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"I think we're in too deep to pull-out now" IMMEDIATELY followed by a self-breaking laugh at her own clearly purposeful innuendo...BAFTA Award Winner Laura Bailey everyone
#the fact that she also broke the rest of the cast too#incredible#critical role#critical role spoilers#critical role cast#laura bailey
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𓆙 time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me - CORIOLANUS SNOW x f! reader
summary and tw: coryo sees you again now as president snow (young), after you had apparently ran away never to be seen after years. (during 15th hunger game as his first year as president) angst, divider credits : @cafekitsune 𓆙
You hesistantly walked up the steps, bearing a stolen identification card from someone who lived in the capitol. You had snuck in here, you were always good at that. That's what he liked about you, your coyness. Until you realized his was more than that, he pushed it to the ends of the world till it reached his needs for ambition. Which he clearly has. Your hands trembled, taking a moment to rethink your actions. You just wanted to see him one last time. Maybe you should've just stayed, and watched him make some random speech.
You stood there. Maybe, you shouldn't have left in the first place. But bearing the guilt of loving someone who never had the guts to tell you of the crime of murder he had committed was too much to hold. He never forgot you clearly, because your eyes had followed a trail of white roses put at the sides of the steps. He used to hand you white roses, symbolizing your youthful love and loyalty. Sadly, you couldn't find the loyalty in your heart to stay with him any longer.
You hadn't even comprehended the fact that he wasn't inside, because you heard clicks of shoes on those very steps you just stepped on. The breathing, and the calculated gaze on your back. You knew it was him even after 5 years, you knew. You slowly turned around and you were met with the sight of a slightly more mature Snow, red coat, and grown out white-blonde hair.
"Cor-" Your voice was stopped when he raised out a hand. Was he used to this? Commanding others?
Your eyes raked over him, exactly like his father. Had he also turned into the same tyrant figure like him? You had heard a few stories in passing by from Tigris. How was she? You had too much to ask, yet no force to find out how to let out the words.
He scoffed at you in disbelief, he had waited for this moment for years. On the 2nd, he gave up. He used to even leave the light out for you, in some mismatched hope you could tell that he was home. Here you were, in the flesh. Completely fine. You seemed not to change that much, in dark contrast to how he was now.
His face seemed to hold too much distaste for his age, eyebrows in a permanent hold reminiscent of a look of disgust. You suddenly felt insecure, even though you had shared some of your most deepest words with him.
"What are you doing here?" His eyes drooped down to the floor. Could he really not stand the sight of you?
"I.. I wanted to check on you, make sure you were doing fine. The rest of you."
His eyes narrowed at you, sneering. "What type of bullshit response is that? You left my life, you can't just come back in. You said you wouldn't leave. Yet, you did." His voice trembled for a moment, but he could no longer trust you. There was no way he could show his vulnerability infront of you again. He did it once, and he was still followed by your voice all these years.
"Why? You owe me that."
"You killed them, Coryo. Do you understand that? I was scare-" His voice loudly cut you off.
"Scared? No, you weren't fucking scared when you ran away! You were so easy to leave, you had to already have that idea. I tried to forget about you all these years. You know I wouldn't have ever hurt you. You were supposed to become the lady of Panem!" His eyes looked at you in desperation, you had ruined his life once more. You had reminded him of what he could've kept if he hadn't pursued his ambitions so hard.
"Coryo. I just came here to check on you, I changed my mind about knocking." Tears formed in your eyes when he wrapped his hands around your arms, begging. Coriolanus Snow was begging for once in his life, and it was for you.
"Please." His voice broke, now you could see who everyone revered as the president. President Snow was Coriolanus still, no matter how much he tried to change himself.
"Coryo, don't make me cry. Not right now, I've seen enough. You seem.. fine." You tried to convince yourself to not stay, to not run back into his arms.
"Do you understand what you have done to me? I dream of you, when I breathe, it is because I want to live for you. I need you. For you to see how much I have grown, I am president now. There is no need for guilt. When will you see that I am good, for you?" He said through gritted teeth, trying to not let the same mistake happen again.
"Coryo, we both know at the end of tonight, we will be sleeping on different beds. It's best if we finally let go of each other." With that, you brought him in for one final kiss. When you felt his embrace, you felt something like a tear hit your cheek.
Coriolanus Snow never forgot you, not even when you were seen helping Katniss Everdeen against him. Not even when you gave her a white rose, an everlasting symbol of the forgotten love between you and Coriolanus Snow.
#Spotify#coriolanus snow x you#coriolanus snow x reader#coriolanus x reader#coriolanus snow#coriolanus snow angst
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as a certified filler enjoyer I'll come out and say I wish fairy tail had more filler. the cast of fairy tail is so big that there's practically an endless amount of side stories to tell with them. Something I would've liked to see is erza teaching wendy how to drive one of those magic leech vehicles:
Erza: "Okay put your foot on the gas pedal and gun it as hard as you can!"
Wendy: "Uh, Erza which one's the brake?"
Erza: "What do you mean brake?"
driving isn't super big in fiore, you have to have a nice amount of magic to use the cars and there isn't any paved road really, a horse or a train can practically get you anywhere but it's still a nice skill to have so erza tries to teach wendy.
of course the rest of team natsu get involved which ends in disaster. best to worst drivers are gray, erza, lucy, natsu. gray is better than erza just because of the fact erza is a super reckless driver. she drives like she had to be somewhere yesterday so when she tries to teach wendy she also tries to pass on all her bad habits. wendy is more concerned for the safety of everyone around her so she tries to over correct what erza teaches so she doesn't place her foot on the pedal as hard as erza tells her to and brakes more often then necessary which makes her just as much of an annoying driver as erza just in the opposite direction
somewhat surprisingly lucy can't drive because no one taught her. she was rich so why would she have to drive? she got pulled around in a horse drawn carriage so her and wendy learn at the same time. natsu, although he is below lucy on the list, can drive; he's just the worst driver you've ever seen. he drives the same way he fights, so he ends up putting way too much magic into the car at once. (he's blown up at least one car) while erza teaches wendy how to do cool u turns, natsu and lucy are in the back crashing into stuff which quickly turns into him being banned from helping her because damn it natsu these are rentals
gray is mostly trying to stay out of it, he trusts erza to teach because "she managed to teach that moron how to read". others from the guild probably stop by and give their two cents. laxus (who can drive) doesn't really offer advice other than "don't hit anyone cause you will have to pay for their hospital bills" which makes wendy abuse the brake pedal more. mira tries to give her advice about keeping a cool head while on the road but she has the craziest road rage known to man (gray reveals this) and it's a blessing cars in fiore can't honk. cana stops by but has no good advice because even though she knows how, she hasn't driven in five years. "I have to be sober to drive but I can get drunk on a train."
after all the lessons wendy tries to drive down the road and it goes like this:
Wendy: "Woah, this is actually kind of fun. Erza look! I'm-"
Gray: "Wendy keep your eyes on the road!"
*crashes into a building*
wendy doesn't become a master driver but she appreciates that so many people tried to teach her something. (while lucy doesn't learn anything at all) master makarov is a more than a little upset that they destroyed (2) cars but what can you do? erza definitely broke more than two desks trying to teach natsu to read so technically it could've been worse, he tries to rationalize to himself.
#fairy tail#erza scarlet#wendy marvell#team natsu#gray fullbuster#lucy heartifilla#natsu dragneel#laxus dreyar#mirajane strauss#cana alberona#makarov dreyar
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Comeback
Word count: 1.5K
Summary: after a break up with Jenna, this is what you’re going through
Warnings: angst angst, bad writing
Pairing: Jenna Ortega X Fem!Rrader
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“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”
This is what you and Jenna said to each other multiple times during your short lived relationship. It was one if not THE best relationship you ever had, she was the best person you had ever met. You were perfect for one another, however you had two very different necessities. She was a worldwide known actress, and you were just one of the people she met before becoming famous. It was nice, at first. When your relationship was made public you had lots of fans, lots of people cherished what you had with Jenna, and soon enough you found yourself being invited to movie premieres with her and you were also under the attentions of paparazzis and interviewers and journalists. You didn’t mind that, you had to say. You loved absolutely everything about Jenna’s world and you were there to support her each step of the way.
you were there to support her the moments she broke down, telling her that everything was going to be okay. You were there the moment when the pressure would become too much, and she would feel at ease in her arms. You were there for her, no matter what she needed you were there.
But when you needed her, where was she?
“I can’t today, I have an interview”
“Babe I have filming this month, you know I don’t have time”
“I’m going out with the rest of the cast, I’ll see you at home”
As much as you wanted to be involved in her life, she never let you in completely. She never brought you on sets, she never introduced you to her friends, and sooner than expected you started feeling just like a distraction.
“Why are you still with her? This hurts you, and you know that. You don’t deserve to get hurt from this relationship.” Your mom asked you.
Because some times, We hold on to those who cannot love us for so many reasons. Sometimes, we hold on because we convince ourselves that the circumstance will change - that if we love harder, if we give more, if we stay, if we endure, the situation will evolve. The value of our love will be recognized, it will be chosen. Sometimes, we hold on because we feel like we have to. We feel like we have to be the ones to fix, the ones to mend, the ones to prove that human beings don't give up on a person they see something beautiful within.Sometimes, we hold on because we feel guilty, because we think that walking away and choosing ourselves is us discarding someone we care about, is us abandoning a human being. And sometimes, we hold on because we think that we will never find the kind of person who proves to us that love is not something that is meant to hurt. Sometimes, we hold on because we lose our belief in the fact that love has the potential to be soft, that there is more to life than what we are settling for.
And you want to hold on. You want to hold on because you really hope that she’ll find your way back to you. Because after all you’re perfect for each other. You knew that from the beginning.
From the beginning you knew, well, you hoped that you’d spend the rest of your lives together. But now?
Now you’re strangers again. And remembering how close the two of you used to be, it hurts you. Even after months, you still remember the smell of her perfume. The sound of her laugh, that you’ll probably never hear again. And you’ll always remember small details about her. The time the two of you spent together wasn’t much, and you wish you had more time with her, but you’re glad that your paths crossed, even if just for a while. And even though in the end she decided to leave, maybe she did what was best for you. For now you will love her silently, because you’re strangers again.
You don’t talk anymore, that’ true, but that doesn’t mean that you forget about her, and you know you can’t be anything anymore so you try, you try to move on from her but some times, part of you is still wishing for her to come back to you.
And she did,
She came back.
It was late at night when you heard your bell ring. You saw from your window that it was Jenna, and you had to be honest, you wanted to ignore her and go back to sleep. But you’re too nice. If she called you crying, you would answer. If her mother called you saying “(Y/N) we have an emergency, we need you” you’d rush at her place. If Jenna ever needs comfort, you’ll be there, every time. Maybe you’re too good, to sweet. But it’s who you are, and nothing can change that.
You went and opened the door for her. As soon as you did you looked in her eyes, you saw she was crying and you invited her in. You wanted to hug her and comfort her, but you knew better.
“What do you want, Jenna?” You asked her and crossed your arms, watching as she sat down on the sofa in the living room. She took a deep breath and spoke, trying not to sob. “I miss you. I’m so sorry if I hurt you, please, please forgive me” she said, and you chuckled, making her look at you. “Forgive you? Jenna you didn’t just hurt me, you broke me. You kept pushing me away, you kept excluding me from your life. For you I only existed when you needed support, and when you were asked to bring someone to the movie premieres. I didn’t exist as your girlfriend, I didn’t exist as the woman you come home to. I didn’t exist at all, because whenever I needed you, you ignored me.”
“You kept pushing me away, but I alwavs chose to stay. So, shame on me. Shame on me for letting you walk all over me. Shame on me for letting you get into the depths of my soul that no one has ever touched. Shame on me for putting up with your mind games.“
You saw Jenna’s eyes fill with a new bash of tears, and she tried to speak but you were quicker
“Shame on you for always misleading me. Shame on you for always making me feel we had a chance. Shame on you for keeping me in your fantasy of what we could be; when you had every opportunity to set me free, you chose to let me dream.”
“(Y/N) please, please just let me try to win your heart again, let me try ti fix it-“ she sobbed out, but you have had enough. “No, Jenna. I’m done with your games, I’m done with only being used as a distraction, I’m done with only being there only when it’s convenient for you. Just leave and forget about me. I’m just a stupid normal girl after all I’m not famous like you, I’m not an actress or someone you want to be seen with so I’m sure it will be easy for you to forget about me.”
You said and didn’t look at her, you put your hands in your hair. Now you changed your mind, You just wanted to keep her in your memories, keep her locked there and never see her again.
“But what if I never forget you?” She said all of the sudden, you turned to look at her. “What if, all my life, when I meet someone new I can never fall for them because they aren’t you?” Jenna asked. You wanted to tell her that you will never forget her, that you’ll never find someone like her and that you wanted to be a couple with her again. But your pride was stronger than that.
“Find a replacement. You already did that, all the times that you were acting smitten and all lovey dovey with Percy.” There. She asked for it, didn’t she?
You watched Jenna react like a mouse who just got caught in a trap, like this was her deepest secret.
“What are you talking about?” She said, trying to play dumb.
“Jenna, enough. I’m tired if being a replacement and for someone I want to be someone that isn’t so easily replaced.”
#Spotify#jenna#ortega#jenna ortega#jenna ortega x r#jenna ortega x y/n#jenna ortega x you#jenna ortega x reader#jenna ortega x fem!reader
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incredible chaser game w moments (part 2) up to & incl. episode 4
the most homophobic breakup you've ever seen. just, unholy behavior. on fucking god itsuki i know you had good intentions but you're the worst for doing it like that !!!!!!!!! at least let her down easy !!!!! if i was 22 and my gf of 4 years did that to me i'd fucking go insane as well
the elevator stopped working ➡️ you are trapped in with the person you hate ➡️ you are forced to sit it out and face your fears together, ultimately bringing you closer both emotionally & physically. i love this trope and i didn't know i needed it here, but it was great. step 1 to the meowmeow-ification of fuyu complete
my prediction of itsuki running into & taking care of little tsuki and the two of them then being found by fuyu, resulting in an awkward and heartbreaking scene, came true exactly like that. i think this scene was genuinely so well done and well acted, it broke my heart. i think this was the scene that really got me to say Damn, I'm invested in this now...
^ I'm still waiting for Itsuki to bring up the similar names in conversation though. like you need to talk about that
"ohhh harumoto-san, so you're part of that team?" - itsuki (sweating in closeted lesbian): "huh? what? n-no, of course not- I'm--" - "Don't worry, it's all good, we're all into BL too!!!" ➡️falsely coming out as a yaoi fangirl to your coworkers to avoid having to talk about your own sexuality. LMAO
^ this scene only being a setup so fuyu can be homophobic on main is what makes it even funnier
why. in every gods name. would you go to your boss' home address. why on earth would you do that. at least itsuki was self-aware about it too. girl you are SO unwell
every time fuyu has kissed itsuki of her own initiative, it has been when she was drunk... can we remedy that for future episodes, please? not that consent has been an issue, their mutual feelings are obvious, but i think she should be making a move when she doesn't have any liquid courage in her. step up your fucking game, fuyu
"she's a classic tsundere, after all" - fuyu, who has been severly harassing her subordinates at work (again, there seems to be no HR department at this company) being written off as a "tsundere" by the rest of the team - I mean, you're not wrong, but you should still file a complaint against her.
fuyu's husband Kouu is the nicest man on earth. my man doesn't deserve ANY of this. he even calls her dongyu. he even calls his wife by her real fucking name like the bar is so low
fuyu treats him so badly too, man, i genuinely felt bad watching it. were the 5 years of marriage all like this? was he always just a means to you getting your revenge? i'm sick. i hope they can make up by the end of the show and have a real conversation about their feelings and relationship.
that aside, i do have some theories on kouu, his disappearance, and his own feelings as well, but i'm keeping that to myself atm...
fuyu & itsuki keep having insanely homoerotic moments in front of god and everyone on earth, I'm starting to believe the only person with a gaydar in this company is the photographer from the other office. the fact that you two haven't been found out yet is honestly a massive plot hole (lmao)
has itsuki eaten anything else but sweets (cake, in particular?) on screen yet? apart from the homemade meal at the hayashi's, whenever there's a scene of her alone or with her grandma, she's always eating cake. i wonder if it will come up at some point, but it's just something i noticed. no shade though girl i'm also (almost) 27 and if you wanna eat cake for dinner alone at home I'm your nr1 supporter
i'm never a fan of the trope of a bilingual character breaking out into their native tongue for swearing or just randomly, but it is fun that only fuyu does it and that all the other chinese characters just don't speak mandarin at all. and i'm happy they actually cast a bilingual actress for fuyu!
episode 4 was the mid-series finale, and it definitely showed. this was the best episode so far by a pretty significant margin imo.
the. silent pleading fuyu puts on to make itsuki stay at the hayashi house. the most fucking 🥺*twirling my hair cutely* AND IT WORKS TOO BECAUSE ITSUKI IS JUST AS INSANE AS YOU ARE
i would like to talk about the best scene of this show yet. i really wished it was longer and was given even more weight. in episode 4, fuyu & itsuki are sitting in the living room together at night, so far apart that they're completely out of each other's camera shots even. i found this to be the most interesting scene so far. there was genuine tension in the shot composition, the acting, the complete absence of music. just silence and their voices. "after all, it was all my fault, wasn't it? that we ended up like this?" fuyu still deep down believes that she was the reason their relationship failed. she wasn't enough, because she's fuyu, because she's a woman. she still thinks that. my heart fucking broke in two
their fight after fuyu came back home drunk was so funny. especially with their height difference... hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby
after finally learning the truth about their break-up, fuyu is absolutely devastated. "you valued your promise to my mother more than the one you made to me?" just completely broken. after all this time sitting with these unresolved emotions, feelings of guilt and deep shame, only for that to be the reason? I feel so bad for her
the mutual love confession!!!!! i'm honestly a bit surprised it came so early, i thought they were just going to sleep together and not talk emotions first. but i'm not gonna complain (i just love mess) i'm also devastated that itsuki used suki while fuyu used the word aishiteru. my friends it's so bad for me right now (and them)
did. they. fuck. on. the. floor. in. the. living room.
i hope so because 1) hot and 2) although i'm still unsure as to the exact room situation of the hayashi household, don't they all have one shared bedroom??? isn't the bedroom that they're in after they've had sex (hopefully in the living room) the same one we've previously seen, where the kid also sleeps????? WHERE WAS THE KID ITSUKI. WHERE. WAS. THE. KID. WE KNOW SHE'S WITH YOU BECAUSE THAT WAS THE WHOLE REASON YOU STARTED FIGHTING!!!!!
if you had sex while your kid was sleeping soundly in the same room i'm sending both of you to superhell. i'm praying you guys just have a totally identical bed in another room. please.
if it wasn't the same bed we've previously seen from tsuki's room, that means you guys fucked in the marriage bed, which is only slightly less gonna get you sent to superhell.
in any case, happy lesbian sex to them. i know neither of you have known the touch of a woman in the past 5 years so it was probably intense. drink a lot of water in episode 5, alright? jesus.
it was also quite funny that the scriptwriter for the show tweeted out a few hours before this episode aired that "itsuki has always taken the leader position in their relationship" and that "you should watch episode 4 with this in mind" and we were all like. oh so you're telling me that fuyu is a bottom? you're telling me water is wet? fork found in kitchen??????
their lil afterglow convo in bed was just perfectly sweet. 1 point to fuyu, now presumably much more sobered up, for having the courage to ask if itsuki's gonna stay the night after all. girl you don't have to ask. i think she's ready for another 12 rounds. she's not going anywhere.
the line delivery of the "alright" (i'm gonna stay) oh my god. oh my god... oh. oh.
the meowmeow-ification babygirl-ification of fuyu is now complete
in the preview for ep5, fuyu is wearing a mixture of white and black clothes. girl... it was that good, huh?????
in conclusion:
i had a lot of thoughts on this one and i've found great joy in going deep into the twt tags for it as well. and i'm glad to see many japanese sapphics also being super vocal about the show. it's really interesting to read and interact with that side of the fandom i haven't really seen in this capacity for a (lesbian) live action show yet. i see people slowing down & brightening up footage to analyse who's taking each other's clothes off first, people just posting close-ups of Yuuka's hands, people going into Yurika's past filmography to dig up ancient clips of other sapphic roles she's played (of which there seem to be actually quite a lot?). i love to see it lmao.
on a more serious note, it makes me happy to see sapphics from so far away expressing themselves similarily to myself or my other lesbian friends. it's cute!! as for cgw, part b of the series is gonna be intense, and i'm especially curious to see how they're gonna do the inevitable breakdown of fuyu again. my girl is so deep in the trenches, her temporary being on cloud 9 right now is gonna be short-lived and i want to see it happen. i hope she can really stand up for herself and make things right after all!
#mono-loguing#chaser game w#long post#text#rambling#sorry this got so long. i just wanted to type some thoughts out. really curious to see what happens next week
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Alfred Molinathon Day 1:
Species (1995)
Dr. Stephen Arden
His Role: His character doesn't have too much to do until near the end of the movie. During the containment lab scene, I just thought that he reminded me of some kid in the back of a classroom who sometimes chimes into the conversation or scene of the main characters. I don't know why.
Also, when the cast is waiting for Sil to arrive back to the club, him thinking it's a waste of time and decides to just opt out and sleep in the van is very relatable to me. That's what I do half the time at boring events.
When it is his time to shine, we get to see some of his personality, which is that he can be quite fun! Him hanging out with the other guys was really fun to see, I really enjoyed when him and Dan shared time together, I really wish we got more of the two! Although iffy on the whole letting Dan think long island iced tea was just tea and him not feeling good afterwards.
(This is a funny picture)
Arden shooting his shot with those two ladies was hilarious. He tried, but he didn't even properly ask if they had dates or not.
And the final scene with him... he really just bought what Sil (not knowing it's her) said? Like even if I was very horny and lonely, I would still be really freaked out if someone broke into my room because they were interested in me. Just saying. I was also really afraid I was gonna finally see someone's dick in those movie and it was gonna be his, but thankfully not (I don't like see anyone's penis, no thank)... but there is dick, we'll get back to that.
So he successfully knocks up Sil (not intentionally on his part) and gets killed. Which I already knew was gonna happen, I haven't watched this movie before, but I knew the general plot and that he died. I didn't enjoy the fact that his death only gets brought up once by Laura asking "Did you see him?" Like that's it. Nothing from Dan, I want to see him devastated! He's an empath!!!
I also thought it would have been more interesting if he was alive (not just because I wanna see more of Molina), just him grappling with the fact that he unintentionally help Sil with her goal and the other fact that he has a alien/human hybrid son! It would have been funny if someone said, "Your son tried to kill me, Arden!" Maybe him having mixed feelings that his son had to be killed or maybe this made-up version the son wouldn't be dead. I don't know!
Anyways, this character had more potential, but I enjoyed his last few scenes. Especially his bromance time with Dan.
Last thing: I was very envious of his hair. Give it to me, please.
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The Rest of the Movie: I didn't expect to really enjoy this movie, but I did and I'm glad. I heavily judged it solely on Sil's alien form... yes really.
I was really surprised that I liked both plots of the movie (Sil on the prowl and the team hunting her down), and the romance between Press and Laura? I actually love it. It was kinda cute, I don't always like romances happening quickly but this was good.
Laura: You want to dance?
Press: Who, me?
Laura: Yeah, you.
God, I love how she delivers that line! Gently mocking his voice. And her saying "cute socks" when they're about to have sex was adorable.
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I really liked Dan the empath but I don't fully know if he was supposed to be kind of a joke? Like him stating his empathic yet obvious observations and how everyone reacts to that. He kind of reminded me of Padparadscha Sapphire form SU, just a bit.
Like I said earlier, since we saw plenty of scenes of Press and Laura, I wish we saw more of Arden and Dan.
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Sil's journey and mission throughout the movie was interesting, but her alien design really bothered me. Like, were the tenta-tits really needed? I really got the Xenomorph and H.R. Giger vibes from the design, which I'm sure it was a huge inspiration. Actually, I looked it up, he did design her...
It was nice to see so many people being kind to who they thought was a foreign woman, even the motel guy! But that poor woman she uses to fake her death... her acting was incredible and heartbreaking.
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Xavier... I didn't like anything about this character and the actor, I'm sorry, but I don't understand the direction he was given. Not his fault, but man I was happy when he died. I was also confused with the scene after Sil faked her death and she was in the other car if Sil just knew what he was gonna say or she was mind controlling him? Which doesn't show up anywhere else.
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The horror aspect of this horror movie was not really there, which I didn't mind. It wasn't scary or anything, but I enjoyed the chase between the team and Sil and all the people Sil meets.
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The last thing I want to add is the fact that I laughed way too hard at one scene. In the beginning, Xavier was talking about how Sil came to be and says:
"We decided to make it female so that it would be more docile and controllable."
And I hope that it would cut back to the only woman on the team, and yes, it did. I howled with laughter, probably wasn't that funny but it was to me.
Oh yeah the penis I mentioned? It was Sil and Adren's sons'... I didn't really wanna see a kids genitals. No thank you.
#Alfred Molinathon#I'm behind already I'm sorry!!!#Alfred Molina#Stephen Arden#Dr. Stephen Arden#Species 1995#Not really doing this in a specific order or anything
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“Can You... Hold Me?”
Pairing: Rhys x f!reader
Summary: Reader is a prisoner UtM and asks Rhys to cuddle her in a moment of weakness. He comes to a shocking realization.
Warnings: None (literally just fluff).
Word count: 487.
A/N: This is literally so short, I’m sorry, rip.
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“Rhys?” Her voice shook a little and my heart broke for her. I turned back to her. I will never forget the look on her face… pure, unadulterated fear. She paused, but eventually asked, “Can you… hold me?”
“Yes,” I breathed without a second thought. She made room for me and I climbed into her tiny cot, wrapping my arms around her as she nuzzled into me.
I would do anything to help her feel less scared and less alone, but I’d be lying if I said I had nothing to gain from this. Sure, I was used to being physically used by Amarantha, but I hadn’t had this kind of innocent intimacy since long before Under the Mountain. It felt… good.
Too good.
Her head rested between my neck and my shoulder. I held her close to me, gently rubbing her back as her body calmed. I didn’t expect her to fall asleep right away, and she didn’t. In fact, she practically clung to me and stared at the wall for at least an hour, thinking. I wasn’t sure if talking would help, so I just kept quiet and decided to wait for her to come to me. She didn’t, though. She stayed quiet. Staring. Drowning in thought.
It took a long while, but eventually, I began to feel all the tension in her body begin to ease. Her eyes fluttered closed and her breaths were even.
But I couldn’t bring myself to leave.
I realized that I wanted to stay like this forever. Holding her, rubbing her back, playing with her hair. Just watching her sleep.
I hadn’t felt anything in my heart for decades. I’d often wondered if it had simply gone dormant or if the ability to love was yet another thing that Amarantha had taken from me. But I felt something then, like a firework in my chest, exploding into brilliant colors of light and happiness.
I knew then that I loved (Y/N).
It startled me and I quickly cast the thought out of my head, far far away. I was too afraid to even think something like that in this place. Should Amarantha find out, she wouldn’t hesitate to kill (Y/N), not just out of jealousy, but also to spite me; just to show me that she could. Another show of the power she held over me… over all of us.
I couldn’t love her; that would only complicate things and put her in danger. So I swallowed the feelings; buried them deep down and tried to explain them away.
She’s the first girl who’s touched you like this in a long time, I told myself, and you're just clinging to her because of it. You don’t actually like her; you just need to feel loved and appreciated. Yeah, that must be it.
That must be why I just laid there for hours and hours and watched her breathe.
#Rhysand#Rhys x reader#rhysand x reader#acotar#acomaf#acowar#acofas#acosf#sarah j maas#sjm#high lord rhysand#high lord of the night court#reader insert#under the mountain#fluff#rhysand fluff#rhys fluff
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What do you think of Lilith? Do you think she got redeemed too fast, or do you think her development was fine?
I was really looking forward to seeing someone ask about her again, so I'm more than happy to answer!
Per usual, more below the cut.
From the beginning I rather enjoyed Lilith as a character, both design, personality and writing wise as she proved to be a fun mix of both a very powerful and intelligent sorceress and a nerdy older sister.
As opposed to some people, I consider her arc to be rather well written, when you look at in retrospect. Her story is of that coming to terms with her individuality, self worth and even at some point, her faith.
(NOTE : Since I already discussed most of her trauma related to her being a former cult member in my first post about her, as well as parts of her family related trauma in another post, I will focus on other aspects of her character in this one.)
From when we first see her in Covention, we see that she's ridden with guilt upon seeing her sister in a fragile state - believing it was her fault. Which technically was, it was just that at this very moment Eda was playing dumb. In that guilt, to every opportunity of getting Eda to join her cause and in turn cured, she immediately broke her Covenhead persona - the one she built up for years and practically wears as her face. If that makes sense.
Right then and there, I had a feeling that she would join the main cast later on. So I wouldn't say it was done too quickly? It was hinted for a good while, in my opinion.
As for the other things...
The crew did incredible when portraying her. Their use of combined tropes in her character were executed delightfully! Instead of appearing obnoxious, like with Odalia and Boscha, they blended together into a very cohesive charaterization of a nerdy, older sibling character - without making her look like a complete joke. Even though throughout the show her excitement in history and alike is often a base for jokes, it's never actually made fun of.
She is almost never shamed for her interests nor how she approaches them. However, when it does happen it's either her sister, or another character who is clearly depicted as being in the wrong. It's a small thing, but to people who grew up being ridiculed for their hobbies, it probably means the world.
Most importantly, her being the scholarly type is never her whole character - it's just a puzzle piece that makes the picture of who she is. She's also very perceptive, determined person who learns very quickly and is ready to put herself before her family.
Personally, I also liked how the show portrayed her struggles at the very beginning of season 2.
On top of still feeling guilty over essentially rendering her sister disabled for the rest of her life, she had to also deal with the baggage that came with being a cult survivor that for years was deprived of her true identity, stripped of her self worth as an individual and led to believe her self worth was determined by whether or not she was devoting herself to serving a higher power or goal.
All of that combined eventually lead to her initially seeking full independence and refusing any help, which is actually quite realistic, as finding balance is probably the hardest part in recovering and healing. Been there myself.
Though, even almost at the very end of seaon 2, we still see her struggle. This time, with faith. After being used to having a figure of absolute authority all her life, she immediately latches onto the idea of King being a god, once again indirectly trying to reduce herself to a faithful servant.
It's actually one of my favourite aspects of her arc. Progress and healing is not linear, and so there will be moments of returning to old ways of thinking and acting - which is what happened to Lilith, and there is nothing wrong about it. No one tried to shame her for it, or viewed her as crazy.
In fact, precisely the opposite happens! In that same episode, we see a character portrayed as being at peace with himself admit that he had gone through something similar and offered advice based on his own experience! And King simply told her that he's seeing a "pattern" in her behaviour, reminding her that what she was doing was unhealthy to her, first and foremost - not that she was weird or wrong for it. Just misguided.
In the end, all of that built up for a very satisfying conclusion - she made a best friend, came to terms with her disability and made peace with it, reconnected with her family after being separated from them for years, started working in her actual desired field of interests and actually grew into the person she wanted to be, surrounded by people who respect and love her for who she is.
Just how am I not supposed to love her as well? It's literally impossible. Per my best friend and soulmate's words, who said it best :
10/10
Hilarious. Magnificent. Incredible. She's the dream.
#lilith clawthorne#toh#the owl house#I JUST LOVE HER SO MUCH I WANT TO BE HER!!!!#Rhine Character Studies
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Let's learn more about Emily Rothwood. First two pictures are of when she was a good witch. Bottom two are after she made her choice.
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She was born in New Henford in 1672.
Annita was her twin sister.
Emily was part of the Rose Coven. A coven her grandmother had created. It consisted of twenty six witches. The coven was loved and respect in New Henford. People in the town sought the witches out often for their magical help and the coven was always willing to help the non magic users of the town.
Emily wasn't the strongest magic user in her coven. In fact she was pretty weak by magical standards. Her sister Annita was considered one of the most powerful witches in New Henford. A magical prodigy from a young age
She loved to help others. From small animals to people. She always did everything she could to help those in need.
She was a gentle soul who wouldn't hurt a fly.
Her and Annita were super close and they shared everything together. Family and her coven meant everything to Emily.
She was in love with a witch from her coven named William Sapling and the two were engaged to be married. A day Emily was looking forward to.
However everything came crashing down when an unknown and unexplained illness hit the town. It was deadly and no matter what the Rose Coven witches tried they couldn't cure or stop the sickness.
Emily's beloved William was one of the first to die from it. His loss devastated her.
As more and more of her beloved friends and family became infected and lost including her grandmother and father she knew she had to do something. But the coven's combined efforts weren't solving it and even Annita as powerful as she was couldn't stop it. When Annita became sick as well, Emily made a choice that would change everything.
She broke into the spell archive her coven kept and find a dark forbidden spell. It was said this spell had the power to cure any illness, but the user had to sacrifice something to be able to draw on it's power. Emily knew what she'd be losing if she went through with casting this spell, but she also knew what she would lose if she didn't.
Emily cast the spell. As the spell spread throughout the town Emily felt a darkness grow within her. She had saved those she loved. At the cost of her humanity. She stole the rest of the forbidden scrolls and books from the archive and retreated back to her home.
She grew and grew in power. Gaining the ability to heal any injury, or sickness, to stop the aging process, to control the will of others, to change the body, gain the ability to corrupt others. The more she consumed the dark magics the more of her was lost.
The once kind, loving, gently and helpful Emily was gone. In her place was someone wicked.
She set about testing her powers on the very townspeople she once loved and the very people she had sacrificed greatly to save.
Eventually the coven found her hideout and knowing she was too far gone they made the heart wrenching choice to combine their power and end Emily putting an end to her terror. Knowing they couldn't kill her they planned to turn her into a harmless chicken and without her powers and given a chicken's lifespan that would save the town.
In the last minutes as her coven cast the spell to take her life as she knew it. Emily chanted a loophole spell under her breath. She lost the ability to use magic herself, put her power and the spells she knew courses through her body keeping her immortal and allowing her to influence others through the magic infected eggs she sometimes lays.
Emily's coven never learned the truth about her fate.
She will deny it if asked, but she watched her sister for the rest of Annita's life. Emily saw her get married and have children and those children have children. And she saw when old age took her sister.
She witnessed the split of the Rose Coven after generations of it existing.
She actually cares about Logan in her own odd way. She won't admit it though and she can't explain why she cares about him. Or why she feels a bit of guilt towards corrupt him. All feelings she hasn't had with her past victims.
She has no issue killing.
She loves that she and Logan operate a criminal ring.
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What 'early breakups' are you even talking about? Steve and Nancy's? Lucas and Max's? Nancy and Steve broke up in an 'ambigious' way and it happened what? After the Party mess and when Nancy was drunk... so that did not exactly even happen that early into the season. Lucas and Max were broken up off-screen so they could get together.
They want Milvn to break up permanently in an unambiguous way, without any possibility of them romantically getting together while at the same time asserting their importance to each other on a personal sense with the show's narrative.
How's an early and quick breakup where El just goes 'i am done bye' does that, with the knowledge we have that El drew strength from Mike based on love, not hatred. The words 'Mike's hands were pulling her from her drowning' and other variations are not about El drawing strength from anger...
Sorry if you felt like I was calling you delusional. Pointing out that the almost entire fandom is willing to ignore canon narrative is not calling someone delusional it is just a fact. It's not even an interpretation.
We cannot expect to really expect anything going into S5 when the fandom almost consistently ignores canon and prefers to go by fanon instead. All the analyses then become heaaaaavy handed but very misguided expectations from an analyzing standpoint.
Yes all of those couples followed a somewhat similar pattern of breaking up early on. But specifically the Steve/Nancy/Jonathan love triangle is what I’m referring to.
In s1 they separated early on and the rest of the season Jonathan and Nancy were a focus, which allowed us to root for them the whole season, besides the beginning and end. In s2, they had their fight at the beginning revolve around Nancy not being able to say I love you, which allowed us to root for them for the rest of the season and followed by them getting together.
Mike literally refers to him and El’s fight in s4 as 'a fight that you can’t come back from', a fight that paralleled his sister’s fight with her first boyfriend, who she also ended up being broken up with after that incident, not years later, because we all know that that wasn't a fight you could just push under the rug and save for another time, it had to be addressed.
The thing is, the time jump for s5 is likely to occur early in the season, because the cast's age difference is something they don’t want to be too distracting. The earlier the time jump, the more they film stuff post time jump, accommodating to that age gap between s4-5.
So having Mike and El’s break up be midseason, means that’s Mike and El would presumably be ignoring all of the deep and very hard to ignore problems in their relationship, for those initial epiosdes, and then for another 1-2 years depending on how long the time jump is, which I just don't see happening. I don't see them putting on a show of a romantic relationship for much longer, and that's based on how S4 ends. For them to go from not talking and staying within at least like 3 feet of each other in those last moments, tells me that they're not going to be gravitating towards each other the way romantic love interests do, the way Mike and Will are doing at the end of the season in direct contrast.
I think holding off on it until mid-s5, is arguably even more ambiguous than what I would imagine is going to happen if it’s addressed sooner rather than later. Because that would mean them just awkwardly dancing around it and acting like it's not going to happen, even though we know it's inevitable.
Because Mike and El’s problems were highlighted in s3-4 in a big way. We saw how especially in s4 neither of them were being honest in their relationship. The romantic love there was lacking because neither of them were in it for genuine reasons, in terms of genuinely being in love and wanting to be together in a romantic way.
El craved normalcy bc she has always had so many things in her life making her feel different. Mike and his relationship with El is all he knows. And s4 made a point to build up just how impossible it is for them to keep this going and act like everything is okay when it’s not. Like did you see early s4, the fake sort of show they put on to act like everything was fine? Why would s5 be repeat of that? Why wouldn't they evolve that to show that their conflict is no longer something they can ignore, and instead convey that it was indeed a fight they can't come back from.
And I personally do not think that the break up is just going to be an 'I’m done, so bye!' scenario 🤣. Even if it was midseason, it wouldn’t be like that either.
It's a lot more likely that how El felt about their fight in early s4, and how she felt about his monologue, is going to at least be addressed and acknowledged in early s5, because the audience deserves that closure of knowing how El truly feels, with her being able to say it. Meaning that if they stayed together in early s5, we’d also need El in early s5 saying she loves Mike too and to actually resolve that conflict with her actually being able to even respond to it.
And with them breaking up and byler being endgame inevitable, I just highly doubt they’re going to play this game all over again, only to rip it away haphazardly.
She started the show barely being able to say a couple of words. And now despite the fact that she can talk and speak for herself, she hasn't been granted that affordance in the narrative. Instead her brother confessed her love for her, using all things that applied to him. If they wanted to give us El's genuine feelings about Mike, they wouldn't be identical to her brothers and given from him. That's just soooo sad and not fair for anyone in this situation and that's why it needs to be addressed.
We know she was upset with Mike calling her a superhero in their fight, we know that she looked at him with this frustration that he was still not getting it. That was like the climax of their fight in her room, with her looking at him with fed up determination, because saying something like that was the last thing she wanted to hear. And if anything, her experience at Nina, where Brenner told her she needed to fly and revealed that he used her to find Henry from the very beginning, how would Mike saying she could fly and she's his superhero, be something that provides her comfort, when if anything it's just a similar thing being expected of her, without her having any say in it?
The whole You're regressing Eleven is literally hinting at this idea that El is holding onto something in her life that is keeping her in the past, in a situation that makes her development sort of go backwards, and that is in large part highlighting her holding onto this idea that her and Mike are peak romance, despite the fact the that he isn't loving her the way she deserves. By staying with Mike despite knowing both of them are unhappy and forcing it at this point, is a huge regression to all of this build up leading to an inevitable separation, then being followed by them finally accepting themselves in each others lives without the obligation to be together because they met in the woods a few years ago and have felt this pressure to stay together ever since.
In their fight, she didn't want Mike to point to her powers as a way to deflect her genuine feelings about their relationship and her insecurities with him not being able to love her the way she wants, as a person and not as someone who can keep saving the day for him. And so how would him again saying she is a superhero, HIS superhero, suddenly be what she wants to hear in the end after everything she went through?
The problem with that moment in the script is that it's the only thing that is supporting the assumption she was happy with Mike's monologue. Everything else in the story goes against that. All of s4 makes it very clear that that was not what El wanted from Mike.
This is a big part of the reason byler makes sense, because they follow an I didn't say it/You didn't have to approach to love (show don't tell). Mike never should have had to say I love you for El to believe it. If it was something genuine between them, completely natural like breathing, El wouldn't have asked of it from him. But he made a point to struggle with merely writing it, avoiding it at all costs, making El feel even more insecure that there was something wrong with her causing Mike not to love her anymore. And the monologue didn't fix that.
You don't have to apologize but you also don't have to get upset and say everyone in the fandom is wrong, but you're right. If you truly believe that, continue to and leave other people alone. If people are on their posts saying how they feel and it upsets you, block them.
My problem is that everything leading up to byler, that makes it make sense, is at it's core what lead to Mike and El having conflict in the first place. And not addressing that and leading on Mike and El fans, for shock value isn't exactly good for the narrative. And it's never been good for the narrative which is why they like to address it early on so that we can move on to focusing on the pairing that they want us to root for.
Arguably, a break up before the time jump allows for byler to get together well after Mike and El separated instead of mere days/weeks. I would think with how much people are going to have a hard time with considering byler as it is, the time jump happening after Mike and El's break up would allow them to accept that Mike and El are for sure done and have been done for a while, and Will isn't some rebound because Mike is feeling insecure and he'll just be with him the second him and El end things.
How I imagine a mid-season 5 break up is that it would be even more ambiguous than an early one, because it would require El and Mike to ignore their problems for five episodes when there really is no reason to do that with how obvious it was that their fight was a fight that you couldn't come back from. And addressing that is what will allow us to watch El actually experience closure on screen and then be able to focus on Max and working with everyone to beat Vecna. If the whole audience is watching at the edge of their seat being led on the whole season that Mike and El have a chance of getting back together, they're not going to be able to focus on El's arc as an individual character, bc they're going to be waiting for Mike and El to make up and be together.
But then when it doesn't happen, and they've been led astray unnecessarily even more than the previous 2 times, we'll only have a mere 4 episodes to build up them being a platonic pairing with it being blatantly obvious that the audience needs to accept it AND that we need to accept Mike and Will being romantic.
Whereas with an early s5 break up, by episode 3-4 we will know that they are not together and can focus on the new conflicts that have arose from the final season, because dragging on stuff that has already been heavily built up in s4 as being a problem, just to give us the most obvious anti-climactic outcome halfway through in the middle of all the new storylines they are focused on, would fall flat.
Mid-season is likely going to be made up of Mike and Will having a substantial amount of time alone. That's something that those early break-ups allows, so that we can have that development for them that is necessary in order for them to be endgame. Arguably as Mike and Will are going through that, El isn't going to be around to break up with him.
If anything I could see an early s5 breakup, with the audience being aware of it, but not Will. This would mean that Mike and Will's interactions could still be interpreted as romantic comfortably, but we would see for the first time Mike pining and Will still assuming that Mike could never feel the same, until maybe mid-season he finds out that they are indeed not together.
I can't subscribe to the monologue when all of the conflict leading up to it makes it abundantly clear that isn't what El wanted to hear. And we would see in mid-season 5 that El is just going to end up saying all of the stuff we already knew. She's not stupid. She knows that something is off with Mike, that was the whole point from the beginning. That inner struggle he is having is even more heightened and made obvious by the fact that Will was what encouraged Mike to say I love you in the first place. She heard all of that. And then she proceeded to ignore them at the cabin.
How s4 ended is not at all giving the impression El is going to start s5 by gravitating towards Mike and looking to him for comfort, it was actually the direct opposite.
If I were to subscribe to the monologue being a convincing love confession to El, at that point I'd rather Mike and El just stay together instead of holding off even more on facing the truth about the conflict of their relationship that didn't just get fixed by the words I love you. I'd rather byler didn't end up together if Mike is just stringing El along to inevitably choose Will over her anyways at the last minute.
I do think that I love you is what El thought she wanted to hear from Mike, but not like that. And it would be a disservice to her character to have the focus be on her hoping he might choose her for any longer, only for him not to.
If a bunch of people are interpreting the show this way, then there's a good chance that they could be right. We were right about byler being endgame and all of our reasoning is supported by the conflict that has been building up for seasons, and that love confession that paralleled to El beating Henry in 79', doesn't look like one rooted in love, whereas that first face off was. Mike's monologue was bathed in red, El's memory of her birth bathed her in light.
Will on the other hand is bathed in light from Mike's perspective, most prominently at the end of s4. That wasn't in the script, does that mean it's not important? Almost all of bylers moments aren't in the script, does that mean everything about them means nothing?
Feel free to subscribe to whatever you want to. If you end up being right you can say I told you so and live with that satisfaction! Personally, if I'm right, I won't feel the need to come and say I told you so, bc it's not about some sort of vindication for me. I don't even plan on doing that to redditors bc they're going to be dealing with that enough as it is. I'd rather them just insist we're crazy right now and let it all unfold and let the show speak for itself. If I have to subscribe with everything they think bc of the scripts, then I'd be pretty bored rn because all of the evidence for byler would essentially mean nothing and they're just being put together for no reason. All of that lead up meant something, otherwise their endgame wouldn't be satisfying, least of all if El is once again being framed as waiting for Mike to choose, only to not choose her this time. She deserves so much better than that. They all deserve better than that.
Will on one hand assuming for a little longer that Mike doesn't feel the same merely drags out the mutual pining leading to that endgame. El assuming for a little longer that Mike does feel the same is just making her plot regressive for no reason when she could be finally getting that independance arc, truly separated from being linked to Mike in a way that prevents her from truly progressing and knowing her worth and living up to that authentically.
We'll have to wait and see. But I don't see the use in coming in other peoples inboxes and directing your dissatisfaction with their interpretation of things as contradicting yours and so they need to just drop it and subscribe to what you think or else...
Everyone on here can interpret things how they want since there is still a season left and everything is still up in the air. If you want to blow off steam and say your piece on your profile, then do that and if other people resonate with it then that's great! You don't have to force other people to involve themselves with your narrative. If people are doing that to you, you have every right to block them because you also shouldn't have to have people in your inbox saying that your interpretation of things is wrong.
I'll continue to analyze and break things down as I choose. That's not stopping anytime soon. And IDK why you would want others to. It would be pretty dead on here if we all just stopped and believed everything we've been told superficially despite everything we've been shown contradicting that. If everything we're being told is all there is to it, you could argue byler isn't even happening. But most of us can agree that isn't the case.
I hope you can continue to analyze how you view things and embrace your interpretation instead of tearing others' down. We still have two years left, let's not make this more unnecessarily unbearable than it needs to be.
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Well we've reached public release of the @souloperatorpod mid-season finale and I'm still unwell about it so it's spoiler thread time let's go!
Tessa leaving felt impossible when she decided to leave after episode 9. Episode 10 proved that it was, in fact, impossible. Introducing a literal creature, clearly massive and monstrous, making you think that *that's* going to be the threat of the episode only to have Tessa step on a fucking bear trap?? Absolutely evil and so fucking well done on Tot's part. It's such good writing that I can't even be mad but I'm still screaming internally. I know Tot well enough to know this was the same bear trap that was sent to Tessa. There's no way it wasn't. It's a brilliant bit of foreshadowing because you truly do not know why a bear trap would've been sent until you hear them screaming as their leg is crushed. Tot is too good at screaming and crying in pain in podcasts, I will never emotionally recover. Like it HURT to hear, she's that good.
Tessa sending away Lucy, trying to get this loyal dog to leave so she doesn't get got by the monster broke my heart. They're so content to die and it hurts me so bad. And then Tot brings Dean into it? When I heard Dean I lost my mind I wanted him to be alive but he wasn't. There's no bringing him back, but he's still trying to save Tessa anyway. "It wasn't your fault. Tell my brother it wasn't his fault either" Tot what if I sob? What if I scream and cry and throw up?
And somehow this wasn't even the part that hurt me most! No THAT honor is reserved for when Nate gets there, trying his best to save Tessa. "I want to die." "I won't let you." It's been a week and I'm still unwell over this I mean seriously Tot how could you do this to me? And then to have Nate actually listen to Tessa and realize that she wasn't the cause of Dean's death while she's bleeding out in his arms? Now he feels responsible for both his brother AND his friend's death! And while I doubt Tessa is dead, Nate doesn't know that right now and I'm going to lose my mind over it I mean Tot. Tot. You didn't have to do that.
This episode perfectly punctuates the end of an incredible first half of the season. It asks more questions than it answers but in the best possible way. Tot's writing is masterful and is brought to life so well by them and their cast, I could, have, and will weep from it. Soul Operator is going on a hiatus after this to finish up the rest of season 1. There has never been a better time to listen to this show and everything it has to offer. I'm so incredibly proud of @totcoc0a and everything she's accomplished with the first half of the season
Tot not only are you an incredibly talented writer and voice actor, you're also a marvelous friend and I feel so lucky to know you every day of my life. The first half of the season destroyed me in the best way and I can't wait to see how you continue to break me
This concludes our last Soul Operator thread for a while! If you're not listening to Soul Operator nows the time to start. And if you ARE listening to Soul Operator, please come scream about it with me I love it so much
#soul operator#souloperatorpod#soul operator podcast#i fucking love this show so much and need everyone to listen RIGHT NOW#pine throws thoughts into the void of tumblr
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“Have you seen (Y/N)?”
“The Honorary Knight?” Amber asked. A frown appeared on her face as she broke the news to Bennett. “Oh, she was in an accident.”
The words made Bennett pale immediately. Having been asked to hang out, he had been excitedly anticipating today. When you had yet to show up though, that was when he started getting worried.
He had every reason to worry now after hearing what Amber said to him.
“Where is she?” he demanded.
Amber pointed towards the cathedral. “She went to get help there -”
Without letting the outrider finish her sentence, the green eyed boy took off immediately towards the church.
Amber could only look on at the worried boy’s disappearing figure with a small smile. It was clear that he had some sort of feelings towards (Y/N). Hopefully he would recognize them.
Despite almost crashing into several people and losing his balance a few times there, Bennett had somehow made it to the giant statue of Barbatos without sustaining any injuries.
He paused to catch his breath, hands resting on his knees.
He couldn’t help but worry about what kind of accident that you could have gotten yourself into. Bennett knew for a fact that you were a seasoned adventurer. Everyone in the Adventurer’s Guild knew how amazing and capable you were! But with that, it also meant that you were often commissioned with harder tasks that not everyone would be able to accomplish.
Could it be that you were severely hurt from going out on one of these highly dangerous expeditions?
The blonde haired adventurer could feel his concerns for you grow.
Whenever the two of you had an opportunity to catch up, Bennett loved hearing about what treasures you might have discovered or monsters that you managed to fight off.
You were even as kind as to offer to go adventuring with Bennett.
Hearing that alone had made his heart race faster than finding treasure.
Thinking about that now... Bennett could feel his cheeks heat up a little. You were someone important to him and he really, really hoped that maybe, just maybe, you also felt the same way.
He didn’t want to have his hopes up too high with his luck though.
Just as he straightened up to continue his search for you, a voice caught his attention.
“Bennett!”
The familiar sound of your voice made his green eyes go wide as he quick scanned the area.
Coming down from the steps leading up to the cathedral, you waved to the pyro user with a smile. Even from where he stood, Bennett could see that you had one of your arms wrapped up in a bandage.
“(Y/N)!”
Bennett ran towards you as quickly as he could. In his eagerness, he nearly bulldozed you over, barely catching you in his arms in a tight embrace.
The moment your thoughts caught up on the action that happening before you, you wrapped your arms around him as well.
“I heard from Amber that you got hurt,” he murmured into your hair. “Are you okay?”
You hummed in response. “I’m okay, Bennett. Sorry for worrying you, it’s actually nothing to worry about though! Just a scrape.”
Bennett pulled back to look at you. His eyes were still filled with worry.
“From what?” he asked.
You awkwardly laughed. “Just a few hilicurls. They caught me off guard.”
Bennett let out a sigh of relief.
“Are you okay?” you asked, checking in on him. “I’m sorry for being late to our meet up.”
“No, no, not at all! And, I’m okay,” Bennett responded. He cast his eyes downwards. “I... I was just worried about you.”
You could tell there was more to what Bennett wanted to say, so you quietly pulled him towards the benches. Once you were both sitting, you patiently waited for Bennett to say something.
“Sometimes I’m worried that my bad luck might rub off on others,” Bennett confessed. “My adventuring team fell apart because of it. I’m scared that my bad luck might get you hurt one day too, (Y/N). I’m used to getting hurt, but I can’t stand the thought of you getting hurt. That’s... that’s probably why I got a bit scared when I heard you were hurt earlier.”
You reached over to squeeze his hand. “That’s fine.”
“But, I really like you, (Y/N). I don’t want to lose you to my bad luck.”
His words made your heart flutter.
“Bennett.”
Hearing his name come from you, Bennett looked at you. Your (E/C) eyes were looking at him so warmly.
“You won’t lose me to your bad luck. I want to be with you.”
You stood up in front of him and held out your hand shyly.
“Instead of hanging out... do you want to go on a date with me instead?”
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Omg I loved the animal tamer reader with the SDRA2 guys! Can you do the same with the SDRA2 girl cast?
First girl request!
Kanade Otonokoji:
Your animals are scared of her-
You didn't know why, when you introduced yourself despite them trying to drag you away, Kanade seemed like a sweet girl!
You and Kanade caught feelings and despite Kanade's multiple attempts to charm them, they all tried to keep you away, even sabotaging your dates
It was just so out of character for them...
It broke your heart when some of your furry and feathered friends went missing or dropped dead suddenly, but you were comforted by your sweet girlfriend
Who loved to walked them for you and even made homemade treats for them!
Hibiki Otonokoji:
Is a mix of confused, intrigued, and terrified
"AAAH! K-Kanade! That person's got a bear..!"
Kanade tries to keep her away, but the two of you eventually introduce yourselves and connect almost immediately
For some reason, your animals get extremely protective when Kanade is around, so Hibiki usually spends time with you by herself
She won't ever admit that she secretly gives your pets extra treats behind your back, or that she loves when they cuddle up to her and you
Either way, you do try to get close with her sister as she gets closer to your animals, but something about Kanade....
With your array of bodyguards, you're Kanade's toughest enemy yet, but she's not one to give up easily
Yoruko Kabuya:
Kinda scared of your animals at first, but she does try to talk to you
Your animals don't mind her too much, and she grows fond of them all
She remembers a majority of their names but messes up every now and then
Like Hibiki, she'll never admit the fact that she loves petting your soft animals and feeding them
Sora
Sora was very confused and surprised when she first saw you
How do you have so many pets??
Your animals seem confused by her, and it takes a while before they decide whether they like her or not
Oddly enough, she's very good at taking care of them, and the two of you wonder if it has anything to do with her talent
She makes an effort to learn their names, and as you two get together, they learn to accept her
Setsuka Chiebukuro:
Your animals loved her at first sight
They probably loved her more than you did-
She basically adopted them all, but not you for some reason-
She later realized that it was because she likes you more than that
She gets you some roses, candy, and some treats for all the animals and confesses to you
You guys are the literal parents of the animals and they all love you
You and Setsuka go on walks on the beach with them, play with them, cuddle with them, and even try to go on rides with them
Emma Magorobi:
She's the ultimate actress, so while she seemed calm on the outside, she was terrified that there were exotic and dangerous animals right in front of her along with the hottest/cutest person she's ever seen
When you reassure her that they won't hurt her, she'll softly pet a few, but she won't let any of the birds near her hair
The animals were a bit wiry of her at first because she's literally wearing a fur coat, but quickly grew to love her
Also Animal puns
Every
Single
Day
Kokoro Mitsume:
You're animals were... unsure how to feel about her
She was just so mysterious and calculating
She wasn't afraid to approach you, given how your body language showed no fear and the animals were docile
She didn't confess to you until she saw you developed feelings for her, so until then she was patient with you
She managed to memorize the names of every animal as well as their favorite treats, so she won them over pretty quickly
She doesn't mind if a tiger or lion rests on her lap while she's on her iPad, so sometimes she enjoys the animal's company even without you (Not that she'll ever admit it)
Iroha Nijue:
She was terrified of you when she first saw you
She would do almost anything to avoid being within a ten foot radius of you
The second she saw teeth was a hell no for her
You approached her yourself, complimenting her on a sketch she was working on, and for few moments, she completely forgot the fact that you have multiple ferocious bodyguards
The two of you seemed to really hit it off, and by the time she realized that you had your friends with you, it was too late
She had already fallen for you
She painted portraits for your animals to try and get on their good side even if she can't remember their names, and held up paintings of you so they wouldn't attack
The birds would try to nest in her head every now and then, but besides that they left her alone as she confessed her feelings
She still sometimes has nightmares of one of your bears swallowing her whole
#sdra2 x reader#sdra2 headcanons#iroha nijiue#yoruko kabuya#sora#emma magorobi#setsuka chiebukuro#hibiki otonokoji#kanade otonokoji#kokoro mitsume
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yes, i’m a squib | part 8.
Summary: Y/N Black has always been a squib, to the dismay of her pureblood family. Cast out to the orphanage at a young age, she thought that was her life. Until her relative Sirius Black breaks out of Azkaban. Suddenly a letter to Hogwarts in thrusted into her hand and Y/N becomes a true part of the magical Wizarding World.
Warnings for the Series: violence, death, light smut, angst, fluff
Pairing: harry potter x black!reader, cedric diggory x black!reader
Word Count: 4.8k
Previous Part | (Series Masterlist)
The Quidditch Cup was not a joyous affair for you but in fact a rather tortuous one. Since February, all of Hogwarts had been on edge when your father broke into the Gryffindor common room. Ron insisted that he was trying to kill him— standing over him with a knife. You didn’t believe it but it wasn’t the best look for your father. At the same time, if he was in a room with Ron then he was in a room with Harry. And clearly, Harry was still very much alive. The Quidditch Cup was supposed to be a time for everyone to try and forget the madness, the excitement of the final match of a season. You supposed it would have been exciting if it wasn’t for the fact that the two houses that made it to the finals were Gryffindor and Slytherin.
No matter who won, you would have people you cared for that would be deeply disappointed. Draco frowned when he saw you in a red sweater— you borrowed Ron’s— but was pleased to see you in the jewelry set he and his mother got you as your Slytherin representation. You chose to sit next to Cedric, in a throng of other Hufflepuffs in order to seem less biased. It was working until Neville found you in the second half and quickly, Ron, Hermione, Dean, Ginny, and Seamus followed. It became a Gryffindor meeting once again. You gave up and cheered for Gryffindor. Although, you still applauded now and then whenever Slytherin managed to get the Quaffle into a goalpost. The game was only made more stressful by the fact that both teams seemed not to care about the fouls they were accumulating as long as they were beating the others. It was becoming more dangerous by the minute.
You were torn as Harry suddenly caught the snitch. This was the first time that Gryffindor had won the Quidditch Cup since Ron’s oldest brother went to Hogwarts. You wanted to celebrate with them. But your cousin also just lost arguably the most important game of his life. You decided to give Harry a thumbs up— that he returned— and ran to your cousin. You linked your arm in the crook of your cousin’s elbow.
“Come on, let’s sneak out to Hogsmeade while the teachers will be too distracted to notice I’m leaving.”
You still hadn’t got your permission slip signed. With your father somewhat around, you didn’t want it signed unless it was from him. You’d even settle for Professor Lupin as your godfather before Mr. Stapius. But really, you just wanted your dad to sign something. Draco gave you a smile and the two of you practically ran from the quidditch field.
“How are you paying for this?” Draco asked when you pulled out your purse before he could hand the waitress his money.
She took it and set down your food in front of you.
“Dad,” you said, simply.
“Uncle Sirius is rich?”
“Uncle?”
Draco shrugged. “He’s your father isn’t he, that’s what you said. I should try to treat him like family… why are you looking at me like that?”
“Because, Draco, somewhere deep down in there you do actually have a heart.”
He rolled his eyes. Lunch with you made him forget entirely about losing the Quidditch Cup. Because you paid for lunch, Draco insisted on paying for the sweets at Honeydukes. Like the two of you always seemed to do with sweets, you split a cauldron cake. You ate and laughed as you walked back into campus. Draco suddenly stopped and you turned from him to see Professor Lupin in front of you.
“Others would consider this aiding and abetting, Mr. Malfoy.”
Your cousin scrambled away from you. You held up the rest of your cauldron cake which only earned you a look from Lupin.
“Leaving campus when you don’t have a permission slip signed is punishable. I should give you detention and take points from your house.”
“Oh, come on Uncle Remus, it’s only Hogsmeade.”
“I’ll forget the detention. If you trade me those licorice wands.”
You easily coughed them up. You began to run off, not even caring that Remus took forty points from Hufflepuff. After the Hogsmeade debacle, you stayed out of trouble for the rest of the year. You only made a few more illegal trips to Hogsmeade with your cousin before deciding to stop all together. Not that there were many trips to Hogsmeade anyway. End of the year exams left everyone stressed. Fifth years were prepping for O.W.L.s— you knew it was bad when even Fred and George began to study. Seventh years were constantly carrying around their books to study for N.E.W.T.s. Every other grade had regular Hogwarts’ exams but students were still freaking out.
You on the other hand were taking it mildly better. You turned in your essay to McGonagall, feeling rather good about it. Muggle Studies, Ancient Runes, Astronomy, and History of Magic were all essays as well. They were just timed and in class. Of course, you finished those without a worry in the world either. Herbology’s essay and practical exam of growing a successful puffapod was a walk in the park. You and Neville walked out of the Herbology room with your heads held high. You only began to shake at the thought of Defense Against the Dark Arts and Charms. You began to walk to the dungeons with all the other third years. Then, all of a sudden, the panic set in. Everyone took their seats— you sat with Draco. Snape strolled to the back of the classroom and pulled the lid off of a copper cauldron. He peered inside before abruptly turning to face you. He stuck out a hand.
“Your essay, Ms. Black.”
You handed it in.
“Topic?”
“I wrote about Draught of Living Death, Professor, and the potential potency increase if combined with the Potion for Dreamless Sleep.”
“Very well, Ms. Black. You are dismissed.”
“Wait, what?” The other third years protested.
Snape silenced the entire class. He didn’t offer them any explanation. Instead, he told them to get out their cauldron and begin working on the first spell for exams. As everyone got to work, Snape poured out the tiniest vial of your felix felicis and gave it to you. The rest he bottled up and locked in the separate Potions supply cupboard. The vial was enough to get through Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts. You ran to find Cedric who just finished his final exam in Transfiguration. He laughed when you pulled him from his friends.
“Oh, good. You’re still here.”
“I was just about to head to Hogsmeade with the others. Do you want me to get you something?”
“I need your help.”
“For what?”
You held up the vial and Cedric tried to snatch it from you. He inquired nonstop about where you possibly got some liquid luck as you dragged him to the Charms room. You chugged down the vial and knocked on Professor Flitwick’s door. Not even moments later, you felt the potion start to work.
“I’d like to take my exam now, Professor Flitwick. If that’s alright with you?”
“Of course, Ms. Black. You just have to get five out of the seven charms from this year and three from a previous year to be considered passable. Your essay extra credit means you only need, we’ll say two charms from this year and two from a previous.”
Cedric blinked in amazement. The felix felicis really did work. You knew that even with extra credit you probably should have still done four charms from this year and two from last. You started with the charms from the previous year. Reparo was perfectly mastered, and the natural opener to your act. Cedric did as you asked and cast a simple spell towards you that you were able to block with the general counter spell— albeit the block was very messy and bounced off of the chalkboard. When it was time to move on, you pointed your wand at Cedric and casted the Cheering Charm. The boy smiled wide as if it was picture day for school before the smile dropped. It wasn’t long but it was good enough. The same thing happened when you casted the Body Binding Spell— Cedric went stiff for a moment. That moment was all you needed to earn the passable level.
“Well done, Ms. Black. Hard work seems to be all that you need.”
You nodded enthusiastically and raced to find your godfather. You watched the fourth years pile out of Lupin’s room and slipped past them.
“Uncle Remus!” you yelled, not caring that Cedric was still there. “Show me that boggart!”
You gripped your wand with fury. Hesitantly, Remus opened the cabinet. You prepared for the boggart to shift into your Uncle Lucius, bracing for the flash of platinum blonde hair. You paused along with Remus and Cedric. The long blonde hair never appeared. Your biggest fear changed. It was less about you and more about the person that you cared about the most. Instead, you were face to face with Sirius Black. But a Sirius Black with no life behind his eyes, holding a sign with his Azkaban numbers and Dementor’s Kiss written down on it. It felt like the luck was punched out right out of you. Your wand lowered slightly before you raised it again with a shakier hand.
“Riddikulus.”
Sirius gave you the slightest of smiles. “Hi, Poppet.”
Lupin ushered the boggart back into the cabinet. Cedric gave you a hug that you didn’t really return and left to go Hogsmeade. Lupin pulled you to sit on the floor with him. He grabbed two butterbeers and chocolate.
“I was expecting Lucius Malfoy,” he said.
“So was I,” you sheepishly admitted.
“I also wasn’t expecting that well of a performance.”
You held up the vial of felix felicis, a little bit of the golden potion was still there. Lupin grabbed it from you.
“(Y/N)!”
“Before you start, Professor Snape let me brew it and keep it. It’s only for final exams, I swear, just this class and charms,” you rushed out.
“Pro-p-prof— Severus authorized this?”
“It’s just for my exams, Uncle Remus.”
“I’m still not sure how you found out but I very much enjoy you calling me that.”
“I do too, it feels like I’ve got real family.”
Lupin finished his chocolate and you watched the itching begin. He coughed into his elbow twice before taking a long swig of butterbeer to try and balance out the reaction a bit. Lupin looked at the bottle.
“(Y/N), I wasn’t in a position to take care of a baby because of the werewolf thing and I’m still not sure how much better I am now but… if you want to spend summers with me, you don’t have to go back to Mr. Stapius— I’ll say it’s a very run down cottage, though.”
“Uncle Remus, you could live in a shack and I would still stay the entire summer.”
“That’s g—”
Ron came bursting into the room, finding out where you were from Cedric.
“Cornelius Fudge is here! They’re executing Buckbeak at sunset, Hagrid lost the appeal.”
You jumped up to your feet. “They can’t do that! We have to stop them.”
“One step ahead of you, (Y/N).”
As Ron said that, Harry and Hermione emerged from the Invisibility Cloak. Hermione was holding Crookshanks who meowed twice in greeting. Lupin stood up as well.
“Children—”
“Hi, Professor,” the other three said at the same time.
“An execution at sunset is well past a curfew that you still have until the school year is officially over.”
“Uncle Remus, a hippogriff is being falsely accused. This is serious.”
“I— okay,” Remus said exasperated.
He just put his hands on his hips and watched the four of you squeeze together underneath the cloak and shuffle out. The door seemed to close on its own. You all raced through the halls of Hogwarts in attempts to get to Hagrid’s hut as fast as possible. You knocked on Hagrid’s door until the half-giant opened up. Hagrid ushered you all inside quickly, before you were seen. He poured out tea for all of you, sniffling the entire time.
“Are you sure there is nothing we can do?” Harry asked.
“It’s alright, you kids shouldn’t be here. Don’t want you watchin’ an execution.”
“We want to be here to support you, Hagrid,” Hermione said as she grabbed the cream. “It’s n— Ron! It’s Scabbers!”
Crookshanks immediately reacted but Hermione was faster than her cat. She scooped Scabbers up and handed the rat to her friend. Both Ron and Hermione apologized to each other once more for ever arguing about a stupid rat. Hagrid stood up quickly, his jovial expression disappearing immediately.
“They’re comin’. You kids go on an’ hide, now, get out ‘fer they see you.”
You all exited the hut through the back door. Hagrid slammed the door and greeted Dumbledore along with Cornelius Fudge and the executioner just as the four of you hid in the pumpkin patch. You watched with sad eyes as you stared at Buckbeak. Hermione pulled at your arm. The two of you snapped out of it quicker. You both helped throw the Invisibility Cloak all over the four of you. The four of you began to run back towards the castle, stopping when you felt that you were safe enough to watch. You all squeezed each other’s hands as you watched the executioner’s axe come down— closing your eyes before it actually reached the hippogriff.
“Scabbers!” Ron whisper-screamed.
The rat had been going crazy the entire time you guys were watching Buckbeak. He jumped from Ron’s pocket, leading to Ron leaving the security of the Invisibility Cloak to chase after him. Naturally, you, Harry, and Hermione had to follow. You finally found Ron who was now on the ground clutching his rat. Hermione was the first to notice where you all stopped. She frantically patted you and Harry’s arm. You both looked up where she was looking. Ron was right underneath the Whomping Willow.
“Ron! Get up!” Harry yelled.
“Behind you.” Ron pointed.
The three of you turned to look at what he was pointing at. The black dog that you only saw once before was back. Although, it was a lot less friendly looking than before. The dog was growling and started to run. You, Hermione, and Harry ducked but the dog leaped over you as if you weren’t even a factor to it.
“Ron!”
You screamed his name at the same time that Ron was simply screaming. It became a scream fest. Ron was yelling as the dog pulled him down the hole in the tree— Crookshanks following behind. You were yelling for your friend. Harry and Hermione had made the mistake of getting too close to the tree and were now holding onto the Whomping Willow’s branches while screaming for dear life as it tried to shake them off. With the tree distracted, you ran towards it and practically punched the knot at the base of it— remembering where the dog had hit it last time. You ducked momentarily in case it didn’t work but soon Harry and Hermione’s screaming stopped and the tree launched them into the hollow in the trunk. You quickly followed.
The hollow was in fact a tunnel. The tunnel seemed to lead farther and farther down and you realized that you were no longer underneath the Whomping Willow and probably not even on the Hogwarts campus anymore. You tumbled down and crashed into the pile that was Harry and Hermione at the base of the tunnel. The tree of you jumped up and ran to your friend. Ron was clutching his rat in one hand and his leg in the other. Crookshanks huddled in the corner, never taking his eyes off of Scabbers.
“Ron, are you okay?”
“Harry, it’s a trap. The dog— n-n— he’s an Animagus!”
Ron pointed again and you three looked. Your mouth dropped in shock. Sirius Black was standing in front of you. In an instant, Harry and Hermione pulled out their wands.
“If you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to go through us.”
Your head snapped back and forth between your friend and your father. Your father looked like hell. His hair was kind of matted and hung down limply. His clothes were absolutely tattered. The most prominent thing to you was that he was skinny. But skinny as if the very life was sucked out of him— you came to the unfortunate realization that it must have been from the dementors. Sirius ignored everyone else to look at you for a moment. His face was somewhat unreadable.
“I told you not to come looking for your old man, Poppet.”
You couldn’t tell if he was joking or serious. You couldn’t tell anything really, his emotions weren’t very strong. The three of you looked up as you heard footsteps. Hermione began shouting for whoever was above to help. A door you hadn’t noticed before bursted open— the damaged wood splintering everywhere— and Professor Lupin stepped out. He kept his wand arm raised, eyes flitting between Sirius and you all.
“Where is he, Sirius?” Lupin asked.
“Professor? You’re his friend?” Harry practically shouted.
Hermione gave the man a wicked glare. “Harry, don’t trust him! He must’ve been helping Black sneak into the castle to find you— he’s a werewolf!”
Remus and Sirius both chuckled. “You really are the brightest witch of your age, not entirely correct but close enough.”
“I’ll tell the entire school,” Hermione spoke up.
“Go ahead,” Remus said. “The staff already knows.”
“Dumbledore knows?”
“Yes, now where is he, Sirius?”
The man pointed to Ron. The redhead protested with little real words and lots of spluttering.
“No, not you!” Sirius yelled. “The rat!”
“Scabbers? But Scabbers is ju—”
“Peter Pettigrew!”
“You’re lying,” Harry defended. “You killed him twelve years ago.”
Your dad began to chuckle like a madman. “Oh, I meant to kill little Peter. He got through twelve muggles before I got to him and I thought I did a good job. But he bested me, not tonight though.”
“No! Everyone saw you.”
“Everyone thought they saw him, Harry,” Remus spoke up. “I did too until you showed me the map. That map never lies. If you saw Peter Pettigrew it is because he is very much alive.”
Sirius took a step forward. “You still think that’s just a common house rat? He’s been in your family for how long now, twelve years? Unusual for a life expectancy of only two. He’s missing a toe, isn’t he? Came to you like that. Strange when all they could find of Pettigrew was—”
“A finger,” you whispered.
Hermione shook her head. “All Animagus must register.”
“Wrong again!” Sirius said with what you could mistake as delight. “You really shouldn’t have registered yourself, Poppet. The Ministry let three unregistered Animagi slip by them for their entire education at Hogwarts. Say hello to Mr. Padfoot, one fourth of the creators of the Marauders Map.”
Harry pointed his wand towards Remus. “Moony? Was my dad—”
“Mr. Prongs,” Sirius said before turning angry. “And I’m going to murder Wormtail, the traitor who doesn’t deserve to share our title!”
Lupin stopped Sirius from taking another step. He could see that Hermione and Harry were still hesitant. One wrong move and they lost Peter Pettigrew or got themselves hurt.
“Now, wait a moment, pal.”
Sirius grasped at his friend’s shoulders. “Let’s kill him! Let’s kill him, Remus. You know what he’s done, what he did to Lily and James. Le—”
“Wait just a moment.”
“I’ve done my waiting. Twelve years of it IN AZKABAN!”
Your dad, for the first time ever, was beginning to scare you. You dropped to the floor, clutching your head in your hands. Not many things made you shut down. You wouldn’t have made it very far in life if they did. Not the orphanage, not bullies at Hogwarts when they got bold enough to confront you, not the taunting at being a squib. But you froze in fear because your dad looked so much like Heron Black when he yelled.
He looked so much like your Aunt Bellatrix— he even looked like Lucius who wasn’t technically related to your family at all. That side of the Black family you didn’t like at all. When they got angry, it was like they could destroy the entire world. Sirius looked over. It’s like the world didn’t matter in that moment. He didn’t care that wands were still pointed at him. He broke from Remus’ grasp and moved to crouch down in front of you.
“Poppet, Poppet, I’m sorry. Dad didn’t mean to yell like that. I didn’t mean—”
Snape came bursting in. His wand was pointed, the sneer on his face growing larger at what he thought was his victory.
“Step away from the children, Black.”
“Severus, wait—”
Lupin was cut off as Snape pointed the wand at him instead. In a split second decision, Harry raised his wand at Snape and shouted out ‘Expelliarmus’. The wand and the man attached to it went crashing into a dusty bedpost in the corner of the room.
“How do we know to believe you?” Harry didn’t lower his wand. “How do we this is all real and not convenient coincidence?”
“Ask the cat.”
“Crookshanks?” Hermione asked in frustration. “How can we possibly?”
“You have an Animagus amongst your friends. Isn’t that in McGonagall’s lessons still? Animagus have the basic ability to understand animals.”
You lifted your head. “I don’t need the Animagus to speak to a cat.”
Sirius blinked. “You don’t?”
“I’ve been speaking cat since I was nine… Crookshanks!”
You beckoned the fluffy orange creature over while your father looked up at Lupin who seemed just as surprised to find that out. It wasn’t exactly something you needed to advertise. And after Professor McGonagall’s surprise when you first met at that exact same fact, you quickly realized that not everyone in the world could speak to animals. It was in fact not a normal magical skill to learn. Crookshanks, who had told you once before that you were the only other member he actually liked in the Golden Quartet, rested in your lap as he meowed and purred up a storm.
“Hermione, unless your cat is a liar. Crookshanks has had it out for Pettigrew ever since meeting my dad. He knows a human in an animal body from a real animal.”
With a shaky hand, Ron reached out to hand Scabbers to Sirius. He dropped the rat with a gasp when Scabbers bit him. Lupin began shouting spells with his wand, finally hitting the rat as he tried to squeeze through a hole in the wall. The little house rat turned into a full grown man who was now trapped in the place with the rest of you.
While not many people looked like their Animagus form, Peter Pettigrew was exactly what you would expect if you said human version of a rat. Peter immediately scrambled towards Remus. He clutched onto his friend’s cardigan as he begged the man to save him from Sirius. Your father’s face dropped as anger washed over it. He got up from where he was crouched in front of you to make his way to Peter Pettigrew who was failing at convincing Remus of his lies.
“How dare you, Wormtail. How dare you. I told them last minute to make you the keeper of the Potters’ whereabouts because I knew Voldemort would look for me. You betrayed us all. You intended to from the beginning. You got Lily and James killed, you got Alicia killed, you got me taken away from my daughter. You’re going to pay for that, Wormtail.”
Peter turned to you and Harry.
“You two look just like your parents. Harry, just like your dad. (Y/N), aren’t you—”
Sirius grabbed Peter by the shoulder. “Don’t ever think of speaking to either one of those children. Say another word to my kid and I’ll kill you in my dog form, rip you limb from limb with my teeth. Give me your wand, Remus.”
“Wait!”
Harry yelled and you looked at him. He couldn’t possibly believe Pettigrew?
(Part 9)...
#cedric diggory x black!reader#cedric diggory x reader#harry potter x reader#harry potter x black!reader#golden trio x reader
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Could you write about slash's family finding out slash Is dating axl? Thanx :)
Thank you so much for your request, I hope you will like it :)
Axl’s leg didn’t stop bouncing since the flight took off. I mean could you blame him? They were coming back from their first tour and he had to stay with Slash’s family, which only made him imagine the worst case scenario, especially since the grandma accident he had when he lived at Slash’s place for a while.
Probably the fact they were secretly together wasn’t helping either.
“But my mom already knows you and we lived together before this, if she didn’t suspect back then she wouldn't do it now!” Slash reassured him over and over, however it didn’t ease his worry.
Axl was still navigating this all being a couple situation, if in a way it felt amazing being finally liked back by his crush, on the other side years of religious trauma just made him feel dirty and a sinner because he loved a man. And also what if things went south? What if he and Slash broke up because of him ? Would the band be over too, just after their first big tour?
“You’re lost in your head again, aren’t you?” Slash wore his sunglasses but Axl could tell he was casting him a knowing look.
“How can you not be nervous about it? Some many things could go wrong.” The redhead pointed about, moving around the straw of his finished drink.
“Axl you are overthinking this. It’s my mom, she’s the most open minded person I know. She won’t care if my best friend and I spend time in my old room.”
The singer decided to stay silent, the other option was to scream and jump off the plane but it didn’t seem like a good idea, well he wasn’t that desperate to try, yet. Honestly he wondered if maybe his paranoia was taking the best of him, maybe Slash was right? Slash was mostly right when it came to his worries, besides the times he wasn’t and everything went to hell. But this didn’t have to be the case, right?
“We just have to say hello, have dinner with them and say we booked a hotel to stay in for the night. No big deal.”
“So you’re on with not telling her everything? Because I swear to God if you pull a stunt like you did with Duff, I will kill you.”
Axl remembered too well how Slash casually told Duff “Oh by the way me and Axl are fucking, like we are together” one time he was drunk. It wasn’t a nice experience even if the bassist was incredibly supportive.
“God Ax, I was drunk and you can’t tell me it didn’t turn out fine, Duff loves us as a couple!” Slash argued with a smirk. “ But sure, I won’t tell my mom my best friends kiss my lips goodnight.”
“I’m serious, Saul. You promised it.”
“Damn, I didn’t know you were so ashamed of us being together!”
He knew it was a provocation but Axl couldn’t help but feel a pit of guilt forming in his stomach. How could he be ashamed of Slash? Hell he was the best thing about himself, if he had the courage he would kiss him right there but it didn’t work like that.
“It’s not that and you know it!” Sadness glazed his eyes and he looked outside the window to avoid the guitarist’s eyes.
Slash slowly but casually put his hand on the arm rest so that his and Axl’s hands were slightly touching, while still looking like something innocent. He started to play with one of the singer’s rings because he knew he liked it.
“I know, I was just messing with you.”
“ Well don’t or I’ll leave your sorry ass, you motherfucker.”
“Here’s the Axl I know.” Slash smirked, gaining a light punch on his shoulder by Axl. “But seriously we don’t have to rush it, if you’re not ready we won’t tell my parents.”
The other man stayed silent, still too annoyed and worried to hold up a conversation without destroying the plane, but how he decided to return the favor by playing with Slash’s rings. They stayed silent for most of the ride, occasionally trying to sneak in a few touches and ordering a couple of drinks ( mostly Slash did).
When they announced the plane was about to land Axl’s worry didn’t ease one bit, if possible the idea of the imminent meet up only made him jittery and cranky like a baby who didn’t get to nap. He tried his best to shove the feeling deep down but a part of him kept going off like an alarm.
“C’mon, how bad can things go?” Slash said to him once they landed.
He just hoped these weren’t their famous last words before the storm.
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Slash got his keys in and he opened the door to find an empty house. He expected it, Ola was a very busy woman and it was very common for her to be out working or meeting people, it’s the reason why she felt the keys outside for him.
“Nobody’s home. You can stop hiding behind me.” Slash joked and Axl flipped him the bird.
“I wasn’t hiding behind you, asshole. Don’t make me grab those keys and lock you out of your own house!”
The guitarist laughed. Sure an angry Axl Rose wasn’t someone who you want to deal with but he knew what to expect at least, as long as he pretended to kill him it meant that the red head felt confident enough. When he started to get silent and to isolate, that was when things would have gone south.
“Let’s just stay in my room until my mom comes back. I know I still have some records that I want to bring home.”
The idea of spending some time alone and postponing the meeting with Ola seemed to calm Axl down, who was more than content to just lay on Slash’s bed as he used to when he lived there. He looked at his boyfriend going through every drawer and shelf to collect as many things as possible,a part of him couldn’t help but find that adorable. Disgusting.
“Woah look what I found!” Slash showed an acoustic guitar, a little beaten up but still good enough to be played.
He uncerimonely threw himself on the bed and started strumming. They were sitting very close and Axl couldn’t help but worry if someone walked in and found themselves like that, it didn’t help that Slash’s thighs were brushing against his.
“You gotta relax, Rose. C’mon if someone opens the door we will hear it.”
Maybe it was having Slash’s warm skin against his that caused his brain to short-circuit or the slow notes coming from his guitar, but soon Axl found his heart slowing down and his eyes observing the guitarist, which was too focused to notice it. During the jam session the singer took out of his pocket a small piece of paper and a pen, brainstorming some lyrics that they could use in a future song.
For a minute everything seemed perfect. There was no worry, no guilt or shame, just him, Slash and the music. Eventually Slash laid down and invited Axl to do the same, which surprisingly he did and the playing continued. Sometimes it was a famous song, others one of theirs of a melody Slash came up with at the spot to which Axl would add some random humming and more lyrics to his paper.
“I wanna kiss you so bad, now.” Slash announced like it was the easiest thing for him and Axl froze.
“No, we can’t do it.”
“Your mom can walk in.”
“It’s too risky.”
“I’m scared.”
That was what he was supposed to say, he knew the other man would understand a no yet that’s not what came out from his mouth after seconds of pure silence.
“Then do it.”
His eyes grew bigger at the realization of what he said. What the fuck was he thinking? He hated when the emotions got the best of him because it meant he had no control, and when he had no control he ended up getting angry, crying, destroying stuff or behaving like a fucking teenager.
But it was too late to turn back now and his body was yearning to be touched. Slash’s lips touched his in a gentle yet hungry way, they were passionate and starved because the opportunities to secretly kiss were few and they wanted to make sure to make them all mean something. Soon Slash’s hands found their way in Axl’s hair and the redhead nibbled Slash’s lips in response, it was always a battle for power where most of the time Slash would give up and let Axl have the upperhand, but this time he was more adamant on winning and the singer didn’t seem to be too upset about it.
Time stopped in their blessed paradise and their senses were too overwhelmed to hear the front door opening as well as the bedroom one.
“ Hi Saul, I see you and Axl are already here…” Ola’s voice made both boys stop in their tracks but it was too late.
Axl didn’t dare to turn towards her, leaving Slash to see the surprised look on his mother’s face. He was panicking but there was no turning back, so he searched his brain to find the right words to explain why he was kissing his best friend.
“Oh yeah, he was fainting so I gave him CPR.”
“We were not kissing, I swear.”
“That’s not Axl, it’s a girl I met.”
But lies didn’t work with his mom and the only thing he could have done was to face reality and hope for the best.
“Mom…” His tone sounded hesitant maybe for the first time in his life. He was never scared of consequences, not even when he spent his teenage years being a wild card and getting in trouble, yet this was a whole other story.
He was tempted to squeeze Axl’s hand because by looking at him he seemed to be on the verge of a panic attack, but not always physical touch made Axl calmer and definitely it wasn’t the case at that moment.
“I’m gonna give you a moment…” Ola stated, exiting the room.
“Mom, wait !” Slash quickly followed her, leaving the singer all alone in the room.
Ola stopped in the living room and turned around to face his son. The guitarist was not ready for the talk but he owed it to his mom ,who always loved him and to Axl, who spent time and energy to let Slash in his heart. He wanted to smoke so badly to ease the anxiety but probably it wasn’t the best idea, so he played with his rings instead.
“Okay, I know what you have seen and I know how it might look but I will explain everything.”
He paused for a minute but his mother signaled him to continue.
“I care for Axl, a lot. I can’t even explain how much, you know I’m not good with words. I want to tell you more but it’s up to the both of us to do that and he’s… well, kind of freaking out at the moment. Just please mom keep an open mind and don’t assume the worst… I’m fine, we’re fine and we are happy and…” The words died in his throat. It was so out of character for him but he couldn’t help it, it was the primordial fear of disappointing your parents that paralyzed him.
Ola seemed to understand because she squeezed his hand tightly and her eyes got softer.
“It’s okay Saul. I will always love you but I think you need to calm Axl down and bring him here, so we can all talk.”
A small smile appeared on the guitarist’s face. His mom wasn’t angry but the coaxing Axl out of the room would have been a hard task, especially considering the state he was in. What if Axl refused to get out? Or worse, what if he already jumped out of the window?
“Yeah, at least this time he won’t jump off a moving car, I hope.”
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A soft knock echoed through the room but Axl didn’t move. Slash wasn’t surprised, he knew that Axl preferred to be alone when he was in a bad mood but a part of him would always worry, this time wasn’t any different in fact was even worse considering how Axl felt about the whole situation.
“Axl, it’s me. Can you please open the door?”
First time was always nice, getting aggressive only made the singer shut off even more and turn him violent. His question was left unanswered but this didn’t make Slash give up.
“Look, I know you’re scared but things are not as bad as they seem. I promise you my mom wasn’t angry.”
A small sniffle was heard from the room but beside that the door stays locked. Slash never thought of himself as a patient person but he quickly learned that when he started dating Axl, generally he treated him like he would with his snakes : give him the time and the space to get used to him and then gently get him out. It didn’t always work but it was better than nothing.
“Why don’t we go downstairs and talk to her? You don’t even have to speak if you don’t want to… just stay there for me, it’s our story and I need your moral support too” Saul laughed nervously, even if there was a part of truth in what he said.
Everything stayed still for the third time which disappointed Slash a bit. He was ready to go back to his mom and say that Axl wasn’t coming out anytime soon, when he heard the door unlocking and soon he was facing his boyfriend, who had wet eyes and bruised knuckles.
“She’s not angry?” The redhead asked as he couldn’t believe Ola wasn’t crying or insulting them.
“Nope, she just wants to listen to us. I can do the talking if you want.” He slowly wiped Axl’s tears and felt relieved when the other man accepted the comfort.
“Okay.” Axl sounded unsure but he was already drying his tears the best he could.
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah. I think we own them a little. It’s your parents, you deserve to talk about it with them if you want.”
Slash stuck his hand for Axl to take as he led him to the living room.
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Axl kept repeating himself that it was just Slash’s mom, she was open minded and had to deal with worse things involving him. Worst case scenario is that they hated them, which would have resulted in Slash losing his family and Axl being treated like a plague. But what if they accepted Slash liking men but just not Axl? I mean he was a runaway who told Slash’s grandma to fuck off so how high were the chances they wanted him to be with their son?
Right when he entered the living room, he realized that he didn’t need to worry about that… because there was another problem : a man sitting next to Ola, who Axl assumed had to be Slash’s dad.
“Dad?” Slash confirmed his suspicion and seemed very surprised. It took Axl a minute to remember that Ola and Anthony ( he thought that’s how he was called) had been divorced for quite some time.
Now he knew a bit of Ola but he had no idea of how Slash’s dad was about to react, he just hoped he was as open minded as his ex wife.
“Sorry Saul, I forgot to tell you I invited your father, too. I wasn’t expecting what happened.” She shot an apologizing look to both of them.
“What’s going on, son?”
“I… I hid something from you two. I did it because I was scared of your reaction and also because it wasn’t just my story to tell… but well I care for someone very much and as mom could tell this person is Axl. I love him and I know it’s a guy. It might look unusual for everyone else but it works for us. He makes me happy and that’s what matters, right?”
Slash only dared to look at Axl, hoping the other man would give him an encouraging look but his eyes were stuck to the floor. The silence seemed to stretch forever even if it had passed just a couple of seconds. Were they too shocked? Or too busy finding the right words?
Finally after another couple of agonizing seconds someone spoke up, but not who the guitarist was expecting.
“It’s my fault if Slash didn’t tell you. I was scared even ashamed I guess because I know what you might think. I know I’m not the best fit for your son but he helps me so much, probably I suck at showing it but I appreciate him, I love him. I’m going to try my best to treat him like he deserves so if you have to be angry at someone, well that’s me because he doesn’t deserve it.”
The curly man’s eyes widened in surprise. Axl rarely dropped the “L word” or talked about his feelings like that, it was sweet and heartbreaking at the same time because it was a reminder of how the redhead thought he was hard to love.
Often Slash asked himself if it was worth it, if maybe they were better alone than together but then he saw Axl’s smile, the one only reserved for him or he would magically find that random object he put his eyes on in a store, bought by his boyfriends just to make him happy. He was glad he was helping the other man too.
“Saul, we will always love you, doesn’t matter what. I have to admit that it is a surprise but also I should have known sooner, the door of your room was always closed when Axl used to live here.”
Both Axl and Slash felt embarrassed by Ola’s insinuations but only the older one found the courage to whisper an answer back.
“ We weren’t still together back then.”
“Point is we are happy for you, right Anthony?” Ola nudged Slash’s father.
“Yeah yeah. If you two love each other then go ahead, do what makes you happy.” He added calmly.
The guitarist felt a huge weight being lifted off his shoulders, maybe it was because they were artists or because they genuinely cared for him but he was happy enough with it. On the other hand Axl seemed so confused as it was impossible for parents to behave like that, however he decided to accept what the destiny was throwing at them but looking visibly more relaxed.
“Only one last thing. Since you’re part of the family now Axl, I guess it’s time to show you some lovely photos I found of Saul!” Ola said with a smile.
Slash’s small smile turned into an expression of pure fear meanwhile the singer was grinning, clearly enjoying the moment. Axl would never let this die and the guitarist wasn’t fully ready for that.
“Oh I’d love to, Mrs. Hudson!
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Many embarrassing photos of young Saul later, which made it very difficult for Axl to hide the warm feeling in his heart at the sight of the cutest Slash, they had dinner. What seemed to be an awkward conversation at first turned into pleasant stories about all the crazy clients Ola worked for or the very interesting artists friends of Anthony, Slash decided to add some stories from tour ( of course heavily censored for their sake) and Axl added all the missing details.
Even if they were supposed to go to their hotel room, Slash couldn’t resist the idea to sleep with Axl in the same bed in his old room as he always thought of at the time.
“Damn, were you pining already back then?” The singer teased him but couldn’t fully hide his excitement at the suggestion.
“You’ve been a pain in my ass as soon as I laid my eyes on you.” Slash’s comment gained him a smack with a pillow from Axl.
“Thank God your parents like me know and I can’t kill you.”
“See told you were worrying over nothing!”
Slash was about to get undressed and under the sheets when Axl’s expression made him freeze. It was a dangerous expression.
“I have an idea. What if sleeping isn’t the first thing in your old room?”
Sneaky fucker. Of course Axl would want to fuck right when his mom was in the other room! But the curly man would lie if he didn’t find that extremely hot.
“Then I say it’s better we lock this door, because I already saw my mom and David Bowie fucking and I don’t need her to see us!”
Axl’s grin got bigger and soon Slash joined him in bed.
“Did you mean all that sappy stuff you said? How I make you happy, how much you love me.”
Typical of Axl asking existential questions about their feelings right before sex, but the other man couldn’t blame him since they weren’t the best with words. Honestly Slash is surprised with himself too for what he found the courage to get out.
“Yup, everything. You know I love you dickhead, I didn’t expect you to get all sappy on me though.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Axl asked, half confused and half upset.
“Just I know it’s hard for you and you think you are hard to love or something, but you’re not. Sure, when you get late on stage I want to kill you but you’re not as bad as you think you are.” The guitarist was a bit scared of crossing a line but the other man seemed happy enough with the answer.
“I feel safe with you.” The redhead stated as he started to make his hands wander all over Slash’s torso.
“Well I’m glad because now that I presented you to my parents you’re stuck with me.” Slash shot back, also getting his hands on Axl as the battle of power slowly began.
It was so weird to think about how they got to that point but Slash wouldn’t have it any other way and he was pretty sure Axl was happy as well to be free of such a weight and be embraced by the feeling of being accepted.
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The Fall of Fair City - Chapter 11
"Also The Learnerer should have mentioned this part to you if he hadn't before. Dr. Two Brains had gotten injured from one of the machine misfiring and striking him. He was in no condition to continue any more crimes nor was he able to come to jail. So I let him go home to his child to take some rest. Afterwards I checked on him a few times before I went to bed myself. He was at his home the whole time so there was no way Dr. Two Brains could have come back here and destroyed the storage unit." The commissioner, the cops, and the owners still did no look appeased by her word. The commissioner spoke up what most of the others were likely thinking. "Look Wordgirl, your a great hero and aid to this city, but you are also still a young child. You don't realize how dangerous these villains can really get if not properly monitored. Dr. Two Brains is considered our most dangerous person of interest not because of his cheese addiction, but because of how mentally unstable the guy is and the dangerous use of items he has access too should he one day decide to stop stealing cheese and go after a different target. Who knows how much casualties and property damage this guy can cause if left alone." Wordgirl and Huggy both immediately looked offended at the commissioners accusations. 'How dare this person view dad as nothing more than a monster!' Surprisingly but also luckily for Wordgirl, Sally moved in with her own retort. One that was emotional but also professional enough and it wouldn't reveal any hidden secrets. "Now just hold on a minute there. Dr. Two Brains may be a menace but he is not the threat I know most of city hall perceive him to be. He may have done wrong but he is also just a father who wants to give his little girl the safest and best life he can. Now like I said before Wordgirl showed up, I am here to clear up a grave injustice. It was wrong and appalling of Dr. Corngraves and his associate to immediately cast blame on Dr. Two Brains for the crime. Just as Wordgirl has clearly stated. There has been no strong evidence presented so far to tie Dr. Two Brains to the destruction." An older looking man, likely in his mid to late 60's due to his wrinkles and fading, silverly hair, stood up with an outraged expression. "Excuse me Mrs. Botsford but I do not appreciate being implied that I am a liar! I have clear video evidence that proves Dr. Two Brains to be the one responsible for the crime." Becky's eyes widened a bit. She was now perplexed. She trusted her dad when he said he didn't go back there but how could there be video evidence of him doing it? "Well just where is this video evidence anyway? I don't recall it being presented to the police when you made the call Dr. Congraves?" Sally Botsford asked with open skepticism, her hands folded in agitated patience. The man, Dr. Congraves, seemed to falter a bit before regaining his composure. "Unfortunately there is very top secret information on those security tapes that cannon be shown without high level clearance. But I saw and know for a fact that it was Dr. Two Brains who broke in and destroyed all that hard work and valuable equipment." He then turned to face Wordgirl with a serious look of disappointment. "Even if there wasn't video evidence it doesn't matter. "If you had done your job and put that menace Dr. Two Brains in jail in the first place Wordgirl, then all those inventions would still be there and secure!" There was an air of stunned silence as Dr. Corngraves' words settled in the room.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME WHY I OUGHT TO..." Sally Botsford began to angrily yell, breaking the silence and causing the room to fall into chaos with arguments and very angry monkey squeaks. The loud sounds vibrating into the halls. The people and heroes were so focused on their arguments that they didn't notice a particular figure sneaking in silently. Trying to not make themselves known to the loud and enraged group, just a pair of two certain heroes. With eyes locked onto the unsuspecting duo. The figure picked up a crumpled piece of paper and tossed it at the back of Captain Huggy Face's Helmet, trying to get his and Wordgirl's attention and ONLY there attention. It was a matter of vital importance here.
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