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daisyswift3 · 1 year

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Meet Me at Midnight—The Complete Guidebook

So I just had several epiphanies at once…..I think Taylor might’ve given us a guidebook for her entire plan this yr (and possible coming out?) several months in advance w the release of Midnights (very mastermind of her). Looking at the vinyls and bejeweled mv again this becomes evident. I’ll explain (Also please see this excellent analysis as it provides lots of context and evidence that aligns w this theory).

The moonstone vinyl is obviously related to bejeweled and is a light blue representing the 1989 era. Others have pointed out the numerous 1989 references in the bejeweled mv: rising to the 5th floor, 2013 vsfs aesthetic, lots of light blue, short hair, NYC vibes, her ghosting the prince and living her best single life, etc.

Moonstone symbolizes light and hope and new beginnings. These things have been shown symbolically in the recent pap walks. Light and hope: the sunshine rings. New beginnings: 🦋 on the jeans and no beard. There’s also the connection to the feminine: the girl squad. Cyclical change: her returning to the 1989 era w her squad boyfriend-free; the tides, moon, and sun also undergo cyclical change (blood moon lunar eclipse?).

A clock can also be thought to undergo cyclical change and Taylor chose to use this as the main symbol that represents Midnights. Taylor has said multiple times "It's a clock, it can help you tell time" which now I'm thinking means it can literally help you know when she's gonna make certain moves, like dropping the beard and returning to the 1989 era for example. TN posted this during the Midnights promo. The clock is split into 4 quarters. The moonstone/bejeweled vinyl is the first quarter which I believe we have just exited and I'll explain why shortly. This vinyl contains the numbers 12, 1, 2, 3 which could be related to "exile ends in 3...2..."

Going clockwise we end up in the 2nd quarter—blood moon or glitch. If the 12 hrs represent 12 months, then each vinyl or quarter of the clock would represent approximately 3 months (Jan-March, 1-3 for the moonstone vinyl which adds up bc the toe breakup was said to have happened mid March). I know the pap walks were done in April so this might be more of a rough outline for events. This means a “glitch” would happen roughly April-June…A blood moon represents chaos, disruption, and change, hidden information rising to the surface (gee kinda sounds like what’s happening right now 🧐). The lavender vinyl is also in the 1st quarter and seeing that it’s a song abt bearding it makes sense. But it also seems like this vinyl is supposed to be completely separate from the main 4 vinyls so it could have a different meaning. There are a bunch of great posts analyzing the blood moon/glitch, see here and here.

Sidenote: More on the bejeweled mv numerology and symbolism—she enters the moonstone vsfs-esque room on the 3rd floor. The clock Taylor’s sitting on is pointed at 3. There’s a ton of speak now easter eggs bc 3rd album. There’s 3 step sisters instead of 2 like in the original Cinderella story. The Queen Pat scene shows multiple motifs we’re all familiar w—angels, lions, a queen/royalty, an eye?? There’s probs a ton I’m missing. But yeah all that to say it seems she’s trying to connect bejeweled/1989 era 2.0 to the number 3 or March and to one leo VS supermodel angel woman. So it’s almost as if KK was still a part of this new 1989 era despite being absent from the pap pics.

Next vinyl is mahogany which would presumably take place from July-Sept. The last date scheduled for the eras tour is in Aug which would fall in this quarter. Strength and resilience are needed during this time? There have been a ton of exile, 8/3 references lately.

The last quarter/vinyl is jade green (Oct-Dec). It represents serenity and tranquility, perhaps symbolizing the peaceful acceptance of any ensuing consequences of making a life altering decision? Dec would be the 12th hr on the clock. So could New Years be the “last page” where we finally meet the real Taylor? I mean it is one of the most important midnights of the yr. In that post I mentioned earlier others pointed out how the Cinderella story fits into the general themes of Midnights. I think Taylor keeps using Cinderella imagery bc once the clock strikes “Midnight” on New Years the facade will be gone—“Shred my evening gown” // “Dappled w the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight leave it all behind” // “Spring breaks loose the time is near…moments that we stole on begged and borrowed time” // “You know when it’s time to go” // “If you wish to romanticize the woman I became then say you’ll remember me standing in a nice dress.” She’s telling her fans that the Taylor they love is a carefully crafted persona and the real her is not nearly as pretty and will be disillusioning to look at.

Furthermore, Taylor has really emphasized that she rejects the notion of a picture perfect 1950s life. "She would've made such a lovely bride what a shame she's fucked in the head" // "He wanted a bride I was making my own name" // "Picture perfect shiny family holiday peppermint candy" // "All they keep asking me is if I'm gonna be your bride.” Also think of all the wedding imagery she has used lately. "The bride was willing to risk it all." This video of her in a wedding dress singing champagne problems. The countless speak now easter eggs which would be overkill if she was just simply trying to tease a re-record. "Don't say yes run away now." I think she's saying that she's going to shred her wedding dress and the heteronormative fantasy swifties want for her and burn her house, a symbol of her life’s work, past selves, and closet, to the ground. Bringing it back to the serenity/tranquility symbolism, others pointed out in this post that in the eras tour wildest dreams visuals she looks perfectly content, peacefully sleeping while the world burns around her. She’s finally ready to shatter her glass closet and break free from her cage.

Jade is also the “Gem Supreme”: king of my heart; “Jewel of Heaven”: angels roll their eyes, no rules in breakable heaven, halo hiding my obsession, etc you get it; stone of the heart: again king of my heart, lover. This vinyl could be related to snow on the beach—“I searched aurora borealis green….your eyes are flying saucers from another planet.” Perhaps a reminder that she’s setting off but not without her muse?

With all this in mind I think it’d be good to revisit the Midnights prologue.

Of course this could be completely wrong and if she tours internationally and into next yr then it wouldn’t really make sense to come out yet. It could also be the case that the clock is meant to be read a different way or represent a 2 yr period rather than 1 yr. And maybe sometimes it’s meant to be read backwards instead since there have been some references lately to things being reversed? Idk what do you all think? Please feel free to add onto this !!

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thotsforvillainrights · 29 days

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HELLLLOOO, IT'S ME AGAIN! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

May i ask for a (NSFW/SFW) hcs for poly relationship with Muscular and Rappa!? :D

The fandom (or at least a little some of them) has been arguing over their meeting and how would they react whether they'd get along with each other and become buddies! ^⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠^

Or they'd just get crazy and become each other's enemies forever

So what do think!? :3

(I'll be honest with you, I don't see these two managing to be in a relationship with each other present at first but that's EXACTLY what the magic of fanfic is for!)

(sidenote: this is my first time writing for a poly relationship I think? So if it's not good please let me know so I can improve upon it!)

~Muscular, Rappa, and their S/O~

headcanon|scenario|imagine|match-up|drabble

-You got one in a relationship? Wow, amazing! You got both of them at the same time? How in the hell do you manage this!? It's like having two overactive dogs in a small apartment most of the time! If one day you're not busy trying to keep Rappa from killing some poor stranger on the street then the next day you're busy keeping Muscular out of trouble. And don't even get me started on how much energy it takes to keep them from both going at each other's necks. In fact, they didn't even want to tolerate each other until they realized the end goal was having you. Then they learned how to get along somewhat...It's been maybe 2 weeks so far that you've managed to keep them from going at each other until earlier this morning when you caught them fighting over the last brown egg in the fridge. There were plenty of other eggs but the brown one was essential according to them. Or maybe because it was farm fresh that made them go crazy? Either way, that was how the morning went.

-Later in the evening you managed to get them to make up in time for you three to watch your favorite show together. Watching it was more like watching those two give hilarious commentary on their least favorite characters (which was basically everybody that wasn't violent or vulgar). Still, they both manage to always make you laugh so it wasn't too big of a deal. Also being with the two of them pay off bedroom-wise (depending on reader preference) but I won't go into too much detail here and now.

-These two can be the definition of scary dog privlege. You need not worry about going anywhere and feeling unsafe with these two by your side. The only thing you truly need to worry about is the safety of OTHERS when you bring these two around. Their unruly behavior has gotten then on a couple of hit lists in the past. That's why it's important to steer clear of too much bar time or even some cage fighting matches less you want to have your eardrums blown out by their incessant howling over the match.

-Don't expect much rest because the both of them are gym rats and they always end up waking you to get you involved as well. It can border on the absurd depending on the time or day of things. Rappa knows especially how you have work to do so you're getting rest. However, he's the main one waking you up majority of the time. Sometimes, despite being annoying, it can be a bit of a cute scene. Grown man Rappa waking you up with hoping eyes that you'll go to the gym with them. Then you look over and Muscular has his head peeking from around the corner as he also waits to hear your answer. Maybe just humor them every once in a while and tag along. It'll be a rare chance to watch them behave while in public lol.

-Even though they may seem like they want to kill each other, there are the sweet moments you get to witness when they get along that make it all worth your wild. Another example would be those lazy Sunday mornings when the sun is just barely allowing it's beams to creep along the carpet of your bedroom through the glass. It's illuminating your bodies all bundled up beneath the blanket together. There you can see Rappa's ridiculous morning hair and Goto's soft smile...his genuine REAL smile and not the shit eating grin you're so used to. Both of them making way for each other to hold you closely as they rest comfortably by your side. Everything seemingly at peace until the snoring seems to get louder and louder!

#bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #goto imasuji #muscular bnha #kendo rappa #rappa bnha #headcanons

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clowningismyboyfriend · 8 months

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Is Taylor Swift announcing something MAJOR (again) at this years MTV VMAS?! 9/12…. 12/9 🤡🌌

Hi!

Welcome to the second post on my blog!

I figured the first had to be some kind of intro, I couldn’t just come waltzing in all clowned up, spitting my theories and rationalising whilst being irrational. That would be rude of me 😂

But I promised the juice so here is what’s been squeezin’.

In my last video on Tik Tok, I was happily headed off towards the direction of the ultimate clown missions of them all: The Karma “missing” album/era theory.

Thoughtfully shared below for your convenience!

In the relatively short time it’s been since I went from “Standard Swiftie” to full blown “Tay-Spiracy Theorist”, this missing album theory has been both the wildest AND most persistent Ive stumbled across.

The majority of the supporting clues do seem difficult to completely disprove or deny..

Deep in my clowning process of compiling all the piles, I think it was the 112 days theory that I’d JUUUSST started to unpack- I still haven’t wrapped my head around this 112 day theory but it certainly sounds juicy off the top of my head and I’m keen to go take a look later on-

BUT I GOT SIDETRACKED.

When reminded about the calculation of days between and months between, I cross checked my SwiftMath number crunching notes section if you will, where I had carefully and lovingly been documenting what was not immediately apparent to me.

(Sidenote: Although it’s mostly irrelevant now, there’s definitely some interesting SwiftMath on my first video where I somewhat incorrectly predict the release date for 1989- TV.)

So- I noticed that with all of the the Taylor’s Version albums, the re-release dates vs original release dates have been consecutively following a 12 year/9 year pattern- Check it out:

OR= Originally Released

ANN= Announcement date for Taylor’s Version

TV RD= Taylor’s Version release date

1.Fearless- OR- 11/11/2008- ANN- 11/02/21- TV RD- 9/04/21

Release Days apart- 4,532- 12 years, 4 months, 29 days

2.Red- OR- 22/10/2012- ANN- 18/06/21- TV RD- 19/11/21

Release Days apart- 3,315 - 9 years, 0 months and 28 days

3.Speak Now- OR- 25/10/2010- ANN- 5/5/23- TV RD- 7/7/23

Release Days apart- 4,638 - 12 years, 8 months and 12 days

4.1989-OR- 27/10/14- ANN- 9/8/23- TV RD- 27/10/23

Release Days apart- 3,287- 9 years, 0 months and 0 days

I figured ok surely I’m onto a clue here.. although my number crunching in my first video was somewhat skewed to an extent when it came to the upcoming release date of 1989 itself, ever since the announcement of 1989 TV, that repetition of 12 years and 9 years just seemed more than coincidental, although I’ve been proven wrong before with stuff like this.

I tried at first to apply it to the remaining two albums (Reputation and Self Titled) to absolutely no avail.. surely she wouldn’t be waiting that long to re-release Reputation (either 12 years or 9 years would mean 2029 or 2026) and the 12 year period meant that Debut would have had to be re-released before she even officially announced she would be re-recording.

So it was back to the drawing board but this time I was properly stuck and couldn’t move past it. It felt like I was taking a math test unprepared, but knowing I had learnt the formulas so why couldn’t I just figure it out?! Or better yet, your know those dreams when you try and punch something or someone and just can’t quite connect, like your hand is made of lead??

I was a Swiftie on a clue hunting mission with what felt like writers/hunters block. Easter Egg Block, if you will.

Until..

When doing my bit in casting my daily votes for this years MTV VMAS for Taylors 8 nominations (at the time she had 8.. it’s now up to 11 nominations and don’t think I am ignoring the significance of this number, I just delve deeper into it down further)

I was speculating on this Insta post by @taylornation .. I become sort of fixated on how it referenced her announcement of Midnights at last years VMAS.

… Then I realised the date of the upcoming VMA’s.

September 12th. 12/9. 12…9 🤡🤡🤡

….. WHAT?

So. Announcing a new album would be cliched for her at this point, I mean that’s what she did last year, but what if she’s announcing Reputation or Self-Titled?

Given all the Reputation TV eggs and theories based on so much solid evidence that is already out there, it makes sense.

Although becoming familiar with how Taylor operates (figuratively speaking) I wouldn’t put it past her if she comes out of left field and announces something like Self Titled TV to throw us all off our tracks..

Then again, thinking about the controversial VMAS back in 2009:

When Kanye West pulled this stunt, it was essentially the catalyst for the Reputation album as a whole, because without this first shot being fired by Kanye, there would not have been the ensuing on-again off-again beef between them.

So, I guess it would make sense that if there is any sort of announcement at the 2023 MTV VMAS, it fits that it would be the release date for Reputation- Taylor’s Version, or the release date for Self Titled.. or both?

Or what if it’s something completely different? Let’s take a look at some #SwiftMath!

🫶🏽 2009 was 14 years ago. 1 + 4 = 5.. 5th Taylor’s Version announcement?

🫶🏽 Taylor also currently holds an impressive record of 14 VMAS won overall…

🫶🏽 Taylor is currently the most nominated of the show, with an impressive 11 nominations.. 11 as in TS11?! Nah surely not, that would be too much of a coincidence.

.. But switching things up last minute isn’t a new concept for Taylor…

I mean, look at the VMA’s is when she announced the impending relapse date of Midnights like I mentioned earlier. Firstly, the scheduled date for release was on Kim Kardashians birthday, so you just know that it was bound to generate conversation. But curiously enough, she stated during the announcement that telling everyone that night depended on whether or not she won, so you know she had a back up plan in place.

Circling back to my original quest for Karma as a missing album and/or the next album.. here’s some of what I discovered amongst many more theories that are out there.

All signs and clues definitely keep pointing to Karma..

Whether it be the concept of Karma overall and how it has aptly applied to her major success of Re-recording her masters, or if it is being celebrated in the wake of some of her other big enemies suffering in many ways in their personal lives- including with their reputation! Think Scooter Braun and his divorce and FBI dramas.. Kanye and, well.. Basically take your pick with that hot mess and all his situations.

Although it certainly wasn’t the first, an intriguing clue is when Taylor starts laughing hysterically when announcing “Karma” for the Midnights Mayhem track listing announcement. The caption for this post on her Tik Tok also reads “been excited to announce this one”. It’s like she’s teasing something to do with Karma, outside of the fact that it’s a track title.. She notably also uses a galaxy (🌌) emoji.. We now know that the the emoji could have been a clue for the cosmic, celestial and mythological themes that featured throughout the video. These themes and associated imagery, clueing constellations, stars and planets have become more prominently featured over the last 2-3 eras. Definitely something to consider as a new topic of investigation.. from a brief scan online, there’s definitely theories brewing amongst the Swifties!

I do feel the need to point out the astronaut/moon man reference and connection with MTV here though, but again. This could be coincidental!

Another big clue that lies in the Karma music video is the reference to a Gold Taylor seemingly portraying the Greek Goddess of divine retribution and revenge, Nemisis. Gold Taylor is on a pedestal, which contains the Roman numerals that make up the year of her birth:

If the year of her birth in Roman numerals was an easter egg, as it’s officially since been confirmed that 1989 is out next, it definitely seems like there was duality with the reference; a multi-faceted hint.

1989 was and is her album of rebirth as it was symbolistic of her complete transition from country to pop. Karma is a central concept to the religious belief of rebirth…

So what can we possibly make of all these Karma hints and clues that have been popping up since at least 2016? For example, Taylor’s Vogue interview in which she states “Karma is real” with a capitalised K.

In my last video, at the time of uploading, when you entered in the URL for karmaonthewall.com, this website was redirecting to Taylor’s webpage with the first/previous pathway being “it happens after midnights”. The current redirect pathway now states “TS11”.. Taylor Swift 11, her potentially upcoming eleventh studio album?

For reference: “Karma on the wall” Stems from the theory in general that Karma was/is a missing album/era that was supposed to be released instead of Reputation based on a scene showing all her “lost” albums graffitied on the wall, with Karma on there (twice) next to a “missing” sign from “The Man” music video- Lover era

On one of the pillars in this scene, with visibility beginning at exactly 13 seconds into the video, you can see the graffitied word “Karma” in the same style as the “Karma” on the wall.

All the titles of her albums that were caught up in the masters controversy are graffitied on a wall, with a “missing” sign.. Karma is graffitied twice, Karma is in orange (rumoured to be or to have been the era colour) but also in black, which is the actual era colour for Reputation.

Sidenote: Interestingly, you can also see that 1989 is up there twice- When I first recognised this and thought about some other key clues, particularly in The Man video, it had me backflipping and cartwheeling into a spiral over this whole other theory my overthinking brain came up with.. Taylor, at the age of 22, started to receive all kinds of negative press about her dating life; the Karma album might have been something she wanted to release as a concept instead of Red, having had enough of dealing with the but was perhaps thwarted by Big Machine as a precaution given her bad press, the ongoing Kanye incident and so on. There’s so many little clues that seem to allude to this in “The Man” but I’ve had to put a pin in all that for now because that would be too wild to contemplate.. Wouldn’t it??…

..Back to Karma. As a concept, Karma is based on cause and effect. Good intentions/deeds means good karma and therefore happier rebirths. If the cycle of rebirth in these theories are what we are being directed to, did the orange colour graffiti signify fire and burning and the black colour graffiti represent ashes? I mean- this is hitting me right now as I type this, was it actually a possibility that Karma was supposed to come BEFORE Reputation, not in place of? Was it supposed to go 1989- Karma- Reputation?

What if she was on an entirely different trajectory with her albums and planned concepts, we all know she loves to plan sometimes years in advance.. but what if the entire Kanye/Kim controversy surrounding dishonest and partially leaked audio/video footage and the subsequent #TaylorSwiftIsCancelledParty caused her to change up everything?

The biggest hint at this definitely comes through in her lyrics from the Midnights Til Dawn vault track “You’re Losing Me”:

“Do I throw out everything we built or keep it? / I’m getting tired even for a phoenix / Always rising from the ashes”

A Phoenix is Gold. Taylor on the pedastal- Gold. A Phoenix is representative of rebirth, never ending life.

IS SHE SINGING ABOUT KARMA THE ALBUM?

There was speculation that this song was in reference to her and Joe Alwyns alleged breakup. But I mean, everyone will always try and tie a Taylor song to a boy or a breakup. I genuinely think Taylor is smarter than that, I mean she’s actually spoken on the record about this subject before and she certainly has a duality to the meaning of her songs.. I don’t always hear the boy and girl aspect of a song, and when I read the lyrics/listen to “You’re losing me” I’m even more certain it could be alluding to Karma.

“You’re losing me” was part of the ‘Til Dawn remixes, and Taylor announced that the album would only be available for purchase in person at the East Rutherford, New Jersey portion the US leg of the tour but this song wouldn’t be released for streaming.. It was also at these same shows that Taylor and Ice Spice performed their remixed version of “Karma”.. and debuted their music video! It was actually after these shows that Karma was added as the 44th and final track of the tour.

Okkk so before I continue any further, I need to bring up the other URL- In my last video, the url notalotgoingonatthemoment.com redirected to Taylor Swifts webpage with the added pathway of “theywouldntmedoitkarma”. Seemingly missing a word, maybe as obvious as “let” but maybe not…

For reference: “Not a lot going on at the moment” is a well known, now multi-faceted Taylor expression that appears to have originated from a slogan on a shirt she wore for the “22” music video during the Red era…

The most obvious fitting word be “let”. What if LET stands for Lost Eras Title.. Which the theories all refer to as Karma? Another fit would be Last Eras Track. This has the extra layer of being both the last track played on the Eras Tour set list, plus it fits with the speculation that Karma the song signifies the end of the Midnights era overall.

It could even stand for Last Eras Tour- Will she announce something major on the very last tour date? Could it be that her Karmic rebirth overall will be complete as she coincides the tour with the final re-releases of her albums?

If so, I hope she will be taking us down a completely different way of doing things as we know it, because evidently she is the epitome of genius levels of cleverness, with the perfect amount of class and sass.

I worry that based on Surely she would not be settling into reTAYermen anytime soon, I mean at the bare minimum I couldn’t imagine her never completing a 13th album for example. (Oh my gosh that ALBUM and the delivery going to be one for the books)

She’s made lots of comments and dropped lots of hints in interviews about how she feels like she’s considered too old for the industry in terms of being a pop star.. it does seem so ridiculous though considering she’s certainly at her peak in her career right now!

Although it’s somewhat going off tangent ever so slightly.. Let’s talk about the burning Lover house.

The Lover house that is portrayed as burning down during the Eras Tour- being symbolic of rising from the ashes and rebirth, this ties in with the karma theme Hindi Moksa and burning bad karma to purify..

But does this mean a new house? What will emerge from the ashes of the Lover house, to be rebirthed?

I have a theory on all of that.. I reckon She’s going back to an ex. But we shall see. I’ll not be saying another word…

Theories aren’t for me to speculate on when it comes to relationships.

That remains her privacy and I will always respect whatever she chooses to share with us or not!

❤️

So.. Taking into consideration all of this, plus the bonus below little quick and curious Google..

.. It’s safe to say no matter what happens at the VMAS, we are definitely headed in a fresh and brand new direction! Because no matter what @taylorswift does-She is absolutely golden.

I do have to say though that it can be a constant battle reminding myself that with Taylor… Anything can and will literally go. It’s been speculated that she reads all our theories and has literally implemented some before so that’s pretty cool! Generating and regenerating conversations by furthering the idealisms that we, as fans, have put out there ourselves.. Well, that’s just straight up Karmic and the best representation of the cycle of rebirth indeed.

If she is, it’s honestly the most genius marketing strategy I’ve ever seen. It’s not an approach that’s ever been adopted by a singer/song writer and I think it’s a major key contributing to her ongoing success and so think she does too- Hence why she is always so genuinely, down to earth humbled and grateful for us fans.

#Swifties of #Swiftnation and #Taylornation…

I hope you all voted for our girl!! 11 nominees… I could cry for her!

✨I hope she releases a super exclusive, mega detailed all access passes behind the scenes tour about The Eras Era… Manifesting this as the announcement✨

Please feel free to add and share and comment and discuss with me!

Until then,

.. I’m in exhile seeing you out..

Dani

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how-doth-the-little-crocodile · 2 years

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References to Other Media in Team 6×111's "Reckless Battery Burns" (Part 1)

"Reckless Battery Burns" is a recently uploaded song by Team 6×111 featuring a new character named Tamari, who predominantly recreates scenes from various other pieces of media throughout the song's PV. In this post (or series of posts), I'd like to compile every reference in the video and compare Tamari's version with the original source material.

Sidenote: I know normally post in all lowercase but it felt weird for this post. Also, I know GHOST uploaded a video listing all the references in the song, but I didn't realize it was in the description until I already took a ton of screenshots. I also felt like people would appreciate this post anyways, so here it is.

WARNING! A few of these references contain sensitive imagery, such as depictions of hanging and death.

I'm using the video GHOST made as a blueprint for this project, along with some help from a few friends and my own research to provide more info about each reference. So with that, let's get on to it!

0:08-0:23 - .flow by lolrust

.flow, also known as dotflow, is a freeware game created by lolrust inspired by another game, Yume Nikki, which is also referenced in the song. In Dotflow, the protagonist can enter a morgue in which hooks hang from wires and move back and forth in rhythm. Similarly, in the intro to "Reckless Battery Burns", hooks are seen swaying back and forth behind Tamari.

0:25-0:39 - Key the Metal Idol

Key the Metal Idol is a 90's OVA series about an android girl. According to GHOST's video, this anime was being referenced despite the scene shown not being very similar to the part it lines up to in the song. I couldn't find a screencap that lined up either. If anyone has more info regarding this reference, I'd appreciate it!

0:40-0:47 - Kaiba

Kaiba is a 2008 science fiction anime. The reference in the PV seems to be the glowing humans the protagonist encounters sustained in liquidlike pods. In "Reckless Battery Burns", Tamari is seen standing surrounded by a few similar-looking pods.

0:48-0:54 - Angel's Egg

Angel's Egg is an 80's OVA sci-fi film. In the prologue of the film, a boy watches a spherical vessel descend from the sky. The vessel greatly resembles an eye, which the reference in "Reckless Battery Burns" plays up by illustrating the vessel as a giant eye.

1:12 - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a well-known dark fantasy magical girl anime. It features a character named Mami Tomoe, who (I hope this isn't spoilers) dies early on. Before her death, she is seen hanging in midair, the top of the screen cutting off view of her head. "Reckless Battery Burns" references this scene with Tamari in a similar position.

That is literally all I can fit with the image limit! Thank you for reading so far, and I hope Tamari enjoyers will look forward to the continuations of this post! I will edit it to include links below once each one is finished. Bye for now!

Part 2 - Part 3

#posts by me #new tag for analysis(?) i guess #team 6x111 #ghost and pals #vane lily #reckless battery burns #tamari #vocaloid #why not #suicide tw #death tw

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nongnaos · 2 years

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Episode 4 liveblogging atots!

(I have lost all chill)

1/4

Wow, straight in with the "yes I changed your clothes, yes I saw your scars, wanna see mine 😏"

HE FOUND THE NOTEBOOK

Oop nevermind, that was very dramatic and the music was tense and the emotions were all over the place but that is how nightmares feel. Good to know he's feeling guilty at keeping it from them and also that his dream Chief is also very flirty 👀

Longtae is cute and reminds me of someone but I'm not sure who... maybe Sunghak from Bigstar, if any of you remember him.. it was a niche of kpop. (And I don't mean looks wise just something about him idk)

Seriously, Chief, you should know by now that Dr. Nam knows all your secrets...

"Don't tell me you've seen him naked" THE IMMEDIATE GAY PANIC. "Those are for menstrual cramps" I'm crying, it's ok chief we've all been there!! Love makes us all look stupid!

Teaching the kids so their families don't get scammed!! Making them paper airplanes 🥰

Oh nooo Chief being cute with the kids!! Tian really becoming the kids' big brother by swatting their hands away when they try to get him in trouble 😂

This looks like a very long motorcycle ride, I hope they brought snacks. (No, not you Chief, you're a whole meal)

Tian immediately jealous of Dr. Nam being there 👀

2/4

Oh god no, they're acting couple-y in front of Tian, pls no, he's too fragile for this. (Sidenote, that market lady selling the spinach, absolute milf, would buy more spinach than I reasonably need)

Dr. Nam has no time for your jealousy, Tian, he is here to be your wingman!

Honestly, Dr. Nam being like "oh you want to know something about someone? Ask them directly!! I will make you communicate if its the last thing I do.." A+

I can no longer type, this trio is killing me, Dr. Nam has 0 chill when it comes to their romantic entanglements, Chief is constant gay panic and fondness and Tian is just bewildered and burning the eggs. I am a husk of a human.

He bought him a new mosquito net!! He cares about your health and wellbeing!!! He wants to kiss youuuuu!!!!! I'm so fine about this.

Chief's getting jealous of Tian/Longtae and I live for the mildest of drama.

"Dog howling night" thats every night in the countryside tbh.

3/4

Dog howling night is NOT every night in the countryside, I take that back, whyyyyy are they doing this 😭😭😭 its weird when you're on your own but as a group activity??? Go have an ice bath.

Tian actually saying thank you without being prompted, thats growth. Chief looked back!! They're gonna kiss so hard one day.

Drake has never played a straight character in his life.

Playing the spinning top game... the flirting rituals... are intricate.

4/4

Besties taking the piss out of him for looking nice for a date. Standard.

He bought a new outfit AND shower gel, boy is thirsty 😌 glad you wore your slut jeans for your hike 😵‍💫

We have unlocked the "tragic backstory atop a mountain" sidequest.

God this is filled with so many of these sussing-each-other-out flirty comments. OH. It's a full on "do you want to ask me out" Chief is no longer playing around (was he ever?) wow... I honestly feel like I rarely see characters flirt this hard or this well? Especially not gay characters who can say "no, I'm not interested in a lot of people, there's no one else and I'm not playing around". It's very refreshing.

He likes her as a sister and Billie Eilish's "I just kinda wish you were gay" plays gently in the background.

Fuckin' monogamous hornbills 🥺🥺

#HAVE YOU EVER LOVED SOMEONE SO MUCH THAT WHEN YOU DIE YOU BECOME A GAY MAN FOR THEM???#ill never love this hard tbh i dont think i have the capacity #also I'd fear the terfs would murder me however the remote thai countryside is probably out of the way enough they wont find her #atotsrewatch2022 #atots #liomsa #atots spoilers #look we are very much in danger of me binging this whole show and just scheduling posts bc i AM IN LOVE #we're on ep4 and this is already feeling like a top 10 maybe even a top 5 kinda show... its hitting hardddd #its just so warm and sweet and i love it so much so far

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chihirolovebot · 2 years

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aaaaahh thank you so much!!!

right now i’m almost done with the prologue meaning i’ll have a full chapter to send you soon!!! the menu stuff might look a bit weird because i’ve left them on a default setting until i come up with a theme that i think will look right!! i hid a ton of easter eggs around (especially during the part where you choose your name) so be on the lookout for those when i send you it!

also please don’t worry about the sprites and cgs !! i wanna try my hand at a more challenging game, so i’m actually going to make my own sprites and background art and stuff so it’s all very stylized! i just think it would have its own charm then and not be too similar to the original games, while of course sticking to your original script! ill look for help with getting art and stuff from some friends and acquaintances who might be interested in this kind of project :D since it’s summer i’ve had a lot more free time, so i think i should be able to get the loose ideas pinned down this month ! though it’s gonna take a bit longer than originally anticipated !

speaking of the art, do you have anything in particular you wanna carry into the style? like do you want it to look gritty and sharp or soft with warm tones and stuff or smth different? :o

AHHHH IM SO EXCITED IM LITERALLY. SITTING HERE SHAKING N CRYIGN. im rly looking forward to ur stylisation and everything and i pinky promise i AM working on that list of important stuff that should be included it's just. there's a lot of story to go thru. i rly should make a list of loose ends i have to tie up. but anyways that will be done in a couple of days i think!!!

im gona give u entire free reign over the art mostly bc i don't know enough about it to comment. from what i've seen from u already it's in good hands!! i did rly like the block-colour style of the last few drawings u sent me, but idk if that's a sustainable style for a bigger project so i will honestly leave it up to you <3

sidenote do u think it would be easier to talk abt the project somewhere else? idk if u have discord or anything but it might be easier than jumping into each other's inboxes when we have updates and stuff. just an idea!!! /gen

and thank u so so much again!!! i cannot believe how much effort ur putting into this <333

#<3.kodzus #dear venus.#🏚.sleep awake

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prynnehesters · 3 months

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bg3 playthru 2 good guy run 4 real

ive been playing mostly on balanced but i switched to explorer once for a fight that gave me too much trouble

fuck orin all my homies hate orin. i legit used my divine intervention for this fight and the person she trapped still died (rip lae'zel, u were a real one)

i switched the fight difficulty to explorer for the viconia de vir fight cuz i hate darkness, it was too overwhelming

i dont think ill fight raphael, i might make a deal w him...im lazy lol

yeah he gets the crown, fuck it we ball

lowkey fuck the emperor

i call this playthru my "aggressive horny" playthru cuz i had the goody goody squad (karlach and wyll) by my side for most of it, and then astarion for some spice TM

i did do some questionable things in act 1 to please astarion but act 3 he loves me now (and so do karlach and wyll and basically everyone except jaheira lol)

i did get minsc and he's pretty funny. ive used him a few times but i dont like getting a new guy so late in the game tbh. he has a few fun interactions but like...i don't like how you have to save stuff for him and also basically your party is fleshed out at this point. at least w things like sea of stars, the last minute companion doesn't require tune ups until you level up whereas in bg3 you get a companion and you start w level 1 but like, whatever. also ngl his gear does suck. jaheira being the last companion does make sense ultimately and minsc feels more like an easter egg

sidenote, i found out lucretious is voiced by vinegar strokes from rpdruk lol. wild

but yeah i just have to deal w raphael (maybe) and gortash and then the fuckin undead dragon and the companion quests

yeehaw

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yoonieper · 2 years

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Secrets of the Sea— Part 2 | MYG

❂ Pairing: Yoongi x Reader

❂ Genre: Mermaid AU Keeper AU, slight enemies to lovers, fluff, angst, future smut

❂ Rated: I for INFORMATION!!! [❁, ❅]

❂ Warnings: nsfw themes are discussed *wink wink nudge nudge*, lots of information is learned, Yoongi finally starts spilling the tea, Y/N is extremely confused, they’re very cute in this chapter

❂ Word Count: 27.1k

❂ Summary: A summer vacation you had planned with you and your friends turns into the unexpected when you happen to discover an otherworldly creature in your own backyard. Is that… is that a merman? What starts as a clash between species, turns into an unforeseen research project when you both become curious about your two completely different cultures. Land and water, two different worlds on the same planet. Maybe they can come together…?

❂ Author’s Note: This took a while but it’s finally here! This might be the longest chapter in the whole series, I say that and jinx myself lol, but the other chapters should come out a lot sooner! Also sidenote, I keep changing the banner lol >.< Sorry if you're reading through this all together and you keep seeing different ones lol~ This is actually fanart I made for the story that I might post in it's unblurry version here one day :3 Anyway, thanks so much for waiting, enjoy the story!

❂ Beta: Thank you so much @chemicalpink for looking over this mess :,)

If you have trouble loading the story, please check it out on ao3! I also posted it on there! Link to my profile on my about me page!

Prologue | Part 1 | Part 2 | To be continued~

No reposting, modifying. Translating is not allowed unless given explicit permission. Thank you so much : D

[Bold words are Yoongi speaking in his language]

Eggs.. no… What if you had—... no, no you don’t have that either. Your fridge was empty. You had been hoping to cook some actual breakfast for once, but the only thing you really had in there was a bunch of fish you had bought for Yoongi and some bottles of water. None of that really screams breakfast.

You sighed.

You had spent the day worried about your new fishy friend. It was now the next day after the big transformation and he still hadn’t woken up… The only reason you hadn’t had a complete meltdown was in the fact that you remembered how exhausted he seemed after the whole thing. You were just a bit on edge as the hours turned into the following day, up to the point where one could only hope he was ok.

Deciding between heading to the store or just having more ramen like you had been doing for the past few weeks, a sudden thud takes you out of your thoughts. The first place your mind went to was Yoongi who was in the room up above.

Uh oh.

You dropped your ramen and ran up the stairs to him.

“Yoongi?!” You panicked as you opened the door. To confirm your suspicion you found the poor man on the floor.

“What happened?” You questioned as you hurried over to help him but quickly shielded your eyes realizing both the blanket and towel had slipped off his form.

“Why is walking so hard?” He sighed, making you realize what had happened.

“Sooo you still can’t walk?” You asked and he scoffed.

“Do humans learn to walk in a day?” You quickly apologized for your assumption.

“I just wondered if maybe that was a temporary thing…” Yoongi rolled his eyes at your comment and sighed.

“I’ll get there eventually.” He grabbed onto the edges of the bed and lifted himself back up, shooing away any attempts you made to help him.

“Yoongi?!” You cried trying to cover your poor eyes once again. Legs were spread and you were seeing WAY too much. “Please grab the towel, blanket, anything please!” Your words turned his attention to see your flushed face, making him confused once again. What was the matter with you?

“Human please explain why you are acting this way?” Yoongi questioned very nonchalantly. He was curious in the way you would react everytime you would look at him like this, always insisting to cover up, a concept he obviously has yet to fully understand and one you were quite unsure of how to explain.

You thought for a moment to make sure you worded this right. “Clothes are kinda important to us humans. I don’t imagine it’s the same where you come from, so I’m sure that’s gonna take some getting used to.” You chuckled nervously.

Your words still made no sense to him. “I don’t see why… they seem restricting if I’m being completely honest.” He did have a point. “And why is there a need for this cursed fabric anyway?”

You thought a moment before answering. “I think it started as a way to keep warm in times when it was cold. I don’t know, somehow they added on covering up uh, certain parts.” You cringed at the last words.

“Certain parts?” Yoongi questioned looking down “What certain parts? I’d imagine everything was important and it’s certainly not cold by any means...” Behind your hands you were starting to panic, realizing his questions were backing you into a corner.

Taking you out of your thoughts was a sudden force pushing you forward, confused, you lowered your hands to reveal that you were now standing right in front of Yoongi.

“What the…” you mumbled, but was taken aback when you felt his hand grab your wrist.

“Show me.” His tone was innocent and genuinely curious, but his words sounded like pure filth considering the situation.

You quickly backed up. “Uh, I don’t think I’m the one who should explain that…” You decided to toss that conversation for whenever Seokjin and Jungkook show up. Yeah…. they definitely need to have a guy talk.

“Um anyway, I’ll be back. Let me get the clothes.” You quickly exclaimed and rushed out to your room. You took a moment to cool off with a few deep breaths before you grabbed the clothes you had set on the edge of your bed, and prayed this would actually work.

As you approached his room you realized this probably wasn’t gonna be a simple handoff type of situation. He was probably gonna need some help.

Shit.

With a deep breath you walked in to see Yoongi attempting to stand again. His hands on the nightstand assisted his much shakier legs. “Look human~” He happily exclaimed, proud he had managed to stand.

You watched the terrible sequence of events unfold as he let go, but almost immediately fell over back on the bed.

“Yoongi?!” You ran to his side. “You ok?” He ignored the question and used the nightstand to stand up again. “I have to keep trying if I’m going to get any better.” He said plainly as he fell back down again.

A sigh escaped his lips at the obstacle. He’ll get there eventually.

His attention then focused on the fabric you had folded in your hands.

Oh no.

“Human, what is that?” He questioned. “Clothes,” you answered, to which Yoongi gave you a sour look.

”If you’re gonna stay here, you're gonna have to put these on.” You laid out plainly.

He pouted, which had you screaming to yourself at how cute he looked but he grabbed the clothes anyway, despite the protest.

“How do you even…?” He held up the flimsy fabric uPSidE down, leading you to make the decision you really were gonna have to help him.

“Lift your arms.” You say to which he complies. The shirt slid on easily over his form. You smiled and then chuckled at his confused expression. You could immediately tell he didn’t like it. “It’s even worse than I thought.” He cringed.

“Well you're gonna have to deal with it for the time being. You still have to do the pants you know.” You said holding out the other piece of clothing, handing it to him.

“Just put your feet through the holes at the bottom, I can help you stand so you can pull them up.”

Turning around, you could hear him struggle behind you. You honestly had to stop yourself from laughing quite a few times.

“Did you get it yet?” You asked after you’re sure a good five minutes had passed.

“I—I think so,” you heard him say. Suddenly an arm was rested on your shoulder. He used you to hoist himself up, making you very aware of his presence behind you. You felt his breath tickle the back of your neck, letting you know how close he was. The thought of it had your face feeling a bit warm.

“Ok, I think I got it.” You turned around and was shocked.

He looked really good. His fluffy disheveled hair had you wanting to run your hands through it. The outfit also looked surprisingly normal despite it being your clothes.

He smiled when he saw your shocked expression

Yoongi was still pretty close too. Both his arms rested on your shoulders, no more than a foot in distance.

He looked good. Almost too good….

“Is this right?” He questioned, but you were too dazed to answer.

“Human?” He called out again, finally snapping you out of it.

What was wrong with you? You quickly asked him to repeat his question, he laughed a bit and continued, “I asked, is this the way it should look?” He looked down at his attire. Clothes would never be something he liked, but seeing the way you looked at him felt like the torture was worth it in the end.

“Yeah you did it right.” You said honestly it was a big surprise considering the way things have been going. You could even say you were proud.

All in an instant the moment was ruined when he accidentally let go and landed right back down on the floor.

You sighed. “You’re seriously gonna have to be more careful.” you said as you helped him up onto the bed. “Failure leads to success, does it not?” He said. You looked over at him. He did have a point. “You’re right, it’s just I don’t want you hurting yourself.”

“I’m fine, I’ve experienced worse.”

“Mmm, still though, you’re human now. You said it yourself, your abilities aren’t as enhanced. I don’t want anything happening to you and then this army comes after me.” Yoongi snickered to himself about that comment. If something happened to him, they’d definitely do a lot worse then just sending the royal guard.

“Anyway, let’s head downstairs for some breakfast. You’re probably hungry~” you said helping Yoongi stand. Despite how terrible he seemed to be at walking, your trip downstairs wasn’t as bad as what you were expecting. Going up yesterday was a nightmare, you were sure going down would be even worse, yet you could tell there had been an improvement. He definitely seemed a lot sturdier.

“You’re doing great Yoongi~” you praised, shocked at the progress. A proud smile was sent in return. “I told you human. Each time you fail, is one step closer to success.” You both laughed at the irony.

You quickly helped him over to the table. “What’d you wanna eat?” You opened the fridge, showing the array of fish that was inside. Despite this, Yoongi’s eyes drifted over to the ramen cups you had sitting on the counter.

“Mmmm, what about that?” He pointed to the ramen. You were shocked. Did the transformation have an effect on his diet?

You decided to ask. Let’s see if he’ll talk this time…

You picked up the ramen. “This? I’ve eaten it in front of you before, yet you never expressed any interest in it on all of those occasions. Does this switch have anything to do with the transformation?”

Yoongi laughed. “No human, this doesn’t relate to that at all, at least I don’t think so. I just figured now was probably the best time to get a taste of some of the food humans eat, being here with you and all. I’ve been curious about the information you’ve told me over these past few weeks.”

He is talking.

Yes!

THEORY: Diet changed because of transformation. (NEGATIVE???)

You made the mental note of writing that down in your notes later.

“Alright then~ I’ll fix both of us some~” It only took you a second to have the two steaming cups on the table, ready to be eaten. You went to grab some chopsticks for the both of you, only to realize that he probably didn’t know how to use them.

“Ummm, I can get you a fork if you want.” You said handing him the utensils. You watched as he examined the two metal sticks with perplexity.

“It’s ok, I’ve watched you use them, it doesn’t look too hard.” He said nonchalantly. You gave him a wary look, but watched as he attempted to hold them. You were shocked to see him holding them right, it definitely wasn’t perfect, but he was doing (extremely) better than the typical novice.

“Easy~” he smiled when he noticed your expression. “Ok then, I’m impressed~” you chuckled and took a seat right across from him. “Dig in I guess!”

You watched closely as he took his first bite. Part of you was thinking he’d spit it out and say he hated it, but no words were spoken as he continued to his third, forth, fifth bite, seemingly enjoying it with no complaints.

You happily ate along with him, silence filling the room for a while until you suddenly felt like you were being watched. You looked up from your phone to see Yoongi looking at you with pleading eyes. “Can I have more?” He asked in a way that reminded you of a child. You almost wanted to laugh because it was so cute.

You quickly fixed him another cup, unable to stop the chuckle when he practically ripped it from your hands. Breakfast continued like this for a while until out of the corner of your eye you noticed something. Yoongi would always need to push his hair up every time he needed to bend down to take a bite. The sight gave you an idea.

“Hey Yoongi~” You called out in the sweetest voice you could muster. He looked up at you, bangs hanging over eyes. “Would you mind if I did your hair? I noticed it keeps getting in the way… I could tie it up for you if you liked~” Yoongi thought about it for a second “Go ahead human.” He said and continued to eat.

Wow, ok! You didn’t expect him to say yes…

You ran up the stairs and grabbed a comb, brush, and a couple of hair ties you had brought with you and ran back down.

Part of you wanted to ask if you could wash it and do the whole nine yards, but you quickly decided not to push your luck.

You came to find him happily still eating away~ Ok good, he’s still in a good mood~ Let’s make this quick before that could change.

You set your stuff on the table. You were hesitant but started feeling the strands between your fingers. Yoongi paid you no mind as you patted him. It was seriously as soft as it looked. You were amazed but it only added to the list of questions you plan on asking later.

What in the world could their hair products possibly be?

Why in the world did they have hair anyway??? Human hair at that… It looked and felt identical 🤔

When you decided to run your hands through it was when you noticed it was a lot more tangled than you expected. Oh boy, you were glad you decided to bring your comb with you.

You then realized that the beads Yoongi kept in his hair would probably get in the way. You tried to gently pull them off but no matter what you did they wouldn’t budge at all.

“Hey Yoongi, how do you get these beads off? They seem like they’re glued to your hair or something…??” Yoongi chuckled at your words, part of you feared your joke might be true but he said “Sorry, I’m the only one who can take them off, hold up~”

You were confused about what he was gonna do differently that made him the only one who could remove them, when suddenly you watched as all of them fell everywhere. You watched in horror as they rolled in every direction, the distinct sound they all made as they bounced across the floor, filled the room.

“Yoongi!!!” You panicked as you hastily worked to pick them all up. You knew for a fact you’d never find them all.

“I’m so sorry I didn’t—I—” you were nervous, but when you turned to Yoongi he didn't look phased at all. “Relax human, why are you apologizing? I forgot where I was… It doesn’t work the same when I’m up here.” He said shyly, rubbing the back of his ear. A habit you noticed he did often.

“I’ll try to find them but I’m not sure I can get all of them…” You said looking around. “I got this,” he said, making you confused. “How I—“ you were shocked when you heard the pitter patter of the beads hitting the table. When Yoongi opened his hand, there, in entirety, were all of the beads that had fallen to the floor.

“Problem solved~” He said plainly and went back to eating his ramen.

What just happened?

What just…

“Yoongi, how did you…” you pointed at the beads. “Ummm, it’s a bit complicated?” He responded.

THEORY: Water manipulation, Disappearing? -> ADD WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU JUST SAW 😶

You seriously have no grasp of his abilities.

“Maybe you could explain later?” You asked, Yoongi thought about it “Yeah, maybe I could? I don’t know, there’s a lot of information you need to know about to even make sense of it, even then, you probably still may not understand.” Yoongi pointed out.

Oh boy were you in for it… if only you knew what you’d find out later.

Moving past this you got to work on Yoongi’s hair, making sure to take your time combing through it, fearing you’d hurt him. All was good until you noticed something peculiar.

Was he… purring? No, that’s not exactly it, it was a bit different. Darker, if that makes sense?

You couldn’t help but giggle at this. “That’s adorable” you realized way too late you said that out loud. Yoongi turned back to you, face a bright red.

You had no idea the real reason. In the midst of your combing, while it was relaxing, the other side of his mind was wandering off to something a little darker…

As much as you were trying to be gentle, there was always some sort of pain mixed with pleasure that had him thinking back to past moonruts. He remembered one of his partners liked to pull on his hair hard, it wasn’t the same but for someone who hasn’t been touched for as long as he had, the gesture had him thinking things.

Part of him wanted to tell you to go harder…

He was so thankful when you finally put down your comb. He was way too close to actually doing it.

You ran your hands through the locks once more. Much better, you thought to yourself~

Your combing had straightened his hair out a bit, losing some of the waves it had. It was slightly longer than before.

“When was the last time you cut this?” You chuckled, playing with his hair a bit.

Yoongi thought about it. “It’s been awhile, I don’t even remember at this point…”

“It doesn’t get in the way?” You asked curiously, Yoongi shook his head “Not really… I’ve just kinda liked it being this long.” He mumbled the last part.

You smiled. You can’t deny this hairstyle really suited him~ Thinking back though, your questions and his responses made you realize you never asked him a question that was extremely important.

“Hey Yoongi…” He hummed in response “I don’t know if you even know this, but do you know how old you are?”

Yoongi put down his chopsticks and seemingly began working it like it was some kind of problem… ok?

“If I remember correctly and did the math right, I think the equivalent would be 24 of your human years.”

“Equivalent?” You said both in your mind and out loud.

“Yep. I guess in actuality I’m….. maybe 122 years old? I don’t know, kinda hard to remember at this point.” Your jaw nearly fell to the floor with that number. You had so many questions…

At 122 years old, that is only 24 years in equivalence…..Waaaaa?

He almost seemed like he forgot his age? Why? How do they calculate years?

Average life expectancy?

“So you’re telling me you were born in 1903?”

Yoongi’s eyes lit up. “That’s it, that’s what they told me it was. 1903 was definitely it.”

So, so many questions….

“Ok wait, so how long do Keepers live for? I mean, if that’s the equivalent for 24 years, I’m curious what’s the time people start appearing older? What’s a year to you? And you mentioned math, is there a formula?” You threw out all the questions that were flying around in your head.

Yoongi sighed. “I knew this would happen… I answer one thing and the questions don’t seem to stop.“ He looked at you and noticed your pleading look, almost begging for answers. He found it endearing at how interested you were in his culture. It made him feel proud in a sense.

After some silence had passed he continued “1) Depends on how strong their connection, which is a completely different topic, but the average Keeper lives for about 500 years. People in similar positions as I, will likely live longer, however. 2) We measure the span of time the same way you humans do, by the amount of time it takes to revolve around our sun. 3) One year for us, I’ve been told, equates to about 5 revolutions, so 5 years for humans. Did that answer your questions?”

Your mouth hung open. You were buzzing inside with the new allotted information. Fuck, did that answer your questions??? You actually are starting to piece things together. Part of you was confused by this and a bit worried. He used to get annoyed by all your questions and would say something mysterious that would just leave you confused and having even more questions. You wondered what made him change his mind…?

You tried your best to keep your cool. “Yes it did, thank you very much. Knowing this now I have to ask. Connection, what’s that, and I was wondering if you guys have a similar calendar?”

“Our months and weeks are closely related to your calendar, but there are some variations in a couple of our months. Our days, despite this, still equal 365.25 by the end of the year, as they should if you live on earth. Explaining connections is something that requires a lot of context…” even though he couldn’t see your face he could tell you were listening closely, soaking up every word he said “that I’m sure you’ll ask about…”

“Wait, ok, before you explain anything else let me finish real quick so I can write down everything,” you explained ecstatically.

Quickly you pulled his hair back, gathering it, and tying it into a man bun. A style you had on your mind since he said yes to you doing his hair.

“Turn around for me~” you instruct. When he does, you almost fall right over.

With his hair finally pulled back you can see the glorious forehead and eyebrows you’ve been missing. The added knowledge of his plentiful tattoos had you nearly rolling on the floor.

Damn.

H.O.T

“You look amazing…” you played down. You totally weren’t screaming in your head right now. Totally…

Yoongi shyly smiled at your compliment. “Thank you” he mumbled quietly.

Ok you were gonna lose it the longer you stand here. “Ok, let me head up real quick. We’ll continue our conversation in the living room.”

≫ ──── ««•◦ ✪ ◦•»» ──── ≪

“Human what are you doing?” Yoongi sighed from his place on the couch.

You were opening up your Disney+ account and searching for a title that you weren’t sure how it would go.

For science… he’ll understand that, right?

Yoongi stared curiously at the primitive technology in front of him. He almost busted a lung when you explained to him the purpose of the box in front of you.

When you finished going through the list of it’s functions, Yoongi couldn’t help but think ‘that’s it?’ Technology up here was really as unadvanced as they taught him in school.

Yoongi’s eyes widened when you clicked on the title ‘The Little Mermaid’

“Human wha—“

“Before you get mad, I wanted to use something to orientate my questions. It’s a starter place using something I grew up thinking your kind was like.”

Yoongi eyed you suspiciously, but his eyes then trained to the screen, looking at the picture for the movie and scuffed.

“Human I can already tell you, just from this, it looks ridiculous.”

You looked at him to continue but he just sighed and turned away.

“Well let me know along the way the inaccuracies as the movie plays~” Yoongi sighed but watched as you hit play and ran over to the couch. started the opening of the movie.

As the opening of the movie played you could hardly focus on the screen, too busy looking at the man beside you. You were waiting for any little reaction that should tell you to pause the movie so he can explain. You were determined to learn as much as you can before he was gonna leave.

Your face dropped at the thought.

Yeah, he was gonna leave soon… His wounds by now were pretty much healed to the point you were sure he would be alright to venture back out on his own in only a few days. He had very little difficulty moving, no infections, you had plans to remove his stitches maybe sometime later on today, meaning only a small amount of care is needed for those wounds, and whatever the issue was you saw the other day, would better be handled in a place that was more familiar with this type of stuff, aka, back where he came from.

It’s weird but in the two weeks you’ve known him, somehow he’s managed to squeeze his way into your life that you know it’s gonna be a little hard to say goodbye.

“What the actual fuck is happening.” Yoongi said, feeling ambivalent about what he was seeing on the screen. Why the hell was this crab talking? Why do they look like that?

He noticed your eyes on him, making him realize he accidentally switched back to his language.

Yep, you were definitely gonna miss him.

“Human, what am I seeing?”

“I guess now would be a good time to stop…” you chuckled, grabbing your remote to pause the movie.

“So I guess my first question, it may sound silly, but I’m genuinely curious.” Yoongi signaled for you to continue. “Can you talk to sea creatures?”

….

Wait, wait, wait, did he hear you right?

“Human, what—what did you say?”

You immediately could tell the question was as ridiculous as it sounded in your head. You already wanted to take it back.

“Ummm can you talk to…. sea creatures?”

He didn’t know if he was angered by your assumption or found it hilarious. Is this what humans really thought of his kind?

“Human, why would you think that….? Do I look like an animal to you?” He laughed but you could sense he was offended by your comment.

“No, that’s not what I meant… it’s just a lot of movies up here like to suggest you guys have some special connection to sea life. I was wondering if it was true.”

“Seriously?!” Yoongi was shocked. “Well I guess the fact that you guys are so off, means we’re doing our job.” He smiled and turned to you, who was so lost.

“Look human, I can do a lot of things, but talking to animals is something that even I am not capable of.” You quickly wrote that down on your iPad. “What about anybody else?”

“No one is talking to animals.” He put it plainly and you added that to your notes.

Can they speak to animals? - Concluded negative

“I will say the only thing I’ve seen right so far is the cave.”

“Cave?” Yoongi nodded slowly.

“It’s far deeper than what they display here but the tribe resides in a cave close to the ocean floor.”

“Do you know how far down?”

Yoongi looked to the side thinking for a moment “I don’t know in any of your units of measurements… Just know that, judging from the technology I have seen, you won’t be able to reach it.”

“What about the mermaids themselves?” You said, referring to the scene you stopped at. The recital.

“Human you've seen me. You know the answer.” Yoongi turned back to the TV, already tired of this movie.

Dull? The fact he mentioned you have seen me, means that the others must closely resemble. You thought back to that first day, when you got sight of his friends. Even though you could only make out their top halves, they did have the similar light gray tones. You wondered if there was any differentiation from there… You wanted to ask him, but you knew he was done with this conversation. You made a note in your notes to come back to the question later.

Clicking play, the movie continued on to introduce the main character, which you could immediately tell he didn’t like, judging by the angry mumbling under his breath.

“What’s up?” You chuckled lightly.

The movie was now at the scene where Ariel was looking on the ship, infatuated with the humans.

“Someone like her would be immediately considered a threat to the tribe.” He rolled his eyes.

“Really?”

Yoongi nodded “She’d be locked up immediately. Behavior like that puts every single one of us at risk.”

This discussion suddenly gave you another question.

“You’ve never had anyone with the same interest in the surface?”

“Of course we have. There have been people who have deserted their tribes in order to live out their life on the surface.” Now you were confused.

“You made it seem like they were such a danger, yet you just… let them go when they leave?” You asked curiously

Yoongi chuckled slightly “I know it makes no sense, but as much as we wanted to do something, most of the time we are always told it’s the better option is to let them go. The rational being, ‘it puts more people at risk trying to get them’. We try and stop this behavior as much as we can, as anyone who is suspected of being a deserter is taken to a special facility, but they slip through the cracks occasionally.”

You hummed in compliance at his answer. It was weird logic but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As the movie continued on, Yoongi slowly became less grumpy with it. You doubt he was enjoying it, but he became more invested as the story progressed.

When the scene where King Triton was destroying Ariel's collection came around, Yoongi couldn’t help but get hung up on a line he said.

‘Have you lost your senses completely? He's a human! You're a mermaid!’

Despite the offensive term, Yoongi couldn’t help but glance over to you. No way, never in a million years would he find himself in that position. Your worlds were too different, if he ever did like you like that, to work. He knows his place. Back at the tribe and you are here. Even entertaining the idea was insane. Has he lost it?...

The rest of the movie was relatively uneventful as by the time Ariel was on the surface there was nothing to talk about as it was pure fantasy.

“Anyway… what’d you think?”

“I hated it.”

“I figured.” You laughed and grabbed your iPad off the table.

“So, like I told you. I had us watch this so I could better calibrate my questions. This was a kids movie and something I’d already figure wouldn’t be the most accurate thing, but it did give me an idea of some of the things I need to ask you.” You started setting up your keyboard.

“Were you watching me the whole time or something?” Yoongi asked, a little flustered.

“That’s my job, I’ve already seen this a billion times, you’re what I want to see.” You smiled.

“Alright.” He changed the way he was sitting a little bit and moved the blanket closer. “Ask away human, you’ve been dying for me to answer you ever since I got here. The time is now, and there’s only so many hours in a day.” Yoongi motioned for you to start speaking.

“Ok. First… why are you answering my questions in the first place?” You asked and for some reason the question shocked him.

“I mean we’ve known each other for two weeks and I hardly know anything besides the basic field observations I’ve gathered. Anytime I would ask you a question you would respond with something vague or you would always say ‘how if I was meant to know I would.’ Whatever you were not telling me must be secret or something you didn’t feel comfortable sharing. I was honestly expecting you to leave without ever giving me any type of information. Now that you’re human, you wanna talk? I’m finding it hard to believe you just had a sudden change of heart about me or the information you weren’t telling me suddenly became ok for me to know. I guess my first question is why? And please be honest…” Your eyes were pleading and you were honestly confused and a bit worried.

Why was he talking to you now, what changed?

He was taken aback by how desperate you seemed to want the answer.

“I don’t know how to answer you human…”

“Please don’t say that. Something’s changed, and I’m sorry for being a little scared. I just want the answer to know I don’t have anything to worry about.”

“Human I—“ Oh gosh… how was he supposed to tell you?

“Y/N… Over these past few weeks I’ve avoided your questions. You’re right… they are secrets that aren’t really my place to tell, something that I shouldn’t be telling you. It literally goes against everything I’ve been taught. But… I don’t know… you seemed so interested in learning about me, I felt bad that you were giving me all this information without me telling you anything. I shouldn’t tell you, but I’m doing it anyway. Now that I’m human, I’m a lot more vulnerable than the water. You’re giving hospitality in looking after me, and not taking advantage of that fact. Besides, we made an agreement a few weeks ago and I’ll deliver on my part. Please don’t look into this too much.”

That’s it. Tell her most of the truth.

It’s just you don’t know he has to remove your memory of this whole thing when he leaves. The reason is his feelings about it coming into words, he didn’t understand quite yet why he was telling you. It just creates more work for him to do when the time does come to go. That’s why he didn’t say anything originally. Now though… Why was he telling you?

He saw your smile slowly start to grow and he couldn’t help but do the same.

“Um… well then. That’s nice I guess~ I’m sorry I was worried that maybe you would have to kill me or something, but….” You looked into his eyes “I trust you're telling the truth.”

“Who knew you could get sappy~” You giggled as you started typing.

Yoongi smiled. He didn’t know either.

“Anyway, moving onto actual information. Ok so… as you’ve seen in this movie, humans have absolutely no clue what you guys would be like and we tend to dramatize things because well… all we believe you to be is a story, a work of fiction. I already told you I study marine biology, and even before that my parents taught me a lot. I’m sorry, but nothing about you seems like it should exist. This is likely going to be a throw away question, but I’m curious to know if you might have an idea. I mean, you seem smart, you should know you don’t exactly fit into the natural world. How exactly are you possible? And your resemblance to humans also doesn’t fit into the equation. Are you like a subspecies of human or umm… Well I don’t even know if you would know but umm yeah, any answers to that?”

“Yes actually.” Yoongi turned toward you and you stared at him wide eyed. “We don’t make sense do we.”

“Not at all…”

“We mostly kept to ourselves all of our history, but it didn’t take us long to figure out something wasn’t right. That’s honestly why um… one of the reasons why we believe we are so much better compared to humans. We are descendants of the chosen.”

You were hastily typing everything down, until he said the last part. The chosen?

“What does that mean?”

“Well to make this brief, I don’t want to bore you too much with a history lesson, but it all started for us 11506 years ago exactly.”

An exact date?

“At some point in time there were just humans that existed. Around that time they were just starting to settle and create the building blocks of civilization, we were one people until a voice called out to a few of those humans.”

A voice….

“They were called to the sea. For 7 days and 7 nights they traversed through harsh landscape to answer to the calling. Scriptures say that their families and friends tried to break them out of it but it was a trance. They walked without food or water, but they never stopped. That was until they made it to the shore. Upon getting close, many people gathered to see that they lined the seas, tribes of humans that have never met, all stood and watched as the humans walked into the water never to be seen again. Those people became the Oown, the first of us.” Yoongi stopped for a second to see you staring at him, clearly hooked onto his words.

“They were transformed, instead of legs, they had tails, instead of air, they could breathe in the ocean. All of this was possible thanks to the Zale.”

“The Zale… is that like a religious figure?”

“You could say that. We treat it like a religion, but it's a religion without the blind following.” You looked intrigued.

“We are living proof. Our existence counters the natural world. There is no way we should exist or live the way we do by explainable means. We have no idea what the Zale is, but all we know is that it guides us in the right direction. It’s allowed us to thrive in the deepest parts of the waters, it’s allowed us protection from the seas, we are all the proof we need. Plus well, I’m one of the few people who saw it happen.”

“Wait… what?”

“It’s kinda hard to explain but, yes I’ve seen it myself.”

“You weren’t there were you?”

“No, I just umm… saw it happen.”

You looked at him trying to figure out how this was possible. “Yoongi we’re gonna have to come back to that because I have questions.”

“Yes I knew you would.. anyway back to what I was saying. The Oown were a little different from us. They had powers that for some reason fell out as the generations continued to progress. But it allowed them to survive as their bodies changed. A light led them farther down, away from land. All with one goal in mind. Keep the secrets safe.”

“Secrets?”

“Our existence. We were meant to thrive away from humanity on land. The secrets we kept down below were never meant to be known to humans.”

“And what exactly is down there?”

Yoongi eyed you. “Umm, I don’t know if I’m comfortable discussing those details yet.” You nodded, honestly a bit reassured there was some information he was withholding from you.

“So let me get this straight… 11506 years ago a voice called out to the human populations— they were put into this trance-like state as they were guided to the nearest body of water. For 7 days and 7 nights they traversed the land until they reached the water. When they arrived they walked in and disappeared, never to see their families again. They were led down into the depth of the water by a light. The Zale, being that light. These people became what you call the Oown, and were the first of your kind. They had abilities that allowed them to survive in the ocean that started to disappear as generations continued to pass.” Yoongi nodded at your summary.

“It’s a surface level explanation, but one I feel like your human brain could handle the best.” You tried your best to ignore the insult as you continued to type away.

There were still so many things you wanted to know…

“So um, more about the Zale…”

“I don’t know what you want me to tell you… I really have no answers.”

“Um, I don’t really want answers with this one, but just a bit of speculation. You speak highly of the Zale but do you ever question its intentions? I mean, just from what you tell me, I could see a conflict of morality. Yes the Oown got special powers and were able to live in the sea, but they were separated from their families on the surface. You don’t think that’s a bit… and well, do you know why?”

Yoongi stared at you. You were a bit worried you accidentally offended him, but he just smiled. “You’re not the first person to wonder.”

“It’s definitely a complicated subject. It’s been debated throughout our entire history about if what we were chosen for is good or evil. I think this honestly connects back to how we treat the Zale like a religious figure. This is where the blind following comes in, everyone just wants to believe that what we are doing is for the right reasons. I guess, I mean especially since we are a product of that being, to know you are a pawn in a big game of evil would be… well I don’t think anyone would like that. As for why, you’re as good as me to guess. We have no idea why any of this has happened..”

You were furiously typing away.

“What do you think? Do you think the Zale is good?”

Yoongi sighed and stared out the window at the ocean, a sense of reflection coming up because of your question. What did he think… What did he think?

“I haven’t explained all of our history to you human, and the Zale has done much good for us, but that doesn’t stop the bad from plaguing our history. Wars, genocides, all in the name of the Zale. Even me for example… I mean, why am I here with you?”

He stared at you to see you staring at him wide eyed.

“I’m one of those bad things huh…” You tried not to show that his words hurt, but well they did. It should be expected though. Yoongi has made it clear about how keepers have a strong distaste toward humans. You’ve only known the man for 2 weeks, what were you expecting? I mean even besides that, an event like this is so unexpected, there would be no reason really why he would think of your meeting as a good experience.

You had no idea why that made you sad. Part of you wanted him to like you, even just enough to stand your presence, maybe even become friends. Even after these two weeks, part of you held out that hope, but this really was just toleration until he could leave.

Yoongi looked at your face as you continued to type, wondering why you were so upset.

“Isn’t this an inconvenience for us all? You have to put up with me and well I’m here speaking with the one creature I’m told I should despise.”

You couldn’t keep your emotions boiled down at this point. “Well I’m sorry Yoongi, but you have been the opposite of an inconvenience for me. I’ve had a lot of fun these past few weeks. Of course you think of me as an inconvenience…” you scoffed and turned back to writing your notes.

Yoongi is a meanie >:(

You made sure to make it bold.

You were way too into being upset to notice how shocked he looked and how his cheeks had started turning red. You seemed so hurt by what he felt like was the obvious. It made him flustered to see how much you seemed to hate the fact. It was… this is a new feeling.

“Anyway, let’s just move on…” You sounded so defeated. “Tell me about yourself… you’ve been speaking in the general sense pretty much this entire time, but you hardly have told me about you. I know you’re the son of some higher up official but that’s about it. Tell me more or that might be an inconvenience.” Oh he hated this. No, he really hated this. The enthusiasm had been drained out of you so quickly. You really cared that much about what he thought about you?

He was honestly confused, but found it oddly endearing.

“Human, maybe we should take a break…”

You looked up from your laptop.

“What why?”

“Because… you’re clearly upset. I don’t know exactly what you’re writing, but I’m sure even you know that outside influences would mess up the results of your investigation. Let’s take a break so you can record your information accurately.” You just stared at him.

Part of you knew that from a scientific perspective he was right, but at the same time, did he just call you emotional?!

“Maybe we could watch another movie? Something less ridiculous this time.” You folded your arms.

“Why would you wanna do that? I’m an inconvenience…”

“Human, please! You know exactly how I meant it. I don’t hate you.” You didn’t even have to say it, he knew that’s exactly what you were thinking. How could you ever think that after he shared that information that he hated you. Made absolutely no sense.

Now he seemed upset. What was happening?

When you didn’t say anything he scooted himself closer, now sitting directly next to you instead of the other side of the couch. You looked over at him, now extremely confused as to why he was so close.

Woah.

“Aren’t you gonna do something?” He looked at you like you were crazy for just sitting there. “Why—Why are you so close all of a sudden?” You stammered.

“Another piece of information— because of how cold it is down there this is just normal to keep warm. Don’t think about it too much, I’m just trying to survive. It was cold over there.” He mumbled and laid his head on your shoulder.

WHAT!!!!!!

“Anyway, pick something better.” Luckily you couldn’t see him at this angle. This was normal but seeing how surprised you seemed made him feel a little flustered.

You tried your best to concentrate but you were a bit overwhelmed with him so… close. At some point you just gave up and decided on stranger things on netflix. You were about to hit play when Yoongi lifted his head, getting even closer, almost burying himself in your neck before he ultimately pulled away.

“You smell nice…” was all he whispered before settling back on your shoulder.

What was happening? This can’t be the same guy who called your meeting an inconvenience. He was so soft and… adorable? This can’t be the same guy. Then again though he did tell you about how behavior like this is considered normal where he comes from so, maybe this doesn’t at all cross any boundaries of being overly affectionate. This could be the same as just sitting close together for him and you were being weird for not understanding the cultural differences.

You made a mental note to add this to your notes later but this is just honestly something you’ll likely have to observe.

Instead you focused on the show in front of you. For a moment it honestly felt like this was normal and all the prerequisite events didn’t happen at all. It was nice. Yoongi definitely seemed to enjoy this a lot more, and it also provided a little light on some aspects of human culture back in the 80s. You ended up watching the first 3 episodes of season 1 before you were starting to get a bit sleepy.

When the credits rolled you paused the episode and gently ran your hand across his arm. “Maybe we should stop here for today, I still have more questions to ask you and I’m getting sleepy…”

He whined. “But—” he was clearly into it.

“Questions first, we can watch more tomorrow.”

He lifted himself up, a cute pouty expression on his face. Seriously, how was this the same man?!

You quickly picked your laptop up.

New observation: Yoongi is a lot more affectionate than I previously thought, he can even be cute too. It’s honestly hard to believe this is the same person who said I was an inconvenience but he just seems to have his sides. Requires more observation considering cultural differences he mentioned, but was being really cute and cuddly today and idk what’s happening.

Another thing you didn’t notice till later, you weren’t mad at him anymore. If anything, that seemed like so long ago, a forgotten memory lost in time. Maybe him showing you this side of himself was because of this, because he wanted you to forget that you thought he hated you.

“Okay, before all this, I wanted you to start talking about yourself. You have already made points that you differ slightly from the average member of your species, please go more into depth with this, maybe even give a little backstory. I’m sure out of the 122 years you’ve lived you must have a lot to tell!” You said enthusiastically but he just laughed.

“I don’t know what you’re expecting but I can say it will likely not meet your expectations.”

“Anything you say goes beyond my expectations. Everything you say about the Keepers is interesting, I don’t think you’re any different.” Yoongi’s face felt a little warm.

“What do you want to know?”

“I don’t know… maybe talk about that position you were talking about earlier. Like um, what are you in line for exactly?” You got your fingers ready.

“I will become the advisor to my friend— he’s the next king of our tribe.” His words shocked you so much you had trouble finding the words to write down.

“Advisor? Wait and you’re friends with….”

“You saw him the other day, when you rudely interrupted the conversation we were having.”

…

You hid under the blanket that was in your lap. “Yoongi what the fuck?! Is he gonna come after me for taking you, what—” You were a bit panicked but he just found it cute.

“No human, he isn't coming after you.”

“You don’t know that! I stole his advisor away, I think that automatically puts a target on my back!” Just your eyes were poking out and you saw him laughing at you.

“You’re fine, I already told them about the situation.” Now that he thinks about it. His friends were likely expecting his return soon or at least a call…

Uh oh.

“But Yoongi… the KING seriously, do you know how scary that sounds?!”

“You already met the scariest person you can meet, don’t worry, you’re fine.” His words were meant to reassure you, but if anything that made you even more terrified.

“What is that supposed to mean?!”

Yoongi sighed. “Ok hierarchy lesson. Like I mentioned, Keepers have slowly begun to lose their abilities as time continues to pass. That was true for a majority of us, but a few in each tribe grew stronger and maintained their abilities. These few take a seat on the council— the government I guess you would say here. There are always 31 seats at the council. People have different ranks and statuses within the council but the top 3 positions all deal with the strongest connections to the Zale.”

There’s the Zale again ok…

Yoongi could sense you were confused. “Council members’ strengths and abilities all come from the connection they have to the Zale, the more they can do. I guess that’s the simplest way I can explain it.”

“It makes sense I guess, the 3 strongest would have the highest positions. I mean think about it from the point of view of the average keeper, knowing they were the ones in charge would bring a strong sense of protection.”

“Precisely.”

“What are you #2 or something and like I’ll have to get through you to ever get to him?”

“That is true except I’m number 1.”

…. Another sense of just utter shock you could not fathom.

“I’m sorry you’re what now…?”

“I’m 1 by a long shot, human there are a lot of things I can do. My job will be to protect my king and the tribe. That itself requires that I must have a lot of power. Please if you know what’s best for you don't even think about trying anything, I’m not scary unless I need to be.” He honestly didn’t want to scare you, just set up where he stands in this dynamic. Really he didn’t want to hurt you. If anything he hated violence, not really something he tried to do unless he felt necessary. He was usually an easy going guy.

But, you didn’t get the message he was trying to send and he could sense your fear.

He could feel you were shaking. He honestly hated this. You aren’t the first person to fear him, the few occasions he would go out into the city and he would introduce himself, the amount of strange looks people would give made him sad. Everyone knew who he was, the advisor’s position especially being kept in the media, and well, the fact that his coronation day was brocadested all over the place, there really was no place he could hide. He could sense their emotions anytime he’d walk by. There was respect masked behind fear. Every Keeper knew just how powerful advisors can be and there have been cases where there has been abuse of the power. So they were scared, scared not to set him off and see that for themselves. It was sad and he hated it.

The surface was honestly the only place he could escape this burden, but already he’s managed to instill that same type of fear in you as well. He merely wanted to set up a boundary, not scare you. It made no sense, you were the one person he should scare, but he still found he hated the feeling it admitted.

His powers can be beautiful as well.

He looked around the room and spotted your glass of water on the coffee table. Yoongi grabbed your cup off the table.

“Please, you really don’t need to be scared of me.” He watched you intently as he waved his hands and the water lifted out of the cup. Your eyes widened as the water formed a new shape. It only took a second for it to be clear what it was.

It was a rose.

He saw your features light up as he handed you the water flower. You were hesitant but took it in your hands. The water seemed to sparkle and shimmer as you twirled it between your fingers.

NOTE: Powers seem to be extensive (described by the creature as such). Has the ability to manipulate water— can make float and manipulate it (e.x. formed a rose in front of my eyes). How this is possible is beyond me, but it sure is pretty. Texture is that of a liquid still, but somehow I am able to hold it without issues. The water also glows— water came from the sink (clear), but as soon as Yoongi started doing something the water glowed a bright blue. It also seems to contain little objects that make it sparkle. Hypothesis: something about these crystals is what is making this possible.

Your smile was giddy and it made Yoongi so happy to see you smile again.

“Yoongi this is amazing…” You awed and he smiled back at you.

“How is this possible?” You wondered out loud, not really expecting him to say anything, and was surprised when he did.

“That’s what I can’t tell you.” You understood and respected it. Silence passed between you two for a second.

“You know this is kinda romantic…” You giggled. “Did you do this on purpose?”

“I just remembered the pictures you showed me a while ago. Made me think about you for some reason.” Yoongi said nonchalantly. You looked up shocked.

At this moment you couldn’t stop the weird fluttery feeling hearing him say he thought about you when conjuring up this breathtaking creation. He probably didn’t mean it like that, but still, you felt incredibly special in this moment.

“This is so sweet, Yoongi. Wish I could keep it forever.” Yoongi looked up at you. He really didn’t know why he just wanted to go the extra mile to impress you.

He grabbed the empty vase that sat on the coffee table for decoration and pulled it closer. He asked for the flower back.

“Time’s up already?” You pouted.

“No. You said you wanna keep it forever so…” He held his hand under the flower and snapped his fingers. Right before your eyes the flower began to freeze, turning from a light blue, to a stark white, those same little specs made the ice shine and sparkle.Yoongi smiled when the frost made it to the top.

“Don’t worry, it won’t melt or—” He lifted his hand up and dropped the flower on the floor. It looked like ice, sounded like ice too when it hit the floor, but it wasn’t. Not a single crack, it didn’t break at all.

He picked it back up. “It won’t wilt either so…” He placed the flower in the vase. “A flower that lasts forever.”

Your mouth was hanging wide open. This was beyond reality. None of this felt possible or real. Were you stuck in a dream or something. The stuff you saw in just these past 2 weeks of knowing this man, you can’t imagine if you got more time with him.

Your face began to fall at the thought.

Yoongi noticed immediately the sudden switch in your mood.

“Human, you seem upset, did I do something—”

“No… No, it’s not you. Just hearing you say that made me think how you’re probably gonna leave soon. Your wounds are healed to the point you probably could leave at any time. This… all this… I know this might be an inconvenience to you, but this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and not to get sappy, but I’m gonna miss you ok.” You leaned back on the couch and folded your arms.

“At least I’ll have this now to remember you.” Your eyes were stuck on the flower.

Yoongi didn’t say anything as he leaned back as well. He needed to leave. He’s already been gone for a month, he had people and responsibilities to get back to. His heart still felt funny when you actually said it out loud. It felt like he just got here.

And just feeling how upset you were.

“Human, ask me another question. You seem to like doing those.” He tried to be nonchalant about it, but he wanted to lift the mood again.

You sighed realizing he was right.

“Alright ummm, tell me about those other positions you were talking about.” You grabbed your laptop again.

“Right ummm, top 3 positions… there is the king or queen who is the leader of the tribe.”

“How come you aren’t the king? You mentioned how you were #1 when it comes to this connection and if it’s so important and yours is the strongest, wouldn’t it make more sense for you to be king.”

Yoongi shook his head.

“It’s a matter of division of power. Being the leader puts a target on your back, especially when it comes to wars, the king is a vulnerable position. The ruler can lead the people safely if one of the most important aspects to a tribe is kept safe away from danger. Advisors simply give advice and help guide the leader in the best direction.”

“So you’re like the brains, they’re the face?”

“Kind of, it’s not like they aren’t capable, but with the connection being so strong, advisors usually know things that will help decision making etc.”

You nodded and wrote it down.

“So the King or Queen is #2… who’s 3?”

“The Zaleon. Another person you saw that same day.”

“Jeez Yoongi, you’re seriously friends with all the most powerful people in your tribe?” You asked but he nodded.

“I know a few other upcoming council members that are higher up on the food chain. We grew up close, I’ve known them all my life. I’m honestly closer to them than my own brother these days.” Yoongi laughed weakly.

“You must miss them huh… I’m sure they missed you.” Your smile was sad, but it just made you feel worse for trying to keep him here.

“I do… they did…” that somber mood was back and he didn't like it.

“Anyway, the Zaleon. I guess they're similar to a priest up here. Their job is conducting ceremonies, hosting praises, and talking with the Zale.” Your eyes widened.

“Talking?”

“Yep, they can hear it. Their connection is stronger than mine in that sense. It’s just that advisors are a little more… logical and analytical to their approach and the Zaleon is always a little more on the spiritual side.”

“Is there ever conflict because of that?”

“Sometimes… but we usually see eye to eye about things, we just do it a little differently. It doesn’t happen as often as you think it would.”

You nodded and wrote it down.

“What about your other friends?”

“Chief Innovator and Head of War. 1) They deal with a lot of technological developments within the tribe and 2) Leads the royal guard.”

You were impressed and that made him proud. His friends were impressive, weren’t they…

“So how do you guys get appointed, I’m judging by what you told me awhile ago, that you don’t go around and campaign.”

He laughed. “It’s hereditary. The chances are always between siblings. The Zale will choose from there.” He could sense the question incoming.

“Also something I prefer not to explain too much in depth.” Your words were on the tip of your tongue but you stopped yourself.

“Alright new subject… I’ll come back to this later but I want to cover as much as I can before… before you leave.” You were said again but your incoming

He could already feel your embarrassment before you even asked the question. You were struggling…

“Um, please… um please…” you were getting so quiet

“Human, what are you trying to say?”

Just gotta be professional about this.

“I’m honestly curious about your biology. Like we both know Keepers don’t fit into the natural world and just from my observations before you transformed… well I’m honestly struggling to know how you would possibly… well how would you make more of you.”

Oh.

This was hilarious.

You could already see Yoongi struggling to contain his laughter at your awkwardness.

“I seriously don't understand why humans are so weird about this subject. You’re making ME feel weird about it.” He shivered.

“As a researcher I can understand your curiosity. Please don’t make this awkward.” You blushed at his words. You were the one being weird about it. Professionalism, it’s all about professionalism. You’re just a curious scientist looking for an answer. Why so awkward? He was right. Just… all it takes is professionalism.

“Ok. Well I’m glad to see you’re not awkward about it. In that case please explain in as much detail as you’ll tell me about Keepers…” ughhh you were faulting. “About how we have sex?” Yoongi finished your sentence for you, he was blunt and seemed to hold no shame at all.

“Yeah, what you said…”

Yoongi rolled his eyes at how you were still being weird about it.

“This honestly will be a bit hard to explain…” He rubbed his fingers along his chin as he thought about it.

“Is it graphic?” You worried accidentally aloud.

He shook his head. “It’s just, uhhhh, you can use your imagination, right human?”

“Yeah…” You answered a bit worriedly. What was he about to say, imagination?

“Alright, good, alright. Ok so your original question about reproduction— I guess first to answer that you would need to know how sex works.”

You got your fingers ready for typing and snuggled under your blanket further, trying to conceal how flushed your face had gotten. You knew he knew, but still…

“I’m sure you can guess that it’s not going to be traditional. Far from it actually so please, I don’t know how well I can possibly explain this in Korean but, please bear with me as I try and help you picture it.”

You felt your heart flutter. Oh gosh.

“Unlike most living creatures, physical intimacy is not how we do things.”

….

“Through the Zale we are able to—“ He stopped for a second trying to find his words. There just really weren't the right words to explain this properly in any human language.

“It’s a spiritual experience. You’re transported somewhere calm and peaceful as you indulge in the pleasure your partner is giving you. It is an experience that is likely hard for you to understand and I struggle with telling. It really is just one of those things that you have to experience to get the full picture.”

You were definitely struggling to fully understand what he was saying.

“Ok ok ok, help me understand… so you said you’re transported?”

“Yes.”

“Ok but where though, is this a place you go to?”

“No— what, it’s more like… you don’t go anywhere. A mental oasis.”

“So you’re still in the same place?”

“Yes human.”

“Alright alright…” You typed away.

“And about the uh, the pleasure wait, so… help me, you said no physical intimacy but… how?”

“The Zale. You’re in this space between and it just allows you to feel everything and anything your partner is feeling multiplied by a billion. It’s overwhelming.” Yoongi was starting to feel funny. Just speaking about this with you made the memories of all the times he found himself getting able to experience it, flooding back. And you were here, you… what is he thinking?

…

“Ok yep it’s still not making any sense at all…” You sighed, eyes trained on his trying to see if you could get it. Maybe your imagination wasn’t as good as you thought it was.

Yoongi groaned and moved closer once again, but this time he was just inches away from your face. “It would be easier to show you…” he whispered. The silence in the room was felt as your face turned warm.

Did he just ask you to—

Suddenly he moved back over and started laughing hard.

“Your face— human your face!” He rolled back as it just got too funny the more he thought. You weren’t laughing however.

“I was joking! Humans don’t do jokes or something?” He whipped his eyes, tears having spilled by now.

You tried your best to join in on the hehe and hahas, but you were still trying to recover from the way your heart just seemed to stop, how close he was, and the fact that for a second you thought he actually wanted to…

Ok….

The thing is you didn’t know exactly why this was so funny to him. Yes your face was hilarious, but he also went through a split second where he wasn’t joking. He intended it to be a joke but the minute he got close and that familiar welcoming scent from you came to him, for just a millisecond he kinda hoped you would say yes. It was bad and hilarious to him all at the same time. What was actually happening to him. FOR A SECOND HE ACTUALLY THOUGHT—

This topic was dangerous and he’s too… broken to be thinking straight right now.

“Anyway, um yes, about your actual question. The Zale will bless a wanting couple with a child.”

You quickly tried to recover. “Ummm please elaborate.” You were confused.

This was another difficult one to help you contextualize without you actually being there to see it.

“That’s kinda the best way I can describe it. A couple will just… um want a child. If the Zale feels they are worthy, an egg will appear—“

“Ok wait, you’re moving too fast. So… a couple just wants a child and… poof?” You stared at him trying to see if he knew how ridiculous that sounded. “They don’t need to do anything but… want?”

“I mean they do have sex, and if the couple wants a child, the Zale will grant them their wish. It’s a ceremonial procedure that involves a ritual of sorts. I’m not quite sure what happens because I’ve never been through the process. But yeah… you just need to want a child.”

You stared at your laptop baffled. “Yoongi Keepers seriously are… wow.” Everything, everything about them made no sense. But as a scientist that pushed you to discover the impossible and solve this mystery. Yoongi could sense this and he couldn’t help the little smile.

“You also mentioned an egg?”

“Yes.”

“Soooo… eggs… That’s how the child will develop?” Honestly out of everything you heard this was the most normal thing he’s said so far.

“Yes.” You nodded slowly.

“I’m curious… since your lifespan is so long, how long is the gestational period? Is it longer?”

“It’s 9 months for you humans, isn’t it?”

You nodded.

“It’s definitely longer then. Average is about 2 and a half years.” You wrote that down with exclamation points. This definitely might be the longest period recorded in history, rivaling that of elephants and blue whales which have always been known to hold that record.

“If I can, I definitely want to come back to this subject but there’s still so much to explore just in this one area. Tell me um…” You were back to being nervous.

Professionalism.

“So I’m curious, do Keepers only have sex to have kids or is it for fun as well?” Your face was warm but your voice was calm this time.

Yoongi giggled a bit, you couldn’t get it past him. “You’re really curious about this, aren’t you?” He teased making that little bit of confidence drain in just a second.

“It’s not that— I, you know I have to re—“ He laughed harder at your stammering.

“I feel like this is a great opportunity to tell you about the moon ruts.” You tried to calm down and get ready for this new information.

“Please explain…”

Yoongi looked around. “Do you have more water? I feel like I have to show you this…” Your eyes opened wide and you hurriedly got back up to refill your glass.

“Tradition is that when peace between tribes is established, a biannual ceremony will be arranged as part of the treaty.” Yoongi grabbed the glass from your hand. He put his hand over the water and pulled back, making the liquid come out of the cup into a ball. You saw with your own eyes as the water changed color as it joined the ball— again, the clear liquid was gone, now a glowing blue. He then put the glass back on the table and then put both hands around the ball of water. He brought his hands out and the ball got bigger, forming a hollow inside.

What in the…

Yoongi leaned back, his hands in his lap now. “In a celebration of peace, Keepers will come up to the surface, the location always being the midway coordinates between tribes.” It was then that little people started swimming up from the bottom of the ball.

Your eyes widened, unable to fathom that was happening to you in real life. Moments like these are always beautiful scenes in movies, or the moments in books where the imagery is so strong you can practically see it right in front of you. But this was reality for you. This was real and no book or movie could have prepared you for the beauty in front of your eyes.

Distracting you from what was happening in the sphere was what was happening around it. 4 points around the sphere glowed harder than the sphere itself.

“What are those?” You pointed to the point closest to you.

“Stationary points. As you probably can assume and have questioned, how can all these Keepers come up to high level waters and no one detect anything.” It was a question that was dancing around your head as you watched the sphere continued to fill with more and more people. Even though you assumed that these locations were far away from any shore line, they were right at the epipelagic zone or more commonly referred to the sunlight zone. They were close enough to the surface where in Yoongi’s little diorama you could see where the water ends and air starts, they were right there. Someone would have to notice an event like these.

“Trainee advisors of the tribes will be randomly drawn to take these positions. We are tasked with keeping a protective barrier around the event so we remain undetected and unseen. Don’t even try and think about looking for any moon rut, you will never find us no matter how hard you look.” You nodded, this would be enough anyway.

“Have you ever had to do that?” You asked.

Yoongi nodded. Oh if only you knew how many times he was one of the unlucky 4. It was tourture really, how we would just stare at the green amps he had to hold while right in front of him people were having the time of their lives. It was one of the reasons why he hasn’t got the opportunity to participate in so long. Anytime he was well enough to go, he would always get picked. He felt lucky that he was ever able to actually participate with how things had gone for him.

“Anyway, skipping ahead a bit…” The events inside the sphere sped up like he hit the fast forward button. “When we first arrive it’s a time of reunion and peace. You meet friends you don’t get to see often, you catch up on events that you haven’t had time to talk about, etc etc… Now that's where the fun starts.” The people that had gathered now formed rings, hand in hand. You tried to lean in and see what they were gathered around. Something was right in the center.

“Like I said it’s a ceremony so, there’s a lot of details that are ritualistic and would take a while to explain the purposes and meaning, but I will talk about the biggest one.” The sphere zoomed into the center to reveal it was another Keeper with what looked like a drum.

“Trainee rulers are tasked with leading the ceremony. At the end they beat that drum and well… see for yourself.” Yoongi motioned to the sphere. You watched as the little person hit the drum, part of you was surprised but a bit relieved knowing this little show couldn’t make any sound. Anything seemed possible so you really didn’t know where the limits were but at least there were some. Water wouldn’t be able to make that sound.

You saw the people who had gathered around the person, their demeanor started to change. From what he has shown you this was relatively calm, nothing that you would flag as weird, but as the figure in the middle continued to hit the drum the keepers seemed to completely change. They became eccentric. The process happened so fast, they looked a lot less like people and more like… animals. Then suddenly, everyone just seemed to be on each other. The rings had been broken, it was just a mass of people out of control.

You watched in horror. You hardly knew what was happening but it was just so rough and intense. When you looked over to Yoongi however, he was the complete opposite of you, he looked into it. It was subtle but the way his eyes were trained on the mass of people, let you know how much he was enjoying this.

Of course he would, this is normal for him, but…

Your eyes went back and things only seemed to have gotten worse. What the actual fuck was happening?!

“Yoongi… what is happening?” You finally asked, just getting more and more confused as time continued to pass.

He finally seemed to snap back when he heard your voice. “Oh right… um this is the moonrut. It lasts until sunrise.”

“What are they doing?”

“Uhhh I don’t know what the word is in Korean… It’s an orgy, uhhhh lots of people having sex together… is there a word for that?”

What…

You just looked at him shocked.

“Human? Hello… I asked a question.”

“So… what you’re saying is that a moonrut is a giant orgy?” Saying it out loud made you realize how obvious it was by the name.

“Ahhh is that what it’s called? Yes, that’s exactly what this is. I can sense you have a lot of questions so let me just explain first something you need context. Keepers tend to pride themselves on the fact that we are so far advanced compared to humans both mentally, physically, and technologically. We consider ourselves even more civilized than the barbaric practices we heard have occurred here. But… Well, the moonruts are meant to be a way for us to embrace that animalistic side that is still very much so present in every animal that lives and breathes. It’s like umm… a way to relax, let go of stress and be what we truly are.”

“The switch was quick…” You pointed out.

“Ahh yes, that’s what the drum is for. It helps channel the energy. It’s really fun, honestly, everyone looks forward to going as soon as they turn of age.” Yoongi thought back to it.

He remembers being in school when it was nearing time for the people in his group were close to becoming of age. It was really the only thing anyone seemed to talk about. Of course with Yoongi having possible responsibilities moonruts to him for a while only meant that coronation day would have happened. But behind the anxiety he still was excited. For most Keepers this was the big event for when you were of age. He remembers when the 2nd moonrut of the year happened and how some of his classmates had their birthdays so they were able to go. It only seemed to become even more of a hot topic. The amount of people who were trying to hook up with others to prepare themselves for the intensity that comes with going to the moonrut. It was a hectiness that even he got to witness as he was preparing for the coronation.

By the time classes had ended everyone in his group had attended except him. It wasn’t like he didn’t want to go, but the minute he was picked to be the next Advisor, lots of training came and he just didn’t have time. It honestly took a while for him to finally attend his first one, with training and work, leaving for a day seemed like too much. Then well, things finally started easing up for him, but he kept getting picked to post at one of the Stationary points. It was honestly the worst experience. Part of him was glad the first time since unlike his peers he didn’t have time to do the whole hook up before you go part, so he thought it would be nice to be able to experience it first before actually partaking. But then, somehow, out of the 12 trainee advisors that were part of the pact, he kept getting picked. It really hit low when Hoseok and Namjoon were able to actually participate before he did.

“What’s it like?” It took you a second to realize how weird that question was. “I mean, this looks really really intense, and I mean, you’re saying it’s fun, I was just wondering if it’s different than how it looks.”

Yoongi didn’t suffer the same type of embarrassment that some humans would get discussing topics revolving around sex. Keepers never had that same history that humans did with it that made it become the taboo subject that it is today. But this question in particular made him a bit red in the face realizing he would have to talk about his experience with moonruts. This has never happened before…. Not the talking part but getting flustered the way he did around you. Maybe you were starting to rub off on him or something….

“I guess probably from your perspective it’s a bit much. Even Keepers who haven’t attended can be overwhelmed, but in the moment....”

Yoongi’s first time being able to go was the 1st moonrut of the year, right after Namjoon went for the first time. The stars seemed to align that day, training was opened up (after a bit of persuasion) and he surprisingly wasn’t picked that time for the stationary point. At that point he had attended but watched on the sidelines a few times and that anxiety of seeing the whole process was gone. He had thought about and imagined what it was like, the excitement of the moment still getting to him as well. Nothing could have prepared him for actually participating.

“It’s… it’s…” His eyes darted over to you who was listening intently. He hated how he pictured you as he thought about this.

“It’s lust like you’ve never experienced before. Then again I don’t exactly know what it’s like to do it the normal way, but it’s just… When you hear the drums beat your whole body comes alive, your thoughts and worries are gone, and it’s like a hunger that can’t be satisfied. Leading up to it, is just… you can hardly wait to get your hands on someone and then when the beat signals for it to start the only thing your body can seem to do is reach for the nearest person next to you and…” The sensation was hard to describe. At this point he was definitely starting to feel a little funny.

It’s just been so long since he’s been touched.

“Sometimes people might coordinate and stand close together on purpose to make sure that sometime throughout the night they end up together. I personally never had the time to do that so I’ve gotten the chance to be with a variety of different people. It’s a lot of fun human. You go back home looking like you've been in a fight, bruises, bite marks everywhere, but everyone is smiling. It’s one of those things that’s definitely hard to understand looking in from the outside, I understand that.”

He really must be broken because the thought came back of having you as a moonrut partner if the world was a little different. He wondered for a second what you would be like. Maybe you’d pull his hair hard like that girl from the Rezone Tribe or maybe leave him marked so everyone could see like that guy from the Isa Tribe. His thoughts were racing and it was making him feel funny. Why was he thinking about you like this?! It made his skin crawl yet at the same time excited him to no end.

This was so wrong, so so so wrong. Yoongi made a quick mental note for later to make sure to log this as a possible result of the attack. This went beyond just the fact he’s been awhile since he’s been able to go, because ALL he could picture was you by his side. How you would feel against him as the beats from the drum controlled you and the pleasure. That had to be it, this was not normal at all.

Yoongi’s face had started getting red again as he battled his confused brain, but you were so into the information he was giving you didn’t notice at all.

You had so many questions with this information he gave you knew there would never be enough time to cover everything. It’s like every answer resulted in ten more questions, it was insane.

That looming feeling returned. Suddenly all your questions were thrown out as only one really mattered at this moment.

“Yoongi…” Your voice cut through the whirlwind he had thrown himself into.

He gripped the pillow he had in his lap a little tighter. “Yes human.”

“When are you leaving?” Your tone was timid and scared. What if he said tomorrow?

It was obvious the question shocked him.

“I’m just wondering… You keep telling me all this cool stuff and it just makes me more curious to learn about you and the Keepers. But…” It hurt you to say the next words. “I don’t think we should keep going if you’re leaving tomorrow or something, you’ll just leave me with more questions unanswered. We have hardly covered all the topics I wanna discuss with you, but… I just need to know is it even worth it to keep going.” You were sad, not ready for the answer at all.

The change in mood was so sudden. It was a saving grace in the sense that it saved him from his mind, but the question and answer were difficult.

There were so many things that came to him as he thought about it. His friends and parents were waiting for him back at the tribe, he missed home, he had a lot of responsibilities that he needed to attend to. If this was a normal situation, not like any of this situation is normal, but he would have been home. But well… What exactly happened to him, why was he terrified of the ocean? He has also started field research on you and the humans, and you. You especially… for some reason he didn’t wanna leave yet.

Maybe he felt indebted to you? As much as Yoongi tried to talk about the fact he would have been fine if you hadn't found and helped him, the thing is… He was in no condition to fend for himself against the elements, plus he could hardly move when he woke up. The question if he would have been fine without you is one that’s not as obvious as he tried to say it was. You could have possibly saved his life, you had been nothing but nice to him over these last few weeks. He was grateful even though he would never tell you that. The fact you were also so into him and his culture made him feel so proud, he loved how fascinated you would get anytime when you found out something new.

He needed to get back, had to get back eventually… but what was the rush? He was likely never going to get an opportunity like this again. Maybe he could enjoy himself a little longer… just a bit.

It was at this moment he made a pact to himself. The minute he figured out what these nightmares and weird feelings he got that made him absolutely terrified to go back to the water that he’s called home all his life… the minute he can figure this out… or get over it, he’d go back home.

In the meantime he can learn a little more about you and why you were making him feel this way.

Yoongi looked back over to you. “Teach me to walk.” He said flatly.

You looked at him confused by the sudden request. “I’m sorry what?”

“Teach me to walk, I wanna know how to do it.” Yoongi scooted to the edge of the couch to let you know he meant now.

It took a minute for your mind to connect the pieces. You couldn’t hide the giddiness. “Does that mean…”

“There are too many things I need to figure out before I leave and my field study hasn’t concluded yet. I think I still have enough time to stay longer for your questions to continue. Teach me to walk though because… this will get annoying after a while.” He chuckled lightly.

He could feel the happiness radiating off of you. It made his heart all fluttery. Were you really this happy?

You happily stood up and held out your hands. “Alright, it’s a deal then~” You helped him to his feet.

By now the sun had begun to move back down towards the horizon. The sky was now a fiery orange and it shone in through the windows. The time you had been hoping to get as many questions in was now switched to full gear on teaching Yoongi how to use his legs.

If this moment taught you anything, it was that he was determined… and an extremely fast learner too. You spent the next few hours helping him walk across the floor of your house, even making a couple trips up and down the stairs. You saw first hand the transformation happen before your eyes. He was shakey at first, but with your encouraging words and a shoulder to lean on if he ever needed it, the quickness that he seemed to improve definitely wasn’t ordinary.

Based off your hypothesis.Yoongi in particular or maybe all Keepers were great at observing. He paid close attention to the way you walked, even back to the chopsticks, he just watched and was able to replicate relatively quickly. Honestly, your guess is that it was less about him learning to walk and more so him building up the leg strength in order to carry himself properly. Then again though, he did have some type of abilities you didn’t quite understand, so that also could have something to do with it.

It went from shakey steps, to him slowly walking behind you (being a safe distance away), to him being able to carry himself across the room.

It was fast considering the task at hand, but you worked on this for hours. The sun had completely set at some point. The time seemed to fly though. You laughed and joked as you walked around the house— a chemistry indescribable in the air. It was the first time that you felt like Yoongi really might not secretly hate you. You just felt like two friends hanging out.

Despite your different worlds it seems like there is a lot more common ground then you originally thought. Similar life experiences, emotions, and feelings all were a universal topic as you chatted. The first true sparks of friendship were in the air.

A moment in particular that continued to linger in your mind was when he nearly tripped. At this point he had been walking ok on his own, but the living room rug did what rugs do and had him stumbling over his own feet. He was relatively steady, but the sudden trip up was too much for him, still getting used to moving around on legs. Luckily you were close by to catch him but well…

He was so close.

He had his head on your shoulder and your arms were wrapped around his torso. In a haste you didn’t think about it too much until the moment seemed to continue, the shock from the event began to wear away. It was like you were giving him a nice hug.

He was warm… a lot different to what he felt like in his previous form. He had also grabbed onto you so he could help him steady himself. This was the closest you had ever really gotten to him.

It was funny because it really lasted a second before he was trying to find his footing again, making you realize an occurrence like this likely didn’t phase him. From what you had learned earlier, closeness wasn’t something you should dwell on too much. This was probably nothing in his eyes.

You tried to treat it as such, you quickly helped him to his feet and laughed at the moment as did he. You really tried, but your mind kept replaying it over and over again. You thought about how nice his embrace felt and how much you wanted to feel it again.

You didn’t know why this was getting to you, but maybe the fact that you knew now he was going to stay for a little while made you a little excited. Something had changed.

You and Yoongi worked hard on getting him to be able to walk for the rest of the day. By the time dinner rolled around, he could walk pretty comfortably on his own. He was a bit shaky sometimes and running you both had yet to test, but you at least didn’t need to worry as much as you used to.

You went to your fridge ready to start dinner when you realized once again you had yet to go to the store to get actual ingredients to make anything or even just a microwave meal… It was fish and water just like before.

You sighed. “Hey Yoongi… so I forgot to get food. Might just go out and get something, I could cook your fish when I get back.” You turned to him who was leaning on the counter behind you.

“I want what you’re having, human.” You were a bit surprised.

“You sure your appetite didn’t change?” You teased as you closed the fridge.

“It’s just curiosity, I thought you would understand…” He pouted. Too cute…

“I do, I—” You stopped when an idea popped into your head.

“Yoongi, would you like to ride with me? I just realized you haven’t really left the area around the house. Might be fun to do a quick trip out~” You suggested.

You watched the gears turn in his head. “It’ll be quick I promise~ Plus, we can go pick something out together!”

You moved a little closer and grabbed his hand, lightly pulling him toward the front door.

“Fine, research might be good anyway.” He sighed. Honestly he really was a bit curious about what it was like past the walls of your house. Yoongi had swam past it sometimes before he transformed, but your house was quite isolated. The only thing he saw were trees and an empty beach in the range he swam.

You had told him about some of the things that happened to you whenever you would leave the house but it was always hard to picture since he really didn’t have too many points of reference. Your house was the only “human” thing he’s seen in person.

The only reason he was hesitant to leave was because well… you were an ok human but what about the rest? Blending into the crowd is something Keepers train for since they are young but when actually faced with the task, it was a bit worrisome, especially since he’s learned so much in the time he’s been up here that was never covered in any of his classes. The worry that he wasn’t ready or something would happen that would make him stand out and then…

You happily gave him one of the jackets your dad left behind, the cool sea breeze now making the air chilly. He wasn’t wearing any shoes but, you didn’t think too much about it since you didn’t have any plans of him getting out of the car.

You then guided him outside to your car.

“What is this human?” He questioned as he walked around the vehicle.

“My car— or not really mine, it’s a rental but you get the point.” You looked at him, expecting a snarky remark about how primitive the technology was but instead he seemed almost fascinated as he ran his hand across the hood.

“What’s transportation like where you come from?”

He looked back at you when he heard your voice.

“Nonexistent.” He chuckled, shocking you.

“Wait you mean to tell me your people that are sooo advanced as you like to put it, don’t have any forms of transportation?!”

He nodded. “I guess when you say it like that it’s hard to believe.”

“But… why? I mean, just from what you told me, Keepers are definitely capable. The ocean is huge so I don’t know why I assumed that would be something you processed. Do you know why?”

“There are multiple reasons but most involve the sense that being in the water, the perks that you experience don’t really do the same down there. Also transportation risks secrets possibly getting out, and well I guess it’s pride and tradition. Lots of ours involve commuting, having a machine do that for you isn’t the same.”

He gave you the answer but it still didn’t make any sense— or well it did, but just thinking about it made you tired.

“Huh, guess I can show you something new after all.” The feeling was new. Anything ‘new’ you ever really tried to show him was always laughed at and deemed primitive. For once you have the upper hand.

You happily went over to the passenger side and opened the door for him. “Your ride sir~”

Yoongi looked at you funny but still got in. You bounced over to the drivers side and got in.

You watched as he examined the vehicle a little more, an adorable sense of wonder in his expressions.

“Alright, buckle up! It takes a little while to get into town but just sit back and enjoy the ride. Luckily for you, you have an amazing driver behind the wheel and Jeju is beautiful at this time of night.” You smiled at him before you were backing up and on your way.

You were right. Yoongi for a while kept his attention out the window. At first it was just fauna but the closer you got to town, the bright neon lights, the night life all were marvels.

Yoongi has seen video and pictures of what the surface was like long before he came here, but just experiencing you and seeing everything for himself made him realize once again, the heavy bias in what they would teach. Humans were meant to be bad, you even yourself said that you were indifferent about the statement.

He hasn’t even spoken with anyone else but you, but he was starting to feel even more funny about continuing to believe that, like there can’t be exceptions. You. You were an exception…

Yoongi just watched as you continued to drive. It really was nothing like what he’d been taught.

You eventually stopped the car. You turned toward him.

“Alright, I’m getting jjajamyeon and I know this amazing place. You sure you still want the same thing as me?” You questioned as you grabbed your little backpack.

Yoongi nodded.

“Will you be alright waiting here for me?”

He nodded again.

“I’ll be back soon, the place is just right there.” You pointed to the little stand right across from where you parked the car. “You should be able to see me~” And with that you were shutting the door and getting in line.

It was just him now. He watched you for a little while before turning his attention to the car again.

He took out his system ready to take some notes about the structure. He was never really the type of person who was that into the engineering aspects of machinery, Jimin would always be the one to take that lead, but from what he observed the technology should be simple enough to understand.

Yoongi could feel the presence of some of the components but he was honestly interested in taking this apart and figuring out all the aspects of what makes this work.

But well, while he was distracting himself, it didn’t stop the fear. Being alone was something he did many times. If anything, he thinks he may thrive that way, but ever since… Well ever since the dreams and the feelings started happening, being alone became a little bit of a fear. You were always there to distract him, but you were gone and it allowed his mind to wander.

What if something happened? No… stop, don’t think about that.

Wandering was hard and his imagination was too vivid. His job required it to be. But he just wanted to turn it off for one second.

The pain… the arms… the pain… the pain…. the pain.

It was coming for him. Stop.

Yoongi again tried to turn his attention toward figuring out the components of the car and their purpose, but just imagining the pain.

This wasn’t working.

He anxiously looked up to you, who was chatting with the stand owner. It looked like you knew each other. Yoongi smiled as he watched you laugh with the lady.

Right. Focus on you. He didn’t feel so alone that way.

You. Right, he knew how to do this. He got busy on starting an independent study on you. You made him so curious, it was worth separating his notes slightly. That’s what he told himself at least.

Eventually you came back over but with the lady from the stand. Your hand carried a bag as you both chatted and smiled your way over. When Yoongi noticed he felt his anxiety surge.

You opened the door with your free hand, your laughter becoming prominent.

He saw the lady from the stand’s face change when she saw him.

“Now who is this young man?”

You smiled. “Uhh a friend of mine, we’re on vacation together.” Was this a lie?

“A friend?” She gave you a funny look and you already knew what she was thinking. You both just laughed, you being clearly flustered by her assumption.

You opened the back door and she put the bag she was carrying in the back.

“Anyway, nice to see you Y/N, hope to see you soon! You and your friend have a good time alright~” You hugged her real quick before she ran back to her stand.

You got back in the car with a sigh, relief knowing that dinner had been gotten. Your attention turned back to Yoongi who was looking a little strange.

“You alright?” You questioned, worry immediately consuming you.

“Yeah… just, let’s go back ok.”

As much as you wanted to push further, from the past few weeks you’ve known him, you knew he wasn’t going to tell you anything.

You started the car and began your way home. It was hardly 2 minutes into the ride when you felt him grab your free hand and intertwine his fingers with yours.

You panicked again, but he never once looked at you but kept his hand in yours.

You were worried but your face was warm. You wondered if this was another one of those things you shouldn’t really look into too much, but the moment felt so intimate. His hand in yours as you drove through Jeju. You heart skipped a beat just thinking about it, but again, you were worried about what exactly caused this odd display of affection.

Is he ok?

By the time you got home things hadn’t really improved at all. He was still distant and not really talking to you. He tried to pretend though which was even more concerning. As you started taking the jjajamyeon he tried to make small talk but even when he laughed you could tell there was something behind this mask he was trying to create.

You were REALLY worried. But again, you knew he wouldn’t tell you unless he was ready. Hopefully he will tell you tomorrow.

Dinner was nice though overall, he seemed to enjoy the dish you gave him and you both chatted lightly over the meal.

It was now time for bed. You guided him up the stairs, still a little worried he might fall despite all the progress he made today.

You went to his room and started getting the bed ready while he watched.

“What are you doing human?” He finally asked.

“Just tryna make the bed a little more comfortable. Wanna make sure you sleep well tonight.” Maybe whatever was troubling would go away after a good night of sleep.

You were busy and didn’t see the way he smiled at this.

“Alright! Hop in~” You ushered over to where you had pulled back the covers.

He took a seat on the bed.

“You don’t have to go to bed now if you don’t want to. I would stay up a little longer, but I’m a bit sleepy after all we did today. Just turn off the lights when you’re ready, I’ll be close by if you need anything~” You turned around and were headed toward the door when a mysterious force pulled you back so you were right in front of him, just like this morning.

You looked down, extremely confused. “Where are you going?” He reached up and lightly grabbed your hand.

Dun dun.

“Um… just to my room, it’s the door right beside this one.” Your heart was pounding in your chest but you tried not to let it show. You were oddly suspicious that he knew though.

“You’re not staying?” He questioned, making you a little confused.

“Why would I stay?”

You noticed the little pout on his features. Oh what was happening…

“Because I’m a—” It was at this moment he realized exactly where he was.

“I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware humans didn’t practice this as well.” Now you were curious.

“Practice what?”

Yoongi sighed. “People usually sleep together to keep each other warm, for the same reason as before. Sorry I didn’t know…” He was embarrassed, a faint blush on his cheeks.

You smiled and made a mental note to write that down later. “It’s alright, it was cute~” You brought your hand up to ruffle his hair. By now the bun you had put it in earlier had come down, his bangs now cascading down his face again.

You have no idea what came over you to say or do what you did, but your smile got bigger when he seemingly melted in your hand.

“Alright, night Yoongi~” You tore yourself away from his grasp and made your way out the door, softly closing it behind you.

It was at that moment he regretted not trying to convince you to stay with him. That feeling of being alone returning all too quickly.

Part of him considered heading to your room later, but the fact you didn’t seem interested in staying with him, told him you probably wouldn’t like that too much. Or would you? Yoongi was usually good at reading people, he remembers hearing how your heart seemed to speed up the minute he made the suggestion.

Oh gosh, please don’t tell him you were scared by the thought?!

Yoongi sighed realizing he shouldn’t care how you reacted or even thought about his proposal. It happened, it was embarrassing. The end.

He tried to get himself situated under the covers. It was so warm, warmer than any pod provided. It was nice. He turned toward the empty side of the bed.

He really regretted not asking you to stay. The bed was too big for just him and just imagining how much warmer he’d feel with you by his side. Yoongi felt a warmth spread all over at the thought.

You were so warm. This bed, the covers, and you right next to him.

…

You. What was happening to him? Ever since he’s turned human, he can’t seem to escape the passing thoughts and curiosities about you.

He sighed once more and picked up his system that was sitting on the nightstand.

He was tired, but his thoughts kept the sleepiness from taking ahold of him. Instead he opened up his notes he started earlier and started writing everything down. You, you, you, why couldn’t he stop thinking about you?!

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The following morning was interesting to say the least.

You woke up to greet Yoongi like you always did. You were a bit surprised to find Yoongi was still fast asleep, but it did offer you a great opportunity. It was cute. You found he still retained some of his habits before he transformed. He had wrapped himself in the covers and had curled into the blankets. You had to stop yourself from taking a picture.

As you were eating breakfast later, Yoongi mentioned he wanted to switch back eventually, which was fine. You hadn’t thought too much about it until he said he wanted to try out the pool outside.

This led to a conversation about why he was so hesitant to go back to the ocean that didn’t really go anywhere. He wasn’t telling you something and that worried you, but it was just one of those things he wasn’t going to answer.

Then you moved onto the issue of the fact that your pool wasn’t salt water, something you automatically assumed would cause some type of issue. Yoongi also confirmed that it would be an issue.

Now you found yourself standing at the end of the pool, Yoongi by your side, as you were trying to figure out a way to fix this issue.

“Yoongi I’m sorry but I don’t know how I would do this. I would need to drain the entire pool and then go back and forth with buckets from the ocean. Nothing about that sounds like a good idea.” You looked at him worried.

“Can we try my idea then?” You had been hesitant to hear him out. At the end of the day this was your parents’ summer house and the last thing you needed was for them to hear you did something to the pool while they were away.

“What’s your idea?” You finally gave in.

“Did you still need this water?” He questioned, pointing down at the pool.

“Please, my parents would kill me if we drained the pool…” You panicked.

He nodded. “I swear, I always thought if I were to tell a human about my abilities they would take advantage of them. You human, don’t use me enough.”

Yoongi bent down to grab his knife, already having had a feeling he would need it.

You watched intently as he stretched out one arm and used the other, with the knife facing downward, and began to draw a rectangle.

The pool water began to glow that beautiful blue that you saw earlier around the edge as he traced. Woah…

When he got around the entirety of the pool he switched the hand he was holding the knife with, brought it down and slowly began lifting it back up. With it, a perfect rectangular prism that was the pool water lifted up.

Your mouth was wide open as the water lifted higher and higher, it now floating high above your head. It was beautiful.

Questions, questions, so many questions.

“Is it the knife?” You blurted out, for some reason, that being the question that kept popping into your head. He’s had it with him since he came, even though you were sure it was a lot longer at some point…? Though, yesterday he didn’t have it with him when he made the diorama and ice rose.

“No. It’s just me and the Zale. The knife stops me from going overboard with bigger things like this. I figured you wouldn’t appreciate it if your pool ended up in space accidentally.”

He chuckled lightly at the look of shock on your face.

You took more notice of the knife now. The hilt was a dark blue with inscribings all over it. Jewels decorated the guard, which seemed to glow. The blade was a shiny silver, you weren’t exactly sure about the shape of it, not being that knowledgeable in weaponry, but it came to a fine tip and was relatively thin. It was a beautifully crafted weapon.

“Is there a place to keep this?” He asked after the water made it up to a substantial height. You looked around the patio.

“Uhhh would over there work?” You led him toward the stairs down to the beach. The area beside it was nothing, the house blocked it from any passerbyers (though there weren’t many), and the trees that lined the stairs made it less visible to anyone on this side.

He nodded, seeing the space you meant.

“Alright…” He pointed the knife in the direction of the space you pointed out and the prism slowly floated over in that direction.

“Yoongi, you’re so cool,” you admitted, the confession coming out accidentally.

You didn’t miss the little smile on his face.

But his expression changed quickly as he used his free hand to make a sliding motion with his finger, making something come up from the ocean and fly into the prism. It happened so fast.

The look of concentration on his face as the water seemed to battle with whatever was inside. It was hot, a shameless confession seeing the way his features seemed to change completely, the soft dollish-like appearance into one so focused and determined. It was hot.

The battle was fast though before he snapped his fingers and ice shot out directly from the center, quickly encapsulating the water inside.

Yoongi lowered his knife, the ice also binding to the ground.

As things settled down, he let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding. It wasn’t the task that was difficult, this was very easy, ridiculously easy. This normally wouldn’t have taken so long, but true to his abilities, he could feel your eyes. He could feel how he seemed to excite you as he worked, it made focusing incredibly difficult for a reason he didn’t quite understand.

“Am I now?” He finally responded with a smile.

Your mouth couldn’t seem to close at how impressed you were.

“Very, very cool.” So many adjectives and that was the least fitting. This was impressive beyond any word your brain could come up with.

You turned back to your now empty pool. “What now though?”

The process was repeated once again. Yoongi moved so he was standing at the edge of the patio, overlooking the ocean. Another prism came over the railing, and settled into the pool.

You were surprised when Yoongi’s hands were down, seemingly done, but the water’s color was clearly not that of the ocean. It was bright and incredibly clear, it looked as if it came from an island instead of the water from down below.

“There, think that solved the problem!” He beamed when he noticed how proud you looked.

You went closer to the pool, bent over, and dipped your hand in. The water made you smile. It was no different than anything else, maybe it was just your mind playing tricks on you after you saw what it went through, but it was just this feeling that it gave you. It was indescribable.

“Did you wanna get in?” He asked, sitting next to you and dipping his feet in the water.

“Kinda in the mood to go back for a bit.” He added.

This prompted you to run back inside, grab your ipad and record the process.

He explained that he had a little time to make the process quicker (whatever that meant) and so instead of the 2 hours you sat before, he was back in his fins in 45 minutes. It was kinda incredible. Later when you cross referenced your notes from the first transformation you learned that the process was EXACTLY the opposite of what happened before. It was like you were watching it in reverse.

While you were waiting with Yoongi you guys did a bit of chatting, he gave you a bit more information about the transformation.

Time Limit?: You wondered and was honestly a bit concerned that there was some sort of time limit to how long Yoongi could stay on land. Your worries were relieved when he answered no, but he did also provide you with additional information you had yet to consider.

What Came First?: Yoongi explained to you that in all technicality, he was a human playing the part of a fish person(?). Keepers were humans before anything. They just possess this mysterious connection with the figure they call the Zale, which allows them to mutate into something else. That was the reasoning he used for the lack of binding contract that came with the ocean.

Before you knew it he was back in the water. You smiled as you watched him get used to it. Luckily for him in this situation, your pool was pretty big and deep. Anytime your parents weren’t playing with you down at the little beach because the tide was likely coming up a little too high, you were up here on the patio in your pool. It was here you learned how to swim. You remember they told you how they invested a lot of money into the pool because of you-- how they wanted it to be a place you loved no matter how old you were.

The pool nearly took up the entirety of the patio, leaving a little room for chairs to sit along the side. It was deeper than what you typically would find in a backyard pool. It started at 3 feet and toward the far end went up to 10.

You were grateful to your parents, he didn’t look too cramped like you feared.

You watched as he swam around a bit before he was coming back to your side.

“You should get in with me.” He looked up at you so cute. It was almost like he was pleading.

“I wouldn’t get in the way?” Yoongi shook his head.

“Join me.” He was trying to be nonchalant about wanting you in with him, but he was really hoping you’d say yes.

“Alright then~” You got up and quickly brought your shirt over your head. Ever since Yoongi first came you got into the habit of wearing a bathing suit under your clothes, prepared for any moment with your fishy friend. You normally would just get in, but this wasn’t a shirt you were interested in getting wet, so it was just a bikini top and swim shorts for you.

Yoongi was watching in the water as this went down. He was a little shocked the minute you removed your shirt. Skin was never really a big deal for him… Nobody wears clothes where he comes from. But seeing you exposed like this for the first time made him feel a little funny.

You didn’t notice his stares and came around to the stairs of the pool. You got in, squealing as the cold water came up to your thighs.

Yoongi swam over to you and watched as you made your way in.

Your smile was big when it made it up to your chest.

“Is that how humans swim?” He questioned.

You laughed. “No, I was just walking.”

There was a bit of a pause. “Do you know how to swim then?”

“Of course I do… hold up.” With that you picked yourself up and started swimming to the other side. Not to brag, but you consider yourself a pretty good swimmer. You were doing it ever since you were young thanks to your parents, but you were also part of a competing swim club in middle and high school. If you go to your parents house in Busan, back in your room, you even have medals to show for it.

That’s why you didn’t think too much when you started making your way to the other side. But the minute you did and you saw Yoongi struggling not to laugh you realized you could not compete with someone who’s lived 122 years in the ocean.

Yoongi was right next to you faster than you could and that’s when the torment started.

He could barely talk, trying to tell you how ridiculous you looked. Normally you would be offended but again, coming from someone who lives in the ocean, you can only assume if the positions were switched you would be doing the same thing.

After a while though it did get kinda annoying, so you did what you must.

SPLASH

It took a minute for Yoongi to realize what you did. He was confused as the water dripped from his hair.

He turned to see you smiling.

Many thoughts about how to proceed. His heart was warm and many of those thoughts he couldn’t even believe had even come to mind. He settled with the simplest.

He splashed you back.

This basically started a war, or well a very uneven war. You tried your best to get him but for someone with water abilities and who can breathe underwater, it made doing any actual damage very difficult. You, however, were soaked. Just wave after wave.

“Wait time out, time out.” You finally called. Yoongi swam back over, a bit worried when he saw you rubbing your face.

“This isn’t fair, how am I supposed to win?” You pouted. He finally breathed when he realized you weren’t hurt.

“You started it…” He trailed when he noticed you were coming closer.

You brought your hand up to his cheek, that same pouty expression on your face.

Dun dun.

What were you doing?

A moment passed as he stared into your eyes wondering what you were doing. His mind was racing, his body almost crying out to do the thing that he has been trying not to think about. You were so close. He thought you were, he really thought you were about to do it when…

SPLASH

Your other hand was used to create a wave. Nothing compared to the damage he did, but it was enough to have you laughing and cheering when you noticed the look of shock.

“I won, I won, I won!” You cheered. You know you didn’t. If water fights had scores, yours would be barely over 5 while Yoongi’s would be in the hundreds, but it was that look that made it feel like you did. You really didn’t think too much of the interaction, you just assumed that gestures like these wouldn’t be a big deal like he claimed so many of the others weren’t. You were just hoping to shock him enough to execute your plan.

What you didn’t know was how wrong you were in the fact that it was a big deal and just how badly it got to Yoongi. He was thinking the opposite in the fact it was just a difference in culture between you two, but things like this were usually taken in a different way.

He really thought you were gonna… how badly he had wanted you to lean in further. How he continued to feel that was even after you gave him a face full of water.

He thought about it. Going up to you and kissing you like he had resisted the entire day.

What was wrong with him? This wasn’t right at all. He had hated you a few weeks ago and now he was going against everything he’s been taught, even going as far to want to… No. He had to get to the bottom of this.

For now though he just relished in the way you laughed and cheered. You looked so happy.

He really liked seeing you happy.

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The next few days were relatively uneventful. You both would talk pretty much most of the day, continue watching stranger things, rinse and repeat. It was nice in the sense that somehow these days started to establish some sort of routine.

Yoongi felt right being here. No longer was this worry about his intentions, or even the fact he could be leaving soon. He was here and you got used to it.

You would have never pictured this is where you’d be in your time to yourself. Even though it was kinda nice having the house to yourself, you figured it was going to bore you out of your mind after a few days. On your way here you kept counting the days until Seokjin and Jungkook were meant to be coming. But Yoongi turned the whole thing around in the best way possible. You really liked having him here.

Yoongi though has been doing some investigating anytime you weren’t doing something together, he was trying to figure out what was happening with him, because it only seemed like the problem was worsening...

HYPOTHESIS:

The attack and whatever happened to me in the unaccounted month had an additional effect—> causing unexplainable feelings for the human.

EVIDENCE:

A fews weeks ago I had my knife to her throat. Now I’m getting weird urges to pull her close. While my feelings for the human are docile, I do not feel the way my body is pulling me toward.

There’s some sort of attraction going on. It’s an unexplainable pull, a need to be close. At first I just believed it to be my habits from my life, but I’ve definitely crossed boundaries in my standards. It feels uncontrollable, I push myself away but I always find myself at her side.

Weird urges to bring her to the moon ruts.

My feelings for humans have never been romanticized.

Feelings are all mainly physical—> lacks proper backing. Described more as a weird craving than a desired taste.

None of this is making sense.

COUNTER:

She did “save” my life. Might be a possible byproduct of the act.

The feelings have no correlation to my attack or what she did. These are completely natural.

He tried not to think about this too much. Even if this was an effect he would eventually be leaving, solving this issue. It’s simple. If his counter arguments were true (he highly doubted it for some reason), that poses a bigger issue. No matter what he tried to push the topic back and focus more so on getting things done.

It was mid afternoon one day and you had come upstairs to grab something. Yoongi was up here as well, having excused himself earlier to work on something. You were curious but let him go. You really had no plans on questioning when you were about to head downstairs. The angle let you see into the room a bit as he had the door cracked open. The room was dark but a faint blue glow came from the door.

You were curious so you pushed the door open a little and… well you definitely weren’t prepared for what you saw.

Yoongi was right in the center of the bed, crisscrossed, hovering. His eyes were closed and he seemed to be chanting something silently as he moved his hands in his lap. The blue glow had been coming from the orbs that floated around him.

Overwhelmed by the scene in front of you, you squealed, making whatever focus Yoongi had fly out the door. He ended up falling back down on the bed and the orbs (they were made of water) came crashing down.

You obviously startled him.

“Human what the—” he stared at you peeking in through the door.

You quickly ran to the bathroom to grab some towels to clean up all the water.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry…” You were frantically apologizing.

Yoongi flopped back on the bed and sighed, seemingly not caring the bed was drenched.

“I was so close too…” He sighed, running his hands through his hair.

“Close to what??” You looked toward him.

He just looked at you for a second before laying back down.

“I was working, like I told you I was.”

“Working… on….” This was not the time to really be asking questions, but well, after what you saw you were looking for some answers.

“Well if you must know…” Yoongi sat up once again. “I do have responsibilities that I am forgoing by staying here. I was already gone for so long, so I thought it’d be good to do as much as I can from here till I leave.” You nodded understanding his reasoning.

“What were you doing though?”

Yoongi thought for a moment on how to explain this. “I was building.”

…

He could already feel the slew of questions coming.

Before you could even say anything he interrupted. “I know you’re going to ask ‘what’ human and I will already tell you I can’t explain it or the process really. I can say that I’m working on efficiency, improvisation, and innovation, for some of my abilities. Again the what and the how I can’t tell you.” He hoped that cleared up a majority of what you were about to throw at him.

“Wait so you can work on your abilities?”

He nodded. “It’s my legacy, what I will pass along to my kids one day. For now though I’m more so preparing for when I take over.”

You hummed, for some reason the answer making you smile.

“I can see why you guys want to keep this all a secret.” You randomly said out loud.

Yoongi looked at you.

“I already feel like I haven’t seen half of what you can do and just from what I did, power like that…” You were worried. You never really knew what you were going to do with all the notes you collected from Yoongi’s stay. If you published the study it would certainly land you a level of recognition even higher than your parents. The whole world would know your name.

But you knew the reaction from the public might be mixed, not even going into what the government would do. You could already see people trying to search to find the tribes. You can’t even imagine what would happen if they did. Yoongi’s power and the other Keepers…

It was in this moment that you decided that this study was never to see the eyes of anyone but yourself. This was going to become just a way to look back and remember the time you spent with him. You wanted to remember every detail.

Yoongi noticed your daydreaming. He was curious what was on your mind, feeling the indifferent energy coming from you.

You didn’t give him long to wonder because you were standing back up in a second. “Alright ummm, I guess I should work on getting these sheets dried.” You sighed.

“No need, I need this water anyway.” And with that Yoongi placed his hands on the bed and started to lift up, with his hands came all the water in little droplets. He did some motions before they turned back into the orbs that surrounded him when you walked in.

Your eyes were wide as they began to float around the room.

Yoongi’s eyes were on you as he watched your eyes sparkle with amazement and wonder. The blue glow from the orbs highlighted your features and he felt his heart skip a beat when you laughed as you reached out to touch one of them.

At this point he really couldn’t tell if this was part of the effect or his own heart playing him like this. This felt different. The difference scared him.

“I’m sure you still have a bunch of questions. I don’t have too much time, but I will answer what I can.” He said suddenly, needing to distract himself from the way his heart was beating out of his chest.

You looked at him and smiled. “I should leave.”

Yoongi was shocked and he couldn’t ignore the way his heart dropped when you said that. “You didn’t have more questions?”

“I do but I feel like I’m imposing. I don’t want to get in your way.” You had to practically tear yourself from the orbs and head to the door.

“I’ll see you at dinner later, alright?” Before Yoongi could answer you shut the door behind you, leaving him alone in the dark room.

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You were humming along to your favorite song as you were doing your nightly routine. It wasn’t much, but just a face mask you decided to do on a whim.

After you managed to get it on you went out to your room to sit on your bed. The view from here was mesmerizing. The moon reflected off the water and the night sky and sea seemed to stretch for miles. What made today particularly beautiful was the storm clouds up above. From here you could see the raging storm clouds as they were getting closer.

You and Yoongi had been trapped inside all morning thanks to the rain. It cleared up this afternoon, but like the weather had predicted, a storm was coming in now that the sun had set.

You honestly enjoyed storms like this for some reason. Maybe it was the fact that it always reminded you of the summers you used to spend here with your family. Whatever it may be, you smiled at the view.

You stayed there for a few more minutes before you went back to the bathroom to finish your routine. You were in the bed before you knew it. You smiled, the storm outside continuing to rage away, while you were in the coziness of your own bed.

Perfect.

Lights were off, you were ready for bed, peace.

You listened to the storm outside, the waves crashing in, it was so soothing. A little paradise. Living out here was so nice. The summer house was private, no neighbors anywhere. When you were a kid you liked to pretend you lived on a private island, that it was just you, your parents, and the open ocean.

Sleep was coming to you quickly, but it was always the moments when you were the coziest that would always get interrupted.

Scaring you half to death came Yoongi crashing in your room and quickly hopping on your bed. You hardly had any time to react before he was burying his head under your covers.

“Yoongi?! What the actual fuck??” You have to admit you were a bit harsh, but you were sleepy.

He didn’t say anything.

You waited some time before you decided to do anything, just waiting for this to be some sort of prank. Yoongi was never the pranking type, but you figured that’s what was happening tonight. But nope, no punch line, no “gotcha” moment.

You reached out your hand to pat him slightly. It’s when you realized the fact that he was shaking. Shaking hard. Your mind immediately went to the worse.

“What’s wrong, did something happen?” You asked, panicked. It had to be bad, Mr. Stoic, shaking?? No that doesn’t happen.

He didn’t answer again and that’s when you realized he wasn’t going to talk for some time. Instead you just rested your hand on his back and rubbed it gently. Whatever happened clearly startled him. You’ve seen and experienced many things during these last few weeks. Nothing has affected him like this.

Your eyes were starting to tear up for some stupid reason. You were scared, you were terrified.

“Yoongi please talk to me…” You pleaded gently. You didn’t want to poke and prod, but your mind was running a million miles an hour.

It was finally then that Yoongi poked his head from under the covers. Your heart skipped a beat seeing how terrified he looked.

“What is it?! Please!”

Yoongi’s gaze looked toward your window. “The sky… why is it so loud?!”

…

Your face fell in an instant. This boy seriously was about to give you a heart attack over some thunder. Instead of getting upset you put yourself in his shoes. He had told you that he lives far down underwater— he might not hear the storms that come overhead. This might be a completely new and terrifying experience. The best you do for him right now

You quickly wiped your eyes and put on a comforting smile. “Have you not heard thunder before?”

The sky rumbled again and you watched first hand the fear in his eyes as he saw the lightning flash before the loud boom right after. This really was a big deal to him.

“It’s not that… it’s just… I never knew how loud it could get…” The projection of the surface level water did not come with sound. They would be able to see the rain, but for a multitude of reasons, sound wasn’t included. Anytime Yoongi ever came up for moonruts, storms never seemed to happen. It could just be a terrible coincidence or the Zale planned for it that way, but he never knew just how loud it was.

You resisted the urge to laugh and instead worked on soothing him. No matter how adorable you found this, you hated seeing him shaken up.

Yoongi melted at your touch. It reminded him of when he first woke up. So soft, so warm. And smelled so nice, comfort, a warm hug. It’s what possessed him to take the big leap.

Your eyes widened when you suddenly felt two arms wrapped around you. What was happening?

Yoongi didn’t even think before he was pulling you in tighter. It felt so right, so good. His mind was on autopilot at this point.

“Can I stay with you?” It shocked him as well when it came out of his mouth. What was he doing? What was he saying?

“You wanna stay with me?”

Yoongi nodded. “Don’t wanna be alone right now if that’s ok with you…” He didn’t want you to know how desperate he was for you to say yes.

Your arms wrapped him. “Would that make you feel better?”

“Yes.”

You were also on autopilot. “Alright, if that helps then you can stay.” It was the fact that you agreed is what finally made the realization dawn upon him. You said yes, he was going to be in the same bed with you.

He released you and it was then that he was able to see you properly. The moonlight was coming in through the windows, hitting your back, dulling your features. The lighting was so intimate…. He felt his cheeks light up. He would never get flustered about things like this.

Yoongi hurriedly scooted away so there was actual space.

“Uh… thank you human.” He suddenly regretted the bold move he made. He honestly considered leaving back to his room, but the sky boomed again and that was enough to remind him he was bold for a reason. He really was that desperate for someone by his side. He was desperate for you.

It was awkward. Yoongi had moved to the far edge of the bed and you had also snuggled up on your side. You both were just staring at the ceiling as the storm raged outside. You were tired beforehand, but your mind was racing.

You’ve only slept with one other guy. It was your first boyfriend and— your face warmed realizing how wrong it sounded. You meant in the bed, not… not that, well also that, but that wasn’t what you meant. It’s been so long now that you’ve completely forgotten what it feels like to have someone by your side like this.

It was kinda nice.

Yoongi on the other hand was fitting his urges hard. He didn’t wanna make you uncomfortable. He’s only been here for a short time but he’s gathered information about which of his customs seem to make you a little uncomfortable. He’s great at reading emotions, it’s part of his job, so it wasn’t hard to pick up on the various social queues that made you tense. He tried to avoid them or provide some context to make the situation a little less awkward, but these days he just tries to avoid it altogether to avoid miscommunication.

He had already explained the significance of sleeping together to you, but well, he didn’t realize how hard it would be to keep that urge under control.

He’s been by himself for a while. It had been some time since he moved out of the main house. Yoongi was honestly used to being alone, he didn’t think it would be a big deal.

Everything with you seems to be a big deal.

He wanted to pull you close. Instead of his imagination, you were here, you were right beside him and how easy it would be to…

Yoongi scooted over a little to get a feel for how your reaction would be. He listened to the rhythmic beat of your heart and how it didn’t seem to go noticed at all.

Good sign.

He continuously kept moving, waiting for you to notice or say something, little by little until another crash of thunder suddenly had him clinging to you for dear life.

You stared wide eyed when you realized. You had been laying on your side at this point, so when he moved over, he basically ended up spooning you. His face was buried in your neck and his arms were wrapped around you pulling him close.

Silence filled the air for a while, both of you too scared to say anything.

…

“Do you mind if I stay here?” Yoongi finally asked. “It feels nice…”

You recalled back to when he told you about how this was a common practice where he came from. This was probably natural for him. That did not stop your beating heart however, and he noticed.

As soon as he got closer, your heart sped up so quickly. Despite how scared he was, that honestly made him more worried. Was he making you uncomfortable?

“I can move back… sorry this just feels right.” He chuckled nervously. Everything about you in his arms felt right. Your warmth, your sweet scent… fuck, you smelled so good.

You thought about it for a second. You knew immediately you probably weren’t going to get much sleep like this, you being way too excited for your eyes to close anytime soon. But he was your guest and you wanted to make him feel comfortable, if the raging storm outside was bothering him, and you being in his embrace helped, of course you should provide that comfort. Plus… he was right, this did feel right.

“You can stay, it's alright, I understand.”

A little bit of silence passed.

“I hope I’m not making you uncomfortable…”

“No you’re—“

“I can hear your heart… please don’t lie.” You eyes widened at his words. Alright, that’s more new information. But enough, it wasn’t time for the scientist.

“I’m not lying… sorry, just been awhile since I’ve slept with someone like this.”

Your words had his mind racing? A while? There was someone else before him?

“Who?”

“My ex— been so long I forgot what it felt like.” You chuckled, fully expecting him to laugh along with you, but it was silent.

“He used to hold you like this?” The words were dangerous, he knew that.

“Kinda… like the way you’re doing it more though. Feels good.” Yoongi couldn’t stop himself from bringing you closer. The thought of someone holding you like this… normally it wouldn’t affect him, this wasn’t deemed romantic where he comes from but knowing it did where you come from. He hated that.

“Anyway, we should try and go to sleep. It’s pretty late.” It was, it was 2 in the morning if we were trying to be exact.

“Sleep well human.” Yoongi mumbled.

“Night Yoongi~” You were trying to sleep, but as you thought before, it was a hard time trying to finally get your eyes to close.

Yoongi however really made no effort in trying to sleep, at least for a while. Here you were, your body pulled close. Fuck, if you lives were different. Why were you human? He would love to have you as a moonrut partner. Just imagining what that would be like with you— Yoongi felt his face warm.

You just smelled so good it had his mind feeling a bit fuzzy.

This seemed to be the perfect antidote to take his mind off the real reason he came in here. The storm was terrifying, yes, he was not used to hearing it be that loud before— but if that was it, it would be a little sad. No, the dark clouds, lightning flashes and finally the crashes of thunder were enough to invoke that same hopeless feeling that he kept experiencing in his nightmare.

It made him think about it. How it was coming for him. He knew it. It was coming. The storm was a sign, he was sure of it. How could he be alone when a fate Yoongi knew he couldn’t avoid was getting closer and closer.

The moments have only seemed to increase since he woke up. Part of him thought that when he would turn human that this would go away, but no, if anything it’s gotten worse. There was just no escaping it.

It was scary. He was scared.

But you… you always seem to make it better.

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Something weird happened today. Something really weird happened today.

After spending a month with your friend you didn’t think you could be surprised anymore. The impossible was possible when it came to him. As a human being it amazed you, as a scientist it perplexed and challenged you. No matter what side you looked at you were always eager to find something new about the Keepers, about Yoongi.

But something happened today and you were scared.

Considering what you’ve seen these days, you shouldn’t be shocked. You were sure what made this different is the fact that Yoongi looked just as scared.

You looked over at him, his eyes glossy, his hair was wet, droplets continued to drop down his face, as he gripped the towel wanting it to provide some sort of protection. He was shaking. It was obvious. You had pointed it out, but he just said he was cold.

He was lying, you knew that.

What happened? The once playful evening in your pool had turned south so quickly. Part of you wondered if this was your fault, could you possibly be the one that caused it?

What was worse was the little voice in the back of your head that was telling you to say what you needed to do. You hated the thought, but after what you saw today…

It happened about an hour ago. You had the bright idea of trying to teach him how to swim while he was still in his human form. Nothing wrong went there, it was just playful banter as he continued to degrade human design as he struggled for a while, getting out of his old habits. You eventually came out of the pool to relax for a second as you both started to get a little tired. You were about to head in but you thought it’d be funny to push him in one last time.

With a smile on your face and one hard shove, he went flying over the edge. You expected him to hit the water and immediately start bashing you— by then you had pretty much dried off so you knew it would be just one of those annoying moments. What you didn’t expect was that after you pushed him, there was never a splash. It happened again. He got stuck.

You stared wide eyed as he floated over the water, you could still see the look of surprise on his face. It was as if time stopped right before your eyes.

You didn’t know what happened, at first you wondered if this was his doing. You immediately knew something was wrong when you started seeing the tears stream down his face.

“YOONGI!!!” You screamed, your own face was wet now. It was as if you hit the play button all of sudden. He came crashing down into the water like you expected him to minutes ago.

The look of fear on his face as he scrambled out the pool reminded you of when he came into your room for the first time. Right, the first time. You didn’t stop him the next day as he followed you in and you haven’t stopped him yet.

You enjoyed it actually.

But this already made you think that there must be some sort of connection between the two. This is the second time you’ve seen it happen. You’re not even there with him all the time to know.

What you do know is that something is happening here. He still hasn’t said anything to you since he came out. He looked terrified and you were worried.

As of now you were both still out here. Your feet hung in the water as you stared at the moon and stars that hung above the both of you.

You wrapped your arm around him. “Yoongi… if you want to talk about it, I’m here, ok?”

He didn’t want to talk about it with you. He honestly didn’t want to talk about it with anyone. He felt like he was going crazy, he would have believed he did if the missing month of his life wasn't proof enough that something did happen to him.

He didn’t want you to know that something was coming, that it needed him. This feeling of dread, it was like he was staring death right in the face.

No. You didn’t need to know.

“Human it’s fine.” It wasn’t but he needed to put on a brave face. Apparently he wasn’t doing too well on that because you didn’t look convinced.

“I’m not gonna force you to talk, just know I’m worried about you ok. This wasn’t the first time something like this has happened. As much as I like having you here Yoongi, if there's something happening to you, I’d feel better knowing you were around people who are more familiar with this type of stuff. I thought I was being obvious in the fact that I care about your well being. I hope you know that.”

Your words made his cheeks warm.

“Human I understand… just, you don’t need to worry. I’ll figure this out on my own.” He probably would never, but he sounded more confident this time. It seemed to work better as your face started to relax.

“Just know you can talk to me, alright?” You stared him down in order to prove your point.

His face got even more warm.

“Of course, human.”

Silence passed between the two of you for a moment before a thought that had been dancing around in your head got too antsy and you said it aloud.

“Are you ready to go back?” Your heart sank as soon as you said it. Even just the thought of him leaving was making you feel funny. “I’m sure you have people you miss, plus I’m sure you have apprentice things you need to get back to.”

“Human…”

“If you’re worried about your injuries, you’re definitely healed. You probably didn’t need me to tell you that, but if that’s what you were waiting for…” Your voice was shaky.

You suddenly felt his hand on yours. “Calm down, I swear human you’re so dramatic… I’m not leaving, not yet at least.”

“But— But why? Just a few weeks ago you hated me and now you suddenly want to stay when nothing is keeping you here anymore?!”

“Nothing is keeping me here.” Yoongi scoffed. He still wouldn’t tell you the main reason, but to say that’s the only reason why he hasn’t just braved it out and hoped for the best would be a lie.

“Human, you’re right. Sometimes I wish I was back and I want to put this whole thing behind me, but you don’t know what it was like before. This is honestly a breath of fresh air.” He looked over to see your eyes wide, clearly intrigued by this information. He chuckled knowing he should have expected this from you.

“Believe it or not but I am or was sick.” Yoongi had made note of this a long time ago. The symptoms that kept him trapped in his house had disappeared completely. This was honestly the first time in a while he felt normal. Even when things were ‘ok’ they were never completely gone. Yoongi had honestly expected this might be a chronic condition that he’d have to deal with for the rest of his life. But here he was, feeling better than he had felt in so many years.

“What do you mean?”

Yoongi sighed and lied back so he could look up at the stars. You followed.

“It’s the reason I’m here in the first place. Ended up trapped in my home for a while, stressed out of my mind, just wanted to get away, you know?”

“Can I ask what was wrong or is wrong?”

“Kinda hard to explain it. It’s not like I was dying or anything, but it was hard to live. I had been sick for so many years I forgot what it was like to feel normal.”

“Something changed?”

“Ever since I woke up on the beach I’ve felt fine. It’s kinda funny, I can tell you’re thinking it. ‘If they’re so advanced why couldn’t they cure me?’”

“So you read minds now?” You both laughed. “But yeah, I mean, we haven’t discussed medical advancements yet, but I imagine that would be one of the things that you would always seem to have an answer for.”

“And you’re right. We do have an answer for pretty much everything. What I had was completely unknown to them. I was subjected to tests and tests and more tests, plus dealing with my apprenticeship.”

“They never found answers?”

“Nothing, I honestly thought I was just gonna have to deal with it for the rest of my life. Part of me’s a bit scared that when I leave, things will go back to normal. I left for a reason, that’s the last thing I want, honestly.”

You nodded understanding his reasoning.

“Not only that but I feel like this will be the last time I come on land. Just want to experience it all before the responsibilities and prying eyes of everyone make it impossible. I’m not in any rush honestly, you don’t need to worry human.”

“What about everyone waiting for you?”

“They can wait. It’s just us for now.” Yoongi wrapped his arm around you and pulled you close. You couldn’t resist the smile forming on your face.

He rolled over and buried his face in your neck.

You were trying to stop your beating heart and reminding yourself this was just part of his culture. So many moments like these that have your heart feeling all fluttery when in reality this doesn’t mean the same to him as it does to you. You honestly have to stop even thinking about the alternative and see it as it is. You and him? That wouldn’t work, you come from completely different worlds, he’s leaving one day for goodness sake. That wouldn’t work. Just keep your eyes on the prize, learning about a sub human species that only you’re aware of. That’s enough, right?

Yoongi cuddled even further into you, your scent at this point addicting. What was wrong with him? What was wrong with you? The closer he got the less he wanted to pull away, if anything, what he was trying to fight off was the urge to lead you into the pool and take you right now. The desire was carnal. Something so animalistic in what he wanted to do to you. You just smell so good. It would be so easy to give into temptation but Yoongi knew better, whatever was happening he could overcome it.

That didn’t mean it was hard.

His mind continued to play with different scenarios as he tried to focus on just how nice it was having you by his side. That wasn’t right either…

“I’m gonna miss you…” Your voice was soft, barely above a whisper.

Yoongi lifted his head and looked you right in the eyes. Your words made it worse, for a second the desire, the urge, the temptation was almost unbearable. He wanted to show you how much he would miss you too. He wanted to kiss you, to stop you being so worried. All these thoughts dancing around his head became too much, he sat back up so he was facing the pool.

“I bet you would.” He tried to chuckle and make it not a big deal like he always would.

Your eyes were wide while you tried to calm your heart once again. For a second there you seriously thought he would…

You sat up with him, extremely embarrassed about your sudden confession.

“Sorry if I—“

“No, no, you’re fine uh… I’ll be working on the car if you need me.” In a haste he got up and started making his way to the front door. He hated himself, why couldn’t he just say it back?

He would miss you. Probably even more than he may realize. Now he’s just made things weird…

Get it together Yoongi…

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Yoongi stared at his system, intrigued by his findings. He had made it his mission to figure out the inner workings of your vehicle. Like he told you, transportation technology remains unexplored despite their progress. It was a fun little side quest that he tasked himself with.

His findings were unsurprising. The technology was rudimentary as he found everything up here to be. The mechanics, the parts, he’s never seen a car before and he’s sure he could put one together himself, blindfolded.

That’s honestly not what attracted him— what made it exciting was the thought about driving it. He had observed you once working the machine, plus with a little bit of an analysis of the mechanics it was pretty simple knowing how it would work.

He had already asked you to test drive it, the final stage of analysis. You said no, saying something about needing a license and the fact that it was a rental— whatever that means. All he knew was that you were firm on him not going to test it out.

So instead, he continued his study in both further understanding the vehicle and figuring out ways he could improve the technology, possibly even adapting certain concepts to propose to the council for use back home. He highly doubted it would go anywhere, but if nothing else worked, he could always try and make one when he went back…

Going back…

Yoongi was out here trying to distract himself from you and the remainder of the fact that he needed to leave. He knew that. Leaving felt wrong. He hadn’t known you for long but he knew that departure would be hard. You were his friend, the thought about saying goodbye felt wrong.

Taking him out his thoughts was the blaring sounds of his system, letting him know someone was calling.

Uh oh

He didn’t even need to look at the caller ID to know who it was. Without a second thought he answered.

In the holographic projection the familiar 4 faces popped up, the background letting him know they were at their usual meeting spot.

Today was not the day, he wasn’t in the mood…

“Yoongi?” Jimin questioned.

“Hi everyone.” He put his tools back in the box you gave him, his stance was awkward.

He followed their eyes knowing they were looking at where he was and he mentally prepared himself for the earful he was about to get.

“I’m confused why you aren’t here? You’re still on land…” Namjoon finally broke the awkward silence.

“I already told you.”

“Yoongi I’m worried—“

“You have no need to be. I’ll be back.”

More silence.

“It’s just… I don’t understand. I know you explained it but…” Hoseok started but trailed off as he continued.

“Please just know there are certain factors that are keeping me here. It does not deal with the human, it’s personal. I will come as soon as I can understand my situation.”

“And that’s exactly why I’m worried. What is this situation? Why aren’t you going into detail?” Taehyung worried. No he hadn’t told them either, for the exact same reason.

“Please just trust me. If I can’t solve matters on my own I will tell you but for now, I want to keep it private—“

“Yoongi!!” You called out from the front door. Everyone’s attention was on you.

Your eyes widened realizing you were interrupting. “Just wanted to tell you dinner was ready, come in when you can… uh sorry…” You were quick to try and shut the door, but Yoongi stopped you.

“You’re fine, I’ll be in soon.” He gave you a weak smile. You tried not to think about it too much before you closed the door behind you.

Yoongi turned his attention back to the judging eyes of his friends.

“You’re looking awfully comfortable with the human.” Hoseok pointed out.

“Don’t. It’s not like that. She’s just being hospitable. I have no issues with her.”

“She’s human, I think that's enough of an issue.” Taehyung added. Yoongi’s fist tightened.

“I’m simply staying until I can figure out this personal matter. Unless anyone has any more questions I think that’s enough talking for the day.”

He was in a haste to hang up before Jimin called out. “We’re just worried about you, we haven’t seen you for 2 months, we’re just antsy.” Yoongi sighed knowing he couldn’t be mad at them. If the positions were switched he would do the same.

“It’s alright, just don’t doubt me. I’ve already handled the most pressing situation, I’m continuing my studies here in the meantime. There’s no need to rush. I can’t wait till we can meet again as well, but this needs to be handled first. Alright?”

The pressing situation had already been handled, the big possibility of war coming was now extinguished. He had already spoken with his parents. Everything was fine now, they were just eagerly awaiting the return of their missing son.

The boys gave each other wary looks before nodding.

“Call us soon, ok?” Jimin said and Yoongi nodded. They talk almost everyday. He really did miss them.

With that the call ended and Yoongi was heading inside to where he saw you in the kitchen getting the plates ready.

“Everything ok?” You questioned and he nodded.

“They just miss me.”

You smiled at the thought. You didn’t ignore the pang of sadness, once again reminding you he will need to leave.

Instead you chose to focus your attention on the moment, enjoying a meal with your friend. Instead of dwelling so much on the future you should focus more on the here and now. Save the sadness for when the time comes.

While you both were enjoying dinner, maybe if you weren’t so in the moment you would have noticed the fact that your phone was ringing. Maybe you would have picked it up, realizing that it was Jungkook. Maybe you would have remembered what day it was.

Maybe you would have remembered that it wasn’t just you and Yoongi but your friends now as well. They were coming. They were coming tomorrow.

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theres-an-impulstor-among-us · 3 years

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Empires SMP thoughts (spoilers for the latest episodes):

i have a LOT of thoughts, so let's dive in. be aware that this is all about c! not cc!

1) the dragon egg. Gem has it and will keep it safe. i'm 100% sure it'll be important to the story later on. sidenote: fWhip's line "that's hope right there" was perfectly delivered. he sounded so sad about what he had helped cause.

2) where everybody stands. Sausage is presumably no longer allied with his former friends, except for maybe Joey. Lizzie was trying to save the dragon while Joel and Pixl were killing it and Jimmy had no idea which option was right, so there may be a rift in that alliance now.

3) it's possible to resurrect the dragon with the end crystals. not sure if this is a canon thing in the lore of Empires but if it is, then it'll definitely be used in some way. the dragon dying was treated as a very final thing, so they might "discover" the end crystal thing as a way of bringing the dragon back.

4) Sausage may have used fWhip and Jimmy's rivalry to his advantage. i don't watch fWhip or Sausage but my guess is Sausage knew that fWhip would hide the head in the End and he knew that Jimmy, stubborn as he is, would stop at nothing to get it back.

5) Joey referred to Xornoth as his husband, so either Joey is delusional about the status of his relationship with Xornoth or Joey and Xornoth secretly eloped and are now genuinely married. both options are absolutely hilarious but i highkey hope it's the second one just to add to the hilarity that Scott and Joey would now be brothers-in-law.

6) Pixl is in self-imposed exile now. Pixandria currently does not have a ruler. i don't know where Pixl is planning to take this arc but i'm excited for it!

7) Scott's lore is about to get even better. there's potential for a lot of brotherly angst with the whole reincarnation thing, but also i'm hoping for this whole thing to bring Scott and Jimmy closer. Scott is very scared of his brother's full power and Jimmy is sure to be disillusioned with what happened (sure he got his cod head back but he eventually joined the fight to stop the dragon from dying, turning against two of his allies). i think this has the potential to bring these two former enemies closer together. Scott Smajor if you read this pls give the gays what they want im dying here

8) i'm excited to see what fWhip will do next. it seems that his semi-childish rivalry with Jimmy is likely over now, not only because Jimmy has his head back but also they have much bigger problems now. again, this has the potential for a great former-enemies-teaming-up-for-the-greater-good storyline.

9) i touched on this earlier but, who to blame for the whole dragon dying thing. it seems like so many people from both sides had a hand in it and i love that. Sausage, for working against his allies to bring Xornoth back. fWhip, for hiding the cod head in the End. Jimmy, for taking the bait. Pixl and Joel, for getting the dragon down to low enough health. Joey, for allying with the demon and landing the final blow. like, half the server is culpable in some way for this and i love it so much. there's so much potential for angst here.

10) it's 100% confirmed now that Xornoth came over from the same dimension as Shubble. i'm wondering if this is going to become a bigger thing, like maybe Shubble will hold an important key to defeating Xornoth. just a thought.

tl;dr this event was absolutely nuts and i cant wait to see what happens next!

#empires smp #empires spoilers #scott smajor #smajor1995 #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #pixlriffs #fwhip #mythicalsausage #joeygraceffa #geminitay #smallishbeans #ldshadowlady

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theconstantsidekick · 3 years

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The Whole World Is Watching (2) | b.b

Pairings: Bucky Barnes x Stark!Reader, Past Steve Rogers x Stark!Reader, OC x Stark!Reader (brief)

Genre: Fluff with a touch of angst.

Summary: Sam and Bucky call on the only Stark left in the Superhero business—codename Static—to help take down the Flag Smashers. Only problem is, she’s pretty damn reluctant.

(These scenes incorporate y/n into the pre-existing story as a character without making drastic changes to the plot or mythos. All the major plot points from the MCU remain in place with the addition of the reader as Static, who is not only a Stark but also enhanced)

Warnings: Swearing, kinda.

a/n: Aight, aight. Here’s the skinny; I function purely on attention and praise, so please leave a comment. I’m a narcissist; I make no apologies. Let me know what you guys think, I love reading your hot takes. Entertain me in exchange for all the entertainment I’m providing you. No, but seriously, let me know what you guys think, always love to hear from y’all. Also oh, the tag list is open.

sidenote: would ya’ll be interested in flashbacks to previous MCU films explaining the reader’s origin? Also, there may or may not be a hidden easter egg for Sebastian Stan fans. Reblog if you find it!

The Whole World Is Watching (1) | The Whole World Is Watching (3) | Series Masterlist

“Well, I got nothin',” Bucky informs as they all walk back into Zemo’s place after what was a very unsuccessful attempt at gathering information at the camp. “No one's talkin' about Donya,” he states while walking over to the couch, with Sam in tow. Zemo makes his way over to the kitchen. Meanwhile, Y/n positions herself next to the pillar closest to the entrance, leaning on it with her shoulder.

“Yeah, it's because Karli is the only one fighting for them,” Sam explains. Bucky sighs audibly and sits down. “And she's not wrong,” Sam adds.

“What do you mean?” Bucky asks as he watches him take a seat diagonal to him.

“For five years, people have been welcomed into countries that have kept them out using barbwire. There were houses and jobs. Folks were happy to have people around to help them rebuild,” Sam argues. “It wasn't just one community coming together, it was the entire world coming together. And then, boom.” he snaps his fingers, “Just like that, it goes right back to the way it used to be. To them, at least Karli's doin' somethin'.”

“You really think her ends justify her means? Then, she's no different than him,” Bucky counters, pointing at Zemo who’s… brewing them tea??? Regardless he continues, “or anybody else we've fought.”

“She's different. She's not motivated by the same things,” Sam states.

Bucky looks ahead as Zemo approaches them with a tray carrying their fucking tea? “That little girl. What'd she tell you?” He asks.

Zemo hesitates. Bucky can tell he’s weighing his options. Calculating how much information to give up to be helpful enough to keep around but not so helpful that he becomes redundant. After a few seconds of heavy silence, Zemo says, “The funeral is this afternoon.” He sets the tray down on the coffee table in front of them. He picks up a glass of it for himself.

“You know the Dora's coming for you any minute,” Bucky warns. “In fact, they're probably lurking outside right now,” he nods towards the door, “Keep talking,” Bucky states.

“Leaving you to turn on me once we get to Karli.” Zemo hums, “ I prefer to keep my leverage.”

And all the shit Bucky’s been through today comes barrelling out. He doesn’t know why he’s so fucking angry over a pretty dame distrusting him but he is. He’s also pissed off the Wakandans, the only people who helped him when no one else could, for this fur coat-wearing douche, and he’s had enough.

He calmly gets off the couch, steps towards Zemo pulls the glass of tea out of his hands, and throws it violently at the wall. “You wanna see what someone can do with leverage?”

Zemo looks absolutely petrified, and sue Bucky, he fucking relishes in it.

Sam quickly steps up to the two, pushing Bucky away, “Take it easy. Don't engage him. He's just gonna extort you and do that stupid head tilt thing.”

At Sam’s words, Zemo un-tilts his head.

But Bucky’s still seething.

Out of the corner of his eyes, he can see Sam look over Bucky’s shoulder, and nod in his and Zemo’s direction. And a second later there is a hand on his right shoulder.

“James,” is all Y/n says.

Bucky angrily shrugs his shoulder to escape from the contact and is weirdly upset when he’s successful.

“I’m gonna make a call,” Sam calls out. “You got this?” He asks Y/n, who presumably nods in response, because then he begins walking away, with a friendly smack to Bucky’s shoulder.

“You want some cherry blossom tea?” Zemo inquired, with mock innocence.

“No, you go ahead,” Bucky replied with disdain clear in his tone, finally tearing his eyes away from Zemo and walking away to the kitchen.

“James?” Y/n calls him, following him.

Bucky wants to avoid this conversation with everything in him. But he can't.

He leans over the kitchen island, resting his hand on the tabletop at the head of the table, with his back to the windows.

“Hey?” She tries again.

“What?” He snaps at her. He’s finally looking at her, where she’s standing diagonal to him. She’s changed out of the sheer blouse from the night before and discarded the blazer as well. Opting instead for a white turtleneck sweater, with an oversized full sleeve beige collared shirt on top. The first few buttons are undone and sleeves rolled up. The faded cerulean blue of the wide-leg pants from last night with the addition of the beige shirt makes her match with the brown and blue of their surroundings; ancient yet beautiful and terrifyingly unmoving.

She doesn’t flinch away from him like he’d expected, only her face goes blank as she puts her hands into her pockets. And the sudden switch to her calm demeanor along with the dexterity of her actions informs Bucky that he might just have fucked up.

“I understand you’re upset with me, but you called me on this mission. You asked me to help you out... I was doing my job, and if that pisses you, I’m sorry to inform you, I’m gonna need you to eat your damn snickers and suck it up, Sergeant.” She states with finality that leaves no room for disagreement. “I didn’t want to be here, but now that I am; I have no intentions of fucking up the job just cause a pretty boy spun me around on the dancefloor.”

Bucky feels like he’s been gut-punched. While he hates the coldness in her tone, he can’t help but think that it matches the one in his own that he's had every time he’s addressed her since the morning.

Hold up, did she just call me pretty?

Before he can say something, anything (not that he knows what he would), Sam’s coming back into the room. “Sharon’s gonna keep a lookout,” he informs them as he pockets his phone. He turns to Y/n, “You think you got any strings you could pull?”

Y/n turns to Sam, shaking her slowly from side to side, contemplating and saying, “There might be some Stark satellites I could borrow.”

She pulls out her phone and walks away.

“You pissed her off,” Sam declares walking over to him while looking over at Zemo behind them who’s apparently enjoying the whole show with a glass of tea in his hand as he sits on the couch.

“What makes you say that?” Bucky asks, petulantly trying to avoid the accurate accusation.

“Call it intuition.” Sam stands next to him, looking towards the windows. His head cocks over to Bucky when he asks, “What happened?”

“You know what happened; she followed me.”

“Kinda what we called her for.”

“So she says.”

“But..?” Sam urges him.

Bucky exhales, “I can’t—I can’t explain it… Just thought it’d be different now...”

“Now that you thought you two had become friends,” Sam summarizes.

Bucky can’t help but grumble in response. He doesn’t want to agree but he also can’t disagree cause Sam is right. Sam lets out a soft short laugh and pats him lightly on the shoulder.

“The big bad cyborg’s got a crush,” Sam sings, as he walks over to the couch.

“I don’t have a—” Bucky’s cut off as Y/n walks into the room still on her phone.

“—for the last time; it is not hacking if I give you the damn access codes!” She screams into the phone.

“God, you must be real fun at parties,” the voice on the other side, a man replies, sarcastically. Bucky shouldn’t be listening, but sometimes he can’t shut off his hearing, and other times he’s just nosy. This might be either of those two times. He’s not gonna bother clarifying, even to himself. “Anyway, what do I get if I do this?” the voice asks.

“Nothing. Consider this your legal fees for the shit you pulled with that Carter Baizen kid,” She replies still annoyed. Her brows are furrowed and she’s clutching onto the phone pretty tightly in one hand while the other is in her pocket as she’s pacing around.

“He was blackmailing girls with those pictures. What did you expect me to do? Just stand by and watch?” the man argues, finally losing the casual tone.

“Fuck no. This is not me reprimanding you for doing it, it’s me reprimanding you for getting caught!” She throws back.

“Well,” the casual tone is back, “pardon me, I was half a bottle down some really strong vodka.”

“That’s the damn lesson, airhead,” she says exasperatedly, throwing her head back, “Don’t revenge hack when drunk.”

“Di—did you just call me an airhead?” The man asks, rhetorically with a chuckle. Y/n exhales heavily like he’s grating down the last ounce of patience she’s spent years upon years gathering. “What are you, a 100 years old? Oh, wait—”

“—Alright, junior. I’m hanging up now—” she begins taking her phone off her ear.

“Oooh, did I hurt your feelings, grandma?” the man mocks.

“Harley Keener, you’re on thin fucking ice!” She shouts into the phone before hanging up.

All three men look back at her in shock, never having seen her lose her cool like that before. She, however, slips back into her unfazed demeanor instantly, putting her phone back into her pocket. When she realizes all three of them are staring at her with their jaws wide open she cocks her eyebrow and says, “We’ll have something in a couple minutes.”

She walks over to the coffee table, picking up a glass, and begins sipping the tea. She nods her head in favor of the taste, then looks over to Zemo, “Pretty good.”

“Glad you like it,” Zemo replies, still pretty lost in the scene that just unfolded in front of him.

A couple minutes pass in tense silence before Zemo breaks it, “Shall we?” getting off the couch and gesturing at the door.

They all begin to walk out when Y/n’s phone rings. She pulls it out, puts it on speaker. “Hey junior, you’re on speaker.”

“Greetings skimpy latex wearers,” The man, Harley sings out mockingly.

Y/n just grumbles in discontent in response before asking, “You got anything or not, kid?” She asks as they all fall out of the door stepping onto the sidewalk. Zemo up head, Sam and Y/n side to side, with Bucky in toe.

“Yeah yeah, don’t get grumpy on me just yet,” Harley chides. “Not much on the flag smashers front, I could crack their app but—”

“—Absolutely not. Stay out of it,” Y/n warns. And suddenly Bucky realizes why she was so easily rattled by the kid. She’s treating him like a kid… like her responsibility.

“—you won’t let me.” Harley finishes, “Which is stupid.”

“Harley,” She warns again.

“But… I did find something else. Not that you asked for it but thought you'd wanna know that the new Captain America and his sidekick are on their way to intercept you in—”

Before Harley can finish the sentence, John Walker and Lemar Hoskins are running down a flight of stairs in the middle of the street and walking towards them as Walker screams out, “Karli Morgenthau is too dangerous for you guys to be pulling this shit.”

All four of them walk out onto the main road.

“Already intercepted.” Y/n says into the phone as Bucky shouts out to them, “Ah! How'd you find us now?”

“Ah shit. Sorry,” Harley curses.

“Nah. Not on you. But great catch, kid. Text me if you find something else.” She hangs up as all of them walk over to John and Lemar.

Meanwhile, Lemar shouts out, “Come on, man. You really think three Avengers can walk around Latvia without drawing attention?”

“No more keeping us in the dark,” Walker declares. “You could start by telling us why you broke him out of prison,” he says, pointing towards Zemo.

“He did that himself, technically,” Bucky defends.

“This better be an unbelievable explana—” Walker shouts while walking towards him as they all collide at the bottom of the staircase.

“Hey, take it easy before it gets weird,” Sam interrupts Walker, stepping in between and holding him back with an arm on his chest. Simultaneously he notices Y/n step up to flank him in his periphery.

“I know where Karli is,” Zemo exclaims and begins walking away slightly to his left.

Only to be stopped by Walker with a hand to his chest. “Well, where?” he asks.

“All we know is, it's a memorial. So, we're gonna intercept her there,” Sam explains while Zemo pushes Walker aside and begins walking again. The rest follow him.

“That means civilians. High risk of casualties,” Lamar assesses.

“All right, good, we'll move in fast. Take her by surprise,” Walker states.

Who the fuck told Walker he was in charge?

“No, I wanna talk to her alone,” Sam interrupts.

“I'm not losing her again,” Walker spits out.

And Sam’s gotta be a saint for all the patience he answers with, “Look, the person closest to her died, she's vulnerable. If there's any time to reason with her, it's now.”

“What? No. Wait, no!” Walker jogs up ahead to overtake Bucky and Zemo ahead of him. Lemar follows suit. “No! Stop. Hold on. Stop, okay?” He shouts out, stopping everyone in their tracks. “I think we're way past reasoning with her unless you forgot the fact that she blew up a building with people still in it.”

Bucky keeps imagining how much fun it would be to look at Walker with a black eye. And then, how much more fun it'd be to be the one who puts it there.

“Sam, you walk in there cold, she could kill you,” Lemar tries.

“If I go in hot and the op goes wrong, more people will die,” Sam counters.

“You're gonna let him do this? Are you gonna let your partner walk into a room with a Super Soldier alone?” Walker asks, turning to Bucky, voice laced with condescension.

“He's dealt with worse,” Bucky defends easily. And just for safety’s sake, “And he's not my partner.”

Walker exhales audibly then looks at the back, where Y/n is standing silent yet observant, behind the three men. Bucky’s head turns with Walker’s gaze.

“You're really not gonna stop them?” Walker chides. “Aren't you supposed to be the smart one?”

“Whoever told you that?” Y/n throws back with a cocked eyebrow, “I’m just the very good-looking muscle.” She nods over to Sam, “He’s the one who calls the shots.” When she looks back at Walker her glare is so cold, Bucky’s impressed that Walker doesn’t just run away and hide.

“I used to counsel soldiers dealing with trauma, okay? This is right in my wheelhouse,” Sam reasons as he walks over to the front over to Walker, from behind Bucky. He’s trying to diffuse the tension, Bucky realizes.

“Yeah, I know. And I know those soldiers, which is why I know this is a bad idea,” Walker argues.

“Wait, John. If he can talk her down, it might be worth a try,” Lemar ventures, looking over at Walker. Bucky thinks he probably wouldn’t have minded Lemar if he wasn’t associated with Walker.

Walker doesn’t respond. The silence stretches out until Y/n chimes in from the back, “You heard the boss. You either move out of the way… or I. Move. You.”

And fuck him, Bucky doesn’t know if the threat should make his insides so damn giddy and… warm, but it does. It’s not even aimed at him but the sheer severity of her voice is doing things to Bucky that he’d rather it didn’t. Especially for his best friend’s girl. Well, a voice inside of him calls out, ‘ex’ girl.

Bucky can’t do anything but mentally shake his head and tell his inner monologue to shut the fuck up.

Walker, on the other hand, takes the threat as intended. He scoffs and moves out of the way before adding, “We'll deal with you later,” pointing at Zemo.

“I'm sure it will all come to an agreeable conclusion,” Zemo remarks sarcastically, hands flying up. He points to the little girl from the camp this morning, standing ahead of them, and says, “My associate is just up ahead.”

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scalproie · 2 years

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onto the current timeline!

Mortal Kombat (2011) / Mortal Kombat 9

💙AMORE❄MIOOO💙

If you ask me to picture a sub zero in my mind, this is who's gonna show up. the mask, the hood, the overall look... iconic. ALSO, THE RETURN OF THE CHUNKY BELT, AND THE ARMOR ARMBANDS. I love how stylized every pieces of metal on his body is. The ribbons could be a bit much but as you can see, he doesnt have them in his in-game model. This mask is my favorite of his. Its the perfect balance of simplistic and detailed. Its not too much but its not too bland either. Im especially a fan of how pointy the dragon head make his loincloth. Idk I love him so much.

I'm gonna give a very very biased third 10/10.

now onto Bi-Han Subz

(Kuai Liang in bottom right pic for comparaison)

(sidenote I love how actually different their models are. Like they didnt just took the same model, gave it different clothes and call it a day, even tho nobody wouldve minded because theyre brothers, yknow? But no they actually gave the brothers a different headshape and body build)

Speaking of, damn, is it just me or is Bi-Han wide af? Or maybe its just the belts. SPEAKING OF, THE BELTS, MAN. WHY IS THERE SO MUCH??? All of his guards too. mf is strapped the fuck in. And spiky. Overall its somehow simpler than Kuai's fit but that doesnt mean its not as good. And he gets the blue lines on his pants. I really like the shape of his mask. One thing that strikes me is the shape of his tiny tiny shoulder sleeves, idk if he would look better without them but I definitely notice them.

Anyway Bi-Han's "lived served cunt died" outfit with the fat titties earn him an 8/10.

Bonus: Cyber Sub Zero

(left: regular Cyber Subz, right: Klassic Cyber Lin Kuei Sub Zero skin)

Cyber Subz has the sleekest design of the Cybers honestly, I like the wire thighs thing he has going on. Not a lot to comment on here honestly, he pulls off the cyber look and that shade of blue is nice, and thats it. He makes me sad and his fatility is him glomping his opponent, 5/10.

Klassic Cyber Subz has that "guy in a suit" klassic feel, his head look like a broken egg. I have even less to say than for mk9 Cyber Subz, 3/10.

#subz is all or nothing. either im like eh or im head over heels and im handing out 10/10 like its nothing #tagging later #sub zero's closet

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noisyalmonddreamer · 3 years

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Holiday special

Word count: Idk a lot (a/n): Someone come save me I’m tired this took my soul away this is also unedited because I’m to tired for that

Percy:

-This boy LOVES Christmas

-He get's into the feeling like right after thanksgiving

-Decorates his cabin like there's no tomorrow

-But he wont spend Christmas eve or day at camp, he's with his family

-He also goes to his family's house to help decorate

-Snowball fights? you will not BELIVE how excited he gets for them

-He loves hot chocolate and demands his has marshmallows in it

-be careful if you guys make cookies together he WILL eat the batter

-"Percy stop you could get sick!"

- "but it's so good!"

-"IT HAS RAW EGGS"

-he wears Christmas sweaters and Santa hats

-He invites you to come to his mom's house for Christmas

-On Christmas day itself he's supper excited but from how he was acting you'd think he was an actual responsible adult

-but really he just really wanted to make it special for Estelle so he was just being giddy on the inside

-He gets you something that would remind him of you

-Something he finds beautiful

~~~Scenario~~~ (lowkey feel like I wrote him out of character I'm really sorry)

The sounds of soft snores filled your ears as you woke up. The sun reflecting off the bright snow seemed to magnify the sun's rays. You turned over to see your boyfriend, Percy, sound asleep with a little bit of drool sliding past his lip. You giggled as you took the blue blanket and wiped it away causing him to stir a little.

"Percy, It's time to get up" you nudged him lightly trying to wake him. He groaned pulling the cover up more. You rolled your eyes before an idea came to mind "Percy wake up it's Christmas."

The gears in Percy's head seemed to move for a second before his eye's popped open "OH MY GOD'S IT'S CHRISTMAS!" He popped up from his position. You smiled before leaning over and kissing him on his cheek "yeah it is, now you might want to put a shirt on before-" your sentence was cut of as Percy looked at the window.

"Oh my God's (y/n) look it snowed!" he got up from the bed and excitedly went to the window pretty much vibrating from excitement. He looked like a little kid, his eyes shining bright and a giddy smile on his face "I know Perce" you laughed as he pouted at your comment "As I was saying you might want to put on a shirt before Estelle comes in."

Percy laughed and threw on a sweatshirt before climbing back into bed with you "what are you doing?" He looked at you and smiled "pretended you're asleep she'll want to have woken us up." He kissed your head and laid back down.

Percy was, of course, right. Moments later you heard two little feet barreling down the hallway and tiny squeals of excitement. The door opened and a little girl hopped onto the bed trying to wake the two of you up "GET UP GET UP GET UP!!!"

Estelle shook the two of 'awake' and you yawned "good morning Estelle. What can we do for you." You smiled at her as the little girl squealed with excitement. "It's Christmas! Mama and Papa said we couldn't open present's till you two woke up! Percy Percy get up!"

Estelle dragged the two of you out of bed into the living room where Sally and Paul had hot coco waiting. You sat on Percy's lap as you watched as Estelle rip open her presents, along with handing everyone there's "here Percy this is yours and this one's yours (y/n)!"

Percy smiled at her and ripped open the present, quickly, ones he saw what it was his eyes brightened as another big grin decorated his face.

After opening all the presents up Paul, Sally and Estelle went down the hall for a few minutes so Estelle could give a present to her friend.

Percy pulled you into his room and got something from inside his cabinet. He handed you a small box rapped in blue rapping paper. "I know I already got you a present but I went out swimming a while ago and found this and I thought of you" he rubbed the back of his neck as he blushed.

You smiled and kissed him on the cheek before opening the present. You pulled out a necklace that looked similar to your camp necklace except it had a single pearl on it. You smiled and wrapped your arm's around him, pressing your lips to his, you were met with the slightly salty taste of his lips. He smiled into the kiss as he pulled away for a second "so you like it?" he asked looking at you.

"I love it thank you Perce"

"Merry Christmas (Y/n)"

"Merry Christmas Percy"

Jason:

-Again he hasn't had a 'real' Christmas in a while

-Mr. Series Roman Praetor has watched over people for Christmas making sure no one get's to out of hand

-My boy hasn't gotten to have fun for so long

-So when you're like

-"TIME FOR FUN CHRISTMAS"

-He's trying hard! But that series 'gotten make sure things are running smooth' skin is hard to get out

- "Don't drink to much eggnog it has raw eggs you could get sick. Don't have more than a cup please"

- "FIGHT ME"

-I'm kinda kidding but he is kinda stiff about it all

-Sidenote: Someone *cough* Leo *cough* placed a mistletoe above his desk and put a stapler next to him so he was under the mistletoe with a stapler

- "You think you're so funny huh?"

- "Pretty much yeah"

- "It was pretty funny though"

- "(Y/N)!"

-I have said that I think he has a secret sweet tooth

-He drinks his hot coco super sweet

-No one can know though

-Except you maybe

-He decorates a tree with you

-straight up gets tangled in the lights while you guys are decorating

-Send some help for our very own blond super man

-He'll also probably get you something he had found during a quest

~~~Scenario~~~

You placed two steaming mugs of hot Chocolate on a side table. They looked quite nice, if you say so yourself, you had added chocolate shavings atop the whip cream and crushed up peppermint canes.

Looking up you were met with electric blue eyes looking at you intently, holding a Santa hat in his scarred callused hands.

"Do I really have to wear this?" He asked holding out the bright red hat. "Yes of course you do! We're decorating!"

He looked down at you again. "Okay okay I'll wear the hat sweetie but why the entire cabin? We already have a tree do you think decorating the whole cabin is.... excessive?" You rolled your eyes at him "I don't expect you have had that many fun Christmases because you're so,,, Roman so you have to do it! I didn't make the rules bub!"

You skipped over to him kissing him on the cheek than going over to the box of decorations you forced him to fly to camp half-blood. You also got him to carry a Christmas tree that you got from the Stoles, though they didn't tell you were they got it from.

You opened up the box and pulled out a few blankets and pillows.

"What are those for?" Jason stood behind you taking sips from his hot coco watching you. "Decoration! What do you think we're doing here right now?" You threw the pillows and blankets onto the couch

Jason rolled his eyes, walking up to you "I already have pillows and blankets but whatever." He said, his voice held a teasing tone, he knew what he was doing.

You glared at him "I will take away your hot chocolate and not make anymore." You pointed a finger out, trying to prove your point. Jason's eyes widened before he placed his mug on the coffee table and swiftly walked over to you.

"Alright so what do you need?"

"Just take these." You handed him some fake acorns and stuff, pointing at a wall "Place them like over there."

Jason took them into his hands and began working. About thirty minutes in he tapped you on the shoulder. "What about the tree?" You looked over at him "Oh yeah we do that last just give me a sec and you can start detangling the lights." You pointed at the box that had the Christmas lights.

Jason nodded and walked over to the box, pulling out a giant clump of lights. He looked at it, a bit concerned wondering how he would be able to detangle it all.

~~~time skip~~~

Jason ended up being right, he couldn't untangle them. Every time he thought he had gotten another tangle out it led to another, then when he thought to follow a single cored it was stuck in other cords. This is all to say that in thirty minutes Jason managed to tangle himself in the lights, yet he still didn't ask for help or even call out for you.

He didn't want you laughing at him so he decided he would get himself out. Which also didn't end up well because he fell with a loud thud.

You had went outside to hang a few more lights and decorations on the porch when you head it, a loud thud followed by a groan of pain. You hurried inside to see the son of Zeus himself, Praetor of New Rome, Hero of Camp Jupiter, laying on the floor tangled in Christmas lights.

"It's not funny!" He yelled when he had heard your giggling. This only turned your light giggling into full on laughter you clutched your stomach in pain as you laughed.

"It's so funny! How did you even manage to do that?" He looked up at you "Can you please help me?" You bent down to his level "of course on one condiction"

"Yes anything!"

"Let me take a picture."

Leo:

-Burns the coco because he's impatient

-He also puts candy canes into his hot coco

-Along with like 3 hand fulls of marshmallows and like a giant whip cream mountain

-He also lowkey doesn't like eggnog

- "It tastes like sweet eggs!"

-You can bet your ass he is going to force you to wear matching PJ's on Christmas eve

-While setting up the tree he get's very frustrated with the lights

-"THIS IS SO DUMB I'LL BUILD MY OWN LIGHTS!"

-He does end up doing that and they look very cool

-May or may not end up breaking some of the ornaments

-"What was that?"

- *Sweeping away a broken ornament* "Nothing babe!"

-He makes all his presents himself

-Like 2 months before he's haled ass up in bunker 9 making presents

-At some point he made a Christmas robot

-It's called that but it's main purpose is to peg snowballs at people

-He does bring a Christmas tree inside the bunker but forgets to water it then it catches on fire because it's dried out

-He will also pull mistletoe out at random time's claiming you have to kiss now

- "You just pulled that out of your tool belt. We're not even near ceiling"

- "Hmm? What? I don't know what you're talking about. But time for kiss! Who are we to break tradition?"

-You force him to dress up as an elf and give presents to kids

- "Why not Santa!? I'm making the toys!"

- "You're to short to be Santa plus your pointed ears!"

-He builds you something is that even a question

-It's a charm bracelet with a few different charms, one of them actually is magic and will pull out a shield

~~~~Scenario~~~~~

You were stood outside bunker 9 on Christmas morning waiting for Leo to change. You shivered as a cold wind felt like it pierced your skin, both Leo and yourself had gotten up earlier then you normally would have but you two wanted to have your own thing before joining the rest of the camp.

You breathed out, a puff of smoke leaving your lips, as you turned around and banged on the door. "Leo come on! We're gonna be late and we still have to drag the presents to the bonfire!" you yelled through the metal. "This is ridiculous! Why am I dressed as an elf! I made the presents! This is humiliating!" His voice sounded whiny, you could practically hear him pouting.

"Come on Leo think about the children! They'll be so happy!" You heard a reluctant sigh leave him before the iron door opened reveling Leo in an adorable elf outfit.

"I feel ridicules." As he walked towards you the bells on his shoes jingled, making you burst out laughing. "Oh you have got to let me take a picture!" You grabbed Leo by the hand and pulled him towards the slay he had built. "Alright Mr. Elf let's go!"

"Don't call me that!" His whiney complains were only halted as you pecked his cheek quickly. "Now if you want more then let's go!" Leo's eyes widened, he grabbed the leads and rushed towards the bonfire.

~~Time skip. Like only 5 minutes~~

As the slay slowed down to a stop you heard screams, you looked over your shoulder to see most of the younger camps, in their pajamas, running up to the slay with an excited look on their faces.

You looked over at Leo who had a bright smile on his face already grabbed a piece of paper with each kid's names and which toy they got. "You ready?" you whispered over to him, adjusting your hoodie. "Hades yeah I am!"

You hopped off from the slay in front of the kids, they all stopped and looked at you, pretty much vibrating from excitement. "Alright kiddys! Are you ready for your presents?" You question was only answered with shriek's of excitement and maybe one or two 'YES!'s.

"Mr. Elf has each of your presents all the way from the north pole! But you have to wait to be called on can all of you do that?" The kids again in unison nodded their heads.

Leo popped up next to you startling you a bit, a big dopy grin still decorating his face "Alright I'm looking for a Gogo?" A little girl came running up to Leo, bouncing up and down with a plush in her hand, "Here you are Gogo" Leo handed the little girl a nicely wrapped present, the girl took it before bolting to her siblings yelling out a "THANK YOU!"

One by one Leo listed off the kid's, each one yelling out a thank you, and joining their siblings. As the last kid ran away Leo looked into the present sack. "Oh what do we have here?"

You looked at him with a questioning gaze "Did you forget someone? That was the last kid so I don't think you did." You looked around to see if there was any stragglers before Leo cleared his throat.

"Well why don't we have a looksie here and...Oh...it look's like this is for a certain...(Y/f/n)." You looked over at him again. "I didn't ask for anything..." you trailed off. Before you could say anything else Leo plopped the present into your hands, kissing you on the cheek. "Merry Christmas bebita."

Nico: -"Christmas is coming up?"

-Boy doesn't even realize

-I headcanon Nico secretly has a sweet tooth so I think he would like egg nog and super sweet hot coco

-I also think he can cook so he makes cookies with you

-But he will act like it's a pain and out of his way

-"Do I really have to?"

-"If you don't want to I'll just go get Leo or someone to help me!"

-"...Pass over the flour"

-He constantly has a candy cane in his mouth

-He legit eats so many you have to take them away from him

-Putting a Santa hat will anger him but he'll wear it because he loves you

-Unless someone comments on it then he'll take it off

-He really likes cooking with you, he finds it domestic like you guys are normal, so during the Christmas season he may act reluctant but you guys make stuff together a lot

-But baby boy also kinda has a sensitive mouth so hot food burns his tongue really quickly

-That combined with him kinda being impatient...he burns his mouth a lot

-He asks you to kiss it better

-He would probably get you something he found on his travels

-Or a stygian iron dagger

~~~Scenario~~

You finished tying up your apron, looking over to see Nico hadn't even tried, just letting the apron hang off his neck while he was reading a book he had found in an old library a few weeks ago.

You groaned walking over to him "Nico!" He only hummed in response, bobbing his head and continuing to read. You looked at him for a moment before placing your hand on his shoulder "NICO!"

Nico jumped slightly, looking up from his book at you. "What?" You glared at him for a moment, he rolled his eyes and booked marked the page, placing his arms around your shoulders.

"What's up il mio tesoro*?" He grinned stupidly down at you. "Oh don't 'il mio tesoro' me Mr! You're just avoiding what we said we would bring to the party in hopes we wont go!"

Nico laughed, raising his hands up in defense "Alright alright you got me! But I still don't get why we have to go to the party!" He pouted, crossing his arms.

You walked over to the counter rolling yours eyes "One, because we said we would and Two they're your friends and my friends it would be rude not to."

Nico slowly walked towards you, a small pout on his lips. "But I just want to spend the time with you!" He nuzzled his face into the crook of your neck, his vanilla scent filled your noise. You blushed pushing him away.

"Just help me with the cookies then we can make some hot chocolate!" Nico's eyes lit up at the mention of hot coco. He placed a gentle kiss on your cheek, tying the apron and rolling up his sleeves."

Ten minutes into cooking you almost regretted trying to cook with Nico. He was great at it but he was such a control freak! "No No! It said 2 cups of chocolate chips that's to much!"

You stared at him "It doesn't matter!" He groaned pushing you out the way "here let me do it!" You watched as he carefully folded the chips into the batter, wrapping the top with plastic wrap and placing it in the fridge.

"Alright it's gonna rest like that for 2 hours, it makes everything even more delicious!" He looked over at you with bright eyes. "Time for hot coco!"

You walked over to him, kissed his forehead before pulling the milk out the fridge. "alright just measure out the amount of milk we need." He nodded grabbing two mugs and filling them then dumping them into the pot.

He stirred the milk lazily "Why isn't it going faster?" He went down to turn the heat up "Nico no! You're going to burn the milk!" He looked at your tiredly "you don't like when it get's the skin on top and neither do I so lower the heat please!"

Nico rolled his eyes, lowering the heat to the second lowest setting then staring at you "happy now?" You nodded, grapping the whipped dream out the fridge and shaking it while Nico continued to stir the milk till it steamed.

The smell of warm milk filled the room as you heard Nico pour the steaming milk into the mugs. You walked over to Nico, who was sitting on the couch you saw he had already stuck another candy cane in his mouth.

Grabbing the whipped cream bottle you made two small hills of whipped cream in each mug and waited for it to cool down. Nico, however, instantly grabbed his mug bringing it to his lips.

"Don't your gonna burn your mouth." You told him, watching him roll his eye. "No I'm not you're worrying to much."

He took a bug gulp then letting out a yelp, placing his mug down. He stuck his tongue out reveling a nasty red burn. You let out a small chuckle "see I told you!" He pouted at you "It really hurts!"

"Will you kiss it better?"

Frank: -Baby LOVES Christmas

-He takes you to canada

-He takes you to the Christmas market's and stuff

-He's also one who will get tangled in lights

-Along with that he isn't allowed to touch the breakable ornaments, like the delicate ones

-He also LOVES hot coco

-Frank makes like perfect hot coco's

-Like a nice whip cream swirl with chocolate and a few marshmallows

-It's very nice looking 10/10

-Will also make maple taffy with you in the fresh snow

-But since you have to boil the syrup he isn't allowed

- "Frank baby, can you get the snow?"

- "Oh umm y-yeah!"

- "Alright here you are Frank, don't burn yourself"

- "I wont"

-He WILL wake up early on Christmas day

-He will also force you to go outside and have a snow ball fight

-istg he's just a nervous child in a giant's body

-Frank makes SUPER good eggnog also

-He LOVES getting a hot cup of coco and cuddling up with you next to a fire

-Especially after being out in the snow

-Also this boy really likes making snowmen

-and he's so good at it to

-Like he can make snowmen and like animals out of snow

-Hard to say what he would give you

-I want to say a sweater but that's not really like boyfriendy

-SO IM GOING TO SAY MATCHING SWEATERS

-More like a hoodie you had been wanting for a while and he got himself a complimentary one so you could match (And wear his because he knows you. You're not sly)

~~~Scenario~~~(Before anyone says anything I know he lives in Vancouver which is a city but just pretended you guys went to a cabin or something lol)

The cold winter air felt like it was ripping through your skin as the coldness from the snow made it's way through your boots and mittens that Frank at bought you the other day.

You looked over to Frank who was packing down snow on the last little bear cub, completing the bear family he was making. He smiled back at you, his nose and cheeks a light pink from the cold. You trudged over to him, the snow sinking slowing you down slightly, and wrapped your arms around his middle.

"Hey Frank I'm getting pretty cold can we head in soon?" You asked looking up at him. He smiled again, nodding his head "Yup! Just let me finish with these-" He grabbed the stick he had been using to adding details to all the bears and drew on some eyes and a mouth. "and done! Alright lets go in. Want to make some hot coco and eggnog?"

You nodded, grabbing his hand and pulling him back into the house. You pulled off your mittens, boots and socks and walked into the boiler room where they could dry.

"Hey Frank can you grab some wood? I'm gonna start a fire, it's kinda cold" Frank nodded, walking into the room where the wood had been put as you began getting the ingredients for eggnog and hot chocolate.

A moment later Frank walked into living room in his arms he held a few logs of cut, dry wood. He placed them on the hearth and began to collect kindling, starting the fire. "Hey I said I would do that Franky!"

Frank took his gloves off as he walked down the stairs "It's fine! I already had the wood so It's fine"

You pushed the hot coco ingredients to the side knowing it would take less time when you felt a pair of strong arms make their away around your waist and felt someone's chin on your shoulder.

"You got cloves honey. You need nutmeg" He placed a kiss on your cheek, grabbing the cloves and placing them into the spice cabinet, pulling out nutmeg. "Is there a difference?"

"Of course there is! I don't know it but you use nutmeg in eggnog, honey, not cloves." Frank stood next to you, grabbing the carton of eggs. "Can I separate the eggs?" He asked smiling brightly, jumping up and down a little. You smiled up at him, chuckling at his childish antics "Of course you can baby!"

About 10 minutes later you had unusable egg whites with pieces of egg yoke broken into them plus an almost empty carton of eggs. Of course you could just run to the store for more eggs but you had no interest in heading outside during a storm.

"Okay Fraky baby I think maybe I should crack the eggs but you can whip them okay?" He nodded, looking down and backing away from the counter leaving you 5 eggs.

Ones you finished with the eggs you began finishing up the eggnog without any other mishaps. You placed the eggnog into the fridge to let it get cold. You turned to start making the hot coco before Frank stopped you.

"You go put on some soft pajamas I can finish making this!" You went to rebuttal but he had already pushed you into the room you were sharing to let you change. You let out a sigh and pulled on some comfortable clothes along with the hoodie Frank had gotten you.

You walked into the living room and started tending to the fire. You sat down for a moment before you felt a blanket engulf you along with the feeling of being pulled into someone's lap. You felt Frank nuzzle into your neck, smiling.

"Merry Christmas honey"

"Merry Christmas baby"

Will:

-My oh my does this boy love Christmas

-During campfire this boy will sing ALL the Christmas songs

-ALL. OF. THEM.

-He also helps decorate around the camp

-He also really likes picking out Christmas trees

-Wears what he says are "really nice looking" sweaters...because sure they are

-Will also replaces the lollipops from his candy jar with candy canes

-He will scold you if you eat to much cookie dough

-Will also force you, and a bunch of others, to take vitamins during the winter

- "I don't want you getting sick!"

-"Fine I'll take them!"

-"But remember to take them everyday because if you forget to take one day then you'll forget like three days then you'll never take-"

-Kissing him gets him to shut up don't worry

-When he makes eggnog he makes sure that the eggs are pasteurized, so there's no chance of salmonella

-Also this sneaky son of a god will take you to places that he has hung mistletoe to get kisses

-He would definitely get you a music instrument he helped customize

~~~Scenario~~~

You watched pearlescent puffs of smoke left your mouth, fading into the dark sky. You shivered as a cold wind hit, taking another sip of your hot coco.

Chiron rarely let it snow in camp, preferring to keep camp on the nicer side so everyone could train, save from the times he lit it rain. But today was a special occasion, Christmas eve.

You watched as Will stood in front of the camp, with his siblings, singing jingle bell rock a dopy grin on his face. Sure he looked a little tired, he had been working more than normal due to cold and flue season along with helping decorate camp, but over all he looked bright and happy.

You let out a cold sigh, pulling the hoodie Will had given you closer to your body. You stood up heading to the table with more hot coco, the song in the background had changed to some other song.

You were poring yourself another cup of coco when you felt a warm pair of arms around your waist, pulling you flush agents someone's chest. A small chuckle came from your lips as you put down the cup of coco, placing your arms over Wills.

"You feel cold." He placed a kiss on the nape of your neck, nuzzling there for a second before resting his chin on your shoulder. "It's cause it's cold dumb dumb" you ruffled his hair, glancing at him for a moment seeing a small pout on his lips. "You sounded good up there." You said turning around, plopping a handful of marshmallows into your drink.

"Thanks but I got a bit tired, plus I wanted to hang out with my adorable s/o, who I haven't seen all day." He placed a quick kiss on your forehead "You took your vitamins today right? I know you forget sometimes so I just wanted-" you cut him off with a kiss "yes yes mother I took my vitamins."

"Good " he smiled, lacing his fingers with yours, kissing you again "That hot chocolate is good I should get a cup" he turned around, his fingers still with between yours. "Your fingers are really cold." He looked over at you while poring a cup for himself.

"C'mon" he started pulling you towards the infirmary "Why?" He looked at you for a second before sighing and letting out a small chuckle, a smile decorating his face "We're getting you some gloves and an extra coat I left in the infirmary. C'mon"

Will walked ahead of you leading you to the infirmary. The breeze hit you like a knifes, hugging yourself to keep warm. "(Y/n) c'mon. It's really getting cold out" you looked up to see the open door to the infirmary, Will's voice calling from somewhere inside.

You stepped in, closing the door "Where are you?" you asked, dusting off the small bit of snow that you hadn't even noticed to have fallen. "In the back, hold on a sec I'm grabbing two jackets for us."

You sat on a waiting chair for a moment before Will's candy jar, filled with candy canes caught your eye. You smiled, standing up from your seat, quickly grabbing a candy cane and popping it in your mouth.

"Alrighty I got- Hey those aren't for you (n/n). You have already stolen half a jar." Will laughed as he watched you eat the candy cane. "What can I say they're delicious." You flashed him a smile, only to be crushed in a giant coat. "Don't want my sunspot getting cold now do I?"

You pulled the jacket around yourself and watched as Will do the same. He grabbed your hand pulling you out of the infirmary only to stop in the door way.

"Will what is it?" He smiled, pointing up towards a bundle of mistletoe. "Time for a kiss. It's tradition" he smiled brightly, placing his hands on your cheeks. You pouted, crossing your arms "You did that on purpose." Will laughed, pecking you all around your face "hmm maybe but are you gonna complain?

Magnus: -Boy hasn't had a real Christmas in so long

-so when you're like "CHIRSTMAS!!!"

-He's like lowkey uncomfortable

-But he does get over it

-He kinda doesn't like Christmas songs that much

-Mostly because Jack sings them 24/7 for like 2 months straight

-If he hears Jingle bells one more time he will loose it

- "JINGLE BELL-"

-"JACK I SWEAR TO THE GODS IF YOU DON'T STOP"

- "JINGLE BELL JINGLE ALL THE WAY"

-"(Y/N) PLEASE NOT YOU TOO"

-He LOVES hot coco, egg nog, cookies, pretty much any food really

-But he sucks at making them

- "I BURNT IT!"

-"YOU DON'T COOK EGGNOG!?!??!?!"

-ngl Christmas with him will be stressful but hella fun

-He SUCKS at ice skating

-Like this boy has no coordination or center of balance

-Falls every like 5 seconds

-Promise him some hot coco after

-Jack laughs at him after falling so many times

-For a present I think he'd make you matching bracelets with stuff he has collected on the hikes you guys have gone on

-He's saved a few things from each one, for the memories so he makes a bracelet out of them for you

-I'm very series when I say that he straight up cherishes the little things he has saved

~~~Scenario~~~(If you're bad at skating....Shhhh)

You looked over to Magnus to see him struggling with tying the laces of his skates. You let out a chuckle before bending down and swatting his hands away. "How do you suck at tying your laces?" Jack's voice could be heard from above you, Magnus blushed "Shut up! The strings are really long! You don't even know how to tie laces!"

You laugh in amusement, looking over to see a few people watching Magnus in bewilderment. You tapped his shoes indicating you were done and he could stand. You stood up in front of Magnus, waiting for him to join you.

He shakily got up, grabbing onto you for support. "This isn't gonna be some cheesy romance movie scene about ice skating is it?" You laughed only to be cut off my Jack "OoOoOoO If It was I could serenade you to!-"

"NO" you both stumble slightly as Magnus yelled. Rolling your eyes you pulled Magnus towards the ice, stepping on was a bit hard as he refused to let go of you but he eventually let go, replacing you with a wall. "Magnus you have to let g-"

"No way! I'm gonna fall straight on my ass if I let go!" He continued to inch further along the wall as you stood still, watching him. About 3 minute later you got bored and decided it was time to take a lap or two around the ring.

"(Y/N)! Where are you going?" Magnus looked up to see you about 10 feet away from him. You turned around in time to see him fall straight onto his chest. "I was just gonna do a lap or two. I'll be back in a minute enjoy your date with the wall." You winked at him, wiggling you fingers, before skating up ahead more.

During the two laps you did you watch Magnus fall a bunch more times, he did at least try to get off the wall a few times, before fall straight on his ass and hanging to the wall again. You sighed, skating up next to him.

"Give me your hands" He looked up at you shaking his head rapidly like a child "no way I-"

"Oh my GODS Magnus just do it I'm trying to help you!" He pouted at being yelled at for a second then put his hands in yours. You pulled him away from the wall, his legs shook as he tried to stay balanced.

"Bend your legs, yeah like that. Have your feet kinda go diagonal, no the other way" He continued to wobble a little. A few minutes later Magnus was able to stand for a little on his own, he didn't get very far, but he could do it.

"(Y/N)! (Y/N)! LOOK IM DOING IT!" He waved over at you, even though you were a few feet away, causing him to fall. He groaned, rubbing the side of his jaw. You went up to him, bending down to his level. "Oh no Maggie, my baby! Are you okay?"

He pouted again, moving to sit normally. "Maggie?" He didn't move her look at you "If you continue to sit like that your pants are gonna get wet." Magnus's eyes widened before he scrambled trying to stand up, only to fall hard on to his hands, letting out a soft whimper.

"Can we please go get hot coco now?" He stood up more cautiously, nursing his hurt wrist as he leaned agents the wall. Your eyes widened in realization that he was actually hurt. You skated to him, lacing your fingers with his. "Of course we can Maggie. We can even go to that cute little bakery we passed by on our way here and get freshly baked cookies! How does that sound?"

Magnus smiled and kissed you on the cheek "that sounds amazing."

"...can we get falafels after?"

Hearth:

-Again he doesn't really know what Christmas is

-Like he knows around winter people start buying stuff more and he sees trees, being sold but he doesn't understand why

-he's never really asked. Of course he's seen stuff advertised for Christmas so he makes the connection that they are connected

-So when you find out he hasn't had a Christmas like...ever you have to break that

- "here wear this!"

-"Why?"

-"Because it's festive c'mon! "

-You end up dressing him up like one of Santa's elfs and he feels really silly

-He's also lowkey offended when he sees what elf's look like in Santa world

-"This isn't accurate at all. Why are they all so happy and nice?"

-Helps decorate Blitzen's shop and the apartment

-Still doesn't understand the tree though

-"But....why a tree?"

-"I don't know babe but it's festive so come on!"

-He sucks at making cookies, its the sad truth

-He isn't good at picking presents lol

-He'd get you something you had been wanting for a while, a book or something

-Also would ask Blitz to help him make you a matching scarf

~~~~scenario~~~~

You walked into the apartment you shared with your boyfriend and best friend, the bag on your shoulder holding presents for the two. You kicked your shoes off and took of your jacket as you walked into the living room. A box of Christmas decorations was left waiting to be opened as you looked over to see the boys setting up the tree all three of you picked out.

"Hey!" your voice alerted Blitzen who turned around and saw you in the entrance "welcome back how was your shopping?" you sighed, shrugging your shoulders "It was alright I might have found a thing or two." The smile on your face gave away the bluff but Blitz laughed and rolled his eyes, walking into the kitchen to get a drink.

You walked up behind Hearth, hugging him around his middle, barring your face in his back. He tensed up for a second before turning around and seeing you. He smiled and placed a gentle kiss on your forehead.

"Hi sweetheart" he smiled at you, wrapping his arms around your frame and nuzzling your neck. After a few seconds you pulled away from him "Did you guys wait to decorate the tree?" Hearth nodded before pointing at the kitchen. "We also waiting to make cookies."

You turned around in Hearth's arms to see the ingredients of chocolate chip cookies and gingerbread waiting to be prepared. You kissed Hearth on the cheek before tapping his hands to let you go. Reluctantly he agreed letting his hands drop, only for you to grab one and pull him into the kitchen.

~~~time skip because shhhh~~~~

Hind sight you probably shouldn't have left Hearth by himself to make the cookie batter, but It was almost lunch and all three of you were hungry so you and Blitz went out to grab lunch and come back. Maybe on the way you bought Santa hats which delayed you but you didn't think about what could happen!

So Hearthstone stood in front of you, covered in flour, cookie batter in hand, the kitchen somehow relatively clean. Next to you Blitzen looked like he was about to die from laughter as you continued to stair at Hearth, your mouth a gap.

"What happened?" you slowly signed at him, still in slight disbelief. He blushed and put down the bowl , freeing up his hands "You said to follow the instructions, but I didn't know what a teaspoon was and then I spilled the flour on myself." Hearth stared at you for a for more seconds before you took a deep breath and grabbed his hand.

"Hey Blitz can you start up a new batch? I'm gonna get him cleaned up" Blitz nodded, still looking like he was holding in laughter, as you pulled Hearth into your shared room.

"Hearth go take a shower and I'll put your clothes in the wash, I'll also leave out some more clothes to change into alright?" He nodded, blushing deeply still "I'm sorry about ruining the cookies" you laughed, waving him off "No it's alright, Blitz is making a new batch now, just get yourself cleaned up."

You walked into the kitchen and started helping Blitzen make the cookies.

Ten minutes later Hearthstone walked back into the living room area, clad in a Christmas jumper and comfy pants you had set out for him. You walked up to him, kissing him on the cheek "You look cute now come here" he followed you to the kitchen bar stools, where you sat down and held a bit of cookie dough in front of him "You can have some it's really good."

After finishing up rolling out the cookies, and eating more dough then you should have, Blitzen popped them into the oven. You turned to Hearth "We can start decorating the apartment in a few minutes if you want" he nodded, pulling you into his lap, hugging you.

"Do you guys always have to be so lovey dovey?"

"Just wait till I hang mistletoe"

Alex: (I feel like I got Alex's characterization wrong for the scenario so I'm sorry about that :/)

-Alex hasn't really had a 'normal' Christmas even before being kicked out on the streets

-His/her parents were terrible to her/him

-So I doubt Alex has a really good Christmas

-But Alex still really likes the season

-Will do makeup with a green and read theme at least ones

-Also I feel like if there was a ugly sweater party on floor 19 Alex will straight up in a sweater dress that ISN'T ugly

- "Alex the theme was ugly sweater!"

- "I look hot as hell I'm not changing!"

-Never leave Alex alone if you guys make cookies together be s/he will eat ALL of the cookie batter

-You can't even get away with the 'You're gonna get sick!' because...

- "We're both dead"

-Also really loves hot coco

-drinks to much ngl

-and burns his/her tongue

- "Oh no I burned my tongue will you kiss it better" (Did I just use that twice? yes leave me alone)

- Will also hang up mistletoe and makes a big show of it if s/he get's stuck with someone other than you

- "I have to kiss T.J??? Why???? Oh Gods??? WHYY???"

- *T.J. legit just trying to go get lunch* "...But why"

-Will be even more extra if you get stuck with someone else under the mistletoe

-if you do you better hope to the GOD'S it isn't Magnus

- *EL GASP* "(Y/N)!! HOW COULD YOU! I'LL KILL MAGNUS ON THE BATTLE FEILD! YOU HEAR THAT CHASE??"

-Drag him/her away before s/he get's into a real fist fight

-S/he will take you on a slay ride

-Just because I think that Alex is secretly a hopeless romantic

-I could see him/her giving you two gifts

-Just because floor 19 opens gifts together and s/he doesn't want the others to know how whipped s/he is for you

-One gift, the gift s/he gives to you in front of the others, is probably something kinda mundane, a sweatshirt or something

-The one s/he gives you in private is actually really romantic

-It's a locket with a picture of the two of you, both your names in graved

~~~Scenario~~ (he/him pronouns)

The sound of freshly fallen snow crunching under your boots as the sound of bells filled your ears. This place was quite beautiful, the pretty fairy lights strung up, the snow covered trees, the bonfire crackling behind you made you feel quite relaxed. Before you could get lost anymore in thought Alex tapped you on the shoulder.

"Hey where'd you float off to?" You looked over your shoulder to see Alex, two cup of something steaming in his hands, bundled up in warm clothes.

"no where just thinkin'" Alex hummed handing you one of the cups. "Where did you hear about this place Alex?" Alex only smiled, placing a delicate kiss on your cheek. "Why don't we keep that a secret." He winked at you, placing his arms around your waist.

"So you still haven't told me what we're doing here." You looked over your shoulder at him, a playful smile on his lips. He grabbed your hand and started walking towards the cabin that you both had walked through to get to this area.

Ones you both got into the cabin Alex guided you out of the front door where a burly looking man with a white beard stood in front of a wooden sled 6 deer at the front.

You looked over at Alex, mouth a gap, you where about to say something when the man cut you off "Ride for Alex to the frozen pond?"

"Yup!" He smiled brightly popping the p. The man nodded his head, heading to the front of the slay while Alex held your hand, helping you into the slay "my dear your chariot awaits" he said in a mockingly fancy tone. "Alex this is a slay." You laughed while climbing into the seat.

"Oh hush I'm trying to be romantic!" He climbed in next to you, cuddling into your side. You sat there for a few seconds before the slay began moving, almost sending you forward, only for Alex to grab you around your waist and pulling you towards him.

"You really are a klutz huh?" He laughed, rubbing his nose agents the side of his face. "Oh shut it" you smacked his hand causing him to laugh. After a few moments the slay went into a trail in the woods decorated with lights and ice sculptures, the freshly fallen snow decorating the trees.

You looked at the scenery in amazement "Alex isn't this so breath taking!" You smiled pointing at the tree that looked like it had ice drops hanging from the leaves. "Yeah it is" his voice sounded airy a light, you didn't even notice he wasn't looking at the forest.

~~~haha look another time skip~~~

The sun was already setting as the slay slowed down stopping at a clearing in front of a frozen over pond, a hot fire crackling with benches that looked freshly cut from wood.

Alex hopped out the side, holding his hand out to help you down. He scurried over to the fire, taking a log bench that was a bit more secluded yet still kept warm by the fire. "Other people will be here later but I wanted to be here first!"

You nodded at him, slipping your hand in is, bringing both your hands into your pocket. You leaned your head on his shoulder and began talking about random things a book you were reading, a new pot Alex was planning on making, killing your floor mates. That is until an interesting topic came up.

"What do you mean this is like your first 'real' Christmas?" You looked at Alex as he shuffled closer to you "Well I never really had a 'real' Christmas back with my family, then I was on the streets and everything and since being in Valhalla we've been kinda busy"

You looked at him shocked "If you told me I would have gotten you something more special!" He waved you off, kissing you on the cheek. "No no it's fine really." He pulled his hand away from yours, moving them to your face.

"I'm just happy to spend my first 'real' Christmas with you."

#Lillis writings #percy jackson x reader #Jason Grace x reader #leo valdez x reader #frank zhang x reader #will solace x reader #Magnus chase x reader #Hearthstone x reader #Alex Fierro x reader #Heros of olympus x reader #percy jackson imagine #Heros of olympus imagine

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There’s More Than One Way To Start An Apocalypse (8)

Summary: The Infinity War had happened and Thanos had won. 5 years later the Avengers try one last crazy idea to save everyone they lost, but a mysterious woman with a Supernatural background from Natasha’s past drops in unexpectedly derailing their plans. They soon find out that Thanos was now not the apocalypse they needed to stop.

Fandoms: Avengers, Supernatural

Pairings: Steve Rogers x Reader, Dean Winchester x Reader (previous), Natasha Romanoff x Reader (previous)

Warnings: Angst, The Damn Snap, mentions of depression and self-loathing, excessive and sometimes unnecessary violence, gore, mentions of death, copious amounts of blood, some profanity as per usual, mentions of past trauma, idiotic decision making, lots of slamming on God and angels in this chapter

A/N: I feel like I deserve a slice if cake for churning out 3 chapters the past few days. Yay me! You'll see in this chapter that I took a lot of liberties in terms of timelines, powers, and limitations. It's fanfiction just roll with it. LOL. I have a plan I swear! But also I didn't want to touch on the events of the final season. That will be a whole other mess that we will address in a different story. Enjoy! Masterlist is pinned post!

Sidenote: So that I don't get confused Sam Winchester will be referred to as Sam/Sammy while The Falcon will be referred to as Wilson.

Special shoutout: To my wonderful friend and beta reader extraordinaire. Hope you like your easter egg in this chapter.

Masterlist

8: Alliances

"So you're telling me that the Natalia you said you grew up with is Natasha Romanoff. This Natasha Romanoff," Sam said his brows impossibly high as he glanced between you and Natasha. The younger Winchester looked to be somewhere between confused and impressed. "THE Black Widow. The Avenger."

"Yup. That's her right there," you shrugged as if it was nothing. And it was really nothing to you. To you she was just Natalia, your oldest friend.

Castiel, Jack, Wilson, and Wanda had gone into town to grab dinner and go on a supply run after you had done introductions. It was surreal to you watching Dean fanboy over an awkward Steve, Bucky seriously asking Castiel about the different types of heavenly weapons, and Sam getting into an in depth discussion with Bruce and Tony on how ghosts can affect tech. It was nice and it felt the most normal you had ever felt in your life.

"To be fair we had no idea about Nat's guardian angel either," Wilson said as he unpacked dinner, sliding one container after another across the table to each one of them.

"Guardian angels don't exist. Angels have an inherrent disgust for humans because they are God's favored creations," Castiel deadpanned in his low and gravelly voice while placing the crate of beer at the middle of the table.

"Castiel is still learning about sass," you chuckled.

You were seated between Dean and Natasha with Steve in front of you. The Captain noticed how Dean automatically took your dinner container and opened it for you carefully placing a knife and fork beside it. He also took a couple of beers, opened one, wiped the lip with the end of his shirt, and placed it in front of you. The fluid way in which he did this and your easy acceptance told him that this was a common act between you two.

"Really, Sera? Pancakes for dinner?" Bucky teased as he bit into his burger.

"Nephilim have a wicked sweet tooth, dude. I'm telling you from experience to never take her cookies away from her. I still have the scar as a reminder," Dean grumbled as he placed a slice of pie on your plate. "Besides, Jack is much worse."

"What?" the other nephilim said through a mouthful of technicolored cereal making the group burst into friendly laughter. After a few more teasing remarks, the conversation segued into the current crisis.

Everyone's faces turned serious and the light playful ambience turned heavy with tension as you finished your meals. Sam decided it was best to start from the beginning. He saw an opportunity for them to actually have a fighting chance now that the Avengers were on their side. He hoped they were on their side.

"When Jack was born, it opened a rift to an alternate parallel reality," Sam started running a hand through his long brown locks.

"Apocalypse world," Jack added.

"Mad Max world," Dean quipped as he chewed the last of his burger.

"In this reality there is no, well, us," Sam continued looking around the room. "There were no Avengers who stopped alien invasions or Winchesters who battled the supernatural. In this world the angels succeeded in making the universe their dominion. Humans became the hunted and the supernatural basically decimated everything."

"Why would angels do that?" Steve asked. You could see that his faith was somehow being shaken by all that he was hearing. You couldn't blame him. Everything that was taught before said that God was good and angels were there to protect you.

"Because angels are dicks," Dean grunted. "Almost every single goddamn apocalypse we had to stop has been because of some asshole angel's daddy issues."

"Dean's anger is warranted," Castiel agreed which came as a surprise to the newcomers being an angel himself but they were beginning to understand that this particular angel was different. "God is the paragon of an absentee father and his absence tested the faith of all creation including angels. In our world, angels at least still somehow respect the fact that God favored humans even though they think they are lowly creatures. In this alternate world, God had abandoned them for so long that their hatred and jealousy for humans had festered. They began to believe that in God's absence they were entitled to rule over all creation as they saw fit."

"God sounds like a dick too," Bucky commented to which Sam and Dean raised their beers in agreement.

"When we crossed the rift, the angel army there in turn also found out about our world. They called our world paradise and they seek to destroy this one as they have theirs. Their leader believes that all worlds are just God's drafts and he moves on and creates a new one when he finds things unsatisfactory. He has decided that this world is unsatisfactory so in his twisted way he thinks he's justified and fulfilling God's will in obliterating this world," Castiel frowned.

"Who's leading them?" Natasha asked as she leaned her elbows on the table her full attention on Castiel.

"Michael," Castiel growled. "The Archangel Michael."

For the benefit of the Avengers, Sam explained the implications of having to face against an Archangel and particularly since it was Michael. He informed them that Michael was the first angel ever created and the commander of all heaven. A primordial being that held power close to God himself. The previous times the Winchesters has had to deal with an Archangel was with the help of another Archangel. Gabriel was dead, Lucifer was just recently killed, Raphael was long gone, and this world's Michael was locked up in The Cage. They had nothing to fight him with.

"What's he waiting for then?" Wanda piped up. "If he's so powerful why hasn't he conquered this world already?"

"He's alone in this world. He doesn't have his army here, but he's been knocking on doors recruiting creatures to his cause," Dean grimaced.

You noticed that he was fiddling with his beer bottle, his thumb scratching at the label. This was a sign that he was tormenting himself with his own guilt again for letting Michael escape. If Michael had not escaped then you would not have been attacked at the compound. If he had just been stronger then all of you would be safe or it could at least buy you some time to figure out how to kill him. You clasped his hand firmly to steady him.

"He's also looking for a new weapon," you said quietly as Dean's hand moved to lace fully with yours.

"Y/N," Natasha breathed and you nodded sadly at her. "Why does it have to be you?"

"Nephilim grace is the most potent kind of power and if he consumes mine in particular he will be unstoppable," you explained, your grip on Dean's hand growing tighter.

"Why?" Natasha asked even though deep down she already suspected the answer.

"Because he's my father."

"Technically it was this world's Michael that sired her, but the effect would be the same. He could go after Jack but it wouldn't be as powerful as if he went for Sera," Castiel clarified.

A pregnant pause covered the room as each one tried to absorb all the information. Bruce was the first one to break the silence, his face was creased in concentration as his mind processed.

"Does he know that you've lost your grace?" he asked.

"I don't think so," you shook your head. "Otherwise he wouldn't have gone after me at the compound. I think he just felt the power surge when I went for the stones and tracked me from there."

"That could work to our advantage, but it's also risky to keep you in your current state," Bruce uttered stroking his chin thoughtfully. "We have to find a way to accelerate your grace replenishment."

"Does that mean the Avengers will help us?" Jack asked his doe eyes shining with hope and excitement.

"Look, we know this isn't your normal sort of fight and you just kind of got roped into it unknowingly. We also know you all have your own lives and responsibilities. We wouldn't be asking for help if it wasn't life or death," Sam gulped as he ended his plea. His chest hammered in anticipation as he watched the superheroes look at each other silently making their decision.

"We're in," Steve finally said and Sam let out the breath he was holding. "And you're wrong, this sounds exactly like our sort of fight."

Smiles and low chuckles filled the room again as you all came to an understanding that you were all one team now. You were all feeling a renewed sense of purpose.

"Where do we start, Sammy?" you said with a soft encouraging smile.

"Well we need to find something that we can use to fight him with. We found a lead on a new prophet that emerged. We'll need him to read the demon tablet we got."

"Don't ask," Dean murmured when he saw that you were about to ask how the hell they got their hands on a demon tablet.

"How do we know he's really a prophet?" you asked instead.

"Well we did some digging after we saw him on the world news. Apparently he's a pretty famous manga artist in Japan who just suddenly lost it a few years ago. They say he just suddenly went on a rampage ripping up all his artwork and shouting at everyone that the characters in his art were real. They sent him to a rehab facility in California," Sam explained as he pulled up his laptop and began searching for the files on the supposed prophet.

"He could just be crazy or high on drugs, Sammy," you reasoned.

"Maybe, but his breakdown happened just as Donatello died and his latest comic book series was about a war between angels and demons," Sam said as he turned his laptop around to show everyone a picture of the prophet. There was a finite amount of prophets that were allowed on the Earth and when one dies the power gets awakened in another.

"The nurses at the center also say that he keeps saying the Archangel Michael is coming for him," Dean added.

"Okay. We're busting out the whackadoodle then," you nodded now fully convinced.

"There has also been an increasing amount of werewolf-related deaths in South Dakota. Jody called it in a couple of days ago and since we know werewolves have become Michael's number one followers, it would be pertinent to investigate," Castiel recounted.

"I'm almost afraid to ask, but how do you know if it's a werewolf-related death?" Wilson inquired raising his hand.

"Hole in their chest. Heart ripped out. Looks like a wild animal mauling," you said simply and you laughed at the instant regret on Wilson's face. "We should split into teams, but I think we should keep at least one hunter with the Avengers. They'll need someone with the knowledge when things go tits up. Everyone good with that?"

Everyone agreed easily. The Avengers were highly skilled but this was a whole other world with a different set of rules they weren't used to yet.

"I'll need to stay here to go through the archives and do more research," Sam started.

"We'll help with that. We'll have to make a tech run first though because I am not working on a laptop. We'll head out on the jet to meet with my guy," Tony offered and Sam looked absolutely giddy to be included in their group.

"I'll take the werewolves and Dean can break into the loony bin. Prophets tend to hate me," you shrugged. "Your best bet would be stealth so take Natasha and Wilson with you."

You missed the hardening of Dean's jaw when you suggested his teammates and the quick glare he tossed toward the redhead, but he did not verbally complain.

"Bucky and I will go with Sera. She'll need backup for the werewolves," Steve added. "There could be a pack of them and we can't take any chances. Do you want any of them captured and interrogated?"

"Yeah, bring back a couple of souvenirs," Dean answered. “They might know something useful.”

You were surprised at how well both teams seem to have adjusted with working together. Castiel announced that he would be going to Heaven the next day to see if the other angels had any useful information. He was not optimistic, but he would still try. Wanda, Bruce, and Jack would be staying in the bunker holding down the fort and getting a head start on research.

Having laid out the plans for the next day, you all decided to get some much needed sleep. There was a lot to do tomorrow and the butterflies in your stomach would not calm down. You were walking down the hallways with Natasha leading her to her room when you noticed the sly smirk on her face.

"What?" you sighed. "Spit it out."

"Nothing. Just noticed you and the Winchester boy are awfully cozy," she snickered as you rolled your eyes. "Calls you babe too in his sexy gruff voice. Not my type, but I can see the appeal."

"Yeah, I know you're more into the shy scientist with an enraged alter ego type of guy," you countered wiggling your brows at her shocked expression. "Come on, Nat. Doesn't take a super spy to catch onto that."

"Don't change the topic!" she huffed. "So are you dating Dean or not?"

"It's complicated," you hummed. "Why do you ask?"

"I don't think he likes me and I want him to because he's important to you. I saw how he hovers over you, Y/N. There's a genuine love there," she said. You both stopped and you turned to face her.

"You're probably just reading too much into it. Get to know Dean on the mission tomorrow. He's pretty chill when he's not shooting at a vampire," you chuckled. You walked for a bit more and opened a door to what would be her quarters here. "Why the sudden interest in my love life or lack thereof?"

She smiled cheekily at your suspicion as she entered the room and paused at the doorway.

"Because there's a certain soldier who might have also noticed how comfortable you are with Dean."

She abruptly slammed the door on your face leaving you with the sound of her teasing giggles and a bunch of questions floating in your mind. You were not going to get much sleep tonight. Damn Natasha and her cryptic insinuations.

You stomped your way to your own room not realizing that super soldiers had enhanced hearing and that one in particular was in the room next to Natasha’s.

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what about... top five sortings u would run away from? 🤔

Edit: Oops I accidentally posted this too early!! Now it’s finished!

Oooh interesting! Hang on, lemme just send this to @missbrunettebarbie and then we'll be golden.

5. Lion Birds - My own sorting, I know that we can be can often be terrifying and intense and as such it's usually best to stay away. Lion Birds are kinda like a ticking time bomb, they start out as affable and cool, but slowly you start to realize that they're one step away from going insane and doing something like burning their teachers, trying to enact vigilante justice...buying children and raising them as soldiers only called by numbers...literally freeing the devil from his cage. They're only number five because unlike a lot of these sortings I think I could take a Lion Bird in a fight. Fight fire with fire y'know?

4. Double Birds - Double Birds are mad scientists. They're gonna do weird experiments on me to try and figure out what makes me tick and, frankly, I'm not into that. It's like the old Mickey Mouse short where the mad doctor wants to sew Pluto's head onto a chicken's body and then have the dog chicken lay an egg to see what sound a dog chicken makes (never mind that that's not how that WORKS). Anyway, yes, I would absolutely run from a Double Bird although I still think I could take them in a fight.

3. Bird Snakes - Woo, They maybe sexy, but they are absolutely terrifying. They have a tendency to know everything going on and have this unwavering confidence that keeps you creeped out. They’re total fouth wall breakers and I think if I pissed one off I would run because they could use their creepy fourth wall powers to kill me. (Wait is that guy from the Mask a Bird Snake??) Of course when it comes to Bird Snakes I’m more drawn to them then creeped out so I would simply try not to piss them off.

2. Lion Snakes - We been knew. Lion Snakes are one of the scariest signs. Blah blah blah. If I pissed off a Lion Snake I would probably run, but I would always be looking over my shoulder. They’re so good at what they do they’re inescapable. And they also tend to some weirdly good karma that bites anyone who crosses them in the ass (I think it’s authorial bias). Again, like Bird Snakes I’m more drawn to be around Lion Snakes so I just try not to piss them off.

1.Badger Snakes - Badger Snakes are CREEPY!! I’m not drawn to Badger Snakes like I am Lion and Bird Snakes (sidenote, but for some reason Double Snakes aren’t scary despite that Snake sec). Badger Snakes, unless they’re like Lucifer or ACD Sherlock or Shaggy, always seem a little fake to me and I already have a hard time getting a read on people so Badger Snakes just mess that up even more. Yes I would absolutely run from a Badger Snake I’m not ashamed to admit that, they would kill me in a cold and impersonal way and I don’t like that. If you’re gonna kill me at least be passionate about it!!

Honorable mentions go to Badger Birds, since I think unless it was the women of Badger Birds I could absolutely take them in a fight. As well as Bird Badgers, because if a Bird Badger actually got pissed off at me I would not have time to run I would simply already be dead.

#sorting hat chats #sortinghatchats #double birds #lion birds #badger snakes #lion snakes #bird snakes

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Recap and Theories of Quackity’s Second Lore Stream

1. Sam (72 hours before the visit)

So after the first cutscene which basically shows us that Quackity has been visiting Dream daily, we get to find out what was going on with Sam in the time between Tommy's death and revival. So we find Sam on an island in the middle of nowhere, where he's been overcome by grief and guilt over Tommy's death. Quackity and Sam talk, and eventually it gets to Quackity telling Sam it wasn't his fault that Tommy died, it's entirely Dream's fault. He continually escalates the situation in order to convince Sam to kill Dream with him, and in this conversation you can interpret Quackity as being sometimes genuine and caring or continuously manipulative (Although personally, I think it’s both).

They leave the island in a rage, ready to kill Dream. Only for Sam to back out once they get to the prison. Sam says Tommy would want him to keep Dream locked up, and that if someone else dies, Dream is the only one who can do anything about it. At this point, Quackity lashes out at Sam for backing out, and claims that Sam can redeem himself by killing Dream. Sam, in my opinion, does want to kill Dream, and does hold a great amount of resentment and malice towards him, but is holding back mainly to respect Tommy’s wishes.

An important exchange to end this conversation is:

"It's okay if you don't want to do it Sam. But at one point or another, someone's gonna have to teach that guy a fucking thing or two. And if it's not you Sam, it's gonna be me.”

"Okay, but we can't kill him."

So this is obviously a prelude to Quackity and Sam in the first lore stream. Now that Tommy has been brought back and Quackity has seen him, he has confirmation that Dream can revive people, making him valuable. Quackity manipulates Sam into letting him torture Dream by playing into his guilt over Tommy's death, as well as exacerbating his anxiety over something similar happening again in the future. He has already convinced Sam that Dream's death will be the only way to his own mental peace, even if he simultaneously feels it's his responsibility to keep him alive in order to abide by Tommy’s wishes. This also explains why during the exchange, Quackity reassures Sam multiple times that he won’t kill Dream.

Along with Tommy’s wishes, they still have another hangup: Dream is the only one capable of revival. So it makes sense that Sam is so willing to help and allow Quackity to torture Dream daily. Once he learns how to revive, Dream no longer holds any value or power. Not saying Quackity is gonna kill him after, butttt....remember that Quackity didn't actually sign any of the papers Sam gave to him when he first visited the prison...kind of indicates that when something goes wrong, Sam won't be able to hold Quackity responsible because Quackity never actually agreed to his terms. And whatever happens to Dream will fall on Sam’s shoulder.

(Sidenote: This also brings up a few questions and theories about revival. Depending on the rules of revival and what it requires, is it possible to revive oneself? Because I do have some theories about Dream visiting Schlatt in the afterlife after killing and reviving himself...)

So mainly for this chapter we get to understand their motives a bit better, we get a greater insight into Sam's character and his guilt, and we learn more about Sam and Quackity's relationship. Personally, I think Sam trusts and cares for Quackity, as exemplified by him worrying over Quackity being in a cell with Dream, as well as not checking that he signed the books. And I think Quackity does care somewhat for Sam...but not enough to not guilt him over Tommy's death so he can torture Dream. (More confirmation that Quackity is an 'ends justify the means' type of character now!)

2. Badboyhalo (42 hours before the visit)

Okay this chapter revealed the most about potential future plots imo! Quackity digs down to the egg and places a bunch of TNT everywhere, only to be interrupted by Bad and Punz. We learn that Quackity wants the egg gone because of how it's affecting Bad - I believe Quackity wants Bad on the side of Las Nevadas, but only once the egg is gone. From their conversation a bit ago on Bad's stream, we know that Quackity thinks of Bad highly, but is also fully prepared to 'get in his way' if need be. In the end, Quackity does set off the TNT, and then we get a cutscene of him hazily walking through the area with the egg speaking to him. It says "how dare you try to take this one from me, you will suffer for this".

Also, apparently during his conversation with George, he says 'what the egg', so some are theorizing that he's already been taken by the egg (throwback to Karl distracting Quackity away from the egg in the past, indicating in some future he was taken).

And another thing, Quackity has been shown the egg before (not sure if it was /rp though), but he went through the usual entrance. Which has led some to wonder how Quackity knew where to dig down to reach the egg, and if there's someone who leaked that info to him? I've also seen people say that the TNT near Punz seemed to go off first, so some are theorizing that Punz is maybe a traitor(?) though I don't know too much about Punz's character so take that with a grain of salt. I would also like to theorize that the traitor may actually be Fundy, considering one of his lore streams where he is chased down by a black figure, and once he sleeps there is Quackity's smile and casino sounds. Plus him being warned against Quackity in a book.

Additionally: we've seen Puffy accidentally blow up a creeper on the egg, and all it did was turn obsidian for a couple seconds. I have a feeling that all that TNT didn't really do anything but upset the egg. That said, we also know Tubbo recently lost a nuke. I wonder if Quackity is attempting to blow up the egg again...

This is all, of course, a prelude to Quackity and Bad's conversation in the first lore stream, so now we know why Bad seemed pretty hostile to Quackity, and why he essentially said Quackity was 'getting in his way'. (Although he did still visit Las Nevadas with him...) Potential allyship between Las Nevadas and the egg question mark?

3. George (24 hours before the visit)

Quackity sees George standing outside the prison, and the two have a sweet and happy greeting, as it's been a while since the two talked. Quackity begins talking about Las Nevadas and the casinos (which we learn he built for each member of El Rapids) only to be interrupted by George asking 'what about Kinoko Kingdom?'. We learn that while George, Sapnap, and Karl have moved on from El Rapids already and created Kinoko Kingdom, Quackity has believed it to still be a country, going as far as to create Las Nevadas and casinos for them, and had no idea of even the existence of Kinoko Kingdom. George insists that Karl told him, but we quickly learn he didn't. The meeting ends with Quackity somberly agreeing to maybe visit one day.

Quackity and Sapnap/George/Karl's relationship is now soured a bit on Quackity's end. He doesn't seem angry or hateful to them, but instead unsurprised and saddened at their leaving him behind. (Also, on the wiki, Quackity's relationship sign towards Sapnap and Karl has changed while theirs hasn't towards him.) It seems likely that Karl may have forgotten to tell Quackity due to his memory issues which are a result of his time traveling. Whether that be him just forgetting to tell Quackity, maybe telling a past/future person similar to Quackity, or maybe he has completely forgotten who Quackity even is, is unknown at this point. On the side of him having completely forgotten Quackity though, we do have the fact that Karl has distracted/saved Quackity from the egg in the past, but didn't do so this time…It's also hinted at that Quackity created Las Nevadas as a place for the trio to get married (similar to Las Vegas!) so :( sad face.

Also, I have no theories on why George was waiting outside the prison, but I'm sure you NotFounders have a couple ideas ;) In terms of Quackity's character, this chapter is him at his most vulnerable and emotional, and therefore provides us with the most insight to his character so far. In the previous lore stream, we saw him somberly take down El Rapids, piece by piece, then jarringly interrupted by his plans to torture dream daily. That cutscene seemed, to me, to be him moving on from El Rapids completely (although he does still seem to care for the El Rapids members). An attempt to both confront and let go of his past.

And the tone change makes me feel that this was very much the last straw for Quackity, and the 'new man' he's become is far less...friendly than he's been in the past. So we saw his moment of acceptance, but now we get to see his heartbreak. And it really is sad, the way he reacts to what is a betrayal in his eyes. He's unsurprised that he was unwanted and forgotten, even by his own fiancés. And I believe that's very much related to Quackity choosing to see Schlatt in the previous lore stream. For a quick recap, basically Quackity and Schlatt had a toxic/abusive relationship during the whole Manberg era. Quackity has, understandably, been very resentful towards Schlatt since. So it makes sense that only in light of being left behind by the people he valued most, does he agree to go and see Schlatt in the first place. Especially since Schlatt is the only person who has reached out first and wanted to see Quackity.

4. Wilbur (During the Elections)

We get a flashback to the election times, where Quackity and Wilbur have a conversation.

Quackity asks to genuinely talk with Wilbur, who initially says no, then says he'll try. Quackity says that he understands that Wilbur is trying to protect his people, trying to save his nation, and that he doesn’t hate him or want to overthrow him. He states that none of this is about fighting to him, and that he just believes there is a major difference between him and Wilbur. He states that he likes to see the good in people, and believes that there’s a side to everyone that wants to see a better future, and that’s what’s different between him and Wilbur. He retells his story of coming to L’Manberg, how he felt unwelcome, and that he’ll become president himself just to make sure no one else ever feels unwelcome.

Wilbur responds with an interesting line, “Your aspirations of optimism are not going to be subject to my nation's security. I'm afraid.” Wilbur claims that everyone has a good side, but that side is only there to help themselves, and if you want to really help people, you're going to need power. He continues to make a speech about how one could make a movement or resistance, and they would be celebrated, but it will change nothing. During this portion of the speech, we see flashbacks of Quackity interacting with Technoblade and Dream.

Wilbur continues to say, that “if you have a revolution, everyone will hate you. You will sacrifice everything, and you will lose everything you've ever had. But you will come back and everything will be changed.” This portion of his speech is aided by flashbacks to Wilbur blowing up Manberg, with Philza in sight. Wilbur continues by saying that power is only gained through swords, steel, violence. Not diplomacy or bureaucracy.

He continues to say that even if everyone has the good side Quackity claims they have, the only way to prove it is by showing their dark side first, presumably to gain power. He ends with another interesting line, “When I look at you, as a fellow outsider, you're not ready for that.”

There have already been a lot of fantastic takes on what this says about Wilbur’s character, so I’m not going to talk too much about that. I would, however, like to acknowledge that Wilbur was a lot more jaded than I’d noticed, even before the elections. He refers to Quackity as a ‘fellow outsider’, and it seems to me like he sees himself in Quackity, at least when he was younger and more naive. Wilbur, by this point, seems to have already had the revelation that the only way to have any influence on the server, even a positive one, is by first gaining power through violence. Quackity, as we see him now, jaded and hurt so many times, seems to finally agree with Wilbur. And so we end with him leaving a note to Wilbur, calling him a ‘dearest friend’ and saying that he won’t make the same mistake again.

I thoroughly believe that Quackity didn’t actually lose his bet with Schlatt. One reason being that if he did, there is literally nothing forcing him to make good on his word, especially to this extent. And I don’t think Quackity, as he is now, would try nearly as hard as he is to get information on revival just to save Schlatt, of all people. It seems to me that Quackity is actually trying so hard so that he can revive Wilbur. There are only a few people dead at the moment: Schlatt, Mexican Dream, and Wilbur. Quackity does not have a good relationship with Schlatt, he literally didn’t know who Mexican Dream was, and he referred to Wilbur as a ‘dearest friend’. As for why he left the note in that spot, I’m not sure. I mean, it is where Wilbur died, but I wonder if Wilbur, as a ghost, can actually receive the note?

Additionally: In the very first cutscene of the stream, we see three figures, entirely black, riding on horses. We know that one of those figures chased down Fundy, as well, and Fundy was also warned against Quackity. When Quackity leaves the note for Wilbur, we see him, as a completely black figure, leave on his horse. So we know who one of the figures is, but I wonder who the others are? And what exactly they’re doing that they need to be disguised for?

++ Random tidbits that I don't know what to do with!

The Red Banquet apparently only needs one more lore stream before it happens, do with this what you will.

Charlie Slimecicle apparently said he's gonna be 'doing some gambling' so. Hm.

Three months ago Techno and Philza arrived on Sam's island, where there was only the cross at the time, and said 'its foreshadowing!' sooo its safe to say they've been planning this for a while.

#awesamdude #quackity #badboyhalo #wilbur soot #dsmp #georgenotfound #i promise they're discussed in depth i'm not just clogging their tags!#quackinquack #yes i've lost my mind. but i'm okay with that #please rb if u enjoy lol i'm not above begging for rbs #i tried very hard to write nicely and break up blocks of words with italics/spaces/bolding

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