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jessicas-pi · 7 months

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Y'all said you wanted to know my new idea, so. Hear me out on this. Cracky fun-filled Rebels Superhero AU highkey based on the 1966 Batman show.

*narrator guy voice* At stately Syndulla Manor, home of millionaire Hera Syndulla and her youthful ward Ezra Bridger-

So yeah, Hera is a millionaire who does superhero work under the alias "Spectre." She has an invisible car called the Ghost (but Ezra always calls it the Ghostmobile.) Ezra is her adopted kid and sidekick. I'm thinking his superhero alter ego has a cat theme, just because. Maybe he goes by "Stray" or "Alley Cat" or something.

Now, enter Kanan!

Kanan also does superhero work, calling himself "Phantom." He, too, has a sidekick: Sabine! (I'm not sure if I want Sabine to go by "Nightowl" (referencing her Nite Owl helmet) or "Starbird.") Like Hera, Sabine is also pretty rich, but she tries to escape her life as the daughter of a famous politician by moonlighting as a superhero. She also refuses to be called Kanan's sidekick because she "works alone" (only she keeps showing up whenever he's investigating a crime because She's Lonely and he has Dad Vibes.)

Ahsoka is the "commisioner gordon" character, and she's in contact with all the heroes and often calls them both in for cases, but she also uses an alias (Fulcrum) so that the villains can't trace back to her and use her to get to the heroes. Zeb works at the police department and he's the one most often assigned to go work with the superheroes.

Hera and Ezra know each others' identities, since they're adopted family, but none of them know any other secret identities. Which leads to some pretty crazy shenanigans, because:

Hera and Kanan are engaged.

Spectre and Phantom are amiable coworkers.

Phantom very vocally admires Hera around Spectre.

Ezra is deeply suspicious of Phantom because he thinks Kanan is THE COOLEST and NOBODY ELSE should be acting all interested in Hera, especially if they don't even KNOW HER. SHE'S ENGAGED, BACK OFF BUDDY!

Ezra and Kanan have a great father-son relationship. The only strain is that Ezra will not shut up about how much Phantom annoys him.

Sabine and Ezra go to the same fancy school and they're best friends.

Ezra has the world's biggest crush on Nightowl/Starbird. Naturally, he confides in his best friend about it---minus the part where he's a superhero interacting with her regularly---completely unaware that she is Nightowl/Starbird.

Sabine thinks it's hilarious. (After all, it's just a celebrity crush---Ezra has never even met her as her superhero identity---and by the time he finds out her identity, he'll toooootally be over it! ...won't he?)

The only person to have everything figured out is Hera's butler Okadiah. He Is Amused.

So, yeah. Secret identity shenanigans.

Also, just funny stuff in general. There's lots of hilarious villains-of-the-week, among them such ridiculous characters as Commander Meiloorun. (Yes, Commander Meiloorun is an actual villain-of-the-week character here.) And the ridiculous costumes, too, obviously. I might have to draw them sooner or later.

Anyway, I've kinda expended my thoughts on this so far... yeah soooo that's all i have! (but stay tuned in case i do draw some art for it because i definitely might.)

#to the ghostmobile! AU #(yes. that is what i am naming it.)#(i have no better ideas.)#jessica's random thoughts #star wars #star wars rebels #kanera #sabezra

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hamsterclaw · 6 months

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Fic Library: OT7/poly

The OT7/poly Bangtan stories that keep me wanting more. Please show these authors some love for their amazing writing!

Void OT7 x reader, space AU by @btssavedmylifeblr. None of my writing friends have been spared from my raving about this series. A unique premise, superstellar writing and every chapter so far has been gold.

Heaven said no by @eserethriddle is a cracky, hilarious ongoing soulmate AU series with a perfectly characterised Bangtan.

Versus by @minisugakoobies features reader x Yoongi x Hoseok set in a supervillains/superheroes AU with a sexy Namjoon and supercomputer Jin. Fun, cracky and entertaining.

Joyride by @minisugakoobies is another fun romp with hotter than hell mechanics Jungkook and Taehyung who show reader what a real ride is after a date with spoiled little rich boy Jimin goes wrong.

All wound up (harder) by @minisugakoobies, who is surely the MVP of my poly/OT7 library features reader x Jimin x Seokjin and is funny, amazing and filthy -- all the best things.

Fall in deeper by @whatifyoulivelikethat has the perfect setup with sex worker reader, music producer Yoongi and hapless, 'caught in the headlights' photographer/video editor Jungkook and is searingly hot.

Lost my head by @floralseokjin features reader in an established relationship with Yoongi and an unforgettable appearance by ex Seokjin and is hot and funny and everything smut should be.

#fic rec: OT7 #fic rec: BTS poly #fic recs list #bts fic #bts smut

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yolowritter · 4 months

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Volpibug AU (better title pending)

So, it's this time of the month again, for me to drop a post in the tumblr void and then vanish again until next called upon! But! This one...this one is good! Like, "I'd need > 50k words of worldbuilding to write this" kind of good!

Quick story time: I recently wrote a Lilanette ficlet based on an ask I saw here on Tumblr. I won't get into the hows and whys, it's on my Ao3 acc (I have the same username). Anyway so while I was writing it, I added the line "and with her (Lila) necklace being all too magical" as a little easter egg, to say that she actually has the Fox Miraculous in this AU. Then...then my brain Did A Thing™. So it's a full AU now. Here's the context! Or at least...part 1, meaning the pre-story setup and up to the "Volpina" episode itself. I'll do a part 2 of this post to talk about the Lilanette lovesquare, because it keeps me up at night and I will share that with all of you very soon! Since Tomas Astruc has so gracefully and respectfully decided to actively depict 1940s Paris in S5, I am shamelessly using that mistake to make something I think is cool! So, while Fu and Marianne were in Paris, there was someone who helped them hide. A young woman from Italy, whose family had moved to France so her father could avoid the draft. The three become friends in the short time they know eachother, and she happens to learn that Fu is carrying a box full of magical little creatures with him. Therefore, she understands they need to escape, and promptly decides to try and sneak them out of Paris. But...we get to the scene where Fu and Marianne are being chased (the one from Evolution), only she's with them, and they're losing ground. So she begs Fu to let her take the Fox Miraculous and distract the soldiers while they run away, promising to come find them once it was safe. And so, with little time left to spare, Fu makes the gamble and passes Trix to her. She then tranforms and promptly makes an illusion to let him and Marianne get away before also going to hide. For the remainder of the War, she stays in France and devotes her time to help whoever she can escape, through conjuring minor illusions and such. She ends up being an unsung hero, and some years later she and her family move back to their old home in Italy. So...you're probably asking me what in the name of Gabriel Agreste's secret butterfly room does this have to do with Lilanette? Well, said woman (who I've yet to think of a good name for) is actually Lila's grandmother! I know, huge shock! Her superhero name? Why, Volpina of course! When Fu and Marianne return to Paris to come find her, she's unfortunately long gone. Therefore, we have 3 missing Miraculous. The Peacock, Butterfly, and the Fox. They stay in Paris (and yes this time they didn't split up, because I want to make Marianne happy okay?) like in canon, deciding to protect the remaining Kwami rather than go around the world searching for a woman they can't find. Conclusion, Trixx stays with Lila's family. Now, our beloved liar's grandmother has a daughter, who marries a man and also has a daughter, Lila. Listen, I do not want to open the can of worms of "Lila has at least 3 moms actually" because as cracky as it is...just no...not until they explain it clearly. Anyway her mom's marriage falls through, and through this time Lila stays with her grandmother, where she happens upon an old necklace she's held onto all this time. Cue Trixx showing up again, and Lila's grandmother explaining what a Miraculous is, and telling her the stories of her and the Fox Kwami's adventures. I'd assume this happens pretty much right before Lila comes to Paris, for a few reasons I'll explain in a bit. Anyway, Grandma Rossi gives Lila a crash course on how the Miraculous works, and swears her to secrecy, since nobody can know about Trixx, before passing the necklace to her when it's for her and Madame Rossi to come to Paris. The conclusion?

Lila isn't lying in the "Volpina" episode. She really is the descendant of a superheroine, and very proud about it because she loves her grandmother! It's also worth mentioning that because I genuinely hate how 2-dimensional they've made her in canon, this version of Lila is an actual character with positive and negative influences in her life. She still barely sees her mother and craves being the center of attention, but above all, through her grandmother's stories she got to see her friendship with Trixx, and is obsessed with the idea of having such a genuine connection with another person. So, she's not a manipulative psycho who's in it for the fame and glory, rather she just wants people to like her and hates being ignored or brushed aside, as her mother so often is forced to do because of her busy schedule. Lila may not be the most empathetic, kind or gentle soul around, but she's not sadistic or heartless like in the show. Now, when she transfers to her new school she's eager to make friends, so naturally she uses her cunning to quickly get people to bring up their interests and then spins stories of her relating to those things. For example, Juleka really likes Jagged Stone's music? Why, Lila has had a front-row seat to one of his concerts and absolutely loved it! She "knows a guy who knows a guy" who might be able to get them tickets if he ever comes to Paris, and hey, they should totaly go together sometime! Stuff like that, to become popular. She goes about her day telling the same lies she did in "Volpina" (Alya mentions a few at the beginning). Cue Adrien Agreste, locally famous teenage model, coming in with a book that has superheroes all over it. Lila is very interested in making friends with him, for obvious reasons.

When Ladybug shows up to scold her for lying about being a superhero, Lila barely holds back from transforming then and there, only because her grandmother had made her promise to not reveal the Miraculous to anyone. Unfortunately...that only gets her as far as being out of view before deciding to go for it anyway, despite Trixx protesting. Same exact thing with the fake meteor shower happens, and Hawkmoth is very curious as to what exactly is happening. Gabriel, being Gabriel, decides to wait and see what's going on. Ladybug and Chat show up, and she immediatelly accuses Lila of being an Akuma. Lila of course has absolutely no idea what those are because it is her first day here, but the more Ladybug scolds her the more she realizes that it's nothing good. Chat steps in as he did in the episode, defending her because Marinette is not being very logical right now. Long story short, Volpina asks about what exactly has been going on in Paris, and they give her the rundown on what Akuma are and who Hawkmoth is. Understanding this, Lila thinks to herself that Trixx...had a point. She probably shouldn't have exposed herself like this, and needs to find a way to get out of this situation. How does she do this? Oh, by pretending to be Akumatized of course! She conjures an illusion of Hawkmoth and then jumps Ladybug (mostly because she's mad at her for embarrassing her earlier) and then loses on purpose, "accidentally" falling off a ledge as she detransforms. Thankfully she's fine, and promptly thanks the heroes for saving her. Ladybug agrees to be "friends" with her, and is more focused on the personal situation than the lack of evil magical butterfly. I'm sure that won't affect the story in any major way. If you couldn't tell, I'm being sarcastic! Chat takes Lila back to school and tries to comfort her by saying she's kinda cool, and Lila lies to Adrien when he "happens to walk by her", telling him that she really wasn't ever a hero. Eventually, Marinette comes back to school just as Adrien is agreeing to be Lila's friend, and promptly decides that it's better to keep her "rival" close, telling Adrien that she's also his friend. Of course, he's overjoyed at having made two whole friends today (Nino is fondly shaking his head in the background), and that's the end of "Volpina". For those curious, yes the Grimoire still goes to Fu because that scene doesn't change. The only different thing is that both Fu and Gabriel suspect the real Fox Holder to be in Paris, but only Fu knows that this Miraculous has been missing since Nooroo and Duusu just...wouldn't know that. Tbh, I really want to write this AU sometime soon, but I'd also like to hear your thoughts on it! I know this post is mostly just a huge backstory rant, the real good stuff comes in part 2! Anyway, time for me to disappear yet again, but I'll be back soon with more!

#miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #lila rossi #lilanette #fic ideas #fic prompt #3am thoughts #i kid you not this Au kept me up at night #just writer things #send help #my wips #no chance I'm writing this anytime soon #not a one #but here it is #for your entertainment #trust me part 2 is all the Lilanette fluff you could ever ask for!#anyway goodnight #volpibug au

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existentialcrisisallthetime · 1 year

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Some Random Merthur aus I've read over the years

I've seen a lot of people asking for fic recs lately, so I've been going through my history and realized that I've read A LOT of random, non canon-related merthur aus, some of which became some of my favorite fics, so I just wanted to share for anyone interested.

i found you amidst the waves by TheDragon: I'm an absolute sucker for any sort of pirate/merfolk aus and this one absolutely delivered on what I was looking for. So basically, merman!Merlin gets captured by Arthur's crew, and the story covers how their relationship changes on their way to the mainland. It's got angst, and enemies to lovers, and some pretty cool art embedded too.

Tributes by TheAvalonian: Ok, so this is a Hunger Games au. Honestly, I was a bit nervous to read it at first (bc, yk, Hunger Games), but I actually really enjoyed it. It was one of those fics where you end up staying up through 4am bc you NEED to know how it ends. Obviously, warnings for character death and ANGST (so, so much angst), but it's absolutely worth the pain in my opinion.

To Be a Hero by fancyh: On this list, this one's probably my ABSOLUTE favorite, and I haven't found anything quite like it since. So, it's a superhero/vigilante au with detective!arthur thrown in for spice. HIGHLY recommend for anyone that likes all the drama that comes from hiding a secret identity, misunderstandings, Bamf Merlin, that sort of thing. And pining. There's a LOT of pining.

Merlin's Stagnant Cottage by lovelyal: Howl's Moving Castle au. 'nuff said. It's a fun read, and I fell down a rabbit hole of steampunk aus after this (which are really interesting in their own right, so if you're curious you should check out that tag too).

A.S.S. (Agents of Secret Stuff) by supercalvin: This one's a lot lighter than the ones above and is also a series of one-shots in the same universe, so you could theoretically read them out of order if you wanted to. Some are a bit cracky, but that just makes them funnier to me.

I have a lot more than this, so maybe I'll compile a part 2 later. And if anyone has any more recs, let me know!

#merlin #merthur #bbc merlin #merthur fic rec #merthur aus

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forabeatofadrum · 8 months

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Fic question! What's your favorite title you've come up with and why?

Hewwooooo!!!!

Titles (and summaries) are usually my sworn enemies, but I actually had the title All the pretty things that we could be in my mind before I started writing this fic. It fit perfectly. I'd been toying with the idea of "Klaine in different AUs/dimensions" for a while before I wrote that fic and I knew I had to call it that.

Why?

Well, I think the "things that we could be" really fits the vibe of different versions of Klaine. There are so many things that they could be. They can be hockey players, mages, detectives, superheroes, creatures, royalty... etc. So yes, it already worked that way, but the biggest reason I picked it, is because it's a lyric from the song Little Numbers by BOY.

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Cue all OG Klainers either rolling their eyes or sighing in deep understanding, because one of the most well-known Klaine fics is called Little Numbers, named after that song. (Apparently, even Darren Criss read parts of it) (oh and someone straight-up texted the opening line to Brian Holden once). I have gushed a lot about LN, but TL;DR: this fic was the first fic I ever read and it was my entry point into fic reading and later into fic writing. I always joke it's no Klaine challenge fic without a LN reference and the way I wrote Wes in the Myosotis series is heavily inspired by LN as well. SOOOOO that is why All the pretty things is my favourite title.

Fun fact, to sort of bring it to Snowbaz, since that is the fandom we share: LN is a textfic and as a homage, I named my cracky Snowbaz textfic after another lyric: make a fire out of this flame. (Get it, get it? Flames? This will end in flames?) It’s far-reached, I know, cause apart from the LN relation, it sounds nothing like a textfic-esque title, but as I wrote in the author's note of my Snowbaz textfic: If you know, you know 😉.

#ask #aroace-genderfluid-sheep #i actually cannot take credit of all the amazing titles for my co fics so you know #like most of them were suggested to me by others like pati or christina or aralias #i do like the showchoir title for my coc 2022 fic #also in a non-klaine and non-snowbaz leap: i really like the title center ice from my zimbits fic #oh and the title isn't the only ln reference in my snowbaz textfic #it's full of ln references which is fun for me to know

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trainsinanime · 2 years

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For the ask game: E, H, Y

From this (unnamed) fandom ask game here

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

Well, I try. I did write a story about a Miraculous Ladybug/Les Miserables crossover AU that was living entirely in Chloé's head, for example, or a bunch of angst just to make a dashcon joke. In general, I love adding nonsense. 😁

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

It varies, and at least for me, how deep I get into the fandom depends far more on the fandom than on the source material. My biggest fandom ever is arguably Miraculous Ladybug, simply because that's the one I spent the most time in, even though it isn't necessarily the show I was the most obsessed with - I was a big Trekkie back in the day, for example, but I was too shy to really try to interact with the fandom then.

In general, all of the above can be great for fandom, I'm not picky. I would say longer serialised stories tend to be better for fandom than stand-alone books or movies, and stories that have a clear status quo that you can jump off from tend to be easier than ones that keep changing all the time. Those others are great for analysis, but less good for writing fanfics.

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Percy Jackson and related stuff by the same author; I think I generally understand what it's vaguely about (I read the first book)

Kingdom Hearts, which is completely incomprehensible but I know there's Disney guys, a guy called Sora, possibly a guy called Xenahort?

My Hero Academia. My understanding is that it's a standard anime school similar to e.g. Naruto or Food Wars, but with western-style superheroes as the theme.

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kxlpie · 2 months

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#please #tumblr polls #poll #writing #writers on tumblr

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fishyspots · 2 years

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Right Before Your Eyes | read on AO3

David’s got a burner phone of questionable origins and a world to save. Patrick…has a few questions.

#my fic #fanfic #schitt's creek #schitt's creek fic #david x patrick #superhero au #cracky #as it should be #feel free to ask for more but also please tell me what should happen lol #mine #writing #dusting off cobwebs #dusting off longer wips #then dropping the dustpan and writing this instead

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lurafita · 6 months

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Alec "Superhero with a SeCReT iDeNtiTY" Lightwood

Suprhero au

🤣

I just keep having this thought that in cracky superhero au type of story, Magnus would totally know that the "Shadowhunter" is really Alec, his coworker/boyfriend/neighbor/pickyourpoison.

It's so obvious, and Magnus has no idea how anyone else keeps being fooled by it?

Like, can't they recognize the warm, chestnut eyes or those gloriously broad shoulders or that really nicely shaped ass? (and how come Magnus always ends up being accosted by the "Shadowhunter"s villain gallery?)

But no matter, Magnus will wait until Alec is ready to come clean about the whole superhero secret identity thing himself.

Doesn't mean he can't have a little fun with it.

Magnus: "Why, thank you once again for saving me, Shadowhunter. I just hope Alexander is alright. He seems to have disappeared right before you showed up."

Shadowhunter: "I,... uh,... I'm sure he is fine... Probably just... had to go to the toilet!" *dying inside*

Magnus: "Oh. Well, he did order that spicy appetizer. Might not have agreed with him. I should check-"

Shadowhunter: "NO! I mean, he is probably.... embarrassed! Yes! I mean, *I* would be very embarrassed if that happened to .... me..."

*Izzy over the comms laughing herself stupid*

#magnus bane #alec lightwood #malec #malec au #cracky superhero au #shadowhunters #shadowhunters tv

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 5 years

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Ocean's 11 AU! Orr would that be Berenson's Six? This AU seems really fun go wild!

Bless. All right, here goes, Animorphs à la Ocean’s Eight:

The Team

Eva: the mastermind and planning expert who seeks revenge on the Sharing after they stole her identity and used it to frame her for several crimes they committed

Jean: Eva’s best friend, the righteous young reporter who has been investigating the Sharing for years in the hope of finally having enough material to build a story that can bring them down

Nora: a local technology expert good at hacking password algorithms, who just happens to be married to Eva’s ex; she gets looped in by Jean, much to Eva’s discomfort

Estrid: a hungry young grad student and hand-to-hand expert desperate for some fame and glory of her own away from her misogynistic military family; working on her degree in biotechnology but can also kick your ass

Michelle: the team’s “straight woman” there to provide cover as a veterinary researcher so that they can infiltrate the Sharing research institute to steal patents; also the team’s medic in case of emergency

Naomi: the legal cover who uses her expertise to ensure that no one can come up with sufficient proof to convict them of anything

Loren: the front woman, able to take on several different guises as the situation calls for it, including through being the one to attend the Sharing’s charity benefit

Toby: the inside woman who works for the Sharing; along with her parents, she works to smuggle people out of the organization and set them up with new identities

Rachel: one part of the contingency plan, who can use her skills as a gymnast to get into forbidden areas and smuggle things out

Cassie: the other half of the contingency plan, able to pass security guards undetected by virtue of being young and apparently innocent

The Mark: the Sharing, a corrupt nonprofit organization which exists primarily to line the pockets of its founder, Lore David Altman, who himself has a nasty habit of using women (Eva, Jenny, Allison Kim) to do his dirty work before tossing them aside

The Con

Michelle gets hired on as a researcher using insider intel on the process gathered by Jean. Once she’s employed there, Michelle brings Estrid on as her intern and Estrid plants the device that will allow Nora to hack their systems.

Loren and Toby work together to create a diversion at the charity benefit

Loren is posing as a wealthy potential donor, while Toby gets herself assigned as the personal groomer for Loren to try and draw her in

Under this cover, they shut down power to the entire compound and trigger alarms to get the building evacuated

Amidst all the chaos, Estrid and Eva pull incriminating information from the computers using the “ghost” algorithm Toby created (codenamed ALDREA) to get all the evidence while leaving none behind

Rachel ends up needing to come in with a last-minute save to get the flash drive out through ceiling vents, where she hands it to Cassie; Cassie leaves along with the other bussers at the end of the day and no one thinks to search her for stolen property

Jean, who is technically innocent of all wrongdoing, breaks the story of the Sharing’s corruption and intellectual property theft

Naomi provides legal cover, and successfully pins theft on Lore David Altman himself, while Michelle uses her expertise to fence the patents overseas in exchange for a small fortune

Everyone lives happily ever after, having learned an important lesson about how Crime is Bad

#animorphs #animorphs au #ocean's eleven au #ocean's eight au #heist au #cracky #au #i don't know much about heists #i've seen ocean's eight #and that's about it for my knowledge of the genre #(also I can actually count to eight)#(the movie technically has a team of ten which is why i reflected that here)#bob-newby-superhero #asks

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jadewing-realms · 6 years

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“Can you feel this?”

Fictober 2018 - Day 1 (late but wtv)

Apparently this Villain’s darts can penetrate rock.

A handful of students from class 2-A find this out the hard way. Across a busted-up city block, while some Pros and students alike work to clear the civilians, Bakugou Katsuki and Kirishima Eijiro are, to no one’s surprise, two of the first to make a headlong charge straight at the needle-headed criminal who’s been raising Hell. Concerned, Izuku follows after them immediately, while Sasuke hangs back with Uraraka Ochako and Asui Tsuyu. The three of them spare a moment to roll their eyes at their resident morons.

Strong as they are, they’re also incredibly troublesome. This is emphasized when the Villain—calling herself Needlepunk, apparently—raises her hackles and sends out another volley of the razor-sharp spines from along her head and back. Out they fly in glimmering arcs, Deku leaps out of range in a flash of light, and Kirishima twists in front of Bakugou and activates his Quirk before the attack can land.

It lands on him instead. The needles pierce cracks through solid stone. Even Bakugou stops his charge to stare. Tsu leans forward, eyes wide, and Sasuke has to push her back to keep her from giving away their position. Kirishima grimaces and cranes his neck to try and see his back, like maybe he can stretch far enough to marvel at whatever it is that’s just sunk into his rock-hard skin.

“Dude, what the…?” He’s just a few seconds into this impossible endeavor when, as Bakugou unleashes a war cry and blazes past him, he quite suddenly drops—limp as a boned fish.

Sasuke winces. That can’t be good.

“They’re venomous,” he murmurs, for the sake of the two girls waiting with him for their opportune moment to leap into the fray. But if Kirishima, their stellar Defense student, can’t hold his own? They might be in more trouble than they originally thought.

Tsu reports into her comm, just before an explosion rocks the street and sends dust and debris shooting skyward. D***, do these children not understand the concept of avoiding collateral damage? Sasuke braces himself against the cement wall and grits his teeth.

Stupid Izuku. Stupid Dobe.

As if on cue, Izuku goes flying by and crunches a vending machine in front of the convenience store across the street. Shards of glass shower over the cracked asphalt. A second later, Bakugou’s voice blasts over the intercom.

“SHE’S GOT BACKUP! GET YOUR A***S OUT HERE!”

Sasuke glances over his shoulder at the girls. “Anybody got a plan?”

Uraraka puffs her cheeks. “Hard to have a plan when we don’t know who the backup is.”

“Okay then.” Sasuke points to Tsuyu. “Asui, you get Kirishima off the street. Somewhere secure. Uraraka, use that cloud as cover and try to take Needlepunk off the board while she’s focused on Deku and D—I mean, Bakugou.”

“Call me Tsu please, ribbit,” the frog says before hopping out to do just as he said.

“Actually,” Uraraka replies, skirting out along the edge of the storefronts, “we’re supposed to be using our Hero names now, remember?”

“Right, sorry.”

With them off to their tasks, it gives Sasuke a bit of time to scope out the new threat. He ducks into the open and rushes low to the ground, maneuvering just between Tsu and Uraraka’s diverging paths. If they cluster together, they’re easier to take out. Best to keep his distance for now. At least until the dust clears, or he gets a clear view of the target.

The debris cloud is only growing, however, with every new blast from Bakugou’s Quirk, which lights the dust up like lightning in brief flashes of orange and bloody red before the cloud swells up higher. Each unseen impact makes the whole block tremble, and Bakugou’s screams of rage ricochet between the buildings. Through the churning smog, Sasuke catches sight of a monstrous hand sweeping through the air, just before another explosion sounds off, adds more smoke. His eyes widen.

What is that?

The backup.

Before he can even sigh, suddenly a body’s flung into the light, trailing smoke, and Sasuke’s Quirk is the only thing that keeps it from careening right into him. He reaches out in a blink, Quirk making the world seem to slow, and he snags the person—Bakugou—by the arm. Which is a horrible idea, he discovers in a grand total of two seconds. Bakugou’s weight and momentum wrench his arm back and launch him off his feet so that both of them meet the unfortunate fate of skidding down the broken pavement. Asphalt and gravel grind into Sasuke’s skin, burning away patches of his Hero jacket until he comes to an ungraceful rolling halt, several yards from where he started.

Everything hurts. For a moment, Sasuke doesn’t think he can move.

Stunningly, from where he landed a few meters away, Bakugou is back on his feet in just a few moments, albeit unsteadily. He sways, wipes blood from his mouth, but then snarls and sends a murderous glare in the general direction of the debris storm. Then that glare searches for and zeroes in on Sasuke. Bakugou marches closer.

“Hey, f***face, what the h*** was that!?” he demands, yanking Sasuke up by the collar and setting him none-too-gently on his feet. The pain doesn’t stop, of course. Just reasserts itself. Particularly in the tendons along his left shoulder, the arm he’d snatched this dumpster fire out of the air with. He must’ve pulled something important…

Sasuke clicks his tongue. “That was me trying to save your a**. My mistake.”

“D*** right, you ruined my landing.” Bakugou shoves off him and begins striding for the battle again. Never one to be detoured, that ingrate.

“What’s in there?” Sasuke calls after him.

Bakugou doesn’t glance back. “A villain. Get moving.”

Thankfully, Uraraka takes that opportunity to give him a much better explanation by shouting over the comms. “Where’d you go, guys? I can’t fight Needlepunk with this giant in the way!”

Bakugou needs no more prompting. He angles his hands back and sets off his explosions to reenter the fray like a freaking ballistic missile. A blur of green electricity follows close behind—Izuku. He must’ve recovered. Sasuke allows himself a breath of relief.

Until Tsu’s voice cries out. “I can’t reach Eijiro. Needlepunk’s warding me off.”

Sasuke sighs again. What a pain… He sprints off, limping, toward where he last saw the unfortunate redhead. Into the cloud he plunges, rubbing his gloves together despite the shooting pain in his arm; he hopes his equipment wasn’t damaged in that roll…

For the briefest of moments, there’s an eerie quiet. The sounds of Bakugou and Uraraka’s clash with the giant sound muffled and far off. Needlepunk’s a quiet mover and Asui’s Quirk is stealthy, and who knows where Izuku went…

A needle whips just past his ear. His heightened senses bid him move, just a centimeter, at the last moment. The blur of metal passes just by his eye. He sucks in a breath, watches the air move through the smoke and tries to track his attacker. The smoke is moving so much, though; what’s close by and what’s from the fight down the street…? He can’t tell the difference, now with so much going on—

“Watch out, Insight, behind you!” Tsu yells, and he hears her both through the comms and just behind him.

Sasuke presses his gloves together and whirls, sending electricity arcing out, hoping to catch Needlepunk before she can practice her twisted acupuncture on him.

Every needle on her body acts as the perfect receptor. The electricity warps toward her, hungry and coiling like a thousand hissing snakes, and they swallow her up in erratic blue light. She screams to the sky, back arching and writhing, and drops as quickly as Kirishima, smoke curling off her clothes. Sasuke lunges to pin her where she falls.

He looms his gloves over her and digs his knee into her ribs. She in turn glares up with a calm hatred that stirs the blue of her eyes. If Sasuke hadn’t already grown incredibly used to glares that could kill, he might’ve averted his eyes. As it is, he just stares right back.

“Go die,” she coughs. “You and… all your Hero friends.”

Sasuke just addresses to the others. “Direct hit. Needlepunk is down.”

“Good, ‘cause you got incoming,” says Izuku, voice pitching.

This is just before the giant barrels through the cloud into sight—coming straight for him. His eyes widen.

“Scatter!” He takes a dive, tucking and rolling to the detriment of his throbbing arm. He needs to put some distance between him and the monster, but it’s not enough to avoid the shock when it slams its arms against the blacktop. Spider-web cracks burst in a crater, slabs of pavement dislodge themselves and launch into the air, more dust and gravel showers down. Sasuke keeps going, rushing with the wave of dust until he’s under the nearest awning.

Through the new round of destruction, he watches the giant scoop Needlepunk into its massive, dirt-clad arms. Then it turns, startlingly fast, and takes off into the smog. Green light reflects in the dust cloud, as does blood orange, and Sasuke knows both Izuku and the Dobe are following.

Meanwhile, Sasuke taps his intercom and relays his most recent discovery. “It’s made of earth, looks like.”

“Soil and rock,” Uraraka replies. “Maybe an elemental Quirk?”

“Whatever the case, my Quirk and my gloves are going to be useless against that. Besides, I… I think I’m injured.” He doesn’t like admitting it, but he’s out of this fight. He rubs his shoulder, willing the pain away. He searches the smoke with his eyes. “Froppy, Uravity, you follow the others. They’ll need your support. I’ll get Red Riot.”

“Are you sure?” Tsu sounds hesitant.

He nods, though they can’t see that and he cringes as that occurs to him. He huffs into the mic. “Yes, now get going!”

Silence follows, so he assumes they followed his direction. After another deep breath, he plunges back into the smog himself.

He finds Kirishima pretty much where they left him. A little dustier, but otherwise unharmed. Well… dustier, and still out of commission of course. He hasn’t moved an inch since he dropped. Sasuke approaches with haste, and nearly jumps out of his skin when his classmate yells.

“Eyyyy, Insight, howsit?” Kirishima grins up at him with his rows of sharkish teeth. Sasuke raises an eyebrow.

“I thought you were unconscious.”

If he could, Sasuke’s sure Kirishima would shrug. “Nah, I think it’s just a paralytic.”

“…Paralytics effect the face too, you know.”

“Well I mean… I don’t know, man, just get me outta here!”

Sasuke does so at a painstaking pace. He drags Kirishima’s dead weight—and holy s*** is he heavy—across the ruined street, in the general direction he came from. Three times, he has to drop his left arm thanks to pain knifing his shoulder, and eventually, he has to settle for only using his right. Which makes the going even harder.

D***it, why did I have to try and catch that idiot…

“Bakugou seemed like he was having fun,” the Crimson Hero says at length, peering casually up at his rescuer as Sasuke struggles along.

Sasuke snorts. It turns into a grunt of effort as he heaves a little further. Almost there… “The battlefield’s his playground, and he’s a four-year-old.”

“You could say he’s having… a blast.”

Sasuke pauses. For a second, he’s not sure he actually heard that right. But there’s no reason he didn’t… so he just shoots Kirishima the most incredulous look, and gets that same shark grin for his trouble.

Rather than deign this with a response, Sasuke looks his classmate over from head to toe. Still limp and useless… “Give me a self-assessment, Red Riot.”

Thankfully, Kirishima takes a few moments to do just that. He frowns, closes his eyes, and then sighs. “Pretty numb, to be honest. Can’t move a thing. ‘Cept my face.”

“Which doesn’t make any d*** sense…”

At long last, Sasuke hauls the drugged Hero over the curb and into the alley where he and the girls had been lurking not five minutes ago. The dust cloud seems to be dissipating bit by bit now that Bakugou and the giant are no longer contributing to it every three seconds, and it’s become more of a mist, a shroud Sasuke can see the ghosts of details through. It’s thickest back where the giant entered the fray, and it’s there that Sasuke still can’t make out the extent of the damage. He’ll have to wait.

Eh, he’ll have to do that anyway. Until either the others check in or someone shows up to cart them off to a hospital.

“Okay, I’m going to shock you,” Sasuke says, turning to Kirishima. “I need you to tell me if you can feel it.”

“Sure thing, man.” Kirishima takes a breath, seeming to brace himself.

Sasuke activates his gloves at a lower setting and clamps one down on Kirishima’s shin. The limb twitches once, and Kirishima’s eyebrows furrow, but other than that, there doesn’t seem to be any change. The skepticism in Kiri’s red eyes once he lets go confirms as much.

“It itched. But that’s about it.” Kirishima huffs, turning his eyes toward the sky they can see through the buildings on either side. “Shock and awe.”

Sasuke snorts. Kiri grins.

“I wonder if Needlepunk knew that attack would work,” he mutters.

Sasuke shrugs. “Hard to say. We don’t know much about her. Obviously. If we’d known more, maybe we would’ve anticipated that backup.”

“I dunno, she was pretty… sharp.”

Sasuke frowns but says nothing.

“That giant did make a decent impact though. Super manly. A man of substance.”

Once again, Sasuke remains silent. Kirishima has the sense to let the conversation die. They settle into companionable quietness, Sasuke leaning against the wall and massaging his shoulder and Kirishima staring once more at the sky. Somewhere, helicopter blades whop-whop-whop their way closer. Sasuke wonders if it’s Search & Rescue coming for them, or if it’s the media after shots of the battle… Vultures.

About five minutes later, Kiri gasps. “Hey, my leg’s all tingly! The one you zapped.”

Sasuke glances down to where Kirishima seems to be trying to move his foot. It’s slow and lethargic, but it’s moving, a few centimeters from side to side. He breathes out slowly, glad to see it. They seem to be dealing with a fast-acting, non-lethal poison.

“A shocking turn of events, eh?” Kirishima beams, looking so utterly and completely proud of himself.

Sasuke’s expression falls flat with the weight of his lack of impression. He… he’s not even sure how else to respond. What do you say to lame jokes? These aren’t even that good… And how on earth can Kirishima still be so d*** perky when he can barely curl his toes? It just. He… he doesn’t understand. Why?

Sasuke claps his gloves together again, a little less concerned with the power level, and holds one over Kirishima’s shin again. “Can you feel this?”

Kirishima’s rather unmanly squeak of surprise is very satisfying.

BONUS:

Later, after all the Heroes-in-Training have been attended to by Recovery Girl, Kirishima starts telling their classmates that sparks were flying between him and Sasuke once the latter saved him from the battlefield. Sasuke opens a locker door in his face. Unfortunately, Kirishima’s Quirk could more than protect him from that.

#fictober18 #a little cracky #i'll admit #my hero academia #naruto #crossover #fix-it au #sasuke uchiha #katsuki bakugou #izuku midoriya #eijiro kirishima #ochako uraraka #tsuyu asui #random ocs #superhero stuff #heroes vs villains #pardon my censoring #it's a me thing

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aliensunflower-fics · 4 years

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In Defense of Salt AND Sugar: Aka ML Fandom pls chill out.

So I don’t talk much as those who follow me will say I tend to just stick to myself and my own things. HOWEVER, Ive gotten a lot of asks about why I write both Salt and Sugar for Miraculous Ladybug.

The short answer: Both salt and sugar are valid, fun, intriguing things to read and write and the point of writing is to entertain and be entertained.

The long answer: Salt isn’t inherently someone hating on your fav show and sugar isn't someone necessarily giving it a free pass either. Ya’ll are just dramatic as hell.

The LONGER answer:

I write salt because I LIKE Miraculous Ladybug, BUT the show has not lived up to its potential AT ALL. The show could be so much better and the characters are so flawed or full of holes that occasionally I feel FRUSTRATED and mad!

I hate that Alya a character who I was so excited about, gets shafted ignored, sidelined, or written like a jerk! She could have been this great detective working alongside her friend to unmask the villain, but instead she often comes across as pushy, obsessed with Ladynoir or Adrinette, and so damn easily tricked. Not to mention how when shes not gushing over her ‘ships’ shes pushed to the side and ignored. [or you know... LILA]

I hate that Marinette’s crush makes her do things that are so cringy and awkward i feel ill I hate that she’s constantly the only one making mistakes and ‘learning lessons’ when the show has all these other great characters that could use the spotlight and be the ones learning lessons. I hate that she’s so jealous and that she cant ever seem to catch a break as if the show is punishing her constantly.

I HATE that Adrien is a mary sue, how the writers say hes perfect and treat him as such, I hate that he gets to guilt Marinette into fixing everything and dealing with bullies, I wanted a funny, Ron Stoppable, naive boy who learns about real friendships and grows into a great partner. Instead he gets to be pushy and downright a jerk as Chat Noir ignoring his responsibilities, guilting Ladybug with his feelings, never taking no as an answer. He’s not a good role model for kids.

I hate that Chloe got built up to have a redemption arc several times only for the writers to decide that Chloe a teenage girl who needs some serious therapy [and actual reasonable punishment for her actions] is worse than Gabriel child abuse Agreste. She could have been a great lesson on compassion and growth and dealing with your own pain without hurting others. Instead the writers wrote her off completely.

And dont get me started on how the show treats Nino, Kagami, Luka and the rest of the cast. They may as well be a backdrop for the forced love square that we NEVER get a break from. Seriously I’m a sucker for romance but does it need to be EVERY damn episode?! Can’t we just get some wholesome friendship between everyone including Adrien and Marinette at this point like COME ON.

And i’m not even touching on the white washing, awful lessons on responsibility and forgiveness, awful lessons on well so much other stuff really, the guilt trips, the teacher, the fact that she show could be used to teach kids how to better handle negative emotions and the importance of open communication and not keeping quiet about injustice and/or your feelings but instead decided that the main priority should be a love square that gets force fed to us EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.

My point is the show has FLAWS. That doesn’t mean its the worse show ever and it doesn’t mean its not fun, and has a great premise and characters, and so when I write Salt I write it because i’m frustrated! Im frustrated with the show, with the characters, with the writing and so I vent that out with salt I write those characters as their worst selves because I cant stand how the show has decided to treat them and Im ANGRY and disappointed.

It feels good to write salt and to read it. It’s nice to see characters get called out for bad behavior, its nice to read about Adrien not getting the girl. Its nice to occasionally indulge in salt because it validates that the show is flawed and lets you get out that frustration.

BUT ON THE FLIP SIDE

Miraculous Ladybug is a lovely show. It’s a show that decided to give little girls a FEMALE HERO. And not just as a side kick or background character! No they made her the protagonist! Its so important to me that little girls see good well rounded female characters in media.

And even if the show is clumsy about it they are TRYING to build an expansive lore that tickles the theorist brain. And gets people invested in the world.

The show also made Marinette shy, and awkward, and clumsy something a lot of girls deal with during puberty as growing up can literally make you clumsier as your body adjusts. Having a character who tries to be positive and tries to find solutions who solves things with creativity instead of pure violence. Thats LOVELY for young girls to see.

Growing up I loved and admired Kim Possible, and probably would have loved Marinette, even if the shows not perfect I can admit its trying and I can see why people love it as much as they do! And why they write these fluffy sugary fics its the reason I WRITE fluffy sugary things.

Because even though I am frustrated and angry and disappointed with the show, I still see Alya’s potential and how great she is as representation to little girls who want a black female superhero so I write fluff where Alya’s loyalty, compassion, cleverness and her pursuit of justice are center stage.

I see how Adrien could be better and I want him to be better and I WANT him to be the naive funny comic relief the Ron Stoppable to Marinette’s Kim Possible. I want Adrien to grow and learn and spit in his dad’s face I want him to overcome the abuse and be happy. To show people that neglect and abuse doesn’t mean you will get stuck like that forever, that you can overcome that and be a better kinder person.

I want Nino and Kagami, and Luka and Chloe and the class to grow and get attention and have funny moments I want to laugh and make other people laugh! So I write prompts focused around comedy and shenanigans and where the characters get to be fun and silly and make decisions for themselves!

SO IN CONCLUSION:

I write salt AND sugar. I see the value and merit in both sides of the coin, and I respect how other people see the show. I know its easy to get angry with other people in the fandom who see the show differently then you do but please can we put down the weapons and just BREATHE.

Someone who writes salt might LOVE the same show as you, and they might in fact love it so much that they vent their frustrations in angst and salt and cracky fics. Let them vent about how they wish the show was better, leave their tags alone or block them if you cant stand to see it. But dont attack salt writers for ‘hating on your show’ when they might love it just as much as you do but want a way to vent out their feelings.

On the flip someone who writes sugar might NOT be forgiving the show for its flaws, they might see all the same flaws as you but decide to take that frustration and write fluff and fix it fics and sugar because they want to indulge in a version of their favorite show where everything is just... OK. Where everyone is well written and happy and the character development sticks. Stay out of their tags let them have their sugar, they aren't writing it to hurt you just like you don't write salt to hurt them.

So ENOUGH. Enough hunting each other down, enough sending each other hate, enough filling each others tags. Let people write SALT if they feel angry and vengeful and disappointment, let them have their tags, let them explore the dark side of the characters, let them rant and rave and be HURT when the characters they love upset them with their actions. Its not your place to tell them to stop, to tell them their feelings are invalid, to tell them that ‘adrien is sweet sunshine boy how dare you’ or ‘alya would never’ or ‘i hate your marinette leaves dupont au’. Just leave it be, heed the tags, and let it go.

AND ENOUGH. Enough hunting each other down, enough sending each other hate, enough filling each other tags. Let people write SUGAR if they just want something to feel happy about. Let them makes coffee shop au’s, let them make fix it fics where everything is just happy without needing 8 pages of backstory for why everything is just happy. Let them squeal and gush and talk about the ship they like and the fluff they see. Its not your place to argue with them that the show is flawed, its not cool to ruin their fun by accusing them of not understanding the flaws, to tell them ‘umm actual this character shouldn’t get to be happy’ or ‘wow this is so shallow’. Just leave it be, heed the tags, and let it go.

PS: Now with that said and done. I do have one final message for everyone - If you write/enjoy pedophilia, if you sexualize KIDS. Then get the fuck out of fandom spaces, stop fucking following me, and do everyone salt and sugar a favor by LEAVING. Your pedophilia and child sexualization aint wanted, aint ok, and I will fight you.

PSS: IF YOU HATE WHAT IVE SAID ABOUT SUGAR AND SALT FINE OK I RESPECT YOU REGARDLESS. ENJOY THE SHOW, STAY CLASSY, DONT HURT PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION.

#its just me #ml salt #ml sugar #adrien salt #adrien sugar #alya salt #alya sugar #chloe salt #chloe sugar #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #alya cesaire #class salt #class sugar

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roccinan · 2 years

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New F(r)iends

Not sure where this came from, but just a quick drabble I felt like writing. This isn't the Supervillain AU I'm always talking about, just a little AU snippet with the following cracky concept: Martín is based on Spiderman and Andrés is based on a slightly lesser known comic character *wink wink*

Basically: Asshole superhero meets Smug (potential) supervillain. Sparks fly.

Notes: berlermo are younger here, around their early 20s. Warning for brief mentions of past child abuse.

XXX

Martín flicks his wrist, barely restraining an open grin when the last of the web traps the bastard in place. Heels closing, he swings himself over the sticky tangle of white, taking the time to ogle his new prey. The guy in red leather hangs upside down, limbs stuck to Martín’s web as he squirms like a fly.

“Picked the wrong night to fuck around, eh?” he tells the bastard, a casual roll of his tongue. “Do whatever you want anywhere else, but not here.”

He crawls along the ledge of the stone building, a gust of wind almost blowing him back. Then Martín points at the whites on the eyes of his mask, then back at the dude wearing Dalí’s face.

“Because Palermo’s mine, understand?”

Martín slides onto the web, shuffling the threads like guitar strings. “So what should we do with you, jail? Or I just let you drop?”

The asshole manages to tilt up at him, and maybe glares at him from behind Dalí’s eyes. But when he speaks, Martín knows for sure he wasn’t glaring. No, he’s grinning.

“The Latin Spider,” the guy says, in a voice both deeper and younger than Martín pegged, “I didn’t know you wasted your time on petty theft.”

Martín snorts. “Not petty theft if you’re holding up a Tiffany at gunpoint.”

“It was a blank. I only brought the firearm for the aesthetic.”

“I’m not an idiot, hermano.”

“Oh, that’s exactly why I’m explaining.” Dalí cocks his head again. “You adorn yourself in bright spandex, clearly ordered to fit your figure. You wear a mask, but only enough to cover the center of your face. All of this makes you an open target, by design. You, my friend, are someone who appreciates the beauty of presentation.”

Maybe he has a point, but Martín isn’t about to let him know. And he sure as hell isn’t letting Dalí know how much trial and error it took to get the suit right.

“Yeah, well I’m not going to be lectured by someone in a corny Dalí mask.”

The bastard chuckles, a low raspy sound Martín is beginning to love and hate. “And I should allow a lecture from a wannabe vigilante calling himself the ‘Latin Spider’?”

La concha de tu madre. That’s it. Martín whips thread out, snatching away the Dalí mask in a swift snap.

“You talk big game for someone who won’t even show his own fucking face,” Martín tells him, tossing the flimsy plastic from one hand to the other.

The robber doesn’t quite look the way Martín imagined. He’s not some smalltime thug, or a kid off the streets. He’s handsome, no- pretty- in an old-fashioned sort of way. Like he should be playing the piano or taking tea with dolls instead of stealing jewelry with a fake gun.

His hair’s black, windswept like candy floss, the same color as the lashes dusting his smiling eyes.

“I would have showed it to you if you just asked nicely,” he says to Martín.

Then his lips part, flashing some teeth that just barely aligned. Looking way too fucking good for someone sporting a black eye and bleeding lip.

“My name is Andrés.”

Martín doesn’t say his name back. Instead, he arches his back and says, “You couldn’t keep your mask on. Then got yourself caught by a ‘wannabe’ vigilante. I’d say that makes you a wannabe thief, no?”

Andrés makes a “tsk tsk” noise, then looks up to the sky. Exposing a good amount of throat behind his collar. “I much prefer this, actually. Being a vigilante was never as fun. Free.”

Martín feels a brow arc up, not that Andrés can see because it does so behind his mask. “Was?” He can’t stop the question from coming out.

“I used to be like you,” Andrés answers, like he’s about to deliver a grand joke (and maybe he is, because Martín should shut him up instead of listening to the BS but he doesn’t), “I thought I was a hero.”

Martín doesn’t like the way he says that. Being a hero was always the last thing on Martín’s mind. He defends his turf, he enjoys kicking ass, and he likes looking good. It doesn’t go deeper than that. (He won’t let it.)

“So what happened, Andrés?” Martín says, purposely slithering the final “s” in a mockery of Andrés’ tongue.

Andrés slips him another grin. “I died.”

A laugh scratches out of Martín’s throat. “I’m not stupid, gallego. You look pretty alive to me.”

“I was-” Andrés searches for the word, pausing for dramatic effect “-rebirthed, you see.”

“Hm.” Martín taps the Dalí mask to his own face. “Maybe I won’t cart you to jail after all. You’re funny, I’ll give you that.”

“I was about to say the same for you. I think this could be the start of a wonderful friendship.”

The mask slides off, landing on a corner of spiderweb. “Oh, you’re very funny. Okay then- I know nothing about you, why would I want to be friends with you, Andrés?”

“For the same reason I want to be friends with you.” Andrés smirks, a little devious when he adds, “Because I’m the most interesting person you’ve ever met.”

“Humble, aren’t you?” Martín crosses his arms behind his head. “You got me interested in one thing though- tell me about your vigilante schtick. Maybe I’ve heard of you.”

“Sure.” Andrés shuts his eyes, again tilting his head back, the smirk opening to a carefree beam. “But you might not know me. My name hasn’t been in circulation for some time. My father was the vigilante. I was his sidekick, more by vocation than choice.”

His eyes open, a little darker when he looks past Martín. But his words remain smooth, silver. “Of course, I didn’t have your talents. I couldn’t spin silk from my hands. I was just a brat that could take and return a hit.”

“If this shit happened years ago, get to the point. I don’t have all night.”

Andrés chuckles. “Okay. My father had enemies, and in the end, he was just a man of flesh and blood. He was no superhuman.”

He stops then, as if thinking of how to say the next part to Martín, not that Martín’s interested in the rest of his family drama. Except he kind of is now.

“I was fourteen. Outnumbered, outmatched. They broke nearly every bone in my body. My father never came.”

The story doesn’t bother Martín. He’s heard and seen worse. It’s the way Andrés says it, like he’s recounting the color of an odd painting he saw or a cat on the street. A complete detachment from the words in his mouth.

“And as I said, I died.” Andrés laughs again. “Or at least, father took me for dead. I didn’t want him to see me like this. I was always a prideful thing. So I waited, until I was… presentable enough to join him again and-”

Martín absently twists a thread around his fingers, waiting for Andrés to finish that train of thought.

“-he replaced me within the year. There was another boy by his side, younger. Weaker. But the resemblance was there. That was my brother, my father’s son.” Andrés pops his lips. “The one he always wanted in my place. But what could I do against family tradition?”

Martín knows the song and dance. Quiet, he says, “You ran away. Joined a life of crime to get back at them.”

“No, I reincarnated. Into the man I was always meant to be. They just gave me the push I needed.”

And Andrés cackles, dry and mad. And Martín knows he cannot let this man go. This is a dangerous man, the exact kind he was warned about.

Which is exactly why Martín decides to cut him free.

When the webs fall apart, Martín pinches the tip of his mask and raises it over his head, until he’s sure Andrés has a full view of his face.

“I take it you want to know my story now,” Martín says, the start of a smirk crawling out.

“I’d love that.” Andrés looks him straight in the eye. A crooked grin. “Friend.”

#drabble #clearly never going to continue this LOL #but it was fun and quick to write #so wanted to get it out of my system #if anyone does read though- hope you enjoy it ;)

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purrincess-chat · 3 years

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Fic ask game: 12, 13 and 18?

12. Which fic am I most proud of and why?

Mdcspr for sure Haha. I was so proud I came back to it after a year to make sure I got it right. I'm the most pleased with the development of the main cast of characters, the OCs that I introduced, and the overall events that take place. It's the fic I've put the most effort into both with the original and the remix.

13. Which fic of mine deserves more recognition?

I have a couple.

Bedtime Stories is one I wrote for an exchange forever ago. It's kind of an origin for Tom and Sabine which canon has mostly disproved by now, but fuck it, it was cute and I had fun writing it. Basically, Tom and Sabine tell a young Marinette the story of how they met and fell in love in a series of bedtime stories.

The Girl Under the Mask

It was the first entirely ladrien multichapter story I wrote, and I'm still soft for it. Maybe I'll go back and polish it up, but the fucking moment when she goes to his fencing tournament in disguise, and Adrien has his hand on her sunglasses still sends me. I have more ladrien stories in the works for later this year that I'm excited about too. They're just so good.

18. Be honest. How many wips do I have atm?

Oh god let's count. These are the ones I intend to finish at least:

MDCSPR, Marinette and the Lost Temple, Moves Like Jagged, All's Fair in Love and Superheroes, Love Squared, Kill Em With Kindness, How to Win a Guy in 30 Days, Taming Lies and Chasing Butterflies (considering a part 2 finally). Also debating rewriting and finishing Lady Luck and Lady du Coeur.

And those are just the ones I've started that have been posted. There's also my BB piece, the not-so-enemies AU, my angsty ladrien idea where Gabriel thanoses himself accidentally, the cracky reveal fic where Adrien finds out his dad is Hawkmoth and immediately steals his miraculous that night and brings it to Ladybug (likely a one shot), the cracky ladrien idea with Alya and Adrien brotp where Alya learns Adrien has a crush on Ladybug and Marinette is like we should set them up, been debating doing the mystery blogger idea where Adrien secretly runs a blog that disproves literally everything Lila says and no one catches him, still figuring out dogrien, and there's the bad ending au that everyone said Cat, no to, but I might still do it.

We will see. I have a lot on my plate. But I've been hella productive this year tbh with mdcspr. (Ask Avril she's not convinced I'm human) So once that's done who knows. Most of these other projects are small by comparison. Except for dogrien. And LC if I get back to that. But most of these other ones are relatively short.

#cat replies #ask game #wip total is about 18 in that regard #well 19 technically #i have another fic in the works that is only gonna be on ao3 #so i wont be posting it here

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I want you to answer A-Z on the fandom asks so I can peer into your psyche 👀

Wow I love you. This actually took around three hours since I wanted to think about the answers. See them under the cut!

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

From Hanyou no Yashahime — Sesshomaru and Rin

From The Mandalorian — The Mandomera’s been creeping up a little bit.

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

Honestly can’t think of one. I’m very set in my ships.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

From Naruto — SasuSaku. Sasuke was cute as a kid so I get Sakura having a crush on him then, but I think she would have gotten over it when he became a homicidal clown who abandoned the village and tried to kill her and her teammates multiple times.

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

From Harry Potter — Ron x Hermione. I’ve always thought their personalities didn’t match and not in the good “opposites attract” kind of way.

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

I only know how to write angst, drama, and introspective musings so no.

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?

Over fifteen years in the Harry Potter fandom, but I’ve had to separate that from JKR herself in the recent years.

G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it?

“Have I ever had an OTP”? *laughs from shipping hell*

From The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare — Nat and Kit were my first OTP. Read this book in fifth grade and was immediately loved them. Boy literally risks banishment from the colony to help prove she’s not a witch.

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

I love visual media, so TV, anime, and film

I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

I’m not going to let tumblr dot com put me off of a particular show/book/etc. itself, but it has definitely made me think less of certain types of fans who are in a fandom.

J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)

The...period drama fandom? More widely, the history fandom. They both create some of the most beautiful edits celebrating history and I love it.

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

From Avatar: The Last Airbender — It’s gotta be Prince Zuko

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

From Harry Potter — I think Ginny is a Mary Sue but I loved when she stood up for herself in Half-Blood Prince when Ron was trying to slut-shame her.

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

From Parks and Recreation — Leslie Knope. Unending positive affirmations, thoughtfulness, and support!

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

I don’t really have a main fandom but I haven’t mentioned Free! yet so let’s go with it for this one.

1. Less Nitori because I can’t stand him.

2. More female characters! I get half the appeal is the boys, but I’d love to see a girls swim team in some capacity.

3. More Haru and his family dynamics! Doesn’t have to be a ton, but I want to know what his relationship with his parents like, especially as an adult.

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

Salt and the Sea - The Lumineers. “From the destruction, out of the flame. You need a villain, give me a name.” Such an Odesta song. (Finnick x Annie from the Hunger Games)

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

For The Mandalorian — A historical AU set in early 1900s New York City where Mando’s just some government agent sent to “report” on slum conditions to satisfy some housing law. He goes meaning to write up a generic report but then finds the orphaned Baby Yoda abandoned in one of the tenements. Shocked by the conditions of the slums, Mando goes from being an apathetic, middling-level bureaucrat to being an anonymous investigative journalist reporting on the corruption in the government that allows for the city’s most vulnerable citizens to live in squalor, leading the government on a search to find who within their ranks is exposing them.

Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

Sherlock, because it just took so long for the third series to come out. I had moved on to other fandoms by the time it did. Still have fond memories of when I was active in it, though.

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

From Lord of the Rings — Aragorn and Legolas. This is played up a lot more in the films but I love it.

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

For Lord of the Rings — Boromir definitely taught Faramir swordplay when they were little kids since their father didn’t want to.

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

From Hanyou no Yashahime — Rin made the first move. Sesshomaru would be way too clueless to even know how to go about it.

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

From Pirates of the Caribbean — James Norrington: Commodore in the Royal Navy during the 18th century, must I explain any further? Cool, calm, and collected on the job while looking v good while he does it but a nervous wreck in front of the woman he fancies. Tell me that’s not straight out of Austen.

From Star Wars (OT) — Luke Skywalker: An unapologetically good person in a crapsack world, doing his best to bring light into the world. A classic hero archetype who grows out of his naïveté to become a cunning—but still benevolent—Jedi.

From Prince of Tennis — Yukimura Seiichi: His duality is *chef’s kiss*. Super scary and in charge on the court, gentle sweet boy who loves art and culture off the court. He struggled for so long but was able to overcome it all through his hard work and willpower.

Bonus favorite, because I couldn’t resist...

From Band of Brothers — Doc Roe: He’s doing the MOST for his guys but he really just needs a hug. Plus he’s got the accent.

V - Which character do you relate to most?

From Little Women — Jo March, especially as portrayed by Saoirse Ronan in the 2019 adaptation. Writer, holds grudges, opinionated, stubborn, eschewed “girliness” in her youth but is more open to it and romanticism as an adult.

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

I’ve gotten to the point where even the hint of a love triangle tests my patience.

X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

It’s about the yearning: Longing Look

Also will definitely always ship the Brooding Boy and the Gentle Girl

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Anything in the MCU or general superhero content.

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)

I love fandom so much. I’m sort of facetious about being obsessed with people who aren’t real on my other social media accounts, but in all seriousness, being able to escape the real world to get excited over characters and relationships that face their own struggles, triumphs, and emotions is such a gift. So often they speak so powerfully on the human experience—How can you read, or watch, any of Tolkien’s work and not be moved by what he has to say about humanity and the power of good? Even if the stories are fictional, the messages they impart about life aren’t, which is what I love so much about them.

#itsacanofpeachessir #ask

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