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abbyshands · 4 months

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hers only

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synopsis; gf!abby does not like clara, the gym trainer who can’t keep her hands off you. so who’s surprised when she loses her composure, channeling her rage in the form of rough, hard sex?

pairing; dom!abby anderson x sub!fem!reader

warnings; abby’s jealous as fuck, a little toxic!abby but not really, use of a strap-on, abby refers to the strap as her dick/cock, and strap is referred to as her dick/cock, throat-fucking (with fingers), fingering, choking, pretty rough sex, degrading (slut/bitch/whore, etc), a little praise, use of baby/honey, one use of y/n BEFORE the smut (sorry, it was necessary), spanking, reader cries, abby gives reader a sensory overload, dumbfucking, etc

a/n; hello! my name is kitlyn, kit for short :) i’m a huge writer, and tlou is my latest obsession. so, ofc, i had to get this fic out for my gf, and much more to come. i hope you like this, and if you have any ideas for me to write, please lmk!

p.s.; your daily reminder (or a fun fact), abby canonically bench presses 205 pounds. i rest my case <3

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she could only make it a few weeks before her annoyance got the best of her.

you were bulking up for an upcoming mission, assigned to you by issac. in the area you would be in, scar presence was heavy, and you wouldn’t be back to the wlf for a bit, so gaining muscle was a necessity.

abby just wished she didn’t have to watch that girl’s hands all over you to get the job done.

she didn’t understand why she couldn’t train you herself, why issac wouldn’t fucking let her. he waved her off, giving her some bullshit about “a lack of focus.”

come on. if she knew you needed to bulk up, if it meant it would keep you safe, she wouldn’t lose her focus just because it was you.

maybe.

but this was the replacement. some other girl in the wlf, hands all over you as she helped you do pull-ups. your body was covered in sweat, and you had been at this for over an hour. the girl, whose name was clara, had her hands on your hips as you lifted yourself up and over the bar again and again.

“c’mon, give me ten more. you got it,” clara said. you were looking at yourself in the mirror as you let out a grunt with each pull-up you did, on your tenth at this point. but you did your best to push through.

“clara,” you groaned. “i can’t fucking—“ you began. but your trainer cut you off.

“don’t use your breath. just keep going. i’ve seen you do it before. you got it,” clara said once more, tone firm. you didn’t think it would be a good idea to deny her. so you went on.

but you were fully oblivious to the pair of blue eyes fixed on you across the room.

you had forgotten that abby also worked out around this time to lift with manny, so it didn’t even occur to you that she was gazing at this whole thing like a hawk.

“abs!” manny said to abby, accent thick. he snapped his fingers in front of abby’s face, and abby looked at him both confusedly, but also annoyedly.

“huh? what, what is it?” abby asked. she had fully spaced out, and her cheeks were red. but it wasn’t because of the workout.

it was your fucking trainer.

“estás bien? i lost you a few minutes ago,” manny said. abby had gotten used to his habit of going back and forth from spanish to english, to the point where she knew a thing or two. so she easily responded.

“yeah, i’m fine. let’s just finish for today, okay? i’m not feeling it,” she excused. but manny could see where her eyes were.

you.

“ah,” manny said. he seemed to understand now, a look of comprehension across his face as he said that. “okay. i’ll see you back at the room, then, sí?” manny asked as he held his fist out.

abby did the same and gave him the small fist bump he was looking for. “yeah, see you.”

once manny had left, abby began to pack up her gym bag. by now, you had finished your pull-ups, and were taking needy gulps from your water bottle. clara gave you a small pat on the back once you had finished drinking.

“that was good. you got any more in you?” clara laughed.

you smiled at her, shrugging. “not sure. i’ve gotta meet my girlfriend soon,” you said. really, it was in an hour or two. but you’d have to shower, change, etc. so, to you, it was soon.

nevertheless, you figured a bit more couldn’t hurt. so, you said, “but i think i can do a few more reps.”

clara just gave you a nod. each time you would bring up this girlfriend of yours, her demeanor changed like that. she’d tense, and pause her words.

you knew what it seemed like, and obviously, you didn’t like clara. but you did kind of need her.

and besides, if abby—fuck, if abby knew? it'd be a fucking field day to say the least.

you ended up choosing back squatting as a way to finish off your session with clara. you ducked your head under the bar, elbows flexing as you removed it from the rack. you caved a little under the heaviness of it, but with clara’s reassurance, you did your best to move.

clara put her arms under yours as you held the bar behind your back. she squatted along with you, body behind yours as she spotted you.

you could only make it ten or so reps before you failed on the eleventh, much to your surprise, as it had never happened to you before. clara put her hands on your chest quickly, and helped you move the bar back up to the rack.

“sorry,” you whispered in a huff, face red from the tension your body had just undergone. clara’s front pressed to your back for just a moment, and you felt a little uncomfy. she had spotted you before while doing a back squat, but not once did you fail one, forcing her to really touch you like that.

“it’s okay, it’s okay. you did fine,” clara smiled. this time, she put a hand on your shoulder, way too close for comfort. and then, she murmured to you, her own face red. “i’m proud of you.”

oh, that was fucking it.

abby discarded her gym bag on the floor. she tossed it somewhere. she would grab it later. but she couldn’t fucking watch this anymore. who the hell did this girl think she was, hands all over you like that? and who knows what she was saying to you? that was abby’s fucking job.

and hers only.

“y/n,” an all too familiar voice said from your left, and you didn’t need to look to know who had spoken.

you were thinking, my savior, once abby’s voice filled your ears. but when your eyes moved to hers, you were sure your soul left your body.

because she looked pissed.

clara moved her hand off your shoulder, and you hated the way she did it—like the two of you had been doing way more than just working out.

“grab your shit, we’re leaving,” abby said firmly to you, and she couldn’t help but send a small glare clara’s way. you weren’t the only one feeling scared, because clara was pale as a ghost. she had known you had a girlfriend, obviously.

but it was abby fucking anderson?

neither you nor clara said a word as you packed up your gym bag. once you had, abby was grabbing you by the waist, and yanking you out of the gym, leaving clara far, far behind you.

“abs—“ you tried, you really fucking did. but abby didn’t want to hear it.

“not a fucking word.”

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manny knew better than to come back to the room once he saw abby eyeing you like that in the gym. it wouldn’t be the first, nor would it be the last, time that abby’s temper had ended in a room full of sex.

as soon as you were inside of the room, abby was grabbing your gym bag from your hands, tossing it far away, and kissing you aggressively. you responded with a whine, but let her, kissing her back with just as much passion. her hand gripped your neck as she all but slammed you onto the door, free hand running over your body like it was a temple she was born to worship.

really, it was.

abby put her free hand under your leg and held it up, pressing herself into you as her tongue battled yours. you moaned into her mouth as her grip on your neck compressed, her fingers digging into the soft skin of your thighs.

what a good day to have worn shorts…

when abby finally pulled back, your lips were spilling with drool, lips numb and plump from the belligerence in abby’s kisses. your whole face was hot, and abby’s face was red.

and, fuck, did she look mad.

abby smashed her lips back onto yours, and kissed you all the way to her bed. once there, she pushed you down onto it and got on top of you, her large thighs on either side of your lap.

if you weren’t in for it before, you surely were now.

abby reached her arm out to open the drawer of her bedside table, and it was only a moment or two before she was pulling out a very familiar item.

her strap.

“a- abs, wh- what are you—“ you began dumbly, way too curious to find out what it was she had in mind. but abby wasn’t feeling at all gracious.

you talk when she says you can.

“shut the fuck up,” abby damn near growled at you, the kind of tone she reserved for when she was really fucking angry. you had heard it many times before. when you were on a mission and battling scars. when issac reprimanded her for being careless in the field. when mel pissed her off one too many times.

bottom line, when shit didn’t go her way.

and the idea that she felt that way now both turned you on and scared the fuck out of you.

abby was quick to secure the strap’s harness to her waist. the view of the dildo attached to it always made your mouth fill with drool: black, veiny, seven and a half inches long. she’d made you cum with it so many times you lost count, and it was a million times better than the real thing.

especially when you had abby anderson on top of you, or behind you, or below you, encouraging you to take it like the good girl you were.

she grabbed your hips with fervor, forcing you to wrap your legs around her torso once your bottoms, and underwear, were out of her way. you let out a needy mewl as she slid the tip through your already wet folds, riling you up, just like that.

when your eyes closed as an answer, abby tutted, and moved one of her large hands down to grab you by the chin. “look at me,” she demanded.

and who the hell would you be to deny that?

your eyes were weak and needy as they met abby’s, pupils big with just a touch of fear, heart pounding in your ears. abby spoke firmly, and you could tell that she wasn’t playing around.

you had left fun and games behind the second you walked into this room.

“you’re gonna take this dick as much as i want you to, over and over again. n’ i’m gonna fuck you rough, ‘til you’re babbling out nonsense. do you hear me?”

your body felt paralyzed when those words left abby’s lips, her tone dripping in anger. you couldn’t manage much, and all you could do was nod. but she was not having that.

she squeezed down on your chin, which made you whimper out. “words.”

“y- yes, ma’am, i- i understand,” you weakly muttered out, and that seemed to suffice for her. abby let up on her grip, and her hand moved down from your chin to your lips.

“good. now suck.”

you didn’t delay. you opened your mouth for abby to push her fingers inside of it, index and ring beginning to fuck it. abby could feel your drool as she pumped the two fingers in and out of you, your tongue eagerly wrapping around them.

she doesn’t give a damn in the world as she pounds them to the back of your throat, making you gag, and your eyes close and roll back as she does so.

not for long.

“open your eyes. keep ‘em on me,” abby says in a rough tone, and you oblige a little too quickly. water’s already filling the corners of your eyes, and abby can see that when she looks at you.

and she’s barely begun.

“crying for me already, hm? why am i not surprised?” abby couldn’t help but mock you. you looked so feeble like this, choking on her fingers like the whore you were.

“i’d save your tears, honey. ‘cause there’s a lot more where this came from.”

just as you’re beginning to get used to the rough feeling of abby fucking your face with her fingers, she pulls them out, and you let out a small whimper of disapproval.

but it quickly blends into a moan.

her index and ring, the two fingers that you had just had your tongue around, that were soaked in your drool, pushed inside of you without so much as a warning.

“oh, f- fuck, abby,” you moaned as the suddenness of the moment took over your senses. your thighs clenched around her as she skillfully pumped her fingers in and out of your cunt, just as she had so many times in the past.

abby used her other hand to pry your thighs back open. “ah ah, baby. spread your legs for me.”

just when you figured this couldn’t get any more forceful, abby was pushing a third finger inside of you, her middle one, and using her thumb to rub your clit.

your response was way too fast as you grabbed one of abby’s broad shoulders, digging your fingernails into the freckled skin on it. you let out a loud moan as your eyes squeezed shut, letting it all sink in. three of abby’s fingers deep inside of you, pumping in and out of your wet pussy as she thumbed your clit like a fucking pro.

“fuckfuckfuck,” you groaned, and, god, did abby like that. barely begun with you, and you were already drunk off her touch.

but then again, that’s how it always went.

“look at you, fucking soaked for me. needy bitch,” abby degraded you mercilessly as she curled her fingers inside of you, easily hitting your g-spot.

“mmph, abby…” you could barely manage.

“hush,” she said harshly. your gaze moved up to hers as she fingered you, her usual pale blue eyes big, pupils enlarged. it was clear that she wasn’t letting up any time soon. “don’t talk unless i say you can.”

you didn’t.

abby had you soaking her fingers in your release soon enough, your orgasm spilling over you. she pulled her fingers out of you and moved them to her lips, leaving not even one drop behind as she sucked them dry. the view filled your abdomen with butterflies: that was for damn sure.

if this is how she made you feel with your fingers, you could hardly imagine her dick.

and abby didn’t delay. you didn’t get even a second to process before she was lining the tip of the silicone toy to your cunt, and pushing into you forcefully.

“abby, w- wait, fuck. t- too soon,” you whimpered, but you knew abby didn’t give a shit about what you had to say. she shushed you with her hand, putting her fingers past your lips once more.

“don’t care. you’re gonna take this cock like a good fucking girl,” she emphasized the word as she thrust into you hard. “and i don’t wanna hear shit. got that?”

you nodded, and didn’t try to speak again. you just did what abby wanted you to, sucking on her long fingers to keep you occupied while she pounded into your pussy.

“clara can’t fuck you this good, can she, baby?” abby rasped as each thrust grew more ravenous, both fingers pushing deeper.

so that’s what this was all about. well, really, you figured as much. you knew clara’s behavior would somehow bite you in the ass. but now that you had abby’s words to confirm it, you couldn’t be more sure.

you did what you could to shake your head, but let’s be real. it was abby fucking anderson. speechlessness was never an answer in her books. she took her fingers out of your mouth for the last time, eager to hear you talk now.

“say it.”

“n- no, abby. s’just you. s’only you,” your tongue slurred as the words left your lips, and abby couldn’t help but get off on the way you were speaking, a smug smirk on her face.

“mmhm. only i get to fuck this pretty pussy of yours, y’hear me?” abby let out in a grunt, her drool covered hand settling onto your neck, squeezing down. she was fucking you hard, no mercy as her hips thrust aggressively, pushing herself as deep inside of you as she could possibly go.

you were more than okay with that.

“y- yes, ma’am,” you let out a groan of your own as abby rutted her hips into you, eyes locked on hers. “i’m yours. a- all yours.”

you were a whining and whimpering mess as abby gave you a nod of approval, hand gripping your neck like it was her lifeline. “that’s a good whore. mine and no one else’s.”

“how do you think days like today make me feel, huh? fucking bitch with her hands all over you, gawking at you like you’re hers. well, let me tell you somethin’,” abby snarls. she pulls out of you, tip pressed to your folds, and for a moment, you think she’s going to make you beg for her to fuck you once more. but just like that, she’s slamming back inside, going, arguably, deeper than she had before.

“she doesn’t get to have you. no one’s ever gonna fuck you this good. no one’s ever gonna love you like i do. you’re all fucking mine, like it or not. got that?”

you’re not surprised by the aggression in her tone, but, damn, is she pissed. you can feel her anger seep into your skin as she fucks you like a toy, addresses you like a doll.

and you let her.

“m’sorry, abby, m’so sorry. i know i’m yours. i’m yours, swear to god i am. m’so sorry,” you moan dumbly as she squeezes your neck.

which you’re sure will have marks to show for it tomorrow.

“i know you are, baby,” abby rasps. her hand moves from her neck to your thigh now, and she digs her fingernails into it as she slams into you. “and you fucking should be.”

and again, abby has you cumming, her name rolling off your tongue like music as, this time, it’s her cock you soak in your release. “there you go, honey. know you like when i fuck this pussy like this. that’s it,” abby whispered.

your brain was way too foggy with the aggression of this session with your girlfriend to get your words out properly.

what was is it that abby had said about making you babble again?

“f- fuck, abby. oh, fuck,” you whined, body tired from receiving your second orgasm that evening. but abby was nowhere near done with you: both of you knew that.

abby didn’t speak as she pulled herself out of you, grabbing you by the hips and flipping your body over, so that you were no longer on your back. she forced you onto all fours, your ass poking up into the air. she yanks your bottoms fully off of you from behind, underwear following, and settles her hands onto your ass.

“abby, come on, please,” you all but cry out. you’re not sure how much you can take, not when it’s so sudden, anyway. abby’s anger is slowly going away, your caring girlfriend coming back little by little. but you weren’t quite there yet.

“you’ve got one more in you, baby, i know you do,” abby says softly, and she circles her thumbs over your ass. the move is almost loving.

“and you’re gonna take it, like the good slut you are. mkay?”

like you said. almost.

you grumble, but you can’t say no. not only did you not want to, but when it came to abby, that was one of the last things on your mind. probably. . .not a good idea. so, “mkay,” is what you say in response.

“good girl. can fuck you better like this, anyway,” abby hums. she begins to take your shirt off, and you lift your arms up to help her remove you tank top. and then, who’s surprised, she unhooks your bra with ease, discarding it on the floor somewhere.

the feeling’s familiar as abby pushes inside of your aching pussy once more. you’re sore and tired, brain fucked out from abby’s belligerence. but you need her, just as much as you need the very oxygen in your lungs.

and she needs you.

as if this isn’t enough, her arms move under yours, and squeeze each of your tits. it quickly reminds you of the way clara spotted you earlier, because that was one of the very things that had caused this in the first place.

but this felt so much better.

your eyes rolled back into your head as abby rubbed hard circles into your nipples, eager and needy to get you off for the third time in a row. she knew it wouldn’t be long now. each time she fucked you like this, round after round, your orgasms came in quick successions.

literally.

abby was pushing into your g-spot once again, and the feeling of it all was almost too much. if she wanted you to babble, then she got it: because there was no other way to describe the words spilling from your lips.

“a- abby, fuck, please don’t stop. you feel s- so good, f- fuck, please.” you weren’t making any sense by now, at least not to yourself. but abby knew what you wanted.

because she knew just how to please you.

“keep moaning, baby. you sound adorable,” abby chuckled as she fucked you, hips pushing deep into a spot you didn’t even know you had. “all cockdrunk off this dick, like the whore you are. my whore.”

she just had to add that. for good measure.

“tell me how much you like it. tell me how much you like it when i pound your pussy like this.”

you were licking your lips in the neediest way as she pressed her thumbs into your tits. you couldn’t help but push yourself back into her, that fucking needy for her. “i- i love it, abby. love it so much, fuck. you fuck me so good.”

abby moved one of her hands back from your tit and onto your ass, and gave you a small spank there. “fuck, yeah, i do. never gonna get it this good from anyone else, are you, baby? not clara, not any other bitch. just me, yeah?”

“mmph, mhm,” you murmured, and, fuck, were you on the brink. of course no one else could fuck you like this. no one could fuck like this period. some days, you wished the world could see just what abby anderson had to offer.

but that would involve a hell of a lot of sharing that you didn’t want to do.

“aw, i’m fucking you dumb, huh, baby? can’t even get a word out. dumb fucking slut,” abby smirked, slapping your ass one more time, then massaging the red mark with her thumb. “who do you belong to, hm?”

abby wasn’t wrong. your brain was fogged up, cloudy as she slammed into you from the back, and you couldn’t even see as your eyes rolled back into your head for the millionth time over. your words came out messy, drunken, incoherent. “i- i b—i’m—yours, i b- belong to—to you.”

you could feel your third orgasm bubbling up inside of you as abby pounded you from the back, and she had both hands on your tits once more, gripping both of them as she thumbed at your nipples. your face was hot, your lewd moans filling the room to the brim, as abby filled you.

“f- fuck, abby, don’t stop,” you whimpered out, and you had never sounded so broken before. “g- gonna cum.”

well, that much was obvious.

abby didn’t hold you back. she encouraged you with each thrust of her hips, every one increasing in speed with each second that passed by. she was a pro at this, and she knew it.

“that’s it, honey. cum on my cock, loud, like you mean it. wanna hear you scream for me,” she said with a small grunt, and she said it like it was a demand.

you obeyed.

you were yelling your girlfriend’s name as white spilled all over the silicone that was her dick, a series of pornographic moans falling from your swollen lips. your expression was just that, too: lewd, broken, because you had never been fucked like that in your life.

for the last time, abby pulled out of you, and unsecured the harness around her torso. once she put it to the side, she couldn’t help but put her fingers to your pussy for the last time, scooping a bit of your white release onto them. you shuddered as she did so, and looked behind you, just to see her suck her fingers off.

you lay limp on the bed as abby got up to grab a small towel. gingerly, she began to wipe your body clean, beginning with your thighs. she kissed up them as she did it, and it was so, so different to the way she had been manhandling you mere seconds beforehand.

that was abby for you.

once you were both clean, abby laid down beside you, and pulled you close to her body. she put her hands on your waist, and pressed a kiss to your forehead as you snuggled into her broad chest. you didn’t even feel awkward about the fact that you were the only one naked.

if abby didn’t care, then neither did you.

“you okay, baby? wasn’t too rough with you, was i?” abby asked, her thumb circling your cheek. you smiled up at her, a rush of butterflies soaring inside your abdomen at the small rasp in the way she cooed.

“no, abs. not at all. i mean, i always knew you got jealous, but—wow,” you couldn’t help your giggle.

abby feigned annoyance by giving you an eye roll, but you could tell that she was just being playful. besides, it’s not like she could deny the fact. so she smirked. “what can i say? you just have that effect on me. besides, you have to admit—clara was way too close for comfort.”

“mmhm,” you hum.

“but maybe that was a good thing.”

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speedierthanasubmarine · 1 month

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Finished heaven official’s blessing and I really enjoyed writing an analysis on helluva boss I want to make this a regular thing because it’s fun so here’s my thoughts on

Heaven Official’s Blessing

Spoilers (duh)

I think it’s incredibly impressive when someone can make an overarching narrative in which different seemingly disjointed events are significant without A) putting a giant exclamation mark on top saying “REMEMBER THIS IT WILL BE IMPORTANT LATER” and B) Significantly over or under emphasizing the importance of the scene in the moment. Each event stood on its own and I liked that.

There were several janky sentences and word choices but that’s a translation issue, this writer clearly knows what she’s doing.

Characters were a lot of fun and distinct, my favorites were Feng Xin, Pei Ming, Qi Ying, and Ling Wen whenever they were on the page I was like Ah yes, these pages are gonna be enjoyable and I was right, they’re all delightful (cept the brocade immortal stuff, but like I don’t care, Google assistant is fun) Xie Lian and San Lang are delightful, love them, and San Lang is so effed in the head it’s enjoyable to try and imagine what unhinged thing he’ll do next

Tbh there isn’t much plot breakdown I want to do with this series because it knows what it is, it’s a fanfic ass book with good times, trauma, gay fluff, and fights. Need I say more? That’s not a detractor, it’s a strength. Be what you are and own it because a house with a house’s foundation is a great house but slap a building on that house’s foundation and it fails in both regards.

The only aspect I’m going to analyze is the narrative voice the books are written in because holy crap is it super impressive. Xie Lian is a super mature (or ditzy, depending on your point of view) character, he doesn’t dwell on things, doesn’t hold grudges, doesn’t really care that much about people’s histories or even their present, doesn’t focus much on externals and it comes through in the way the book is written. I noticed this when throughout the books San Lang would do fucked up stuff like make it rain blood and kill a pit’s worth of people and Xie Lian kinda didn’t really seem to care and at first it pissed me off, why isn’t the author letting consequences occur because of these peoples’ actions, but then as it held consistently throughout the book and other people kept being super concerned about stuff, like Pei Constantly asking after Shi Qingxuan (I don’t know how to spell their name, it’s so hard to keep track I’m so sorry) or people bringing up Banue, I realized this is just Xie Lian, other people in the book are regular people like me, this one guy is just experiencing things, going “Well, ain’t that something” and then just moving on. Honestly iconic, but also I was halfway through book six when I realized. Especially since whenever they do flashbacks Xie Lian does all normal stuff. He describes settings he’s in, he mentions events that happened a few pages ago, he tells the reader how he feels, it’s after he experiences all his shit he goes through that this all kinda slips away. In “present” scenes he’ll reference things as they come up but like in the flashback after Mu Qing leaves they talk about it a few times and I find that aspect of acknowledgment to be noticeably absent in the “present” scenes. After the black water arc there is a complete lack of discussion about the frankly trauma inducing event that just transpired but sure Cie Lian, you and San Lang have to not hold hands for the billionth time. At first I thought is this author high but then I realized what shes doing is characterizing through prose which is IMPRESSIVE AS HELL. This may be a point I noticed and am now misremembering the entire series just to bolster my take and if that’s the case then I shall sheepishly shrug and say I’m sorry. I’m not rereading 8 books to write a tumblr review. Maybe if I ever start a YouTube channel

I don’t know, I just find it to be an incredible feat of actually good writing when a story is being told through the lens of the main character and you can characterize that character by simply reading the story and seeing how it’s written, not even through dialogue and action. It’s kinda like the Great Gatsby or a Separate Peace, and it’s super cool that a book like this can accomplish the same thing that makes those classics great. There isn’t as much symbolism or analytical potential but those books wouldn’t be nearly as impactful as they were without great execution, which this book pulled off in spades.

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rockymountainqueen2 · 2 months

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Back to the Swamp rundown!

So...

Disney Channel's YouTube account just released a new TOH chibi tiny tale.

And it's a crossover with Amphibia!

Here's my summarization of the events.

It begins with Luz meddling with the good 'ol portal door.

I'm not sure what she's expecting to accomplish, but Eda and King evidently found it interesting enough to watch. Eda even brought popcorn!

But whatever Luz did, it worked!

I have no idea when this is supposed to be occurring within the series timeline by the way. Luz is wearing season one outfit, has access to the portal door, which is also not destroyed.

So, season one, right?

But Eda has her post "Let the pain be shared" silver eye... And her season two dress for that matter!

Ah well, onwards to adventure! Eda is all for it!

King is a bit more... concerned, but comes along too.

Doesn't stop him from being mystified about the wildlife, though.

I guess Luz was trying to get back to The Human Realm?

Because she seems utterly shocked by the sudden realization that man-sized insects means that she can't possibly be on earth, lol.

But luckily for the denizens of the owl house, they've landed in Amphibia! By Wartwood! Right in front of the Plantar family home!

While Anne's friends Marcy and Sasha were visiting no less! What luck!

Anne and Luz formally reunite and introduce their respective families/friends to one another. It's very cute.

Sasha and Eda evidently decided that they just had to have an arm wrestling competition.

Sasha uses the powers gifted to her by the Calamity Box in order to win, lol.

But Eda gets the last laugh!

Then Marcy and King play a board game together.

Annnnnd she also uses her Calamity Box powers to win.

Girls, you do realize that's considered cheating, right?

Hooty also makes an appearance.

I guess he was wondering where everybody went?

Polly proceeds to use him as a jump-rope, lol.

I'm surprised that Hooty isn't more into this, but maybe he was genuinely worried about the people who live inside of him and didn't appreciate being used a kid's plaything after braving the unknown in his best effort to find them. Lol.

Meanwhile, Luz is showing off her sick glyph skills!

...Which I just realized, probably shouldn't work in Amphibia.

Ah well, we wouldn't have gotten this nice moment where she and Anne show off their magical powers to each other otherwise!

After all is said and done, our heroes settle down to have a meal.

I'm reasonably certain that they're eating bugs. Yum, protein.

Hop Pop and Eda are doubtlessly exchanging tips on parenting orphans and their other-dimensional friends, lol.

Throughout this whole adventure, the portal door has been... shrinking?

Because... the writers needed a reason for Luz and Co to have go back to The Demon Realm suddenly?

XD That's my best guess, as I don't recall there ever having been a time limit when it came to using the original portal door. It was kinda OP like that.

Anywho, Luz and Co need to leave immediately. Anne and Luz are quite sad to see one another go.

King really wants to make sure to say goodbye to everybody properly!

To the point he was a little too preoccupied to notice the portal door closing on him.

Also: Hop Pop faints because he thinks he just saw a little kid get decapitated, lol.

Meanwhile, back in the owl house, Luz is sad that she had to say goodbye to Anne. Eda comforts her, it's a sweet sight.

What isn't such a sweet sight is what King looks like minus his skull.

Although King himself is rather nonplussed about the whole thing.

Like mother, like son. Lol.

Luz is completely and totally horrified by the sight of King...

And that's the note that we end on!

Overall, cute little short.

And as a bonus...

XD This is officially canon now.

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dreams-and-drabbles · 2 years

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hi!!!! im really loving your works!!

can you do a fic where we get to dom alhaitham?? sometimes i just wanna put him in his place yk? 😈

Of course, anon! I’m so glad you’re liking my works! As a writer, that means a lot!! I hope you have a lovely day!!!

(( Minors DO NOT INTERACT! !!! ))

Al Haitham was smart, you’d give him that. Still, you sometimes disliked how he acted as though he knew everything. As smart as he was, he could be rather inept when it came to speaking to others, which was exactly how you’d landed in this situation…

You’d had one job; accompany the Scribe.

You could at least say you’d stuck with him, though that hardly made you feel better about your current situation…

The two of you were currently stuck in Dori’s storeroom. Al Haitham had gotten into an argument with the merchant, and she’d opted to lock the two of you in, with the condition of letting you out when he apologized.

You didn’t think it was quite fair that you were written off as ‘collateral damage’ so quickly, but Dori was rather bullheaded. She wasn’t the type to hold herself back, if it meant she’d get something, and she seemed to really want that apology.

You sighed, observing the door.

“Okay, Mr. Know it all… Is there any way to pick this thing?” You asked, your tone thick with sarcasm.

Al Haitham shook his head, irritation evident on his face.

“No. As obnoxious as Dori is, she’s one of the most wanted traders for a reason. She wouldn’t lock us in here, especially me, if she didn’t have a means to keep us…”

Al Haitham explained, shuffling around in his bag for something. You glanced at him curiously, wondering if perhaps, he had some sort of hidden weapon. Whatever was fine, so long as it helped get you both out…

Then—

He pulled out a book.

Your brow twitched, and you stared at him unimpressed. “Just apologize.” You spoke, your tone clipped.

Al Haitham didn’t even bother looking up, opting to turn the next page of his book.

You withheld the urge to snatch the book, instead furrowing your brows in thought. You’d figure it out yourself, and then—

He could stay in here without you. You doubted you could surpass Al Haitham in a battle of pure strength, but you were quick. It came with the territory of wielding an electro vision.

Should you manage to get the door opened, you were confident you could manage to slam it in the prideful scribe’s face.

“Ah well, the prouder they are the harder they fall…”. You muttered to yourself, going back to observe the door.

Dori used electro as well, right?

Well, it was worth a try.

You narrowed your eyes, channeling your visions energy into the doorknob, as though it were a monument.

You noticed the scribe look up from his book, and resisted the growing urge to poke at him. You knew it wasn’t the time for verbal jabs, yet you couldn’t help but feel slightly frustrated.

The doorknob rattled and for a moment you were sure you’d done it, but then the rattling stopped. You sighed, running a hand through your hair. The scribe looked at the doorknob and then you, and laughed. Your lips formed a snarl, as the last of your cool slipped. Slight static built up in the air around you, likely due to your frustration affecting your electro vision.

“You think this is funny?” You spoke, your tone a masked calm.

Al Haitham raised a brow, setting down the book. His gaze met yours, and he smirked vindictively.

“It’s amusing. You’re trying incredibly hard. I wouldn’t have thought of it being vision related, but regardless… The doorknob is likely adapted to a certain frequency. More likely than not, a frequency designed to mimic how Dori controls her vision. As skilled as you are, given you haven’t seen her fighting style, you likely wouldn’t be able to replicate it.”

You processed his words, before sighing.

“Apologize.” You said, your tone soft with rage.

Al Haitham met your gaze defiantly, “No, I will not. Everything I said to Dori was the truth.”

His gaze trailed to the book, and you knew exactly what he was thinking of doing, so you moved.

You used a small burst of electro to enhance your speed, flashing across Al Haitham’s side, before snatching the book.

Satisfaction bubbled up in you, seeing the surprise that briefly passed his face.

You’d caught him off guard.

Good.

You likely wouldn’t have succeeded, had he be on guard against you. You scanned the back of the book, looking for a description, before sighing. You gestured towards Al Haitham, your gaze still on the overview of the book.

“I’m not surprised you’re bad with people, if this is your choice of literature. People aren’t like equations, though they’re just as complicated. Still, no human is quite this dry… Except, perhaps you…”

You spoke, your tone a blend of irritation and amusement.

Al Haitham glowered, stepping forward, his shadow enveloping your form.

“My book.” He spoke, his expression dark.

You rolled your eyes, slightly amused at the intimidation tactic. It may work on those he was unfamiliar with, but you’d had the unfortunate pleasure of playing babysitter for the past month.

You grinned at him, scanning the first pages’ content. “What about your book?”

Al Haitham’s brow twitched, and you donned an expression of mock disappointment.

“I’d thought the Akademyia’s scribe would have a more expansive vocabulary. What about your book, Al Haitham?” You goaded, hoping for him to take the bait.

Al Haitham’s hand caught your wrist, and he attempted to pull the book from your hand.

You grinned, channeling energy from your vision into the book, as though it were a catalyst.

Al Haitham pulled his hand back, his eyes narrowed in irritation.

You laughed at that, observing the frustration evident on his face.

“It’s irritating, isn’t it?” You asked, and he met your question with a deadly glare.

“Beyond irritating…” He bit out, his tone chilly.

You nodded, humming to yourself.

“Well, now you know how I feel~! You should apologize.” You said, your tone light.

Al Haitham crossed his arms, still glaring at you.

“I refuse. Unless, perhaps… You return my book.”

You laughed at his response.

“Why should I do that? I’ll give you your book after you apologize and we get out, or in a couple of days if you don’t. Maybeee I’ll wait a few weeks or months… Hmmm.”

You rebuked his statement, taking pleasure in the way his eyes narrowed.

“I can always get another copy.” He said, returning to his seat with an icy expression.

You grinned, looking at the book in your hands.

“That’s great~! If you can get another copy easily, it won’t hurt anything if I fry this one, right? I’m starting to get bored cooped up in here.”

Al Haitham’s eyes narrowed, his gaze falling on the book in your hand.

“Do not fry it.”

You rolled your eyes, before flipping through a few more of its pages, tauntingly.

Al Haitham took the bait, stepping forward. His face was incredibly close to yours, and you grinned.

“Man, Al Haitham. I never knew you were so forward. Consider me flattered and all that~!”

You quipped, your tone light.

Al Haitham scoffed, his gaze narrowed.

“You act as though you could live up to my standards.” He rebuked, and you smirked.

“Is that a challenge or an insult?”

You asked, and Al Haitham’s eyes widened a fraction before he leaned in closer.

“Wouldn’t you like to know.” He returned, his tone silky.

You grinned up at him, meeting his look head on.

“I’ll pass.” You responded, a cheeky grin on your face.

You stepped back, flipping through the book once more. It really was boring.

Suddenly, a hand obscured your view of the pages. You rolled your eyes, glancing at Al Haitham, your expression unamused.

“Why’d you go through all that effort to rile me up, only to pass in the end?”

Oh, so that’s what this was about.

He wasn’t used to others saying ‘no’ , was he? Al Haitham was usually at the top of the food chain, so it wasn’t surprising.

“Says the one who has ‘standards’.” You responded, the jest falling easily from your lips.

Al Haitham’s eyes narrowed and his hand’s weight on the grew heavier.

Your eyes narrowed, as you glanced up at him.

“Fine, Al Haitham. I’ll prove to you that your standards are low.”

Al Haitham raised a brow, his expression one of amusement. “I doubt it. It takes a lot to live up to my expectations, especially in this regard.”

You hummed, glancing at the door, a wicked smile making its way to your face.

“If I prove you wrong, you apologize to Dori. How’s that sound? If you prove me wrong, I’ll return your book and I’ll take my leave for a week, so you won’t have to deal with me during that time.”

You wagered, your tone amused.

Al Haitham smirked, “You’re rather confident, aren’t you? Fine. Let’s see you back up those claims.”

You grinned, pulling off your top and slipping off your bottoms.

“Back at you, Scribe.”

Al Haitham scowled in response, harshly tugging off his clothing.

You smirked, bringing your hand to cup his cheek. You pulled his face forward harshly in a display of strength, that surprised even you.

Al Haitham’s eyes narrowed as you slammed your lips into his with a passionate fervor.

He returned the kiss, slightly frenzied.

You met his challenge, pressing yourself closer to his form, and digging your fingers into the skin of his cheek. You let your tongue trail across his bottom lip, before biting down on it.

Al Haitham’s eyes narrowed, and his lips twitched, yet he made no move to open his mouth.

He was making it hard, but that was fine—

You could work with that.

You slipped your hand down towards his back, harshly pinching his butt, before using the same hand to teasingly flit across his lower back.

Al Haitham’s mouth parted in surprise and you slipped your tongue in, feeling incredibly triumphant. Al Haitham’s tongue slid across yours, and suddenly his hand was gripping your shoulder. You drew your hand up from his back, snaking it around the wrist of the hand on your shoulder, and tugged—

Al Haitham stumbled closer to you, allowing you easier access to his form. You grinned, slightly feral, before teasingly pressing your leg against his cock.

Al Haitham’s lips parted once more, as he huffed slightly. You grinned up at him, pressing your leg down harder.

You let your trail down towards his inner thigh, as you lightly caressed his bare skin with your fingers.

Al Haitham jerked at the contact, and you smirked deviously, before pressing your entire body closer to his form.

“You’re…stubborn…”

He breathed out, his tone a low rasp.

You could feel the muscles in his body tense, and anticipation sparked within you.

You slowly trailed one of your fingers tantalizingly close to his privates, a vicious smile on your face.

“You’re one to talk… Apologize.”

Al Haitham grit his teeth, and you pressed your leg down harder, subsequently wrapping a hand around his member.

Al Haitham growled, his form slackening.

“I…apologize…”

At that moment, the door swung open—

#al haitham smut #al haitham x reader #genshin impact #genshin x reader #thanks for the ask!#send asks #genshin smut

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sneezypeasy · 2 years

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ATLA Original Scripts: Extra Goodies

As I’m sure you may have guessed, the very first script I chose to open at the WGF was The Southern Raiders (I mean, can you blame me? 🤣). But shippy lore and zutara fandom history aside, I did unearth quite a few unrelated tidbits, author’s notes and script changes that I found interesting or funny enough to note down. As promised, here is a compilation of some of these tidbits, with little connecting theme or pattern other than “I thought the fandom might find these snippets interesting” 😁

1. Elizabeth and Aaron Ehasz are genuinely hilarious.

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Credit for finding #1 and #3 goes to my husband, who was with me on Day 2 of Original Script Investigations :3

I don’t mean to say that the other ATLA writers are necessarily boring or unfunny – as I said I didn’t get a chance to read every script and there may have been other genuinely amusing snippets from other writers that I honestly just missed. All I know is, the most entertaining action/non-dialogue lines that I did find were written by these two chuckleheads. I fuckin’ love them, lmao 🤣

2. In Day of Black Sun, Zuko was originally meant to redirect lightning using his dual swords.

I can see why this detail was changed during the storyboarding/animating process (as he just uses his bare hands in the show, the way Iroh taught him), but at the same time the sword-lightning-redirection thing really intrigues me. Dual swords are strongly associated with Zuko’s Blue Spirit vigilante persona, and there’s several episodes where Zuko uses them as part of obscuring his Fire Nation identity, whether that’s to help him keep his cover or even to help him get away with what the Fire Nation could reasonably consider as acts of treason.

So the idea that Zuko would use his swords to redirect Ozai’s lightning comes across as powerfully symbolic to me: Zuko standing in defiance to his abusive father, channeling some Blue Spirit energy to defend but not to kill; Zuko facing down a terrifying display of Fire Nation aggression and wrath, absorbing it into himself and then directing it back to its source, using a non-bending instrument, one he’d previously used in service of vigilantist or even sabotage/treasonous acts… yeah, I think that’s pretty damn cool, ngl.

From a Doylist standpoint, I like it. Very nice.

From a Watsonian standpoint, I can (grudgingly) understand why they likely chose not to portray this scene the way it was scripted.

Ah well.

3. In Lake Laogai, Katara’s healing water was meant to “turn black” as a visual indication that Jet’s injuries were too severe for her to heal.

This scene kind of plays out in the show, but not in the way that the script implies it should:

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You can see that in the show version, the water turns black right as Katara appears to pause her work and look up to say “This isn’t good”. Maybe it’s just me, but the show doesn’t seem to imply that the water “turned black” despite Katara’s best healing efforts; I instead get the impression that the water stopped glowing because Katara (momentarily?) suspended her healing efforts upon registering how bad Jet’s injuries were.

The script seems to suggest that the scene should have played out like – Katara tries to heal Jet, the water turns black while she’s still moving her hands and working, Katara might then visibly react with shock or alarm, before finally looking up to remark, “this isn’t good”.

And honestly, I’m actually really bummed that they didn’t animate this sequence out! It would only have taken maybe a couple more seconds, but can you imagine if the writers had been able to employ the dramatic effect of “[Character] is so heavily injured, the healing water turns black” to its maximum potential?

Imagine Katara trying to heal Aang’s lightning wound in The Awakening, but it turns black and then he has that chi-shock attack. Imagine her explaining beforehand that she’d tried healing his wound multiple times over the two weeks he’d been unconscious, and it had always turned black, but she hoped that with him being awake maybe it wouldn’t fail this time - except that it does 😭

Imagine Katara trying to heal Zuko after the lightning scene in Sozin’s Comet, and the water turns black, and Katara grits her teeth “Oh no don’t you dare” and visibly puts all her effort into making that water glow again and finally he wakes -

Argh, it’s one tiny visual clue and yet there’s so much potential for drama and angst (yum!) - I’m so frustrated it wasn’t kept! Huge missed opportunity imo. Ah well, for all you fan-artists and fanfic writers, consider it free real estate. Make it canon, let’s gooo 🤣

4. In The Runaway, after being accused of being “too motherly”, Katara actually slaps Aang when he doesn’t respond fast enough 🤣

I don’t really have much to say about this one other than that I just found the mental image pretty funny. I do find it interesting that as much as the writing did a better job of developing Kataang in the original script, there also isn’t any serious effort to tone down Katara’s motherly tendencies towards Aang either (in fact, I think one could easily argue that slapping Aang’s hand away makes the whole mom thing come off stronger, but idk). Either way, this was pretty entertaining to read. 😂

5. In Tales of Ba Sing Se, Zuko and Jin are both a lot more expressive in the script, and it’s way more fun:

In the script, Zuko looks “totally overwhelmed” when Jin asks him out. In the show, he just looks… blank? Expressionless? Idk. I did get the sense that this was unfamiliar territory for him, but to me the show doesn’t animate him to be nearly as flustered as the script suggests he ought to be. He doesn’t scowl at Iroh immediately either, and even when he does he looks more irritated than “furious”, imo. 🤷‍♀️

I did figure that Zuko telling Jin she has a large appetite was his attempt at making polite conversation, but the script makes him come off more sympathetic with that too:

In the show, the waiter doesn’t roll his eyes at anyone, he just walks away, the shot does pan out to the other diners staring but they move on very quickly, and notably Jin appears completely unperturbed by the whole thing. She doesn’t look sad or “hurt” as the script suggests, and Zuko’s attempt at a compliment isn’t framed as him regretting his outburst and awkwardly trying to make up for upsetting her (as she doesn’t seem to be upset at all).

I’m honestly a little sad that so much of this was cut; it really softens Zuko’s character a fair bit. I mean we already know that underneath his hot temper Zuko always had a deep sense of compassion and empathy for others, but these little details really help bring that side of him to the surface and I’m just sort of bummed that they shaved them off here :/ not sure why they felt the need to do that.

Anyway, we all love awkward turtleduck Zuko, so here, have some more:

I like that Zuko is explicitly written as being more at ease once he and Jin have found a quiet area to be alone in. Neurodivergent Zuko confirmed? :P

Also, love the little addition that Jin “peeks” through her fingers right before Zuko starts firebending (they didn’t include that part in the show either). Makes you wonder, did she see? Did she see, and accept Zuko anyway? :P

(Too cute.)

6. In Zuko Alone, Zuko stops Lee from hurting himself with the dual swords:

On the one hand, I don’t mind that the show portrays Lee just having fun with the swords and looking to Zuko for approval (and getting it!). It’s sweet. On the other hand, I think there’s a layer of foreshadowing here that the show missed - without Zuko there to help, Lee’s recklessness and impulsivity will get the better of him (as it ultimately did). I’m sort of torn on this one.

Edit: I’ve been thinking about this a little more and I think I definitely prefer the script version, if only for the fact that Zuko’s “imperceptible smile” is at the end of his and Lee’s encounter. In the show, Zuko smiles at Lee encouragingly after he gives him a swordfighting “lesson” and then lets the kid swing the swords around a bit, which is definitely a heartwarming moment but it has a very different connotation to Zuko smiling with Lee after Lee opens up about Sen Su to him. In the show Zuko is smiling for Lee, to give him encouragement and support. In the script, Zuko smiles during a bonding moment for both of them, in a way that seems to suggest he is grateful/touched that Lee is sharing something so personal with him. It’s a really soft moment for Zuko and upon thinking about it more I’m definitely bummed they cut that little smile. :(

7. In The Chase, after Azula attacks Iroh, Zuko is apparently doing his best to comfort and stabilise him – he is not simply overcome with despair over his fallen uncle:

And in Crossroads of Destiny, Katara isn’t just angrily pacing the “prison cell” back and forth before Zuko is thrown in with her; she’s actively searching for a way out:

I kinda wish both of these were kept in too. Zuko and Katara may be hot-headed at times (they are definitely two of the most passionate characters in the show, if not the most passionate) – but not to such an extent that it overwhelms their ability to work through a crisis; I find it more consistent to their characters that they would still try to do something even when they appear to be in a pretty hopeless situation. That seems to be a trait they both share, in the show.

I also like that Zuko’s efforts to help Iroh humanises him a bit more and puts the emphasis on Zuko caring about Iroh’s recovery, rather than Zuko just being upset that things have turned out so horribly. I was sympathetic to him before, but I’m even more sympathetic now, if that makes sense. 😭

8. In The Painted Lady, Katara’s disguise is blown due to a hair-loopie malfunction, rather than Aang literally blowing her disguise (off).

This is more of a subjective thing but I wish they kept this one in too! I think it’s cute :P

9. The Puppetmaster was originally meant to be titled The Dark Side of the Moon, and includes some differences on how Katara regains control of herself in the battle with Hama:

I understand why the script made Katara “pirouette” and dance under Hama’s bloodbending – it’s a reference to the whole “puppetmaster” thing (which, by the way, I have to say “The Dark Side of the Moon” is a much cooler title, but I can see why they changed that too – it’s way too spoiler-y, sadly). Ultimately though I prefer the show’s version where Katara is forced to her knees and then breaks free – it’s more dramatic, I think, and it reminds me of the earlier scene in The Waterbending Master where Pakku has knocked Katara down, and she takes a breath and steels herself and then gets back up to fight again. I’m not sure if the animators meant to mirror that scene or not, but either way I think Katara standing up after being pushed to the ground is a lot more powerful and compelling, both visually and symbolically, than Katara breaking free of a dance that she’s forced to move to under Hama’s hand. Maybe that’s just me.

I will say though, the ending shot is different to how it is in the script, and I wish they’d kept the script version:

10. Finally, the ending of The Fortuneteller has Katara actually hearing and reacting to Meng’s insult.

Which I thought was mildly amusing. Slightly bummed this was cut, but only a little 🤣

I hope you guys enjoyed reading these as much as I did 😊 I actually have about 6 or 7 more tidbits left that I want to share, but I’ll pause this compilation here as 10 is a good number and I think this post has gotten long enough already 😅

Thanks to @korranguyen for her effort in spotting and transcribing the Zuko/Jin snippets 😊

#atla #atla original scripts #writer's guild foundation #elizabeth and aaron ehasz are absolute legends #bit of fluff for the jinko fans too

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merrycrisis-if · 10 months

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Ok but bestie you didn’t prepare me to lose my heart and soul to ALL of the love interests in the best possible way. How can I choose between rediscovering a first love (Qiu), reconnecting with a longtime love (my precious Nat) and finding the potential Soulmate in a stranger (Shay)?

All of the potential endings cloud my brain (MC going back to NYC, MC deciding to stay in Singapore, an indecisive MC who stays in Singapore or NYC but isn’t sure….). I have to know- does choosing one of those scenarios block us from certain endings? (Like if MC decides to go back to NYC for new years, do they lose Shay or Qiu? Bc tbh I’ll give you big money for for MC to go back to NY and Qiu follow (FIGHT FOR) them.))

BWAHAHA. Ah bestie.

*shakes head affectionately and channels best Joony vibes*

All the potential endings simultaneously excites me so much and scares the shit out of me as a writer. I'm good at beginnings, middle bits, and... not so good at endings.

I had a really messy piece of paper with 9 endings scribbled down (I think this was what, sometime in 2022?), and have already misplaced it, so—fingers crossed for myself.

And yes—to answer both questions, the endings will be very dependent on whether MC chooses to be in NY/SG. It's entirely possible that if MC goes to NYC or stays in Singapore, they'll lose an RO (gotta write that delicious angst).

But there's also a possibility that their RO decides they'll fight for the relationship still (e.g. Nat decides to come to SG, or Qiu/Shay decide to come to NYC with MC).

As to and how to achieve those endings, and how those different endings will differ—I'm still working that out and honestly probably will keep tweaking them till the very... end. (no pun intended).

#merry crisis #if #interactive fiction #asks #RO endgames #qiu #nat #shay

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simlit · 9 months

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ALL OF THEM FOR EIF YA BITCH

first of all, how rude.

What's something about your OC that people wouldn't expect just from looking at them?

His resilience. Eifra is constantly seen as an easy target, and physically, he's not particularly strong, but he's endured a lot and has the ability to bounce back from just about anything.

What is your OC's fatal flaw? Are they aware of this flaw?

His kindness. It's the one thing he's most taken advantage for. He's aware of it, and people constantly warn him, but I don't think even he would choose to be different.

When scared, does your OC fight, flee, freeze or fawn?

All of the above lmao. Depends on the threat. He does naturally frighten easily, but he's also a very seasoned hunter. Even if he's afraid, he has the ability to temper his nerves to withstand a fight, but if he knows it's a fight he'll lose, he'll happily flee.

How far is your OC willing to go to get what they want?

Eif would never endanger others, but he would put himself through a world of pain if he thought it would help someone he loves. Again, all depends on the context.

How easily could your OC be convinced to do something that goes against their moral compass?

Not... easily. He would have to be put in a very precarious position, to know it was his only option, or if someone's life depended on it. But he's also not so much of a goodie two shoes that his moral compass is swung so far to one side.

What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Ah, this is a fun question. I think I mentioned before I actually intended for Eifra's PoV to only exist as an introduction to Zeh's. But instead he became pretty much the defacto protagonist and narrator for the sequel. I didn't expect to love Eifra as much as I did, and I got attached to him, both as a writer, but also through Zehel. In the same way that I fell in love with Yeryn's romance, Zehel and Eifra's relationship *is* the main dynamic of Arcaen'vel. Eifra is Zehel's crux. He's his driving force and he pushes both the plot and Zehel's character development forward. I went in thinking Zehel would be the main character in what I thought was his own story, but Eifra really had another plan (though I'm sure if I explained it that way to him, he'd disagree and hold Zeh's pedestal that much higher lmao). The two share the spotlight in different ways. But if you asked me like three years ago if I thought the successor to Yeryn's line would be some random hybrid kiddo I'd have slapped your face.

Would your OC ostensibly be able to get away with murder?

NO lmfao. Eifra would never just commit murder. But he certainly wouldn't have the braincells to get out of it if he did.

Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?

Yes! Zehel's theme for Eifra is "A Sky Full of Stars" by Coldplay, and I can literally not listen to this song without thinking of him. "Cuz you get lighter the more it gets dark, I'm gonna give you my heart."

What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

Tbh, I think Eif would work in any AU, but I'll have to choose the most boring and say I'd love to see him in a modern storyline with Zeh. Just because Eifra adapts so well to our timeline.

What is your OC's weapon of choice? Have they ever actually used it?

Bow and arrow. He can hunt well regardless, but his arrows are also the only way he can channel dragonfire. It's the only defense he has, not having been born with arcane magic.

Is your OC self-destructive? In what ways?

Yes, and no. I think he sometimes gives too much of himself away, but I wouldn't say he's actively tearing himself down. But he'd be willing to let people walk all over him if it'd make them happy and that's not a particularly healthy way to live, either.

If you met your OC, would the two of you get along?

Probably LOL. I mean he's a much MUCH better person than me, but his self-deprecating humor is so relatable. He's a really uplifting person, which is actually the type of person I most enjoy being around, but he does lack the petty shittalk side I require my friendships to have so that I may thrive lmao.

How does your OC want to be seen by other characters?

I don't think he much cares how other perceive him, but I think he'd like his friends to see him as reliable. Someone that can be depended on, even when things get difficult.

Does your OC have a faceclaim? If so, who?

We all know I don't do real human face claims, but I do have an artwork I pinned ages ago that encapsulates his vibes down to his stature and dress style, the only thing off about it is the hair, otherwise really spot on: here.

What is your OC's pain tolerance like?

Surprisingly high. Eifra has been through... shit. And he's conditioned himself for things most people have never had to. He's been forced to survive most of his life, and I think that gives someone a lot of internal strength. He also has an incredibly good hold of his mental. In a situation where he knew he'd have to endure something to save someone, he wouldn't even miss a beat.

Is your OC more cold and detached or up close and personal?

He's very personable, but honestly he understands people wanting space. He gets attached to Zehel so easily because he feels like he owes him his life (he kind of does lmao), so it's a bit of specific situation. Normally, Eifra is the type to only approach if asked, but he'd always be able to reply. He's incredibly charismatic.

How does your OC behave when enraged?

I think Eifra has only been truly angry a handful of times in his life. Only once severe enough to have some physical repercussion. Usually he lets things slide off him, and doesn't get caught up on negative feelings.

Does your OC have a tendency to get jealous? If so, how does this manifest?

Unsurprisingly not at all lmao.

Does your OC have any illnesses or disorders? How do they handle it?

Neither, but I suppose in the context of their world, he's sort of "broken". He's half elf, half dragon, but he was born magicless, and his wings never developed properly. He's also not able to shift into dragonform, which is usually something that gets bred out over many generations. As he's a "first generation" mix, this is exceedingly odd. He's the only known halflyn to have one dragon parent and not be able to shapeshift.

What character alignment would you consider your OC to be?

Lawful/Neutral Good

What emotion is the hardest for your OC to process? How about express?

Desire. Eifra has an incredibly difficult time asking for anything, even if he needs those things to actually survive. He feels embarrassed and burdensome to ask favors of others, and hates to be indebted to them. He constantly sees himself as a weight holding back his friends, and would rather starve than to ask for money for food or anything similar.

What is your favorite thing about your OC?

His tenacity. Eifra is such a hard person to keep down, and even though I find these people really annoying irl, I think in stories, juxtaposed characters like Zeh, they become so much more likeable, and important. I think Eifra has a lot of qualities I gravitate to, but being in Zehel's head for almost four-hundred pages, my love and violent need to throw my life on line to protect Eif at all costs is so deeply engrained in me LOL. Zehel really following in Daddy's footsteps by being the world's second biggest simp, only in his case it exists within a platonic friendship, and honestly, I think it's the most fitting storyline I could have written for him.

#jade babbles #ec: eifra

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maristelina · 1 year

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MILGRAM 1st Anniversary Stream Translation Part 2

Translated by @/JuriTea_ and @/CatDraft0307 29 Pages, 7200 words.

🎴 Host 🔸Takuya Yamanaka (Scenario writer)

🎴 Guest Voice Actors 🔸Amami Yurina (Es) 🔸Horie Shun (Haruka) 🔸Aimi (Kotoko)

🎴 This Is How To Be In Love With You by Mahiru

🔸Yamanaka: Next slide please. Mahiru-chan.

🔸Yamanaka: Well… she wasn’t forgiven.

🔸Amami (Es): Yeah! She was the second one to not be forgiven

🔸Yamanaka: yes…

🔸Amami (Es): The second one after Futa.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): She’s so cute though…

🔸Amami (Es): I’ve been thinking a lot about why Mahiru-chan wasn’t forgiven. I want to ask all of you watching now who didn’t forgive her, what’s your reason for not forgiving Mahiru-chan? I really want to know

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Was there a large difference in the votes?

🔸Yamanaka: She had the highest record percentage of “not forgive” votes. It was higher than Futa’s.

🔸Amami (Es): So a large majority didn’t forgive her.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Ehh… I see..

🔸Amami (Es): Did people pick up a lot of things from her MV?

🔸Yamanaka: Yes… or, they’ve developed excessive distrust with the contents that is called Milgram.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Ehh.. but there were a lot of people saying they wish Mahiru-chan was forgiven.

🔸Yamanaka: Yes.. not getting your way is also an aspect of Milgram so…

🔸Amami (Es): The girls are saying they felt darkness in Mahiru’s drama part.

🔸Everyone: Ah, true, I see.

🔸Amami (Es): True, her song is very bright and upbeat, so her drama part might feel dark. Even her cover song was… that. Psychogram.

🔸Yamanaka: the arrangement of Pscyhogram was amazing.

🔸Amami (Es): It’s overloaded with love.

🔸Yamanaka: Let’s take a look at a shot.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): This is so fun.

🔸Amami (Es): A collage.

🔸Yamanaka: This MV is very fun.

🔸Amami (Es): Like a magazine.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Like a “What I wear in a week” type of outfit combinations.

🔸Amami (Es): Like typical magazine.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s unique in that she interprets her sin in this way.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s very stereotypical (TN: he means that it’s a stereotypical girls magazine style).

🔸Amami (Es): Very girly.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): From a first glance, it just looks like a cute MV of a cute person.

🔸Yamanaka: Yes… next slide please… it’s like this.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): A flower shop.

[Text in MV: I started a part time job at a flower shop that I’ve always been interested in. What a surprise, the guy I’m interested in passed by in front of the shop. I wonder if I can see him from time to time. I look forward to my job even more now. But it’s more than that. Everyday is so much fun.]

🔸Yamanaka: When Otoiro san told me he wanted to make an MV in this style, I read a lot of Ray and ViVi to come up with this women's magazine style of text. I channeled a women’s magazine writer into myself.

[TN: Ray and Vivi are Japanese women’s magazines’ names.]

🔸Amami (Es): Did you come up with the writing at the side too?

🔸Yamanaka: Yes, I made that.

🔸Everyone: Wow, amazing.

🔸Amami (Es): I hope that everyone will pay attention not only to the lyrics, but the writings in the MVs.

🔸Yamanaka: Next slide please.

[Text in MV Translation: Hatsumode with him. I already decided what to wish for. I wish we can be together forever. I wish no one will come between us) (TN: Hatsumode is a new-years event where you visit shrines/temples on Jan 1st morning and you make a wish at the shrine/temple. It’s customary for girls to wear kimono but in the modern era most people just wear regular clothes]

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Ah, so good

🔸Amami (Es): It’s Hatsumode.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): So cute! Retro-modern style (kimono).

🔸Amami (Es): She wears a kimono to Hatsumode, she’s such a great girlfriend

[TN: she says なんて最高な彼女, which can mean she is the best, or she is the best girlfriend. But the text in the MV says “I went to Hatsumode with him (or BF)” so it’s good girlfriend in this context.]

🔸Yamanaka: You’re absolutely right. She’s the type of person who dresses up in proper formal attire for Hatsumode.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): She dresses up.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Ah, it’s love.

🎴 half by Kazui

🔸Yamanaka: yes, it’s love. Let’s see the person after Mahiru-chan.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Ah… Kazui san.

🔸Amami &Yamanaka : So mellow.

🔸Yamanaka: What a great voice.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): It seeps into my heart.

🔸Amami (Es): What a great singing voice.

🔸Horie (Haruka): How erotic…

🔸Yamanaka: Here we have the oldest of the group, Kazui-san. We have the full range from elementary school child at the lower range to Kazui san at the higher range.

🔸Amami (Es): Plenty of characters.

🔸Yamanaka: Let’s take a look at a shot.

🔸Amami (Es): I really love this shot… it’s so great that his bottom row of teeth are showing.

🔸Horie (Haruka): I see!

🔸Yamanaka: That’s where you look?

🔸Amami (Es): Look carefully. Isn’t it the best? To be able to see the bottom row of teeth.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Y..es…

🔸Amami (Es): I guess I wasn’t able to strike a chord.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Yeah it’s three against one.

🔸Amami (Es): there are people agreeing with me in the comments though.

🔸Yamanaka: Everyone please help cheer up Amami-san.

🔸Yamanaka: He views his life and his sin as a theatrical play. I wonder what kind of person he is.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Ah, so that’s how it is

🔸Yamanaka: Next slide please. Makes you wonder if this is something that happened to Kazui-san.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): It’s a bar.

🔸Amami (Es): I love how he’s wearing his jacket on his shoulders.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Hm? Is it so that he’s ready to put it on the lady any time.

🔸Horie (Haruka): So that’s what’ it is.

🔸Amami (Es): He’s such a gentleman!!

🔸Yamanaka: That’s up for interpretation.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Does he do the stuff where he’ll buy a drink for a lady and have the bartender go “this drink is from that gentleman over there”

[TN: in Japan there’s an archetype of sexy/dandy men buying a drink for a lady sitting by herself at the bar. it’s different that in Japan, he’ll ask the bartender to give the lady the drink and the bartender will tell the lady “this drink is from that gentleman over there” - this is what Horie says]

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Why is there a glass on the left? Is there a reason behind why that’s kind of far off to the left?

🔸Yamanaka: Let’s move onto the next slide.

🔸Amami (Es): You can’t even touch on that?

🔸Yamanaka: From that to this expression.

🔸Amami (Es): So sad.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): What kind of face is that?

🔸Horie (Haruka): What face is that?

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): What happened?

🔸Amami (Es): So sad.

🔸Horie (Haruka): What’s wrong?

🔸Yamanaka: It’s not limited to Kazui, but if you listen to the drama parts, Es-kun points out a lot of things about each character’s personalities that might be difficult to hear, so they become vulnerable. Especially for Kazui and the other adults, they’re influenced by Es-kun’s straight-forwardness and simplicity and they become vulnerable. I hope you will pay attention to that aspect as well. The drama part is so fun to record right?

🔸Amami (Es): I’m so sorry for being the only one to have such enjoyable opportunity.

🔸Horie (Haruka): perks of your role.

🔸Amami (Es): it’s too fun.

🎴 Magic by Amane

🔸Yamanaka: After the eldest, we have the youngest. The recently revealed Amane-chan’s Omajinai (Magic). Straight up cute.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Straight up cute.

🔸Yamanaka: Pure cuteness.

🔸Amami (Es): Her short bangs are adorable.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): There’s no way that a little girl isn’t cute.

🔸Horie (Haruka): True.

🔸Amami (Es): thank you for the Randoseru (the backpack).

🔸Yamanaka: Everyone is giving shoutouts to Amane-chan.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): The comments suddenly sped up.

🔸Amami (Es): The speed is intense.

🔸Yamanaka: She’s being called Baby! Baby! Baby!

🔸Horie (Haruka): Even though they’re in English, the excitement shines through.

🔸Yamanaka: I’m so happy.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): We know that word.

🔸Amami (Es): She’s so loved! Everyone is saying “Amane!”

🔸Horie (Haruka): But there are few comments saying she’s scary

[TN: I wonder if ppl mistyped “Kowai” instead of “kawaii” in english? LOL]

🔸Yamanaka: What scary things have there been about her?

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): But she’s so cute.

🔸Yamanaka: Let’s take a look at a shot.

🔸Amami (Es): Ahh thank you!

🔸Yamanaka: Thank you.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Looks like she’s sprinkling magical dust.

🔸Horie (Haruka): LOL Magical dust.

🔸Yamanaka: Otoiro-san’s MVs have a wide range of styles, and he even has this kind of style too.

🔸Amami (Es): Yes! I was so surprised.

🔸Yamanaka: Let’s move on to the next slide… It’s kind of like a children’s show.

🔸Amami (Es): Mascots?

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): So cute… what are they based on? The mascots on the sides. Robot and …? This is… ???

🔸Horie (Haruka): Yamanaka-san’s eyes are telling you to stay away from that topic… there must be some meaning.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Oh no it moved on.

🔸Amami (Es): Is this Chibigram?

🔸Yamanaka: Yes it’s Chibigram.

🔸Everyone: so cute!

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): But why are her eyes all swirly… and isn’t the background so suspicious?

🔸Horie (Haruka): You’re digging deeper and deeper into something you shouldn’t.

🔸Yamanaka: I don’t think so…?

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): The background looks so unsettling yet they’re all smiling. And the lightning.

🔸Yamanaka: I don’t think there’s anything suspicious.

🔸Amami (Es): You’d be crazy if you didn’t think this is suspicious… what does this mean?

🎴 Mikoto and Kotoko

🔸Yamanaka: This wraps up all the MV that have been released as of now, and we’ve seen a diverse range of prisoners and their sins. The upcoming two are on the next slide.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): That’s correct.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Right… We’re still waiting for Mikoto too.

🔸Yamanaka: Yes we’re having everyone wait.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): I’m waiting too. I’m waiting to see how everyone would react (to Kotoko’s character).

🔸Yamanaka: We’ve finished recording the drama

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Yes! Few days ago I finished recording the drama part, and… ah, I can’t say it!… Kotoko is… I can’t say it.

🔸Amami (Es): You can only say “Kotoko is”

🔸Horie (Haruka): What??

🔸Amami (Es): Horie-san doesn’t know.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s pretty up on the “Can’t say” list.

🔸Amami (Es): but I think everyone will be shocked when they listen to it. Like they’ll be saying “really?!” for sure.

🔸Horie (Haruka): You’ve dropped a bomb on us at the very end.

🔸Yamanaka: But it’s already classified from Mikoto’s part… I really can’t say it.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko)/Amami (Es): True true true.

🔸Horie (Haruka): What? What?

🔸Amami (Es): Horie-san really doesn’t know anything.

🔸Horie (Haruka): I really don’t.. This is my genuine reaction.

🔸Amami (Es): I’ll tell you the details after this is done.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): It’s the first time right?

🔸Yamanaka: First –

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Ah, Ah, I can’t say it

🔸Horie (Haruka): What can’t you say?

🔸Yamanaka: umm let’s take a look at the current forgive/not forgive status.

🔸Horie (Haruka): He brushed me off…

🔸Yamanaka: These are the current results… those not forgiven are Futa and Mahiru, and everyone else has been forgiven as we head into the second round.

🔸Amami (Es): are these goats?

🔸Yamanaka: Goats and sheep.

🔸Everyone: Goats and sheep.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Their eye colors are different too.

🔸Yamanaka: yes… I think no one knows yet how these choices will affect the upcoming development, so please look forward to their updates. Please wait to see the results of how your votes affects the upcoming development.

🔸Horie (Haruka): True… Haruka was forgiven but I have no idea what happens after being forgiven.

🔸Yamanaka: True.. There’s been some mentions of agreeing with his way of thinking and some mentions of disagreeing. We’ll see what kind of results that would bring.

🔸Amami (Es): Ah, (TN: gets cut off by Horie, I can’t catch what she says here.)

🔸Horie (Haruka): Haruka… Ah.. so his way of thinking had been validated.

🔸Amami (Es): I wonder how that’s going to affect the future development.

🔸Horie (Haruka): That’s kind of scary in itself.

🔸Amami (Es): I really wonder if he’ll be forgiven a second time, although he’s been forgiven the first time. It’s definitely possible that the results can flip.

🔸Yamanaka: I think it’s fun to watch while keeping in mind that their futures are determined by the choices everyone made. I think MVs are fun to watch, but that one click of voting can further strengthen the connection between Milgram and everyone.

🔸Yamanaka: Now that we’ve finished summarizing, I wanted to move onto announcements for our 1st anniversary. If we have more time afterwards, we’ll chat some more.

🔸Yamanaka: In commemoration of our 1st anniversary, we’ve made quite a few announcements. Let’s take a look. We’ve shown this at the beginning too, but this is our 1st anniversary illustration reveal. Drawn by Aka-san.

🔸Amami (Es): It’s amazing.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s fresh to see an illustration with everyone together.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Oh, right.

🔸Amami (Es): This is probably how they have their meals.

🔸Yamanaka: True, Jackalope cooks for them.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Although it’s littered with fur… I wonder what conversations they have.

🔸Amami (Es): They don’t look like they’ll have anything in common to talk about.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Futa-kun probably has terrible table manners.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): He probably holds chopsticks in weird ways.

🔸Horie (Haruka): Definitely! I like that.

🔸Amami (Es): Shidou-san is wonderful.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Kotoko is looking this way real hard… she’s leaning forward a lot.

🔸Yamanaka: She tried her best to fit into the frame.

🔸Amami (Es): She’s so kind.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): So thoughtful.

🔸Yamanaka: Next slide please. Given the current situation it’s been postponed, but we have merch featuring the 1st anniversary illustration.

🔸Yamanaka: next slide please.

🔸Everyone: So handsome!

🔸Yamanaka: Released on 4/27, Undercover - Hatsune Miku cover version. I’m sure there are quite a few of people who found us through this cover.

🔸Amami (Es): Yes, I’m sure there are viewers today who learned about us through this.

🔸Yamanaka: Ah right. Even if you just got into it recently, I’m sure you’ll be able to enjoy our contents. What I found interesting was that people commenting “wow a new song!” under the Undercover Hatsune Miku cover were swarmed by other comments name dropping Milgram.

🔸Amami (Es): Everyone was plugging Milgram, telling people to click the link in the captions. Thank you so much!

🔸Yamanaka: the fun increases when a diverse range of values from different people mingle, so plug it to your friends, and you can learn about how your friends think and what choices they make.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): The more brain power we have for speculations the better they get.

🔸Yamanaka: I don’t know how to put it well, but it doesn’t matter if your speculations are right or wrong, what matters is the time that you put your mind to it.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): Yes, the process is the fun part

🔸Amami (Es): Right now no one is right or… right, mhm.

🔸Yamanaka: yup.

🔸Amami (Es): Everyone is right and not right.

🔸Yamanaka: Yup, not right.

🔸Amami (Es): Please enjoy speculating freely.

🔸Yamanaka: Yes, whether you’re right or wrong, you’ll be more invested in Milgram.

🔸Amami (Es): this comment says she plugged us a lot… thank you so much!

🔸Horie (Haruka): There’s another saying they bought all the CDs.

🔸Everyone: Thank you so much.

🔸Amami (Es): Everyone’s covers are also great, please give them a listen.

🔸Yamanaka: From here on, we have unreleased official information. We’ll be going over the new merch.

🎴MERCH TALK - badges 🎴merch talk - line stamps haruka edition 🎴Merch talk - birthday illust for Mahiru and Futa 🎴more birthday illust talk for Haruka and Amane 🎴Milgram collab with D4DJ.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): There’s something I really want to ask, I think I asked a few days ago when I recorded my voice drama, but I wanted to know who did you decide on the cast? When the cast was announced, I was like “wow, there are so many people who I like the singing voices of!” I was quite surprised, so I wanted to know

🔸Horie (Haruka): I want to know too! It makes me kind of nervous

🔸Yamanaka: We chose people who we thought would be great singers. We reviewed previous works for some people, and we also looked for people who didn’t stand out that much but had potential to be great singers. Deco-san and I did various research. If you’re good at singing, don’t even think about running away from us. (TN: The way Yamanaka said it is very threatening and it's hilarious.)

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): I’m so grateful.

🔸Horie (Haruka): I’m so happy to be chosen.

🔸Amami (Es): Me too, thank you!

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): I think it’s amazing that you were able to find the perfect fits, everyone has such exciting songs. I’m really excited for what’s coming.

🔸Yamanaka: Everyone has been so dedicated to their characters through their acting, and if I do say so myself, I really think we’re making great content, and I have a lot of fun working on this.

🔸Everyone: Thank you so much!

🔸Yamanaka: In terms of the songs, you’ve all given us so much more beyond expectations so we will keep making various songs to keep you entertained.

🔸Yamanaka: We’re out of time now, so I’d like to ask the cast for their closing words. Amami-san would you like to start?

🔸Amami (Es): I am Amami Yurina and in charge of playing Es. Thank you for the hour today. Like mentioned earlier, I understand some of you might have learned about Milgram though Deco-san’s Hatsune Miku cover of Undercover, but I aim to make Milgram more and more fun, so if you like vocaloids, or have friends who like dark contents like Milgram, please plug us! We have the full deal from songs to merch, so please help us spread the word. Please look forward to future releases for Mikoto and Kotoko. Thank you for today!

🔸Horie (Haruka): Thank you once again for today. Ever since I was forgiven by everyone at the trial last year…

🔸Yamanaka: It sounds like a real story… like you just got released from prison

🔸Horie (Haruka): I’m enjoying the fresh air of the outside world lol. I’m still not sure how the story and the character’s lives will develop based on the forgive or not forgive results, so I’m really excited to find out as a fan who loves this content, and even for songs, I wonder if they’re affected by the fact that I was forgiven. I want to work hard while sharing these feelings with everyone. Thank you for your continued support for Milgram!

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): I’m Aimi in Kotoko’s role. Kotoko is still unreleased, but the song is intense, the drama is great… and the cover is intense too. I want everyone to listen to the cover ASAP… that’s how intense it is. Please look forward to it. What I felt after today’s session was that depending on how the story develops from the trials and votes, would our choices from the past become a subject for forgive/not forgive votes in the future? I’m really excited to find out. I’ll keep working hard as a fan, and as Kotoko. Please support us!

🔸Amami (Es): Lastly, from Yamanaka san.

🔸Yamanaka: I think Milgram will be a long term project, but I think it would be fun if Milgram can influence your outlook towards real life. Even though Haruka and Kotoko and others are “murderers”, each has their own reasons, their own lives, and it’s not as simple as it being legal or illegal. There isn’t a single murder that is completely fictitious and doesn’t happen in real life, so maybe they happen in our world too, and maybe we end up forgiving someone who shouldn’t be forgiven. Maybe it’s something you watched on the news today, and it’s a case like that. I really hope Milgram can help you see the world from a new perspective. That’s the kind of entertainment Deco*27, Otoirosan and I aim to deliver. We want to make contents that will accompany your life. Although the contents are rather serious, the cast are rowdy and fun, and I like this balance. I hope you will love us as a whole. Now we’ve reached the end, but is there anything else you’d like to add?

🔸Amami (Es): If I get started, we’ll run overtime.

🔸Horie (Haruka): There’s a lot that I wanna ask.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): I want to do more live streams like this.

🔸Horie (Haruka): I want to do events too.

🔸Aimi (Kotoko): With more cast members.

🔸Yamanaka: Concerts are great too.

🔸Amami (Es): Once everyone is released, let’s do it.

🔸Yamanaka: Let’s do DJ events too.

🔸Horie (Haruka): A collab.

🔸Amami (Es): There’s a lot to look forward to.

🔸Yamanaka: Yes, the story changes depending on everyone’s participation, and it’s already different from how we imagined it would be, so I want to enjoy this interactiveness with everyone. Thank you everyone for today.

🔸Everyone: thank you, please keep supporting Milgram.

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prsk-krow · 1 year

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HIHIII!! You’ve been my fav writer on here for a while noww so I’ve been thinking of requesting and i finally thought of smth !! I was wondering if I could request n25 with a reader who covered one of their songs??

love your fics!!! Byebyeeeee

{Niigo with a reader who covers a song!} [P]

Kanade Yoisaki

Kanade is always honored to have people paying attention and showing positive responses to her songs, so imagine her pride when she sees covers of them online...

Especially seeing you, who she has known and has shown her songs before to, publishing a cover?? She didn't see it coming at all, and was shocked by the sudden nature of it all!

She was just scrolling through her channel, looking for replies and feedback to see what her fans thought of her newest piece when she sees the cover on the recommended list! It caught her attention immediately!

She listens to it, and she's taken aback by the emotion packed into every lyric! Even though you didn't write them, she could tell that they meant something to you, that it wasn't just pretty words and sentences, but there was a soul behind it all!

She makes sure to leave a comment on your cover. After understanding the feelings you were conveying through her song, she couldn't help but feel satisfied with her own work, at least this once...

That cover was truly something special. I could feel the emotion behind every word, and the way you conveyed them was something that resonated with me. I'm honored to have caused such emotions with our work, and I hope to see you experiencing them with our future ones.

Mafuyu Asahina

Mafuyu hadn't really thought about the aspect of others really admiring her songs that way. She didn't make it for that reason, so she never gave the aspect of her fan's reception much thought.

That's why she doesn't think much of it when you say such nice things of her songs! She hadn't meant to show off her work to you, but once you learnt about it you couldn't help showing off your appreciation!

And that's also why it takes her by surprise when she sees a cover of one of the songs she created alongside her group sudden uploaded to your channel! You showed it to her in hopes of learning what she thought of it!

She was surprised when hearing that a cover was made of her song! Did the people hearing it like it this much? She always saw a lot of compliments on the comments but didn't think much of them. But this? She never really understood why having covers made was so touching, but in that moment, it clicked.

"Ah, I'm glad that you enjoyed it so much! Fufu, but to go through all that effort, you must have really been touched by that song, huh? It shows through your voice in this video! I can tell, even though it's my first time listening to it."

She simply smiled and thanked you for the cover while thinking to herself, just how their songs affect those who hear it... She has already smiled at a demo her friend made, so the feelings that a complete one can convey... She might need to learn more about what her fans do.

Ena Shinonome

Ena is one of the members who cares most about the reception that their fans make whenever uploading any new songs! She mostly does this to search for stuff that she could fix about her own parts, but also enjoys the compliments quite a bit...

However, she doesn't really expect her online, musician life to connect with her irl one! So when she suddenly sees one of her irl friends posting a cover, she is just plain surprised!

Sure, she had heard you complimenting the songs that they made, but she didn't think much of it! Especially as you continued to praise the music and lyrics, both of which she didn't create. However, now that she sees the cover...

"You... We're serious about that?? U-uh wait! I'm not really reprimanding you or anything! I'm just... Shocked, that's all! Um, I haven't really heard your cover yet, but... I don't know, it still feels out of place, and... Jeez, you really want me to give it a listen, huh? Fine, fine!"

She does listen to it eventually, and she's, once again, surprised! You, one of her irl friends, putting such emotion into her song?? She needs a few moments to take it all in for sure, but once she does, she sends a message telling you how good you did!

However, she also sends a few tips on how to do a bit better, since she can tell that it wasn't perfect! After all, she has always strived to be better at the things she liked, and she thinks that with such passion put into your vocals, you might be the same!

Mizuki Akiyama

Mizuki is quite amused by their fanbase, so they check up on the content that they produce every once in a while! They can't help but feel proud that their work can cause such inspiration for others to create as well!

They absolutely adore watching the creations that arise from their own! After all, they were the one who managed to strike a gold mine with the painter, so it's no surprise that they love fan content!

However, as soon as they find your cover of their song, they're immediately on the phone, sending you the same link with a teasing message alongside it! They can't help but find it so interesting that it's actually sort of amusing!

To start teasing you even more, they start listening to the cover itself, and that's when they realize just how serious you were about this! Feeling the intensity in your voice, in the way you express every word...

"What, are you still mad at my teasing?? Come ooonn, you know that I didn't mean it that way! By the way, your cover was great! It was amazing to hear just how much passion you put into every verse! Hehe, if I knew you were this spirited, then maybe you could volunteer to be the main vocals for our next song..."

Of course they continue to tease, but not before letting you know just how well you did! They feel slightly guilty for just taking your cover as a joke at first, but their support afterwards makes up for it, even if they may not think so!

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54, 63, 64, 76 (Sweeten The Pot)

54. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process? Is it cheating to say reader feedback? The writing is already finished then but it really is my favorite part because even if I feel like I did a good job, there's still that last tiny niggling doubt. Hearing from someone who enjoyed what I wrote erases that voice. I think this is why I tend to look for cheerleading or general vibes feedback in a beta reader. I'll take the typos. Just get excited with me. 🥺

63. Something you hate to see in smut. Euphemisms for body parts. I don't think all smut needs to be explicitly spelled out, but if you're going to talk about body parts, commit to a term(s) and use it. This is a band-aid I also had to rip off in my smut-writing journey, but it's also something even professional authors are guilty of. (There's only one exception I can think of and it's a professional romance writer, but the word she used felt true to the period the book was set in and possibly more common for British English.)

64. Something you love to see in smut. FEELINGS. Gimme dat porn with feelings every time! Especially goopy, heart-in-eyes feelings, but I'll take the light-hearted stuff as well. I don't think there's enough fics where partners are just having fun and/or teasing each other during sex.

76. Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of Sweeten the Pot?

You mean, aside from all the places I wanted to go after Loki hooks a finger under the harness strap? XD

The ending originally went in a softer direction, before I realized I was channeling more S2 vibes rather than S1. Here's what it originally looked like:

“Ah. Yes.” Loki cleared his throat then made a flourish with his free hand. A moment later, he was holding out the familiar brown coat. “Thanks.” Mobius snagged it before Loki decided to do something crazy like help him into it. His hand went to the pocket where he’d left the TemPad and he felt the reassuring shape of it. When he looked up, Loki’s lips twitched in a knowing smile. Mobius chuckled again, knowing he’d been caught. He nodded to the harness and dagger. “That has to stay here, I’m afraid.” “Of course. Can’t have a Loki going around armed, can we now?” His previously light tone carried an edge of bitterness. Mobius regretted the shift in mood. He searched for something to say to smooth Loki’s ruffled feathers. “More like you don’t need it for protection when we’re at the TVA. When we’re outside it, well…” Mobius shrugged. He couldn’t promise anything, but he knew his meaning was clear by the way Loki brightened. “Come on, let’s get back.” He took out the TemPad—relieved to see it really was the TemPad and not a decoy—and summoned the Timedoor. Loki retrieved his jacket but didn’t put it on. He gave the library one final, lingering look. Mobius watched and made a mental note to save this memory to his TemPad for easy recall. If they made progress on the case, he saw no reason they couldn’t come back. For reading, of course. No more lessons in self-defense. As they turned to leave, Mobius brought his arm up behind Loki out of habit. He glanced to the side and saw the corner of Loki’s mouth had ticked up, just a hair. This was a look Mobius knew, from years of studying Loki variants: Loki was pleased. Mobius ushered Loki through the door and followed, stepping into the Time Theater with a smile of his own.

I loved the idea of them acknowledging without saying anything that something had changed between them, but it didn't feel right for the moments I was setting this between.

Thank you for the ask! <3 (From this game.)

#ask game answers #lokius fic

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polyam ask anon here. Thank you sm for that extensive explanation! I was trying to look on my own but didn't know where to start. I don't have any questions rn (mostly because I need to let the information settle first) but I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to type all that out. I'm a little hesitant to try polyamory even with toe dipping because I'm very inexperienced relationship-wise in general (haven't been in one before) and I'm a little afraid of what my family would think (I love them dearly, but they don't understand polyam at all and think you "don't love that 1 person enough if you need more")

I'm definitely interested in learning more, though. Are there any resources I could use? Books or anything, like you mentioned?

No rush in starting relationships, I had my first one at 24 and that happened by sheer chance as well. And I'd say experience is overrated because every relationship is so wildly different to the previous. You get better at filtering out some types of people but you will always be bumbling trough each and everyone of them and that's fine, really.

Hmm, book wise I just own Opening Up by Tristan Taormino, which was a gift by a more eperienced polyam person when I was starting out. It's not a light read, it's more of a resource guide to all kind of open relationships and it has chapters on for instance starter things like "turning your mono relationship into a polyam one" all the way to chapters on things to consider when buying property, planning a family. It's one of those books you open when you have a specific hurdle to cross. It's a pretty good guide book in my opinion, for the parts I have read. Not to much 'you must do this' and a lot of 'but consider this'

@ BoldlyGrow is a youtube channel that's now inactive but the videos on there have some explanations of polyam terminology and also go into the benefits but also the harder things about polyamory and questions to ask yourself before getting into it. That might be a useful tool for you, I'd recommend looking into that first and maybe you go "yikes, not for me" without having spend money on a book.

I have seen 'the ethical slut' also be recommended as a resource a lot but I haven't had a chance to read it so I can speak for it personally but I'm adding it bc other people seem to like it?

Another great resource is of course always just making polyam friends, on feeld there's a lot of people who are also (or exclusively) looking for friends bc it's nice to have likeminded friends who understand your lifestyle (I don't have to tell the queer website that). If you have polyam friends they can give you advice thats personal to you or you can just see what they're up to. Lot's of people I hang out with are much less mystified by polyamory after a while bc it will be just as boring as anyones elses relationship haha

You can also look for other poly people in the tags over here but good luck bc you have to block about 500 fanfiction writers (half of them from the bts community, fun fact) before you can see any personal posts (we really need a different dedicated tag it's a mess)

The polyamory subreddits I'd avoid because I mean it's reddit, their relationship advice is bad universally

when it comes to parents, ah, you know, my parents don't understand it fully either but they see I'm happy and they like my partner a lot so that helps. It's generally easier when they can put a face to it. there are a lot of polyam people who aren't 'out' to their families but my family is very much of the 'as long as you're happy' variety so I can't give much advice if that's not the case with you :)

#poly #polyam #polyamory

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so in between the power outages and taking care of my grandma I rediscovered a book series

- it takes place in Moscow, starting in 1991

- yes, that’s the very end of the Soviet Union and the very start of the, uh, Bandit Nineties. The economy going to pieces, organized crime surging. Unless I’m mistaken, the organized crime wave ended with the successful crime bosses all becoming legitimate businessmen/politicians, so, you know, yeah. The organized crime won that one.

- (yes, I’m referring to Putin and his crowd. However, the book doesn’t. All the politicians are made up and whenever ‘the president’ comes up, he is left nameless. It’s not political except in acknowledging realities of the time)

- the main character is a cop, in the murder investigation department

- no not like that

- the main character is a thirty-two year old woman (at the start, the series continues iirc into her fifties)

- she is not athletic, has a bad back and bad blood circulation. Also anxiety / impostor syndrome, though that’s mostly unrelated

- she is an analyst, hired by a department head who decided to lean into the whole “we are not legally allowed to do police brutality anymore” thing and do things the smart way instead

- notably, the writer has, actually, herself worked in that, ah, industry, though I believe not in that specific postion. Still, she knows how it works, from formal organization to interpersonal dynamics

- the books are not traditional murder mysteries per se, in that we get clues alongside the main character and have the chance to decipher what really happened along the investigation. The story is multi-POV, shifting not only between the mc and her coworkers, but also between the investigation-ees, including frequently the murderer, frequently immediately named such in the narration. Of course the audience doesn’t get all the answers immediately, but still, it often becomes obvious who did it to the readers way before it does to the mc, and the tension lies more in “will she figure it out, and will it be in time for [...]”

- basically it’s a psychological drama centered around murder investigations

- the series is not what I would call copaganda, on any level. The mc herself does not take bribes (nor is she usually offered them, being too low in the hierarchy), nor does she really take full advantage of the “acquaintanceship” system the whole, er, society runs on, due to aforementioned anxiety / impostor syndrome. But the series is VERY frank about how the system works (not that any Russian/post-soviet reader is surprised by that, as it is VERY frankly how it works. My family has had nice things because of where our family members worked and who they knew, too), and the main character does go through acquaintances instead of official channels to find out information (often information that’s technically illegal for them to give her) approximately half the time. It’s Just How The System Works. Her boss runs on full acquaintanceship system, too, and there’s at least one investigation they “win” by acquiring blackmail on a politician through a con. (A rapist was being protected by his politician relatives...) Police brutality is acknowledged as a thing, Though It’s Illegal Now. Not defended, not condemned, just... there as part of the setting.

- the main character and her coworkers genuinely care about justice, putting away murderers, and so on. However, the series explicitly goes out of its way to reject black and white morality. The criminals are not “the bad guys”, the cops are not “the good guys”. It’s more... law vs chaos. It’s brought up that apparently some of the criminals the mc’s boss had put away later came to see him with a bottle of alcohol because in the process of investigation / arrest he got them out of a bad situation / saved their family / etc. Approximately all of the police structure is hopelessly corrupt, in the sense that the mc’s boss is also very much expected by his colleagues and superiors to play along - and he sometimes does and sometimes doesn’t, depending on the situation. In the case of a guy who raped a 12 year old girl he doesn’t, see the blackmail situation above. He’s buddies with at least one crime boss, with a “you know and I know but you just try to catch me” relationship. (He also lies shamelessly to that crime boss for a scheme where they get a chance to catch an assassin normally protected by the organized crime system)

- the main character’s love life is... very queer. Nobody’s gay (in the main cast, there are gay that-book-only characters later) (unless I forgot someone gay in the main cast, which is possible), but the mc is VERY on the aroace spectrum (complete with the “I’m not a woman, I’m a computer” “I am incapable of normal human emotions” not-quite-angst-as-she-has-just-accepted-it-as-fact-and-is-comfortable-with-it), and her overall situation is very Like That. She’s in a long-term sort-of-relationship with a childhood friend who has a crush on her, but also gets crushes on other women all the time, only to burn out quickly and come back to her complaining about his disappointment in women in general who are not her. This is normal and she is very comfortable in the relationship. Eventually (into her forties I think) they actually get married, because she gets the epiphany that she’s actually happy with him and loves him very much, and romantic feelings can get fucked given she’s not had any since teenagehood. She also sometimes sleeps with men who are not him, and flirts with more, sometimes for work, sometimes for personal reasons, only to inevitably conclude that yeah she’s Too Aroace For This. Zero jealousy is involved.

- other arrangements along these lines also come up in various books, and I think it’s this series that opened my mind way back when to the concept of “marraiage as a platonic cohabitation agreement”. A gay guy who’s married to a woman who has her own adventures and he his own, and they’re best friends and partners and each other’s shoulder to cry on about romantic troubles - this happened at least once.

- the series is occasionally stereotypically “crazy psychopaths” ableist, it certainly is in the first book, but overall it leans more towards a very... incisive take on people just being That Way (with no particular terminology involved). Like the main character’s anxiety (and probably autism tbh, though the writer seems unaware of the concept)

- there are many topics like that. Fatphobia gets a whirl many times, visibly without the writer having any idea that the topic is somehow political or controversial. She’s just writing what she sees, you know? Same with homophobia etc. The writer’s mission is to give black and white morality kick in the nuts and just write How Life Is, and she is just. Very good at it.

- like, the criminals aren’t always The Bad Guys. At least one murderer is a teenage girl who was abused by her father and so desperate to escape, she did Very Stupid Things (if wearing lipstick is as bad as murder...). Her father has understandable motives in turn, though not in an excuse way. The narrative is just genreally very... non-preachy and non-judgemental towards people involved, even people like professional assassins and (worse) professional big bosses who don’t give a second thought to stealing/conning people, and when caught in a blackmail situation because of it only hesitate some before escalating to murder over it, and mostly because of “what if I get caught”

- the understanding of everything is very... societal/systemic, in a very good way. No Shit People Who Live Here Are This Way, the books say every time, while also saying People Have Different Personalities And That’s Normal (and It’s Not The Personality That Makes A Murderer, It’s Personality In Systemic Context)

- like, it’s just... so good, holy shit. While also occasionally being bad in places where the writer is just kind of making shit up and the ignorance is audible (see “psychopath” ableism - the writer is doing her best to write her characters as people with coherent motivations and logic, but she just doesn’t know enough to nail it)

- there is so much... sympathy for like... mundane life situations. A character who’s driven to being an absolute piece of shit by living conditions of “five people in a single-room apartment including a disabled elderly relative you Have to take care of”. And nobody’s demonized? Like. Situations that just suck for everybody involved and nobody’s to blame, particularly. And if someone is, they still get sympathy.

- like... there’s a character who was denied an opportunity in Soviet Union because of the systemic antisemitism, but the guy who got to break her the news was very awkward about it and didn’t want to say the antisemitic thing, so he was ableist about it instead. Oops. That person is a bit character who played an unquestionably negative role, but they still get sympathy from the narrative for their choices - they said the worse-for-this-particular-person thing while trying to avoid, you know. The other thing that’s also very bad.

- i would like to reiterate that the main character is an autistic aspec woman with chronic illnesses who starts at thirty-two and progresses into her fifties over the course of hte narrative.

- (she loses her impostor syndrome along the way, as the book series is very much the “genius detective figuring it all out from tangential clues” genre and her achievements and reputation mount)

- oh yeah, to say that the series tackles sexism is to say that Karl Marx’s “Capital” tackles economic inequality. “People underestimate women and they really shouldn’t” is, according to the writer’s foreword, the original idea that sparkled the premise for the first book and then also the entire series. (”People underestimate fat women and they really shouldn’t” appears as a consistent sub-theme later on as a new prosecutor character enters the scene at some point and sticks around.)

- like, holy shit guys. I hadn’t realized how good it is (despite the... The Flaws...) until this reread...

#books #literature #marinina #theres also a tv series based on the books but i have no idea how good it is #i dont watch tv #anastasia kamenskaya my beloved

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PLL: Summer School Random Recap Ep 1 & 2

*read at your own risk: THIS HAS SPOILERS*

Tag spoilers if you're going to share.

Just a few of my favorite moments from the first two episodes of PLL: Summer School (PLL: Original Sin, Season 2):

Faran being right all the time:

Ripped out of the headlines. Faran...PREACH, girl. (side note: Sullivan really annoys me. I'm salty AF that she still has a license to practice psychology after not being an adult for the girls in PLL. I get it...A apparently threatened her kid, but woman...YOU ARE THE ADULT!). Also I don't trust her. And I don't like her.

Noa also being right, but in a more blunt manner:

Ah, Noa. Still my favorite. Perhaps it's her characterization or perhaps it's the way Maia portrays her...but I feel like she steals the screen when sharing it and when alone. No surprise given she was my favorite in the first season (still get chills watching that scene with her running through her complex to the roof with A chasing her). But she's upped the game this season. She comes across as so natural in her delivery. Nothing against the others. But sometimes I can tell I'm watching an actor play a character with them, but Maia is Noa. A+. No notes.

Imogen Emison reference?

Wait...wait WAIT...was this an EMISON reference? Am I the ONLY one who saw this?! "Pip gets Estelle in the end." Plus it was an LGBTQ couple who adopted her baby!!

Mouse is coming into her own and I love it:

Mouse and Ash are my OTP. And they play well off of each other.

Calling out the OG PLL:

Was this a shot at PLL and how easily Mona and Charlotte just cruised out when they wanted? Because I love it.

Greg is so not here for this shit:

The first time I laughed so hard I had to pause. Greg is an asshole, but I feel his frustration on the cult shit. And Kelly's "Quiet!" afterwards...peak comedy.

Kelly channeling her inner Alison DiLaurentis:

Oh my GAWD. This was some straight up Dark Alison DiLaurentis on crack shit (or Mona, since..ya know...she ran her best friend over with a car). I'm developing this theory that perhaps Kelly is in on Bloody Mary (goddamn, am I blanking on the Big Bad's name? I think I am). I'm fairly certain her mother and the pastor are evil. I paused when Mouse was reading something on the Spaghetti site and it was word for word worship talking about Bloody Mary being the second coming of Jesus. Also, I just hate religion as a whole. Like Greg, I too, am an atheist.

Mouse's Grandma being the "fun" Grandma:

Okay, so I was super excited that we might have been getting a semi-Grandma Marin character, but after watching I have this awful feeling that this might be a dementia story in the works (I don't know if I believe the "sleepwalking" bit). But she seems like she's going to be a wonderful addition.

Tabby's very pointed reference within a reference:

Tabby out there breaking the 4th wall. And I'm here for it. Given that the writers retconned/rewrote the Ezria adoption due to backlash, I'm kind of glad they read the criticism of Tabby making too many references that piss the viewers off and basically flipped a middle finger at the people who will find positively anything to bitch about. I think it's funny writing. Trolling AF, but still funny.

I hate it when writers cave to the viewers. And as much as I hated the idea of Ezra getting Imogen's baby...I thought it was so dumb to cave to the viewers whining about Ezria getting the kid. People harped on that so much. Ezra can die in a fire for all I care, but I'll go to my grave thinking that the people who complained about Marlene caving to fan service in PLL with the couples in the end are the same people praising the fan service here. And I hate hypocrisy more than I hate fictional characters. I'm a cynic.

Noa being real:

Noa complaining about the fitted sheet was ironic given I was trying to do laundry while watching. Accurate. Side note: I don't know how I feel about this Jen character. I feel like Shawn (Sean? How is it spelled?) is one of the few non-toxic partners in the show (Ash is still bae). I'm all here for bi-representation, but I don't like love triangles and I don't want them fucking with Noa and Shawn/Sean.

And speaking of love interests:

I love this kid and want to protect him:

I've seen buzz of people not trusting Christian...and I get it. First of all...this is PLL. And second of all Christian is a very...themed name for a show that is most likely going to have the faith-based cult be psychopaths.

But I am going to be pissed AF if they make him a bad guy after everything Tabby went through. Also, let's not make the first prominent black male a problem please (not counting the Dollar Store fake Eddie Lamb or Faran's dad, who hasn't really been villainy).

Final thoughts: Goddamn, Sandy ate it hard, bruh. I was kind of excited to see that rivalry between her and Kelly.

Loved seeing the power of speaking up about the sexual assault. HATED Wes still being a character and also telling Tabby to have sympathy for her rapist's mother? No. Sorry. She raised a rapist...who raped TWO girls. And she was victim-shaming Tabby. Where is that Bloody woman with the knife when you need one?

Speaking about someone I hated seeing: Sean's mother is a raging thundercunt.

Also: I've seen mixed thoughts about the couple setting a firm tone with Imogen about the baby, but I'm not going to lie...I get it. Most likely they know the shit going on in their town (move, MOVE NOW WHILE YOU STILL HAVE THE CHANCE!). I do think they were kind of snappy with her, but as viewers we have no idea how often she shows up after having signed a legally binding document about the adoption.

Love interest wise: Don't know how I feel about Ash following the girls to that cabin, but also...why TF would they even GO there?! I like this Christian guy for Tabby. Henry kind of annoyed me crossing Faran's boundaries, but Faran punching Greg out was *chef's kiss*. And Shawn(Sean)/Noa are adorable.

Parents: I'm shifting to Tabby's mom being a favorite just because I think she's going to have the most screen time. It was nice seeing Lea Salonga again though. I still hate Faran's mom and I hate that they are all buddy-buddy after everything she did to her child.

New characters: Please don't let this swim coach turn into a creep, please don't let this swim coach turn into a creep. Also curious about the guy Imogen met at the Ice Cream place. And well...I'm already in love with Christian (but then again I love Noah Alexander Gerry). Jen is a bit wooden. Can't tell if it's the character or actress.

Curious about everyone's thoughts.

Honorable mention I forgot to screenshot and caption:

Mouse: "You're like Linda Hamilton from the Terminator movie. Don't ask me which one, I'm not Tabby. And you (Noa) are basically the Flash." Faran: "Fair." Noa: *shrugs* "Okay."

#Pretty Little Liars Summer School Spoilers #PLL: Original Sin #PLL spoilers #PLL Summer School

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2, 4, 5, 11, and 33 please! Hope that isn’t too much, very curious about your answers though!! Happy early birthday btw :D

ah thank you very much for the birthday wishes (≧∀≦) getting a drum set tomorrow and i’m so hyped bout it

& the amount of questions was perfecto!! i left my answers below the cut!!

(ask game)

2: How do you come up with your plot ideas?

8/10 times, my plot ideas come from my fabulous, otherworldly, superior music taste ᕦ(ò_óˇ)!!

nah but to be serious, music and creating AMVs in my head works brilliantly for creating plots. i listen to music A LOT. i do not always construct a story based on a song but my ideas flow easier when there is a melody in the air. snippet of scenes come and go, and i scribble them down; music powers the whole process of my writing.

additionally, i think coming up with plot ideas/to strength that part of your brain to be creative and original, one should always read MORE. to lazily siphon off a Stephen King quote i can’t find: “a great writer knows to read” and then there is the 1/10, where an idea hits me, completely uninspired from anything.

but really, when coming up with plots remember this saying: no one can reinvent the wheel!

4: How do you channel characters’ voices and personalities?

studying the source material is always my go-to for channeling a character.

have not played twst in 2 yrs 💀 (bc i was on an expedition for different video games and discovered i hated rhythm games) but i always use @/yuurei20 like a study guide for the characters. and i read the translations for each event (birthdays or otherwise) to see how the characters act at different situations

and if a character has done something out-character in canon, i analyze the shit out of that. it’s really important to me when writing already canon characters to think of this one question: what’s their drive/goal (in everyday & in specific situations & in long-term)?

5: What techniques do you use to create believable dialogue?

one of my biggest insecurities in specifically the “fanfiction” writing realm is my dialogue so this question is crazzzy to me. believable dialogue?? hasn’t happened!

i still don’t think i’ve done it successfully even once, so techniques? god i really don’t have any. here’s me talking out my ass tho:

certain characters have certain mannerisms in how they talk: those i can pick up upon bc some characters it’s black and white how they go about talking — floyd ain’t gonna sound all sophisticated u know. however, knowing how to structure what they are conveying, ah that is much harder for me.

sorry for this dead-end answer 💀

11: Are there any tropes you particularly enjoy writing?

rubbing my hands together and grinning like the fucking grinch at this,, let’s fucking goooooo!

1: unreliable narrator my pookie bear <3!!!! a mixture of being a fan of memento (2001) and a haunting of hill house (the BOOK, not the awful movie or show), unreliable narrators are my favorite trope!! whether this narrator is high off a substance, is as clueless as the audience about their situation, OR even so egotistical that their worldview is skewed, I EAT THAT SHIT UP EVERY TIME WITHOUT FAIL!

2: karmic retribution,, listen i love seeing someone get their just deserts (￣个￣) there is something so gutturally satisfying about karma

ALSO, i love the indomitable human spirit trope!!!

maybe one day i’ll chat about my more shojo/booktok tropes i enjoy like “just one bed” and “colleagues to lovers” bc hey i know what sells.

33: How do you incorporate world-building elements into your fics?

Disney is such a huge realm to play around it. from the original Grimm fairytales (my beloveds mwah (*≧∀≦*) !!!!) to the movies Disney has made, world-building elements for twst is like a gold mine. it’s perhaps the biggest playing field i’ve ever seen from a fandom.

how i go about incorporating it? well i always go look for faucets of the world everyone else is overlooking: when writing Schism, the ghost camera was untapped potential i had to jump on. i’m working on another oneshot that incorporates Disney’s 1963 The Sword in Stone; there is SO much real estate, you just got to dig around for it a bit.

ACTUALLY,, i have more to say

also about world-building in writing in general, let me siphon off Stephen King again: ok imagine a table covered by a table cloth.

really, imagine a table. secondly, imagine a table cloth.

ok, everyone who reads that imagines something completely different. someone might have imagined a circular table or a rectangular, the table cloth could have reached the ground or could have hovered a inch off the surface, the table cloth, there could’ve been lace on it or it could’ve been this striking red or dull blue.

when world-building, as the writer, you decide what elements you want to bring into the story; the rest? you give that creative liberty and trust to your audience.

#re l rambling #re l reveals she's a fucking stephen king fan

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dearestdaffodils · 1 year

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Season 2, episode 1: The Gold

A/N: I, of course, do not own anything from or related to Outer Banks. Scenes, events, and dialogue are taken from the show; I am not trying to take credit for the work that the writers for this show did. Some scenes may be left out if I cannot find a way to work the reader in as a character. Warnings (for the whole series): violence (as it is in the show), swearing, mentions of abuse, underage drinking and smoking, drug use

The sound of the axe hitting the tree, followed by Pope’s grunts of effort seems to echo around the yard. Pope easily clears away the bark on the tree, leaving an open spot for JJ. The blond steps forward, a solemn look on his face as he finishes branding the letters into the tree. A light breeze blows around us, ruffling JJ’s hair and brushing Kie’s out of her face.

JJ makes his way back to us, looking at the words branded into the tree.

2003 - 2020

John B Routledge

P4L

JJ raises his flask, blinking back the tears in his eyes. “To John B.”

“And to Sarah.” I say weakly as Kie nods. I pull Kie close, wrapping my arms around her right arm, leaning my head on her shoulder. I glance over at Pope, giving him a small nod as JJ drinks from his flask.

Here’s a fun fact. You ready? Here we go. Everyone you know… will die. And by everyone, I mean everyone. Your mother, brother, sister, father. All of your friends. And all your enemies. Everyone. I mean, of course, there’s another way of looking at it. Since it's all so short and over so quickly… that makes everything meaningful. Everything’s just one time.

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“Okay, I’m not sure, but I think they can see us from there.” I sigh, glancing over the wall as Kie spray paints it.

“Who cares?” Kie huffs. “Should be glad I’m not setting the house on fire.”

“Okay, well, just… can you hurry up?” I whisper, watching her carefully trace the words onto the wall.

“Look, doesn’t it piss you off, even a little?” She frowns.

“Of course it pisses me off, Kie!” I fold my arms over my chest. “I lost my brother! I’m just— I’m just trying to channel my rage into different vectors right now.”

“Oh, okay.” She scoffs, finishing her paint job and standing up. “Not bad.”

“Hey, I think somebody’s up there.” I tap her shoulder, moving closer to the wall. “Shit. It’s Rafe.”

“Look, we know what you did!” Kie shouts.

“Hey. No.” I whisper, starting to pull her away.

“Murderers!” She screams, fighting against me.

“No. Now is not the time.” I huff. “Are you serious?” I pull her away, hurrying down the street.

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“Rafe is a psychopath. He could come after us.” I sigh, steering the boat.

“Let him try.” Kie shrug, sitting up on the bow as she smokes.

“Look, I wanna pin Rafe just as much as you do, but —“ I start.

“Really?” Kie scoffs. “Cause you could have fooled me. Are you even a Pogue?”

“I can’t go around doing stupid things like this.” I sigh. “With John B gone, the Cameron’s could try to pin it on me next. Plus, we have school tomorrow. We should be focusing on laying low.”

“God, you sound like Pope.” Kie teases, playfully nudging my knee with her shoe.

“My god, you’re right.” I shake my head. “Give me that.” I hold my hand out for her joint.

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“Ah, yes, exactly where I wanted to be today.” I mutter, looking at the high school as Kie, Pope, JJ, and I all pile out of Kie’s car.

JJ grabs his backpack, taking another drink from his flask.

“Hey, chill out.” I murmur, going to pluck the flask out of his hand.

“If I black out, just don’t remind me.” JJ sighs.

“That’s not funny, Jayj.” I sigh. “Let’s just stick together today, guys.” I look at Kie and Pope. “Everyone’s gonna be talking about what happened and none of it's going to be good so… let’s just have each other's backs, okay?”

“Yes, ma’am.” JJ slides his hand into mine, sticking close to Pope and Kie as we walk up toward the school.

“It’s them.”

“There they are.”

“I wasn’t sure they’d show up.”

“Heard they got arrested.”

“That wouldn’t surprise me.”

“Think they have something to do with it?”

“They had to.”

“I feel like people are staring at us.” Kie glances around.

“Oh, yeah.” JJ follows her gaze, looking at the crowds of people watching.

“They definitely are.” I sigh.

“Guys, I can’t be late.” Pope mutters, starting to walk inside.

“Hey. Hey.” I frown. “We gotta stick together.”

Kie reaches her hand out to Pope, waiting for him to take it. She wraps her free hand around my arm, holding us close as we walk inside.

I gently squeeze JJ’s hand, leaning on him.

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“… and the slave becomes the new ruler.” Mr. Sunn points at the blackboard as he talks. “Now, Diocletian splits the sprawling Roman Empire…”

Ding!

“…into four separate kingdoms.”

Ding! Ding! Ding!

“Whose phone was that?” He turns to look around the classroom. “Nobody? You will be tested. Now, to recap, who was Diocletian? An ex-slave who became the ruler of the Roman Empire.”

I slowly slide my phone off of my desk, flipping it over to look at the message.

Incoming text: unknown number

“Did you get it?” I whisper to Kie, gently poking her arm with the butt of my pencil.

“Yeah.” She whispers back.

We both glance back, looking at Pope and JJ, nodding our heads.

JJ grabs Pope, swiftly moving to crouch between Kie and my desks. He pulls up his phone, opening the message.

Kie and I put our phones next to his, followed soon after by Pope.

The same message on all of our screens, staring back at us. A picture. Of John B and Sarah.

“Oh my god.” I whisper.

JJ jumps up, running out of the classroom. Soon after, Kie and I grab our bags, hurrying after him.

“Um, can I be excused to help them in the bathroom?” Pope raises his hand.

“Family emergency!” Kie hurries out the door.

“Pope, quit asking permission!” I frown. “We need to go!”

“We can go to the courtyard.” Kie pants, hurrying towards the exit.

“I mean, is that even possible?” I push the door open, hurrying down the steps. “I mean, Shoupe said that they didn’t make it. He said that.”

“Okay, but I…I think we’re overreacting cause we can’t rule out the possibility that this could all be some kind of weird, cruel hoax.” Pope hurries after me, sitting down at a picnic table.

“I’m just gonna ask.” I shrug my backpack off, sitting on top of the table.

“What if it's actually him, though?” JJ asks.

“Then, I don’t know, okay?” Pope sighs. “I don’t know.”

I quickly type out a message, waiting for a response.

“He responded?” Pope asks.

“He’s typing.” I whisper. “He’s typing.”

Is JJ there?

I’m here Bree

Did you pimp my short board?

JJ starts to laugh, staring at his phone.

I let out a wet laugh, tears starting to slide down my cheeks.

“It’s him.” JJ grins.

“It’s him!” I sniffle.

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“I never doubted them.” JJ grins.

“I owe you five bucks.” Kie laughs.

“Kiara, I need those setups done by five!” Mrs. Carrera calls from the restaurant.

“There are other people that work here!” Kie calls back.

“But none of ‘em are my children!”

“I feel that. On a deep, emotional level, I understand that.” Pope laughs.

“So we going to the Bahamas or what?” JJ asks, helping me climb up to sit on the jetty railing.

“There’s no way we're getting to the Bahamas.” Pope sighs.

“John B will get nabbed sooner or later.” Kie interjects. “So if we’re gonna clear his name, we need to have it done yesterday.”

“I’ll tell you how we do it.” JJ leans against the railing, settling himself between my legs.

“So you have it all planned out?” I tease, poking his cheek.

“As a matter of fact, I do, dear heart.” He grins. “We kidnap Rafe.”

“I’m sorry, what?” I frown.

“We kidnap Rafe, tie him up and stick the gun in his mouth. And just wait till he starts squawking.” JJ shrugs.

“You know, torture’s a war crime.” Kie squints, shielding her eyes from the sun with her hand.

“Yeah, so how exactly do you plan on clearing John B’s name from a prison cell?” Pope asks. “Because that’s a felony.”

“All right, well, what do you got, Pope?” JJ sighs. “I was just trying to keep it simple. You know, one stop, and we’re done.”

“Guys, all we need is a material witness.” I speak up. “We saw Ward’s plane fly right over our heads with the gold inside of it. He didn’t fly it. If someone else flew, they were there on the tarmac. They saw Peterkin get murdered. We just have to find whoever that was and get them to confess on record.”

“How do we do that?” Kie frowns.

“A little light espionage.” I shrug, grinning. “A little ghost recon.”

JJ grins, clapping his hands. “You just said all my favorite words, baby. Let’s do this.”

“Woogity-woogity.” Pope grins.

“Woogity, baby.” JJ chuckles.

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“If this guy flew planes or Ward, he’s gotta be pretty tight-lipped.” Pope leans his head against the window of the car as Kie drives.

“So then direct approach gets my vote.” JJ shrugs, cocking his gun.

“Jayj, no.” I frown.

“No. What?” Kie protests. “Put the gun down, man.”

“Guys!” JJ raises his voice. “We gotta keep this simple, or we’ll never get John B off.”

“Or we just tickle the wire.” Pope shrugs.

“What?” I frown. “Are you making up saying again?”

“We tickle the wire.” Pope sighs. “I plant my phone in his car, and then we listen in on your AirPods.”

“I think that’s his house over there.” I point as Kie slows down.

“All right, honk or, uh… yell or something if you see anything suspicious.” Pope starts to climb out of the car.

“Don’t do anything dangerous.” Kie sighs.

“Come on. I’m not JJ.” Pope laughs.

“So funny, Pope.” JJ sighs.

I laugh, shaking my head. “Kid smokes one joint and now he thinks he’s hot shit.” I climb into the front seat, looking out the window as Pope sneaks up towards the house. “How’s it been going, with Pope and all?” I ask Kie.

“It’s good.” She shrugs.

“That’s it?” I sigh. “‘It’s good?’ That’s all you’re gonna give me?”

“Wait, you and Pope?” JJ frowns. “How did I not know about this? In the bedroom, is he, like, kinda freaky, cause it's Pope, you know?”

“You didn’t know because you ask questions like that, Jayj.” I roll my eyes.

“Why are you even asking?” Kie frowns.

“Just curious.” JJ shrugs. “Just spitballin’.”

“You don’t need to spitball.” I sigh. “We can just sit in silence.”

“Phase one is complete.” Pope grins, climbing back into the car.

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“Why does she get to tickle?” JJ yawns, stretching out in the backseat of the car.

“She’s the best.” I shrug.

“Should I do an accent?” Kie asks.

“Definitely disguise your voice.” Pope nods.

“How would you like me to talk?” Kie asks in a British accent.

“Not like that.” JJ shakes his head.

“Batman.” I laugh.

“Batman.” Kie grins, making her voice deep and gravely.

“There you go.” I smile. “Spot on.”

Kie nods, dialing a number on her phone.

Hello?

“Hello.” Kie answers in her deep voice before turning to Pope. “I can’t.” She whispers in her normal voice.

“Just talk.” I whisper.

Hello?

Kie clears her throat. “Is Gavin there?”

This is Gavin. Who’s this? Hello?

“I know what happened on the tarmac.” Kie blurts out.

Um… who’s this?

“It was Rafe Cameron.” Kie presses. “But you already knew that, and you lied about it.”

Okay, who is this?

“We’re gonna prove it. You’re guilty.” Kie grips her phone, gritting her teeth…

You’re gonna tell me who this is now.

“You could have saved her, Gavin.” Kie frowns. “And you didn’t. And you’re not getting away with this.”

Listen to me! Who is this?

Kie frowns, hanging up the phone. “How was that?”

“Yeah. Yeah, I was scared.” JJ nods. “Good job.”

“All right. We tickled the wire. Phase two complete.” Pope nods. “Now we wait and listen.”

“Hey, here he comes.” I whisper, pointing out the window. “Stay down.”

“He didn’t see us. Hit it.” JJ sits up once the headlights pass us.

“Go, go, go, go.” Pope urges Kie, putting the AirPods in his ears as she drives. “He’s talking to Ward.”

“Are you serious?” I frown.

“Yeah.” Pope nods. “Get closer. I can’t hear.”

Kie speeds up, pulling closer.

“He’s talking about negotiating something.” Pope frowns. “Re… renegotiating. Gavin’s got the gun that Rafe used to kill Peterkin.”

“Holy shit.” I whisper.

“I think he’s trying to use it as extortion, as leverage.” Pope says.

“Wait. He’s pulling over.” Kie frowns.

“He’s panicking.” Pope murmurs.

“Do I pull behind him? What do I do?” Kie panics.

“Go around the block.” Pope urges.

“We’re gonna lose him!” Kie frowns.

“Go, go,go!” JJ leans forward.

“I’m going. I’m going.” Kie huffs.

“I can’t hear anything.” Pope sighs. “Shit. I’m losing the signal. I can’t hear him.”

“What the hell is this?” I frown, watching as Kie pulls up towards a construction site.

“Stop. Just stop and turn around now.” Pope panics.

“Pull in here and back up.” JJ offers.

“I’m just gonna back up.” Kie pulls up further. “Are you kidding?” She panics as a large piece of construction equipment pulls up behind us.

Pope jumps out of the car, running back towards the road. “We gotta know where they’re meeting.”

“We’re going after him, right?” I climb out of the car.

“Yep.” Kie and JJ answer in unison, running off.

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Gavin, meet me now at the construction site near that surf shop. You understand? You bring the gun, I will bring you your money. And then we’re done. Are we good?

Yes, okay. All right, I’ll, um… I’ll see you there.

“What? What does that face mean?” I ask, looking at Pope as he turns to face us.

“Did you hear something?” JJ pants.

“He… he’s meeting Ward right now.” Pope pants. “We gotta go.”

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The Lost Tome - 6

Writer: Mitsuki

Characters: Narukami Arashi, Tsukinaga Leo, Sakuma Ritsu, Suou Tsukasa, Sena Izumi

Translated by: jewwyfeesh

Note: no you didn't see me forget to add the quote, no you didnt. (magics it away)

Arashi: Goodness, Izumi-chan, don’t just snatch it from me so roughly! I promised Ou-sama that I’ll take good care of this.

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Season: Autumn

Location: Empty Classroom

The next day…

Leo: LMAO, Sena’s the one who’s late today! Yesterday he was nagging me non-stop with such a deadpan expression, should I nag him back today? Hahahaha!

Arashi: Ou-sama, did you forget? Today Izumi-chan’s taking the day shift, and had already notified us via text message earlier on.

Leo: Ah? Really? Lemme see— Oh… Sena really did send us a message.

Arashi: It’s not my intention to scold you, Ou-sama, but you should pay attention to your messages every once in a while. If Izumi-chan were to see this, he’s definitely going to blow his top… again.

Leo: Yeah I know, I know ☆

Tsukasa: Speaking of which… Leader, what’s that in your hand?

Leo: Ah! I’ve been caught red-handed by Suo~! This is my weapon of choice, hahahaha.

Was I too loud earlier on? Did someone notice us?

Tsukasa: Leader, what’s wrong? Why are you acting so frantic?

Leo: It’s nothing, I just snuck this sword into school. So if the Student Council found out about it, they’ll definitely confiscate it.

Tsukasa: But… secretly bringing weapons in like this is a very dangerous matter, Leader. For yours and everyone else’s Safety, it’s better if you kept it away.

Leo: Suo~, there’s no need to be so uptight~ Not to mention, it’s not sharp or anything! If you don’t believe me, look!

Tsukasa: Wow, its edge has actually been made blunt. Furthermore, it… is rather Beautiful. It does make for a rather exquisite weapon… Oh, no. Kindly allow me to refer to it as a work of art.

Though… Leader, I would like to enquire as to why you’ve brought it today? Do you intend to Perform with it or something?

Leo: Well, it’s because of this book~

I went back to study its contents, and they’re super duper thought-provoking! Not to mention, it allowed me to better understand more about being a knight-errant. See, see! These parts at the back talking about weaponry and stuff are super cool!

After reading it, my inspiration surged forth! So I wrote a piece about knight-errants, but felt that it was lacking a little something-something. So I got my friend to help me buy a sword to try and find that knight-errant vibe.

Then again this method is hella useful! I managed to fill the missing piece, and also managed to channel a better understanding of knight-errants into the piece! Even though I spent a lot of effort on this, seems like the end product makes it all worth it ☆

Tsukasa: Even though your drive to keep on improving is something we should learn from, Leader, please allow me to enquire — why is this book still in your hands? Weren’t you supposed to return it yesterday?

Leo: Err… Y-you see… After saying my goodbyes yesterday, I walked towards the lost-and-found while reading the book…

But I was too engrossed, somehow walked into an unrecognisable area, and got lost…

It took a lot outta me to get myself back somewhere familiar, but by then the sky was getting dark, so I just went home…

Tsukasa: Leader, are you aware that the Student Council is currently in a frenzy because of this book?

I had dropped by the archery range after practice yesterday in the hopes of getting some solo practice. Instead, I bumped into Hasumi-buchou, who was desperately looking for this book.

Back then, I was comforting Hasumi-buchou, saying things like this book could’ve already made its way to the lost-and-found, and that he didn’t need to be so frantic, only for you to… Sigh…

(I remember Hasumi-buchou was desperately trying to find a book, saying that it was something that Tenshouin Onii-sama had borrowed from Hibiki-senpai, and that Hibiki-senpai wanted Onii-sama’s suggestions for one of their scripts…)

(Onii-sama had found the script and its setting particularly engaging, thus borrowing this book from Hibiki-senpai. He had wanted to give it a very thorough look-through, before providing detailed suggestions.)

(But Hasumi-buchou didn’t know of this; when the Student Council were tidying things up, perhaps Tori-kun accidentally lost this book while rearranging the books. And Hasumi-buchou, who was in the dark, didn’t realise when he was making an inventory.)

(It was only after Onii-sama returned, looking for said script, that everyone found out about Tenshouin Onii-sama having borrowed it from Hibiki-senpai. Afterwards, the Student Council was in shambles.)

(At present, Leader has yet to return the book… Hasumi-buchou was so distraught, so guilty. Hh… I wonder if he’ll think I was trying to prank him when he was so down-trodden?)

Leo: Suo~, don’t wear such a heartbroken expression…! I-I’ll go return it now!

Ritsu: I don’t think we’d feel very reassured if we let Ou-sama run off on his own, so I’ll accompany him.

(If I accompany the King to return the book and bump into a Maa~kun who’s gone berserk from searching, Maa~kun will definitely praise me, hehehe.)

Leo: It’s rare to see you so energetic, Rittsu~; not to mention, you accompanying me there is gonna help a ton!

Oh, right! I’m entrusting this sword to y’all to safe keep. If the Student Council finds out about it, I reckon we’re gonna be in a whole lot of trouble ☆

Arashi: Relax, Ou-sama. You can leave this to Tsukasa-chan and I.

Leo: We’ll take our leave first, bye bye!

Izumi: Grr, to be inconvenienced on the day that I have to work the day-shift, how frustrating!

Kasa-kun, Naru-kun? Why are the both of you alone here? Where did everyone else go?

Arashi: The King and Ritsu-chan went to return a book — yep, that book from yesterday. So it’s just the two of us left. Since you’re here, Izumi-chan, let’s start practising~

Izumi: That book from yesterday? Shouldn’t Ou-sama have returned it already?

Arashi: He got lost en-route, so he needs to make another trip today. But Ritsu-chan’s accompanying him, so I don’t think we’ll have any more problems on our hands.

Izumi: Ou-sama that f**king idiot! What the hell! What’s that thing in your hands?

Arashi: Oh, this? It’s the King’s sword. Isn’t it very……

Goodness, Izumi-chan, don’t just snatch it from me so roughly! I promised Ou-sama that I’ll take good care of this.

Izumi: Hmph, this King! I can’t believe he even brought this stupid toy to training!

First, he ditched practice, then he doesn’t attend our activities, and now he decides to bring some… some toy to training! Seriously, it goes to show how much he prioritises Knights! No, I must teach him a lesson today!

Arashi: Wait a minute, Izumi-chan, you should hear my explanation first—

And there he goes. If Izumi-chan goes to look for the King in this state, who knows what kind of disaster would happen? I should notify him first, and give him a chance to hide.

Tsukasa-chan, let’s chase after him. If the both of them bump into each other, we can try to soothe their ruffled feathers.

Tsukasa: Understood, Narukami-senpai. Should a Conflict truly arise, I will do my best to mediate the situation.

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