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noodlesnatcher · 3 months
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What a catch!
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hiccanna-tidbits · 3 years
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The RotBTD+ Gang Plays DnD! (Feat. my ships, sorry not sorry XD)
So highkey I’ve actually been wanting to do a “The Gang Plays DnD” type post for AGES now, but then I saw @hobie-brown and @ohlooksheswriting-wips do DnD AU posts for RotBTD, and then I was like “Ah shit, I really should finish mine, eh?” So thank you to both of you for inspiring me to get off my ass and actually write the post!!!
Hiccup DMs. He comes up with this super complex plot revolving around dragons (because of course) where the party has to dismantle this society ruled by evil knights who want to genocide all of the dragons. Imagine his chagrin when the party wants to do nothing but fuck around in towns and aggravate NPCs 90% of the time.
They usually end up playing at Jack’s apartment, mainly because Hiccup’s dad doesn’t really want a bunch of loud nerds yelling about 20-sided dice in his household while he’s trying to work, if he can at all help it. Jack’s sister regularly barges into their living room and roasts the fuck out of Jack and his friends for being such damn nerds and eats all of their DnD snacks they’ve set out. If they’re in the middle of a combat session, she always gleefully proclaims that they’re all going to die. While Jack is annoyed by this, the rest of the party finds it deeply hilarious.
Jack Overland plays the absolute mayhem warlock Jack Frost, who got his powers through making a deal with the archfey Prince of Frost and has absolutely no qualms about being an evil god’s mortal Sower of Chaos. He spends the vast majority of the campaign doing such useful things as creating ice slicks under annoying NPCs and freezing people’s drinks. He also plays a Tiefling because absolutely no one can talk this boy out of playing the creepy demon race.
Rapunzel plays a woodland nymph druid who is also the party healer (because of course she is). Her name is probably Sunlily or something else suitably hippie-esque. Whenever there’s downtime (or whenever the rest of the party is also dicking around, and she can get away with it), Rapunzel likes to go into the nearest forest and pick the best berries and nuts for the rest of the party. She also loves baking fruit pies and cooking the best nymph food for her companions when given the chance. Definitely the party Cinnamon Roll (every party has one!). She often will turn into cute animals to distract the guards while the party infiltrates a building.
Merida’s character is the party archer and general ranged weapon master, as well as a raging lesbian. Hiccup learns very quickly that any male NPC who tries to flirt with her will very quickly get impaled with an arrow. She can’t ever decide if she wants to be a ranger or a rogue, so she multiclasses in both for flare. She also plays a Tiefling, and continually insists that her character is both scarier and sexier than Jack’s. In combat, she either Leeroy Jenkins her way in with a sword and just starts slashing every which way, or just shoots 90% of the enemies with arrows before the fight even starts. There’s really no in between. She can get away with this because she’s highkey one of the party tanks, and consistently deals a shitton of damage.
Anna plays a human bard, basically having read over the class options and going “Wait, in this one I get to make stylish medieval music??? And wear dramatic and garish outfits and a dumb hat??? And cast wacky illusion spells??? And do silly little magic tricks??? And INSPIRE EVERYONE??? Hell yeah, I’m in!!!” She mostly uses magic attacks in combat (definitely favors Tasha’s Hideous Laughter), but occasionally when she’s out of spell slots she’ll just take to slamming enemies in the face with her lute. She also has WAY too much fun with Vicious Mockery, let’s be real.
Elsa, upon hearing Jack’s character concept, rolls her eyes so far up in her head she can see her damn brain, and vows to play his concept, but serious–solely out of spite. She rolls up a super OP elf Chaos Sorcerer, filled with lots of brooding angst about how uncontrollable her winter powers can get if she isn’t careful. She combines it a bit with Storm Sorcerer so she can create literal blizzards, and Hiccup ends up allowing it just because he thinks it’s cool. Although Elsa’s character is undoubtedly aggravated by the rest of the party’s antics, she starts becoming grudgingly protective of these idiots and can deal some pretty crazy damage when her companions are threatened. She also contains one of the party’s only brain cells.
Eugene of course plays dashing rogue master thief Flynn Rider. Although his high deception and lockpicking skills certainly come in handy, he’s the most chaotic neutral fucker you’ve ever met and will take any excuse to rob NPCs blind or cheat them out of every cent they have in a tavern card game. It’s nigh impossible to get him to cooperate with the rest of the party much of the time, and often Elsa’s character has to either bribe him with some of her family’s gold or threaten to freeze him to stop him backstabbing one or more party members. Eugene’s character forces Hiccup to add in many more heist plotlines than he originally intended. This delights Eugene immensely, and sometimes he goes a bit crazy planning elaborate heists.
Moana plays a sorcerer water genasi. She can control any body of water, but she has a special affinity for controlling saltwater (i.e. the ocean lol). She also requests an animal handling bonus, but only with marine animals, solely because she thought it would be funny. She’s also an ex-pirate who robbed a lot of wealthy merchant ships and freed their slaves back in the day, which Merida thinks is incredibly badass. Moana tends to get bored and unengaged when there are no bodies of water to play around with, so Hiccup ends up having to add a lot more lakes, rivers, and oceans to the campaign than he originally planned on. Moana also takes a sailing skill, and thus the party often ends up traveling by boat. Typically Eugene and Rapunzel will infiltrate and hijack it, and Moana will sail it. Moana probably contains the party’s only other brain cell.
Astrid plays a gigantic berserker orc barbarian who is never without his trusty axe. Astrid is hands down the party’s top tank, and unquestionably deals the most damage every combat session. Much like Merida’s character, Astrid’s character is absolutely a shameless power fantasy. Hiccup pretty easily picks up on this, but is too polite to say anything about it. Jack also picks up on this, but is hardly as courteous as their DM, and teases Astrid mercilessly. Astrid is not amused.
Rapunzel requests that her weapon of choice be a frying pan, her justification being that her character found a discarded one at the edge of a human village outside her woods and mistaked it for a highly-dangerous human weapon. Hiccup is like “…you know what? Fuck it” and rolls up stats for a goddamn frying pan. Jack has nigh-endless admiration for Rapunzel for choosing such a goddamn memey, absurd, yet oddly effective weapon and it definitely makes the poor boy even more smitten with her than he already is.
Eugene and Merida have a bet going on who can sleep with more sexy barmaids. Merida is currently winning, much to Eugene’s chagrin. She’s not even inherently better at seducing NPCs, she and Eugene have the same charisma stat–she just consistently rolls better than Eugene. Eugene is incredibly salty about this.
Anna and Elsa want to be sisters in-game as well, but neither want to change their race–so Anna decides her character was adopted. Hiccup and the rest of the party go along with it, mainly because there’s something deeply hilarious about a regular human bard being adopted and raised by a family of high-powered elf ice mages.
Astrid is absolutely the sort of player who tends to get bored and restless outside of fights, and tends to fidget and twiddle her thumbs waiting for the next combat session. Jack picks up on this, and purposely does more roleplay for longer just to piss her off. He’s also just a very dramatic fucker and highkey loves roleplay.
When she’s not causing mayhem around the town or sleeping with hot women, Merida tries to entertain Astrid between combat sessions by offering to spar with her. Unfortunately, this does not usually end well for poor Merida, as even the most hardcore and badass of tieflings is prone to getting dumpstered by an 8-foot-tall barbarian orc with an axe. Astrid is, nonetheless, grateful to have someone to fight.
Rapunzel, Elsa, and Moana will humor Hiccup and attempt to actually play the main plot. Meanwhile, Jack, Merida, and Eugene are a DM’s worst nightmare. They constantly derail the damn campaign to fuck around, cause mayhem, and do inane shenanigans in every. Damn. Town. They go to. Anna is kind of a wildcard–she’ll typically go with whatever group looks like they’re going to be doing something more interesting. Astrid will go along with whichever group is more likely to get into a fight–which, often as not, is Jack and his posse of terrible Chaotic Neutrals (who have definitely pissed off a number of NPCs into attacking them).
As the campaign goes on, Elsa and Eugene become the beleaguered Party Mom and Dad. Both are quite aggravated by this–especially poor Eugene, who just wanted to play a morally-gray charming rogue who stole everything and got away with it and then accidentally ended up caring about these idiots he got stuck with.
Anna initially joins the campaign because she has a planet-size crush on Hiccup, and inevitably is the one who dragged Elsa into it too. Being the hopeless romantic that she is, Anna writes a love interest into her backstory. Hiccup eventually has the party run into said love interest, and Anna is overjoyed. He starts flirting with her as the love interest, and it’s easily the best 30 minutes of Anna’s life.
Moana and Elsa also give Hiccup pretty detailed backstories, and he works in little subplots for them. Moana gets to bring water back to a dying part of the jungle in the middle of a draught, while Elsa gets to go on a whole sidequest to explore her family history and how they came to be sorcerers.
Jack, Merida, and Eugene also give Hiccup fairly elaborate backstories, but Jack’s and Merida’s are like 99% memes and Dumb Shit. Hiccup tries to give all of them backstory-related plot hooks, but inevitably any hooks he provides are either stabbed, robbed, or frozen. Honestly any plot hook offered to these 3 will be all but spat in the face of and tossed off a cliff.
The one relevant part of Eugene’s backstory is that he and Rapunzel decide they used to be partners in crime before the campaign started. Rapunzel would infiltrate and scout out places he wanted to rob as small, unobtrusive animals (her preferred Wild Shape is a chameleon) and later distract the guards as a bunny or kitten while he went in and took every gold coin in sight. In return, Flynn Rider would bribe builders to not develop into Sunlily’s forest. Rapunzel and Eugene partly came up with this For Funsies, but also it was Rapunzel’s sneaky way of tricking Eugene into having prior connections in the party so he’d be less likely to betray them. It works pretty well–although the entire party is protective of Cinnamon Roll Sunlily, Flynn is certainly especially protective of her.
Astrid does the absolute bare minimum as far as backstories go. She is literally just here to smash stuff, slice people, and beat some fuckers up.
Rapunzel has a backstory, but she’s typically so invested in the main plot and the other party members that Hiccup rarely needs to bring it in to keep her engaged. She’s highkey the party emotional rock, and probably the only one keeping them all together.
On that note, Rapunzel’s character is the ONLY one who can get Jack’s character to take the plot even REMOTELY seriously. Like he’ll be dicking around in the nearest tavern challenging the nearest orc to a drinking game, and Rapunzel will come in and ask him to help them on a Main Plot Quest. And he’ll be like “come onnnnn I’m having funnn” and she’ll be like “Jack pleeeeeease?” and you just. Can’t resist Sunlily’s puppy dog eyes. At all. Also, whenever Sunlily is genuinely threatened, any silliness immediately goes out the window and Jack Frost is OUT FOR BLOOD.
For better or for worse, Rapunzel is not immune to being looped into Jack’s shenanigans. Occasionally if either Merida or Eugene have a particularly hare-brained scheme she’ll go along with it, but by and large Jack is the most successful in convincing her to temporarily abandon the plot and cause mild mischief with him. They once wasted half a session creating an elaborate “ice theme park” for some squirrels in the forest.
Hiccup tries to get Merida to play the main plot by eventually having there be no more sexy female NPCs to seduce in the towns they go to. Unfortunately, this backfires–Merida just hooks up with Moana’s character instead. When asked to roll for how good the lay is, Merida gets a nat 20–and thus her character and Moana’s character end up hooking up regularly throughout the rest of the campaign.
Hiccup introduces a few Wise Old Mentor-type NPCs to guide the party throughout the campaign. While Rapunzel, Elsa, Moana, and Anna actually try to listen to them and take their advice, Merida, Jack, and Eugene absolutely refuse to take them seriously and mercilessly play pranks on them.
At one point, Hiccup gives the party the option to attempt to tame a group of wild dragons and use them as mounts. They all have to make animal handling checks. Anna, Rapunzel, Elsa, and Moana pass. The rest of the party fails, with Jack and Eugene crit-failing. Hilarity ensues.
Hiccup ends up bringing back Anna’s backstory love interest as an NPC regular. Anna thinks he’s just being a good friend and a good DM and trying to incorporate her backstory as much as he can, but really, he just wants an excuse to regularly flirt with her. He hardly has the balls to out-of-game.
Merida comes out as gay toward the end of the campaign. Everyone in the group is extremely supportive, of course, but everyone is also like “Merida…with the amount of barmaids you’ve banged…and the amount of times you and Moana’s character hooked up…this isn’t exactly surprising.”
Hiccup actually finds a way to use Jack and Elsa’s same-concept-opposite-execution characters to the plot’s advantage. He decides one of the main villains will have a prophecy saying he’ll be taken down by a powerful ice mage. The party manages to fool this guy into thinking this ice mage is Jack, and sends Jack to fight him. As soon as the villain sees Jack, he’s like “WHAT??? THIS clown???” (word has absolutely spread throughout the land of Jack not using his ice powers for anything besides mildly annoying trolling). Naturally, the bad guy lets his guard down after thinking he’s going to fight this literal joke, and then Elsa crashes in from the side and absolutely dumpsters him.
Jack tries to defeat the final boss by just annoying him so much that he leaves. Unfortunately, he just annoys him so much that he attacks Rapunzel’s character. Jack’s just like “oh HELL no” and attacks with absolutely nothing held back. Turns out he’s pretty terrifying when he’s not using his magic for Dumb Antics.
During the final boss of the campaign, the Big Bad tries to one-shot Moana’s character, and Merida’s character super theatrically jumps in front of her to take the blow instead. Rapunzel just barely manages to heal Merida’s character, but it’s a really close call. During all this, Merida is like “ah shit...maybe I’m NOT just in this to get fantasy-laid.” After the fight’s over, her and Moana’s characters have a big dramatic love confession and share a Big Damn Kiss in front of everyone. It’s pretty epic.
After the final session of the campaign, Merida drags Moana outside Jack’s apartment and sputters and trips over her words for a solid minute before she finally gets out that through all this nonsense...well...maybe it’s not just in the game that she thinks Moana is hot. Moana just gets this HUGE grin on her face and says “c’mere, Leeroy Jenkins” and just pulls Merida in and kisses her. Cue the rest of the party barging in on them. Merida and Moana freeze, and there’s a moment of terrified silence...and then the entire party starts cheering them on like “took you long enough!”
The entire rest of the party could detect the sexual tension. Literally all of them.
But Eugene is like “HA, THIS MEANS IF WE DO A SEQUEL CAMPAIGN I’M WINNING THAT BET! BECAUSE YOU’RE GONNA BE DATING MO’S CHAR AND THUS NOT ABLE TO SLEEP WITH ANY MORE BARMAIDS!”
By the epilogue session, Jack and Rapunzel are dating. Merida and Moana are also dating. Hiccup and Anna STILL haven’t figured out why they’re so prone to spending half the session flirting when Anna’s love interest shows up, and Hiccup STILL hasn’t figured out why he likes to have Anna’s love interest show up so often. Bless their souls. Maybe they’ll figure it out next campaign...?
Damn I actually really like this...maybe if people like it I’ll do some incorrect quotes or a drabble or something??? Or maybe some HCs from next campaign???
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str-spangled-banner · 6 years
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Runaway (Bucky X Reader)
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Summary: You are a photographer in a small town on the coast of Oregon and manage to run into a dog one morning with no owner in sight, a dog which leads you straight to Bucky Barnes front door.
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Warnings: None
A/N: I’m have risen from my tomb.
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She watched the clear water from the river run through the grooves in the sand before blending with the ocean, listening to its calming sound. She could hear the seagulls circling over the port settled in the bay further down the shoreline, scouting above the fishing boats which had just came in from their morning catch, but seagulls were far from the only birds that were awake. Sandpipers had ran along the water all morning and chirped lightly along with a few, shrieking, Herons, and the forest which spread out behind her back was filled with the sounds of Northern Flickers and woodpeckers.
If she looked up the river she could still see the beavers she had seen as she first came to the rocky beach that day — gathering twigs to their lodge by the southern fork of the river — and the polaroid in her pocket showed the Roosevelt elk's she had seen half an hour prior. Nature was bustling with life in every direction she turned, and she loved it. Sitting there in that moment, she couldn't understand how she had lived in the city for so long.
She was born in the city and lived her life there until just five years prior. It was after the office she worked at began to talk about firing people that she decided to leave whilst she could to it on her own terms. She had taken all the money she had and found a small house in the town of Greenridge Bay, the most remote and calm place she had ever seen or heard of with a total population of two thousand three hundred. There, she lived a peaceful life as a photographer for the local paper. She didn't get a fat paycheck every month and she didn't live five minutes away from the subway and ten five-star restaurants, but that was far from a bad thing.
As she sat on the gigantic, driftwood, tree that had resided on the beach for years — hoping she might catch sight of a few sea otters or some distant whales to snap a picture of — she heard heavy panting and the rapid approach of footsteps. She turned towards the sounds just in time to see huge, overjoyed dog, running up to her, wagging its tail wildly with its tongue dangling outside of its mouth.
"Hi there, big guy." She called to him, hesitantly looking at him before scanning up and down the shore, seeing no one. "Who did you run away from?"
The dog had one ear peaked with the other bending forward floppily at the middle. It's fur was a warm brown and fading to beige in the parts where the fur grew longer. It's eyes were the brightest gold she had ever seen on a dog, and she would have lied if she said it wasn't the cutest dog she had ever seen as well.
"You're a good dog, right?" She questioned, in which the dog responded by sitting down in front of her, tail still wagging. She then caught a glimpse of a red collar hiding in the longer fur around it's neck with a steel pendant in the front.
"Charlie?" She read off of the tag, causing the dog to tilt his head and inch forward, melting her heart on the spot. She looked up and down the shore again, but there was no one else on the beach, and as she looked up towards the trail leading down from the road, there was no one there either.
She flipped the tag around as she still held it, revealing a local address. She contemplated whether he could have ran all the way from that address to the beach just outside of town, but he seemed like a strong and adventurous dog, and she didn't doubt he could have.
"I think we should wait here in case your owner catches up to you, but if not, then I'm taking you home, okay?" She suggested, giving him a quick scratch behind his hanging ear.
Charlie sat down next to her, seeming to have no desire to leave her side whatsoever. As time passed, he proceeded to lay down in the sand and gaze out to the ocean where a flock of whales had gathered. Whilst Charlie remained there — as calm as ever — Y/N kept looking up and down the beach floor any sign of a possible owner. They waited for five minutes, and five minutes turned into ten, until they eventually had been sitting around for twenty minutes without any luck.
"Maybe we should go to your house?" She looked down at Charlie who turned to look back at her upon hearing her voice. "We might as well wait there, right?"
She added a bit of excitement to her voice, and Charlie was up on all fours in no time. As she rose from her seat on the driftwood, his tail was wagging again, and as she began heading back to the trail leading away from the beach, Charlie following her loyally. It was quite obvious that Charlie's owner had taken their good time training the big dog. He followed by Y/N's side as if he was on short leash, when in fact he had the possibility of running wherever he so wished at any given moment.
"You really are a good boy, huh?" She came to the conclusion, watching Charlie to her right as he held his head low to catch the scents along the trail.
It took them an hour to reach the area of the address mentioned on Charlie's tag, but he certainly didn't seem to have minded the long walk and — in all honesty — neither had Y/N. He had happily followed her the entire way and had been just as happy as when Y/N picked up a stick and began to throw it for him along the way, and when they took a quick stop at a gas station and Y/N bought him his very own hotdog.
"Alright, lets see here..." Y/N said as she looked at the map on her phone and at her surroundings, trying to find house number forty two. A few of the houses had no numbers on them that she could see, but soon she noticed she didn't need to run around and look at every house number down the long street. By her side, Charlie gave off small barks and whines with a wagging tail as he looked at a white house with ivy crawling across the façade, a tennis ball laying in the grass of the front lawn.
Y/N headed up to the gate in the fence that surrounded the lot, Charlie expertly sneaking off behind a bush just beside the gate where there was a missing plank, creating the perfect entrance for him, and also exit.
They walked up the few steps that led to the windows door together before Y/N knocked three times, Charlie sitting down beside her as they waited. She tried to listen to hear something from inside and peak through the big window centered in the door, but the screen door on the inside blocked her view and she couldn't hear anything, so she knocked again. Before lowering her hand she glimpsed at her watch to see it was only seven in the morning, leading her to believe that Charlie's owner could possibly be asleep.
Suddenly she could see the screen door open up only to reveal a man in only sweatpants on the other side, his hair messily falling out of a knot at the back of his head. He furrowed his brows and he caught sight of the stranger at his doorstep, but his tired expression softened upon seeing his dog next to her.
He opened the door and knelt down, Charlie jumping at his owner and desperately licking his cheek. "Oh hi buddy!" The man smiled warmly, wrapping his hands around his trusted companion.
"I found him on the beach of the northern fork about an hour and a half ago and saw your address. He seemed pretty hungry about half way so I really hope you don't mind that I bought him a hotdog." Y/N broke the sweet reunion as she felt she had to explain herself. The man seemed to realize he wasn't alone then and rose to his feet, taking a moment to actually look at who had shown up by his house with his dog so early on a Saturday morning.
His lips parted slightly, looking at Y/N who was looking down at Charlie with pure love in her eyes. Her camera was hanging from around her neck and her nose was rosy red from the cold, and the sun managed to shine on her at such a perfect angle that her luminous eyes seemed to glow. He couldn't help but think about what the odds of her turning up with Charlie and not some hardcore hiker or old lumberjack. He didn't believe in faith and destiny, but they sure made the situation make more sense.
"No not at all, thank you... I'm Bucky, by the way... Bucky Barnes." Bucky said, reaching his hand out towards her. Y/N looked up from Charlie, eyes accidentally looking over his well defined torso on their way to meet his eyes. She shook his hand, trying to ignore how good looking he was.
"Y/N  Y/L/N." She had the decency to reply back with, causing the corner of his mouth to twitch up in a slight smile.
"I'm going to connect the dots here with the camera around your neck and your last name being Y/L/N and guess that you're that photographer for the Daily Ridge, right?" He managed to figure out, remembering how impressed he was by a few pictures she had taken a few weeks prior down by the port that had earned her a whole page in the local paper. "I really like your work."
"Sorry, no autographs." She said humorously, causing them both to start chuckling.
"Have you lived here long? I don't recognize you, and I know I would recognize anyone with such a cute dog." Y/N's voice became goofy as she ruffled the fur on Charlie's head and gave him a quick scratch behind his ear.
"Moved here just little over a month ago. To get Charlie someplace more suitable for his free-spirit." Bucky joked, smiling to himself as he managed to get Y/N to chuckle once more. "I don't know how he made it all the way down to the beach. He tends to sleep in his dog house in the backyard and he never goes anywhere, but I guess something made him leave this morning."
Y/N looked up at Bucky just as he looked down at Charlie, stroking his ears back. She couldn't help but smile at the thought which came to her mind at that moment.
"Would you mind if I took a picture of you and Charlie?" She dared to ask. Bucky's eyes drifted back to hers, confused as to why she would want one.
"Only if we make it to the front page." Bucky continued with his lighthearted and witty tone as Y/N clearly seemed to like it.
"We'll see about that one." She smiled and took up her camera, motioning at Charlie which Bucky caught onto quickly, telling Charlie to sit at his side. Y/N walked down the steps for some distance, aiming the camera at the open door where Bucky stood shirtless with Charlie sitting stoically by his side and looking at Y/N. she snapped the picture after a short countdown, the polaroid slowly being printed out on the spot.
"Thanks." She smiled up at Bucky. "If you're not to busy, I wouldn't mind meeting Charlie again, under more organized circumstances, of course."
The corner of Bucky's mouth quirked up again. He was trying to wrap his head around the whole ordeal. Dating was not something he had done in modern time, and even though he didn't know Y/N, he knew he had never met someone like her. Every single part of her intrigued him, and he would be a fool to mess things up.
"Well, you know where to find me." He smiled and gestured around him to his house.
"I sure do, Bucky Barnes." Y/N put her hands in the pockets of her jacket and began to walk backwards to the gate. "I sure do."
She didn't allow herself to look back at Bucky. If she would have, she would have found him looking after her until she vanished behind the corner of his house, only to have him inch around the corner to keep looking at her. As she began to walk downhill and knew for sure that Bucky couldn't see her anymore, she dug out the polaroid from her pocket. She looked down at it, looking at Bucky's bright, ice, eyes and his brown hair that had once been in a bun at the back of his head but spread all over the place in the picture. She looked down at Charlie who sat beside him, the rays of sunlight lighting up his fluffy fur, the crawling ivy, and revealing a few dandelion seeds that flew in the air.
She couldn't remember the last time she had taken a picture so perfect, nor one that caused her stomach to flutter in excitement and her cheeks to hurt from smiling.
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ssact1 · 7 years
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My alter ego was a hooker in India centuries ago, and somehow I think she had it better.
It takes a village to raise a child. I’m sure we all agree. Cousins, uncles, aunties, big wide families, who sometimes hate each other, but are overall, loving. They help each other. This is how they did it, my ancestors before, running around in slums, forgotten, no dreams could meet their soul. But, at least, they never were alone. Community graced their home.
And we were all in the same, ugly, shitty circumstance, where there’s No one to impress - we’re swimming in a deep black bottom, broken, with no chance. So, who gives a damn! It’s Bhang, for me, my friends! Mother Mary, she grows on Ganga, the River of the Land! She is Wild, like our hair, like our deep brown “tan”. We don’t want to be white - no bleaching cream on hand!
Oh, don’t get me wrong - the outcasts are the whores. We all fucking know. I am not the Saint, like the woman who raised me was. I’m bad, right to the bone. And God, He punished me, because I am that same girl. But then, we all fucking were. But, you think you’re not. Anyway, that is not what this poem’s about. I’m crazy, and I’m begging, but this is at least my world.
Comisery has a boat. I am not the only one, desperate, in a tiny home. Cramped up with my child, from my man before. Now you know, why I’m a whore! Where else is there to go? We shouldn’t have had our children - this is obvious. Orphans cannot raise them, in any way adequate. It’s how Medusa’s born; kicking her dick of a husband, to pick his shit up from the floor!
But the lazy mother fucker can’t do what he’s told. He never lifts a finger, he lives in his own world, all about his work, and it’s like, she doesn’t matter, she’s just impoverished bones, she’s stricken and alone, feeling like a slave, anyway - so she gets up and goes! Why give it up, in bed, when men can pay her more? He can’t meet her needs, and she is giving all of hers, away, to the child
they conceived, accidentally (Indian women, oh, they’re victims, when they bleed!). She is a martyr to her son, she gives him anything, she can’t even leave - if he cries, for a moment, she panics, cannot breathe. She is flooded by her own ugly goddamn memories of the life where she was unwanted, sold, as an infant bride-to-be. Yes, it is trauma, not just PTSD, or Post Natal, find-a-definition-for-free.
“It’s better on the streets, as a hooker, in a different poverty.” Can you imagine, for a moment, how it would feel, to say these words, and believe that they are real? You’d be out of your goddamn mind! I know I was! It was part of the crime. But feeling like a slave, having sex, gave her no power. She’d rather be a whore, having sex - at least then she isn’t tired, fucking like a liar. And she’s making
cash! So that’s why she fled, and found herself at last, along with a tribe of women, who helped her raise her son, friends who were on the run, just like her, for a moment, nothing to everyone. She used that time to pray, and also, to make, and started her own business, for all the girls who lost their freedom and never got a say. And then, she became her own, and rose up from her grave.
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