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chasseurdeloup-retired · 4 years

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Striker Down || Nora and Kaden

TIMING: After the mime bombing and after sad Blank PARTIES: @fearfordinner and @chasseurdeloup SUMMARY: Kaden promised to go deer hunting with Nora. No deer were harmed in this chazty.

Kaden had almost forgotten that he promised a hunting lesson. One that wasn’t supernatural related to boot. To be honest, he had no fucking clue what he was doing. Still, he set up the weapons he’d brought with him, making sure they were all polished off and ready for use. Not that anyone but him would care quite so much. He took out with him to the woods a compound bow (Striker), his crossbow (Redemption), and a couple of shotguns (Corpsemaker and Thunder). Seemed like good game hunting weapons, right? As much as he was tempted to bring the full chest full of weapons with him, he didn’t need anyone normal to see his full collection and kit, chock full of silver, stakes, holy water, some cast iron pokers, and salt. Among other things. While wiping off a finger print or two from Redemption, it occurred to him that maybe hunting deer wasn’t a thing that people did at night. Too late now. He was thinking she might not show or get lost on the way to the coordinates he gave when he heard what sounded like footfall in the distance. “Over here,” he called out to what hoped was Nora. Granted if it turned out it wasn’t her, he was holding a crossbow. Should be fine. What could go wrong?

Life had been kinda boring lately. Nora hadn’t been going out and scaring people as much as she’d previously been doing. It was a shame. But it was a fixable shame. That was why when Kaden finally reached out to Nora to let her know that they could go hunting Nora was ecstatic. It was a time to fix all of that. Babadook and Nora came up with the perfect plan to scare Nora and she was thrilled to get it underway. ‘Over here.’ Nora could smell him before she saw him, but the call was a nice little greeting. She wandered over and looked down at the weapon display. She’d never used a weapon before, her illusions were mostly enough to scare her food. She pointed at the compound bow, her deep secret fantasy of being Kiera Knightly in Princess of Thieves quickly coming to mind. “I want to use that one.” She announced in lieu of greeting.

Kaden wasn’t sure what to expect from all this. He’d tried to keep his mind open, what he knew of Nora was that she was pretty weird. Somehow he still didn’t anticipate this. His brow shot up when she gestured to the bow. “Hello to you, too.” Part of him wanted to stand in front of the weapon protectively. Weird instinct, sure, but she just seemed so eager. How did he know she wasn’t going to break Striker? He’d been through a lot with that bow. It took down at least two wolves. He gave her a good one over before grabbing it. “You ever used one of these before? I’m not about to hand off my shit to someone who doesn't have a clue what they’re doing.” He kept his hand wrapped tight around the grip as he held the bow towards her. “Don’t lie to me and act like a badass, either. I don’t need to take an arrow to the knee today. Or ever.”

Kaden was talking a lot, and none of it was ‘Great, here hold this bow lets go shoot some deer.’ Which, not to be dramatic, Nora found very disheartening. “I went to camp once.” Nora answered, there had been bows at camp. There had also been the incident that was the reason she was never allowed to go back to camp, but that wasn’t something Kaden needed to know about. “I’ve watched every Robin Hood movie adaption made to man.” Nora added, as like a supplemental course material. She hoped this would be like when schools give you credits for community service and what not. “I didn’t know I had to bring my own weapon, I don’t own one.” Nora also added. She reached into one of her many jacket pockets and pulled out a bottle of Jack Daniels. “I brought this.”

Kaden stood there for a moment, blinking, waiting for an actual explanation to come. Once he was positive he wasn’t going to get any sort of actual answer from her, he sighed and handed her the fucking bow. “Just be nice to it, alright. You break it--” His lips formed a thin line as he cut himself off, unsure of what the hell the consequences would actually be if she did break his shit. He wasn’t going to kill her but he was probably going to want to. With his free hand, he reached out for the whiskey bottle. A great idea while using weapons? No. Something he was positive he was going to need to get through this whole thing? Yes. “You know anything about tracking deer?” he asked as he opened the bottle of Jack to take a swig. He hoped she had an answer. Because he sure didn’t know how to find a deer. A hedge hound? Sure. A shriken? A buggane? Absolutely. Normal game? Fuck if he knew.

“I buy it?” Nora asked, taking the bow. If it wasn’t for her face’s complete inability to express any kind of emotion there might have been a huge grin on it. Instead she looked like a tax auditor examining a nice spreadsheet for the third time that day. Enough time has passed to wake up that the drowsiness is gone from the face, the excitement of finding a second nice spreadsheet is gone, and finally it’s just all business. Straight and serious. “Sure.” Nora stuck her nose up and took in a deep breath. “I don’t smell any around, but we’re upwind. They could be behind us.” She also wasn’t very confident in smelling deer. They weren’t her normal prey. She grabbed the bottle from Kaden and took a big swig before offering back. “What now?” There was also the small side not that she knew Babadook had scared away all the deer in the area. This was ‘Plan Scare Kaden with demon dog!’ not ‘Actually Kill a Deer Day.’

“Uh, yeah, if you can. Sure.” Kaden hoped he’d at least know how worried he should be once she had the weapon in her hands. He was soon disappointed. It was impressive how not one ounce of emotion passed across her face as she took the bow. Not one. That didn’t exactly help settle his worries. Kaden’s face scrunched together, trying to figure out why the hell she thought she could smell deer. Then again, it was entirely possible that was actually how you hunted deer. Sniffing for werewolves? Sure. That made sense. They smelled like shit. He didn’t think bambi did, though. Not that he’d know. “We, uh, we…” He was about to just take another drink of the whiskey and try to come up with more bullshit when he heard something in the distance. Off to his left. His head shot towards the source of the sound and he held up a finger to his mouth, hoping she’d get the hint. He couldn’t say what it was. Just that it probably wasn’t deer.

Nora, a woman of very little words, saw Kaden put a finger up to his mouth and instantly thought ‘Well now I have to speak just to spite him.’ “What is it?” Nora asked, mustering all the power in her diaphragm to make her monotone voice as loud as possible without outright shouting. Her own nose moved to the air, whatever it was, it did not smell like deer. Of course that was up to the master hunter himself to learn. Without waiting for him to give instruction, Nora silently began to head towards the noise. Whatever it was, she wanted to see it.

Kaden turned his head and stared at her, mouth agape. Was she fucking serious? What part of the universal sign for "be quiet” did she misunderstand? And then she fucking walked towards the potential danger. Putain. He sighed and rolled his eyes before following after her, grabbing his crossbow as he followed her. Of course she fucking walked head first right towards the sound that was probably not from a deer. "Come back," he whispered sharply as he trailed behind her. As they entered the clearing, there was no fucking mistking it. That dog-like thing with tentacles was not a deer. He reached out to grab her arm and force her to stop fucking walking towards the goddamn monster. “Wait!” he snapped, voice low and quiet.

The random man on the internet who had agreed to go hunting with her seemed to be full of regret now, as he kept whispering ‘Come back’ and ‘Wait’. Nora did not come back or wait. Instead she walked into the open clearing and stepped closer, a hand instantly reaching into one of her many pockets to fish out for some meat. Whatever this dog with tentacles was, Nora was instantly in love. Well, she had been when she first found the dog weeks ago on a walk. The love was still there, but now they also had a familiarity they were playing down. All for the sake of Kaden. The true target of the hunt. A lot of dogs weren’t fond of her, it was probably the smell of hulking beast behind the small woman that off put them. As Nora stepped closer her first thought was ‘oh no it’s bleeding.’ Bloody tissue mixed with exposed bone giving the dog the perfect ‘Just been attacked and i’m in pain’ look. It let out a mournful howl as Nora got closer. “No, shhhh, you’re fine. See! I have…” Nora finished fishing in her pockets and pulled out a chunk of ham. “Ham. I have ham.”

Were residents of this town really so stupid that they’d walk right up to a fucking monster like it was a perfectly safe house pet? Or was that just her? Hard to say. Kaden rushed forward, knife in hand, ready to protect them from the dangerous monster who was… howling in pain and practically asking her to be pet. Alright then. He still kept his crossbow at the ready, aimed at the monster. “Are you feeding it?” he asked in disbelief. The beast was disgusting and while he was pretty sure it wouldn’t attack, you never knew with monsters. “Back away, it’s not safe. I’ll take care of it and we can go find deer.”

“Of course I’m feeding it.” What did he think? The ham was for him. Well. It would have been if they hadn’t found the most beautiful dog Nora had ever seen. Nora approached slowly, arm outstretched with ham upon open palm as she got closer. The dog seemed interested. It didn’t back away at least. It’s tentacles swayed mesmerizingly. More dogs should have tentacles, Nora decided. It would make the world a better place. “I’ll take care of it.” Nora announced. The dog came forward to eat the ham in a large gulping motion that Nora could relate to in a personal way.

Every one of Kaden’s instincts told him to shoot the monster, keep it from hurting anyone. Even if he knew that yeth hounds weren’t always aggressive, the fact that it was a monster was enough, right? Yes. It was. His crossbow remained trained on the monster. There was no way to take it down with her standing in the way or without injuring her. Well, he could hit a tentacle. “That’s not what I meant,” he said, keeping his eye fixed on the monster. If it tried anything, he was shooting. “Now back aw--” Before he could finish, one of the tentacles whipped around and thwacked at Kaden’s ankles, knocking him off balance. The crossbow went off and the bolt dug deep into one of the other tentacles. Putain.

Anger like she’d never felt before rose in Nora. What had he not comprehended when she said that she would take care of it. Visibly shaking Nora turned as Kaden let a cross bolt out. Without thinking, without considering the weapon in his hand Nora felt herself shift into a transformation. The bear form took over and she lept in front of her new friend the Yeth Hound letting out the most horrible and terrible yodel she could do as a bear. Sure she couldn’t touch him if he wasn’t scared but she’d make sure he was scared. She started filling the clearing with illusions. Whispers were mocking him, calling his dumb, ugly, a bad shot, worthless, saying that his parents never loved him and no one would ever love him. Hands and eyes started appearing around tree branches, creeping closer towards him. He would not harm this innocent dog if Nora had anything to say about it.

Pain shot through his back as he turned to push himself back up from the ground. Kaden knew he couldn’t stay down long, not after engaging with a monster. Wait. What was-- Was Nora turning into a bear? Putain. He groaned and half of him wanted to just lay there. For fuck’s sake, a bugbear? Really? Of course she was drawn to the fucking yeth hound, he should have seen it coming. His annoyance didn’t linger long, though. The sharp claws, the horrible howl, that was enough to send him scrambling backwards on his hands. Shit. Shit, shit, shit. His heart pounded in his chest as he started hearing scathing words and seeing the forest close in around him. Deep breaths, hee had to take deep breaths. No time to let panic set in. They weren't real. That bear was. He pushed himself up and lunged for his crossbow, grabbing his bolts and shoving one in the weapon and letting it loose at the bear as quick as he could. It might buy him time. He sure fucking hoped it did as he turned to high tail it out of there. Fuck. Striker was still there, under her. Putain. He really liked that bow. He paused and turned again and let out another shot. Maybe he should let it go. Fuck.

Nora could taste his fear. It was a kaleidoscope of scents mixing into one delectable course. At least something good would come out of this. Nora took it in, feasting as she made the whispers ever louder. “You’re no good, Kaden. You’ll never be good. You’re just. Like. Your. Father.” That last one as from a Vine nora thought was funny. Imagine yelling at a duck. Nora was too busy feasting that she didn’t see the crossbow bolt coming. Even if she had, she probably wouldn’t have moved. Nora wasn’t the kind of person to believe others would hurt her. Pain shot through her, coursing its way through her thick hide. Her breath caught, a grunt of a yoodle came out and she found herself shivering. Behind her Babadook, realizing that the plan had gone wrong from his own wound and hers licked her reassuringly. Nora forced herself to keep scaring him. Raising on her hind legs she let out another loud, ear shattering yodle. This time when she came down on all fours her front paws landed right on top of Striker, splintering the wood beneath her giant paws.

Kaden’s hands shot up to cover his ears as the bear reared up and screamed, wincing at the sound piercing his eardrums. It didn’t do much to help, not with the crossbow still in hand, but it did stun him into standing still for the moment. When he felt the ground rumble, he opened his eyes to see the bear back on all fours. And his beautiful bow crushed underneath her paws. Merde. “Fucking bugbear,” he grumbled ass he turned to just fucking book it. He planned to find the other weapons he’d brought, grab them, and go. As much as liked the idea of taking down a bugbear, it wasn’t a secret that he was taking Nora hunting. If she went missing and was found with crossbow bolts and bullets in her, it’d be fucking bad. He couldn’t have that. Not to mention he almost liked-- No. That was before he knew. She fucking attacked him after the hound tried to take him out. She was a monster. He killed those. It was simple. It had to be. Right? Fuck. He ran to his car, weapons in hand, and threw them in the back. The car reved and squealed as he booked it the fuck out of there, trying to push away the weird throughts trying seep into his mind.

Kaden ran. Nora could hear him running as she shifted back into a human. The bolt came with her. Nora leaned against babadook, both of them breathing heavily from their wounds, both of them dripping blood around the bolts sticking out of them. “Well, boy, that didn’t go to plan.” Nora tried to laugh but the movement shot pains up her side. She groaned, gripping at her side. The bottle of Jack Daniels was with her shredded clothes and Nora crawled for it, every action causing her an insurmountable amount of pain. “What do you think a bugbear is?” Nora asked the Yeth Hound, taking a large sip of the alcohol before offering it to the demon dog. The bottle, she noted, was now sticky with blood where she had grabbed. Oh fuck. She was going to need to call someone quick.

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hitchell-mope · 5 years

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Dark curse season two episode list

The mob. After the curse everyone wants Uma dead. Evie forms a mob to get her (think Doctor whale at the start of season two of ouat)

The old man and the tyrant. Wilhelmina (Victoria Justicr) makes herself known to yen sid (Hugh Laurie). Who’s stuck in a nursing home.

Queen Clarion. Gradie Doug and jay ask the queen of the Neverland fairies (Kiera knightly) for help in escaping Neverland

Alone. Evie (still reeling from her husbands disappearance) completely washes her hands of Mal because the dark fairy queen refuses to kill Uma. The episode ends with Evie meeting Wilhelmina at a bar

Sisters. Evie is brainwashed by Wilhelmina to be just like her.

Through the looking glass. Gradie Doug and jay finally make it out of Neverland. Only to land in the middle of a battle between the Hightopp clan and the remaining playing cards in Wonderland

The cat. Spotlight episode for Chester/Leon Taylor (Zac Efron). Mostly trying to get Evie free of her sisters conditioning

A most violent death. Chaudrey spotlight episode. It ends with their death at evil Evie’s hands.

Four witches. This is a turning point in Uma and Mal’s relationship. Mal saves her from Evie and Wilhelmina. Via a massive two vs two witch battle. That only ends because Uma causes a cave in that almost kills Wilhelmina

Reunion. Gradie Doug and jay make it back to Auradon. Grant and Doug reunite with their cousins and Evie. Hadie makes a beeline for Mal. Jay goes to Carlos. Only to find that Carlos is now with Jane.

Audrey. In the underworld Audrey seeks out the help of Charon the ferryman (Colin Salmon) in order to help Mal defeat Wilhelmina. Mid season finale

Father. Chaudrey gets an audience with hades (John Barrowman). At the end of the episode hades and chaudrey burst into Auradon in electric blue fire scaring the pants off of pain and panic (Chris and Liam Hemsworth)

The modern Prometheus. Hades (Eva Green) fully resurrects Harry and the twins. While Uma has a tearful reunion with the children Hadie pulls his (fully amnesiac) brother aside and threatens to murder him in front of Uma and the kids should he look at Mal the wrong way. (Hadie still hasn’t learned his lesson)

The Vorpal Sword. Dizzy decides that the only way to save her mother is to kill her aunt. Even if she dies in the process. Her life being put in danger is what finally breaks Evie free of Wilhelmina’s control

The first mate. This episodes flashbacks show Harry’s childhood. From birth (IE. when James Hook realised he conceived a child with the lord of the underworld) to his less the happy childhood as the overlooked and under cared for middle child (his father blatantly calls him “the bastard mistake”) to hades (Eva Green) reappearing in his life to meeting Uma to meeting Gil. All the way to his halfassed resurrection at Hadie’s hands. In the present day an amnesiac Harry is still trying to remember who he is. Hades (Sebastian Stan) lets Hadie have it for bringing Harry and the twins back in such w cruel traumatising way

The Godmother. Wilhelmina centred. Her (the titular godmother), Arthur (Tom Holland) and Guinevere Pendragon (Saoirse Ronan) and Silas (David Mazouz) summon the tweedle demons (Daniel Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis) to indoctrinate Taran Hightopp (Charlie Rowe) into their inner circle

The children of hades. The flashbacks consist of hades (Sebastian Stan, Eva Green and Jesse L Martin) meeting, falling in love with and subsequently siring children with Danae (Anne Hathaway) James Hook (Robert Carlyle) and Maleficent (Charlize Theron). In Auradon it’s Hadie who gets Harry to remember with a very mean spirited speech “you are nothing. You have always been nothing. You will always be nothing. Well. Nothing except what your father far too generously described you as. The bastard mistake”. Then Harry slaps him around the face. And they fight. Nearly causing a town wide blackout in the process

The Merry Men. Evie’s in the prison along with Robin Hood. Both voluntarily. For the crimes they committed (Robin was a corrupt cop under the curse. Evie blames herself for the whole brainwashing thing) Silas visits them both. Commending Evie in her blandness. And saying that robin has 48 hours to locate his wife or she’s fed to the tweedles. This is where the Merry men come in

An oath on the Styx. Hadie, fed up with Harry being coddled and everyone seemingly forgetting that Uma cast the curse (She’s been hanging around Mal a lot recently trying to mend fences) forces pain and panic (now Abby Ryder fortson and Pearce Gagnon) to dispose of Harry in the most humiliating painful way possible. He doesn’t care what happens when hades finds out (probably renounce Hadie’s immortality) he just wants Harry gone and Uma to hurt. He makes the two swear on the river Styx. All three know that if it doesn’t happen. Terrible things will befall the pair

Taran Hightopp. Wilhelmina has been at it again. She’s successfully brainwashed her half brother Taran (Charlie Rowe) and has sent him to kill Uma. Taran dies at Harry’s hands. Meanwhile the subplot is about CJ Hook (Florence Pugh) and Sadie Meyer (Sabrina Carpenter) getting re-engaged. The flashbacks chronicle their relationship.

The death of Harry Hook. Hadie finally did it. He finally got his brother killed. The exact same way Wilhelmina killed Harriet. Sword to the gut and a heart rip. But this happened in front of the twins. So Uma tries to stab him with an in use fire poker. The episode ends with hades (John Barrowman) banishing Hadie to another realm. And Harry’s funeral. Which is only attended by Uma hades (Eva Green) and the twins

Rosemary. Wilhelmina sacrifices Arthur Pendragon to the Tweedles and brings her aunt (Rene’s mother) to Auradon from Wonderland Rosemary the former red queen (Jennifer Morrison) to help her kill Uma. In Arendelle Hadie seeks out the help of queen Eloise (Elizabeth Gillis) the daughter of Kristoff and Anna for help in getting back home and banishing his father back to the underworld.

#disney descendants #dark curse

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shakespeareangeek · 4 years

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tagged by @ghostomatic!!

rules: name 10 favorite characters from 10 different things and then tag 10 people.

Let’s see....

1. Sophie (Howl’s Moving Castle...book and movie) - This was hard because I love like, all of the characters, and especially it was a toss-up between Howl and Sophie. I ended up with Sophie because, particularly in the book, Sophie just tries so desperately to do good and just gets it all so wrong and sometimes that’s just the mood. And her journey in the movie is so lovely.

2. Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice) - I mean...surely if you know me you saw this coming. It’s been a long time since my last re-read of the book, but Elizabeth’s character was so deeply relatable to me when I first read it and I will never NOT be obsessed with Kiera Knightley’s portrayal in the 2005 movie.

3. Jo March (Little Women, 2019 movie specifically) - Everything about Jo in this adaptation resonated so deeply with me. I never read the book as a kid, but have been wanting to read it since I first saw the trailer for the movie. The costumes, That One Speech (which, from what I understand isn’t really in the book but STILL), the creative passion...am a Jo fan.

4. Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place) - I too function purely off anxiety and hope to one day transcend that.

5. Viola (Twelfth Night) - The role I wanted to play all through my Shakespeare camp days. We never did this play and someone else always claimed her monologue before I could, so my dreams were shattered.

6. Celia (The Night Circus) - The book itself is just gorgeous and Celia is just this ethereal presence and also gives a big ol’ middle finger to the dudes attempting to use her as a piece in their games. So there’s that.

7. Nikolai Lantsov (Grishaverse books) - My favorite character from the original trilogy of books, and I'm so excited to see him in the show. And King of Scars literally murdered me. I need the second book so badly.

8. Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket) - She just approaches EVERYTHING with kindness. Like, sure sometimes that’s not great, but the point of the series is really these people overcoming their faults and trauma together and I think by the end she finds that healthy balance of kindness-but-not-pushover. Also I was introduced to the series by my friend telling me I “looked like the girl from that manga whose friends are all cursed” because I wore my brown hair in braids a lot and that’s gonna stick with me forever.

9. Nadezhda Lapteva (Something Dark and Holy Trilogy) - I'm absolutely entranced by the Kalyazin magic system and how we get to see it employed by Nadya throughout the first book. I'm an absolute sucker for the saints and gods culture in this book, and Nadya's interactions with her gods is so intriguing. Also her interactions with Malachiasz and how she changes because of the new people in her life. Also I've just started the second book and I'm SUFFERING ALREADY.

10. Lady Marian (that 2006 BBC Robin Hood show) - This show was pretty much my entire personality for a while, and Marian is a complete Badass. I think...anything further I'd want to say would be spoilers and I'd hate to spoil this show for anyone, but Marian takes care of herself and helps people and has such a strong sense of Right. Also, a boss wardrobe. Also she spends so much of the series just So Done with her male peers and that's just the mood.

@cursinginchurch @end-spire @if-you-put-your-mind-to-it and anyone else that wants to!

#personal #characters #media

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