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𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 - ᔆᵉᶜᵒⁿᵈʰᵃⁿᵈ ᔆᵉʳᵉⁿᵃᵈᵉ
Warning(s) - 𝖲𝖥𝖶, 𝖠𝗀𝖾𝖽 𝖣𝗈𝗐𝗇 𝖬𝖾𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋𝗌, 𝖨𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖱𝖾𝗅𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗉, 𝖥𝗅𝗎𝖿𝖿, 𝖣𝖺𝖽𝖽𝗒!𝖶𝗈𝗇𝗁𝗈
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The pitter patter of little feet fills the air as Selena runs away from Changkyun and Jooheon. Looking around she giggles and runs through the living room. Heading right for the stairs, Selena stretches with all her might to climb up the first step. With one step down, Selena smiles only ten more steps to go. At the top of the steps, Selena glances down and smiles in triumph. She had tried many times to climb the steps, but someone was always there to stop her.
Giggling, Selena stands up and wobbles slightly before she takes off running to the only room, she wants to be in. Down the hall, Wonho lays in bed staring up at the cycling. A year has passed since he lost the only woman who loved him for who he really was. A full year has gone by, and Wonho is reminded of his loss every day, but it doesn't hurt as much as it uses too.
A thud comes from outside of Wonho’s door and he smiles. Closing his eyes, Wonho throws his arm over his face and pretends to sleep. The bedroom door opens soon after and Wonho can hear the sound of Selena's frantic little heart beating. Selena walks to the side of Wonho’s bed and uses the stepping stool as well as the sheets to pull herself onto the bed.
Crawling next to Wonho, Selena stares at his sleeping form and giggles. She reaches out and slaps Wonho’s arm as she babbles on trying to wake him up. “Ap!” she shouts and slaps Wonho’s arm again. Wonho snores loudly making Selena jump away from him. She stares at him with wide eyes and frowns, “Ap!” she wines and crawls onto Wonho’s stomach.
Sitting perched on top of Wonho’s stomach, Selena stares down at him. “Da!” She slaps Wonho’s chest and Wonho lets out a roar making Selena scream before he flips over and starts tickling her side. Selena screams in laughter, her squeals of delight filling the whole house, letting everyone know that Wonho is up. Laughing Wonho stops tickling Selena's sides and kisses her cheek. Rolling onto his side, he holds his head up with his hand and he watches Selena as she rolls over to her stomach still laughing. Her large brown eyes peek up at Wonho through her thick eyelashes and she smiles showing her sixteen teeth. Wonho laughs and ruffles her hair, “Come on kiddo let’s see what everyone is doing,” Wonho says and picks Selena up into his arms as he gets out of bed.
Grabbing a pair of sweats, Wonho easily puts them on with one hand before he leaves his bedroom. Selena wraps her arms around Wonho’s neck and rest her head against his shoulder. He holds her close and walks down the steps heading right for the kitchen. Upon entering the kitchen Wonho narrows his eyes at everyone before he sets Selena in her highchair. “Who was watching her?” Wonho asks without looking at anyone as he goes about putting a handful of Honey Nut Cheerios on Selena's tray.
Jooheon and Changkyun both raise their hands and Wonho turns his attention on them. “Why was she on the steps by herself?” He questions trying his best to control his anger. The two youngest both look at each other but say nothing. “She could have fallen or worse,” Wonho states and Jooheon bites his lip while Changkyun looks down at the floor ashamed.
“Selena is fine Won,” Shownu says and Wonho scarfs.
“No thanks to them,” Wonho hisses and Selena looks up from her Cheerios. Her bottom lip starts to quiver and before she can start crying, Hyungwon has her in his arms. Kihyun rests his hand on Wonho’s shoulder and motions towards the back door.
“Come on let’s go for a walk...you're upsetting the baby,” Kihyun suggests and Wonho nods his head. It's supposed to be a happy day today, after all it is Selena's first birthday, but it's painful for Wonho as well. “Want to talk about it?”
“Not really...” Wonho mutters and Kihyun nods his head with a sigh.
“You should go see her today...maybe take the baby with you.”
“I saw her last night.” Kihyun looks at Wonho surprised hearing that. “I told her that I had my doubts, and I don't think I should be the one raising Selena.”
“Do you still feel that way?” Kihyun asks.
“I woke up feeling that way, but...”
“What changed your mind?” Kihyun already knew the answer, but he wanted to hear Wonho say it out loud.
“The way her face lights up when she sees me...no one other than Tosha has ever looked at me like that,” Wonho admits. “Selena needs me, and I need her too...I know we're going to have our ups and downs, but I'm ready for them...well as ready as I'll ever be,” Wonho laughs a little and Kihyun smiles.
“Let me ask you a question, hyung? Do you know what it is to be a dad?” Kihyun asks and Wonho shakes his head.
“I have no idea,” Wonho says hopelessly and Kihyun pats his back.
“Dads are the most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventures, story-tellers, and singers of song. I know you don't believe it, but they are the best kind of hero. In that little girl's eyes, you can do no wrong.” Kihyun smiles from beside Wonho and continues.
“To be a dad is to love that little girl with every fiber of your being, it means that you'll be her shoulder to cry on when she gets hurts, you'll be the one to make all her fears go away and make the tears stop. Being a dad means you'll be there no matter what you're feeling, whether it be a good or bad day, you'll be there...can you do all that Hoseokie hyung?” Wonho bites his lip and lets Kihyun’s words sink into his mind.
“Yeah...yeah, I can do that,” Wonho says with a sense of pride and Kihyun smiles.
“Then you have to believe that you're a hero; that you're that over-the-top King that is in those childish movies who is there to offer advice to his princess and sing her stories of hope.” Wonho looks at Kihyun with a raised eyebrow and Kihyun gives him a questioning look. “What?”
Wonho laughs and shakes his head, “If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were a dad once,” Wonho jokes and Kihyun laughs.
“Go and be the hero of your story, hyung. Go make your princess as happy as you can,” Kihyun says and shoves Wonho towards the house. Wonho smiles and hugs Kihyun quickly before he lets go and runs towards the house. Kihyun stands outside and smiles nodding his head. “You'll make a fine dad...a fine dad indeed.”
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I’m reading The Lost Hero for the first time and someone please tell me why everyone hates Jason Grace??
This boy is so wholesome. All he does is try his best with about 3kb’s of memory, constantly tell Leo and Piper how great they are, and stand up for people being bullied.
Get you a bestie like Jason tbh. He’s very sweet.
#jason grace#officially a Jason apologist#this boy is trying his best#and he’s kind!!#the lost hero#heroes of olympus#percy jackson#leo valdez#piper mclean
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I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.
I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.
The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...
Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.
I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.
And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?
It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.
To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.
In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.
Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.
So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.
What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.
Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?
#squiggposting#pharma apologism#i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain#so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash#i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent#what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving#is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt#and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists#so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character#so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of#'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him'#but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid#and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like#the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of#being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths#then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part#and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts#and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine#this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer#and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like#how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil#and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit#like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma#but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel#and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple#bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed#but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal
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big idea!!! what if instead of annabeth falling off the cliff with the manticore!! the manticore drags her to the edge of the cliff so it doesn't fall alone!! and percy sees what's happening!! and wills a nearby water source to take hold of her hand!! because he wants to prove himself as a big three kid!! but the water does not catch her in time!! and percy has to watch annabeth fall into what looks like a dark and bottomless pit!!!
#and it makes perfect sense because percy feels inadequate as a big three kid c#because thalia is now filling the role the he was once held#and he wants to prove himself an equal#but when that obviously doesn't work#he vows to always have her best interest at heart of they ever find themselves in that situation again#and then we'll see percy's character growth on full displsy in the mark of athena season when he fulfills that promise#kind of like andrew garfield spiderman in 'spiderman: no way home'#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo text post#pjo#the titan's curse#ttc textposts#ttc#heroes of olympus#hoo text post#hoo#the mark of athena#moa textposts#moa#pjo tv concept#probably pjo tv spoilers too depending on how things go#percy jackson#annabeth chase#percabeth#percabeth headcanon#percabeth fluff#percabeth angst#percy jackson character growth
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TotK DLC idea!
The screen is black. You don’t hear anything for a long time. Then, faintly, in the distance, you can hear it.
Link. Link. Open your eyes.
While the line echoes familiarity, the voice does not.
Or. Well. It does. Because while it isn’t Zelda, it’s a familiar man’s voice speaking gently, so gently you almost don’t recognize it because there’s no way he ever spoke like this in the main game.
But he is now. And instead of a golden light being the first image you see before the screen shows Link awakening… you see gloom floating in the air. The image cuts to a Hylian waking up who… doesn’t look like Link from TotK?? He’s different, still small in stature, with slightly tanner skin, platinum light blonde hair, and red eyes. But… something’s wrong with his forehead. There’s a weird line on it.
This new character you apparently are gonna be playing in the DLC blearily blinks his eyes open, clearly groggy and too weak to really move. But then that line on his forehead moves a hair, it splits apart, and you realize it’s a freaking eye, red and yellow and it’s like the ones on gloom hands and oh gosh what the hell is it doing on his forehead—
Link realizes something is off and his eyes blow wide, his hands reach for his forehead and he screams in agony and terror, only for someone to scoop him into a hug to soothe him.
And suddenly you realize why that voice was eerily familiar.
It’s Ganondorf. He resurrected you from the era of the Imprisoning War. You, who have a history with him and his family. You, who he wants to protect, who he views as his kid, who he calls a prince and says he’ll keep you safe by controlling your body with his dark magic if he has to.
Welcome to Tears of the Kingdom: Hero’s Shadow.
You have to play a long gone Hero who was resurrected. Ganondorf, who is still recovering his strength in preparation for killing the current Hero, tasks you with finding your betrothed, his daughter, as well as his wife. They’re buried somewhere in the Depths like you were. He wants you to find their burial sites so he can use his secret stone to resurrect them like he did you, and control them as well. Which is doubly bad when you realize his wife was the original Sage of Lightning. He gives you free reign to wander once you go through a tutorial (he tests you to see if you’ve recovered enough strength), because he knows you love wandering and collecting things. Your own personal objective, however, is trying to help Hyrule from the Depths, to break free from Ganondorf’s control, because Link would rather set himself on fire than let Ganondorf resurrect and control the love of his life and his mother-in-law. Your best hope is to find shards of the shattered Master Sword to try and stab the eye on Dark Link’s forehead and break the control Ganondorf has on you. Until you can, though, the monsters are your allies, you can teleport across the Depths by manifesting out of the gloom created by gloom hands (just like what Phantom Ganon does), and the world below is your oyster. If you get too close to sword shards when gloom hands are nearby, Ganondorf can see your attempt and immediately takes control of your body, and no matter what button you press Link just walks back to Ganondorf’s location and stays there until you get a chance to try again.
You start with three hearts, all empty looking like when gloom hurts you, and if you get injured they just shatter. Whenever they all shatter, you respawn at Ganondorf’s location because his gloom hands came and rescued you from dying. The only way you can get more hearts is by collecting poes and offering them to the statues in the Depths. You can communicate with the spirits of soldiers, who may give you combat tips or info about the area. If you gain enough of Ganondorf’s trust, he’ll let you command monsters, and he might even let you wander the Surface (under his supervision) during a blood moon.
You learn of Link’s and Ganondorf’s history through discovering ancient relics/texts that trigger memories. This connection between you and Ganondorf stems back to time before the war, well over ten thousand years ago. Link was engaged to Ganondorf’s daughter, but during the Imprisoning War the family fought against the demon king. Ganondorf did love his family, but he loved power more. Link sacrificed himself, letting himself get mortally wounded to save Rauru from a killing blow. Gan held him as he died, and it allowed Link to both beg him to stop and stab him in the heart with a light shard. The shard didn’t kill him, but it was what Rauru connected with when he hit him in the chest, allowing him to seal Ganondorf away. Ganondorf still wants the world, but his love for his family is still present, though now twisted, so he thinks he can control Link and everyone else with his dark magic in order to keep them safe and in line. Once the threat of the current Hero is eliminated, the world will be his, and his family will be safe. As such, he treats you, Link, the player, like a stubborn child, reeling you in, but does so in a horrific way, torturing Link by controlling him.
You have to break free of this and stop him, and the only hope you have is the distant call of a sword spirit…
#tears of the kingdom#totk#I think it would be pretty neat to play someone who is “allies” with the bad guy#but you still have the objective of stopping evil#But you have to manipulate Ganondorf and work around his watch#So you get to play double agent#And possibly see a more complex Ganondorf#Like the dude is still being evil; he’s using his love for Link as an excuse to control him#He does care about him but he’s expressing it in the worst way#and he wants to do the same to his wife and daughter#So still a bad guy but a far more interesting one#One day you’re on the Surface with him and you see the Light Dragon and you’re not sure who it is#Because Link died before Zelda ate the secret stone#But Link can kind of guess#And Ganondorf almost noticed her so Link has to hug him or say something to get his attention#You have to manipulate Gan as best you can#idk how it would end#Like once you break free what do you do#But the idea tickled my mind so I wanted to write it down#Yes I’m just playing with my Imprisoning War blorbos#no I don’t care#legend of zelda#skye time travels through the queue#hero of shadow
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Something I love about Spider-Man as a character: even if there's no big villain to fight, he's still a hero.
On days when there's no crime at all, he's out helping someone carry their groceries or giving directions to someone who's lost. He doesn't need anything negative to fight; he's just actively trying to make the world a safer, kinder, better place. That's what makes him a hero.
#friendly neighborhood spider-man you know#where most other heroes are kind of the 'rise to the occasion' types#like 'the world is in danger I must battle the forces of evil'#spidey's just over here like: imma go do the best that I can to improve the world#no baddies necessary#peter parker#spider-man#thoughts#also not to be an irondad freak on main but#tony does a lot of good things in the world separate from fighting villains too#like holding orphaned babies and giving $ to college kids#and I love that about the two of them. I think they're brilliantly matched in the mcu as mentor and mentee#cough father and son cough#anyone who disagrees may die by my sword#queueueueue
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I don't think we cherish Mr. Sarcastic enough as a society.
#hands down the BEST hero identity tim has EVER had.#this close to becoming a mr sarcastic fan page#he has such a cool-cringe design#my favorite kind of cringe!!!#also his persona?!?!??!#tim drake#mr. sarcastic#yj98
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I keep seeing a lot of posts saying that Duke started a gang, but like. No He Didn't. The Robins existed before Duke ever joined them -- and Duke only joined because of Alfred's interference. The We Are Robin comic starts with Duke searching for his parents and stumbling onto a Court of Owls meeting, then the Robins show up and save him at Alfred's behest. Duke didn't start a gang, the gang found & adopted him.
#he also didnt really lead them? like he had his moments but they were mostly a team#anyways small nitpick but saying duke started a gang is kind of a disservice to the other WAR members#if anything i think its implied that WAR was its own thing that Alfred co-opted via cryptic messages to 1 of its best members#(by pretending to b her fav hero... yeah its weird)#we are robin#duke thomas#dc#dc comics#daxton chill#andre cipriani#izzy ortiz#riko sheridan#batfam#alfred pennyworth#robin war
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thought about my future pmd2 hero and partner family hcs again...
(jswc im not implying manaphy died or anything and also no that is not grovyle as a treecko(maybe an ancestor. but not him))
#pokemon mystery dungeon#pmd#typhlosion#meganium#treecko#also no those arent a new hc hero/partner duo.........they just seemed like the most fun options to draw at the time......#also ik the comic isnt the best but. im kind of too tired to care rn.....#my art
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Finally understanding Beast Mori (as Asagiri intended)
Hello everyone, I am hoping you’ll be nice about me talking about Mori for two seconds and express my thoughts about such a guy like this. This isn’t going to be some fancy analysis picking apart stuff like I’d usually want to or even me addressing every trait he has because I definitely don’t go into everything. This is me finally being at peace with Mori’s humanity.
Before you say anything, I’d just like to share my own peace of comprehension. So if you were similarly confused the way I was, I think you’d appreciate this (Or if you’re looking for a different approach on Mori).
Im sure most of you have read the manga adaptation, so just to let you know, I am going to be using passages from the official Light Novel translation and if anyone needs it, I can send it to them!
For anyone who’s decided to read, hello! Nice to meet you. I’m sure we’ve all shared the same confusion when confronted with Beast Mori’s difference in personality and approach. Thoughts like “Why is he so much nicer?” Or “Why does he care much more about how kids are treated, when he himself has treated kids the same way he describes in the past?”
How could this person be the same guy who was Mori the Port Mafia Boss? The war veteran who used Yosano the way he did? So we came up with many idea of why he’s different to justify it, but here’s the thing: Mori is the same person he always was, this is a universe where everything is the same, but different where Dazai chooses to intervene.
After a few days, I was able to recognize it but I couldn’t hold myself to acknowledge it. It’s hard to see a man who represents the dark, the Port Mafia, to the Armed Detective Agency’s light. I couldn’t wrap my head that such a controlling, manipulative man could have humanity like the rest of the characters.
Why was this so hard for me to see? Well two reasons— the fandom and how the anime cuts down Mori’s emotions when adapting canon material. This happens to Dazai too, but people are much more willing to talk about it compared to Mori. Now the fandom really does love blaming everything on Mori and that’s not the most constructive thing to do when talking about abuse narratives. I can’t blame anyone for taking this route when it came to Mori because of Asagiri’s poorly thought out choice with him…. we all know what I’m talking about. Elise.
However, I need some of you to understand that abuse narratives are never as simple as “oh, it’s all this persons fault because they’re a horrible person, so [character] is resolved from any guilt or responsibility”. This not only dumbs down the situation and seriousness of it, by mischaracterizing the abuser, you’re also mischaracterizing the victim as well and what they’ve gone through. You’re putting their story in jeopardy.
Bungou Stray Dogs is a story about human beings, morality, and what it all means. Mori, and in turn Fukuzawa, are important to understand Bungou Stray Dogs because they are in two pinochle positions that start this discussion of Morality. I am baffled that a story like this, one that approaches these topics with so much appreciation for humanity and nuance, has a fandom that doesn’t want to talk about what it has to offer.
Asagiri’s poorly thought out writing decision of a joke is going to have lasting effects with how Mori is going to be approached forever and I see this, but I think the little girl jokes are the least important thing to talk about because they have as much impact as the Tanizaki siblings do. He’s also written to be not a good person either, so you can dislike him easily, but how many of these characters are traditionally good people? Kouyou, for example, is not a “good person” and emotionally abusive in example to how she treated Kyouka. That doesn’t stop people from liking her friendship with Chuuya and making content with her.
So this attitude toward Mori had me lost when it came to him because I could see how much thought Asagiri puts into writing him the same way he does with so many, but I’ve seen so many disregard his humanity that I had no way to express any of my thoughts to sort out what to think about through anyone else when faced with Beast Mori. Everyone was as lost I was, and the people that weren’t never explained it in a way I could break that barrier.
So what finally made me wrap my head around Mori? It was exactly one conversation I had with a friend and it wasn’t even about Beast Mori in particular, it was just about Mori and his poor humanity while navigating how to lead. Everything just clicked with that.
(Dazai, Chuuya, age Fifteen)
This right here is where Mori tells us what he thinks his position means after the struggling we visibly see him go through. Is it an inherently correct conclusion to make? No, but does it make sense as someone who’s a leader of a huge, dangerous underground criminal organization? Yes, it does.
We have no backstory on Mori, but his poor humanity is easy to explain when he’s been in positions that require him to disregard his own and everyone else’s humanity for years now. As someone who’s seen war up close and a physician, these jobs require him to take control of the other person. Well in his mind at least, he sees these jobs and chooses to the route that’s most efficient.
It’s never positioned to be for himself though, he doesn’t take glee in what he does for self serving purposes, it’s always for the country, the city, the organization. His thought process is never the power hungry yearning we see everyone mistake it for. It’s never that he wants it, it’s that he needs it for everything to go well.
That’s exactly how he treats Yosano because even though it’s creepy to base your abilities looks on a little girl, that doesn’t stop him from seeing her use before her age and humanity.
His clinical utilitarianism is his core trait but also most disliked one from what I can tell in the fandom, and people tend to misinterpret it to make the more non-favorable view of him. But again, he’s not supposed to be the greatest guy ever and you can understand where these traits started forming. And again, to paraphrase another’s words: he’s cunning, but not power hungry.
He’s also not disliked by his subordinates and actually respected, he respectively enjoys the company, but there’s a mixed answer to that and that it is… nobody is going to listen to you if you don’t treat them with decency. Why would you expect a tool to work if you break them? One of his earliest lessons he learned with Yosano and leadership.
(Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen)
For example, we all know this scene is manipulation. He’s baiting Chuuya with information while still treating the teenager with respect and enough honesty to form a bond. Chuuya is perfectly aware that he’s being used in the present and in the past, but he respects Mori as a leader objectively after his own considered failure and lack of control over the sheep, even if he didn’t consider himself one. I don’t think this honesty comes from nowhere because that quote, “only a Diamond can polish a Diamond”, came from Natsume in reference to himself and Fukuzawa.
He sees himself and Fukuzawa in Soukoku fondly, but I tend to rethink this quote time to time because at first it comes off as a quote about partnership and building off of each other’s good qualities to perfect their own, but the way Mori uses it here feels as though it’s positioned to mean that one of them comes out perfected and the other weared down. Pretty competitive if you think about it.
(Bungou Stray Dogs BEAST)
We’re finally at the part you’ve been waiting for guys! So what was my point for analyzing canonverse Mori? So as I said before, these are the exact same guy and all that word jumble? That was an extended version of what was communicated with me to finally get what was going on with Mori in this universe and why he’s suddenly in an orphanage.
Now I couldn’t tell what was going through Beast Dazai’s mind and where this decision came from instead of actually killing him like the rumor’s implied, but I can come close. I think that Beast Dazai recognized this potential of change either from the multitude of universes he was able to witness or recognized it in his own considering canonverse Dazai never does anything against Mori (even if he visibly dislikes him).
Possibility is one thing, the why is another. It was either that he saw potential and good that could come out of this in the long run, Mori’s intelligence and expertise still proves usefulness, less dangerous for Oda in the long run if he let Mori stay there instead of the Mafia, or all three.
I can say for sure though that this is better for Mori because after the years of being in atmospheres that require so much of him intelligently and exempt of any emotion involved for the sake of efficiency, being able to rekindle his humanity where nothing is expected of him except to raise kids in a non-exploitative context sounds really freeing to me. Considering he’s been there for 4 years, I find the development understandable.
Okay I’m hearing what you guys are saying again, “What about him saying he wanted to save Dazai? That doesn’t seem like typical Mori.” And I’m gonna say something really controversial: Well maybe he did.
Really though, I think he did care about Dazai and not because he saw a child struggling (think about Yosano and Q for 3 seconds), but because he saw himself in Dazai, which ultimately changed way more about their relationship than you guys think. There’s a lot of comparisons to Yosano and I understand where they come from because I think there’s a lot you can see similarities in, but Dazai is not purely a tool for Mori the way she was.
The avoidance of letting him die do come from his use and overall importance to the original plan of becoming the new boss, but I don’t think he would’ve left Dazai alone like that for 4 whole years after leaving the mafia if he didn’t care in some way way. What strikes me the most is how Asagiri decided to add “the man who raised Dazai”.
For Beast Mori, I think he’s had enough time to actually feel guilt and regret for Dazai as a person like a normal human being does. Oh I guess Elise is important too. Her aging up just meant that Mori has become less controlling and not like the little girl who he literally sees as a tool since kids are easier to manipulate. Can’t bring that energy to an orphanage, nope!
There’s better stuff out there about Mori that I think if you’re more open to thinking about Mori after this, you should check it out, these are just my thoughts recently. To end this off, here are two links to Asagiri’s own thoughts on Mori.
#bsd#bsd analysis#(?) kind of#bsd meta#bungou stray dogs#mori ougai#bsd beast#bungou stray dogs beast#dazai osamu#bsd dazai chūya age fifteen#I’m not gonna pretend for two seconds that this guy is some misunderstood hero#but he’s less as bad as fanon portrays him#and don’t take my words as him saying he ALWAYS has everyone’s best interest#he just says he does#shit guys wait I just realized this is my first contribution??? to this fandom??? oh well
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Part three of Ghost Hero!
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#Danny is great at lying#jk#he’s doing the best he can#mha#Eraserhead and RG totally think he’s an escaped experiment of some kind#they’re like oh no this poor child#when Danny could probably beat up all might#trans danny fenton#they’re gonna be so confused when he has more than one quirk#also everyone in mha speaks English now because I said so#the plot demands it#and also because Danny learning Japanese seems difficult and this is supposed to be vacation#kinda#dp x mha#dadzawa#so many links to link#ghost hero comic#piedpiperart
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𝑺𝒐 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 - ᴹᵒⁿˢᵗᵃ ˣ
Warning(s) - 𝖲𝗍𝗋𝗈𝗇𝗀 𝖫𝖺𝗇𝗀𝗎𝖺𝗀𝖾, 𝖲𝖥𝖶, 𝖬𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 𝖮𝖿 𝖡𝗂𝗋𝗍𝗁, 𝖠𝗀𝖾𝖽 𝖣𝗈𝗐𝗇 𝖬𝖾𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋𝗌, 𝖨𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗅 𝖱𝖾𝗅𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗉
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“Are you excited?” Hyungwon asks and Tosha nods her head with tears running down the side of her face. He wipes away her tears and kisses the back of her hand, “You're gonna be a good mother...” Tosha opens her mouth to thank Hyungwon, but she screams in pain. Hyungwon notices the change in the octave and the scent, his eyes widen. Letting go of Tosha's hand, Hyungwon rushes to the door to find Kihyun.
“Don't you dare fucking leave me!” Tosha screams and Hyungwon freezes.
“I have to get K-”
“Th-the baby i-is coming!”
Hyungwon bites his lip and hurries back over to the bed, “You're going into labor...” Hyungwon says and Tosha glares at him. 'No shit', Tosha thinks to herself, but she can't voice her thoughts, the pain is too much. “O-okay...um...okay...j-just stay calm, Noona.” Hyungwon rambles and he wants to cry, he doesn't know what to do. Tosha screams and she grabs a fist full of Hyungwon’s shirt, pulling him down to eye level. Hyungwon stares at Tosha with wide eyes full of fear.
“Get down there and get it out of me!” Tosha growls and Hyungwon nods his head quickly. Tosha pushes Hyungwon away from her and he quickly regains his balance before he falls. Scrambling over to the end of the bed, Hyungwon crawls onto the bed and looks at Tosha.
“I...I don't know-”
“What are you doing?” Hyungwon looks over towards the door and he lets out a sigh of relief when he sees Wonho standing there with a glass of water in his hands.
“The baby is coming,” Hyungwon says and Wonho’s eyes widen.
“...Damn.” Wonho had just spoken to Kihyun before he came up the steps. Kihyun had to make a run into town and Wonho told him to go, thinking they had more time.
“W-where's Kihyun?” Hyungwon asks and Tosha throws one of her pillows at him. “R-right...okay. Um...Wonho-ah a little help here please?” Wonho hurries to Tosha's side and sets the glass of water down on the nightstand.
“You know what you're doing right?” Wonho asks and Hyungwon gulps.
“I watched a video in school...” Wonho mutters with a nervous laugh and Wonho sighs. Tosha screams and she fists the blankets in her hands. It's time, the baby is ready to come out. Wonho grabs hold of Tosha's hand and focuses on taking her pain away. Hyungwon peaks under the sheet and he gulps, “You can push now Tosha.” Screaming Tosha pushes the hardest she can, and Wonho grinds his teeth together feeling a slight pain in his hand from how hard Tosha is holding onto him.
Tosha throws her head back against the pillows and cries feeling the baby starting to enter the world. “Give me another push!” Hyungwon encourages and Tosha takes a deep breath before she pushes again. The bedroom door flies open, and Changkyun runs in with Jooheon and Minhyuk behind him.
“Get out!” Wonho shouts over Tosha's screams.
“I see the head!” Hyungwon shouts in joy. Hearing that everyone ignores Wonho’s order and rushes to Tosha's bedside. “Give a good push,” Hyungwon says and Tosha cries as she pushes again. Wonho smooths down her hair and continues to take away her pain. Seeing Wonho’s veins, Minhyuk reaches out and takes hold of Tosha's other hand. He puts his mind on taking away Tosha's pain and Changkyun does the same, placing his hand on Tosha's shoulder. “I need some help down here,” Hyungwon says and Jooheon rushes to his side. “Get ready...” Jooheon looks around the room and grabs the suction bulb as well as a towel.
Tosha stops pushing and she turns her head towards Wonho and cries into his hand. “Come on Tosha. You're doing good...it's almost over,” Wonho whispers in her ear and Tosha shakes her head.
“Make it stop...just make it stop,” she sobs, and Wonho’s eyes fill with worry. He looks around at everyone and they all bite their lips, not sure what to do.
“You have to push Tosha. Okay? Do you understand? The baby is almost out, you have to push!” Wonho orders.
“I-I can't!” she cries and Wonho growls. He grabs Tosha's face in his hands and crashes his lips down onto hers.
Pulling away, Wonho stares into Tosha's teary eyes, “Push,” he whispers, and Tosha nods her head with tears falling. Tosha takes a deep breath and pushes with everything she has left in her. She feels the pain of the head coming out and soon after the uncomfortable slip of the rest of the body coming out as well. Hyungwon catches the baby in his arms with a gasp, he wasn't expecting the baby to come so quick. Holding the bloody infant in his arms, Hyungwon comes up from underneath the sheet and hands the baby to Jooheon who is quick to dry the infant off and clear its air ways.
“Do you want to cut the cord?” Hyungwon asks with tears in his eyes as he looks at Wonho. Wonho looks down at Tosha and she nods her head tiredly. Wonho leaves Tosha's side and walks over to Jooheon. He grabs the scissors and cuts the cord where Jooheon points. Meanwhile Hyungwon goes back under the sheet for Tosha to deliver the placenta. The placenta easily comes out and Hyungwon catches it in a small bin that he can toss in the trash.
“Here you go mommy!” Jooheon hands over the infant to Tosha and tears of happiness fall from her eyes. The infant stops crying once it is in Tosha's arms. “You have a healthy baby-” Jooheon is interrupted when Kihyun and Shownu walk into the room.
“Good job, Chae,” he tells the young boy is now crying. Everyone backs away from the bed giving Tosha and Wonho room to breathe. Kihyun steps into the room, but he stops and tilts his head to the side. “You need rest my dear...” Kihyun says, and Tosha looks up from her baby to him. “Feed the little one and then go to sleep, we'll protect you both.” Kihyun steps out of the way and motions for everyone to the leave room. They all complain, but leave the room with smiles on their faces, they are all excited to be able to see the new addition the family. Wonho helps Tosha sit up better and she pulls her shirt down along with her bra, she lifts the baby to her chest and sighs in relief when the baby latches onto her nipple. Wonho sits on the bed and kisses the top of Tosha's head.
“You did good Eomma,” Wonho says, and Tosha nods her head with a tired smile.
“What are you gonna call her...him?” Kihyun asks as he walks out of the bathroom from just washing his hands. He has to sow Tosha up so she can heal properly.
Tosha looks down at the baby in her arms and smiles, “Selena...Selena Nari.” Wonho, Shownu and Kihyun’s eyes all widen at the middle name, but they smile.
“It's beautiful,” Shownu says and Wonho nods his head in agreement.
“Welcome to the world kid,” Wonho says, and Selena looks right at him with her large murky brown doe eyes. She turns her head away from Tosha's nipple and Tosha's hands her over to Wonho. With a yawn, Tosha gets herself comfortable in bed and closes her eyes. Leaning down Wonho kisses her lips and Tosha smile, “See you when you wake up.” The three werewolves leave the room with Selena tucked away in Wonho’s arms.
“I'm gonna go clean off,” Kihyun says and heads to his room. Wonho and Shownu head to the nursery and they roll their eyes when they see that everyone is there.
“Get out,” Wonho sighs, “She has to sleep.” Everyone groans but does as their told. Shownu pats Wonho on the shoulder and brings up the rears, closing the door behind him. Wonho waits for the door to shut before he lifts Selena up on his shoulder and starts to burp her. Selena burps and Wonho lays her back down in his arms. Rocking from side to side, Wonho softly sings a lullaby that his mother use to sing to him. Selena stares up at Wonho and coos softly, Wonho strokes her face with a finger and Selena grabs hold of his finger with her fist. Wonho stops moving and stares at the baby girl in his arms. “You're gonna give me a run for my money aren't ya?”
#the best kind of hero#soc wonho#werewolf au#kpop ambw#monsta x#best kind of hero#soc monsta x#daddy wonho
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Steve and Eddie.
Eddie and Steve.
After Vecna, they're inseparable. They share a bed. Always. Twine their legs together and sleep close. No reason to pretend they don't need each other when they so obviously do.
Eddie loves him. He knows it's stupid. Doesn't know how to protect his heart when Steve is everything.
Spring fades into summer, and between nights spent with entangled limbs, Eddie starts to see more in Steve's hazel eyes; soft fondness and gentle care, a flash of heat. Their physical affection goes beyond casual touches--arms around waists, fingers on hips, faces nuzzling against necks, kisses pressed into hair.
It feels like they have all the time in the world, but Robin asks Steve to move to Indy and Steve never mentions it. Eddie pretends like the silence doesn't hurt. They've only ever been just friends, after all.
Then, one night, "I'm moving to Indy."
"Okay, yeah." Eddie tries to keep his voice even, the tears from spilling. it was always a mistake, falling for Steve Harrington.
"Come with me?" Steve's hands are clenched in the duvet.
"I'm moving to New York." He had no plans until this very moment.
Steve falls quiet. "That's nice, Eddie. That's--yeah, you should do that, if it's what you want."
He nods. Ignores the lump in his throat. "Maybe I can really be somebody."
Steve smiles. Eddie's not sure why it looks so sad. "You'll knock 'em dead, Ed."
---
They stay friends, of course they do. There's phone calls and visits, and it's not the same, but it's still good.
Eddie tries to get over him. He does. There are dates, men, possibility. But they're not Steve.
Steve meets a girl--nice, pretty, wealthy--the kind of girl made for a King. It sticks. Eddie likes her. And nobody needs to know that he cries himself to sleep, thinking of what might have been.
The invitation comes in the mail. He throws it in the garbage without a thought, before standing against his counter, knuckles going white where he's gripping into the laminate. Tries to remind himself to keep breathing around the shattering of his heart.
He's not going. Knows he can't take it.
Then, a phone call.
"I'm getting married," Steve says.
"Yeah, just got the invite. Congrats!" Bile in his throat threatens to choke him.
"Will you--you'll stand up there with me?"
Eddie smacks his head repeatedly against the wall. "Of course," is the only possible answer.
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The wedding is fine. During the ceremony, he tries not to listen to the vows, keeps his eyes on Robin's back and never, ever on Steve. He drinks through the reception. Knows it's too much, knows he's losing control. Can't take watching Steve dance with his new bride, so he sneaks out a side door into an alley, lighting his last cigarette. The nicotine barely hits his lungs before a scuffle of feet interrupts his moment.
"Can I get in on that?" Steve asks.
Eddie squeezes his eyes shut, handing over the cigarette. "What're you doing out here?"
"Haven't really talked to you at all today."
"Well. You've been a little busy." He means it to be a joke but it falls very flat, his bitterness too close to the surface.
Steve exhales a cloud of smoke. "Yeah. Didn't realize weddings were so much work."
Eddie doesn't know what to say, so they fall into silence, passing the smoke back and forth until it burns down to the filter.
"You happy?" Eddie asks. Doesn't think he meant to, doesn't want the answer.
"Ed..."Steve swallows.
"So, yes," he chuckles. It's the most hollow thing he's ever heard.
"It's just--It's normal, you know?"
And it's like Steve punched him, to know they never could've been because Eddie--being with Eddie--would never be normal.
"Right, of course, Harrington. Normal."
"That's not what--I'm not saying--"
"What else could you possibly mean?"
"I want quiet. No monsters, no secret dimensions. Something regular. Easy."
"Six-fucking-nuggets, right? Still a pretty lady in the front seat next to you."
"What's wrong with that? Huh? What's wrong with kids and stability and a fucking life. Not bartending until 4am and playing the occasional gig and living with 18 goddamn people."
Eddie straightens at that, fingers twisting in his button-down. "Sorry my life doesn't meet your exacting standards, King. Sorry I can't be what you want."
He storms away, Steve shouting after him, but he leaves him there with his promising and bright and normal future unfurling before him.
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They don't talk. One month. Six Months. A Year. Two.
For lack of better to do, for stability, he writes a book. Fantasy. About an Adventurer who helps a group of kids save the world. They're joined by a handsome, mysterious man who seems like an asshole, but helps them selflessly every time. He and the Adventurer are something, but before it's anything real, the stranger is revealed to be their Prince. They save the world, but the Prince has to leave the Adventurer behind.
The book is a hit. Spawns a series. Eddie's somebody.
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Eddie comes home from the store, paper bag of groceries balanced against his chest.
Steve Harrington, not looking a day older than at his wedding, stands at his door, hands wringing.
"Steve?" He asks.
"Hey, Ed." The nickname twists Eddie's stomach, but he doesn't say anything.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm getting divorced," Steve says.
Eddie almost drops his groceries, his hands shake so hard. He busies himself with the lock, ushering Steve inside.
"Is that all?" He asks.
Steve blinks at him, dazed expression on his still pretty face. "What?"
"You came all this way just to tell someone you haven't spoken to in almost eight years that you're getting divorced? What's it to me?" He stomps into the kitchen with his groceries.
"I wanted--I thought--"
Eddie snorts, makes it mean because he feels mean, wants to make Steve hurt the way he has for years. "You thought? We haven't spoken since your wedding day, man."
"She was ready for kids, and I realized that she's not--she's not who I picture having a family with."
The words pierce him like shattered glass, and he whirls into the living room, into Steve's space. "What the fuck are you doing?" he hisses.
"I wanted you to know, Ed. After all--"
"Stop calling me that. Stop acting like we're friends, for Christ's sake. And I don't give a damn about whatever realization you had once you realized normal wasn't for you."
"I'm trying to make this right!" Pink splotches highlight Steve's cheeks, his anger spiking to match Eddie's.
"There's nothing to fix, Harrington. We're over. It's fine."
"It's not fine," Steve is breathing hard. "I wanted you so badly, and you fucking ran away--"
"Bullshit! I waited for you. And you moved to Indy with Robin without a thought."
"I asked you to come! You were the one who said no."
"You asked a week before you left!"
"I was scared!"
"Of what, Steve? Not having that normal, easy, life you wanted so badly?"
"Of course not!"
"Then why?"
Steve chuckles, steps back. "I always thought you of all people would understand, and now--"
"Not when you come to my house unannounced to unload on me about your divorce because you expect us to pick up like none of it ever happened."
"That's not what I want!"
Eddie turns, pinching the bridge of his nose to cut off the stinging in his eyes. "I can't do this. I think you should leave, Steve."
"Fine." Steve won't look at him, storms to the door. "This was a mistake."
He slams it hard enough it makes the walls shake, picture frames rattle. Eddie can't stop the sob that rips out of him. Entitled, selfish, Steve Harrington, the only man Eddie will ever love. Steve Harrington who thinks love comes with strings attached. Steve Harrington who was afraid of asking Eddie to move away with them. And Eddie, always the coward, stifled by the weight of his own impossible love.
Eddie moves on autopilot, just knows he needs to find Steve, to see if there's a chance.
He skids down the stairs, almost falling a time or two, out into the night. His eyes scan the sidewalk, searching for familiar tall hair, but there's no sign of Steve, no sign--
A soft sob cuts through the air and Eddie's eyes fall to the steps in front of him, to the beautiful man sitting with his head on his knees.
"Steve," he says.
He stands, whirling, face a wreck. "Eddie?"
He doesn't know what to say at first, swallowing and swallowing around nothing. "I--I'm sorry I said no, when you asked me to move with you."
Steve's face does a funny, fracturing thing, even as he gives a little laugh. "I'm sorry I took so long to work up the nerve to ask."
Both of them take a step forward, then stumble together in a clumsy, tear-soaked hug.
"I'm sorry I got too drunk at your wedding," Eddie whispers against his friend's neck.
Steve giggles, but quiets quickly "I'm sorry about the 'normal' thing. I didn't mean it. I was--it doesn't matter. I'm sorry."
They hold each other for a long time on the steps of Eddie's building, rocking gently back and forth. When they finally let go, Eddie pushes Steve's hair off his forehead, asks, "wanna order a pizza and catch up?"
The answering smile is blinding as a sun, and Eddie is just as hopelessly in love as he was at 20.
They walk inside, fingers still entwined, lit up with hope.
"Hey," Steve says as they walk up the stairs together. "Are the Adventurer and the Prince going to find each other again? Because it's been four books now, and I'm still wait--"
Eddie twists his fingers into Steve's t-shirt, pushing him against the stained stairwell wall. "Fuck, Steve, I--"
He's interrupted by Steve closing the distance between their mouths, pulling them together in a searing kiss.
"They get forever, sweetheart" is Eddie's answer.
#steddie#steve x eddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#ficlet#angst#best friends to enemies to lovers#falling out#second chance at love#second chances#steve gets married and all eddie gets is this broken heart#reconciliation#happy ending#novelist eddie#the grand tradition of eddie writing hero characters who are thinly veiled versions of steve#hopelessly in love eddie munson#pining eddie munson#steve harrington is kind of a dick but he doesn't mean to be#they're just very bad at feelings
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Thinkin about Tododeku again…
#Can’t believe they’re the Best Ship of All Time from Now Until Forever#Isn’t that crazy???#They are the only ship actually. The ship ever if you will.#When Izuku said ‘It’s your power isn’t it?!’ and Todoroki said ‘I think it’s okay for heroes to cry sometimes’ and Izuku said ‘You’re such#a kind person’ and Todoroki said ‘My friend is in trouble’ and Izuku said#Tododeku#BNHA#MHA#Tddk#Shima speaks#They’re Everything to me actually. If it wasn’t clear#Godddd I NEED to work on my Tddk AUs again#I’m looking at YOU World Tree. And SCH.#There’s been a severe lack of gay fairy boys in my blog. I apologize immensely for that#Anyway I need to go to bed but just know I am thinking about them. Forever
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#manaphy#THE BABY… and i don't mean baby in a Woah A Baby kind of way. i mean this is a baby child. who eats only blue gummis#we ever think about that? we're feeding this kid exclusively blue gummis. i always save three of 'em for postgame just for this guy#mostly 'cause i still have no idea how the types work on gummis and i just know that the best ones are the same type as you#i've read the guide on them before. like. supereffective types do this and that and whatever#but it's always explained so unclearly that i just never fuckin try it#like i have blue gummis. and a fire-type hero and electric-type partner#partner is supereffective AGAINST water. water is supereffective AGAINST hero. which one would be better to eat the blue gummi#whose perspective is it from!! i have no idea so i'll just feed every type of gummi to manaphy
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I CAN'T be the only one that thinks the way lightsabers look when the Jedi swing them through the air looks really beautiful, so hear me out.
Lightsaber dances.
It's a century old tradition in the Jedi order, and a popular hobby for the younger members of the order.
The dances involve either moving your lightsaber in specific ways to make forms and visual tricks with the saber. The movements themselves are based off (if they aren't already) acctual fighting techniques.
The tradition has multible functions. For one, it's orcourse the fun factor for everyone. The Jedi doing the dance and the people watching them. Lightsaber dances are also often used to teach the younglings the basics of lightsaber fighting in a fun and active way. And even for older Jedi it still serves as a nice and light training in terms of concentration and swift movement since you gotta be aware of your blade at all times inorder to produce the best visuals.
If you do them with a partner they serve as great exercise for getting intune with the other since broth parties have to look after the other and themselves to not bumb into eachother or mess up the steps as they perform.
And last but not least, they also serve as a sort of rememberance and honoring ritual. Jedi incorporate and mimic fighting stances and attacks of those they either wish to honor or remember into dances and perform them for those they made them for.
Since usually it takes a lot of concentration to do these dances it's a way of saying "look, I did all this because I deeply respect you. And I also build in movements like yours to show that I pay attention to you and care about you."
Some lineages even have their own dances, each generation adding their own move to it. Each Jedi takes pride in being able to show the history of their lineage. It also serves as a connection between the generations at the temple.
Each padawan learning their lineage dance and adding to it can say that he made this with Jedi long before them and will have made it with Jedi long after them too.
Then when the war starts and Jedi start to form close bonds with the clones, it's only natural they add them in the dances.
Ofcourse there are no lightsaber stances or techniques the Jedi can mimic to put into their dances. So they do their best to mimic the movements of clones when their fire or advance.
#jedi culture#lightsaber#lightsaber dances#Grey nearly cries when one day a very excited Caleb insists on him watching his dance#and Depa explaining that her padawan worked really hard to figure out what kind of movements would immitate the clones the best#because he also wanted to honor the clones when he honored fallen Jedi heros in his dance '
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