So like a normal person I got kind of curious and looked at the names of the petrified drow so I could try looking for possible name meanings, but I'm no drow expert. I could only look at the Drow Names site and hope for any similarities. These are my best guesses:
Dhourn (Dhaun: infested, plague. Houn: magic, trail, way)
Izwae (izz: hidden, mask, masked. Wae: heir, inheritor, princess)
Moy (May: beautiful, beauty, silver. Mol: blue, storm, thunder, wind. oj: aura, cloak, hide, skin)
Arcagh (word arc: curve, bow. Akor/Alak: beloved, best, first. agh: breaker, destruction, end, omega)
Tecothy (like Timothy? Teb: blade, sharp, sword)
Artimezt (Inspired by Artemis maybe? zt: finder, hunter)
Important to note that some of the similar words/names I found and used here are the feminine versions, and I remember seeing a detailed post somewhere in which someone took Kar'niss' name and tried to translate it, in which they also mentioned what it means if a male drow uses a feminine name version, but I forgot...
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Sora and Riku are SO...
Soriku is an emotion all its own for me. I can't describe it. Like shipping something is a feeling, yeah? Like it's dopamine, it's serotonin, it's "I like this. Looking at them together makes me feel the Good Feeling."
But I can't describe the way Sora and Riku are...unique to that for me. It's this unique concoction of brain chemicals I can't put a name to. Nothing else feels like them. When they're in my brain, when they curl up and make a home there, it's just...completely indescribable. It just... I don't know, guys, I don't KNOW.
It's like-- Okay, as a writer, inspiration is also a unique emotion. It's not just "oh i had an idea" it's just this sudden flooding of "Oh, I can do anything." A passion, but different.
Soriku is also a unique emotion, something I struggle to articulate. It's like trying to describe the flavor of something in a way that other people can taste it in their mouths just by hearing it.
It's secondhand love, it's home, it's adoration, it's safety, and I know how fucking insane this is coming across, like true obsession, but even saying "I'm addicted, it's a drug," seems too goddamn shallow for what this feeling is. It's not enough.
It's just...them.
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hand on my stupid heart flashbacks
this is a No One Knows AU & Full Hazmat AU where Danny ended up in the Ghost Zone & didn't go back into the human world initially because he thought he was dead. by the time he realized he is, in fact, at least half alive, he'd already been missing for at least 2 weeks.
will probs never finish homsh sorry. i wrote this a couple years ago in a haze & just haven't been able to finish it because i can't replicate the style, which i find is what i love about this fic the most. it wouldn't be the same without it.
posting the flashback introsーwhich are meant to be read between chapters/the actual plot, starting after chapter 1ーcuz fuck it. excuse typos & shit, i never properly edited it, as i forgot it existed immediately after i wrote it
original description of homsh: Danny Fenton has officially been missing for over a year. Maddie & Jack Fenton refuse to give up on their son. Sick and tired of the police running them in circles, and the case getting colder by the day, the Fentons turn to their last resortーPhantom.
800~ words (full unfinished fic is 20k~)
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When Danny woke up surrounded by thick, green fog, and couldn’t breathe without swallowing heavy air that was more like water than anything, he was sure he was dead. The portal glowed behind him, illuminating the pitch darkness around him in soft, yellow, warm light.
He almost went back.
Almost.
He was dead. His parents were ghost hunters. They had drilled into his head from the moment he was born that he could never, ever panic in death. That he would accept it. That he would not be scared. So he would be prepared to be brave in the face of death and would not become a ghost.
He panicked. He did not accept it. He was terrified. And so he woke up in the Ghost Zone.
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Danny went back through the portal when he saw some ectopuses acting… strange. Like they had an idea in their heads. Like they had a plan.
Which was weird, with animal ghosts. He had only been in the Ghost Zoneーmom and dad called it that, he rememberedーfor a couple weeks. Or, he had already been there for two weeks. Or maybe time worked differently and he was there five minutes, or four years orー
The ectopuses went through the portal and, despite everything, Danny went after them.
While he was busy reeling at being home, the ectopuses immediately attacked dad. Danny was horrified. Jack was overwhelmed. Danny stepped in, in a moment fueled by sheer adrenaline and stupidity, snatching a Fenton Thermos™ off a shelf and releasing his shaky invisibility. The ectopuses didn’t stand a chance. And when they were safely in the Thermos, he slowly turned around to dad, ready for the confrontation. Ready for the “what happened to you?” and the “where have you been?” and the “we’ve missed you”.
Dad scrambled to shoot at him.
Danny fled.
His parents didn’t recognize him.
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The Lunch Lady attacked when Danny was mourning Halloween.
He’d waited all year. He made a costume that summer. He wouldn’t get to go trick or treating with Sam and Tucker this year. Or any year. For the rest of his lifeーor existence. Whatever.
The Lunch Lady appeared in the school and demanded in straight fury, “Who changed the menu?”
Everyone pointed at Sam.
Danny hadn’t known just how powerful ghosts could be. His parents never told him the specifics. Just that they were dangerous.
This ghost grew and her aura hit him like a hurricane, almost physically pushing him back. It was so strong that the students in the Casper High cafeteria seemed to feel it too.
The Lunch Lady was a much harder opponent than the ectopuses. She levitated meat. She used it as a weapon, and seemed to bring it back to life. She created weird meat creatures that grew sharp teeth and claws out of bones. They were mindless, attacking everything that got too close to the ghost. Danny would have run away without hesitation, if Sam hadn’t been in the crossfire.
Danny fought the Lunch Lady. It was a long struggle, but he caught her in the thermos after over an hour. When he turned to Sam and Tuckerーboth of whom he had to save due to Tucker trying to jump into the fightーall three of them bloody and bruised, he cringed. But a part of him hoped. Desperately.
Surely they would know him on sight.
“Wh-what are you?” Sam gasped at him finally.
Danny flinched as if she had struck him. “J-just… your friendly neighbourhood phantom.”
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Danny didn’t know what possessed him. Oh. Pun not intended.
He just barely caught the Fentons leaving in the GAV, dragging suitcases behind them. He couldn’t help himself. What on Earth were they doing?
They were going to Vlad Master’s mansion for their college reunion.
It was a whole thing. But something was off. Besides all the adults reminiscing about the 80’s.
Danny sensed ghosts immediately but he couldn’t see anything. Unfortunately for him, Vlad could also sense him. It was two days of Danny staying invisible, and Vladーthe halfa? Is that what Danny is?ーtrying to kill Jack. Somehow, Danny managed to fight off Vlad, not turn back, and without the Fentons getting hurt. His secret intact.
VladーPlasmius, also learned about Phantom. And Vlad hated him. The manーghostーwhatever, seemed to only care about one thingーpossession. Of money. Of things. Of people. He was more ghost than Danny had ever seen. Vlad’s obsession was overwhelming.
Danny couldn’t believe someone so much like himself could be so disturbing.
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Soo-Won was hiding from a party. His housemates didn’t really need a reason to throw one, but this one was a celebration for the end of fall midterms, which meant more people going harder than an average weekend party, which meant Soo-Won was reading a book in the basement den that was strictly off-limits to anyone not living in the house.
Lili, who had never met a rule she didn’t immediately want to break, was an exception by virtue of being so annoying no one wanted to continue enforcing the rule with her.
As such, Soo-Won did not try to stop her when she burst through the basement door at - he checked his watch - a quarter to one wearing a clearly borrowed shirt that was about four sizes too big for her. Nothing about anything was of his concern, so he simply continued reading about the history of the King Hiryuu mythology in the Fire Tribe.
“Midterms are over,” Lili said, making her way over to where he sat perched on the end of the ugliest yellow couch anyone had ever laid eyes on. It had been around longer than anyone in the house could remember and had seen more things than Soo-Won would care to think about while sitting on it.
“This isn’t for class.”
“That makes it worse. You know that, right?” She took a seat next to him and asked, “What are we reading?”
“We?”
Lili did not dignify his question with an answer. Instead, she draped herself over his shoulder to peek at the page, boneless in the way only alcohol (or really good muscle relaxants) could make one. There was no way she was going to be able to focus on a fairly dry sociological account of one particular subset of the population as wasted as she was.
“Historical non-fiction,” Soo-Won said, fighting off a smile. If he smiled, she would get ideas, which was bad because Lili was the type of person to move forward without any ideas at all. He absolutely could not let her know that her slight weight slumped into his side was warm and comforting because then she might think it was okay to do it again. Which, of course, it was not.
“Fine,” Lili sighed. After a quiet moment, she said, “We don’t really believe in King Hiryuu back home. It’s weird that it’s such a big deal in the Fire Tribe.”
He stood corrected. Even smashed, Lili could keep up with a fairly dry sociological account of one particular subset of the population.
Soo-Won moved to turn the page, but Lili clumsily batted his hand away.
“I‘m not done with the page yet,” she said, impatient and just slightly slurred.
“Alright,” Soo-Won said. “You tell me when you’re done.”
“Don’t patronize me.”
“Are you this demanding with everyone or do you just think I’m a pushover?”
“Everyone,” she said on a yawn. “You’re not special.”
No, he knew that very well. Cursed, maybe. Doomed, almost certainly. But he was nothing special.
“You can turn the page now,” she said. Then, “You smell nice.”
“And you smell like you bathed in stale beer,” he said as he dutifully turned the page for them both.
Her normal scent of jasmine and oranges was heavily masked by whatever keg the guys had gotten their hands on this weekend. It was unfortunate. He quite liked oranges.
“Some doofus spilled all over me. Straight down the front of my shirt. This is Ramaru’s.” Lili plucked at the hem half-way down her thighs. Her jeans underneath appeared to have avoided the spill zone, though there was a stain near her knee that looked like mustard. Soo-Won was pretty sure that was all her own doing, though.
“Ah,” he said.
They lapsed into silence as they read. Predictably, Soo-Won was done before Lili, and his mind wandered while he waited for her to catch up. He began idly planning the clean-up process in the morning, how warm Lili was, his essay for Politics in the Middle East, how soft Lili’s hair felt against his neck. He bet it would feel like silk if he ran his fingers through it. Also he had stat’s homework that was due on Monday and was only half-completed.
Yeah, she was definitely asleep, wasn’t she.
He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and found her eyes closed and mouth fully agape.
Of course.
What am I going to do with you? he wondered as he gently set his book aside, careful movements designed not to disturb her. He could disturb her if he wanted to, though. They didn’t have the sort of relationship where casual touches were, well, ever present. That was how he preferred to live his life: at a healthy distance from everyone else. It would be totally normal for him to wake her up and push her away.
He couldn’t, however, bring himself to do it. Midterms had been stressful for her, and she looked more peaceful than he’d seen her in weeks. She did not look good - her cheeks were splotchy from alcohol, some mascara was smudged beneath her right eye, and a strand of hair had attached itself to the gloss on her bottom lip - but she looked relaxed.
He didn’t want to be the one to take that from her, which was why he held a finger up to his lips when Ramaru opened the basement door moments later.
Ramaru froze, took in the scene, and whispered, “I was looking for her. Is she okay?”
“Just asleep,” Soo-Won answered softly.
“Cool. Party’s dying down. You want me to-” he mimed picking Lili up and carrying her out.
“It’s alright,” Soo-Won said, almost without thinking. “I’ll take care of it.”
Ramaru gave him a thumbs up and left as quietly as he’d come. As the door slipped shut behind him, Lili sighed, stirring. That was all the warning he got before her head tipped off his shoulder. She caught herself instinctively mid-fall with a hand slapped against his knee. Her manicured nails dug in as she sat up with a sharp intake of breath, clearly panicked from almost toppling over into Soo-Won’s lap, forcing Soo-Won to lean back as far as he could to avoid being smacked in the nose by the back of Lili’s head.
“What happened?” Lili asked, looking around, words now horribly slurred from a combination of alcohol and sleep. Waahap’n.
“Uh,” was all Soo-Won could manage for a moment. Everything had happened very quickly. “You fell asleep.”
Lili leaned her forehead against his shoulder again and groaned.
“Room’s spinning,” she said.
Soo-Won tentatively gave her a pat on the head and said, “There there.”
The thing was, he used to be so good at comforting people. He knew people, which made them easy to handle. Lili was just…weird, which made him weird in return. He had absolutely no idea how to deal with her most of the time.
“Gimme five minutes,” Lili said as she lowered herself, this time on purpose, into Soo-Won’s lap, using his thigh as a pillow. Her legs curled up on the other end of the couch, feet tucked up snug against the back cushions. “I’ll go upstairs. Five.” Then, as if it was his fault, she said, “You should be softer.”
And she was borderline incoherent. Great.
Looked like he would be there for a while. At least he had a book to entertain him. Before he picked it back up, though, he tucked the strands of hair that were still firmly attached to her lipgloss behind her ear. The thanks he got was a nose twitch. He discovered her hair was, in fact, just as soft as he imagined it would be.
Well, he thought. This is inconvenient.
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When uh… When you say Steddie is gonna be in the Winter Soldier Au, are we thinking as Falcon or are we thinking he’s Agent Carter? Like are we getting 40’s Steve and Eddie? There’s something dreamy about them in that era. But it would make for the worst angst that Eddie’s super old now…especially because they’re relationship, while budding in the 40s would have needed to be SO hidden, even more than the 80s. I mean it would probably mean they never did share a kiss, or do more than hand hold for brief seconds, unless they recklessly sought out hidden corners and broom closets… they totally would have if they didn’t tiptoe around like Steve and Peggy did.
Oh but then!!! the saved dance would hit SO MUCH HARDER because they would never have been able to dance in public, only tucked away and private, but now Steve is learning about the modern era and finding out they could dance to their hearts content without the repercussions of the 40s, and He wants so badly to dance with Eddie now that it’s ok to do so…
Now I’m in my feels…I want Eddie to miraculously poof into existence in the modern world so they can have their whirlwind romance, but man Agent Carter! Eddie fully in the 40s and is old now hits different. Sweet angst at its finest.
- ficsandfancies :)
oooooh you know actually i wasn't even thinking about that....BUT NOW I AM.
specifically i'm thinking about that scene in The First Avenger when steve gets the shield for the first time and peggy shoots the shield (bc she's jealous lmao)....could totally see that with steve and eddie.
the winter soldier robin au deviates from mcu canon aha😅 BUT now you do have me thinking of like, specific moments in the agent carter series (i used to be obsessed with this series. you can check my agent carter tag on this blog LMAO) but specifically the moment at the end of 1x08 when she dumps steve's blood into the river and essentially lets him go to move on...
unfortunately, the steddie winter soldier au idea that i had was more or less winter soldier derivative. even more so than the winter soldier robin. from the quick notes i jotted down for it, basically, it's a kas eddie type of au where eddie is this 'winter soldier figure.' cue the: "who the hell is eddie?" but instead of a metal arm and a gun, it's a flash of fangs and claws and wings and rotting flesh. but steve's gonna fight for him. he's not gonna lose him again.
that's about all i have written down for the notes of that au, but hopefully i can flesh it out a bit more soon!
(oh, but i am thinking of The Knife Fight from winter soldier but with eddie and steve...hmm)
(again, i don't really write for steddie, but i adore the idea of 'died and came back a little fucked up' vs 'guy who won't give up and puts himself in danger regardless.)
(oh, also also! if you need a great kas!eddie fic, the unforgiven by my awesomely amazingly talented friend alex!! @gothbat99 ! it's the best steddie fic i've ever read and made me want to start writing steddie in the first place so!! pls pls pls go check it out!!)
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