#let's just say it's about time i made this set lbr
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I really love the headcanon about Dick being half Italian and half thai so
Dickjay, but they are living together in a cottage house in Italy with a beautiful garden
Just these two starting over from scratch, building a life together while they both heal from past hurts (physical, psychological, emotional--). They pick up gardening as a hobby to share together because there's something bewildering about it - doing something good without it hurting.
And like. It doesn't matter what sort of setting this is, but for the sake of this ask I'm going to say it's post-Ethiopia after a narrow save. Dick pieces together what's happened and refuses to give Jason back to Bruce. So he uses his resources (one Slade Wilson) who gets them off the grid in a small Italian town. The price? Dick's occasional service for choice contracts.
(A temporary sacrifice, given that once Jason finds out about it he throws down and takes on half that burden; it's a win-win for Slade).
Anyway, it's a mess when they're first relocated. While Jason has healed to some extent, his body is still fucked. He's so egregiously hurt by what happened that he's dissociated the majority of the time - lost in his own head to try and protect himself from the reality that no one chose him.
(But Dick did - he's here; he's not going anywhere).
Gardening is a suggestion from some locals. Dick does it for something to do now that his busy days are filled with next to nothing now. And he's not good at it, honestly. Jason watches him from the porch as Dick complains about finicky plants and bugs eating them (though he likes to play with them, letting caterpillars crawl on his hand and giving bees space to do their thing).
Oh goodness, the state of this garden being a direct correlation to Jason's health (and Dick's mental health too lbr). So when it starts to show promise, Jason shows improvement, too. And then maybe a storm comes through right when Jason backslides and Dick just has a full breakdown trying to save the damn flowers he's been trying to grow and he's just an overwhelmed guy, soaked by the storm and muddy and trying so hard not to scream but doing it anyway because Jason isn't getting better and it's because Dick can't take care of him the way Jason needs and omggggggg
And the storm passes, of course. And Dick sits on the porch with his drowned flowers just contemplating life. As any twenty-something does.
Then there's Jason. Who goes to help clean up the mess the storm made and pulling Dick along so they can start fresh.
And idk just hugging it out in a torn up garden. Jason thanking Dick for being there and Dick just - wrapping himself around Jason and holding him so fiercely because what is Jason thanking him for? It's Dick who's grateful that Jason is here (that Dick made it in time - that he was there before it was too late).
Also additional scene where Jason breaks down after an eternity of bottling up all his grief and anguish. And it’s not as temperamental as Dick in that storm - in contrast it would be while he’s helping Dick garden. As they’re planting something new, hands in the dirt and sun on his back (though Dick throws a big ole sun hat on him, the one with sunflowers on the bottom ahhhhh) when the tears start. Just a drop to water the plants and then another. Then his hands are clenching but so is his chest.
And Dick sees it and startles. And of course he holds this boy as Jason mourns everything he was and isn’t, had and lost but found. Jason apologizing for too many things he doesn’t need to.
The way Jason would shake as Dick wraps around him and holds him together, a hand around Jason’s back and his head, gasping into Dick’s chest and sobbing. Jason is a quiet crier, but Dick will be damned if it doesn’t shake him to his core.
Also because this is ybb space, dickjay falling in love as they heal. As they go through the trials and tribulations of growing a garden and building a home together.
Jason never quiet walks without a limp. He's stiff when he stays kneeling in the dirt for too long, but the two of them lay among their vegetables or their flowers and trees. Sometimes with their hands brushing, other times fully wrapped around one another.
Ffffff their garden becoming a community garden of sorts. Neither of them are shy about sharing for anyone who needs anything. Just them humoring the local kids and giving veggies to grannies in need.
But of course, peace comes at a cost. Deathstroke. (< Who is actually relatively chill. The Italian countryside does wonders for him. So do Dick and Jason, ornery as they are. Usually Slade takes Dick for some work, but at some point Jason wants in (despite permanent injury, Jason is determined to pull his own weight).
And idk. Deathstroke becoming genuinely fond of these two. To his surprise, he is especially endeared to Jason. Who makes him homemade meals from the garden. Meanwhile Dick is just walking that line between professional and bratty because Dick puts Slade's own possessive tendencies to shame hahaha. And omg the little cottage might be Slade’s but gtfo stop flirting with Jason - Dick will throw hands.
(Bahahahaha Slade and Dick flirting so hard at Jason when they’re all together that Jason is simultaneously very maiden and very exasperated because these are two grown ass men, come on. But also, don’t stop cuz Jason likes it).
Uh~ this is a hodge podge of content here. So sorry if it's incoherent, but this was a sweet idea to explore!! Thank you for putting the thought out there. <3
Also, a lovely headcanon for Dick!!
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So... even though I never made a comment about it, I feel like I have to apologize for ever doubting 9-1-1 Eddie/Buck fans.
Let me explain.
I kept seeing this show on my dash & FYP, and usually in the form of Eddie/Buck content. I poked into some of the tags and I was bombarded by not only enthusiasm for the pairing but also quite a lot of people clamoring for it to actually happen in canon and that the creators were doing some serious queerbaiting. Now, I am a fandom grandma. I've been around the block, seen a lot of accusations of this exact thing, and if I'm honest 90% of the time the fans were truly just blowing things out of proportion. I've even done it myself! It's often really easy to pick out tiny details and say it's ~proof~ that your ship is meant to be. I fully assumed that was what was happening here too.
Then, I actually watched the show. And holy hell you are all right.
It's... it's kind of insane?! Not only do they just have ridiculous chemistry to begin with, but there are COUNTLESS moments that are absolutely there to hint at them maybe being more than friends. But of course, the show never actually goes there because ha ha what no the fans are crazy they're just reading into things too much. If I didn't know already, I would have been SURE that the beginning of season six was setting them up to be canon. It was just that on the nose. WILD.
And now I'm fucking invested and it's awful because I know it's never going to happen lmao. I'm letting myself be queerbaited and loving/hating every second of it!!
(OK but aside from that I'm honestly surprised by how much I enjoy the show as a whole. I mean it's not award-winning television lbr but Angela Bassett?? Hell yes. And I've had a lil crush on Peter Krause since 'Six Feet Under' so it's lovely to see him again. They do a fantastic job with the core cast in general.)
#9-1-1#buddie#expect to see some of this on my dash soon... my queue is so ready lol#'there's nobody in this world i trust more with my son than you' JUST FUCKING DECK ME
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FebruarOC - Beryl
today we're talking about Beryl Dawn from my affectionately nicknamed "07 Nano" project that I think i've posted about on here before. (I went checking and what the hell I FORGOT I EVEN DID A SECOND DRAFT OF THE BEGINNING) And as a treat for me, I've picked the others of the main quartet for their respective letters for this month.
Beryl (like Ren) was one of the founding characters for this project after I took a short story I (started to, lbr, it wasn't finished) write about a boy being tasked to go bring back a girl that was kidnapped. Which sounds very, "huh??" when put that way. And as I've talked about before, I've got "city dwellers" and "hill folk" and a super basic-level dichotomy set up between the cultures that at the time I thought was good world building but i know enough now to say "girl that ain't it" at my past self.
In this setting, there is a swathe of land that's sort of a no-man's land. The Hill Folk are cut off from their elements/gods and the City Dwellers think that it is too wild. It is, for all intents and purposes, a demon grave yard. What are these demons? Pft don't ask me I never explained it. I don't think I even had an inkling kicking around in my head.
But there was one from the City Dwellers that would go and dig up the graves of demons and using their bones to carve masks and he gave them to people and they got the nick-name Grave Robbers. Now this, unfortunately, is knowledge that was lost to time before I'm pretty sure I had an idea of what Cantur was up to and what the Deacon was for (more on that in Sam's post later this month), but for the life of me I can't remember, and I didn't write any external notes (or any that survived like three laptop crashes). So I can't tell you anything about that.
Beryl was taken when she was super young and given a Raven mask. Upon donning the mask, the Grave Robber is robbed (badum tss) of their memories and they become a semi-host for the spirit in the mask. She lived as Raven for a few years until Ren Hari showed up and said he'd come to bring her back to the Hill Folk and if she would be so kind as to go with him that would be great.
As for the Hill Folk lore, the culture is divided into four seasons and each season is divided into two elements. Beryl is a Spring Water cleric (I don't know why I called them clerics probably too much Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance). I went a step further because i'm an Extra Bitch(tm) and I like forbidden romances and I made her and Ky (you'll see her later too) part of a division of "nymphs" which is an all female-division of their Spring element (Wood and Water) and they were extra forbidden from falling in love/being with a man (note: I didn't take queer anything into consideration, which would change in a rewrite)
Now, Beryl-as-Raven was considered a Fallen in the eyes of the Hill Folk elders because, strictly by their rules she "turned her back on her goddess" (we can't get too deep into it now this is just an intro to the character). Technically they would have let her remain as a City Dweller except the priestess of the Spring Water Nymphs had a vision and that means that the goddess hadn't completely given Beryl up for lost. So they sent Ren to get her (I'll talk more about that on his post).
However once they get back, before they can review Beryl's case, a massive uprising of Fallen/discontent Hill Folk/City Dwellers doing something idk attack the main establishment of the Hill Folk and everything falls into chaos.
So by the rules, Beryl is still a Fallen because they never could revoke her status, even though she has returned to them and has gained favor from her goddess to use her magic again.
She and Ren use this loophole to carry out a relationship because, if things ever settle and they fully review her case and revoke the Fallen status, then she will be fully reinstated as a Spring Water Nymph and that will be BAD NEWS BEARS for Ren, who could be severely punished for being intimate with her.
Now which of these rules and practices will I carry over? Fuck if I know, this isn't the time to figure that out. For now, enjoy this conversation between Beryl and Ren when she agrees to go back with him.
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Hey bougie, what’s “Young at Heart” about? Tell me all about it, okay booger.
Oh hi, Mom!!
Guys, this is literally my mom—everyone say hi!!!
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Okay, so I mentioned on the blog a while back that I loved “Top Gun: Maverick”, and you know me, Nay (Tagalog slang for “Mom”, for those who didn’t see the post where I mention this)—I can’t let a good movie or show go by without reading the fanfic, I’m practically incapable of it, and Mav and Bradley’s father/son relationship is PRIME arable fanfic land.
So I immediately hit AO3.
And I was blessed with the goodness that is the works of PurpleArrowzandLeather.
The Mavdad feels are just so strong in their works, it’s perfection.
Then they came out with a story called “Your Memory Lives On My Heart”.
And I just—I love this story so much.
So, “Your Memory” is a future fic set roughly twenty-five years after the events of TG:M, and in this story, Bradley, now a private contractor after retiring from the Navy, comes back from a job and helping Phoenix with her grandkids, to a disheartening phone call.
Having made the painful decision a couple of years ago to place Mav in an assisted living home due to the drastic breakdown of his adopted father’s body, Mav’s personal care nurses tell Bradley they have reason to believe that the 80-year-old naval aviator has entered the first stages of dementia.
Luckily, Mav’s memory isn’t going, much to Bradley’s relief, and the older aviator was not in fact, entering the first stages of dementia, he was just missing his son.
The story ends with the two pilots settling down for Bradley’s story time, when they are interrupted by Iceman’s son, now the COMPACFLT, and he says, “Damn you, Pete Fucking Mitchell! Why the hell do I have a report on my desk about a ‘charming old man’ with an impossibly ‘legitimate ID’ schmoozing the security guards on my airbase to let him up in an F-35?!”
I’m sure you know me well enough by now to know that I was absolutely cackling at the end of this story, Nay.
Then I looked in the comments, and there was a comment that ended with, “But LBR, Hangman TOTALLY helped him.”
From there, I couldn’t stop the muse.
Here’s an excerpt, from near the beginning of the story.
Disclaimer: this story is still not finished, and the final product may look different from this excerpt.
It had been forty-four days since Bradley had last visited him, and he could even give the hours and the minutes since then too, but he wasn’t in the mood to think about that much.
While Mav was in the midst of his musing, the doors to the lounge hall opened, and footsteps sounded down the corridor, familiar, despite the carpet muffling the sound.
A smile pulled on Mav’s lips just as he heard the familiar Texas-accented drawl say, “Heya, Pops.”
His smile shifted to a full-on grin as he looked up at the smirking face of his former student, Captain Jake “Hangman” Seresin.
Age had liberally streaked Jake’s hair a similar shade of gray as Mav’s own—though a touch lighter—with a few areas stubbornly holding out blond, and while the younger man’s eyes were still as green as ever, they were now framed by rimless glasses and crow’s feet at the corners.
The only thing age hadn’t changed was the confident and larger-than-life attitude Jake had always had.
(Well, that wasn’t exactly the truth—the uranium mission had made him less, as Phoenix would say it, “assholeish”, and he knew the younger aviator could now confidently say that he never again left another wingman from that day on—but that was a change effected over twenty years ago, so it didn’t exactly count.)
Jake was wearing his own be-patched bomber jacket (though it didn’t have quite as many as Mav’s own) over his khakis.
He must’ve come from base, where he served as an instructor at Top Gun.
Jake technically could have retired around the same time Bradley did, but he still had a few good years in the cockpit left in him, and the Navy knew it, so they posted him as a full-time instructor, carrying on the proud tradition of terrorizing Top Gun students.
Mav would be lying if he said he wasn’t a little envious, but he had reluctantly learned his lesson—he’d probably never step foot within a Naval Air Station again, much less within sight of a plane, but he pushed that thought away—Jake didn’t deserve that.
He was proud of the kid, like he was proud of all his Daggers—they were all damn good pilots and WSOs—the Navy’s best.
#thanks for playing nay!!!#fanfiction writer and proud#ask game#ask games#ask nadia#fanfiction#fanfic#top gun: maverick#top gun fanfic#top gun fanfiction#pete maverick mitchell#jake hangman seresin
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HIIIII time for me to add more headcanons to my headcanon of "au ra should all be giant breastless dragon people instead of being heterosexuality made manifest"
So firstly I've decided that women should tend to be taller than men. Think like what they did with the viera but if it was meant to be good design instead of a half assed "look now nobody can criticize how our other races are designed or say the fem hrothgar look bad" move.
While every group of au ra have their own cultures regarding how gender and sex define roles within their groups, tallness is typically seen as feminine. Which makes my WoL wearing heels even MORE gay, thank you.
Yes the lack of titties means either long incubation times or eggs. I have no preference for either but I do think the idea that baby ras eat meat is funny. My darling Gunk born yesterday he needs steak. Just throwing this out there cause everyone procreates but also while writing this out I went "there's chance someone's gonna try and be weird about this aspect in my inbox." I don't care about the kids but they fuck nasty. Except Magnai he cries during sex.
While their biology evolved to let them be omnivores a long time ago, meat is more necessary. Regardless of whether it's sheep herding (Xaela), fishing (Raen), or other options like hunting, au ra meals tend to be heavy on the protein. This could even result in au ra cultural meals being known for their "you won't want to eat tomorrow" heaviness. Large meals meant to be filling so you don't have to eat as often but have plenty of protein.
This also means they tend to be more muscular than a lot of the other races. Active lives and lots of protein means a tendency towards bulk.
Hair is a bit more mane like. With many having hair that tapers at the base of the neck. This is just cause i think it's cool idk how it'd affect actual in game models and would likely be cut during development.
Scales look more like dragon scales. None of this "they're actually descended from demons" bullshit cause it sucks. They're dragons and dragons are aliens so they're half aliens. This is either one of the biggest mysteries on the planet to Midgardsormr, or he views the au ra as kin of his kin. Perhaps blood rituals were involved. Perhaps Azim and Naama were dragons who escaped the planet's destruction and visited earth. Maybe it's something else. Truthfully idc rn it's late.
I still really just DONT like the horn ears. I feel like small humanoid ears with multiple horn sets that tend to cover them just makes for a better design but eh whatever it's the only unique thing about them in canon. Mixed bag. But I also feel that miqo and viera ears would be better if they came out of where human ears do just so that way we don't have to consider the fleshy blank spots there but that's neither here nor there both of those races are fetish designs lbr
Obviously this would mean that Yugiri would be fucking huge. I think that's funny. Manlet Hien and his two titan bodyguards.
Horns in the hair should be more common. Just. In general. Spines and manes type aesthetic. There's a few masc hairstyles that do this in game and frankly there should be femme ones as well.
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Thoughts on Sussflix
My opinion on Megri hasn’t rly changed
Meg WAS treated badly by the press and I do believe the institution didn’t know how to work with her bc like SHE said they didn’t trust her as an actress
The prep work which the pal now said she did get in a book is weird. Let’s remember HENRI ONLY TOLD HER IN THE CAR ON THE WAY TO MEET LIZ THAT SHE NEEDED TO CURTSY
I can believe they briefed against each other but I don’t think it’s shocking bc that family is fucking weird
I wish Henri left the fam like he always wanted to and then met Meg. She could’ve been saved from a lot of shit
The love story narrative is rly not that interesting to anyone but them? Like Wall&Edward are known for leaving the fam not for their love. And it’s the same with Megri IMO. Like it was being presented as a Romeo and Juliet thing and people just need to accept their love. They act like it’s the greatest love story ever told and it’s yawn
Henri is even more obsessed with mentioning di than I thought. The baby announcement date, the Di moving to America, Lili looking like Di, Di being the only person to talk about her feelings…and it went on and on…it’s EXHAUSTING! Poor meg having to listen to that 24/7
The way they brushed over the bullying allegations was annoying. Those accusations happened at the time, they weren’t made up just before Oprah. So why didn’t they talk about such a huge part of their office relations?! They didn’t wanna give the connection of leaks being made possibly bc the leakers felt bullied. That’s a big deal, u can’t just say it was all bc willy wanted popularity.
I fear we’ll never know the real truth bc the pal keep denying and so do Megri
Why not address 2 of the biggest hit pieces on meg? Tiara and bridesmaids, even frogmore money. Set it straight on those main stories to show what was false
My main issue with it was the constant emphasis they were doing everything right. Doing great engagements, blending in the back of family events, offering to work for free, kneeling before Liz and kissing her feet above anything else. Henri just doesn’t ever wanna admit that he was a petulant asshole who talked shit to staff. If they admitted what they could’ve done differently I would be on board. But they’ll always be adamant they did everything they could and the right way
Megs whole “I’m American I don’t know” schtick got old by the end
Tin hats go to get exorcised (if ur reading this and think meg should die or her babies are fake bumps, or she corrupted Henri and stole him from the uk, fuck off)
Doria and Lorren are the only commentators I was interested in. Don’t care about the story arc of the niece
I think willys rep will take a hit for a couple days but lbr people hate Megri enough to not care at this point
They need to stop telling the story now tbh. Bye xo
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14 and 47 for Tylayna, and 18 for Elaemond!!
OC Relationship Asks
14. How would they describe one another if asked?
Oooooohhhhhh. Okay so this is a hard one because I think they'd both want to protect the other and not give too much away?
Elayna would describe Tyland as smart if traditional. She knows he's motivated and ambitious but she's not going to say that to help him hide that fact. I think she would describe him as handsome
Tyland would describe Elayna as resourceful and smart, but very stubborn lmao. Depending on the person and how much he's trying to protect Elayna, he might just say she's lucky instead of resourceful and smart? Obviously he knows how smart/clever she is but like I said. Depending on who he's talking to he's gonna use different language
47. Who made the first move?
Okay so. It's complicated because ofc it is with them. Technically Tyland in every timeline? I mean, it's very weird because Tyland tries to rig it so Elayna makes a move first, and it's very slow burn. But also, Elayna knows that's what he's doing so she pushes back until he snaps
18. How are they like on a road trip together?
First of all, Elayna is a passenger princess whenever she and Aemond go anywhere. Aemond refuses to let anyone else drive. So Elayna gets to sit pretty in the passenger seat. I know the stereotypical image of a passenger princess includes feet on the dash, but Elayna knows better. Aemond is meticulous about everything, but he is ESPECIALLY meticulous about his car. To the point Aemond won't even let Elayna pack the car. She's just to bring her bags and set them by the car
Elayna's role once they're on the road is navigator. She's the one reading directions off Google. Elayna is a fantastic navigator btw. She'll tell which stop light is the turn well in advance, she gives out times to things, and she'll straw any drink if they go through a drive thru without being asked
Elayna is absolutely the one on the look out for fun things to do. Aemond used to be the "We're heading straight there, no meandering" type, but he's learned to loosen up some. He usually lets Elayna have one detour/weird road side attraction on a 3-4 hour trip. If it's longer, he'll allow two. If it's multi day, they have to plan it out in advance
...lbr Aemond probably only grew to like the detours because a) seeing Elayna get excited makes him smile and b) Elayna and him have probably fucked at some places they've visited sdsdsdsdsd
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Hey Pikachu (or do you prefer chaos?)
Unpopular BL opinions: MaxTul
Personally, I like them as far as the fmv edits are concerned. It's not so much that I don't like their shows, which I've only watched (and heard of) TWM and MOD, but that I don't understand the hype people have over them or their shows. you could say it's the same with OffGun for me. I like them as actors and as a pair and while the writing of these shows isn't special it's serviceable. I don't follow actors IRL. I don't care enough, nor is it any of my business. I got into both these shows after watching the fmvs and the comments about them being the best and the shows being amazing (it might just have to do with the time ig) but like, yeah they are good but really all they are is better than most others. If you get what I'm saying. I'd love to have seen them in something with a little more budget so I could judge better but now that Tul has retired I don't think I will.
I don't get this 'Kings of Chemistry' status they have and hold coz lbr 2022 gave us so much. And maybe my opinion of them is colored by those shows. Just a little bit.
Gimme a moment to bask in the glory of being called Pikachu (I'm good with chaos too tbh I love it all)
So the MaxTul shows I watched were Manner of Death and Together with Me. The latter I didn't finish because it was awful. Lol sorry to the fans but the show was boring and poorly made I think I only made it 2 episodes. Manner of Death had an interesting story but was so sloooooooooooow and the direction was awful and the editing was bad and the acting was hella mid. The show needed a better director, and a better budget and it woulda been a better show. The story was 100% there.
I think that's my biggest issue with Max and Tul is they're pretty mid actors to me? I think Tul is a better actor, so it woulda been cool to see him in a series against a better actor than Max (who's like, very average imo). I think they earned the Kings of Chemistry b/c during their era there was a lot of bad or mid chemistry with super chaste or outright dead fish kissing.
I'll hand it to Max and Tul, they can kiss. They def give it their all. They go for broke. But their body of work is from an era that's really rough quality wise and I think a lot of ppl forgive the lack of quality of a show b/c they specifically like the actors of said show. T
I've said before I don't vibe with a lot of GMMTV's shows b/c to be frank, they low-key suck lol they're low budget, and have sound issues, and acting issues, and lighting issues, and editing issues the list goes on and on. They purposely set a majority of them in university to cut down on costs and their stories tend to be boring (to me!!!). hey're the salt-less potato salad of BL shows imo
They rely on the audience's parasocial relationships with their "acting pairs" to carry the show like let's be real, Ohm and Nanon could star in the most basic, poorly produced university BL GMMTV's ever done and fans would still flock to it b/c they wanna see Ohm and Nanon acting together again especially as a couple.
I don't vibe with that personally, I don't give a fuck about acting pairs which is why I shall forever push Apo and Bible in a series together b/c they have amazing chemistry together and they're both solid actors. They would be dope as like rival assassins with contrasting methods who fall in love after being forced to work together (like Hobbs and Shaw but Thai and Gay)!!!
(sidenote not hating on anyone who does like a specific acting pair y'all live your life, live your truth, I support you)
Anyway Max and Tul are like, okay I think both are kinda mid actors in the two series I saw them in both of which I didn't really vibe with but they can smooch so kudos to them hope Tul enjoys retirement legit
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JAY HALSTEAD in CHICAGO P.D. 8x04 (UNFORGIVEN)
#jay halstead#chicago pd#cpdedit#jayhalsteadedit#chicagopdedit#tvgifs#tvedit#dailyprocedurals#cinematv#one chicago#cpd 8x04#edits*#gifs*#i need more cpd mutuals so that i can tag people but#let's just say it's about time i made this set lbr
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84. “I’m gonna strangle you.”
“Is that a promise?”
94. “Saddle up doll.”
notes; camboy!vernon, cam!couple, camshows, dom!vernon, a wee bit of possessive!vernon, brat!reader, choking, biting/marking, hair pulling, dirty talk, degradation, dumbification! 😏💕 Ehehe… Also I know, omg, there’s def some members that never rly strike me as a dom even tho I do write them as one HAHAH Vernon is def one of them too bc to me he’s so playful 😭💕 but it’s ok cuz we like to indulge ykwim 😈😈 And lbr, he’s so cute when he gets annoyed LOL kdjfkjdh Anyway, as always thank you so much for requesting! Enjoy!
“You’re the one that started it!”
Vernon rolls his eyes at the way you stomp your foot in front of him; already far more than a little annoyed at your attitude. “What exactly did I start?”
Huffing, you round the bed, stopping right in front of him as you poke at his chest.
“Weren’t you the one that wanted to start this cam-couple channel? Why’re you getting so upset that I suggested we post extra content? Isn’t that what you suggested last time?”
He scoffs slightly, pushing your fingers away from his clothed chest.
Vernon didn’t think you’d actually want to and now, he was feeling slightly irked thinking about the way people would save those intimate pictures of you to their personal collections.
“And I changed my mind, okay? I’m allowed to do that.”
This time it’s you that rolls your eyes at him, turning and walking towards the bed as you sit down on the neatly made sheets.
“If you don’t want people saving pictures of us being intimate, just say so, Vernon. You’re being so stubborn for no reason~” You singsong - already knowing he was annoyed.
“Shut up, brat. I’m gettin’ really annoyed right now, doll.”
“Yeah? Make me then! I’m sure they’d allllll love to see you put me in my place.”
Vernon growls and takes his phone out; opening the camming app and setting up a quick title before he hits the ‘Go Live’ button and passes his phone to you.
“You’re gonna record the way I fuck you and maybe learn a lesson, got it?”
SLOW__BURN.ON HAS GONE LIVE
‘POV: You’re a brat being punished until I’m satisfied.’
“Well? Saddle up, doll. I don’t have all fuckin’ night.”
Vernon rests his back against the headboard as you shimmy up his thighs - phone tightly grasped in your hand when you lift your lower half up until you’re hovering over his cock.
“I wanna feel you sinking down onto my cock, sweetheart. Don’t you?”
“U--uh huh…”
You shakily exhale before you start to sink down on his length; momentarily forgetting you were supposed to be recording before Vernon tsk’s at you and reaches an arm up to your own.
“I give you one order to record and you’re already forgetting to do that much. This is why everyone always comments in the chat that you’re just a dumb set of holes for me to fuck, right, doll? Can’t even remember one simple task once there’s a cock inside you.”
Whining in return, you sink down until he’s fully seated inside your tight warmth; the head of his cock curving deliciously into your g-spot as you throw your head back.
“Ngh, s-shut up…”
He scoffs under his breath, hands flying to your waist and guiding you when you start to bounce on his lap.
“Why? ‘Cause I’m right this time?”
“Ah, s-so you admit you were wrong before?” You retort; the smug grin on your face melting off as soon as Vernon’s grip on you tightens.
“Mm, you really want me to be mean tonight, don’t you? You’re not usually this feisty.”
‘Ooooh, were the two of you arguing before?’
‘Actually, yeah why is she being punished lolol’
‘Must’ve been something good heh’
“A-ah, Vernon’s p-punishing me for--for being a brat but I, ngh, w-was right!” You swivel your hips; high pitched moans and whines leaving your lips at the way his cock fills you up perfectly. “He’s j-just being, mmh, jealous!”
Vernon doesn’t say a word in response and instead lets you ride his cock and film the view of his lower abdomen and the periodic flashes of his face before you catch him smirking.
“W-what…?”
He chuckles slightly, shaking his head as his hands fall from your waist. “Nothing, it’s just that you look so desperate riding my cock like this. It’s cute. And proves what everyone says about you is right. That all you’re good at is taking my cock.”
He starts pushing at your shoulder, quickly and swiftly maneuvering you until your back hits the bedsheets and you let out a small squeak out of surprise at the sudden change in position when he hovers above you.
“Mm, I don’t think you deserve the luxury of this comfortable position, so get on your hands and knees, doll.”
“And what if I don’t?”
Vernon deadpans; eyes cold as he stares back at you.
“I’m gonna strangle you for being so fuckin’ difficult is what’s gonna happen.”
“Is that a promise?” You reply teasingly, already moving to flip over underneath him as you prop the phone up against one of the pillows off to the side, “I wanna feel you cumming inside of me and making a mess while you choke me~”
Now with the device out of your hand, Vernon starts to handle you in a much more rough manner - hands gripping your hips and positioning you with your ass up in the air as your torso arches towards the bed.
“See, now you’re not gonna be able to cum because of your attitude ‘n I’m just gonna use your ‘lil cunt like the dumb ‘lil cocksleeve you are ‘til I’m satisfied.”
He positions his cock at your entrance and fully sheathes himself back inside your pussy in one fluid motion - hips snapping into you at a ruthless pace as you moan loudly.
“That’s right, let our viewers know how good I make you feel, how fuckin’ good I fuck your cunt, doll.”
Your voice is muffled against the bedsheets - drool seeping into the material when the head of his cock pounds your g-spot with each skillful thrust.
“Look at her, can’t even fuckin’ talk and make full sentences ‘cause she’s too busy getting fucked stupid.”
He smirks at your back before he leans down; lips on your shoulder as you shiver. His voice is soft and barely a whisper when he speaks to you - hushed enough for only you to hear.
“Gonna mark you up all pretty and then take those pictures you wanna take so bad. But everyone’s gonna know it’s me that makes you feel this good and only me that gets to fuck you. Am I understood?”
“M-mmhmm… A-ah, V--Vernon!”
You mewl into the sheets, pussy clenching around his cock when he starts to leave an array of love bites along your shoulder - teeth nibbling on your skin before soothing it with his tongue.
He repeats this a few more times and makes sure to leave enough on both sides of your neck before he pulls away and reaches for the phone still propped up against the pillow.
“Isn’t she all prettied up with my bite marks all over her skin? Her pussy was getting so much tighter around my cock every time I bit down~ Such a filthy ‘lil thing, aren’t you, doll~? Always wanting me to mark you up so everyone knows who owns this pussy.”
Vernon films a close-up of all the lovebirds on your skin before he brings the phone down and makes sure to film the way his cock thrusts into your cunt a few times before he sets the phone back down into its previous place.
“Fuck, I’m so close to cumming, baby. You’re gonna be a good girl and lemme cum inside you, right?”
“Mmh, p-please! Wanna f-feel you filling me up s--so good…”
You feel Vernon’s quick pace pause, confusion swimming in your head before you feel him start to slide his fingers through your hair.
“Ngh, V--Vernon!” He tugs you by the hair as your fingertips dig into the sheets and it’s not long before you feel his warm chest against your back.
“Just giving you what you asked for, doll~”
He smirks and kisses the side of your neck before you feel his hand wrap around the column of your throat - fingertips gently pressing down on the sides as you let out a shaky breath.
“All you have to do is ask nicely and I’ll give it to you, y’know?”
Vernon resumes his pace, hips slamming into your ass as he chases his orgasm and it only takes a few harsh thrusts before he feels his cock throbbing inside you cunt.
“S--shit, ‘m cumming!”
His fingers add slight pressure to your neck as you moan; the lightheadedness mixes in with the way his cum fills you up and makes your entire body feel extra warm and sated as you clench down onto his cock in a vice grip.
“Ver--Vernon…”
Your eyes roll to the back of your head as he fucks his cum deeper into your cunt and you try to stave off your orgasm in fear of him dragging out your punishment any longer than it needed to be.
After a few more tense moments, you can feel his grip on your throat loosening and you take a big shaky gulp of air when he fully lets go and your trembling arms threaten to give out underneath you.
“Mm, this view of you is so pretty, doll...”
He starts to slide his cock out of you while simultaneously reaching for the phone again. A smile etches itself onto his lips as he films his cock covered in your wetness and you pussy dripping with cum - cruel chuckles on his lips as your brows furrow.
“Gonna end the live here, everyone~ Take one last good look at this brat’s pussy filled with my cum. We’ll upload some pics to our channel later, under the Paid Content section ‘cause I changed my mind again.”
“Wuh---wait, but I--I didn’t cum y-yet...” You mumble.
“Well, I did say you weren’t allowed to cum, didn’t I? Next time, pay attention, brat.”
#vernon smut#seventeen smut#svt smut#vernon scenarios#vernon imagines#seventeen imagines#seventeen scenarios#svt scenarios#svt imagines#vernon fic#vernon#chwe hansol
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Current thoughts: A bit more angry than my usual thoughts but necessary because if there's one thing about the batboys is that they can bite - and they can bleed. There's always going to be a fight, a bluster and a burn eventually - no matter how smooth they sail it's bound to happen because as careful as you are with broken glass it has so many edges you're bound to get cut. And the problem with our boys is that they know each other - they've seen each other in their rawest states and it means they know where to hit - where to pinpoint and drag them down with each other. (and maybe it hurts a little bit more because its you thats hurting me - and i'd do anything for you)
It leaves Jason shaking on his feet - unstable and feral and all claws and teeth and bloody smiles and cigarette burns until he can't get hurt because his guts are already on the walls. It leaves Dick blistering with something cold in him - unfeeling and paranoid and so angry it threatens to rip out of his skin and make him something cruel. It's anger and wrath and the brimstone and evil whispering in their ear to hurt hurt hurt - how could you i trust you hurt. And then the clock moves and time passes and the anger leaves, then its just them.
The house is too quiet without Jason's banter and snark, the room is too cold without Dicks warmth wrapping around him like a blanket - it's off setting and wrong. Like a stomach ache right before a fever.
Their reconciliation is quiet and hurting - it's filled with wounds, bruises,and tears but it's them - and Dicks hand is gently nudgeing some of the scratches at Jason's arms - soothing and trying to heal. And Jason fills the air with a distinctive chatter that means he's here- Jasons got him - they've got each other.
Its hands wiping away tear tracks and a soft kiss on top of the head - murmured sorries and admittance that you mean too much to lose. It's rubbing warmth back into his boy who's shivering and feeling his heartbeat press against your ribs. Dicks sure that if you opened him up you'd find a little piece of Jason there.
It's also pressing close to fire and trusting it, nuzzling into a shoulder and tucking yourself close and cupping a hand to the back of Dicks head so you can stare at each other. It's memorizing blue eyes and tracing a jaw - mapping out his face with gentle touches that say (i know - i know - i know). It's pressing close and saying you're sorry - you trust him - he's everything, he's your whole future he's your Robin.
Falling asleep with bodies that have weathered a storm but love so deep it cant be labeled
sorry this is so long not all of them will be like this sorrywifhiof
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Another beautiful introspection ahhhhhhh, thank you Anon!! This is too beautiful for me to add on any ramblings of my own, but let me just say my pervading thought after the breathtaking and raw intimacy in this? All of the above, but foes to hoes.
Same level of tenderness, same devastating over/undertones, but it's all open disdain and petulant badgering hahaha. An AU where Robin -> Nightwing's greatest nemesis is the legacy he lost along the way. And it's legit all comedy because yeah, Jason is a threat, but that's also Dick's ex-protege, his sort of brother, his little wing.
So they're at odds against each other, only they're familiar so all the time their encounters are just bizarrely intimate lol. Because they're always in each other's space and Jason especially is all dramatic flair (because he learned from the best, Dick) when he seeks out Dick's attention. Which is often.
Even when they're fighting, they both look so pleased. For Dick, it's equal parts fun and pride because thorn in his side though Jason is, Jason is still his. It's a thrill when Jason triumphs over him; it makes him grin, a baring of bloodied teeth, when Jason challenges him.
Dick just likes putting Jason in his place after, lbr.
This had nothing to do with anything ahahahaha, I'm so sorry. It's been a week (made endlessly better by ~ c u r r e n t t h o u g h t s~ <3 Thank you, thank you!!
#dickjay#jaydick#more lovely anon thoughts <3#and then there's ybb's contribution LOL#apologies for this one
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Maybe I’m going total headcanon wishful thinking on this but considering Loki’s big speech about knowing exactly where Sylvie’s coming from and then telling Mobius how “we made a terrible mistake”, I don’t think the heartbreak he’s manifesting here is for himself. I think it’s mostly for Sylvie. Because he sees her going down the same path of anger and loneliness he did.
Or at least I sure hope this is it and that the future development of their relationship will be informed by his deep empathy for her because quite frankly, this “betrayal” and “she’s clearly wrong and needs to repent” narrative the fandom is doing is driving me up the wall. Like yes, we know she’s wrong. But the only reason we can say that is because of the decades of comic book knowledge and the upcoming Doctor Strange movie which, I’m sad to say, Sylvie can’t just go online and google. Taking the story as it is, there’s no reason for anyone in it not to be 50:50 on whether or not Kang is lying. Which, again, how would they verify it? What would taking a minute to “think about this” do?
(Plus Loki’s minute is closer to “let’s flat out do it my way”, lbr)
Watsonian speaking, Loki’s position is better than Sylvie‘s only because it’s playing it safe, not because it has some actual merit Sylvie’s failing to see.
Also, let’s talk Sylvie and why “we should play it safe” is just not an option here.
Sylvie is a traumatised mess who’s been torn out of the only safe place she ever knew, never formed a bond with another person until Loki turned up three hours ago, spent her entire life on the run, and has quite evident trust issues—yet now she finds herself in a situation which requires her to make a trust call, something she’s utterly ill-equipped to do due to no fault of her own. And it’s a dumb situation at that because as I said, why would Kang give her a pause? Like, seriously, in order for me to see her as failing some defining test of character there would have needed to be an obvious better choice for her to make but… there wasn’t and it‘s not wrong for her to be angry or hurt or traumatised. It’s not wrong for her to act on those feelings, not in general and not in this way. And pretending like there was? Well, that’s just punishing the character for not being healed from her trauma when she’s had no opportunity to even start healing, let alone find herself in a place where she could refuse to heal (which I’d call an actual character failure).
But most of all I’m annoyed with Marvel for framing Kang’s killing as a choice between preserving a status quo that’s obviously not good, and unleashing a total war everywhere every time for every time. Because these artificial false dilemmas have been their narrative weapon of choice for quite a while now. “Yes, legitimate grievance exists but legitimate grievance can’t be corrected because the act of correcting legitimate grievance would cause worse legitimate grievance somehow therefore legitimate grievance has to stay.” (No, based on their previous track record I have no hope in Doctor Strange figuring out some magical third option compromise)
So if there’s a sliver of a chance the story won’t require Sylvie to grovel and Loki will be in the understanding mind-set from the get-go, I’m sure as hell taking it.
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Female Geralt AU
So I wanted to clean up this AU meme response for reasons, including the fact that I really like it but I churned out the original in like 15 minutes and needed more than 5 bullet points lbr. So until this actually gets turned into the fic I want it to be, here it is, a little nicer than it was before. 💜
1. No one ever tells Geralt he doesn’t have to be 100% exactly what people expect. He lives for years just… responding. He’s a monster because people expect a monster. He’s a tool because people expect a tool. He’s emotionless because people expect him to be emotionless. He’s a man because people expect him to be a man. It's not much of a life, perhaps, but he gets by, and he doesn't get killed by an angry mob or a monster, and that's the most a witcher can hope for
1a. Until he meets a bard in Posada
2. Jaskier is a bubbly, busty, ridiculous breath of fresh air. She's technically the daughter of an earl, but not set to inherit; Kerack is so picky about it being the eldest son who inherits, and she's never been anyone's son, so she’s not a viscountess, just the daughter of some nobleman who thinks himself far more important than fourth generation nobility from a tiny backwater kingdom could ever be. But she plays the lute like a dream, and her voice is sweet and chiming and clear when she sings, and her laugh is bold and loud and could make your ears ring, and her smile is infectious and wide. Geralt can’t let her travel alone, she’s too soft, too vulnerable, too easy a target when she always wears such pretty frocks and braids flowers in her hair.
2a. He can't let her swan into his life like sunshine and safe harbor and then just leave again, not that he'll admit it.
3. From that first day she fawns over Geralt in a way he understands means flirting, means fondness, means attraction, but he can’t imagine sullying her with his hands, his mouth, his co– his body. So he says and does nothing, just lets her write songs about his heroism and bravery, lets the slow shift of opinion catch him by surprise, lets her put a hand on his chest and push him back down into his seat with a vicious smile when someone accuses her of being a witcher’s whore, at which point she generally tends to grab a bottle or a metal serving tray or a chair and absolutely go to town on the person in question.
3a. Jaskier was never soft and vulnerable when faced with people who were a threat. She always seemed to be soft and vulnerable around Geralt. He decides very firmly that he won't think about it. (He fails.)
4. They go along quite happily for years, surviving all sorts of trouble, shockingly little of it actually caused by Jaskier herself. Eventually, of course, Geralt gets cursed, because it's sort of inevitable it would happen eventually. It’s supposed to be humiliating, being turned into a woman, meant to drive him to misery and shame, but it’s not. It’s strange, but comfortable. He's still himself, just with leaner muscles, softer features. His voice is still low and gravely, yet higher and softer than it had been before. His angles are still sharp and hard, but with just the tiniest bit of softness. Just a bit.
5. Jaskier fusses initially, and Geralt can’t understand why her heart is pounding so hard until he smells a familiar sort of sweetness on the air and realizes that the bard is flustered. She's actually attracted to the woman’s form he’s currently filling, in a way she never quite is for his usual form. He should be worried about getting the curse broken, but instead he finds himself wondering if the curse may be permanent.
6. Jaskier asks if he’s all right, in a soft, worried voice, if he’s upset or needs to talk or needs anything. Geralt doesn’t answer for nearly three hours, simply lets Jaskier's nervous chatter wash over him as they find a good campsite and set about getting settled. He knows he's worrying her, not saying anything, but she clearly thinks he's forgotten the questions until he asks, so fucking carefully and uncertainly, if she minds him being shaped this way. And Jaskier frowns, and Geralt thinks that maybe it was a horrible mistake to ask, but then Jaskier's expression clears with realization, and she smiles as bright as the sun and says, “Whatever form you want to come in, you are still my Geralt, and still my witcher. I will always adore you.”
6a. (they’ve never said love, can't quite admit to loving each other in such a way, but adore is fine, somehow. Adore could be something less and different than love, could be an aesthetic, could be the drive for adventure, could be desperate friendship. It is love, of course, but they don’t have to acknowledge it just yet.)
7. They find a witch, just to make sure there's no other parts of the curse they haven't run into yet. Instead of any of the increasingly unlikely outcomes Jaskier's come up with as they traveled, the mage verifies that there are no traps or hidden triggers she can find. Then she tells them it’s permanent unless removed, and says she can do it for very little fee.
7a. Geralt looks down at Jaskier, the bright ember of sunlight who's made her home in Geralt's heart, who is beaming up at him encouragingly. Geralt smiles; Jaskier's own grin always had been infectious.
7b. “No,” he– she tells the witch, lacing her fingers together with Jaskier’s, reveling in the startled and blindingly brilliant smile the little bard gives her. “I think I’ll keep it.”
8. She remains the most fearsome Wolf in the world, of course. She grows her hair out further. Jaskier braids it down her back - generally utilitarian and secure - but always always always tucks at least one flower into it.
9. They don't live happily ever after, but they do live happily most of the time.
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Casting Thoughts
Yes, I did a long post when the rumours first dropped but hey now it’s confirmed plus we have characters descriptions, and I’m bored so let’s do this all over again people. Under the cut because it got long
Sisi Stringer as Rose Hathaway
I said this in my other post but I’m pretty happy with Sisi as Rose.
Visually I think she’s a great fit, I love that they casted a WoC in the main role, and I think if she can bring Rose’s humour and sarcasm to the role, she’s going to do great.
The character description mentions Rose being “fiery and outspoken”, happy to jump into the action, and the strongest fighter in her class but struggling to toe the line, which is all very Rose-esque, especially in the first book. It sounds to me like they have a good grasp on her character.
I’m a little disappointed we didn’t hear more about Rose as a character since she is the lead - it felt like the descriptions for Lissa and Dimitri both gave us a little more to go on - but it is only a very preliminary description so I’m happy to wait for more.
Daniela Nieves as Lissa Dragomir
Daniele is another one who I was happy with straight away.
She’s probably not what I imagined for Lissa visually but that’s not a bad thing either; I will be interested to see if they dye her hair a lighter colour (like a caramel-blonde) but personally that’s not something I need to see for her to be a great fit for Lissa.
I think she has a very sweet face which works well for a character like Lissa but I think she’s also going to be able to stand up in Lissa’s more fiercer moments which is nice to see as well.
The character descriptions mentions her as being “carefree and kind-hearted” who “coasts” through life until a death in the family thrusts her into a new role. That sounds a lot like pre-series Lissa so I wonder if we’re going to see a bit of that in the show before Andre (and her parents??) die and see that change.
It’s curious though that she’s described as the younger sister of the heir apparent - which would be Andre - so it sounds like they’ve changed it so Andre was supposed to be King. Obviously a deviation from the books but I don’t hate it? I don’t think it would change Lissa’s arc all that much because obviously she was always going to grow up to be an influential royal figure, this just slightly changes the dynamics of it.
The description also specifically mentions that she’s uninterested in “political machinations” and the “hypocrisy of the moroi royal society” which sounds very accurate to book!lissa as well.
All in all I’m very happy with what they’re doing with Lissa.
Keiron Moore as Dimitri Belikov
This is one who’s really grown on me since the rumoured cast list started circulating. At first I was kind of eh about him but I can really see him as Dimitri now.
I will be curious to see if he grows out his hair or not though.
As far as I know Keiron is not Russian, there’s not a lot about him online, but there’s some instagram activity on his account linking him to UK based companies so that would be my guess as to where he’s from. They’ve kept Dimitri’s incredibly Russian name so I guess we’re to assume Keiron might be doing an accent and they’re keeping Dimitri’s backstory relatively the same? I’m not gonna be super mad if they change it just because I think it’s doable for him not to be Russian (I know, I know a whole book is set in Russia but lbr here they could make him from anywhere and just send Rose there in that book).
The biggest thing for me will be his chemistry with Sisi, Danila and Zoey had great chemistry (imo anyway) which saved the move a little for me, so it’ll be important that Sisi and Keiron do as well. They’ve interacted a few times online which is cute so I’m hoping they were able to do some chemistry reads and that will translate on screen.
The character description mentions Dimitri as being “lethal, disciplined, discreet, and totally committed” as well as living by “a deep moral code” but with more going on “beneath his stoic, watchful surface” which sounds exactly like book!Dimitri to me.
They don’t really specify what his role at St Vlad’s is going to be but they do mention that he is a guardian so I’m assuming they’re keeping some sort of age gap between him and Rose. They also don’t mention anything about their relationship in the description, be it student/teacher, platonic, romantic, whatever, but they do say he has “an expansive spirit that could threaten to expose the underlying tension between his sense of what’s right and his formal duty to the Moroi.” which seems like a nod to their relationship.
Andre Dae-Kim as Christian Ozera
This was one of my favourite casting choices from the original rumoured cast list and I still love it.
The idea of a non-white Christian makes a lot of sense to me and I think Andre could do a great job of Christian’s aloofness (in the first book) as well as his sarcasm and growing confidence across the other books.
His character description confuses me a bit though: “Intelligent and thoughtful, Christian is the pariah of the school and royal court, due to his parents’ unforgivable societal sins.” sounds accurate enough to the book (although idk if thoughtful is quite the word I’d use for Christian - maybe they mean it in the sense that he’s quiet and keeps to himself?).
Even “Well-read and hungry for knowledge” doesn’t sound that far off, idk if he was *that* particularly studious in the books, but it doesn’t necessarily not make sense either you know?
But “he searches for faith-based answers and discovers a kindred spirit who is also looking for the truth” ??? My cynical, irreverent asshole Christian is now a man of faith? I’m assuming Lissa is the “kindred spirit” (again weird word choice but maybe they mean she’s feeling lost because of the death of her family?) but I just cannot see Christian as being particularly religious.
I’m trying to keep an open mind about these changes because you never know they might play out totally different on screen, but I really hope they didn’t make these changes, particularly that Christian is studious and religious, just because they cast an Asian actor as him (because they feel a little like Asian stereotypes).
J August Richards as Victor Dashkov
This is one that didn’t appear on the original rumoured cast list (as far as I saw) and it’s so different to his description in the books that I kind of don’t have an opinion about it as a casting choice.
I’ve never seen him in anything before so purely on a visual level I think he could be a great fit for Victor, I just think it’ll really come down to how he plays it.
As for this character description: “Victor is a Moroi noble vampire with a heart of gold who’s highly regarded for his role as advisor and political strategist to Moroi dignitaries.” as well as mentioning that he has intelligence and influence, sounds pretty accurate to the book. Obviously if Andre was the heir to the throne, Victor had to be shifted out of that role, but I think his book 1 arc could still work if they wanted it to.
The “heart of gold” bit obviously made me chuckle and I really hope they threw it in there as a kind of decoy to throw non-book-readers off the fact that he’s actually the villain in book 1/s1.
As for giving him a husband and two daughters, my thoughts are: why the fuck not? He didn’t have a love interest in the original books and I’m always down for more lgbtq+ rep. My only concern is it maybe playing into the trope of evil/villain characters being queer-coded. And as for having two daughters, well as long as one of them is Natalie I don’t mind.
Anita-Joy Uwajeh as Tatiana Vogel
Okay this is the most bizarre one imo, not because of the casting, but just the character description.
I mean “Tatiana is a Moroi vampire and political underdog who slowly takes the royal court by storm. Motivated by love and a sense of justice, Tatiana has a unique skill of making herself seem of no consequence until we realize much too late that she was always the one to watch.” sounds extremely Tasha Ozera to me, so like why not just make this character Tasha? Nothing about this sounds like Tatiana, and Tatiana wasn’t even a Vogel anyway (well Vogel wasn’t even one of the 12 royal families), she was an Ivashkov.
In terms of Anita-Joy herself, well I mean we don’t really have a character to compare her to, is she supposed to be more like Tasha or Tatiana? She looks fairly young, so my guess is actually on Tasha, but we’ll have to wait to see I guess.
Mia McKenna-Bruce as Mia Karp
This is another one that I was instantly a fan of.
I was so not a fan of Mia’s casting in the movie (I can’t even remember who played her tbh but I really didn’t like it) so this Mia is a lot closer to how I imagine her.
I think she’ll be able to carry Mia’s transformation from bratty social-climber to badass fighter really well.
The character description is interesting though. “Witty, cutting, and just the right kind of ruthless when necessary, non-Royal Mia has a long-term plan to social climb her way into the ranks of royalty, with all the privilege and freedom that entails.” sound pretty bang on to Mia in the first book.
“A plan complicated by her instant chemistry with Meredith, a Guardian-in-training, as Mia struggles to reconcile her attraction to Meredith with her lowly status.” is an obvious deviation though, and one I kind of love??? Give me all the queer rep, and if we get to see Mia confront the issue of comp-het I’m so here for it.
It’s kind of funny though because I’ve seen theories that Meredith is a replacement for Eddie and Mia/Eddie has always been my sort of rarepair ship.
The last name Karp is weird af though. Is she supposed to be Sonya’s daughter? And if that’s the case I wonder if we’re going to actually see Sonya turn Strigoi in the show’s first season or something and that triggers the change in Mia? Interesting concept but I’m not sure how the timeline will work.
Rhian Blundell as Meredith
So this is another new one, and tbh I hadn’t given Meredith *that* much though in the past but she’s probably close to how I would have pictured her which is cool.
The elephant in the room with this casting is that Meredith’s role in the books was relatively minor - she was just kind of that character that got brought up whenever R.M needed a dhampir who wasn’t Rose/Dimitri/Mason/Eddie. So clearly she’s going to have a bigger role in the tv show which I don’t mind but I do wonder if we’re going to lose a character - probably Eddie lbr - in order to have her. They haven’t casted an Eddie yet as far as we know, but I have seen it pointed out that Eddie’s role in book 1 was pretty small so maybe they just aren’t announcing it. But there’s also the possibility that maybe Meredith will sort of replace Eddie and be the third part of Rose and Mason’s friendship.
I’m very interested by this part of her character description though, “She has little patience for Rose’s volatility or Mia’s elitism, and regularly calls both of them out.”
Jonetta Kaiser as Sonya Karp
I don’t necessarily dislike Jonetta as Sonya but I am confused by this choice. She looks fairly young, which tbf Sonya was young-ish I guess, but if Mia is supposed to be her daughter she doesn’t look old enough to have a teenaged daughter. So maybe Sonya and Mia are sisters? Cousins? Just have each other’s last names for no reason? I really don’t know. They also look nothing alike.
Other than that, I don’t really have an opinion about Jonetta as Sonya. Obviously looks nothing like how Sonya was described but that’s not new nor a massive concern for me.
I can’t really tell just from looking at her, and I haven’t seen her in anything, if she would play a good Sonya. I think with a lot of the characters it’s going to come down to the personality they bring to the part and the writing.
I looooooove her character description though: “Quiet, careful and decidedly odd, Sonya is not of royal bloodline and sits out on the fringe of Moroi society, preferring to spend her time in the library or her gardens. Not a person who likes a scene, nonetheless she has a quiet but profound power of her own. She is taken by surprise when a Dhampir Guardian named Mikhail shows interest in her, a relationship that will expose both the brightest and darkest parts of her heart.” It’s everything I would probably want from a description of Sonya and I’m more and more convinced that we’re going to see Sonya’s descent into madness and transformation into a Strigoi play out in maybe the first season which I am so curious how they’re going to work into the timeline.
Andrew Liner as Mason Ashford
Our last one and another one who doesn’t look remotely like his description but again? Not a surprise and not a problem for me. He looks like he could play Mason’s goofiness really well as well as be a solid contender for a love interest for Rose.
“Charming, loyal and popular, Mason is Rose’s main competition in the quest to become the No. 1 Guardian-in-training. Though their relationship is casual on her side, he is hopeful she will finally look at him and see him as something more.” His character description makes a lot of sense, maybe him being Rose’s main competition is a bit of a deviation? But I think that’s more an indication that he’s supposed to be a strong fighter which isn’t inaccurate to the books. The rest sounds great.
Other Thoughts
Descriptions of the show specifically mention friendship and classism as major themes which I am very happy to hear about because those are the two parts of VA that I love the most.
Am a little more worried about it being described as “sexy” though, if they shove a whole bunch of meaningless sex scenes in it just because it’s a YA show I’m not gonna be happy.
Seen the show compared to “Game of Thrones” and “Bridgerton” which at first had me like oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck not good not good not good. But thinking about it more and trying to understand where Plec’s coming from with that description I wonder if means similar to GoT as in the cut-throat nature of the Moroi/Dhampir society cause I can kind of see that. And as for Bridgerton I wonder if she’s referring to the kind of social-climbing aspects of it, because again that makes sense and it seems like a theme she really wants to concentrate on. I hope that’s what she means by those comparisons, or that she just wants to compare it to popular shows to get people to watch it. The worst would be if she tries to throw in a lot of unnecessary sex scenes to make it like those shows, because I hate when they do that, especially when the characters are teenagers.
Interesting to hear that Plec has known about the series since before Twilight or TVD - not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Seems like it’s actually mostly (or all??) written by Marguerite MacIntyre which is interesting because I know people were worried about Julie Plec - I’ve never watched anything by either of them so I’m neutral at this point.
#wow this took me most of the day to write so i got absolutely no uni work done#oh well#worth it#vampire academy#va#va tv show#rose hathaway#dimitri belikov#lissa dragomir#mason ashford#meredith (va)#mia rinaldi#sonya karp#christian ozera#respond to this and tell me your thoughts cause i want to hear what everyone things#*thinks#keep things respectful tho guys
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Ey, could you make food source reactions for Mammon & Levi like you did with the others?
I've read it like 3 times now, they're all so sweet and believable you did a great job!
You got it Fam! Glad you like them so much lol. (I got a lot more angsty with Mammon than I thought I would but I love him sooooo)
Mammon
This poor man. He gets to spend so little time alone with you. He has to make every second count. Between the hustling, modeling, and running from Lucifer, he’s a pretty busy guy.
So he plans date nights. Just you, him, and his leather couch. Ya ain’t goin’ nowhere, ya hear? He looks forward to this every month. He pins it on his calendar too just so he doesn’t double book himself.
Now, don’t get me wrong. Just cause he plans this doesn’t mean he necessarily has a plan. Not that you care. Most of his activities turn into trouble anyway, even when he is not trying.
Sometimes he teaches you how to play cards (also shows you human ways to cheat-just in case you need it). The hours are spent pleasantly sitting in his lap while he teaches you how to count cards.
But, most nights, he just wants to talk. He enjoys his time with you. You and him cuddling and chatting away the hours before passing out for the night.
He has a lot of things he wants to know about you. To him, he feels like if he knows you better than the other brothers he’s won.
Won what? Idk, your affection? Approval? He already has it, but he is insecure about his place in your heart regardless.
This evening starts out like any other. Mammon dashing to the kitchens to pilfer some snacks and drinks before Beel can steal them all, and you bring your cute self over to his room.
You two toss back a few drinks and spend some time looking over his latest photo shoots before going on to the main event. Tonight you brought one of your favorite human card games. It was like 20 questions, but some questions were more risque than others. Was it meant for more than two players? Yes, but whatever- Mammon wants to play it so you are.
You both are relaxed and drowsy by the time you start playing. Your stomachs are full of junk, and the morning moons are just on the horizon. It’s the perfect mixture for loose lips and secrets, before falling asleep in each other's arms.
You pick easy cards first, jumping from silly innocent questions to one that made him blush from ear to ear. The hours pass quickly and Mammon’s answers become more slurred and accented as he tires out.
He was on the verge of sleep when you ask, “What’s your favorite dish?”
It was a slip of the tongue, a long-lost memory pulled up from the dregs of his exhausted mind. He remembers a savory dish Barbatos use to make way back when. He can still smell the savory smoky spices mixing with the fresh vegetables and meat- Oh shit.
He feels you stiffen and he ain’t sleepy anymore, that’s for sure. Immediately up and apologizes. He stumbles over himself in his haste to explain himself.
You spend the rest of the evening with him in your arms trying to comfort him as he tearfully swears he hasn’t eaten a person in a couple of hundred years.
Mini Fic
He regrets it the moment the words slip out. His sleepy remark hangs out in the chilly air of his room. He feels you jerk in his arms as if punched. “Shit! I-I didn’t mean.” Mouth agape, he backtracks, tongue working faster than his overtaxed brain. He looks down at your head on his chest.
Your eyes are wide. Their surprise reflected in the bright blue moonlight. His heart sinks to his stomach. Gods, he ruined it. “I’m sorry- I.” Pushing you off of his chest he goes to grab his shirt and redress, ignoring the prickling heat growing at the corner of his eyes. He could sleep somewhere else tonight. You could have the room if you wanted, or at least give you a minute to flee in terror from the demon that masqueraded as your friend. He can’t look at you. Hells, he was too ashamed to even glance in your direction. What kind of idiot let’s slip that? They even had a council meeting about this very thing before you arrived.
So lost in his panic he doesn’t notice you trying to get his attention. It wasn’t until you forcefully grab his arm did he hear you. “It’s ok Mammon.” You engulf him in your warm and comforting scent. Strong arms dragging him back to the crumpled sheets of his bed. Your soft fingers wipe at the silent tears streaking down his cheeks.
He dislodges himself from your light grasp to rub at his own eyes. “How can ya’ say that?” Where was your sense of self-preservation? Ain’t humans supposed to be aware of such dangers? The irony wasn’t lost on him though. Being your ‘protector’ and all.
You shuffle closer, hellbent on comforting. His pack mark hums gently on his chest when you touch it. As much as his body wanted to run, your pact mark cemented him to his seat. He sits while you fuss over him slowly breathing through his mouth to calm his racing heart. He can’t help but drift closer to you when he feels your hand on the top of his head. When had he become so weak for you?
“Well-How can I not?” You shrug. He closes his eyes when you start ruffling his fringe. “You’ve been nothing but sweet to me. Yes, you have,” You cut him off firmly before he can object. “Always my number one anyway.” That pulls a wet chuckle from your demon. His eyes clear up at your admission. “I trust you Mammon, honestly. I mean, I kinda knew that you’ve probably eaten a human or two in your life. Knowing, and knowing are more different than I thought.”
Mammon cages you in his arms, his nose brushing along your neck and jawline. “Damn-.” He huffs covering you in his warm body, arms tight around your sides. “I’m sorry. I ruined tonight.” Mammon sighs into your skin.
You hug him back. “Nonsense, if you want to get technical I think you won this game. I can’t top that answer.” You push away with a wide yawn. “Now can we go back to bed?” With a nod, he flops over pulling you down with him. You bully your way into his arms again. Sighing constantly you snuggle in for the night, ready to drift off. His eyelids began to feel heavy again too. Your soft weight on him like a security blanket. He listens to your slowly beating heart, matching his breathing to yours. The rhythmic thumps working to calm him better than his noise machine. He basks in your presence, rubbing his broad hand down your back for a moment before you speak again.
“Hey, Mammon.”
“Hmm?”
“Do you think I would taste good?”
Leviathan
Awkward boy. Of course, he has had his fair share of humans. Not particularly his favorite through. A lot of the time it wasn’t on purpose. His demon form is big and sometimes more than just fish and other demons get swallowed up. Course when that happened, they weren’t exactly fresh either. Bleh-just thinking about it makes his stomach turn.
No, he never got a taste for it, even when it was served in the royal palace. The memories of the sea are still pretty vivid. It never really crosses his mind anymore. Till you bring it up.
He invites you over for a game night. A new VR game he had been saving up for just dropped and he had to play it with you.
It was a horror stealth game. Heavy on critical thinking and solving puzzles in real-time.
Your two characters were on a race against time against a flesh eating cult that had invaded a small village. He thought it was a fun concept and you both liked horror games. He didn’t notice how quiet you had gotten until you had set your controller down.
You ask during a loading screen after a pretty graphic cut scene of a npc getting caught. How realistic was that cut scene? Had he ever eaten a human before?
Boy is a brighter pink than Ruri-chan’s signature outfit (and twice as cute lbr)
He gets so flustered that he misses the start of the next round and gets you both eaten.
He doesn’t take conflict well. Like at all. He much rather slink off into his fish tank and hide than answer you. In fact, that sounds like an excellent idea.
He slithers back out of his tank hours later thinking you had left or found a better brother to hang out with. Yucky people eaters like him aren’t good company for humans.
You jump him the minute his feet are back on solid ground. Have an answer now you must! Yrssss.
Mini Fic
“L-Let go!” Levi shrieks, caught in your sneak attack. He locks up when you jump him, all four of your limbs wrapping around his soaking body like an octopus.
“No!” You squeeze him harder taking full advantage of the fact that he won’t remove you himself. You feel the heat of his blush through his soaked clothes as you cling closer. If he could blush any harder you were pretty sure steam would be wafting off of him.
“Why do you want to know anyway?” He wiggles gently, trying to loosen your tight grip.
“Morbid curiosity.” Well, at least you were honest. He was still going to say no, you didn’t need to know that about him. He opens his mouth to shut you down but makes the mistake of looking at you. The words die when he catches the pout growing on your face. Oh no- his one weakness. Your way your lower lip pops out adorably, accompanied by slightly puffed-out cheeks. It was a one-two punch to his defenses.
“I-they weren’t on purpose.” He pleads. Nevermore in his life did he wish he could turn into a mist-like his brother. He feels you slip off of him. Your bare feet don’t make a sound on his carpeted floor. “It just happened sometimes.” He admits. You accept it for a few seconds before his words fully hit you.
“Wait? How do you accidentally eat someone?” You ask incredulously. “All though- that’s something Beel might do.” You ponder the logistics and step back to give him some space.
He rights himself, wicking the moisture from his coat and pants with magic until he is completely dry again. You start asking a dozen more questions in rapid fire. It was enough to make his head spin. You were too curious for your own good. “Ever heard of basking whales?”
You blink.
Levi sighs and waves a hand to himself. “When I lived in the ocean… I’m big ya know. I kinda would just open my mouth and swallow. Whatever I caught I ate.” He waits for you to get the jest. Most of the time it was smaller fish and aquatic mammals. When a demon encroached on his territory he would eat them too. The dead were meant for his army, but sometimes they got sucked into.
Instead of nodding in understatement, you cover your mouth with the palm of your hand and snort. His eyes grow big and his blush turns brighter. You were spending way too much time with Asmo. “No-Not like that!” His flailing only makes you laugh harder. Great, as if he didn’t want to die of embarrassment already.
“Well word it better, nerd.” You laugh retreating back to the mound of pillows you claimed for gaming, VR headset in hand. “Come on, we have to start over now- thanks to someone.”
“You started it!” Levi shoots back grabbing up his gear as well. He fiddles with it for a moment before glancing back at you. You were oblivious to inner turmoil over this admission. A naval admiral was one thing. Humans had them too, that wasn’t too much for you to comprehend. Being a devil was easy enough to understand too, at least in his mind. But eating people? Shouldn’t you be more concerned? “So-that’s it?”
You look up questioningly. “What’s it?”
He raises a purple brow. “You have nothing else to say? I just admitted to eating people!”
“Not really.” You shrug. “I can’t get too pressed about it. It’s not like you are human. I’m like what-at the bottom of the food chain to you, right?” Levi nods. “See! So no point stressing over it. ‘Sides, you haven’t munched on me yet.” You turn your attention back to the screen, flicking your controller to wake his flat-screen back up. “Unless~” He gulps at the sly eyebrow wiggle you throw at him, the shit eating grin that accompanied it only made him worry. “Perhaps you just have an appetite for seamen.”
Your peals of laughter mix with his shrill yelps of objection, as he tackles you. His previous worries were completely forgotten by your teasing.
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Here in this diary! (I think I know but I wanna seeee)
...I was honestly gonna save these for the next two WIPWednesdays, but then someone said @lukanettejune had Villain!Luka as today's prompt (6/4), and it just seemed like it'd be fun to share this today?
Because I've been sitting on Villain!Butterfly!Luka for a while now without having a lot of time to work on it, and I'm pretty sure the only ones I've discussed it with are the OG LBSC crew. And y'all will never believe when I say our Fluffy Meet Cute Queen is the one who gave me the prompt. 😁
The prompt started with Marinette recording Guardian/Ladybug-specific things in her diary, in case anything ever happened to her (because superheroes typically don't have a long life expectancy lbr), to explain - or to lead the next Guardian. I can't remember if Luka specifically getting the diary/Marinette giving it to him was the original idea (it's LBSC it probably was), but it...ran away with me. And Shadowman was born.
The summary: Under normal circumstances, Luka would never read someone’s diary. But Marinette’s been missing since Ladybug’s death, and he’s desperate. Every page gives him new insight into the girl he was realizing he never really knew. Every page reveals just how much Paris had failed its beloved heroine – how much he had failed her. Now Luka Couffaine is out for revenge, and the only person who could stop him is gone.
So here's what I've got.
We open on the death of Ladybug. It's the final showdown with Hawkmoth, and Viperion is the only 'temporary' hero there because LB thought they'd need Second Chance (and he's the only one she really trusts anymore). Viperion and Chat Noir are standing over LB's body, and Hawkmoth is cackling behind them, Mayura crumpled at his feet. He tells them he might not have won, but they haven't either - "Your hero is dead! Your precious Ladybug is DEAD!"
And Viperion walks over and just clocks him. He takes Hawkmoth and Mayura's Miraculous, but when he turns around Chat and Ladybug are gone. This leads him to believe Chat has LB's body/her Miraculous - but he's...confused. Did this mean they won? He hears the sirens approaching and waits for the police. Before they take hi away, Gabriel asks him: "Have you actually won anything? Is Paris truly safe?"
Two weeks pass. It's a mixed bag: Hawkmoth is defeated, but Chair Noir hasn't been seen or heard of since the defeat, and Ladybug is dead. Paris is safe but in mourning. Luka is guilt-ridden over Ladybug's death, convinced he could have prevented it and his failure to fix it makes him an unworthy Snake. He renounces Sass, and he's been keeping the Snake, Butterfly, and Peacock in a safe place.
In this 'verse, Luka doesn't know or suspect that Marinette is Ladybug. Immediately after the battle, Luka called Marinette. He needed to talk to her, to see her - but she never answered. He tried to go over the next morning, but Sabine calls him and lets him know Marinette wasn't in her bed that morning. They didn't hear her leave, but she's not answering her phone and they can't find her - has he seen her? So for two weeks he has been at the bakery almost constantly, tirelessly helping Tom and Sabine search for Marinette. No one can find her. No one's heard from her. And he's starting to go a little nuts.
(Note that this takes place during summer - HM was defeated right before break. Dingo's back in Australia for the summer, which is important for Reasons. Luka's not in school, stopped going to work, and is using pretty much all his time to help look for Marinette.)
So it's been two weeks. No akumas because no Hawkmoth, a dead Bug, and a missing Marinette. Luka's at the bakery, shambling around Marinette's room. Tom and Sabine are downstairs, waiting on a call from Roger who may have found a lead. And Luka's just poking around, spiraling, when he notices...the box with Marinette's diary is open. It wasn't open before. And there, on top of her diary, are two letters: one addressed to him and one addressed to Chat Noir.
So he reads his. It's a goodbye/Just In Case letter. She explains how she was hoping he wouldn't find it/she wouldn't need it. She'd set a magical lock on the box, so that if something happened and she didn't come back...and she's sorry. She's so sorry, because she never wanted to drag Luka back into this, but she needed him. She tells him her diary will explain everything: she wrote everything down, and she always thought it was because she just loved to journal, but she realized it was because she never had any proper training. The next Ladybug/Guardian deserves better. If she doesn't make it, the next LB/Guardian has to be prepared. Better than she was.
And Luka can't move. Can't breathe, can't think. Because the letter had been addressed to him, and he wasn't going to read it, but he had hoped maybe there was a clue, except the clue was...Marinette is Ladybug.
Ladybug is dead.
...Marinette is dead.
And it's all his fault.
And he reads her diary, convinced he had to have misunderstood...but it's all there. Everything. Becoming Ladybug, her spiraling feelings for Adrien, Chat being so pushy with his affections, her troubles with Lila and the class, the expulsion, Alya constantly pushing/pressuring her with Adrien, becoming Guardian, feeling like she had to bear everything because Chat was so lackadaisical/reckless/self-sacrificing, her growing feelings for Luka...and Luka realizes it's true. She was Ladybug, and she was going through so much more than she ever let on. And he realizes that all of them - even him - only made it worse. And they're not going to find Marinette, because Ladybug is dead, and they never found Ladybug's body, and...he just goes numb.
He walks out of her room. Out of the bakery. He doesn't answer Tom or Sabine when they ask if he's ok. He just...walks. And he doesn't fully realize any of this/where he was going/doing until he wakes up the next morning in his bed with tears still drying on his face. And Juleka's there, and she's like "bro wtf?" because he's freaking her the hell out, and he just says: "...she's gone."
And for the first time ever, Luka looks at Juleka and is...angry. Furious. And he can't talk to her. He realizes he blames her. He blames himself. He blames everyone: her 'friends', her classmates, her family, Paris...if they had all tried harder, been better, then she wouldn't be...if they hadn't left her all alone...
And Luka just Shuts Down. Everyone's worried about him, but he won't talk about it. He's closing himself off to everyone - even Juleka and Anarka. Sabine calls Anarka, because Luka went from being at the bakery every day helping the search to nothing, but Anarka has no idea?
Luka keeps rereading the diary. He's stuck in this loop of "I should have known," "we should have helped her," "this is our fault..."
And another week or so passes. There's still no sign of Marinette, except now Luka knows why - knows that she's never coming back. And he finally goes back to the bakery to tell Tom and Sabine what he knows, because it's cruel to put them through this any longer. He has the diary, her letter, and the three Miraculous stones with him. And they're all sitting in the kitchen, and he's trying to talk and failing to find the words.
The news is playing in the background: Nadja is doing a special on the rise and fall of Paris's beloved heroine. She comments how Chat Noir hasn't been seen since the "battle that freed Paris from Hawkmoth's reign of terror" and speculates that it's because he's mourning his lover. And Luka just...snaps. Shouts "That lying bitch!" at the television. Sabine asks if he's ok, but he's not - Ladybug is gone. Marinette is gone. And nobody cares. Nobody realized they caused it. And they need to be held accountable - they need to pay.
Tom and Sabine knew about Silencer, of course, but they've never seen calm, sweet Luka so angry before - and it terrifies them. And Tom tries to tell Luka that it's ok - Marinette's not gone, not like Ladybug is. They're going to find her. They can't give up hope. And Luka realizes her own parents didn't even know. They didn't notice. They did nothing to see or stop how she was hurting. And as much as he loves them, he realizes they must pay, too - and he's the only one who can make them. He has her diary. He has the Butterfly. He can make them all realize how alone they left her. He can make them all feel as hopeless as they made her feel - as he feels now.
And he tells Tom he's wrong: Marinette is dead. Marinette was Ladybug, and she's dead, and she's never coming home, and it's all their fault - even his. But they don't believe him, and he leaves without showing them the diary. He just feels...defeated.
Back at the Liberty, he comes home to find Juleka and Rose watching the same report. And he retreats to somewhere deep in the Liberty, somewhere private, where he can don the Butterfly. He starts flipping through the diary, and he finds a passage where Marinette was venting about Nadja: her journalistic integrity ("No wonder Alya thinks its' ok when THAT'S Paris's example!"), the Prime Queen interview when she was more interested in pushing LadyNoir than discussing Hawkmoth, about how she's ALWAYS been like that, how many times she's called her last-minute to watch Manon to chase a story...and it's important to note that none of these things are inherently bad, or that Marinette is saying Nadja's awful for them. She's venting in her diary, like you do. But Luka's in such a dark place by this point that it only makes things worse.
He tears the page out and keeps reading and rereading it. Keeps thinking how Nadja must pay. HE summons Nooroo, and before Nooroo can speak Luka tells him everything that happened. Hawkmoth's gone, but so is LB. That Paris let their Guardian fall. Nooroo is devastated because that means Tikki's gone, too, and what about the Miracle Box? Luka assures him he'll take care of the Box, but Paris has to answer for what they did. Nooroo agrees to help, gives Luka a basic rundown of the Butterfly's powers, and Luka transforms - except Nooroo didn't explain everything, and Luka didn't have Marinette's training, so he doesn't realize Nooroo doesn't need negative emotions. He thinks you have to upset someone to create an akuma.
So he takes the diary page to the TVi studios and confronts Nadja on air. He introduces himself as Shadowman. (For a hot second he considers introducing himself as 'Shadowmoth' - which I would like to point out this story was started before that name was dropped so fuck you Gabriel - but it's too close to 'Hawkmoth', and Hawkmoth was the one who killed Marinette. He refuses to be associated with him/take his name.) He tells Nadja and the world that Ladybug was Marinette Dupain-Cheng. That Marinette is dead because Ladybug is dead. And that Paris caused it.
He accuses Nadja of sensationalizing Ladybug and the akumas/battles. He reads the diary page on air. Nadja doesn't believe him at first, but then he gives her the page and she recognizes Marinette's handwriting. Realizes he's right. She's overcome by guilt/grief, and Shadowman creates an akuma. It goes into the diary page, and Prime Queen is reborn as Telecaster.
And this was all live. All of Paris is watching the broadcast, and they know they aren't safe.
Cut to where Adrien's been hiding. He sees the whole thing, and he can't believe it - until he hears the people in the studio screaming. He realizes he has to do something, because Paris isn't safe anymore, and this time there's no Ladybug to fix his mistakes.
Back at TVi, Telecaster is attacking everyone. As Nadja she was determined to tell the news, even to the point of amping up stories for ratings - but that was kinda forced by her producer? So she's going after the bigwigs at the studio for forcing her to be so ratings-focused/sensationalistic. And she's just destroying the studio, which is...fine. Paris has other media outlets...right? It's just chaos.
Chat Noir finally shows his face and demands to know what Shadowman thinks he's doing/who he is. Part of Shadowman's disguise is literal darkness, so he lets the shadows recede and lets Chat actually see him. And Chat realizes it's Viperion/Luka - and he pleads with him to stop. That LB/Marinette wouldn't want this - that she loved this city and knowing he was attacking it would kill her.
And it's just...the wrong thing to say. Shadowman says the city was what killed her, and they have to answer for it. That Chat has to answer for it. But Chat doesn't understand - he was LB's partner? Her friend? He was at the final battle with her - how is her death his fault?
But Shadowman tells him it's not his time yet. He is coming for him - he will get his Miraculous back for the Box - but not yet. He will get LB's Miraculous back (note that he's operating under the belief that Chat has LB's body/Miraculous, so he honestly believes CHat will just use them to purify the akuma and fix the damage - except Chat doesn't and can't). But Paris must suffer first, just like Marinette suffered. He disappears before Chat can go after him - and then Telecaster is attacking and he has to focus on her.
And Chat does defeat Telecaster, but there's no LB. No one to purify the akuma or fix the damage. He doesn't actually have her Miraculous, so what now? (This leads to Chat having a growing collection of butterfly jars with akumas and no idea how to fix it. Paris needs LB - he needs LB.)
After leaving Chat to deal with Telecaster, Shadowman goes back to the bakery to retrieve the Miracle Box. Marinette's skylight was always open (he always assumed it was because it's the roof no one can enter through there - except now he realizes it was easy access for Ladybug). Tom and Sabine hear noise from her room and burst in with umbrellas/paddles/whatever but freeze when they see Shadowman standing there with the Box. They try and stop him: they saw the report, they know who he is, they realize who Marinette was, and believe it's now their duty to protect the Box, since Marinette can't. And Shadowman is livid, because "You couldn't even protect her. You never even noticed...your home is supposed to be safe. Your parents are supposed to keep you safe. When did you ever do that?"
He akumatizees Tom and Sabine before he leaves: the dual-akuma Safe Harbor. There's no diary page left with them because Marinette never actually spoke out against her parents in the diary: it's just Luka's frustration with them. He leaves them there and goes back to the Liberty to retieve Sass, Duusu, and the diary.
Back at TVi, Chat realizes that if LB was Marinette and LB was the Guardian then Marinette would have the Miracle Box. He takes his coffee mug with the akuma and books it back to the bakery, except her skylight door is now locked? The balcony was always open to him, but is now locked? So he has to go in through the side/home door as Adrien.
Tom greets him. Is being very jittery/Concerned Parent and acting Weird - and so is Sabine. They're both worrying over him, apologizing about Gabriel, asking if he's ok - and he can't get a word in edgewise. Finally yells at them to stop - he needs to see Marinette's room. He needs to get the Miracle Box. And they just...freeze. They don't react at first. He tells them he knows they saw the news - everyone did - so they have to know that Marinette was LB. And LB had the Miracle Box/all the Miraculous gems, and he has to get them back. But they try and laugh it off (again, it's all very stilted), and he finally just transforms. Says he was LB's partner, and with her gone it's on him to protect the Box now. Except when he looks back at them the butterfly mask is over their eyes and he realizes they're akumatized, too - and he just gave his identity away to Shadowman.
Safe Harbor is like a Stepford version of Tom and Sabine. They're turning the bakery into a fortress because they couldn't keep Marinette safe, so now they're making it the ultimate safe haven. And even though Shadowman realizes Adrien's identity, Safe Harbor doesn't fully? They just see it as Adrien fighting back/resisting their protection - so they deem him a threat and start attacking him. (Again, no diary page here: the akumatized object is a family photo of Tom, Sabine, and Marinette.)
After the fight, Chat goes to trap the akuma in the coffee cup with the other one - only to realize the cup is empty. He remembers akumas can phase through objects, and he has no feasible way of trapping the akumas. But...Cataclysm destroyed Uncanny Valley. Could it maybe destroy akumas, too? Before he can try it, the akuma is released and a white butterfly flutters away.
Across the street, Shadowan is lurking and watching him. He doesn't understand why Chat didn't use Ladybug's powers to purify the akuma. Why isn't Chat fixing any of this? Does he want to watch the city burn? He thinks Chat's just being stubborn. Well, he can be stubborn, too. He has to up his game next time. He releases the akuma because, deep down, Shadowman is still Luka. He still cares about the city and the people he's going after. Maybe a little sliver of conscience not letting him go all-out yet?
So Luka returns to the Liberty long enough to retrieve Sass, Duusu, and the diary before he realizes he has to leave. Adrien is Chat, and Adrien was the one who chose him as Viperion, so Chat knows who he is/where to find him, too. Juleka catches him before he leaves, and says, "...I was afraid it was you. On the TV. Luka, you have to stop this." "None of you stopped. I don't see why I should, either."
Luka goes into hiding. He remembers reading about Master Fu's old shop in the diary. Master Fu had left it to Marinette as a safe house, but as far as he knows Chat doesn't go there anymore (no reason to) and doesn't realize he knows about it. (Eventually, later on, Chat does go there and catches Luka - so Luka ends up hiding out at Dingo's home, bc the Kings are in Australia for the summer/it's empty.)
Aaaand that's all I have of the outline so far. 😂 The idea is Luka creates a hit list using the diary: Nadja, Tom and Sabine, Mayor Bourgeois, Alya, The Girl Squad (yes even Juleka and Rose), Lila, Chloé, Marinette's class in general, Mlle. Bustier, M. Damocles, Master Fu, Chat Noir/Adrien, and finally Luka himself. He confronts each person with a page torn from the diary, and he uses Marinette's own words to convince them of their guilt. With the exception of Tom and Sabine, the akuma is always in the diary page. Chatdrien is Luka's 'last' target, because as Ladybug's partner he blames him most - except the real 'last target' is actually Luka.
He plans his final akuma almost like a suicide mission, hoping that Chat will Cataclysm him/take him out when Shadowman kills him, so they're both defeated simultaneously. Except...
Things don't go as planned. Because Ladybug wasn't dead. The Guardians were able to heal her. And she was never supposed to see Luka this way.
#miraculous ladybug#luka couffaine#marinette dupain-cheng#lukanette#endgame lukanette#lukanette endgame#adrien agreste#shadowman#butterfly luka#villain luka#wip wednesday#wip wednesday: festering folder edition#quickspinner#villain au#if you're gonna do a villain au you have to do it right#villain luka is still luka#don't murder his character for the sake of what being evil#I'm honestly so excited about this one#it was a great prompt and I've steadily been chipping away at it#y'all I just summarized six pages of outline for this instead of sleeping#what the heck 😂
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