Maybe some comforting Thenamesh fluff after they had a hard day?
Thena and Gil taking care of each other and comfort each other in a nice, hot bath. Thena cleaning the wounds Mahd Wy'ry caused him and Gil, well, he's always taking care of his Thena.
Hugs and much love!! 🖤✨
Gil hissed from the stinging.
"Be still," she whispered as she touched the sponge to his arm.
She had just stitched him up mere hours ago. The last thing they needed was for her work to come undone. There was already plenty more to do, like making sure the hole in the wall got repaired before the next sandstorm, and sewing up their torn clothes.
Gilgamesh reached out, brushing a sponge over her right temple, bearing the evidence of one of his heavier blows.
She looked at him, not even wincing as he touched the sodden sponge delicately to her reddened skin. "No."
He sighed. His arm drifted back into the water, freshly heated and with some healing herbs thrown in for good measure. "How can I not?"
Gilgamesh always got this terribly pained look on his face after an altercation like this. The times when gentle words and soft cooing didn't work and he was forced to fight her in earnest. Every time he had to genuinely strike her down furthered his pain.
Thena looked at him again, also retracting her hand and the soft sponge. She eyed his arms, particularly wounded after this most aggressive bout. He had still been bleeding when the veil of Mahd Wy'ry had lifted. It was always an unpleasant feeling when it did, but sometimes the view that greeted her upon awakening could be outright horrific.
She hated to see him hurt.
"Hey," Gilgamesh whispered, tipping her chin up to look at him. The wounds on his arms were all but vanished, as far as he was concerned. He never let it show when she had truly hurt him. Only when sponging his stitches clean, apparently.
Thena blinked slowly, still foggy. He had tied her hair up for her gently at the back of her head. She much preferred it free, but there were certainly times in their extensive lives when it had needed to be tamed for an occasion or event. When those times did come, it was only Gilgamesh with whom she trusted her precious locks of blonde.
Sometimes she would let Sersi and Makkari or even Sprite brush or braid her hair, though.
"Hey."
She blinked again, looking at him more clearly. The sight of him was hazy but it was from the steam of the bath. She pulled her hand out of the water, listening to the splashing and the dripping. Her hand found his cheek.
Gilgamesh kept his complaining minimal as she used her thumb to swipe away some blood from his cheek. He leaned into her touch.
"Hurt." It was all she could muster for words, but it said what she needed it to.
He shook his head, smiling at her, "no."
She didn't have it in her to argue. But she just glared at the many cuts on his arms. Cuts she had used sluggish, heavy hands to sew up in hopes of healing him. In hopes of doing something - anything! - to actually help him, for a change.
"Thena," he whispered, pulling her chin up again. He leaned forward, as much as he could with them both squeezed into the bath, legs tucked around her hips and up against his chest. He smiled, "it doesn't hurt."
"Does." She closed her eyes. The words would come later. But he still understood what she meant, because he was giving her that look. She blinked, hoping not to cry even more than she already had.
She meant that it did hurt, but it was she who was feeling the pain.
He brushed his thumb over her sharp cheekbone, the same as she had done for him. He tucked a few stray hairs - curling from the humidity of the room - behind her ear. "Doesn't have to."
She rested her chin on her knee, curled up as tight as she could go. Their clothes were out on the line, drying after being soaked in cold water from all the blood shed on them. Hers especially needed the bicarbonate help.
"Here," Gil whispered, turning her around in the water so she could lie back against his chest. He helped her stretch out her legs as much as she could. He rested her knees over his, cradling her in the crook of his arm and against his chest.
She rested her head against his heart, the water lapping at her ear and at the bottom of her chin. She sighed, listening for the rhythm of his heart. Hers had fallen out of sync with it; she hoped to remedy that.
"It's okay," Gil reassured her, trailing his hand over arm lightly and idly--as if this were a leisurely bath and not a medicinal soak. "We got through it, right?"
He knew she couldn't argue right now. She tapped his shoulder with her head.
He chuckled, toying with a few more tendrils of blonde escaping the gentle bun he had tied for her. "I'll take that as a yes."
"Gil." She never had trouble with that one.
"We're here, Thena," he promised, tangling their fingers together under the water and above it. He kissed her temple, "we're safe here. Both of us."
He was much less safe than she was.
"Both of us," he repeated, having anticipated her argument, even within her own head.
Thena adjusted her position, nudging his jaw with her forehead.
He left a kiss there, where she had once worn the insignia of the Warrior Eternal. Armour she would never don again. Armour that might help to keep Gilgamesh safe from her innately violent power.
He kissed her again, "all you had to do was ask."
She sighed; she would argue with him later. For now, she turned her face into his chest more, above the water.
"I'll be here," he assured her, laying his arms over the edge of the tub, ensuring neither of them would sink further in. "Sleep if you want."
She was way ahead of him. But only so she could argue with him once she woke up later.
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Sea Cryptic! Danny AU- Pt.1
[Pt.2] [Pt.3] [Pt.4] [Pt.5][Pt.6][Pt.7]
As someone who lived in the middle of nowhere, Amity, the ocean both terrified and enthralled Danny Fenton.
The first time his parents took him to the beach, it was the middle of the day and he’d been stuck in the prototype GAV for hours upon hours on their “quick, ghost rumor hunting field trip.”
It wasn’t quick, and they caught exactly zero ghosts. When Danny saw the expanse of sand underneath the summer sun, he and Jazz both bounded out of the van like feral little monkeys. Danny and Jazz sprinted down the sand, their parents ambling behind them with their arms loaded up with towels, a first aid kit, and an ungodly amount of mildly ecto contaminated food that they already fought before getting onto the beach.
Danny had splashed into the water, yelped at the freezing temperature, and then promptly found a shell to keep. His mom taught him how to swim with the waves, having come from Surf City herself, and his dad taught Jazz how to dive.
It was a day full of fond memories, especially the memory of the Great War of Sand-Castle Crushing he and Jazz waged against each other.
They stuck around for the sunset, the ripples of colors and peacefulness that swept across the vast waters caught Danny in its hold.
He hadn’t forgotten that moment. Not even when he died.
After a particularly hard day as Phantom, Danny would fly to the coast and loose hours just sitting on the sand and watching the waves lap against the shore. And when those nights were clear? It felt like a slice of his own personal heaven, with the stars shining on his shoulders and the encompassing crash of the waves sheltering his heart.
And on some days, when being Danny left him frustrated, Danny would fly out to the coast and use his intangibility to walk beneath the waves. Near the coast, it’s cloudy with swirls of moving sand and disturbed waters. He walked, and walked, and floated and floated beneath the waters, taking contentment from the way the moonlight of his stars filtered through the water. He admired the way light would glint on the scales of fish and crustaceans alike as he floated beneath the surface. On those days, Danny would pick up trash and polluted things and bring them to shore, to place in the trash cans and all of the recycling cans. He picked up shells and decorated the beaches he frequented, because if it were decorated, perhaps people would refrain from chucking their waste into the sea.
Well, usually, it’d be trash.
Danny watched speechlessly, jaw cracked open just a smidge, as an explosion happened right over his head. The distortion of the water did not hide the fact that there were large chunks of plane pelting down at him, a different figure flying away from the explosion. Danny went invisible and intangible as large metal pieces plunged into his current water space.
“Gosh, people these days,” he huffed. “This is gonna take forever to…”
Danny trailed off, seeing a humanoid shape crash into the water, clearly unconscious. Danny didn’t hesitate before shooting towards the drowning person, glowing green and fully visible again. The stranger’s eyes- holy shit, that’s Batman- turned towards him before closing behind cracked open lenses. Batman slumped falling unconscious. That’s not good.
Danny rocketed out of the water with the vigilante in his arms. If it weren’t for his supernatural strength, there’s no way lanky teenage Danny would have been able to carry Batman’s grown ass built like a tank self to the shore. Likewise, if it weren’t for his strength, Danny wouldn’t have been able to start chest compressions through the layers of armor.
Danny leaned back with a sigh as Batman coughed out only a bit of water, because Danny hadn’t taken all that long to get to him, and held up his hands in a “I don’t have weapons” way as Batman whirled to him.
“Hi. Are you alright?” Danny asked, ectoplasm and instinctive ghost speak fuzzing his words a bit. Damn, Batman must have nearly died a lot. He’ll freak out about meeting Batman later.
“You saved me,” an awkward pause. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. The other guy went that way.”
Danny waved vaguely.
“…What are you?”
“Oh my god, Batman, you can’t just ask someone what they are!” He immediately replied, inwardly smacking himself for the joke. He watched Batman’s face, watching for any sign of discrimination against ghosts, or any sign the man had a sense of humor.
“…”
Neither, apparently, was the answer.
“Don’t worry about it. I’m just here to clean up the beaches. You humans really like to pollute the beaches. It’s quite rude, you know. That plane of yours, well, it’s not your fault,” he amended. “But it’s gonna damage sea life. And I don’t know if you’re in the habit, but please don’t litter on the beach or in the water, especially with your unconscious body. It’s tedious to clean.”
“…I see.”
“Stay. I’ll take out your plane. Make sure it doesn’t stay on the sand, alright?”
With that, Danny stood. Unaware of the way the moonlight lit up his hair like white flames and accentuated the sharp points of his ears, Danny turned away and flew back to the plane site, dragging the pieces up with ease.
Batman sat on the sand, likely exhausted from his fight, and watched him carry the pieces of the aircraft up.
“Here. All done. I gotta get going,” because Danny has school and this just lost him two hours. “Will you be alright?”
Batman nodded once, sharply.
“Good.” Danny went invisible, watching Batman sat up straighter, glancing around in a suddenly visible awareness. Oh, well. Tucker’s gonna freak out.
——
Three years later, Danny’s moved to Gotham for university.
And after midterm season, Danny went for a ghostly walk, but this time, in the waters surrounding Gotham.
When he surfaced, Batman was crouching on a lamp post, waiting for him.
“Oh, it’s you,” Danny said. “Hello. Did you know that people are polluting these waters with bodies too?”
“Yes,” Batman said, graveled voice resounding on the shipping containers around them.
“You should do something about that. Do you like places that are polluted?”
Batman sighed. “What are you?”
Danny hears a small, tinny voice by Batman’s ear, coming from a comm.
“Oh my god, B, you can’t just ask someone what they are!”
Mind flashing back to the night Danny drug a waterlogged Batman out of the ocean, Danny cracked a smile.
“Phantom,” he said, decisively. And, because this isn’t Amity anymore, “the Beach Clean Up crew from the flip side.”
——
Bruce, waking up on the sand: wtf
Bruce, seeing a child next to him who probably saved him: wtf (in “adoption”)
Bruce, seeing Danny’s skin glitter like stars, hair aflame, and pointy ears: wtf (in “I can adopt fae folk, right?”)
Bruce, seeing that Danny doesn’t leave any footprints: wtffff (detective mind goes brrrr)
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Bruce, after Danny leaves: *donates 20 mil towards beach clean up efforts and anti-pollution causes*
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Bruce’s Goggle Search History, documented by Oracle:
Sea spirits
Sea vampires
How to parent supernatural kids
How to thank your sea child
Are shells a good gift?
Ocean conservation efforts
Sea spirits that glitters under moonlight
Sea spirits that cleans up beaches
Wayne corporation waste disposal
Companies that dump trash into the sea
*outgoing call to Lucius Fox*
What is “mean girls”
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Bruce, learning “current pop culture” from his kids:
Bruce, remembering the kid who saved him and realizing he’s probably as old as his own kids are: *adoption tendencies intensifies*
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ok maybe I'm a little late to this BUT I'm gonna do a to-do list motivation thingy because I've had the worst two weeks since I started college :)
SO these I should start on asap:
50 I make the snack I really want but I haven't had the motivation to make
100 I clean my dorm. another thing I've been meaning to do for a week
150 I do the presentation about mid-victorian fashion I've been putting off (due Monday)
200 I start memorizing the monologue that was due a week ago (now due Tuesday)
these can wait longer:
300 I spend time outside. It's so nice but I'm getting stuck scrolling because I feel like shit. vicious cycle ect
500 I start setting a better weekend routine (aka getting up before noon)
1k I start working out again. I was doing a routine to get more masc and build muscle and I liked it but life hit me like Crowley driving the Bentley and I've missed like 3 weeks
2k I buy my first binder. I've been coping with sports bras for almost a year now and I haven't been able to justify spending $50+ on a binder even though I know I'd love it and use it everyday.
Do I tag people? I don't know but I'm going to. @the-globe-theatre-maggot @weirdly-specific-but-ok @howmanyholesinswisscheese
here's just some context if you want to read, feel free to skip. some of this I've talked about in the maggot server, some I haven't, but I really just need a place for this to go that's out of my head. tw homophobia, transphobia, car crash(??)
How I Have Been Run Over By The Bentley Going 90 In Central London What Feels Like 50 Times In The Last Two Weeks
I'm going to college about 4 hours away from my parents, and it's been really nice. They.. suck, to say the least. transphobic/homophobic ect, super traditional conservative catholic, racist, all of it. so i tried to move somewhere where I wouldn't have to think about them and I could be myself and do what I can to be happy. March 1st was the start of my spring break, which meant going home because the dorms close. I was already not excited, but I was prepared. the problem with being away from home is I forget just how bad they are. My optimism gets the better of me and I think maybe this time they'll be better. so I decided to not hide my septum piercing.
that was a mistake. it starts a whole fight where they say we know you're trans, you're actually a girl and you always will be, we have the bones argument, they think I'm being influenced by demons or something (if only they knew about crowley) because I want to change my name, and they tell me that going on t will completely ruin my body and give me cancer and other things. They're also mad about my dyed hair, septum, and general style, and say I'm setting a terrible example for my (5) younger siblings and make it a point to tell me just how much of a disappointment I am. I think I'm pretty cute and fun but y'know, whatever. very fun time. I lie so much, don't give them any more details about my identity, and say I'm not planning to go on t to save my ass. which is all on instinct which makes me feel worse because if I'm really trans I should be able to stand up for that, right? maybe I'm faking the dysphoria.
the next morning I wake up really sick, and spend the rest of the week sick and feeling like shit because I'm home and back in the same place and situation I was a year ago that I thought I escaped. at one point I pretty much lose my voice but also kind of get gender euphoria from it. it's weird.
On Friday it's time for me to drive back 4 hours to school, and I make it about 3/4 of the way when google maps takes me on a random gravel road and I crash my car, really crash my car, like sideways-in-a-ditch-windows-broken-crawling-up-out-the-door crash it in the middle of nowhere. (I was fully paying attention to the road, it was raining and super slick) I call my parents because I have no one else to call and I sit in a Subway for 3 hours while they drive to get my car. when they get there they're (understandably) really mad, and they tell me that I'm not mature enough to be going to school so far away and I need to get my shit together and stop depending on them. which. is probably true. but made me feel even more stupid about the fact that I crashed my car. I get back to school and I'm still Very Sick with no energy or motivation to do anything. So I've spent the last week trying to get better and honestly to do anything. it hasn't really worked. I'm a lot better health-wise (Not emotionally), still sick but I have a lot of work due, so I really need a push to get started
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