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nathabat · 6 months

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Can you write about how Syzoth and the reader meet and eventually fall in love? Thank you!

oh my god YES ofc anon, this fills my brain w so many thoughts™,,,

✰ content: ## SFW , fluff with light angst (mention of Syzoth's previous family, his loss, Shang Tsung's bullshit no offense baby girl) , probably barely proofread. I speak more casually here because it's a lot of personal hcs LOL. GN!reader, you/your pronouns used.

Syzoth's romance would be THE definition of a slow burn. Meeting him with Cage and the others doesn't really speed that up, but he certainly learns to really appreciate you as a fixture of the group when you help him mourn and wrap his head around his loss. It's really abrupt, so he needs to take his time coping with the knowledge before he even thinks about taking someone else romantically. So he'd value someone with patience and boatloads of empathy. Even if you were a bit awkward when comforting him, he'd manage to find a bit of charm in your ramblings in attempt to soothe his troubled mind.

Of course it's not like you seek him out right off the bat either, so it's a lot of mutual pining as well when yours and his feelings come to light. Syzoth would feel a little guilty, like he's betraying the memory of his lost loved ones by seeking out a human of all things. I like to think Cage plays wingman- and his version of that is forcing as much proximity as possible. Like orchestrating plans just to ditch you two so you're alone for HOURS, and when he comes back he coughs really loudly to announce his presence.

"What? I didn't know what you two love birds would be getting up to while i was gone! Just had to make sure I wasn't walking in on anything scandalous-" (please hit him for me)

Jokes aside, he does really well at teaching Syzoth about "human courtship" and dating culture, and to boost the poor guys confidence. You're like a beacon of pure light and joy to Syzoth, you picked him up when he was down, how could he ever be worthy of you? How could he even repay your kindness at all???

Syzoth does his best at dropping hints after he realizes you've been oblivious to his courting and attempts at wooing you. Turns out, offering you a piece of his roasted swamp creature snack isn't the sweetest gesture- cut him some slack, he's still learning. He'll lay compliments on HEAVY, and he's surprisingly keen to most details of you as a person, but also generally of your appearance. Like if you trimmed an inch off your hair, he compliments how much shinier your hair is after the loss of your split ends. Ignoring the fact that it sounds slightly backhanded

New shirt? He wants to know why you got it. He thinks that certain colour brings out the hues of your eyes! (he thinks that with everything you wear. I think he's just in love with your eyes) New tattoo or piercing? He really wants to take a good long look at it, hear your thoughts and what drove you to such artistic choices, and gushes about how much he adores your self expression.

"It is a beautiful thing, how open you are I mean.. It's like you bare a piece of yourself to the world. I really like it."

He is always so incredibly sincere, flustering the second you also get embarrassed by his words. He isn't a poet, you just make him feel profound and beautiful things.

The first time he properly asks you out, he's nothing short of a nervous wreck. With his clammy hands and shifty eyes, quietly asking if you'd like to accompany him to an Outworld festival. The second he hears a yes from your lips, he's brightening like a star and thanking you. he's not sure why, but he just feels so grateful and lucky for such an opportunity!

Th evening is nothing short of perfect, Syzoth glued to your side like a protective force, his tension easing only when you grasp his hand and point excitedly at some merchant stand that's boasting the cutest trinkets ever. He's smiling wide under his mask as you tug him forward, squeezing your hand gently as his thumb rubs over your knuckles. His heart is melting in his chest when you make him try on a hair pin. His hair is much too short to hold it, and it almost clatters to the ground if you two didn't fumble to catch it- it's a pretty ornament, but he ends up getting you a gorgeous hand crafted necklace.

A beautiful white jade circular pendant held to the chain by a silver frame of koi fish. He thinks it's stunning, even more so as you bite your cheek to contain your excited ramblings as the cold metal grazes the skin of your neck, followed by the warmth of his careful hands as he fastens it in place <3

Maybe you don't kiss on the first date and that's more than okay, because the mere second you had kissed him for the first time, you swore he turned bright red and looked rather faint... It's probably best to ease him into such affectionate gestures.

☄. *. ⋆

#🫧. sfw #mk1 #mk1 2023 #mortal kombat #mortal kombat x reader #mortal kombat 1 #syzoth #mk reptile #syzoth mk #syzoth mk 1 #syzoth x reader #reptile x reader #mk x reader

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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cookinguptales · 1 year

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nandorisms said: I don't think it was ever going to work in the first place. Freddie was a bandaid. A last-ditch effort at trying to have a normal life outside of Nandor and his clusterfuck of a found family. But he isn't normal and hasn't been for years. Freddie was Guillermo trying to convince himself that he could move on, and Marwa was Nandor's effort to convince Guillermo to stay.

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tbh, I agree.

I think that Freddie very much was an "I don't need them, I don't need any of them" solution for Guillermo while he was in London.

Like... Guillermo was at his most loyal in s3. Like distressingly loyal sometimes. And what did that get him? At his absolute highest moment of happiness, he's shoved in a fucking box and mailed across the ocean. No one comes to save him, no one is there to comfort him. He has a moment in that box where he truly fears death, and he is despondent. He realizes that he has dedicated his entire life to people who (he believes) would not do the same for him, and he has in the process alienated his family and all the other humans who might have loved him.

Then he does live but he is utterly alone. He's away from the house and the very meager support system he'd created for himself, Nandor does not come for him, and Nadja seems to have largely abandoned him to his own devices while she did Council stuff.

So he's alone for the first time in his life, both physically and emotionally, and he meets this guy. And this guy talks to him and says nice things to him and doesn't actively abuse him, which puts him miles above most people he knows. So Freddie becomes really, really easy for Guillermo to romanticize. He's another option to the insanity his life has become, and one that is at that moment very attractive.

I think at that point, Freddie really comes to symbolize all the things Guillermo can have if he chooses to be human. This is a human man who thinks that Guillermo is normal and likes the "normal" version of Guillermo. Guillermo can go on daytime dates with this guy. He doesn't have to worry about being killed when he goes out with him. Freddie treats him like a normal human would -- which doesn't quite have the highs that Guillermo has come to expect, but not the lows, either.

Freddie is a guy that Guillermo could bring home to his family, which is another thing that Guillermo is strongly prioritizing in s4 after his experience in London. Which is one reason why it's so fascinating that even after he successfully came out to his family, it doesn't appear that he ever told them about Freddie. Was he just waiting for the right time? Or was there something subconsciously holding him back...

Because the thing is... when Guillermo finally makes it back to Staten Island, he realizes he was wrong. Nandor never meant to abandon him; if anything, Nandor believes that Guillermo abandoned him. Nandor immediately offers him this place of honor at his side, and it's something new. It's not professional and it's not romantic and Guillermo allows himself to throw himself into it because it doesn't upset the very delicate balancing act he currently has in his head.

And then... the others follow suit. Baby Colin comes to love his caretakers, and Guillermo clearly cares about him back. His sniping with Laszlo eventually calms down to a place of mutual respect, as far as childrearing goes. Nadja finally comes to trust him enough to help her manage the club (a bad choice, considering they are very similar in all the worst ways) and they have that really lovely bonding moment over family.

Guillermo, in other words, is being presented with a third option. Not the dismissive vampires from before and not the allure of normalcy, but a vampiric world in which he is ultimately respected, if not completely accepted as one of their own.

But Guillermo is loyal to a fault and he couldn't give up this fantasy of what Freddie could be to him -- someone who loved him, someone who he could be normal with, someone he wouldn't have to sacrifice his family for, someone who would finally, finally put him first. Until it becomes painfully obvious that Freddie would never be that person and Guillermo was only ever romanticizing a relationship just as toxic as all the ones he'd had previously.

And I think that that point Guillermo really had to come to terms with what he wanted and what he was capable of. I do really wish that the show had followed that character arc a little closer (Guillermo realizing that his human parts and his supernatural parts were at odds with each other and he was going to have to make some hard choices) but I think you can see that in his final choice.

Guillermo, to put a long story short, chooses a fourth option. He's given up on Freddie handing him his happiness and he's given up on Nandor handing him his happiness. He's finally chosen to throw himself bodily into the world of vampirism, giving up on his human potential and demanding full vampiric acceptance, and he's going to make that life himself.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We'll see if it works.

And god, Marwa is a whole different post. I have a lot of thoughts about the way that Nandor thinks of his wives (and Guillermo, to a lesser extent) as extensions of himself, his to control, possess, and manipulate -- but how the thing that he's really most attracted to is rebellion and the ability to think for oneself. And how that also tied in with how he saw Freddie as an extension of Guillermo and therefore something that he needed to possess as well.

lmao they're both so bad at this.

#nandermo #replies #wwdits #I'll write the nandor meta later maybe #wwdits meta

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fonulyn · 11 months

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For the fic ask game, how about 5, 20, and 21?

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

usually i hang onto ideas and the hope i might one day maybe do them lol, but there's a few I ditched and am 99% never gonna write.

okay so, i had this idea for an au where the zombies never happen, Leon starts in RC as a rookie cop, and there he meets Claire and they become fast friends. at the same time, he meets an obnoxious and annoying firefighter called Chris on a lot of the scenes, and it's hate at first sight :'D well, not quite, but they get off on the wrong foot and Chris is kinda obnoxious because he recently had to come back to his hometown from the big city, bc he ran into some troubles there. he hates it in RC, he never wanted to be back, but at least he gets to be with his old crew (Jill and ...idk, other people lol). but yeah he's dealing with a lot of shit, and it makes him grumpy, and he also doesn't know how to flirt so his attempts may backfire and annoy Leon.

so anyhow after a bigger job they sleep together, kinda warm up to each other, Leon thinks he may have misjudged Chris. goes to bring Chris coffee to the fire station, then talks with someone, there's misunderstandings and Leon "finds out" (wrong) that Chris is dating Jill. Leon thinks Chris is a homewrecker and ices him out and there goes their budding relationship. Leon tries to date other people, doesn't rly like anyone, bc is still pining after Chris, and ...somehow they sort it out.

in one version Leon had a dog who loved Chris and it was awkward when they bumped into each other bc the dog wanted to run to Chris and Leon did not, lol.

i've got a jumbled outline and some dialogue snippets written but yeah this fic is never happening. if someone wants to adopt it, go for it!

20. What’s a favorite title for a fic you’ve written?

I don't even remember 90% of the titles I've given fics :'D I have this one big doc where I have all the names and I ctrl+F when I'm naming a new fic to see if I already used that name (or something very similar lol). maybe without hope, without fear, tbh. I think it's very fitting.

21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why?

oh, multiple times. most recently I deleted like 2.5k of I crave therefore I am, because it just didn't work out like i wanted it to. the scene where they meet Ada was in a completely different setting, it was longer, and there was just... i got stuck. hated everything in my life lol. but then i deleted a big chunk and started over and I feel the fic turned out better, at least.

for these fic asks!

and thank you so much for asking! :D 💖

#birdycage #ask and i shall answer #meme thingy #me and my fics #anyone feel free to adopt the chreon idea

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tiramisiyu · 3 years

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Since you are further into the game (for obvious reasons) than us closed beta folk, I had a question about Xia Yan: Would you say he is actually shy about romantic interactions or is only nervous about it as he doesn't feel he has much time left? (as even from the closed beta, it felt heavily hinted and then I saw your recent post so I can not say I am surprised... I do not think they will kill him, but I'm already preparing myself for future angst...)

Note: Both the ask and the answer contain Tears of Themis spoilers! (including spoilers beyond what has been revealed in beta)

Short version is, I think it’s all because of his worry about his time limit. He may have a tendency to get blushy about things, but I feel like he doesn’t hold back from displaying his affection for MC (aside from, like, actually confessing). Below the cut, I’m going to be looking at some content outside of what’s been released in beta (spoiler warning!)

I think that if the threat of Xia Yan’s limited time were not hanging over his head... he might have returned to Stellis a long while ago and... maybe even proposed to MC (seeing that the boy literally prepared a ring for her a long time ago???)

Most of the character development we see for Xia Yan, exhibited through his personal story and dates, has to do with his mentality on how he handles everything around him with the time limit hanging over his head. This is why I think that this is the key factor about how he interacts with MC (rather than being shy). Let me pull out some key timeline points regarding his development in this regard: (somewhat detailed spoiler warning)

At the beginning of 2030, he had already returned to Stellis but was actively avoiding MC over the course of several months. When MC finds out about this much later, she makes him promise to not try to hide from her like this again.

During Ch.2 of personal stories (the angstiest chapter), he was dead set on leaving MC at the very beginning, but thanks to the machinations of Yang Xiao, MC explains that she would (theoretically) rather enjoy what time they had left, even if it hurt her afterwards. At the end of Ch.2, he finally gives up on the idea of ditching her.

In his RRG date, MC also makes him promise to not do things like: hiding away because of the dangerous nature of his work; leaving someone because he feels that they’ll be better off with someone else, etc.

I feel that the sheer amount of focus that has been placed on this matter indicates that Xia Yan’s time limit (and on top of that, the nature of his work) is the main driving factor how he deals with MC.

He is a bit of an awkward cinnamon roll when it comes to romantic gestures, but he still doesn’t really hold back from doing them - he makes lots of amazing gifts for MC and is prone to making little statements about protecting her and being someone she can rely on.

... I think I went overboard here LOL sorry I just have too much to say when it comes to him

#ask #xia yan #luke pearce #Anonymous

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couchbrotato · 6 years

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Yesterday (November 15, 2018) around 8 a.m. I became the happiest I've been in quite a while. Before I can tell you why, I must tell you the long backstory. (There is a TL;DR)

Back in March of 2014 "AH" (my boyfriend) asked me out. We enjoyed 6 months of bliss. (Yes, we argued. No, we weren't in the honeymoon phase. And before you ask, his mom was and still is the cause of most of our arguments) Anyways.

On our 6 month anniversary he gave me a promise ring and (basically) promised to marry me some day; however, our cocoon of happiness was shattered 5 days later when his father committed suicide. He was never really close his dad, but it was hard to handle nonetheless. About 2 weeks later on October 12 he broke up with me over text because he could no longer feel anything and wanted space.

It took a lot of me spamming him, but a couple of days later he agreed to meet and at least talk it over. We got back together almost as soon as we were along because the 3 days of not being together were pure torture. I left the next week for 3 weeks on a trip I had been planning with my Grandma. His father's funeral happened after I got back and everything was great for the next few months as we talked through things and worked on our communication. Unfortunately for both of us, the spring, summer, and fall of 2015 and 2016 were very turbulent. This was because he started having anxiety attacks and, rarely, panic attacks. When this started happening, neither of us had any idea of how to act and react to them as it was new to us. Well, over time he developed a very inefficient reaction to his attacks. Here's how it went: I would ask him if he was ok (because I just thought he was upset) and I would continually ask until he responded. His response was typically out of anger/annoyance (I am pretty annoying). I would then be shocked at his behavior and we would end up fighting. The fighting had one main end result: breaking up.

He would break up with me and I would storm off (and cry myself to sleep). This would lead to him calling the next day in tears begging me to take him back, which I did. At some point, however, I had had enough. I told him I couldn't take him breaking up with me, especially so often, so I told he needed to get help or our next break up would be our last (stress is a trigger and we figured out that, when in the middle of an attack, he would instinctively push away the most removable stressor...which was me. We figured out the two other stressors: his mom and school).

He didn't get help at that time, but instead decided to internationalize it which caused it to morph into barely controlled rage. The pent-up rage he held was almost lethal to our relationship when combined with his stubbornness. This led to him telling me to ask a family member of mine to do something (in November 2016) and I had told him no because it made me uncomfortable. We went back and forth until he yelled, "FINE! I'LL ASK HER MYSELF WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT" to which I basically said "The hell you are!? 🤬" and I broke up with him on the spot.

Of course, it was awkward because I had told him a week before the we could carpool to a class we shared. So, when we went to go to class a couple days later, he just looked at me and started crying. He asked for another chance to prove himself to me. I told him, "Fine. This is your last chance. If we break up again, that's it. No more chances." (He agreed). I also told him he needed to talk to someone about his anxiety and anger. (He did go to someone and he can't afford to go right now, but is doing so much better)

I need to mention that a year ago (late fall 2017) he tried to set up a dinner with my parents by himself. My parents alerted me and I pretty much lost it because I was terrified of marriage.

Here we are, 2 years after our last break up, 4 years after our first break up and 4 & 1/2 years since we started this wild ride. We have been through so much and have both gone to hell and back many times in our relationship. The horrible times we have gone through have really helped me to better appreciate who he is now and how well he is doing compared to when we first started dating.

Now that you've read the brief version of the history of my boyfriend and mine's relationship, I can tell you what happened yesterday.

- - November 15, 2018 - -

- - - - - - 8:00 a.m. - - - - - -

I was spending the night at my boyfriend's so that we could leave early to do some out of town business. I had woke up to learn that he had slid into a ditch around 1/1:30 a.m. when he went to pick up his mom's boyfriend and he was stuck there for 2 hours before help arrived. That was enough to convince me not to leave town, but not him. He left to go get bags of sand for the back of his truck to help with traction.

I sat in the middle of his bed, my legs crossed, while I held my phone limply in my left hand. My thoughts ran everywhere. I started seeing our relationship from the beginning to now and kept replaying the sweet moments. What if he gets into a bad wreck? What if he gets stuck in a ditch again? What if he leaves and never comes back? The last thought was enough to make me jump up and start pacing from rising panic. I felt the need to see him and hold him grow the longer I waited for him to come back from his short trip to the store.

My mind leapt from thought to thought until it settled on one thought: proposing. At that moment it was rational and irrational. Rational due to a deep need of wanting to know that, even if something happened, he would want to spend the rest of his life with me. It was also an irrational thought. This is because we have, since September (2018), spoken in both very obvious-hint filled conversations as well as directly about me changing my mind, being ready to get married, and a good proposal date.

So, while I was out of state at a BTS concert, he sat my parents down and asked if they had his permission to ask for my hand. I knew the moment he did it because my parents texted me..🙄 lol ... Anyways, so here I am with the rationalization that something could happen and the other side saying you can totally wait until he proposes at college graduation on December 15.

Eventually my first thought won, but I didn't have a ring. Or did I? You see, about a year before "AH" and I started dating I had bought a (new) silver mans ring thinking I would give it to the guy I would marry. It just so happens that I had given it to him when he gave me my promise ring and it fit his finger perfectly. I just had to find it.

That last place I had seen it was his jewelry box, but I hadn't seen it in a couple of years. So I thoroughly searched his room from top to bottom for the jewelry box. After a bit I finally saw it sitting under an old boom box in the corner of his room. I picked up the heavy boom box and opened the jewelry box to find that the ring I was looking for was in the first ring slot.

I plucked the ring out of its spot, put everything back as it had been, then sat down with my thoughts once more. Are you sure you want to do this? What if it's embarrassing for him? What about his proposal? You're going to come off as impati-ohmygod. He's back! I hear him shut his truck off as well as enter the house as the front door loudly creaked and squealed in protest to moving in the winter air.

His thudding footsteps got louder until he turned the corner into his bedroom and stopped in front of me. I gave him a kiss and asked if he was absolutely sure that he wanted to drive out of town. He nodded and said, "Yes. It needs to get done and I can't let the weather stop me!" as he turned his back to me so he could set his jingling keys down.

Without a second of physical hesitation, I lowered myself silently onto my left knee. Ohmygodohmygodohmygod areyousureyoureallywanttodothis? Ohshitheisturningaround!!!! 😱 TOOLATE!!!!!!!! Looking up, he is completely in shock as a tinge of red sweeps across his cheeks. "AH," I start, "will you marry me?"

The shock melted from his face as overwhelming joy, disbelief, and slight embarrassment took over causing him to shake his head back and forth as he chuckled. Swish is the next sound filling both of our ears as I whip the ring out and hold it up in my right hand. He starts to laugh deeply as he says "Yes!" which is followed by him lifting up both of his shaking hands because, in all the excitement, he forgot which hand the ring went on.

My brain followed suit as I went to put it on his right hand thinking it was his left. Thankfully I stopped and thought for a moment before I put it on his left hand (the right one lol). We kissed for a moment and he said, "This would be a good time for a song," so I whipped out my handy dandy spotify app and pulled up our playlist. Picking our second song, I pushed play. We started swaying to the music (off beat might I add because he doesn't know how to dance) as the words "Saturday morning jumped out of bed-" [Rude by MAGIC!]

Afterwards we talked about me being impatient, but that I also wanted to see his proposal as well as wait to tell people until graduation. You see, I want to see his proposal and can't do it unless I don't wear the ring he got me until December 15th and, until then, we are secretly engaged. It seems weird, but we both agreed to it. We also agreed that I would start wearing my promise ring on my right hand's ring finger for the next month. He did let me see, and take pictures of, the engagement ring that he bought me. Here it is!

~ TL;DR - My boyfriend and I went though a lot to get to where we are. I proceeded to propose to him exactly a month before he was supposed to propose to me.

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! 💍💍💍💍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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