After a week of insisting to Alya that no, he and Marinette were not going to get together, he's in love with another girl, Adrien is both delighted and mortified to learn that actually, the other girl is Marinette and he's been acting like an ass all week. He falls into being Marinette's boyfriend quickly and easily, with all the gooey idiocy expected from a Lovesquare relationship, but one question keeps eating at him:

What is he going to tell Alya?

After all, he's been telling Alya no for a week. It won't be believable if he just suddenly claims he changed his mind, and he doesn't want her to think that he considers Marinette a second choice or backup option. He needs an explanation that sounds plausible while also not making it clear that he's not settling.

He shuffles through explanations with desperation. Maybe he and Marinette were secret pen pals? Or they knew each other from virtual Mecha Strike events, but only by their gamertags? They've actually been secretly dating for months but had to hide it from his dad? He'd realized he'd fallen out of love with the "girl from his work" and realized he'd actually been in love with Ma--no, she'd never believe that. He was so used to Anime relationships that he'd mistaken respect for love? Maybe, hard stretch, not great.

The next day at school, Alya sees the two of them necking and asks what changed, and Adrien launches into a long, complicated, incomprehensible explanation that he hopes will mollify her while protecting their identities.

This is approximately when Marinette realizes that she forgot to tell him that Alya found out a year ago.

Note from the author: “So... I am not a writer by any means, I apologize if my writing is a little odd. This is the first Fan fic I've ever posted on this site. Basically I asked on Reddit awhile ago if anyone had written a story based on this idea, after awhile I just decided to do it myself.”

This story is *really good, especially* for a first. It’s a season four rewrite, but Marinette reveals to Chat Noir after Gang of Secrets instead of Alya.

And can I just add that I think the author treats Alya with respect, even as she’s rewritten out of much of the story. Alya hears Marinette’s hurt, respectfully gives Marinette space, and takes her advice and starts investigating Lila...

Harry: So is your secret fantasy also Malfoy dressing up as a sexy Healer too or am I gay?

Ron: Always the second one, Harry, always

Thinking about the 999th round. The round of the Yoo Joonghyuk who sacrificed all of himself for his companions, who gave up his life in a deal to keep them safe. And this being he made a deal with, they must be nothing good, but so long as his companions can reach the end, he can make peace with it.

But his companions cannot accept this. This man who gave up everything for them, how could they not give up everything for him in turn? In their ruined world, how can they not search for the being who ruined it? That Plotter, who schemed their beloved companion away from them, how could they not hate that person? Such an insult, that the Secretive Plotter wears his face. Because he isn't their Yoo Joonghyuk.

But he is Yoo Joonghyuk. He's Yoo Joonghyuk of the 1863rd round, who once gave up his life for his companions, and made a deal with an outer god to protect them. He himself became an outer god to search for his origin, for the one who will not allow him a demise, and he discovers that one of his own tragedies, his near-successful 999th round, was his fault. He was that outer god who destroyed himself. A being that cannot bear to be whole, so many memories that he must split himself into kkomas to stay sane.

And 999 is one of those kkomas. He's not exactly "Yoo Joonghyuk", none of them are now, but his life was in the 999th round. And those outer gods who despise the one who killed him, they were his companions, and what they despise is his future. How can he face them, when his life as "Yoo Joonghyuk" is so long gone, when he died and eventually came back as "999"?

Eventually, his companions come to accept that their Yoo Joonghyuk is gone, that the sins of one version of him do not mean that all of him must be destroyed, that there can be forgiveness of the square circle.

So, what must they be thinking when they see the Oldest Dream nearly killed by his own future?

at the risk of sounding like a Very Hurt Person ill be frank. Seto Kaiba being set up as a traumatized, mentally ill kid with PTSD, who had to cope alone and heal alone and bury his past and reinvent himself, proving to and deeply convincing himself that he can do anything in the process, resulting in this narcissistic double ended blade persona, which, narratively speaking, only gets stomped on, by the good guys, antagonized, by the good guys, and as the Merciful course of action the good guys: Force Him Back Into Accepting And Becoming His Past Self (literally cant imagine a worse fate for anyone who had to erase their past and remake themselves tbh) With Its Past Loves And Past Hurts:

this shit suck lol

Merry Christmas @luckychatons, I'm your Anarchist Gang Secret Santa!! Here's a little what-if animation inspired by Re-creation where Mirakung Fu Luka witnesses Bug Noire in action!

thank you for being #1 lancer fan the world needs more lancer fans

Ho ho ho, of course!! Lancer is CRIMINALLY underrated I tell you, kid deserves WAY more attention than he currently gets

Glad to see another Lancer fan pop in <3!

hi i NEED to know more abt your mermaid au (if you dont mind u.u)

HIIIII THANK U FOR ASKINGGHGG

so basically in this au, everything is prettyyy much the same except that aren is a merman..

after his meeting with kusuo, it becomes painfully obvious that kusuo doesnt belong there but aren still thinks hes just a cool foreign mermaid.. but he keeps asking so many questions about where hes from and kusuo is already in so much shock he cant keep up the act anymore and tells him hes from the land.. (he probably couldve just told him to leave him alone, but truth be told he had a hot merman right in front of him and he literally just found out mermaids exist ??? so why would he do that)

so after learning kusuos secret (which wasnt explained in full, he really just said he has powers and aren thinks its some sort of secret human magic) he begs him to give him human legs, and kusuo has to explain that he cant use his shapeshifting ability on other people, and the only similar thing is hypnosis, which wouldnt work.. SO kuboyasu introduces him to mermaid magic !! which isnt all that powerful at all.. they just have certain minor spells, charms, and incantations that can have small effects.. so they work together and find a way to make his shapeshifting ability work on kuboyasu!! maybe its a thing similar to saikis limiters, but its like a pendant or a pair of earrings infused with a combination of magic+kusuos powers+technology

and soooooo he transfers to PK!! (with kusuos genius+mind control, its easy to cook up a fake ID+birth certificate and all) and everything else is pretty much the same, including even how kusuo attempts to ignore him at school at first+then spies on him without his knowledge.. but theyre also secretly romancing each other outside of school hours in the literal ocean..

it definitely took a while for kusuo to trust him enough to take him on land btw so they also spent a lot of time in arens home but i havent put much thought into what/where exactly that is or about his family and mermaid friends and such..

either way, even when he trusts him, aren still messes up and almost spills various secrets a lot lmao.. it shouldn't be that hard because hes been told his whole life that humans were dangerous because they couldnt handle things they didnt understand (like.. magic) but somehow he still manages to slip up many times on BOTH of their secrets (good thing their friends are DUMB)

"so aren, where do you live??" "in the sea-" gets elbowed by kusuo "sea.. outh.. district??" "huh??"

I would like to inform everyone here that I could write essays on how Rosalinds guilt and Alisa's grief were fundamental to how Foul Lady Fortune played out and how if they had processed those feelings differently the entire plot would be different

can we see your pussy somewhere?

✨️fetlife✨️

1865 disciples is too many

star wars modern au but chewbacca isn’t like, some guy, he’s just in full fursuit at all times. nobody has seen him without it. leia has watched him climb into a bathtub fully clothed. i love finding bonkers reasons to make star wars work in a modern au

Thinking About Sunnyyyy not even sexy im just pondering his issues [under cut for all kinds of abuse & trauma & mental issues & shit]

even after everything his dad put him through. being abusive & neglectful to him his whole childhood esp after his mom died, deliberately almost letting him die, telling him flat out from a young age that he didnt want him and outwardly favoring his siblings, saying endless awful things to him about his disabilities & his sickliness & his sexuality, essentially disowning him & refusing any of sunnys attempts to be friendly to him, making him feel like an unlovable burden from the day he was born, etc . sunny is way too forgiving & would make up with him in a heartbeat if he had the chance. if his dad was ever like Alright. I Change My Mind About You. You Can Be My Son. he would totally just throw the past behind him & embrace him fully. he wants his dads love so bad he would accept it even if he knew it was fake as hell. i think its the #2 thing he wants most in the world, #1 being his mom back

& like his adhd is a big part of why hes so sensitive & afraid of rejection but part of it also is that deep down hes convinced its his fault his dad was so awful to him & hes afraid his friends partners etc will and/or do feel the same way & hes afraid that hes just fundamentally bad & unlikable. even tho he knows hes superficially cute & charming & charismatic hes afraid that anyone who gets too close will start to see whatever his dad saw & get tired of him. this does not stop him from forming relationships with his whole heart but it Does make him worry about it. hes good at hiding these feelings tho he doesnt wanna worry anybody & he knows its not fair to his friends to project that insecurity onto them (even tho talking about it would probably help) so he pretty much just keeps it bottled up. he will get therapy someday

on the note of 'playing stuff im crazy about' i finished all thats released of coffin of andy & leyley. banging my head through a wall (positive)

Love that the big four were friends in 1863

also it make this scene funnier

Not only did the Shinjiro social link during the femc route actually pull off whatever the fuck Kanjis entire toxic masculinity arc in p4 was supposed to be, it did it without the homophobia and awful friends