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Little bittersweet that this might be Fig's swan song. There's like this "six seasons and a movie" mentality that makes me feel like Senior Year is the finish line, so just stick it out for one more. But, if creatively Emily doesn't feel like she can get any more out of the character, then that's that. It's best to move on rather than force it. Or not. It's the end of her time at Aguefort, doesn't mean it's the end of her time with the Bad Kids. The school part of these characters being high schoolers only really came into play this season, so let's wait and see. Emily considered retiring Fig at the start of this season and changed her mind. It could happen again.
On to the fun stuff:
-Gorgug didn't get a last hit on Porter, but he did get a clutch assist in with a narratively satisfying move that uses his Artificer class instead of his Barbarian class, helping drive the last nail in on Porters coffin. *chefs kiss* Going out of Rage while doing it was a perfect way to twist the knife.
-Riz's kill line on KP was stone cold.
-Everyone else's contributions were valuable but none more so than the newest Bad Kid, The Lava. Taking out five major threats during the battle. What a trooper and a strong candidate for Honor Roll.
-I came around on Mary Anne too. I get why some of the Intrepid Heroes were so obsessed with flipping her allegiances.
There's a lot this season that gives a strong finale vibe, but besides that hook at the end there's another thing that keeps going unresolved. Sol and his church keep fucking around and it's about damn time they find out. I don't think Senior Year will be a full-on religious crusade, but it doesn't feel like that plot point should be off the table. And what the fuck is Kalinas deal? So she was never loyal to Cass?
I hope we don't have to wait another 4 years for the next chapter of Fantasy High to get an answer to those questions.
Fig honestly would prob go to school more if she wasn't required to so it's absolutely an Emily decision more than it is a story decision. It's hard to picture FH without her but I'm sure she'll come up with something fun if she's still feeling like retiring Fig whenever they get around to Senior Year.
I think it's arguably MORE fitting that Gorgug didn't get the last hit in and instead got him with a gadget that didn't even do damage. It's like, he got Porter and not even in a way that Porter would respect because it wasn't rageful and violent. That's gotta suck more than if Gorgug had just punched him hard and KO'd him.
The lava was just so so good. It's like when you're a warlock and technically you could do other stuff but spamming Eldritch Blast just gets you the most bang for your buck so you keep doing it. Once they figured out the lava strat, they basically had to keep using it. Lava MVP for sure.
Mary Ann being so checked out for the whole evil plot even while participating in it is so funny. Honestly, queen shit.
I really think that if Kalina is actually bad then that's a retcon from Brennan because that's never been how familiars work and Kalina did try to help them consistently throughout the season with the Spy's Tongue Curse clue. She only attacked them when she got hit with a rage crystal and that was godly interference.
I agree that there are a lot of loose ends re: The Church of Sol (Buddy, Bobby and Sandra Lynn, Helio's lack of a chosen one, Bucky's whole deal, the Helioic pantheon shakeup--how crazy is it that Cass never talks to any of her celestial sibs?). I hope that if we explore that we get to see more about the actual people of the church rather than just the gods because there was a huge god focus in back to back seasons and, as I've mentioned before, if Spyre rules mean that gods are a reflection of their followers, their followers are honestly more interesting. I can't really be mad at Sol for being what he is when his chill level is determined by Bobby Dawn and co, you know? He has limited agency as an entity. Cut out the middle man and let's chase down Bobby directly.
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A fucking small thing that no one is pointing out. Murph helping Ally do math with the short rest as well all of them going "are we all good? Who needs healing."
Like both the bards offering to do Song of Rest to get Gorgug up to full. They care about each other.
But the camera swapping over to the Lou, Ally and Murph side of the table, Ally rolling dice and Murph counting is very sweet.
Despite all the posting about the Rat Grinders and the disappointment... They are literally all comedians and Best/close friends making a fucking show together. . As well as filming about 3-4 ~2h30 episodes in about the space of 2-3 days plus their ~30 minutes APs. .this doesn't include their breaks for food, checking in with each other, and changing outfits. .
Like this season could have been pushed into intense filming mode because of the writers strike last year.
But to say that the IH don't care about the story or the Bad Kids are acting harsh towards the Rat Grinders and not look for redemption. . .
They fucking tried throughout Junior Year right.. if the Rat Grinders used strategy and had Buddy as well as Ruben heal their party at this point. . But also the Bad Kids are in a "here we go again" situation. .all their time at school has been LETS SAVE THE FUCKING WORLD. it's a kill or be killed situation. The situation that they are used to.
Like come on. . The Freshmen Year one fell into their laps because Riz wanted to find out what happened. Gorgug and Kristen died in the first fight.... They got curious and were only taught how to use the battle strategy by Bill Seacaster. .
Sophomore year was a spring break task given to them by the principal. . That was their assignment....
The night Yorb was their fault. .well mainly Riz's fault but it was the Bad Kids fault to investigate the name Night Yorb right... But they fixed it, they owned up to their mistakes.
This year? Yeah I'm still in the mindset that they would have figured out some of the plan without the Rat Grinders being the Rat Grinders right. . like they might find Lucy. . The Vulture dimension shit could have still happened... The Rat Grinders could have been in the background but TBK could have been aware of them.
Like they found out about the rage crystals BECAUSE OF LYDIA. they found out about Ankarna because of a mixture of Bakur and Lydia as well as what was happening with Cassandra.
Like Buddy Dawn information was found out via Kristen's brother.
The Frosty Fair was at Gorgug's house and Riz's mother was researching it. Just so happened Ruben was there as well as Grix.
The chances of them going to the temple in the mountains, them finding out about Ankarna, Fig becoming the champion are all very high as well. Like come on. . Kalina mentioned Ragh because she was using a way around a spell/curse. .the mystery is dangling for the Bad Kids. Like it's a mystery of why is an unnamed god causing rage etc.. it's what the bad kids do.
If they had arrived at the gym post election party. . They could have had the dragons from Oisin anyway... The fight wouldn't have changed.
This fight wouldn't have changed. Like there are 6 students actively HELPING TWO TEACHERS END THE FUCKING WORLD. Even if they are not manipulated into doing so. . The Rat Grinders actively hate the Bad Kids. . The Bad Kids are naturally going to take out the support so they can do what they do best. . .
Sorry for the rant when talking about something sweet that the 7 IH do for each other. .
Like if you are that annoyed, take a break. Or just find something else. If you don't come back thats also fine. . .
#dimension 20#fantasy high#d20#fantasy high junior year#wulf ramble tag#d20 fantasy high#fantasy high junior year spoilers#fhjr spoilers#am i upset on that the rat Grinders are not getting insta redeemed? no im not#they are doing this themselves.#they are finding out what the Bad Kids can really do#porter dealed most of the damage to the Bad Kids#Porter downed Fabain Fig and Gorgug#Porter turned to Adaine with Gorgug's unconscious body and asked how he should kill her friend#its the fuck around and find out season and we reached the find out part#the Bad Kids deserve to be a little angry. like Porter bullied Gorgug because Gorgug's rage isnt Porter's style of Rage.
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the Bad Kids really spit in the face of Porter's philosophy this fight and it was beautiful. they were outnumbered 8 (counting Mazey and the hangman) against at the start 8 higher level enemies, but that number quickly spiraled to 11 with Jace's clones, and 14 with the 3 extra ragestars. Sure the Bad Kids eventually got a lot of helpers near the end of the fight, but only Squeem managed to do something and got people up and Bakur was a meat shield that did some damage to Porter.
Honestly, if he was smarter, Porter probably could have tpk'd the Bad Kids on his own. He had legendary resistances, legendary actions and was resistant to all forms of damage, immunity to fire, and a Barbarian's speed. Not to mention his attacks did massive amounts of force damage that Gorgug's rage doesn't resist.
If they went against him and tried to match him power for power they would have lost. Maybe they would have widdled him down, but there's a good chance they would be dead 8 vs 1, especially how tired they were from fighting off a swarm of dragons.
But the Bad Kids are good at what they do, they know there's more to fights than just damage. Strategy, utility spells, teamwork, that's what the Bad Kids used to win the day not raw power. They were smart, they targeted the squishy dangerous casters first to keep them out of play, they used their environment to get 4 deaths from lava alone.
Riz in his first turn did serious damage to the Rat Grinders with a single level 3 spell. Slowing down Mary Ann and Ruben left them so vulnerable. Mary Ann despite being a barbarian couldn't get to anyone to attack and meant she was out of the fight for the first half. Even more it destroyed the Bad Guys action economy since it meant one of the Jaces and Buddy had to use their turns to dispel the magic off their teammates, one of which was counterspelled. And of course he killed Kipperlily on his own. Drawing her ire, negating her sneak attacks against him and of course, casting hold person while she's in the lava killing her while telling her how bad she is at being a rogue.
Fabian did his thing, he is a fighter and a swords bard, it's his job to use his mobility to deal a lot of damage and boy did he do a lot of damage. He downed Ivy in a single turn and did damage to Oisin so he could be finished off with Fig. Then using his turns to draw fire, protect Mazey, give out Bardics when he could. And of course the biggest moment was freeing Bakur. In that moment, and it took a bit to pay off, they got an ally in a pit fiend, something strong and big that Porter couldn't ignore, and got the chance to get allies on the field to help them. It brought Squeem back so that he could get people up saved the day.
Fig is like Fabian, she does a lot of damage so why not celebrate it. On her first turn, she used her incredible mobility to get Oisin, probably the most deadly of the Rat Grinders (not counting Jace and Porter) as a wizard with access to 9th level spells, and she was able to almost kill him. She was also able to do damage to Ivy with her green flame blade to get her health down so Fabian could down her in one turn. She used a fire ball to kill ruben, damage Buddy, some of the Jaces, and Mary Ann, that got concentration checks on at least one Jace and Buddy that they failed losing a bigbsy hand and the banishment that Buddy was holding. unintentionally, the fireball was a big move because it got Mary Ann to target her, it's not great to have a barbarian as strong as her after you, but it kept her from attacking anyone else. It also got Mary Ann to take a lot of damage from the lava because she was so angry with Fig. Without that they would have had to deal with a second barbarian who unlike her teammates actually had some hit points. When she was back up she kills one of the Jaces with a well placed shatter. All the while acting like both a bard and a paladin, giving out bardics and doing damage to the bad guys.
Kristen, what can I say, both Kristens were amazing. I'm not a fan of K2, but she was clutch this fight, they literally couldn't have done it without her. Their healing was of course a saving grace, their support spells helped so much, and their utility was incredible. I'm not sure if they did any damage at all this fight, but they were so important. You can't really get better support than two clerics and they showed why. Keeping their party up and alive is one of the most important parts of combat. But there was also the utility they had in the fight, banishing Buddy was huge, no heals or revifiys if that was his thing, and keeping him from hurting anyone because clerics do have a lot of damaging spells. the dispel on the devil's nectar and their connection with Cassandra was clutch of course, it was what set the stage for their victory and allowed them to get Bakur on their side. And of course Ice Feast, Brennan, if you're gonna homebrew a spell for your friends, don't make it so powerful. yes, it's basically a reskin of heroes feast, but immunity to fire damage is overpowered when your final battle map has lava in it. Lava is very dangerous to those not immune to it as it killed two rat grinders and 3 of the Jaces in the fight, all while helping the bad kids and their allies.
Gorgug was amazing this whole fight, utilizing both the barbarian and the artificer part of him. He got the kill on Oisin who would have been very annoying to deal with and with his final attack he grapples porter away from his friends. It's not great for him, Porter is still a huge barbarian who can get around Gorgug's damage resistances with Force damage, but he keeps the big bad busy for as much as he can. He kept getting knocked down the whole fight, but thanks to his friends he never stayed down. Tossing a Jace into the Lava and stealing the votes from Porter with one hp was inspired. And in the final round he completely proves Porter wrong, the guy who told him being an artifer multiclass was a waste of time, who mocked him and called his gadgets stupid. Gorgug uses one of those stupid gadgets to help Adaine put the final nail into the big bad and bad teacher's coffin by taking points away from his saving throw letting Adaine's spell take hold. To add insult to injury he drops his rage for that last part just to show Porter that his toxic way of thinking didn't do him any good.
Adaine, I could talk about Adaine's amazingness in this last fight for days, she's my favorite character. This whole fight, she wasn't the blaster wizard that you expect from a lot of high level wizards. She does some damage, but her real effectiveness shined through crowd control and using utility spells to keep her party in the fight. the synaptic static was so devastating to the clumped up rat grinders and it damaged Jace before he could summon his clones so they were damaged at the start, not to mention the -d6 to a lot of their shit. she was just amazing this entire fight, even after being targeted by spells and attacks, she's the only other person kipperlily attacked other than Riz and her only successful sneak attack in her life against an enemy apparently. She also tanked several spells from the Jaces, flesh to stone, lightning bolt, bigbys hand, despite it all, she stays up until Porter has to use an aoe to deal with her, even taking some attacks from him. She saved her friends with Scatter and kept one of the Jaces out of the fight for a while, three of her friends down and she stands there looking at Porter defiantly, talking down to him and Jace despite them being teachers. And of course the detect thoughts with Fabian's brain worm present, allowing Ankarna to see the truth for herself in Porter's lies.
That detect thoughts was clutch, because like I said in the beginning, damage isn't everything. In a straight up fight they might have lost against Porter, the guy did just too much damage and was too tanky. But with that one utility spells they didn't beat Porter, but they outsourced to someone who could. They told his god the truth, that he was trying to kill her with his own thoughts, and she showed him what a goddess could do.
The Bad Kids are very powerful, but it's important to win when you're fighting for the sake of the world. It's important to be powerful but the Bad Kids are smart and strong, able to think and put aside ego and rage, something the rat grinders didn't understand. Spells and abilities aren't the same thing as being strong and now they know that
#fantasy high#fantasy high spoilers#fantasy high junior year#fantasy high meta#long post#fhjy#the bad kids#the rat grinders#adaine abernant#kristen applebees#fig faeth#fabian seacaster#gorgug thistlespring#riz gukgak#porter cliffbreaker
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ok the xp leveling chart is updated:
this is my best guess at the dragons. bunch of wyrmlings, bunch of young dragons. sometimes brennan referenced wyrmlings for the little weenies, sometimes he said the young ones, so i made my best guesses based on the state of the minis.
everything has a 1.5 modifier for the number and the fact that the bad kids are dealing with the party mechanics and piloting a ship. it would be higher, but the fact that they had a ship to both take damage and do big damage (3d10 per cannon, 10d10 from the ram) knocked it back down. nightmare king is modified because of k2's divine intervention.
all in all the bad kids basically oneshotted most of the dragons out of the sky from the cannons to individual attacks. they got lucky with saves, and the fact that gorgug could tank the damage that he did was incredible. he only actually went down once and got immediately healed, so functionally the bad kids stayed up through the fight. if we go by the vote counts, this fight was only three rounds. three rounds to kill most of oisin’s extended family, one of which was technically a prep round.
the challenge for the finale is going to be going in with resources spent on the dragons--5-6th level spells gone, barbificer features used (elemental rage & tool knack!), all of their minute concentrations from the fight are gone, artifacts from the vulture king have been used, k2 is gone (only 1 primary healer instead of 2), 2 rages used, bardic inspirations have been sent. gorgug is below half health. adaine is below half health. kristen is below half health. riz, fabian, and fig are okay and have some of their resources left.
depending on the timeline they could squeeze in some healing to start the fight in better condition, at the cost of kristen coming in without spell slots.
i'm lowkey hoping the divine intervention gets them the equivalent of a short rest at least, because they could roll hit dice and get some resources back: adaine gets some spells, fig gets her warlock spell, bardics, and channel divinity, fabian refreshes action surge, his superiority dice, and bardics, kristen gets channel divinity, gorgug likely gets his gadget uses, and riz doesn't get anything, but doesn't really need it because he only cast 1 spell and used sneak attack, which isn't part of the action economy and thus doesn't need a refresh. no wonder riz can just go all the time--rogues don't need to rest unless they need to heal.
in terms of the coming conflict, they've done very well to obfuscate the name of ankarna, claim her domain, call cassandra forth from the nightmare king, and get the votes in. brennan says something about the ritual having invoked too much energy without them being able to complete it--if they hadn't done what they did, the battle would likely be way worse than it already is. as it is they're looking at an unstable divine realm, 7 high level npc opponents plus porter in ascension mode, potentially ankarna, and maybe the nightmare king.
#dimension 20#dimension 20 spoilers#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#fhjy spoilers#the bad kids#adaine abernant#kristen applebees#fig faeth#riz gukgak#fabian seacaster#gorgug thistlespring#the perils of xp leveling
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FANTASY HIGH JUNIOR YEAR EPISODE 19 (PART 1) LIVEBLOG
HERE WE GO FOLKS! THE BEGINNING OF THE END!
Spoilers below (under the cut)
FANTASY HIGH JUNIOR YEAR EPISODE 19 (PART 1) LIVEBLOG
HERE WE GO FOLKS! THE BEGINNING OF THE END!
Spoilers below (under the cut)
"Re-ANKARNATE" Brennan Lee Mulligan the man that you are!!! Excellent pun
Fig Faeth and Gerard Neigh are my favorite animal companion duo ever <333
"Kristen Applebees might be class president in her senior year" crying laughing. Yeah the world is ending but isn't THAT the real thing to stress about??
So do we think that the Thistlesprings are watching the world end from their front porch? Or are they driving the fucking tank across the town to go fuck shit up? I hope they show up.
"This ship isn't actually flying by the way" insane.
"FABIAN DO YOU HAVE A PLACE YOU'RE HOPING TO LIVE?" GORGUG I LOVE YOU
they're putting the seacaster manor by the school's campus I'm crying. Fabian's mom IS going to kill him.
ASK FOR ALLIES! ASK FOR ALLIES! DO NOT BRING K2 BACK AT THE EXPENSE OF BETTER OPTIONS NOOOO
KRISTEN NOOOOOO KRISTEN I GET IT YOU HAVE BIG SISTER HEART BUT I'M CRYING.
ARE THEY ALL MOVING INTO SEACASTER MANOR??? SCREAMING.
Zac Oyama's comedic genius is insane. This man is so fucking brilliant give him a season as a DM
"zelgug fans are finally recovering- WHAT'S THAT? IT'S GORGUG AND UNIT WITH A STEEL CHAIR?????"
"107 degrees farehenheit" average summer temps tbh.
MAZEY! MAZEY! MAZEY! The fact that she's taking everything in stride is brilliant. She's definitely an honorary bad kid now
Ragh + Jawbone flying is a great picture. They're so cool.
I love their strategizing. They're right- Oisin first because wizard's are excellent at crowd control. But Mary Anne needs to go down or be persuaded to not fight ASAP because a powerful barbarian can do massive damage. Gorgug is one example of that- if Mary Anne is allowed to fuck around as much as she wants she'd wipe them out.
Ruben is a lesser threat, as even a high level bard isn't the strongest fighter on the field, but his spell list matters because shit like Irresistible Dance and the higher level buff spells can turn a fight very quickly. Ivy as a Gloomstalker is a problem, but if they can get her to burn her abilities quickly she might be easier to manage. If Buddy's still a Life cleric, he's easier to deal with, but if he switched subclasses upon raging out, a War cleric in particular is a HUGE problem. Offensive clerics are stupid busted.
Honestly is the Ratgrinder's are ACTUALLY level 20, they're going to need a miracle on their side, because level 20 pcs have insane hp and damage outputs, and some of their class skills are busted. Rogue's 'stroke of luck' alone is fucking scary. Not to mention that KLCK might have Elusive if she's level 17, which means RIZ CANT GET SNEAK ATTACKS OFF ON HER. This is INSANE.
ICE FEAST IS REAL!!! FUCK YEAH!!!! 1 level of exhaustion and 1d12 ice damage is insane but the benefits are CRAZY. Holy shit why the FUCK did Kristen never used this before
'Only 1 person needs to be exhausted' and it should be Fabian, actually, because if they only have 1 person on counterspell Jace and Oisin are going to fuck them over so hard.
K2 WITH THE UNION JACK IS ABSURD.
"Fuck it I'm playing the pipes" the most hilarious bit ever especially when they immediately stop being able to fight with the party as soon as he stops concentrating on playing them. 10/10 gag gift
SQUEEM SHOWS UP FOR THE FINAL BATTLE???? HUH??? SQUEEM SHOWS UP??? INSANE ENERGY
Ruben: "why are you so yoked"
Gorgug, in the deepest voice imaginable: "I'm a wizard"
You know what? PEAK Bad Kids energy tonight. We're winning.
"Loser says what" GORGUG IS FUCKING GOING OFF TONIGHT. THE FACT THAT PORTER FELL FOR THAT IS WILD
No one recognizing Fig is so funny. Wanda Childa, the secret seventh Bad Kid
I never noticed Riz has a 6 in strength- no wonder he had to have people load canons for him. Absurd.
PORTER HAD TO BURN A LEGENDARY RESISTANCE??? BEAUTIFUL.
RUBEN's COUNTERSPELL BEING ROBBED BECAUSE OF SLOW IS THE BEST FUCKING MOVE EVER. That takes them down to 2 counterspells a turn, assuming Jace and Oisin both have it prepared, since its a reaction. The ability to prevent multiattacks, slow spells, and force them to use either an action or a bonus action
IVY'S TARGETING HIS FUCKING DOG??? :( EVIL!
Oisin is getting his ass beat by Fig and the Vultures and I love it. Fucking GET THAT BITCH!
"That bitch in the back? I'm gonna skin her alive. She said she was going to do it to Maisey, so I'm gonna do it to her" THATS THAT SEACASTER BLOOD IN HIM!!! Bill would be so proud.
26 AC is wild. Fucking- this battle is going to go so hard I can't wait.
If Ivy dies in 1 turn I'm going to laugh so hard. Most cringefail ranger ever. I love her and hope she gets to come back Aelwyn style.
HOLY SHIT HE DIDN'T EVEN GET TO USE THE ACTION SURGE ATTACKS. HOW LOW WAS IVY????????
"I'm Going to Lose My Virginity to That Girl" FABIAN ARAMAIS SEACASTER, THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND.
DOES OISIIN NOT HAVE SHIELD???? WHY DOES OISIIN NOT HAVE SHIELD????? WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED THERE???
Kristen leaping under the disintegrating gym is such a beautiful idea and I need to see fanart immediately.
God, Porter's such an intimidating villain. That's some scary ass shit.
I forgot how fucking powerful Psychic Scream is. Bards get insane shit.
NOOOO THE HANGMAN :(
The party has been doing so well in combat it was bound to take a bad turn at some point
"YOU SUCK AT PVP! YOU SUCK AT PVP!" That was Murph possessing Riz for a brief moment.
The fact that they all have low HP but level 9 spells is fascinating. That's not a natural curve to end up on. They must either have shitty con, or level 10 or so stats but access to higher abilities?
"You're a WASTE OF MY TIME" OUCH. OW! OUCH! GET HIM FIG! That whole speech at Ruben fucking HURTS she got his ass good holy shit.
"BUDDY, BAKARATH IS! NOT! REAL!" I love all of them actually.
They all got clustered together because of Riz's slow and now Adaine is casting SYNAPTIC STATIC??? holy shit. This was the most brutal set-up ever.
HOLY SHIT I FORGOT HOW OP SYNAPTIC STATIC IS. GET FUCKED JACE!!!
HOW the FUCK IS JACE CONCENTRATING ON 4 FUCKING SPELLS??? I WANT WHAT HE HAS
This battle is, again, super fucking scary. They're clearly fighting for their lives right now and they just do not have the numbers or the spell slots. I have to have faith BleeM wouldn't give them a fight they didn't have the resources to win,,,, but oh god is it a nail-biter.
Maybe if we're lucky, Arthur Aguefort will come in with the steel chair? Come on man come back and DO YOUR JOB
FABIAN DROPS???
Jace splitting into multiple versions of himself makes this fight brutal. They just don't have the manpower to fight this many spellcasters.
Kristen should have picked allies </3 it makes sense to pick K2 but god yeah
Gorgug's clutch NAT 20s coming back!
OISIN + IVY are both defeated, meaning that they've gone 2 for 2 so far on main party deaths.
"Make sure to cut his head off so he can't be revivified" CANONICALLY SAID BY RIZ??? THIS IS HIS MOMENT.
Holy shit, Gorgug manhandling Porter is maybe the coolest fucking move ever. Gorgug is the world's GREATEST WIZARD!
OISIN DIDN'T EVEN GET A TURN??? LMAO GET WRECKED DRAGON BOY!
What they need is some kind of powerful magic of their own, but none of them have high level spells left. It sucks ass but they're going to get through it cause these are the BAD KIDS!!!
RIZ IS IMMUNE TO FIRE???? OH MY GOD. LAVA SWIMMING TIME!
Brennan not taking into account what full fire damage immunity would do is maybe the funniest bit of this episode. He's essentially given them free range to play lava shenanigans with his battlefield. He has essentially built a battlefield where ONLY HIS VILLAINS have to worry about the hazards.
The army of spellcasters being unable to counterspell because the Bad Kids are being tactical wizards is so fucking sick. I hope Jace and Reuben feel as useless as they fucking are.
"all the jace's waste their reactions' PEAK CLOWNERY!
NOOOO GORGUG WENT DOWN :[
"What's my name?" The SASS! I love Adaine so much
Mary-Anne is my favorite character forever and ever. "Jace, I don't feel well" GIRL ME TOO!
"I counterspell his counterspell" WIZARD BATTLESSSSSS!!!!
AND SHE CRITTED THE SAVE FOR FLESH TO STONE??? HELL YEAH!
"STUPID IDIOT! HAVE WE EVER HAD A CONVERSATION?" THEY ARE BEATING HIS ASS!
THE RAGE TOKEN MECHANIC WAS FOR THE FINAL BATTLE??? HOLY SHIT THEY LUCKED OUT!
"No one wants to engage with the temptation of my sort of philosophy-
You're juicing and we can all see it" DEVASTATING. Porter keeps taking hits that would kill me instantly
There's only ten minutes left in the episode right now so I have to ask- how did they cut this? What cliffhanger am I going to be left on? Should i be fearful? I'm gonna be fearful.
Riz's mindgames are so fucking brilliant. This man is just as much as a Mastermind as KLCK, he just has better motivations. (They're real
The music kicked up? What the fuck is this music? Hm? Hm? Is this a good sign or a bad sign? Whatever it is, I'm fucking with it.
FIG SURVIVING BY THE SKIN OF HER FUCKING TEETH! SHE IS THE CHOSEN ONE BITCHES!!!!!!
"YOU DON'T KNOW HER LIKE I DO!" FUCK YEAH!
That moment with Ankarna was seriously sweet. They are the best friends forever to me.
NOOO MARY-ANN'S STRAWBERRY D: BRENNAN THAT WAS THE CRUELEST THING YOU COULD HAVE DONE.
BUDDY LOST CONCENTRATION!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!
Fig is THE plan-slayer. The bit-defeater! THE SCHEME-FOILER!
RUBEN FUCKING DIED! FIG FUCKING MURDERED THE SHIT OUT OF HIM? HOLY SHIT???? SHE SENT HIS ASS TO THE BLACK PIT!
THE OUTFITS IN THE PREVIEW ARE BRILLIANT AND I LOVE THEM!!!
ARTHUR SHOWING UP AT THE LAST SECOND IS BRILLIANT!
I'm SO EXCITED FOR THE LAST EPISODE!!! :D
#fhjy spoilers#fantasy high junior year spoilers#fantasy high junior year#fantasy high#dimension 20#fhjy liveblog#fhjy#d20 spoilers#dimension 20 spoilers#d20 finale
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I saw that Higgs image of him with scars and I just NUUUUUUU! Can you write a drabble with Gene seeing his body scars for the first time and Higgs is scared?
Yeah, I think @lunchisover did a great job with that image if that’s the one you’re referring to nonny. And I can totally write that up for you :D.
Higgs propped the small mirror he had in his back pocket upon a rock nearby the shoreline going into the river ahead. He was sitting near a small pool of water, taking some time to groom himself since Gene and he caught a break on the delivery route. Higgs glanced around, making sure no one was near as he slowly pulled his shirt off his body, revealing his lean and toned form along with the various scars and a few tats he had. Higgs swallowed, seeing his reflection not only in the mirror but also in the pool of water near him. He couldn’t help but trace over some of the bruises and marks. Some he had earned during his time as a porter, some from the trip with Gene, but most had come from his Daddy trying to ‘beat the ugly’ out of him years ago.
Higgs tried not to linger on himself. He saw his body as a vandalized building with tasteless graffiti written all over. He went to work trimming his beard, shaving here and there until he got it looking like he wanted, then started trimming his hair. Higgs had grown it out and wanted to do something different. He was careful, trying not to screw it up too bad. Had he not been so self-conscious, he would have asked Gene to help. Higgs though had been doing this by himself for years, he felt he had a good grasp on it nonetheless.
An hour passed, and Higgs was nearly done. He had a messy side part look going and was more or less pleased with how it turned out. Though, he couldn’t help but think he looked like an overrated rooster with the mess on top. He sighed, figuring he shouldn’t fuck with it further then started putting away his things. Higgs felt his breath hitch, his body freezing in place as he could see Gene up ahead barreling towards him. He had no time to throw on his shirt let alone compose himself.
Gene proudly ran over to Higgs, a giant carcass of a buck hauled over her left shoulder while she had Higgs’s makeshift bow hanging on the other side.
“Higgs, I fucking got one! You wouldn’t believe how many miles I had to chase the poor son of a--” Gene came to a stop, seeing how Higgs was staring at her. His gaze was filled with petrifying fear, his body statue-like as he took a step back.
Gene hadn’t seen Higgs without his gear off before, and her eyes couldn’t help but roam over his upper body. She thought the Egyptian tattoos on his arms along with the black bands were cool, finding them complimenting his personality and how passionate he was about the culture. Gene also darted over Higgs’s muscles. From how he looked with his clothes, Higgs seemed skinny. A bit on the lanky side so seeing how toned his body truly was took her back. She felt her stomach get bubbly the longer she stared, face going red, blinking a few times and finally saw the dull pink marks that littered his form. Gene’s brows brunched into a concerned look, never having seen so many scars on a person before.
Carefully, Gene put the deer carcass down along with the bow, and gently approached Higgs. She could see his skin tremble the closer she got, like he was bracing himself for a hit.
“Your hair cut looks nice.” Gene offered, sincerely meaning it nonetheless. Her head tilted some in a playful manner. “Fits you more.”
“You weren’t supposed to be back from hunting for another hour.” Higgs said, finally forcing himself to stand. The firmness in his tone made Gene take a step back, not expecting him to sound so hostile.
“Well, you saw I brought dinner back to camp so here I am.”
“You should leave. I like my privacy.” Higgs balked as Gene let out a growl.
“Higgs, what’s wrong?”
“Nothin’. Can’t I ever catch a damn break from you? We’re joined at the hip twenty-four-seven, I’d like to be alone for a while and not deal with your crap.”
“Bullshit.” Gene countered, standing her ground much to Higgs’s fears. He glared, looking away from Gene as she went on.
“You always let me know ahead of time if you need to be alone. You communicate it quite clear. This isn’t like you.”
“Gene--” Higgs couldn’t find the right words to counter. He felt cornered and knew Gene was right. This was very much out of character for him, but he didn’t expect Gene to understand the kind of mental anguish he was undergoing when it came to someone seeing him exposed like this.
“Higgs, where did you get all these?” Gene asked, approaching Higgs to the point where she nearly touched one of the scars on his arm. Higgs suddenly felt a knee jerk reaction overtake his body as he firmly grasped Gene’s arm, his fingertips gripping into her tightly as she winced.
“Don’t--I look like shit. I’m not--” Higgs pleaded, shaking his head as Gene stared at his eyes. It was her turn to freeze as she nodded, seeing how watered his eyes were getting. Gene didn’t feel as if she was looking into the eyes of a former terrorist, but of a scared kid trying to hide his shame.
Gene knew Higgs had some scars, having seen the ones on his arm before of cigarette burns his Daddy left, but she had no idea how extensive the abuse had gotten. It was then she realized she overstepped his boundaries and put him on the spot.
“I’m sorry,” Gene began. “I can take the deer back to the fire and start butchering.” She tried to be calm as possible, not wanting to spook Higgs further than she already had. Years of trauma built up in his features as he swallowed and slowly began to let Gene go.
Higgs wanted to ask if he had hurt Gene, but he was too scared to say anything. Goosebumps littered his arms as he looked towards the river, trying to let the sounds of the water clear his head. He didn’t know why, but his mouth started to spill what was on his chest.
“I’m not a catch. I’m not good looking. I’m ugly like him and my mama. I’m just--I’m just damaged goods.” Higgs said aloud, clenching his fists, repeating the words his Daddy had told him growing up and the very words he had said to Fragile when he hurt her.
“You know what I think?” Gene said, getting Higgs to look at her. “I think your uncle, was full of shit. He had his head up his ass.”
That got Higgs to slightly smile as he scoffed. “You’re just saying that cause we’re friends darlin’.”
Gene shook her head. “No, I mean it.”
“Gene, I look like him. I see his eyes, his ears--” Higgs’s tone was so morose it nearly made Gene lose her own composure hearing how hurt he was. She stepped forward, gauging Higgs’s reaction before her right hand cautiously reached up and caressed his cheek, fingertips quaking against him.
“He may have been ugly, but that doesn’t mean you are. I think for a guy, you’re really beautiful.” Gene said, not wanting to come off sappy, but nonetheless she had no other way to convey to Higgs he was perfect the way he was. Her eyes looked over his chest, smiling a little before looking back at his gaze, seeing he was tearing up. His body going stiff trying to keep his vulnerability back.
“I don’t see him, Higgs. I see you. It's okay.” Gene said, watching as Higgs nodded against her palm, he sniffled, trying to keep himself together while he grimaced.
“Higgs, it’s okay.”
“I know, I know I just--god damn it.” Higgs couldn’t remember being this weak around someone before, and he was scared, wanting to run. Though he stopped himself, reaching out to Gene and pulling her into an embrace. Gene let out a deep breath, taken aback by the sudden action but she allowed him to hold her. Whatever helped Higgs stay grounded, she would be there.
“Please hold me back. Please.” Higgs whispered, his voice desperate as Gene nodded against him and snaked her arms around his waist. Her fingers gently tracing small circles into his back as his grip tightened.
Gene didn’t say anything as she remained there with him, wanting Higgs to know that he didn’t have to hide from her.
“I won’t let go until you do.” Gene murmured, feeling Higgs nod against her. He wasn’t about to anytime soon. He was going to savor the first time someone called him beautiful.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here's Some Angst!
I typed up the entire Shadow Cat scene from episode 6 of Fantasy High Season 2 and if I have to suffer, then so should yall! ^_^
*****
While Riz is grumbly asleep in a chair, waves billow up around Fabian in the darkness.
DM: You awaken in your room in a state of night paralysis. Like your body can't move. You look and see that the window has been slid open in your room, Fabian is gone, the sword of the seacasters has been plunged through the engine of the handman and it is on its side leaking oil onto the floor. You not only can't move but you feel a tremendous weight on your chest. Materializing there -sitting on her haunches - is a black tabaxi woman.
Calina: Hi Riz. How ya doin?
Riz: Wha- what did you do to Fabian?
DM: Your voice comes out in a crock. You realize that you couldn't shout in the state that you're in.
Calina: Oh *palms up and quick shake of the head* I can't take any credit for that. That uh that was the boss.
Riz: You work for the nightmare king?
Calina: Yeah kiddo! I work for the nightmare king. That's right. You have... grown. You're like... the spitting image of your mother and father. Like a perfect combo of the two.
Riz: Why would you... my parents trusted you. Why would you... what are you doing?
Calina: What am I doing? You said it Riz! Come on. *eyebrow* I work for the nightmare king.
Riz: But why?
Calina: Is that an honest question? Why? He grants me unlimited power. All that I am and all that I am capable of doing, he gave to me. Do you really not understand why a person might... *purse lips* DO things that *slight nod* benefited them? *silence* I know that YOU only do things to kinda distract yourself from how DEEPLY sad you are that your dad is gone, I get that. The maidens and then you find the maidens and then it's on to the next thing and the conspiracy board and you dont sleep and you're digging digging digging- it's like *hand out* when you were in that palimpsest. You will dig until your own hands are bleeding because the SECOND you slow down, you will have to deal with the fact that he's not coming home. Sorry bud. *pause* So we gotta talk about you and your friends coming for this crown because that's gonna be a no go from us.
Riz: What... what do you
Calina: What do I want?
Riz: Yes.
Calina: I just said it. Pack it in and go home. This one's not you chief. (beat) Now, I know that I'm talking to the most obstinate one in the group. I do get that, for sure. And I'll admit *looks around* I've been having a hard time breaking through whatever these little runes are, but you guys seem to have fucked up badly enough. Seems like whatever was keeping me out wore off and now we're back here
Riz: So it's not the nightmare king that's- it's you that's- you can come into our dreams?
Calina: Are you dreamin right now? Wanna pinch yourself? *points* Oh you can't you're paralyzed, sorry.
Riz: *scoffs*
Calina: I just wanna see if we can talk reason. You guys wanna get this crown back. That can't happen. Where do we find compromise here? Cuz, *head tilts head toward other room* they're restraining your buddy Ragh out there and while they're doing that, *points* Fabian slipped out the window, so I would cut my losses at one dead friend. That would be me. But we could go for more if you want.
DM (paraphrasing): Murph has to roll well for The Sword of Shadows to be in the bed (was he on a chair, couch, or bed?) with him as he sleeps. He rolled well.
Riz: *tries to crain his head to look intimidating or confident* How bout no dead friends?
*uses the sword to misty steps out, landing in the campus of The Gold Gardens*
*takes 10 points of falling damage*
*clatter to the ground*
*arms paralyzed so something breaks when it hits at an odd angle*
Riz: *groan sound*
Calina: *walks out of a little allyway. She looks out.* Aw bud. He's been gone. I should've given you a time on that. That's my mistake *sigh* So we definitely clocked some eye contact when you were about to be sacrificed, right?
Riz: *hard sigh* Yeah
Calina: You seem like the kind of guy who likes information. Is there any kind of information that I can offer *Riz scoffs* you?
Riz: Wha do you want in return?
Calina: Buddy we're JUST talkin right now. I'm trying to get you to see reason.
Riz: I wanna know where the crown is. I wanna know were Fabian is. I wanna know why people are coming for us in our sleep.
Calina: Why do you assume that I know where the crown is?
Riz: *pause for several seconds* You don't know where the crown is. ... oh. boy.
Calina: That's not what I said. I asked why you THINK I know where the crown is. I would correct you, but I don't think you're gonna believe me.
Riz: I think I know where the crown is and you have HANDILY defeated me even after I said my cool one liner, so I assume that you also figured it out.
Calina: What you do see happening from here? Because I do want to get this sorted out, but I am tr- look. *palms up* I think you can see that I have no tricks up my sleeve. I'm not doing anything. I'm not using any spells on you. I'm no MURDERING you right here on the ground. Right? I want this to be resolved amicably. Um, the issue that I'm feeling right now is I wanna know what needs to happen for you guys to give this up and if you DON'T give it up, then I guess I'm gonna say that this is gonna get so much worse.
Riz: We can't give it up.
Calina: What? You can't take the F? Can't repeat the year? Buddy, what are you talkin about?
Riz: *breath* We can't give it up because it... it... it would be... it would he wrong.
Calina: It would be wrong. Well what's right about you and your friends dying? Seems like Arthur Augefort has it all figured out. Got a bunch of kids going out there and putting themselves in harm's way. Gettin their lives taken and for what? What do you care what happens in Silvar, The Forest of the Nightmare King?
Riz: It's not it's not gonna end there. If we don't stop this, then you'll do this to the next adventuring party that comes after you.
Calina: Well, you seem pretty set in your ways. Do you know who I am?
Riz: I know that you worked with my father.
Calina: Pok Gukgak. It's a good man.
Riz: What went wrong between you two?
Calina: Nothing went... wrong between us. How bout this. We do a little information swap. You ask me a question about your dad. You answer a question of mine.
Riz: *pause* I dont think now is the time to get nostalgic. I wanna know that my friends are okay. My father's already gone. If you want information, you would have ta... I would need to know that they were safe.
Calina: *clicks tongue* Know that who was safe? You want me to... help your friend Fabian out? I can make sure he doesn't die. It's not too late. But I'm gonna need everything. I'm gonna need everything you know.
Riz: (long pause) Alright.
Calina: Tell me what you know.
Riz: How do I know if I tell you what I know that you can help me?
Calina: *shrug* You don't
Riz: I'll tell you were I think the crown is going, you bring Fabian here. *she breathes in to interrupt him* Once Fabian's here, I'll tell you who I think has it.
Calina: Kid, I don't need to know about where the crown is going. *pupils narrow to slits* I wanna know what you know about me.
Riz: I know that you're... working with... demons.
Calina: *nods*
Riz: I know that you worked with my father at one time.
Calina: Mmhm
Riz: I know that you're trying to sacrifice people to make something come about.
Calina: *sniff* Alright. That everything?
DM (paraphrasing): Out of character, Murph asks if he knows anything else. He knows about the mirror, the photograph that only some people can see, and that she was seen the night of prom, Ragh saw her talking with Porter and Adaine's mom, and she threatened Ragh.
Riz (can be seen as internal dialogue, out loud, or Murph ooc dialogue with the DM): I guess I share... yeah. I guess I share everything. I guess I share everything I know. I'm in a pretty bad position, here.
DM (paraphrasing): *Fabian is picked up from the dark ocean by something that couldn't be seen without his darkvision. They are horrible imp like things with dark wings. They drop him at a slum at the edge of Leviathan*
Riz (can be seen as internal dialogue, paraphrase of actual conversation, or Murph ooc dialogue with the DM): Um, I think I don't... mention Adaine's... mom. I just say it was the night of prom. I.. I give all the information except Adaine's mom. That we were there. That we saw the... that we knew the crown was there. Did the fight during prom night. It disappeared. I think I try to not bring other people into it. I don't have very good deception.
Calina: *her eye slits narrow and flicker again. Her 3rd eyelid twitches* A student saw me? Wow. Okay. Well, Fabian's alive. If you wanna run - little goblin scurry around and find him - you can do that. Don't keep looking for the crown or we are gonna kill every last one of you. And you do have some time to talk it over because I'm gonna head out and go kill Lydia Barkrock. *points to eyes* Take care. *vanishes*
Riz: *runs back to the room where his friends are, arm still broken*
*****
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part of the wyliwf verse.
the sideshire files | read my other fics | coffee?
warnings: food mentions, complicated parental relationships, teenage emancipation, emotional abuse, mentions of being disowned, mentions of transphobia and homophobia, classism, mentions of past underage drinking, crying, religious content (church, going to confession), remus cameo, mentions of choking/killing someone, something similar to the canon “have you thought about killing your brother?” monologue, please let me know if i’ve missed anything!
pairings: gen
words: 57,686
“can not.”
“can too.”
“can not.”
“can too,” and the argument really would have continued if she didn’t step in now.
“you know he’s not going to stop until you prove it, fred,” essie points out, amused, even as silas pulls a face at her.
“but she can’t prove it, because doing that is physically impossible,” her twin brother points out.
freddie puffs out her chest proudly. “watch me,” she brags, and essie politely averts her eyes because she loves her little sister, she really does, but the way she bends her body sometimes makes her stomach twist.
from silas’ “ugh, gross!” and wyatt’s tame “hm, interesting,” it was probably good that she did, and meets eyes with annabelle, who smiles at her, amusement making her eyes twinkle.
“i knew you had a sensitive stomach, but i didn’t know it was that bad,” annabelle teases, soft enough that the others won’t hear.
essie sticks her tongue out at her fiancée (and she wonders when she’ll stop feeling butterflies when she thinks about marrying annabelle) and annabelle giggles, just a little, before reaching and twining her fingers with essie. essie suppresses her happy sigh and uses it as an excuse to wiggle closer.
the entire danes family was staying at the independence inn for the holiday (well, with the exception of virgil, but that’s expected) and that’s where the four elder danes siblings, plus a danes fiancée, were staying. they’d managed to get an adjoining suite that consisted of a room with two queen beds, a couch, and a bathroom for each, with a door connecting the two. essie and annabelle in one bed, silas and wyatt in the other in their room; since freddie had come first, she had a bed to herself in the other, with their parents in the last remaining bed.
it wasn’t like essie had stayed in the inn very much, but it hadn’t changed a lot. the inn still had the same antique, historical furniture, the same navy blue duvets, the same dark gray couches and floral wallpaper and little chocolates on the pillow (annabelle had let essie eat hers, which really, that’s true love.) same staff, mostly, other than the natural turnover that came with a lot of high school and college kids who picked up shifts as one of the few places to get a part-time job in sideshire.
yeah, the inn hadn’t changed a lot. a lot of things in sideshire hadn’t changed very much, which essie found comforting. sometimes, she thought about how even years and years down the line, whenever she came back to visit virgil or childhood friends, taylor doose would still pick fights with her mother; the gazebo would still stay dreamily lit at night; there would still be a million fairs and festivals and ceremonies to attend; there would still be petty town meetings and Town Meetings, the first for town gossip that had bit too much into the time of the official Town Meetings, which dealt with tiny ordinances and regulations (and, to taylor’s eternal dismay, the unofficial town meetings would almost always garner the most interest and attendance.) same mayor porter, and same rudy, editor of the town’s decrepit newspaper, same maria who managed the inn. same danes’ family running the town’s diner.
even though essie felt like she’d changed so much, and yet not at all. strange. comforting.
home.
there’s the sound of keys clattering, then the door in the other room opening, and all of them seem to stir from their various lines of thought.
“mom and dad?” freddie says. “finally, wonder what took them so long?”
“they were probably prepping food for tomorrow, fred,” essie guesses.
no one else can make very many other guesses, before their mother’s voice cheerfully says, “like that, do you think?”
“you know, we could wait until the morning,” and they all blink at each other. virgil’s here. not home.
“what’s the point of that?” their mother asks, then, raising her voice, “kids, you there?”
“hi, mom,” freddie calls, and their mother leans through the doorway, grinning wide.
“good! get your coats!”
she vanishes back into their room while everyone blinks at each other, confused.
“our coats?” silas calls back, uncertainly.
“and one of you, bring your pocket knives in here!”
“pocket—?” essie begins, but wyatt shrugs, digging his out, and moving into the next room.
“here, mom.”
“thank you, sugar,” she says, sounding pleased, and essie gets up with annabelle to see what’s going on.
annabelle comes in next, and says, “what’s happening?”
“here, right?” meredith says, gesturing at the side of the mattress with the knife.
“probably the least invasive way to damage a mattress, yeah,” cara says; they’d been together at school, she and cara, it had been a bit surprising to hear how high she’d climbed on the inn’s employment ladder.
“again, mom, you could do this in the morning,” virgil says.
“but it won’t be a surprise then,” meredith points out.
“pretty sure it would.”
“um,” essie says, “why are we doing damage to a mattress as a surprise?”
“mom’s lost it,” virgil says wearily.
“shut it,” meredith says cheerfully, and then, with the same smile on her face, plunges the knife into the side of the mattress, using both hands to tug it enough to create a sizable slash, a disconcerting contrast. she removes the knife and tilts her head at it critically. “that good, do you think?”
“yeah, definitely fits the parameters,” cara says. “i’ll get one of the mattresses from an empty room in here for you, to replace this one. thanks, mrs. danes, i know maria was trying to figure that out.”
“oh, no problem,” she says breezily, waving a hand. “thank you for putting up with my late-hours shenanigans.”
cara nods and goes into the hall.
“well?” meredith says, and claps her hands. “coats! coats, everyone!”
silas gives her a Look, but she just shrugs at him and moves back into the other room to pick up her and annabelle’s coats.
once her mother surveys all of them and decides they’re all properly kitted out, she opens the door.
“let’s go!”
“go where,” silas grumbles.
“where else?” their mother says, and she beams beatifically—their dad, on the other hand, looks exasperated. granted, fond, but definitely still exasperated. “none of us have had the opportunity to fully bother taylor doose on this trip home.”
freddie and silas both scramble for the door.
“silas!” she scolds, a laugh in her voice, and grabs annabelle’s hand to more fully chase after her younger-by-seventeen-minutes brother.
it’s not a very long walk to doose’s market, nowhere in sideshire is a very long walk—and their mother stops them, and surveys the road, hands on her hips, every inch a general.
“right,” she says, with a decisive nod. “there’s enough snow on the ground. get packing into snowballs, kids.”
freddie outright cackles as she plunges her hands into the nearest snowbank, virgil not far behind.
“so, this taylor guy—” annabelle says in an undertone, as the pair of them bend to scoop snow into their hands.
“taylor doose,” essie elaborates.
“right,” annabelle says. “um, what’s the deal between him and your mom, anyway? it feels like every year i see your mom picking a fight with him.”
“oh, you know how it is,” essie says, trying to keep an airy tone. “small town feuds. it’s been going on for years, no one really knows what—”
“ess,” annabelle says, amused. “why are you getting involved in it?”
essie looks around, as if taylor’s listening. “because…”
“because?” annabelle prompts, when essie bites her lip and ducks her head.
“because it’s really fun,” she admits with a guilty grin on her face.
annabelle laughs and leans in to kiss her on the cheek. “troublemaker.”
“am not,” essie says. “virgil’s the delinquent and freddie’s the one who’s going to backflip her way through the window, if we let her.”
“yeah, and you’re the one with the innocent face to let them get away with it,” annabelle says.
“maybe so,” she sniffs, and ascends to her feet, a couple snowballs in her arms.
“right, then,” meredith calls out. “everyone ready?”
noises of affirmation from every danes in the street.
meredith arches her arm back, aims, and fires, her snowball hitting the window of the apartment above the grocery with a WHAP!
and then the rest of them take their cue from there.
there’s constant WHAP! s against the window as they all aim and throw—silas and freddie have the best aim, unsurprisingly, they’ve always been the most athletic of the five of them—but that almost doesn’t matter.
because essie was telling the truth, in why she gets involved with messing with taylor when she normally wouldn’t dream of deliberately being a nuisance to another person: it’s fun. taylor, in all his grudge-keeping, self-important, self-aggrandizing stuffiness was just fun to pick at and poke at and badger incessantly, partially because of his reaction, but mostly in the way that it brought them all together.
because wyatt is so rarely silly and pejorative, much more inclined to his theories and his books; because silas is so rarely teasing without being a little caustic about it, and seeing his sharp tongue applied to someone who actually deserves it a little is an absolute treat to behold; because freddie, well, freddie’s freddie, she’s pretty constantly a bombastic, fun-loving force of nature, but when they were all picking on taylor it seemed to be taken up to an extra level; because virgil so rarely smiles at something so obviously, and ever since his fierce bender as a teenager (essie had mostly been at college, when it had gotten really, really bad) it’s just nice to see him channel that energy into something, well, not productive, exactly, but something that wasn’t sneaking out of windows or breaking them.
maybe, she thinks, because she—normal, sweet, shy, kind essie, the good kid, the one they didn’t have to worry about all that much—was so rarely a hellion, and maybe fighting with taylor was one way to let her hair down that didn’t involve annabelle gently saying that if she got tipsy at a bar, cut loose, had a little fun dancing, didn’t mean it was the end of the world, didn’t mean that she wasn’t still normal, sweet, shy, kind essie, the one nobody has to worry about all that much, if she made out with her fiancée in the middle of the dance floor and did something a little naughty.
but now, as they all unite in hurling snowballs at taylor doose’s apartment window, cheering each other on and whooping whenever they get a good hit in, congratulating each other, it’s a bit like they’re all kids again and the world’s biggest trouble is getting back at taylor doose for trying to be mean to their mom.
and essie sees a distant light turn on, and the window starts to open, and
“oh for goodness’ sake, WHA— ”
meredith fires one last snowball and it lands its arc true, right as taylor opens the window, and the eight of them burst into laughter as taylor splutters around a mouthful of snow. even her dad, though at least he’s covering his mouth to seem polite.
“meredith,” taylor says sourly, and essie takes a look at him. wow, he’s actually wearing a stocking cap to bed. essie didn’t know people did that outside of, like, old novels and cartoons. “is there a particular reason that you’re causing this ruckus at midnight, right before a holiday?”
“oh, shove it, taylor,” meredith says heartily, hands on her hips. “open the store.”
his brow furrows deep enough that it’s visible on the street. “and just why should i do that?”
“good will toward your fellow woman?” freddie tries.
taylor scoffs, and moves to pull the window shut again.
“open the store!” meredith calls, and then, essie isn’t sure who starts it—freddie, probably, or maybe even annabelle—but soon all eight of them are chanting “OPEN IT, OPEN IT, OPEN IT, OPEN IT,” even as taylor bellows, “i could file a noise complaint!”
“or you could just open the damn store, taylor!” meredith hollers back. “it’s eight paying customers or eight people with throwing arms and capable lungs!”
taylor draws himself up, clearly warring with himself, before he deflates and sighs, to a chorus of danes (and annabelle’s) cheers.
“fine!” he shouts. “but if you stay in that store for longer than it is absolutely necessary , you will be hearing from the sideshire business association, the sideshire tourist board, the sideshire neighborhood watch organization—”
“those are all just you!” silas yells. “the sooner we get done, the sooner you don’t have to see any of us for another year! other than virgil.”
“yeah, thanks, silas,” virgil says, with an eyeroll.
taylor scowls, but slams his window shut and, presumably, with a huff. usually, whenever taylor did anything that didn’t comply with his exact agenda, it was with a huff.
“all right, lists!” the mother announces. “i have lists, come and get a list—silas, here you are—”
“lists?” annabelle mumbles quizzically into essie’s ear, and she shrugs, just as lost as annabelle is, but she accepts the hastily-scrawled list that’s on one of the diner’s notepads—essie knows, she’d worked in that diner for the vast majority of her life—and squints at their options.
“i’ve got a ton of food,” silas says. “what about you?”
“um,” essie says, and scans it. “same here, ‘cept it’s nonperishable stuff. donations, maybe?”
“i guess,” silas says, and essie bumps shoulders with him.
“you good?” she checks.
silas clears his throat, and scuffs his boot through the snow. “yeah, m’fine.”
“okay,” essie says, and silas scowls, as if he detects the underlying it’s just that i was hugging you on the balcony a few hours ago while you spilled your guts on everything going wrong in your life, so forgive me if i don’t think you’re exactly telling the truth that she isn’t saying. he probably can.
that’s the way with the two of them: if one ever couldn’t do something, the other one probably could. essie couldn’t confront people for anything, so silas was the one who’d shoved bullies to the ground and yelled at them. but silas wasn’t very good at being gentle, so essie was the one who put band-aids on their friends’ knees and tried her best to kiss them better.
if one of them was having trouble, the other one could usually try and pull them out of it. essie was usually the puller, back in school—silas was a brawler, and a sasser, and didn’t have much patience for things he thought he wouldn’t use in real life.
she wishes helping him now was as easy as telling mrs. replegol that she’d accidentally put his math homework in her backpack, and handing over a paper that she’d hastily filled out during lunch, trying her very best to disguise her neat writing into silas’ untidy scrawl.
“you can always come stay with me, if you want,” she tries, and silas scoffs.
“i’ve seen your apartment,” he mutters.
“it’s not that bad,” she says.
“it’s tiny,” silas says. “where’d i stay? your couch?”
“yes,” she says, and, when silas sighs, “we could make a fort, like when we were kids. or we’d figure it out. you know you can come over anytime.”
“does annabelle—”
“annabelle can hear you, and annabelle says go for it,” annabelle says, not looking up from where she’s re-tying her boot. “annabelle also doesn’t appreciate being talked about in third person when she can hear you.”
silas grimaces in apology, and when annabelle gets to her feet again, taylor’s opening the front door of the store, effectively ending their conversation there. but essie loops an arm through annabelle’s, and her other arm through silas’, and tugs them both along into doose’s grocery.
she can practically feel that silas and annabelle are exchanging a look behind her back, but she doesn’t really care.
unsurprisingly, doose’s market hasn’t changed much at all, either; everything’s where it was when essie was a teenager, and it doesn’t take her very long to gather up the cans of food and baby food that her mother had hastily scrawled down.
the other four siblings are split amongst the store, gathering things up—wyatt’s got things like paper towels and diapers, whereas freddie has, like, yarn or something?—so really, it’s probably good that they’ve all got separate lists. even if essie has zero idea what’s happening.
she sidles up to virgil’s side, and says, “ you wouldn’t happen to know what spurred on this massive shopping spree, would you?”
virgil pauses, glancing around, and says, “you know how mom and dad kept dragging in all those stray cats and dogs when we were kids?”
the puzzle pieces assemble in her head almost immediately.
“so, welcome to the family, patton, here’s everything you could possibly need, merry christmas?” she guesses, and virgil nods.
“something happened to him after we left,” she guesses, quieter. and virgil, stony-faced, nods.
“poor guy,” essie murmurs. “is he… i mean. is he okay?”
“how would you rate first christmas without his family, ess?” virgil says, and essie winces.
“right. sorry. stupid question.”
virgil winces, too, and says, “sorry. sorry, i shouldn’t snap at you.”
“no, i get it,” essie says. “long day.”
“still,” virgil says, mouth set and stubborn, and essie smiles at her baby brother, reaching out to squeeze his arm.
“you’re sweet,” she says and means it. he is sweet. for all his bluster and gruff, sometimes, and yes, even as a rebellious teenager, virgil had never not been sweet, no matter how he tried to hide it. he’s thoughtful, and kind, and essie’s glad that he’s helping out patton and the baby. she really is.
virgil, however, flushes and ducks his head, mumbling a denial, before he escapes to finish up his shopping, and essie grins after him before she goes to do the same.
gosh, she knows neither of them like to hear it, but virgil and silas really do have a lot in common.
taylor scowls at them all, muttering under his breath about danes’ even as he scans them all out, and bellows “good riddance!” as soon as they all leave the store.
“merry christmas, taylor!” their mother yells back, and taylor grimaces even as he pointedly closes the blinds.
“where should we go with these?” wyatt asks, laden with shopping bags. they all are, really.
“fresh food at the diner, the rest of it’ll come back to the inn,” meredith says decisively.
“here, i’ll trade,” virgil says. “i can meet you back there.”
so virgil and silas swap shopping bags, and their dad suddenly says, “i’ll help too, bunny,” and essie moves forward to take his bags too, and as soon as they’re all sorted out all of them tramp back to the inn.
on the way, essie sees cara directing a couple people that essie doesn’t know, the pair of them carting the mattress their mother ruined down to the inn’s poolhouse. essie’s about to ask, but decides that her mom will probably know, and instead moves to catch up with annabelle.
“what’s up with that?” annabelle says, jerking her chin toward them.
“oh, i have no idea,” essie says. “storage, maybe?”
“yeah, i guess,” annabelle says, and shakes her head after it; she’s always been a little confused by the more unique aspects of sideshire, which makes sense, really. if essie hadn’t been born into it, she’d be plenty confused too.
“that was fun,” annabelle continues. “the—snowball thing.”
essie laughs. “yeah, it is,” she says, and looks over at annabelle. “what?”
annabelle shakes her head, smiling. “nothing. it’s just—you’re so cute when you laugh.”
essie blushes; silas boos.
“gross,” he says.
“shut up, silas,” essie grumbles.
“yeah,” annabelle says, grinning, “shut up, silas.”
“nope, i’m with silas on this one,” freddie says, catching up with them. “couples are gross, especially when half of that couple is my sister.”
“kids, stop picking on your sister,” their mother calls, and gestures for them to get inside, and into the room.
and so begins the process.
their dad and virgil come in not too long after, with even more shopping bags, and join the sorting process: last-minute presents there, food there, baby supplies there. essie and annabelle take the sky-blue wrapping paper that their mom had bought at taylor doose’s, one of the last ones left, and wrap up the yarn and sweaters and books and baby toys.
it’s blatantly a last-minute gift haul, but essie doesn’t think they did too bad. admittedly, she doesn’t really know patton that well, but he’d seemed nice when they all had dinner together, both tonight and when essie and silas first came to town, and she’d thought he looked cute with his baby all day today, and felt a bit bad for him when he’d dozed off so readily and virgil had muttered something about overworking himself. she has the feeling patton’s probably the kind of person who’d appreciate any gift someone got him, anyway.
it doesn’t stop virgil and their dad from clucking, though. will he like this and oh, we should get and are you sure he stays warm enough where but that’s where they cut off, looking at the rest of them, busy as they are at wrapping last-minute presents or just chatting amongst themselves.
essie stifles her grin as she watches virgil closely examine a toy, as if a teddy bear was an inherent threat, their father making a near-identical face as he makes sure that he’s wrapped a present properly.
mother hens, the pair of them.
of course, essie thought, as she caught her gaze moving to annabelle for the ten dozenth time that night, to make sure that she’s there, and satisfied, and happy, it’s not like they’re the only ones in the family.
⁂
patton’s stopped jolting in surprise whenever he gets woken up by an unexpected sound, because lately, the unexpected sound’s a baby.
his baby, to be very specific. but just because he doesn’t jolt anymore doesn’t mean he’s really stoped feeling sleep-slow and stupid whenever he wakes up in the middle of the night.
well. it’s not like he ever really stops being stupid, but.
he shakes himself—he has a crying baby to tend to, so he stumbles over to the corner and lifts logan out of the carrier, trying futilely to hush him, conscious of virgil just beyond the door, conscious of logan’s colic. conscious, generally.
“hey, fella,” patton mumbles to logan, and bounces him, just a little, and starts walking, because moving around usually calms him down. “hey, hey, what’s wrong, hon?”
it turns out it’s a diaper change, and really thank goodness patton always packs extra, because he doesn’t know what he’d do, otherwise. he’s pretty sure that virgil doesn’t also have diapers stashed away with this baby carrier that logan’s sleeping in.
but logan doesn’t want to seem to go back to sleep after patton’s changed him, and so patton acquiesces, pacing circles around virgil’s darkened bedroom and noticing all kinds of little things he’d missed when he was fresh out of a sobbing session, and embarrassed, and upset.
he’s still a little bit of all those things, of course, especially the upset and embarrassed parts, but that had been kind of near-constant ever since he ran away.
he had noticed the framed photos on top virgil’s dresser, but not of what they pictured: a family shot of all of them flanking virgil in sideshire high’s red-and-gold, virgil with a cap and gown on, grinning sheepishly at the camera; freddie, in the midst of a dance performance, looking very refined and graceful, arms stretched and leg extended in a way that would make patton’s legs ache, if he could even half-manage it; wyatt, as a kid, with who must be a toddler virgil staring wide-eyed as wyatt patches up a stuffed raccoon; essie with her ringed hand thrust toward the camera, in the midst of a kiss with annabelle, an engagement photo if he’s ever seen one; silas and virgil’s parents, sitting at one of the tables in the center of a desolate diner, deep in conversation and completely unaware of the camera; virgil, at the age patton is now, wearing a spiky leather jacket and a torn-up t-shirt, scowling, as the mustached man’s arms are thrown around his neck in a near choke-hold, pressed up against his back, baring his teeth at the camera— remus, patton remembers, the man’s name is remus.
it is, patton thinks as he bounces logan, a handy little collection of all the people virgil loves, sitting upon this dresser.
patton wonders if he’ll warrant a spot one day.
immediately, he feels his face heat and turns away; this isn’t your room, he scolds himself. stop snooping.
a voice that sounds remarkably like his mother seems to murmur in his ear, it would hardly be considered snooping if he invited you in and left you alone. there’s something you can use here.
patton shakes his head, like he’s trying to get water out of his ears. but it’s a bit too late; here are all the people virgil loves, sitting on his dresser, all of whom he’s at least seen relatively recently. and of all the people patton loves—other than logan—he doesn’t have much else beyond bittersweet memories, and voices in his ear, and basically nothing else.
the rush of homesickness hits him so hard it feels like he can’t breathe for a few seconds.
god, he misses christopher.
it’s been a week or so since he’s seen him last, which feels a bit ridiculous to be sad over that, but the thing was they used to see each other basically every day— they’d always gone to the same school, so they’d see each other at recess, when they were little, or at each other’s lockers, as they got older.
patton chews at his lip and fixes his eyes on the ceiling. darn it. he can’t cry again. he cannot cry again. he needs to redirect his brain.
but it’s too late.
christopher’s whiskey-brown eyes, all warm when the sun hits them just right. eating biscuits with butter and honey. giggling to each other before making their daring getaways to the balcony. sitting side-by-side, pressed up against each other. when they were little, searching the skies for ufos. when they were older, spying on the neighbors. scotch-flavored kisses and pilfered alcohol. when patton would get giggly, and tipsy, and they’d be handsy, and patton had felt a glimmer of happiness when it felt like everything in the whole world was pressing him down and trying to bury him.
christopher’s easy smile, his warm hands, his tousled hair—
patton swallows his tears the best he can, closing his eyes tightly. no christopher. no christopher on christmas, no christopher on new year’s. no christopher in school, or in summer. no christopher and him, side-by-side, every day. no more of that. that was over now.
because patton had chosen to go off into the unknown. when he left his life, trying to look for something better, he left the best parts of his life, too.
christopher was that best part.
logan fusses, and patton sniffles, turning his attention back to logan. he’s still babyish enough that he can’t really see any resemblances to christopher, or to himself. he isn’t sure if that hurts or helps—logan’s his own person, after all. but he’d really like to hear christopher make some kind of lame joke right now.
“sorry, kiddo,” he says, voice wobbly. “sorry. i know. i’ve gotcha.”
he resumes walking loops around the room. he’d barely even realized he’d stopped. he takes deep breaths, and keeps bouncing logan, which serves to quiet him.
he’s about to lie logan back down in the carrier, maybe curl up in virgil’s bed and try not to cry a little longer, when he hears the creak-and-click of a door opening and closing.
patton freezes, before he timidly opens up the bedroom door to take a peek, and—
virgil’s unwinding the scarf patton made him from around his neck, at the same time attempting to toe off his boots. he pauses and turns, looking like a deer caught in headlights.
“sorry,” virgil manages to say, barely above a whisper. “did i wake you?”
“no,” patton says, and clears his throat when it comes out watery. “no, no, logan was, um. logan was fussing.”
“he okay?”
“yeah, just needed to walk around a bit. he’s good now,” and tilts logan a little closer to the light, so virgil could see that he’s holding him.
virgil surveys him, and then he squints at patton. “ you okay?”
patton tries for a smile, a little startled that virgil’s bothered to ask at all. “oh, me? yep! fit as a fiddle!”
except virgil frowns, staring at him a little closer, and says, almost a little hurt, “you could just say that you don’t wanna talk about it and i’d respect it, you know? you don’t have to lie to me.”
patton swallows. his voice comes out timid and quiet. “sorry.”
“oh, hey, it—” virgil hesitates, before he says, “well, it’s not, like, great, but, y’know. it’s okay.”
there’s a long, awkward pause.
“do you?”
“what?” patton asks, adjusting his grip on logan.
“do you want to,” virgil elaborates. “talk about it, i mean. or not.”
“oh,” patton says. “um. i mean, it just—i dunno.”
virgil dips his head in a nod, and resumes taking off his winter gear.
“were you outside?” patton asks, and he winces. of course he was outside, why else would he be wearing his cold-weather clothes? stupid question.
“oh, yeah,” virgil says. “mom wanted help with something, so.”
“oh,” patton says. “okay.”
virgil looks at him, that same surveying look that makes patton feel a little shy, like virgil’s trying to look at him hard enough to read his mind. but instead of saying anything earth-shattering, he just says, “you want some more hot cocoa or something?”
“uh,” patton says. “okay, sure. that sounds nice. i’m gonna lay down logan.”
“all right, cool,” virgil says, and shuffles off toward his kitchen. patton scoots back into virgil’s room, and moves to lay logan down, holding his breath.
no crying.
nice.
so then he wraps himself up in one of virgil’s blankets, and creeps quietly back out of the room, sitting down on the couch. he listens to virgil clank and rattle around in the kitchen, the rush of milk hitting a metal pot, some shuffling of supplies, the clanking of a spoon stirring, the click of a stove turning on.
it seems like it doesn’t take that long, but it’s long enough that patton feels like he’s pulled himself together, a little, despite the ache in his chest.
virgil comes out of the kitchen and hands patton a navy blue mug, before he settles on the opposite side of the couch, wrapping his hands around his own black mug.
“has logan been up much?” virgil says. “because you can bring him out here if you, y’know. if you need more sleep. i could—”
“no, no,” patton says. “no, it—i mean, the nap earlier’s really helped, but i’ve been, um. i’ve been sleeping.”
“okay,” virgil says. “good. it kind of just occurred to me that i might be keeping you up, and—”
“no,” patton says. “i’m good. my sleep schedule’s ruined anyway.”
virgil’s eyes narrow, and he says, “well. still.”
“it’s nice of you to offer, but it’s okay, really,” patton says, and blows a breath across the top of the cocoa, before he inhales the scent—rich, chocolatey—and adjusts his grip on the still-too-warm mug.
virgil clears his throat, and says, awkwardly, “is it… um. the same stuff you were upset about before?”
“oh,” patton says. “um.”
“‘cause again, if you don’t wanna talk about it, that’s okay, but—”
“it,” patton says. “it’s okay. um. kind of.”
he fiddles with the mug, looking down at the cocoa. it’s easier to look at it and not directly into virgil’s eyes.
“is it stupid to be homesick?” he asks in a tiny voice.
“no,” virgil says immediately.
“okay,” patton says, and there must be a note of skepticism in his voice, because virgil says, “it’s not. okay? it’s not stupid. it’s how you feel. that’s real, and not stupid. you aren’t stupid.”
patton runs a thumb over the rim of his mug and, instead of saying anything in response to that, he admits, voice clogging right back up again, “i miss christopher.”
“oh,” virgil says, then, “patton, that—that isn’t stupid at all. he’s your—” virgil hesitates, just awkward enough that it’s clear doesn’t really know what relationship to categorize him and christopher as, before he plows on, “he’s important to you.”
patton sniffles, and runs a hand under his eyes, mostly out of caution to not cry again, virgil has seen him cry enough, and says, “yeah, he is. he’s my—”
patton clears his throat, before he continues, “he’s my best friend. he was almost—” and he clams up.
“almost?” virgil prompts gently, and patton lets out a laugh that’s closer to a sob.
“i mean, it—it wasn’t a secret that it was mostly because our parents wanted him to, but he—he tried to propose to me. ‘cause of logan.”
“oh,” virgil says, clearly a little surprised.
“i said no,” patton says quietly. “i… i mean, he was my—i love him. y’know? if it was any other reason, any other way, i think… i think i would have said yes. but.”
“but,” virgil prompts, and patton takes a gulp of hot cocoa to give himself a moment’s pause. it nearly scalds his mouth. he’s almost a little happy about it—it gives him a physical ache for him to focus on, instead of an emotional one.
“it just… it was so clearly because he thought we had to,” patton says. “i mean. we were in the hospital, and he was meeting logan for the first time—”
“while you were in labor?” virgil says, a little appalled. which, fair. patton was focused on a lot when he was in labor, he’d have been pretty peeved if christopher had come knocking asking about marriage during all that.
“oh,” patton says. “um, no. christopher couldn’t make it, when i was in labor. he came by the next afternoon.”
virgil frowns, but nods a little, like he’s signaling that he’s still listening.
“it was the… the little window room? where you can see all the babies in those little plastic cribs,” patton says. “and we were looking in, staring at logan, and he said, he’s a cute baby, and i said, he’s perfect, and he just said, i guess we should get married. just like that. i guess we should get married,” he mimicks christopher’s uncertain tone.
virgil frowns harder, but this time, patton nods.
“ right,” patton says. “and, i mean, i just—i mean, i love him. i really do. but proposals… that’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing, right? proposals are supposed to be more than a desperate end to our parents’ bickering and all their expectations. it should be planned. it should be magical.”
virgil nods.
“it should be—it should be more,” patton says. “there should be music playing and romantic lighting and a subtle buildup to the popping of the questions. there should be a—a thousand yellow daisies, and candles, and—and more than just an oh, i guess. ”
“yeah,” virgil says.
“but i,” patton says, and sighs, taking another gulp of cocoa. “i mean, i know that if i’d said yes, i’d still be stuck there, and unhappy, and worried about all the same things that i was worried about that led to me running away, but—”
“but you still miss him.”
“yeah,” patton says, and sighs. “ yeah.”
“for the record,” virgil says. “i think you’re—i think you’re right.”
patton blinks at him.
“like,” virgil says, “you shouldn’t marry someone just ‘cause your parents want you to. if you really love him—”
“i do.”
“—yeah,” virgil says. “so. if you really love him. if he’s really right for you. it’ll make sense eventually. and you guys’ll get married for you. not for anyone else. not for your parents, or because the world thinks you have to, or because people think that you have to be married to have a kid. you guys’ll come back together for you guys. that’s the way it should be. okay?”
“okay.”
“plus, like, you’re sixteen,” virgil says. “you’re literally, like, a child groom. child spouse? whatever. the point is, you’re a kid. you have a lot of time to figure out if you wanna be with christopher or not, or if you wanna get married to him or not, or if you want to be with anyone at all. you have time.”
“i guess,” patton says.
“i know,” virgil says. “like, i’m twenty-three. i’ve got six more years of life experience than you, roughly. the things i thought i’d do at sixteen are way different. you’re going to look back on yourself in those six years and be like i’m glad i waited, okay? your brain’s still growing and all that.”
“isn’t yours, too?”
“yeah, exactly,” virgil says. “my point. both still growing up. you’ve got way more than enough on your plate right now. you’ve got a baby, and a job, you shouldn’t have to worry about a—a wedding, or whatever.”
“that is very true,” patton says wearily, and so they both sit and sip their cocoa for a while.
“virge?”
“yeah?” he says.
“thanks for all this,” patton says. “i mean—really.”
“anytime,” virgil says. “you done?”
patton hands over the mug, and virgil takes it, standing. patton, belatedly, stands too.
“you should get some more sleep,” he says. “but if you can’t, you can, y’know. we can hang out and do whatever you want, yeah?”
“okay,” patton says.
he shuffles into virgil’s bedroom.
“pat?”
“yeah?” patton says, turning back to face him.
virgil smiles at him uncertainly, and makes a gesture with the mugs he’s holding.
“seriously,” virgil says. “if it’s, y’know. true love or whatever. it’ll happen eventually. you’ll get your thousand yellow daisies. yeah?”
the corner of patton’s mouth quirks up.
“thanks, v.”
“yeah, well,” virgil says. “get some sleep, okay?”
patton gets into virgil’s room. he closes the door behind him, he falls into a bed that smells like unfamiliar laundry detergent, and falls into the deepest sleep he’s had in a long time.
⁂
her children are safely asleep and, for the twenty-ninth year running, it leaves her and her husband awake last.
“we don’t have any major christmas surprises to lay out this year, do we?” mark murmurs.
they’re sitting on the bed, the pair of them holding styrofoam cups in their hands, having one last cup of tea before they turn in for the night. meredith’s tucked her legs up underneath her; mark has his legs crossed, already dressed in his pajamas. they’re particularly paying attention to their volume, though freddie’s the heaviest sleeper of their children; meredith could probably start hollering and freddie would only barely stir. but there she is, still sleeping, and so their voices are quiet.
“no,” meredith murmurs. “no surprises. well, no surprises beyond what we’ve already done.”
mark acknowledges this with a quiet chuckle, and finishes up the last of his tea. meredith pats him on the knee.
“i might run down to the pool house to pick up patton’s clothes,” meredith says. “knowing us, we’ll probably be running late in the morning.”
“all right,” mark says, and leans to give her a peck. “would you like company?”
“you’re already in your flannel, you’d freeze,” she teases. “i’ll be alright. get some sleep.”
mark nods, collects their trash, and moves to throw it away and brush his teeth as meredith shrugs on her coat, pushes her feet into her boots, and leaves their room, leaves the inn.
the inn’s grounds are beautiful, even in the dead of night, even in the dead of winter. the near-dead grass crunched under her feet and she examined the bushes, devoid of any blooms, the trees, stripped bare, the artful landscaping. all of it tinged silver in the moonlight.
beautiful, even in its quiet. like the rest of sideshire.
she’s missed it terribly.
she descends to the poolhouse, attempting to shake off her malaise. it’s small and unassuming—barely more than a shed, meant mostly to store things, to double as a potting shed. it’s meant to be overlooked, but now that she’s staring at it, it seems a rather sorry little room, not even qualified to be called a house . she opens the door.
it’s just as pitiable on the inside as it is on the outside.
the couch that must have been patton’s bed has been pushed aside, to make room for the mattress that meredith had damaged; there are laundry baskets piled full of clothes, boxes of baby toys and books and blankets, a storage cart repurposed to be a changing station, a crib moved close to the bed.
the whole room is dark and dingy—there are still abandoned potting sheds scattered about the room, pool supplies shoved into corners. it looks like patton’s carried everything he owned into the room only to drop it, and he’d been so exhausted that he hadn’t been able to tidy it up.
she doesn’t blame the poor boy at all. she feels the sympathy rise in her heart, and is abundantly grateful that she and mark had decided to get as many gifts for patton as they could think of, plus a few more.
maybe, she thinks, there could be some anonymous deliveries of gift cards to get some supplies. make this place a bit homier.
but she spies the box with a woolly sleeve peeking out of it, and so she crosses the room to open up the box.
which one would he like? she wonders. gray, yellow, blue, green, white, black?
she hesitates, before she reaches for the blue one. may as well go all-in on the color-matching scheme, here.
she’s folding up the sweaters she’d examined when the door swings open, and meredith freezes where she is, staring at the person in the doorway, who’s frozen up, too.
meredith clears her throat, and lifts the blue sweater. “he asked me to bring a change of clothes tomorrow.”
raf nods, and then meredith sees the wagon he’s toting, piled high with wrapped boxes and gift bags. “gifts from everyone.”
she smiles. “good. we won’t be the only ones spoiling him.”
raf smiles wider, and she rises to her feet, gesturing. “can i help—?”
“ah, i’ve got help on the way,” raf says, and meredith’s about to ask who until in comes another person, toting another wagon.
“hi, cara,” meredith says, amused.
“oh!” cara says. “hi, mrs. danes. um—”
“gifts for patton?”
“this load is for the baby, actually,” cara says sheepishly, and meredith laughs.
“well, far be it from me to stop you,” meredith says, folding the sweater over her arm. “you’re sure the both of you don’t need a hand?”
“well,” cara says, and glances over at raf.
“we’ve all got a load of furniture that people aren’t using or just needed to donate,” raf says. “because. well. look at this place.”
it is pretty pitiful. the only furniture that seems like it could really be used for people is a broken rocking chair, the bed, the crib, and a potting bench that looks like it’s been repurposed into a changing table. no dresser, no table, no… anything, really.
“and some paint,” cara adds, “but we figured we could leave some paint chips and the note from hector saying that he’ll be out to paint it whatever color he wants, not just choose it for him.”
“how about i help organize the presents, then?” meredith suggests.
“oh, you don’t have to—”
“i insist,” meredith says firmly. “we’re all trying to make sure they have a good christmas.”
“well,” raf says. “if you insist.”
and so it begins, a crew of the three of them; cara’s taping paint chips to the walls, along with hector’s note; raf totes in a dresser, a nightstand, a few baskets that are filled up with yarn; meredith arranges the presents, and notices that none of them have notes.
when she asks, cara and raf exchange a glance.
“he’s a bit… stubborn, when it comes to presents and gifts and that kind of thing,” cara says.
“pauline slipped him some extra money and he spent a week trying to get her to take it back,” raf says.
“ah,” meredith says.
“ but,” cara says, “if you convince him it’s for logan, or it would really be more of a convenience for him to take whatever you’ve got—”
“then he’ll take it,” meredith surmises, starting to understand. “so, if we act apologetic in the morning and keep saying that we would have felt terrible not getting anything, and all of this is so last minute—”
“he’ll probably take it,” raf says. “it’s a manners thing, i think.”
“he is very polite,” meredith murmurs.
“that he is,” cara says.
they continue to work in companionable silence, meredith stacking patton and logan’s presents in a circle, like patton had done with the presents in the diner.
she hopes that he’ll take them. she hopes that he’ll love them.
he really does deserve to be spoiled at christmas after the week/month/year he’s had.
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Making One’s Bones (chpt 14)
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Porter Gage is in a pickle. Nuka-World needed a new boss and some woman just killed her way to the top. But a pre-war Mafia boss on the theme park's throne? Well...at least she'll have experience.
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Hello, everyone! Welcome to my newest fanfic! While this is technically a ‘sequel’ of By No Constraint, you don’t need to read BNC to read this. It can be read as standalone.
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Famous Last Words
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“Hey, asshole! You're listening to Raider Radio. Don't like the name? I don't give a shit!”
Gage saw Bossanova visibly wince as RedEye’s voice crackled out over a radio on a nearby table. She stopped dead and stared at it, as if trying to will it to explode.
They hadn’t spoken a word to each other all the way down the stairs—Gage was furious with her for picking up the stray, and she was mad at him for his—justified—treatment of the kid. But his annoyance quickly made way for curiosity as Bossanova continued to stand and glare as if the radio had personally offended her. “What’s up with you?”
Bossanova glanced towards Gage, anger etched in every line of her ravaged face. She jerked her thumb towards the battered old radio. “I hate that man.”
“What, RedEye?” Gage frowned. “He’s a dumbass, yeah, but you’ve never met him.”
“I don’t have to meet someone to hate them for narrating my entire trip through the Gauntlet.”
“Oh.” Gage started to snicker. “Oh.”
“It’s not funny!”
“Well, I mean, it really is.”
The idea was Colter’s originally. RedEye, who already gifted Nuka World with his terrible Raider Radio show, had been drafted in to give commentary to all those stupid enough to fall into the Gauntlet’s trap. Fight their way through or die. And with RedEye making quips along the way, the whole thing had been genuinely entertaining for a while. Up until the point where Gage realised Colter was never going to move on and actually take the rest of Nuka World.
Still. The radio show wasn’t as bad as it could be.
“...got some news for you all,” RedEye went on, his voice rising in pitch as it always did when he was excited. “Word’s getting around that the Overboss has been seen meeting up with the head honchos for each of the gangs. No one's told me shit yet, but doesn't take a genius to figure out—”
“That was weeks ago,” sneered Bossanova. “He’s not exactly quick on the uptake, is he?”
“—we’re taking the park! The whole damn thing—”
“I would love nothing better than to kill him,” she said, toying with the hilt of her sword. “Introduce me some time, won’t you?”
“You just wait—this new overboss is the real deal, man. Getting shit done!”
Gage scowled. “Why bother? You’ll just pussy out at the last second or regret it afterwards.”
She frowned at him, and he knew he’d gone too far. But he wasn’t going to apologise. She’d let the stupid kid take his damn belt.
“I kill people who deserve it,” Bossanova said, just loud enough to be heard over RedEye’s babbling. “And when they deserve it, I enjoy it. It’s a skill; art, almost. And considering where we are, there are plenty of people who deserve it. You’ll get to see me in action soon enough, I’m sure.”
She turned on her heel and stalked off towards the front door, but Gage wasn’t letting this go without a fight. “So why the kid, huh? What benefit is she for us?” He lowered his voice as he followed her into the open. Never knew who was listening.
Bossanova was finally heeding his warnings about the other raiders, because she lowered her voice too. “She could keep things in order while we’re away. Like a servant.”
“She’s a slave, not a servant.”
“What’s the difference?”
“One knows its place, the other doesn’t.” Gage shook his head as they walked around the swan pond. “She’s useless, and if you keep her, the other raiders will think you’ve gone soft.”
“The girl could be an asset,” Bossanova insisted. “I’ve met her before. She followed me all through Nuka Town without me spotting her until the very end. And if we keep her loyal, she can squeeze into places we can’t, find information on people. No one pays attention to a slave. And the other slaves will think she’s on their side.”
Gage studied Bossanova for a moment. Her face was defiant, set, and absolutely full of shit. “Quit trying to kid yourself. You’re doing this because of Oswald.” Bossanova blanched and he knew he had her. “You feel bad for killing him, so you’re trying to make up for it by looking after the girl. It ain’t gonna work. You’ll never be able to trust her. She’s already proven that by stealing my belt, even if you don’t believe it.”
“Oh, I’m pretty sure she’s taken it,” said Bossanova casually.
“What?” He didn’t trouble to lower his voice, and a group of raiders looked around at him. “What?” he hissed again, sticking his face close to hers. “You figured she had it, and you didn’t try to get it back?”
“I didn’t want an argument,” she replied with a shrug. “And besides, that old thing was looking a bit tired. Treat yourself every once in a while.”
“But the grenades—”
“I think Sarah’s sensible enough not to use them.”
The Fizztop Grille exploded.
Glass rained down on them as fire roared from the windows, furniture and body parts scattered into the open air before landing in the pond with a series of loud splashes. Gage slowly turned to look at Bossanova. She sheepishly met his eye as a crowd of raiders began to gather around the burning tower.
After a few seconds of painful silence, Bossanova said loudly, “Someone must have finally set off the traps I installed. I was wondering how long that would take.”
Gage blinked at her, thrown for a second, but then understood when the other raiders began to mutter amongst themselves about the ‘traps.’ Bossanova was covering her ass and making sure no one got any bright ideas about setting up bombs in the future.
“Let’s go see which idiot raider got too big for their boots,” Bossanova went on in the same loud voice. She strode back towards the main door, kicked it open, and disappeared inside. Gage jogged after her, hoping the smoke wouldn’t be too bad.
“Sensible my ass,” Gage snarled as they ran up the stairs together. “I knew she had my belt.” Secretly, he thought the grenades might be worth it just to get rid of the girl. But now was not the time. For all he knew, the building was about to come down and that would be an absolute shitshow.
The top floor lobby was a wreck. Black soot coated the walls, and the double doors leading to the outer patio had been blasted off their hinges. Smoke was billowing through, making Gage’s eye sting, but most of the damage seemed to have been contained to the outside. He picked his way through the mess, watching as Bossanova pulled a large red canister with a nozzle attached off the wall, turned to the nearest fire, and a jet of white-grey vapour engulfed the flames.
“The smoke’s bad enough without you spraying shit everywhere!” Gage yelled, coughing. He backed away.
“It’s a fire extinguisher!”
“What?”
“A fire—extinguisher!” Bossanova bellowed. She gestured to the wall behind him. “Get the other one and help me before this gets out of control!”
Gage blinked. The fire extinguisher—or whatever it was called—did seem to be doing the trick. He nodded and sprinted over to the other canister, wrenched it free, and fiddled around with the nozzle. “How do you—?” His question was cut off by a jet of white gas hitting him in the face. From across the room he heard Bossanova laughing, and after a second he managed to get control of the spray and direct it at the fire instead.
The fire flickered and disappeared, revealing a small figure pinned beneath the rubble. “Boss, there’s the girl.”
Bossanova whipped around. “Free her. I’ll carry on with the flames.”
Gage did as he was told, pushing and hauling the broken furniture, ceiling, and pieces of wall off her. Despite the chaos around them, the kid looked relatively unscathed. He spotted his belt on her immediately, and saw one of the grenades was missing. “There we go. Told you the little bitch caused this.”
Bossanova ignored him. “Is she alive?”
He checked her pulse and found it strong and steady. “Yeah.”
“Good. Move her to the stairwell.”
Gage grabbed the girl by the arm and began to drag her carelessly across the rubble out of harm’s way.
“Properly, Gage.”
Gage grumbled and sighed, but obeyed, picking her up carefully and walking away. He was surprised by how light she was, how fragile she felt in his arms. It occurred to him he couldn’t have been much older than this when he left home.
A wonder I didn’t die.
He set her little body down in the stairwell and checked her over. Bossanova would just give him shit if he didn’t. A cut on her head suggested she’d hit it when the explosion went off, but otherwise she seemed okay. Remembering one of the quick fixes Connor taught him, Gage took out a stimpak, lifted her head forward, and injected it where the back of her skull met the neck. She shuddered, and he did another one for good measure. Bossanova was living proof he’d need twice as much medicine to get the job done.
Sarah’s eyes flickered open, and she stared up at him, wide-eyed and trembling. “Where am I?”
“Stay still, asshole,” Gage snapped. “Or you’ll make your head worse.” He got to his feet. “I’m gonna go help the boss. Move from this spot, and I’ll bring you back up here just to throw you out the window again. Got it?”
Sarah nodded.
“Stop moving your damn head!”
The girl bit her lip, blinking quickly. Gage took this to mean she understood and he stomped off back to Bossanova, picking up his extinguisher and helping finish the job. He answered Bossanova’s searching look with a grimace. “She’s fine. I've given her some stimpaks.” The boss didn’t reply, but set to work on the fire once more with a look of relief.
The flames slowly died. Within ten minutes, the Fizztop Grille merely smouldered. Bossanova wiped her sweating brow, panting, and turned to him smiling. “Good job.”
Gage frowned, but didn’t reply. They wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place had Bossanova not brought the kid back.
“Gage,” Bossanova said, peering at him. “Stop sulking.”
“I ain’t fuckin’ sulking,” Gage muttered sulkily.
“Sure you are. Is it because of the girl, or because you doused yourself with the extinguisher before you actually managed to—don’t you dare!” Bossanova shrieked as the white gas engulfed her.
“Sorry, didn’t catch that,” Gage said blandly, his extinguisher nozzle pointed at her.
“I swear to Jesus and Mary and all that is holy, if you ever—”
Gage sprayed her again, grinning as her screams for him to stop turned into hacking coughs. Finally, the gas ran out and Bossanova emerged from the cloud holding her own extinguisher like a minigun.
“Porter Gage, you goddamn—!” She emptied her extinguisher at him, chasing him all round the Grille, and then threw the empty canister at his head for good measure. He easily ducked it, his sides aching with laughter.
It was odd, having fun without killing anyone. Gage savoured it while it lasted. Bossanova wiped tears from her eyes, grinning at him, despite herself. Then the situation—the smoking ruins of her den all around her, the implication behind it all—seemed to slide back into her thoughts, and the smile crumbled into a frown as she glanced past him. “You sure Sarah’s alright?”
“Yeah,” he said, not knowing or caring if it was true. Glancing back to the stairwell, he saw the kid was sitting up, watching them warily. There was something bothering him, and as he stared at her he realised what. “Boss...one grenade wouldn’t cause all this damage.”
Bossanova wore a grim expression. “That’s what I was worried about.” She walked across the lobby to Sarah, kicking aside rubble and dislodged furniture as she went, and crouched down. “Can you tell me what happened?” she asked, her voice gentle.
Sarah’s eyes flicked towards Gage.
“The boss is askin’ you a question,” he snapped. When she still didn’t move, he added, “Talking won’t mess up your head, idiot.”
Sarah flushed red and glared at him. Despite himself, Gage bit back a grin. Most of the other slaves wouldn’t so much as look at him. Guts was always admirable, even if it was misplaced.
“Raiders came in and planted a bomb,” Sarah said, scowling at Gage, while Bossanova’s face paled. “They were going to kill you, so I climbed up into the ceiling a dropped a grenade on them.” She smiled triumphantly. Bossanova looked horrified.
“Yeah, using my grenade belt, you little shit,” he growled.
“Don’t speak to her like that!” Bossanova cut in, shooting him a death glare.
Gage snorted. “She's just a slave.”
“She's a child!”
“Even worse.”
Sarah unbuckled the grenade belt and dropped it to the floor, kicking it towards Gage. “There,” she said, glowering at her knees. “If you won’t share.”
“It’s ain’t about sharing,” Gage retorted, wondering why he was trying to justify himself to a ten-year-old slave, “it’s my goddamn shit. I earned it. And I know how to use it properly. You just blew up half the fucking Grille.”
“No. The raiders did that. I just made it happen before you guys got back.”
Gage and Bossanova glanced at each other. The kid had a point, not that he’d ever admit it. He picked his belt up, noticing she’d gouged out a huge hole in the leather just so she could wear it. “Great. Fucking ruined.” He dropped it on the floor again and stormed off back towards the outer section. The damage was worst here, so the bodies of the raiders would be around. With any luck, it would be just one gang. If not, and the gangs were working together, they were in big trouble.
Now he was looking closely, Gage could see the body parts scattered around the mess. He picked the pieces up, dumping it all in the centre of the room, and then pawed over it, checking for tattoos and clothing to see which gang was the latest problem. He could have asked Sarah which gang members she’d seen, but he didn’t want to ask the little shit for help unless he absolutely had to.
“Body paint and stupid colours,” Gage said eventually, holding up a leg with a fluffy pink scrap of fabric clinging to it. “We’re dealing with the Pack.”
Bossanova approached, a muscle jumping in her jaw. Even in the poor light, she looked and tense. “They tried to kill me...again?”
“You’re surprised?”
Bossanova said nothing for a moment and then gave a small nod. “I thought I had everyone where I wanted them. I thought I had control.”
Gage rolled his eye. “How many fucking times did I tell you this ain’t like the Old World? How many times?” His voice was rising, sharp and full of condemnation. He knew he shouldn’t be this angry, but it was Colter all over again. Why did no one ever listen to him? “The raiders don’t trust you. You’re a ghoul and so far you’ve done fuck all to keep them in their place.” He threw the leg at her feet. “I told you. But you knew best, obviously. And I was stupid enough to believe it.”
Bossanova stared at the leg for a long time. When she spoke, her voice was low and quiet. “It seems I’ll be giving a demonstration sooner than I thought.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
She ignored him, striding across the room, throwing open a surviving drawer, and pulling out a singed meat cleaver. “Get the bodies out of here. Toss them from the window for all I care. When you’re done, you come with me. We’re going to pay Mason a visit.”
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The Bradberton Amphitheater screamed with the roars of the Pack. Mason lounged on his throne as Bossanova strode through the crowd, Gage at her heels. He admired her audacity, but wasn’t sure if balls of steel were going to be enough to waltz through this situation. Then Gage remembered the bomb and his temper flared. These fuckers needed to be taught a lesson.
“Get up!” Bossanova bellowed as she strode towards Mason. “Up, now!”
Mason raised an eyebrow, but didn’t move. Instead, he waved his hand towards one of his Pack—a tall boulder of a man with long dark hair to waist—and the raider stepped in front of Bossanova, baring his teeth.
“The Alpha don’t want to see—” he began, but Bossanova pulled out her sword without breaking her stride and drove the hilt into the man’s stomach, catching him by surprise. As he doubled over, she slammed her elbow into his temple, sending him toppling to the ground with a thud.
There was immediate uproar. Mason rose to his feet practically frothing at the mouth.
“Good Alpha,” Bossanova shouted, making her way up the stairs and kicking his throne backwards off the podium. “I like obedience.”
Gage had to bite the inside of his cheek to stop himself laughing, settling for a grin instead. He wasn’t sure where her attitude had come from, but he liked it. Mason, on the other hand didn’t quite know what to do with himself. He was easily two heads taller than the boss, but it was obvious she didn’t fear him. He moved down the steps slightly as she strode towards him, blade in hand, forcing him to look up at her.
“Boss,” Gage said sharply, noticing the anger rippling through the crowd. Weapons were being drawn, guns being readied. It didn’t matter how badass she was, even Bossanova couldn’t dodge lead.
“I defeated Colter with a sword,” Bossanova called out, turning to face her audience with her arms held wide. “I took him down in his power armour with this.” She held her blade high into the air and then gave a mocking bow. “What makes any of you think you could do better?”
No one answered.
Like Gage, Mason knew this wasn’t strictly true. The water, not her fighting prowess, had given Bossanova the edge over Colter. But the others didn’t know that, and most of them were too stupid to explain it to. Mason looked furious. Gage did his best to keep his face straight.
“Now,” Bossanova said, snapping her head back in Mason’s direction, “some of your little beasts thought they’d try and rig an explosive in the Fizztop Grille. They’re dead of course, but there needs to be payment for this transgression.”
“Payment?” snorted Mason. “What payment? None of us have shit and you know it. We’ve been stuck here for over a year, and judging by what you’ve been doin’, boss, we’re gonna be stuck here a little longer.”
Gage thought Mason had a fair point, but trying to explain the two areas they’d been to were still infested with gatorclaws and ghouls would probably be pointless. The gangs wouldn’t care that things weren’t ready—they only wanted results.
“Not money.” Bossanova paused, staring out over the crowd. She pulled back a layer of clothing to reveal the meat cleaver in her belt and met Mason’s eye. “Your people tried to kill Gage and I. Two lives, two fingers. They’re your pets, so you’re responsible. Pick someone for the debt, or I’ll just pick you.”
Gage frowned, feeling a little disappointed. Two fingers was tame considering they’d nearly blown her up. But she’d said he’d get to see her in action at some point and this was his chance. He decided to keep his mouth shut and see how it all played out.
Mason sneered at her and waved his arm around the amphitheater. “There’s a room full of us, bitch.” His words were met with a cheer, the Pack on the stands and the floor banging their chest plates and stamping their feet, throwing back their heads and howling to the sky.
Bossanova waited until they quieted down and smiled pleasantly. “Yes, but I only need two fingers.” She tilted her head and folded her arms. “Hurry up and make your choice, whelp.”
Mason flinched, the colour rising in his face. Gage thought she was pushing it, but couldn’t deny he was enjoying watching the prick be challenged in front of his own people. Mason gritted his teeth and flexed his fingers, his face going from red to purple as his eyes flicked between Bossanova and her sword.
“Haze!” Mason bellowed, turning to the stands suddenly. “This was your fucking idea! Get over here!”
A scuffle broke out in the crowd, followed by muffled screams as a lone figure was thrown into the clearing. He was a big man with purple hair and wearing a bright blue vest. He tried to back away, but met a wall of bodies pushing him towards Bossanova.
“Excellent.” Bossanova removed the cleaver from her belt and ran her finger down the blade lovingly as she stared at her prey. “Put your hand on the step in front of me. Now.”
The raider hesitated, staring at Bossanova’s placid face. She looked at Gage and gave a small nod.
Elation filled Gage’s chest as he strode over and snarled, “You heard what the boss said. Now!” He kicked the raider’s legs out from under him. Haze yelled in surprise, but Gage was too quick, taking his hand and forcing it onto the step at Bossanova’s feet.
“Choose your least favourite fingers.” Bossanova crouched down and stared into the man’s face, gently touching his cheek with the cleaver. “If you keep struggling, I’ll take your whole hand. I’m not picky.”
Her victim trembled, his eyes wide with a fear that made Gage’s heart sing. Finally Haze submitted, setting two of his fingers on the stone step and looking away. Bossanova trailed the rusted blade lovingly over the man’s knuckles, pressing in slightly so that he whimpered and tensed. The amphitheater was deathly silent.
Bossanova raised the cleaver in a sudden, violent movement and brought it down with a sickening clang. The raider’s scream was drowned out by the delighted yells of the Pack, a few howls piercing the din.
“Gage,” Bossanova yelled over the uproar as she picked the fingers up off the floor, “hold his mouth.”
Gage grinned, seizing the shrieking, writhing raider’s jaw and forcing it open. Haze hit out at Gage, blood flicking everywhere, but a second later his cries were muffled as Bossanova forced the fingers down his throat. He gagged and Gage let go, his teeth slamming shut with an audible snap.
Bossanova kicked Haze carelessly down the stairs and the crowd howled and whistled with appreciation, while Haze clawed at his throat, his face slowly turning as purple as his hair. She turned to Mason. “Save him if you want. You have my permission.”
Mason gazed down at the dying man, his expression one of intrigue and wonder, before looking back at Bossanova with renewed respect. “Nah. Fucker was no good anyway.”
She nodded and drew close. “If either myself or Gage are threatened again, you’ll be the next to kneel. And I’ll make sure something more valuable than fingers ends up down your throat.”
Mason didn’t seem to have an answer to this. Bossanova smiled, turned on her heel, and stepped smartly over the choking raider on the floor, tossing the cleaver carelessly away. Neither she nor Gage gave him a backward glance as they left the lair of the Pack.
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Why I’m questioning Sayori
I said I’d make this post so here it is! Even got on my laptop to properly do the post :p I’m just kinda winging this but I’ll try to list out everything I can. If I forget stuff I’ll go back and edit it later so if you’re curious, keep watch! I’ll reblog any time I make edits, at least somewhat big ones.
Also, replies are welcome! I’m open to constructive criticism and anyone wanting to offer new viewpoints. I accept that I’m still learning and nothing is for sure yet. Also tbh anyone telling me I sound like I’m kin is validating as heck so if you’re thinking it then I’d appreciate you saying it ahaha, but please don’t lie to me because you think you know what I want to hear. I want the truth. I don’t want to be a confused mess ;n; And I know all/most of these could be COMPLETELY unrelated to being Sayori fictionkin, but I feel like they’re worth mentioning anyways. It’s more like, a bunch of little coincidences rather than big solid evidence, I’m aware of that and that’s a big reason why I’m questioning and not for-sure Sayorikin.
One thing I realized just a couple of days ago is how, since I was a kid I’ve had this like, ideal thing I guess? how do I put this into words lmao my brain is dumb,, I guess a fantasy, that I’d fall in love with a childhood friend, like someone I’m close with from a young age but strictly friends for a long time. I’ve always been in love with the idea of falling in love with your best friend. And of course that’s what happens to Sayori, due to her programming in DDLC. And if I’m kin with Sayori from other game(s) rather than just DDLC then it definitely could be something unrelated, just a coincidence.
I’m like, really drawn to DDLC?? Maybe just because DDLC is a great game and I love all the creepypasta type stuff behind it all, all the theories and dark shit, and also I think just as a cute dating sim it’d be great anyways (but nowhere near as great). But idk, when I saw it I immediately felt kinda drawn to it but maybe that’s just in my head or for some other reason like the characters look nice or smth.
Also it REALLY gives me feels. It makes me feel things in general. I rarely get genuinely scared from fictional stuff anymore but this game fucked me up. I’m still scared to play it on my own because, even after watching multiple youtubers play it multiple times, it still fucking scares me.
The Sayori suicide scene and her poem- especially the poem- really get to me. I saw people making hanging puns in the previous video before her death so it was kind of spoiled for me but even still, it got to me. And the scene where Sayori is freaking out because you deleted Monika before playing the game REALLY gets to me,, like I just understand that overwhelming, helpless feeling. Especially finding out why she acted that way, it’s so fucking hard to watch that scene and normally I’m not affected by this kind of stuff. So either DDLC is extremely good at psychological horror or I have some sort of connection to the scenarios, whether that be just that I’ve been through similar things and am projecting (not really that I remember though? idfk brains are weird) or ya know,,, I once lived as someone in DDLC or whatever.
(TW self harm/suicide/choking) Probably has no real correlation but when I have panic attacks/flashbacks (unrelated to DDLC I mean) I feel like I’m choking or like I can’t breathe. And when really frustrated I tend to choke myself? Sayori died from asphyxiation instead of her neck being broken, by accident because she used a stepping stool instead of something higher like a chair and jumping off. Btw I’m okay, I never actually choke myself to the point to causing permanent damage or anything, and of course I’m not saying this is like, okay or anything. I know it’s bad but I’ve done it completely on impulse, and this was all before learning DDLC even existed. I’m working on getting better and I’m not going to kill myself or anything, just thought I’d mention this.
I relate to her personality,,, so fucking much. Not just the whole pretending to be happy to make your friends happy thing, but how she is as a person besides her depression. Tbh I feel like a lot of people relate to her because of her depression and how she deals with it, but like she’s so much more than that. She pretends to be dumb but it actually pretty smart. Maybe she’s not the best with words but I think she’s a lot more intelligent than some people think. She’s so cheerful, maybe even annoying, and is kind of the class clown, and is a total weirdo sometimes but it’s GREAT and just,, same lmao. Like “looks like my boobs are getting bigger again >:D” is something I’d say lolol I just love Sayori so much, like idc if I’m kin with her or not she’s still fucking amazing.
Another reason I relate to her but probably is like not at all proof I’m Sayori or anything, just thought I’d mention anyways, but I was kinda like, really in love with my guy friend in high school for years, he’s actually kinda like MC in some ways, like he was kinda popular with girls but not like Popular(tm), super nice and couldn’t directly say no, but he knew I was in love with him (or at least knew I had a crush on him but he probably had no idea I liked him THAT much but hey neither did I for a long time lmao) and didn’t like me back and even started intentionally avoiding me. Like, he would make up an excuse to not give me a hug, like he was late for class, but hugs only take like a fucking second what the hell?? It sucked but like when the player turns down Sayori I Relate.
I just,,,,, want to hug Natsuki like she’s fucking adorable and I want to protect her the most bc she’s like a precious child and she’s obviously abused by her dad. Tbh Yuri is a little creepy and for some reason I don’t like her that much but I mean I’d still hug her. I don’t hate Monika, like it was just her programming to do all that stuff she did so I don’t blame her and she’s p cool and I’d hug her too tbh. When Sayori interacts with Natsuki it makes me feel all warm n fuzzy. Like I don’t think in my canon Sayori and Natsuki were dating or anything, I think I/Sayori am/was just really protective? Idk, thought I’d throw that out there.
I also heavily relate to wanting to be a mediator and wanting to help everyone get along and be happy. I often (try to) play that role in this life. I’m extremely empathetic, so that’s prob why, but I can’t stand when people are fighting or can’t see each other’s point of view. Though it also frustrates the FUCK out of me when people refuse to or just absolutely cannot see any point of view but their own. Maybe that’s not really a Sayori thing but ye
When I look at Sayori I get the same “that’s me!” feeling as when I see my kintypes. Who knows though, maybe in a month or two it’ll fade, we’ll see I guess. But right now it is Very Strong. Like I’ve somewhat questioned being fictionkin with other characters before but I’ve never had the “that’s me” feeling this strong with anyone else. Ruby from RWBY is a close second but I still think she’s just a kithtype.
I feel like having a past life or whatever as someone who was experimented on kinda makes sense?? Maybe I just enjoy horror a little too much but I really think if I am Sayori I’m kin with her like actual her not just the DDLC version of her. The new game hasn’t even been announced yet but I’m so excited, mostly because I feel like I want to learn more about my possible past life I guess. I wanna see if things in the second game connect with me or if it’s just DDLC. But I feel like, if I’ve had any past lives as any humans, they were probably really dark or smth. I kinda have a dark mind I guess and that would just make sense to me lmao, like I’m 21 why haven’t I grown out of my edgy phase, why the fuck am I still really into creepypasta? Damn.
I’ve been kinda obsessed with DDLC lately. I have BPD so it could totally just be a BPD obsession thing and maybe this obsession will fade and someday I won’t care too much about DDLC, only time will tell. Also I’ve had the song Your Reality stuck in my head for a week straight but it may just be a catchy song and I tend to have a song that kinda automatically starts playing in my head occasionally, usually lately it’s been Sad Machine by Porter Robinson (good song btw highly recommend)
Most likely unrelated but Sayori’s hair has been described as “strawberry blonde” on one wiki and my hair is like, light brown but reddish, though it looks more like Monika’s hair, especially because I keep my hair long. I’ve been kinda wanting to cut it but I like having long hair tbh and I feel like a lot of ppl don’t want me to cut my hair haha, though I really wanna get a short wig and maybe wear that occasionally (esp bc I’m non binary and wanna pass as more boyish sometimes, I know society will never accept me as nb bleh but anyways). Though, it’s been said that the reason her hair is short is because it’s easier for her to deal with, but I’m not 100% sure if that’s canon. Though I guess it doesn’t matter much? cuz multiverse stuff n all but, still.
Speaking of her appearance, she seems to not care too much about how she looks, which I relate to haha, especially because of depression n stuff. I mean I have Crippling Social Anxiety(tm) so I do care to an extent but usually I’m like, if someone likes me they’ll like me for who I am not how I look anyways. I don’t feel the need to dress super proper to impress anyone in casual social situations, like making friends or even going on dates (though I’ve only been on a real date like a few times and they were with my gf who I’d already been dating online for a while). And yeah a big reason she’s so careless about her appearance is depression but I think if I wasn’t depressed and she wasn’t depressed we’d still both have that mentality like, we don’t need to impress anyone with our appearance so it’s better to just dress how you want, whatever way makes you feel comfortable and happy with yourself and your body, than focus on being proper and stuff.
Maybe I’m just projecting but man I feel like a lot of stuff I do and my ways of thinking and stuff are very Sayori(tm). I feel like I am so much like her, like she’s so me. Though of course, maybe my reason for being kin with her is purely psychological. Maybe I “became” her after seeing DDLC. Maybe I am her because I relate to her so much. But again, only time will tell. If I still feel like I identify as her (which, currently, I most definitely do) in a couple of months or so, then I guess I’ll start calling myself fictionkin. Idk.
#dc#tw suicide ment#self harm ment#ficitonkin#kin#ddlckin#ddlc kin#sayorikin#sayori kin#ddlc fictionkin#doki doki kin#doki doki literature club kin#hey uh I'm open to suggestions/comments/etc as long as you're not like here to tell me I'm stupid for thinking I'm fictionkin or some shit#thanks#questioning kin#questioning fictionkin#I appreciate help and advice guys
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I am 20, and have 4 tickets on my record...3 disobey traffic devices and 1 seat belt ticket. They were from 2 years ago..I am a new rider and I took the MSF course. I just bought a 2008 kawasaki ninja 650r. Progressive gave me $231 a year with no collision or comprehensive(I am ok without having either)...Can I do better than this? Where should I try?
Car insurance question?
Hello, I had car insurance on my Cadillac, and the car insurance coincidentally ended a few days after my Cadillac broke down. For the time being, I don't plan on getting it repaired (looking to sell it). My mother offered to let me borrow her car, which she has insured. She seems to think I need car insurance to be able to drive her car. Is that the case? (I don't live at my parents house anymore, and my name isn't on their policy fwiw)""
How much insurance cost would it cost for a provisional driver on a vauxal corsa?
hi, im 16 and soon to be 17 and learning to drive. i want to find out how much it would cost for me to be on a vauxal corsa (2001?)(1.3L) on a provisional learners license. i wanted to go on my mums tesco car insurance but they said i need to give them my provisional licence details but ive only recently sent off for one so i cant give them the details.. any ideas on the cost (any insurer) thankyou so much! katherine""
Renewal of car insurance after accident?
I was in a car accident in Oct 2006, I was injured in the accident and still under medical treatment but insurance is now refusing to pay any medical bills and my 6 month renewal is up and I am wondering if I need to renew this because of being in a accident or not. If anyone has been through anything similar like this could you please advise. I was not at fault in this accident and I am waiting to hear from a lawyer. Any Advice? Serious answers only PLEASE!!""
Would my insurance be high?
There is a 1973 Dodge Charger online I found that needs restoration for $1750. What would I do for insurance and would it be high since I'm only 17?
What is the best source to compare the insurance costs for all model of cars and trucks?
I am looking for a list that has the average insurance rates for different model of cars. I need makes and models listed all together in a single source, and don't have the time to compare just 3 or four models at a time, nor go on line and check out one at a time. I need something in a spreadhsheet, or that I can cut and paste into a spreadsheet.""
What's wrong with affordable health insurance without a middle man?
We have affordable car insurance and the gov't doesn't get involved in that, do they? Am I the only one who thinks a few of these industries (insurance, pharmaceutical) should be regulated?""
""Tax and tested, but no insurance on the car?""
Hi, i recently bought a new car. So my old car is up for sale, it has currently got tax and MOT. But the insurance ran out yesterday, my car car is for sale on private land and will not be driven on the road. Is this ok??""
Car Insurance And 18?
I have a question, i'm 18 and I need car insurance. dont tell me to google it, cuz ive tried and tried, but no results. i live in indiana. any help. wood be great, doesnt have to be the cheapest car insurance, but the best for my age. thanks. 2 am in the morning, sorry 4 the terrible writing""
Cheapest place to insure a peugeot 106 1.1 or a peugeot 106 quiksilver?
Im getting pissed off with the prices of inurance for my car the cheapest i can get it is 3200 fully comp (third party is more money for some reason?!?) and ive tryed all these compare websites and they are utter bollocks i might aswell not have passed my bastard driving test with these prices, i may have to wait another year for my insurance to go down. Btw im 19 year old and have been passed 4 month, can anyone help me im sick of ******* looking at insurance websites, thanks""
""I received a minor traffic infraction (65 in a 60 MPH zone) in WA, will my insurance go up?""
Minor traffic infraction, my first ticket. I'm 20. Also, what's a defferal and how much does it cost?""
What is the cheapest Insurance available for a 21 year old?
I've been looking at cars and quotes for about a month now, and I can find nothing affordable, so I thought I'd ask on this website and see if there is anyone who has had the same situation and found a solution. I'm 20 years old, turning 21 in September and I have not drove since I passed my test 2 years ago. I have never owned a car or been a second driver on anyone's policy. Insurance is ridiculously high, so I was wondering if anyone in the same situation knows a cheap insurance company. I'm also okay with being a second driver on my parents policy, although this is still usually to expensive. Thanks!""
How do I get affordable health insurance for my son?
I was in between jobs last year so I had to put my son on medicaid. As soon as I found a job I let them know but they kicked him off of it anyways. The problem I am having is that my insurance at work don't kick in until November and he has to have insurance by then for doctors appointments, etc. I tried to get MC+ for kids but they make it almost impossible to get. I just was wondering if anyone knew of a place where I can get affordable health insurance for my son?""
Cheapest motorcycle insurance ?
Cheapest motorcycle insurance ?
Who offers the best and most affordable medical insurance?
i am a 19 year old female from southern california. I work full time and not currently going to school. my job does not offer medical benefits i would like coverage asap. please help me out!
Insurance for 1975 stingray?
What would you estimate the insurance would be for a 16 year old boy with a 1975 stingray?
If you accidentally hit someone with your car how much does your insurance premium increase?
By hit someone, I mean a pedestrian.""
Is insurance expensive for a Motorcycle?
I want to get a 1982 Yamaha Virago and was wondering how much is the insurance? Im 23 years old
""I'm moving to California to Hawaii, can I use my dental insurance in Hawaii?
I have liberty Dental insurance here in California but I am moving to Hawaii in a few weeks. Will I be covered in Hawaii?
Do you pay for car insurance before you use it?
i want to switch car insurance but i just paid it for the month. do i get that back?
Low cost liability car insurance in Conroe tx?
What are some places, How many people do you have on your liability insurance and how much do you pay and who do you have? I have two people and atm using AIG. they are going to up my bill over 65 a month. Wondering if anyone else is getting better?""
Open driver car insurance?
I have recently got a job which involves me driving a disabled mans car. I have recently passed my driving test (october 2010) and I am only 19 years old. Does this mean the company I am working for needs to pay more for me to drive the car as I am not a experienced driver?
Teen insurance question?
this is just a hypothetical question. but say your 16 and got a bmw 528i, 2008 version. what would your insurance rate be? including the following: you took drivers ed. family has 3 cars, so add the car into that pile. etc. thanks. ****JUST WONDERING****""
Question about Health Insurance??
I wanted to get added on to my husbands health insurance, but the secretary who works for the company he does(it's a small construction company) says I can't get added until open enrollment which is in June..is this true? How does that work? The insurance company is Blue Cross Blue Sheild. Is there only one enrollment per year?""
If i pay more of a down payment on my insurance will i get a lower premium?
Cost for the car im looking at monthly is $398, they want a $401 down payment, if i pay $501 will it take it down?""
A break in car insurance between my old and new car?
Hi, Tomorrow my current car insurance with my S reg corsa is due to expire at 12:00pm (Noon) now I have decided not to bother renewing this as tomorrow night I am going to buy a new car for which I have already put down a deposit. Now I have been told I cannot insure this new car now as I don't own it yet, but im worried that if my car insurance has a break in it then it will affect me - I currently have 2 years no claims and don't want to loose this - does anyone have any knowledge of what happens in the situation? Also with me not being able to insure the car until i own it, how do i go about getting the car back home from the showroom? Please helpppp""
Where can I get the cheapest motorcycle insurance with tickets?
I am 20, and have 4 tickets on my record...3 disobey traffic devices and 1 seat belt ticket. They were from 2 years ago..I am a new rider and I took the MSF course. I just bought a 2008 kawasaki ninja 650r. Progressive gave me $231 a year with no collision or comprehensive(I am ok without having either)...Can I do better than this? Where should I try?
What is the cheapest insurance group in the uk? how do they class it?
What is the cheapest insurance group in the uk? how do they class it?
Will my insurance go up?
Yesterday somebody reversed into my parked car, she was completely at fault, if we decide to go through her insurance will my car insurance also go up? I'm 19 years old and just concerned due to the already ridiculous price of insurance.""
No insurance on car used to drive child around in?
How can one go about handling the possibility that a child's non-custodial parent is driving their child in a car with no insurance. Recently, a friend of mine told me that if a parent has a car accident and a child in injured in a car with no car insurance, medical insurance won't cover expenses. Is this true? If it is, how do you suggest the custodial parent go about asking for proof of insurance from the other parent. The parents don't get along very well, and the non-custodial parent doesn't like to talk details with the other parent, even when she tries. My only thought was for her to give him notice of this policy and should something ever happen, try to hold him responsible for all expenses. Still, this does not handle the safety issue at hand. Any ideas? Simply asking the non-custodial parent to show proof would not work. His style would be I don't have to show you anything.""
Your personal experiences with Progressive Auto insurance?
I just got a lease on a 2010 Honda Civic. Its the first car ever in my name and was a bit pricey for me b/c I don't have an extensive credit history. Progressive was the cheapest auto insurance I could find so I decided to try it. Any pros/cons you've experienced?
Category 1 Cars To Insure? Also Insurance Tips?
Hi everyone. I am a 20 year old driver who is 21 in March. I have my test on the 17th Feb and I am hoping to pass, obviously! I would like to ask for a few tips to make driving as cheap as possible. I have been looking at category 1 cars for insurance prices. Like a Citroen C2 or a Corsa, and I would like to know, before I buy, if anyone knows any tips to keep my insurance down. I currently have my own small business, and I live in the Midlands, which may class as a high risk area.. But I would like to know, what is the cheapest cars to insure, and tips to keep the insurance as low as possible. Also, will it help that I will be a little bit older than the 17/18 year olds who start driving? I am a male also. Thanks for anyone who can help me out!""
With geico does insurance increase once your child gets a drivers permit?
With geico does insurance increase once your child gets a drivers permit?
Anyone know where to get good individual dental insurance thats effective immediatly?
I need my wisdom teeth removed but have no insurance, most individual insurance companies have a 6 month waiting period for procedures other than preventitive. I need them out now because one was infected and I got it treated with antibiotics but Im afraid it will come back because it keeps bleeding. Any help will do and I am in florida.""
How do I get health insurance?
I'm nineteen and live on my own and have no affiliation with my parents. I'm going off to college in the fall but I need health insurance to go and I work two part time jobs, neither of which offer health insurance. Any idea how I can find a place that'll take me? If it helps, I'm from Philadelphia, Pa!""
What questions should i ask before getting LIFE Insurance?
Im about to get life insurance, but i dont know how it works. What are some questions i should ask the insurance agent before signing any papers? Please help!""
Insurance for Porsche Cayenne?
hi, im thinking about buying a 2005 Porsche Cayenne, and was wondering how much the insurance will be for such car?""
Found a nice place for those who need free auto quotes?
Hey there just wanted to let everyone know i found this great site for free auto insurance quotes, its saved me $32 off of my montly policy. Read some of the auto insurance articles to help you save more. Http://www.free-auto-quote.com""
How can I find an affordable psychiatrist without insurance?
I would like to see a psychiatrist to treat my depression but I don't have health insurance. (I applied for private health insurance but was denied based on my medical history.) ...show more
Tips on low insurance quotes?
Tips on low insurance quotes?
Can i have two different Auto Insurance policies?
I have two different cars can i have two different policies on each vehicle in the state of kentucky?
Can I get Insurance I am the only employee at my office Group of One?
I live in California and work for a Doctor's office but it is only part time. I have been working for a little over three years and my boss said I can look into the option of getting health insurance however all the companies I look at only want to insure groups of people can my employer get me health coverage even though I am the only one on the plan. Curious in California
First car 350z insurance cost?
Im getting a 350z for my birthday , and im just curious on how much insurance would cost on it . And dont give me crap about its not a good idea because my parents and i already talked about it. Just name the price u think it is . For me cheap is $500-1000 a year. Average $1000-1500 a year and Expensive $1500-2000. i know my parents have insurance and pay $500 a year for their 2 cars. And my dad pays $750 on his commercial trucks, 7 of them. And i live in Pa if that helps? And i will take driver corses. thats when u ride around the city with a teacher. THANKS Bros""
Cheap Car Insurance for young drivers?
My younger brother is 18 and he has had his UK drivers licence for 5 months (he was 18 when he passed) but he has not driven since he passed his test simply because he can't afford insurance. When I passed at 18 I paid 500 on our mothers insurance and that was considered expensive but the cheapest he has found is 1029 With the co op. Can anyone help him because he really deserves it, anywhere cheaper would be ideal. Thanks""
Can you take driving school after you get your license for cheaper insurance?
I'm going to be turning eighteen soon and I want to take driving courses to lower my insurance. Can I still take them with my license or do I need to get my permit before I turn eighteen? I live in Arizona by the way.
Can I cancel my insurance policy?
Am I able to cancel my insurance policy at any time? I am currently paying alot of money for insurance due to getting a ticket while I was still a new driver, and have found a company who will insure me much cheaper than my current. Will I need to pay any sort of fees? Give notice? Just curious, thanks! This is in Canada by the way.""
What car would be cheapest for insurance?
When I turn 16 I am deciding on getting a v6 1998 firebird or a 1998 v6 camaro what one do you think would be cheaper for insurance. I live in nebraska in a small town
How much can home insurance cost?
i want to buy a home and i need to know how much my insurance might be.
""Will defensive driving reduce your insurance rates? If so, by how much?
I pay 190.00 a month to farmer's group for car insurance. How much less will it be if I take defensive driving?
Car insurance?
im trying to look for a cheap car insurance company any ideas??
Can someone obtain car insurance in CA with no drivers license?
I have a friend who will be a first time driver at age 30 (she had no need for driving where she previously lived). She has the opportunity to buy a car, but cannot register it until she has car insurance. Now, normally, she could just wait to buy the car when she finally gets licensed, but she's been offered an amazing deal and would have to buy now. Is there any insurance company that will cover an unlicensed driver or even someone with a permit? Thanks!""
Why is my motorbike coming up wrong on insurance quotes ?
I Have a Gilera Runner VX 125cc, When i go onto gocompare & all other insurance websites it asks for my reg & when i put it in and select vehicle its coming up as a VXR 180cc, when i go on to HPI its 125cc & on my logbook its 125 could anyone explain why this is happening ? thanks for your time.""
Where can I get the cheapest motorcycle insurance with tickets?
I am 20, and have 4 tickets on my record...3 disobey traffic devices and 1 seat belt ticket. They were from 2 years ago..I am a new rider and I took the MSF course. I just bought a 2008 kawasaki ninja 650r. Progressive gave me $231 a year with no collision or comprehensive(I am ok without having either)...Can I do better than this? Where should I try?
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