn’t as bad as you expected it to be. You had found a couple of kids from your school who were nice enough to make small talk with you while Andre left to find a guy named Devon, a Touron he’s been talking to who’s renting for the entire summer. 
Now you’re waiting for Andre to come back so the two of you can walk home. You find comfort under a slanted palm tree towards the back of the beach, scrolling through random apps on your phone to pass the time.
“Y/N?” You look up from you phone and smile when you see your former best friend inching closer to you, squinting in the dark to see if it’s really you. 
“Maybank? What are you still doing here?” You stand up and pat the sand off your hands on you thighs. 
Your heart skips a beat in your chest when you look at him. He’s beautiful. Lucious blonde hair, perfectly tanned skin, piercing blue eyes. You always knew JJ was going to grow up to be gorgeous. He was cute when he was younger. At least you always thought so. 
“I was just leaving, but I thought I saw you sitting here and wanted to make sure you were all right.” He knows it’s not like you to stay this late at a party, especially all by yourself. When he first saw you sitting there, he didn’t know if he should say something. Mostly due to nerves of seeing you again. But the other Pogues had already left and he didn’t trust anyone else at the party to be near you alone late at night. It didn’t matter if you were sober or not. 
“Aw. Was JJ Maybank worried about me?” You tease. Talking to him felt easy. As if you never stopped being friends. A few years ago, you and JJ had the best banter. Despite constantly bickering back and forth, John B always swore the two of you would get married one day. The two of you just always clicked like a natural connection. And even now, when only seeing each other every now and then for a few minutes at a time, it felt normal. You smirk when JJ rolls his eyes. “I’m kidding. Yeah, I’m okay. Just waiting for my friend to come back from his little rendezvous,” You say. 
JJ nods. “Did you have a good time? I feel like I never you see at these things.”
“Yeah. Parties aren’t really my thing. But Andre was nervous to meet this guy he’s been talking to for a little while so I came for moral support.”
“Looks like he didn’t need much of the support.”
You shrug. “It’s better that way, anyway. I don’t mind waiting for him. What about you?”
“What about me?” 
“Did you have a good time tonight? I hear your quite the ladies’ man at these things.”
“Come on, Sparky. You know better than to believe everything you hear.”
Your face lights up at the mention of your old nickname. You use to always be busting out the seams with energy. On days where the boys just wanted to chill and play video games, you would drag them to the park for a game of kick ball. Or when they wanted to sleep in after a long week, you showed up at 8 am to drag them out of bed to catch the morning waves. So one day JJ started calling you Sparky, and it stuck with the rest of your little gang. You always pretended to hate it, but secretly you loved it. 
“Oh I don’t believe everything I hear. I do, however, believe what I see. And your arm around that tall blonde in the little black dress looked quite convincing.”
You first saw JJ at the party when he was making his way to the pretty girl by the water. Your teeth involuntarily clenched and there was a twisted feeling in your stomach you couldn’t shake whenever you looked at them. 
In that instant, JJ felt grateful for the dark sky. He felt the rush of heat rise up his neck to his cheeks before he could stop it. He knew the motivation to see that girl was because of you. He just wished you never saw it. But he didn’t know why. 
“I walked her home. She wasn’t my type,” JJ plays it off. 
“I didn’t realize you had a type,” You giggle, but a small part felt relieved to hear this. “So what is it? Your type?”
Hybrids with a Pogue attitude, bright smile, beautiful eyes, and a mouth that could make any sailor turn around, JJ thought. 
“I don’t know. Haven’t figured it out yet.”
You roll your eyes playfully. “Well, when you figure it out let me know.”
“Why? So you can transform into my ideal girl?” He teases.
Now you’re the one thankful for the dark sky. “In your dreams, Maybank. But so far, I do have the perfect wing-woman track record, so if you needed help -”
“I don’t think I need any help in that department. Thank you very much.”
You throw your hands up in fake surrender. “Ooo. Touchy subject.”
JJ rolls his eyes at the same time your phone pings with a text message. You pull it out of your shorts pocket and open the text from Andre, telling you to leave without him because he’s gonna stay out late with Devon and won’t know what time he’s going to be done.
“Everything all right?” JJ says, watching you read the message.
You lock your phone and stuff it in your back pocket again. “Like I said. Perfect wing-woman track record.”
“That was Andre?” 
“Yeah. He’s most likely not coming home tonight.”
“Lucky bastard.”
“At least one of us is,” You joke. 
JJ’s grin slightly falters but you don’t catch it. You have no idea how much he wishes the two of you could be equally as lucky. Together. 
“Well, I should probably go,” You say and bend down to grab your flip flops.
“Let me walk you home,” JJ offers. 
“Oh no. It’s okay -”
“You’re cute. It’s wasn’t up for debate. I’m not letting you walk back by yourself.”
You scoff lightly. “I’ll be fine.”
“Just humor me.”
You roll your eyes and smirk but choose not to argue. In fact, you’re excited to spend more time with JJ. It’s been so long.
“Fine.”
“And here I thought you might’ve grown out of your stubborn phase by now.”
You shove him playfully by the shoulder. “Shut up!”
And just like that, it felt like old times.
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noyasboxdye · 3 years
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Aone Takanobu x black! gn! reader hcs
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Notes: I've been waiting to write for him but I just couldn't think of ideas but alas I finally came up with something! Sorry if these are shitty I've been exhausted in every single form all week.
Pairing: Aone Takanobu x gn! reader
WARNINGS: black reader, gender neutral reader, NSFW, pre & post timeskip
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General hcs
I think that when he was younger he was told by a friend who he looked up to a lot that he talk to much and his voice is annoying so because of that he doesn't talk much but I feel like he would talk a lot more around you. Especially if y'all were friends first
He has a sister who used to paint his nails when she was younger and bc of that he kid of just
He enjoys making flower crowns
He has this lake near his house and it's a really secluded area so people usually aren't over there and that's his safe space
He would like the movies "my girl" and "what's eating gilbert grape"
The reader has non cut/longer hair
He loves watching you do it
He also gets really excited when you ask him to help you
He knows all the products you use from going on trips or target or the hair store with you
He likes watching you comb/blow dry your hair because he like watching your hair unshrink
He likes taking your hair out of a twist out or braids especially if your hair is big in an afro
His head massages are top tier bruh
He'll oil your scalp
He'll buy you bonnets/durags with you asking
He carried around scrunchies/hair ties just in case yours brakes or something
The reader has cut/short hair
Y'all go to the barber together
He loves going to the barber with you because of several reasons the main one being he likes how big you smile when you talk to ur friends there and the other being he loves the music
He likes tying your durag for you
When quarantine started and you couldn't go he learned how to cut hair so you don't look homeless
He was actually pretty good at it
Y'all still go to the barber though because he doesn't know how to do designs and shit
Pre time skip
Y'all met because you would both take the same train home
You sat next to him on the train and you noticed him from your class so you said hi
He would start going to your games/performances/debates at school and you would go to his
No one ever knew that y'all were dating until you dropped off his lunch and kissed him
They lowk lost their shit
Your parents love him so he would always be over even if you weren't at the house he would just be talking to your parent(s) about school and their shows etc.
He would get really excited when you wore his hoodies or jersey
Post time skip
He loves when you rub his arms and back after he gets finished with work
He makes you a little snack to go with your lunch every day
He bought a turtle off impulse
He named it dory
He usually rubs your thighs
He lets you sit in between his thighs if you ask him to
If you have siblings they absolutely love him omg it's so cute
He has stretch marks and when you kiss them he gets all flustered and shit and it's really cute
NSFW
His thighs are really sensitive in certain areas so if you apply a certain amount of pressure while rubbing it he'll moan and turn into a blushing mess
He does really moan its more so breathy whimpers and groans
He loves being choked
He's very submissive and such a good boy as well
He barely ever acts like a brat because he never needs too
He rarely gets horny but when he does it's for hours
He loves being treated like a rag doll esp with how big he is he loves how small you make him feel
He also loves short doms it's so pleasingly humiliating for him
He likes bondage but only ropes no cuffs or anything. He wants to see those bright red marks that occurred from him squirming around too much
On the rare occasion that he does act like a brat, it's really bad
He'll flirt with his co-workers, grind his ass against your crotch, give you hand jobs under the table, rub your thigh his hand getting dangerously close to your area
He always pushes you to the point where you have to leave early from whatever you're doing
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linorachas · 3 years
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track 01. | bang chan
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⁍ pairing — bang chan x gn!reader ⁍ genre — fluff, hurt and comfort ⁍ word count — 2.6k words ⁍ details — established relationship, kisses!!!, self-doubt on reader's part ⁍ notes — this fic was supposed to be a drabble, but i may have gotten carried away because it hit close to home and maybe i need reassurance from chan Too ok damn. this one is for anon, and for every person out there who didn't get the results that they wanted, big or small. bear hugs from me and chan. you did well ♥️ ⁍ the mixtape series — this series will be for my fics that are heavily inspired by songs! i'm a very music-oriented person, so expect more of these in the future. ⁍ summary —  Chan was there for you. It was that simple.
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when you love someone (day 6) ⤷ on queue: grow up (skz)
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Chan knew something was wrong the moment he stepped through the door.
He should have no reason to know, really. Your days started off on a good note, sweet kisses exchanged and promises made before he left for work. You texted him sporadically throughout the day, but the texts tapered off sometime after lunch.
He hadn’t thought anything of it then, but now that he’s seen you, it took every bit of his strength to not just shake your shoulders and ask you what was wrong so he could fix it and make it better and destroy whatever it is that upset you.
He knew you liked to play your problems off like they were nothing, brushing it off in fear that you would bother the people around you. You would ignore all your problems and let it boil over if you could. And he knew this was one of those times, because you hadn’t texted him about it. Greeted him at the front door like normal, distracted him with your bright smiles and kisses that leave him breathless.
But… he sees the way your smile tightened.
The way you blinked rapidly when you thought he wasn’t looking, staring up at the ceiling to try and alleviate the stinging in your eyes. He sees it in the way you wore your (his) comfiest sweater and turned on your comfort show at a loud volume, as if you were doing all your favorite things to convince both Chan and yourself that you were fine.
But he also saw how none of these things worked, and that you were hiding something, and it was hurting you.
“Minho called today,” you start talking as you both walk to the kitchen, and Chan finds you had already prepared dinner. You bustle around the kitchen, telling him about Minho’s trip to the vet with Dori, Jeongin’s new hobby, Hyunjin’s current drama obsession.
You talk and you talk, finding little things to do, like moving the cereal box and rearranging condiments. Chan moves to get the rice like he always does, but the ache in his heart slows his movements.
He didn’t like seeing you like this, putting up a front for him. He didn’t mind you hiding what was wrong. He understood that it was hard for you to talk about your problems, and he wasn’t going to push for you to do so. But it didn’t sit right with him that you had to put on a smile, when you were clearly struggling.
So he bites the bullet.
“Baby,” he calls, stopping you mid-rant. He knew eye contact made you nervous, especially with the question he’s about to ask, so Chan keeps his gaze trained on the rice cooker. He scoops out the rice methodically, keeping his voice light. “Did something happen today?”
You laugh, but even you can feel the nerves in it. “Nothing much, Channie. I’m fine! Anyway, I really thought they’d have it, you know. It was all over the internet. I’d have ordered it online, but shipping seemed too expensive. Some of the-“
“Stop it.”
You freeze at Chan’s tone, and you turn around slowly to see him frowning at the counter, bowl placed down. You meet eyes when he turns to look at you too, but he softens immediately when he sees how caught off guard you were, eyes still wide.
With a sad smile, he shuffles closer to you, reaching for your hand. But he stops before he actually gets to touch it, looking at you cautiously as if asking for permission to hold you.
Your heart throbbed.
As soon as you manage a shaky nod, Chan takes your hand in his and intertwines your fingers together. He takes your other hand as well, but this one he brings up to his mouth, pressing a gentle kiss to it.
Heart stuttering, you croak, “Chan-“
“I’m here.” Chan reassures firmly, as if it was that simple. He tears through the walls you’ve built up the entire day, like they were made of cardboard instead of concrete. The stinging in your eyes worsens, because maybe it was that simple.
Chan was here. He was here, and maybe you were safe now, maybe you could let yourself cry for a bit, maybe you could let him hold you and you could forget, maybe-
He sighs, apologetic. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sound so harsh earlier. You can tell me to leave and I will, but I’ll be right outside that door until you allow me inside again. I’m right here, Y/N.” He whispers, pressing a kiss to the palm of your hand, but this one is longer.
Lips brushing against your palm, he promises, “Whatever it is, I’m right here with you.”
And the dam breaks.
You don’t register the tears rapidly flowing down your cheeks until you see the way Chan panics, and the sight would have made you laugh any other time, but unfortunately you were too busy crying your heart out. Chan makes a wounded noise when he gathers you up in his arms, and your hands clutch at his shirt desperately, finding your safe space in the crook of his neck.
You hiccup and you sob and you shake, but all Chan does is hold you tighter and tighter, almost like he was holding together the pieces that were slowly breaking off you.
Like it was that simple.
He doesn’t say anything, except for the occasional hushing when you choke on a sob. One of his hands was wrapped snugly around your waist, keeping you close, while the other stayed at the back of your head. He was shielding you like this, hiding you away from the world that hurt you so much.
He starts swaying once your sobs die down. He rocks you back and forth slowly, humming under his breath just so you could have some music to sway to. It distracts you, and focusing on his humming eventually leads you to focus on your own breathing too.
You only pull away once his nails start gently scratching your scalp, afraid you would fall asleep on him if he continues any longer. You look up at him then, with puffy red eyes and tear stained cheeks, and Chan— who was never the one to resort to violence first— feels a lick of immediate anger deep in his soul for the person, or the thing, or whatever it was that made you like this.
Meanwhile, you look mournfully at the big wet patch on Chan’s shirt, berating yourself for being gross. Chan follows your gaze and laughs softly. He tears your gaze away from it by tilting your head up, two fingers under your chin. You meet his gaze and sniffle, apologetic.
“I’ll make you wash that later.” Chan’s nose scrunches, smiling at you playfully. Your lips quirk at that for a quick second, but the relief that washes over Chan at the miniscule expression was massive.
Brushing your hair away from your face, he sighs, “Now who made my baby cry, huh? I’ll beat them up for you. Really.”
You snort, about to tell him he couldn’t even hurt a fly, but then a fresh wave of tears well up in your eyes again just from the question alone and Chan coos as he brings you back in your arms.
“Hey, hey. It’s okay, you don’t have to tell me. I’m not forcing you. We don’t have to talk about it, okay?”
You shake your head at that, face still buried in his chest. It’s not that you didn’t want to tell him, you were just…
You hiccup, furiously wiping at your tears as you pull away. Chan’s face was so open, so understanding and so ready to fight whatever upset you that the worlds bubble up in your throat before you could stop them.
Fuck it.
You face Chan again, steeling yourself as you whisper, brokenly;
“I didn’t get it.”
A look of realization and shock flickers on Chan’s face, but it’s gone as quickly as it came. It’s replaced with understanding, his gentle smile just coaxing more tears out of you. He cups your face between his two hands, shushing you.
“Oh, my baby.” He sighs, brushing your tears away with his thumb. He opens his mouth to ask how he can help, but surprisingly, you keep talking.
“It’s just so stupid.” You start, and then the words just don’t stop. “I feel so stupid. I know I shouldn’t be crying over this because I have other applications and- and-“
“Don’t say that,” Chan frowns, not wanting to interrupt you but also not wanting to hear you say you were stupid. “You’re allowed to cry over anything. No matter how big or small it is. There are no rules about what you should or shouldn’t cry to. I know how much you wanted that, Y/N.” He shakes his head, “You have every right to be upset.”
You swallow, letting Chan’s words sink into your bones. Exhaling shakily, your hands come up to grip his wrists.
“Everybody— my other friends, they kept telling me that I did my best, and I should just focus on the fact that I gave it my all, but if I— if I did my best, if I gave everything I had, why didn’t I…” you trail off, looking at Chan imploringly, as if he knew the answers to your question. “Chan, why didn’t they-“
You’re wrapped in another tight hug before you could finish your sentence, Chan pulling you so close that not even air could get between you two. His grip should be suffocating with how tight it was, but it just made you feel more safe. Secured. Protected.
Loved.
“Tell me what you need, baby.” Chan asks when he pulls away, eyes searching your face desperately.
He hated seeing you like this, but most of all, he hated knowing he couldn’t do anything about it. This wasn’t something he could change with a snap of a finger, or something he could avenge you for. But hell would freeze over first before he’d let you deal with this alone.
“You,” you finally croak out, falling into the safety of his arms again. Here, nothing could hurt you. Here, you were safe. “Just you. Please.”
And his heart breaks.
Chan swallows, feeling that same lick of anger rise up again. But he pushes it down, because nothing else mattered in the world right now but you.
He coaxes you out of the kitchen, hands still intertwined as he leads you to your bedroom. He sits on the middle of the bed first, leaning back against the headboard. Then he opens his arms wide, and you crawl into his lap, your bodies fitting together like puzzle pieces.
The hand he slips under your shirt makes you shudder, but there was nothing sexual about it. You’ve unknowingly been cold all day, the nerves from waiting for that damn email somehow lowering your body temperature and forcing you to bundle up. Just an hour ago, you had wanted nothing but to curl up under a blanket and hide from the world, shivering. But now, Chan felt like a furnace, and for every place that his hand touches, your skin warmed.
You didn’t need to hide now, because Chan was here.
It was that simple.
Chan takes your hand again, bringing it up to his lips. He presses a kiss to each of your fingernails, even tilting his head so he could kiss the thumb. He’s smiling as he does it, with that goofy little smile he does when he’s trying to act cute and make you smile. You’ve long stopped trying to discern if the smile you do end up making is because of his cuteness, or because he looked kind of hilarious.
Today, you realize it’s because you love him.
And another smile is tugged out of you again, because you’re reminded that he loves you.
It shows when he presses gentle kisses to the palm and the back of your hand too, down to your wrist. He shows it again when a cool draft of wind comes in through your open bedroom window, and Chan’s already throwing the covers over the both of you before you could even shiver.
He shows it once more when he captures your lips in a chaste kiss, and it’s still as sweet as the first one you ever shared, when you were both nervous but just as in love.
“You’re allowed to hurt.” Chan whispers after you guys spend a few minutes of silence just basking each other in, Chan rocking you side to side, his cheek pressed on top of your head. “You’re allowed to cry. I don’t want you to ever think that you can’t be upset about this. Yes, you did do your best, and that’s something to be proud of. But it still hurts here, doesn’t it?”
He touches your intertwined hands to your chest, right where your heart was located. You nod shakily. He smiles softly.
“So let it hurt. Let it hurt now, and when it passes- when, baby.” he looks you in the eye, determined and sure, “remember this: when. Not if. Never if. Because this will pass, and we’re going to get up tomorrow and find you other options. We’ll continue tomorrow and we’ll find another way like we always do. You’re doing well. You’re doing just fine, and I know you’re doing your best. But for now, you let it hurt so you can heal from it…”
Despite himself, Chan’s voice breaks. Because even though letting you hurt now was essential, that didn’t mean he liked it. He wished desperately for some kind of way to transfer your pain to him, just for a moment.
The stinging in your eyes comes back on full force again, but this time for an entirely different reason. Chan catches the teardrop by your lash line before it could even roll down your cheek.
“...and I will be right here with you.”
He promises, nose nudging against yours gently. Your eyes flutter close when Chan leans up to press his lips against your forehead, muttering even more promises. He intended to keep every single one of them.
It didn’t matter that it seemed unrealistic to promise so many things. Chan would fight tooth and nail to live up to those promises, if it meant putting a smile on your face. He’d do just about anything if it meant seeing your lips twitch or your eyes gleam or your cheeks flush over and over again.
Your gestures and expressions were things he learned to take note of early in your relationship, ever since he realized you liked putting up a front. Every day, he learns something new about what a certain gesture or expression meant, and every day he falls in love with each of them a little bit more.
So to see such a pained, guarded expression on your face; it drove him crazy. He wanted nothing more than to find the source of your pain and make them suffer too, no matter how illogical that sounded.
But then your hand twitches again his, your hair tickling him from where you’ve buried your face on his neck, and he remembers that you need him right now.
You needed him to stay, and he was more than willing to do so. He didn’t mind if his body ached in this position, or if he had to stay up all night to distract you from your thoughts. It didn’t matter if you wanted to go out in the middle of the night for a distraction, or if you wanted to stay and shut yourselves in. He’d do all of it in a heartbeat.
Just so he could ease the pain in your chest, even just for a little bit.
Because it was simple: he loves you, and whatever you wanted to do and wherever you wanted to go…
You will always, always have him.
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junicai · 3 years
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Relationship with NCT 127
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➣ Taeil ☾ taria 
taeil is the Sole Protector of aria’s sanity 
taeil loves his maknaes so much, but he literally looks at her like she put the stars in the sky 
the Proud Dad smile :’)
when aria first debuted, czennies thought that she was the same age as jungwoo - because she acted older than her age - but with taeil she lets her inner kid come out 
highkey dependent on his approval for things in relation to singing
“was, was that ok?” “perfect, ari.”  “ (O_O;)  - (◕‿◕)♡”
she will fight mark and donghyuck for his attention, and she will win
for a while, the two had shared a dorm room before they were rearranged, and taeil let her slip into his bed when she was feeling homesick 
the offer is still open, but aria takes him up on it less and less
taeil is NOT sad about that. absolutely not.
he’s vehemently against any and all diets she tries - saying that if she gets any smaller he’s going to be able to pick her up with one hand
que him dragging her out for ice-cream after a promotion, paying no mind to her protests
aria helps taeil with translating a lot of things into english during lives and interviews - so much to the point where he’s picked up a bit of an irish accent and the others never fail to clown him for it 
taeil still has the small braided bracelet that aria gave to the members on their first anniversary of nct (he keeps it in the drawer beside his bed)
aria is his self-professed happy virus. he told czennies in a vlive once that her smile makes him feel really happy and he wants to protect it to the best of his ability
aria always fixes his micpack before they go onstage if its crooked, because she comes out after him in the lineup
they have monthly movie nights and they alternate who chooses the movie / show (taeil normally goes for mystery or drama themed ones, while aria enjoys making them both sob miserably)
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT.
aria and taeil singing “I See the Light” from tangled for the NCT Music channel, and the tears that were shed by both moonis and realtai alike. sm really popped off with the staging and the lighting of the whole video - between the smiles that were on both of the singers faces and the whole ambiance created, its a cinematic masterpiece 
no one was surprised when it hit 2 million views in a day, and a lot of solo stans were born from that video
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➣ Johnny ☾ johria
indisputable siblings 
there is not a single czennie who ships these two romantically, and that’s because they’re just too wholesome 
johnny is one of the few members that aria calls “oppa”, mainly because of the age gap and sm wanted her to appear respectful, but also because he thinks she looks so cute
very chill, excellent vibes
their vlives are either chaotic messes or the closest thing to therapy since ice cubes 
the blanket on aria’s bed? that was a gift from johnny - she had been complaining to mark about how cold she always was anemia tings
czennies are begging for sm to allow aria to open up a solo instagram account, becuse they see the amount of pictures johnny takes of her
in the park? he’s making her pose in front of the flowers. backstage before a show? the lighting, c’mon.
big big bear hugs - the height difference make nctzens want to die 
185cm vs 158cm? p l e a s e she’s so tiny in comparison  (/ =ω=)/
when she gives him backhugs it looks like a little kitten trying to wrestle with the family dog 
play fighting about vernacular:
“ITS CALLED A SIDEWALK” “S I D E W A L K, ITS A FOOTPATH YOU BUFFOON”
very vocal about her wellbeing, and has asked fans before to remind her to take better care of herself and get to sleep sooner
aria, starting a vlive at 3am: hi hi~
the comments: NO GO TO BED
johnny helped her a lot when it came to the style change in choreography, as aria was used to soft, flowing movements and not the powerful, sleek style that most nct dances have 
consistently forgets the fact that she is not the fourteen year old he first met, and is, in fact, an adult now. “you’re a child” “im 18″ “...no”
is the person to get angry on her behalf when interviewers belittle or ignore her 
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT. 
during a fansign, a fan asked aria who did she think was the most comforting when she was stressed (besides mark and donghyuck) and aria said johnny. “he’s so, constant? like nothing seems to knock him or throw him off, and that’s really comforting when i feel unsteady.”
johnny is now known as aria’s weighted blanket. 
that is all. 
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➣ Taeyong ☾ ariyong
taeyong took one look at aria the first time she showed up for group practice and immediately adopted her (not literally, but he would if he could)
eomma meets highly protective older brother meets life coach type beat? 
so so soft for her its sickening 
says he doesn’t have favourites and will then spend an hour cooking for aria because she’s been in the studio for the whole day and he knows she hasn’t eaten yet
when aria was given a duet to do for the sm stages, she had to pick another member to do it with and her first choice was taeyong
she always has said that taeyong is one of the pillars keeping her upright and sane - without him she wasn’t sure if she would have been able to complete her training
because of all the schedules they share together, if aria isn’t rooming with mark then she’s definitely rooming with taeyong
whenever she does his makeup (more often than you’d think) she point blank refuses to cover his scar, even when he asks her to 
“please? i don’t like it.” *gasp* “how dare you.” 
sleepy aria! snuggling into taeyong’s shoulder when a schedule ran late! 
he gets uncomfy when the stylists put her in too revealing clothes, and has spoken to them on numerous occasions about dressing her in age-appropriate attire, no matter how “sexy” the concept might be 
he keeps little bags of sugar-dusted strawberry sweets in his bag incase she forgets to eat and feels faint after the last time (they used to be blueberry flavoured, but he heard donghyuck throwing out any and all “blueberry-contaminated” food one evening)
taeyong doesn’t tolerate hate towards aria, especially in person, so he always makes sure to sit down the line from her so that he can see when people skip intentionally her
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT. 
taeyong had just been awarded the solo bedroom on the last night of the Mtopia series, and was staring off into the corner looking rather uncomfortable. aria, who was meant to be rooming with baekhyun looked over and saw his mouth curled downwards slightly. 
“baekhyun-oppa, is it ok if i room with taeyongie-oppa tonight? i ran out of my tablets, and he has some in his bag..” 
baekhyun looked down at her with a small smile and agreed, while on the video edited captions appeared with the words, “a cute maknae, asking to room with a younger member...”
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➣ Yuta ☾ nakamiya
the president of realtai 
this man is absolutely, completely and irrevocably whipped for aria and she is not afraid to use that to her advantage
she beat him at arm wrestling because she pouted at him - she’s too powerful 
aria.exe stopped responding when yuta started to playfully flirt with her the first few times
*winks* “hu-wha-”
one of the most outwardly protective members of her, because he feels a sense of responsibility for the younger girl
he was one of the trainees she first befriended, aria’s korean not being good enough to hold a decent conversation, and yuta happy that there was another japanese trainee 
9 times out of 10, when the members are making their way through crowded areas like airports yuta is always behind or directly beside aria
during a fansign one of the fans asked why he did that, and he said that he needed to keep her in his line of sight or else he’d get anxious that she’s so small that she could get swallowed in the crowds 
yes aria hit him for the short comment 
yuta, 50% of the time: you’re not allowed date until you’re 35
yuta, the other 50% of the time: bro where’s your boyfriend
he complains that she isn’t as sweet as she was when she first joined, and that hyuck must have corrupted her (╬ Ò﹏Ó)
he let’s her braid his hair when its longer, them both sitting on a bed with yuta in front and aria kneeling behind him so she can reach 
he was the first person to take her home for the holidays, because ireland was too far to go back for a week over christmas 
“what do you mean you’ve never been to japan???” 
bitching about the other members in japanese? more likely than you’d think 
when aria turned legal in korea, yuta took her out drinking and made sure to post pictures of her with her flushed cheeks on his instagram story with the caption “aish, i told you to pace yourself....” “happy birthday riri”
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT. 
you know that one clip of the sasaeng getting absolutely trashed by nct’s bodyguard and taeyong jumping 7 feet into the air? 
well taeyong wasn’t the only one startled; standing beside yuta, aria was closest to the wall of fans when the girl ran forward towards the members. aria jumped in fright, while yuta barely made a face (#unbothered). he simply wrapped an arm over her shoulders and pulled her around to the other side, tucking her underneath his arm.
tsundere!yuta
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➣ Doyoung ☾ dori
*ahem* WHIPPED *ahem*
doyoung adores aria so much 
was he unsure about a girl being added to a group of boys? yes but it was moreso concern about how he was going to make sure she wasn’t accidentally trampled
they bonded over a night in the recording studio when he found her sitting on the floor with music sheets scattered around her 
a whole mentor when it comes to singing 
aria always turns to him after singing - especially when it wasn’t planned, like at a fansign - to see if she did a good job
doyoung has yet to tell her that she hasn’t but sue her, she appreciates the validation
the original mother and Will Not Let Taeyong Forget It
doyoung, dragging aria out of the studio: now listen here young lady-
kitten and bunny friends RISE
no seriously sm released merch of a kitten and bunny plushie and it sold out in a day
when aria had the accident that led to her two month hiatus, doyoung was the one who rode in the ambulance with her after refusing to let go of her hand 
“i’m sorry sir, only family are allowed in at the moment-” “we are her family” *nurse looks around the room at the 14 other boys sitting anxiously*
he is a weak, weak man he will crumple on any decision if she smiles and slash or whines at him even slightly 
carries band-aids and support strapping in his practice bag because he knows that she gets really bad blisters when she hasn’t practiced while wearing her heels in a while, and he makes her wrap her ankles for the first few sessions incase she falls 
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENTS.
NCT 127 Take a Friendship Test (Glamour - 2020)
“ahh, my first impression?” *laughs* “actually, we first met in a recording studio, at like. 3 o’clock in the morning? he stuck his head in the doorway and i was so tired that i thought i had died and an angel had come to save me...”  (*μ_μ) 
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➣ Jaehyun ☾ jaria
you know how cheetahs in the zoo get emotionally support puppies?
this is the same type of vibe
very snuggly together? but only in specific scenarios, like when jaehyun is too tired to move after a movie night, he’ll just kinda engulf aria in a hug and make her sleep on the couch with him 
any back hug she gives him turns into a piggy back, its non-negotiable 
likes to randomly compliment her to see how red he can make her face go
did she have a crush on him when she first moved to korea? yes, but who didn’t
that faded really quickly though once she started into the group officially - now they are more like siblings
they don’t interact that much on camera? rip to the jaria shippers
but that doesn’t mean they aren’t close with each other its just that a lot of their interactions happen off-screen
naturally, jaehyun began to think of her as a younger sister over the years they performed together 
jaehyun will end anybody who lays a hand on aria 
a little bap bap if you will 
he asked her to take him ice-skating one day, and the entire time was spent with aria laughing her ass off as he ate the ice nearly fourteen times before getting the hang of it 
he takes her out for food when he notices that she’s been put back on a strict diet plan (aria thinks she’s good at hiding those pieces of paper, but she forgets that when she puts it on top of things, that other people are a lot taller than her and have a higher vantage point)
the prince and princess of nct? check 
head pats
he likes to pat her head and she’ll swat it away immediately until she gets tired and just lets him do his thing 
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT.
jaehyun was wearing a flower crown placed carefully on his head as he bent down slightly to run his hands through the damp grass. a soft shutter sound went off, before he heard a hum coming from behind him. “jaehyun-ssi, could you take off the flowers? we can’t see your face clearly because of the shadow.”
jaehyun glanced backwards at aria’s retreating figure, being chased by donghyuck with hands still stained green from the grass she had shifted through to find the fallen flowers. she stopped and waved at him before resuming her run.
“i’d rather not, if that’s alright. i think it fits quite well with the theme.”
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➣ Jungwoo ☾ ariwoo
oh my god someone please stop these two
once jungwoo taught aria about the power that aegyo holds for persuasion tactics against the older members of 127, they were unstoppable 
you should be afraid of them
100% have plotted someone’s murder before (and have succeeded, czennies always wondered where that last manager went after The Incident)
aggressively cute together - to the point where your teeth will rot 
jungwoo will intentionally flirt with aria just to fluster her because its “so easy to do”
not very physically affectionate, but jungwoo has no hesitation calling out “uri fighting haeyadwae!” to her when she looks like she needs a little encouragement 
jungwoo is the reason she wants to do a bachelors degree after finishing high school 
he used to help her with her maths assignments after school when she was struggling with managing her time 
they’re called the “aegyo duo” of the group, and there has yet to be an outright winner of the competitions to find the cutest member (its aria. jungwoo said it himself, its aria but we been knew)
they have an odd dynamic of looking like best friends the first second, evil masterminds the next and then siblings who want to murder each other but they make it work 
will and has flopped down on her while she was laying on the practice floor and then whined when she tried to get up 
he spilled the tea that aria gets super emotional and affectionate when she’s drunk 
cutest shit ever that made ariwoo shippers lose their absolute minds was the clip that got released in the behind the scenes filming of Kick It, where jungwoo was half asleep in the corner and aria just pops up out of nowhere to shove a folded jacket under his head and made sure to prop it in a way that he wouldn’t get a sore neck when he woke up
jungwoo is the reason she knows korean curse words (dont tell doyoung)
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT. 
aria wobbled in her heels slightly as she stepped out of the van, trying to hold a blanket up to protect her legs while she slid off the seat onto the ground. jungwoo extended an arm around her waist, gripping the blanket in his other hand and carefully holding her to make sure she didn’t trip on the cobbled stone.
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➣ Mark ☾ mari
1/2 of the best friend crew
honestly at the beginning, mark and aria weren’t very close, having only really seen each other in passing or with johnny 
but after being dropped into training together the two quickly became fast friends, and now they’re borderline inseparable 
you thought you knew pain? watch aria’s reaction to mark’s graduation from dream :)
mark’s the reason why aria felt confident enough to pitch some of her lyric ideas to the team, after staying up until 4am to help her make some edits so she was as confident as possible 
kinda just, rests his head on her shoulder? and wraps his arms around her waist when he’s tired 
mari being confused in foreigner: ??? 
aria said once in a vlive that she finds mark really comforting to be around - when she feels stressed or worried about something she’ll go to mark’s room and just sit on his bed for a while
aria is so close with his parents - “ahh, how’s my favourite child” “i’m doing great mom.” “no not you, how’s aria?” “wh-hu-MOM?” 
you’d swear sometimes mark is younger than her, considering the pout he puts on and how much he whines when they’re not on the same team together for promotions
mark big protecc boi but also little small cuddly boi 
they’re so soft for each other ( ╥ω╥ )
in one of the fancams for mark’s solo stage during superm, someone zoomed into aria singing along with him in the wings and dancing to herself with the Proudest Smile(tm)
he’s! so! proud! of! her! constantly! she could be walking and he’d be like “omg get it” 
when aria refuses to get up and make herself food (this happens way too often, she just gets into the groove of her work and doesn’t want to move) mark gets her to by threatening to do it himself 
consistently caught by czennies just standing behind her and holding her hand in crowded areas - airports, waiting rooms, etc. 
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT. 
mark and aria were standing off to one side as the mc explained the rules of the game they were about to be playing. mark looked totally confused, and elbowed aria in her side before looking down and mouthing “what?” to her. aria opened her mouth, before closing it and looking down at the ground, muttering to herself, “결합... 結合..... le chéile.... le... le.. oh oh - combined! we have to put them together, markie.”
and thus, a new confusion meme was born
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➣ Haechan ☾ arichan
the other half of the best friend crew
absolute heathens to be around when they are together 
donghyuck is the person aria is closest to, and someone she’d call her best friend (only when she was sure he wouldn’t hear her)
she calls him “the demon child i can’t get rid of” but will, and has definitely pouted when he ignored her for too long 
generally aria is a pretty soft spoken person, but not with hyuck around - he brings out all her chaos energy (please pray for the patience of dotae)
the pair have a little tradition of kissing the back of each others’ hands before going on stage for good luck. they can’t even remember how it started, but now its an unnegotiable pre-show ritual
he’s so clingy with her absolutely everywhere its painfully adorable  (ಥ﹏ಥ)
interviews? hyuck has a hand on her knee, or if she’s wearing a skirt he’s tucked his hand in between their chairs so she can hold it discreetly. in the dorms? full body tackle onto the couch, where he proceeds to lay on top of her completely. 
because of hyuck’s nickname being the sun, and aria always being around him, czennies gave her the nickname “moon” to go with him
fans thought that aria was older than hyuck for a good year and a half before she released her birthday on a vlive, because she’s normally the one tasked with reigning his chaotic energy in during promotions (that is, if she hasn’t already joined him)
but off-camera, aria is absolutely hyuck’s baby there is no disputing that. aria’s sad?he’s there with ice-cream and a blanket and a baseball bat.
the winnie the pooh character that is on aria’s bed was a gift from hyuck for her 17th birthday, after she made him watch seven episodes of the show on netflix with her one night 
yes he complained, but he slapped her hand away when she went to change it to something else 
a twitter thread of a czennie comparing their horoscopes together went viral when people realized that it was quite plausible that the pair were each others (platonic) soulmates 
after an incident involving blueberries, donghyuck took it upon himself to check the ingredients of every. single. food item in their dorm to make sure it was ok for her to eat 
hyuck clowns her for her irish accent, and aria curses him out in japanese
tldr: they cute or whatever 
FAN FAVOURITE MOMENT. 
donghyuck was doing a vlive in his bedroom, sitting and talking to czennies when aria opened the door to his room quietly. she didn’t say anything, just waved slightly with almost closed eyes before she crawled underneath his covers and tucked her plushie underneath her chin. hyuck didn’t even blink at it - so it must have been a regular occurrence.
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