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byunpum · 9 months

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Pair: Neytiri x Y/N human baby x Sully family

Warning: Mention of dead, soft moments, mama neytiri <3

Request: (Anon) I love how you describe neytiri being our mother. Can I asked if you could react or make a small oneshot about how neytiri would adopt us.

AVATAR MASTERLIST | Part 2

Neytiri learned of your existence when your mother gave birth 1 year after neteyam's birth. It was big news in the clan. Mo'at attended the entire birth, as norm could not do anything else. Your mother had complications with the delivery, and she was losing a lot of blood. And the baby could not come out. After a labor of more than 5 hours, the woman died leaving mo'at with no choice but to deliver the baby on her own, asking eywa to keep the newborn alive. Norm was at her side, helping her, ready to provide oxygen to the newborn as soon as it came out of the woman's womb. To his surprise, just as mo'at pulled you out and the woman wiped the baby's nose with her hand and tapped the baby's back to make it respond. All this happened very fast, norm hear how the baby takes a breath and starts to cry. As if she could breathe air easily. Mo'at looks curiously at the man, placing the baby on her chest trying to pacify the baby.

After about 5 minutes and norm monitoring the baby, he notices how the lack of air began in the newborn. Putting on a special oxygen mask that your mother had prepared for you, he watched you breathe. Norm wanted to check something in his head, he thought it couldn't be true, but he wasn't wrong. After 10 minutes of letting you breathe human oxygen, he removed the mask and saw how the newborn kept looking to the sides, very calm. This child had the respiratory system of the na'vi. He almost fainted, how could this be possible.

Norm took it upon himself to investigate, and what a surprise he got. Your mother was a doctor, she had been one of those responsible for the creation of the DNA of the avatars. She had been injecting herself with a modified DNA for months, just so her baby could breathe the air of Pandora. Of course, this was very irresponsible of her, and Norm understood why she was hiding this experiment. He would never have allowed a baby to be experimented on like that. But well…it was too late. This was a surprise to everyone, the first human who could breathe in Pandora. Max and Norm discovered that this was only possible for fetuses, and not all of them. Only those that could survive the treatment, for your release your DNA withstood all the changes. And lucky for you…Mo'at wanted to take care of you, not as your mother but as your guardian. She felt a kind of responsibility, your mother was a very good person to her, and she had trusted her with everything. So she would take care of her daughter. And that's when neytiri met you.

She had given birth to lo'ak 5 months ago, and finding out that there was another newborn baby was very interesting to her. Her mother never told her that the baby was a human, neytiri thought it was another na'vi woman who had given birth and could not survive. And about the human who gave birth, well…she lamented the event but didn't think much of it. She could hear Jake lamenting, and everyone else but it wasn't her problem. She was on her way to her mother's hut, Mo'at had called her to ask her for a favor and to meet the new baby. Neytiri entered very excited, seeing how her mother was sitting there cradling something on her chest.

"Mother…did you call me?" speaks Neytiri. Mo'at settles herself more so that she is now seated in front of her daughter. "Yes, I want to ask you a favor" neytiti nods her head, now sitting up. As she settled lo'ak more on her chest.

"I think you already know about the human-woman who gave birth and died, right?" moat asks.

"Yes…it's very sad news" says neytiri, she doesn't want to imagine that scene. Now she was a mother and she can't imagine how hard it must be for a baby to be alone without its mother.

" Now that you know…I need you to take care of this baby" mo'at pulls out a human baby from her chest, of course she wouldn't have seen it, it was very small compared to her baby. Holding the newborn baby with only one hand, so that her daughter could see it. Before neytiri could speak, mo'at begins;

"She…her mother did not stand the birth, she is a very special baby neytiri…she can breathe our air, she can have a good life. Since you and your partner have adopted kiri, and jake is part of the humans. I think it would be the right thing to do, to help this baby grow up. Besides, you are the only woman who has just given birth, this baby needs to be fed with mother's milk," speaks Mo'at.

Leaving neytiri speechless, she more than anyone else knew that she did not like humans that much. And now she was asking him to take care of one of them. She adopted kiri, because the baby was a na'vi. And she accepted jake, because he had his na'vi body. But now that she would take care of a human child? His mother was going crazy. "Mom…I can't do that, get someone else to do it?" speaks neytiri in protest. Mo'at shakes her head, her mother looked calm. Placing the baby now, in a kind of nest she had prepared. This one was in front of her, in front of her feet.

"Daughter I wouldn't be asking you this if it wasn't necessary, this baby can't be raised by humans. She needs to breathe oxygen from these masks from time to time" mo'at held for a moment the mask norm had left for the baby. "But it's not just that…this baby's feeding is also from a na'vi. Norm already tried to feed her food that is used for human babies and she threw it up. She won't accept it, I thought you might be able to help. It's just feeding and basic care. You don't have to take care of her or adopt her." Mo'at speaks.

Neytiri was still looking at the baby with curiosity, she could have a lot of anger with humans. But she was not a monster, she was not a savage. What she was seeing there was a helpless creature, which she could tell was a little weak. Neytiri touches one of the baby's feet a little, seeing if it had any movement. "I'm afraid it will die if it doesn't feed well in the next few hours" says mo'at. Neytiri sighs, and thinks for a moment. Feeding a baby is not a bad thing, indeed it is very common in the clan. Helping and feeding the children in the clan was something that the women of the omaticaya clan helped each other with. So she would do it as a way to support her mother.

"It's okay," neytiri says, moving lo'ak a little to the side of her chest. Taking the human baby in her hands, carrying it carefully on her breast. It was very delicate and small. It weighed almost nothing, she was afraid that if it moved too much it would hurt the newborn. Neytiri moves the ornaments covering her breasts a little, bringing the creature close. Carefully positioning and guiding the baby. Noticing how the baby opens its mouth desperately trying to seek a maternal touch. After a few seconds, Neytiri watched as the baby began to suck with ease.

Neytiri settles in more, and places the baby on her forearm. She watched as the baby sucked the milk with great enthusiasm. She felt sorry, and an anguish filled her heart. She was such a small and helpless baby. Neytiri noticed how now lo'ak had gotten up, but did not begin to fuss or anything. He just started to move his little hands, until he found the human baby's foot that was right next to him. He touched it carefully and curiously, closing his hand. "Hey careful…be gentle" says neytiri in a low voice, trying not to wake the baby and not to upset her son.

After feeding the baby, neytiri continued to hold the baby to her breast. The baby had fallen asleep, and she looked more peaceful. She had finally eaten since she was born.

"Daughter…if you don't want to do it I understand…but I trust you and " mo'at is interrupted by neytiri. "Mother…it's okay, I will take care of her. After all she is a baby and she needs our help" says neytiri, stroking the baby's tiny head.

"Ok…Neteyam come here!!!" shouts jake, watching as his one year old son ran as fast as he could around the edge of the family hut. Kiri was next to him, playing with some toys. Jake watched as his partner entered the hut. Neytiri had her eyes on her chest, cooing at something. Jake thought it was lo'ak, but noticed how Neytiri had another net over her chest, and was holding something else. Jake gets up from the ground, and walks over to her.

"And what do you bring there?" asks jake. Watching as neytiri giggles softly, moving the net a bit revealing the face of a human baby. "That's it… it's newborn" jake quickly approaches taking the baby in his hands. It was instinctive, they already had their own children and seeing another baby was very common for them, they acted on their instincts. Cradling the baby in their arms. "This is that woman's baby, huh?" asks jake. Hearing how neytiri answers him with a "hmm". There was a small silence, until neytiri explained everything to jake. The man was a little surprised by his mate's attitude, she didn't usually act like that. Neytiri wouldn't even go near spider, and now she was taking care of a baby girl. A human baby.

"She needs to be fed and cared for…mom told me she needs this to breathe sometimes" says neytiri, holding up an oxygen box which had a small oxygen mask. "Well…there's nothing we can do" says jake, laughing a little. Neytiri moves closer to jake and gets closer to smell a little bit of the baby's hair. "She's very precious and special" says neytiri.

"yes….is very special" says jake. Until jake feels someone touch his feet. It was kiri and neteyam who wanted to be carried, they wanted to see how much their parents were doing. Jake kneels down, showing the baby to his sons. "She's a baby…just like your brother" jake speaks softly. A little neteyam reaches over and gently touches the baby's nose, to start laughing. He thought the baby was funny, and kiri does the same. The children were amazed at the baby their father was holding in his arms.

Neytiri didn't know what she was getting into, but she knew she was going to do her assignment very well. She herself began to doubt, the more Y/N grew up, because it was more than obvious that this baby was going to stay with them, after taking care of you for 6 months Neytiri told her mother that she would adopt you as her daughter. This news filled mo'at with joy. She knew she had chosen well, and that her daughter would do a great job. But now neytiri was doubting herself.

The mothers could be a little rude if they wanted to, it had been five years since Y/N had come into their family. And the Sully's had raised the girl as one of their children. There was no preference, no special care. You were a na'vi in the eyes of her family, but to some members of the clan you were still a strange human who shouldn't be in the village. It was more than evident that you were a human, but what human wore no mask at all?. Except you, and this bothered neytiri a lot. She was always hearing how some mothers commented on your appearance and made ignorant comments. Making fun of her for thinking she was the mother of this strange creature. This did not stop Neytiri, even though it hurt her, she went ahead with your raising. But it was normal for her to doubt her parenting and whether it was right for her to take care of you.

Neytiri had gone for a walk with all her children, sitting in a nice meadow. Watching her children run and play. Neteyam, kiri were running around. While lo'ak was lying with his head lying in her lap, while taking a nap. And Y/N she was beside her playing with a wooden ikran, making it fly. As she stood calmly by her side. Neytiri She hadn't been so calm in a while, taking out her bow that hung from her back. She used to carry it, in case there was something dangerous. She began to fix some details, like the loose string. Taking her knife to sharpen one of her arrows.

Neytiri was so focused, she didn't notice that Y/N had gotten up from the floor. You were small, so you didn't make much noise. You look for some branches, a rock, and some ropes from the trees that were on the ground. Running now to sit next to your mother. Neytiri notices how you sit down again, and is surprised to see how you have all these things between your legs. Trying to put them together, and imitating Neytiri. Copying how she was sharpening her arrows. "Honey…look it's like this" says neytiri, following your game. Giving you a stone that was next to you, for you to play with.

You were next to her, copying what she was doing. What was she worrying about, she felt a little silly. Here was the child she doubted she was raising right, imitating her. She chuckled to herself, stroking her daughter's face a little, pulling up the oxygen mask around her neck over her daughter's nose so she could breathe a little. Watching as the little girl continued her work of creating a bow. She knew that life at your side was going to be difficult, but it was going to be worth it. She knew that.

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the-air-nomad · 8 months

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Naive

The war had ended 4 years ago, but the world was far from perfect. You were one of the middle men of the Fire Nation. You felt that the war was useless, but you never stepped out of line. Although you were a strong bender, you ran away from a possible career in the army and chose to be a guard in the Royal Palace. Unfortunately for you, this was the beginning of your downfall.

Y/N pov:

I still remember the happiness I felt when Prince Lu Ten allowed me to work as a palace guard. I had always seen the young prince as a role model and I was sure that we would have a great time playing pranks around the palace. But then he left for the army and my world shattered. I was assigned as Prince Zuko's guardian and I swore that I would protect him with my life.

Although I got along well with Zuko, Princess Azula was a completely different story. Since the first day of work, Princess Ursa had tasked me with punishing her disobedient daughter. She knew that not even Ozai would try something dirty with one of Prince Lu Ten's guards. Ozai was evil, not stupid!

A/N pov:

You tried to be as nice as possible with Azula, but the little witch was doing annoying things just to get your attention. Fortunately for you, you escaped the palace once Zuko was exiled. You thought you would never see her again, but fate did not agree.

At Zuko's request, you agreed to supervise the psychotic princess. Although you knew you didn't need anyone to control the little witch, you accepted the help of 5 other capable benders. Azula was just as you remembered her, a broken person who would do anything for the slightest bit of attention. She never fooled you, no matter how hard she tried.

Y/N pov:

The prison was by far the sickest and most horrible I had seen. The prisoners were treated like worthless toys by the guards. I didn't care, the prisoners had committed more heinous crimes than I could count. But one day I exploded.

I was walking towards the princess's cell mentally preparing to force her to eat, when I started hearing screams. I rushed to the cell and almost broke the door. My blood started to boil at the scene in front of me.Two guards were trying to immobilize the terrified princess, and another was trying to tear her clothes. You gave in to your anger and destroyed two of them with a bolt of lightning. The next few minutes were a frenzy of blood, screams and flames.

When I regained control, I was in a dense forest with the princess.

Azula: are you ok Y/N? You took some brutal hits!

Y/N: why do you care? Shouldn't you kill me and run?

Azula: We both know you're the only person I wouldn't kill.

Y/N: so you can be honest? surprising!

Azula: You know very well that I never lied to you! You lied to yourself all your life! For once, be honest with yourself Y/N!

Y/N: to be honest with myself? Sure! I am an idiot! I've always been an idiot! You know why? Because I always let you destroy my life!

Azula: Maybe if you had seen from the beginning that we were made for each other, now we would rule the world together! But nooo! You had to run away with my idiot brother! And don't think I didn't find out about your little business with that bitch!

A cold shiver ran down my spine when I saw her demonic grin.Suddenly everything made sense. The way she always seemed to watch me from the shadows, the fact that Ozai had allowed me to stay in the palace even after exile, all my friends were horrified by the thought of staying in the same room with me. All this time I was being manipulated by a girl 10 years younger than me! Azula starts laughing and clapping.

Azula: Yes! I knew you were a smart boy!

Y/N: stay away from me!

Azula: oh come on Y/N! What will you do? You are a criminal now! welcome to the family!

Y/N: you are crazy! You are a monster! Iroh was right! You must fall!

Azula: No, I don't have to! What I have to do is prove to you that you cannot survive without me!

Y/N: what? Azula! Don't you dare hurt me!

Azula: don't you dare leave me ever again! You are mine, we are made for each other! And don't you dare to lie to yourself! We all know you would never kill me! no one will save you from me!

Y/N: when Zuko finds out we're missing...

Azula: Zuzu? Oh dear, you are so naive! He sent you into my clutches! My dear brother didn't want to lose me, after everything that happened he still loves me! How much were you worth to him? A promise! All I had to do was promise to take my meds, not try to kill again him and blah blah blah

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marvelmymarvel · 11 months

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Guardian (Part 4)

Jiraiya x Sarutobi!Reader

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12

Synopsis: Your brother gave you an assignment, "Go ask Sakumo Hatake if he needs help with his newborn." It was a simple task, but it snowballed into so much more.

Naruto Masterlist: Here

A knock sounded out through the man's apartment. He looked up from his scroll, ears straining to check if it was his imagination. His eyebrows furrowed as the knock sounded out again. No one ever came to visit him; this must be urgent. The knocks slowly turned desperate, and he moved swiftly towards the front door. Not bothering to look, he flung the door open as the visitor's fist came down. It almost slammed into his chest, but he quickly caught her wrist. He chuckled down at her wide eyes before letting her go finally.

"What can I do for you, Y/n?"

Your e/c eyes were wide as he dropped your hand, his cold skin causing goosebumps to erupt along your arms. "Long time no see… How have you been?" Your breathing was shallow as you took him in. He was dressed down for the evening, only making you painfully aware that you had come so late in the afternoon. "I've been better. You?" Your attention sharpened at his answer before nodding at them as if silently telling him you were in the same boat. Silence fell between you, making you grow nervous under his sharp gaze. This was a bad idea. "Is there something you need?"

A nervous giggle fell from your lips before you could stop it. His eyebrow shot up at that, and he bit down a smirk threatening to appear on his normally stoic face. His golden eyes practically begged you to answer him, as if he was dying to know why you decided to show up on his doorstep after years of no contact. Your eyes dropped to your feet as embarrassment crawled up your neck.

He couldn't help but cock his head down at your shy demeanor. How long has it been since the two of you last kissed? He couldn't remember, but being this close to you made it painfully evident that it was too long. That he had gone for far too long without you beside him. His hand caressed your cheek, and your head snapped back up to meet his gaze.

"Do you think you can train me?"

With how fast you caved under his gaze, it was as if he had put a spell on you. You then realized, as he inched closer to you, that you were no longer 18, and this was no longer acceptable. Letting out a sheepish laugh, you backed out of his embrace. "I'm asking only as a friend. I apologize if you thought this was anything more than that, Orochimaru."

The pale man shot a tight-lipped smile down at you but backed up anyway, hoping to play off his failed attempt at seduction as if he was just testing you. "Just wanted to make sure. Training, you say? How long have you been out of the Ninja world anyway?" The question was double-sided as it would have answered his other question - when was the last time you two kissed?

"Oh… Let's see. I stopped a couple of years before Sakumo… eight, maybe?"

Eight years. How did he manage to survive that long without you anyway? Orochimaru nodded as he leaned against the doorway, "And you want me to train you? Aren't you with Jiraiya-"

"We are living together, yes, but that's it. He's also way too busy to be training me again…."

You trailed off, but he remained silent, watching you as if trying to predict your next move. You sighed in exasperation, quickly remembering why you distanced yourself from him in the first place. "Listen, if you don't want to, that's fine. I can just ask an academy teacher-"

"Nonsense. I'll do it. Meet me at the training grounds after you drop off Kakashi for school tomorrow. We will start with the basics; I want to see how much you still remember."

His heart lurched as you broke into a beaming smile, "Oh, thank you, thank you, Orochimaru!!!" You exclaimed before flinging yourself onto him. He grunted as you hugged him tightly, but before he could return it, you had already separated. He tried to hide the blush forming on his cheeks, but thankfully, you were heading back toward your apartment without giving him any more attention.

"I'll see you tomorrow!"

Orochimaru let out a breath of relief as you disappeared from his line of sight. Training you was going to be complicated. But keeping his cool was going to be much harder.

#naruto imagine #naruto imagines #naruto x reader #jiraiya imagine #jiraiya imagines #jiraiya x reader #jiraiya fanfiction #jiraiya #orochimaru imagine #orochimaru fanfiction #orochimaru imagines

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ironfey-42 · 1 month

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Life is a Game and True Love is a Trophy [PHOTO EDIT]

For @rangels

I was the pinch-hitter for Rangels. I chose prompt 3 which was: I take anything. And I’ll cherish it. I ended up choosing this prompt because I wanted to do this idea I had and to make it into a moldboard and playlist.

AO3

Spotify Playlist

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In this AU, Tony and Pepper end up breaking off their engagement but are still best friends. Tony survives at the end of Endgame because the Guardians of the Galaxy remember what they did when Peter held the Power Stone. Tony’s got some damage to his right arm as bad that he loses it. He does a lot of physical/occupational therapy to get any movement back in his hand and hand. Tony is retired but he still plans to train Harley to take over in the future for the iron suit.

Tony is at home in his small mansion and is bored, so he decides to get a switch cuz Peter-Man once mentioned it before the Blip and he’s heard about the new Animal Crossing game, New Horizons, and Fire Emblem Three Houses. Breath of the Wild was already out a few years ago, but he decided to also get that cuz open world. It also helps that he’s able to use the controls as a way to help with coordination for his right hand.

(LET’S PRETEND THAT THOSE GAMES CAME OUT A FEW WEEKS BEFORE ENDGAME OKAY. WE ARE ALSO GOING TO PRETEND THAT NINTENDO ALREADY CAME UP WITH THE NOVEMBER 5 BIG UPDATE FOR ANIMAL CROSSING AND ANY DLCS FOR IT, FIRE EMBLEM THREE HOUSES. BOTW HAS ALREADY BEEN OUT SO ANY DLCs ARE ALREADY AVAILABLE)

Tony ends up getting both games and is learning to just chill and relax without getting too anxious about what’s happening superhero-wise. He’s actually having fun with video games. Stephen visits Tony and they just hang out with each other, almost every other day because Tony has a schedule of who is visiting on which day, but he likes it when Stephen visits outside of his scheduled day. Stephen also gets to learn who Tony really is, because, in those 14,000,605 futures that he saw, he only saw what Tony was like in those fives years until the end.

(Stephen only sees that one future where Tony dies, so he thinks that he just sent Tony to his doom, he doesn’t take into account the quick jumpstart of the memory of the Guardians with the power stone)

Anyways, he learns what Tony is like after those five years and slowly they end up falling in love with each other, Stephen falls in love all over again as he fell in love with the Tony from all those 14,000605 futures and not the Tony after Endgame.

1. Fight ‘Til the End

2. The River

3. I Lived

4. Heading Home

5. Theme Song (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

6. How Lovely

7. 2:00 AM (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

8. I Think I Love You

9. 5:00 AM (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

10. High Hopes

11. Stale Cupcakes (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

12. HandClap

13. Only Me (From Animal Crossing)

14. Fairytale

15. Nook’s Cranny - Before Closing (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

16. I Hear a Symphony

17. Main Theme (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

18. I Want You

19. Life at Garreg Mach Monastery (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

20. Underground

21. A Place to Rest (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

22. Photograph

23. Breath of the Wild (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

24. Arcade

25. Life in the Ruins (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

26. Don’t Deserve You

27. Mipha’s Theme (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

28. Echo of 2008

29. Great Fairy Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

30. Your Eyes Tell

31. Somewhere to Belong (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)v

#ironfeyworks #ironstrange #fanwork #playlist #doctor strange #stephen strange #iron man #tony stark #magitech #marvel cinematic universe #strangeiron #iron's AUs

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invinciblerodent · 8 days

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getting a little bit obsessed with my "cottagecore throuple" here, because the more I think about it, the more disgustingly perfect and idyllic the whole thing is to me.

like... post-game, I like to imagine Shadowheart absolutely thriving. She's a city girl with a deep love for animals, and spotty- to nil memories, most of which are of the worst things to have ever happened in a dank torture-basement: of course a sweet, picturesque forest cottage (so far I like to think that Petyr would call it "The Hovel", even though it's by all means a cozy, nice hunter's lodge) would have her downright giddy, and she deserves every ounce of that happiness ever.

As I imagine it, when not enthusiastically learning all there is to learn about the quasi-self-sustaining life (that she had dropped herself into by shacking up with a literal forest ranger), she spends as much time outside as possible: walks barefoot in the tall grass, stops to smell every flower (and even plants quite a few, just by the vegetables), and lays in the soft underbrush for hours at a time- enjoying the sunlight caressing her face, enjoying a nice novel (and/or a cuddle with Scratch, the cub, or her boyfriend once he sits down for a moment), or just gazing up at the moon and stars in silent worship. She makes friends with every animal that crosses her path, too: SO many potions of animal speaking are consumed, it's absurd. (She's best friends with the chickens. Petyr has to start farming acorn truffles in the basement for her, and that even proves actually very lucrative- in town, that shit sells for like 10-20 gold a pop.)

She'd of course bring home everything that'll let her. Little wildflower bouquets and stuff at first, but also every critter: from juvenile racoons just weaned from their mothers (they look almost like kittens! how cute!), to elderly foxes that just want to curl up in front of the fire and warm their bones somewhere safe for a moment. She's having the time of her goddamn life, she's learning a shitton of life skills she was never taught (finally learning things not meant to make her better at hurting people!), and generally enjoying a life that, while still plagued by remnants of the past (night terrors, perpetrator trauma, loss, grief, pains both suffered and inflicted, all that great stuff), has her feeling actually content with her lot in it.

And with all this, Petyr is... very business as usual, or at least he's trying to pretend that he is. Having someone in what was his space for like 20 years is strange initially, but if there's one thing he's used to, it's adapting. Making things work. (Plus, he's like, happy, or whatever. In love. You know, that sort of rot.)

Then again, he's also used to only having to feed himself with the very little he has, not another (especially another who is inexperienced at this type of thing, and a second another who just... drops by sometimes, always unannounced and unexpected, but never unwelcome), which deep down does have him a bit (a lot) more antsy about not just being the self-appointed guardian of her happiness, but also just... their general survival.

He's keenly aware that winters in the wild are never especially easy, not when you're so far removed from the safety of a community- especially not the way he's used to being alone, without even magic to keep you warm and safe. Usually, he spends most of the year primarily occupied by preparing for winter, and even like that, there have been lean years: years when he got snowed in for tendays, when he did something stupid and all the careful prep went down the shitter, years he had to go hungry and learn to make do with next to nothing.

So he compensates for- (and distracts himself from-) that anxiety by making extra sure that the pantry is stocked to bursting with all the goods there can be, and they often head out into the woods to hunt and forage together- although he's not a great (or even a good) teacher, Shadowheart (usually Shadow, often Heart, lately Jen or Jenny in affection) does make what he used to do out of sheer need, into something also done for fun.

Hunting and foraging are fun now, and soon, the cabinets are overflowing with jars and jars of dry mushrooms, so much homemade deer jerky, jams and jellies and pickles galore... there's mead fermenting, and homemade soap curing before it can be used, firewood stacked to the height of a person... herb bundles, garlic braids, grain corn, and drying peppers are strung up on the rafters like fragrant fairy lights.

Meanwhile, I imagine that Halsin comes and goes as he pleases- not entirely unlike a beloved stray cat. He just shows up one evening as if he had left not tendays, but only a few hours ago, kicks the duff or mud or snow off his boots, and leans his staff into its habitual nook by the door. He sets whatever it is that he brought this time in its appropriate place (be it otherwise unobtainable goods from town, or just a little gift, a treat to enjoy together), and he sinks into the worn-out armchair by the fireplace that was declared his the first time he stayed.

One of the others almost always then strolls by to settle wordlessly on his lap (if not both of them- that poor chair can barely take the combined weight), and just relax as his big, warm fingers slowly work through the knots and ties keeping their hair out of their faces, and, voice rumbling deep in his chest, he tells them all that has happened in Reithwin the past while.

The many smells of dinner and the comforting scent of pipe tobacco mingle with the fragrant herbs and the crackling fire then, and creates something that can only be described as the scent of home.

.............. and then all three just fuck absolute NASTY every day, in every configuration, and on every surface available for the next, oh, month or so.

#first i had a typo; “halsin comes and hoes” and while that means something different; that too is accurate #squirrel plays bg3 #dad's birthday lunch done; i now relax by imagining cottagecore-ass domesticity yaaaay #i just. i love that in my world Shadowheart; the animal-loving yet lonely city girl #has two handsome woodsman boyfriends and the idyllic home of her dreams #Petyr; the man who convinced himself that he has no needs actually #has two partners who are not just sweet and fun but also both accomplished caregivers in different flavors #(they might even forcibly take care of him when he refuses to take care of himself)#and Halsin; after having finally accomplished the goal that has kept him wandering for a century #has two beautiful lovers who always welcome him home as a beloved equal #oc: petyr wildbrook #yeah the asshole whom i hate to love will have quite possibly the nicest goddamn epilogue; fuck #arvid gets a nice wedding; separation anxiety; and PTSD #iona goes on an almost fully nocturnal (and decades-long) wild goose chase to give her love the sun back #and petyr just. returns home with a gf #and a bf #and also PTSD but what else is new #they might even inspire him to try and reestablish a connection with his family; who knows

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" MEMOIR "

hello, my Marjorie Visperas, everyone calls me Marjs, let me tell you a story of mine which is my journey get ready your paper towels hahaha anyways, I grew up with my mother's cousin is not sure if they were cousins but I think it's my mother cousin, anyways I grow up without knowing both my mother and father and it was hard, go back when I was a child I always compare myself to others like look at them what they what always have or look at them, I wanna experience those moments with my family but as I grow I never experience those moments and it broke my heart as I grow older I've always imagined how unhappy am I when I was young. at school I was doing great at that time I gained a lot of friends by joining extracurricular activities I have those best memories of mine.

when I reached high school things started to change differently. In my 7 and 8 grades things were great i joined some extracurricular activities but ended up crying because I didn't meet the grades that I had always wanted but still proud of myself a little for achieving some achievements. by grades 9 and 10, I transferred to a public school due to the pandemic things were tough, and financially unstable when I was in grade 9 I got depressed and cried a lot because I started to miss both my mother and father i started to blame my self and my anger issue got worst and wordt like how could they do this to me? what I have done to them? am I the reason for their divorce? could they do this to their DAUGHTER?? I cried so hard in silence, that I could feel the ache in my heart so bad. My grade 9 journey was complicated and the worst and it affected my academics time I got 79 that time I cried so hard until my heart got heavy, and I didn't have anyone to lean on to let my tears until Icalmedm Then I decided to go to the church and I didn't expect to cry so hard I got embarrassed because people notice that I cried. I talk to god-like WHY? This is so heavy lord I could not even handle this situation I want my mom and dad a happy life a happy family getting my parents together again this is all I ask for you, not this one lord this is so heavy please let me experience happiness and help my heart to calm down lord I don't even know what to do with this life, how should I end this life and I don't even know the other messages I talk to god after I pray I promise to myself to move on. after my grade 9 journey, I exhale then move forward

when the time I stepped on my grade 10 journey I thought I couldn't survive it. you see I met this boy named Vincent Baguio when he approached me that time, he is so friendly and I love his humor so much he is the only person who helped me to move on from the past and focus on the present, i did well that year i laughed a lot just like what I ask to god I received pure happiness of mine that I could not even imagine in my whole life, with his help and gods help I wouldn't receive the honor certificate sometimes I can think about my family but I'll remain calm. I thought those journeys would last forever but they didn't when the time it was the awarding ceremony I got jealous of those schoolmates, classmates of mine because they had their mom or dad to honor their achievements, ents or sometimes both of their parents showed up to be proud of you. When I only had my guardian and was not even interested in coming I cried after the ceremony and my anger issues were back again. I came to church after that day and prayed to god about how great he is hoping next year I still get an award and a calm heart again.

by the time I reached senior high, I prayed again to god to let me experience that happiness again. By the day I stepped into our classroom I was slightly nervous so I remained calm around 3 months into my 11 journeys slightly bad because I didn't receive or obtain the grades that I wanted even though I worked so hard I cried and cried and then it's getting worst but in the end, I'll manage to the honor list so I thank god so much and ask more but this time my business I prayed that when I reached at the age of 18 I have my own small business. *passforward my grade 12 journey is still resuming, but I noticed something about myself, my grades were falling started to feel depressed and empty, I started to lose the passion for something that I've always done, which I fully gave up everything, all I wanted is to have a physically mentally rest, while my life gave up my aunt invited me to go to the church to. niño basilica and we prayed I only prayed that time to be productive and happy again and also let me heal this pain and sickness I've been trying to figure out, unexpectedly, she invited me to the confession room and while I got chills, and nervous when it's my time I was shaking I don't even know what to do but father calms me down while I was addressing all the pain the never-ending heartache I felt, also my family situations and my business I can't handle my teary eyes I burst into tears and after that, he prayed for me. after that, my heart was slowly healing. received a message from my dad that told me to come home and ask for forgiveness he wanted to repay all the things he did he wanted to make it up. I've never been so happy in my whole life seeing those messages from my papa. like this is the first time my papa would never congratulate me, or thank me but I'm glad he wanted to make things right I know I have some issues with my family but as father told me to forgive my parents and talk to them with my Besides that, I got my business at 18 and I'm so happy and it's growing and growing.

there are so many stories I could share but I have some issues like I don't even know where to start and when should i start. all I can say is to always pray to god and thank god for everything and try to confess your sins and pain Father I promise after that you will receive great news. the end my journey will continue soon thankyou for your Time...the end.

#autobiography

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Why did you have to do so much work for the timeline for that one fanfic? I don't really understand what "dueling timelines" are?

It's... very complicated.

Trying to figure out how to describe it without describing the plot of the entire trilogy... Which you can find at @valkyrie-echo if you want to read to see what I mean.

Basically it's what I said in the tags.

Project: Echo was an Avengers fanfic series, using Winter Soldier as it's jumping point (so acknowledging all canon through then, and I did later acknowledge the main plot of Age of Ultron, but I'd already written Clint and Natasha as a couple, so I ignored the stuff about his family).

The first 2 parts hinted at visions of the future that show Avengers Tower exploding, everyone dying, and a traitor being responsible. Those parts end with Bucky realizing he may be why the specific person became a traitor and deciding to fully leave and focus on his own recovery from the trauma of being the winter soldier.

Part 3 jumps forward like 7 years or so.

The dividing line between the two timelines is Avengers Tower finally exploding.

The "Countdown" timeline shows the Avengers 7 years in the future as a proper organization made up of 10 teams (8 teams of 4, one team that's only the leaders of those 8 teams, and one team that is kind of the extreme special ops). Bit by bit, events start happening that make it look like the leader of the special ops team has gone evil and eventually culminates in Avengers Tower exploding-- after the Special Ops leader has been fully ostracized and figured out who the real culprit is.

The other timeline is after the explosion, that Special Ops leader finding and dragging Bucky along into space (bringing in Asgard and the Guardians of the Galaxy briefly). Bucky was her torturer when she was a Hydra prisoner, but she forces him to accompany her as she tries to stay ahead of Sam Wilson and a large group of surviving Avengers (not the OG avengers, they're the ones who died) hell-bent on catching her and taking revenge.

But she alone believes the Avengers might be alive. Because she knows the truth about what happened in Avengers Tower.

So you have the Countdown Timeline following the story, the breakdown of trust in her, everyone turning against her fully, her realizing the truth of what is happening.

And then running exactly parallel to it you have Bucky suddenly thrown into it, his trust in her (already thin) breaking down, turning against her, realizing the truth of what is happening.

They happen in tandem because HER actions and emotions and what drives her is a direct response to the countdown timeline, and yet as the reader, you can't know what she knows yet.

So as you learn from one timeline, you see it reflected in the other, and how they both inform and mirror one another.

There were a couple of readers who had trouble keeping up with the dueling timelines, but the vast majority seemed to really love it because it was so complicated and so different from what they were used to seeing.

And to write that, I had to be able to title each thing "____ Days Before the Explosion" and "____ Days After the Explosion".

So I had to know intimately what was happening in what order on both ends of the timeline in order to track the dates and not trip over myself, so Day 0 on the Countdown aligns with the final battle in the After timeline.

#ask #the main reason for this was that i only ever wanted it to be a trilogy and i was adamant about that and still feel it's exactly right #and so i knew part 3 would end up being 50% lead up and I didnt want to rush the ending; so i wanted another 50% heading to the final fight #if it were told in a linear way; half the story would literally be her sitting there repeating the first half to bucky #having them happen in tandem and him reacting to stuff on the present timeline as they happen on the countdown timeline solved that #he gets hints and clues and reacts sometimes completely incorrectly because she wont really talk to him #and yet hes also seeing a lot of trauma and grief in both sides of the fight and trying to get each to stop fighting and explain #so hes both the voice of reason and the cooling force #while you see on the other half the idyllic avengers family turning against each other and ripping themselves apart

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Chloe’s Awakening

* Chloe’s head was Shaken and dizzy as she tried to stand or walk but falls down to the floor as medic helped her up and puts her back on the Bed* Chloe:Where the hell am I??

Medic: You’re in our Medical station or center you were Knocked out for some reason

Chloe: What’s your name?

Medic: If you’re going to attack me just forget it because you’re way too weak and low on energy and You’re in no shape to fight you got a nasty headache the names medic

Chloe: Damnit Where’s Jake?

Medic: Busy with his lovers

Chloe: what’s his lovers names?

Medic: Can’t you’ll have to ask him yourself but you need rest Chloe Omega, The Omega Queen

Chloe: Hm You know who I am?

Medic: Yes The Omega Guardians Doesn’t Like a Leader who Attacks the Awakened Prince

Chloe: I had To Wake him up!

Medic: Yea But Not by Fighting! Jake hasn’t Remembered you for almost twenty years he has been Focused on Missions and Those who need protection and safety, and he has His Lovers that he loves to the Maximum meaning Universal love

Chloe: oh

Medic: Where were you for the past 24 years? Jake’s now 44 years old but in human years 22 years old

Chloe: Training, Educating, Learning… Because my Great Grandmother has passed away and is given me the rank of Queen of Omega

Medic: Hm but your powers and abilities are Very Lacking like you did all the Wrong moves and techniques

Chloe: I was Distracted

Medic: By Anger and Frustration That’s Why You were distracted Jake is the AWAKENED PRINCE the One with The Most Impossible and Extremely Dangerous Abilities and powers

Chloe: How the Fock is he that strong he was like his Twin Brother when he was 18

Medic: He was Young Chloe Now he’s a Prince both brothers are Princes Nick Kostrel and Jake Kostrel

Chloe: Yeah But How did he become This Strong??

Medic: Guardian Evolution it’s a Really Stupid Event The Guardian must be in a deep sleep for The Calculated Time Angelic 6 to 10 hours Demonic 8 to 16 hours and Etc, Jake was asleep for almost a Year until his Lovers Helped him out and Made a Deal now he has a Boyfriend and a Fiancée

Chloe: Fock…

Medic: Jake Can Battle or fight a Blackhole called PHOENIX or TON 618 for almost 2 months or a month without getting tired, Both Blackholes Has Armies of Multiverse Destructive Strength! The Armies are 50x Bigger height and Size than a Titan!

Chloe: …What about Telekinesis?

Medic: Jake Has Immunities and Has an Incredible Healing Telekinesis can’t do anything and if you’re talking about the Destructive Telekinesis then it won’t be effective, Time Doesn’t have effect on him either, Stars would explode if Jake was Thrown pushed into one and Survive, Blackholes Will Just explode as well because Jake can and always can destroy it, Anything that is Outside the Guardian Universe Will not effect Jake!

Chloe: So He’s the New King?

Medic: Close but He’s Getting there

Chloe: Hmm Is there Room for another in his Harem?

Medic: Wait a Minute Don’t tell me that you’re going Join his Harem of Mares and Ladies from different Universes are you?

Chloe: Yeah? Why not?

Medic: Well If you’re then you’re going to need Permission from Jake’s Queen Lover to Kiss or Cuddle Jake which is going to be Hard

Chloe: I’ll Try but In time

#Jake #New Guardian #Chloe #Chloe’s Awakening

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When I first played the game, I told Gatta to disobey the orders and fight on the frontline, because I thought that was what Tidus would do, what fits his character best. I didn’t know what it would mean. I’ve only realized what I had done when I found Luzzu und he cried about why Gatta was on the frontlines, when he wasn’t supposed to be. My first time playing final fantasy X and I actually was responsible for this boys death. Yes, in a sense, that saved Luzzu... but... Gatta is basically still a child, so I feel like letting him live is the better choice - it also the canon one, as far as we know. However, I found it very cruel of the game to make me decide if he lives or dies, without giving me a chance of even realizing what I was doing. How could I have know back then what would happen?

This was so damn weird. Even Auron looks like “WTF?!” XD I mean, he just straight up hugged him without much thought. But he should know what Auron knows and that he is unlikely to be happy to see any Master of Yevon, no matter their past together...

This moment practically already gave away that the masters of Yevon know a lot more then the teachings would tell. But when you play it for the first time, it is just confusing you.

I am surprised that anyone on that beach survived that attack at all. Seriously. Lucil was directly on the frontlines, it doesn’t make any sense that she made it.

Auron saw right through that mess from the beginning. But that is what you get for knowing the full truth. If you understand Yevons true nature, it all makes a lot more sense. Back then, when I played this game for the first time, I was still wondering if Auron was right. Tho the survived turning back to Yevon quickly showed me, that he could not have been that wrong.

So Cecil and Elma, both on the frontlines, both sitting on Chocobos made it out alive but their Chocobos didn’t? What did they do? Hide behind them or what? Once again, the survivor of that massaker don’t always make sense.

This certainly is on the list of conversation I wish I had never activated. I mean... did they really have to be so cruel? Torn in half was a bit much. Just dead would have done it quite well too.

I know and understand why many summoner chose the people they love as their Guardians and I got the whole “people I trust” - speech too. But who would take a little kid along on a journey full of monsters?

You know... you could see that Yuna too actually wanted to stay here until nightfall to watch the lights and all but wasn’t willing to be so selfish to say it and yet was still disappointed when Auron said they wouldn’t wait that long. I get that in a sense, they were in a rush and all, but given Yunas Situation, it was really unfair not to consider her feelings and what she wishes and needs. But when it comes to this, I always thought Auron was sometimes far too strict with everybody.

Yuna was just a child back then, one who just recently lost her father and now was brought by a “strange creature” to an unknown place far away from home. So I understand while even tho Kimari was worried when Yuna jumped into the water to get brought back like that, he also was glad she was having fun, given her sad and complicated situation at the time.

Did you ever notice that this is the only shoopuf we ever see in this game, even tho such a big thing is hardly to overlook? The reason thing shoopuf stil works here, even after over 10 years and such an injury, is because its the last one. We don’t get much information about it, but in the infamous audio drama that I would usually ignore, it gets mentioned that its lost its mate a long time ago and wished it back. That race likely went extinct for one reason or another and he is the last one alive, unable to produce new shoopufs, because its mate also died. Sad storys no one ever tells you.

I just beat the AlBhed that kidnapped Yuna AGAIN and now the game just crushed on me. Urg. No I have to hear that story about bad Machina and war again V.V

Something seemed off when I tried to open the game again. Maybe I should restart the computer. Or maybe I take a break and try again later.

#FFX Mona Version

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Abuse of Children Portrayed in Film

I like to use movies as an escape from the harshness of the real world and one of the things that I have learned about in my education is the effects on children when they are mistreated. I have a Masters Degree in Developmental Psychology and one of the hardest classes for me to handle was Abnormal Development in Children and Adolescents. We covered everything from dealing with dyslexia and ADHD to surviving severe abuse and loss at a very early age. We had guest speakers that ranged from people who had escaped genocide as children, to individuals who had been sold into prostitution by their parents, to people who had suffered severe abuse from their parents or guardian. I have heard stories that will stick with me forever and that is nightmare fuel that I don't want to share.

Because of my background education, I take note of the treatment and behavior of children and adolescents in the movies that I watch. There have been many great movies over the years that have depicted the suffering of children and it has always been difficult for me to deal with. There are more well known examples of films that focus on suffering but throw in more of a "sometimes we all suffer, even the children" message that demonstrate that kids aren't immune to great travesties (basically any film about The Holocaust). There are also well known films that show children "coming of age" through hardship (Annie 1982, Oliver! 1968) but end perfectly. There is a more current series of films that focuses entirely on a boy discovering a fantasy world that was robbed from him when his parents were murdered by a tyrant (Harry Potter series). But in this list I want to review some lesser known films that show examples of abuse. Even after all that I have seen and heard, the following list of films have affected me personally for one reason or another. Sometimes the children in these films endure and overcome their situation in the end. Sometimes these children do not survive or sadly remain in their misfortunes. To me, this can make the movie all the more powerful because of the incredible amount of pathos that endangering a child character can add. It can also make it a heart wrenching experience that is painful to watch. Here are some powerful films in which children suffer and the struggle is one of the main plot lines of the movie:

SPOILER WARNING AND VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISORY!!! I AM GOING TO GIVE AWAY THE PLOT TO THESE FILMS AND IT SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING THAT SOME OF THE PLOTS ARE DISTURBING!!! EITHER WATCH THE FILM IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS OR CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING SUMMARIES IF YOU WOULD RATHER JUST HEAR WHAT HAPPENS SO YOU KNOW IF YOU WANT TO WATCH OR NOT!!!

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Sybil (TV Movie) 1976

I just recently saw this film after I had heard of the story in my abnormal development class almost 10 years ago. It is the story of a woman who developed multiple personalities to deal with a childhood in the care of an undiagnosed schizophrenic mother. The movie stars Sally Fields and is based on a true account of Shirley Ardell Mason and her treatment by psychologist Cornelia Wilbur. The acting in the film is overdramatic at times, but it definitely reminded me of some of the actual old videos of Shirley Mason and her sudden strange switches in personality when she was scared or anxious. Dr. Wilbur used hypnosis to actually introduce Mason to her alternate personalities and she was able to recognize her disassociative identity disorder and overcome it. It still hurts me to think that this person was mentally wounded so deeply by her parents that it basically shattered her into pieces in an effort to make sense of things.

Leon: The Professional 1994

I mention this film a lot because it is a heartwarming story of an assassin teaching a young orphan how to murder. It is the breakout role for Natalie Portman and it is just amazing. Leon is a "cleaner" that lives next door to an abusive and addictive family with a troubled girl named Mathilda. The father gets in trouble with the mob and some enforcers come by and slaughter most of the family while Mathilda is getting groceries. She returns during the massacre and realizes what is happening so continues next door and pleads for shelter. Leon takes her in and teachers her the trade and protects her from the men who want to finish her off. The movie was written and directed by Luc Besson and stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman. The suffering that this girl endures because of her parent's addictions hurts me, yet I have seen and enjoyed this film many times. I recommend watching when in the mood to be deeply affected by the trials of a little girl and the killer who protected her.

Kids 1995

This film came out when I was early in high school and bothered me greatly. It is a story by Harmony Korine, and one of his many attempts to capture the hopeless lives of unmotivated and unsupervised teens. These are young teens having unprotected sex, stealing money to do drugs, and attacking people in the park. I did not really go to these kinds of parties when I was that age (or ever really) and it has bothered me to think that adolescents would partake in this kind of behavior. It is hard for me to believe that these kids had the ability to mentally comprehend the consequences of their actions and some of the characters end up contracting HIV from each other. I would not recommend the film because it is a depressing day in the life that no youth should have.

Gummo 1997

I would not call this a good movie and I wouldn't really recommend it. It is another work by Harmony Korine and really details the depravity that can occur with unsupervised youths living in low socio-economic conditions. This movie is just depressing and motivated me to find something to motivate me into action. I got into both psychology and teaching, which has served me well for the past 20 years. It was this film that showed me how low the bar for quality of life could be, and I guess for that I am thankful. However, I still wouldn't recommend it.

Happiness 1998

This movie I didn't see right away but noticed it at the video store on many occasions. I final watched it when I was about 25 on the recommendation of a friend and one particular storyline greatly disturbed me. It is basically the story of 3 sisters that feel they should be happy and project a face of happiness, yet they are miserable and have horrible lives. One sister in particular is married to a psychiatrist who turns out to be a pedophile that rapes the friends of his young son. At one point rather early on in the movie, this man confesses to his son that he raped the boy's friends and that he would do it again. The son is so confused that he asks his father why he never raped him. It is so disturbing to me because I know the boys that were assaulted will be forever damaged and this boy who was not actually raped will be mentally scarred as well. The fact that there are people in the world that would harm children that way, recognize what they had done, and then know they didn't have the self control to stop themselves from doing it again is horrifying to me.

Lilya 4-Ever 2002

This film is deeply disturbing and I highly recommend never watching it. I will spoil it for you now so you never have to see it if you don't want. A 16-year-old girl named Lilya lives with her mother. The mom gets a boyfriend and the couple move to America and abandons Lilya with a neglectful aunt. The aunt movies into the old apartment of her sister and Lilya is forced to move out and become a prostitute to make money. A boy comes along and convinces her to move to Sweden to escape her life. When they arrive, this boy sells her to a pimp and she becomes a teenage sex slave. She almost escapes, but is then captured and beaten almost to death. She escapes again and this time commits suicide so she won't be recaptured. This movie is awful and changed my mind about giving every film a chance. I wish I could forget this film, but I can't. Perhaps it is just not for me, but this film presentation is definitely an experience that you won't soon forget.

The Kite Runner 2007

I read this book in my twenties and saw the film in my thirties and both affected me greatly. A well-to-do boy and his friend are in a kite battle competition and the friend is beaten and raped when he goes to retrieve a fallen kite. The well-to-do boy denies knowing what happened to his friend (he does know) and basically shames and abandons him. This action haunts the well-to-do boy for the rest of his life. How the boy who was raped is basically falling prey to blaming the victim is heartbreaking, and the lifetime of guilt of the other boy is pitiable. Neither boy was the actual attacker yet they both were the ones that suffered.

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There are many other examples of movies along these lines and could be found if you feel like suffering. I can't say that I would recommend them because they are very difficult to watch. Beyond just dealing with the content, it is rare to find child actors who can actually portray somebody who has truly suffered. The mix of bad acting and a depressing plot can make for a terrible movie going experience. The genre of movie involving suffering does exist, though, and it could be enjoyed (?) by some. Just not generally by me.

#harmony korine #gummo #kids #the kite runner #suffering #psychology #depressing movies #introvert #introverts #happiness #lilya 4 ever #leon the professional #movies

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Yanno, I intended on releasing this beast yesterday but it just kept growing longer and longer as I edited it… truly sorry. This is part two to this post. They can be read independently as I only reference the other one like once but it does add up with what I write here. Again I’ll almost only be talking about the Overhaul arc in this, will mention a little of post-Tartarus breakout moments though.

Part 2: All BNHA villains had shitty childhoods, including Overhaul

It is not surprising. Hori is driving home this point a lot lately. But even without purely relying on this logic it is easily visible that whatever happened to Kai before the Yakuza boss picked him up, it wasn't pretty. This can be seen with Kai not only as a child but also with how he acts as an adult.

First of all let's address the elephant in the room. From canon we know that Kai was picked up by the boss from the streets as a child. ( I am guessing around 10 years or younger, but it's difficult to tell. ) It is stated that he had nowhere to go, or in other words; either he was entirely abandoned by whoever used to be his guardian(s) or he fled from them.

In the first panel of the scene, we see the boss depicted. He hardly appears friendly, considering his face is entirely covered in shadow and the way he is drawn looking down upon the viewer. It shows how from Kai’s point of view the man is entirely unknown and perhaps even scary, but in spite of how uninviting he seems Kai goes with him. He has no other choice.

Adding onto this is the fact that even about two decades later Chisaki still feels in debt to the boss for showing the basic empathy of not letting a child die on the streets. He expresses a need to pay him back, and apparently has frequently done so before as the boss is aware of it.

You’d think that after such a long time Chisaki would have let it go but apparently in spite of everything that he did for the Hassaikai so far he feels like it is not enough yet. It leaves the impression that whoever his guardians were previous to him being found, they must have made him believe him that he wasn't worth being taken care of, or at the very least that he had to put himself to work to be worth it. While the reason for him being abandoned is entirely unclear, it probably further drove home that message of “ You didn’t work hard enough to be worthy of being taken care of. “.

" Hardworking " is a notable characteristic of Chisaki. As explicitly described by Chrono and shown throughout the Overhaul arc, Chisaki goes through great lengths to strengthen and rebuild the Shie Hassaikai.

However, his relationship with the organisation is overall very strange when looked upon more closely.

As made clear in the arguments he has with the boss, Chisaki cares little for the values and traditions of the Yakuza. He acts violent, disobeys the man's wishes and repeatedly gets in arguments with him due to his tendency to go too far and stray from the Yakuza way. It escalates to the point that the boss tells Chisaki he needs to leave the organisation. Then, by the time he has forcefully taken control of the Hassaikai many of the "original Yakuza members" within it hate him, describing him as running wild and disrespecting what they stand for. Likewise Chisaki expresses that he does not care for their ideas of what’s important or their survival either.

This repeated behaviour of disrespecting and dismissing the Yakuza way stands in stark contrast to the fact that Chisaki clearly cares a lot about the organisation. This again is shown in many ways throughout the Overhaul arc. For one Chisaki is repeatedly shown to get into violent conflict with those who “disrespect the Yakuza '', though most outstanding is his life-goal is to restore the Shie Hassaikai into power. The plan he develops with the quirk destroying drug is dangerous and downright reckless, however he keeps clinging to it in spite of people such as Kurono telling him he would fail and the boss expressing his disagreement with it. His dedication to it is described as obsessive. In addition, I’d also like to point out that in his last fight with the boss, Chisaki takes action to get rid of the boss the very moment he threatens to kick Chisaki from the Shie Hassaikai. After everything they went through, being forced to leave was the one verdict from the boss he simply couldn’t accept.

Chisaki loves the Hassaikai in spite of feeling no connection or desire to conform to what it actually means to be a Yakuza. So he tries to forcefully mend the organisation into what he thinks it should be and what he believes would lead to success. By the time of the Overhaul arc he could have simply abandoned the title of “Yakuza” but he instead clings to that identity like it is his lifeline. That is why whenever the Yakuza are insulted, he protects their good reputation so aggressively, as he considers an attack on them to be a personal attack on himself.

Looking back at the fact that he’d been abandoned as a child, it gives the impression that prior to the Yakuza he has not had a chance to develop an identity of his own, or one he feels happy about. This may also be why he renamed himself to “Overhaul” after taking over. When Mirio calls him “Chisaki” during their fight he grows mad and says the other wasn’t allowed to call him by that name as he “had abandoned it”. After all it is the name he already carried upon meeting the boss.

Now, let's get back to talking about kid Kai. Or specifically the disposition he had in the few scenes we see of him.

To put it simply; he does not look like a happy child in any of them. In two of them Hori drew his face obscured by shadows and overall his expression can be described as hard to read, somewhat terrified. The last is the only scene where it's confirmed that he has been with the boss for a while already and also the only one where he looks like a normal child. It is as though it took the care and presence of the man for Kai to achieve this sense of normalcy in the first place. Nevertheless, even in that scene the expression he wears is one of sadness. This may absolutely be because he is being scolded, but it is still outstanding that Hori never showed the boy being happy, not even in a memory Chisaki seems to remember fondly as an adult.

Reading further into this, and this is more speculative again / based upon personal impressions; Chisaki doesn’t seem particularly happy as an adult either. He wears a mask so it is impossible to tell for sure but, except for that one time he fake-smiles at Deku, I cannot think of a single instance where I had the impression that Chisaki was smiling under his mask. He usually appears to be either serious, neutrally cold or angry. ( And well, post Tartarus he is simply downright miserable the whole time but that’s another topic. )

( Looking back at my previous post, this would also tie in as another contrast / parallel to Eri. Her first major plot after being saved from Overhaul is for her to "learn how to smile again". It is one of her first steps of overcoming her trauma. In contrast Kai appears to be the traumatised child who's never learned how to smile again. Eri thus begins to distance herself from him, in more than one way. )

Returning to the scene of a young Kai being scolded by Pops; It is said that Kai picked a fight with civilians who had insulted the Yakuza. This is something he is later shown to still be doing as an adult; beating up those who did not show him the proper respect. So, we can assume that he never ceased this pattern in spite of what the boss said to him. ( Then again, it isn’t like Chisaki ever seems to listen to the boss’s wishes. ) Now, especially speaking of a child, repeated violent behaviour typically points towards deeper lying issues and trouble that they have. Whatever they may be, considering that Chisaki never ceased to be violent, these issues apparently have never been addressed at all, or only unsuccessfully.

Finally, let’s talk about interpersonal relationships, which generally say quite a lot about a person’s well-being. I believe I will hardly have to provide proof to the statement that Chisaki has almost exclusively poor relationships.

First, there is the obvious abusive relationship between him and Eri, which is a whole other topic to talk about so I will keep it brief; he abuses and guilt trips her, he treats her like an object he owns, he shows absolutely no desire to interact with her other than to perform cruel experiments on her, and in fact he probably did not even try to view her as a human being in the first place.

Looking at the rest of the Hassaikai members, there is always a strong power imbalance between Chisaki and his followers. Chisaki acts very controlling with his men. Disobedience is severely punished by death and it is repeatedly made clear that Chisaki sees them as nothing but pawns for his plans. Several of his men put him on a pedestal and look up to him, while he distances himself from them and looks down upon them so strongly he “ does not even want to breathe the same air as them “.

Calling other people “diseased” and the frequently noted “hero syndrome” is something Chisaki uses in general to distance himself from others. From his point of view everyone else is diseased and he is the only one who sees the truth. His attitude doesn’t just present as a lack of empathy but a complete detachment from other people.

The only somewhat healthy relationship he appears to have among those working for him is Kurono, who judging by his own statements appears to have known Chisaki since childhood. Chisaki respects him enough to let him raise concerns about his plans ( though Chisaki dismisses them ) and to let Kurono follow him when he flees with Eri, instead of being left behind as canon fodder like the rest. However even Kurono is often treated by Chisaki like another obedient tool. Likewise Kurono expresses his admiration for Chisaki, rather than looking at him as an equal.

However, what stands out as Chisaki's poorest relationship of them all is the one he has with the boss himself. The boss means everything to Chisaki. Especially the more recent chapters post Tartarus breakout drive that message home. In his deranged, helpless state all he can think about is somehow getting back to the boss; to apologise to him, to somehow mend what has been broken and to find comfort with his father figure. As Chisaki states himself; the boss is all he has left. He appears to be entirely emotionally dependent on the man.

What truly makes their relationship so poor is that in spite of the emotions he has for the boss, and in spite of how much he expresses that everything he does is for the sake of this man, Chisaki does not even seem to even try to understand the boss’s point of view, or show any respect or empathy for his wishes.

As I stated previously, throughout the Overhaul arc there are multiple instances of fights between the two of them. The boss repeatedly criticises Chisaki for his actions; first by talking about how it breaks Yakuza code, later calling Chisaki’s plans downright inhumane and questioning how little he cares for people. Nevertheless Chisaki keeps insisting on his ideas. He chooses not to engage with the criticism and instead insists that the boss will understand his point of view once his plans are realised.

Their fights finally escalate when Chisaki decides to put the boss into a coma. Although it is clear Chisaki also took this action to prevent the boss from kicking him from the Hassaikai, it says a lot about Chisaki that he chooses to rather make the boss fall asleep and store him away in a room than to further argue with him. Even more, it is outstanding how Chisaki genuinely believes that once the boss wakes up he will forgive him for doing so. He visits the man in his coma, talking to him like they were still on good terms. He also does not take his title from him and preserves his position as the true leader of the Hassaikai as though nothing has changed. ( This is not too clear in the English version but the translation “young boss” refers to Chisaki’s title in the Yakuza “Wakagashira”. The Waka is only the second in command, the “Oyaji” is the only true boss, which is what he calls the old man. )

He has absolutely no understanding for how the boss would react to being put in a coma ( for who knows how long ) and to be eventually woken up to the sight that Chisaki had realised exactly the plans he’s told him not to. All the while Chisaki still keeps telling himself that he does it all “ for the boss’s sake “. He is again entirely detached from the reality of what the boss actually wishes.

In the end this behaviour of his complements the image of his upbringing quite well. Empathy and the ability to understand other people’s point of view is something he should have been taught to him at a young age, yet he entirely fails in those categories. This again could be the result of neglect in those crucial early years of development.

Together it all adds to the image of a child who grew up uncertain and disturbed; emotionally, in his own identity, and in his relationships to others. These issues carried over into adulthood and served as groundwork for the villain known as Overhaul. A man who fails to connect to the people in his life and who does not hesitate to commit cruel, inhuman acts to preserve the confused identity he created for himself.

#Kai Chisaki #Overhaul #this post is a monster and tumblr hates me for making it

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music-is-the-voice-of-the-soul · 2 years

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For @rangels

I was the pinch-hitter for Rangels. I chose prompt 3 which was: I take anything. And I'll cherish it. I ended up choosing this prompt because I wanted to do this idea I had and to make it into a moldboard and playlist.

AO3

Spotify Playlist

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In this AU, Tony and Pepper end up breaking off their engagement but are still best friends. Tony survives at the end of Endgame because the Guardians of the Galaxy remember what they did when Peter held the Power Stone. Tony's got some damage to his right arm as bad that he loses it. He does a lot of physical/occupational therapy to get any movement back in his hand and hand. Tony is retired but he still plans to train Harley to take over in the future for the iron suit.

Tony is at home in his small mansion and is bored, so he decides to get a switch cuz Peter-Man once mentioned it before the Blip and he's heard about the new Animal Crossing game, New Horizons, and Fire Emblem Three Houses. Breath of the Wild was already out a few years ago, but he decided to also get that cuz open world. It also helps that he's able to use the controls as a way to help with coordination for his right hand.

(LET'S PRETEND THAT THOSE GAMES CAME OUT A FEW WEEKS BEFORE ENDGAME OKAY. WE ARE ALSO GOING TO PRETEND THAT NINTENDO ALREADY CAME UP WITH THE NOVEMBER 5 BIG UPDATE FOR ANIMAL CROSSING AND ANY DLCS FOR IT, FIRE EMBLEM THREE HOUSES. BOTW HAS ALREADY BEEN OUT SO ANY DLCs ARE ALREADY AVAILABLE)

Tony ends up getting both games and is learning to just chill and relax without getting too anxious about what's happening superhero-wise. He's actually having fun with video games. Stephen visits Tony and they just hang out with each other, almost every other day because Tony has a schedule of who is visiting on which day, but he likes it when Stephen visits outside of his scheduled day. Stephen also gets to learn who Tony really is, because, in those 14,000,605 futures that he saw, he only saw what Tony was like in those fives years until the end.

(Stephen only sees that one future where Tony dies, so he thinks that he just sent Tony to his doom, he doesn't take into account the quick jumpstart of the memory of the Guardians with the power stone)

1. Fight 'Til the End

2. The River

3. I Lived

4. Heading Home

5. Theme Song (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

6. How Lovely

7. 2:00 AM (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

8. I Think I Love You

9. 5:00 AM (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

10. High Hopes

11. Stale Cupcakes (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

12. HandClap

13. Only Me (From Animal Crossing)

14. Fairytale

15. Nook's Cranny - Before Closing (From Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

16. I Hear a Symphony

17. Main Theme (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

18. I Want You

19. Life at Garreg Mach Monastery (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

20. Underground

21. A Place to Rest (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

22. Photograph

23. Breath of the Wild (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

24. Arcade

25. Life in the Ruins (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

26. Don't Deserve You

27. Mipha's Theme (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

28. Echo of 2008

29. Great Fairy Fountain (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

30. Your Eyes Tell

31. Somewhere to Belong (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

#ironstrange #izzy creates fanwork #izzy makes edits #izzy makes playlists #ironstrangegiftexchange2021 #isgiftexchange2021

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sockendrache · 3 years

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Local trash-gremlin re-discovered Lego-show and loses mind

(still just slightly embarrassed that I’m almost 18 and somehow still got back into the Lego-show I spent my childhood watching and geniuely enjoy it-)

I completely forgot that Pythor was actually a pretty well-written character. ...aside from the fact that he’s batshit crazy and probably a psychopath from spending years underground doing unspeakable things to survive-

I adore this lanky bastard, no joke. Who gave this snake the permission to be this funny and charismatic

Makes me want to write a whole-ass fanfiction where Pythor hasn’t completely gone insane yet and instead of wanting to eat and betray Lloyd, he just looks at this kid stumbling into his tomb and just goes “I’ve known this scrappy brat for exactly 0.5 seconds but if anything were to happen to him I will kill everyone in this room and then myself” and promptly decides he’ll be his guardian. Like, actually. Without abandoning him later and putting him in a cage and shit-

Just. Pythor instinctively lunging at any and every small animals he encounters on the surface and presenting them to Lloyd (and quickly realizing that he’s aquired himself a picky charge.... pff, who wouldn’t eat a freshly caught, perfectly fine rat?) Pythor using the fact that he’s a snake to steal food (or just flat-out turn invisible to not draw any unwanted attention to them) for Lloyd and himself after giving up on trying to convince Lloyd that rats don’t taste that bad. Pythor wrapping Lloyd up with his tail when sleeping (and using him as a space heater in the process).

Uses his brains to try to keep this child out of trouble.

Gods, he looks away for 5 seconds and this kid released yet aNOTHER serpentine-tribe. HOW did he get himself stuck in a cage? He really needs to work on this kids manners- what? the school they sent him to actively encouraged him to never say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’? Gods, Pythor was stuck in a tomb for god-knows how many years and even HE has better manners than this literal demon spawn.

Why is this child dead-set on getting revenge on some Ninjas. Shouldn’t their first priority be finding a place to stay and, idk, a consistent food-supply?

Skales, help. Your tribe still has hatchlings and young around. My scale-less hatchling behaves like a goddamn heathen, help me.

The Ninjas keep trying to take his human-hatchling from him. No, thank you very much, he found him first and like the old rule goes, finders keepers. What do you mean, kidnapping? YOU kidnapped him first!

He doesn’t give a fuck about collecting the Fangblades, he’s gotta keep an eye on the human-hatchling. The Ninjas collect them anyways, just in case. He keeps shooting them dirty looks whenever they cross paths, before scooping up his human-charge and slithering off.

When the Ninjas do end up getting their hands on Lloyd, Pythor throws a fit about needing to go with him. Of course they don’t let a snake on the bounty. Cue Pythor using his invisibility to sneak on board. Will you stop surprise-adopting my hatchling, please?!

It takes Lloyd and Pythor a solid 3 hours of convincing (and a powerpoint that Pythor managed to make god-knows-where) to let him stay.

He’s not very pleased upon finding out that they expect a 10 year old to fight against his father. Not at all.

“Skales, thanks for the books on how to raise a troubled hatchling, but I think I need another one.”

“What for?”

“How to prepare your hatchling to fight against his father in the foreseeable future.”

#ninjago #lego ninjago #lloyd garmadon #ninjas #that stupid lego show #pythor p. chumsworth #ninjago pythor #headcanons #ninjago headcanons #ninjago au #why am i thinking about this at 11 pm

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paintball169 · 3 years

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The Lost Al Ghul - Chapter 2

- Marin's POV -

I am done arranging my new room. Just 1 box left. Let's see what's inside this one. Hmm these are all weapons. Where should I hide them? Aha this trunk opens. I am going to arrange my weapons in it. Now I need a wooden plank to close this. There, a purple plank with a handle so no one suspects a thing. Now I just nee- ow! What's that?

" Marinette are you ok? " " Yes! " I reply. Now to open this box. Wow this is one of my twin katanas!

-----Flashback-----

- Marin's POV -

After mother gave her necklace to me, Damian called me to his room. I wonder what is it...

" Ukhti there you are! " Damian exclaims . I just nod. " Happy Birthday Ukhti, here this is your birthday gift! " he continues. There is a vintage box. Wonder what's inside it. He slowly opens the box. There are two Katanas in it! Wow those two look similar except the gems. I take the sapphire one and keep it in his hand. " Take " I say, more like demand.

" Why ? that's your gift! " Damian Asks.

" That's my eye color katana. Keep it. " I tell him.

" Then you keep the emerald one. That way we can always remember each other. " Damian says.

" Okay Damian " I say. Then he smiles.

( Just Imagine there are two gems in the middle of it )

-----Flashback ends-----

Wow it's been so many months I have seen Damian. I wonder if he is okay. Or if he still has the other dagger. I wonder if- If- he still remembers me. Wow I miss him like hell. If i said this to my past self i would've denied it.

-----Flashback-----

-Marin's POV-

I am listening to Damian rant about his mission to me. I wonder what my next mission will be. Maybe finding out why the Order of guardians fell. Nah that's too far fetched. Maybe infiltrating someone's base. Or maybe Assassinating somebody. Maybe-

"- Then grandfather says that The order of the guardians fell because of an incompetent guardian! " Damian says breaking me out of my stupor.

" Wait, what?! " I suddenly shout. Damian asks " You mean the incompetent guardian right? ".

" No, How did the order fall Damian? " I ask voicing my doubts.

" Oh that, a guardian in training could not go 2 days without food. So, he used the Peacock miraculous from the Mother box to make a sentimonster. The sentimonster brought food for sometime. then it started to devoured the boxes. A fire started and the temple burst into flames. The guardian in training managed to escape the temple along with the Mother box." Damian Explains.

"Oh, Damian who was the guardian in training? " I ask.

" Master Fu , Age 10 years when the order fell. The only guardian who survived the fire. Created a sentimonster named Feast which is Believed to be turned into stone by now which was the cause of the fire. " Informs Damian.

" Oh, Okay. But Damian when did this happen? " Because I didn't see temple in flames. I always saw the temple on the other side of the woods ruined.

" Oh that happened around 177 years ago. If the Guardian were alive, he would've been 179 years old." Says Damian. Wow i didn't know people lived for that long.

"Marin, your mission is decided. Come on. " Mother says coming into the room suddenly. I nod. Damian says " Bye Ukhti! Do your Best! ". As i follow Mother to the Chambers.

-----Flashback ends------

Wow I wonder where is Damian. He knows so much about the order too. And speaking of the order that last guardian is here in Paris.

-----Flashback-----

- Marin's POV -

" Marin report! " Shouts Grandfather.

" Yes, Sir! The last guardian currently resides in Paris. Runs a massage parlor. Motherbox's aura was there sir, I believe that it was coming from a gramophone. But the peacock and the butterfly's aura were missing. I looked around the parlor I believe the grimore was missing. There were many potions inside. " I respond quickly.

He seems to think for a moment and responds " Alright. Go back to your room. " He says. Wow first time no punishments i think while heading back.

"Hello Ukhti. How did the mission go?" Damian asks.

" Good. I believe Ra's was pleased. " I respond.

" Wow. Good job " he says while returning to his chambers.

-----Flashback ends-----

Hey now to think of it, We did give each other lucky charms. Yes its here.

Marin's :

Damian's :

I miss Damian so much. No I miss AKHI so much.

My room is ready but it's too much pink. Design is cool.

#bio dad bruce wayne #marinette gets adopted #marinette x batfam #marinette al ghul wayne #marinette dupain cheng #damian wayne #daminette #felinette #talia al ghul #ra's al ghul #league of assassins #the lost al ghul

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stillebesat · 3 years

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Demon Comfort (1/3)

DECEMBER DRABBLES DAY 10 Sanders Sides: Logan, Virgil Blurb: Lurking under a Human’s bed should be downright dull for a Demon of Logan’s rank. And yet...he can’t help but be intrigued by his human charge. Fic Type: Demon!AU, Demon!Logan Overall Fic Warnings: Near Death Experiences, Freezing, Burning, Hazing Talk, Manipulation Taglist in reblog.

It wasn’t the most glorious of jobs. Logan wouldn’t be the first demon to admit it. Lurking under a human’s bed was mundane at best and outright mind numbing at worst.

They were so distracted with their technology these days, so overloaded with sensory input from a variety of sources that most humans would barely twitch if their demon companion made themselves known.

No. Beyond using this as an exercise in learning how to terrorize the youngest of human offspring, ones whose minds were much more easy to scare because of their simplistic fears, the only other time a demon was ever assigned to this task was...well as punishment.

And unfortunately for Logan, who had had a good three millennia of experience under his wings...this was definitely a punishment. To be forced back into lurking under a human’s bed like an overgrown dust bunny.

He knew this sentence was meant to break him. To drive him crazy from how extremely dull it would get as soon as the child grew old enough to stop fearing the monster under their bed.

Except it wasn’t. Logan allowed a small smile to play upon his lips, tail swishing back and forth. Because apparently his superiors could make mistakes. After all, he’d been told he would be condemned to lurking underneath a child’s bed.

Instead, he’d found himself underneath a near-adult’s. One who would soon be leaving his childhood home to pursue an education elsewhere and learn to navigate the world of being an adult on his own.

It had turned out to be a far more interesting punishment than Logan had expected. The near-adults were known to his kind to often be in a stage of tumultuous growth, easy to influence when their heads were filled to the brim with a variety of doubts and fears that hovered like a dark storm cloud above them. A tangle of ever shifting and writhing threads that Logan had learned to love, in the past half year on earth he’d been here, to tease apart and influence so he could better understand what spurred this near-adult through life.

Virgil, the charge he’d been assigned to, truly was a diamond in the rough compared to the other near-adults he’d glimpsed while stuck here. The storm cloud over his head so tangled, that Logan could easily play with the threads for hours, teasing through them, seeing how each dark thought influenced the human as he tossed and turned on the thin mattress over his head each night.

Only Virgil wasn’t currently tossing and turning over his head.

Logan silently exhaled, his breath misting in front of him as his leathery wings twitched in irritation. He ran his fingers over his horns, trying and failing to focus on the Alice in Wonderland book that his charge had left on the floor this morning as he listened to the human shiver on the couch in the living room on the other side of the wall.

He hadn’t often had the opportunity to study humans when their planet frosted over since his particular type of demon preferred the warmer climates of Earth that were similar to his native inner ring of Hell. Had had very little interest in ever doing so.

But Logan’s current human had chosen to move away from the heat and the shining sun when he ‘left the nest’ as his fellow demons termed it.

Further north than Logan would have preferred. But despite hours upon hours of tugging and twisting at the quivering thoughts in Virgil’s mind... this had been one decision he hadn’t managed to turn to his favor.

No, Virgil had wanted a new start far away from his previous life, far far away from everyone he knew, and he’d decided that heading to a colder climate was the best course of action.

Now Logan was definitely regretting not fighting with those slippery thoughts harder. But how could he, or the human, have known that a freak cold snap would leave the state frozen in near arctic conditions?

It was cold enough outside of the four walls of the first floor apartment that humans were dying if they ventured out for longer than a few minutes.

Inside? It was nearly as bad because the apartment had been without power and therefore without its ability to heat the place for the past seventy-two hours.

His charge, his stubbornly stubborn, but very poor charge had to be the only human left in the entire complex. The last of the other residents having left over forty-eight hours ago to safer and warmer options once it became clear that the power couldn’t be fixed until the weather warmed.

If it ever warmed.

Logan shut the book, having not read a single word on the page for the past hour. He rested his head on the cover, wings trembling as he fought to keep his body temperature lower so that no steam would come off his body and alert his charge to his presence.

This would have been much easier if he could just come out from under the bed and take Virgil somewhere warmer. He had wings did he not? He could fly them anywhere--but no.

Logan grimaced, running his tongue over his fangs. Demons and Humans weren’t supposed to mingle unless a Human summoned them.

And until that unlikely event happened.

Virgil couldn’t know he was there.

Which was a pity. Even if he hadn’t had his wings to fly them away, his physical manifestation would have done much in his favor in convincing his charge to leave this frozen wasteland.

Instead, Logan had fought for hours with the tangles in Virgil’s mind, pulling at all the proper strings to get him to leave---and yet again had irritatingly lost to his charge.

There was a reason why he hadn’t minded being stuck with Virgil for the foreseeable future and it was because his, dare he say it? Smart and brilliant human could bring up excellent, if befuddling at times, points to his silent arguments that Logan couldn’t easily manipulate in his favor.

His charge’s finances were borderline nonexistent. Which meant he couldn’t afford to fly back home. And Virgil didn’t own a car so he couldn’t drive anywhere. The buses weren’t running either because of the cold. Nor could he afford to stay in a hotel.

And most unfortunately, moving away from everyone he knew and Virgil’s naturally reclusive nature meant that his charge had no friends or even acquaintances to go live with within a thousand miles while his obnoxiously loud, rude, and inconsiderate roommates had vanished without so much as checking in with him to make sure he had a place to go to.

No. Logan growled under his breath, tail tapping against the floor. For all intents and purposes. Virgil was on his own to survive this cold snap--

He jerked his head up, glancing to the wall with a frown at the sudden silence coming from the other room.

That wasn’t right.

Automatically Logan reached out for the sluggish tangle of thoughts that Virgil always had twisting about his head.

Nothing.

Logan blinked. That definitely wasn’t right. He pushed up onto his elbows, barely remembering to duck his head to avoid piercing the mattress above with his horns.

Virgil couldn’t have left. Not in this weather. He was too cautious for that. Logan would have heard the door slam at least which meant that Virgil was still here and if he was still here he should be able to reach those tangled thoughts even while his charge slept unless Virgil had--had----

“No.” Logan rolled out from under the bed, chest throbbing uncomfortably as he sprang to his feet and burst through the bedroom door into the living room. His wings spread wide as he grabbed the motionless figure from his cocoon of blankets on the couch, wincing at the frozen chill that burned his skin as he cradled the nearly blue human in his arms. His wings snapped shut around the near-adult to insulate him from the cold, his wings taking on a red glow as allowed his inner fire to burn hotter to get heat into his charge’s frozen body.

He should have tried harder to get him to leave! Especially when the power had gone out. He shouldn’t have let--“Virgil.” Logan shook his charge, using the back of his hand to brush the purple bangs from out of the human’s eyes. “VIRGIL.”

The human suddenly gasped, twitching in Logan’s arms as his glazed eyes fluttered open, meeting Logan’s own slitted ones for a heart stopping second before they closed. The human twisted, pressing his frozen face into Logan’s side, violently trembling. “C-c-co-o-ld.” He mumbled.

Alive. The tightness in his chest eased as Logan shoved to his feet, holding Virgil close like a mother cradling her demon spawn as he moved back to his charge’s bedroom where he would be able to use his hellfire in the smaller space more effectively to ensure the young human would survive. “Not for long, I promise you that.”

It wasn’t proper, he shouldn’t have come out and revealed himself like this in the first place without taking on a human disguise. He shouldn’t have cared if Virgil perished. He should have just gone back to Hell to say that his sentence had ended with the death of his charge instead of trying to save him--but propriety could go screw itself.

Virgil was far too interesting of a human to lose to something as stupid as freezing to death.

“Wh-who--y-y-y-you?” Virgil managed to ask through chattering teeth as Logan entered his--well he supposed it was technically their room since Logan lived there too.

“A--” Well he wasn’t really a friend now was he? Demons and Humans couldn’t be friends. And Logan’s actions in toying with the human’s mind would hardly be deemed acceptable in most human social circles he was sure. “A Guardian.” He said, settling on that particular term with a twitch of his tail as he climbed onto the bed, adjusting his wings to ensure that the heat radiating off of him remained focused on keeping Virgil warm.

Technically he was looking out for Virgil’s well-being, even if he hadn’t taken such direct action in doing so before this moment.

The human sighed, eyes fluttering again as his arms shifted, pressing frozen fingers into Logan’s side. “An--An-Angel?” Logan snorted, shaking his head as he carefully ran his clawed fingers through the human’s hair. “Hardly, You may call me…” He took a breath, it was another rule he shouldn’t break, but he’d already broken at least a dozen already. Why not add a lucky thirteenth to the list? “Logan.”

Odds were the human wasn’t mentally cognizant enough for it to do any harm. If luck was on his side, Virgil would think this whole thing a dream once he really woke up.

“Lo.” Virgil breathed, his trembling form relaxing as the blue tinge to his skin faded. “Th-th-thanks.”

Logan swallowed, his hearts stuttering in his chest at the unexpected nickname. Mentally he shook his head, settling them into a more comfortable position where he would be able to leave the human as soon as his body temperature returned to a satisfactory level.

It was nothing. Nothing. The human probably just couldn’t say his whole name without stuttering. That was it. He’d be back under the bed before Virgil woke and the human would think the whole thing a dream. So this...this was nothing. Everything would return to normal on the morrow where Logan would lurk under the bed and the near-adult would remain unaware of just exactly how his room was managing to stay warmer than the rest of the apartment.

And yet.

“You’re welcome.” He whispered, unable to stop running his claws through Virgil’s hair as his shuddering breaths evened out into the steady rhythm of sleep; for once not thinking about picking at the tangle of thoughts faintly twisting above the human’s head.

To Be Continued Part 2 Part 3

#Demon Comfort #December Drabbles #stillebesat #Sanders Sides #Logan #Virgil #Logic #Anxiety #Demon!Logan #Near Death Experiences tw #Freezing tw #Burning tw #Hazing Talk tw #Manipulation tw

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