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harfanfare · 11 months
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I like to think that romance with Idia widely differs depending on the time you’ve been in a romantic relationship.
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1. “Just started dating” stage.
If you're reading Idia fanfiction, there is an 80% chance this is the stage your relationship is on.
Idia is… treating you like a very precious stranger. He's on his toes and seeks your approval in whatever he's doing. He is going to great lengths to understand the theory of dating and your hobbies - so you can maybe share even more interests - but won’t really act on anything.
He’s constantly surprised by every romantic move you make and you have numerous occasions to adore his cherry blush and various puckles of hair igniting with pink and red. He stutters a lot and can’t focus on anything in your presence.
Idia will outright reject any suggestions for bolder moves. He’s unprepared, and although guilt is eating him from the inside, he is not up to anything you two weren’t doing as friends. Well, maybe handholding, kissing, and cuddling get a (hard) pass, but you are the only one initiating these things.
He will try his best to reciprocate effort, though.
2. “Have been dating for a while” stage.
It’s an interphase between two very different stages, so he’s a funny mix: a very shy outsider and a cocky genius at the same time.
Gaming sessions will be the centre of your couple's time. Idia regularly invites you to his dorm, sometimes even on spontaneous sessions when a new event comes up or he has found a new game that looks very cool. You share snacks, drinks, and clothes (read: you have unwritten permission to claim his blouses).
This boy would be dead without you and Ortho, and with that knowledge, you make it your mission to (somehow) tidy up his room, buy some cosmetics, healthier food, etc. If you are up to organizing a “self-care evening”, he will be hesitant at first but will be looking forward to it after a while, with some older anime. (I like to think it would be a magical girl series like Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew or Chobits, or some shoujo).
In exchange, he might construct some little gadgets (maybe anime-themed?) for you, helps you get the merch you want, and supports you in your games.
At this point, he doesn’t weigh his words much. He’s still easy to fluster, but he comes with comebacks right away. The most flirty he gets on the phone when it’s late at night and you are using a chat to talk, especially when you are not in the same room. 3. Long-term relationship stage.
He knows you are doomed to him and shamelessly takes advantage of that.
He has no claims against calling you in the middle of the night to watch him sharing his screen when he pulls for a character he wants to get in the gacha system. He believes your presence brings him luck, so he must have you when he does crucial things!
Idia disses your taste in fictional men. Sometimes, he reads the dialogues out loud from the otome games you play. He may alter them, which can make you either huff or laugh. If you read or write fanfiction, he might read them too, giving you an out loud commentary on some fragments and asking you if you are that desperate for dates so you are sending fanfiction to inspire him. If you say yes, he will hum and return to whatever he was doing before, but he might plan something out that you will preferably be able to do in his room.
Chatroom with him and Ortho is quite calm, almost polite, but your private chatroom with Idia is the most chaotic one you’ve ever been. You learned to not leave your phone openly if you don’t want to explain some inside joke with a layered backstory. An app you use to chat with Idia is the one your screen time is counted on most, and writing with Idia is your guilty pleasure.
If you are interested in IT, he might program you an app or something to help you with it! He will give you the best feedback ever, and although it may be harsh, the last thing he wants is to discourage you from learning further.
On one anniversary of your dating, he will gift you this kind of couple bracelet which lights up if the other person touches it. He created them himself. When he receives signals throughout the day, he thinks of them as a promise from you, that no distance can sever your bond.
If you bring up some serious talk, you will be bullied with memes. It’s Idia’s coping mechanism. He will plan his future with you, don’t worry, but wait for him to muster up the courage to get on one knee and ask the question.
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thequietmanno1 · 3 years
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Thelreads, Vigilantes 26, Replies Part 2
1) “Oh no you’re not gonna gloss over that one, how the hell did he even managed to fit the defibrillator inside the stun gun? Those things can get small, but even so they are sharing space with a high-voltage weapon, and those things use some serious batteries, and you already used it twice, no way an electrical discharge like that would fly so many times in rapid succession without draining it completely.”- True, third time with a battery that’s already been used before is a bit risky- ideally, Knuckle would have preferred to use the Taser once before restarting Tamao’s heart, but Kuin forced him to use the resuscitation function once on himself, so he’s really just hoping the battery still has enough charge in it to work enough time to fulfil his need to restart Tamao’s hands- I can confirm that you sometimes need multiple shocks to get a heart working again, as standard procedure is to use about a minute of compression between shocks to keep the heart flowing and hope the next once revives the victim’s consciousness, so Knuckle probably had the batteries designed large enough to use multiple shocks on the target- he’s running with less power than he would like, but there’s nothing he can do about that but hope and pray it’s enough to revive Tamao. 
As for the ‘equipment’ it really just seems to be a pair of wires that can be rolled up and stored inside the handle of the Taser- modern defibrillators can actually come the size of a 6-year old’s school lunchbox, and that’s to fit stuff like the pads for attachment to the body- since Knuckle’s sidestepping that in favour of a bare-bones approach towards the same principle, he’s able to save on space to achieve roughly the same function, which is all he needs.
2)“That was a weird coincidence, downright tragic irony caused by the universe, or, as we know, God being an asshole and causing a lot of pain. I’ll be going with the last one, we know that Furuhashi was probably giggling while writing this, going “oh, this is going to be so clever…””- It actually was pretty clever, because tamao accidentally screwed herself by choosing to mimic Knuckleduster’s own weapon of choice against him- because she used her own stun-gun tactic, she basically deadened her arm and gave knuckleduster a reason to test-run his defibrillator gismo before putting it to the real test of saving/killing Tamao in the best way possible to separate the queen and herself. Had she used something else, like actual vemon-tipped claws, Knuckleduster would have been screwed, but because she tried to play him at his own game, she gave him an out to catch her off-guard, with a fatal outcome for the queen.
3) “Knuckle please, that isn’t your daughter yet, and again, you gave the idea, she doesn’t deserve points for that one.”-Well, either way, he’s damn glad she went with that plan, rather than something else, cause at least with her mimicking him, he’s still got a trump card he can bring to play here.
4) “Of course, she’ll try to pull some funny shit, but just like Furuhashi, she’s about to meet the unforgivable bat of NOPE as she messes up and gets taken down for good.”-Her greatest mistake was trying to beat Knuckle at his own game- Nobody fights as on-the-fly adaptable as him, not even his own kid
5) “And I see what Knuckle did there, he used his omega taser to pull a uno reverse card on his own heart. Now, I’m not going to go over the exact details of how defibrillators work and more specifically when so they work, but… Yeah, let’s just move…”-At least knuckle didn’t 100% BS MacGyver his Taser into a makeshift defib- he had the foresight to plan ahead for that one, and combined the pair of them into one extra-handy package, which I guess explains the huge size of the ting- it’s not to denote the wattage it can output, it’s to store all the necessary cables and such to make the procedure go as smoothly as possible.
6) “Oh god jesus christ Knuckle did you jabbed those electrodes into your flesh? I mean, their position do make it so a electrical current would go through your heart but, you know, I think you’d end up electrocuting yourself to death if you pressed the button; muscles locking in are one of the main reasons people end up dead when messing with electricity, they can’t let go of the source.”- Another hint it’s actually not a jury-rigged defibrillator he made out of his Taser in desperation, but something more prepared for this exact purpose, with a brief time-out period once knuckle zaps his heart with the battery to avoid his muscles locking in. Granted, it’s not to the standards of professional medical equipment either, but it’s certainly more prepared for that task than you’d expect.
7) “Oh boy, I don’t even have that much to talk about this time, the chapter didn’t let much open for me to comment in afternotes, but I’m still a little skeptical about the usage of that taser as a defibrillator, or at least with having Knuckle applying it to himself.”- Find it a bit more believable now that it turns out Knuckle designed the damn thing to be a 2-in-1 deal? It’s much more convenient than lugging around a defibrillator pack in addition to the Taser, when It stands the risk of being broken in the scuffle, but the Taser itself is defined to be sturdy and can take a beating whilst still functioning.
8) “What are you Giran, a cop? Let the man abuse the hack he found in that unbalanced weapon of his, before the mods find it out and patch it. Also, he still wants that delivery of meth on his house by Friday.”-  I can’t tell if Giran is joking about Knuckle’s self-abuse through his vigilante work and the supplies he needs to pull off his stunts, or he genuinely thinks Knuckle is a thrill-seeker using all of this crazy equipment on himself to get high off the thrill of coming closer to death- there’s actually quite a few people who enjoy risky stunts like this for the adrenaline boost they get from near-death experiences.
9) “Well, at least he’s doing proper CPR instead of just magically bringing her back a la Victor Frankenstein.”-  Can confirm that there’s a fairly realistic use of proper medical procedure being use to resuscitate Tamao here- the electrodes being placed in to proper location on the body for example.
10) “Well, she’s going to see her mom soon, since she’s probably dead by now-
THEY ARE GOING TO BULLSHIT ME AND SAY HER MOM’S ALIVE AS WELL, AREN’T THEY?!”- I mean, technically, they’re both still alive, just distant from Knuckleduster mentally- though it’s implied that Mamaduster’s condition has progressed to the point where she’s no longer sitting upright and staring vacantly out a window, but instead is lying down and just breathing as her body begins to slowly shut down.
11) “The poor thing, being jailed again after being used by the same fucking monster- At least she’s dead now, as well as her previous host.”-I wonder if the police will even be able to tell it’s the same guy underneath all that? Like, his mind’s been reduced to an incoherent rambling mess except when it comes to his wants and needs, his fingerprints will likely have changed, and his DNA will be a chemical mess after all the experimental trigger they hopped him up on.
12) “OH MY GOD YES, YOU ALLOWED HIM TO STAY JSUT SO HE CAN LISTEN TO POP SINGING
AIZAWA, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, YOU HAVE NO IDEA, YOU TSUNDERE HOBO HUSBANDO, YOU”- The words ‘bless this mess’ were likely made for Aizawa.
13) “OH THAT’S A NICE PANEL RIGHT THERE, OH HELL YEAH, WE NEEDED SOMETHING HAPPY AFTER THAT EYE SCENE”- Yeah, it’s a real feast for the eyes… oops, too soon.
14) “CC, WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT BEING ON STANDBY WHILE THERE WAS POSSIBLE VILLAINS ON THE LOOSE? THE FACT THAT THE POLICE ARRIVED TO ARREST ONE VILLAIN DOESN’T CHANGE THAT”- CC is a showboater before he’s a hero, often to his detriment, but at least for now, we’ll let it slide. Just let Makoto capture the moment on film so she can use it for further blackmail material.
15) “POP WAS THE STAR TONIGHT, SHE FINALLY SANG IN FRONT OF A REAL CROWD AND SHE NAILED IT
WHAT IS THAT SOUND OF CPR IN THE DISTANCE? MEH, DON’T BOTHER ABOUT IT, THE REAL DEAL™ IS OVER HERE”-Who needs a big-ass Taser when Knuckle could have just had Kuin watch that heart-stopper of a show?
16) “THANK YOU AIZAWA, BLESSED BE YOUR HOBONESS”- The dirty Hobo exterior is necessary to hide the shine from his heart of gold
17) “Oh! Phelps is here now, right on time to see Knuckle carrying his daughter body to the morgue.
Aizawa is not amused on meeting All Might’s boyfriend, that’s for sure.”- You know, I don’t think we’ve ever really seen these two interacting in the main series? Like, they were both nearby in the aftermath of the USJ attack, but Aizawa was still recovering from getting turned into a human pretzel, and afterwards Tsukauchi was more concerned/connected to the investigation side of finding out the League’s current location whereas Aizawa was more focused on keeping his crazy kids in line and out the league’s line of fire. It’s nice getting to see two characters tangentially connected actually meeting for once, but it does sorta feel like a crossover from to different genres
18) “Oh, that’s a interesting comment to make. Nothing would say that the drugs weren’t responsible for this, like some nasty side effects, but, Aizawa seems to already suspect that something else was done to this poor boy a-
OH MY GOOD HE’S WAVING GOODBYE TO AIZAWA”- It’s likely they hooked him up to some machines and such to help stabilise his body whilst it was mutating from their experiential trigger injection, so the drug was likely the main factor, but they probably had some specially-designed equipment in play to make sure the transformation didn’t kill him, or to better record how far he was able to mutate before it did and revise their testing data for next time. And for a guy who’s not have a 5th limb until a few weeks ago, Teruo’s sure adapted enough to having a tail, given that a tail was exactly the kind of example All might used when pointing out somebody wouldn’t be able to pull off incredibly skilled tricks with a quirk mutation first go.
19) “Oh, you gonna mention the bee to him? Well, that seems like something that you definitely would need to talk about, since you seem to be already on the whole “there’s some other fuckery going on right now” stuff”- I like that Aizawa’s understanding of there being some behind the scenes stuff at play here makes him bring up anything suspicious or out of place about the scene- like, he can’t tell exactly what was going on, because he himself doesn’t have enough pieces to make a full story, so he just lists all the weird stuff he saw in hopes Phelps can put it together into a coherent narrative somehow, cause he doesn’t know how any of this makes sense- If he hadn’t seen the bee, he’d have probably listed some other weird things he’d seen about the place in hopes it could help, which isn’t saying much since weird has become the norm in Quirk society.
20) “Oh, right, they just killed the goddamn queen. Whoops, sorry but I think this lead is a dead end.
ha ha, “dead” end…”- Well, not as dead as we’d like, but certainly not in any fit state to do more bee-related madness for a long time until the hive’s able to rebuild itself….
21) “who the fuck are you?
why are you on focus right now?
why I immediately thought about Stain for some reason?
what are you carrying in that… bottle?”-
Ah, this guy…. Fuck this guy, that is all.
22) “WHAT IS IN THE BOTTLE?
WHAT IS IN THE GODDAMN BOTTLE?!”- Well, you’ll be glad to know it’s not a severed head, unless there’s a shrinking quirk involved.
23) “NOT SHOWING THE LEFT EYE, TALKING ABOUT BEE-RELATED STUFF AND BEING AWARE OF THE DATA THAT NEEDED TO BE COLLECTED, AND TALKING ABOUT THE BEE THAT SURVIVED THE PURGE AS “WE””-You know, I didn’t actually realise they might be trying to trick us into thinking this guy was another bee user at first, so props to you for pointing that out- but nah, he’s not a direct part of the hive-mind like Kuin/Tamao was- he’s just using the Royal We, because he seems to have a habit of talking to himself, like he’s got an audience watching him- which he sorta does in us, but in universe, there’s not much reason for him to do on this entire spiel when his presence here is supposed to be an incognito rescue job for the remnants of the hive.
24) “OH WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT
WAS THAT A JUMP? OR DID YOU TELEPORTED THERE? IT WAS FAST ENOUGH THAT YOU WAS BACK BEFORE THE BOTTLE EVEN FELL TO  THE GROUND WHAT THE FU-
WHAT
IS THIS THE HOST’S QUIRK?”- It’s pure speed- or appears to be, based on the fact that he moves to grab the bee whilst the bottle’s in mid-air and in-between panels he’s already fitted the still-living bee inside the bottle by the time he returns to his prior position, before it or we can react- a neat way of showing he moved in the literal blink of an eye, and with accompanying lighting effects similar to Izuku using full Cowl, which implies he’s at least similar in movement speed to OFA at low levels
25) “WHAT IN THE FUCK’S NAME
WHAT
A- A LEFT EYE?!
NO
BUT- HOLY SHIT IS THIS NOT A HIVE OR IS THIS THE TRUE BEE USER?”- well, he’s not a hive like Tamao was, due to the lack of a distinctive ‘entry hole’ in his skull, but it’s possible that he has means of producing the bees from his body hidden underneath his work overalls there, but if his quirk is the true bee user, then that wouldn’t explain his high-speed movements just now, so he’s unlikely to be directly connected to the hive himself- rather, much like everything in the start of MHA lead up to the Kamino ward fight, and resolved the long-hanging issue of All might’s fight with AFO, leading into Tomura starting to take the reins as the big bad villain going forward from that point on, everything leading up to this point was arc 1 of vigilantes- and now that the looming threat of Kuin and her history with Knuckleduster has been resolved it’s time for the next link in the trigger supplier ring to step in and take her place, continuing on operations in his own way, with his own methods, and a greater appreciation of the threat the vigilantes pose to the ring, now they’ve taken down one of their more useful pawns.
26) “and now we’re getting a bigger threat showing up to the scene after the queen fell, not only someone that apparently is related to the bees, possibly the one behind the queens in the first place, although this seem a bit unlikely now, but in the very least someone that is fast, really fast”-Meet the new boss, same as the old boss- well, not exactly the same, but you get the idea. @thelreads
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kbstories · 7 years
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For @floating-in-the-blue!!
#13: “Looks like we’re gonna be stuck here for a while.” + Team Chopper (V, Quiet, Pequod)
The last attempt to start the motor ends in loud gurgling, followed by a drawn out hiss signaling it's untimely demise.
Pequod rests his forehead against the sun-heated hull of his beloved Blackfoot. He sighs.
“No dice, Boss!”, he reports, coming around the grounded chopper. “She's down for good.”
Venom Snake and Quiet are sitting a few yards away in the meager shadow of what looks like the only tree in the Afghan desert. Snake nods somberly. He pats Pequod on the back when he joins them.
“Sorry for your loss. Jerky?”
He takes one and sits on a spot Quiet clears for him by the exposed roots. A moment is spent chewing. It's weirdly peaceful despite the fact that they just lost their ride home.
Then the radio cracks to life. “Did it work?” Commander Miller doesn't sound particularly optimistic, but then again, does he ever?
“Nope”, Snake answers, muffled by the piece of dried meat in his mouth. “Is Queequeg around?”
“Close-by, yeah. I'll send 'em over.” His microphone is muted while he makes the call. A few seconds later, Miller's back. “He had to turn back to refuel. Sit tight, okay? And Pequod – my condolences. She was a true beauty.”
Caught by surprise, Pequod fumbles with his own headset. “Uh, copy that. Thanks, Commander.”
The rest of the conversation is between Snake and Miller. Pequod tunes it out.
“Hey”, he reaches into his pocket and turns to Quiet, “care for a rematch?”
Quiet's eyes have a competitive glint in them even before Pequod pulls out the UNO cards he carries around. By the time they've set things up, Snake is there too, motioning for Pequod to deal him out too.
“Looks like we're gonna be stuck here for a while.”
Pequod shrugs and gives him his share of cards. “More than enough time to get crushed by Q again, huh Boss?”
Snake huffs a laugh. Quiet grins smugly.
They spend a few turns in comfortable silence. The game is running smoothly and betrayal-free. For now.
Eventually, Pequod feels a knee nudge against his. Quiet catches his gaze and nods at Snake. His confusion must be apparent because her face suddenly falls into a very familiar scowl. Ah.
“Hey, so, uh, Boss.” Pequod winces at his own clumsy attempt as casualness. “Say, how's the Commander doing?”
Snake is staring at his cards, highly concentrated. He plays a Wild card and says, “Green”. Quiet meets his challenging nod with an unfazed blink and goes with a green Two. “Shit.”
Pequod shakes his head at his not-green hand. He pulls a new card. Reverse.
“Bit grumpy about the broken chopper but he'll live. Why?”
“Oh, you know. Just curious.”
Pequod's voice must've sounded too innocent because Snake squints first at him, then at Quiet.
“Subtle.”
More turns pass. Pequod actually manages to lose some cards – maybe he has a chance at winning for once?
Then, out of nowhere: “I... don't kiss and tell.”
Quiet cackles silently. Pequod clears his throat. “When you say kissing...”
Snake huffs and, with a sniper's efficiency, shoots down Pequod's advantage with a +4. “Red.”
Pequod counters. +2. “Blue.”
Quiet rolls her eyes as if to say, please. +4. She taps the yellow field on the UNO box.
Pequod glances at his hand, then at Snake's. Their eyes meet. Snake smirks.
+2. “Red.” Yikes. Quiet hisses in sympathy.
“That's cold, Boss.”
“Revenge is served best that way, I'm told.”
With Pequod out, it's the usual deathmatch between Snake and Quiet. By the time Quiet wins (if barely), Miller's reported Queequeg's imminent arrival.
“Well”, Snake stands up and stretches, back popping loudly, “someday I'll get you, Q.”
Quiet helps Pequod with collecting and dusting off the cards. “Thanks for defending my honor”, he tells her, grinning. Quiet winks and smiles back.
Send me a number and I’ll write you a drabble!
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