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koiryuu · 8 months
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i watched the 2007 rgg movie tonight just to see what its like and i have a lot to say about it but for now i just doodled my favorite scene bc i could not handle it
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borderlinebox · 1 year
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Hello! I really love your writing and saw your requests are open :D
Wondering if you could write a headcannon of what it would be like being chishiya’s childhood friend? like how would they meet and what would their dynamic be like
gn! kid reader who’s selfless and caring like arisu wanting to befriend him (whos been staring at the Mona Lisa painting for quite awhile)
Sorry if this doesn’t make any sense
have a nice day/evening/night ⭐️
Chishiya's Childhood Best Friend Headcannons!
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A/N: Im giggling so hard rn cause I've been planning on a lot of chishiya x childhood bestfriend! reader so this was so ♥ i mean like 'return to me' was legit that shshsjdj tysm for this req <3 i love this req smmm
Pairing: Chishiya x Childhood Bestfriend!Reader
Warning: Season 2 spoilers
Feedback is highly appreciated!!!
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Before Borderlands:
both of your parents were friends
all giggling and shit in the background as if they werent shitty people
you held your mom's hand all unamused as they were talking
but then you saw another kid staring at that one mona lisa painting
so of course
you went to him
you started to introduce yourself and chatted with him for a while
you talked more because all he mostly did was hum and nod
both your parents saw how 'close' yall were so they set both of you up with studydates. playdates arent their cup of tea
it took a while for chishiya to open up to you
but of course, you were the only person who comforted him because you saw right through his little charades
im sure you were both so close only because you were so persuasive and just really liked his company!
he does too but he wont let you know that
chishiya also kept you close because of that 'you know me too much'
so its either friendship or death
but you chose friendship of course
when you guys grew older, maybe teenage years,
chishiya really thought you would leave and never see him again
he was a little bit relieved but also partly scared and worried
but you pulled an uno reverse and visited like a lot.
he hates admitting the fact that you're his best friend and probably his only friend
he wouldn't mind you calling him 'chishi', 'shi', 'shiya' and whatever nickname you can get out of his name
you both played games of course.
he made/helped you in mind games
and you helped him with more physical and hands-on things. especially with teamwork.
because that little shit likes doing everything himself and he had to learn how to share
you'd come to him to ask for help and vice versa ,
after a lot of denial of course
can we all agree that chishiya is a bit of a tsundere? because yes.
but he'd be more sleek and good at hiding his feelings.
he'd tease you but you'd tease him back
you'd already call him doctor the moment he joined medical school as a joke
you're definitely going to let him reconsider his point of views and ideals.
he listens but he doesn't apply
he hates how much you care for him,
hates how much you would put him first
but that's cause he likes the affection.
again, he'd lie to himself about his feelings lets be real
but i really do imagine a classic opposites attract dynamic
"somebody will die-" "of fun!"
or like you create the chaos and he is the smart, chilled out chaos enabler
in short, both of you guys are two peas in a pod except that he dislikes admitting it
but he wouldn't mind being by your side
During Borderlands:
i really, honestly, wouldn't think that you'd come in there with him during this time
but if there's a chance that you do join,
fuck you because he is going to be having your back even when you dont realize it
sure, he probably only wants you as an asset. but goddamnit-
you already understand that he is the type of person who would betray others
i think you even told him that both of you should split up so that you wouldnt get in his way
honestly, he thought it was a good idea too
but ofc, every goddamn game you finished, chishiya's outside waiting for you
then both of you agreed thst you'd split up from time to time
but when you guys were in a same match then expect war against the other players
because power duo
especially in a game of clubs
chishiya is honestly very lucky that you got his back in games of spades and clubs
if the game turns out to be diamonds and/or hearts,
you'd help him think and solve situations with him
but for the most part, you're just there under his protection
because people would definitely try to manipulate the both of you or like, mostly you
and if you look bigger, taller and maybe even a little bit ripped than chishiya from all those physical games,
PICK 👏 HIM 👏 UP
like we all saw that bastard jog from those bullets in season 2
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO PICK HIM UP
when the king of spades is starting to bite yalls asses,
just literally swoop in and pick him up like he's fucking nothing because its definitely better than watching him jog around with his hands in his mf pockets
but i hc that you picked him up in several occasions
hell, you'd pick him up like aguni did niragi
you become very good friends with kuina!!!
she's honestly baffled how you could pick this stone up
oh and you definitely taught her how to read chishiya or how to truly understand his 'cute' antics and remarks
protect him from niragi. please.
he can DEFINITELY protect himself from niragi but
you just selfless and caring like that
it would probably make his heart happy if you do that but yk him
and if you join the jack of hearts game,
then thats where your bond REALLY starts to show
because you trust one another
honestly, you were probably ready to bash that big bully's head in if he started threatening chishiya
chishiya would also reassure you that he would tell you the truth and only the truth
and he knew you were being genuine because everytime you told him his symbol after he told you yours, you'd have a dumbass, dorky smile on your face that he liked so much
y'all would honestly pass the time chatting
philosophy, what the games could mean or even just memories before borderlands
after the king of diamonds game though, he seemed so off
you asked what's wrong and he told you that he was just thinking
and at the time when chishiya was planning to sacrifice himself for usagi, you left him to try and shoot niragi using the gun he gave him
haha, the anger on your face when niragi shot him
but then you were caught off guard when chishiya suddenly went to usagi and you swear to god you heard him say a soft 'sorry'
you almost had a breakdown when he got a second bullet
but instead of choosing to stomp niragi, you decided to stay by chishiya's side and help him stop from bleeding as you lay him next to a car
both of you would then slowly start softly chatting about his life choices
while people were being murdered.
im sure he let you hold him like that,
trying to stop the blood
and omg when he told arisu his secret, you felt so much sympathy for him
then chishiya probably told you that while he was thinking to be selfless for once,
he kept thinking about you and everything you told him
ever since you both met
because before arisu, you were the most selfless and caring person he knew
and after all those times you told him that it would make yourself feel better after you helped others. because you were so sweet
he wanted to try it out for once
and when you both saw the fireworks in the sky, you told him how excited you were to see him again in the real world
After Borderlands:
you were definitely walking together and talking when the meteor disaster happened.
like you were laughing and he was just listening to you
and then you woke up, next to him
different bed of course
and other than the ceiling, he was the first thing you saw
he was looking at you when you woke up
"good morning" he'd say
and you'd be so fucking ecstatic that he was alive
then both of you would just start chatting about how your near-death situation affected you
you were glad to hear that he was planning to change his life ideals and pov
when both of you could walk around the hospital, there was never a moments that a doctor or nurse wouldn't see the both of you chatting together
this is when your bond with him starts to really strengthen
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steddieas-shegoes · 10 months
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first off i just wanna say im loving everything youve written for ppls requests! how do u feel abt jock el? i feel like she maybe wouldnt understand sports at first and might struggle w the rules and fair play, but ends up really loving physical activity that has nothing to do w her powers, just her own hard work and sweat and skills she’s honed through practice all by herself, and the experience of being on a team. i can totally imagine her getting super competitive too, and being a super aggressive player in literally every sport. also, hopper is definitely the parent who yells at the referee and coaches during his kids games.
also i hope your day is going well whenever you see this!
Okay this was cuuuuuute. I really love the idea of El fitting in so well with sports people, but still never leaving her little group of nerds and badasses. I also love her just naturally being so good at every sport she tries because she is deeply in touch with what her body is capable of because of her powers, but never once using them. I maybe threw Wayne in a bit more than anyone would expect because I will always find a reason to do that. Also, this is a weird coincidence, but the Olympic swim trials for 2024 will take place in Indianapolis.- Mickala ❤️
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When things settle down, El goes back to school with everyone.
It’s hard at first. She never really fit in before, and she definitely doesn’t fit in now that people have seen official government security pretty much standing guard over her.
Even after they left, people still whispered when she ran errands with Joyce or Hop and went out with the rest of the party.
But she was determined to have as normal a life as she could, and that meant going to school.
High school here was better, even with the weird looks and silent bullies.
She had her friends.
She also had gym.
In California, she’d hated gym. She didn’t like getting dressed in front of everyone so she always got in trouble for taking too long. The girls in her class usually found ways to be lazy and she didn’t want to make herself more of an outcast, so she just didn’t participate most of the time.
But here, Lucas was in her gym class. So was Will, though he was a little hopeless when it came to anything beyond walking the mile.
Max was excused from gym for the rest of high school if she wanted.
Hard to argue with a letter from the literal President.
Mike and Dustin had a different period, but that was fine since they hated gym.
El didn’t hesitate to participate here.
She ran the fastest mile, always had the most push ups and pull ups, won every tetherball game. Her team always won volleyball and softball. She won every category in swimming.
The only sport she didn’t play was basketball, much to Steve’s disappointment and Lucas’ secret delight.
The coach recruited her for every sport he could, insisted that she could be the type of player that brings them championship wins.
Hopper was ecstatic, of course, especially when he saw how much El loved it.
She knew better than to use any powers, especially in competitions, but she was so naturally good, it didn’t even cross her mind that she could.
She was physically stronger than most other girls her age, and had already had so much done to her body that she could easily push through a little exhaustion during the 500 meter butterfly race or playing the entire soccer game with only one break.
She watched baseball games with Wayne and Hopper, asked if she could play.
Hopper had her signed up for softball the next day.
She saw a beach volleyball match during the Olympics and asked to play.
Hopper took her to tryouts for the school team as soon as he possibly could.
She made the swim team, made captain within a month. Steve was ecstatic, especially when she won against him every time they did a practice race. Eddie and Will were judges, and El was pretty sure it was just to see Steve shirtless, but she didn’t really mind.
She was having fun.
She was using her natural abilities to get out some of her aggression in a safe way according to Dustin.
Everyone came to her games and meets, but no one was as loud as her dad.
He was on his feet more than he was in his seat, usually pacing and yelling at refs and judges from the stands. Most people didn’t seem to care, or at least didn’t want to say anything to the reinstated police chief.
Steve was always there to remind him that El was learning, and that that was actually a penalty or that the judge was being fair on her tie with another girl in the butterfly.
Even as good as she was at just about every sport she tried, she struggled with some rules. Once they were explained in a way she understood, she was careful, but it cost her volleyball team a win in the process.
Steve helped her understand what he could, or took her to the library to look things up if he didn’t know. Wayne helped her understand the differences between softball and baseball while Eddie tried to take notes in the corner.
Actual notes.
“It’s so I know if she does good!” He explained when Wayne raised his brow at him showing interest in a sport.
To his credit, he immediately lost the notes he took and still had to ask Steve a bunch of questions at her next game.
She earned the MVP awards for every sport she played, gaining more positive attention than she’d expected. It was welcome, especially since it made a lot of people forget about the negative attention surrounding her the last few years.
Will designed shirts for everyone for her games and had Eddie get them printed at the same place he got the Hellfire Club ones made. They all wore them happily, too proud of her to not show all their support.
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Her senior year was when it hit that she had decisions to make.
She’d done fine in school; not straight A’s but never failed a class.
Sports are where she excelled.
But senior year was hard, and schedules were difficult enough without having to balance two sports at once immediately followed by two more.
The coaches did their best to offer accommodations since she was their star, but she didn’t like that. She didn’t want to be treated as “other.” That wasn’t why she did this.
So she dropped softball, much to Wayne’s heartbreak. He still smiled at her and said he was proud of everything she’d accomplished and hoped she’d still find time to come throw the ball with him.
She dropped volleyball in the spring, used the excuse that she needed to focus on swimming because she had scouts interested in giving her scholarships and the Olympic committee showed interest in recruiting her for Team USA.
Steve let her use his pool for extra practice, and usually joined her on the weekends for a morning swim, even on the still too cold mornings in February and March.
She held the Hawkins High and Indiana state records in most categories, and Midwest and National records in a few of those.
The olympic committee invited her to trials, and of course she’d enlisted Steve as her personal coach.
She trained for hours every day, Steve pushed her just enough using his new knowledge of the requirements she would have to meet to make the team and her competition.
She didn’t want everyone there, only Steve and Hopper.
She was worried having them there would put too much pressure on her and now wasn’t the time to perform poorly.
The morning of the trials, Steve let her cuddle up to his side on the couch.
“You’re ready.”
“That is not a question.”
“No, because I’m not asking. I know you’re ready,” he smiled when she rolled her eyes.
“I am ready.”
She was.
She outdid herself, actually. She ended up breaking her own record in her first event, and tied her own record in the second event.
She not only made the team, but was named captain almost immediately, the rest of her teammates incredibly excited to be on her team.
Hawkins had a parade for her, Hawkins High had a pep rally, the family had a huge party for her.
She still had to graduate high school, still competed on the high school swim team, even found time to be a lifeguard at the city pool every Friday and Saturday afternoon.
El had found her place.
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When USA won gold in every event for swimming, no one was surprised.
It’s hard to beat a team led by El.
She accepted a full ride scholarship to Purdue University, where she broke all their school records and got her degree in Physical Therapy so that she could work with athletes.
She competed in the Olympics again, winning gold in four events, silver in one.
But she always had her family there. They came from all over the country to watch, to support, wearing the same shirts that Will made years ago.
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voiceofsword · 1 year
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sry to bitch in your inbox abt this but im so glad you pointed out how so many modern enstarries Dont read the stories and base everything off fandom perception.. i saw these users joking about which character would say slurs and someone was ADAMANT rinne would and tho i knew it before it Really struck me then
a) none of them have ever engaged with this text in any meaningful way, ESPECIALLY not the first games' stories, because surprise! characters in es! did Canonically use slurs! and back then Nobody Liked It. we didnt joke about it. most people i know completely stopped paying attention to the characters who did until they apologized. (tho ofc its more a problem w the writing than the characters, but still. we were young. we had the spirit.)
b) people really like using rinne as a punching bag because they dont read the stories and know literally nothing about him except funny drunk drugs gamble man "fuckboy" who harasses niki and the other bees and its. infuriating.
i dont understand how anyone can claim to like a media without ever properly engaging with it, i dont understand how people have fun misunderstanding characters so drastically, and i also think joking about slurs has gotten wayyy too normalized where people feel comfortable saying these things about these characters they allegedly like. and characters like rinne (with a constructed mask of obnoxiousness and such) are the perfect target for these people. which SUCKS. all of it sucks.
NEVER BE SORRY!!!! i hope this is alright to post i thought your ask was good and insightful and i'll add onto it a little bit with my own thoughts (heart emoji)
yeah um ! was definitely a ride. i wouldnt recommend it to everyone but at least we have hindsight and things like slurs and general offensive terms/behaviors can be warned for, so that much is nice. i remember being really upset about a few of these, and then getting back into enstars earlier this year and reading a few of the more current stories + !! stories i was happy to see that the writing has developed CONSIDERABLY in terms of this especially after beasts. something ive noticed a lot of newer fans do (referencing my previous post irt the feeling morally superior) is that if you like a specific character for whatever reason youre actually a horrible person because that character said something awful once. of course youre allowed to dislike characters for whatever reason but dont tell other people they should perish because they like them (as if liking them means you implicitly agree with said views, more often than not One line in a miriad of stories that you might not even have read). but like you said, characters making ignorant comments (an unfortunate occurrence, although rare, it still happens) is not a reflection of 2d pixels on a screen but rather a team of writers..... idk. its a complicated situation. i see both sides and i think people are justified in liking or disliking but this is a game about idol boys (and girl) got dam
yeah i hate how people treat rinne a lot. like because characters like him and eichi are villains that means everything that they do or say is, at worst, a straight, physical threat to everyone around them, or at best, an annoyance that can make the fandom feel justified in making them the butt of reoccurring jokes. idk what else to say about him that i havent said already but its also 3 am now and i SAID i was gonna go to sleep an hour ago but i think i might just be a filthy liar
ALSO its probably because enstars is long, there's a lot to read and although tl's arent necessarily hard to come by you actively have to seek them out. again i understand how this might be a nuisance but instead of sitting down and listening to summaries or analysis ive noticed that a lot of short form consumption content lends itself to people just. posting the most reactive interpretations, and people playing a game of telephone with said information until a lot of the fandom has come to accept this misinformation as true. LIKE SOMEONE ON TIKTOK SAYING HAJIME AND WATARU WERE RELATED? IDEK IF THAT WAS A JOKE OR NOT? and yeah the use of slurs is like ridiculously normalized now im not one to say whether people can or cannot reclaim slurs and people are free to do as they like if they can. i see this one thing specifically with tatsumi a lot where people jokingly bring up how said character is homophobic or make homophobic comments towards characters even if theyre being like. excited or happy. and idk. personally it makes me sad. like maybe its fandom culture now maybe im old (is 23)
WHY WOULD RINNE SAY SLURS HES LITERALLY GAY AND IN LOVE....COME AWN NOW
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wildtornado-o · 7 months
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Feeling angry abt aini and cant sleep heres a rant lol, want to get my thoughts out
Still not over how unecessary aini was. The first game ended in such a lovely way for all (well most, sorry Pewter) of the characters, and while i do have some issues with it (The lack of Mizuki's importance in the true route) I do understand why some of the things weren't done. However, aini kind of trampled over a lot of the worldbuilding from the first game and destroyed so many of the themes as well. It ruined character development and comepletely threw out important relationships and destroyed the ones that did matter. It added things that dont make sense when you look at the first game, everything with Mizuki, everything with Boss, a lot of stuff with ryuki, bibis whole existence, Kizunas whole existence, Amames age retcon and then proceeding to put her into a creepy relationship, making Gen and Lien exist and acting like theyve been Date's chums for a while when he really WOULDNT be friends with them when comparing them to the likes of Ota, who he didnt like very much until he got his arc played out. A lot of the lore with the psync machine was also just weird. I know it wasn't ever confirmed in the first game that Date was the only one with an AI-Ball but with how he and Aiba were treated and the fact that people can psync without them the thought that other people might have them never occurred to me because it doesnt really um. Make sense isnt the right term here but, it doesnt "make sense" that they would just rip out employees eyes and replace them (even if abis is morally questionable) Cloning and gene experiments for imortality also comes out of nowhere because they wanted to make THAT plot twist and then the FRAYER STUFF? I HATE The frayer stuff omgg it makes me so mad i want to rip someone to shreds, and the tokiko stuff too like. I dunno I very much dislike when media takes the "meta" route and says the whole thing is a game, it breaks the immersion of the world completely for me. I also hated the timeline jumps. And the whole spoiler toggle, why make a sequel if youre going to have that its just pointless and harms the game. ANYWAYS This whole post to say I do not want a third game, it would very likely connect to the other 2 which would suck because it would be building off a shitty sequel. And even if it WASNT connected to the other games i would kind of be even less interested because like. Idk. Aitsf is a very character driven story in the first game at least, everything is tied to Date and characters and development, it would really suck for a third game to just, switch the cast (that was already butchered mind you) So truly, i do not want a third game I can only see myself hating it. HOWEVER. A datomi dlc......
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mariatesstruther · 8 months
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Tbf as much as I don’t trust TV writers, I have no doubt Maria will be fine. Part of Tommy’s storyline is that he actively chooses to leave her when he goes on his revenge quest and when he returns a broken man, the one thing he has left is his marriage, and he ruins that too and without that, and that pain will only be doubled with a 4 year old kid as well.
It also makes the contrast to Ellie leaving Dina and JJ more poignant, and maybe even backs up Tommy’s decision to go to the farm more as in ‘I left my wife and kid for you, you can leave yours for me’.
So even though it would set Tommy down a darker path, I actually think it’s pivotal Maria is alive for the revenge quest because of that choice to leave, which is easier if she’s not there and I think a lot of Part 2 is about choices and if the costs are worth it and if his family are dead, Tommy doesn’t really have any ‘costs’ left but if they are, his choices can actively haunt him since they’re alive but he’s still lost them
these are very awesome and legit points!!!! i think its been a while since i last watched a tlou2 playthrough as well so thank you for the reminder of how his game/season 2 story kinda reflects ellie’s in those ways
i think part of the reason im just major major offput about them adding a pregnancy for maria in s2 in it just makes things so much more sad and stressful for maria????? like her whole life has just been loving people and then getting left behind. imagine finding a husband you love and having a child with him and then losing them BOTH to a goddamn zombie apocalypse. id already be devastated. joel lost his child and it completely ruined him; maria lost a child and their father, who as far as we know she had a happy life with. fucking brutal
but THEN she picks herself up, dusts herself off, and finds the strength to keep going. builds a place that she would’ve been maybe happy with raising kevin in, if she could, and she opens her heart up to tommy. she falls in love, and theyre happy, and now shes pregnant. shes having another baby that she gets to raise and lose with a husband she adores
THEN HIS BROTHER GETS MURDERED AND NOW HES JUST GONNA LEAVE HER THERE????? WITH A WHOLE ASS TINY CHILD??????? for REVENGE??????
like im sorry, i love me some good ol revenge as much as the next guy—i really do. the glory was my favorite show, and the first time i watched a tlou 2 full play through i was rooting for tommy and ellie to honestly take out EVERYBODY in joel’s name—and i also know firsthand what kind of distorted thinking tommy’s level of grief can cause. but i just HATE the idea that tommy would leave a CHILD to go after anyone, even the people that killed his brother. and i think if joel saw him do so, he literally would smack him upside the head and drag him back to jackson
it also just doesnt fit what i imagine tommy would do in the instance that he has a kid???? like this is the same tommy that watched joel devote his whole entire life to his own daughter from jump, who wouldve done anything he could to protect his first daughter and DID do everything he could to protect his second. tommy knows from joel that when you’re a father, you’re kid comes fucking first. fuck everything else
so i just can’t imagine tommy leaving both maria AND his child???? like tbh i could understand him leaving maria in the game, as much as i didn’t like it—but his own baby???? he knows joel wouldnt ever want him to do that, no matter what happens to him. to me it just wouldn’t make sense for tommy’s grief over joel to take him so far that he makes a choice he knows joel would hate
(and i know ellie made the choice to leave jesse and dina, but i think a big reason she did that was bc she had the additional guilt of having jesse on her conscience and knowing that tommy wouldn’t physically be able to do it after being shot. tommy’s circumstances for leaving his kid would be different)
so like for those reasons on tommy’s side, it doesn’t make much sense to me that he would go after joel unless his own child was out of the picture, and i don’t see his child being out of the picture unless maria i also out of the picture
NOT SAYING ID RATHER MARIA BE DEAD THAN PREGNANT BTW I WANT HER TO BE ALIVE AND HAPPY AND SAFE. i am just so confused about the hbo writer’s intentions with making her pregnant like!!!!!! feels very sus to me!!!!!!
especially bc of the track record for the way nonwhite tlou characters are brutalized in the game/show too. like @clickergossip ur tags on the reblog were so so so so so so so SO right on point. them making maria a PREGNANT black woman just makes me so nervous that something terrible will happen, esp considering what we’ve seen happen to the other Black characters in the game/show
and i totally understand brutality and gore and death is all part of tlou anyway, but i feel like with joel and ellie, the violence is almost always balanced out witth a degree of love/humor/lightheartedness. unfortunately rutina wesley’s maria hasn’t had much opportunity at all to partake in those lighter moments, which makes me think either the writers have a LOT of good stuff coming up for her or that they think she’s expendable. idk idk idk idk this does even have a point, im just rambling and thinking about it a lot aand very on edge as a maria-truther 😭😭😭 as much as i want to have confidence, i have many many doubts she will be fine
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thefirstknife · 2 years
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do you think that a portion of the mara hate is sustained by the dissonance between whats presented in game and whats written in lore? I feel like there wouldnt be anywhere near as much hate as there is if it was more clear in game how she helped with the two major things (House of Wolves and Oryx) that did save humanity. Think about it cause asking any current d2 player to go back to d1 just to replay these expansions is out of the question (source, im a d2 player that took 1 look at d1 and said nope), the hate is primairly about her selfishness and moral dubiousness while she is hailed as a good person but comes off cold and uncooperative (A part misogyny, yes) and just the most any current d2 player will actually see of her actions in game, like things that have happened in game, is her in forsaken (kill Riven lmao) season of the lost as muddled as that was by the discourse, and then her during the parasite mission. if like, Zavala or something just went over how much stopping the house of wolves or oryx actually did save our asses would that do something? you have trailers and cutscenes on yt but i think hearing it out the horses mouth aught to be more convincing
Yeah, it definitely plays a part. Especially since she's been around for so long. For a very long time, she also didn't have much clear lore either so people projected their HCs on her and then when it turned out they were wrong, it didn't sit right with them. Forsaken dropped a lot of Awoken lore that we've never seen before and especially a lot of Mara lore. If you've spent 4 years figuring out Mara's character and then canon said you were entirely off the mark, I can see how it could cause friction.
Another issue with Mara is that she is a very internal character. This is the problem with her in cutscenes. You see one thing, but real Mara is something completely different. She's cultivated a persona of a Queen for many reasons, but privately she tends to act differently. And then internally, when you can actually see her thoughts, it's often even more of a difference. It's very hard to present a character like that. Most people will only (understandably) see the cutscenes, not read entire Marasenna. There are other characters largely misunderstood by the fandom because of the same issue, one example being Osiris.
I think it would be great if more stuff was reiterated in both lore books and voice lines, as it is now. Season of the Haunted is particularly good at this. For example, you could've seen the Zavala and Safiyah cutscene and get the idea about what is happening. The same story is told in the lore book Triage, but in greater detail. However, if someone only watches the cutscene, they will still get the same basic information. A lot of stuff is also repeated in other voice lines and conversations between characters. It's definitely the best to handle stuff like that.
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v-arbellanaris · 1 year
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what is your view on dai from gameplay side? because while I didn't really enjoy it story-wise(I didn't even complete the grey wardens arc) I dropped the game because of how infuriatingly boring and unbalanced the gameplay was. the combat had broken AIs, health sponges, no healing and such a limited skilltree! and that's only combat. for some reason my game was broken and I got banter like once in two hours so I would go around in silence, for boring fetch-quests. also the class interaction was minimized. in DAO you could incinerate your opponents with good positions and tactics, da2 had direct inter-class combos which made fights fun. dai just has overpowered mages. there is so much wrong with this game, that I can't express it with my limited English.
well. i played the games late but i did play them in order so ive got so many complaints abt this AHAHAHA
ok i usually play dao and da2 on hard mode, because nightmare makes me so. angry. it's TOO impossible for me. but dai was literally unplayable for me unless i had the trials on. i think having the trials on, on nightmare, brings the combat up to scratch by a bit. i also found most of the gameplays boring except for mage, rogue archer and 2h warrior (reaver spec my beloved) specifically -- for some reason it was really difficult for me to lock onto targets when i was dual-wielding or playing a warrior. but the mage combat wasn't as dynamic or interesting as archer rogue which is a shame bc mage is usually my fav class and early game 2h warrior is a sloggggg through so i usually just ran around as bull for a while (since reaver is the only spec i like for warriors in dai anyway).
i HATED how dumbed down the tactics were compared to dao and da2. party dynamics during combat lacked cohesiveness because of how the effects worked e.g. rupture or whatever, was entirely automated. but then there's no clear guide in game on how to take advantage of this compared to say da2 where it very clearly tells you if you do x you can get x effect or this ability causes more damage when enemy is x. it really felt like everyone was just doing their own thing rather than working together or contributing to each other.
lack of health potions annoyed me in early game but it became less of a problem later on. what aggravated me was the limit on potions/poisons. if you wanted extra potion slots, you'd have to sacrifice an entire belt's worth of stats for that. esp for my rogue playthroughs which in prev games relied a lot on different poisons for things like elemental damage or stun or slow effects... why have so many cool poisons with cool upgrades when i can use like 2 of them at a time.
i had issues with some of the abilities being janky as well. some of the warrior abilities fucked up my warriors so they wouldnt move at all during battle -- and it wasn't bc they had shield wall activated either but bc lunge and slash was bugged as FUCK. the fucking party AI was so aggravating too. i'd be talking to someone and my party members would just slam into me. ESPECIALLY VARRIC. they wouldnt go where i directed them to no matter how many times i directed them to it -- that one cave in the storm coast always pisses me off. the map itself was janky and my inq would get stuck in certain rocks or whatever as well or i'd give a sad response to the dialogue before and the facial expression would just stay sad even when the voice had totally changed to a more humorous line.
i didn't understand the purpose of having regular trash loot on top of the crafting mechanism. i think they should've drastically reduced the amount of loot armour and stuck to loot accessories and things like that so that there was a larger focus on the crafting mechanism, which actually was interesting. it also pisses me off how utterly difficult it is to get the things you want -- the amount of farming you have to do for materials, schematics, fade-touched materials, rune materials, and sigils pisses me off.
for me, i was disappointed by the specialisations the most. they added in the Classics which is nice but there was nothing new to it (except tempest which was nice but didnt always fit my playstyle), nothing that made the companions that much dearer depending on their specs/abilities or that differentiated the inquisitor. what's utterly baffling to me is why they didn't use the much nicer system they had for multiplayer -- where the characters seem to have cross-class abilities that are more specific to their particular skillset. and ofc i've talked abt how much i wish we'd gotten anchor-specific in other posts. i also don't understand why they didn't have an entropy tree -- were they just not creative enough to come up with a necromancer spec that wasn't just everything in the entropy tree? and since WHEN has haste ever been an entropy spell...
also, killing off all those dragons was not really a feel good moment. idk why they thought senseless slaughter of creatures was what was gonna get me excited but it upset me. in the prev games, fighting dragons was out of necessity bc they bothered you first, with the single exception of Andraste the Dragon, First of Her Name. i also thought a lot of the collections were kind of irrelevant. why am i collecting alcohol -- and so much of it being ritewine? why am i collecting mosaics?
also a thing i dont see people talk about a lot are the inq perks. ive got three rogues and not a single one of them can pick a fucking lock until leliana gives them permission to do it. like. HELLO? and how your schematics can be limited depending on which perks you get... i wish that mechanism had been refined lmao.
the fetch quests are my villain origin story. i just leave one up uncompleted in each map so the requisition officer stops talking to me. my first act as inquisitor should've been to put her on the chopping block for leaving me to fend myself against 3 great bears in the hinterlands on level 5.
i did like fade-touched materials/crafting. i think it was VERY fun and really creative to give a multiclassing flavour to your battle style. i loved giving my warrior companions mage abilities and giving my mages warrior abilities. i was also very fond of giving my mage inq rogue abilities (hidden blades on hit, my beloved) because that matched up to some headcanons i had for her background & specs. also, the chromatic greatsword and encore schematics.... god. SO GOOD. purple/rare-tier accessories like the ring of doubt also brought in cool elements for play. kitty's collar was a cute dao throwback, andraste's sacrifice cracks me up as a concept. amulet of barrier that i got one time i forced myself to do a templar pt. everything about archer playthroughs. reaver spec, as always, so good. but yeah lmao not a huge fan of the dai gameplay
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pinkseas · 10 months
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[parasocial bestie] GOOD MORNIGNG BESTIEE I HOPE U HAD A NICE REST AND SLEEBP if not i kick the exhaustion away beats it to the ground in a pulp yuou will nawt. tire my bestie ever again ANYWAY i hope youll have a nice day too 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 i was writing sumn but the thought was like a week old amd im just clenching my fist shaking unable to get back to that lil cathartic moment so i can Have That Feel i was jusgt THINKGING just cryign for xiao and zl right now yes that was the thoght i coulda flood u the them then i flood u the lumine i wusz thinking again about her and functional pants. god the makeover idea is such a game changer to me like YKNOWWWWW <- writhing screaming on the floor cannot sort out their thoughts well rm but still wanna greet the bestie euutjahehfikshfhehfh
ABOUT UR BIG FIC PROGRESS ITS OK ASF youre still going great YOU REACHED THE 45K MILESTONE and stretching it more which is shtill ok!!! with me and work things do trail outta ur mind a lot on things u Want to think about yknow cus priorities :((( like i wanna stay there and just dream abt my blorbos and have the same scene looping in my head on repeat 738374 times a day..... thinking like 30 mins straight of the same idea and going ehe what does bestie think abt this its so messy i shud get it well constructed so i can write more walls of text for them HEHE and i MISS THATTTT MY BRAIN IS SO NON FUNCTIONAL RN THE ASK I WANNA WRITE TO U IS SITTIN THERE UNFINISHED. LIKE I WANNA LAY A WHOLE TUB OF WATER OF FAMILIAL XIAO ZHOGNLI TO U SO BAD RN and a side of pants lmi agenda flushed emoji flushed emoji like yknow............
U CAUGHT ME AS IM WORKING ON THE FIC >:))))))) i was soooooo skull emoji last night and now i am awake and SO DETERMINED !!!!!!! to at least get these last couple of scenes figured out im so srs i am GOING to have every scene at least partially written by the end of the day today i can feel it. 8 hour shift is nothing but a tiny interruption it is like childs play to me just another obstacle in the way of my beautiful beautiful xiaolumi.
I DID SLEEP WELL THANK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU and i am also still tired so i very much appreciate the exhaustion being beaten to death ily so bad that made me giggle sm I HOPE UR DAY TODAY WAS WONDERFUL AND I HOPE UR ABLE TO GET SOME GOOD SLEEP SOON <3333333333333333333
100% understand the feeling of having like that Moment that Specific Feeling And Emotion while writing smth and sometimes pausing or needing to come back to it and then the emotion isnt rly as there and its so hard to capture again i LOVE when inspiration strikes at those moments but i hate having to finish it later :sob:
U CAN ALWAYS FLOOD ME W/ ANYTHING AT ALL EVER eyes and ears so wide open all the time always and YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS THE MAKEOVER the fact that there's just ENDLESS potential for her style and what she would or wouldnt like and then fighty stuff vs comfort stuff vs casual stuff smnfmfngmnfbmnb dies. dies. lumi <33333333333
I ABSO9LUTELY GETR THAT TOO us when our brains are so good at being nonfunctional its okay it will return in due time and then.... then i will get the whole tub of water then i will get the side of pants lumi agenda and it will be so wonderful and glorious i have no doubt whatsoever
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lesbian-boo-radley · 4 months
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Akdhjska that sounds fucking amazing! I wont lie i hadnt thought of that bc Mal seems to want a little and bad as Mulan wants a caregiver. I forgot they have no prior knowledge of each other so duh it makes sense it would take some time.
And the Regina and Mulan interaction hits me out of nowhere. Especially since i feel Regina wouldnt have been confident enough to even try that (and maybe a little bit bc this is a prime place for Emma's jealousy to come out). But now i gotta ask:
Does Emma ask for it (bc Regina would do anything for her)?
Or did Mulan need it? Would she ask or would that be something Emma or Regina would bring up/suggest if they thought she does need it?
Would they have been able to talk preferences and limits or did it happen as a surprise? What is Mulan's regular regressed age?
... would Mal and Mulan meet while she is regressed bc Regina called for back up in a panic? Though idk if thatt would make things easier or more awkward later (or if it could be seen as a break of trust :( which would break me at least a little)
Would that make Emma more clingy to share her mommy or would she be too distracted/having fun to worry about it?
lol You're gonna hate me a little bit Anon but I don't wanna give too much away. I will tell you that the first meeting will be at the club for Playground on Halloween night and that on the way to the club it doesn't really occur to Regina that Mulan is going to be nervous, kind of like it didn't occur to her that Emma would be. Emma and Mulan have spent a little time together in the past letting their little sides out together in private, but it's always been very light stuff like watching Disney movies together or playing "kid" video games. Emma and Regina did discuss staying close to Mulan with the intent of smashing her and Mal together, but they didn't really talk about Mulan being little. What happens though is a very organic moment of understanding between Emma and Regina and then the same between the three of them.
But I can talk about after the meeting. After I get this big, long one out I want to do a bunch of shorter, one-event one-shots that will jump around date wise a little for the months of November, December, January, and February in their lives. A few of those will be very little/Caretaker centric and I really want to explore the dynamic between all of them as a group. Also Mulan's regressed age is very similar to Emma's in public. So right around that 3 to 6, but with Mal in private very much younger. I might do a one-shot that is glimpses into the other couple's lives, but I'm not sure yet about that.
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nothing-ramblings · 5 months
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its currently 1am in my timezone and I just made this blog on a whim because i cant stop thinling about this stupid thing isaw months ago and its too late to bother my friends about it so hi
i dont remember how long ago exactly but its been a few months- i saw a post calling ouran problematic for the whole "incest thing". at the time i ignored it cause i hate confrontation but sometimes it comes back to haunt me by which i mean annoyingly take up space in my mind
now i havent read the manga, but i did watch the qnime and i believe the post was specifically about the anime. now maybe they just quit it very early on or maybe we just have very different interpretations but the anime i watched did not in fact have any incest in it. it did have kaoru and hikaru playing with that trope at the host club, and iirc trying to shock their nanny at one point? but thats the main thing here, and it's something the anime does a lot, they are playing with the trope.
while i can understand that being enough to cause discomfort i feel like its not only inaccurate but also unfair as i feel like it discredits the way the show makes fun of these common tropes in reverse harem (the genre it's a part of). no actual incest happens in that anime, in fact both brothers happen to have a crush on haruhi as is the rule w this type of anime and i think one of them even decides to step back for his brother.
now why am i rambling about this months after i saw a random post? mostly because im trying to sleep and my brain is going in circles on this topic. but also because it does genuinely bother me.
im not comfortable with incest in the media i consume either, i also know it can be a trigger for some people (then again anything can be a trigger), and some people just dont like it because they think its morally reprehensible to even write about it, while others are huge fans of game of thrones the incest show! im not here to talk morality because thats a whole other topic about howuch you believe fiction affects reality and im not here for that, im here for a stupid too-long anime post about nothing important. the thing is calling it incest when it isn't just feels misleading and once again discredits the thing the show likes to do of mocking these tropes, its silly to point at a parody and claim its supporting the thing its actually parodying. i dont think thats how those work but i could be wrong idk!
i just think that, if you don't like somehing you watched or read or whatever, you can just say so without making up a reason to call it problematic, or taking smth out of context to call it problematic. hell idk maybe there IS smth u could call problematic about ouran, there must be seeing as no media is flawless, i just think calling the hikaru and kaoru bit "incest" kinda downplays actual incest which like. Maybe people are trying to avoid? and maybe some of those people would think the joke is gross while others wouldnt rlly care.
At least specify its not actual incest and ur just uncomfortable w them pretending to be. thats totally fair!!! just dont call it smth it isnt idk
anyway i rlly like these lil shits even if their schtick is kinda iffy kinda weird
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cosunter · 1 year
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كسمى chan and Kaoru + Michelle and Michelle only come on don't be shy
i like how nobody will know what kosomy chan is like its funny. anyway put these three in a blender and theyll make neurodivergent smoothie none of them is fucking normal. thoughts on michelle under the read more tho
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listen i dont hate her i recognize how important she is to misaki's character and how almost every decision misaki does includes michelle somehow. michelle plays a big part in connecting misaki more to hhw and even her recognising her desire make them happy despite anything. michelle also allows misaki to do things she normally would not do. we saw how shitty misaki is onstage but in the bear suit she can be energetic (and dying of heatstroke). see the event "on days like these..." where misaki says ily back to kokoro after contemplating how she wouldnt have been able to do this without being in the bear suit. it's only when bandori writers decided to write michelle into misakis character like this that she became based. but for the most part too theres still the awfully redundant "whoaaa where did michelle go" joke which then destroys whatever was built by almost ignoring everything that happened in "i need you" where misaki was first reassured by hhw that she's integral to the band as herself and not as michelle. its about what she wants to do and not as an obligation and thats where the development came in. so while i believe that any misaki fan who genuinely hates michelle is a fake misaki fan, i understand how frustrating the inclusion of the character of michelle is especially as a mascot for the whole franchise which can be even disconnected a tad from misaki herself. so thats why the bear is on thin ice. i think what the world (me) needs is one more michelle/misaki centric event story to build up on what "i need you" and "days like these" contributed to their relationship. and yes an important part is that misaki has grown to completely embody michelle's made up character (creating backstories for her, personality, only responding to "michelle" in the himari marie event to "completely become the mascot, the comic where misaki finds herself unconsciously doing things she does in the michelle suit, garupa pico ohmori episode 6.........yeah) like i may be looking too much into this (its a rhythm gacha game its not that deep. slash light hearted) like you can see how much she got to love it and how misaki usually logically gives any excuse to what she enjoys doing except for being michelle. at first it was "it's for the sanbaka" then it became "because i like it". honestly as funny as it sounds garupa pico ohmori ep6 is the most hilarious example of what im saying like this girl is crazy fr by now hope she gets help
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absolutelyfizzing · 3 years
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unwanted feelings
james potter x reader
description - You'd had a crush on James Potter for years and when he kisses Lily Evans in front of you, you are heart broken. Later you find that he didn't actually feel as you expected and he explains himself.
warnings - some angst, unsure reader, fem pronouns, self doubt, negative self talk, not eating for a day cause reader is avoiding someone
word count - 2800
A/N - so this one isn't my best work by far but i wrote it so looks like its getting posted. i don't know why all of my reader inserts lately are so fem and sort of bubbly, i guess it's sort of what i'm aiming for for myself right now but i'm sorry if it maybe isn't coming off as relatable.
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Your throat tightened in anxiety as you watched James zoom around the pitch. He was reckless when he was playing quidditch and it was one of the things that made him great at the game and an excellent captain. It was also the thing that nearly gave you a heart attack every time you watched him play. You went to every one of his games and you always wore something of his with his colors when you were in the stands. You were stood up on your seat and a slightly bored looking Remus sat to your right, reading from a book you didn't recognize. You'd thought that Sirius playing would be enough to keep him interested but sports was just not something he enjoyed watching. You were usually that way as well but whenever James was playing, suddenly you were the most intent spectator in the stands.
You were more worried than you should have been. More worried than what was appropriate for a friend to be. That's what you were, friends. That had been reinforced many times by the shaggy haired boy and you tried desperately to get it through your head before you embarrassed yourself one of these days. Sometimes though, you just couldn't help it.
Really you might have thought he reciprocated if you didn't know any better. You often got comments on what an attractive couple you guys were but each time it was quickly corrected by James. Normally along the lines of 'Oh god no, we are just friends. Purely platonic' , sometimes followed by a shudder or a gag even. It upset you every time to no end but you played along. You rarely, if ever, contributed to the shooting down of any feelings but that was never noticed by the man you had feelings for.
You'd had a crush on him since you were probably in your second year and now you were coming to the middle of your seventh. There were a million times that you almost said something but every time there was a reminder that you were not the one he had eyes for. It usually took the shape of disgust at the thought of dating you or commentary as he pined over the Evans girl who you felt you could never compete with. How could you when she was just perfect. You saw her to the left of you as she stood in the stands as well and your hands shook with insecurity before looking back toward the game. Your heart raced nearly as quickly as James did around the pitch and you prayed that the snitch would be caught soon so that you could get rid of the stress surrounding you. You felt a hand on your right shoulder and you looked over to find Remus had stood and was looking at you caringly.
"Are you alright, Y/N?" He asked softly and you tried your very best to soften your gaze and calm your stance so you appeared less concerned with someone that you shouldn't have that much interest in in the first place.
"Of course I am. When am I not?" You smiled before looking out at the pitch.
"When youre watching the guy you're in love with play a dangerous game that you don't like." He stated simply in response to the question you meant to be rhetorical and your eyes widened.
"I don't know what youre talking about." You nearly whispered and Remus smiled.
"I'm not gonna tell anyone Y/N but its not exactly subtle. It probably doesn't help that I know the look on your face because it's how I feel too watching Sirius play." He was still smirking but your anxiety was far from eased.
"Oh god, does he know?" You asked scaredly, terrified that the answer would be yes and you would have to stop spending time with him.
"Shockingly, no." You sighed out in relief but Remus continued. "You should tell him though or else he might end up moving on."
"What do you mean? There's nothing for him to move on from. Everyone knows he's in love with Evans and he has made it pretty clear that he is opposed to being anything more than a friendly relationship with me." You choked out, struggling with the words leaving your lips but knowing them to be true.
"I mean he has a minor crush on Evans but it's nothing compared to the annoyingly huge crush he has on you. He's probably just overcompensating for the fact that he's insecure and doesn't want you to reject him."
"Why are you telling me this?" You asked sincerely. You were friends with Remus as you were with the rest of the marauders but it was nothing compared to the friendship they held within their group. You knew Remus was more loyal to James than to you so you couldn't understand why, if it was true, Remus would be telling you at all.
"Because he is trying desperately to move on seeing as he is under the impression that you aren't into him and I'd hate to see him throw something away that could be really good for him." Remus smiled gently and you looked at him gratefully.
"I really appreciate you telling me and all but I just don't think I can believe you. I can't even count how many times he has made a big show of not liking me. I love him too much to ruin what we have and I know that if I confessed and it went bad that I would lose him all together. I would rather have him in my life in a way that hurts than not have him in it at all." You stated sadly and Remus sighed but nodded in understanding.
"I get it but just know that I'm being honest and pretty soon he is going to give up on it. I just want to see you both happy but if its too big of a leap, I understand. That's exactly the excuse he tells the rest of us too."
Suddenly cheers erupted from the stands, cutting your conversation with Remus off as everyone ran to rush the pitch. The snitch had been caught and gryffindor won. You were excited for James but you were also a little terrified to walk onto the pitch to see him with the now conflicted thoughts running through your head. Your thoughts were stopped by the image in front of you which was causing the whole crowd to cheer. James had pulled Lily Evans into a kiss in his excitement and your heart stopped. You felt nausea rise in your throat and Remus caught your eye with a sympathetic look. You didn't look at him for longer than a second and you ran off the pitch with tears streaming down your face. You found your way up to your dorm, pushing yourself to get there quickly before the common room filled with students celebrating their victory. James was always one to love attention so he would be getting crazy after the game which he did just about every time they won.
When you made it to your bed, you hurried under the covers, throwing the shirt you were wearing which belonged to James onto the floor. You felt your heart clench at the despair you felt. You wanted to be upset at Remus for getting your hopes up but you knew he was sincere in his want to help. Still you felt that you would probably not be able to face James in the weeks to come. Maybe, given a little time, you could be around him and not be upset at the world for taking away your chance with him. As you laid in your bed, you stared at the ceiling. You felt tears streaming down your face and you grew angry at yourself. He didn't owe you anything, he wasn't into you. That wasn't his fault and it was so unfair of you to expect anything more from him when your feelings were not his responsibility.
You weren't sure how long you laid there but you could hear the party start and end in the common room. It must have been late. Sleep wouldnt come though, you could just feel your heart continue to break and you were stuck in a loop of self pity. You made the decision that the following days would be spent away from James if you could at all help it. That was probably what he wanted anyway and it was the only way that you would get over the pain you were feeling. At some point your roomates entered your dorm and sleep overtook you for a few restless hours.
When you woke up, the sun was barely on the rise. You hurried up and got dressed and ready. You were planning on getting to breakfast early to avoid running into any of the marauders. You found your plans were not going how you wanted when you entered the great hall to find a head of red hair next to a mop of black. Your throat tightened and you quickly moved to turn and head out of the great hall. You heard a familiar voice call your name but you rushed out before you could give it too much thought. You knew that if you let him try to convince you, you would end up having a very upsetting breakfast with your best friend and his new lover. You would rather avoid breakfast.
Throughout the day, avoiding James was proving to be harder than you had thought it would be. You had many of your classes with him and you even sat next to him in a few. He was insistently trying to get you to open up about why you were suddenly so closed off to him but you remained shut off, reassuring him that nothing was wrong and you were just a little tired from the game the day before. You avoided lunch for the same reason as you had avoided breakfast and you felt yourself starting to get a bit lightheaded. Your afternoon was spent avoiding James but soon he was preoccupied with Lily anyway.
You were hid in a corner of the library when a cough alerted you of someone's presence. You looked up to find the very eyes you hadn't wanted to see.
You pushed it down with a gulp and smiled a bit at him, trying desperately to keep the tears at bay but they were growing harder to hold back after keeping everything pent up all day. It probably didn't help that you were hungry and therefor a bit more emotional. You could feel the tears sitting in your eyes, waiting for something to go wrong so they had an excuse to escape you.
"I don't know what I did wrong." He mumbled while looking at the floor in front of you and you took a deep breath.
"There's nothing wrong James, I promise. It's just been a long day." You smiled and your heart picked up speed.
"Since when did we lie to each other?" He questioned and your heart stopped. You were left unsure how to respond.
"Since the truth would cause more damage than good." You spoke honestly. At this he looked up at you and your eyes met. A tear left you and James immediately moved to comfort you but you tried to move away, standing quickly to evade him. You regretted it as spots filled your vision, the lack of food catching up to you. You know that you turned a bit green for a moment because James looked slightly scared.
"Y/N I dont know whats wrong but you look like you should be getting to the hospital wing. You don't look well."
Before you could answer you felt your vision blacken and your legs give out before your consciousness left you completely.
When you woke up, you knew you were in the hospital wing. It smelled sterile and the bed was stiff underneath you. When you started to wake madam pomfrey came to check on you.
"You can't go around with an empty stomach like that again, do you hear me?" She scolded, though her eyes were soft. You nodded solemnly. "I was alerted that you hadn't been to the great hall to eat all day, you have to know that isn't good for you. I'm gonna have a prefect watch out for you the next couple days to make sure you're eating at meal times. Understood?" She asked again and once more you nodded before leaning back and sighing. You looked at your surroundings and were surprised to see the black haired boy next to your bed fast asleep. Your heart took off again and you felt trapped by your environment. As anxiety swirled around in your chest, James had woken up a bit.
"You're awake." James sighed, laced with relief. You still wouldn't make eye contact with him.  You felt the bed dip as he sat on it and you looked up to watch him put his head in his hands as he leaned over. You felt guilt fill your chest more than it already had from hating that you felt any claim over the man in front of you. You knew you were in the wrong and the last thing you wanted was to cause him any pain. "Remus talked to me." He almost whispered.
At that moment, you wished you could have apparated to anywhere else in the world. You looked back down at your lap and tears were once again brought to your eyes. You felt betrayal that Remus would reveal your feelings to James.
"I'm sorry." You apologized and you fiddled with your fingers.
"Why are you the one apologizing, I'm the one whos behaved poorly." He assures and you shake your head.
"That's not fair to yourself. You're allowed to want to be with whomever you want and my feelings should have no effect on that. You've made it clear for years that you weren't interested in me and it is my fault that I couldn't take a hint. I'm so sorry." You gushed out and tears started to fall from your eyes. You felt James get up from your bed and you prepared him to leave but instead you felt arms wrap around you and a kiss came to your head.
"Y/N I have had feelings for you for years. I was just always too scared for myself to even consider that you might feel the same." He whispered out but you felt only a different kind of pain. Even though he had now admitted his feelings, he was still dating Lily. Not you. Almost as if he could hear your thoughts he spoke quietly. "I broke it off with Evans." You pulled away immediately.
"What? Why would you do that?" You asked quickly and before he had a chance to answer you feared the worst. "Oh god is it because of me? James please dont let my feelings have any bearing on who you want to date, I can't stand the thought of being the reason you broke up. Even if we do have feelings for each other, you deserve a chance with Lily if that's what you want."
"It was mutual, actually. She understood that I had feelings for you and she said she had a crush on someone else. It just seemed like I had kissed her a bit rashly on the quidditch pitch and we agreed that we shouldn't have gotten together in the first place. It was only a day anyway." He reassured as he explained himself and you calmed a bit.
"So what does this mean." You got out, almost inaudibly.
"It means that, if you'll have me, I'd like to take you out on a date." He stated as if it were the simplest thing in the world and you almost couldn't believe your ears. Before you were even thinking you were nodding quickly, causing spots to once again fill your vision and James grabbed your shoulders to stabilize you before you both laughed. He pulled you by your shoulders toward him and he caught your lips in a kiss that somehow expressed all of the years of repressed feelings. When he pulled away he smiled at you and sat back on your bed. He spent the rest of the day with you in the hospital wing talking about all of the places he was going to take you in the coming weeks.
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fruggo · 3 years
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Hello ! I saw the enemies fo lovers things and I wanna request if possible
“ rich coming from the guy who tried to kill me three days ago. “
With frank if you would and thank you
yessirrr i love frank sm it’s not ok. also umm i may have accidentally written friends to enemies to lovers or something idk. and though i wouldnt necessarily call you friends at the start, you werent really enemies yet???? idk🐸just ummm yeh i love frank
also help how do i not go overboard???? i feel like i made this way too long, please help and i am sorry
warnings: canon-typical violence, swearing, frank being a bastard but then you’re like awwww he’s a cute bastard aaaaw
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Things were weird with Frank, and they always had been from the moment you stepped foot in the Entity’s realm. He always tunneled you relentlessly, and that made you think of him as a big asshole, but there were some strange details tacked onto the sentiment that greatly confused you, should you think about it for more than three seconds.
Sometimes, it seemed like he went easy on you in chases, like he put in no effort. He would chase you for a while, let you waste his time, and then leave without even getting a hit on you when he definitely had the ability to.
And you hated saying this, but when he handled you, it almost felt…gentle. Granted, he was a killer, and his job was to murder you, but your experiences with him did not quite line up with those of the other survivors.
They always described trials against Frank as “stepping on legos in the middle of the night” or something akin to that. You never felt like that, though—when he chased you, it felt fair. Almost as if he played nice with you. And more often than not, the killer would let you go when he caught you. The reason remained a mystery to you until quite a bit later.
This trial, Frank was in 100% bastard mode. You had begun to think of his trials as quite easy due to his seemingly calm nature around you, so you were rather caught off guard when he downed you in the first 30 seconds of the match and tossed you onto a hook, no gentleness whatsoever.
You wanted to yell at him and ask what the fuck was wrong with him until you realized this was his fucking job, and this is how he should have been treating you all along. Maybe you had just been imagining it all, but you could have sworn he used to leave you alone more than this. Something just felt different.
After you were unhooked, he went for you again. And again. And then you were dead, completely wiped out of the trial. Frank had demolished you with no remorse.
You knew it was silly to feel betrayed, but you really couldn’t help it. In such an insane and hellish place, anything that could be even remotely perceived as kindness seemed like so much more of a big deal than it truly was. So Frank’s supposed “gentleness” with you had felt somewhat like a friend doing you a selfless favor. Of course, it was not a selfless favor, and it was certainly nowhere near kindness, because he was still a killer chasing you with a knife, but your standards had really lowered in this place.
After that trial, you were back to hating Frank for tunneling and bullying you (like you probably should). You began to understand the survivors’ saying about the legos—and you hoped that Frank would step on some legos too, because he fucking sucked sometimes.
And for a while, that’s just how it was. You nearly forgot how he used to go easier on you, and how you used to do okay in his matches. Now every time you were pit against each other it just felt like you were being stuck with a bunch of pins; you never had any time to breathe or rest or do literally anything. He just went after you until you were gone, and there was next to nothing you could do about it.
Everything changed very suddenly during a trial at Ormond.
You were expecting the same old routine with this asshole—chase, blah blah blah, die. You hardly had energy to fight back anymore.
So when he arrived out of breath at the killer shack, somehow knowing you would be here, Frank was surprised to find you relaxing under the window with your arms loosely crossed, a disapproving scowl upon your countenance. It was enough to make him hesitate in his tracks.
You let out a deep breath, refusing to break eye contact with his mask; you kept up that menacing frown for as long as you could, trying to make him feel guilty (who knows if it was even possible for him to feel guilty? But it was worth a try).
“Just kill me,” you said, voice steady and seemingly unbothered. Underneath the surface, you were trembling, but you stood your ground. “That’s what you’re gonna do, isn’t it? You’re going to chase me until I’m miserable and kill me off as soon as you can?”
Frank went still, not even fidgeting with his knife like he usually did; he was intrigued by your sudden confidence.
You went on. “I’m really sick and tired of you, you know that? I’m sick of you and your bullshit. Why can’t you treat me like everybody else? At first, you went easy on me. Now you just torture me with your stupid mind games, and frankly, I’m sick of playing! I’m done with you—I don’t care anymore! Just kill me, and I’ll get out of your way, okay asshole? Mori me if you want. I don’t give a shit.”
You put your hands up exasperatedly, fully expecting him to take the offer and just send you back to the campfire right then and there. But the man sighed, pocketed his knife, and sat down right next to you as if this were a normal thing for him to do.
You scooted a few inches away out of instinct. Frank noticed, but he chose not to say a word about it.
It was a long time before he said anything, and when he finally did, you wanted to punch him so bad.
“It’s complicated,” he mumbled. And that was all.
Oh, yeah? It was complicated? You scoffed, hanging your head with a bitter smile. “Oh, okay. Sure.”
Silence again.
Awkward, suffocating silence.
And then Frank got up and left. You were unbothered for the remainder of the trial, not even a scratch or bruise on your body.
~~
Sometimes you simply did things, and you didn’t know why. This thing that you just did was irrational, stupid, unplanned, unwise, and everything in-between, and you knew it was, but frequently you just had no impulse control. Perhaps it was the Entity’s influence, or maybe you had always been this way—you couldn’t really remember.
How did you get here again? Why were you laying on the ground? And why did your leg hurt so fucking much?
Oh, yes. Yes, yes, you remember now.
Funnily enough, it seems as though the Entity, along with certain killers, did not like it when survivors tried to enter their side of the forest! But you did it anyways, and it appeared that you had suffered the consequences. It’s not like you had put much thought into it; where was the point in that when nothing mattered anymore and you were stuck in an endless cycle of death?
You remembered entering the killer’s woods, looking around, and doing…something. What was that something? You couldn’t be sure, but then you remembered somebody coming up to you and probably definitely hurting you. Yep, your leg definitely was in a lot of pain. You couldn’t even look at it. Did you pass out for a while? Maybe. How long were you out for?
You lay still there for a while, thinking. Man, it really hurt, and boy, were you miserable. Maybe more miserable than you’d ever felt here. The Entity normally healed wounds immediately, but perhaps you had just angered it so much you deserved to suffer.
Oh, dear! You seemed to be passing out at this time. Yes, that was almost certainly what was happening. Black spots danced across your eyes as your body began to feel distant and numb, but you didn’t feel very worried about it. In fact, you felt like making jokes right now, but you had nobody to make jokes to and you probably couldn’t even speak.
Just as you began to accept it, there was a strange thumping sensation vibrating through the ground growing closer…and closer…
Footsteps! That’s good!
Oh. Not if it’s a killer. That’s not good, probably.
But you had no way of protesting when you felt yourself being picked up, because those black spots in your eyes were dancing a lot faster now, perhaps something akin to an Irish jig, and you also couldn’t feel your limbs.
Then you were fast asleep again, dreaming of Irish dancers who were actually big fluffy cloud people wearing leprechaun clothes. Nobody but you would ever know this, and it was going to stay that way.
On the bright side, it made it a lot easier for your rescuer to carry you to safety like this.
~~
When you awoke once more, you were horrified to find yourself in the Ormond lodge of all places. You knew immediately what had happened and were determined to escape as soon as possible.
Your injured leg proved to be a huge problem, however, and you collapsed the second you attempted to find freedom. Trying again, you collapsed once more, and probably maimed yourself further in the process.
Hearing the commotion from the second floor, your least favorite member of The Legion descended down from the main stairs, refusing to look directly at you even as he scooped you up and plunked you (gently) back onto the couch, which was rather comfortable (not that you would ever tell him that).
So he was playing it cool, huh?
Okay. You could play it cool, too. You were cool. Smooth as butter.
No. You really couldn’t be cool in a situation like this, and plus, your mind was still a little woohoo since whatever accident had occurred. Suddenly you blurted out, “Frank, I hate your guts.”
And he had the audacity to laugh. He laughed at you! He did the man chuckle thing, as if what you were saying was funny. No! You were completely serious! You did hate his guts!
Perhaps your face showed how upset you were, because he started to apologize (still laughing).
“Maybe you should go back to sleep,” Frank said after calming down a bit.
No. You couldn’t go back to sleep. You did not want to experience dancing cloud people dressed as leprechauns ever again in your life, for the rest of eternity. Never again.
So you shook your head violently, refusing to give an explanation, which just provoked Frank to anger all of a sudden. If you went back to sleep, he could have some alone time while the rest of The Legion was gone. He kept pushing, and you kept resisting, and he pushed and you resisted, until finally he gave up and let you off with a warning. If you made him mad again, he was throwing you out in the snow.
Fine with me, you said. Okay, I’ll do it right now, he said. No balls, you said.
So then Frank casually went to scoop you up in his arms again, and you started to freak out and beat your hands against his chest until he put you back down. He was was awfully mindful of your hurt leg for someone who was about to throw you into the snow.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry—please don’t throw me out,” you fussed. You thought he wouldn’t actually do it. You didn’t know it, but you were right—he was just messing with you because it was funny seeing you scared.
After a bit more griping back and forth, Frank began to grow concerned about your leg. He didn’t know how to bring up the topic because things were so odd between the two of you; this was your first interaction since the brief encounter in the shack. But he swallowed his pride, because the wound seemed to be getting worse by the minute.
“Hey, do you want me to, uhh…get some supplies?” Frank asked awkwardly. When you didn’t understand, he continued, “Your leg? It looks like it hurts…I could fix it if you want.”
You barked out a laugh at his words, unbelieving of this shift in attitude. “Rich coming from the guy who tried to kill me three days ago,” you snickered, genuinely finding it amusing.
Frank took offense. He was trying to be nice for once, and you thought it was funny. And his situation really was complex, whether you chose to believe it or not. Maybe he should just tell you to get it off of his chest.
“Listen,” he said, voice laced with seriousness. “When I told you things were complicated, I meant it.”
Sensing the mood change from his tone and body language, you stopped smiling and decided to pay attention to him. Just this once. Never again. After this you could go back to hating him.
Frank continued. “The Entity was going to start…well, hurting me, if I didn’t start doing better in trials. I really didn’t want to sacrifice you, which is embarrassing to admit, but I’ll say it. And I don’t think it liked that.”
You were surprised. And also relieved that you had been right all along—he had been going easy on you at first.
“Why me, though?” you asked, confused. “Why wouldn’t you want to sacrifice me? What about the other survivors?”
If the slight tilt of his head at your question didn’t answer it for you, the way he started tapping his feet and cracking his knuckles so nervously did.
Boy, if looks could kill, you would have died instantly at the scowl Frank sent your way; you grinned pridefully at the realization that this man was down bad. You couldn’t see the expression behind his mask, though, which Frank was thankful for.
He hated every second of this, but you loved it. You reveled in his embarrassment.
Leaning forward on your hands, you begged, “Tell me more! I want to hear all about your feelings for me.”
“I could stab you right now, you know that?”
“But you won’t. You liiiiike me!”
“What are you, eight years old?”
“No, but I am severely injured and have lost a lot of blood so I am not necessarily in the right headspace at the moment.”
“You make a fair point.”
“So tell me! What’s your favorite thing about me?”
“Your ass.”
“No, really.”
“Okay, your ass and your hair.”
“You know what, Frank, I still hate your guts.”
“No, you don’t.”
You paused for a moment. It was probably the blood loss talking, you decided later, but you said, “No. Maybe I don’t.”
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gale-gentlepenguin · 2 years
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Hi,if you don't mind, can you poorly explain Risk and Strike Back?
GALE POORLY EXPLAINS: THE LAST ATTACK OF SHADOWMOTH
Risk:
Ladybug:Great Job Everyone. A perfect mission. Now lets play hide and seek.
Carapace: Lol we are so in sync. I am sure nothing will ruin this
King monkey: Totally!
(Everyone leaves)
Chat noir: I know, I am like all the other heroes now.
Ladybug: (Kisses cheek) Yea but you my fav.
(Chat noir leaves)
Ladybug: (meets Rena Furtive) Hey babe!
Rena Furtive: Hi partner.
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Gabriel: I f***ing suck! Why cant I beat Ladybug
Nathalie: I am dying, can we take a break. Play a game of risk
Gabriel: OMG I HAVE AN IDEA
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Shadowmoth: Now to do something that would seem more like a cool power than a mega akuma
Roggy: I want to ride my bike without stopping.
Shadowmoth: Hey kid want to do whatever you want.
Roggy: HELL YEA
Shadowmoth: Also hide the akuma so no one can stop you without timetraveling to this exact moment
Risk: Ballin
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Adrien: (Impacted by risk) I am going to stand up to my father.
Plagg: HELL YEA! STICK IT TO THE MAN
Adrien: Father I need to talk with you about treating me with respect.
Gabriel: Shut up son, go get changed I am sending you half way around the world with that bitch you hate.
Lila: Like omg Adrien I...
Adrien: Liar says what
Lila: What?
Adrien: Heh... oh right I am still being removed from my friends.
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Marinette: Okay! Now I will finally tell Adrien how I feel no matter what.
Tikki: I lost track about how many times you have said that.
Marinette: Yes but this will be different!
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Mr. D'Argencourt: We are playing dodgeball.
Lila: I have a fear of Balls.
Marinette: Yet you keep trying to ride adriens
Adrien: Hey marinette.
Marinette: Adrien I have been trying to tell you for the last four seasons that I...
Nino: C-BLOCK SPECIAL (Gets Adrien out)
Alya: Nino you son of a... Wait a minute. (Gets Marinette out)
(Now in dodgeball jail)
Adrien: So i am going to be sent around the world...
Marinette: Well it sounds exciting...
Adrien: It isnt! It sucks! My dad treats me like a prop and I am being sent away from my friends and being forced to spend months with LILA! F***ING LILA OF ALL PEOPLE! But no one gets it...
Marinette: I understand. Lila is the worst.
Adrien: You really do get it ( Holds hand)
Lila: Okay but he is leaving
Mr. D'Argencourt: Lets stop Dodgeball then!
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Marinette: Okay... this is my last chance. I have to.
Chloé: SPECIAL MOVE! C-BLOCK!
Marinette: Okay this is bulls***!
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Adrien: Felix?
Felix: Sup bitch! Heard you were sad.
Adrien: How did you even?
Felix: Nathalie! I am a whiny little slut, can i go powder my face.
Adrien: F*** you.
Felix: How about we swap places? You get some freedom and I get a free trip around the world.
Adrien: (Risk activates) You know what, lets do it.
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Felix: (Reveals spy gear) It took me twenty boxes of Captain Crunch to get this. But Gabriel is going down.
(Gets into the safe.)
Felix: Oh hey, secret elevator. I wonder where this goes.
(Sees his dead aunt)
Felix: NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! F*** this s*** I'm out!
Gabriel: Adrien get in the car
Felix: (Pretending to be Adrien) Silence! I know about you and Harry Clown.
Gabriel: (S***ing himself) Who told him about that?
Nathalie: Enough teasing your father.
Felix: Yea okay.
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Marinette: Adrien doesnt want to go on this trip!
Nino: Uh... Its a free trip around the world! Why wouldnt he?
Marinette: He told me he hated doing all this. The modeling. We need to save him
Alya: Marinette is this Lila related?
Marinette: Alya I swear if you start going Chameleon on me....
Alya: I mean are you sure this is what he wants?
Marinette: F*** it! I will do it live
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Marinette: WHAT IF LADYBUG!
Tikki: That is a terrible plan.
Marinette: I am gonna do it
Tikki: Damn it
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Adrien: Well it looks like Felix is doing this
(Phone call)
Adrien: Hello?
Kagami: SACK UP YOU BITCH!
Adrien: She's right!
Adrien: (Sees Felix doing what he basically said he was doing) That bastard!
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Shadowmoth: Time to make the most powerful sentimonster which I could have done at any point this season
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Ladybug: Adrien dont go I love you.... as a prospect to being a hero.
Felix: Okay but im not a hero. Sorry (Gets on train)
Ladybug: No!!! (Jumps to roof)
Ladybug: Now I am gonna go get him back using the horse!
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Adrien: What is this? A cereal box prize?
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Strikeback
Ladybug: S***, guess Adrien will have to wait
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Adrien: Guess this plot device will have to wait
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Felix: Now to use the miraculous i stole... Good thing I also stole nathalie's notes
Felix: (Realizes its fake) Damn it! I have been had!
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Chat noir: Remember how I said we were cool in part one. I now disagree. Apparently I have issues with it
Ladybug: Well that is most inconvenient.
Chat noir: You dont need to protect me! We never will get akumatized
Ladybug: (PTSD Activates) Listen you stupid cat
Rena Furtive: DANGER WILL LADYBUG
(They dodge)
Ladybug: Thanks Rena... oh damn it
Chat noir: Rena? What the f***?
Ladybug: Look we will address this later, lets get back up.
Chat noir: Agreed. I am sure if we have more heroes it will help.
(It actually makes it harder)
Strikeback: FALCON PUNCH!
Carapace: Oh no my FOREVAH GIRL!
The team: What?
Ladybug: Rena... (breaking the best partner locket) how could you
Rena Furtive: The frog boy is evil
Risk: I am feral!
Ladybug: Wreck his s***. Chat noir dont do anything! You are useless right now
Chat noir: (Sad) But... I can help
Risk: Fools I hid my akuma and you will never find it!
Chat noir: Guys... I may have f***ed up.
Ladybug: I am now overthinking everything. My only chance is Adrien.
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Felix: Great, this day sucks! I dont even have a miraculous.
Penybug: (Appears) Hey Adrien, want a miraculous?
Felix: F*** yes. Also unrelated question. Are all the miraculous in your yo-yo
Penybug: Yep! It would be awful if Shadowmoth got them all.
Felix: Indeed
Penybug: Now we go back in time
Felix: Today is a f***ing roller coaster
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(And so Ladybug with time powers and Dog boy get the toy and go back to see things got worse.)
Ladybug: Quick! Fetch boy
Flairmidable: My name is Flairmidable and I will
Ladybug: The day is saved! Nice job Flairmidable! You did awesome. You are incredible. And anyone looking at this as I am telling this to you would probably feel pathetic and heart broken. Now lets head to the sewer.
(Meanwhile Chat noir feels pathetic and heartbroken)
Felix: Ladybug, I think I am ready to do everything I want now.
Ladybug: (Unaware of the ominous nature) Thats awesome
Tikki: (Eating cookie and doesnt tell Marinette that this isnt Adrien.)
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Ladybug: The amount of joy i am feeling introducing Adrien to Chat noir is beyond measure. Dog and Cat buddies.
Chat noir: I hate every second of this.
Flairmidable: Nice to meet you cat man.
Ladybug: Alright everyone, lets go commit murder by yeeting these boys into the sun.
Flarimidable: (Taps Ladybug's yo-yo) You guys go ahead. I will be right back, I'm going to go use the bathroom
Ladybug: Well thats okay
Flairmidable: About 100 miles away
(Jumps off)
Ladybug: He has a very nervous bladder.
(And Ladybug yeets them into the sun)
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Gabriel: I cant believe my convoluted plan failed.
Flairmidable: Hey Uncle, want a f*** ton of magic jewlery?
Gabriel:... Maybe
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Ladybug: You messed up Alya, I thought you were my babygirl
Alya: Im sorry girl, but I cant lie to nino.
Ladybug: I understand, I too am a sucker for a nice butt.
Alya: Here is trixx. I am sorry i failed. Now dont transform back until you get them all. Okay?
Ladybug: I wasnt planning on it but okay.
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Flairmidable: So I get the peacock miraculous and you get the rest, and I dont expose you.
Gabriel: I somehow feel like this is a bad deal. But... F*** it I am in.
Flairmidable: Ballin
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Ladybug: Adrien! Where is the dog miraculous?
Adrien: (Realzing who flarimidable was) Motherf***Er! It was Felix
Ladybug: (Shook) Wait then that means...
(The yo-yo vanishes)
Ladybug: Felix has all the miraculous!?
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Ladybug: I really messed up
Hawkmoth: I won! I got all the miraculous now! Now Ladybug and Chat noir will surrender to me! Or I will make your lives hell
Ladybug: Oh, Hawkmoth has them... that is slightly better. But I still messed up and now I am all alone.
Chat noir: No. You arent.
Ladybug: Why though!? I have literally Gaslit, Gatekeeped, and Girlbossed you at every step since I became Guardian. You of all people should hate me the most? (Crying) How could you possibly stay by my side?!
(Hugs her)
Chat noir: We will get the miraculous back, every last one. You, the hero of Paris. Them the citizens of Paris, and Me, your loyal partner.
Ladybug: Seriously though, How can you forgive me? I was down right awful to you. Like really thinking about it, I was really bad to you. No sugar coating it. Like It wasnt intentional, but still doesnt change the fact that.
Chat noir: Ladybug, we got stuff to work out yes. But right now a purple condom has the miraculous. People are scared, and really this whole time we have been a series of miscommunications that if we had just taken the time to talk about it probably would have been better but then there wouldnt have been a conflict that needed to be resolved. So lets just agree we will work on it.
Ladybug: (Lightning strikes nearby) Okay
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Okay, okay hold on a sec. Think about it. Ingo getting captured by poachers would mean that he will be forced to eat out of a bowl. If he's lucky. Maybe they'll pour his food straight on the floor. And he is so hungry and getting weaker, so he needs to eat. Also haa to lick his water up every day. Ingo getting captured would break this man and I'm here for every second of it. Emmet is going to straight up murder them all.
Ok this took a moment. Had to get myself in the right head space for something like this. I hope i dont disappoint too much.
WARNING
I uhhh got carried a little away with the set up. And CURSING LOTS OF CURSING THREATS OF VIOLENCE ok making sure yall see that am i sorry for what i did Not really. It could have been worse tbh. I had a bit planned for Emmet in here but im lazy. Its 23:55 ok
They dont capture Ingo in a ball because they assume Emmet is his trainer. So they dont even try. Instead the ruffly toss him into a very small cage. Oh Now see this is why Ingo doesnt like cages. He keeps getting thrown into them. Which hurts. His scruff is so very sore. Arceus he hates being picked up by his scruff. His cage is probably around crate size. He can stand up in it and move around but its just barely too big for his to touch each side with his claws if he stood in the middle. Its cold and metal.
So Ingo tossed into a cage. He hardly has time to think before the talking starts. “Man that Emmet fucker put up one hell of a fight for this thing” “At least that dumb bitch gave us an opening.” laughter “hey give the brat some credit! Without her we wouldnt have gotten anywhere near the thing!” Great Ingo has been called a thing twice now. One of them is walking up to his cage. Which is on the floor so all Ingo can see are shins. They man bends down, a taking his cigar out of his mouth he blows the smoke into Ingos face. Of course he has a coughing fit. “Well now you be good for us and make us lots of money”. Ingo just glares at the man. From across the room one of the others pipes up “hey now dont damage this one! You know that it will sell better if its un damaged!” Signing the man puts his cigar back in his mouth and stands up “yeah yeah i know. Even if the little bastard is giving me the stink eye i wont break this one” they laugh again. Ingo though hes full panic. “Damage? Break?” Oh oh whats gonna happen to him.
Its a few hours later after the men have finished playing some sort of gambling game. The same man comes back. He has two bowls. He bends down to look Ingo in the eyes “now listen here you little shit. Im going to open the top of this here cage and you are gonna sit right there and not fucking move a single mussel. And if you even look like you plan to escape or attack me ill break for fucking legs you got it.” Ingo.exe has stopped responding. “Good” now hes opening the top Ingo doesnt dare move. The man sets in a water dish and a food bowl. Ingo feels sick. The cheapest pokemon food on the market is poured into the food dish. At least the water comes strait from a bottle. The man is reaching for Ingo oh its happening oh hes gonna get hurt oh no no. Ingo flenches away and closes his eyes bracing for the worst. The man chuckles and pets his head. “Glad to see we understand each other” once the hand is gone from Ingos face he dares to open his eyes. Just as the man closes the cage top. He doesnt dare move till the man fully leaves the room. Ok he can panic now. Hes clutching his chest. Oh hes crying. He wants to go home. Hes cold and hungry and scared. Emmet where are you please Emmet help me. He stays like that for who knows how long. Well i know its like four hours. Aka four am.
Hes done crying. Eyes long since dried up. But hes still just sitting there in the corner of his cage curled up knees to chest. Its his stomach that actually snaps him back. Hes hungry, having not eaten since breakfast the day before all this happened. He eyes the food. Hes not that hungry. He goes to sleep.
Hes awaken later by the door to the room opening. Its the man again. The only light in the room is from above. He has no idea what time it is. Its one pm. The man is doing something by the table. He hears something that sounds like gravel in a plastic cup. Oh no the man hes coming over to him. Ingo gets as far away from the “front” of the cage. Its just got a solid top and bottom rest is bared. She man kneels down again. Hes looking what feels like right into Ingos soul. How terrifying. The mans eyes move to the food and water. Ingos own gaze follows. “Tsk” Ingo snaps back to the man. Oh he doesnt look pleased. He looks angry. “Now see here you little shit. I wont have you starving to death before we sell you. You WILL eat.” Ingo just starts shaking again. This is it the mans gonna hurt him. The man opens the top Ingo once again braces for the worst. Only to open his eyes once he hears plastic sliding across metal. The man has moved the bowl to infront of Ingo. “Now eat.” … Ingo slowly with one trembling arm reaches out towards the bowl. He picks up a piece and slowly puts it in his mouth. Its bland and he hates the texture.
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