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multifandomslxt · 2 months

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Quiet Rage

MDNI

MINORS GO AWAY

Pairing: bsf!Johnny x reader

Synopsis: You wanted to test a theory and ended up making Johnny "Quiet Rage" Suh pissed all the way off. Surely he wouldn't take it out on you though right? after all, you were his best friend.

WARNING: THIS IS SMUT...arguably one of my dirtiest yet. reader is a little shit and Johnny is the quiet guy in the friend group. Johnny in glasses. Dirty and I mean DIRTY talk. spit, sweat, mentions of bruising skin, drooling, overstimulation, exhibitionism via video call, just dirty stuff alright

A/N: This took forever to get out and I apologize for that. it's exam season and I really wanted this out so I pulled some all-nighters. so I apologize for the grammatical errors and so on. I'm very very nervous about this because I did not expect the teaser to get that much attention. but anyway, enjoyyy. @neoculturecollectives @calibabii21

"I swear, Johnny's into you," your girlfriend claims, and you almost spit out your latte. You shoot her a look, throat burning, and coffee dribbling down your chin. "What the hell makes you say that?"

She rolls her eyes, handing you a napkin. "Come on, babe. The guy gives you that intense stare all the time."

You stare at her in disbelief. "He gives everyone that stare. It's just Johnny."

She grunts in frustration. "Y/n, he calls you 'baby' for crying out loud."

You shrug, trying to play it cool. "So? It's not like it's some romantic declaration."

This scenario is all too familiar, and it annoys you. People always misread Johnny and you, trying to turn your perfectly platonic relationship into something more.

"Alright, if you're so confident, come with me to Jay's party tonight," she challenges.

Your heart sinks.

Jay, aka Jaehyun, is her boyfriend, and you've crossed paths quite a bit. But you already know you can't go.

"He doesn't like you like that, right? So let's settle it, Y/n. Let's end the speculation."

"That's dumb. I don't need to prove anything," you argue. But truth be told, your heart is still doing somersaults. You both know why you won't go, or rather, can't.

Johnny has this strict no-party rule for you. Sounds stupid, but it's his way of keeping you safe. One bad experience with some idiot led to this.

"Come on, just this once, and I'll drop it, promise," she pleads.

"Fine" you reply, already feeling your energy drain.

You find yourselves in what's supposed to be Jay's living room turned dance floor.

"Where's that man?" your friend complains beside you.

You hadn't been paying much attention to her anyway. Tonight, you're on a mission to prove a point. Yep, you're scanning for Johnny.

"Yo, ladies!" A familiar voice greets you from behind.

It's Mark. Awkward, cute, and definitely on some kind of high.

weed probably

"Markieee." you smiled and hugged him.

"Have you seen Jay?" your friend asks, not even bothering to greet Mark.

"In the upstairs bathroom," Mark replies, the thumping bass of the music echoing through the house.

"Thanks, y/n, call me if you need me," she says, her voice almost drowned out by the distant laughter and chatter.

"Okay," you agree, even though you know she's most likely going to be too busy to pick up. With that, she confidently stalks off into the lively chaos to find her man.

You're still hugging Mark throughout that, the music's pulsating rhythm vibrating through your bodies, and neither of you makes a move to release the other.

"Markie, how high are you right now?" you ask, half amused and half concerned, the scent of various substances hanging in the air.

"I'm not high," he insists, his words slightly slurred.

Yep, he's as high as a damn kite. "Alright, let's get you seated," you decide, guiding him through the animated crowd.

You hug him a little tighter to your side as you maneuver through the sea of people, completely unaware that the man you had been scanning for was silently observing you from across the dimly lit room.

Johnny tilts his head ever so slightly, the ambient lights flickering, casting enigmatic shadows on his intense expression as he observes you cradling the nearly unconscious Mark in your arms.

"Yo, Johnny! Where you goin'?" Heachan's voice echoes from the kitchen, where the clinking of glasses and laughter weave through the air.

"You can't bail on me now, man. You promised to try this strain with me," Hexhan pleads, his tone a mix of whining and cajoling.

"Another time," Johnny responds tersely, striding away without a backward glance.

Johnny can't fathom any sober reason for Mark to be draped over you like that.

"And you shouldn't even be here," Johnny muses to himself.

"Y/n," his gruff voice calls out, a single word that carries volumes.

You pivot, finding yourself face to face with your long-time best friend, a man whose relationship with you blurs between suspected boyfriend, occasional fling, or perhaps something more permanent.

His towering figure looms over you like an impending storm, his mouth contorted in a sneer, eyebrows knitted in displeasure. A quick appraisal reveals he's opted for a relaxed ensemble tonight—black hoodie and grey joggers, his signature black rimmed glasses resting on his nose.

"Johnny, I've been looking for you. Where the hell were y--"

"Y/n, have I ever told you that your tits make the best pillows ever? Oh my god," Mark interjects, completely oblivious to Johnny's presence.

In one swift motion, Johnny shoves Mark away, causing him to collide with people behind you.

"Johnny, what the fuck!" you gasp, caught off guard.

"What are you doing here, Y/n? I'm only asking once," Johnny demands, his hand firmly gripping the back of your neck, forcefully pulling you into the shelter of his chest.

"Answer the question."

"I'm here for you," you assert, making no attempt to deceive.

"You could've called me if you missed me so much, baby," he responds, his voice softening, and his eyebrows gradually easing.

"Yeah, I know, but I wanted to have fun too," you argue.

It becomes apparent that you've made the wrong choice as his hand tightens slightly around your neck.

"Have fun at home. No parties. I'm sure I told you that," his voice remains calm, but the increasing pressure on the back of your neck contradicts his demeanor.

"Go home. Now," he states, leaving no room for argument.

For a moment, your body twitches as if to comply, but it seems you're on a defiant streak tonight.

"No. I'll stay and have fun. I've seen you now, so I'll just go look for the others and enjoy myself," you declare.

He stares at you, a blank facial expression revealing nothing.

"Y/n, baby, go home," he says softly.

Successfully prying yourself from his grip, you retort, "No."

You stalk off, leaving him standing in the middle of the living room, hands straight by his sides, and his gaze unwaveringly black yet watchful.

As you navigate through the crowd, encounter familiar faces here and there.

You find yourself on your umpteenth shot of tequila when, unexpectedly, you're invited to a game of truth or dare, courtesy of Haechan.

Johnny is nowhere to be found, and the absence begins to stir a sense of worry and nervousness within you.

The game had unfolded over an extended period, leaving your mind increasingly hazy with each passing moment. Holding your liquor was never your forte.

You observed as the bottle spun and twirled before ultimately settling on the guy positioned beside you.

"dare" the guy simply said.

"I dare you to kiss y/n," Haechan's slurred yet mischievous voice announced.

As Haechan proclaimed his dare, Johnny ambled into the room, seemingly oblivious to your presence, it left you feeling bothered and angry.

Fine, you mused, if he's going to act that way.

Perhaps it was the influence of the alcohol coursing through your system or some other inscrutable force, but you found yourself impulsively lunging towards the guy next to you. Teeth clashed in a messy, audacious kiss, and, fueled by the audacity of the dare, you dared to explore further by delving your tongue into his mouth.

A cheer erupted from the onlookers, making your heart swell.

Basking in the attention, you pushed the boundaries, only to be abruptly seized by the neck for the second time that night, this time by none other than Johnny himself.

Without hesitation, he mused, "Go to the car and sit. I'll be there soon."

"But, Joh—"

"Go. To. The. Car, Y/n, and shut your fucking mouth. I said I'll be there soon," he asserted, his words punctuated through gritted teeth.

The last ten minutes had passed in utter silence as both of you sat in the car.

When Johnny finally slid into the driver's seat, his gaze never once met yours. Without a word, he started the car and left the party, only sparing you attention when he needed to secure your seatbelt.

The oppressive silence weighed on you.

"That was a fun game, wasn't it?" you ventured, attempting to break the tension.

Silence persisted.

"I bet Haechan has a video of it. Probably gonna send it to the group later," you added, attempting to inject a touch of levity into the atmosphere, though your laughter carried an undercurrent of awkwardness.

"Quit playing with me." He bites back, completely unamused by your attempt at a joke.

Your body stills as you stare wide-eyed at the man beside you. You didn't expect that from him. He wasn't the type to be so aggressive, especially with you.

"I didn't mean for that to happen, John." You said weakly. He had to understand, you were just trying to get his attention.

"But it did y/n and now I'm gonna have to show you what happens when you don't fucking listen" He rages quietly, eyes still on the road ahead.

It was always quiet with him.

little did you know.

To the untrained eye, he seemed cool and collected. But, you could tell he wasn't quite there. Maybe it was the way he squeezed the life out of the steering wheel or how he kept clenching and unclenching his jaw. Or, you know, the massive tent in his pants…

either way, you knew

somehow, you managed to piss off Johnny Suh.

"I suggest you start thinking of a way to apologize because you have no fucking idea what I have planned for you." He momentarily looks at you just long enough for you to see the dangerous glint in his eyes

Arriving at Johnny's apartment, you found yourself comfortably settled on his couch while he busied himself in the kitchen, fetching a glass of water for you. Since his remark on the way here, a palpable silence hung in the air.

As he approached you with the glass of water, he broke the silence, "Thought of a way to apologize yet?"

You glanced up at him from your spot on the couch. "I'm sorry. I should've listened to you," you managed to utter, your gaze dropping to the floor, a strange sense of shame washing over you.

He snorted in response, "That's all you came up with, Y/n?"

Meeting his disappointed gaze, you took a deep breath. "I should've known better," you added quietly.

He sighed, handing you the glass of water. "Drink."

Taking the glass from his hands, you started sipping as he watched you in silence. Then, without breaking eye contact, he nonchalantly remarked, "I'm going to fuck some sense into you and then fuck it out of you."

You choked on your water, hastily wiping at your mouth as you stared at him in disbelief.

"Your apology wasn't going to satisfy me anyway. I made up my mind when you said no the first time," he asserted, his tone casual yet loaded with an underlying intensity that left you flustered and strangely intrigued.

"And what if I don't want it." You daringly ask.

you knew you did.

The way he was watching you made that clear as day.

"Then say no." He shrugs

"Now finish the drink and head upstairs when you're done."he adds

and you did exactly that.

Johnny was a man. You knew that, he knew that, and the whole world knew that. But sometimes, it felt like you didn't always keep that obvious characteristic at the forefront of your mind, as you should have.

Entering the room, nothing struck you as special. It was the same as always: his bed in the middle of the space, surrounded by walls adorned with retro posters and pictures he had taken over the years with friends, family, and you. Despite the numerous times you had visited his home, particularly his room, it didn't feel as intimate as it did now, and for some reason, that excited you.

As you let your gaze wander, movement from the door pulled you out of your thoughts, and you turned your focus to a strangely quiet Johnny.

You both stood in silence, staring at each other for what felt like long, drawn-out minutes.

"I didn't think I'd have to tell you to strip, y/n," he said seriosusly.

You hiccup, startled. "E-excuse me?"

He stepped closer to you. "Fucking strip."

Your heart hammered in your chest at the complete unfamiliarity of the situation.

"John, you can't be seri—"

His hands fisted in your hair, causing you to tilt your head up, meeting his hard gaze. "Strip. I won't ask again. You're always free to leave, y/n, but you and I both know you don't want to."

"move your hand"

you twist and turn writhing your body all over his bed, hand trying to stop his fingers from fucking into you.

"Johnny, please! I said i was sorry " you scream as tears line your eyes

"I said move your fucking hand" he grabs your writs and pins the above your head

his fingers pummeling into you repeatedly. long and thick. you felt like you could feel all the ridges and callouses on them. all the fucking veins. it was torture.

SQUELCH SQUELCH

you try to squeeze your thighs together only for him to pry them back open almost immediately.

it was almost embarrassing just how wet you were really

"God. Fuck you're all over my sheets baby hmm" he moans his eyes never leaving your pussy.

almost.

that did it for you though

"Johnny, Johnny m'cumming"

“not yet baby”

you couldn't hold it

“Y/n, I said not yet” his actions contradicted his words as his fingers curled rubbing against your g spot

your body involuntarily shoots up off the bed as your lower abdomen contracts

"I can't hold it."

You cum with a high-pitched scream. Squirting all over Johnny's hand before lifelessly falling back on the bed.

you’re trying to get your breathing under control when you hear Johnny’s displeased voice

"you don't fucking listen do you"

fingers still in you, he manages to add even more pleasure relentlessly pumping into you

your legs start trembling from the intense pressure building in your abdomen once again.

Your scream is ear piercing as you cum for the fourth time

fifth...

you don't even know.

gosh, He hadn't even fucked you yet

you didn't even realize the drool running down your chin. eyes rolled back and lashes fluttering, your skin gleaming with sweat and thighs trembling. Your chest heaved as you breathed hard still coming down from your high.

In Johnny's eyes, you looked so fucked out and so fucking pretty.

He knew his version of foreplay was intense but he also knew he took it a bit further just for you.

his stubborn girl. He loved it but you needed to be taught a lesson.

with your mouth wide agape, he takes the opportunity of your oblivious state and shoves his middle and index finger down your throat causing you to gag.

"taste yourself...that's right baby suck my fingers clean" He coos as your mouth clings to his fingers.

when satisfied he pulls his away

"knees" is all he says.

you mumble uncoherent words trying to tell him you can't get up but it seems he is already way ahead of you helping you get comfortable in your position on the floor.

He begins to pull his sweatpants down revealing his erection fighting against the fabric of his black underwear. he wastes no time in pulling his cock out and you almost drool.

so harsh but so fucking pretty.

big and veiny with the prettiest pink tip. No wonder the foreplay was so intense. there was no way he was gonna fit without stretching you that much.

You look up at him with hopeful eyes. you wanted him in your mouth so fucking bad your pussy actually ached.

"So cute," he spits in the palm of his hand before bringing it down to stroke his cock.

"open and suck" He states.

Wasting no time your hands replace his and you begin to pump his pretty cock. you lick from the base of his pretty cock to the even prettier pink tip teasing him just a little with small kitten licks

"no teasing" he warns.

But of course, you don't listen continuing to push him over the edge with those kitten licks. even having the audacity to maintain eye contact while doing it.

You see the way his jaw clenches as he loses his patience and grabs the back of your head thrusting and forcing his cock to hit the back of your throat.

Your eyes widen and begin to water as you start to harshly breathe through your nose.

Gagging multiple times as he continues to relentlessly fuck your mouth

"no teasing and you continue to fucking tease huh? who's fucking in charge here y/n? Who's fucking cock's fucking your pretty mouth?"

not being able to speak you hum around his cock watching as his gaze becomes more sadistic by the second.

"Ah fuck, you're gonna make me cum like this baby?" you hum in response causing him to groan from the vibrations

"Ah, shit"

You watch his expression contort into a pained one before he somehow manages to make his cock hit even further than the back of your throat and cums in your mouth.

"Dont waste it, baby, swallow for me" he says airly

you swallowed his mouth full of cum. loving the pleasantly salty taste.

you wheezed and choked so overwhelmed with just how rough Johnny really was.

Where was this side of him hiding?

holy fuck

"your mouth, keep it open," he grumbles still heaving firm his previous orgasm.

you open your mouth a gain forming an 'O' shape and surprise takes you as he spits in your mouth before lightly slapping you across the face.

your hair was all over the place and your entire face was decorated with a mixture of precum, smudged makeup, tears, snot, and sweat

"Atta Girl." he praises you.

He helps you to your feet before giving you a quick peck on your lips

"turn around and bend over. Yeah just like that... spread your legs for me"

you used the bed as support as you got into the desired position.

he wastes no time thrusting his cock into you rough and hard.

the sound of skin slapping and the squelching of your pussy around him cause your knees to buckle as you threaten to lose your stance.

You were gonna cum soon.

feeling your swaying form, he grabs your neck pulling you into him as your back meets his chest

"don't you fucking dare" he threatens.

"Ah... please please, please! m'sorry... m'so sorry I won't do it again just please make me cum john, I'll be good I swear" you cry gasping for air between words. soon your sentences jumble into a whole lot of nothing.

he keeps his hand wrapped around your neck as he uses the other to hold your hand behind your back

"no. Cum when I say so. you need to learn to fucking listen."

snapping his hips at a quick pace.

the area around your hips already beginning to bruise from how hard he was holding you.

"t'much please johnny!" You scream as your legs begin to shake for the umpteenth time

"you can fucking take it. This is what you wanted right? To piss me off? Having mark all on you like that?" he says begrudgingly

he grabs your left breast and squeezes your nipple hard enough for your pussy to clench around him

"so damn sensitive" he whispers in awe.

he pulls out and pushes you on the bed. you look back and he's

standing over you with messy hair, dark eyes, and a cock so erect it slapped against his stomach with the slightest movement.

"get on your back and spread your legs" he says pulling your legs to the edge of the bed .

You flip over and he immediately fucks into you even harder than before.

once again your hands flay erratically as you scream trying to get away from the aching pleasure that was starting to make you see double.

"look at that baby, " he coos eyes staring at your stomach.

you look down and see his cock bulging in your lower abdomen.

You gasp at the sight

'Johnny please" you whimper not even sure what you are asking for.

"I might just fuck a baby into you. keep you home like a good little wife hmm." he says seriously, eyes still set on the bulging in your lower abdomen.

you clenched around him liking the sound of carrying his children

"you like that huh? " He groans

you nod as tears start to stream down your face.

suddenly he stops thrusting causing you to cry out

"Just gimmie a second baby gotta fix your mistake," he says as he reaches over to his nightstand picking up his phone.

"I'm calling Mark " he says nonchalantly causing your heart to race.

"you're off-limits and they fucking know that but it seems all of you need to be reminded of how things are tonight hm?"

the dial tone blares out before a muffled "hello?" comes through the speaker. Mark.

"watch " Johnny says before he thrusts into you so fucking deep you could taste him

you moan loudly

barley registering the "fucking hell, man" that comes from the phone. That was Haechan

'watch' Johnny had said earlier and you begin to understand that it was a video call.

Mark and Haechan were witnessing Johnny fuck you into oblivion.

"see this? this is my fucking pussy and nobody else can fucking have it." he fucks your relentlessly a familiar feeling building in your stomach.

"j-johnny its t'much"

"nah, you can fucking take it."

"oh, fuck! " you scream into the pillow

"my fucking pussy and she can't give it away ain't that right y/n"

"mhmm" you say not having the strength actually speak.

you cum with a shiver and a whine and even then he didn't stop

still drilling his cock into you

overstimulating you more and more

you try to get away and he never once let his cock leave you.

"tell them how many times you cum tonight." He challenges, knowing full well that you couldn't form a word much less a sentence at the moment.

you mutter random words too fucked out to think

a sharp slap to your face brings you back

"how many fucking times?" he says through clenched teeth

"Alot" you scream.

"good girl" he says before hanging up the phone and throwing it across the room.

"just give me one more" he continues.

you moan as your toes curl from the overwhelming sensations building in your stomach

with a sharp thrust, you squirt all over Johnny's cock just as he cums inside you.

"next time you do that shit I’ll fuck you right in front of them instead of over the phone."

#nct 127 #nct smut #nct scenarios #nct doyoung #nct yuta #nct fanfic #nct imagines #nct dream #nct fluff #nct taeyong #nct #nct u #nct johnny #johnny suh #nctzen #nct x reader #nct mark #kim jungwoo #moon taeil

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c-nstantine · 2 years

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I love black batsis and Roy but do you know who my guilty pleasure is? John Constantine. Can you please do a hc about batsis and Constantine’s relationship and how they cause so much chaos everywhere they go

As much as John Constantine loves Y/N, he wouldn't have dated her if he remembered that she was Bruce's daughter

Their relationship probably started as a one night stand

Somehow John didn’t realize where he was until it was too late

Like deadass, he woke up looked beside him and went “Bullocks”

Now he is a regular guest at Wayne Manor

Like he already got death glares from Bats before but now it's tenfold

On to the relationship

John calls her love and it makes her heart melt

He gives her gifts that are warded to protect her from any attacks

Y/N rarely calls him John but always Johnny

Sometimes she calls him by his full name and that’s how he knows he fucked up

“Batsy, aren’t you excited to have me as a son in law,“

“No, not in the slightest“

Bruce is happy that Y/N is happy

Even though he thinks she could do so much better

To sum up their relationship, he loves her more

She loves him but he just loves her more

There’s something about her that brings him a peace that he hasn’t known in a long time

Y’all know that audio on tiktok that’s like “I will now give a shoutout to my fellow nominees. You all will forever be known as the guys who lost to fucking Adam Sandler”

That’s how every news station and gossip magazine feels about John and Y/N

Y/N has been with princes, billionaires, millionaires, socialites, models rappers, and more but she chooses the magic british man

The shit these two get up to

He’ll never let her do anything dangerous

He’s taught her enough magic to protect herself and pull the occasional prank on her siblings

The House of Mystery likes her better

“Love you, Johnny“

“Love you more“

#batman #bruce wayne #black!batsis #x black!batsis #batsis #batsis!reader #x batsis!reader #john constatine #john constantine x reader #john constantine x black!reader #john constantine headcanons #c-nstantine

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marispunk · 4 months

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Dear Johnny...... || Johnny "Soap" MacTavish

pairing: johnny "soap" mactavish!cod x heartbroken reader

summary: soap broke your heart :(

warning: pure sadness

i keep writing these shits i need to make happier ones.

❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊❊

My Dearest Johnny,

I find myself at a loss for words, trying to articulate the storm of emotions that rages within me. The echoes of our shared past are both haunting and bittersweet, as I grapple with the shards of a love story that ended in pain. As I sit down to write this letter, my heart feels heavy, burdened by the weight of the hurt you've inflicted.

The days following our separation have been a relentless journey through the landscapes of grief and acceptance. Your absence has become a void, a painful reminder of the dreams that crumbled and the promises that were shattered. The love that once flourished between us now lies in ruins, and I am left to sift through the wreckage of what was, desperately searching for understanding.

I want you to know that I am not writing this letter as an accusation or an attempt to manipulate your emotions. Rather, this is my way of processing the pain, of untangling the threads of our shared history, and finding a semblance of closure amid the chaos of emotions.

The manner in which you ended our relationship has left me grappling with a profound sense of betrayal. The trust we built, the vulnerability we shared—it all seems to have been callously discarded. The echoes of your words reverberate in my mind, a painful reminder of the unraveling of our connection. I had never fathomed that the love we nurtured could be dismantled so abruptly, leaving me to grapple with the aftermath.

In the wake of your departure, I've wrestled with questions that may forever remain unanswered. Was our love not worth fighting for? Were the promises we made mere whispers in the wind, easily forgotten in the face of changing tides? The uncertainty gnaws at my soul, and the absence of closure feels like an open wound that refuses to heal.

As I traverse the terrain of heartbreak, I am compelled to find strength within myself. The pieces of my shattered heart may take time to mend, but I am determined to emerge from this crucible of pain with newfound resilience. In the midst of my sorrow, I hold onto the belief that time will lend perspective and that healing is a journey, not a destination.

It's crucial for me to acknowledge that healing does not negate the intensity of the hurt. I am allowing myself the space to grieve the loss of what we once had, to process the emotions that threaten to engulf me. This letter serves as a vessel for those emotions, an attempt to release the pain that festers within my heart.

Though the road ahead appears daunting, I am hopeful that, with time, I will find the strength to redefine myself outside the context of our shared history. I wish you well on your journey, hoping that you, too, find the happiness and fulfillment you seek.

May the lessons learned from this painful chapter serve as steppingstones toward growth and self-discovery. Our paths may now diverge, but the indelible mark you've left on my heart will forever be a part of my story.

Wishing you peace and understanding

#cod x reader #call of duty #john soap mactavish #johnny soap mctavish x you #call of duty modern warfare #soap cod #soap x reader

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prismasartworks · 4 months

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Johnny Test: Power Up! - Show Concept

After seeing @mrultra100 's post about his rendition of the JT cast for Primal Eternity and @rominadrawsart15 about Ultimate Showdown, I decided to do a long followup/post about "Johnny Test: Power Up!" I've already explained about the characters, the new world and the settings of this spinoff in 5-6 posts, but now with lots of redeveloping and brainstorming, I'll give you the redefined concept of the spinoff!

But before I reintroduce the stars as well as the whole concept itself, I wanted to explain the reason on why I came up with the spinoff idea and why I wanted to make it official. My opinion is that Johnny Test has A LOT of potential to shine, but executive meddling from the studio, cutting the budget and overall the infamy from the Internet severely dampened the spark and ultimately became dead. And don't get me started on The Lost Web Series, where the animation looked stiff and cheap. Hell, even when the Netflix revival did some things right (though the theme song was not good), lack of attention and exposure basically sealed its fate indefinitely and extinguishing the spark forever. Which is honestly pretty sad for me, because it had some potential, that needed to be expanded. And this is why I came up with a rather BIG change to shake things up and reinvigorate the series with a cosmic bang!

What's the premise of the series?

So, here's the premise for "Johnny Test: Power Up!":

After a mysterious incident, which involved about a powerful machine and a big mistake, Johnny, Dukey, the sisters and many of their friends, loved ones and enemies, as well as a few strangers get teleported to an unknown galaxy very far away from theirs, inhabited by aliens, anthromorphic animals and a few mystical ones in a futuristic environment. For the main team, it will be in the planet, Lumina, specifically in a futuristc and colourful city, named Starfall City. From there on, the team have to go through (mis-)adventures to find the others, the lost memories and a way back home, while encountering new friends, who would help them along the way and fighting off bigger threats than they would ever imagine. All while forming a new bond, that would last through the cosmos and the chaos, while trying to survive in this new world.

Unlike the last iterations, it'll be a mix between serialized and episodic, striking a balance between the comedic Johnny Test side with some anime slapstick mixed in (i.E., making the characters even more expressive) and the more serious and dark ones, with emotional moments, plottwists and so on. The episodes will be longer though, somewhat between 16-22 minutes of each episode, with the exceptions being specials and movies, which are longer. The series will also take two years after the original and the revival (there has been debate about their ages in the revival, until I talked to Ultra about it), which means the characters will be older and since they will be in a new world, they would be redesigned to fit in the adventurous and stylish vibe. There will be also an in-universe explaination on how they got the redesigns. So, while some familiar elements will be there, an overarching story and a new coat of paint will provide some fresh air.

Let's meet the main stars!

While the cast will be a good mix between returning veterans and newcomers, the show will be mainly focused on the Test siblings, their pal Dukey and finally THREE new characters. The group of seven will be the heart and core of the show, with their own personalities, backstories, flaws, character arcs, etc. So, let's meet them!

Johnny Test (voiced by James Arnold Taylor) - The hyperactive and bright leader of his own team. When he was a kid, he just wanted ot have fun by any means neccesary, despite of how irresponsible he can be. He may be a lazy jerk sometimes, he does have a big heart and courage, which will later be very useful. As the years went on, the usual shenanigans bored him out of his mind, but one day, when he saw a video of some sick parkour moves, he was so amazed, that he and Dukey decided to train themselves some parkour. At the beginning, he struggled without any invention, but as time went on, he became better and better, to the point that he is known for his very quick moves, but also for his cocky attitude. Little did he know, that by the time, he would be mysteriously teleported to Lumina, he would face even more dangerous threats and bigger challenges, this fiery boy would ever imagine and even changing his life forever. On the bright side, this new world allows him to hone more of his parkour skills, while exploring the galaxy, meeting new friends and learning things along the way, which would change his perspective in a new way. However, that means, he had to let go of his old habits and mature, in order to be on par against his new and powerful enemies. When the situation is tense, his demeanor would change into a more serious fighter, willing to go even further beyond to protect his friends, his loved ones and his new home. And together with his best friend, Dukey, his sisters and his three new friends, they'll push through the danger for a better future.

Dukey (voiced by Trevor Devall) - The voice of reason and the sidekick of the team. An anthromorphic dog, mutated by Susan and Mary, acting as a older brother figure to Johnny, going along with him during their crazy adventures and many activities, with the recent activity being lots of parkour. Despite their close bond going for years, Dukey still freuqently expresses his concern and distain towards Johnny's less intellegent and more dangerous antics and is especially concerned about his health, when it comes to the latter being used as a guinea pig for the twins' experiements, either for finding a way back home or just out of curiousity, due to Luminian technology. After being teleported into Lumina, not only he and the others have to adapt in the new galaxy, but the situation made him even more stressed and anxious than ever. Didn't help, that one of the new friends, he made, is such a impulsive hot-head, who also goes through even more dangerous antics, which means he had to watch out for that. His friendship towards the Tests and the new ones will be tested time after time, as the threats would become bigger and more dangerous while trying to survive in this new frontier. But in the end, if the situation is tense, the mutt will swallow his fears down and stand up against the enemies, together with his best friends, while also learning important lessons along the way.

Susan Test (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse) - One half of the team's brains and a talented scientist. Always seen inventing stuff or swooning over Gil, along with her twin sister. She is known to think a lot more rationally and logically than Mary, but also less open-minded. So imagine her reaction, when not only she gets sent to a different galaxy, along with the others, but one of her new friends being a magical fairy (leading to Susan often being at odds against Serena, due to their beliefs and the latter not approving of her using Johnny as a lab rat, which is the reason, why the fairy dislikes the sisters) , one being a robot with a happy personality being built in and one being a teenage, alien snail, whose rage would make her look like a rational and calm person. On the bright side, the advanced technology allowed her and Mary to experiment on it, trying to emulate it, while also trying to find a way back home. Most of the times, they would fail spectaculary, but they're slowly learning. At one point, after seeing her little brother and Dukey doing some parkour, she and Mary decided to train themselves, in case if they have to take the situation themselves, not knowing that it would happen sooner than she expected, with bigger threats and higher stakes. Armed with smart glasses and many gadgets, this headstrong girl will make sure, that any bad guy wouldn't get away.

Mary Test (voiced by Emily Tennant) - The other half of the team's brains and also a talented scientist. Much like her twin sister, she posesses a high IQ and does everything with her sister together. Either inventing stuff, using Johnny as a lab rat or swooning over Gil. However, unlike Susan, Mary is more open-minded, empathetic, but less outspoken. Also unlike her sister, she is more open to more hypothetical sciences such as extraterrestrials and cryptids, which caused her to be at odds with Susan, but at least one of her new friends, Serena, likes her a bit more than her twin sister. After getting sent to Lumina, seeing the aliens and making friends with a fairy, as well as the advanced tech, made her more determined to recreate Luminian technology for more groundbreaking results. But because she is less outspoken, Mary is often in the background, while the others shine. This makes her yearning for the day, she would be in the spotlight. Unbeknownst to her, the day would come sooner than she expected. Fortunately, with several gadgets, smart glasses and a quicker pace, Mary would do anything to protect those, she loved the most and defeat the enemies.

Schalot (voiced by Brian Doe) - Despite him not really buff lookng (his body type is slim btw), this teenage, pastel pink snail is the strong and fast fighter of the team, ready for a fight. Described as a impulsive, sassy, moody, introverted (as well as chaotic), yet tough and direct individual, this guy is not afraid to show and speak up his opinions, in form of roasts and shouts to almost anyone. Always armed with a scepter, which has a plasma blade insjde that can pop up with the push of a small button and several throwing blades, he is known for his fast moves and devastating attacks. Heck, instead of running away, he wouldn't go down with a fight (though when he's too overloaded with panic, he would simply faint). His biggest character flaw is that Schalot is so sensitive and hot-headed, that even a slight annoyance would tip him off and he has trouble managing his emotions, due to a traumatic event (which was an alien invasion) at a young age, which lead to losing his parents (He would later find his siblings). In other words, outside of his tough shell is a very vulnerable and damaged person, yearning for comfort, company and happiness. But on the flipside, he is not a full blown jerk, as this snail is loyal and caring, like a big brother to the team, who's willing to protect them at any cost, despite him being the youngest of the pastel siblings. In the free time, he would be seen browsing on his phone, adoring cats and overall minding his own business with milkshakes and sweets.

Serena Rose (voiced by Shannon Chan-Kent) - A shy and timid, yet sweet and kind girl, who's at the same age as Johnny. She just moved to Porkbelly with her dad, when they were mysteriously teleported into a new galaxy. Feeling scared, she tried to find her dad, only to meet Johnny, Dukey, Susan, Mary, Schalot and Ziffy instead. (She will later reuinite with her dad) The amber/yellow eyed girl serves as the heart of the group, taking care of her friends and attempting to solve conflicts. During battle, she moves with so much grace and fluidity, because she did take gymnastics classes before. While she may sound like an average sweet girl to some, Serena is far more special than anyone else: She is in fact, a fairy! Inherited from her missing mother, she has magical abilites of flight with her pink fairy wings and casting spells, with a special necklace. Her biggest flaw is, she is too afraid to use her magic, due to an event, where after being corned by some bullies, her fear lead to an unintenional blast, which also hurt a few innocent people as well. Thankfully, after hearing her story, Johnny and the others will help her overcome her fears and embrace her fairy side, inspiring her to train her skills and use them for good. But be careful! If you commit crime and/or hurt her loved ones, be prepared to be the receiving end of a magical punishment.

Ziffy (voiced by Andrea Libman) - A small robot assistant with a very lively and happy personality, ready to help the team out on (almost) any situation, while also making new friends with a bright smile. So much so, that even in the most dire situation, they never give up hope and keep looking out to the light. They're also the glue of the group, often approaching with a neutral perspective and making sure, the team wouldn't break up, while also acting as a n assistant to the sisters. (Fun fact, they and the robots created the T-05 multipurpose communicators, that houses a special plasma tether, known as the Neolink, which allows the user to latch onto targets to pull them in, throw them around and so on. It can also be used as a rope or even a whip. The users can even combine their Neolinks to make a longer beam, a bungee cord or even a net for example. It's a very versatile tool for exploration, combat and utility.) . Despite their small size, they pack a lot of stuff, like many weapons, gadgets (ranging from practical and useful to outright ridiculous), etc, in case they would protect their friends in a dire situation, when they need their help. However, they have the tendency to overload to stress out and being too emotional, due to the programming and the AI not being perfect. Especially, when their friends, including their best friend, Schalot, would cause chaos. This would result in Ziffy taking breaks and recharging themselves during the night. Regardless of their flaws, if you are down, expect Ziffy to cheer you up with a smile and lots of fun!

Meet their allies!

Our heroes will not go through those adventures alone, as several allies, both new and old will assist them throught the journey. The newcomers will also serve to help the others develop, while also having their own arcs. So, let's meet the allies!

Mr. Black and Mr. White (voiced by Scott McNeil and Deven Mack) - Two undercover agents working for the General. While they try to do their jobs, most of the times, they fail out of incompetence, which leads to Schalot calling them "Agents Dumb and Dumber". But when push comes to shove, they will put extra effort against the enemies. The General (voiced by Lee Tockar) - The general in Lumina's Area 2.1. Being appointed out of pure luck, he would do his usual thing, which would make him at odds with his second in command, Cynthia, who is more serious. However, when the situation becomes serious, he wouldn't hesitate to go all out with the fight, even though most of the times, he and the army would fail against the most cunning villains. Cynthia (voiced by Nicole Oliver) - The oldest sibling of the pastel snail siblings and the second in command in Area 2.1. Unlike her peers, she takes her job seriously with her massive experience in combat and cold and strict demeanor, with some paranoia sprinkled in. One that, even Schalot himself is afraid of her on a bad day. On the flipside, the pastel green snail is a very protective and mature person, willing to sacrifice herself for her loved ones. Especially her young siblings, though she is protective towards her youngest brother, who is more reckless and impulsive.

Sky (voiced by Vincent Tong) - A pastel blue snail, who is the older twin of Melody. He is a very creative and generous being, who works really hard in form of his artworks and masterpieces. Sky is also protective to Melody, who can be a bit reckless, but not as much as his youngest brother, Schalot. However, being an artist would also leave him anxious and somewhat of a control freak, but despite all of this, his loved ones and friends would help Sky overcome his fears and bring out more inspiration. Melody (voiced by Kelly Sheridan) - A very lively and energetic woman with an eye for talent and fashion, since she is a musician and songwriter. This pastel yellow snail is known for her melodic voice, fashionable looks and positive personality. Being the youngest twin of Sky, they would often collaborate each other for many projects. Despite for being a drama queen, her heart is in the right place and truly cares for her siblings. Even though she is not a fighter, when the situation is tight and it involves her loved ones, she wouldn't hesistate to try her best to fight.

Sissy Blakely (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) - Johnny's old rival(/possible love interest?) and an incredibly confident, yet sissy girl. Often seen competing with Johnny, along with her dog, Missy, but this time, they would also often compete in parkour, since she saw Johnny and Dukey doing some sick tricks, before they were sent to Lumina, so the ladies decided to take up parkour as well. When she is not competing, she would try her best to adapt in this new world, until she finds a way back home. In the meantime, she would also have a mutual respect towards Serena, though she would (rarely) comment, if the two have a crush on each other, when the two are together, which both Johnny AND Serena vehemently deny out of embarrasment. Speaking of the latter, Serena would be confused on why they are fighting and would try her best to solve the conflict, even though the situation is far too complex to understand. She does come in a pinch to help them out every now and then.

Gil Nexdor (voiced by Andrew Francis) - A tall teenager with good looks and charm, that even girls and even boys would be fawning over. He's slightly smarter in the show and would even interact with the teenage residents in Lumina, after he got teleported there. He is still friendly towards Johnny and meets his new friends at the same time, though Schalot isn't impressed, due to his stupidity. But unlike his past iteration, he would have more depth to his character and be more interesting.

Herbert Rose (voiced by Brian Drummond) - A middle aged man, who is Serena's father. He is described as a quiet, yet smart and empathetic man, who tries his best to take care of his daughter, after his wife, Delia, went missing under mysterious circumstances. Prior to the incident, he and Serena just moved to Porkbelly and he was about to take a job as a teacher, as Herbert learned about education and psychology. Ever since meeting the Tests, everytime when there is conflict, especially that Serena became friends with the Test siblings, he would act as a mediator, trying to solve the conflict. Mind you, this doesn't happen that often, due to a busy schedule. But despite the new chaotic situation of them adapting in a new galaxy, he hopes, that maybe, Delia would be out somewhere, alive and well. Oh and he is aware about his daughter being a fairy (due to Delia also being a fairy) and is okay, but he is concerned about her safety. Bling-Bling-Boy (voiced by Lee Tockar) - A rich and snobby genius, who also got teleported into the new galaxy. As soon, as he learned about Luminian technology, he started researching about it and even incoorporate elements with his own inventions. Despite being Johnny's enemy, who is deeply in love with Susan, he does like his presence and even hang out with him and Dukey for fun times, even occationally teaming up with them against the other enemies and villains. In other words, he has a hidden soft spot for them and even Schalot, Serena and Ziffy, despite them interfering with his plans. Also despite the fact, that Schalot is not afraid to show his dislike towards Eugene, either by roasts or even attacks, which really annoys him.

Jillian Vegan (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse) - A very closed off and rebellious girl, who wants to build her own image and become independent, much to her dad's dismay. Arriving in Lumina away from her family would allow her to follow her dreams and later reuinite with Johnny and Dukey, while meeting their new friends at the same time. When Dark Vegan returned, tensions will grow, as Jillian tries her best to grow up and become more independent. Only time will tell, if she can achieve her dreams. Orion (voiced by Ian Hanlin) - A really wealthy, yet hard working, courteous and chill, lilac snail, originating from Nox, who is never afraid to show his kindness and generosity to the less fortunate. At a young age, he and his mom fled from his greedy and mean dad, who was running a company and went into hiding out of fear. Unfortunately, she became seriously ill and without any money for healthcare or even some form of help, passed away. From this point on, Orion decided to help the less fortunate and with the help of his friends, opened up a company, focusing on wellness products. At one point, he met Schalot, who was haunted by his own guilt, after his berzerk form nearly destroyed Starfall CIty and hurting his friends and loved ones and helped him heal and overcome his demons. His efforts worked, when the pink snail managed to stop Orion's father, exposing his shady tactics and saving the employees and other people from his grasp. Ever since then, he's been in touch with Schalot and became very close friends. But maybe there's more to this, than it seems... There will also be other characters, the heroes are interacting in Lumina, ranging from Spritz (voiced by Cathy Wesluck), an owner of a milkshake parlor, to various Luminians and other aliens. Most of them will be one-offs though, with some exceptions.

As for the villains, I already made a post, right here. All my points about them will still stand, apart from Terios being more chivalrous and noble.

What are the themes and goals?

As I mentioned before, the main goal of "Power Up!" is to flesh out the series in a new way, making complex stories and themes, while also keeping the good things about the series and eliminating its weakpoints, both the original and revival had. It also needs much more needed improvements, like better written characters, a more exciting and fantastical world or in this case, a new galaxy for them to explore, having mature storylines with higher stakes and lessions throughout the way, a connected storyline (i.e, finding a way back home, remembering about the past to improve themselves, etc.) Aside from Dukey, most of the characters are quite bland in the two official versions, so another goal is to flesh them out even more, learning more about the new frontier, while also slowly growing up, having more depth and having different morals and goals. This is also a reason, why I introduce those new characters. They'll help them flesh out even more with their interactions and stories for them to listen and learn. For example, Serena would help Johnny to be more considerate to his surroundings with her kindness, Ziffy teaching the sisters to be more optimistic and Schalot helping Dukey to overcome his anxiety. On the flipside, the veterans would also help the newcomers overcome their hurdles in their lives and mature, as the series goes on.

Also, it needs to be better paced, like even when the action will be fast paced, other times, it should be slown down, so that character development would blossom. Not to mention, remove the toilet humor, make the writing more mature and we have something, that can be enjoyed by everyone. That being said, in order to escape from the low-budget past, "Johnny Test: Power Up!" will have better and stronger writing, with three themes being symbols of their new mythos:

Unity - No matter the race and identity, everyone deserves to work and stand together for a better future. Friendships and famiies, as long as they're healthy and really connected, will stand strong against the odds.

Love - Whatever it is self-love, love towards your loved ones and many more, everybody had to embrace themselves to be unique and proud of who they really are. Not to mention, building up confidence and happiness.

Dreams - Even when the world is against it, never give up following for your dreams and keep fighting for it.

On top with those themes, the characters will be alot more fleshed out for this new frontier, with those inspirations for their looks, personalites, etc. listed here:

Johnny - Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic Prime), his s1 and reboot versions with a few shades of the later seasons, several design elements from Sonic Boom, Luffy (One Piece), Michelangelo (both TMNT 2012 and ROTTMNT)

Dukey - All of his versions in the entire series, Luigi (Super Mario), Yuunagi Tsubasa/Cure Wing (Hirogaku Sky! Pretty Cure)

Susan - All of her versions in the entire series, Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball Z), Donatello (ROTTMNT), Musa (Winx Club)

Mary - Same thing for Susan, Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedeghog), Timmy (Winx Club), Sunset Shimmer (Equestria Girls shorts)

Schalot - Raphael (both TMNT 2003 and 2012), Escargoon (as a design inspiration) (Kirby: Right Back at Ya!) , Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic Boom), a few aspects from myself (being an awkward introvert, a phone addict, sensitive side and being the youngest), Batman (but only for parts of the backstory), Strider Hiryu (Strider), Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)

Serena - Flora and Roxy (Winx Club), Nijigaoka Mashiro/Cure Prism (Hirogaku Sky! Pretty Cure), Cream the Rabbit (Sonic the Hedgehog), Clawdeen Wolf (Monster High G3), Liko (Pokémon: Horizons), Akimoto Komachi/Cure Mint (Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo!)

Ziffy - Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic), Navi (Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger), Frankie Stein (Monster High G3), Auriana (Lolirock), Smash (Power Rangers: Beast Morphers), XJ9/Jenny Wakeman (My Life as a Teenage Robot)

As I said, the premise of the show will take place mostly in Lumina. There will be times, they had to travel to other planets and galaxies for finding the others, doing some errands or just to take a break (Although evil wouldn't let them rest so easily of course, so they have to watch out.) The team will reside in Starfall City, a futuristic and eco-friendly city, filled with skylines, hover vehicles, glimmering fauna, elevators connecting ground and sky level, sleek buildings and many more, all connected with a combination of highly advanced technology and magic. Inspired by mega cities, like Tokyo, Zenith from Winx Club and the Y2K aesthetic, this city will be the new hub and playground for some parkour and extreme sports. Its residents are incredibly diverse with anthomorphic aliens and mythical beings, all with their own mythos and culture. As for Lumina itself, it'll have luscious and sparkling fauna with jungles, seas and so on. It also has a vere breathable atmosphere.

The show will be inspired by Sonic Synergy (basically a very early version of Sonic Boom), Sonic Prime, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sonic X, Ratchet and Clank, Rise of the TMNT, Power Rangers, Winx Club, Danny Phantom, Glitch Techs, TMNT 2012 and several shonen elements, all while being influenced by the first season of the original and the revival in some aspects.

In conclusion, the themes, ideas, stories and mythos would help the series evolve and adapt to modern times, removing its weaknesses, while keeping the good things about it in a fine balance. This has been a dream project of mine, I really want to make it fully offical and have to keep fighting for it, in order to shine brighter than the stars.

More concept info coming soon and Happy New Year, everyone!

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slutisnotabadword · 1 year

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Welcome, Sluts!!

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whatsupbomb · 2 years

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🕵️NATAL CHART OF JOHNNY DEPP🕵️

Don't yell at me, please, I tried🥺

Mars on the 2nd house cusp: he likes to hurt his own body when nobody sees him. That's because it was hard for him to become an independent person and lose connections with his mother. I've heard that she was abusive to him and didn't like him. She teached him to fight for his life (Mars energy). He might abuse himself to learn how to do it

Pluto in Conjunction to asteroid "Groom": he likes to lose himself with his partners by taking drugs or alcohol and having crazy sexual intercourses to get rid of his stress. Might get violent with his partner cause he feels constant pressure because of his popularity. Pluto gives you great wealth and popularity

Asteroid "Groom" in Conjuction to Ceres: it's important for him to be seen as a caring husband who won't ever hurt his wife. His ex partners might defend him cause some of them have a saviour complex towards him like Vanessa Paradis

Ceres in Conjuction to Juno: he's devoted to people who care for him like a mother who cares for her child, but will cut off those who try to put him in his place

Rx Neptune in Conjuction to Black Moon Lilith: at his core he's a delusional person who can't take the truth cause it will destroy his Idealistic view on the world. He often chooses wrong people to be with cause he's idolizing them just for their beauty. In mythology Lilith is a seductress who dumped biblical Adam. He thought that Amber will stay with him forever. In this relationship he's like a heartbroken Adam. He might take heavy drugs when he thinks that people try to destroy his plans on the future. He's a very romantic person aiming to find a perfect woman who'll stay with him forever. Might even try to drug her and put her under hypnosis or some spell using the help of a witch, so she won't leave him

Moon on the 6th house cusp: in marriage or cohabitation he's an unstable person with many fears and secrets. He's accusing his partners of lying to him or not being their true selves with him. He's not made for a marriage because he makes his partners constantly worry about him since Moon is a concerned mother epitome

Proserpina on Midheaven: he's best friends with the elites of the Hollywood who like him very much since he makes Hollywood seem like a perfect place for imagination with his roles. They'll always defend him and cover up his crimes if he's accused of doing something bad to the people. For example, pay journalists to lie about his crimes. His lawyers represent the 10th house since they're higher in rank than him because they have the rights to defend or accuse him in court

Mercury in Conjunction to Venus: he's aiming to create chaos in the lives of his women. They become miserable after dating him. They feel dirty and uncouth when they're with him. Mercury is represented by a parrot in my observation. Parrots like to clean their feathers and bathe in the water. Some of his women like Amber have to thoroughly wash off the dirt Johnny caused in their lives. Before meeting him they have an innocent nature and are liked by many people for their pure heart

Venus in Square to Rx Saturn: Square's symbol is a square (closed space like a room). Venus is about women. When women are all alone with Johnny, they feel threatened by his inadequate behaviour and immediately want to defend themselves. They feel the need to protect their personal space in front of him. Saturn's animal is a female cat who becomes violent when threatened. In this case Amber represents Saturn, female cat who won't stand somebody who tries to dominate her and tell her what to do. Johnny might've forbidden her from being free and doing what she really likes. He might've tried to instill fears that she'll be hurt, if she won't obey him. In bed (square=closed room) he might've accidentally hurt her trying to act like a strict daddy 😑 Especially with Rx Saturn when one becomes obsessed with an idea of suppressing people, degrading them and making them slaves🧐

Asteroid "Shramm" (from the Russian "scar") on the 11th house cusp: 11th house represents cult followers or simply "crazy fans". His "crazy fans" want everyone to know that he was abused by Amber making endless posts with proves of the abuse done to him. Sometimes they'll say or post random thing about Amber not even related to the case just to prove that she was abusive to him. For example, video when she was just drinking saying funny stuff or an article when she's talking about abuse not mentioning anyone's names. 11th house also represents us as kids in my observation. In his childhood he might've been beaten by his parents with no reason and now his fans help him to feel worthy. They see themselves as caring parents he never had. Their support helps him to work through his childhood trauma and realise who really cares about him. Probably he didn't see Amber as a caring partner just cause she reminded him of his abusive mother

North Node in Conjunction to asteroid "Dejanira": North Node is how people remember you or the trace you leave in their hearts. This element is strong in natal charts of talented actors cause it represents acting skills and ability to play the role of someone else in my observation. Dejanira is an epitome of a victim. So, it's easy for Johnny to play the role of the victim. He knew that fans see him as an abused child and would help him win the case, so he decided to sue Amber for her article about abuse where she haven't mentioned anyone's names or even dropped a hint🤔

I don't know details of this case, sorry if I was wrong in my thoughts. You can share what you think about his chart in the replies, but don't argue about how other people see this case, please

Bye for now

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fayesrossua · 2 years

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REINER BRAUN PLAYLIST

I lied im posting it before work bc I finished earlier than I intended! Here’s the playlist i made for my beloved Reiner Braun. Ive separated the songs based on where/when he would play these songs, and what kind of moods inspire him to listen to these songs. I may be biased, but I think he is a big rock head, and loves either super loud, aggressive music, or super sappy, existential songs. Enjoy guys!!

Destruction and Chaos

Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

Back In Black - AC/DC

Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

Get It On - T. Rex

Alive - Pearl Jam

Doom And Gloom - The Rolling Stones

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

Reiner would listen to these songs right before he goes on a new mission, just to get his adrenaline going and to put him on edge for whatever he’s about to do. If only he could play it loud enough, maybe he can be clear of his conscious. Reiner also loves Led Zeppelin I don’t make the rules

Reflection

I’m On Fire - Bruce Springsteen

Heart Of Gold - Neil Young

Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen

Live Forever - Oasis

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

O Children - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

He’s coming down from the high of what he just did. His body feels weak, his muscles tender and his head is swimming with the oncoming feeling of a headache. These songs wash over him, the wistful yet sad undertone of ‘Heart Of Gold’ confirming to him that he indeed has a heart. When ‘Landslide’ comes on, a feeling of dread blooms in his chest and he thinks about how he got here. How his life has escaped from his control, and how he ended up a literal war criminal.

I can’t be trusted, can’t be loved

Solitary Man - Johnny Cash

The Grave - Don McLean

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Play With Fire - The Rolling Stones

Reiner comes to these songs when he feels like opening his wounds even further, setting him in a deeper state of catharsis. They are some of his favourites, but he hardly listens to them because of the way they make him feel. He is confronted with his mortality, the power he yields, and the idea that he may never find love.

If only …

She’s Always a Woman - Billy Joel

The Way You Look Tonight - Tony Bennett

As The World Caves In - Matt Maltese

SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK - Joji

The Wings That Fly Us Home - John Denvers

Everything I Own - Bread

It’s late at night, and Reiner lays on his cot, his feet hanging off the edge of the bed and his eyes closed. Reiner listens to love songs listlessly, his mind swarming with images of a person with no face, no name next to him, loving him. On the nights he has enough strength to imagine, he dreams of them always. Reiner lets himself pretend there is someone for him, and that if he found them, they’d accept him for who he was. ‘Everything I Own’ perfectly represents what Reiner would feel towards his person. ‘As The World Caves in’ was shown to him by one of his peers (probably like gabi or smth) and the way he sees it, it would be a beautiful way to die if he had no control over the end of the world, if he just sat idly, unknowingly, with someone he loved. To him, that would be a privilege.

HERES THE PLAYLIST! I LMK if there are any other songs you associate with Mr Braun

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/151OUmfa07tMQEV0rO4u0R?si=dOPfF22oS9aVVzfmrpC-0g

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Books Books Books

100 Years of Solitude

11.22.63

120 Days of Sodom

1491

1984

A Brief History of Time

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Child Called It

A Clockwork Orange

A Confederacy of Dunces

A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters

A Land Fit for Heroes Trilogy

A Little Life

A Naked Singularity

A People's History of the United States

A Scanner Darkly

A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Song of Ice and Fire

A Storm of Swords

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Walk in the Woods

A World Lit Only by Fire

Accursed Kings

Alice in Wonderland

All Quiet on the Western Front

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Pretty Horses

America, the Book

American Gods

American Psycho

And then There Were None

Angela’s Ashes

Animal Farm

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Anna Karenina

Anything Terry Pratchett, But, Mort is My Favorite

Anything Written by Robin Hobb

Apt Pupil

Artemis Fowl

Asimov's Guide to the Bible

Asoiaf

Atlas Shrugged

Bartimeaus

Batman: the Long Halloween

Battle Royale

Beat the Turtle Drum

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Belgariad Series

Beloved

Berserk

Bestiario

Black Company

Blankets/habibi

Blind Faith

Blindness

Blood Meridian

Blood and Guts: a History of Surgery

Bluest Eye

Brandon Sanderson

Brave New World

Breakfast of Champions

Bridge to Terabithia

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian History of the American West

Calvin and Hobbs

Candide

Carrie

Cat's Cradle

Catch 22

Cats Cradle

Chaos

Child of God

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

City of Ember

City of Thieves

Cloud

Collapse

Come Closer

Complaint

Confessions of a Mask

Contact

Conversation in the Cathedral

Cosmos

Crime and Punishment

Dan Brown

David

Dead Birds Singing

Dead Mountain: the Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Delta Venus

Die Räuber (the Robbers)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Don Quixote

Dragonlance

Dune

Dying of the Light

East of Eden

Educated

Empire of Sin: a Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

Enders Game

Enders Shadow

Escape from Camp 14

Ever Since Darwin

Every Man Dies Alone

Everybody Poops

Everything is Illuminated

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Fahrenheit 451

Far from the Madding Crowd

Faust

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Feet of Clay

Fight Club

First Law

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers in the Attic

Foundation

Foundation Series

Foundation Trilogy

Frankenstein

Freakonomics

Fun Home

Galapagos

Geek Love

Gerald’s Game

Ghost Story

Go Ask Alice

Go Dog Go

Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Goldfinch

Gone Girl

Gone with the Wind

Good Omens

Grapes of Wrath

Great Expectations

Greg Egan

Guards! Guards!

Guns Germs and Steel

Guts (short Story)

Half a World

Ham on Rye

Hannibal Rising

Hard Boiled Wonderland

Hatchet

Haunted

Hawaii

Heart Shaped Box

Heart of Darkness

Hellbound Heart

Hellraiser

Hell’s Angels

Helter Skelter

His Dark Materials

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Hogg

Holocaust by Bullets

House of Leaves

How to Cook for Fourty Humans

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Huckleberry Finn

Hyperion

I Am America, and So Can You

I Am the Messenger

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

I Was Dr. Mengele’s Assistant

In Cold Blood

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Independent People

Infinite Jest

Into Thin Air

Into the Wild

Introduction to Linear Algebra

Invisible Monsters

Ishmael

Jacques Le Fataliste

Jane Eyre

Jaunt

Job: a Comedy of Justice

John Dies at the End

John Grisham

Johnathan Livingston Seagull

Johnny Got His Gun

Jon Ronson

Journal of a Novel

Jurassic Park

Justine

L'histoire D'o

Lamb

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Les Miserables

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Life of Pi

Limits and Renewals

Little House in the Big Woods

Lockwood & Co.

Lolita

Looking for Trouble

Lord Foul’s Bane

Lord of the Flies

Lyddie

Malazan Book of the Fallen

Maldoror

Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media

Man’s Search for Meaning

Mark Twain’s Autobiography

Maus

Meditations

Megamorphs (series)

Mein Kampf

Memnooch the Devil

Metro 2033

Michael Crichton

Middlesex

Mindhunter

Misery

Mistborn

Moby Dick

Mrs. Dalloway

My Side of the Mountain

My Sweet Audrina

Nacht über Der Prärie (night over the Prairie)

Naked Lunch

Name of the Wind

Neuromancer

Never Let Me Go

Neverwhere

New York

Night

Night Shift

Norwegian Wood

Notes from Underground

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Of Mice and Men

Of Nightingales That Weep

Ohio

Old Mans War

Old Mother West Wind

On Heroes and Tombs

On Laughter and Forgetting

On the Road

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One of Us

Painted Bird

Patrick Rothfuss

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer

Persepolis

Pet Sematary

Peter Pan

Pillars of the Earth

Poisonwood Bible

Pride and Predjudice

Ready Player One

Rebecca

Red Mars

Red Night (series)

Red Shirts

Red Storm Rising

Redwall

Replay

Requiem for a Dream

Revenge

Riftwar Saga

Ringworld

Roald Dahl

Rolls of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Round Ireland with a Fridge

Running with Scissors

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Sapiens, a Brief History of Humankind

Scary Stories to Read in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Schindler’s List

Sein Und Zeit

Shades of Grey

Sharp Objects

Shattered Dreams

Sherlock Holmes

Sho-gun

Siddhartha

Sisypho

Skin and Other Stories

Slaughterhouse Five

Smoke & Mirrors

Snow Crash

Soldier Son

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sphere

Starship Troopers

Stiff, the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Storied Life of A.j. Fikry

Stormlight Archives

Story of the Eye

Stranger in a Strange Land

Surely, You're Joking

Survivor Type (short Story)

Suttree

Swan Song

Tale of Two Cities

Tales of the South Pacific

The Alchemist

The Altered Carbon Trilogy

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Art of Deception

The Art of Fielding

The Art of War

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation

The Autobiography of Henry Viii

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Beach

The Bell Jar

The Bible

The Bloody Chamber

The Book Thief

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The Brothers Karamazov

The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories

The Cask of Amontillado (short Story)

The Catcher in the Rye

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Clown

The Color out of Space

The Communist Manifesto

The Complete Fiction of H.p. Lovecraft

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

The Dagger and the Coin

The Damage Done

The Dark Tower

The Declaration of Independence, the Us Constitution, and the Bill of Rights

The Devil in the White City

The Dharma Bums

The Diamond Age

The Dice Man

The Discworld Series

The Dresden Files

The Elegant Universe

The First Law Trilogy

The Forever War

The Foundation Trilogy

The Gentleman Bastard Sequence

The Geography of Nowhere

The Girl Next Door

The Girl on the Milk Carton

The Giver

The Giving Tree

The God of Small Things

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Hagakure

The Half a World Trilogy

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Hiding Place

The History of Love

The Hobbit

The Hot Zone

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hyperion Cantos

The Jaunt

The Jungle

The Key to Midnight

The Killing Star

The Kingkiller Chronicles

The Kite Runner

The Last Question (short Story)

The Lies of Lock Lamora

The Little Prince

The Long Walk

The Lord of the Rings

The Lottery (short Story)

The Lovely Bones

The Magicians

The Magus

The Martian

The Master and Margarita

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

The Monster at the End of This Book

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

The Music of Eric Zahn (short Story)

The Name of the Wind & the Wise Man's Fear

The Necronomicon

The New Age of Adventure: Ten Years of Great Writing

The Night Circus

The Nightmare Box

The Odyssey

The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Orphan Master’s Son

The Outsiders

The Painted Bird

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Plague

The Prince

The Prince of Tides

The Princess Bride

The Prophet

The Queen’s Gambit

The Rape of Nanking

The Red Dwarf

The Republic

The Rifter Saga

The Road

The Satanic Verses

The Screwtape Letters

The Secret History

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Selfish Gene

The Shining

The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

The Silmarillion

The Sirens of Titan

The Six Wives of Henry the 8th

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

The Speaker of the Dead

The Stars My Destination

The Stormlight Archive

The Story of My Tits

The Stranger

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

The Suspicions of Mr. Witcher

The Tao of Pooh

The Things They Carried

The Time Machine

The Time Traveller’s Wife

The Tin Drum

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

The Wasp Factory

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

The World According to Garp

The Yellow Wallpaper

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Things Fall Apart

Thirsty

This Blinding Absence of Light

Tiger!

Time Enough for Love

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Toni Morrison

Too Many Magicians

Traumnovelle

Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuf Voyaging

Undeniable

Under Plum Lake

Universe in a Nutshell

Unwind

Uzumaki

Various

Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia

Walden

War & Peace

War and Peace

Warriors: Bluestar’s Prophecy

Watchers

Water for Elephants

Watership Down

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Wheel of Time

When Rabbit Howls

Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Why I Am Not a Christian

Why People Believe Weird Things

Wizards First Rule

Wool

World War Z

Worm

Wuthering Heights

You Can Choose to Be Happy

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

#some of these are fucked up #but #all the better

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ghostgothgeek · 3 years

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Chaos.

Another for the Phic Phight! This one kinda combines two prompts and I had so much fun writing it! In this, Danny and Tucker don’t know Sam plays video games yet. 5,063 words.

"What do you mean you don’t feel the same way? We´ve had a mutual crush on each other for years." Sam says angrily after finally confessing her love to him. But Danny´s heart was beating hard for someone else entirely. Prompt by phantomfana.

Danny wants to ask his crush to the upcoming school dance. Prompt by Rikaleeta.

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It was another long night of ghost hunting for Danny. Technus took up the first part of the night, trying to take over the park’s new security system. Tucker was fortunately still awake to help him out with that. Then Johnny and Kitty rolled in, but they weren’t looking for trouble, they just wanted a date night and swore they wouldn’t be a problem. Apparently Fridays were their days off for “everything but each other”. Danny was a romantic, but he didn’t know if this was sweet or nauseating. Ember had put up a good fight, though. He was proud he only had one injury to tend to. He had dodged most of her attacks, but she was still a pretty advanced ghost. And, of course, Danny had caught the Box Ghost six, count them, SIX times. How did he always manage to get out?! He wasn’t difficult to take down, he was just a pest.

Danny sighed as he sat down at his computer chair. It was only 12:30 am, and it was a Friday. He could sleep in tomorrow and he deserved at least a couple hours of fun. He logged into his online gaming account and saw Tucker was online. Figures. He pulled up the chat anyway.

Astrohaunt: Hey Tuck. Still up?

Technopedia: You know it. Chaos signed on about a half hour ago and I’m not passing up the opportunity.

Astrohaunt: Dude is so good it’s unreal!

Technopedia: He goes to our school, I tracked one of his IP addresses and he logged in at school a few times.

Astrohaunt: Tucker wtf. That’s creepy!

Technopedia: I just want to make sure Chaos is actually a kid and not Lancer again!

Astrohaunt: I still can’t wrap my mind around Lancer playing Doomed…

Technopedia: Same. But Chaos IP is different from Lancer, so we good. Unless more teachers play Doomed.

Astrohaunt: I hate you for putting that image into my brain.

Technopedia: Sorry dude. But quick come join before someone else gets Chaos.

Danny, Tucker, and Chaos had made a great team. Whenever Chaos was around, they were actually able to progress through the game. They played several rounds until Tucker was caught by his mom and was forced to sign off, but Danny and Chaos kept playing.

TeamChaos: Hey, what’s up?

Astrohaunt: Omg dude you’re so awesome.

TeamChaos: Ha, thanks. Gotta blow off steam somehow.

Astrohaunt: Tell me about it! Between Lancer’s three projects and midterms and...other stuff...this is my only time to actually chill. I’ve been so stressed!

TeamChaos: Same. I did finish one of the projects though. I’m always here if you need to talk, you know.

Astrohaunt: Wow, I may just take you up on that offer. I’ve had a rough night.

TeamChaos: Lay it on me.

And so Danny, sparing the ghost hunting details, stayed up chatting with Chaos until 5 am. He got along really well with the guy, they had a lot of similar interests. This was just the first of many up-all-night conversations they shared. After a few months, Danny felt a special connection with Chaos, and yet, he didn’t even know his name!

Astrohaunt: We’ve been talking all these months and I still don’t know your name. I’m Danny.

TeamChaos: Oh, thought you knew. It’s Sam!

Astrohaunt: Hey! One of my best friends is named Sam!

TeamChaos: You don’t say!!!

The next day at school, Danny pulled Tucker over to him, whispering, “Dude, help. I think I might be gay....”

“What?!” Tucker shouted.

“Quiet, Tuck!”

“Okay, well uh...why?” Tucker sent him a weird look and took a step back.

“No, not you. Chaos. I think I have a crush on Chaos.” Danny ran a hand through his hair. “I don’t know what to do! I never thought I’d be...you know. Chaos and I just have good conversations and he’s always there to listen to me when I need to vent. I thought maybe I found another best friend but...this is different. Chaos is so cool and I’m crushing and I don’t even know who he is or what he looks like! Or if he feels the same way! Maybe I’m just stupid and-”

“Dude, chill. You’re jumping too far ahead of yourself. Whichever way you, you know, swing...I’m still your best friend.” Tucker pulled out his PDA. “Let me see what I can find out. I know Chaos goes to our school.”

“Thanks, Tuck. As if being half ghost wasn’t hard enough! Oh, and he’s in our class, because he’s talked me through assignments and knows what they are and stuff. He’s almost as good as explaining things as Sam. Crap...Sam. Don’t tell her about this!” Danny started fidgeting.

“Well,” Tucker raised his eyebrows in surprise, “I can tell you with absolute certainty that Chaos is definitely a girl.”

“You found out who Chaos is?!”

“What, like it’s hard?” Tucker chuckled. “I traced the IP addresses she uses. I know who she is. So do you,” Tucker smirked, “It shocked me at first, but it makes total sense! And I can totally see why you like her.”

“Really?” Danny let out a breath in relief. “Okay that makes me feel a lot better...hey, maybe I can ask Chaos to the dance next Saturday!”

Tucker rested a hand on Danny’s shoulder. “Go for it. Ask Sam. I’m almost positive she’ll say yes.”

“Okay, I will...wait, not Sam! Chaos!” Danny clarified. “Well, actually, I think Chaos told me her name was Sam. Ha, small world. I can’t wait to introduce Sam to Sam. I think they would really get along.”

Tucker busted out laughing, “Oh, dude. You go ahead and do that.” He left Danny standing there in the hallway, still laughing all the way to his next class.

Danny, a bit confused by Tucker’s laughter, shook his head and smiled to himself. Okay, good. He’d had enough identity crises to fill a lifetime. Chaos was definitely a girl. Now if he just knew Chaos returned his feelings, things might actually work out for him this time and he could actually have a girlfriend.

Meanwhile, Sam was having an internal debate of her own. Sitting in a class where the teacher couldn’t give two shits about what the students were doing, she had always used this class as her thinking time. Usually her thinking-about-Danny time. She nervously clicked her pen as she thought about recent events.

She and Danny spent so much time chatting online when they weren’t hanging out in person. Danny was a little bit more bold online, probably because he didn’t have to interact face-to-face or risk his pants falling down in public again. Online, they talked about everything. No topic was off limits. Plus, Sam felt like their friendship had only grown even stronger when they could chat online and not have to worry about blushing or getting teased by Tucker. Chatting online took away all the pressure and made it much easier to connect with Danny.

Danny hadn’t said anything yet, of course. He was probably scared. Hell, she was scared. She was already so in love with him, and getting closer online only further solidified that fact. She had never been in love before, and even though she hunts ghosts, this was more terrifying! She was fairly certain he returned her feelings, but both were too chicken to actually make that final step. They’ve been best friends forever. She didn’t want to mess up their already great dynamic or force Tucker to be the third wheel, though he did insist he was more than okay with that and encouraged them to finally get together.

Sam stopped clicking her pen as she suddenly remembered it was senior year. They hadn’t picked colleges yet, but whether they ended up going to the same school or not, things were going to change. Danny was very attractive, and going off to college meant girls may actually approach him when they didn’t know his parents were ghost fighters. The fact had never bothered Sam, but she did kind of like how it kept most girls at school from asking him out or giving him attention. Valerie had been a challenge, especially because she was a ghost hunter herself and probably wanted to get tips from his parents. Sam was glad that relationship ended relatively early. It was too hard on her. Joyous or not, though, she was still mad at Valerie for how she broke his heart.

But that was 2 years ago. They had all moved on and friendships were more or less mended across the board. This made Sam glance at her favorite picture of her and Danny. Tucker had taken the candid picture and it was now her phone’s background. In it, Danny was giving Sam a piggyback ride. Her arms were lightly strung around his neck, legs looped around his waist. Danny had kept going in the opposite direction Sam told him to go, which frustrated her but also made her laugh. She had rested her chin on his shoulder, her face pressed right up against his. Danny was looking at her and Tucker had captured that rare moment when Sam had a huge grin on her face, still laughing. She smiled at the picture. They would be okay no matter what. Their friendship would survive.

Anyway, Sam also realized she had already come close to losing Danny, in more ways than one. Whether it was to other girls or a ghost, there was always that anxiety stirring in her head that she could lose him entirely some day. Life was too short. She needed to take the plunge for both of them and just get them both over this hurdle, and they could finally, finally, actually get together.

Sam made her decision. It was now or never. She was going to tell him. Today. The trio was meeting up at Danny’s house later anyway, and if she got there early enough, she could talk to him before Tucker showed up and teased them about it. Sam firmly nodded her head to herself, a confirmation of her decision. It was finally time.

After school, Danny was pacing in his room, trying to figure out how he wanted to do this. Asking a girl to the dance wasn’t a huge deal, and yet at the same time, it was. He would rather ask in person, but he still didn’t know what Chaos looked like, so asking in person seemed to be off the table. He could look in the yearbook for all the girls named Sam at their school. He could already omit one Sam Manson from that list. How many Sams could possibly attend their school? It would be easier to ask Tucker, though. Tucker already knew who she was. Sam and Tucker were on their way over right now. When Sam wasn’t paying attention, he could ask Tucker for Sam’s full name.

Chaos Sam, not best friend Sam. God, this was so confusing. Why were girls so hard for him? Freshman year, Paulina only liked his ghost half and wouldn’t give his human half the time of day. Sophomore year, Valerie hated his ghost half and that hatred was more important to her than her feelings for his human half. Junior year, he had been denying that he was in love with his best friend. And now that he had finally accepted that he did like his best friend as much more than a friend, a new girl entered the picture and he now found himself trying to choose between two Sams. Because it apparently wasn’t hard enough for him already to make the biggest and most important change he could possibly make in a friendship, let’s add another crush to the mix and give them the same name.

Sam. Best friend Sam - that’s who he was planning on asking originally, even if he chickened out and had to ask her as a friend instead. Plus, he and Sam had somehow gotten closer recently, and he was pretty sure she liked him. Sure, it was only because Tucker told him so, but it was a possibility. The thing was, he didn’t want to ruin things. Especially because he truly didn’t know how Sam, best friend Sam, felt about him. She was a tough and courageous girl, surely she would have said something by now if it were true. So Tucker must be pulling his leg.

But he did have another option - Chaos Sam, who may actually return his feelings. Sure, the feelings weren’t nearly as strong as what he felt for his best friend, but the feelings were still there. Plus, if he got rejected by Chaos, it would be less heartbreaking than being rejected by Sam, someone he had known for years rather than months. He could deal with losing a newer friend, but not one of his best friends. Sam was too important and he knew he needed her in his life.

Danny sighed. This was really hard, but he made a decision. It was easier to go with Chaos than risk ruining things with Sam. Danny had enough drama going on in his life already, he needed an easy win.

He broke from his thoughts when the doorbell rang. He ran downstairs and opened it, only slightly surprised to see Sam there. She was usually early for things. He and Tuck were more prone to being late.

“Hey, Sam. Come on in!” Danny moved so Sam could enter his house. He shut the door and followed her upstairs and back to his room as she returned his greeting. She was pacing the same path he just had, muttering quietly to herself. She looked nervous. “Something on your mind?”

Sam was startled out of her thoughts. “Huh? Oh yeah.” She noticed his disheveled appearance, also noting he was fidgety. Was he going to do what she was about to do? “What about you, you look like you’ve been thinking a little too hard about something.” She smiled softly.

Danny chuckled, “Yeah, but it’ll resolve itself soon. I’ll worry about it after the movies. Tuck should be here any second. Oh, but I’m glad you’re early. Can you help me with something quick?”

“Of course.” Sam followed him to his desk, smiling and rolling her eyes when he pointed to a homework problem. “I should have known.”

Danny gave her a lopsided smile and watched as she showed him how to do the problem in her perfect handwriting. It took no more than a couple of minutes. Now, they were just waiting for Tucker to arrive.

Sam looked at the time. He would be here soon. She needed to do this now. She needed to tell Danny. She couldn’t wait until after the movies for him to tell her. She had already waited long enough and couldn’t bear another second.

“Danny, can I talk to you for a second?” She sat down on his bed and gestured for him to do the same.

Danny could sense the seriousness in her voice, and nodded anxiously. He was scared when Sam was serious about things. It was usually something bad.

“Danny…” She decided to get straight to the point. “I like you. As in like-like you. More than like, and more than a friend. And we’ve been doing this dancing around for at least 4 years now and I’m sick of it. I just want to be with you already. What do you say?” Sam held her breath as she waited for Danny to answer.

He stared at her with wide eyes before nervously rubbing the back of his neck and turning his attention to his shoes, avoiding eye contact with the goth. God, why him?! He had stupidly thought, for once, things would be easier for him this time. He had already sent an offline message to Chaos that he wanted to ask her something, and then Sam had to come along and tell him what he had wanted to hear for some time now. But he couldn’t blow Chaos off when he had already somewhat asked. Of course, his life just had to be complicated every step of the way. He really liked both girls and didn’t want to hurt his best friend. Regardless, he had to be honest. He owed Sam that much. “Well, I mean, yeah, but…”

“But what?” Sam whispered, clearly already upset. Fuck. Fuck fuck FUCK. This was exactly what he didn’t want to happen. He decided to try going with Chaos so he could avoid heartbreak from his best friend. The very thing he had been so afraid of, he was doing to her right now.

Danny sighed again. “But I can’t. I’m so sorry, Sam.” It was hard to choke out, but he said it, and he felt terrible. He pressed his lips together and kept staring at his shoes until Sam lifted his chin up, forcing him to look at her.

“What do you mean you don’t feel the same way? We’ve had mutual crushes on each other for years!” Sam said angrily, feeling her heart break as her best friend and love of her life rejected her confession of love. She was so sure he returned her feelings! Especially after all the great conversations they had shared online these last few months. “Or, at least, I thought we did.” Tears swelled in her eyes. Did he lead her on? “I-I need an explanation, Danny,” she quietly stated after he didn’t continue.

Danny frowned and his heart ached. He didn’t want to hurt his best friend like this. Hell, he really liked her! Of course their crushes were mutual! And if this had happened 6 months ago instead of now, he would have jumped at the chance. But now...now he had Chaos and already forced himself to stick with his decision. It was easy with Chaos; there was no friendship to risk, no denying of being lovebirds or brushing off kisses as fakeout makeouts. Plus, he couldn’t lie to his best friend. She would know if he was lying. And he already told himself she deserved the truth. “There’s...someone else…”

“What?” Sam whispered before turning angry again, “Paulina? Valerie? Star?” she spat out.

Danny shook his head, “Ew, no...it’s someone I met online...I’m so sorry, Sam. I like you a lot, I really do, but I think I’ve already come to the conclusion that I like this girl I met online, Chaos, and I have to try to see that through.”

Many emotions crossed Sam’s face as she pieced together what he just said. At first she was upset, but as he explained himself, she felt disbelief, confusion, anger, and finally, hope. He couldn’t really be that clueless, right? “Show me.”

“Huh? I mean, I don’t actually know what she looks like, but we message every night and she really understands me! I know it sounds ridiculous, but-”

“Show me,” Sam repeated. “Show me her profile.”

“You’re not going to hurt her, are you?” Danny questioned cautiously.

“No, of course not. Just shut up and show me the profile.” Sam was more calm now, and that was kind of scary. Even though Sam said she wouldn’t hurt Chaos, he didn’t want to give her the chance. But he knew how stubborn his friend was, and eventually in whatever way, she would force the information out of him.

Danny sighed and pulled up the profile to show Sam. “I’m sorry, Sam. I’m still your best frien-”

“Shut up.” Sam scrolled through what Danny pulled up for her and pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration. Closing her eyes slowly, she took a deep breath. “Didn’t Chaos tell you her name?”

“Uh,” Danny thought, “oh yeah! She said her name was Sam, because I thought she was a boy at first and I had an existential crisis, but then Tucker told me-”

“Danny. I’m Sam.”

“No I know, and sure it’ll be a little weird cause you’re Sam and she’s Sam, it’s confusing, but I-”

Sam interrupted him once again. She could hear Tucker’s footsteps approaching. She was running out of time to not make this a spectacle. “No, Danny. Chaos. Sam. Me. I’m Sam. I am Sam,”

Tucker only heard the tail end of the conversation as he entered the room. Never able to pass up a comedic opportunity, he smirked and added “I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like green eggs and ham!”

It was suddenly silent in the room as his friends seized conversation and glared at him. Oops.

“Oh, am I interrupting something?” Tucker could see the fire in Sam’s eyes. “Uh, oh wait I forgot my...sock. I’ll be downstairs!” He raced out of the room.

Sam turned her attention back to Danny. “No, you stupid fucking MORON. I am Chaos. You’ve been talking to me the whole time. I thought you knew that!” Danny stared at her blankly until she pulled out her phone and he watched her log into her account, proving it to him. Sure enough, it was Chaos’s profile. He could see all the direct messages between them, including his offline message about wanting to ask her something.

“Wait, you? You’re Sam? I mean, Chaos? I mean Sam?” Danny looked back and forth between the profile and his best friend.

“UGH!” Sam shouted as she threw her hands in the air. “Yes, Danny. That’s me! Did you really not notice that Chaos was the same age as me and a girl who goes to our school? We have the same name and interests! Didn’t you wonder why it was so easy to talk right off the bat? I thought you put that all together and us just pretending to not know each other was a little bit you were trying to do or something!”

Danny stared at her as he continued to piece it all together. He was definitely embarrassed. He felt so stupid. How could he not tell that Chaos was Sam, his best friend since 7th grade? Talk about being totally clueless.

Wait. Clueless? Well, fuck! He got the nickname now!

His eyes flickered back and forth as he thought everything through. Eventually, he started to crack a smile. “Wait, so I’ve had a crush on you and also you? You’re the same person! This is great! Do you know what this means?!”

Sam slapped her forehead and began walking downstairs. “I don’t even know if this is worth it anymore…”

“Wait, how come Tuck and I never knew you played video games! We can enter team tournaments! You’re so good!” Danny chased after her.

Tucker watched as Sam grumbled about Danny caring more about video games than her. An excited Danny was right on her tail.

“Tucker! Sam is Chaos! I’ve been in love with Sam this whole time!” Danny explained.

“Tucker, I need you to refrain me from slapping his stupid clueless face,” Sam started.

“Wait, you didn’t know Sam was Chaos? Dude! I thought I was obvious about that!” Tucker began laughing at Danny.

“I know, so did I.” Sam crossed her arms over her chest.

“Danny, you can calculate levels of rocket fuel and figure out how to get us to Mercury or something,” Tucker started.

“Mars, actually,” Danny corrected.

“But you can’t figure out that your best friend and your crush are the same person? You’re more than Captain Clueless, you’re like….Lieutenant Clueless? That’s like, bigger right?” Tucker continued.

“I don’t think that’s how it works, Tuck,” Sam chimed in.

“Shut up Sam, this isn’t about you,” Tucker immediately stopped his train of thought when he felt Sam glaring daggers at him. “Heh, uh. Except it does. It actually has nothing to do with me. I’m sorry I told you to shut up, please don’t hurt me!” He threw his hands up in front of himself in defense.

“Relax, Tucker. I’m more angry with this fucking dingus,” she pointed her thumb in Danny’s direction.

The halfa was about to protest, then closed his mouth. “That’s fair, I deserve that.”

“I can’t even look at you right now. You scared me! I poured out my emotions to you. I thought you were rejecting me and that I would have to change my name and move to a different country! Wait, are you still rejecting me?” Sam stopped her pacing to look at him.

“Of course not, Sammy!”

“Oh don’t you ‘Sammy’ me! I told you I love you, you stupid fucking idiot!” Sam began throwing pillows at Danny, who expertly dodged them (though as a result, Tucker got hit in the face by one).

“Technically, you didn’t say ‘love’ you said ‘like’”, Danny offered as Tucker shook his head and slashed finger across his neck, signaling Danny to stop talking.

“Oh, I’m sorry! This is all my fault! I’m going to go jump off a cliff now!” Sam growled and Danny let out a small “oomph” as one of the pillows finally got him.

“I’m out. Good luck, bro!” Tucker quickly slipped out the door, leaving Danny and Sam alone.

Sam was about to follow Tucker out when Danny stopped her, “please don’t leave!” She still had angry tears in her eyes. He frowned. This was not how he expected things to go. She watched him for a few seconds before sitting down on the couch, refusing to look at him. “Sam I’m so sorry, this is just a huge misunderstanding.”

“No, Danny. It’s not. You were going to turn me down to go out with someone else.”

“But that someone was still you!”

“Yeah, but you didn’t know that! We’ve been friends for years, and you were more interested in someone you just met a few months ago! I don’t want to be anyone’s second choice, Danny! I’ve been standing by for years as you continuously chose other girls over me. I thought we were done with that, and that you were finally choosing me first, but you won’t and you never will and I’m so stupid.” Sam put her head in her hands as she tried her hardest not to let tears fall.

And that was when he finally figured it out. It wasn’t just the moment of rejection, it was years of rejection, and at her biggest confession, she still thought he was choosing someone over her. Not to mention, Tucker witnessed most of the conversation. Sam rarely showed her emotions. She always had her heart guarded, and he knew this. Tucker knew this. Hell, she didn’t even tell them she was rich until after a few years of friendship. It took them a while to get her to open up to them. She was a pretty private person. She was probably already hurt like this before. And now, she was probably embarrassed.

“You’re definitely not stupid. I’m stupid. I should have known it was you. That was actually what I really liked about Chaos, she reminded me of you.”

Sam forced a small sarcastic laugh, “Yeah, right.”

“No really,” Danny sat on the couch next to her and grabbed her hand, placing it in both of his. “Sam, you’re absolutely incredible. How dumb would I have to be to not notice?” Sam gave him a pointed look. “Okay yeah but it’s not the way you think it is. I liked Chaos because she was a lot like you. She reminded me of you. And it just seemed easier to go with her because she was basically you, but she and I didn’t have a really great friendship that could have gotten ruined if we broke up or something. I could live without her, but I can’t live without you. You’re always my number one. Always have been, always will be. Even if I did just fuck everything up. I’m so sorry, Sam. I’m ready to be with you, if you’ll still have me.”

Sam stayed silent and stared at her lap, processing this new information. Of course she would forgive him; she always did. She just needed a little time.

Danny was getting nervous that he really did fuck this up for good. This was so fucking important! He couldn’t risk fucking this up! Sensing her hesitation, Danny tried one more thing to get her back. One thing he hasn’t done before. One thing he just learned how to perfect.

“Sammy, I’m sorry,” a duplicate popped up next to her on the other side of the couch, startling her.

“Please forgive me?” Another duplicate was floating in front of her, hanging upside down, hair flopping all over the place.

“I know I’m a dummy but,” Sam snapped her head towards a third duplicate.

“I’m only a dummy because I’m in love. With you,” the real Danny finished. Sam looked back and forth between all the Dannys.

“We’re sorry, Sammy,” all the duplicates said at once.

Sam was trying really hard to hold back a smile. “You learned how to duplicate,” she stated simply.

Original Danny grabbed her hands. “Sam. I will make this up to you. I promise.”

She could hear the determination in his voice and sighed. “You better.”

Danny smiled and hugged her. “Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! I love you so much!”

Sam pushed him off of her. “I love you too, you fucking idiot.”

“But I get to be your idiot!” Sam couldn’t hold her laughter back anymore. “Oh!” Danny shouted, “Will you go to the dance with me? Please?”

Sam pretended to ponder the answer before saying “alright”.

“Yay!” All 4 Dannys cheered. The duplicates on either side of her kissed her cheeks as the real Danny kissed her forehead tenderly. The final duplicate, feeling left out, squeezed his way in to give her a hug.

Sam was now roaring with laughter before kissing the real Danny sweetly. “You know, duplicates won’t always get you out of trouble,” she warned.

“Yeah, but they could come in handy for other things,” he wagged his eyebrows up and down suggestively before passionately kissing her, the duplicates kissing her neck and touching her in near-dangerous places.

Sam bit back a moan, eyes lustful before smirking, “I think you just found a way to make it up to me.” She began dragging the real Danny and one of his duplicates back to his room. Fuck the movies.

#phic phight 2021 #danny phantom #danny fenton #sam manson #tucker foley #amethyst ocean #also yes I took a prompt that was kinda anti-AO and turned it into AO #it's my super power #AO ho 4 life #stephanie writes sometimes

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Some Favorite Fics from 2020

Like last year, I want to end 2020 by highlighting some fics that have become favorites over the last twelve months. Before I dive into it though, I just want to take a minute to send some love to all of the authors writing in this fandom.

As of the end of 2019, there were about 8.8 million words of fic on AO3 for this fandom. This year, more than 450 authors have added another 15 million more. That’s so incredibly impressive, especially in a year this difficult. Thank you, thank you, thank you to every single person who contributed to that, whether you wrote one fic or a hundred, a drabble or a novel. Thank you for giving this fandom the gift of your creativity and voice. Your work is so, so appreciated, and you’ve helped to create joy in a year where it was often in short supply. 💗💗💗

Okay, on to the fics. I’ve limited myself to no more than one work for any individual author to spread the love around as much as possible, and I’ve bumped up the number to 25 this time around because there was just too much fic this year for me to cut it down any further.

So here we go. These are 25 fics I loved this year, and what I love about them...

Your heart is keeping time with me by yourbuttervoicedbeau • rated E • 33k+ confession before i start: i’ve never actually seen 50 first dates. but i thought this AU based on it was delightful. patrick’s love for david is so big, right from the start, and i love seeing david lean into trusting himself (and patrick) over and over again

will this ever get old? by startswithhope • rated T • <1k i just like seeing them domestic and soft and happy, okay? and while most of dee’s fics are like that, this particular one is a fave because of them thinking about their future and how they’ll change over the years but love each other right on through

Just to Hold the Hands I Love by DesignatedGrape • rated T • 20k+ it’s like a warm christmas hug, full of musical trolling, gentle pining, domestic nights in, and careful attention to fashion details, which are all absolutely the kinds of things i appreciate

A Case of You by DoubleL27 • rated T • 6k+ patrick is an absolute menace in exactly the way you would expect every valentine’s day. it’s funny and sweet and ends with them in exactly the kind of future we all want for them

Dulce by another_Hero • rated T • 1k+ original characters can be hard to do right. they have to be compelling enough to fit in with these characters we already know so well, and dulce is the kind of character who grabs you from the start. the whole series is lovely, but this first interaction with ronnie is my favorite of them

Tea-Kettle Love by ArabellaStrange • rated G • 5k+ even though this coda to “the pitch” isn’t technically canon compliant now, it still feels a lot like it is. it’s about the sacrifices we are and aren’t willing to make for the people we love, taking the new york discussion into more depth than we get in the show and still arriving in largely the same place

Vanquished by Codswallop • rated G • 3k+ if you’re looking for soft, fluffy sickfic, this is not it, lol. patrick is sick here but won’t let anyone take care of him. he’s stubborn and basically minor chaos ensues. it’s funny and sweet but not schmaltzy. the characterization is 👌, and it feels like the kind of thing that fits perfectly into the world of the show

To Come Out the Other Side by unfolded73 • rated T • 4k+ • warning for major character death i don’t want to read sad things about david and patrick very often, but sometimes the mood strikes. this one is definitely sad right from the start, but there’s hope and resilience through grief, and i think this year especially, there’s something to be said for stories that can make you feel like there is still good to be found after the bad

Hold Me Like You’ll Never Let Me Go by moodlighting • rated T • 21k+ i never would have thought that a fic would make me WANT to be trapped in an airport, but it’s 2020 and anything is possible, lol. this is what meet cute dreams are made of

Your mother keeps a spreadsheet by upbeat • rated G • 3k+ obviously i love a good spreadsheet, so this one was up my alley from the start, lol. but really it’s moira and patrick bonding through the cataloguing of her wigs (and all the stories that go with them) that makes this one an easy favorite

keep me in the pulses, keep me in the sound by dinnfameron • rated G • 2k+ this sweet little slice of a summer vacation made me ache to be with friends. plus, sometimes you just need some overwhelmingly happy david rose. he deserves it, and so do we

eggs and the flour, no higher power by withkissesfour • rated T • 1k+ i’m pretty sure this fic is the definition of sweet, in more ways than one. it’s a short piece, but the writing is lush and indulgent in all the right places, just like the cakes being described

sustineo by rockinhamburger • rated E • 10k+ before i was even done reading this fic, i wanted another 50k words set in this universe. the conversation between david and patrick is sharp in all the right ways, and because this david has such a hard shell to crack after being hurt in such a horrible and heartbreaking way, it’s that much more satisfying watching patrick break through it

All-Natural Care, Locally Sourced by Siria • rated T • 2k+ siria’s fics are always funny, with banter that’s so perfectly on point, and that’s certainly true here. but there are also care packages and photos and just so much love. it’s a perfect balance, just like the show

hold on to me as you go by helvetica_upstart • rated T • 3k+ i love a good look at just how long patrick has been head over heels in love with david and how much he was in this for life all along. this fic does just that through the framework of times that they saw their new house before they bought it, and it’s everything that you would want that concept to be and more

Exposed Brick by swat117 • rated M • 9k+ this is such a lovely look at david and patrick a few years into their marriage, steady in all the right ways, even when old fears try to rise up between them. it gives david a chance to be the solid and supportive one in the relationship, something i never get tired of reading

We Could Turn the World to Gold by middyblue • rated T • 27k+ as someone who also did c25k at one point, i def empathize with david’s plight in this fic, lol. as much fun as that part of the story is, it’s really the house and everything related to that part of the story that makes this a favorite in my book. this was posted very early in s6, so it’s not the house from canon, but it’s beautiful either way to see them so excited about building their future together there

Waiting on the Day by High-Seas-Swan • rated E • 22k+ this is another fic that makes me absolutely ache for things i couldn’t have this year, namely my favorite local brewery and all the nights spent there with friends. beyond that, it’s just a very sweet AU, and the scene with their first kiss and the rest of that night live in my head rent free

Pot o’ Gold by ahurston • rated E • 22k+ where is the leprechaun/love of my life who’s gonna take me out to eat all of the best foods that my city has to offer? this one is a slow burn but their relationship is so much fun to read right from the start that you definitely don’t mind taking your time getting there. also, the palm reading scene. good grief.

there is no design by the_hodag • rated T • 12k+ this fic gives us a look at some of david’s art, and all the loneliness and love that inspires it. it’s poignant and painful and hopeful and sweet in turn, and i think it does a marvelous job of capturing so many of the facets of david’s past that have made him who he is

A Little Broken, A Little New by nameless_bliss • rated G • 3k+ i’ve read this fic several times now, and david and johnny having a conversation about their own relationship through the guise of talking about patrick and his parents never fails to make me cry

Une très bonne table dans sa catégorie by cromarty • rated T • 23k+ just the concept of this one alone would have sold me on it—like, hello? michelin reviewer and chef? sign me the fuck up—but it’s written with the kind of attention to detail i always expect from claire’s writing, and the fact that it practically starts with a first kiss but then pulls back makes for a delicious dynamic as they build a friendship over that foundational attraction, both tempering and intensifying the wait for them to find their way back into each others’ arms

happy golden days of yore by blueink3 • rated E • 17k+ i literally stopped in the middle of this fic, sat down on my kitchen floor, and had a good cry. i hate thinking about them ending up divorced in the first place, but even as exes, they’re so careful and gentle with one another and so, so clearly still in a forever kind of love. that makes it bearable to see them apart because even if it weren’t tagged for a happy ending, there’s such a feeling of inevitability to it, you know exactly how it’s going to end and just get to enjoy the devastating ride it takes to get there

Fifteen Hundred Miles by MoreHuman • rated M • 30k+ this is one of those fics where everything comes together just right and achieves a perfect balance of introspection and action, courage and fear, despair and hope, forthright honesty and cautious reservation... MoreHuman makes it all look easy, which says so much about all the care that had to have gone into the planning and writing. this fic does everything well, and it’s an absolute pleasure to read from start to end

840 Havenwood Road E by Distractivate • rated E • 10k+ we barely see david and patrick’s new house in the show, so it shouldn’t be possible for me to be as emotional about it as this fic makes me, every single time i read it. but it’s the home they chose, the place they decided to build a life together, and getting to see flashes of that life through the years and how much love they clearly had for each other within those four walls just makes me cry again and again

#schitt's creek #schitts creek #fic recs #long post

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Warped Tour, 2004

Dates:

June 26: Dallas, TX

June 27: Selma, TX

June 28: Houston, TX

June 29: Las Cruces, NM

June 30: Peoria, AZ

July 1: Fullerton, CA

July 2: Fullerton, CA

July 3: San Francisco, CA

July 4: Las Vegas, NV

July 6: Chula Vista, CA

July 7: Ventura, CA

July 8: Wheatland, CA

July 9: Boise, ID

July 10: George, WA

July 11: St. Helens, OR

July 13: Vancouver, BC

July 15: Calgary, AB

July 16: Bozeman, MT

July 17: Salt Lake City, UT

July 18: Denver, CO

July 20: Milwaukee, WI

July 21: Maryland Heights, MO

July 22: Noblesville, IN

July 23: Cleveland, OH

July 24: Tinley Park, IL

July 25: Minneapolis, MN

July 26: Bonner Springs, KS

July 28: Atlanta, GA

July 29: Orlando, GA

July 30: Tampa, FL

July 31: Pompano Beach, FL

August 1: Jacksonville, FL

August 2: Charlotte, NC

August 3: Virginia Beach, VA

August 4: Bristow, VA

August 5: Burgettstown, PA

August 6: Camden, NJ

August 7: New York, NY

August 8: Englishtown, NJ

August 10: Hershey, PA

August 12: Quebec City, QC

August 13: Montreal, QC

August 14: Barrie, ON

August 15: Pontiac, MI

August 16: Cincinnati, OH

August 17: Columbus, OH

August 18: Darien, NY

August 19-20: Foxborough, MA

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Lineup:

Anti-Flag (Played 6/29-8/19)

Billy Talent (Played 7/20-8/19)

Bowling For Soup (Played 6/26)

The Bouncing Souls

New Found Glory

NOFX (Played 7/1-8/8)

Simple Plan (Played 7/24-7/26 and 8/1-8/5)

Story of the Year

Taking Back Sunday

Tiger Army (Played 7/20-8/19)

The Used (Played 8/19)

The All-American Rejects (Played 6/25-6/29 and 7/29-8/1)

Alkaline Trio (Played 6/25-7/24)

Bad Religion

Coheed and Cambria

The Early November (Played 6/25-7/18)

Flogging Molly

Good Charlotte (Played 8/12-8/18)

The (International) Noise Conspiracy (Played 7/28-8/19)

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards (Played 7/20-8/18)

The Sounds (Played 6/25-7/26)

Sugarcult (Played 7/20-8/19)

Thursday (Played 6/25-7/18 and 8/6-8/14)

The Vandals

Yellowcard

Allister (Played 7/20-8/19)

Atmosphere

Avenged Sevenfold (Played 7/20-8/19)

The Casualties

From Autumn to Ashes (Played 7/20-8/2)

Hazen Street (Played 6/25-7/18)

IMA Robot (Played 6/25-7/16)

Jackson United (Played 7/7-7/13 and 7/20-8/2)

Lilix (Played 7/13)

Mae (Played 6/25-7/18)

Matchbook Romance (Played 7/20-8/19)

My Chemical Romance (Played 6/25-7/18 and 7/24)

Piebald (Played 8/5-8/8)

The Red West (Played 6/25-7/20)

The Revolution Smile (Played 7/15-7/26)

Rise Against

Rufio (Played 7/20-8/19)

Senses Fail (Played 6/25-7/18)

A Faith Called Chaos

Alexisonfire (Played 8/12-8/19)

Another Damn Disappointment (Played 6/29-6/30, 7/8, 7/13-7/15 and 7/24-7/28)

Arkham (Played 7/9-7/13, 7/16-7/23, 7/29-7/31 and 8/6-8/10)

ASG (Played 7/1-7/8, 8/1 and 8/12-8/19)

Autopilot Off (Played 6/25-7/6)

Bleed the Dream (Played 7/20-8/2)

The Briggs (Played 7/24-8/19)

Chronic Future (Played 7/25-8/4)

Die Hunns (Played 6/25-7/6)

Don't Look Down (Played 7/7-7/18)

The Eyeliners (Played 6/25-7/2)

Fall Out Boy (Played 8/10-8/19)

Fear Before the March of Flames (Played 7/20-7/24)

The Fuck Ups (Played 6/25-7/18)

Go Betty Go (Played 6/25-7/23)

The God Awfuls (Played 6/25-7/15)

Guttermouth (Played 6/25-7/11)

Juliette and the Licks (Played 6/25-7/7)

The Kinison (Played 8/7-8/19)

Lennon (Played 7/28 and 7/30-8/7)

Letter Kills

Minority (Played 6/28)

Motion City Soundtrack (Played 7/16-8/8)

Potluck (Played 7/1-7/6)

Pulley (Played 7/7-7/18)

Rose Hill Drive (Played 8/8-8/19)

Side 67 (Played 7/15)

Single Frame (Played 6/25-6/27 and 7/16-7/28)

Washington Social Club (Played 8/4-8/19)

1208 (Played 7/11)

Amber Pacific (Played 6/25-7/13, 7/28-8/12 and 8/17-8/19)

Audio Karate (Played 8/4-8/19)

Before Today (Played 7/6)

Big D and the Kids Table (Played 7/20-7/26)

Black Fire (Played 6/25-6/30)

Black Furys (Played 7/3)

Bottom Line (Played 8/15-8/17)

Break Dance Vietnam (Played 6/25-7/6)

Break the Silence (Played 7/16-7/26 and 8/10-8/19)

Bytch Kiddy (Played 8/12-8/14)

Candy Ass (Played 8/4-8/10)

Carne Asada (Played 7/17-7/26)

The Code (Played 8/5-8/8)

Codie (Played 7/21-7/22)

The Commercials (Played 8/10)

Crowned King (Played 7/13-7/15 and 8/10-8/14)

Early Man

Eden Row (Played 8/16-8/19)

Eight Fingers Down (Played 6/25-6/29)

El Centro (Played 7/20-7/23)

El Nada (Played 7/24-7/26)

The Erks

Fear Nuttin' Band (Played 8/7)

Fighting Jacks (Played 7/8-7/9)

Happy Campers (Played 6/25-6/30)

Harpo (Played 7/22)

H is Orange (Played 7/1)

Holden (Played 7/2 and 7/7)

Hurry Up Offense (Played 8/4-8/7)

The Hurt Process (Played 7/1-7/11)

Insofar (Played 7/1-7/23)

J4 (Played 6/25-6/29)

Jersey (Played 8/7, 8/10-8/15 and 8/18-8/19)

Keg (Played 7/10)

Killradio (Played 7/16-7/26)

Lakeside (Played 7/28-7/29)

Losing Team (Playd 7/16-7/17)

Lylah (Played 6/25-6/29)

Madison (Played 7/28-8/8)

Madrepore (Played 7/4 and 7/7)

The Matches (Played 8/12-8/17)

Melee

Number One Fan (Played 7/18-8/19)

O're The Ramparts (Played 7/18)

Only Crime (Played 7/18)

Opiate for the Masses (Played 7/28-8/8)

Oreon (Played 8/16-8/19)

Pipedown (Played 7/7-7/10)

The Planet Smashers (Played 7/28-8/4, 8/10 and 8/15-8/19)

The Q (Played 6/30-7/8 and 7/31-8/3)

Reeve Oliver (Played 7/28-8/8)

Rolling Blackouts

Scatter the Ashes (Played 7/20-7/24)

Silverstein (Played 8/2-8/8)

The Skulls (Played 8/19)

Slowdance (Played 7/7-7/18)

Spell Toronto

Stereogram (Played 7/11-7/18)

Stole Your Woman (Played 7/8-7/13)

Suffocate (Played 7/20-7/26)

The Swear (Played 7/28)

Thought Riot (Played 7/2-7/6)

Truth In Fiction (Played 7/24-7/25)

Unit F (Played 6/25-7/2)

Van Stone (Played 7/4-7/7)

Victory Within (Played 7/10-7/18)

Wanted Dead (Played 7/1-7/8)

Windsor (Played 7/1 and 7/6)

Zox (Played 8/16-8/19)

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Essential Avengers: Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #7-9

November, 1984

BERSERKER!

The death of an Avenger! The X-Men’s greatest battle! And, introducing the all-new SPIDER-WOMAN!

The cover sure isn’t burying the lede. This comic sure does introduce an All-New (presumably All-Different) Spider-Woman! Jessica Drew, move over! For now. You’ll be the Spider-Woman that endures in the long run.

Last times on Secret Wars: Some amazingly powerful being from Beyond the universe called the Beyonder kidnaps a bunch of heroes, villains, shades thereof, and chunks of random planets to put on a big toy commercial where action figures can bonk off each other.

The X-Men ditched the other heroes to do their own thing, as they’re wont to do. The villains storm the hero base and drop a mountain on them. The heroes take refuge at a small village where Johnny Storm finds a new girlfriend but there’s also a Galactus.

Galactus starts preparing a device to eat Battleworld, which would let him win the toy commercial in one fell swoop.

Oh, and Wasp was kidnapped by Magneto, escaped, crashed her escape ship, found the Lizard, and then got lasered to death by the Wrecking Crew. It was a Bad Time and I am sad, even though we know Wasp will be okay by the time they get back from Battleworld.

This time: Further not burying the lede.

The cover promised a new Spider-Woman and dammit, here’s one right away, first page. Truth in advertising!

Spider-Woman herself wastes no time introducing herself to everyone, that she comes from a chunk of Denver that got raptured by the Beyonder (still want that miniseries), that she came to help when she saw evidence of super fighting, and that she can pick up and throw large rocks so clearly she’d be able to help.

Captain America is hesitant about all this and Spider-Woman assumes that he thinks she’s a spy but as Captain America points out, why would Doom need to mess around with spies when he’s got so much power at his disposal.

Spider-Man is also hesitant at this new character. For different reasons.

Spider-Man: “She tossed that boulder as easily as I could have... at least! I wonder if she sticks to walls, too! And I wonder if I can sue her for infringing on my shticks! I should have gotten a patent or trademark or something...”

Cap tries to settle on the argument that a Secret War is too dangerous but Spider-Woman has the exceptional point “I suspect that it’s no less dangerous for the spectators, Captain America -- I might as well pitch in!”

And then the obvious toy pitch vehicle that the Wrecking Crew was driving in the swamp yesterday drives through the village blowing shit up, restarting the fires that the heroes just put out, and most insultingly of all, throwing Wasp van Dyne’s dead deceased corpse out the hatch before driving off.

Those dicks.

The heroes rush to Wasp and take her to Zsaji. That cool lady tries to heal Wasp but Jan has no pulse and isn’t breathing and might be beyond Cura. This may take Phoenix Down.

But since she went and got herself disintegrated on the Moon, Wasp is clearly dead forever.

-Looks over at Avengers #243- Hush, you!

The assembled heroes want to rush Doombase and kick the shit out of the villains and specifically the Wrecking Crew but Captain America tells them no.

Captain America: “Now, listen to me -- ! While we’re off getting even, what if Galactus starts to use that world-eating machine he’s building up on that mountain? Then every living thing on this world -- including these innocent villagers and all those people from that suburb of Denver will die! We’ve got to stay right here, ready to attack him! We may have only seconds to react when it begins!”

She-Hulk storms off while the other heroes debate the Galactus situation.

I’m sure this is fine.

Meanwhile, on the more volcano-y side of the planet, Xavier orders Cyclops, Rogue, and Wolverine to pursue Doom’s Four villains Molecule Man, Titania, Absorbing Man, and Doctor Octopus to try to capture them before they can return to Doom.

Back over at Doombase, Titania sees that her “little Owie” has been badly hurt and begs Enchantress to help.

Volcana: “Enchantress! You’re a sorceress! You could use your magic to transport me to my Owen!”

Enchantress -busy getting drunk-: “Yes... but why would I, mortal?”

Volcana: “Well... because... because I need you to! I can’t fly a ship! I -- I don’t even have a driver’s license for a car! Ultron won’t help me -- ! He only takes orders from Doom!”

Enchantress: “It takes much energy to transport a body as bloated as yours! I cannot be bothered!”

Wow! You’re a dick!

Volcana catches a lot of fat jokes and she’s not depicted as looking any different from Standard Comic Book Body Type. But also, don’t fatshame at all, Enchantress.

Anyway, Volcana promises anything to Enchantress if she helps.

Enchantress: “Rash words, mortal wench... and later, you shall deeply regret them!”

Its very handy for the villains that Volcana just showed up because their airship almost immediately gets show down by the X-Men. So even with Molecule Man out of commission, their numbers are back to Doom’s Four. And Volcana calls dibs on beating up Wolverine.

The X-Men have numbers but they’re not doing super well. Professor X is on the scene trying to be the field leader but the chaos of the battle and the villains’ minds being blocked by Enchantress’ magic makes it hard for him to coordinate.

Magneto even gets smack-talked by Absorbing Man.

Absorbing Man: “Tell me, Magneto. What’s scum like you doin’ hangin’ around with the X-Men? Sure, they’re outlaws -- but I thought you was big time! You got mass murder raps, manslaughter, terrorism, what else? Probably everything! You’re one of us! On second thought, a creampuff like you belongs with them losers!”

I can’t believe Magneto has to take that from a man who constantly carries a large metal orb with him everywhere.

Wolverine manages to slice off Absorbing Man’s arm, although the guy was made of rock at the time so it wasn’t as gory as it could have been.

Absorbing Man just. Picks up his arm and runs off to hit someone with it.

Amazing.

The villains manage to pin down the heroes with some Volcana blast and then steal one of the X-Men’s ships and get away.

Professor X declares that this is Totally a victory.

Xavier: “We lost nothing, save one of our ships -- which matters little -- and we gained much! We coalesced as a fighting unit passing our greatest test to date and I think we proved ourselves -- beyond a doubt!”

Like, you had a scuffle with some villains that ended inconclusively even though you had the advantage of a sneak attack, the villains stole one of your ships, and there was no major damage to either side.

It was largely pointless. But I guess Xavier has a vested interest in declaring it a huge success since it was his inaugural go at being field commander.

Meanwhile, skulking around Galactus’ ship, DOOM complains about doing that.

Doom: “Doctor Doom - a burglar! Rummaging about in another being’s home, seeking to steal some priceless thing! Bah! What choice do I have? I need a key, a way -- ! My armor’s sensors have led me to prize after prize -- hundreds, thousands of devices which, in the hands of a man as brilliant as myself could provide power to conquer entire galaxies -- ! Yet, all of them combined are not enough to defeat Galactus -- let alone the Beyonder! There must be a way! Doom must be supreme!”

Unfortunately for Doom, despite the volcano distraction making Galactus sigh and have to spend time fixing the planet so he can eat it, he senses something amiss in his house and mentally yeets Doom back to Battleworld.

The villains return back to Doombase but Doctor Octopus can’t help Molecule Man because dammit he’s a nuclear physicist, not a medical doctor! Ultron tells Volcana that there are medical devices that could fix Molecule Man up nicely but since he doesn’t have any relevant orders from Doom, he’s just going to stand here and look pretty. And Enchantress says she could heal him with a wave of her hand but refuses to because Volcana already gave her a blank check.

Absorbing Man returns and reattaches his arm by basically hoping like hell it’ll just be better if he holds it in place when he reverts to skin flesh.

And the Wrecking Crew have to throw the Lizard into a cell because he hasn’t stopped trying to eat their faces for killing Wasp, his new best friend.

The Wrecking Crew doesn’t get a chance to enjoy being back at base because She-Hulk has broken in and beats the crap out of them off-screen.

Titania comes in and starts fighting She-Hulk STARTING AN ENDURING RIVALRY.

Its fun how much got its start in Secret Wars.

The two fight more or less evenly from what I can tell but uh Doctor Octopus joins in as does the Absorbing Man and the Wrecking Crew once they catch their breath.

And She-Hulk is strong but this is a stomp.

In another part of Doombase where the Enchantress is sitting in “sullen reverie” refusing to get involved in the fight she can here, instead thinking about how much she’s going to seduce the crap out of Thor.

Doom arrives at Himbase after being expelled from Galactus’ ship and refuses to explain anything to Enchantress. He just stumbles over to his sweet bed and collapses in it.

Doom: “It is over... Finished...”

Back over at Zsaji’s Village, the heroes realize that She-Hulk took off. Hawkeye figures that she went after the villains and asks to go after her.

Hawkeye: “She can’t take ‘em alone, Cap! She needs us!”

Huh! When the chips are down even though they fought, Clint and Jen sure are coworkers.

Hulk also asks to go after her since she’s his cousin. The acknowledgement of which is what I’ve been wanting all along.

But Cap tells them no.

Hulk: “I don’t suppose you’d consider putting it to a vote?”

Trying to appeal to his love of democracy. How wily.

Captain America: “My heart would vote ‘yes’ in a minute... Too many innocent lives are at stake here, though! Many more than the few people on this planet -- we’ve got a universe depending on what we do here! We can’t allow ourselves the luxury of making decisions with our hearts!”

But Cap receives a psychic skype from Professor X who tells him that the X-Men can take Galactus watching duty for a bit so run along and save your teammate, you scamp.

Cap accepts.

Its fun how the tide of battle has shifted back and forth.

Now the heroes are largely fresh, having been sitting on their ass staring at Galactus, and the villains are bloodied from several fights with the X-Men and She-Hulk. Plus, their big gun Molecule Man got Wolverine’d.

But next issue is something so big that it overshadows basically everything else in Secret Wars.

December, 1984

INVASION!

YEAH ITS VENOM

OR WILL BE

Also, a bunch of other stuff happens. The cover is kind of funny for maybe unintentionally presaging what would happen where the black costume being more remembered than everything else in Secret Wars in general but definitely this issue specifically.

There’s actually a lot of really cool stuff happening in this issue.

Cap(tain America)’s group of heroes storms Doom’s Doombase, lucking out that Doom is too stunned by being expelled from Galactus’ ship to attempt any kind of defense and nobody else on his team has the braincells to be watching out for an attack.

Enchantress hears the heroes breaking in but she’s well and truly drunk by this point.

And bemoans her secret god meeting with Thor. That she was going to try to cast a spell on him to bend him to her will but is aware that she might have flipped good for him instead. And even now wonders what she’ll do if Thor shows up in front of her.

The villains still beating She-Hulk to her death hear the heroes breaking into the base and run off to ambush them, Doc Ock slamming She-Hulk against some wreckage as a coup de grace.

Wrecker gets the jump on Iron Man and Doc Ock dumps a convenient tank of water on Human Torch but Spider-Man jumps in and drops Bulldozer with one punch before he can pulp an extinguished Johnny.

The Thing tries fighting Absorbing Man but wouldn’t you know it, the Thing’s thingness fades at the worst time again, leaving him powerless.

Spider-Woman jumps in to save him.

She didn’t get to really do much in her actual introductory issue, despite being on the cover and splash. She just kinda shows up and goes ‘i can definitely help!’

She makes a much better second impression this time. Almost like she’s aware that she needs to sell herself.

Spider-Woman: “A clean knockout -- ! Of the awesome Absorbing Man -- ! And it’s only the fifth time I’ve ever been in a fight! The new Spider-Woman wins again!”

Marvel really wants you to like this non-Jessica Drew.

Piledriver charges Hawkeye, mocking him for missing with his arrows and gloating that arrows are useless to a guy who’s immune to bullets.

Piledriver: “Hawkeye the Archer! Hah! Boy you gonna need Hawkeye the M.A.S.H. doctor in a minute -- ‘cause I reckon this good ol’ boy is gonna ‘mash’ you!”

Good one, Piledriver. Good banter.

Hawkeye: “Those shots were just warnings, dummy! I don’t want to have to hit you! From my bow, at this range, an arrow hits a lot harder than any bullet! Back off... please...”

We did learn in the Hawkeye mini that Hawkeye’s bow has a ridiculous draw strength.

This is a pretty good Hawkeye moment people don’t really point to a lot.

Also, I do love when an invincible or durable person who isn’t used to getting hurt gets hurt once and goes ‘NOPE! I DO NOT CARE FOR THIS!’

Hulk busts into Enchantress’ drinking room and unfortunately falls for her “I am but a helpless female!” routine. She gets all up in his business, magically puts him to sleep, and then pours herself another drink.

It could have been a good day for Enchantress if Captain America hadn’t come in right after.

Captain America: “What have you done to the Hulk?”

Enchantress: “For the moment, he is merely asleep. Doubtless dreaming dreams of me! But, alas, he can never truly have me, for I am yours, my handsome captain! Am I not beautiful? Come to me...”

Points for audacity but Captain America is a champion of not thinking with his dick. Blah blah willpower is legendary, socked Prometheus in the noggin. You get it.

Anyway, he socks Enchantress in the noggin with his shield and knocks her out.

Hawkeye and unthinged Ben try to find the rest of the heroes but run into Klaw and Lizard, who Klaw let out of his cell because he didn’t like to see anyone imprisoned but also because he liked the way Lizard talks. What an audiophile.

Ben Grimm: “Uh... any ideas, Hawk?”

Hawkeye: “Well... I guess we’ll have to outwit ‘em!”

Ben Grimm: “Us?!”

Hah.

Thor, Iron Man, Spider-Woman, and Mr Fantastic find Volcana and Molecule Man.

Iron Man makes the dubious tactical decision to charge right into Volcana’s plasma burst and burns out his armor.

Mr Fantastic pulls him out of the way and the other heroes try to get through Molecule Man’s fused air molecules invisible shield. They fail until Captain Marvel just lightbeams right through it. Because its transparent.

Love it. Love that her power works like that. Because it should.

Captain Marvel grabbing Molecule Man pulls open his Wolverine wounds and he passes out. Volcana surrenders to spare her boyfriend more pain.

Not that Monica intended that or knew he was wounded. This is still early Monica before Nextwave hardened her outlook. This is the Monica who was horrified when Blackout and Moonstone got pulled through a singularity.

Titania tried to drop a forty-ton beam on the heroes’ heads but is interrupted by Spider-Man thanks to his spectacular spider-sense.

She out-muscles him by a lot but she can’t actually lay a hit on him because he’s got superior spider agility. Maybe if she had more experience it’d be different but she’s basically in the angry flailing stage of her skill tree so far.

Spidey brags “With a little room to operate, no one can lay a glove on me -- not the X-Men, not the Absorbing Man, and not you!”

Titania: “When I get you I’ll -- AGGH!”

Spider-Man: “All you’re going to get is frustrated... and, eventually, trashed!”

Titania: “No! It’s not fair! *UHH!*”

Spider-Man: “But, if we were fighting in a broom closet, that’d be fair, right?”

Titania: “Stop it! Stop it! Stop -- !”

Spider-Man: “You ought to be happy, cuddles! You aspired to be a bully, and, man, you’re a classic! You talk tough and nasty when you’ve got the upper hand -- but when you’re losing -- well, that’s when the whining little wimp-ette inside comes spilling out!”

And then he defenestrates her without a window.

Fun fact: she apparently developed a Spider-Man phobia from this.

Understandably.

Y’know, in terms of embarrassing and traumatizing people, Spider-Man is having a good run in this story.

Captain American and Human Torch find a passed out Piledriver who fainted from blood loss after staggering away. And they find Ultron, standing between them and Doom.

Ultron is an Avengers-tier stomper who takes down entire teams and there’s just two heroes who coincidentally were both portrayed by Chris Evans. And the Human Torch’s fire is ineffective as Ultron gloats.

Ultron: “The core of the hottest star could not melt my adamantium body, human! Nothing can harm me! I am invincible! I am mechanically precise and computer-swift! I am perfect!”

When Ultron grapples Human Torch and starts throttling him, Cap tells him to use his nova-flame. Then hides behind his shield.

The flame melts a good portion of the room and the air being superheated somehow doesn’t make Cap crispy. And when the nova flare of the nova flame fades, Ultron’s chassis is still intact.

But the heat damaged something inside and Ultron is down. Johnny is also down, spent from the nova.

I like that the Fantastic Four would have their own way to deal with Ultron should that ever come up. Has it? You’d think it would.

Captain America proceeds to Doom alone but Doom is non-responsive from being Galactus’d.

And Reed, Spider-Man, and Hulk finds Hawkeye and Ben Grimm, where they have outwitted Klaw and Lizard.

Lizard: “Disssturb our gamess-s and the Lizard will dessstroy you! Once we finissh, we will do as you s-ssay!”

Well, whatever works!

With the fighting done, Captain Marvel finds She-Hulk, barely alive. The heroes jam her into a healing tube saving her in the nick of time.

The heroes also jam the villains into healing tubes because they’re heroes and are nice like that.

Considering the heroes were fighting to take prisoners and the villains very much weren’t, it’s lucky that the heroes won the majority of conflicts and got away from the one they didn’t.

The villains that didn’t need bacta treatments - or whatever is in those tubes - got shoved into cells. Also, Doom, because he might need the healing juice but it would require peeling him out of his armor and its probably booby-trapped.

Hawkeye and Captain Marvel return to the village to bring Wasp’s body to DoomHerobase for a funeral but they’re in for a surprise.

It turns out that Zsaji WAS able to heal Wasp who wasn’t dead just in a laser-induced death-like stasis. AS YA DO. It nearly killed Zsaji to bring Wasp back from such grievous injuries.

Colossus learns this by getting into her exposition drugs while she’s passed out and mind-melding with her.

Of course, it just makes the big lug fall deeper in love with her.

The important takeaway is that Wasp is alive. Just like we knew that she would be. The universe has been set right.

Over at Herobase, Reed Richards fixes the Iron Man armor after Rhodey got it a little melted.

Iron Man, James Rhodes: “I’m curious... were you surprised there was a black man under the metal?”

Reed Richards: “Hmm... No, I never gave it a thought! I knew there was a man under there...”

Its a nice exchange.

Its kinda ruined retroactively by Illuminati revealing that Reed knew Tony was Iron Man and would have known about Tony having to step down due to his alcoholism and likely knew about Rhodey taking over.

Dammit, Illuminati!

Elsewhere in the base, Spider-Man spots Hulk and Thor coming out of a room with Thor sporting a brand new cape and helmet. They tell Spidey that there’s a device in there that will make any clothes you want.

Except Spider-Man doesn’t bother asking which device and they don’t bother specifying so Spidey just picks the likeliest one and gets a black glob.

An important black glob.

To eventually be revealed to be an alien goo symbiote and later eventually tied to a dark god that predates the universe.

But for right now, its a way to incorporate a new costume design that a fan submitted. And Spider-Man handwaves it not looking like his old costume by assuming he was thinking of the new Spider-Woman.

So that’s how it is, Pete? She ‘ripped’ you off so you’re gonna rip her off?

You know whats really funny?

A month before this came out, in Spider-Man’s own book, he had learned that the costume was a living symbiote and had gotten rid of it.

It be like that with Secret Wars but its still funny that we’re finally seeing him get the costume just as he’s getting rid of it.

Anyway, Spider-Man’s new costume buzz is interrupted by the planet shaking and someone yelling in his brain.

Professor X: “CAPTAIN AMERICA! COME AT ONCE! IT HAS BEGUN! GALACTUS IS DEVOURING THE PLANET!”

It’s nice that the crises are waiting their turn.

January, 1985

ASSAULT ON GALACTUS!

The issue titles for this story are all so excited.

The X-Men were left on Galactus watching duty so when the big lug starts trying to eat the planet, the X-Men charge in to attack him.

Hm.

Y’know, I sometimes wonder what iconic storylines would have been like if a different set of characters handled it. This used to be great What If fodder. I know there was one where the Avengers tackled Galactus’ first appearance. And because it was the tone of What If at the time to viciously shoot down any divergence of the 616 timeline, THINGS WENT HORRIBLY WRONG.

Think of it like the Turn Left episode of Doctor Who.

POINT BEING, I wonder how the X-Men would have handled Galactus’ first appearance. Of course, this would be the O5 roster so they’d have their work cut out for them.

Heck, even with Storm on the team, the X-Men are over their heads with Galactus.

She hits him with two massive lightning bolts and Galactus keeps working like he didn’t even notice.

The X-Men seem to realize how out of their depth they are (especially sans Phoenixes, their usual Galactus-fighting go-to) but at Professor Xavier’s command they charge in anyway.

Galactus sends out a defensive drone so he can continue not paying the X-Men any mind and the mutants find themselves completely bogged down in fighting the drone while Galactus does his thing.

And from Zsaji’s sweet village, Captain Marvel, Wasp, and Hawkeye see a massive explosion where the X-Men were.

I guess they’re totally dead forever.

Wasp: “Should we head up there now?”

Hawkeye: “No! We’d better wait for Cap... and strike as a unit!”

Hah.

Its the expression, really. Like Hawkeye thinking to himself ‘oh I want no part of that.’

The non-X-Men assemble at Herobase to rush to the fight.

Mr. Fantastic: “Hurry! No telling how long the X-Men can hold out!”

Spider-Man: “Yeah! Where’s the rest of the alphabet when you need it?”

HAH!

Oh, Spider-Man, you are a delight.

In the airship over, Thor notices that Hulk looks glum and tries to cheer him up.

Thor: “If ‘tis that you do not fit in these chairs that depresses you, count yourself fortunate! They were made, I think, for insect men... or by trolls, for torture! If ‘tis the impending battle troubling thee -- just think! What greater chance for glory has man or god e’er known? More even than Ragnarok, this is the battle I was born millennia ago to fight! You, too, are a warrior born, Hulk! A taste of battle and the berserker battle-lust shall rise in thy soul!”

Hulk: “I doubt it! I lost that when I gained the intelligence of my human side -- Bruce Banner! And now I’m slowly losing that, too! I’m not savage enough... or smart enough to be a relevant factor!”

Well, You Tried, Thor.

Johnny Torch is trying to cheer up Ben Grimm who is as grim as his name over his powers popping in and out as they please.

And then the rocks pop back on just as Ben is dramatically bemoaning that he can’t control them.

The Thing: “Whoopie! I’m the Thing again! I’m so happy, I even like you!”

Human Torch: “Yeow! You lummox! Put me down! Jeez, I can see the headlines -- ‘affectionate hug slays Human Torch en route to battle -- universe destroyed as a result’!’“

This book has some decent lines.

Iron Man ogles Spider-Woman under the pretense of not trusting her but then goes a little ‘I’ll show them all!’

Iron Man: “A lot of guys have worked with Iron Man before -- but that was when Tony Stark was in this suit! I think they’ve started to realize there’s a different guy in here, now... an’ they got their doubts! They’re keepin’ their distance -- don’t quite trust me yet! Don’t matter! As long as I got this armor, I’m one ba-ad dude -- especially since Richards souped it up! As soon as that fight starts, I’ll show ‘em -- show ‘em I’m Iron Man! The real Iron Man! James Rhodes is Iron Man -- now and forever!”

Rhodey pls.

Also meanwhile, because this is a long flight, Spider-Man starts hopping all around the interior of the airship overexcited because he’s just discovered that the totally benign goo suit he got has webshooters!

And he squirts Johnny in the face to prove it because that’s just how Spider-Man is sometimes.

Johnny complains that this webbing is even harder to burn than his old stuff which will turn itself into a bit of a plot hole down the line when its revealed that symbiotes are weak to fire.

Whoops.

Its fine though. Pre-modern Venom has always had sloppy writing around it.

He also demonstrates the goo suit’s ability to change shape.

I can’t believe that Marvel were cowards and never had Peter go around in the Summer Variant suit.

Reed lets himself go down a melancholic musing rabbit hole and starts poking holes in the story logic.

Mr. Fantastic: “At face value, the whole thing is absurd! Why would a being so far removed from us and so powerful as the Beyonder bring us across the universe for a stupid, simplistic ‘good-versus-evil’ gladiatorial contest? Is he a mad god? A cosmic idiot? And why us? Why this odd collection of beings, mostly from Earth? And why Galactus? He doesn’t fit! Human beings and even gods may be tempted, but Galactus is a force of nature -- no more capable of having enemies than a hurricane or an earthquake! Why is he here? There must be more to this... but what possible purpose could there be?”

Credit where its due, these are things I’ve been wondering!

But Reed is so busy pondering this that he runs the airship into the energy discharge from Galactus’ machine and crashes the ship on top of Colossus.

Smooth move, absent minded professor.

With only seconds before the world starts to burn, the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and assorted leap into battle against Galactus.

Iron Man manages to get past Galactus’ defense drones and punch his world eating engine, thanks to the upgrades done to the armor.

But now that they’re being successful, Reed interjects and tells them to stop winning so hard. Yes, really.

Mr. Fantastic: “Ben, we can’t go through with this! At last I see a purpose here -- a meaning to the universe for this insane conflict! WE MUST NOT STOP GALACTUS!’

Then Galactus effortlessly blasts the heroes away.

Which, if nothing else, gives Reed a chance to catch his breath to EXPOSIT MORE.

Mr. Fantastic: “For the first time this whole thing makes seom sense to me! I see a possible purpose in it! This is a chance to rid our universe of the threat of Galactus! All we have to do is let him win this contest! If the Beyonder indeed, grants hsi wish, he’ll be freed of his planet-consuming hunger at long last!”

The Thing: “And if the Beyonder reneges?”

Mr. Fantastic: “Re-energized by consuming this world, Galactuc will attack -- I know it! And force the Beyonder to pay up -- or be destroyed in the attempt. Any way you look at it... the universe wins! Countless billions who would have eventually fallen prey to Galactus -- will live in peace!”

Spider-Man: “Yeah, but why us? Why were we picked to decide the fate of the universe?”

Mr. Fantastic: “Why not us? We picked ourselves, remember? Besides... we beings of Earth seem to have a knack for being pivotal in the cosmic scheme of things.”

Reed, some offense but you’re the last person who should be speaking on this.

Galactus is only alive now because you had a hunch that he had some Big Important Role in the cosmic order and saved his life.

You may remember that because THE ENTIRETY OF SPACE PUT YOU ON TRIAL FOR IT.

Turning around on that because now you have a different hunch that everything will be a-okay if the Beyonder kills Galactus, is just such a classic Reed move.

Anyway, the discussion ends because Galactus raptures Reed and the entire mountaintop his machine was sitting on.

Since the suspects of Reed rapturing were Galactus or the Beyonder, its not very surprising that its Galactus forcibly inviting Reed up to his solar-system sized apartment.

What, you thought that the Beyonder would be more present in this story that it initiated? Fool.

Anyway, Galactus wants to have a friendly talk at Reed. Because Galactus is one of the few people that can talk down at Reed and he just has to sit tight and listen.

Meanwhile, over at the former Doombase, locked in a Doomcell, its Doom. Still in his catatonia OR IS IT?

Doom: “THE WORLD SHIP IS THE WAY! Galactus’s home itself is the way I seek! At last, I see!”

He activates the get-out-of-jail-free button hidden in his ankle which activates a point-singularity power supply that busts the door off his cell.

He ignores all of the other imprisoned villains to free Klaw.

Doom: “You, yourself, Klaw, are a ‘recording’ of sorts, due to the time you spent as a wave of vibratory energy coursing through the walls of Galactus’s homeworld! Come with me!”

Klaw: “Where to? Toodle-oo, toodle-oo!”

Doom: “To the lab! I’m going to dissect you!”

Klaw: “Oh, good!”

If it were anyone else that would read as sarcastic.

Its also revealed that Doom talks to himself because he is constantly recording.

Doom: “Every utterance of Doom must be recorded for posterity!”

How on-brand.

Meanwhile, back over at where the fight was, Cyclops OPTIC BLASTS out of the hole Magneto buried the X-Men in to save them from Galactus’ exploding drone.

Good job, Magneto.

Buuut. The fight is over so the X-Men just vaguely wander over to Zsaji’s village to catch up with Captain America’s group.

Zsaji wakes up from her Wasp-healing coma and runs over... right past Colossus to embrace Johnny. To make Colossus sad in the background.

But Johnny is too worried about Reed being raptured to make out with his new space girlfriend right now.

The heroes debate what to do.

Cap(tain America) wants to just stand ready until Galactus comes back and Cap(tain Marvel) suggests finding some spaceships at former Doombase and mounting an assault on Galactus’ imagination-ruiningly huge homeship.

The Thing offers the daring option of ‘hey Reed said not to fight Galactus and dangit what Reed says goes!’

He’s as bad as the Inhumans, I swear.

Reed reappears right about when Iron Man and the Thing are about to come to blows over the ‘do whatever Reed says’ plan.

The Thing: “Stretch! What happened?”

Mr. Fantastic: “Not much! We had tea...”

NOW I KNOW that Galactus likely has some robot servant or device that makes tea for him. But I can’t get the image out of my head of Galactus holding a tiny teapot and serving Reed tea.

How dare this comic cut away and let that happen off-panel!

Anyway, their big OFF-PANEL talk?

Mr. Fantastic: “He told me that I was a ‘force of the universe’ just as he is -- ! That I’m a ‘universal champion of life’ just as he is an instrument of death!”

Now. Nooooow. Champion slash Avatar of Life is a legitimate thing in Marvel, once filled by, uh, Captain Marvel. The Kree guy version. So the position is open.

I just find it easier to believe that Galactus was saying random nonsense to try to befuddle Reed into doing what Galactus wants rather than it being official.

The Avatar of Life page on marvel wiki doesn’t seem to credit it. It only has two versions of Adam Warlock, Drax, and Cancerverse Mar-Vell.

Anyway.

Mr. Fantastic: “I don’t what to say! I’m more convinced than ever that it’s right to let Galactus do what he must! And if I’m a ‘Champion of Life’ does it not make sense to allow Galactus to slay us so that countless billions will live? Or was he telling me that I must fight to serve even these relatively few lives here? I just don’t know...”

Yeeeeah. More convinced than ever that Galactus was filling Reed’s brain with cognitive chaff so to speak.

But Ben “Thing” Grimm is like ‘hey if Reed tells me I gotta die for the good of the universe then I’m ready to die so we’re not fighting unless Reed says so.’

Hawkeye: “This is a real crock! We’ve got to fight! Quitters! Cowards!”

I rarely say this but I think Hawkeye has a point.

Anyway, Galactus reappears the mountaintop, his machine, and himself to get back to snacking on the planet.

Far be it from me to tell Galactus how to ‘mortals are beneath my notice’ but maybe he’d get better results relocating his machine to the other side of the planet. Get some element of surprise, a head start.

No? Fine.

Captain America: “All right, listen up! I’m going to fight! The rest of you come or not as your conscience dictates!”

Wasp: “We’re with you, Cap!”

Captain America: “Good! But first... I just want to tell you, Professor Xavier, that despite our differences, you and your people did us -- and the universe, as far as I’m concerned -- a great service, earlier!”

Professor Xavier: “It was an honor!”

Captain America: “I hope you, the X-Men... and Magneto will come and fight side by side with us now! No one here will deny you’ve earned that much!”

Think about all the grief that could have been saved if people were willing to give Magneto the benefit of the doubt at the beginning of the story! Womp womp!

Meanwhile at Doombase (because the heroes are all off doing stuff and when the heroes are away Doom gets his base back), Doom observes the battle against Galactus starting AND that the Beyonder has cracked open his portal to watch the fight.

But more importantly, Doom cut Klaw into slices.

Back over at the heroes fighting Galactus, the heroes are fighting Galactus.

As in, directly. No drones.

Its a sign that they’re making some sort of progress.

He’s still batting them around like leaves in the wind.

But the Terrific Three show up to actually help.

Mr. Fantastic: “Galactus used enormous amounts of energy transporting his homeworld here -- and I’m sure he hasn’t fed for months! His power is almost depleted! We can take him!”

Captain America: “Richards, I -- I’m glad you’re here -- but what made you change your mind?”

Mr. Fantastic: “I... thought about what Galactus said -- and I’m still not certain that, in the cosmic scheme of things, what we’re doing is right -- but I realized just how badly I want to see my baby born, Cap! I want that more than anything -- ! And I’m going to fight for it!”

Aww.

He’s going to be waiting a long time for that baby though.

Not because of comic book time but because of intense drama reasons.

The heroes manage to reach the top of the mountain and start trashing Galactus’ machine despite Reed insisting that they ignore it and prevent Galactus from escaping.

And Galactus just animation-cell-slides-up ‘I must return to my homeworld’ style.

And as Reed explains how badly they done fucked up, Galactus takes a last look around his homeworld/spaceship. Because he doesn’t need his machine to eat planets. It just makes the process more efficient. So if the heroes are going to be annoying about him eating Battleworld, he’s just going to eat his own dang home!

Mr. Fantastic: “He’s devouring his own living world -- perhaps the greatest energy source in the universe! Moments after he’s finished, this godforsaken planet will be next! We won’t be able to stop him this time! Then he’ll probably consume the sun too! He’ll want every iota of energy available in case he must do battle with the Beyonder! We’re dead men!”

Wow. Is that the most kirby krackle we’ve ever seen?

But as Galactus converts his home into POWER COSMIC, Doom is ready with his own plan to steal that power, aided by a series of lenses he’s turned Klaw into.

As ya do?

You’ll have to tune in to the last quarter of Secret Wars to see if Doom succeeds in doing that thing that he always tries to do.

My thought is: maybe.

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only-johnny-deppp · 3 years

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Johnny Depp and Dior: “The Legend of the Magic Hour” (Short Alternate Edit)

3 years ago, on May 29, 2018 the short-movie “The Legend of The Magic Hour” premiered on the GQ Magazine UK site. Featuring Johnny, as the face of the fragrance “Sauvage” and narrator as he tells the Navajo legend about the creation of the Milky Way, the film was officially released on Youtube only on June 4.

Due to the controversy about Johnny’s 2019 new dior perfum and Ms. Head’s Hoax, the video was “hidden” (and not deleted as some people claimed) from being search on YouTube. And now remains on Dior’s official channel, but unlisted, being found only by people with the link (btw, HERE is the link)

Directed by Clément Beauvais and Arthur de Kersauson, the original movie has 11 minutes, being the last 2 minutes only credits and background music. So, in 2019 I made this almost 5 minutes shorter version with all the Johnny’s scenes and rearranged scenes and audio, and posted on my late original tumblr (RIP)

> Synopsis:

According to an age-old Indian legend, the Coyote God played a part in creating the night. Since then, at magic hour, when the sky is tinged with blue, he returns to the wild lands to play with the destiny of man. Pounded by the sun, a handful of women and men wait for twilight in an atmosphere of feverish tension. Between documentary and fiction, Legend of the Magic Hour is a mystical, entrancing journey through the Joshua Tree desert at dusk, starring Johnny Depp.

> Transcript:

“There is a Navajo legend that lives on in the desert. It was believed that a long time ago, the holy people summoned Black God: The God of Fire. And so they spoke 'You shall light the sky for it’s too dark at night for anyone to see'. So Black God went on creating the stars placing crystals in the sky, one at a time, carefully. That was until Coyote, the great trickster, showed up and changed the shape of the night… Forever.

Far… Far out. Where the far-off landscape stretches out, far away into the unknown, the desert swallows us all indifferently. Sinners, dreamers, all bound to its wildness, its legend and mysteries. When every rock, wild flower and Joshua tree are drenched in a hundred shades of blue, with a heady scent of burning sage. That is when he comes out. Greedy, foolish, proud and insidious. Ready to lure anybody. As he lured Black God when he quietly snatched his pouch of stars and blew the remaining across the sky. There they remain today, known as the Milky Way.

There is Chaos and Harmony as the whole world turns blue. For it comes in a heartbeat with lights of sapphire. Always, almost, already… Gone. The blue hour casts a spell on the souls that have journeyed and the desert leaves us drunk with too much beauty. Light-hearted for in the darkness we can see… much further than before. Far out. Far, far out there. Where the far-off landscape stretches out. Where the restless Coyote runs freely…Lives on the legend…of the magic hour.”

#Johnny Depp #The Legend of the Magic Hour #Dior #Sauvage #Navajo #Short Film #Sexiest Man Alive #Sexy Voice #Justice for Johnny Depp #My Edit

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kindness-bliss · 3 years

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New Beginnings Ch. 8

Timothy Thatcher x OC

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: none

Maya got ready at her shoot as she looked at herself in the mirror and scrolled through her instagram feed to let time pass, searching Tim’s name in the search bar as she looked through as raised a brow at how many fans adored him and posted pictures with him and events “Well damn, he’s wanted” she nodded impressed as she continued to read captions, not understanding most of them since they were in German, raising a brow as she saw heart emojis on captions “Too bad he’s mine”. She grinned as she saw more and more from men she assumed were his friends always talking about how respectful and hardworking he was in the business She sat up startled from her lurking when she heard a familiar voice and sighed “Are you kidding me ? What the hell are you doing here ? This is a private shoot” Marcel sighed as he stepped through and thanked the security guard “I saw you on the same company’s page who works hair and makeup for NXT, I put 2 and 2 together when I saw their stories and you happened to be tagged. I know, it’s very stalker of me” “Extremely” she answered sternly as she covered herself in her robe “who does that ? This is my job you psycho. Once again, head empty no thoughts in that pretty big ass head of yours” “I don’t even know what that means” He admitted quietly as he stood in shame in front of her “are-are you calling me stupid ?” Maya let out a breath as she shook her head “Kind of, now tell me why you’re here ?” she asked as she got touched up “and make it quick preferably, this is my work remember” “What’s this I heard about Tim insulting you ? Why didn’t you tell me when it happened ? I’m gonna assume that’s why you were crying the other day at the store ?” he asked, giving a small nod when he saw her face look down at the floor “and yes, Walter told me everything so don’t worry you don’t need to go into details I just wanna know if you’re okay” “I am fine, we’re all good” she nodded “I’m going to see him tomorrow, he has a match and he invited me”

“What ?” he whispered as he looked up at her “y-you’re gonna go see him ? After what he did ?”. Marcel knew how much wrestling meant to him, how much he prided himself in his work. He knew Tim inviting Maya over was a big step for him in how he felt about her.

“Absolutely I am, I wanna see him wrestle and how he is in that environment. I’m gonna assume you’re gonna be there too ?” Maya asked as they got her ready

“Yeah, we have a match too and well chances are Tim’s gonna introduce you to me so what are we gonna do ?”

She stiffened at his question and fixed her curls as she looked in the mirror as she slid off her robe revealing a one piece bathing suit with a deep plunge as she turned to look at him “If you think I’m gonna tell Tim that you and I had a 3 year long relationship then you’re dead wrong. No way I would ever tell him something like that at his workplace, so let’s get this straight alright ? Tomorrow you keep your mouth shut and you tell your little friends or whomever to not say a thing or I’ll have my other model friends put a word out that you guys like screwing around when you’re on the clock”

Marcel widened his eyes at her look and tone as he clenched his jaw “Maya I-”

“Maya nothing” she snapped back “You really think I didn’t know ? You really think Walter also wouldn’t tell me that you tried to get Alex and Fabio or whatever the fuck his name is to tell Tim for you ? To do your...our dirty work ? He texted me everything just before I got here, how you wanted to tell Tim abruptly and then I’d have to deal with the rest. Alex ? Yeah did you forget I also helped his wife out with her bridesmaid dresses and got to know the both of them really well ? He sent me an instagram DM telling me everything too, basically apologizing for your shitty actions. You’re a spineless little coward Marcel, 3 years and you haven’t changed one damn bit”

“I-I...it w-wasn’t like that” he stuttered out nervously stepping forward

“Bull shit !” she exclaimed as she slapped him across the face and breathed heavily

Marcel stood back as he rubbed his cheek and gave a frown as his blue eyes stared at hers “I’m sorry, I just….I still love you” he whispered as he left hastily

Maya sighed as she rubbed the feeling back in her hand and let the makeup artist fix her eyes “Mickey, did you tell him I was here ?”

“You try saying no to that piece of German goodness” Mickey shook his head “His accent came out and I melted, then he did the whole pleading puppy dog thing with his blue eyes and well, I was sold. I’m sorry Maya, I didn’t realize how big of an issue it would be. You really gave it to him good though, he walked away as if you stomped on his heart”

“Yeah well I didn’t wanna do that exactly” she admitted “He’s just being sneaky and I hate it, it reminds me of what happened when we were in a bad spot”

“Well I’ll tell you this girl, Timothy Thatcher is all man and would never do that shit to you” he giggled Maya raised a brow as she let out a chuckled “and how do you know I’m seeing Tim, what’s going on here that I’m not aware of ?” Mickey smirked as he dabbed some gloss on her lips “Tim from what I’ve seen and heard is quiet but apparently he told some of the guys that you’re gonna go see him and he’s a little...giddy. Now I’ve been working hair and makeup there a while and I’ve been there since he got there and nothing has made that man do a complete 180 like you have” She blushed as she listened and looked around the room “So you think he...likes me likes me ? Like he wants me to be his...you know ?” “Girlfriend ?” he chuckled “oh yeah, I heard from Candice, who heard from her husband Johnny who heard from his friend Oney that Tim told him tomorrow was pivotal” “Oh” she whispered softly as she walked with him “I’m not gonna expect anything though, especially after this whole fiasco. I’m gonna have a nice day with him tomorrow and focus on that. Now let’s get this thing done so I can call him” “You’re just as whipped as he is” Mickey chuckled as he helped set her up ______________________________________________________________ “What’s with that face ?” Tim asked Oney “You’re red and you’ve been on your phone for like 5 minutes, Oney ?” he sighed as he walked over and took his phone and let out a tight cough “this-this from today ?” “Yeah” Oney nodded as he took his phone back and put it in his pocket

“Um all I can and want to say is….you are one very very lucky man Tim, very lucky”

“I like her for other things besides her looks” Tim rolled his eyes as he grabbed his gym bag “she’s a good person, she’s understanding, she’s really smart and funny. She’s a great cook, she’s super funny” he chuckled “and she-what ? why are you looking at me like that ?”

Oney grinned as he walked with him to the showers “You really like this girl, it’s not just a little rendezvous like you had thought it’d be. I’ve known you for a while and never have I seen you act this way towards a girl”

“Don’t” Tim warned as he took off his shirt “It’s just that I like her and I feel she feels the same about me and you know that’s it”

“So it’s okay if she dates other guys while talking to you ?”

“I never said that” he said almost immediately as he turned around “Why ? Is she ? Have you heard anything ?”

“Chill out, I was just joking but point proven” Oney chuckled “I say you ask her out, officially like to be your girlfriend”

Tim nodded as grabbed his things “I was thinking about that after tomorrow”

“I think you should” Oney nods as he looked around “oh look it’s Marcel, shit look at his face” he grimaced

“What the hell happened to you ?” Tim asked concerned “Your cheek is red as can be, are you okay ?”

“We need to talk” Marcel said sternly “Alone, and it has to be now”

Tim nodded as he changed and followed him outside

Maya arrived at her apartment as she exited her elevator and saw Tim standing against her door “hey” she grinned “what are you doing here ?”

“So when were you gonna tell me you were engaged to one of my closest friends ? Or did you plan on keeping that a secret forever ?” he asked wasting no time as he crossed his arms trying his best to stay calm

Her stomach turned as she blinked trying her best to catch her breath “I-I…. Tim listen, I wanted to tell you I did, I promise I did but things happened and then the Walter thing and I just couldn’t find the appropriate chance to do so but I promise I was. I promise, you have to believe me” Maya pleaded as she reached for his hand flinching when he yanked it back

“I don’t believe a word you said, I don’t. I don’t even trust anything you’ve told me in the past, probably more lies from you. I’m not gonna insult you or demean you like I did last time because quite frankly...you’re not worth it” he said coldly as he stepped back “Have a nice life and don’t contact me again”

“Tim, please don’t do this” she whispered tearfully as she grabbed his arm lightly

“Don’t touch me” he responded quietly as he carefully lifted her hand and placed it by her side “Goodbye Maya”

He left her apartment quickly, and didn't look back knowing if he saw her face he wouldn’t be able to leave. Once in his car, he wiped his eyes quickly as he turned on the radio and sped off back to his place where he knew he could release his emotions freely and privately

“What did you do !” she practically screamed into her phone “You fucking told him !”

“It needed to be said” Marcel said quietly “I’m sorry, I am but we both know you were gonna wait it out too long and it would only make things worse. I did this for the both of us”

“I fucking hate you” she spat out “and I will never ever speak to you again in my life, ever. You’re dead to me” she hung up

Marcel rubbed his face as he threw his phone across his room and laid down in bed as he looked up at the ceiling and drifted to sleep, trying his hardest to forget about the chaos he selfishly created

All eyes were on Tim as he entered the Capitol wrestling center the next morning, he heard and saw it all as he walked into the locker room. The looks of pity people gave him, the mumbles and whispers they gave each other as rumours about what had happened at the gym went around. None of it mattered, at least not to him. The damage had been done and if there was one thing that was hurting him other than his heart it was his pride. He knew deep down it had been kept for him for a reason, but the lying and deceiving still hurt.

“Hey” Marcel said quietly as he opened his locker “Listen I won’t bother you but I just want to say I’m sorry about what happened and it's my fault entirely. Maya wanted to tell you after today” he finally admits “After your match, she wanted you to have a good match and then break it down to you on he own time and I selfishly told you because I still love her and in my stupid head I thought that once you knew and let her know she would somehow want me but instead she told me I’m dead to her”

Tim nodded as he laced up his boots and didn’t bother to look at him “yeah well, that makes two of us. I don’t want her around me, I don’t wanna hear from her again or anything like that. It’s done and over with and we should just not speak of her again. She’s something of the past and well I’m not gonna hold your past against you”

Marcel furrowed his brow “Y-you’re not going to attempt to talk to her ? She’s pretty sad Tim….”

“Nope” he shook his head “She’s the one who started this so it ends, I don’t like things like that and I can’t just let it slide by. Her choice was made to lie, so now we leave it at that please. I don’t care nor do I wish to hear about her again”

“I understand” Marcel nodded as he put on his tracksuit and headed down seeing everyone glare at him as he sped down the hallway to catering sitting down by himself in a table and beckoning over Fabian and Alex “Over here guys”

“No thanks” Alex muttered as he looked at him and turned around “I prefer not to deal with you unless it’s necessary for tv”

“Agreed” Fabian nodded

“I know it was a mistake okay, you can stop with the harsh punishment.I should have never tried to involve you two either and I’m sorry I did. I regretted this whole thing as soon as I opened my mouth and saw his face. I was selfish and it was wrong, can we just stop now ? Please” he pleaded “I hurt Tim, I hurt Maya, Walter isn’t answering any of my messages or calls. I get it now, I do” Marcel rambled “Please just sit with me, you don’t have to talk to me but just sit with me so I can at least have some company while everyone stares at me”

“No” they both answered in unison as they shook their heads and left him alone

Marcel looked down as he played with his plate of food feeling all eyes on him as he tried his hardest to ignore the stares and whispers and took out his phone seeing still no messages or calls from Walter and sent one last message “Hasst du mich jetzt ?” (do you hate me now ?) “Nein, nur sehr enttäuscht” (no, just very disappointed)

He sighed and put his phone away as he shook his head, upset at himself for what he had done but knowing deep down he didn’t regret it. Maya was his one true love, the one person who understood him and helped him cope with the loss of his father and deal with the emotions rather than ignore them and hold them in.

“Are you gonna go after her ?” Tim asked nonchalantly as he sat with him “because you can, I don’t care”

“What ?” Marcel asked his head shot up quickly

“Don’t act stupid Marcel, you still love her and I know you did this in a way to get me to be mad at her so I”d leave her alone and therefor you could go after her”

He knew him so well, so well it truly fucked with him “Yeah” Marcel nodded “I let her go once and it ruined me and now she’s here and right now she wants nothing to do with me but I’ll give her that space and then I’ll fight, I’ll fight like I should’ve fought for her 3 years ago and this time, she’ll end with me” he looked in his older friends eyes “We’ll get that happy ending we both wanted”

Tim simply give a short nod as he sipped his water “Then go ahead”

Marcel looked around as he got up and left back to the locker room, not wanting to cause anymore awkwardness between them and sat by himself as he listened to music

“Well if it isn’t the life ruiner” Oney rolled his eyes as he stood in front of him “Are you happy with your actions ? With ruining the one thing giving Tim genuine happiness ?”

“Oney, please” he rubbed his face “This is something you don’t understand, don’t get involved”

“You ruined the one thing my friend wanted, I’m sure as hell gonna get involved you traitor” he shoved him

Marcel sighed “Don’t do this, I don’t have the energy to-” he stumbled back as he held his eye and groaned

“You deserve that and way fucking more” Oney spat out as he left ______________________________________________________________ Maya wiped her eyes for what seemed like the 500th time as she once again got sent to voicemail and let out a frustrated cry getting up when she assumed her takeout was delivered “I said to just leave it at the door” she whined putting on her hoodie “stop knocking !” she finally yelled as she opened the door ready to rage “I clearly said-” her eyes widened at the scene in front of her “what the hell happened to you ?” she asked

“Oney punched me” Marcel said quietly as he removed the ice bag he had and revealed a bruised and bloodied eye

“Oney ? That’s Tim’s friend” she said as he remembered his face from the gym

“Yes him, he punched me in the locker room for….for what happened” he said quietly “I needed to get out of there and the only place I could think of was here. I know you hate me and wish I was better off dead but I just had to come. I’ll leave though if you want me to”

Maya looked up at him as she opened her door and stepped aside “come in”

He stepped inside and sat down on her couch “I’m sorry, I am so so sorry” he whispered “I acted so selfishly”

“What’s done is done” she whispered “You unfortunately can’t take it back, and truth be told you were right” she admitted “I would’ve just kept waiting and waiting to tell him and let time pass by, in a way what you did benefited me more than anyone Marcel, you did the hardest part and all I had to do was explain myself”

He shrugged as he bit the inside of his cheek and looked up

“Don’t cry” Maya chuckled weakly “I’ve been crying since last night, and I’m positive I can cry for the both of us and this whole fiasco

“I’m not” he blinked away tears quickly

“You’re doing the thing, the cheek thing and looking up. You really think I wouldn’t forget how you try to hide emotions after all this time ? she scooted over as she gently patted his hand “You’re the ugliest crier too” she joked trying her best to lighten him up

Marcel gave a light laugh as he sniffled “You’re really good that you know ?”

Maya gave him a small grin as she dabbed his cheek with a tissue and got the alert of her food delivery “stay for dinner ?”

“Absolutely” he answered as he nodded. Sometimes life truly does work in weird weird ways.

#timothy thatcher #timothy thatcher x oc #timothy thatcher fic #marcel barthel #imperium #wrestling fic #wrestling imagine

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love, eternal. | ix

genre: reincarnation!au, fallen angel!au

[supernatural!au-ish, angst, use of blunts and intoxicants, extra asshole jaehyun, smut, vulgar words]

pairing: jung jaehyun x reader

words: 12k

note: loves, i will soon abandon this blog after this fic. because i don’t feel safe on here anymore. i posted a note as to why i need to leave this blog. but you could send me a message so i could inform you about my new @ if ever you’re interested to follow me there. thank u!

warnings: unprotected sex, orgasm denial, fingering [use protection, always loves!]

love, eternal playlist by @chanivity

“Till death do us part,

they say.

I say,

I will love you till this life to the next.

And if next life won’t grace me with you,

I will still love you till the next one,

and the next, and the next,

Till death finally give up on us.”

— cynthia go // Till death give up on us [62/365]

Ocean waves enwreathes the atmosphere you and Jaehyun shared. After your revelations, he dared not move an inch. Your heart aches as your hands continues to shake while you let the frenzy of pealing yourself off the truth wash your body: that you really are Aurora’s reincarnation, soul destined to love Jaehyun. If you were doubtful about your identity minutes ago, now you could feel it like the slap of a hand, painful in an alleviating way. There is no denying it no more, this is truly your fate. Yet the truth left a bitter tang in your mouth and a cumbersome baggage in your chest as you looked at Jaehyun and the pain in his eyes.

He does not believe you. What do you do with that truth?

“No,” He finally had the strength to speak after minutes of being taciturn. “No, Y/N.” Then he shook his head.

“What ‘no’, Jaehyun? What, ‘no’?” You asked, incredulous by how unbelieving he seemed to be. The winds carries an air that makes you shiver, strands of your hair sticking on your face as the saltwater mixed with the cool night air touches your skin. You held the scarf closer to your body.

“No. It couldn’t be,” he deferred. With that you winced. Every second of standing near him feels like a thousand needles in your heart.

“It couldn’t be? Then how would you explain my dreams that were all about her and you? For God’s sake, Jae, I don’t even know her,” your voice cracked. You have been forcing yourself not to crumble in front of him, you have no idea how long you could hold back. “She’s one hundred years older than me,” You wanted to nail the words into his mind, just so he could know that you are not lying about any of it. But still, Jaehyun held his ground, shaking his head at you like a dog that has emerged from the water.

“She’s on her deathbed, while you cry in the corner of her room. His father, mother, and a little girl kneeling around her—” You gulped by the painful memory, “begging for God to wake her up.” You weren’t sure if Jaehyun was still breathing. His face looks lymphatic, even his red lips looks wan under the moon.

For a second, you’ve decided whether to continue or finally put an end to his sufferings by walking away and leaving him be. But you remember how suffocating it was to keep all you have known to yourself, without anyone having the ability to decipher them. Now you have the chance to free yourself, and not even Jaehyun’s thunderstruck state could stop you.

“That doesn’t mean you’re the same person,” He said, voice toneless and flat. It shouldn’t hurt you to see him try to find ways to deny the truth that is laid in front of him, but it did. It hurts.

You wanted to tug on your hair out of frustration, but you only looked at him warily. “A lake,” Your voice sounded so desperate, trying to make him understand. You feel as if your lover has an amnesia, and you’re opening your heart out to make him remember you.

Still, you swallowed all the shame, “There’s a lake. Surrounded by wildflowers and butterflies. It gleams gold in daylight, silver under the moon.” You straightened your back, “In my second dream, I took a glance at the clear waters of it. Do you know what it showed me?” You breathed, Jaehyun silent in front of you, “Blue eyes, black hair, pale skin as yours.” You started to describe, Jaehyun’s eyes enlarging by every word.

If only he’d listen to you back in Johnny’s birthday revel, if only he’d actually lend you his attention— he wouldn’t be this dumbstruck right now. But that’s what he do best, right? Ignore and pretend that you were just a simple creature he would once forget when the time comes.

“As I knelt in the very edge of the lake, I heard voices. Different voices calling for Aurora. I didn’t know whose voices they belonged to,” Your lips started to tremble with you having no apparent reason, “But I heard… I heard your voice. ‘Aurora, come back to me’ you said.”

Jaehyun took a step backwards as he let the truth sink in. You stared at each other, not backing down. He looked so tormented as he stared at you. “How did you know that?” asked he.

“Because I am Aurora, Jaehyun. She told me we share the same soul,” Why do you even try at this point? He clearly does not want to believe you. Even after all that you’ve revealed.

“Did Chaelin tell you all this? Did she?” His eyes are frantic, and you’ve never wanted to slap someone so hard in that moment. You do not want to hurt him but if slapping him with all your strength would wake him up, you would.

Jaehyun knew the answer to his own question: he never once told Chaelin about his punishment, nor his name when Aurora was still alive. All of them— the netherworlders— they don’t know about Jaehyun’s real punishment. They do not know that he is tied to one soul, and that he would love a thousand faces as the soul lives. And they weren’t there when Aurora died. They couldn’t have known what happened inside her room. But you, you know. That rendered him obfuscated beyond reckoning.

“No, she does not. And I doubt she knows all of what I’ve said to you beside Aurora’s appearance,” you boldly told him. Courage like fire rousing in your chest. If Jaehyun would not believe you after all that you divulged to him, it is his own problem. But you can’t— will not— throw Aurora’s last memory away of reminding who you truly are. In her eyes, you saw a woman who’s loved Jaehyun with all her heart, and for that you owe her to tell him the truth.

“This couldn’t be,” he proclaimed. He ran a hand through his hair and on his face, an exasperated sigh escaping his lips. You are aggravated yourself, too. The conversation has taken up a lot of your energy already.

“Jaehyun, aren’t you happy?” You asked him with a bitter smile, “Aren’t you happy that after all these years of waiting for me, I am here now?” Then the tear finally drop on the sand. A sob threatens to resonate from your lips, making you swallow the thorns prickling your throat to stop it from breaking free.

He fixed his gaze at you as if your question was some sort of a jest he did not find funny. In his knitted brows and wounded expression you knew the answer.

“We have to stop now, Y/N. No matter what you call this thing between us, we have to put an end to it.” He uttered, not looking at you but the sand underneath his soles. The shattering of your heart was so loud in your ears that you weren’t certain you heard him right.

A degree of petulance made its way past your lips when you finally understood what he meant, “So this is how it ends?” Despite the cold of the night, you couldn’t help but feel the sweats forming in your forehead as a certain kind of heat enveloped your body. Perhaps it was shame, anger, uncertainty. You have no time to ponder for you wanted to dash away from him as fast as you could.

“I would never wish to see you in danger because of me. I am left with no choice, Y/N.” His hands are curled onto his sides, his breath agonizingly ragged.

With that you gazed at him and right into his face, “You do have a choice, Jaehyun. And you’ve chosen to fear something that hasn’t happened yet. On top of all that, you chose to be a coward.” You spat, turned your back away from him, and walked back to the mansion with traitorous tears falling down your cheeks.

Jaehyun did not attempt to follow you.

—

“Thank you, Doyoung. For your kindness, I will forever be thankful.” You enveloped the tall man into a hug, a sign of gratitude for all that he did for you and your sister.

The time has come to finally drive back home. To continue life just how it’s always been. To forget the fear, the chaos, and the heartaches of yesterday. The boys lined just below the stairs leading to the front door of Doyoung’s mansion to bid their goodbyes. Jaehyun was nowhere in sight, and you’ve guessed it’s better that way. You’ll never know what to expect from your shattered yet stubborn heart if you ever see his face today. You doubt you could walk away from him the second time.

“The stone. Just break it if you ever need any protection,” reminded Doyoung. He gave both you and Yuqi a lapis-lazuli stone that is actually made of glass. According to him, the stone would emit a smoke of protection whenever something or someone tries to harm you both, you only need to break it and Doyoung would surely arrive in your house once the stone shattered.

“Thank you, DY.” Yuqi hugged the man, the nickname she gave him slightly startling you. But that is Yuqi, she’s easy to get along with everyone once she feels comfortable around them. Then she moved on to Lucas, there’s a certain look they both shared before they nodded at each other. It’s affection. You know that. That’s how Jaehyun looked at you when you were in Paris. But that is like a sand of memories now, no matter how you cling on to it, it will find its way to slip from your fingers. And the feeling you both shared back in those happy times needs to be buried.

“You could get by our house whenever you’re free. I’ll cook for all of you,” you told them with a chuckle. They whistled in unison and told you it’s a great idea. Hopefully, they’d all fit inside the small space of your apartment.

“Y/N, I’ll visit whenever I can.” That was Chaelin, smiling while holding both your shoulders. Suddenly, you felt melancholic as you stood face to face with her. It’s difficult to say goodbye to Chaelin more than anyone else in the mansion— except for Jaehyun. There’s a tug in your heart as you hugged her close to you, whispering a silent goodbye in her ear. No, it wasn’t like you’re not going to see each other again. But the vibe and the feeling of living with them for almost one week made you miss having a complete family. You were certain Yuqi felt the same too.

“You’re always welcome in our home.” With that, she wiped a tear from her eye and guided you towards the car.

Johnny and Mark awaited you inside the vehicle; Johnny in the driver’s seat, Mark on the bullet. They volunteered to drive you back home last night to make sure no danger awaits you home.

“Where is Jaehyun?” You heard Taeyong asked as you sat on the seat near the window. He searched for him into the crowd of men waving their hands at you.

Last night was a whirlwind of revelations and hearts falling into the sand, making you cry your heart out until your eyes closed in their own accord because of exhaustion. Your mind tells you it couldn’t afford to see Jaehyun without you crumbling and crying again, yet you also couldn’t help but roam your eyes searching for the dimpled guy, too. Nobody knows where Jaehyun is— that’s for certain— for they shrugged at Taeyong’s question.

“Bye!” Yuqi waved at the boys. The tires of the vehicle slowly rolled to the outskirts of Doyoung’s mansion. But as you closed the window of the vehicle, a figure standing at the very edge of the yard, near the gathering of trees to the forests, caught your attention.

Your eyes locked. The absence of the familiar wrath in his irises jolted you in your seat. All that was left in Jaehyun’s eyes was misery and pain as he raised his hand to tell you goodbye.

On the ride back home, Yuqi entertained you about her conversation with Soojin: her reaction the moment she knew you were safe and taken care of, and the anger she held for Yuta that won’t be appeased even in a thousand years. But you warned Yuqi about telling Soojin the truth of the netherworlders. Soojin deserves the truth, but the reality of the nature of the netherworlders was not yours to tell. It was nerve-racking and mind-boggling to concoct a story that would satisfy Soojin’s curiosity and concern. However, you were glad and privately sorry when she accepted your fabrication of the truth about your imprisonment in Fairie and how you were literally brought back to life from the depths of being dead. All the tortuously magical endeavors you’ve been through for the past few days you’ve decided to hide from Soojin— for her own sake and sanity.

As you passed through the grove of trees, you could not help but remember what transpired between you and Jaehyun to the shore last night. Was it a mistake to reveal yourself to him? But what other things you would’ve possibly done if not to tell him the truth? Would your conscience let you sleep at night if you’ve decided to hang the truths inside your body and let it rot there without telling Jaehyun? But the putrescence of it inside your body might have only poisoned you further.

It was better this way, you whispered to yourself. Because now you know— now you know— that Jaehyun has no plans to uphold his feelings towards you. He made that clear last night.

Yet every time you think about it, it feels like salt in your wound, acid in your tongue, splinters in your ankles. It hurts, that was the simple term for it. You have no idea that you could be this hurt because of an almost— an almost life, an almost love, and an almost story. Almost is better than never— yet it still hurts like bitch because it was so close to being real. You fight the urge to cry inside the vehicle— beside your sister, in the presence of Johnny and Mark— because that’d would be hilariously embarrassing. And aren’t you tired of crying? Aren’t you weak of draining the waters in your body by weeping? So you pretend, that you understand what Yuqi has told you. You pretended that you heard her stories even though it’s been painstakingly hard to focus in the reality ever since last night.

In every veer and turn of the vehicle, the streets became slowly familiar. Then the car came to a halt in front of your apartment. Home. It was small, and old, and the ceiling drips water whenever it rains hard, but it was the memory of happy times when your mother was still alive. It is the remaining symbolism of the family you and Yuqi once had before fate twisted its fingers and made a joke out of your lives.

Your body feels unencumbered by pain and pressure as your little home looms in front of your eyes. Johnny and Mark helped you carry the two duffel bags that contains your clothes you wore that were given by Chaelin, and Yuqi’s own belongings. The faint familiar smell of the house wafted your nose as the door creaked open, revealing the living room that you missed and the short hallway to the kitchen. After placing the bags in the corner of the room, you offered the two men drinks and lunch which they’d nicely refused. Johnny and Mark did not linger too long after they made sure you were safe in the house.

“I missed this,” Yuqi declared as she let her body fall on the sofa— dreamy eyes watching the patchy ceilings above.

“Yeah, I do too.” You smiled as you, yourself, sat beside her. The both of you stared at the blotches on the ceilings that were a result of dried rainwater, there are at least five of it— a bittersweet reminder of how you tend to this house like your life depended on it, and how it holds the phantom memories of your family with its creaky interiors.

“Do you think… our lives would’ve been different if father did not abandon us?” Yuqi whispered. The question made you shrugged. You were just six years old then, when your father turned his back on you, your mother, and on Yuqi to go to a place no one in your family knew. Your mother said he was working in a faraway land; typical reason to help ease the sadness and longing of a children for a father. Just like any twisted, dramatic operas in televisions, your father never returned. Not even a trace of his shadow was seen in your mother’s wake.

The memory of him was a cloud of dust in your mind— too blurry to describe, too wasteful to remember.

“I don’t think so,” you answered. Honestly speaking, you couldn’t even recall how he looked like. And you guessed he does not have the liberty to be remembered when he had forgotten his kids for many years himself.

You reached for Yuqi’s hand and held it tight with yours; a silent thanks for all that she’s done to you. Months ago, you’d only viewed her as a little girl who needs your protection. But how quickly the tables had turned.

She then turned her head towards you, “How are you and Jaehyun?” There was sheepishness in her eyes as she asked you the question.

Surprisingly, you’ve anticipated that your conversation would fall about you and Jaehyun’s stand in each other’s lives that it didn’t rattle you anymore when Yuqi asked. “Apart,” was your curt answer.

Yuqi’s face twisted in a scowl, “Doubt it.”

“Doubt it?” It was your turn to move and shot your brow upward at her.

“Yes. ‘Apart’ wasn’t what I’ve expected after all that’s happened,” said she, quoting the air with her fingers. “I was wrong about him. He isn’t vicious, y’know. He cares about you.”

“Doubt it,” Then a toneless chuckle.

“No, he does. You’ve never seen him as he lose his mind the moment your chest stopped moving. I thought he would strangle DY here and there. And his scream,” Yuqi winced by the memory, “I seriously thought his scream would turn the whole mansion to dust.” Then she shivered.

It’s the second time you’ve heard about it from Yuqi. Yet the shivers and the prickles never lessened as she spoke about the incident again. Nobody in the mansion spoke to you about it. But Yuqi is your sister, so without asking, she told you about Jaehyun’s demeanor when you apparently died; the way he shouted at Doyoung to try and wake you up again, and how he ran from all the mayhem to go to a place he did not bother telling Yuqi.

“I think he loves you,” Yuqi smiled.

The sound was like a melodic chirping of birds in an open meadow, or the silent waves of the ocean under the stars. It was like a fantasy. But that what makes it painful— it was really just a fantasy. Jaehyun laid his heart open to you by admitting that he loves you. But he also stated— wished— in clear cadence that he wants nothing to do with the love he has for you. A jest, you would’ve called it. Jaehyun, trying to run from his feelings is a joke that didn’t make you laugh.

You snapped out of your trance and stood up from your seat, “Let’s eat?”

Yuqi obliged without a word. And just like that, you’ve prevented yourself from weeping in front of your little sister.

—

“Resignation?” Jaehyun looked at the paper you laid on his desk one Monday morning. Your back was rigid, your chest puffing out, eyes staring straight at the view on his back. You slowly nodded at him.

After days of thinking about it, you’ve finally decided to leave Jung’s Fiscals. Those agonizing days of working with Jaehyun as if you’re not the reincarnated version of his lover, and as if he’s not tied to you and you to him was like a taste of hell. You thought you’d be used to the pain if only you compose and force yourself not to dwell in your heartache, but that didn’t happen. In every day that you see him enter his office, in his usual suit and scowl, you couldn’t help but fall in love even harder.

But loving Jaehyun was like taking care of a snake; no matter how invested you’ve become in taking care of it, the nature of it to bite and poison you will never fade.

“Yes, Sir.” You pronounced succinctly, back still rigid.

You heard him sigh, his fingers pressed to his temple. “Is it because of me?” He finally asked.

The corners of your eyes seared in an instant, a familiar lump wrapping your throat tight. You gulped, trying your very best to make your voice stable. “This resignation isn’t about you Sir,” You cleared your throat. That was a lie of course, a huge part of the reason was because you couldn’t stand to look at him and not be allowed to hold him close to you. The other reason was the realization. “Well, not entirely. I also want this so I can pursue my passion in arts.” To be where I belonged to. That is your realization.

Yes, a museum will never provide you the incentives Jung’s Fiscals offers. But at least, in there, you will find solace, contentment, and freedom. Solace, since you will never have to worry about facing Jaehyun every day again. Contentment and freedom because you know in your heart that a museum is where you truly belonged. Not in the prim-and-proper standards the company wants. At least, in a museum, you could express yourself, be free of your emotions, through drawing and painting.

“Is there…” he paused, “…is there anything I could do to make you stay?” He stared at you through the stacks of documents laid before him. His absence for almost one week tripled the work placed on his table. You felt guilty, since you know it’s your fault why he’s got a lot of work to do. You would even feel more rueful for the bags under his eyes and the wan color of his face, if not for the certainty that you looked wasted just like him.

You let his question sink in your mind, tasting the hope laced with it with bitter tongue. It almost sounded like a cruel joke. Here he is asking whether he could do something to stop you from resigning, when he made it clear that you must put an end to whatever connects you both. But then, you wanted to ask him, how do you dissever a destiny that is tattooed to your very soul?

“I don’t think there is,” You slightly shake your head. But you know, in your heart, one word from him and you’d withdraw your attempt to resign. One word.

Yet he only sighed pensively, “Alright, Y/N. I wish you all the best,” He looked straight in your eyes then, “You deserve the world, Y/N.”

With that, you let out a petulant chortle. “Thank you, Sir.” Then you turned your back on him. The possibility of you and him in this lifetime sinking like a forgotten ship in the deepest parts of the ocean.

I wish you all the best. You could have laughed. The last person who wished you all the good things poisoned you. Do you believe him when he said those words like a prayer? Not even one bit. Because he has all the ability to give the best— the world— to you, but he chose not to. You could’ve given him all of you, too, if only you both didn’t stop in almost.

—

“Where is Jaehyun?”

Taeyong seems to always search for Jaehyun in the crowd, Chaelin mumbled to herself. Lucifer is on a spree of not attending the meetings of netherworlders. Not that he is one, but when he gathered the netherworlders to bring peace and order in the human world, all of the men surrounding Chaelin has paid him reverence ever since. Technically, Jaehyun is the leader. And without a leader, every assembly is a chaos.

The never-ending shouting of Lucas, Haechan, and Hendery, and the contagious laugh of Mark as the three spoke yet another jest was too overwhelming for Chaelin’s delicate ears. All she wished for right now is Jaehyun to arrive so the ruckus of laughters, throwing foods, and vulgar gestures would finally come to an end.

“Chaelin, did you call him already?” Doyoung asked before taking a bite of his pizza.

“I did. But I couldn’t understand what was he saying.” She sighed out of frustration. Her last phone call with Jaehyun was a mixture of statics and grumbled voice. She’s certain he’s been drinking all night again by the few sluggish words she’d pick up from the call.

He became like that ever since you came back to your house; intoxicated, wasted, and even high. For the thousand years Chaelin has been with him, not even with Aurora’s passing he showed the vulnerability he has now. He was always distant back then, not talking much, but he never drowned himself in alcohol. He vowed not to forget the pain but remember it without the help of any intoxicants.

Something happened between the two of you, Chaelin was certain. Yet she wasn’t sure whether to stick her nose into your business or leave Jaehyun to his own dilemmas.

“What is up with him?” Doyoung asked through knitted brows. “It’s so unlike him to not attend our assemblies,” Then he shook his head before patting the corners of his mouth with a napkin.

“Started when Y/N left,” Johnny chided in with a pizza in hand. “The man’s losing his mind, I’m telling you.”

“Johnny, that’s not so nice,” Kun commented from beside Chaelin. Johnny shrugged and chugged down a box of juice. “I’m sure he’s only letting out some steam,” he added.

“Well, it’s been one week since he’s letting out the ‘steam’,” Ten quoted the air. “I think we need to check up on him to see if he’s still alive,”

“Are we really talking about this? He’s Lucifer, he does not die.” Haechan, from Chaelin-has-no-idea where, suddenly chimed in before snatching the last piece of pizza.

“He does. He could die. He’s not invincible.” Taeyong stated, word by word, trying to make the younger ones understand that Jaehyun is really on his verge of dying. Then he added, “Well, not with alcohol. I don’t think that could kill him.”

“What about hospitalized?” Jisung spoke, his question laced with innocence, that Chaelin couldn’t help but pinch the young boy on his cheek. He let out a pained sound, causing her to pinch his other cheek until it turned pinkish.

“Hospitalized? We’re here to act as his docto—” Jaemin was cut off by the loud bang of the door in the living room.

All of them in the kitchen exchanged glances— Haechan’s pizza frozen halfway in his mouth— then they dashed outside to see the commotion.

The poker cards played by Lucas, Yangyang, and Hendery were forgotten as they stare at the man chugging down a bottle of liquor in front of them. They sat open-mouthed as they all take in the image of Jung Jaehyun.

His hair seemed like it hasn’t been reunited with a comb since. His tie hanging loose around his neck, few buttons of his long-sleeve polo were open to reveal a little of his chest. It could’ve been a pleasant sight, but not for Chaelin. This is not Jaehyun. She stomped her feet towards him and snatched the bottle out of his grasp. He played shocked for a moment, which infuriated Chaelin even further.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” She hissed, pointing at the cascading liquor down his chin and to his neck, “You looked so fucking wrecked,”

The man only raised his brow at her, his whole face ruddy from intoxicants. “’Cause I am.” Then he pointed at himself. “I am fucking wrecked!” He shouted, she started from her position by how startling the shout was. The miasma of liquor in Jaehyun’s breath whiffing at Chaelin’s nostrils.

She saw in her peripheral how Johnny and Taeyong attempted to walk towards them, but halted when they heard Jaehyun laughed.

“Told you, he’s insane.” She heard Johnny whisper, then was nudged in the ribs by Taeyong.

Jaehyun laughed, but there wasn’t a trace of exuberance in his voice. It was contaminated with a poisonous bitterness that made Chaelin’s heart lurched.

Lucas and Hendery started to laugh with Jaehyun. Chaelin assumed the two men doesn’t want him to feel left out, so they joined in his merriment albeit not knowing the reason of his laughter. They laughed, and was slowly joined by the others as well. The whole house was filled with laughter, not until Jaehyun started to sob.

Chaelin wanted to slap herself out of this scene. Jaehyun sobbing? What kind of drug is he on? The sound was in between laughters and cries that she had a hard time distinguishing it.

Before anyone could blink, Jaehyun has stormed out of the house already. Chaelin’s first instinct was to follow him, which she did.

“Jaehyun!” She shouted. The man stopped in his tracks, his back turned to face Chaelin. “Jaehyun, what happened?” She dared touch his shoulder and whirled him to face her. His crying has stopped now, but there were still fresh tears coming out of his eyes.

“Y/N,” was his croak. “I love her.” Then his mouth trembled. Chaelin’s heart hurts from the view. And she did the most human thing she was capable in that moment— she hugged Jaehyun. He laid his chin on her shoulder, his sob reverberating from his throat. “I love her,” He whispered in between cries.

Chaelin’s own tears slid down her cheeks as she pats the man’s back, “I know. I know.”

The man continued to weep in her shoulder, then he slightly shook from his cries, trying to catch up on his breath, “She’s Aurora,”

“What?” She asked, her hands on Jaehyun’s shoulder. The whole man’s face was wet with both tears and sweat.

“She’s Aurora,” He repeated.

“Yes, I heard you. But— but how?” Even though Chaelin’s whole life circulated in the supernatural and mystery, she could not help but be baffled by Jaehyun’s revelation.

“Father…” Jaehyun inhaled then exhaled, trying to catch his breath from all the tears he’s shed. “Father punished me…” When Chaelin noticed that Jaehyun could not speak, she guided her towards the bench in Doyoung’s yard. In there, Jaehyun continued to sob, his shoulders vibrating from his mewls.

She felt the presence of the netherworlders in her back. So she turned around and saw them pressed into the glass panes of Doyoung’s living room, all anticipating and waiting for what’s going to happen next. Chaelin glared at them, then they scurried off and continued their games. But their eyes are still straying to where Chaelin and Jaehyun sat.

She sighed and focused on patting Jaehyun’s back instead, “What about Father?” The name sounded strange in Chaelin’s lips. Jaehyun and Chaelin are the only creatures in the circle of netherworlders who calls the Almighty their Father. It reminds her of the connection the both of them has that they don’t share with any netherworlders; their bond as brother and sister who came from the omnipotence of God, Himself.

It took Jaehyun minutes before calming down, but when he did, he spoke while hiccuping still. Albeit being older than Chaelin, the woman felt like she was taking care of her little brother in that moment.

“Father…” Then he hiccuped, “My exile from heaven isn’t my only punishment,” His eyes looks so depthless as he speaks, “Thou shall bear a love for one soul in a thousand faces. And suffer as the face cease to exist but the soul, perpetually.” It sounded more of a recitation than his actual words.

“What does that mean?”

Jaehyun looked at her with bloodshot eyes, “I will love one soul in my eternity. But that soul will live in a thousand faces as time passes by. Since mortal lives are fleeting, and they don’t live for long. Aurora’s body withered, her face died, but the soul didn’t.” His lips quivered again. Chaelin’s eyes seared with threatening tears as she remembered Aurora. “And now…” Jaehyun gritted his teeth, his breathing worn out, and right there Chaelin saw the raw pain in his eyes.

“And now Y/N has the soul,” Chaelin continued for him, “She is Aurora’s reincarnation.” The words came out as a whisper. Jaehyun nodded while covering his face with his hands. Chaelin slumped back in the bench while processing Jaehyun’s avowal.

“Oh my God,” Chaelin finally let the words sink in. A trickle of shiver covering her whole body. “Oh my God, Jaehyun!” Then she beamed. “Y/N is Aurora!” She shook his body, her smile stretching up to her ears.

“Yes, she is.” Jaehyun mumbled, forlorn reflecting in his pupils. His reaction was unexpected. He should be happy.

“Why… why aren’t you happy?”

Jaehyun chuckled, but it didn’t sound joyful. “How could I? She’s going to die because of me.” His words are full of contempt for himself.

“What? How?” Chaelin couldn’t help but ask him. His answer was simple but it sent a labyrinth of questions in her mind.

“Aurora died, when she knew about my punishment. Now Y/N knows it. She’s gonna die, Chaelin! Because of me!” Jaehyun said through clenched teeth. He wanted to shout, that was obvious. But he also doesn’t want to cause a scene, he doesn’t want the boys inside the house to see him weak.

Aurora died of an illness. She inherited it from her grandmother. Jaehyun could not possibly do anything about that. But then Chaelin remembered the nights, when Jaehyun stared at nothingness, mumbling at himself that it was his fault why Aurora died. Chaelin didn’t understand then, but now she does.

“Jaehyun, we both know that Aurora died because she had tuberculosis. She got it from her grandmother—”

“Do you really think it’s because of that?” Jaehyun asked while staring at his hands.

“Yes. I do think it’s because of that,” She rests her hand on Jaehyun’s shoulder, “Y/N is healthy. Jaehyun, what are you scared of?”

“Healthy, yes. But there’s a lot of ways for a mortal to die. She was poisoned not one week ago, Chae! You saw how her chest ceased moving,” He hopelessly told Chaelin.

The memory of you dying sent shivers down her spine. Now she knows why her system reacted the way it did when you died on the bed. A part of her knew that something about you is precious to her.

“So, what now?” Chaelin crossed her arms, “Oh, no. Don’t tell me,” she held up a hand when Jaehyun attempted to speak, “I know exactly what you’ll do, or what you already did. You pushed her away like some douchebag in a cliché novel,” she snorted. She took Jaehyun’s silence as a yes. By that, Chaelin’s eyes rolled back from her head she feared it won’t come back to normal.

“Jesus Christ Jae, what year is it? It’s not the 1800’s anymore.” Chaelin scolded him.

“You don’t understand,” was his laconic reply. With his response, Chaelin stood, aimed, and smack him on his head. She then heard loud gasps coming from inside the house. Jaehyun looked at her aghast. If someone else did that to him, he would definitely burn that person to ashes. But not her. She’s Lilith, and she does not cower in front of a man.

“I do understand, Jaehyun. But you, you don’t. Imagine? You were ready to give your life for Aurora. But now that she’s back, you’re scurrying like a scared teenage boy caught drooling by his crush.” Chaelin inhaled, “Yuta. He’s the reason why Y/N was poisoned. It wasn’t yours. Stop sulking and bearing the world in your shoulders when you can share your burden to others— to us.” She looked at the man with gleaming eyes, “Y/N loves you, Jae. You love her. Both of you deserves to be happy. Don’t take that happiness away from her or from yourself.”

Jaehyun recovered from the smack, and now staring at the forest in front of them. “What if she’d be in danger again?”

Chaelin rolled her eyes for the second time that night, “Well, we’re not your family for nothing! Of course, we will protect her for you.”

“But… she resigned from the company. And, she’s angry at me. What do I do?”

Never in a million years Chaelin expected to see Jaehyun like this: like a teenage-boy nervous to talk to the girl he adores. It was both adorable and infuriating. Adorable, because, he is Lucifer— it’s not in his nature to be shy and uncertain. Infuriating, because, he is Lucifer— he could do almost anything but here he is cowering because he vexed you.

Chaelin forced him to stand by pulling his shoulder upwards, “You’re Lucifer. What would Lucifer do?”

He shook his head, but a ghost of a smile has already crept up in his lips. “No. I am Jaehyun. And what would Jaehyun do?”

—

A cold morning greeted you as you opened your eyes, you still wanted to snuggle in the comforts of your mattress, but the reality has been shaking your body ever since last night. The reality of a new life— without needing to pull on your secretary uniforms. Your resignation had gone smoothly, Jaehyun didn’t give you any parting words when he caught you packing up your things in a box. But you forced yourself to accept that part. It’s alright. Not that you expected him to beg you not to go.

Jaehyun’s aura had been incredibly flushed and clear the last few days of you in his company. It seemed like he’s already used to the barrier separating your souls apart. Of course, it left a pang in your chest to see that he’s already moved on and you’re still in the same pit— trying to save yourself by drinking soju like it’s water every day. But for today, you’ll need to skip liquor.

It’s your first day of work in the museum thirty-minutes away from home. You’ll work as an archivist. The pay is obviously much smaller than what you usually receive at Jung’s Fiscals, but it’s revitalizing to work in a field that you could roam even with your eyes closed. Art is your second identity. Or third. Yourself being the first, your past life as Aurora the second. And then the art.

After showering, you’ve made yourself comfortable wearing your usual jeans and a hoodie (because it’s cold outside), and put on a little make-up before departing your room and walking straight to the kitchen. Yuqi was nowhere to be found, but there’s a note on the table that says she’s gone to school already. You shrugged and checked the food she prepared.

You aimed to seat on one of the chairs when you heard a knock on the door. Automatically, you searched for something sharp you could use to hurt whoever bad person stands at the other side of it. It was an instinct both you and Yuqi has practiced since your abduction in Fairie.

You kept the small knife in the pockets of your hoodie before sauntering up to the door. With the knife clutched in your hand, you veered the door open.

“Hi,” Chaelin greeted while shivering. You blinked and felt instantly ashamed of pocketing a small knife to use for her.

“Chaelin!” You start, “Come in,”

She shook her head, “Am I bothering you? It’s your first day of work, right?”

You don’t have any idea how she knew that information, but you nodded still.

“Perfect! I could drive for you, and hopefully we could sit for a coffee…?”

Your head spontaneously nodded at her, “Sure! I still have an hour before work so I think it won’t be a problem,”

Chaelin beamed at you. You quickly kept the untouched food to the oven, and grabbed your bag in the room. It was cold outside, but thankfully, Chaelin’s car was parked near your apartment.

The ride was full of little chit-chats about the weather and how were you after all that’s happened. But you’re not that naïve to know that the conversation would soon end up to Jaehyun.

The coffee shop was five-minutes away from the museum. You could easily trekked the distance up to the building without Chaelin having to take you there.

“I won’t take up too much of your time, Y/N.” Chaelin started once your order arrived.

A slight jump in your heart jolted through your body by her sentence but you kept silent and waited for her to continue.

“Jaehyun told me… about— about everything,” With that, you looked at her, unable to react. “I know you’re Aurora— well, her reincarnated version.” She chuckled softly. “I knew it. You really looked and felt familiar the moment I had the chance to socialize with you at Johnny’s party,”

She’s reached for your hand on the table, “I’m sorry. For not listening then.”

You smiled and squeezed her hand back, “It’s okay. I know it sounded out-of-the-blue.”

“You could say that. But I should’ve known by then that something was up,” she shook her head. “Jaehyun… I know what he did.”

There goes the name that could bury your heart six feet under. “Yes. He doesn’t want anything to do with me,” You smiled bitterly. No matter how many times you hear the truth from your own lips, it still has the same painful effect in your whole body.

“He’s fucked up,” Chaelin stated, “He really has. But I hope you give him a chance. He’s just… scared for you.” She added.

“Scared? I know I look weak, but I am capable of protecting myself. At least, after all that’s happened.”

“I know, Y/N, I know.” She breathed, like she’s preparing herself for a story. “When Aurora— when you died one hundred years ago, he was utterly devastated. Yet he did not say a word. He accepted the pain of it all. I know it’s puzzling to know that he’s not happy to know that you are Aurora,” She frowned, “But I can assure you he’s just scared. Of the possibilities of you dying. Of you being taken away from him again. I don’t think he could survive it the second time, Y/N.”

You rolled your lip between your teeth, “But I am here. I am safe. I know I am safe.”

“Yes. You are. As long as we live Y/N, you are safe. But I do hope you could understand where Jaehyun is coming from. He might’ve been successful in hiding his feelings about Aurora’s passing, but I know deep in his heart that he wanted to end his life when she died.

“Do you know what kept him alive? I thought it was the uncertainty of what lies for him in the afterlife. You know, we came from the divinity of God, both of us. Yet we still share the same struggles as netherworlders. Mortals has branded us as evils, but they do not understand that we are capable of love and compassion. I know, for sure, many of us had thought about killing themselves of the weariness of being immortal, but they couldn’t do it. None of us knows what lies for us beyond this life. Do we go to hell? Is it possible for us to be accepted in heaven? Or do we return to dust, without a chance to be reincarnated again?”

You didn’t realize you’ve been holding your breath until she looked at you. Being a mortal restricted you to think about the things Chaelin uttered. Yet when she looked at you, you understood. You understood the fear and the burden of being immortal and the abomination from humans that comes with it.

“I thought Jaehyun was afraid of dying, but now I understand. I understand that he’s clung onto that hope of seeing Aurora again. He had a light at the end of the tunnel; that is you.” Then she wiped a tear that rolled down her cheek.

“I know he’s afraid. But I could see the fire and courage in your eyes, Y/N. And sometimes, the woman has to be brave because the man could not.”

—

“What do you think? Do I put it here or there near the entrance?” asked Leila, the Exhibit Designer of the museum. Two men behind her carries a large abstract painting, waiting for Leila’s order to where they’d place the canvas.

You blink away the thoughts that’s been occupying your mind for days as you try to focus on Leila’s question. “Hmmm… I think it’d be better if we place it here. Little bit away from the entrance. So when the people turn around the corner, they will see this abstract canvas first.” You smiled. Leila gave you a tap on the shoulder and a wink before continuing on her work.

You carry on with your stroll towards the main office of the museum, there are still a lot of documents and artifacts that needs to be collected. While walking, you spare a glance on your wrist watch: seven-fifty p.m., ten minutes before you’d call it a day.

It’s been days since your conversation with Chaelin, but you still did not make a move to call Jaehyun. Nor he to contact you. Yes, you’ve realized a lot of things, and probably understood the fear that’s weighing down on Jaehyun’s shoulder, but you still felt hesitant to make the first move. Not that you value your ego, but you were still unsure of what to tell him. And it’s obvious that Jaehyun has a lot more to say than you, so you decided to wait for his call instead.

You laid the other four documents on your table along with three more stacks of paper. It’s only five minutes until you can go home. All your co-workers has already left the premises, leaving you alone in the office with Leila. After fixing your table, which left a familiar tug in your heart by remembering how you’d fixed your own in Jung’s Fiscals before going home, you sauntered up to the comfort room adjacent to the office to check on yourself. With a little fix on your hair, and a little pigment on your lips, you looked like a decent human being again.

“Did you bring an umbrella? It’s raining pretty hard outside,” Leila announced as you exit the comfort room. The heavy rain could be heard splashing in the big windows of the office.

“Yes. Gladly, I took a glance at the weather forecast earlier,” you chuckled.

“Is it okay if I go along with you? I forgot my umbrella,” Leila winced. You nodded at her then you both departed the office.

The rain was heavier without the protection of roof and ceiling that the museum provided. It’s certain both of you would get soaked once you arrived at the bus stop. And you did get soaked on your sleeves and a little bit on your back.

“I’m sorry,” Leila apologized while offering you her own tissue. You gladly took a thin roll from it to pat your arms dry.

She got on the bus first before you do. There was a bit of traffic but after forty-minutes, you made it home.

“You’re wet.” Yuqi declared once you stepped in the living room. You shrugged and sauntered up to your room to get clean clothes before walking to the bathroom to shower. Before you could lock the bathroom door, there was a knock in your main door in the living room.

You peeked at Yuqi and she was already strolling towards the door holding a knife in hand. From your position behind the bathroom door, you couldn’t make up the face of the person. But he has black hair, and a sexy voice. You shrugged before locking the door, but stopped when you remember a person who has the same black hair and cadence of voice.

Jaehyun.

You quickly wore your wet upper clothes and dashed to the living room. Jaehyun was talking to Yuqi with knitted brows, but then he roamed his eyes around the house. Then his gazed locked with yours. He mumbled something to Yuqi, you didn’t hear the words because of the noise of the rain.

Your heart wanted to come out of your chest seeing his familiar face again. But a pinch from Yuqi broke your eye contact with him.

“I said you weren’t home yet! Why did you show yourself?” she whispered through gritted teeth.

Days ago, you told Yuqi about everything. It’s been bottling up inside you, and your secrets badly wanted release. You told her about your dreams, about Aurora, about all the things cryptic and unbelievable for a human being. But out of all the confidential things you’ve told her, the truth about Jaehyun’s real identity was what unnerved her the most. She couldn’t believe that Lucifer is in love with you, and vice versa.

You pinched her back and told her to go to the kitchen which she obliged with a glare at Jaehyun.

“What are you doing here?” You tried to sound disinterested and cold. But if someone who knew you very well would witness your body language right now, they’d doubt the aloofness of your voice.

Jaehyun did not move from his position behind the door. His half-body covered with the wood, while his whole head peering at the space. “Can I talk to you for ten minutes?” He pleaded. With his eyes.

It was enough to put you on your knees but you straightened your back and cleared your throat.

“No.”

“Five minutes?”

“No.”

“One minute, chérie? Please.”

What could he possibly explain in one minute? Well, you will never know if you don’t let him. So you nodded, as slightly as possible. There’s not a lot of room for the both of you to talk, so with a thudding heart and frenzied nerves, you guided him towards your own room.

—

Jaehyun took in the view of your bedroom. It was tiny, but it fitted you perfectly. The room smelled like chemicals with a hint of your own scent. Different sketches were plastered on the one side of your wall, almost covering its space. Then variety of canvas sizes were on the other corner of the room. There were finished and unfinished ones.

Specks of dried paint could be seen in your drawers, in your floor, and walls. But it didn’t look dirty or disorganized. It almost looked like a little museum.

“Is that me?” Jaehyun asked as he saw one of the sketches on the walls. It was indeed a sketch of his face and the biggest paper plastered on your wall.

You did not answer his question, “Your one minute is running.” You announced as you crossed your arms and leaned your body on your drawer.

Jaehyun blinked, “Yes. Y/N, first of all, I’m sorry for hurting you. I’m sorry for being a coward. I’m sorry for pushing you away and making you feel like I am not deserving of your love.” He paused, catching his breath.

A low chuckle reverberated from your throat as you look at him breathing heavily. “Go on.”

“I love you, Y/N.” He sincerely hoped that you still believe him, but your face betrayed no emotion as he said the words. “I think my one minute’s done.” A bitter smile was painted on his face. He took a step towards the door, but you raised your hand to stop him.

“My turn,” You inhaled, “I’m sorry for always burdening you with my naïveté. I’m sorry if I ever made you feel alone. I’m sorry for walking away. I’m sorry for leaving you one hundred years ago,” Then you exhaled. Your eyes were gleaming with unshed tears as you finished and looked at him. “I love you too, Jaehyun.”

He could swear his own tears were threatening to come out when you said the words. An unfamiliar happiness swelling in his heart as he held your face. There are still a lot of unsaid words and thoughts between the two of you, and this scene might not what he has expected— but he was glad. So glad he could cry.

Your relationship with him was far from perfect. There are still jagged edges that needs tending. There are still promises that needs to be said. But all that Jaehyun wanted to do right now is to seize this moment. So without another thought, he cupped your face with his palms and kissed you tenderly.

You tugged him closer to you, kissing him with enough fervor that sent a type of pleasure in his system. Breathless, he continued to kiss you in a needy way like his life depends on it, the feel of your lips against his sent his body shuddering with pleasure. Then he picked you up, your back now pressed against the wall, your legs wrapped in his waist.

He shoved his hips against yours, emitting a shaky moan from your lips. It ignited the pleasure burning in his chest brighter, until he couldn’t hold himself back anymore. Jaehyun’s kisses went down your neck, causing you to throw your head back against the wall. He languidly continued to pressed his hard on against your center. And now you’re raking at his hair, your nails digging at his clothes, all while ragged moans escapes your throat.

Then Jaehyun stopped to look at your sweat beaded face, a whimper from your throat by the lack of contact with his body. A protest froze halfway down your throat when Jaehyun breathed near your lips, then he shoved his tongue inside your mouth. Your tongue rolled over each other, salivas threatening to spill from your mouths. Jaehyun tightened his own tongue, then he thrusts it in and out of your mouth, imitating sex.

The pleasure was unbearable; you’re whimpering underneath him as he continued to tongue-fuck your mouth. One moment you were pressed against the wall, now you’re lying in your own bed with Jaehyun on top of you. With his knee between your thighs, penetrating your already wet center. The sticky feeling down your pussy made you flushed red as a tomato underneath him. You guessed he could feel your wetness against his knee, for he chuckled before biting your lip and continued to rub your center.

You let the pleasure wash over you as you pull Jaehyun closer. A tingling feeling rests in your stomach as you continued to kiss each other with a hunger that resulted to more biting, tongue massaging and fucking. You feel hazy from both pleasure and heat coursing through you.

He pulled away from you, leaving you whimpering on the bed. With one swift motion, he took of all his clothes, revealing his sculpted chest and abdomen once again. With his hard manhood. You’ve seen it already, yet the feeling of excitement and nervousness was still there as you stare at his full length. He is, indeed, Lucifer.

“Let’s get this off you, shall we?” He whispered before leaning on you again, his hard cock grazing at your thighs, sending a jolt of desire in your pussy. He pealed off your clothes, leaving you naked underneath him.

Despite of the dim light, you never missed how his pupils dilated as he stared at your nude body; nipples hard and puckering, with your cunt dripping wet for him. Jaehyun wasted no time to devour your lips again, his finger trailing down your body to search for your clit. You squirmed against the kiss when he ran a finger down your slit, then he inserted his middle finger in your wet cunt, resulting for you to lift your hips in pleasure.

“Wider,” He whispered in your ear, pushing your thigh away from the other before he continued fingering you. The wet sound of his finger inside your pussy filled the whole room, your cheeks crimson red from its noise.

Your breathy moans and whimpers echoes off the walls, and if Yuqi was listening, she would surely hear your moans from her own room. But your mind is too hazy to care about anything one bit. So you buckled your hips, threw your head back against the mattress and let Jaehyun finger you until you felt the familiar tightening in your lower abdomen. You clenched between his finger, your eyes almost seeing stars, but then he retracted his finger away, making your eyes to widen in disbelief.

“Not so soon.” His voice was laced with pleasure and desire for you— only for you. You swear you could reach the climax when Jaehyun put his middle finger in his mouth, sucking it off with a loud pop. You shivered by the sight, your chest tightening from carnality.

Jaehyun held your cheek with one hand, while the other pumps his manhood. He held your cheek with his thumb pressed against your lips. An idea erupted from your mind, then you sucked off his thumb, rolling your eyes back from the feeling of his shaft against your inner thigh.

“Holy fuck,” He cursed. Raw desire swirling in his pupils. “So naughty for me, so fucking naughty for me.” He said through gritted teeth. Then he spread your thighs, positioning himself in front of your entrance.

You sucked in a breath when his head touched your entrance in the slightest way. Then he pressed his forehead against yours, his breathing ragged. “I love you,”

“I love y— oh!” Your eyes widened when he slammed inside you. A breathy chuckle resonated from his lips as he took in your expression.

Jaehyun leaned on to you, licking your neck down to your chest and stopping only to your nipple. He flicked his tongue on your nipple, before he sucked the bud completely with his mouth. He did that while thrusting in and out of you in an agonizingly slow manner.

Your head lolled back, breathing heavy from the pleasure in your nipple and in your pussy.

“Faster,” You whispered. Jaehyun was quick to obliged. He thrusted faster in and out of you, the mattress underneath you creaking from his pace. For a moment, you feared whether it might collapsed. But your mind was too occupied in desire to care.

Jaehyun’s sweat dripped on your body, his mouth hanging open as he thrusts into you. You writhe and whimper underneath him. Your moans coaxing with each other.

“So… pretty.” There he is, complimenting you in between fucking. “So… fucking… mine!”

“Jesus Christ!” You shouted when he slammed again into you, hitting your g-spot.

You huff underneath him, trying to recollect your sanity. Yet Jaehyun does not seem to want to spare you any second to breathe. For he gripped your hips, and slammed into you over and over again. The slap of skin to skin filled the small space of your bedroom. Your breasts bouncing by his every thrust.

“Oh, fuck!” He groaned. Your own words were incoherently loud, there’s no doubt Yuqi could hear you from her room. Even your neighbors could hear you in this state.

Jaehyun did not stop until you’re lifting your hips, wanting to feel more of him. He thrusted into you, fingers digging on your soft skin. Then you felt that familiar tightening — that familiar wave of pleasure approaching.

Your cunt tightened around Jaehyun’s cock. A warm smirk spread across his lips as he felt it.

“Be a good girl and come all over Lucifer’s cock.”

“Oh my God!”

A wave of pleasure washed over you as you came underneath him. Your body shook while a sob erupted from your throat. It was so, so good you cried. You continued to sob as Jaehyun rode your high. His teeth digging in his lower lip, staring straight at your eyes, at your body, convulsing underneath him. This is Eden for him. Your body his temple, your lips his religion, your moans his hymns.

Then his brows narrowed, his body stilled. “Fuck!” He shouted as he reached his climax. He collapsed on top of you, your sweats mixing with each other. The air smelled of sex and sweats, of Jaehyun’s scent and yours. You stayed sprawled in the bed for a few minutes, catching your breath and recollecting your sanity.

Jaehyun wrapped you in your own blanket after he cleaned up your body and his. The small bed forcing you both to snuggle in each other’s arm. Not that you complain. With your head on his chest, and his arm wrapped around you, you shared a comfortable silence together. You heard his heart slowly beat back to normal, his chest rising and falling.

“What’s that?” He spoke, breaking the tranquility. He carefully laid your head on the pillow before standing up to walk towards a canvas resting on the corner of your room, near the cabinet. When he stood up, you saw the two slashes in his back for the first time, his wings.

He grabbed the canvas you’ve been working on for weeks, taking the details in with his twinkling eyes.

“I saw that, in one of my dreams. It was Aurora’s art.” You explained. There’s no point hiding it. “I tried to recreate it so I could give it to you on your birthday, but I was uncertain. It doesn’t feel right to give it to you, somehow.” You added, “now I understand why.”

Jaehyun trudged towards you again while holding the canvas. He sat on the edge of your bed. “Y/N… remember the canvas I ordered from France?” By that, you nodded. That canvas gave you too much headache. “It was from Aurora. And this is the exact image of that artwork.”

You gasped, then crawled towards him. It did not occur to your mind that Jaehyun would really dig all of France to find and buy his dead lover’s artwork. And what a coincidence it was. You wonder what would you feel if you saw the canvas earlier. Would it bring the puzzle pieces together easier for you? Not that your questions are still unanswered. You just couldn’t help but think if you dared open that parcel then, you would’ve connected the dots in a snip.

“There’s something unfamiliar in it, though.” He declared, still gripping your canvas. “A tear. It wasn’t there when I saw it the first time. But when I opened the parcel, I saw a tear falling down my cheek.”

Your head hurts from the magic behind all of it. “I painted the tear.” You admitted. Jaehyun’s head whirled on you, his brows knitted in question. “I… Aurora told me in my dream that the canvas isn’t yet done. So she told me to paint a tear, I did.”

“Really?” His breathless question.

You nodded at him, “Yes.”

There was a spark in his eyes that you could only identify as hope and clarity. “You’re really Aurora.” He smiled a genuine smile. It transformed his face in an instant. As if his burdens were gone on his shoulders.

“I was,” You corrected, a naughty smile forming on your lips.

“You were. And now you’re Y/N. My Y/N, my chérie.” Then he put his hand on the back of your head, and guided his lips towards yours.

“I want to see your wings,” You blurted out after the kiss. Jaehyun blinked at you.

He bit his lip then he looked around your room, “Well, chérie, it’s not like I don’t want to. But once I show you my wings, it’ll spread really wide and will only turn your room to chaos,” he chuckled. Then he held both your cheeks once again. You leaned into his touch while smiling, kissing his palm lightly. “Next time, okay?”

“Promise?”

“Promise.”

That night, Jaehyun vowed; no matter how fleeting your life must be, he would cherish it with all his eternity. He would continue to love you in this lifetime, and in another, and in another. Until he’s nothing but skin and bones.

—

The horizon bents and spread in front of you, with the colors of the sun painting the clouds a bright orange and yellow hues. The birds has started to chirp, the butterflies spreading their colorful wings, the flowers dancing to catch the sunlight. It is a perfect day.

The promises of tomorrow are not yours to hold, but as you remember how you’ve lived your life after all these years, the contentment of today sunk in your heart like a velvet punch. It is the day.

Sixty-years ago, your mother died. Without a father, you struggled to find jobs to support your sister. Sixty-years ago, the fast-food chain— your only source of income— decided to fire you. Sixty years ago, you called your best friend to ask for her help. Sixty years ago, you were accepted in Jung’s Fiscals. Sixty years ago, you met the love of your life.

They say a mortal’s life is fleeting. They say you must live it to the fullest. Your own life was a series of bumpy roads, of magic and mysteries, of hate and love, of loss and obtain. Yet as you look at the sun peeking in the horizon, you were certain you’ve lived your life just as how you wanted it to be.

Sixty years ago, you married Jaehyun. The proposal was nothing that you’d anticipated. You were on the top of the hill that overlooks the town like twinkling little fireflies. Jaehyun’s iridescent wings were tucked in his back, with you beside him. It was the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen; the soft pink and baby blue hues of his wings glowing in the darkness and under the moonlight. You sat on the grass, Jaehyun shifting beside you.

“What’s the matter?” You asked.

“I… Y/N… I—”

“You, what?”

By your question, he quickly stood up, his wings obliging in his every move. Then he knelt, in front of you. You shot up a brow at him, puzzled by his actions.

“Will… will you… fuck,” He cursed, words tumbling off each other.

“Will I what?” But a sly smile has already formed in your lips by realizing what he’s doing.

“I… I don’t know how to do this, chérie.” His eyes were pools of waters as he looked at you. A chuckle couldn’t help but to escape your throat by his agitation.

“Just say it, Jae.” You smiled at him. Slowly, your chest started to constrict by the view in front of you. Warm tears threatening to come out of your eyes. Jaehyun was kneeling in front of you, afraid to ask the words.

“Y/N… I know I am not the perfect man out there. Heck, I am not even a man. I am a fallen angel, a cursed one at that. But I do hope… I do hope that you will find solace in my arms. I do hope that we could share our lives together. I hope to see you in a wedding dress, marry you in front of my Father,” He’s smiling now, while you wipe your cheeks. “Will you spend your life with me forever, chérie?” He gulped, then he brought out a simple velvet box. He opened it while looking at you with so much devotion in his eyes. “Will you marry me, Y/N?”

You were already a crying mess when you nodded at him. You were crying so hard you found it hard to breathe. Jaehyun pulled you in his arms, hugging you so tight as to not let you go. He kissed your forehead, your nose, both your eyes, and your lips before sliding the ring on your finger. It was like the sun, its rays circulating a single moonstone.

“I love you so much, chérie.” He kissed your knuckles, your palms, your wrist.

“I love you so, so much my love.” You whispered.

Then a kiss locked your future together.

You thought the day that you married Jaehyun was the best day of your life. Until something unexpected happened.

You were ready to spend your lifetime with him, even without a child. Jaehyun told you he didn’t know if it was possible. But it was stated in the Bible that the angels could reproduce with a mortal in their human form, not in their spiritual one. They did it, hundreds of years ago, and their children were called nephilim. Yet none of you had the courage to risk it. It was hard to accept at first, but Jaehyun filled you with so much love you never felt incomplete. As a mortal girl, you had to stick with contraceptives to prevent pregnancy then.

You did it for three years of being married to Jaehyun. But one of the days in your three years of marriage, God decided to bless you with a child, at last. You were a sobbing mess when you departed the bathroom, carrying the little stick of pregnancy test that has two lines in it. The happiness in your heart could not be compared to anything. You are going to be a mother.

Jaehyun was puzzled when he saw the test. He told you he’s not seen anything like it before and insisted to bring you to Doyoung to check up on your health. You were laughing and crying in front of him. Yet he was too nervous to even listen to you. You drove to Doyoung’s mansion, the pregnancy test locked in Jaehyun’s palm.

“What happened?” Chaelin asked, worry plastered on her face.

“What– what does this mean? Is… Is Y/N in danger?” He asked, displaying the stick in front of everyone. Everyone. You flushed and tried to grab the stick away from him grasp. It was too late. The boys has already seen it. Their mouths hanging open. Seems like Jaehyun is the only one who doesn’t know what a pregnancy test is.

“Congrats!” They screamed in unison.

Jaehyun looked confounded more than ever when the boys started to pat his back and kiss your cheeks. But Chaelin slapped him across his cheek lightly, fresh tears spilling out of her eyes.

“You’re gonna be a father, you dumbass.”

Jaehyun’s eyes widened, then he looked at you, nodding at him with tears in your eyes.

“I am pregnant.”

When you met and fell in love with Jaehyun, you believed that you would never love anyone as much as you love him. The affection that you has for him couldn’t be compared to anything in the world. But you were proven wrong when you first saw your child beside you on a hospital bed.

The little thing is a he. You both named him Saint. Not to mock God, but to remind your child to uphold the virtues of that of a saint. The bundle of joy beside you opened his eyes, they were the color of Jaehyun’s. Then he opened his mouth to yawn, you’ve never seen anything as adorable as it. He made your breath hitched of love.

Jaehyun held him in his arms, tears falling down his own cheeks. It was too perfect— you’ve never felt so blessed. “Hello, Saint. I am Jaehyun, your father.” By his last word, Jaehyun’s lips trembled. The reality of him as a father has opened an alien feeling inside his chest; it wasn’t euphoria, it was more than that.

Saint received so much love from the people around him. Yuqi and Chaelin were hands-on aunts. And then there was Jaehyun’s comrades, begging you every night to let Saint sleep in Doyoung’s mansion.

Jaehyun was a good father. He took care of Saint in those nights that he won’t stop crying. Jaehyun held him close to his chest for you to get some sleep. Jaehyun gave everything to Saint, with a caution as to not spoil the child. He never failed to kiss Saint’s forehead every night, and he never stopped even though little Saint complained and told him he’s a ‘big boy’ already.

He inherited the traits of an angel; swiftness, agility, divinity, courage, power, and wits. However, unlike Jaehyun, Saint didn’t grow wings. Growing up, he was shockingly a facsimile of Jaehyun. From his hair, his brows, his eyes, nose and lips. And it resulted to a lot of ladies to swoon over him. Boxes of chocolates filled Saint’s bag when he started school.

“It was given by Anika and her mother,”

“It’s from Heidi.”

“Mom, this is from Judy. Does it taste good?”

“Dad, would you like a chocolate? It’s from my classmate Gale,”

“Mama Yuqi, let’s share this choco bar. It’s from my seat mate Hannah.”

It doubled when he reached high school. The girls started to give him scented love letters, buying him stuff, foods and chocolates. But what you love about Saint is that he never once thrown away the love letters, no matter how girly the decorations were. He kept all the stuff that was given to him in a box underneath his bed, and he always made sure to buy the girls food as a token to their kindness. Once, he even asked you to cook a certain dish. According to him, his classmate, Ara, has given him her mom’s dish and he wanted to give Ara his mom’s dish, too.

You told Jaehyun about it. And the three of you prepared a dish that night to give to Ara.

Those are the days that you would treasure for the rest of your life. And you won’t trade it for the world.

Saint is on his thirties now, a full-grown man. But his face still looked like his youthful features when he was still a teenager. Once he reached his twenty-first birthday, you’d known that his angel blood dominated his system. That means, he would never age, and will live a long life just like any netherworlders. Although you will leave the world, the fact that Jaehyun and Saint will share a long life together warms your heart.

“Chérie, let’s get you inside.”

You start at Jaehyun’s voice behind you. He’s still the same after all these years. His features never changed the moment you laid your eyes on him. It had become a problem, his immortal life. People had started to suspect something sinister about your family when Saint was growing up together with your facial features; you looked older than your husband, and he doesn’t seem to age. Some told Saint that his father was alien. And you couldn’t live with your son carrying that burden in his shoulder. So you moved, far, far away from the ruckus of the city.

Jaehyun held the wheel chair, then he pushed it towards your room. You couldn’t walk now, because of old age— constantly needing guidance in every move that you make.

Today is the day for your family. The netherworlders together with Chaelin and Yuqi had already visited you yesterday, saying their good byes. Yuqi married Lucas, a wolf from Johnny’s pack. Your sister looked like you, white strands of hair covering his head. But not as much as yours. She cried beside you yesterday, begging for you to hold on a little bit longer.

But you’ve already lived your life. It’s time to let it go.

Jaehyun carried and laid you on the bed, rays of sunlight infiltrating the room. Saint was on your side in an instant, hugging your stomach and laying his head beside you. He’s a grown up man, but he’s still your baby.

“I love you, Mom.” He whispered and kissed your cheek.

“I love you, Saint, my son.” Saying those words has already taken up a lot of your strength, that you needed to breathe for a second through the oxygen.

Jaehyun’s weight dug on the bed, his own arms hugging you and Saint together. You know how hard it was for the both of them, but you were glad to see them bracing each other together for your passing.

“I… lived a beautiful life.” You started, eyelids drooping from exhaustion. “Thank you, Jaehyun. For showing me the world.” You turned your head at him, kissing his cheek. “I will love you in this life and to the next,”

“Saint, the happiness of my life.” You breathed.

“Mom,” He was sniffing beside you. His tears falling down the pillows. “I love you, Mom. Don’t be gone for too long. I will wait for you.”

“Of course, honey. Of course.” Then you closed your eyes.

Jaehyun was sniffing beside you, too. You know this is the hardest for him, losing you again. “I love you,” He whispered.

You nodded your head, eyes opening again. “I love you, Jaehyun. Forever.”

“See you again, chérie.” He smiled despite the cracks splitting his heart open. He couldn’t do this — not again — but he has to. “I love you,” He kisses your hair, tears cascading down his cheeks and on the whites of your hair.

“See you, my love.”

Then you closed your eyes.

They never opened again.

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