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mockhound · 8 months
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HARMONY GOT A WARDROBE!!! In order Left to Right: Original, Night gown, Traveling, Dressing Nice Raining, The Cold, Halloween, and Valentines Day
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pearl-kite · 2 years
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Wanted to draw something more than a bust, so have Adrian again
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jazeswhbhaven · 2 months
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I might just make her hair more fluffy if you don't mind 😅
Also, here is some brain rot I got about her with her guys-
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It's up to your interpretation of what is happening here, cause what do I know about how a hot girl spends her time? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(While I cannot do Satan's hair badly, I would fight just to smell it, but I'm obligated to make him a little silly cause this man has been avoiding me for MONTHS, I only have 2 copies of his selfie, like dude-)
I'M CRYING LOOK AT MY BABY ( ´⌣`ʃƪ) I don't mind that you made her hair fluffy because it's supposed to be more full but I can't draw hair worth shit _(┐「ε:)_
I love the energy in your drawings and it embodies her honestly. With Mammon how she's so cuddly and gentle and then there's her with Satan where he has hickies, bites, and she's laughing and he's pissed off about something that she probably started in the first place Astra has hot girl summer energy at it's core and she tires them out equally. ALSO you did amazing with Satan's hair, and he is silly. Smelling his hair is something he's willing to let you do because he seems like a very physical touch kinda demon. I hope you can get his bath card T^T his booty jiggles when you have him displayed on the lobby i can't gush enough about this, ahhhh I'm saving these to my WHB OC folder T^T
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beemers-hell · 1 month
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i had no clue you liked guilty gear too. i dont follow you on twitter lol. my favourite is xrd bedman
dude i am SUCH a huge fan of fighting games, I am a fucking fighting game girly, guilty gear is just apart of my blood lmao. Both Guilty Gear and Blazblue are like my bread and butter of fighting games, I like Blazblue and have more hands on experience with that franchise more than I do GG but I still hold GG dear to my heart. I just don't really talk about them (or any of my other HUGE special interests that aren't madness, dolls, or my ocs in general tbh) cause my brain isn't super hard focused on them like I am the three spinterests mentioned above lmao. I am coming out as a Guilty Gear fan (JOKE)
anyway A.B.A. has been one of my GG favs (alongside I-No and Baiken) since I was a little baby gamer, my dad used to let me play whatever fighting games he had when i was like a toddler and a few of the old guilty gear games were some of them. Anyway tldr A.B.A. and Paracelsus made a HUGE impression on little baby me and I've always hoped for the day she came back to the roster in the newer games, even if I don't really have any way of playing them. Needless to say I lost my fucking MIND when she got announced for Strive last week and I haven't been able to stop thinking about her since. Like I am ILL about this woman and her stupid fucking key husband and I have been for years LMAO. I'm not even brain rotting over GG it is SOLELY A.B.A. and Paracelsus that I'm losing my shit about. I'm finally getting validated now that she's back for everyone to enjoy!!
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Also hey check out this post for a GG related surprise lmao
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YOUR WRITING>>>>>
I don't know how you came up with Naga Scaramouche but I've been brain rotting for days now 😩
Do you have any ideas how'd he'd react if someone goes out of their way to look for reader after they disappeared?
Especially if they mightve been a love interest at some point or the person clearly has feelings for them 👀
(referring to this)
A friend of mine actually came up with the idea for naga scara!! Together, we fleshed out the plot. It wasn't originally a fic, though, it was just a rp that got me brainrotting afterwards. I couldn't stop thinking about the whole concept until I finished writing Hidden in the Sands. The fic literally wouldn't leave me alone unless I was working on it LMAO
I'm going to take this as an excuse to talk a bit about the behind the scenes here (you have NO idea how much I've wanted to infodump about this fic)–originally, the reader was actually my friend's interpretation of Lumine and Sanad was originally my Alhaitham. I also played the part of Kuni himself. It was a bit awkward, actually, because Alhaitham and Kuni had to talk to each other a little bit and it felt like I was talking to myself.
I've changed the personalities of the reader and Sanad greatly, as you might have already guessed, since Sanad behaves nothing like Alhaitham; Sanad's more like one of those "prime examples" that Alhaitham talks about when he says, "Book learning alone is not enough to cultivate intelligence." Sanad is, intentionally, a very flawed but still reasonably likeable character. I want to talk about him too. Oh boy, looking back on this I sure did talk a lot about an OC I don't think anyone genuinely cares about.
I wanted to make him come off as normal, like an actual human person. He really is just a regular dude, he's just been kinda brainwashed by the Akademiya, as shown by the lines, "The Akademiya has declared them to be just baseless nonsense, so of course I don't think they actually exist." and "Desert dwellers tend to be... fearless." He's absorbed many commonly held beliefs (and biases) in the Akademiya, a textbook example of someone who's been taught what to think rather than how to think. I wanted him to be realistic. However, he's still funny, charming, and overall good-willed, even if he's spineless and very easily led.
I've greatly changed the fic from the original rp, and only the base premise (yandere!naga!scara and the whole "commissioned to find the culprit for some strange murders in the Hadramaveth") remains the same. It went through several versions at first. In fact, before I came up with Sanad, I was going to have Cyno replace Alhaitham! But ultimately, I realized Cyno was actually competent and I might have had to write a proper fight scene, which I did not want to do. You can still see a remnant of the first draft I chose to leave in (from when Cyno was the disposable companion) in the bad joke Sanad tells at the beginning of the story.
Using Sanad also had other benefits that I feel helped pull the fic together!! His cowardly nature gave reader a chance to endear themselves to Kunikuzushi, for refusing to abandon Sanad even after he (frankly, understandably) ran away. Even this early on, I had decided that whatever backstory naga Kuni might have had, it absolutely had to revolve around betrayal since canon Kuni's backstory is so deeply tied to it.
It's a really minor pet peeve of mine, and it doesn't bother me too much, but I usually don't really like it when the yandere starts to fixate on the object of their obsession for no reason than, like, "love at first sight" or "they simply caught my eye for some vague reason I cannot put into words." It's not bad, per se, and it's not even a solid rule of mine! I can think of several fics I love that don't give a solid reason, though the characters in those have such a dynamic that you still understand why one became so interested in the other to begin with... (I'm making this more complicated than it is, I think, but I'm beginning to think it's just I just don't care for it when the MC has the depth of a piece of paper.) Anyway, I'm getting derailed again, but I chose to give Kuni a reason to empathize with the reader in the form of Sanad and his "betrayal" because of this preference of mine.
However, and I think I've touched on this a bit in a previous post, this wasn't the only reason Kuni decided to spare them. In fact, even after he decided to leave you for last, he still thought he was going to come back to kill you. What really interested him was your insistence on saving Sanad even after what Kuni perceived as a betrayal. Why would you try to help someone who didn't even make an attempt to help you? It doesn't make sense. You're too soft, it's endearing.
Whether or not Sanad's actions are justified is debatable, though I personally understand them. He's never fought in his whole life. If you, the experienced monster-fighting adventurer couldn't do it, how could he? He doesn't even have a sword. It's certainly cowardly and rude to say the least, but given the circumstances, I think it's the choice most people would make in that situation. Of course, it's absolutely something Kunikuzushi could have (and did) twist into something completely different. I think I made it pretty obvious, but contrary to what Kuni said, Sanad had no such malicious thoughts when he left you there. Kuni is extremely jaded; his perception of the world has been mostly shaped by the betrayals he's experienced, and he's no different in this AU. As I said before, Sanad's not a terrible person, just terribly average. If he had survived, he absolutely would have had survivors' guilt.
Anyway!!! I'm not sorry about the infodump, thank you for giving me the slightest reason to tell you all about it. Here's what you actually asked for.
Kuni views most people as inconsequential, little more than helpless ants. He doesn't care about them in the slightest. If anything, they irritate him. So when someone shows up–an old friend, a crush, anyone–his first thought is to get rid of them if they venture too far in, and especially if they see him. Even if he doesn't know that they know you. If he lets them go, more will come. If he finds out they're looking for you, specifically... well, it doesn't really change his plans. He's going to kill them no matter what.
It does motivate him though, to be a bit crueler, to make it last a bit longer. What they are to you doesn't change the outcome, but it might sour his mood a bit more if they were anything more than friends or family. It's not likely that he'll leave them be long enough to find this out, though. Logically speaking, they're probably not going to tell a monster like him all about the friend/family/crush they're looking for in this desert, especially not when he's clearly unfriendly.
It's not totally impossible, though. This hypothetical person would have heard all about the strange attacks (as mentioned in the fic), so seeing a large half-snake person could make them realize that Kuni was most likely the cause for your disappearance (even though they'd assume it was murder and not kidnapping). Even so, I doubt they'd have a little chat over tea about who all Kuni has murdered recently.
Anyway, I digress. Assuming he figures it out somehow, whether or not he tells you about them depends on his mood and your behavior. Unfortunately for you, dealing with people irritates him. Especially when they're specifically looking to take what's his from him.
He'll come back covered in blood either way, but if he's in a bad mood, or you haven't been on your best behavior, he'll tell you all about what they looked like. He makes sure to mention that they were looking for you, and describe in detail everything he did to them.
"I'm going to leave his corpse out to rot in the sun," he hissed into your ear, pulling away to look you in the eye, "for the vultures and serpents to feast on. It serves him right. He was on a fool's errand; it's impossible to retrieve what's lost to the sands."
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jing-yuans-wife · 11 months
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This is just my way of coping with life. So Idc what any one thinks anymore. Im just struggling with myself💔
This is brain rot of mine! This is before Luna dated Raph btw.
No trigger warnings except hilarity and fluff.
🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡🍡
BlueKnight: Leonardo
CrimsonFire:Raphael
SkaterDude001: Mikey
GeniusJock: Donnie
LillyPad: My OC Lilly Neko
Moonflower: My OC Luna
~•The chatroom of Hamato chaos has started•~
Blueknight: Ok Mikey games up. Why did you make this chat room?.
SkaterDude001:Uhhh I would love to say "I did it", But I just got off of my game tournament. So I got no idea who made this.
CrimsonFire: Hold up, Im no nerd with this stuff...though I might know who the culprit is.
GeniusJock: You mean Luna right?.
CrimsonFire: Uh no I was gonna say her twin sister Lilly. She's the one who did it.
Lillypad: Hi everyone! I made this chat room for fun. Also any one seen my sis?. Last I saw was when this one dude took her for coffee...only thing is Im yet to receive a text from her.
Moonflower:Ugh stupid phone. Im here and please do not even mention that guy ever again.
CrimsonFire: Hol up. What happened. Tell us before anything else.
Moonflower: Well I thought it was going well, he and I talked. Mostly small talk then he suddenly got a text, paid for the coffees then just left without a word. So Im kinda stuck with transport here.
SkaterDude001: Woah I never seen Raph this angry since the Shredder incident.
BlueKnight: We will come pick you up, its going to start raining soon.
CrimsonFire: While we at it, gimme that guys details. I will go give him my "greetings".
SkaterDude001: Bro you just wanna chew him out for mistreating Luna, you not even dating her yet.
CrimsonFire: Shut it numbnuts!
MoonFlower: Heh You always knew how to cheer me up Raphie~.
CrimsonFire: Hey Hey Hey you keep pushing my buttons like that, an I cant be held responsible for what happens next kitty cat.
MoonFlower: I wuv you too Raphie~.
CrimsonFire:😑🙄😘
GeniusJock: I have not seen Leo laugh so hard in all my years. Anyways see you there Luna.
~•The chat has ended•~
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chikaoofka · 1 year
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helloooo you rbd the "ask me about my ocs" post from me so i am here to ask you abt them (even if you said youre not good at answering them. 😔🤝😔)
i would like to know... anything! about ur ocs :] but i know from experience vauge questions r hard to answer so maybe some trivia? like, howd you choose their names or designs. thatd be cool doesnt have to be the sol ones either !! or i think ur sol ones are also repurposed ones? so their original forms would be cool too. either way i would find it interesting :D
you are so nice to me
AND YOU KNOW ACTUALLY? NAMES & DESIGNS I WAS THINKING TO MYSELF JUST NOW "OH THEY AREN'T THAT INTERESTING" THEN I REMEMBERED NO? THEY BOTH HAVE NAME-AND-DESIGN STORIES? that I find funny anyway........
also i realise how long this is IM PUTTING IT UNDER A READ MORE.
the readmore fucking MOVED?
& ONLY cassius was repurposed . though like before SoL he was . essentially nothing . rotting in my beloveds toyhouse-folder w TWO images (NOW HE'S GOT THE MOST IN MY TH AT... 40...) because I didnt know what to do with him (and it's like... i don't wanna move him out D:) & then i made him in SoL and i think a neuron fired or something idk what happend . the moment I drew him w short hair it all went downhill i think . Anyway, so original cassius, he's named after (coughs) Cassius by Foals . I SAY THIS EVERY OTHER DAY I FEEL "LISTEN TO CASSIUS BY FOALS" (LINKED, THIS TIME.) BUT HE CAME ABOUT COS I SAW A TEMPT6T VIDEO WITH UHH
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SOMEONE AS THE GEN 4 GUITARIST. AND FOR DAYS I WAS IN A STATE OF LIKE... ILLNESS? "I NEED TO NAME SOME OC CASSIUS" (....) "I WANNA MAKE THAT GUY AN OC" (....) oh mon dieu now there's a blonde guy in my brain . what the fuck . what the hell? who let him in dude dude dude dude what the hell . tangent but he even was in a band. at first. cos of course he was . a band, fun fact, based on AN OLD POKEMON BAND I HAD . WHICH I HADN'T TOUCHED IN YEARS . BUT cassius was based (i say based loosely) on a shiny minccinno/cincinno named "S I N" so that's fun & the bassist (i.e.) the only other one i . sketched (half-finished?) . i wanna say "oh haha he looks like alfie but with glasses on" but he doesn't . not at all ??? he would have had the same colour hair though. so that's like... the exact same character then
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see. him? i wanted to put him here he hasn't seen the light of day in months . ok . where was i . oh yeah this was dropped pretty quickly cos i didnt know what to do with them LOL. now long-haired cassius has been repurposed AGAIN to be cassius' older brother in........the loathingverse! which is cool :-)
& even like i tried so hard to make him fit with the song back when but it NEVER worked and then he gets LOATHING'D AND NOW HE FITS? what the hell man
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also alfie. alfie oh my god alfie can i say? can i start? do not look at me strangely for this but
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this was who he was based on. alfie from fucking blue y . i dont know how i found him nor why i wanted to make a character named alfie because of it but i did AND i needed a name for my achievement hunter (which i portmanteaued, horribly, into his last name) save file(s). So alfie achivunter it was.......... and AND THIS IS WHY HE'S LIKE. THE "DOG GUY". and thats why he looked like THIS at one point :
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but i was making his ref & i was like. dear lord this looks atrocious . so im pretty sure i colourpicked from like . ron inside job or something (i distinctly remember being like "this sucks" "what if i made him look like ron instead" & i did) instead and now he looks NORMAL except NOW HE LOOKS LIKE CONNOR SCP CONTAINMENT AND RON INSIDE JOB???? like okay i feel mental every time i say this but like come ON . COME ON?
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the Exact Same Man. ok???? i feel like a detective gone mental pointing to a board with red threads and photos like DON'T YOU SEE? IT'S ALL CONNECTED!!! THEY LOOK THE FUCKING SAME!!!!!!! THESE THREE LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh and fun fact alfie is short for alfred he really cannot win . have i said this before? i probably have
& one last thing I guess
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these little dots beneath the eyes . it basically means he's got a little evil in him OR really, IMPOSSIBLE TO GET FORESHADOWING. unless you .... know...... the cosmosdex??? yeah. i thought itd fit AND right beneath ALL OF MY OTHER INSANITY. WITH AN ACTUAL LITTLE TRIVIA POINT? HUUUUM. OKAY?
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friesian · 2 years
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Pls... three of any of the flower ones for (brain blanking on his name rn but he's your Priory librarian) ty <33 - @moonlit-grove (sorry for forgetting, brain do be Swiss cheese this week)
OMG........ AIYNDREAS ASK....... BLESSING ME THIS FINE EVENING.
🌹- What’s this oc’s biggest fear?
i think aiyndreas fears never being enough, being unhelpful-- mostly. he's the type of guy who thinks he needs to be helpful in every asset of the way. so he needs to be smart, he needs to be fast, he needs to be sociable and lovable, he needs to essentially be perfect. of course, this is incredibly unreasonable for someone like him.
it's half the reason he threw himself into the fray with marwyd into the guild, but it's hard. he can barely manipulate all the elements yet, the best he can do is be a living index for any and all dragon information but that's just exactly what he feels like. just an index.
🌼- What’s your favorite thing about this oc?
aiyndreas is incredibly personal to me since he's SORTA a self insert? sorta. not exactly. (the other half of the self-insert is gyael, and they're best friends for a reason!!!)
aiyndreas shares my autism and anxiety where his ability to verbalize is absolutely DWARFED by his ability to write concepts and ideas. there's a lot in his mind but verbalizing it is uh. impossible, to say the least. not to mention the thing he WANTS to be good at is something he only understands probably at an average to above average level, and not to a mastered extent like the people around him.
so he's very cathartic to write for me!! something about having abilities but you're in an environment where these abilities are overshadowed by others since they're more desired is very stress relieving to place into a fantasy environment.
💐- Where is this oc’s favorite place to relax?
priory archival room!! aiyndreas made a secret hidey hole in the room. what you have to do is climb on top of ALLLL the boxes. he made a big pillow filled loft on top of one of the sturdy crates. he hides all his favorite romance novels and journals up there. he's got candles, some snacks that won't rot, and his favorite blanket. the dude practically lives up there if he can manage it. the other priory members know about it, but they don't know where it is. some of them call it 'his nest'.
just shout his name somewhere in the archival room if you need him, he'll usually appear just out of vision. sneaky........
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franbowidk · 2 months
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Jason Todd x OC little headcanon
(Cuz I just listened to ‘Where is the Justice’ and thought abt my boy ✨💀👍 also cuz Hazbin has been rotting my brain. Also, this is platonic so nobody gets confused)
I’m thinking about how, maybe before his death, Jason was also a bit of an anime kid. So when he heard about the Death Note musical, he asked Bruce to take him there and he absolutely ADORED it. And honestly, hearing Jeremy Jordan sing Where is the Justice?
*chef’s kiss* ✨🤌
He felt that song in his soul. Like it was right about everything, especially the way Jeremy sang it was beautiful.
When they got back to the manor, Jason would probably walk back to his room in silence with an indifferent face 💀 and Bruce and Alfred would probably question if he didn’t like the musical only to hear him freaking yelling, happy about it and blasting Where is the Justice from his room. Cuz damn, that song really touched his soul and represented his morals.
Then probably, years later when he’s resurrected and meets Jade, in which I dub thee his roommate, therapist, and other vigilante buddy, he finds her watching Hazbin Hotel on the TV and she’s hugging a pillow tightly on the couch.
More than Anything starts playing and he’s like, “Damn, this short dude sounds familiar…”
And then at the ‘I’ll shelter and adore you more than anything,’ it clicks and then he’s like, “OH! It’s Jeremy Jordan!”
Jade would look up at him, clearly startled by the reaction and pause the TV and be like, “You know Jeremy Jordan?”
And then he’d be like, “Yeah. When I was a teenager, I asked Bruce to take me to the Death Note musical and I liked it a lot. Especially that one song that he sings that goes—“
And then before he finishes his sentence, Jade would finish his sentence for him, “Where is the Justice?”
And then Jason would just look at her like, “… How do you know that?”
And then she’s playfully smack him with the pillow and be like, “Boy, you’ve seen me watch anime on this TV. Of course I know the musical and watched it, like, 10 times”
And in that moment, he felt so blessed to have such a roommate. So now, he hopped over the couch and sat next to her and basically started ranting with her until night ended and until the sunlight shined through the window.
By the time morning came, they got 5 noise complaints, a scolding from Bruce, and a scolding from Dick for skipping patrol that night.
But it was all worth it and they would do it again, but with Hazbin Hotel after they binged the last few episodes together and now it would be on their minds for weeks! ✨💀🤌
(Jason definitely had to comfort Jade when Pentious ‘died’. He was her favorite character)
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ahungeringknife · 11 months
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365: January 21
Some old brain rot OCs. Not in their canon but I like making Aiden a miserable little shit when I can because he's such a smooth operator normally. Dude needs to get knocked off his high horse sometimes
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It’d been a storm last night. Meant all sorts of stuff washed up on the shore. Eva was hopeful for some pretty shells or maybe some cool driftwood she could add to her snake’s terrarium. Bingo Bongos always loved when she changed the scaping in his tank. Or maybe some sea glass. The beach wasn’t known for sea glass but she’d found it a few times. She might get lucky.
Instead as she moved around some big rocks just within the tidal zone she saw a miracle. At the very least a fantasy.
It was a mermaid.
She stood there with her net bag of pretty shells and rocks and didn’t know what to do. Did she scream? Did she go run and get her mom and brother? They wouldn’t believe her. Her mom said she read too many fantasy books. What else was she supposed to do at school? Listen to the teacher? Unlikely.
Then she really saw the mermaid. It was tangled in a discarded fishing net and had a bunch of scrapes and bruises from rocks. It’d have to have been tossed around in the storm last night. Was it even alive? It was just laying there on the sand on its back, eyes closed.
Carefully she pulled a shell out of her bag and tossed it at the mermaid. Her heart jumped when it landed on its chest and it batted it away. She got closer but stayed out of reaching or thrashing range. “H-hello?” she asked.
She started when the mermaid’s eyes opened and their eyes were the color of the Caribbean sea. “Hooman,” it said and looked away from her like it was annoyed.
“Are you hurt? Do you need help?” she asked it. Him? Her? They didn’t have any boobs so she assumed it was a male. It was pretty small too. The human-ish torso was only a bit bigger than Eva herself but the tail was long and eel-like. He didn’t answer her. “Can you not get out of that net?” He didn’t look at her and after a moment gave the smallest shake of his head. “My brother has a fishing knife, I’ll be right back,” Eva said and ran off.
She ran back to where her mom and brother were. Nick was fishing off the rocky outcrop and her mom was sitting on a beach chair under and umbrella reading some book. She stole away to her brother’s tackle box sitting on the beach and fished out the knife he usually used to gut the fish before going on. She kept behind her mom the entire time and once she had it raced back to where she’d found the mermaid boy in the tidal rocks.
Eva was half sure he going to be gone by the time she got back but he was still there, tangled in the nets. “I’m back. I have a knife,” she said, huffing and puffing from running back and forth. The mermaid opened his eyes and pushed himself up some to look at her. She unsheathed the knife and started cutting the net wrapped around his long eel tail that had it all curled up and unusable. It was also tangled around one of his wrists and the skin was red and blistered as she cut that away too.
It took a little bit but she did untangle him from the fishing net. She smiled widely at him. “There you go. You’re free. Can you swim?” He nodded slowly. She looked at the low tide fifteen or so feet away. It was nothing to walk but to drag yourself that way. “Let me help you,” she offered him her hands. “To get back to the sea.”
“Ha’ping meh,” he said, the way he said the words was funny but surprisingly understandable. “Whay?”
“My mom always told me to help people when they’re in trouble. And you were in trouble.”
He nodded and took grabbed her wrists. She was not very strong but she did drag him towards the shore. He used his tail to give a bit of a push and she dragged him into the chilly water. Once he had a few inches of water under his body he was able to thrash his tail and propel himself forward. Eva held up her hands to avoid getting splashed too much. When she lowered her hands the mermaid was gone. “You’re welcome,” she said softly to the sea before going back to find shells and pretty rocks. She’d tell Nick about the lost net later. They’d take it to the dump on their way home.
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vintageskeletons · 1 year
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post about em bby, tell me about those ocs
you have no idea how incredibly bad i feel to have left this ask rotting for two weeks, so bad that i'm willing to just overlook the pet name term we somehow got going on now? (like what the hell dude i don't even know your favourite ice-cream flavour??? tell me the third letter of your fake internet name or whatever at least, give me something to work with smh)
warning : vin is about to be annoying and start rambling boy run away
anyway! i'm soooo happy you asked about my children, but unfortunately for them they have the most shittiest parent. i literally don't have their names, full design and characters down let alone a coherent reference sheet ajdncsjncnsj. (only a google docs full of brain vomit and two pages of just names i might never use)
i do however have this half assed sketch-doodle thing that i gave up on polishing so you're getting it as is :)
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rough translation : 1) thank god ghosty isn't with us right now 2) i'm getting chills and the air is already freezing. 3) careful idiot, this is the second time you've said his name. 4) hush, he's not freaking bloody mary what's wrong with you? 5) *insert bomb ass profanities that would sound less epic if translated*
btw this is only four out of supposedly six of them 〒▽〒 stay tuned for the other two's debut whenever that might be.....
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astrum-praeco · 2 years
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So I was planning on making a ref for my PC, Aster, but my hand slipped and now this dude’s got one. There’s gonna be a second little image in the corner like with the other refs, but I wanna post the version without it first. Makes everyone think this guy’s sane and chill.
Spoiler: he is very much not. This first drawing of him is probably the most sane and chill you will ever see him. Not gonna give too much away, but if you look all the way back to my first post about Ester, you’ll see that it mentions that certain circles praise them as a prophet of a reborn Infected Astrum Deus.
Yeah…. He’s certain circles.
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noritoshiikamo · 3 years
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this is how you fall in love
pairing: kuroo tetsuroo + fem!oc genre: friends into lovers fluff with slight suggestive end tags//warning: nothing major // slight suggestive at the end if you squint enough note: the obligatory trio of mine: not well edited, lowercase intended, english isnt my first language im sorry if i murder it. o wow look ive been posting back to back, ive been writing nonstop lately watch me ghost my stories in few weeks guys my brain = rotting, plus lately ive been feeling emotionally abuseddrained so i need something fluffy
listen to this is how you fall in love by jeremy zucker + chelsea cutler for maximum feels
“you’re a lifesaver.”
kuroo huffed, eyes rolling back with a small laugh as he unlaced his sneakers and slipped the room slipper on. it was odd to see the gymnasium without any nets or balls sprawled around. the gym has been closed for a week now in preparation for the upcoming open school event and currently under the art club’s jurisdiction. under her jurisdiction with her canvases and paints and it pained him to see her ruining his sacred place. he carried two plastic bags and holding two boba teas in the same hand. he wasn’t sure which one she was more excited for; the boba, the paints she made him ran to an art supply shop or him. she reached out, the bobas in his hand exchanged as she settled it on the floor, and she squealed at the sight of the plastic bag. he frowned.
yup, not him.
tins of different colors of paint that she ran out mid painting that she forgot to buy had her dialing his number and now it’s all here. all thanks to kuroo tetsuro. she grimaced at the price tags; it was costly than her usual one. usually, she would’ve gotten her supplies online, but desperate measure calls for desperate solution. she could always claim her expenses with the club. typical kuroo, she huffed. he always preached about getting the best, not minding the price tags but she’ll be the victim of his nonstop complaining that he’s getting broke every single day. she tucked a stray hair back and mentally counted how much she owed the man as she arranged the tins on the table.
kuroo noticed that look; same look she had when they are in the math class and he clicked his tongue, “tch, you’re not paying.”
“i’m reimbursing you with the club money,” she shook her head and reached for her bag, “please kuroo, it’s so expensive.”
he reached for her wrist and she dropped the tote bag as he invaded her space. kuroo rested the palm of her hand right above his heart, his own around the waist and another under her chin as he tilted her chin up. his heartbeat was erratic, and she flushed. “it’s okay,” he said, softly. her lips formed into a small pout and he fought the urge to just kiss her.
their dynamic is something even kenma couldn’t figure it out.
they weren’t exactly dating. they are friends, close friends, and classmates. it has always been him, her and occasionally yaku; creating the chaotic duo/trio of class 5. they both played volleyballs, both captains while he’s the middle blocker, she’s their female team’s setter. they knew a lot of each other’s friends from other schools; he was the reason why she dated akaashi keiji from the first place. it was selfish of kuroo to admit to bokuto a month after they started dating that he disliked the idea of them together. typical kuroo is no longer snarky, he felt lost, felt like he was losing his other half. so, he confided to his close friend, the simpleton ace.
“you didn’t make any moves, kuroo, you can’t blame them.”
bokuto noted as them both stared at the two setters, playing around the fallen cherry blossoms. bokuto never seen akaashi smiled that much and kuroo could only wished that she smiled the same way to him. kuroo stared at the half bitten onigiri he’d been holding, suddenly every bite he took tasted bitter. every trace of akaashi on her gave him bitter taste. she liked wearing akaashi’s jersey; kuroo longed to see her in his own numbered jersey; she’s his number one after all. her own jersey number is as same as akaashi. it’s not like kuroo could hate anything he did; he treated her well. akaashi was a perfect boyfriend and everyone knew. that’s why kuroo hates him; he gave him no reason to hate the dude. it didn’t last long however, they drifted apart 6 months later, sending her to kuroo’s doorstep soaked in rain.
he stared at her soaked figure with no thoughts in mind.
“he dumped me,” she said, voice hoarse and shivering.
he was alone and was about to leave for kenma’s, but he couldn’t leave her alone. dropping his keys on the small table by the door, he threw his jacket back in the closet. “come in,” he whispered, pulling her figure in. dropping her bag on the floor, she clutched on his sleeves as she kicked off her soaking shoes. “i’m sorry, my mom isn’t home and i can’t find my keys,” she was a blabbering mess and he hushed her. he left her for a few minutes, coming back with a steaming towel and a clean shirt and pants. “it’s from the dryer. you can borrow my sister’s clothes,” grabbing her hands, they ran upstairs where he took her to the bathroom. she was too quiet, so he called her name. when she looked up to him, her eyes were red. she was no longer crying, more confused and upset. her cheeks flushed and he could see her teeth chattering. he wished nothing but to throw his fist at the man. finally, he got a reason to square up the stoic man; he always hates the way nothing could riled up akaashi.
“he’s stupid for doing you like this.”
she shook her head, “it’s nobody’s fault.”
“then stop blaming yourself,” he ruffled her hair, a small smile appeared from the corner of her lips as she watched him disappeared closing the door behind him. he left her with the hot water running, urgently grabbing the mop and bucket from the kitchen, and wiping the trail of her soaked feet has left before it could ruin the wooden floor.
cant come over, busy, ill tell u later
kuroo texted kenma. the pudding head left him on read.
they spend the night together, sitting on the floor with pillows pilling against the end of the bed as they sat in arms. he had his tv opened to one of the late-night game show. they sat in silence, her head rested on his shoulder and her lips pressed into a tiny line. at the corner of his eyes, he could see her phone’s notifications blaring despite being on mute. the number isn’t saved but it was familiar. she deleted his number already, probably out of rage, but it’s a good step.
tell me where you want me to drop your stuff im sorry i hope youre okay y/n? i heard it was storming did you make it back home? give me a call im calling you okay?
just as like what the message stated, the unknown number called her. it startled her which startled him too. she stared down on the screen, he noticed the grip on the phone and wondered how the phone did not break yet. “can you answer it for me?” she said, holding the phone out to the black-haired man. shocked, he took the phone and pressed the green button. he pressed the phone to his ear and heard her name being called.
“hey man,” kuroo cleared his throat, “listen-”
“she’s with you?” the voice- akaashi asked.
looking down on the girl who was pretending to not have any interest in the call at all, eyes focused on the gameshow, kuroo sighed.
“she is. listen, i think you should leave her alone.”
“kuroo, i know about your feelings. for her. bokuto-san told me about it. if you think that this is the proper way to get her when she’s vulne-”
kuroo bit the inside of his cheeks. he was offended that akaashi dared to call him out like that. “so, what? she made her pick,” the girl turned to face him, brows up wondering what they are talking about.
“that’s low, even for you, kuroo-san.”
their eyes met. he didn’t even realize how deep the cut on his palm where he had balled his fingers into a fist until she touched it. he calmed down. “you hurt her. you have no right to say what’s low or not. be a bigger man, leave her alone,” he muttered flatly, before ending the call. they didn’t break eye contact until he realized what he had done.
“i-i shouldn’t have done that.”
she shook her head, “stop blaming yourself,” a small smile on her face.
that was 3 months ago.
kuroo had made moving on easy for her. akaashi and her remained friendly, although kuroo noticed that she tended to avoid him when possible. the breakup was indeed mutual, but merely on the fact that he lost feelings. akaashi had fallen out of love with her and in love with some other girl but who was she to judge when she was falling in love with the rooster head in silence. they still hang out with bokuto and akaashi but rarely with the latter.
she made him apologized to the fukurodani’s setter too and they remained on friendly term, still practiced together whenever they have training camps together where akaashi had admitted one training night that kuroo and her looks better together. kuroo didn’t say anything, not that he knew what to reply to that (his mind scream fuck yeah we do) but shrugged at his statement. “i guess dating her made you less pain in the ass, kuroo-san,” akaashi joked as they resumed the game.
kuroo was pulled back to reality when he felt his lips brushed against something. his eyes widened when he realized what it was. a quick kiss from her. he blinked frantically, trying to comprehend what had just happened which caused the girl to laugh. “did you just?” he asked confused by what had just happened which she nodded. she bit her bottom lip to hold herself from bursting into a laugh. “god, you should see your face. it’s so stupid. and every girl called you the playboy captain huh?”
he huffed and rolled his eyes, “i am not. i’ve been loyal to one girl for many years now, she is the one who hasn’t notice me at all,” he faked his pout, refused to look her directly in the eyes, praying that she wouldn’t notice his reddening cheeks.
“she must’ve been so stupid,” she teased, her nose rubbing gently against his jawline as she rested her figure against his closer. his chin rested against her head.
“she is,” he looked down on her, his arms around her waist tighter, “i don’t think she knows this but if she leaves me, i think i’ll be so broken inside. is it selfish to say that?” a small frown appeared on her face.
“i don’t think she ever talked about leaving you.”
a grin grew on his face, “so you know who i’m talking about huh?” she fell into his trap. she rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out, calling him stupid. he studied her face, his grin softened into what yaku and his volleyball team called the kuroo is stupidly in love with y/n but refused to admit face. his fingers ran into her hair which she had been growing out in few months down to her shoulder because she thinks that he likes her better that way. the way she tried to subtly put on make up to look better that the other girls who’s shamelessly flirting with him. she was too stupid to realize that he had loved her beyond that.
he loves the rough pads on her hands from holding her paintbrushes and volleyball. he loves that she works hard for everything she’s doing be it studying, volleyball or arts, she would put her blood, sweat and tears into it. he loves that she would wait for him to buy lunch so they can eat together in class. he would buy her a box of milk which she insisted that she doesn’t need too; but he convinced it would be good for her. he wants the best for her.
he loves that all the missing clothes he’s complaining about is in the back of her closet or on her. his cream hoodie hanging behind her closet door, his random pile of t-shirts in a basket on the floor of her closet that he liked to left beside the mix pile of her shoes and his one big ass nike shoes. her room isn’t messy, it is because she kept the messiness in her closet. she also like to keep random stuff of him too. the one medal he won from a science fair hung on the headboard of her bed, the misshapen looking hand wax sculpture of their hands intertwined from a funfair where she rested a purikura of them on it and a lucky bamboo plant he gave on her birthday to compromise on the no gift rule.
“for luck,” he grinned.
unlike hers, he kept her item neatly in his drawer. your spare shirts that he borrowed and refused to return, extra towel and her toiletries, some of her drawing blocks and a small cat shaped pouch where she kept her allergies medication. mostly hidden because his annoying friends come over often and would accidentally talk about it in front of his grandparents. but, on his bedside table, he has a cup of pencils by the bed where he collected the art supplies she left behind, random markers and paintbrushes, a clay sculpture of a trinket plate she made from art club (she carved a tiny letter k in the corner beside the obvious looking genitalia drawing) and a fake plant which she was sure he will not be able to kill it.
he loves it when she wore his jersey. he lost his mind when he found out that her current season number is the same as his. he’s in love. the first time he saw her in his jersey, the number one jersey on her body was during their training. he lost concentration; mouth hung a bit. he got so flustered that he let lev served the ball straight to his head. usually, lev would be dead by now, but he doesn’t mind. his nose bled but to see her kneel beside him, clutching on his own shirt screaming how stupid he is, wiping the blood away with towel, he could only say how pretty she looked. all his teammates were startled, her included. she clutched on his collar angrily; her knees stung from when she leaped down to his side, but this idiot could only smile at her with a bloody nose. “you are fucking idiot,” she cried out angrily, pushing him away before throwing the towel on his face leaving the pleased third year laying on the floor.
he loves the way she would find a way to impress him, be it as ridiculous as the halloween costume idea she had where they’ll go as the front and end of a horse or as serious as the submitted college application to the same university he had gotten into. “you are not getting rid of me that easily, tetsu,” the evil look on her face as she clicked the submit button send shivers down his spine.
“if you leave, i think i’ll cry,” he confessed, his smile slowly died.
“kuroo tetsuro is going to cry after me?” she teased. he nodded eagerly. “does kuroo tetsuro realized that we are literally moving into the same university? i couldn’t catch a break from him,” she faked her annoyance which he playfully avenged by sending her on the floor laughing as he tickled her. tears trickled down her cheeks as she begged him to stop, screaming to get away from his grip. “please, kuroo, i’m going to pee if you don’t stop!” he obliged, tears prickled the corner of his own eyes from laughing too much. straddling her waist, he gathered her wrists in one hand over her head. “apologize and said that kuroo tetsuro is the best man in your life or i swear i’ll make you pee,” he threatened her playfully, wiggling the fingers of his free hand close to her waist. her eyes widened in fears.
“that’s not fair!”
“apologize first.”
“fine!” she pouted, “i’m sorry, i won’t make fun of you again. now get off me!”
he raised his eyebrow, “andddd?”
“annddd-” a teasing smile appeared on her face as she said the next 5 words that send him to mars and back; “i love you kuroo tetsuro.”
he froze in shock. he heard the words before but never in this way; never for him.
finally, i think i got the calculation, love you yaku! lev you’re adorable but so stupid, i love it! thank you for letting me borrow your game, kenma. you’re the best, love ya!
the grip on her wrists loosened. taking advantage of his shock state, she pushed him back, straddling him by the waist, pinning his own hands above his head, giving him the taste of his own medicine. “i’m not going to leave your sorry ass, tetsu. i hope you don’t regret it,” she leaned down, capturing his lips with a longer kiss. letting go of his wrist, her hand went immediately into his rooster hair while another cupped his cheek, deepening their kiss. she could feel his cold palm resting against her bare waist and she shuddered. between the kisses, he heard her whispering his name. “kuroo, do you love me too?” she asked so innocently with kisses between the words but the way she grabbed a handful of his hand in a fist felt so dirty, eliciting a strangled moan from the back of his throat. she pulled back, staring down on his eyes as his lips moved.
“i love you too.”
nothing in his hazel eye but sincerity. he groaned when she pulled herself out of his reach, missing her warm body as she laughed. straightening her sweater back, pulling her hair back up into a tighter ponytail before she picked up the paintbrush she dropped. the paintbrush left a white stain on the court. as if kuroo wasn’t here, whimpering underneath her a minute ago, she continued her work. “i need to finish the mural by this week and you’re not exactly helping me,” she warned him, pointing the wet brush his direction. through the corner of her eyes, he was propped on his elbows, still staring at her, causing her to blush profusely. it annoyed him that she would tease him, then leaving him high and dry. before she could crack open the new paint tin, he ignored her warning as he tackled her back into his arms.
breathless against her lips, he told her to continue later. the urgency and rawness of his voice made her putty immediately. looking up the man, she pouted her lips.
“kuroo-san,” she whined as he captured her bottom lips.
he elicited a soft moan from the girl. he grinned against her lips. a hand rested firmly beside her head while another snaked under the sweater. there will be bruise tomorrow, she was sure of it, he will make sure of it.
“it will be quick, baby. i promise.”
she has no objection.
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faty i lov u so much im SO eternally glad we met & that we still are mutuals & write & all that, because knowing u has been an absolute blast and i ADORE the way u come into ppls(my!) ask boxes with random stuff or just to expand on some other post, i think its all soooo endearing and each time u pick up a muse im always HEART EYES and im so happy for each dynamic...like gran&chrom??? leaders who can be so childish?? i think its EXCELLENT and is so needed for gran... hinata&machina are SO funny, and im rly glad theyre (somewhat) hitting it off, cuz i think at the end of the day hinata would kind of understand machina (WHICH i also love how eights like "dude its ok if ure not feeling good, but u should get help & not just disappear", i love eight. thank u for also loving eight). AND IM LOSING MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT but. thank u for all of this, its such a delight to know u and im always so so grateful...u make writing SO fun and i appreciate that everyday
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im legit confusion atm. this is so sweet my brain dysfunction and unresponsive. 
uh im not crying. ninja cutting onions are back at it. god who to pay to get rid of them haha ...
uuuh ... this is really ...sweat. really. and honestly i needed it ;u; it blows my mind that we know each other for that long and just you didnt give up on me because time and different fandom we got into. i’m happy u got me into writing ch/rom, you and arph tbh. i still think about how i only wrote chrom for the risen king shenanigans then he is forever rotting in my brain now. so thank you for this curse lmao seriously thank you for always being the one to watch my shitty posts and press the like button to them and supporting my ted talk endeavors even though they are 90% me crying about one thing or another.  type0... type0 dude is a fandom i thought i would give up on when everyone just disappeared but welp. rent free class zero in my brain weee. i did give up for a bit but then eight came back like henlo i require attention yes bring me back. then i added machina for the sole purpose of shenanigans then ..hahaha here comes the boooy~ hello boy~ welcome~ he’s never gonna give anyone up haha before them our ocs ... i love them so much. i love how einar, hinata and arph’s oc..im sorry i cant remember his name because einar refused to remember his name and kept calling him suzaka’s rat ...im sorry arph. but he is suzaku’s rat so where is the lie. hinata being the smol boy among them lmao. lays on the ground...final fantasy type 0 ocs..i will love them as if they were my own flesh and blood hand them all over to me. might frick up and work on more if it weren’t for the dead sign over the fandom but haha when did that ever....stopped me hohoh ....aaaaaaaaaa words words...words...i really dont know what to write????????/how to write??????? to express how much i want to squish your face and give you all the love you rightfully deserves???????????? ????? 2022 virtual hugs when??? i really really appreciate you sticking with me on every blog, on every whim i make and just roll with it and provide me with chef kiss asks when i need them. thank you so much for existing and love THE poteighto.
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Ch 18:  Told You I’d Say Yes
Summary: Steve, Katie and Sam begin their search for Bucky and they uncover something that makes Steve start to question where their priorities as a team should lie. Decision made, the two of them head back to the Tower in New York to join up with the other adventures, and when Katie’s 30th birthday arrives, Steve asks a very differen question…
Pairing: Steve Rogers x OFC Katie Stark
Warnings: Bad language words, smut (NSFW), no under 18s. And a whole lotta teeth rotting fluff…
A/N: I think this is my favourite edit yet, @angrybirdcr​
Disclaimer: This is a pure work of fiction and classified as 18+. Please respect this and do not read if you are underage. I do not own any characters in this series bar Katie Stark and the other OCs. By reading beyond this point you understand and accept the terms of this disclaimer.
Chapter 17
Stark Spangled Banner Masterlist // Main Masterlist
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 Steve had no real leads and as such he, Katie and Sam spent weeks combing through the information that Natasha had provided, using JARVIS to translate the Russian which none of them spoke of course. It was hard work, stressful and gave them nothing of real use either, other than give them a bit more of an understanding of who the Winter Soldier was, so to speak, and then Sam had a brainwave. If Bucky was starting to get his memories back and pieced together that he had been working for Hydra under duress, he might go looking for answers, possibly even revenge.
They decided to start in the nearest Hydra base they knew about from the leaks on the internet, and as such they were now ransacking an old abandoned bank in the financial district in the middle of the night.
What they found wasn’t great- a dozen bodies of dead Hydra agents. Most looked as if they had had their throats crushed apart from one who was sat in a chair, a bullet between his eyes.  From the look, and smell, they’d been there a while.
“That’s an execution.” Sam muttered, nodding at the man who had been shot and Katie looked at him as Steve simply turned and walked from the smaller room, back into the larger corridor. He made his way down, pulling open a thick door into the main vault and stopped dead as he saw some form of chair in the middle, surrounded by restraints and a device that looked like some kind of macabre halo. Steve felt his mouth go dry as he looked at it. I was some perverted form of the chamber he’d been in when they’d administered the serum…
“Looks like they were deleting data when they were interrupted…” Sam bent over to get a closer look at the computer to the side. Katie passed him the device she had brought and he plugged it in and started the data mining. As Steve made his way towards the two of them, Sam frowned and clicked on something that caught his attention and immediately the sounds of tortured screams filled the room. Katie jolted slightly as Sam took a step back, the three of them glancing at the screen which was sat on the desk. And all 3 wished they hadn’t. As there, on the screen Bucky was strapped down the halo-like contraption lowered onto his head.
“Turn it off!” Katie instructed to Sam, who moved to cut the footage immediately but Steve grabbed his arm.
“No…” he said firmly, his eyes fixated on the grim footage in front of him, his chest heaving with anger.
Finally the screams stopped and someone was saying words as they were in Russian but when they finished Bucky slumped down in the chair staring blankly ahead, as he spoke a single sentence, his face and voice completely void of expression and emotion. 
There was a moment of silence when Steve suddenly snapped grabbing the edge of the table and flipping it over with a loud crash, all of the equipment and computers meeting a rather abrupt end along with it. He felt sick, upset, angry…and he couldn’t help but feel this was his fault for leaving his friend behind.
“Steve?” Katie asked anxiously, whilst she watched his shoulders heave with anger.
“Let’s go.” He instructed sternly, already making his way to the exit.
“Steve?” She called again.
“Now.” He bit back.
Steve didn’t speak a word whilst they drove home. Once they were in the apartment he stormed straight through the hall and up the stairs to the bed room. Katie turned to Sam who was hovering in the hall.
“That went well.” he quipped.
Katie sighed, walking into the kitchen and handed Sam a water which he thankfully took, draining it in one go.
“The thing is, Sam…” she ran a hand over her face “It’s gonna get worse, the more we dig, the more we’re going to find.”
“Yeah well, on that note I’m going to go back to the bank, do a bit more digging of my own tonight.” Sam sighed “See if I can find something that would give us an indication as to when exactly Bucky hit the base, might help us piece together a timeline of sorts.”
“Alright, but be careful, yeah?”
“I’m always careful, sugar!” Sam grinned, and Katie rolled her eyes. “Listen, you gonna be ok?”
“Yeah, I’ll give him some time. He’ll come round, he’s just…” she paused searching for the right word before she concluded “sad.”
Sam nodded “Call you tomorrow then, I’m at the VA in the morning but my afternoon is free”
“Will do…oh, and Sam?”
He turned around and Katie threw him the keys to the Q5 as he still hadn’t replaced his car. “Take this, but bring it back in once piece.”
“Cheers dude!” He beamed, catching the keys expertly before he headed out of the door.
Once he was gone, Katie walked over to the sofa and dropped down onto it, pulling out her phone. She knew it was late, but Tony answered straight away.
“Did it work?” She asked instantly.
“Did it work…” Tony snorted “I made the damned device, of course it did. JARVIS took everything off their system…he’s already sifting through and cross referencing… any mention of Barnes in any form he’ll find it.”
“Thanks Tony.”
“There is something he has found thought, that’s kinda interesting, but also very worrying.”
“What?”
“He found an encoded list of locations, locations for HYDRA bases across the globe. Curiosity got the better of me, and I ran a couple of cross checks on the bases that were already captured or infiltrated, and it matches 80%…”
“Yeah, there’s bases out there that didn’t fall… that’s what Fury’s doing, you know this.”
“Well here’s the thing…” Tony sighed “That 80% rallies to around 10 bases. One-Eye-Willy knew about 6, which he is currently working on with SHIELD or whatever they’re called now. The other 4 were unknown, until now.”
“Shit.” Katie sighed. If they had gone unknown, unchallenged, then it was possible that more of Hydra remained than they thought.
“Pretty much what Fury said when I called him.” Tony replied “Anyway, I think it’s time we put the band back together Kiddo…”
She groaned. “Steve already turned Fury down to find Bucky first.”
“Well, for once I’m inclined to agree with the Goth Pirate.”  Tony continued “I think rounding the last of these bastards up is slightly more pressing than Spangles chasing his old school buddy.”
“Don’t call him that…” She sighed, rubbing her hands over her face. 
“Fury says he’ll make contact with Natasha and Clint, no idea how to reach Point Break though. I called his girlfriend, or paramour, whatever, who said he was off chasing something, no idea what, but when he comes back she’s gonna tell him we’re looking for him.”
“I’ll talk to Steve…but I can’t promise anything.”
“If anyone can talk him round it’s you.” He said, his voice adopting a more sympathetic tone “You know, there’s no reason why we can’t look for Barnes along the way. I mean it’s all Hydra, right?”
“Yeah, good point. Let me talk to him. I’ll call you tomorrow, or later today, whatever.”
“No sweat, take care. Love you kiddo.”
“You too Tones”
Katie dropped her phone onto the couch and sighed. Time to tackle Steve. She unzipped her combat boots, shucked them off and headed up the stairs. She gently opened the bedroom door and saw Steve, hair damp from the shower, led on the bed, looking up at the ceiling.
“Hey.” She crawled onto the bed next to him and propped herself up on her elbows so she could look at him.
“Hi.” He rolled his head to accept the kiss she offered as she reached a hand up to twine in the hair at the top of his head. “I’m sorry.” He leaned into her hand like a dog seeking attention. Katie opened her arms to let Steve snuggle into them, like a child, as she rolled onto her back, his head laying on her chest as her hand continued to tangle in his hair.
“Do you think we’re wasting our time? Looking for him?” Steve asked after a moment.
Katie hesitated, choosing her words carefully. “Bucky has been brainwashed and tortured by HYDRA for longer than I’ve been alive. It’s going to take more than saving you from the river to bring back the man you knew” she took a deep breath “I think we’re going to struggle chasing someone as resourceful as he is when he doesn’t want to be found. And we may have another problem…”
“Like what?” He asked, frowning at her.
“I just spoke to Tony. J has been going through the info that we pulled from the servers. Apparently there’s a list of 4 secret Hydra bases that no one knew about, not even Fury, that didn’t go down when we took out SHIELD.”
Steve let out a groan “So now I have to choose, between Bucky and taking down what remains of Hydra…”
Katie kissed his head sympathetically as the turmoil raged within his brain. They couldn’t let Hydra get a foothold again. But he didn’t want to let Bucky down either.
“You know, going after Hydra might help.” Katie spoke softly “I mean, we have nothing other than vague ideas and supposition about where Bucky is or what he has planned next. We might find something along the way. In the meantime, Sam can keep working our current angle and line of thought.”
“You’re right.” he said after a pause “I’ve tried twice to bring these bastards down. I can’t let them slip through my fingers a third time.”
*****
“Gotta say Cap, you’re looking better than last time I saw you.” Tony grnned as they entered the lab in the tower.
“I feel it!” Steve smiled, shaking Tony’s hand.
“What you looking at?” Katie asked, nodding to the screen, taking in the map.
“Got JARVIS running a bit of an analysis on the bases we found out about. Terrain surrounding them, best places to land the jet, potential areas of weakness that kinda thing.” He said, “Could take a while but, best to be prepared with some form of plan I suppose.”
Katie turned to Steve, grinning, about to launch into a rendition of “Star Spangled Man with a Plan” but Steve gave her a filthy look, knowing full well what was going through her mind. She grinned at him innocently and he turned his attention back to Tony.
“Any news on the others?”
“Banner is due back at some point tomorrow. He’s at some kind of Scientist band camp…” Tony waved his hand. “Barton is on his way, but you already know that. As for Nat…well she said she’ll be here when she can…which just leaves Point Break to show, whenever he’s back from riding the rainbow road that is.”
“He’ll turn up.” Katie shrugged “If all else fails I’ll do what he told me to when we needed him.”
“Which was what?” Steve asked, looking at Katie, frowning. As if she knew how to contact him and hadn’t said anything…
“Stand on top of a tall building a shout.” she said, grinning. Steve gave a roll of his eyes as Tony snorted. “Although I think he may have been joking.”
“Maybe we should get him some kind of Bat Signal” Tony mused “but with a hammer instead of a bat.”
“No.” Katie shook her head and Tony pouted at her.
“Why do you always piss on my parade?”
“Because your parade is usually dumb. Look we’re gonna go upstairs and unpack a few things.”
“Sure.” Tony nodded. “Oh, happy said he’ll get your apartment in DC cleared over the next week, and I thought we could go for something to eat tonight. Do the whole…” he waved his hand in a circle motion as he looked back at the screen, “fmily thing.
“Sounds great.” Katie smiled, looking at Steve who nodded, thankful of something ‘normal’ to look forward to, and the pair of them made to leave.
“By the way, I renovated the living floors so your Penthouse has had a bit of a facelift.” Tony said. Katie stopped and turned to face him.
“What do you mean facelift?” She frowned “I liked my floor…”
“Yeah but when I did the rooms for everyone else they got new furniture so I ordered you some too. If you don’t like it you can change it, no big deal. I didn’t change the décor to much…I know how much of a princess you are about people touching your stuff”
“Princess here technically owns forty percent of this tower so…” She flicked him the finger and he rolled his eyes.
“Yeah yeah…there’s a spare suite for you anyway Spangles opposite Thor’s, you know, just in case you get pissed off with her. No one would blame you if you did…”
“You’re a dick.” She rolled her eyes at her brother and turned back towards the elevator.
In all fairness Katie did actually quite like the changes Tony had made. Her penthouse spanned the entire floor below Tony’s whilst everyone else shared a floor a couple of levels down with another Avenger. Perks of ownership, after all. There was a new coffee and cream coloured L shaped sofa in the room, a walnut coffee table replaced the glass one that had been there, and a brand new HD OLED TV adorned the wall opposite, along with a media system. A state of the art sound system was installed and the kitchen was completely new and had been knocked through to the dining area giving them a huge open plan space similar to the layout of the apartment in DC. There was frankly the biggest bed Steve had ever seen in the bedroom and the furniture was sleek, with a slightly smaller TV adorning the wall opposite the bed. The en-suite now sported his and hers sinks along with a double shower, a corner spa tub and there was a smaller bathroom just off the hallway along with another bedroom, a study and a balcony spanned the entire length of the floor, which was accessible from the main bedroom and the kitchen-diner. It overlooked the New York skyline and contained a small patio area and a hot-tub along with some outside furniture.  But true to his word, Tony had kept the colour scheme. Different shades of blue throughout the bedroom, steel grey in the kitchen and warm coffee and walnut colours in the lounge.
Steve loved it.
As promised, late that evening, the two of them accompanied Pepper and Tony out for dinner. They had gone to Anatolia’s, an Italian restaurant on the outskirts of Brooklyn much to Steve’s delight. It had been a really nice evening, the 4 drinking and eating far too much but as Tony had pointed out, things were about to get a little bit crazy so who knew when the next time they would get chance to relax and socialise was.
“Other than your 30th that is.” he said, looking at Katie over his wine.
“So there is something planned…” she grinned.
“Maybe.” Steve shrugged. Oh, he had something planned alright. He’d spoken to Tony about it a week or so ago, the Inventor gleefully agreeing with his idea.
“Man, my little sis is turning 30 in 3 weeks…I feel so old.” Tony continued to grumble.
 “You are!” she teased.
“Yeah but not as old as your boyfriend…”
“Well done, you almost went a full evening without mentioning it.” Steve dead panned, folding his arms.
“You know he’s technically younger than me, Tones.” Katie said “
“What?” Steve looked at her, “How do you work that out.”
“You were born in July 1918 right, went into the ice in, what, March 1945?”
“Yeah…”
“Woke up in May 2012. So when you count how many years you spent actually awake and living, and not taking a cold nap, you’re really only 29 this time round.”
“So Captain America is your toy-boy?” Pepper giggled. Katie shrugged and took a sip of her wine as Tony and Steve looked at one another, both of them wearing expressions of bewilderment.
“Wait, does this mean we can throw a Happy 97 minus 67 party for Spangles next year?” Tony grinned and Steve let out a groan.
“See what you’ve done?” he looked at Katie with exasperation, and she just shrugged.
The night ended with a few drinks in a bar before a car picked them up and the couples both bid each other goodnight before going their separate ways
“That was proper pizza.” Steve said as they walked out of the elevator into their living area, the panel sliding in place leaving the door hidden.
Katie laughed as JARVIS gently flipped on the ambient lighting.  “Well you certainly enjoyed it…getting through 2”
“Yeah, think the last 3 slices were a mistake” he mumbled as she headed into the kitchen. “They’re sitting in me like a brick.”
“Awwww poor baby!” she mocked thickly. “Getting so old you can’t even have a few slices without indigestion.”
“Hey, I’m younger than you, remember?” He laughed as Katie pulled 2 beers out of the fridge handing him one as she glided past him to flop onto the couch.
“I’m gonna regret pointing that out, aint i?” She laughed as Steve nodded.
*****
Katie had a meeting with her Editors and New Business department the next morning and Steve had a job of his own, a different mission that he was fucking nervous as hell about. He asked JARVIS where Tony was, who located him in the large, open plan main common room area of the tower, the one Loki and the Hulk had decimated 2 years previously.
“Tony you got a minute?”
“S'up Cap?”
Steve took a deep breath “I err…” his palms suddenly felt sweaty. “You know I love Katie and…" He cleared his throat before he looked Tony square in the eye, surprised to find the man watching him, warmth across his features.  “She’s the most important thing in my life, and I…well, I wanted to ask for your permission, to ask her to marry me.”
“My permission?” Tony quipped.
“Well I’d normally ask her dad but…”
Tony smiled and glanced down at hands before he looked back at the blonde haired man stood besides him. “You gonna do better than a ‘we can get married if you want’ outside your apartment door?”
Steve let out a sigh and shook his head “she told you about that?”
“In the hospital” Tony smiled.
“Not my finest moment” Steve rubbed at his temple.
“Oh I dunno.” Tony said pushing off the front of the Bar area where he had been leaning. “Given the fact you were inches from death she was pretty upset at the fact she told you to come back with a Tiffany special…”
Steve smiled.
“You got one yet?” Tony asked. “A ring I mean.”
“No.” Steve shook his head.
“Well it just so happens I know one of the consultants at Tiffany.” Tony smiled, and Steve looked at him, his face creeping into a smile as he knew that this was Tony’s confirmation he was giving him his blessing. “Whenever you’re ready, I’ll make a call.“
The two men looked at one another, sharing a silent moment of respect before Tony reached out with his hand and Steve shook it, a shit-eating-grin spreading across his handsome features.
“Oh fuck this, come on Spangles, bring it in. I’m secure enough in my sexuality to hug another man.” Tony sniffed, and Steve stood up off the bar stool with a chuckle, the men exchanging a quick embrace, punctuated by a lot of back slapping.
“For what it’s worth…” Tony smiled as he stepped back, his eyes shining with emotion. “You make her happy, you treat her right, you put her first and I’ve never seen anyone metaphorically slap her back into place as well as you do….sorry, lot of dust in here…” he wiped at his suddenly watering eyes, water that may or may not have been tears before he took a breath and looked at Steve again “I can’t think of anyone else I’d rather grant permission to.”
Steve smiled, his own eyes shining with emotion.
“And I’m pretty sure you’d have gotten it off dad too.” Tony nodded at him and Steve looked at the floor for a second before he glanced back up at him, taking a deep breath.
“Thank you Tony.”
*****
“What is this?” Thor’s voice was loud. “I can’t see them…”
“No you turn it…hang on”  The 4 Avengers in the lab looked at one another, Tony grinning from ear to ear as Jane was trying to explain how to use the video call facility on her phone.
“He’s worse than you!” He grinned up at Steve who merely rolled his eyes as Bruce stifled a grin.
Eventually Thor’s face, or rather his left nostril filled their screen and all of them urged him to move the phone away. Finally he did so, and his handsome face beamed down at us all.
“Greetings!” he smiled “It is good to see you all again, Little Stark you look as radiant as ever.” “Thanks Thor!” Katie laughed as besides her Steve bristled a little bit. 
“Jane says you need my help.”
“Yeah, we got a job Point Break.” Tony said.
“Is this to do with SHIELD and Hydra?” the God’s deep voice rumbled.
“You know about that?” Katie asked.
“Of course, it was all over the news. I watch that now, with Jane” he said, a glint in his eyes, “But that reminds me, I have a bone to pick with both you and the Captain…”
Steve frowned and looked at Katie, the pair of them sharing a glance before they looked back at the screen.
 “I saw you both on the television fighting SHIELD alongside the Birdman…” Thor continued, ignoring Katie and Steve’s laughter as they both thought of Sam’s face if he could hear that nickname, “Why didn’t you call me? You know how much I love fighting.”
“They didn’t send for me either…” Tony said, putting his hand up.
“Call you, do you have a cell phone?” Katie looked at Thor.
“No, what for?”
She didn’t reply, instead she looked away trying not to laugh at the perplexed look on the God’s face
“We have a lot of loose ends to tie up.” Steve spoke, steering the conversation back to the purpose in hand. “Not all of Hydra went down when we took SHIELD out.”
Thor’s face split into a grin. “More fighting?”
“More fighting.” Tony said, as Banner let out a small sigh.
“Why is there always fighting?”
They explained the basics of what was going on to Thor, before he promised to join them as soon as he could and then Banner headed off to shower and to unpack following his trip.
“I’m going to head to the office for a few hours.” Katie said. Steve nodded.
“Tony and I have stuff to do.” he said simply, but met her gaze with a passive one of his own as she glanced at him, arching her eyebrow.
“Ohh…I get it…” she grinned, “You’re sorting my birthday surprise. Cute.” As she turned to go she walked straight into the desk behind her, jabbing the corner harshly into her thigh.
“You alright?” Steve asked, trying but failing to hide the chuckle in his voice at her clumsiness.
“Thanks for your genuine concern.” She grumbled, instantly rubbing where the sharp corner had dug into her. “Shit, that hurt…Jesus fucking Christ…”
"Ooooh, hey. You kiss Spangles with that mouth?” Tony raised an eyebrow at her
“Yes, Tony, I kiss him all over with that mouth.” She glared at him as she rubbed her thigh. “Every inch of –”
Tony clapped his hands over his ears. “Lalalalalalalalala! I can’t hear you!”
Once Katie was out of earshot, Tony turned to Steve “You get it?”
He nodded, holding up his mother’s ring that he had managed to slip of when Katie was sleeping.
“Alright, let’s go.”
They drove the short distance into Manhatten, and Tony parked his car up in a private space behind the department store they were visiting. Steve followed him into the store where they were greeted by a small, grey haired mousy looking man dressed in an immaculate 3 piece suit.
“Mr Stark, Captain Rogers.”
“Hi Robert.” Tony smiled at him, clapping Steve on the shoulder “Take good care of him, he’s shitting himself.”
Steve sighed and shook his head but the inventor had already wandered off to the other side of the store, examining something in one of the glass cases.
“It’s perfectly understandable to be nervous, it’s a big thing.” Robert smiled, gesturing for Steve to follow him. He did, as they walked across the store to a small room at the back. Steve walked in and dropped into a seat. “So, do you have anything specific in mind?” 
Steve took a deep breath, “Something elegant, but flashy enough to be special, I’ve no idea really, other than she prefers white gold to yellow.”
Robert smiled at him, “White gold or platinum. Ok. Any idea on the cut of diamond?”
“Princess.” Steve said, smiling. That he did know, from way before they were even dating.
“Oh my god!” Katie said, looking at the gossip magazine Natasha was reading, as Steve peered up at them from the seat behind his desk. “That’s fucking hideous.”
Natasha snorted “20 carat apparently.”
“Who the fuck needs a 20 carat ring?” Katie shook her head.
“I dunno, not something Tony would buy for Pepper?”
“Nah he isn’t that tacky.” she shook her head “And I’d kick his ass, it’s so…garish.”
“I don’t think the cut helps” Nat said, holding the magazine up “It’s a Brilliant, so looks a bit..”
“Shit?” Katie offered and the girls laughed “Seriously, if I ever have a man who’s ready to propose you better tell him it’s Princess or bust…”
He and Robert chatted for a few moments, Steve assuring him that the budget was healthy, whilst the man headed off into the store and came back with a few options set on a blue velvet tray of sorts. Steve’s eyes were instantly drawn to one in the middle. It was held a large diamond and was set into an elaborate clasp which melted into the band which was studded with smaller diamonds.
“Ahh yes.” Robert smiled as Steve picked it up “That’s one of my favourites. It’s a Tiffany Novo…”
“Sorry, did you say Nova?” Steve’s head jerked up, a smile on his face.
“Novo, Captain.”
Close enough Steve thought as he grinned.
“Princess cut with a Pave set Diamond band in platinum. That one’s a 2.05 carat, but we can do it smaller.”
“No, this one is perfect.” Steve smiled, looking at him.
“Well, that was easy…” Robert quipped and Steve nodded, raising an eyebrow.
“Yeah…” he let out a chortle of a laugh, “you had me at Novo.”
Robert frowned, but didn’t ask for an explanation. “That one there is Sixty-Six thou…”
“Holy shit.” Steve exclaimed, before hastily apologising for his outburst. He knew he had said he had a decent budget but…
“However, Captain, seeing as it’s you, I can shave twenty percent off that, leave my commission.” he man smiled as Steve began to protest “And offer you a further ten percent for Tony being a regular customer.”
“I couldn’t…”
“You guys saved my daughter’s life in New York.” Robert looked at him, smiling softly “She was in the bank.”
Steve took a deep breath and shrugged, a faint flush on his cheeks. “Just doing my job.”
“So am I. So we’ll call it forty, and I’ll throw in an extra eighteen months care package. So she can bring it in to be cleaned, repaired should anything happen to it over the next three years.”
Steve hesitated, it was a lot of money. He knew he had enough, more than enough. His wages from SHIELD had been generous, plus his Army back pay that Katie and Fury had secured for him had been piling up and earning interest, but he still wasn’t used to being able to just flash it around. Plus now he wasn’t technically earning either…but the more he looked at it, the more he just knew it was right. 
And she was worth far more to him than anything money could buy.
“I’ll take it.” He nodded, decision made.
He handed Robert his Ma’s ring, which Katie had had resized to fit properly and Robert nodded, smiling as he slid it onto a measuring cone.
“You’re in luck Captain. We have one that size in stock so you can take it away today. Whilst we’re here, would you like me to give this one a polish?”
“Oh, err, yeah, great.”
He shook hands with the man and headed back into the store where Tony was now leaning over a cabinet, talking to a blonde haired assistant. He pointed at a necklace with an obscene price tag, and she nodded, picking it up and turning around.
“Something for Pep.” he said, gesturing to the gift as he nodded at Steve. “You know, just because.” he frowned “That was fast.”
“Found the perfect one.” Steve smiled “It’s called a Novo”
“Nova?” Tony looked at him, eyebrow raising as he smirked.
“No, Novo…although that’s what I heard too at first.” Steve laughed.
“Huh.” Tony said, as Robert approached them. He opened the box he was holding and reached in for the ring, setting it down on a velvet tray again to show to the men. It was even brighter in the store lights than in the room. Steve heard Tony whistle at the side of him.
“That’s a rock and a half Cap.”
“She’s worth it.” he shrugged, simply. “I just hope she likes it.”
“If she doesn’t we can exchange.” Robert said, as he finished his inspection and after making himself happy the ring was perfect he boxed it up and handed it to Steve in a Tiffany bag.
“Cap, you could propose with a ring pull and she’d say it was perfect.” Tony smiled.
“Now you tell me.” Steve said, handing over his credit card.
*******
“Shit, shit, shit…” Katie was panicking. Her ring was gone. Steve’s Ma’s ring. The one he had given to her at Christmas. The only real thing he had of his mom left. She’d ransacked the bedroom, living room, her office. “No,no…”
She made her way back into the kitchen, looking everywhere, before she headed into the bathroom. Nothing. She collapsed onto the closed toilet seat, her head in her hands as she began to cry when she heard the elevator door open.
Steve stopped as he walked into the living room, frowning at the utter chaos that greeted him. Cushions were all over the place, drawers in the large unit were flung open. Immediately he went on the defensive, knowing it was ridiculous as there was no way anyone could have gotten in here, but still…
“Katie?” he called. Katie’s head jerked up and she wiped her eyes
“Bathroom.” she said back, and he could tell from her tone something was wrong.
“Doll, what’s going on?” He strode into the bedroom and then stepped into the large en-suite. She’d been crying. “Baby?” he crouched in front of her.
“I…I’m so sorry…” Her voice cracked. “But your mom’s ring… I can’t…”
Steve felt a sudden pang of guilt, she was distraught, thinking she had lost it. He hadn’t thought of that.
“No, sweetheart, it’s ok, I’ve got it.”
“You do?” she frowned.
“Yeah.” he reached into his shirt pocket and pulled it out. “I was looking at it when you were asleep last night and thought it could do with a bit of a clean-up so I took it off and Tony took me to a place Pepper takes hers…”
Katie looked at the ring, before she felt her anger simmer over.
“You complete ass Steven Grant Rogers!” she yelled, hitting him in the chest “I’ve spent the last 3 hours out of my mind with worry…”
“I know, I should have told you but I wanted it to be a surprise.” Steve lied, hoping to god for once she wouldn’t see through it “I’m so sorry!”
She snatched it off him, returning it to its home and she glared at him, before looking down at it.
“Well, it does look nice and shiny” she said, admiring it and Steve let out a sigh of relief “Don’t touch my stuff.”
“Your stuff?” he looked at her as she wiped at her face.
“Yes, my stuff.” she repeated petulantly. “You gave it to me, remember. It’s mine.”
He was about to laugh and call her a brat, when there was a loud clap of thunder and a flashing of bright white light, punctuated by various rainbow colours, outside the bedroom window and they both turned their heads to look at it.
“Thor!” Katie said, jumping up and beaming.
“Am I forgiven?” Steve asked, rising to his feet. She turned and looked at him, rolling her eyes at the injured puppy dog eyes he was giving her.
“Pull another stunt like that again and I’m imposing a sex ban for a week.”
“Yes Ma’am.” he grinned, giving her a peck on the lips.
****
Thor’s arrival spurred the Avengers into getting down to some real planning, and when Clint arrived that day too, bringing with him the news that Natasha would be with them by the middle of June- she was on some kind of trip with Fury-those of them present began to take all the information they had, planning their first raid on one of the uncovered Hydra bases, this one being on the outskirts of Seattle.
“Your call Cap.”  Tony looked at Steve, his jaw was twitching as he turned over the pros and cons of hitting the base whilst they were still one down on the team. Eventually he made his decision and looked around the team.
 Suit up…” he said, straightening up “Wheels up in 20”
Behind him Banner groaned.
He needn’t have worried though, there was no need for a code green. In fact, it was a bit of a damp squib. There were minimum guards to take out and all in all it was relatively easy. There were also no computers, just a truck load of paper files which they meticulously boxed up and loaded onto the jet.
Over the next two weeks they hit the remaining unknown basis that they had discovered, and every one of them was the same. They were clearly never used as main strongholds, more like storage facilities if anything. Steve was frustrated, Katie knew that. But as she and Tony pointed out to him, they had a hell of a lot of information to comb through. They liaised with Fury, who had nothing new to add, other than that he would be in touch if his team needed help about the remaining bases in Europe.
As such they spent most of their time filtering through the information they had gotten from the bases, along with the boxes of files that Fury and Hill had pulled from SHIELD. Banner and Katie (when she wasn’t working) set up a simple filing system as they went along, cataloguing each bit of paper information so they knew where to find it in future, and could add to it as they went along.
There wasn’t much to go on, they didn’t find any new information, and nothing on Bucky, but there was one name that continued to crop up time and time again.
“Baron Von Strucker…” Katie said to the team which was congregated in the lab. “I’ve gone through the information available, including what was dumped on the internet when we released all the files…it isn’t pretty reading.”
Clint lounged with his feet up on the desk munching some popcorn. He offered it round and Tony took a hand full.
“Not likely to be where Hydra is involved.” he said, leaning against a desk, chucking the popcorn in his mouth.
Steve who had been flicking through a file clucked slightly with his tongue and shook his head “Says here he trained with Jasper Sitwell at the Preparatory Academy.”
Tony began choking and at first Katie thought it was reaction to the fact that Hydra had an academy but she soon realised, as he was pointing at Clint with a disgusted expression on his face that it was the popcorn. She grinned- Clint like his popcorn laced with cayenne pepper.
“What is wrong with butter and salt?” Tony gasped as Clint explained what was on the corn through his laughter. Thor reached over curiously and took a handful before declaring, much to Clint’s annoyance, that he enjoyed the spicy snack.
“He had his fingers in a lot of SHIELD pies” Katie continued “He was running the SHIELD STATION, which is the Scientific Training and Tactical Intelligence Operative Network, an R&D facility which was established to conduct investigations on the material retrieved from the ground during the battle of New York, you know, the shit Fury said he had destroyed?”
“Alright.” Steve nodded “Dig up what you can on it and then we’ll go from there. From the sounds of it he seems like the one we should be focussing on.”
Katie nodded.
“But not tonight.” Tony said, looking at Steve “I think we deserve a break, especially seeing as it’s someone’s 30th tomorrow.”
The room cheered and Katie rolled her eyes “Yeah yeah…don’t remind me.”
*****
Katie woke the next morning to soft kisses peppering the side of her neck and a deep burn growing at her centre as she was slowly pulled to consciousness. She let out a low moan and felt the lips at her throat spread into a sly smile
“You dreaming about me?” her Soldier whispered.
She bit her lip, arching her back and leaned into him as his hand splayed on her stomach, pulling her closer before she felt his fingers sliding down gently to the space between her legs. She didn’t say a word, she couldn’t. It was all she could do to simply groan as he gently pushed two fingers inside her, before he moved to massaging her spot. She pulled her legs together suddenly, thighs tightening as the muscles in her core clenched.
“You want more?” he asked, voice slow and deep.
She nodded eagerly, moving so that she was lay on her back and finally opened her eyes.
Steve gently moved, so his knee was positioned between her legs, sliding his T-shirt over her head before one hands moved up her body, tracing her ribs before he started to caress her breast, the other fingers continued to stroke inside, making her groan more and more. He placed a soft kiss on her jawline and smiled at her.
“Happy birthday, Gorgeous.”
His words undid her, and she let out a sound that was halfway between a gasp and a squeal, feeling for him under the sheets “Steve…” Every inch of her was on fire and he wanted him. “Please…” she begged, her voice catching as he moved over on top of her fully, shoving his boxers down and she let out a long shaky moan as he entered her.
“Good?” he asked, his breath a whisper and she nodded eagerly as he began to move. His thrusts were slow but deep and powerful, every roll of his hips sent his pelvis rocking up against her spot.
It didn’t take long at all, she was so close already and Steve watched her face, not wanting to miss the moment.
“Fuck…” Her head completely dropped backwards as her core spasmed again and then she came, hard, her orgasm rolling over her in such a way it had her clinging to Steve, crying out a strangled cry as he too reached his peak, her name tumbling from his lips.
The minutes passed as they lay curled in silence, completely blissed out and relaxed, hearing only each other’s gradually steadying breaths.
Steve’s hand gently stroked the arm that was draped over his abdomen before he gently moved her to one side, sitting up. He had things to do.
“Hey…” she began to protest before he smiled.
“I’m going to make you breakfast”
“You are?”
“Of course, it’s your birthday” He chuckled, from the edge of the bed where he was pulling on a pair of sweats.
"Pancakes,” she muttered hopefully.
He laughed. “Yup,” he said before lowering his lips onto hers. They shared a long, deep kiss that left them grinning like idiots as he pulled away, hopping off the bed and pulling on a t-shirt before leaving the room.
Katie stretched out and glanced over at the clock on the bedside table. It was half 9. A perfectly reasonable time to wake up on her birthday. And the best bit was, she had an entire day of being a spoilt birthday brat ahead of her! Steve was taking her to Coney Island in the afternoon, he had been dying to take her back to Brooklyn for ages and they’d picked today to go after the team had decided to take a break from the non-stop research and missions. Then later in the evening there was some form of meal booked, although where she had absolutely no idea. She’d been trying to catch everyone out about it for weeks but failed, miserably.
She was just about to get out of bed and into the shower when she heard her phone vibrating on the nightstand beside her bed. She reached over for it, and rolled her eyes. It was Tony.
“Happy birthday kiddo! How does it feel to be officially old?”
“You still got fourteen years on me, you dick!” she said, grinning before she yawned slightly “Why are you ringing me when you’re, what? A floor away?”
“Wasn’t sure if you’d be up or not.”
“Well there’s no worries on that account as for my birthday Steve got me a new alarm clock.”
“An alarm clock?” Tony said, his tone flat
“Yeah.” she said, biting her lip as she fought to keep myself from laughing “His penis.”
There was a pause “That’s gross.” Tony groaned and Katie laughed as he continued to complain “I mean it’s bad enough knowing that you two…you know, without being given some form of mental image like that…”
“Oh quit your whining!” she grinned “When you bringing me my present?”
“Ah well, you’ll have to come get it, it’s a bit big.”
“Big?” I said “It’s not a 16 foot teddy bear is it?”
It was his turn to laugh “No, although, speaking of big, stuffed animals, what did Cap actually get you?”
“You’re hilarious, and I’ve no idea. He’s making me breakfast at the moment.”
 “More sausage?” he said sardonically.
“Pancakes, actually” she replied “Which is why I need to go and have a shower before he eats them all himself…”
“Alright, come up when you’re ready…” he said. “Not going anywhere…”
By the time she made her way into the large open plan living area, Steve had already completed 2 stacks of pancakes (his miles bigger than hers), a plate of bacon and was just setting 2 glasses of orange juice down on the breakfast bar in front of the 2 plates. He looked up and smiled, she was dressed casually for a day at the fair, tight jeans, boots and long white top, over which she wore an open beige half-sleeved cardigan, and her hair was pulled up into a high, messy pony tail. She looked beautiful as ever.
“You look lovely.” He said, pressing a kiss to the side of her head as she sat down. “So, how does it feel to be old?” He could barely get the words out without laughing, and she simply shook her head at his poor attempt at a joke
“You’re such a jerk!” She rolled her eyes, as he grinned.
They ate breakfast, and then like the big child she was she demanded to know where her presents were so Steve took her hand and led her into the living room where they were laid out on the coffee table.
She opened her gifts one by one, a few items of clothing, a pair of earrings, a new set of wireless earphones that she had mused over buying and then decided not to, a gorgeous white and rose gold diamond bracelet and a leather bound edition of the Wizard of Oz book to replace the one she had lost in Malibu.
“I saw that and couldn’t resist.” He grinned, as she grinned back “oh and here…”
This was the big one. He held out the envelope and Katie looked at him, gently taking it before she slid a finger under the top to rip it open. Steve watched as she pulled out the piece of paper and for the second time that morning her mouth dropped open in surprise. It was a print out of an itinerary leaving the 30th November and returning on the 14th December, with the locations being cities in Europe- Munich, Paris, Venice, Bruges, Dublin and London.
“2 nights in each…3 in London” Steve said as she glanced up at him, unable to speak “I didn’t know what else to do and I know you’ve wanted to go back to Europe for ages, and how much you love Christmas and the markets and stuff…”
“Oh my god, Steve… ” She glanced down at the paper, finally finding her voice. “This is amazing! I don’t know what to say.” Steve felt the familiar pink tinge growing around his cheeks before she threw her arms around him, “Thank you. Thank you so much.”
He smiled and then kissed her head before he pulled away. “Shall we go and see what outrageously flashy present Tony has for you?”
“Do you know what is is?” she asked.
“I might do…” he smiled as she stood up. There was no might about it. He knew what it was. And he knew she was going to lose her shit about it.
The two of them made their way up to Tony’s main living floor, her hand in his.
“You now I’m excited to finally take you to Coney Island.” He smiled as the door to the elevator shut.
“Excited?”
"Yeah, it’s just I watched Bucky take so many dates around there and I spent most of my time wondering when I was gonna’ get to take my own gal.” He admitted, bashfully.
"God, you’re adorable,” she smiled at him as the doors opened.
“Happy birthday!” Both Tony and Pepper chimed and she grinned, stepping out and into Pepper’s arms before Tony swept her into a hug.
“Well I don’t see any huge stuffed toys so…” she looked around and Pepper snorted.
“I talked him out of it.”
Tony handed her a small box and Katie looked at him.
“This isn’t big.”
“Brat.” Tony rolled his eyes and she smirked. She pulled the ribbon of the box, took the lid off and stared at the content inside. And as it dawned on her what it was she looked up at him, then to Steve, who was watching her, an amused expression on her face, then back at the box her eyes wide.
“You didn’t?” she looked up at her brother, her mouth dropping open.
Tony shrugged “Well you buried your Range Rover and gave away the Audi so…”
She looked at him for a split second before she squealed, threw herself at her brother and then turned on her heels, running.
Steve and Tony both watched her go before they turned to one another and followed her.
“You ready?” Tony asked.
“As I’ll ever be.” Steve nodded.
“Huh.” Tony nodded.
“Ready for what?” Pepper asked.
“Oh, they’re going to Coney Island.” Tony said as they headed down in the elevator, waving away her question.
Way ahead of them Katie burst into the parking lot and skidded to a halt. There, in all its glory was her own brand new Chevrolet Camero Exorcist, the car she had dreamed of since she was a teenager. It was gorgeous. Deep blue with cream leather interior. She unlocked it and sat in the driver’s seat, taking in the smell. The head rests were stitched with the Stark Industries logo and the dash was awash with every single button and function you could imagine.
“Fire it up.” a voice said, and Tony looked at her through the open driver’s side door. She did as she was told and grinned at the beautiful growling noise it made and squealed, feeling the leather of the steering wheel.
She turned to Steve who was stood leaning slightly on the door watching her.
“Hop in soldier!” she grinned, and he smirked, walking to the passenger side.
“Have fun…” Tony said, before he turned to Steve and looked at him, giving him a significant nod and a clap on the shoulder. Steve smiled back and then sank into the leather seat. He had to admit the car was nice. Katie pulled out of the space and gave a groan that was far too arousing than it should have been.
“Oh my god…” she murmured, as she pulled onto the street. The car purred and handled like a dream. As she put her foot down it sped forward, throwing them both back in the seat.
“Easy baby!” Steve chuckled as she laughed, speeding over Brooklyn Bridge. “You’re gonna get a ticket…”
She shrugged, not actually caring at that point.
*****
Steve wound up, pitching the ball which sliced through the bottles on the stall diagonally, knocking them completely off their pedestal and sending the ball through the back of the canvas booth as it ripped a hole clean through it. Steve bit his lip, not realising how hard he had thrown it and turned to look at Katie. She was doubled over, laughing at the look on his face, and then laughed even harder at the expression on the attendants face as he glanced from Steve to the bottles on the floor, to the hole in the canvas and back again.
“Which one do you want?” Steve asked, placing his arm around her as the attendant indicated for her to pick a toy.
“I think I’ll have that one…” she said, pointing to a brown bear that was dressed in a Captain America outfit, complete with helmet and shield.
Steve shot her a look and she held out her hands, protesting her innocence. “What?”
“Good choice ma’am” the attendant said, handing over the bear “He’s an all American hero is our Captain.”
“That he is.” She grinned “He’s incredibly handsome too I believe.” 
Steve cut her off as he thanked the man before steering her away as he checked his watch. They had about an hour before they needed to get back. 
“Come on, let’s take a walk.”
He led them both down to the sea front, pausing to get a hot dog each, and they walked, eating in comfortable silence. The sun was still warm in the sky, the sea was by their side and Katie was lost in her own little world until she realised Steve wasn’t besides her. She turned to look for him, wondering where he was and then spotted him a few yards behind her, crouched on one knee on the well-worn wooden slats of the boardwalk.
“I told you I was gonna ask you properly one day.” He cleared his throat, looking up at her with those blue eyes she loved so much as he held out his hand, opening the small box that was inside. The sun bounced off the surface of the ring and she couldn’t see it fully but she clamped her hands over her mouth. “I know we were a little too late to be each other’s firsts, well in some ways anyway…” he said, and Katie let out a choked giggle. “But I want all my lasts to be with you. Will you marry me, sweetheart?”
“And I told you I’d say yes one day!” She said, her voice cracking with emotion as she removed her hands shakily from her mouth and nodded. “Yes. Yes of course I’ll marry you.”
A few of the by-standers who had been watching started cheering as Steve jumped up, everything around him bar his girl faded to nothing as she threw herself into his arms. He picked her up, laughing like an idiot, his strong arms round her as he twirled her round, the pair of them sharing fast, rapid dizzying pecks on the lips as he held her off the floor. Eventually he set her on her feet, an utterly stupid grin plastered on his face as he looked at her, a grin that wasn’t going to fade any time soon.
“Do I errr have to put it on myself?” She spluttered a laugh, raising an eyebrow.
“What, oh, yeah, right…” he said, stepping back and removing the ring from its home, fumbling slightly before he managed to get it out, holding it in his right hand, but before he could do anything else she grabbed his left hand which contained the box before he could slip it back into his pocket.
“You bought me a Tiffany?” She almost shrieked as she looked at the distinctive blue-green box in her hand.
“Yeah, and if you give me a second you can see it.” Steve chuckled at her. Biting her lip she held out her left hand and he slid the ring onto her finger and she let out a loud gasp.
“Stevie, it’s beautiful.” She whispered, looking at it before she took his face in both her hands. “I love it.”
“I love you.” he murmured into their kiss. He grinned and dropped and arm round her shoulder as they made their way back down the boardwalk, back to the car, Katie’s eyes almost permanently transfixed on her ring.
“You definitely like it?” Steve asked, suddenly feeling nervous as he nodded to her hand
“It’s perfect, but how did you know?” she looked up at him as they reached the other side of the road
“Do the words, ‘big, fuck off Tiffany diamond’ ring any bells?” he looked at her, referencing their conversation outside his flat a few months ago.
“Not about the tiffany.” she shook her head “But the cut. It’s a princess one, the one I’ve always wanted.
“I have a good memory” he smiled, “And I picked that particular one because its a design called a Novo. I thought he said Nova at first.”
Katie laughed as she snaked her arms round his neck. “For the record, this was much a much better proposal than we can get married if you want….”
“Are you ever gonna let me forget that?” he sighed as he leaned down.
“I think you’ve redeemed yourself…” she said as her lips met his.
****
“Tony suggested we have a drink before we meet everyone.” Steve stepped into the elevator and Katie looked at him before she smoothed down her white dress.
“So where are we meeting everyone?”
“It’s a surprise, stop being so impatient.”
“Errr. You can’t tell me off, it’s my birthday.”
“Well stop asking so many questions and just enjoy your night!”
She didn’t get chance to reply as then the elevator doors opened onto the main party floor and there was a loud eruption of noise, making Katie jump.
“SURPRISE!”
Her mouth dropped open as she looked around the room. It was decorated in banners, balloons, and now paper streamers from the party poppers that had just been exploded by their friends. Clint, Thor, Bruce, Rhodey, Sam, Maria Hill, Tony, Pepper, Lawson, Evans, a whole host of people that worked in the offices and a familiar copper haired assassin stepped forward to greet her.
“Miss me?” Nat quipped.
 “I can’t…” Katie began to speak, as she hugged her friend back “Oh my God…”
“JARVIS can you record this?” she heard Tony speak. “For this is a monumental occasion. She’s actually speechless…”
Katie turned to look at Steve who had been watching her reaction with a smile on his face. He loved seeing her happy, and he was pretty sure he’d managed to achieve that several times over during the day.
“Did you organise this?” she asked
“Why do you sound so surprised?” he chuckled, stepping forward to kiss her cheek “I had a little help but yeah, it was my idea. Happy Birthday baby.”
Before she could reply Natasha suddenly spoke very loudly. 
“What is that?”
“What?” Katie asked, although she knew full well what Natasha was talking about.
“Errrr that?” She grabbed at Katie’s left hand.
The room fell silent.
“What does it look like?” Katie grinned at her
“Holy fucking shit.” Steve heard Clint chuckle as he slid his arm round his fiancées waist and the two of them exchanged a smile.
“We’re getting married” Steve grinned, finally tearing his eyes from Katie to look round the room. There was a pause and he locked eyes with Tony who winked at him before there was a flurry of noise and activity as everyone surged forward to congratulate them.
Tony reached them first and the two men shared a manly hug, which included lots of back slapping before he dropped a kiss to his sister’s cheek as Katie felt a hand grab hers. Natasha scrutinised her newest piece of jewellery before she looked up at Steve.
“You picked that all by yourself?” she looked up at Steve.
“I’m not completely useless” he rolled his eyes.
“I’m impressed Rogers,”
Sam clapped Steve on his back and as the two men began to banter, Tony pulled his sister into his side.
“Congratulations Kiddo.” He said, looking down at her hand “Looks even better on.”
“You’ve seen it?” She frowned.
“I may or may not have taken him to Tiffany’s…” Tony shrugged. “But I promise he picked it all by himself”
“So you knew he was gonna ask me?”
“He asked my permission.” Tony sniffed. “Well I might not be Dad but…”
Katie noticed his eyes were shining and she smiled at him as he continued.
“I want you to know,” Tony’s voice cracked slightly “I couldn’t be prouder of you, or love you more if you were my own.”
 “Stop it, you’re making me cry!” Katie exclaimed, the tears in her own eyes gently spilling out as he pulled her into huge hug and she pressed her face into his chest. Eventually she stepped back, the pair of them wiping their eyes and Tony took the opportunity of a distraction, turning to a waiter.
Steve, who had been watching the two siblings saw the emotional exchanged and he stepped forward, as Tony was yelling about champagne for a toast.
“You alright?” Steve asked, gently wiping a tear off her cheek before he slipped his arms around her waist.
“Never been happier.” she beamed, honestly, her hands winding round his neck “ I know I said last year was the best birthday ever but this has smacked it straight out of the park.”
“Glad to hear it.” he smiled, leaning down to kiss her “I love you.”
“God job, seeing as I’m gonna be your wife.” she teased, her hand tangling in the back of his hair.
“Yeah…” he said, the shit eating grin spreading across his face again as he contemplated the words. His wife. “Yeah, you are”
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Chapter 19
**Original Posting**
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p,,, p l e a s e ? I mean, please don't feel pressured to tell us about Herc either though!!! but if you want to ramble about her I'll very happily listen,,,,, as a greek mythology buff with fate brain rot your Herc makes me,,,, very happy,,,,, 🥺
HECC YEAH!
Alright, so as a disclaimer, she looks Like That(tm) because I’ve had Heracles as an OC since I was like an 11yo, so LONG before I even knew Fate existed and I’m not planning on changing the way she looks to look more like FSF/FSN Herc.
I also think that the armor I already have designed on her looks closer to Achilles/Jason/Asclepius/Odysseus’s more mecha-centered looks for Fate Greek Servants.
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Next, I’ve established that the reason she is female is two separate reasons, and this has to do with compatibility for Roleplay:
When I did roleplay with others, I just had it set that she was from Musashi’s timeline and she isn’t actually the Heracles/Alcides of our timeline.
For my personal writing, it’s like an Artoria situation where history chose to remember her as a man because misogynistic Ancient Greece being like, ‘well there’s no way a woman could be a child of Zeus and this powerful and skilled at being in charge, so you must actually be a man’.
Second Disclaimer: no one has permission to take my designs and recreate them or use them for RP or fanfics.
SO listed below are the major points about her history in this verse and also how she currently operates as a Servant!!
In her history:
Same song and dance as the beginning where her powers surfaced at a young age, so Chiron found her and took her in to train her to be a hero. However, the change-up here is that Zeus gifted Heracles a portion of his power when she was born because he had the intention of this child being the hero that would guide Greece into a new age as his tickcet for his bet with Hera (this was in the 12 Trials original writing). Basically she never had a choice on whether or not she would be a hero.
When she traveled to Thebes in order to attempt to enter the Thebian Army, a whole situation happened with a coup and an attack with a hydra from Lernaea that got lured to Thebes from a nest by the people doing the coup... It was an entire thing. Heracles defeated the hydra and helped identify the traitor guards, so she was able to prove herself to Queen Eurydice and King Creon, who immediately had her married to their son Megara (below).
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(he may have been in line for the Thebian throne and an incredibly skilled warrior, but he was THE Malewife.)
A bit before she moved to Thebes, when she was staying in Athens, Eurystheus met her and fell in love with her, but when she rejected his feelings that was when Hera came to him and ‘chose him as her champion’ so she could start her dirty ass scheme.
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Heracles had a happy and loving marriage with Megara and they had one daughter and two sons. She would frequently go out with the Argonauts, but always came home to them as soon as she got back on shore.
When the Hera Snake Shit(tm) happened, Heracles was... broken. After the fact, the shock and grief made her go mad all over again until she dragged herself to Thebes and tried to convince Eurystheus to execute her, but because he was in cahoots with Hera he forced Heracles to the 12 Trials instead to ‘redeem’ herself... and this shit lasted 12 years, btw. So that’s 12 years of retraumatizing herself by being forced to do these impossible feats to be forgiven for the murders she was forced by Hera to commit... on top of Hera also sabotaging the Trials wherever she could.
When Heracles completed the initial 10, Eurystheus tricked her into two more, and after completing those two she snapped and nearly killed him, screaming at him to free her. It was then that Eurystheus bitched out and confessed everything to Heracles; Hera’s hatred, her whole plan... all of it. Heracles then stormed her ass out of Mycenae and Thebes and never returned.
She spent the rest of her life until her death by Nessus being cruel, cold, and tyrannical. Heracles had 1 (one) last biological child that she left with a king who would eventually raise that child to found Sparta (Leonidas’s ancestor), but the rest of her very numerous children were all actually orphaned or less fortunate children that she adopted so they could claim the title of ‘child of Heracles’ to help themselves get ahead in life (this is where the Heracleidae came to be). Even so, she usually left them on their own and didn’t open herself to them as a mother-figure.
Her life as a Servant:
She may have manifested as an Avenger class, but this is because of Megara becoming a part of her soul and manifesting with her as the manifestation of her hatred for the gods; he’s made the active choice to turn himself into the arrow meant to kill Hera.
If it weren’t for Megara bonding with her Spirit Core, Heracles would qualify for Grand Berserker class. Because of this, Heracles still has a Madness Enhancement factor that will kick in when she encounters a god. Very similar to when Penthisilea goes buckwild at the mention of Achilles, except it only activates and makes her black out when she is face-to-face with and aware that someone is a god.
Despite being an Avenger, she has an incredibly sweet disposition, especially towards kids. A habit from her life that stuck with her as a Servant is that if she sees a child (Heroic Spirit or not) who has no parents or awful parents, she WILL adopt them and start calling them her child, and no, not in the creepy weird m*mmy k*nk way, foh. In some cases, she’ll just adopt someone because they look like they could be her child. One fucking hilarious instance of this is that she has adopted Archer Emiya even though he gripes all the time that they look the same age physically. Does she care?? NO, that’s her son, babey!
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Her Noble Phantasms are the almost the same as FSF Archer Alcides, especially Reincarnation Pandora and King’s Order... and Reincarnation Pandora is actually the reason why she would up contracting with Goetia. But she also has the manifestation of all 12 Trials, albeit in a different form than what Archer Alcides can bring them forth as, and this is because by some handiwork by Daedalus, Heracles can alter the King’s Order to adapt to whatever situation she needs them for.
ex: Cerberus can become a motorcycle aside from also being a three headed hellhound and the famous Lernian Hydra can turn into a Mercedes Benz aside from also being the fuck-off giant Kinghidorah.
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Daedalus messing with Heracles’s Noble Phantasms is the most shown in her (Daedalus is a woman in this verse bc fuk u) alteration of Nine Lives to be a multi-adaptable weapon with nine different functionalities that Heracles can flip them to at a moment’s notice. These alternate forms include: bow, twin swords, double-ended spear, polearm, long barreled rifle, twin short arms, bludgeon, battering ram, and can even conform to the braces on her arms and become gauntlets (yes, her and Ruler Martha would vibe).
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(I realize that this isn’t the best design, I’m still working on drawing weapons)
Oh, I almost forgot about her other non-combatant quirk: she fucking LOVES blond men. If a grown dude is a blond and NOT a Greek-- regardless of anything else about their physical appearance-- it cranks their attractiveness scale up by at least 2 points for her. Goetia, Fionn, Arthur/Artoria, Gawain, Kintoki, Gilgamesh (he’s on thin fuckin ice), Jekyll, Goredolf... none of them are safe.
She also very much loves modern era fashion and dressing up. Heracles quickly befriends a lot of the female Servants/staff and goes on periodic ladies nights out with them.
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