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barry-j-blupjeans · 2 years

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13 with blupjeans. shatter my heart. please

13. “I thought you were dead.”

((50 dialogue prompts - still accepting!!))

Barry's funeral took place on a cold, rainy Thursday in late spring. It's a closed casket and there were tulips everywhere, despite the fact that they were rarely associated with death. Kravitz had very carefully arranged the bouquets at his mother's shop and he gave her one personally, to take home afterward. Lup put it on the counter in their- in her apartment and watched as they slowly decayed over the course of a week.

Barry's death had Lup in an iron-tight grip for months and months, until Taako convinced her to move in with him and Kravitz, and forced her to, at the very least, sit outside sometimes. The horrible, terrible days lessen into just "terrible" and then into "uncomfortable" and then into "maybe slightly less than okay". She still reached for Barry's hand when driving, only to find Taako's, or Kravitz's, or Magnus's, or whoever's. A lot of his things sat in Lup's closet because she wasn't really ready to get rid of them yet, even as the "less than okay" days turn into "fine" days.

Barry had been dead for seven years when Lup got a call in the middle of the night from an unknown number at three AM. She had long since moved out of Taako's apartment, but he had roped her into planning his and Kravitz's wedding next fall. Instead, she had gotten distracted watching The Office on Netflix again with the wedding planner opened in the next tab over. She only really picked up the phone because she expected it to be Taako coming to snap at her for getting distracted again.

"Hello?" Lup said into the phone, pausing the video. She clicked back into the tab and propped her phone up on her shoulder, pressing it to her ear.

"Oh my god," a voice that is definitely not Taako said back. "Lup?"

"Who is this?" Lup asked, now a little weirded out. The voice tickled the back of her brain and Lup had to take a second to fully absorb the fact that the person who called her sounded like-

"It's Barry!" the voice said back. Lup stalled, her hands still on the trackpad of her laptop. "Lup, I- uhm, I, uh. How are you?"

Lup almost laughed. Almost. Not quite. Instead, she took the phone into her hand and turned it on speaker.

"Barry?" she repeated, not believing her ears.

"Y- yeah, Lup?"

She hung up. As soon as the call was over, she dropped the phone onto her bed and scooted away from it. In less than a minute, it was ringing again. Same caller ID. Lup let it ring. By the time he was making a third attempt, she had gotten her thoughts in order enough to talk.

"Lup," the voice said- not Barry, Barry was dead. "I'm-"

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Lup demanded into the phone. "Do you think this is funny?"

"It's really me!" the voice said desperately. "Lup, I- I swear to God, I know it's insane, but just listen to me, please- I can- What will make you believe me?" The phone line crackled a little bit. "Please. I've been trying to reach you for years, please just give me a chance."

Lup paused. The voice was taking heavy breaths over the line, as if trying to prevent himself from spiraling into a panic attack.

"What happened to the engagement ring you gave me?" Lup asked finally, squaring her shoulders as if that'd help her be more confident.

"You dropped it down the sink," the voice answered with no hesitation. "So we tried to get into the pipes but then I unscrewed the wrong thing and water started coming out. And then you cut your hand really bad on the exposed end of the pipe so we had to go to the ER to get you stitches."

Lup took a deep breath in. It shook slightly on the exhale. She looked at the scar on the palm of her hand.

"Six stiches," the voice contuined. "We told Taako that you cut yourself while cooking 'cus it'd be embarrassing if we said that we broke literally our entire sink and your hand while looking for a ring we never even found." The voice paused. As an afterthought, it added, "the second ring was from the thrift store and it had a tulip carved into it. I got one that had a way too big of a fake ruby on it because I wanted a new one, too, and it was the only one that'd fit my finger."

"Barry?" Lup asked.

"Yeah, babe," Barry said, tearfully. "I know."

"I thought you were dead," Lup said into the phone. "Who- how the hell-"

"It's a long story," Barry said, laughing slightly.

"Where are you?" Lup said. "I can- I'll meet you there, I need to get dressed-" She launched herself out of bed, going for her shoes.

"I'm in Nevada, babe," Barry said. "Though, uh, I probably need to get outta Nevada pretty- pretty fast, uhm- where- are you still in Illinois or?"

"Vermont," Lup said. "I'm in Vermont. I'm- I'll call off work and get Taako and Kravitz if I can, just-" She slipped her shoes on, grabbing a suitcase out of her closet. "I'll be there as soon as I can, I swear. I'm not gonna leave you there."

"I trust you," Barry said. Lup's heart clenched. "The town's called Alamo. It's kinda near Los Vegas, I guess? I can- if it'd be easier, I can meet you in Los Vegas-"

"Whatever works for you, babe," Lup said, shoving a pile of shirts into the suitcase. "I'll see you soon, I promise."

"I'll see you soon," Barry said. Lup could practically hear the smile in his voice.

#blupjeans #barry bluejeans #lup #taz #taz balance #modern au!#also im incapable of writing anything completely angsty sorry sldfsdf #asks #boatwizard2 #mine #ise cube writing #we're goin to vegas baeby!#long post #sorry sldfsd

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pirateborn-a · 1 year

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✧. 31/12/2022.

The idea of birthdays as a moment of celebration hadn’t crossed Roger’s mind until later in his life -- likely at some point ( if not a few years ) after first meeting Rayleigh. And after the concept had been first introduced, it never left. Roger adores celebrating and anniversaries which hold, admittedly, little meaning upon the turbulent waves perfectly suited the bill. To celebrate life is such a grand reason for festivities in his eyes, and so he celebrates all those he knows if he remembers, and celebrates his own just the same: loudly and proudly.

Ironically, he’d learned about celebrations in regards to a “ New Year ” long before birthdays, and likewise, he loves it. He views New Years Eve as the true beginning of the new years, the true start of a new chapter to his life and to the world. He may despise ends, but for forces beyond their control such as time, he embraces it with warmth and excitement. Taking it as a signal for something greater ready to come.

While upon the sea it’s difficult to keep track of time, or that during the exact days things are too busy whether due to attacks or adventures, Roger still does his absolute best and assures that there is always be some kind of celebration in honor of the end and start of a new years; and his crew, in turn alongside him, celebrates his life. Parties which rage from early morning and late into nights for anywhere between the two days to weeks at a time, often getting other crews, islands, and so on involved if they hadn't started with them. Absolutely excessive, flashy, and grand events, often involving fireworks and more, celebrated with his crew and friends. In short, the perfect kind of events for Roger.

#[ headcanon ] ✧〖 tomorrow’s skies are always clear 〗#[ happy new years to those on this side of the planet!!!!#[ sfdjklsdends up missing blorbos birthday but offers hc post anyway bc rotates him #[ i am so sorry if this is incoherent will check in morning today has been. a hot mess sldfsds #[ i am. SO eepy but tomorrow will be better....#[ first time spending new years away from family (sides sister) though yipe <- finally in japan <- everything went so wrong fdsljks #[ <- is good now though #[ holds roger... holds blorbo gently.....#[ wanted to finish the drafts i had but fdssd probably wont be able to do much until i return from trip on the 3rd-4th #[ but will probably manage some uvu #[ anyway i am rambling again but ye!!! happy new years/new years eve yall <3 #[ hope ye taking care and wishing everyone the best ofc n always

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ecoamerica · 25 days

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barry-j-blupjeans · 2 years

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21 from the most recent prompt list and anyone of your choosing would be fabulous! Thank you very much

21. so it was YOU who took a full bite out of that stick of butter!! please. please. why??

((prompt list here - still accepting!!))

One good thing about being a lich is that Lup didn't make any sound when she moved. It was the perfect opportunity for sneak attacks, though those were primarily directed toward Magnus because it had been a hundred years but he was still set on sneaking up on her and yelling his name. What was the point of being a lich if she couldn't get payback?

That being said, there were other benefits to being sneaky. Things like going unnoticed when they had to go out, because Lup loved her fans, but god, she had spent the last ten years in an umbrella and social interaction was not her friend. Or, even better, it allowed her to simply vanish when Taako was trying to tell her a horrible joke.

Most of all, it helped with stakeouts. So, when someone finally opened the kitchen door in the middle of the night, Lup pressed her ghostly form up against the wall and stilled. It was dark, but in the light of the moon that came from the window, she could clearly see Kravitz. His hair was still pinned up from work and the left half of his body was still a skeleton, which he didn't seem to notice. As he got further into the kitchen, his scythe dematerialized from his hand. He opened the fridge.

Lup flicked the lights on and slammed a hand down onto the kitchen island counter. Kravitz jumped and slammed the fridge shut, but the evidence was already clear. A stick of butter fell from his hand onto the floor. It made a very comedic splat! sound when it hit the ground. He had gone full skeletal now.

"So it was you!" Lup accused.

"I-" Kravitz cleared his throat. "I've got no clue what you're talking about."

"Were you or were you not about to take a bite out of the butter?" Lup said, leaning over the counter.

"Well-"

"Don't lie!" Lup said. "Liches can smell lies."

"I"m pretty sure they can't," Kravitz said. "Actually, no, I'm sure they can't. Lich-hunting is my entire job, so I think I would know-"

"Kravitz," Lup said, leaning so far over the counter that she was practically on top of it. "Why in the fresh hell are you eating our butter? What-" she laughed and the skin that had slowly been starting to come back over Kravitz's face flushed. "What're you gaining from this? Is it a reaper thing? When Bar n' I become reapers, are we gonna have to eat butter?"

"I'm not eating the butter!" Kravitz said, very obviously the one who had been eating the butter.

"Who is then?" Lup challenged. Kravitz floundered for a second before saying,

"The cats."

"The cats," Lup repeated.

"Yeah." He was looking anywhere but her. Lup, who had now drifted completely over the counter, looked down to see the stick of butter on the floor. Kravitz cleared his throat again and when Lup looked back up, his skin had all come back.

"Listen," he started and Lup grinned.

"Listening," she said.

"Listen- it's. I have no excuse."

"You sure as hell don't, my dude!"

"But-" Kravitz held his hands up defensively. "If we could keep this between, uh, between us, that'd be great-"

"Ohhh, that isn't gonna work, though," Lup said, faux-apologetic. "'Cus like, I vividly remember someone blaming my husband for eating a stick of butter and, uh, it'd be a shame if I let that rumor continue unaided, sooo..."

"That's... fair," Kravitz said, wincing. "But in my defense-"

"Is there a defense to you taking a fuckin' chomp out of the butter?"

"In my defense," Kravitz said, a little bit louder. "I thought it was like, a new brand of Fantasy Twinkies-"

"Krav," Lup said, delighted.

"It's been a while out here," Kravitz said. "I didn't start eating 'til like, three months ago, you can't blame me for that-"

"I am absolutely going to blame you for that!" Lup said with a little laugh. "Actually, not only am I gonna blame you, I am going to tell every I possibly can."

"Lup," Kravitz said, like one would approaching a rabid dog or a toddler who had just bit you. But, y'know, being a lich had its purposes. And disappearing from a conversation to go rat out your brother's boyfriend was an incredibly specific, but very important, purpose.

#lup #kravitz #taz #taz balance #mine #asks #noodyl-blasstal #ise cube writing #i am... vv sleeby but i did wanna write so sorry if this sounds sorta weird sldfsd

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barry-j-blupjeans · 2 years

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It's gotta be When the Sky Comes Falling Down and/or Buzzcuts and Braids fjsbflahfkshf

I know you've answered stuff about them before, but I never stop thinking about them <3

i always have more things to say about them dw sdlkfsd

fun fact about When the Sky Comes Falling Down is that I thiiink that this was my first time writing their tía! with speaking lines, at least lsdkfsd. this was ages before I watched Encanto but if anyone wants to know a basic summary of how I think their tía behaves it's a mix of pepa's energy n julieta's way of Giving Advice and Affection. n I think one of the reasons I've still got hella encanto brain rot is because they fit how I picture taako n lup's tía so well sldfsd

i don't necessarily hc her as latina, but her wife deffo was and I think she probably distanced herself from the Taaco Family prior to taking care of lup and taako, bc they don't really picture them as a great bunch of people sdlfsd. so her wife's family kinda took her in and let helped her grow!!

(her wife is also slightly based off the first girlfriend I ever had, who grew up in Mexico! and thus, taako n lup's tía is also slightly based on her, just bc of personalty merging n stuff sldfssldkf)

as for Buzzcuts and Braids - somewhat obviously, this fic is made Purely through my relationship with my hair. i have gotten way better at handling it, but I do have trichotillomania, which is just like,, fierce, reoccurring urges to pull of hair. i guess the personal story w this one is that I did have to buzz all my hair off to stop myself from pulling it sdlkfsd. that's not really a fun thing but it's true.

buzzcuts and braids is my baby in the same way that my Actual Hair is my baby in that I have put so much conscientious love and effort into it. just like I have to remind myself to care about myself, I had to remind lucretia that there is a Life she should care about outside the mission!! the whole fic made me emotional and I'm the one who wrote it sdlfds

#ise cube answers #asks #tentatively positive 3 #thank u gab sdlfsd sorry this took so long to answer #i am speaking #also shout out to the make place discord for helping me remember the word conscientious #bc i couldn't for the LIFE of me sldfsd

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barry-j-blupjeans · 2 years

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19 or 26 with barry and the birds? sorry for sending so many

26. hahaha no worries, it's not my blood

((no longer accepting but you can find these prompts here!))

Barry was in a strangely good mood as he staggered back into the Starblaster. It had been... what? Three months? Three and a half? It had been a while out there. Being kidnapped halfway through a mission was definitely not the way he wanted to spend this cycle but it wasn't awful. Like, Barry's been kidnapped before, but at least these people had the decency to give him water every once and a while. Overall, not a bad stay. Six-point-five out of ten stars.

Actually, maybe seven stars, because he had the Light and he was only moderately wounded. If you didn't count the emotional stuff.

But he was in a good mood nonetheless.

There were low voices talking from the kitchen area and he caught a draft of a very nice smell. Barry's stomach rumbled. He'd been eating the bare minimum for the past few months, so he was real excited to finally get some proper food in him.

"Uh, hey," Barry said, stepping into the kitchen. They were eating dinner, hell yeah. Even more of a hell yeah with the fact that they were all still alive. They stared at him. Magnus dropped his fork. "I, uh, I got the Light?"

"Oh my god," Davenport said.

"Yeah, I know it's-"

"Holy shit!" Lup said, flinging herself out of her chair. Barry stumbled slightly at the force that she threw herself at him. He laughed, only feeling slightly bruised as Lup hugged him. She pulled back, cupping his face in her hands. She looked tearful. "Barry, babe, how- I thought you died!"

"Sorry to disappoint," Barry said and she squeezed his face a little harder, shaking her head. Before she could respond, Magnus came and swooped them both up into a hug. Barry laughed again. And then there was Taako on the right, and Lucretia, and Merle, and Davenport, holy shit, he had missed everyone so much.

"Put 'em down!" Merle said. "You're not the only one who missed him, Mags!"

"Sorry," Magnus said, not sounding sorry at all. Very gently, he placed Barry back on the floor. Merle gave him a half-hug around the waist.

"Do you need like..." Lucretia grimaced, looking him up and down. "Medical attention, or like, uh. Clean clothes?"

Barry looked down at his shirt. It was extremely bloody. He had forgotten about that.

"Oh, don't worry," he said. "It's not my blood."

"I mean, that's- that's good," Lucretia laughed. "But you are kinda, uhm..."

"Gross," Taako offered. He gingerly patted Barry's shoulder and then wiped his hand off on Lup's jacket. "And sweaty."

"Very sweaty," Lup agreed.

"That's- that's fair," Barry said, not really caring at all, because he was back and Lup was here and he was alive and- "I should shower." His stomach rumbled again. "And eat probably."

"Go shower," Davenport said. "Please. We'll save you some."

"Right," Barry said. He held up the Light. "Someone should... do something with this."

"I'll put it in the lab," Lup said, taking it from him. With her free hand, she pulled him into another hug. Barry rested his face against her shoulder. "Be quick, okay? I don't want your food to get cold."

"I'll be as quick as I can," Barry said. Lup pulled back and he caught her hand, squeezing. "Missed you."

"Gross," Taako butted in again.

"Missed you too," Lup said.

#barry bluejeans #lup #blupjeans #taz #taz balance #dont wanna tag everyone else sdlkfs #n dont be sorry for sending a lotta prompts!!! i love prompts sldfsd #the only way i can write anymore /hj #asks #boatwizard2 #mine #ise cube writing #i'ma just... post this now ig

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