FIC: Princess Heartmaker: Ch 13/15 (MLB, Lukanette)
Notes: …you know. The LBSCers know this, because I’ve been whining about it with them, but y’all realize poor Luka’s been on that damn bike since May? Ch6 – the last time we were outside of the akumaverse – was May. Our boy’s had four months of leg day. 😂 (I swear I was trying to finish this while I was off in August, and then We’re a Chance happened. Sorry, fam. 😂)
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Princess Heartmaker
Chapter Thirteen: And all this Time I Thought that We were Ok, Despite the Darkness Somedays…
Meanwhile, somewhere outside of Princess Heartmaker’s immediate influence…
Luka.
Was.
Pissed.
He was pissed at Rose. He was pissed that she couldn’t just…mind her own business. That she had meddled, even after being asked repeatedly by multiple sources not to. That she had taken it upon herself to be some kind of romantic crusader, willfully ignoring the damage she was leaving in her wake. He didn’t care that her heart was in the right place. He didn’t care that she had meant well. He cared that she had lied to them, that she had manipulated them, and in the process she had hurt Marinette. He didn’t so much care that she had also hurt him.
It was Dingo’s text he couldn’t get out of his head.
I think she’s been crying.
Rose’s carelessness – her stubbornness – had made Marinette cry, and that was unforgiveable in Luka’s book.
…except it wasn’t just Rose that had made her cry, was it? This was his fault, too. He had made Marinette cry, too. And so he was also pissed at himself.
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random but it struck me that age is just another parallel/anti-parallel that Jon and Jaime will share. Jaime was 16/17(?) when he made the fateful choice to kill Aerys, which forever besmirched his honor and caused him to be “the Kingslayer” (deragatory). Jon was about the same age, 17/18, when he made the fateful decision to march south against the Boltons, something that will undoubtedly dent his already shaky reputation and could cause him to be “the deserter” (also deragatory).
We always talk about how Jaime stagnated and wallowed in his nihilism after Aerys’ death, never growing or maturing past that point; in a way, he was always mentally stuck at 17. Jon could very well die given the wounds he received during the mutiny, and though he will be revived, he will be always be physically stuck at 17, never maturing past that point. But I think Jon has been more successful in a way that Jaime never was in that he figured out quite early (when he was 15) that though he may lose his honor, he must keep pushing for the greater good. He understood the concept of “a bastard’s honor”, and is even more fortunate to receive Tyrion’s lesson of using one’s lowly position/lack of honor to his advantage, which he has been doing to enact what he considers to be the moral goods (ref “bastard” “guilty of that, at least”).
P.S: I also think it’s funny given Aemon’s advice to kill the boy in order for the man to be born. Ironic that Jon will always be a boy physically.
Jaime grew physically but not so much mentally. Jon grows mentally (it’s actually his strong suit as a character how much he matures with each book) but he will have sacrificed the ability to age normally as a boy would. Jaime lost his honor at ~17 and is characterized but years of (mental) inaction. I think Jon, on the other hand, will lose his honor but will be more and more prone to making decisions, because to hell with it all.
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🎃 trick or treat 🎃
You get a long snippet (act surprised):
Roy flipped to a page at random:
'Ah, la belle dame sans merci who lived in his heart, made known to him in transitory fading splendor by dark eyes in the Ritz-Carlton, by a shadowy glance from a passing carriage in the Bois de Boulogne!'
The book Ted had given Roy had started with, ‘It was a dark and stormy night.’
“Oi!” Jamie started, sitting up to give Roy a concerned frown. “This one isn’t the first in the series.”
Roy shrugged. “Doesn’t matter. They’re all supposed to be self-contained stories. Don’t think I’ve ever met a person who read Wodehouse in order.”
Mollified, Jamie settled back into the cushions with Roy’s book, seemingly unaware of the puzzle Roy was rotating in his head.
Within the first few pages, he had a good idea what Ted intended by giving Jamie this particular book. He also couldn’t help but notice that he’d been given a book fit for his six-year-old niece, and Sam had been given Ender’s Game, and somehow Jamie had been the unlucky bastard with a reading assignment that would make any university student want to stick pencils in their eyes.
Also Anthony Patch was a posh rich twat.
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THIS IS GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING READ SREEDIE BC IVE GOT VAVAVOOM BY NICKI MINAJ STUCK IN MY HEAD RN
hey handsome ;)
I’m back bc you can’t get rid of me ever <3
katara is so real for finding comfort in arbitrary routine. like I’m not following the politeness rules for YOU I’m following the politeness rules for ME so that I feel better >:(
ALSO what I think is really important to remember and usually gets lots in fanon, the fact that zuko like.. literally IS the face of the fire nation in the war for katara. like she has nobody else to project on OF COURSE it’s going to be fucking Rough to overcome her hatred for zuko when he’s literally synonymous with genocide for her. unless there’s somebody else she can realistically focus on (ie. the fire lord is too abstract a concept for her rn), it’s never really gonna get better AND YOU CANT BLAME HER bc how else are you meant to process fear and anger if you have nowhere to direct it (does this line of thinking mean I need therapy sreedie?? answer honestly)
OHOHO look at that sreedie. I’ve gone an anticipated katara’s own musings. I’m so psychic today.
also really depressing that zuko actually does canonically look like his father so like… katara isn’t exactly Wrong to imagine his face
aaaaaand he’s back to normal with the monosyllabic responses !! and anger !! he’s healing so well.
trust zuko to argue about the semantics of life saving lmfao
CRYING WHEN ANGRY IS SO FUCKING ANNOYING I FEEL YOU SO HARD KATARA
not katara accidentally predicting the zukka relationship out of anger T-T
NOT THE “I will be back” NOTE ZUKO PLS
SLAY AANG ILY AANG YOURE THE BEST ZUKKA WINGMAN EVER
ughhh FUCK OFF IROH just say you’re homophobic jfc
YES JEE I’m always in the I Love Jee camp so this is nothing new BUT YES CRITIQUE IROHS HANDLING OF ZUKO
jee is TOTALLY a literature nerd with all the analysis of implications of zukos outfit that he’s doing and I am so here for it
HAIR RUFFLES WIDNWLDNQPXBWFORN THE HAIR FRHDKWE AODKW I am completely calm and reasonable about this.
sokka is like “I’m so good at being subtle about being in love with zuko :D” and zuko is like WE JUST FUCKED IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY MAYDAYMAYDAY
LMAO jee is like FINALLY some drama to become invested in
I LOVE CULTURAL CUSTOMS AHHHHHH I’m such a goddamn nerd ohmygod
YAYYYY TOPH I love toph she’s a ride or die fr
nooooo now I’m emotional about jee. the whole being fire nation first and human being second is a really nice touch though, in terms of world building and reasoning behind why fire nation citizens are so committed to the war effort despite their own suffering bc of it
wait wait maybe I’m going insane rn but WAIT a moment please… so this is what I’m working with: when zukka got separated, sokka became like Both of them?? like they didn’t have each other to balance themselves out, so sokka adopted zukos personality (without the zuko skill set Unfortunately) and conversely, zuko like… Had Neither personality bc he was fucking Dying so he had other priorities. and now both of them are out of whack bc their personality divisions are fucked
OMG RASU telling sokka he groped zuko in front of everyone T-T he’s doing the lord’s work
ohohohoboho rasu knowssssss ʰᵉʰᵉʰᵉʰᵉʰᵉ
THESE BITCHES ARE ENGAGED OMG
DADKODA AND CHANGGGGGGG oh I’m so happy rn. I’m genuinely going to squeal when chang and zuko reunite AND FUCK IROH HE CAN GET FUCKED JEE GET A BETTER LEADER TO DEDICATE YOURSELF TO
anyways :D
I’m expecting zuko and chang to have the most magical long awaited airport reunion imaginable, and if these two bitches DONT hug I’m going to cut all your electrical wires and clog your toilets
KISSES XXXXXX
I have accepted I’ll never be rid of you, so I’ve stopped trying. <3
Haha, I think we could ALL use some therapy lol <3 but as for Katara I think she is allowed to be upset and dramatic because she is 15 and tired. So stop being an asshole Zuko.
I think both Zuko & Katara left that interaction feeling less than satisfied.
I love writing Jee as the man who notices shit. Haha. Why is his collar so high? IDK JEE WHAT DO YOU THINK?!
fucking love Jee
I’m a sucker for details, and unfortunately I can’t always get them all out into the writing but I wasn’t going to CUT (hahahaha GET IT??) the hair lore mwahaha.
Dude Chang and Zuko reunion is long over due but also I might be a dick and just bomb everything before Chang gets close
Why not right?
KISSSSSSESSSSS XOXOXO
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