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#this isn’t even anywhere near the list of incidents but just some of the major ones
theotherbuckley · 11 months
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I know we say it a lot but a lot of our “I can’t believe Buck and Eddie can’t see what’s right in front on them” moments are the near death experiences. And it’s like we see how much they love each other. We see Buck clawing at the ground and screaming for Eddie so bad that he has to be pulled away by Bobby. We see how Buck needs to be pulled to the ground by Mehta because in that moment Buck can’t think about anything other than the fact that Eddie just got shot in front of him. We see Buck rolling under the truck to save Eddie despite being crushed by one just to save him. We see Eddie screaming for Buck and trying to lift his dead weight before resigning to lowering him. We see Eddie yell “do more”. We see it. But they don’t.
They feel all that grief but they don’t know the other one does too. Most of the time the other gets better and then they pretend that nothing happened or they dive into another relationship and run away. They don’t talk about how it felt to be the one watching (because it’s “not their trauma”).
I want one of them to see the footage of one of these incidents. I want Eddie to see Buck clawing at the ground or pulling him under the truck. I want one of them to see the other break and go:
Oh. I love you too.
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ms-demeanor · 4 years
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Hi! Will you explain why you are pro-gun ownership? I am genuinely wanting to learn, and you seem like the right person to ask!
Short answer: I don’t think that the cops and their shitty fascist fanboys should be the only people who own guns.
Longer answer: It is genuinely difficult to remove firearms from the US population in a way that it isn’t in other places so when you see people giving examples of stuff like “but they do buybacks in australia” that’s overlooking the fact that those were kind of mandatory buybacks that are functionally impossible in the US because there is very specifically NOT a big list somewhere of everyone who owns guns and I’m actually kind of okay with that the same way I’m okay with there NOT being a big list somewhere of everyone who has ever downloaded Signal and if you DID try a buyback like that you’d just have the prepper response of “cool plan, I’m going to bury my guns in a waterproof locker in the forest” and who would know because, again, it’s not like there’s a big list somewhere, to track down who a gun was sold to you have to find the store that sold it to them and then go through the physical records and even then there are a shitload of rifles that’s going to miss SO I’m sort of going “well if they have them I want them too” because I actually *DO* think it’s useful to say “I’m not a pacifist and I’m not an easy target” - when I was getting a lot of threats online from MRAs that all stopped nearly instantly when I made it very clear that my home is full of guns and you’re perfectly welcome to come try to intimidate me here because I’m probably a better shot than you are - and that was especially revealing because other than going “try it motherfucker, I can take you” or “UwU violence isn’t the answer” I didn’t have a lot of recourse because the cops sure didn’t care about targeted harassment or violent threats and I’m not a huge supporter of the “you need a firearm for home defense” because home invasions are actually really rare and violence almost always tends to be between people who know each other and you’re not going to use your shotgun to warn your brother out of the house during a 3am break-in, probably, but a sibling or family member or ex is the person most likely to do violence to you and honestly most concealed carry proponents get an eyeroll and a jackoff motion from me because most concealed carry proponents are like “CITIES ARE SCARY BECAUSE OF DIVERSITY” and that’s incredibly stupid but also if you look at a lot of mass shootings, which is what people tend to use as evidence that semiautomatic rifles should be banned, there’s some really weird stuff that tends to go unspoken or unexamined, which is mainly that a huge number of mass shootings are actually instances of domestic violence and honestly I kind of think that mass shootings that can be considered domestic terrorism (so they’re not targeting coworkers or family/partners) kind of need to be in a completely different category because we have seen ample evidence that terrorist attacks continue to happen globally in spite of varying gun laws (Norway, New Zealand, and France all have much stricter gun laws than the US does) and that terrorists will happily weaponize non-weapons to kill people and it will be seen as similarly non-terroristic as US terrorists using guns (white supremacists sure seem to want to drive cars into protestors right now) like I understand the urge to look at the US’s culture of mass shootings and to look at the US culture of gun ownership and go “these two are related” and they ARE and I DO think there are some things that could/should be done to reduce the incidence of mass shootings in the US on the gun ownership side of things but I am also completely perplexed at the way that white supremacy and domestic violence are continually erased from the mass shooting discussion in spite of being HUGE parts of that discussion so BASICALLY my thoughts on the matter are complicated and scattered but
Simply saying “I own guns” ended a targeted harassment campaign against me in a way that ignoring it or talking to the police couldn’t and I think “a hundred strangers are trying to find out where I live and are sending me rape threats” is a reasonable reason to want to have firearms
SERIOUSLY there are so many awful people who own guns, shooting ranges are a nightmare and that side of the aisle certainly isn’t letting go of any advantage so I might as well grab on too
are probably my personal strongest reasons for wanting to own firearms *aside* from the “under no pretext” thing, which honestly frequently comes off as a LARP or very Timothy McVeigh when people talk about fending off the FBI or whatever, though I do believe in the validity of the idea that workers should be able to resist violence - just look at the history of Pinkertons as strikebreakers, holy shit, if your boss can pay someone to shoot you you should be able to shoot back good lord (I’m aware that’s not anywhere near as common now as it was a hundred years ago but I maintain that the principle is similar at protests; the open carry crew is mostly on the right, they’re not giving up their guns, and even if the guns were illegal they wouldn’t give up their guns).
And generally I consider rifle ownership fairly uncontroversial aside from the interminable discussions of ARs because once you get about fifty miles outside of a major metropolitan area rifle ownership is the norm and the US is huge and full of rattlesnakes and charismatic megafauna with huge teeth and/or antlers and sometimes you do legitimately need to have a plan for dealing with 30-40 feral hogs or at least one unexpected moose.
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SO’s US Book Tour : Alabama
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
By Fannie Flagg
When I decided to start reading my way through the United States, it seemed obvious (and perhaps boringly so) that I’d just go through the list alphabetically.  And when I started researching which book I’d like to begin with, there seemed to be a lot of good choices -- specifically, the most famous (possibly) of Alabama fiction - To Kill a Mockingbird - which I, and everyone who's been through a US high school English class has probably read.  A lot of the books I came across felt a bit heavy, and I wanted to start this journey out on a somewhat lighter note.  
The reason I kept coming back to this one was that every blurb seemed to mention that it was about fun and friendship and sometimes murder, and I’ll be honest, that last bit paired with the praise of comedy did pique my interest.  The murder ends up not being so funny, but the book ends up being far more fascinating than I originally thought it would.  I didn’t know much about it when I started -- only that I had heard of the film but being too young for it when it came out -- and no one in my life ever talking about it, I hadn’t sought any information out about it.  
The book splits its time between time periods, which sort of reminds me of Forrest Gump (another Alabama based book), with an old lady sitting on a bench telling her life story, and the story of a small town close enough to Birmingham Alabama to eventually be swallowed up by the urban sprawl; mixed with a bit of that pro-women narrative of something like a League of Their Own.  But unlike Forrest Gump, whose narrative is mostly built on nostalgia for a time long gone, Fried Green Tomatoes still has themes that can resonate today.  
Set in the present day of 1987, Evelyn Couch is a middle-aged woman who doesn’t know what to do with her life.  She’s lived her life entirely by the book, and according to how women should act and be.  But one day she goes to visit her mother-in-law at a home when she meets Mrs. Threadgoode (Ninny) who begins to tell her long tale of the town of Whistle Stop and all of its residents -- most notably the Threadgoode and Peavey families -- those closest to running the cafe.  I really loved Evelyn’s arc in the novel.  She starts out being this really sad sack of a woman who is lost and lonely.  And Ninny provides her with an actual friendship, something she’s lacking completely, and helps her turn her life around.  
It’s fascinating looking back at the late 80s, where Evelyn is slowly starting to come into her own as a woman in her late 40s, but still somewhat confined by the fact that the 80s still had their own slew of issues regarding women.  Evelyn begins to push back on all of it -- and while clearly, now in the 2020s, women are still fighting, but we’ve come a long way since 1987.  
Still, it’s nice to see Evelyn grow as a person and a woman, and the fact that a friendship - and specifically a friendship with another, older woman - is nice to see.  Too often women are portrayed as young and competing, and the fact that this novel seems to celebrate the friendship of women, especially at different ages, and especially between older women, seems like such a thing of value.  Going with the theme of age -- I also like that it portrays women over 40 having interests and hobbies, and explores the idea that women’s lives don’t end if they get married and/or have children.  
The main crux of the story, however, revolves around the Threadgoode family -- most notably Ninny’s sister-in-law Idgie, a young woman who has tomboy-ish characteristics and could give Huck Finn a run for his money.  The thing about Idgie, however, and something that I was not expecting -- at ALL -- was her relationship with Ruth Jamison.  They’re lesbians, Howard.  The relationship is not explicit in any way, but it’s not subtle either.  Idgie and Ruth both declare their love for each other in romantic terms, and end up spending their lives together running the cafe.  I was not at all expecting a story about a couple of lesbians in a book about small town Alabama in the 30s, and yet, here I am, pleasantly surprised to see it as one of the threads.  I do wish there had been more defining mentions of it in the book, but for 1987, I think it’s rather bold to have it at all be the main love story in the novel.  
For what it’s worth, doing some research, I found that Fannie Flagg is a lesbian, so it’s nice that her voice of experience was able to help create such vivid characters.  The fact that Idgie and Ruth have a lesbian relationship is somewhat known by others, but never really commented on.  The book idealizes it a little -- but it can be passed off as a great friendship well enough that it retains believability.  If anything, my one nitpick would be that it falls into the narrative of ‘kill the gays’ with death of Ruth cutting her life short, but since her death isn’t the end (it’s hinted at early on), nor does it prop up anyone else’s emotional story -- but is another part of the ‘spanning a lifetime’ part of this epic tale, I’m letting it slide a bit.  
The book does go in-depth on the whole Threadgoode family, and what life was like during The Great Depression in small town Alabama, and how small town life changes as the years tumble into the 50s, 60s, and even 70s.  People come into your life, and people leave it, and the world around you changes as you begin to romanticize the time of your youth.  
A bit of the book is also dedicated to talking about the Peavey family -- a black family who works for Idgie at the cafe.  I wasn’t sure how the race angle was going to play out, the term ‘colored’ and the n-word are used judiciously -- but used in the context of the time period.  While there were times when I could tell it was definitely a book written by a white woman, the book never shied away from the difficulties black families had (and still have) in the south.  The nice thing is that the black characters were just as complex, just as fleshed out, and just as interesting as any of the white characters.  They weren’t caricatures or stereotypes -- they were people just trying to make it through life the same way white people were, only with a lot more difficulty.  
While the book kind of acts like a slice-of-life character examination -- it does have a major set piece in the murder of Ruth’s husband Frank, and who did it.  The mystery is not anywhere near the focus of the book, but all the threads of the book seem to tie around that one incident.  This is where I really enjoy Flagg’s storytelling.  At first the book bounces around from one piece of narrative to another, but the unfolding of why and how and what of this murder mystery buried within the character study is really a thing of beauty.  
Before I forget, the heart of this book is a celebration of southern (Alabamian) culture -- and one of my favorite aspects of this book is the fact that there are over a dozen recipes for good ole fashioned southern cooking in the back.  Food is another theme throughout the novel, and it just makes me smile that like any good southern household -- they can’t let you leave still feeling hungry.  
I really enjoyed this book -- much more than I thought I would when I picked it up.  There’s a lot packed into the 250-ish page book, and handles the themes it presents rather well.  It’s an easy read, and while light in tone, doesn’t shy away from its heavier subject material.  I would very much recommend it! 
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xiyao-feels · 3 years
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new tu and xiyao fan from earlier. i searched ao3 as per your suggestion and there's only 500 or so fics for them. :( however, i do have a legit question - what are the differences between mdzs and tu (i've never read the latter). and if you want expand on nieyao (or xiyao) please feel free! i love reading meta! one of the few reasons i miss old school fandom spaces lol. thank you!! :D
Hmmm, I see about eight hundred if I limit to English? But I take your point! But that was just as a way to start; once you do find an author you like, you can look at their bookmarks, for example. (Also I'm not sure if you're familiar with the AO3, but if not, sorting by kudos when doing a general search is a way to get stuff that at least lots of people thought was good. I'm not saying it's perfect, but when you're starting in a fandom it can be better than the default by-date-updated.)
Also I'll take the opportunity to plug my absolute favourite xiyao author, roquen. I didn't mention them last time because they haven't I believe written a post-canon fixit, and you should know that they're mostly sticking to MDZS instead of CQL canon, although with some sprinkling of CQL elements and characterization. Some particular favourites of mine include their AtLA AU and their Sunshot/on the run fics (both series with a couple of short fics), their what you might call a mid-temple hopeful fix-it (divergence where LWJ strikes to kill and LXC takes the blow), the baby LXC fic ("Lan Xichen reverts to being a fifteen-year-old junior, and immediately gets an epic crush on Lianfang-zun"; disclaimer that I was fairly involved with the creation of this one but it's GREAT) and, of course, above all, their gigantic canon fix-it verse, it's worth it every time. It's SO GOOD and the characterization is fantastic and the prose is excellent and UGH. It's so good!!!!! Disclaimer that the second fic in the series, which is the main work, is still WIP, but roquen updates regularly and there are only a couple of chapters left; if you're still wary of WIPs, I'd at least recommend the first fic, which stands alone and is brilliant in its own right.
As to the differences between MDZS and CQL…ho boy. There are quite a few, both major and minor, and I'm by no means familar with all of them—especially the ones that don't involve 3zun, lol. I tried to google around but unfortunately the ones I found tended to be either short or, if more in-depth, contain inaccuracies about JGY/LXC—I think people tend to be more interested in the Wangxian, and then this stuff goes by the wayside. The wiki can be a good source for differences for specific incidents, and although I think it's not always accurate it /does/ usually cite chapter or episode, which can be pretty helpful. 
This, by hualiann, looks like a good overview, though I'd add that JYL, WQ and WN didn't study at Cloud Recesses in the novel and that more generally MDZS has a lot of actual undead.
In general my advice is to take things people say about the novel with a large grain of salt, myself included. And about CQL, too! I have no idea if this is you but when I joined the fandom, if people asserted stuff about CQL I tended to just kind of take it as fact—oh, I thought, I must have misremembered! My memory is pretty terrible, and honestly there was absolutely stuff I did misremember. But also sometimes other people misremember, or fanon gets taken as canon, and then there's stuff like—I mean, I'm certainly not going to blame people for not realizing that "JGY conspired with XY at the Unclean Realm" is a lot more uncertain than you might guess at first, especially if they're more Wangxian focused which most people in the fandom are, but I'm still not going to present it as straight-up fact. (veliseraptor has a recent post examining this here which I would very much recommend).
Honestly I think I'd recommend reading the MDZS NMJ Empathy flashback—chapters 48, 49, and the beginning of 50. That gets you a lot of the JGY, LXC and NMJ backstory, and then you can compare for yourself! I'm also going to recommend Mercy's thread, here, listing common fanons about MDZS (I will add to the list, since it's a bugbear of mine, the idea that LXC recognized NMJ's fierce corpse by his abs).
Okay with all that out of the way, and in no particular order, Sun's extremely idiosyncratic and particularly- aka mostly JGY-focused differences list:
-In MDZS, LXC doesn't become Sect Leader until the burning of Cloud Recesses by the Wen, when his father is injured and then succumbs to his wounds. In CQL, he's Sect Leader from the beginning of the show, his father having apparently died not too long before the show started.
-In MDZS, MY wasn't working for the Nie at all before the beginning of Sunshot; he joined the Nie forces just after Sunshot began. NMJ didn't instantly promote him to be his deputy when he's telling at the Nie men for bad-mouthing him; it takes a few more encounters and/or battles with the Wen (after which MY clears the battlefield and helps the commoners).
-In MDZS, xiyao's first meeting happens when LXC is on the run with the Lan books after the burning of Cloud Recesses. We don't see it happen on the page, and we don't know any details of that time beyond, like, MY helped LXC.
-NMJ willingly sends MY away from the Nie, with a letter of recommendation for JGS, after, uh, an extended overhearing of a conversation between MY and LXC wherein MY's desire to be recognized by his father and gain a proper place in the Jin, the opportunity offered for that by JGS recruiting talent at Langya, and the possible difficulty of obtaining permission from NMJ are all established. 
-NMJ sees MY stabbing a /Jin/ captain, at Langya, after he goes looking for MY. Rather than taking a blow for NMJ, MY stabs himself, faking suicide, then immobilizes NMJ (who's trying to save his life) and flees. This is because NMJ wants MY to go turn himself in for killing the captain; MY thinks they'll kill him, while NMJ says that if the captain has actually been mistreating MY as MY said, MY won't be killed. Personally I think that all the evidence suggests that MY is right, and NMJ is blind to the effects of his position to the extent it's a not insignificant moral failure.
-Okay, so, you know how in CQL MY stabs WRH while he's distracted with WWX, outside on the steps with the Sunshot alliance right outside? In /MDZS/, they're in the Sun Palace, WWX isn't anywhere near the place, he does it to save NMJ's life, and then he starts lugging NMJ's unconscious body out of the palace. And then NMJ comes to consciousness amd demands his sabre and tries to kill him. He likely only survives because of NMJ's wounds, and if LXC hadn't shown up (responding to a message MY sent for aid for NMJ) NMJ might easily have killed him. If you want a more in-depth analysis, I take a close look here in my response to someone's, er, imaginative interpretation of NMJ and JGY's relationship in MDZS.
-In CQL, NMJ's qi deviation happens at the stairs incident. In MDZS, it happens later, when he overhears JGY being upset to LXC about how NMJ treated him at the stairs, and, overcome with rage that JGY would dare (arguably in combination with being polite and pleasant to NMJ's face, although the last time he was confrontational to NMJ's face NMJ kicked him down the stairs and tried to kill him so), he kicks open the door and tries to kill him. He also kills several people as he's qi deviating (seeing them as JGY—while in CQL he also sees several JGYs they seem to be just illusions), and injures NHS.
-In MDZS, NMJ sets fire to all of NHS' nice things. I don't think we're told either way in CQL, although it's worth noting that in MDZS this happens after the stairs (and before JGY starts playing for him again). (I think they do something in FJ?? But I don't take FJ as canon for CQL; see confusion-and-more's post here).
-In CQL, JGY suggests to NMJ that he's always played the corrupted Clarity for him (though granted this is in Empathy, so it's hard to say for sure if this is what he actually said, but in any case it's the only version we're given). In MDZS, it's strongly indicated that JGY only started playing Turmoil for NMJ /after/ the stairs—there's a variety of evidence, but I think the most objective is that WWX, who in MDZS Empathy can literally feel NMJ's anger, actually observes it working beforehand:
Since [JGY started playing for NMJ], Jin GuangYao would travel from Lanling to Qinghe every few days, playing Sound of Lucidity to help quell Nie MingJue rage. He tried his hardest, without speaking even a single word of complaint. Sound of Lucidity was indeed effective. Wei WuXian could clearly feel that the hostile energy within Nie MingJue was being suppressed.
(Exiled Rebels translation, ch. 49)
And then the next scene is the stairs incident, so.
-In general, the degree to which JGY's position is completely awful is played down in CQL. confusion-and-more talks about it a bit here; I'd also note that some of JGY's dialogue defending himself is removed ( “Some trivial achievements?” He spoke in a shaking voice, “…What do you mean, some trivial achievements? ChiFeng-Zun, do you know how much work I put into such trivial achievements? How much I suffered? Glory? Without the handful of glory I have nothing!”, for example), we don't hear about his mother at the guqin scene, the temple flashback where his mother is dragged naked outside by a client and he's kicked down the brothel stairs is eliminated, etc etc.
-There is absolutely no second flutist in MDZS; also JGY tells us in the temple that QS was already pregnant before he found out about the incest. I think even in CQL it's questionable whether he actually intended to kill Zixuan (see this whole conversation), and significant unveiling or no CQL never actually says QS wasn't pregnant before their marriage so I tend to go with that too, but certainly it's easy to walk away with the impression that he definitely did both deliberately, especially if you aren't familiar with the novel.
-(In general, I think CQL JGY is a lot more sympathetic than most people think once you look closely, but he's also very much set up to look upon a more casual watching as Villain, so.)
-In CQL it's All A-Yao All The Time but in MDZS we see LXC calling him san-di after the sworn brotherhood, and then it's back to A-Yao in the present day (see my last addition on this chain here).
-In MDZS, JGY doesn't shove JL out of the way of the incoming attack.
-The LXC lifting JGY out of his bow thing is from CQL
-The watchtowers! Oh /man/ the watchtowers. God the watchtowers are so much. Uh, confusion-and-more has a post about how much they're mentioned in MDZS vs CQL here, and see my last addition to this thread for an argument that the watchtowers were indeed a force for good. God. Twelve hundred watchtowers. He must have saved so many lives...
-confusion-and-more's watchtower post also reminds me that CQL has the Guanyin temple giving out medicine, while MDZS does not
-The episode 23 scene where Sect Leaders Jin, Nie, and Lan agree to spare some of the Wen doesn't exist in MDZS (though I'll take the opportunity to observe that I disagree with popular interpretations of that scene, see point three here).
-In MDZS NMJ's fierce corpse is literally trying to kill JGY, there's no saber spirit. And like, it's been trying to kill JGY for a long damn time, that's why JGY dismembered him.
-The XY plotline—in MDZS, JGY recommends a young XY (who at thay point has a reputation but is not known to have committed any massacres) as a Jin cultivator, as part of an effort by JGS to recreate the Yin Tiger Seal. JGS has multiple people trying, but most of them aren't getting anywhere and XY is getting furthest. It's during this time that XY kills the Chang clan, and is discovered as guilty by XXC, who brings up the evidence at a conference happening in Lanling; the Jin are stalling, MMJ gets angry and shows up, he almost kills XY on the spot and gives JGS a lecture such that he's forced to relent and sentence XY to death (and incidentally scares JGY, imho quite seriously, while he's at it). Then JGS turns it into life imprisonment once NMJ has left, and then NMJ is extremely angry and attacks JGY at the stairs. (Ch. 30 and 118)
-I mentioned before but I'll add it here too: in CQL JGY asks LXC to stay and die with him, and LXC agrees.
-The CQL ending in general is...hmmm. Despite having most of the elements which complicate MDZS' ending (JL is in a terrible position!), it kind of presents as...happy ending all is fixed now? In MDZS I think it's presented as—more complicated, even though Wangxian do very much get their happy ending.
-Also LWJ is a lot less. uh. Okay, so in CQL he's more Mr Morality, and in MDZS it's much more Wei Ying Right Or Wrong. Also, he doesn't become Chief Cultivator in MDZS! I think that's my least favourite change, because it's like...LWJ hates politics, hates compromise, and never attends the cultivation conferences. At least one of 'this is going to be a major diisaster' and 'LWJ is going to have to go through some significant shifts in his worldview and approach' are going to have to happen, but that's not the vibe CQL gives off at all, and I think it really works against some of the major themes of the text :/
-OH RIGHT I knew I was forgetting something—in MDZS MXY's revenge is focused solely on the Mo; JGY is not part of the curse.
Okay I don't want to go too much on about xiyao or nieyao, because this is already quite long and I don't want you to be waiting forever, but broadly although I certainly think NMJ cares about JGY a great deal it seems to be about his competence and potential; he doesn't really seem to, like, actually like who he is as a person. JGY, meanwhile, is at first very grateful to and then increasingly exasperated by and very much fucking terrified of NMJ, but...well, he doesn't seem to be into him or interested in spending time with him for the sake of it or etc etc.
On the other hand—xiyao. Man, xiyao!!!! They just—they get each other so fast, they're /partners/, they work together so well, they like and they respect each other, they're both like—LXC and MS are on their own tier for JGY, LWJ and JGY are on their own tier for LXC, they're for each other in a way neither is for anyone else, they care a lot about the same things—it's not perfect overlap, obviously, but it's more overlap I think than either has with anyone else, they—invest, they're builders, JGY was planning the watchtowers project from way back and although I have no doubt he was driving it LXC was with him and!!!! ugh!!!!! xiyao are REALLY GREAT, okay.
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guardian-esper · 3 years
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Entry #0: An Introduction
Date: I couldn’t reliably tell you in my current state.
Time: Late morning. Headache-o’-clock.
This might not practically be the best time to start writing, or rather this isn’t the best personal state of physical being, but it’s not like I can do much else when I’m this hung over. Gods, my head is pounding. I don’t think I’ve ever celebrated quite like I did last night. I went ahead to the infirmary and asked for a concoction to deal with this bottle ache, hopefully that’ll kick in soon.
Anyhow, let me back up a little here, remark on some context. Yesterday, I was awarded my first ever promotion in rank for the town guard. Last night, my new fellow sergeants decided to give me the usual rite-of-passage celebration for privates who rank up. I had, ah, to be honest, never touched a drink in my life. Not like that, at least. So uh, that’s two major developments: My first promotion, and my first drunken escapade.
I don’t really remember everything after the first few rounds, but right now I think I feel mostly regret, despite my excitement. Although, I do think I accidentally bumped into one of the women sergeants, in an accident of...inappropriate contact. I think I tried to explain myself through the alcoholic fog, but based on the faint stinging on my left cheek, I feel fairly certain of the strength her backhanding capability.
I uh, I don’t think I’ll be indulging in whiskey quite like that ever again. Need to remind myself to go and apologize later.
Ahem. At any rate, I’m here writing now at the recommendation of the lieutenant I’m now serving directly under. They said it would be good to keep a record of some kind, a source of reflection on any future operations or happenings. Not that I or they expect there’ll be all that much, considering how usually peaceful and calm it is in this little town. Still, I guess it might be worth it in a general sense, at least.
I think I’ve gotten a little ahead of myself, though. I’ve completely forgotten to record an introduction. Let’s continue this properly.
Name: Ivan Stavros.
Race: Human.
Age: 21. Born on the twenty-first day of the ninth month of the year.
Title: Sergeant of the town guard of Trelynshire.
Responsibilities: Second in command to my unit’s leader, Lieutenant B’jorn. In addition to making the usual town rounds and participating in the usual drills, I’ll be sometimes sent as messenger boy between the lieutenants and the captain. In more rare occasions, I’ll be put in charge of my unit. If circumstances ever demand it, that is.
...honestly, aside from a bit of a pay raise and some more authority, I don’t expect my new station to amount to too much. Other than a rare few major incidents, not a lot of particular danger ever comes knocking on our doors. Trelynshire is a pretty quiet town, with nothing but miles of wilds and forestry surrounding. So we’re a bit on the isolated side here, and in the context of the wider world...if I’m being honest, it’s rather boring. Peaceful, yes, and full of kind and hardworking folk, but you aren’t exactly going to find many thrilling stories about imminent danger threatening the townsfolk or anything.
Many, I emphasize. There have been a few. Including, I should mention, the events surrounding what led to my somewhat sudden promotion. Which, I will get into after my introductions here are finished. I need to fully recover before I start going over those more recent events again. Otherwise, Trelynshire itself isn‘t entirely boring, or empty of intrigue or mystery. Far from it, actually, though most of its secrets are kept rather hush-hush. Again, I will get into that, probably in a future entry.
Back to myself, however, I’ve got a solid 21 years of life to recount. At this point, they’re not something I’ve sat down to think about very much. There are...some things that aren’t very favorable to reminisce. Some things I’ve only spoken to a few people in confidence about; one of them being Lieutenant B’jorn, mentioned above. The man doesn’t like to pry too much, but he has genuinely tried to help me out, even with advice on personal matters. That might be another reason he recommended I start journaling: for the supposed therapeutic aspect of it. I mean, maybe he’s right, perhaps it would be good to finally sit down and take stock of my 21 years on this Earth, but...I’m not certain how easy that’s going to be.
I think maybe I should let this hangover let up first. Let me just sleep on it for a bit.
...
The time: Early evening, same day.
Right, I feel better now. That concoction’s worked wonders, and I’ve napped the hangover off otherwise. The rain and grey skies outside helped me sleep. Just a little worn-out still. Thank the gods that I was allowed a few days off to recuperate before taking my new station.
Anyroad, where was I? Right. The story of my life. Hmm...
Let me preface by saying that, I’m not taking stock of any of this for reader’s sympathy, not to say ‘poor poor me’ or anything like that. I don’t like to stay too hung up on the past. Growing up here in Trelynshire, my mentor would often tell me that the past need not define me or anyone, yet reflection is important all the same. That it’s to be learned from, or something. Honestly, I don’t know about that. The past is what it is, and can’t be changed. In my case, I prefer to just not hinge on it. Or think about it much at all, really. It’s not like I’m going to get closure or anything like that, and besides, there’s the here and now, and the future to think about. This town has been kind and patient with me, and gave me as good of a fresh start as I could have ever asked for. What good can really come from hinging on things that can’t be changed?
Damn it, I’m delaying. I told Lieutenant B’jorn that I would try to write, if at least to keep my head clear and focused in my upcoming post as a sergeant. He needs me focused, like everyone else. C’mon, Ivan, buckle down and get it done. It’s not like anyone else is going to read this anyway.
Right, then. I guess the very beginning of things would normally be the best place to start. Yet...I think it might be necessary here to jump around a bit. At least to better contextualize past events in conjunction with where I am in the present.
It would be most prudent then to start with the fact that Trelynshire is not my native home. No, I’m actually not from anywhere quite near here. I’m from a much more largely governed area, and Trelynshire is for all intents and purposes an independent town, as far as I can tell. As much as Trelynshire is (by a long shot) more home to me than my original home was, I feel the need to tell about my origins here.
To put matters simply, I am more or less a refugee. My home city is, as far as I know, currently in a severely war-torn state. I only saw a few days of a glimpse at this conflict before I, and many other children at the time, were rescued and extracted from the children’s boarding school we had been living in. Or rather, I should say, where we were frankly being kept and groomed. You see, according to what little I’ve learned, my home city-state has fallen into a state of fascism and borderline dictatorship over the last few generations. Growing up, I couldn’t really grasp what was going on around me there, especially being one of the ostracized lower-class kids, but in hindsight, the place is and has been a right mess.
For a more broad geographical and political context: Trelynshire is located deep within forested wilds, further inland on the continent, which all major maps call Eliostar. If one travels from Trelynshire far to the northwest, they will encounter a major desert region. This region extends into a major peninsular landmass, which is the geographical home to a major empire composed of a number of distinct city-states. Well, ex-empire, I should say. Over time, the political configuration become more democratic as the various city-states began to elect representatives to rule alongside the empress, and keep her power in check. If I recall correctly, this area is now officially called The Imperial Republic of Akkacia, formerly the Akkacian Empire.
My home city, Ireithett, is actually the capitol of one the Republic’s major city-states, Vortix, which lies near the mountainous threshold between the Republic and the desert separating the peninsula from the rest of the continent. As far as the past of this city-state goes, what I do know is that it has always been notable as one of the more militarily powerful of the states, second only to Sythemar further west. In the recent decades, however, Vortix has been the cause of tension through the Republic, and by the time I was around eleven years old, any political stability it maintained with the rest of the Republic had broken down. Whatever sparked it, an armed conflict broke out between Vortix and the rest of the Republic, who in time had fought their way across Vortix’s farmlands into Ireithett itself, intent to storm the capitol, take control, and force the leaders into some kind of agreement. I don’t know what the source of the conflict was, or even if it’s close to have been resolved yet, but that’s not currently high on my list of interests to know. As far as my life there goes, however...
Ireithett was always called the ‘crown jewel’ of Vortix, being the one major city to populate the otherwise overwhelmingly farmland structure of the nation-state. But if you were asking me if that was true, having grown up on the inside of the capitol, I could tell you that is actually far from the case. Most of the city is, frankly, overwhelmingly slums. There was always a more poor district in the outer areas, but in the past, it was much smaller. Where there was apparently an existing middle class region, there isn’t really anything left of that. I snuck in once, in fact, only to find that all of the housing was abandoned, decaying, and/or used for some governing or policing purpose by those in their unreachable ivory towers, which were separated from us common folk by tall, iron-wrought walls. In short, where I lived, and everywhere I could even go, were all slums. Even more bizarrely than this, we weren’t even allowed to leave the city itself, so I never saw much of the green fields and farmlands outside the city. A decaying capitol was all I knew, and as you might guess, it was rife with danger. Crime, homelessness, gangs, violence and substance abuse were common, and there were even rumors of trafficking. Of weapons, drugs, and...I loathe to think about it, but of people. As hard as it was being a growing kid in the slums, I shudder to think about how some less fortunate than I ended up.
In short, well, it was a shithole. I really can’t describe it any other way.
Ironically, though, the only thing scarier than thugs or traffickers was the city guard. A lot of brutalizing bastards acting at the behest of the elite, or whoever might be able to pay them more or do them the right favors. They knew little mercy and had just as little patience. Claimed to be acting in our best interests to try and get us to cooperate, but they were all the bloody definition of dirty law enforcement. And I was one of the kids unfortunate enough to be born in this city’s walls, under their monitoring.
Yet I was fortunate enough to eventually be rescued, just as all hell was breaking loose upon the city from the invading united armies that made their ways to the city gates. Obviously, it’s nearly impossible for me to look back in positivity at those days. My family didn’t have much to its name, and avoiding trouble (and resisting the urge to get into trouble for a scrap of anything better) was a monumental task all its own. I had seen my hefty share of street fights, brutality, fear and strife before I was free from it all, and it’s a difficult thing to look back on.
Honestly, though, it’s not that I don’t ever look back. I try not to, but...unfortunately, I’m not certain I can say all ties with the place are completely cut. I did, of course, have family and friends there when I was extracted and eventually brought here to Trelynshire. I don’t know, but I like to think I still do have said friends and family. The thing is, I have no idea where they are, if they ever broke free from that place, or if they’re even alive. And this was ten years ago. I don’t know what happened to my mother after I was separated from her and put in that bloody stupid boarding school. I never learned what became of my father, who joined the city guard apparently in hopes of bringing us into a better life inside the upper-class walls. And my friends...not a day goes by when I don’t wonder about them, if they’re okay or not. This kind of distance from them...it’s a thing that I loathe about how things have turned out.
Don’t get me wrong. I could not be more fortunate than I am to have been taken care of these past ten years by the folk here in Trelynshire. Despite the difficulties I’m (often, but in jest) reminded I posed to them, I’ve always been cared for and looked after here. I have a place in the world here, and it seems I’m carving out a future of some kind. But do you know how tantalizing it is to be suddenly whisked away from your home, downtrodden and hellish as it was, never to know what became of everyone you knew?! It sticks with you. Indefinitely. You feel things like guilt, even regret, regret for not finding out on your own before it was too late. Regret for not bloody fighting for it, even if you know there was little you could do.
Forgive me. I need another moment to cool off. Emotion is getting the better of me here.
...
Apologies. I’m alright. Let me try and wrap this up for the time being.
To shed light on what I was just talking about, I have indeed tried, once or twice, to learn about the goings-on in Ireithett the past ten years. Unfortunately, even if someone makes it through the desert to the border, it’s hard to be granted passage into Akkacia as a whole right now. Apparently the conflict is still going on, and the Republic’s government isn’t exactly keen on letting very many details out. In light of all this, I frustratingly only have more questions instead of answers. Still, the captain of  the guard here assured me that she would keep whatever line of information possible between here and there, and update me on any developments. There is at least that, and she has my deepest appreciation. Not that I’m really holding my breath for anything to come to light any time soon, but all the same it means a lot. I’ve thanked her, and in meantime, I’ve just tried to carry on and focus on where I’m going, not where I’ve been.
With that though, I’m getting a little too tired, emotionally and physically, to carry on with all this right now. It’s getting dark outside, and the post-nap drowsiness from earlier is really starting to weigh on me. There is more to tell, certainly, but at the moment, I don’t feel very up to the task. I do, however, have a few days of off-time left before my first official shift as a lieutenant, so maybe after a good night’s rest I can go into more detail tomorrow. For better or worse, there’s a lot left to unpack here, but I’ll try again perhaps in the morning. Hmm...mayhaps I’ll set up to write in the local cafe. I could use something strong to reset with, and the service there is always top-knotch. For now, if Hypnos would be so willing to give me an uninterrupted sleep, I’ll be up and going strong again in the morrow. Until then.
                                                                                                          -Ivan
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Tim’s Secret Weapon pt. 10
I’ve been slightly obsessed with @ozmav​ ‘s Damian Wayne/Marinette Dupain-Cheng pairing as of late, and just saw a post that has inspired me more than anything else has in months, so I felt the need to write it
Summary- Tim has always seen the numbers floating above people’s heads, been able to perceive their threat levels with a single glance. After being a hero for so long he thought he was desensitized to seeing high numbers above people’s heads until Damian brings a new friend home. Part 1 Part 9 Part 10(HERE) Part 11 This will probably be the last update for awhile, I start student teaching this coming week and I’m nervous as all hell right now ____________________________________________
“We have so much to do,” Marinette mumbled as she stood, stretching her shoulders out.
“Such as what angel?” 
Adrian raised his hand, “Letting Paris know that there’s more heroes here is probably near the top.” 
“Got it in one Kitty,”  
Kim snorted,  “They might flip out otherwise when they see so many new masks running around and think we have a Scarlet moth incident on our hand.” 
The team groaned out agreements from around Chloe’s room as the Bats looked over them with mild interest. It was closing in on midnight, each of the teens remaining having gotten permission from their parents to stay at the hotel for the night. The Kwamis had taken the plate of cookies, camembert, sugar cubes, sashimi, honey, bananas, and celery Chloe had ordered, and promptly ignored the strange look the room service personnel had given her,  for them to the closed bedroom, excited to have so many of them together and free to talk openly without hiding or disappearing into the hidden dimension of the miraculous box. 
“What’s a Scarlet moth?” Tim asked, trying to remember if he had seen the name anywhere in his research, “Hawkmoth’s apprentice?” 
“Nope,” Chloe groaned, rubbing her eyes with an exhausted air, “It’s when Hawkmoth akumatizes someone, Mayra probably so that their power is to power him up so that he can akumatized multiple people at once. The akumas turn scarlet when he does this so we nickname him Scarlet Moth when he pulls that crap.” 
“First time,” Marinette sighed, “He had someone make an illusion of me akumatized, killing Chat Noir in front of all of Paris. Most of the city was distraught enough to fall prey to the akumas and it took Chat, me and three other temporary heroes to take him out. Since then he’s pulled Scarlet Moth out eight times with various levels of success, and twice they’ve done something similar but with Mayra’s amoks, we call those Crimson Peacock events.”
“It’s a ridiculously long day every time,” Chloe groans, “Akumas usually take anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour to fight, Amoks usually take an hour or two,  both will be three to four hours, but crimson Peacock and Scarletmoth? The quickest we’ve taken those out is six hours.” 
The Gotham heroes groaned in sympathy, images Joker, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow and the Court of Owls bigger plays flashing through their heads. Telling the citizens that there wasn’t a major issue to deal with would make their jobs easier. 
“What we’re just going to knock on that Ladyblog chick’s window then?”  Jason asked only to see the Paris heroes' faces scrunch up in disgust. 
“No, Never,” Kim spat, “Not in a million years. Not after all the fucking stunts she's pulled.” 
“Language Master Kim,” Alfred chastised with a raised brow, “You can express your distaste for the young woman without resorting to such vulgarity.” 
“Sorry,” Kim blushed sheepishly, “But she really has pulled a lot of things that tick me off, don’t even think I could list them all. Harassing people over not agreeing with her ‘professional’ opinion, taking the side of Lila even over Ladybug telling her, reporting anyone else trying to share miraculous news for not going through her.” 
“Chasing us down when we’re about to change back to harass us about our identity as if we hadn’t already explained to her why we keep them secret,” Alix added with a tired frown, “The amount of times I’ve had to use Burrow just to get one of us away from her is ridiculous.”
 “Dragging her little sisters into the middle of the Akuma attacks for footage,” Adrian hissed, anger causing his eyes to nearly glowing, “I can’t even begin to count every time our jobs were made harder because we had to rescue them…or how many times those little girls got hurt… ” 
 “Not to mention the shipping wars and rumors she starts just for views,” Chloe grumbles, “If I have to hear another take on how I’m either  in love with my superhero self or trying to murder her to take back the bee miraculous, I’m going to gouge my ears out with a rusty spoon.” 
“So yeah,” Marinette concluded, “We don’t interview with Alya anymore. She used to be a really good friend but Lila has spent years twisting her ambitions and changing her into someone toxic.” 
 “Take the Bee miraculous?” Dick asked, dislike for the reporter growing more with every word but decided to take the safe route and change the subject, no need risk akumation, “Why would they think that?” 
Alix snorted, “Oh cause out of everyone in Paris the last person anyone would think to have the bee miraculous is Chloe.”
“Yes,” Max agreed, eyeing the blonde, “I’ve been meaning to ask, how did Marinette decide to give you your miraculous back after the Miraculous Queen incident?”
“Because she only did as we planned,” Adrian said with a slight smirk making the other's jaws drop, “Hawkmoth was already watching her and trying to get her to go dark with the promise of the Bee miraculous he had taken from us.” 
“Chloe actually reached out to me,” Marinette laughed, “Remember when she made that big deal about allowing me to do commissioned work for her that year?”
“Well yeah,” Alix said slowly, “But she does that like once a year… Even when she was at her worst Marinette Originals were hot ticket items.” 
“I was really trying to get into contact with the mangy cat, or at least that’s what I said. I kinda… knew Marinette was Ladybug..” Chloe grumbled, not looking at them.
“WHAT!” The mentioned heroine squeaked, “How on Earth-”
“After getting Pollen,” Chloe cut in, “I realized she bore a striking resemblance to a certain red and black toy I stole from you when Prince Ali visited when showed up Princess Perfume.”
“You knew this whole time?” Adrian asked, “And said nothing even while akumatized?” 
“I mean, duh,” The blonde scoff, “Don’t be ridiculous, I might not have done my homework back then but I’m not an idiot. I just focused on my hate of Ladybug and didn’t think about Marinette at all, he was too giddy to have such a powerful Akuma he didn’t go digging in my head.” 
“So you what,” Alix asked, as Marinette struggled to reboot her mind, pulling the conversation away from chaos “Just let her get akumatized?” 
They nodded, Adrian taking over again, “M’Lady, Chloe and I decided that that could work in our favor and we could just draw him and Mayra out and take back the miraculous they had stolen” 
“Of course,” Marinette sighed, coming out of her stupor, “We weren’t expecting it to be right after such a hard Akuma, or for her powers to be just as devastating. Luckily she gave the miraculous to different users so Hawkmoth was none the wiser about each of your identities. After her staged meltdown at me, Chat went to check on her and offered to let her build a new Bee hero as we had retrieved that miraculous. With a quick illusion from the fox miraculous a month after Abeille hit the scene, we have video evidence of those two making peace with the Bee changing hands, and Chloe wishing Abeille luck even if she could no longer be Queen Bee.” 
“Impressive Strategy,” Kagami hummed, “I believe if Lover Eater and Miraculous Queen hadn’t been such unusually hard foes to fight then you could have won. It was unfortunate that the circumstances were such.” 
“It sounds like you overlooked some variables in your plan,” Bruce hummed, “but overall it sounded like a decent plan for having only been fighting for a little under a half a year at that point if you were expecting the usual level of difficulty with the Akuma before Chloe instead of a much tougher opponent like the one you faced.” 
Marinette smiled, “It was a mess in practice,” She admitted with a small smile, “But it made it clear that even if Chat and I could use multiple miraculous for short periods, we couldn’t continue any longer without help, not to mention the previous guardian was lost.” 
“Lost!” Max yelped, paling drastically, “I was under the impression that the miraculous cure brought back any fatalities that are caused by miraculous related events. How did it fail on the guardian?” 
“Not like that, I’m sure, Master Max,” Alfred broke in, “Duusu explained once that the guardians have a… failsafe, if you will, to prevent the identities of the holders from being found out through them.” 
Marinette nodded, eyes growing distance, “He resigned as he guardian handing it over to me. Doing so the magic of the miraculous wiped their very existence from his memory. He didn’t even know that the turtle bracelet he wore was magical let alone know the secrets the miraculous held any longer.” 
The room grew cold as the teens' faces fell. The Bat’s grimaced as they looked around the room, knowing the uncertainty that was coursing through all of them 
Marinette shook her head, “It doesn’t matter, he’s enjoying life with an old flame he had to abandon to take care of guardian business, but that does bring me to the next thing we have to do.” 
Chloe smirked widely, “Got an extra on you then?” 
“No, We’re just going to loan them for a few minutes” 
“Seeing an Akuma or amok isn’t a skill that is inherent, it’s how so many people don’t realize someone is possessed until they transform,” Adrian explained, “Took us a while to realize why some people could see the butterflies and feathers and others couldn’t.” 
“There are four ways you can see an Akuma that we have observed,” Max took over, “The first is if you are the intended target of the Akuma, next is if you’ve already been akumatized, we all thought that it was just PTSD of being akumatized, but their accuracy was more accurate then simply being observant would allow. Third and… most unsettling is those that parish during an Akuma battle and are brought back by the miraculous cure can view them.” 
Eyes snap to Marinette, who is looking at her hands with a bone-weary sadness that any hero can relate to. 
“You can raise the dead?” Jason asked, a little edge of unease in his voice. The bats knew he was thinking back to his own death, Tim reached out a hand to squeeze his knee. Being brought back to life wasn’t pleasant in their experience. 
“Yes,” She tells them, “All damage is repaired as if it never happened, that includes any death or injury that may happen during the fight. If I’m transformed I can also do some healing but it’s likely to knock me out quicker then I can heal something more serious than a broken rib unless I have an energy source to pull from.” 
“That’s fucked,” 
“Jason!” 
“Nah he’s right,” Marinette brushed off Damien’s growl, “but the last way you can see the akumas is the way we’re sticking with. Using a miraculous and the miraculous ability it possesses.” 
The Bats blinked at them but they glanced over to see the other Parisians already rising to their feet. 
“It’s about time for patrol anyways,” Chloe groaned, “It’s Adrian’s and Kagami’s night,” 
“It’s Friday and we’re already sleeping over,” Marinette hummed, “We could all head over to the training area and get this over with, then let you two go out while we train for a bit. I’m thinking miraculous swap drills.” 
“Should we suit up?” Bruce asked with a raised brow. 
“Would probably be a good idea,” She suggested, “It’s not far from here so no need to use Voyage to get there, we’ll just take the rooftops.” 
____________________________________________
An abandoned warehouse on the edge of the Seine, and the Paris team entered with an air of happiness, as the Bat’s took in the space. Half of the floor empty for sparing, while the other half appeared to be made into an obstacle course.  Old couches and chairs were grouped between the two zones, most likely placed there for breaks in training.   
“Not bad,” Dick commented as he looked around, “So how are we doing this?” 
“I’m keeping the earrings, but you guys will each try one of the other miraculous” 
“I call the Cat!” Jason yelled before Marinette finished, causing Dick to pout.
“No fair! Selina likes me best!”
“No way circus boy!”
“Selina,” Bruce cuts in, “Likes me best, that’s why we’re engaged. These aren’t toys, stop arguing over them.” 
“It’s alright,” Adrian laughed as he removed his ring, “We were the same way when M’lady first suggested training with each other’s miraculous. They can be exciting.”  
Tim was only half listening as around him the Paris team other than Marinette were pulling off their jewelry, numbers draining of color as they dropped down, except for one. 
“Kagami isn’t a true user.” He said offhandedly, as her burgundy refused to falter even as her number dropped to a still formidable 8. 
“What?” 
Longg glared at him, “Even if she was not blessed by my hand, she is still my chosen wielder and no less a worthy opponent for the corrupted holders, do not forget it.” 
“I didn’t mean to offend,” He offered, “Merely observing. Her number didn’t lose its color and dropped down to an 8 instead of a 12.” 
“What is a true user?” Kagami piped in, “and why are you aware of it?” 
“Short answer,” Plagg piped in taking his ring from Adrian, “Reincarnation is real and we blessed souls who are more linked to our aspects then anyone else in the world. Yadda Yadda…” 
Pollen smacked him upside of the head with her comb
“Hey!” 
“Someone had to do it since Tikki isn’t here,” She told him with a slight huff, “You forgot to mention that just because they have been blessed by us doesn’t mean that they’re going to be a good holder, nor does it mean that if they’re not blessed that they’re going to be a poor holder.” 
“Well duh!” He complained, “Kags is one of the best dragons we’ve had in the last millennium, and Mayra sucks at her role! I didn’t think I needed to mention it.” 
“It would probably help if Mayra was a true peacock instead of just a true holder,” Kaalki hummed. 
“Whatevas,” Plagg brushed off floating lazily over to Jason, “I want the zombie anyways.” 
“Rude,” Jason snarked but took the ring gently from the small cat, “How do I do this?” 
“Just put it on and say Plagg Claws Out,” 
Tim raised a brow as his brother put the miraculous on and his 10 bled from it’s usual rust to neon green, “Wait.” 
The room froze. 
Jason raised a brow, “What replacement?” 
“Take the ring off,” 
“Why?” 
“Your number…” He winced, still unused to mentioning the floating digits. 
Jason brushed right by it, “What did it jump up to a 15 like Marigold’s or something?”
“No… Just changed color. I really hope it’s not permanent.” 
Jason slid the ring off and the rust returned allowing the younger man to breathe a sigh of relief. 
“It go back?” Dick asked gently. 
“Yeah, back to the normal rusty red. Looks like the miraculous turn then user’s color to something associated with them,” He breathed, “Good, I was worried I’d be staring at neon green over Jay’s head forever.” 
“Hey!” Plagg snapped, crossing his tiny arms, “What’s wrong with green? It’s always been my color.” 
“It’s also the color of people suffering Larzath sickness,” 
The bats flinched and Jason held the ring with a grimace before slipping it back on, “Let’s get this over with then so I can go back to red, Plagg claws out!” 
The sickly green light overtook him and the number started to climb.
Finally, the number disappeared and Jason was left standing in clothes similar to his normal hero outfit but tweaked.
Everything he wore was now jet black, from his boots to his helmet, with neon green accenting his boots, fingernails that had grown out into long wicked looking claws and eyes. A thick black belt wrapped around his hips and hung behind him, flicking softly on its own accord and on top of his helmet the metal was shaped into delicate-looking cat ears. The silver baton attached to the small of his back, right over his leather jacket
Dick let out a low whistle.
“Impressive,” Damian muttered, “The transformation somehow made you look even stupider than normal, Todd.” 
“Like you can do better,” Jason countered, bouncing on the balls of his feet, “But also, holy shit I feel like I just got pumped full of caffeine and really want to test out what I can do.”  
“Transformation does that,” Kim snickered, “You get used to it after a while, but that’s why we brought you all here instead of letting you transform in the hotel.” 
“Wait until the others transform and we can give them a test run around the warehouse,” Marinette told him, before turning to the other, “Let’s get a move on boys,” 
Tim found himself moving towards Max, who was sliding on an extra set of glasses he had with him, no doubt his original ones.
“May I?” He asked earning a smile from the other boy. 
“Of course,” Max agreed, “Right Kaalki?” 
The tiny horse eyed him, “Famous and world renown in both identities, how could I say no? The transformation phrase is Kaalki, Full Gallop.” 
He nodded, turning to look back at his family. Xuppu while Damian was examining the dragon choker, asking questions of Longg and Kagami. He was surprised to see Bruce accepting the bee miraculous from Chloe however.
“The hair comb?” Dick laughed slightly, “Thought you’d go for the Pocket Watch, B.” 
His father sent him a bland look, “I don’t do blue.” 
The bats all cackled. 
“Super doesn’t have to know,” Dick teased, placing the circlet on his head, 10 glowing and shifting to a soft tan, “we can keep a secret.” 
“I don’t have a single son that I can trust not to tell the Boy Scout I was wearing his color if I took the rabbit,” He spoke evenly attaching the comb to the side of his cowl, his 11 flickering to a golden honey. 
“I’m hurt Father,” Damian said as he Hastened the choker around his throat, his 11 burning to a fiery red, “I would never willing talk to Superman.”
“You’d tell Jon,” 
“I never denied that fact, merely that I wouldn’t tell his father,” The youngest Wayne cheeked earning an eye roll from Bruce.
“Pollen, Buzz on,” 
The Bat suit changed more than jason’s, with the gloves and shin guards now coming to hard points stipped with yellow, and the cape was gone, replaced by large translucent wing fluttering restlessly. His cowl no longer came to the classic bat ear peaks, instead long thin antennae like fixtures replaced them and the white eyes changed to dark green compound eyes. Around his hips were his utility belt usually lay, the same bee themed top that Abeille wore was wrapped. 
“Alright we can all agree that the old man looks stupider then me right?” 
The Paris team eyes blew wide at insulting the Batman to his face but his sons just agreed easily earning an infamous batglare that they simply shrugged off. 
“I will send all of you home and bring Cass and Duke to assist instead,” 
“No you won’t,” Tim mocked as he slide the glasses on, repeating the transformation phrase he was told. Energy spiked within him too an ungodly level and at the same time pain seared through his head, knees buckling almost instantly under the pressure. 
“Are you alright?” Max yelped catching before he crumbled to the floor. 
Blinking rapidly the pain slowly faded to a low pounding right behind his eyes, Tim glanced up and froze. 
Bruce and Dick were on him almost instantly, pulling him to one of the couches to sit down, rapid fire assessment questions about how he was feeling, just like they did any time someone got hurt in field flying at him. Bruce all but pounded into them to never lie to these questions after Dick nearly fell into a coma his first year as Robin. Even when on auto pilot he could tell the truth to them. 
He vaguely heard “Changes in vision?” and simply nodded. 
“What changed, spots? Blurry? Colors weird? tunnel vision?” Bruce questioned softly, sliding the glasses down his nose to look into his eyes, but didn’t remove them.
“They’re gone,” 
“What’s gone?” 
Tim never let his eyes drift from above their heads. 
“The numbers, my numbers are gone.” 
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NSFW Alphabet-Wade Wilson
The boy! I love him. He’s perfect and he’s slightly messed up but I love him for it
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Actually his reaction to this probably
A = Aftercare (What they’re like after sex)
He’ll take a moment to silently (for once) admire you until you say something and then he’ll grin and say some out there comment that turns into a lewd ramble about what you’d just done
At first he was apprehensive to cuddle unless he was dressed in at least a shirt so you wouldn’t have to feel his scorched body, but with your gentle reassurances he’s more open to a near-instant snuggle session
B = Body part (Their favourite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)
With you, everywhere. Every part of you is amazing and gorgeous to him and he has to really wonder why someone as beautiful as you would want a guy like him, with a face like spoilt lasagne
Evidently, it took some time to convince him that any part of him was worth a second thought. He’s getting more used to being secure with himself but doesn’t particularly have a favourite just yet
C = Cum (Anything to do with cum basically… I’m a disgusting person)
If you’ll let him, he adores the sight of his cum on your stomach or your face. It’s a special type of dirty for him, especially when you’d run a finger through the mess and lick it off
D = Dirty Secret (Pretty self-explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)
Wade has very few secrets, dirty or otherwise, and he will gladly share any thought at all that he has at the slightest provocation
However, since his mutation kicked in and his pain tolerance went up almost as much as his healing factor, he’s been quite tempted to try a bit more kinky stuff. More risky, harsh things
E = Experience (How experienced are they? Do they know what they’re doing?)
He is quite experienced, with many different types of people all across the gender spectrum in all sorts of situations. That doesn’t make him any less excited about being with you any way you’d like it, of course.
F = Favourite Position (This goes without saying. Will probably include a visual)
While of course he’ll never say no to missionary or simply bending you over a table or the couch or a counter (the classics are classics for a reason), he does have a preference for the more challenging positions, more for bragging rights
Any possible way the two of you can bend yourselves without causing injury, he’ll try to somehow turn it to sex...which does sometimes cause some injury.
G = Goofy (Are they more serious in the moment, or are they humorous, etc)
He’s never 100% serious, that’s not possible for Wade. There’s bound to be a few one-liners or sarcastic quips or comments to a person who isn’t there, but he won’t go too far with them in certain situations
Light-hearted is his favourite tone for sex anyway, since not only does he love to make you smile and laugh at any chance he can, but he’s slightly worried that having it be too serious will put him in his own head too much and he’ll get self-conscious
H = Hair (How well-groomed are they, does the carpet match the drapes, etc.)
There really is none, since the experimentation
I = Intimacy (How are they during the moment, romantic aspect…) 
Wade has a special idea of romance. A mix of overly cheesy and completely pornographic.
He’ll fuck all levels of coherency and possible movement out of you, in a candlelit room on a bed covered in rose petals and filled with gentle music. Or he’ll take you to a beautiful wood cabin out in the middle of nowhere and rut you into the ground in front of the most picturesque view you could ever ask for.
J = Jack Off (Masturbation headcanon)
Any moment he needs to, he’ll masturbate, regardless of if you’re going to get down to It or not.
He also uses it as a build-up to the main event and keeps him ready for you while he’s waiting for you. Sometimes he’ll try to entice you into sex by showing you just how desperate he is for you by touching himself and whining for your attention
K = Kink (One or more of their kinks)
The Merc with a mouth is also the Merc with a multitude of kinks. Evidently. His more noticeable ones are post-fight sex, mutual masturbation, and having you touch him
Post-Fight; Not make up sex, though damn he loves that as well, but coming back to you from a fight or freshly killing a guy that probably deserved it. If it went good or bad, it doesn’t matter to him because either way he wants you in any room and any position that’s quickest so he can get all adrenaline out while simultaneously celebrating that he has you still
Mutual Masturbation; Watching you do almost anything can rile Wade up, and he’ll never have enough of seeing you naked so watching you touch yourself is enough to fry his brain. And that’s not even taking in the fact that you’d touch yourself at the sight of him. You getting off on him getting off makes it feel so much better than just jerking off
Touch; A majority of the physical contact he gets is either fleeting or violent, so he loves when you take the time to check over him after a fight despite his healing factor or you insist on smothering him in kisses when he’s down. For a minute, it helps him forget his situation and his insecurities and makes him only want you for as long as he can
L = Location (Favourite places to do the do)
Anywhere he can have you, most of the time. The X-mansion, Blind Al’s place, your shared place, the back room or a quiet corner booth of Sister Margret’s. He’s even brought you on a few missions where you end up having a risky fuck in a dangerous back-alley
M = Motivation (What turns them on, gets them going)
Just you. Having you around, and you wanting him, and you being there for him is enough
Of course, the adrenaline of a fight gets him riled up just as much though more noticeably
N = NO (Something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)
Hurting you to severely is a definite no-go for him, as it anything too reminiscent of what he went through with Francis
Otherwise, any non-con roleplay and toilet stuff is also off limits
O = Oral (Preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc)
Though he is by no means selfish, he does prefer receiving over giving. Having you so willing to get him off in such a way only enhances how good it feels. He always wants to finish in your mouth and he’ll sometimes ask you to beg him for it
He’ll eagerly return the favour whenever you want him to, or for any little excuse. He’s good at it as well, he can have you on the edge in record time and he always seems to relish that knowledge
P = Pace (Are they fast and rough? Slow and sensual? etc.)
He almost always goes quite slow, to make sure he can fuck you deeper or rougher and really pick you apart. Even when you might get caught, he rarely goes faster than his usual pace
Q = Quickie (Their opinions on quickies rather than proper sex, how often, etc.)
Quickies are almost as good as proper sex to him. Sometimes better but it depends on the occurrence. Any possible moment, he’s offering to take you aside for a bit of ‘tension relief’ regardless of how many times you’ve already had sex that day
Even if it’s totally the wrong time, or there’s no semi-private place, he’ll still offer
R = Risk (Are they game to experiment, do they take risks, etc.)
He’s down for trying almost everything and he’ll approach every new experience with the same enthusiasm each time
Evidently, he won’t push you to take any risks that you aren’t certain about, but he will try to encourage you in his usual way
S = Stamina (How many rounds can they go for, how long do they last…)
Since the Incident with Francis, his stamina in all ways has improved
He’s borderline insatiable, able to easily go for four rounds before he’s spent, and with that he could keep you up almost all night
T = Toy (Do they own toys? Do they use them? On a partner or themselves?)
He owns a few, a small collection, or a couple vibrators and dildoes as well as one or two masturbation toys. There is a strap-on hidden somewhere, half forgotten
All the toys are tried and tested, he is very willing to use each one on himself or have you use them in any way
U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)
Wade teases, mostly, by giving you almost enough but not quite to  make you whine and beg
Other times, it’s the typical denial and delay teasing also but only when he’s feeling more playful
V = Volume (How loud they are, what sounds they make)
He is unashamed with his moans and whines, any little noise that wants to get out, and can be loud but he can’t see the issue
However, when there are complaints, he can get obnoxiously louder out of spite.
W = Wild Card (Get a random headcanon for the character of your choice)
Because of his situation, his insecurities, he gets quite easily jealous over any possible sexual interest you could show to anyone else. He trusts you implicitly, he just thinks that he isn’t the most physically appealing person
To take that jealousy out of his system, he makes you cum in the nearest possibly-private place he can, hoping that whoever it is that is causing the jealousy might come by and see that they have no chance
X = X-Ray (Let’s see what’s going on in those pants, picture or words)
As almost everyone who knows him will know, he’s got a pretty big dick. While they know from his bragging and overly descriptive recollections of nights or even hours before, you know from the ache that lasts for hours after sex
Y = Yearning (How high is their sex drive?)
Wade is always down for sex. He’s insatiable, having gotten you both in trouble multiple times for sneaking away to fuck when you should be focusing on something else
Z = ZZZ (… how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)
When you’re both settled down in bed, he’ll make a point of staying awake after you’ve fallen asleep so he can be more obviously worriedly-overjoyed that he has you in his life and his bed and his heart
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If You Close One Eye - Chapter Two
Ships: Han Jisung | Han/Lee Minho | Lee Know, Bang Chan/Yang Jeongin | I.N, If you really squint you can notice Lix is into Binnie, Hyunjin was into everyone once
Characters: All the kids, The ex kid isn't here I edited him out, Other Character Tags to Be Added
Trigger warnings: panic attack, ptsd, original character death, homophobia, original character cheating, descriptive imagery.
Word count: 5878
Chapter: 2/?
Next / previous / first
Tags: Murder Mystery, amateur detective minho, Soulmates, not your typical soulmate AU, Alternate Universe - College/University, Slow Burn, Slow Build, good things take time let it slowburn, minho is singlehandedly responsible for the slow burn so blame him, no soulmates in this universe only they are, criminology student minho, art student jisung, POV Third Person, chan deserves better and he does indeed get better don't worry, art references please look stuff up, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, best sibling bond ever.
"If you close one eye, you can see what your soulmate sees"
Born with one eye an unnatural golden color, Minho and Jisung have been forced to cover them up with colored lenses in order to blend into society.
The magic to their eyes? Even they still didn't know.
This is the story of how criminology major and dance minor Lee Minho found himself hopelessly in love with the serial killer, local artist Han.
[Alternatively, let's see how long I can make these two dumbasses pine without one of them snapping. Edit: they finally did]
[Also WARNING: a HUGE amount of Jeongchan ahead, it's not subtle at all! So much fluff--]
The streets of Seoul bustled as night fell, clubs and pubs lighting their headlights for the passerby's attention. Not a single soul felt real then- as if it was all nothing more than a scene in the movie. Most importantly he knew, not one person dedicated a thought to Minho at that time.
Sitting at the edge of the bed, he had no urge to cry. The tears ended, they've gone, he was past that. Instead, the shock had settled back in. Even his warm, soft covers and a light breeze from outside couldn't comfort him now. The distant sound of civilization... it all proved no use as he dissociated farther.
Calling the police had been an easy first step, so was giving his account of the incident. No, the hard part came in between.
Laying there waiting for help had been... jarring. Lightly said it was hell; crying, scared and anguished, it hadn't even hit yet that he found what he asked for, have been looking for over the last few weeks. All he knew was that he will never forget the sight, and as the sun went down, he kept his light on; terrified of falling asleep.
Blinking rapidly, even late into the night it hadn't left him. Should he call his old psychiatrist? The hallucinations didn't seem to return despite his distress, at least. No pills kept them away, but they hadn't worsened at all like he feared.
Sitting frozen in place he recounted the voice answering his emergency call, deep and reassuring. The warm hands which pulled him to his feet, the worried gaze of the patrolling officer- a kindhearted man in uniform who hugged and comforted him until he calmed down enough to speak coherently. He remembered the backup call for investigation crew one, staying in the man's hold until others arrived. He remembered a tall man speaking, another squeezing his shoulder and commanding the others.
He remembered the officer taking him to the station, same one who found him in that state, the kind mister Kim- worriedly glancing at him as he drove. The tall one joined them, only ceasing in his stream of questions after a pointed glare from Kim.
"Pill, he's the only witness. There was a corpse out there." The tall man defended, crossing his arms and looking out the window without another word.
Arriving there, Minho was struck by how much he wanted to go home. Not to his apartment, mother or sister, not to anywhere he could set his mind to either, but a home he didn't have, didn't know at that time.
"Come on, lets get you some water." Kim offered, leading Minho inside with a warm hand on his back, not before taking his backpack away and placing it where belongings of suspects went presumably.
"Are you cold?" He asked worriedly, noticing the slight shiver that went through Minho as he sat down.
At his hesitant nod Kim left his side, talking in hushed tones to another worker before returning and ruffling Minho's hair.
"I'm heading back out; someone has to stay on patrol. Jae, be nice." He warned, stepping out of the room.
As he left, the worker from before had entered back in carrying a yellow blanket and a cup, and Minho dully noted that he seemed a few years younger than himself. An intern?
A loud cough brought his attention to who he understood by now was an investigator- the tall guy who joined them in the ride, dubbed Jae by officer Kim.
"Are you okay to start?" he asked.
And so, they did.
Turning his gaze to the window in present day, Minho tried his best to forget the things said at his investigation as it led to farther memories of the incident. Passing his statement had gone fine, leading up to his release. The officer had been kind enough to drive him home without being asked, not wanting him to roam the streets in his shaken-up state. He imagined they would summon him back tomorrow, seeing as he collected a lot of valuable information on Chelle's case over time, but that had been it.
Should he look up cat videos? Minho sniffed, shuffling back till his back hit the wall. A sudden movement made him jump, relaxing immediately when he saw Dori and Soonie both jumped up to check on him.
"I'm okay, don't worry." He lied, wiping at his face with a sleeve.
An unfinished drawing; the field from today, Seoul's towers in the distance.
"…I'm not, I'm not okay." Minho corrected, bitterness filling his mouth.
He jumped up, running to crane over the toilet as nausea hit. He didn't even have any dinner, but his appetite had fled the scene for now, so it didn't matter. First night, it was only the first night- he'll get better for sure, he promised himself. He was only shocked, this can't be the end of normalcy for him. He still had a lot to look forward to, he didn't want this day to scar the rest of his life, wouldn't let it.
For now, he let himself go through it. He didn't even like Chelle, but that never meant he wanted this to happen. What was he expecting, anyway? For her to show up one day, alive and well as if nothing happened? On some level this was inevitable, wasn't it?
Dragging his feet to the kitchen, he fixed himself a glass of water and headed back to bed, where he sat and waited for sunrise. He had a few assignments still due, but he was in no mindset to do those.
Eventually light broke, dark circles evident under Minho's eyes. He got up, picking four of the empty water cups to put away and making some coffee for a change.
It was around seven AM that a knock sounded, alerting Minho who's been nodding off and shaking awake with a shiver every couple of minutes for the past hour and a half.
He stood, head spinning as he opened the door to a policeman he only vaguely recognized as the one left in charge of the scene the day before.
"…Minho, right?" The officer started after a while, undoubtedly noticing Minho's tired eyes and deciding to drop the formalities for the time being.
"I am. You have questions for me?" Minho confirmed, fighting the urge to sigh deeply.
"I do. Would you mind if we head out? I can wait for you to change, if you'd like." The cop asked.
Minho stared, realizing he hadn't changed or washed up over the past 24 hours. In comparison, the cop had been clean shaven- black hair in a pretty cut that ended right over his ears. His eyes, sharp and fox like, seemed to hold just the right amount of chill and wit expected of a detective. Moreover, he seemed a sharp contrast to last night's tall detective wearing round glasses, short blond hair messed by wind and small eyes tired yet warm.
"I'd rather we head out right away." Minho decided, trying his best not to let himself get intimidated. Describing the first detective as tall might have been fair, yet standing next to the seemingly icy man he realized he too had a good eight centimeters on him- he was just built a bit wider.
"Before we go, you said yesterday that you have files with information on the case. I'd like to see those" The man requested. Minho nodded, speeding to his bedside where his bag had been left stranded containing everything he's gathered before he left for yesterday's search.
He blinked hard, hoping to stay alert even at his tired state as he handed over his recent list of loose ends. Despite doing so, he failed to notice the man's impressed gaze scanning over the information. "Let's go." He said eventually, seeming oddly pleased. "Bring the bag with you."
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The car ride had been silent for a while, Minho struggling to stay awake and missing all the concerned glances the other took in his direction. It was broken, eventually, by an unexpected offer trailing from the driver's side.
"Up for some coffee?" The cop asked, eyes twinkling as a cheeky smile spread across his features. Shocked, Minho nodded and noted over to himself- never judge by first impression. The moment the cop smiled, the ice broke- it was as if all the stars in the universe found a new home in his eyes, lips shaped in a heart.
The cop huffed a laughter, and Minho wondered how that person ever left a cold impression to begin with. "I'm gonna get an iced americano for me, what would you like?"
"The same." Minho said quietly, flustered. The cop hummed, obviously agreeing with that choice before his smile grew even more, a feat Minho hadn't thought was possible.
"Hold on," he instructed, stopping the car near a café and stepping outside. Soon enough he returned, two cups of iced americanos and a small croissant in hand.
"You look tired, some sugar might do you good." He explained, and it turned clear to Minho that he was one kind gesture away from breaking into tears.
"Let's go, I have questions still." Ah, there it was. Alright, fair enough- he might have been playing the role of the good cop, there was no need to take it personally.
.
At the station, Minho was faced with a few familiar faces; The tall blond detective, and the boy who brought him a blanket. Officer Kim, however, was nowhere in sight. Instead, a new addition was some guy seated on a waiting chair meant for fugitives, sleeping with a hand thrown over his face, covered head to toe in blankets and snoring quietly.
"Sit down." The blond detective instructed, pointing with his chin towards the chair he had sat in before, next to an office table with two additional chairs on its inner side. The detective himself had elected to lean against the wall, as if rejecting the idea of sitting next to his partner during this.
"Look at this." The black haired commented lowly, placing the bag they brought in the other's hands before sitting in the chair opposite of Minho.
"Would you like some water?" A voice piped in. Looking to his left, Minho found that it was the boy. Black hair messy, he could now tell for sure he wasn't an employee since he wasn't in uniform, and Minho dumbly recalled that he wasn't wearing it the day former either. Smiling lightly, he shook his head- he still had some of his iced americano left.
"Let's go over these again- You are: Lee Minho, a major in criminology, minors in dance. Twenty-one years old."
"Yes." Minho confirmed confidently.
"Yesterday, late afternoon, you were following Chelle's tracks, a girl who's dated your sister and has gone missing without notice. Attending a location that she had occupied in her last moments according to her Instagram page, you have encountered her corpse. Is that correct?"
"Yes." Minho confirmed, quieter this time.
"Over the passing weeks since her disappearance, you have acquired extensive information on Chelle's life and behavioral patterns, coming to know her well- leading to her discovery."
Minho nodded. Please be done soon…
"This was done under the request of your younger sister, eighteen-year-old Lee Ryujin."
"Almost nineteen." Minho corrected numbly. Her birthday was due next week, so nineteen.
"This is good." The tall detective commented, startling the table's occupants. He handed out the papers, slamming them on the table.
"You were right, Bri. We could use that kind of mindset." He continued, throwing Minho into a state of confusion. What was this about?
A groan behind them made the black-haired detective straighten up, leading to Minho looking behind him as well. "Oh, you're awake?"
The sleeping man stretched, making a few painful sounds and moving his hand away from his face. At the sudden recognition, Minho couldn't help but stare.
"Chan?" he asked, disbelief clear in his tired voice.
"Minho? You’re here too." He noted, taking in where he was as his expression fell horribly.
"We called him in after you went home. You can leave, you know." The tall detective commented in a hard tone, hinting on the fact he had told him this numerous times before.
"I can't go home like this; I need to know what happened." Chan insisted, sitting up and leaning his face into his hands. The image had been devastating, unlike anything Minho expected of Chan's character. At that moment the intern returned, carrying a big cup of nice smelling brown liquid and offering it to the grieving man quietly. As he accepted, the intern sat by him and comfortingly held his hand- a kind gesture, filling Minho with sudden affection towards the boy.
"To be honest, we didn't bring you in for questioning." The dark-haired detective spoke, capturing Minho's attention once more.
"We need people who think like you," he continued, communicating with his partner with his eyes, sending him off somewhere-
"And we were wondering if you would agree to an internship, here, with our team."
Minho perked up, surprised. An internship? What for? Why? And how come?
"We investigate hard cases, where people have gone missing or worse. There are a few other teams, this is response crew one. Generally speaking, we are in charge of district nine as well as that part of Seoul's outskirts."
Minho froze, adrenaline starting to pump through his body. "You want me to investigate missing person cases?"
The detective paused, eyes turning sad. "That might be a bit much at this time. Please consider it."
The blond detective returned, carrying a few files which he offered to Minho. "The terms aren't bad, right Innie?"
Minho turned, making eye contact with the boy. "Pretty good. I don't deal with investigations though; I'd rather make coffee." He added.
Reading his terms, they did seem pretty good. The pay was high, and he was promised to get credited over cases he took part in. As for hours, they seemed to be flexible enough for a college student to partake.
What?
Minho stopped, eyes lifting from the paper. Never in his life did he intend to pursue a career as a police detective, hadn’t considered it seriously even. The offer itself had nothing attractive about it, nothing to aid him in his career path and ultimately-
It meant, what happened yesterday?
That will happen again.
Minho felt himself choking up even as he made an effort to settle his breath. These people expected him, they really thought he could go through it again. It hadn't been a day, and still-
What kind of obscure offer was that?
Minho stood, turning away with the intent of leaving that place for good. From the other side, the detective had sighed. "Could you take the papers with you? Think about it?"
It was then that Minho looked up and saw, Chan had been looking at him all that while. He didn't seem judging or tired, although his eyes were red, they were filled with expectations. It seemed that, without knowing Minho that well, he fully believed the other would take and sign those papers, and it hit him that for Chan he was the only real detective at presence.
Had he not taken that request from Ryujin… he wouldn't have found her. He wouldn't have seen it, he wouldn't, and then...
And then she'd have stayed there.
And no one would have ever found her, because no one was looking. Even if Chan was looking, he never would have found her, because none of the information he gave was what led to her and because Chan was not Minho, didn't think like him.
And that wasn't okay.
"Oh?" The tall detective sounded, pleasantly surprised as Minho sat back down and pulled a pen out of the batch near the computer, neatly signing his name in big letters. If he didn't, he knew it would haunt him forever, the thought that he would have left Chelle to lay in a field if given a chance.
"What can I say kid, welcome to the crew."
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After that, he had learned the names of all the office workers. The detective in charge; Park Jaehyung or Jae, his partner; called Young K on the field, Kang Younghyun normally and Brian by close friends. Their boss, an impressive man named Park Sungjin, would show up here and there but mostly worked odd hours. The head of the emergency call unit who had coincidentally picked up his call was a shy man named Yoon Dowoon, and head officer Kim- the title had Jae wheezing for air, was normally called Kim Wonpil. The intern, referred to as Innie by the others, stood up and formally introduced himself as Yang Jeongin, grin shining brightly enough to draw everyone's eyes to himself.
"For Chelle's case." Young k spoke up, immediately drawing Chan and Minho's attention.
"We found that she had shot herself. Her parents asked to cremate her as soon as we called, but the forensics team decided to get an autopsy anyway. It seems that the time of death was right around the upload of her last post, which makes it a bit difficult to tell if there is anything more to it. We have no reason to suspect that much, either."
As he went on, Chan covered his mouth, tears beginning to spill from his eyes.
"Some things we found a bit strange, but it could be that a wild animal got to the scene before us. Since the art suggests she went there herself, it isn't too far fetched to assume she went out to die."
Minho stared at the ground, hand lifting to pass his fingers through his hair. "Can I call my sister?"
Young k nodded. "Of course. Go ahead."
Minho fished his phone out, staring at Ryujin's contact. He hadn't found it in him to call her last night, but now that its been confirmed he had no other choice.
"Hello! Oppa? How are you?" Ryujin voice sounded, breaking Minho's heart farther.
"Ryu, where are you?" He asked, skipping formalities.
"I'm at home! Did anything happen?" She asked, concerned.
"Please sit down." Minho instructed, stalling.
"Yes? I'm seated. Are you alright? What's going on?" She asked with slight panic.
"I'm at a police station. I found Chelle yesterday, Ryu, she didn't make it." Minho said, hoping to make the pain quick.
"What? What do you mean she didn't make it?" Ryujin asked, confused.
Young k grimaced, gesturing for Minho to pass him the phone. As he did, he elected not to put her on speaker.
"Ryujin? This is Officer Kang speaking. We regret to inform you that my crew has recovered the body of Chelle, twenty-one-year-old, yesterday during late afternoon."
The cries that followed will remain in Minho's memory for the rest of his life, and suddenly he felt thankful to Young K for letting the memory relate to himself, a cop, rather than Ryujin's brother.
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The ride back home had been uneventful, Young K deciding to leave Minho be in his fatigued state. By now his head had started to pound, making it clear he wouldn't make another night without sleep.
Frustrated, Minho lifted a hand to rub over his face. There it was: the drawing of the field, now colored more fully. It seemed that this particular hallucination would stay with him a while.
"Are you okay?" Young k asked, worried but not overbearing. No, he wasn't okay- but that was a private issue.
"As okay as I can be." He replied, hoping to end it at that. Young k nodded, full focus back on the road.
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That night's sleep had been broken, Minho waking up every thirty or less minutes from vivid nightmares he couldn't fight off. By morning it felt as if his head was split in two, and he couldn't imagine attending his classes for the day. Instead he stayed in, arm thrown over his eyes in despair. He will get through this, he better.
Soon, for sure- he will get to sleep. Right?
Deciding to at least fix himself up, Minho stood up and took off his shirt as a start. Walking over to the bathroom sink, he brushed his teeth lazily for a while and checked the dark circles under his eyes. Next, he took his good cleanser and foamed it, spreading it on his face before washing it off. Toweling off the right side of his face, he could read big letters written on a whiteboard.
Example number one: the post-impressionistic art of Vincent Van Gogh
Notable works: Wheat Field With Crows, Starry Night, Sunflower On A Vessel, The Potato Eaters.
Background: Born in 1853, Van Gogh has been traveling for most his life, finding inspiration in different places and subjects. Van Gogh had famously suffered from prolonged psychotic episodes that were reflected heavily in his art, resulting in him taking his own life on 1890.
Minho blinked, faced back with nothing but his reflection. He picked up the dropped towel, a striking thought sending shivers down his spine.
There was no way, was there?
Jogging back to his bedside, he picked up his phone with shaking hands before typing the painter's name into the search bar. Changing his mind, he deleted it- he'd be out of his mind to think that a hallucination of his could be of importance. This was a result of his mind playing tricks, nothing more, and he should remember that. Hold on to reality, don't confuse it with illusion.
The illusions, he thought, might be worsening after all.
Turning back to finish what he started, Minho picked out his contact lens and stripped the rest of the way, stepping into a warm relieving shower. However, he couldn't shake the feeling of being watched- not disturbingly so, but somehow reassuringly. He stared at air, reminding himself that the bathroom had no windows and trying to empty his head.
On the other end of the bathroom, the mirror had fogged up.
When done, Minho threw on a hoodie and joggers, deciding to go on a run despite his exhaustion. Staying here, he though, would do him no good.
It was late noon when his phone rang, Jae calling him up to the station. Everything had progressed so fast, But Minho figured it was a better pace for coping rather than dwelling on each unfortunate development in his life.
Fortunately, he had been near the station at that point, having refused to return to the stifling apartment after his Jog. As he ran there, he was comforted once again by the feeling of normalcy- the couples, children and teenagers roaming the streets with no fear. Soon, he swore. Soon he'll recover and feel as unbothered as they do, as he used to feel.
Once at the station Minho was confused to see Chan once more, seated on the waiting chair as he had last time. Rather than greeting him or even glancing his way at the sound of the door closing, the blond seemed occupied with daydreams. Following his gaze, Minho figured he was probably fixated on nothing in particular, seeing as it fell on the unexciting sight of Jeongin watering some flowerpots by the windowsill.
"Hello to you too." Rang Jae's voice from where he was standing at the start of the corridor. Minho turned, realizing he had completely ignored the man earlier.
"Hello hyung. How are you?" He asked calmly, hoping to sooth the other's anger, that he hadn't realized was non-existent.
"If you talk politely to Jae, he's going to grow a bigger ego." Warned a smooth voice that entered behind Minho, softly closing the door behind him.
"Officer Kim!" Minho called, smiling at the man he recognized as his savior during what was arguably the most scarring experience in his life. At the title the man smiled, and Minho could swear he saw flowers bloom around him for added effect, a bright halo shining around his head like a real-life saint sent by god himself.
"I heard you've joined team one! That's very impressive. I'll have you know they're the best of the best, you can learn a lot by interning here with them. That and I'm glad you seem to be better, I kept worrying about you, you know."
Minho's eyes warmed, turning glossy. That was a very cool thing to say, which was probably what warranted Jae to speak next.
"You say that and then pretend to be some hero. You're just Wonpil, resident snake." He commented, eyes squinting with pretend annoyance. Ah, Minho noted. So, they are friends.
A small rustling of Jeongin squeezing past Jae into the hallway averted Minho's attention back to Chan, who still hadn't spoken a word. Comically, it seemed, his gaze followed the intern.
"Chan?" Minho asked, slight amusement sneaking into his voice. Chan sighed, moving his gaze to the floor. It seemed that he had been quite out of it, and Minho suddenly wondered if Chan had it any better, or if he too was unable to sleep like himself.
"Chan!" he tried again, this time snapping the elder out of his trans.
"Minho? Hello! How long have you been standing there? Hyungs too?" He asked, visibly flustered.
"You'd be surprised." Jae chuckled, quickly correcting himself to lessen the blow,
"Not too long, don't worry. I get like that too when I work."
Chan hummed, marking the end of the discussion. Accepting that fact, Jae had instead picked up his explanation of the relevant topic at hand.
"Chan, since you're here as Dowoon's volunteer, I expect you to take responsibility and show us we can count on your help. You two won't go through the same materials, obviously, since detectives in training don’t correspond with call receptors at all, but since Dowoon is busy I agreed to take you in for the general introduction to the law system. I assume Minho doesn't need this sort of thing?"
Minho shook his head, processing the new information. Then, Chan came to volunteer at the emergency call center? That sounded impressive. As for training, at least, his college classes would be of some use.
"Great. To make a point, I am also busy- and I'm going to be busier with Minho from now on. Please ask Jeongin for help if it's anything basic, he knows his way around better than maybe half the newly hired cops, even if he says he wants no part of it."
After the short disclaimer, Jae made way for a closet at the end of the room. Unlocking it smoothly, he pulled out some neat files to lay on the table. Turning to a shorter cabinet on the other end of the room, he struggled with the lock numbers, eventually asking Wonpil for help. When they did crack it open, it made a rusted sound- creaking and opening painfully with force. Pulling out a thick, heavy book from the bottom, Jae sneezed with feeling- erupting a tall cloud of the dust that gathered on top of it.
"Jesus." He commented, wiping his nose. Figuring out the outcome, Minho stifled a laugh as the taller dumped the dusty book unceremoniously into Chan's arms, causing the other to stagger a bit.
"Good luck." Minho mouthed, earning a nose scrunch in return. It was essential to find pleasure in the little things in life, such as being spared of having to read that monstrous fossil and getting to watch Chan suffer through it instead.
"Get started on that, then. Minho, come take a look." Jae instructed, Wonpil sending Chan a look full of sympathy.
And so, it begun.
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Over the past week Minho had gotten used to the reduced amount of sleep he was getting, returning to his classes and working as earnestly as ever. After classes ended on some days, he would pay a visit to the station, where training went by surprisingly fast and without an issue. At night, he would still fail to rest for over forty minutes at a time- but that was sure to get better, wasn't it?
Before he knew it, life settled back in a routine.
Entering the office, Minho sighed at the sight of Chan, staring dreamily at Jeongin's back. That weird habit of his had started to turn less spontaneous, everyone noticed- yet collectively decided not to address it. Looking over to Jeongin, the boy had probably noticed as well, judging by the soft blush spreading onto his ears.
"Minho! Good, I have a lot to show you today." Young k welcomed, walking out of the hallway and over to the table they always used. As Minho looked over, he noticed Jae was present as well, although he seemed to be in a sour mood.
"We talked for a while and decided to hand you some cold and ongoing cases to read. Personally I find closed cases a little boring, and we don't want you to try and adopt our own thinking patterns as guidelines -creativity is important, it's why you're here-, so I vetoed we won't give those to you."
Minho nodded, sitting down and accepting the folder Young K offered. "These are some girls and boys who have gone missing, we hadn't found helpful leads on them since."
At the numerous pictures, Minho's anxiety peaked. "So many?" he asked in petrified shock, earning a deeper frown from Jae.
"It's more often than it seems that people are reported missing. A larger number of people we have found successfully, safe and sound, and a smaller number were not as lucky. All in all, we experience many more successful investigations than futile ones, but remember that cold cases gather over time, and some of these are still in the process of investigation."
Minho swallowed, looking over pictures. There was one girl in particular who slightly resembled Ryujin, whose image he had to put away quickly before his mind got to make that into brand new nightmare fuel.
"You don't have to choose by face," Young k intervened, taking away the pictures before farther scarring could be caused.
"We can choose one for you. What do you say?" He offered, looking to Jae at the lack of reply from Minho.
Jae sighed, expression signaling that he was less than pleased to face Minho with the cases, and Minho wondered if he was touchy over sharing what he ultimately failed to crack. After a moment Jae had fixed his attitude, pulling an unusually thick file from the closet and slamming it next to the folder.
"This girl, her case has been cold for four weeks, making eight weeks in total since she had gone missing. If you have any insight on the matter," he paused,
"Please report to me. I've been working on her since the day she went missing."
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Reading the files for a while, Minho had eventually requested to take them home. At his request, Young K beamed with pride- telling him that of course he could, under the condition that he takes care not to damage them.
That night he had spent reading. Min-ra, seventeen-year-old; no enemies, no behavioral issues, no dating history. A happy girl to all who knew her, confident and comfortable in her own skin. Independent, she would spend some nights attending high school parties and sleeping over with minimal concern from her parents. As such, she hadn't been reported missing until 34 hours of silence.
Minho switched through pictures, saddened at a pretty selfie the girl took by a window and posted online the night before. The view had felt familiar, similar to the one from his own room, and he wondered if she too liked to sit next to her window and watch the cars drive on occasion.
From the window Minho could see a main road, littered with pubs and restaurants whose signs have been lit beautifully in preparation for the night crowd. By whim he had looked up her address- she lived in the other end of the district with both her parents, a little sister and two cats. Relieved, he looked up a map anyway, and quickly noticed a detail that piqued his interest.
Looking at the map, the kid's house was located in a family friendly apartment building block near a wide road that seemed easy to drive on to reach her place. However, said road only split from the main road a considerable distance away from the apartment, and made a few inconvenient twists that could prolong the way for any vehicle by about ten minutes.
Tracing the channels with his fingers, Minho noticed that a straight distance towards the main road led to a convenient bus stop, and immediately concluded that the alleys connecting the two could easily serve as a shortcut. At that realization, Minho's blood froze, and he hoped to be wrong on his developing theory.
A closer look had provided farther support. For a convenient shortcut, a person would have to pass in an alley that went a short distance behind one of the main road's clubs. Breath hitching, Minho threw on a pair of shoes and ran down to start his car, not minding that he was still in sweatpants and a tee, ignoring the fact it had been four AM and that he could possibly be faced with the drunk crowd himself. Blood searing in his ears, he couldn't cease in his movement until he stood there, dark alleys curving into a spot for large waste containers.
Picking his phone, he numbly dialed Jae's number, hoping the other would pick up.
"Minho? Do you have any idea what time it is? What are you doing awake-" Jae ranted, exposing the fact he hasn't been sleeping either.
"Hyung, I'm sorry but, you need to get over here." Minho choked breathlessly. In front of him stood a huge garbage container, filled to the brim with trash that clearly hadn't been vacated for at least two months. The scent coming off the pile had been so horribly and sickingly sweet, that Minho didn't have to guess anymore. To make himself clear, he rephrased: speaking with his shirt over his nose.
"The girl, your cold case- I found her, she died. I texted you the address, so please be quick hyung."
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Jisung hummed, finishing up a work he had started a week former and signing with a HAN at the edge. Depicting water had always been a bit hard, but the image was so vividly burned into his mind that he couldn't help it. Pastel art of a foggy bathroom mirror showcasing the torso and upward of a showering man, face blurred by steam- it was so beautiful he could cry.
Checking the time, Jisung wasn't even surprised to find that he stayed up till near four AM painting again- that much was normal and happened fairly often. Stretching and rubbing his left eye, he left a trail of color on his cheek at the sudden new imagery of a club at night. Rolling his shoulders, he sighed and set out a new canvas; it's not like he had an intention to sleep tonight anyway.
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My Favourite Creepy and Abandoned Places From Around the World
Ever since I was a little girl, I have been obsessed with researching and reading about creepy and abandoned towns or places around the world, whether it was notorious (supposedly) haunted buildings, abandoned hotels and neighbourhoods, or forgotten cities and towns that now lie in decay. I think the appeal lay in the possibility of these places being more than what they seemed or what was readily apparent, a skewing of everyday realities into something atypically fascinating. I will share some of my favourite creepy and abandoned places from around the world below.
Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA
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The inspiration for the video game and movie, ‘Silent Hill,’ Centralia today is a near-ghost town occupied by only 10 people (according to the 2017 census) due to a fire that has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. That year, there was a trash fire in a strip mine beneath the town which ignited a blaze that rages with the same fury today as it did 57 years ago. On a Sunday, the day before Memorial Day, the townsfolk had decided that the best method of taking care of the landfill trash heap before the festivities began was to set fire to it - a very common practice back then. The problem was that Centralia had been a major coal mining area in the past, and the landfill was located on top of an old coal mine.
They set the fire on May 25th. The fire latched onto an old coal seam from the mine and slowly spread throughout the mines under the city.Even though the visible flames were doused throughout the day on the 25th, more fires were spotted on May 29th. This pattern of putting out fires and finding them sprouting up again days later would continue for weeks. And when there weren’t visible fires, residents complained about the constant smell of smouldering trash and coal. Authorities tried for years to extinguish the fire. They pumped a slurry of ash, water, and rocks into the mine, but nothing worked. Eventually, they had no choice but to give up, and the city was condemned.
The Centralia mine fire led to the city being all but abandoned. Families were relocated to neighbouring towns. Today, the surface of the streets is no longer hot like it was previously, since the fire has moved down deeper into the earth. But smoke can still be found creeping out of the ground in places. The ground has been so weakened by half a century of fire that a sinkhole can open anywhere at any moment. Portions of Route 61 just outside the city had to be closed and redirected since it’s not safe to drive there. Furthermore, since the coal from the underground mines produces deadly carbon monoxide, the air isn’t safe to breathe in certain areas. Centralia today looks like it has been hit by the apocalypse. Some have gone so far as to describe the eerie place as hell on earth. There are cracking tar roads with smoke billowing out of them, graffiti on abandoned, derelict buildings and signs to warn people that the ground could swallow you at any minute.  There are more graves at the cemetery than there are people in the town. Centralia now mostly attracts tourists who visit the  abandoned highway, where many profanities and obscene pictures are spray painted. 
Pripyat, Ukraine
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Pripyat is a ghost town in the northern part of the Ukraine, near the Ukraine-Belarus border, famous for being the town closest to the No. 4 reactor involved in the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear power plant disaster of all time. On the 26th of April, 1986, during a test to see how much power was needed to keep the No. 4 reactor operating in the event of a blackout, the No. 4 reactor exploded, causing a fire which released an extremely dangerous amount of radioactive chemicals in the air.
Pripyat, which was founded in 1970 and had a population of around 49,000 at the time of the explosion, was located only about three kilometres from the explosion. As a result, the entire city was forced to evacuate on April 27th, 1986, in just three hours. Over three decades later, this ghost town is a freeze-frame of the Soviet Union in 1986. Communist propaganda still hangs on walls, and personal belongings from the residents who lived there long ago still litter the streets and the abandoned buildings. The hammer and sickle emblems of communism still decorate lamp-posts, awaiting May Day celebrations that never took place, and toys are strewn about a school house where they were last dropped by children who are now fully grown. All clocks in the area are frozen at 11:55, the moment the electricity was cut.
The IAEA estimates that approximately 30 people were initially killed by the explosion and related radiation exposure, with several thousand additional deaths due to higher cancer incidence possible over the long term. As with any site where a number of people have lost their lives, Pripyat is rife with ghost stories. In 1997, Andrei Kharsukov, a visiting nuclear physicist, told one such story, stating that he went to the power station at 7:30 a.m., and went to the No. 4 reactor sarcophagus, which is where the explosion occurred. He could not go inside due to radiation, but as he took radiation readings, he heard someone screaming for rescue from a fire inside. The reactor door required a password and a hand-print, but as he claimed, someone, or something, was inside. Another pretty unsettling theory was that the radioactive detonation caused a select few not to die. In fact, quite the opposite. It gave them enhanced strength and speed, with the downside being that it made them zombies. 
These days, the site has become a tourist destination, with the government giving interested individuals a pass to tour the areas of Pripyat, including schools, hospitals, houses, apartment buildings, and even the amusement park and shipyard. It is also possible to visit the actual site where the explosion happened, but visitors must stay at least 200 meters away in the case of any radiation that escapes the Number 4 Nuclear Reactor Sarcophagus, built to keep in any more radiation.
Flinders Highway, Queensland, Australia
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Known as ‘Queensland’s own Wolf Creek,’ which refers to an Australian horror movie franchise of the same name, it is speculated that this lonely 754-kilometre stretch of road is the hunting ground for Australia’s longest-running serial killer, spanning 40+ years. The Flinders Highway that turns into the Barkly Highway is an isolated, remote stretch of bitumen between Townsville and Mt. Isa , and is known as “The Highway of Death”. The blood-red ranges, open plains and dry river beds surrounding its rugged terrain have stood as silent witness to at least 12 unsolved cold cases and chilling killings, including the 37-year-old murder mystery of hitch-hiker Tony Jones; Catherine Graham, who was found dead at Anthill Creek, west of Townsville, in 1975 (her head had been bashed in with a rock); the Mackay sisters, Judith and Susan, whose bodies were found stabbed, raped and strangled (they were only 5 and 7 years old), Gordon Twaddle, along with Timothy Thompson and Karen Edwards, who were all found shot in the head near Mt. Isa in 1978, Robin Hoinville-Bartram, whose skeletal remains were found west of Charters Towers (she’d been shot in the head, execution style), and Anita Cunningham, who disappeared in 1972 whilst hitchhiking with Robin, to name a few. Most recently, 22-year-old Jayden Penno-Tompsett went missing from the highway on New Year’s Eve in 2017, on his way to Cairns. 
As stated by the brother of one of the missing people, “It is it’s own world out there. Strange things do happen in those wild, empty spaces.” The long-running list of missing and murdered individuals seem to point to this stretch of road being a place that is best to avoid. Nevertheless, hitch-hiking is still common practice along the Flinders Highway, with countless unsuspecting people putting their lives at risk every day.
‘The Crystal Highway’ (Rockhampton to Mackay), Queensland, Australia
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On a related note, just south of Flinders Highway, the drive from Rockhampton to Mackay is almost just as terrifying and taxing. Known as the “Central Queensland Badlands,” due to the fact that it is a worthless stretch of scrubby floodplain that separates the cattle country of Rockhampton from the canefields of Mackay. It is a very spooky landscape, perhaps due to the isolation one feels when driving through it. Alternatively, it is also known as the “Horror Stretch,” due to a combination of the eerie but boredom-inducing, unpicturesque nothingness of the drive, the number of fatal crashes that have happened along this highway, and the list of disappearances and murders that have occurred along it. 
The most infamous murder was Noel Weckert, a skydiver driving with his wife to a jumpers' carnival in Rockhampton, who was found slumped, still seat-belted, in the front seat of his Toyota Celica. He had been shot dead through the head with a .22 calibre rifle, probably while sleeping. Meanwhile, the bloated, sun-broiled body of his wife, also shot through the head, was found two weeks later in a creek, where she had apparently fled her attackers. Eventually two men were charged with what became known as the Connors River murders, and were sentenced to life imprisonment, but not before more ghosts and more stories from the Horror Stretch, some real, some imagined, had emerged, including a couple of English holidaymakers similarly shot at by a sniper; a 14-year-old girl that went missing; a 26-year-old Aboriginal woman that was sexually assaulted, murdered and dumped in the Fitzroy River, and more travellers, two from Sydney, shot as they slept in sleeping bags by the roadside. 
These stories are even more terrifying to me since I have in fact travelled this highway myself whilst on holiday, and can thus attest to its uneasy atmosphere. We decided not to have lunch in Rockhampton, figuring we’d be able to find a diner on the way up to Airlie Beach, only to discover that there weren’t any places to eat for at least 250 kilometres, and my husband ended up being so tired that we didn’t reach our destination, a camping site near Airlie Beach, until the next day. We decided to sleep by the road-side that night, but I didn’t get much shut-eye at all. I didn’t read about this highway’s reputation until months after I visited it, but once I read it, it made perfect sense, and I feel as if I survived something quite eerie indeed. 
Lier Psychiatric Hospital, Norway
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A list like this wouldn’t be complete without the inclusion of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and I wanted to avoid being typical by including one from Norway, instead of the usual lists that include ones from America. Reading about this place made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up in all the right ways, and was the inspiration for one of my short stories. Located in the middle of nowhere, just outside Oslo (the capital of Norway), this hospital has a long history as an institution. The sickest people in society were stowed away here and went from being people to being test subjects in the pharmaceutical industry’s search for new and better drugs. The massive buildings house the memory of a grim chapter in Norwegian psychiatric history the authorities would rather forget. Here, the staff tested new medicines, lobotomy, electroshock “therapy,” and drugs like LSD on the patients in hope it could make them better. Those that were tested on frequently failed to ever leave and died on hospital grounds, as is apparent by the old suitcases still stuffed full of clothes located in some of the rooms even today. Today, the only visitors are teenagers going there at nights looking for ghosts and soaking up the spooky atmosphere.
Island of the Dolls, New Mexico, Mexico
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Even though this island is now totally abandoned, over 50 years ago, a man named Don Julian Santana left his wife and kids and moved there to live the rest of his life alone. When he was living there, the body of a dead little girl came floating up in one of the canals. Don Julian thought he had become haunted by her spirit. He began to collect dolls and decorate the island with them. He would trade vegetables and fruits in exchange for any dolls. The dolls were believed to be used by Don Julian as a shrine for the spirit that haunted him. He continuously collected dolls and decorated them all over the island, until he died.
These days, hundreds of these terrifying dolls, their severed limbs, decapitated heads, and blank eyes adorn trees in varying states of decay. Since Don Julian’s death in 2001, the place has become a popular tourist attraction, where visitors bring more dolls to put on display.
Lincoln Way, Clairton, Pennsylvania, USA
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If you’ve ever wondered what the world would be like if you fast-forwarded into the future only to find yourself standing in the midst of a post-apocalyptic world, one main road in Clairton, Pennsylvania would definitely fire up your imagination. Once a lively cul-de-sac residential street with 16 homes, all that’s left are abandoned, crumbling homes, overgrown trees and bushes and the crumbling asphalt roadway and sidewalks. What exactly happened on Lincoln Way that made everybody abandon their homes, leaving behind all of their belongings? What kind of stories sit buried in the remnants left behind by each family previously inhabiting these houses? When the local authorities or locals themselves are asked, you never get a straight answer, with most of them avoiding answering the question altogether. One urban paranormal legend states that a beast the size of a horse with red eyes resides and lingers in the woods that surrounds the “once was” community of Lincoln Way, which is why they all left in such a hurry. Another, less scary, proposal is that the houses had to be abandoned due to an exceeding amount of foreclosure, or over environmental concerns, such as toxic fumes being emitted from the coke piles at the U.S. Steel Clairton Plant situated directly across from the neighbourhood on North State Street. Some former residents stated frequent sickness, unbearable bad odours and unexplained occurrences. Others say the properties were bought up and the neighbourhood was to be demolished for a highway expansion that never happened.
Tax assessment records also show that the homes have had the same owners since the 1970s , but payment of taxes have been spotty or non-existent for all but three of the homes, regardless of being occupied or not. Over the years, some of the homes have burned down or fallen down, but around ten of them remain with leaking roofs, crumbling walls, rotting floors and broken windows, the copper and other metals having been stripped by salvagers. There are also several sinkholes scattered around the land surrounding Lincoln Way. According to Clairton city manager Howard Bednar, the city hopes to demolish the remaining homes, but with tight budgets, abandoned homes that sit among occupied areas of the city are more of a priority. Once demolished, the Redevelopment Authority of Clairton will take possession of the properties that are delinquent on their taxes. Until then, Lincoln Way will continue to serve as a glimpse into a post-apocalyptic future.
Oradour-Sur-Glane, France
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Amongst all the tragedies that occurred in World War Two, one French village and the events that transpired there, stand out. The town of Oradour-sur-Glane was witness to a brutal massacre that killed almost every man, woman, and child in the village on the afternoon of the 10th of June, 1944. In order to avenge the kidnapping of a German soldier by the French Resistance, Nazi SS troops herded more than 400 women and children into the village church, soaked it in petrol and blocked all the exits before setting it all alight. The men were moved by Nazi forces into the village’s barns, shot so they couldn’t move and doused in petrol before being set ablaze. The final death toll stood at 642 people, including 254 women, 207 children, and 181 men.
Since the massacre, Oradour-sur-Glane has remained untouched, serving as a reminder of the atrocities of war and the evil of the Nazis, as well as a shrine to the unfortunate people who died.
50 Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom
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This list wouldn’t be complete without a genuine haunted house example. 50 Berkeley Square has a long-held reputation as being the "Most Haunted House in London." The four-storey brick town house, built in the late 18th century, has a rather chequered history, with a number of deaths having taken place within its walls. However, it is not the number of deaths that is important, but rather the manner in which they occurred. Quite a few people are said to have perished due to the terror instilled within them by a nameless horror that claims the building as its home.
The earliest ghost sightings come in the form of a young woman, seen to be hanging from the windowsill on the uppermost floor. She can be seen screaming, before letting go and disappearing as she falls. Legend has it that a young girl named Adeline threw herself out of this window in order to get away from her abusive uncle. The type of abuse varies, but in all respects, it was quite cruel. Her ghost was reported as early as 1789, and old newspapers report that "since then more than 50 respectable people have reported seeing Adeline clinging to the windowsill, about to drop to her doom."
In 1872, aristocrat and politician Lord George Lyttelton stayed a night in the house for a bet. He set up a bed in the attic where he was to sleep the night, to test his resolve against the horror said to reside there. He did not really believe in the nonsense stories, but still took a shotgun for good measure. During the night, an apparition in the form of a brown tendrilled misty mass appeared, and Lyttelton fired his gun at it. In the morning light, he looked for what he had fired at, but there were no remains or proof that he had hit anything at all. Lyttelton would later say that the upper rooms were "supernaturally fatal to body and mind."
In 1879, a new family had moved into the house, and one of the daughters was due to have her fiancée visit. The maid was sent upstairs to set up the attic room as a guest room. Soon she was heard screaming, and when the family ran up to see what the commotion was about, they found her on the floor, backed into the corner, repeating over and over again "Do not let it touch me". She died the following day in an asylum.
Upon hearing this, a 'nobleman' stayed in the attic to get to the bottom of what had happened. He was a rather sceptical chap, but still the family told him to ring a bell they placed for him, if there was any trouble. His is the first death officially reported in the house. The cause of death was 'from fright'. In the middle of the night the bell was heard to ring, frantically followed by a gunshot. He was found dead on the floor, his face a mask of terror.
By 1887 the house was once again empty, and due its reputation, no-one was keen to move in. Luckily for the house, two more victims arrived, this time in the form of sailors – Edward Blunden and Robert Martin. On Christmas Eve the sailors had arrived in London, but had no money for lodgings, so they wandered the streets until they could find an empty building to make camp for the night. They eventually found their way to Berkeley Square, and seeing that number 50 was obviously vacant, decided to spend the night there. They settled for a second-floor bedroom, and soon Martin was asleep, but Blunden was restless and frightened. He could hear footsteps in the corridor, and soon the door opened. As Blunden watched, a dark and shapeless form entered the room. Blunden reached for a makeshift weapon, a fire poker from the fireplace. The noise had awoken Martin, who saw the massive tendril strangling Blunden. Fearing for his own safety, Martin took the opportunity to run out the bedroom door, down the stairs, and out of the building, where he soon ran into a police constable. Martin relayed the story and the two men went back to number fifty. What they found was Blunden, dead on the pavement. He had either jumped or been thrown out of the second-floor window, his body crushed by the fall.
The stories continued from those brave or foolhardy enough to venture into number 50 after dark, but soon eventually the building was occupied again, this time by the Maggs Bros – Antiquarian Book Dealers. They have occupied the building since 1937, and have never reported any major disturbances. The staff have, however, heard strange noises from the upstairs rooms, but none have dared to venture there, not out of fear, but rather because they are not allowed to, as the police have placed a sign, a warning saying that the upper most rooms are not to be used for anything, not even storage.
If you take a look for information on this location, you will find many more stories about the nameless horror that resides in number 50 Berkeley Square. You will also find different versions of the stories discussed here, as they change as they are retold, like most ghost stories that stretch back for any long period of time. The versions posted here are my favourites.
Mt Everest, Nepal
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And now, on to a place where most of us will never visit, but which is no less spooky. Mount Everest serves not only as a testament to the majesty of nature's beauty, but as an alluring siren song calling to the heart of every adventurer. Despite the risks, thousands swarm to Nepal every year in an effort to conquer the tallest point on Earth. Many of them never leave. Over 250 bodies remain on Everest, giving it claim to the title of the world's largest open-air graveyard. While most Mount Everest deaths occur due to avalanches, falls, and exposure to the harsh climate, the area known as the “Death Zone” holds a terribly high body count and comes with its own unique set of problems.
As one climber put it: "Everest is littered with dead bodies. For the most part everyone stays very positive, you don’t talk about this stuff, but you can’t help but notice the bodies because their clothes are still bright. You might see some bare flesh, but you won't see a skull as the skin is almost embalmed as if it's been frozen in time, almost like a waxwork. The clothes are flapping in the wind and ultra violet light, each person with their own story."
The Death Zone is commonly known as the area above 26,000 feet. When the human body enters this altitude, it slowly starts to die. Then it becomes a race against the clock for climbers to make it from this mark to the peak and back again before their body fails them. Since oxygen at this level is only a third of what it is at sea level, climbers may find themselves sluggish, disoriented, and fatigued. The pressure makes weight feel ten times heavier and causes extreme distress on organs. Because of these severe effects, climbers usually only have a window of 48 hours inside the Death Zone and are strongly urged to use supplemental oxygen at all times.
If someone dies on Everest, it's almost impossible to retrieve their body, especially in the Death Zone. Due to unbearable weather conditions, severe lack of oxygen, pressure on dead weight, and the fact that many bodies on Mount Everest are completely frozen onto the mountain face, most corpses are left exactly as they fall. Overall, standard protocol is to simply let these figures, frozen in the final moments of death, become a permanent addition to the rocky terrain. It would make sense that the mountain's nickname is EVER REST.
And that concludes my list on this topic for now. I may do another similar list sometime down the track. Farewell.
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Now I want to see progress here today from our people I want teamwork to occur he's in here working like mad and people are scaling when they come in and say why you do that to them so what would you want me to do give them a house give them a place to stay without people don't have one give them food when they're taking money and stuff from us we hardly have enough for food when they have so much money they can buy all the food on Earth and stick it in the pile who are you to say this to me so they come back to me and say boys he fell and I said what did you say said what are you doing that to him for then they told me what you said and I said go back in there and say you're sorry and start killing these idiots you f**** and I said it just said f**** and the guy goes and it was Nuada so I'm talking to you stop with the f****** faces and all the sudden s*** we have to get this done.
Thor Freya
So start listening to him and found out something but he's saying is important if you get rid of nothing you can get rid of them all here if you don't pass this break even point you end up sitting here just something to orders and doing all this stuff are you doing out there anyways and it takes forever so I started to figure out what he's doing it's smart needs to be done in mass and he needs a lot more troops and he's been waling on with everything he can grab. Believe it or not it creates a lot less work and run around stuff which is what these people don't want but these people have expired they need to die for what they're doing and this is why so is flabbergasted when I figured the truth out and upset I apologize of course I said that's great just do the job but we have to prove the math if we don't we're sitting here we're putting up with our own acting like him in this instance forever instead of getting it done so he came by and said this is how you do it and some people listen to that message and it worked pretty good and then I did it differently and some people listen so I'm showing the people how to do it and his horrible screaming here from these idiots they're yelling out loud this morning you will not show them that and they're saying it before we said it it's hard to show them what they're talking and saying well you know what we're talking about what are you talking about I said you're screaming don't show them that he's trying to say well you're telling them to do this and that I said I'm going to use he was reinforcement so I can't do anything this morning and they won't shut up so kept telling them jeez your teaching a ton of people cuz they have to figure it out themselves but they're curious because you keep screaming it says we don't have any time for this is ordering stuff and start moving after I said we don't have any time for you I'm starting started hitting and I heard this from them we don't want you doing that so came in and I said you know what we do and what amount of words said I don't want you doing that either but I guess you can walk right up to me I said I can walk right up to you twice and you're a fool cuz I'm going to knock you out right. He gets up motions as if he's walking towards you so Fried him he fell over is laying there incapacitated. It needs to be cuz he keeps threatening me this idiots always threatening me and they need to be hit everyday all the time and that's why Joe is hiding in the room in there. But I think Joe is hiding from bja was trying to attack him and others and it's true cuz he's kind of working for us almost every single thing that he does is helping us except for him threatening me which I do hit him for I want to say is just too many idiots here for them to be doing and saying what they are so you need to pull some out so we need somevote on which one cuz it does shake it up and it does help me
Zues Hera
We use this now as a template because what's happening here is very important we're going around grabbing tons of all at once and then a few of them start squawking then if you start ordering stuff it's much easier
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At any time of the day, we are ready to serve you and provide assistance on your vehicle needs. Call us and let our customer service representatives forward you to our technicians. Do not hesitate to avail our services. See how we fix your car concerns efficiently and excellently.
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It’s true that accidents happen, but it’s not true that there’s nothing you can do about it. You might not be able to anticipate when an accident will come because you’re not in control of everyone on the road. But you can anticipate that it might come, and be prepared for how to handle it. You don’t have to have all the pieces yourself, but you should know who you can rely on for professional service. Anthem NV Towing & Roadside Assistance provide reliable, licensed service and accident removal to residents all over the Anthem NV area.
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When you call us, we’ll send one of our fully outfitted professional service trucks to your location to tow the vehicle away to safety. It’s never convenient to find yourself in a car accident, but Anthem NV Towing & Roadside Assistance accident removal in Mobile Auto Truck Repair Las Vegas will take full responsibility to clean up the mess for you. People like you who live around here need a company that can provide quality Anthem NV accident removal because poor accident removal can leave road hazards that may cause additional accidents. We promise 24/7 availability and 30 minute arrival time to clean up after your accident and get your car to the shop for repairs.
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Anthem NV Towing & Roadside Assistance specializes in 24/7 emergency roadside assistance, including jumpstart services. We are by far, the most reputable towing Anthem NV company around. Our main responsibility is to ensure your safety on the treacherous roads round-the-clock. We have an amazingly reliable roadside crew covering the Anthem NV neighboring areas day and night. Timing is a critical factor and the major difference between a professional and an amateur. We’ll be at your location in the course of fast response time to lend a hand. You don’t have to panic if the battery isn’t starting properly. Just give us a holler for full roadside coverage!
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Our roadside assistance services in Anthem NV include; car jump start services, dead battery replacement and recharge, 24/7 auto lockout solutions, flat tire repair, accident removal services, out-of-gas refueling and much more. We’re also the most prominent towing provider in the city. We offer a full range of towing services as well. Jump starting a vehicle is a synch for our highly trained roadside specialists. We’ll safely park our truck adjacent to your car and break out the jumper cables before attaching them to the dead battery. This process can be dangerous, so make sure you let the certified experts handle the heavy lifting for you!
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 Although the vast majority of drivers know how to successfully change a flat, there are instances when you will require the services of a pro. Rainstorms create havoc all along the roads, making them slick and slippery. These hazardous and unsafe driving conditions are made worse when you have to kneel under your vehicle on the shoulder. This poses a serious safety problem because other drivers might not have sufficient time to brake or notice you. Leave the heavy lifting to us!
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Motorcycle towing is no simple matter. Since they cannot be pulled along unsupported, motorcycles are much harder to load onto a tow truck than other types of vehicles. Motorcycles cannot be towed by dolly, a flatbed tow truck must be used.
After successfully positioning a motorcycle on a tow truck’s flatbed it must be secured in place extra carefully always bearing in mind that a motorcycle cab easily tip over and end up laying on one side or worse (falling completely off the flatbed).
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I really don't understand why Om fans are so desperate for Gauri to become educated and groomed?? I mean, if they so badly wanted an educated and 'polished' lead for Om, then Riddhima was good enough. I'm tired of how they still feel Gauri is not good enough for their dear Omkara. When actually its the other way round. Can you explain this phenomenon TT? Do you think it's time I left IF?
Anon 2 said: 
Its funny how Anika who is the wife of SSO, a top businessman, and has been in media eye a couple of times, never had to change/groom herself, but Gauri who is (apparently) the wife of a reclusive artist is taunted for her lack of English skills and (from the spoilers) it seems has to groom herself to become good enough for Om. Like really? What is this track? Why do GulNeet always heap rubbish on Rikara? What do you make of all of this, TT?
Anon 3 said: 
I don’t understand this random English BS track they’ve introduced for Rikara. A/c to spoilers, Shivaay helps Gauri get educated in English. This makes absolutely no sense. Gauri has always believed in her self-worth. And Om doesn’t even care about English and stuff. This track is just going to butcher Gauri’s character, nothing else. I’d take dangal over this any day. What do you think?
Anon 4 said:
*Spoiler* After today’s episode, I want Rikara’s ship to sink. Let Gauri stay on as Shivaay and Anika’s sister. Om can do whatever the fuck he wants to with his life. He is so unworthy of Gauri. I’m so ready to see ShivRi, AniRi, and RuRi, but if Om comes anywhere near Gauri, imma going to blast. Sorry, this is the one of the few places left to rant, considering there are still fans defending Om and saying that he deserves a better FL. What do you think of today’s epi.?
Hello all the anons! First off, anyone who says Om deserves better than Gauri is certainly entitled to their opinion, but I don’t agree. Forget Om (who is relatively the best of the lot), no 4 Lions man is worthy of ANY of the women they have managed to land. None. Not Shivaay, not Rudra, Arnav, Advay, Asad, Tej etc. And I’m including some interim gfs in that list, like Lavanya, Tia, Saumya, and Svetlana etc. Yeah okay, all these men eventually go on and redeem themselves, but it’s after a hella lotta mistreatment and BS that no woman should have to put up with IN THE FIRST PLACE. All of these men got these women through sheer luck and by the virtue of endless patience and forgiveness on the part of the female characters. Anyone who thinks that these men “deserve better” is operating under a bias of internalized misogyny, elitism, and classism (for characters like Khushi and Gauri.)I wouldn’t put Riddhima under the category of the above women though. She was always a shady pseudo, using Om’s name for ulterior motives. Sure, I don’t doubt that some part of her did love him, and she did genuinely believe that she was working for Om’s benefit when she teamed up with Tej, but as his gf of 2+ years, she fully knew what kinda relationship Om and Tej shared. She shouldn’t have fucked him (and Shivaay!) over like that. A relationship based on such duplicitousness was never meant to last and at that point of time, Om did deserve better. He was right to break up with her. The Om post-DBO seems to understand the value of lying to ultimately achieve what you want though (since he was so comfortable doing it to screw Svetlana over), so maybe she would be a better fit for who he is right now.
So, to the first anon; yes, if you find yourself disagreeing with majority of the views being expressed on it, and you’re spending a lot of time alternately screaming in frustration and rolling your eyes as you angrily close the tab, you *should* leave IF. The forum template means you have no control over whose posts you see. Why spend your time reading infuriating codswallop that ruins your enjoyment of the show? Like, if you’re a sane human being who values human rights and not being an asshole, you wouldn’t spend time watching Fox News and reading Breitbart. Similarly, stop consuming the poorly articulated mind-vomit that is so prevalent on the hellsite that is IF. Secondly, I wouldn’t compare Anika’s issues to Gauri’s. Anika’s issue was the lack of Naam, Khoon, Khaandaan. She could speak English like the Queen herself and be groomed to the seventh heaven, but that would have made no difference to Shivaay and Pinky. (Like it didn’t in the case of Dev Chhabra, who was from Canada or California or some shit iirc, and was plenty rich.) Anika’s lacking was not something she COULD change, no matter how much she wished to. The change in that aspect of the relationship always had to come from Shivaay. If Anika had to change anything about herself, it’s in putting more trust in Shivaay and her value in his life, and that’s an ongoing process, because Shivaay is bad at articulating his feelings, leading to her feeling insecure and like she’s always the one more invested in the relationship than he is. Lastly, I choose to look at this learning English situation a little differently. I don’t think that by Gauri choosing to learn English, or Shivaay by encouraging her to, is purely or as simple as Gauri “modifying” herself to fit into Om’s world and nothing else. I would have been hella mad if the track is something puerile like Gauri getting a makeover clothes-wise or going to those snooty finishing classes or some such superficial garbage in order to transform herself into a society wife. But here she’s choosing to educate herself. Education is a good thing, and no matter what the reason it’s being undertaken is, it should be encouraged. No one has ever not benefited from learning and expanding their skill set. Yes, the stupidass incident in the gallery was a catalyst, and Gauri is under the misunderstanding that Om cares about her English skills when he doesn’t; I also agree that she’s badass and amazing and surviving and navigating life just fine the way she is right now and doesn’t NEED to change, but what she’s doing is ultimately just going to empower her in life, whether she chooses to continue her relationship with Omkara or not. If this is something she feels insecure about (yes, she *shouldn’t*, but aren’t all of us insecure about something or the other that others don’t think need changing in us? Our faces, our bodies, the tone of our voice, and a multitude of other silly things that’s not an issue except in our own minds…) isn’t it a good thing that she’s being proactive and working on herself, as opposed to just wallowing in “not being good enough”? Also, note how happy and cheered up she was when Shivaay told her that not just Om, everyone who ever thought less of her would have to eat humble pie in underestimating her value. If this exercise increases her confidence in herself and results in her becoming even more badass and unstoppable (esp. in the face of characters like Pinky and Ragini and those assholes at the gallery), then I am all for this. No one has ever LOST anything or REGRETTED learning something.But yes, this doesn’t negate the issue that all this is purely because these two aren’t fucking communicating. Both are laboring under some major misapprehensions regarding the other person and their expectations from their relationship. But I’ll elaborate re: that further in yet another ask that I’ve received.
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eyedelater · 7 years
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notes on vigilantes (hero academia illegals) after reading all available chapters
the most striking feature of this spinoff is that every chapter is like an introductory chapter. the first one i read was #7 (like a month ago) and i was sure that that was the first time we were meeting koichi. that's just how it felt. then i started at the beginning and chapter 1 was an introduction to the concept of vigilantes in a world of heroes and an introduction to our three main characters. then chapters 2 through 6 were Also introductions to the concept of vigilantes and our three main characters. they kept getting nameplates on their first appearance in each chapter! chapter 4 opens with present mic being like "JUST WHAT IS A VIGILANTE?!" bitch you think i don't know what a vigilante is by now??? don't be so accommodating of new readers every single chapter! it’s so redundant!
popty ping's whole character design is so male gaze it hurts. she hits every point on the list i made of characteristics shared by too many horikoshi female characters: mask is only an eye mask (so you know she's pretty), form-fitting and unnecessarily revealing costume, no physical abnormalities, generic attractive face shape, long hair, average height, generic attractive body type, no prominent muscles or anything. the only thing that makes her appearance distinctive or memorable in any way is the way they draw the texture of her hair in those weird puffy chunks, which i kinda like. her "alter ego = glasses and no makeup and her hair is down" thing is the most cliche bullshit possible. she's a walking panty-shot who makes it a point to show her ass to everyone because... she wants to? it makes her feel good about herself? surely not just because the artist wanted to draw a girl's ass as often as possible, oh no, think about what SHE wants, she's a strong independent female character who totally wasn't created solely as a koichi love interest and audience eye candy and the occasional damsel in distress. she loves to objectify HERSELF, there’s nothing wrong with that! (there is.) her backstory about being saved by koichi is cute but dumb as shit tbh. and she's not even part of the vigilante team (as seen in chapter 7 where koichi is like "we're knuckleduster and the crawler!" and she's like "i'm not with them!") because she has no actual vigilantism-related motivations except to be vaguely interested in koichi for the aforementioned dumb reasons and to show her ass to everyone. she keeps getting these large panels of her face when she suddenly blushes, as though it’s a moment that holds any emotional weight whatsoever, rather than being a super predictable way to show that she has a crush on (who could have guessed?!) the protagonist. i'm not saying she's not a likable character... i'm saying she's a poorly-executed object of pure, unapologetic self-indulgence by the author and artist. almost nothing about her is justifiable.
hachisuka's character design is, by contrast, a bit better. at least she's not, you know, pop☆step. she's not a purely sexual object (though they do treat her very creepily at times). she has something gross about her (beehive eye), which is somewhat cleverly incorporated into her character design (though i don’t see why she wears an eyepatch sometimes but not always). she has short hair and a sneaky face; she's at least one (1) step away from purely generic horikoshi-style girl. but she, too, has problems with motivations. namely, she doesn't seem to have any? like, okay, working with whoever is studying the effects of "trigger" is apparently her part-time job. so she's doing their bidding, if in a slightly chaotic way. but Why is she doing their bidding? is she getting paid? if she's just doing it for the money, why is it worth it to her? does she need money that desperately? she doesn't seem to care about other people in the slightest. why not??? did something happen to her? we don't even really have any hints as to what's driving her, do we? like, with another mysterious villain, shigaraki tomura, his motivations weren't clear early on, but we had hints, like how his childishness and quickness to panic implied that he was only a puppet posing as the mastermind, and how he had his little tirade about hating heroes because violence is bad, which made it clear that he's against the system more than any one individual, implying that the system has failed him in some way. but hachisuka doesn't have any such hints, does she? as far as we know, she's not against anything, nor is she for anything. what does she want? if anything, it seems like she just wants to fuck shit up for no reason, and that makes her less interesting as an antagonist, not more. also her name (quinn hachisuka -> quinn = queen, hachi = bee -> queen bee) is pretty silly. also, how does she load up her bees with trigger without herself getting triggered...? i want to learn more about the mechanics of her quirk. oh shit, what if her hidden eye hive is one big hexagonal cell, that would be sick
koichi is a cute and charming bugboy. about as interesting as a deku, i.e. "not especially," but i really like his quirk and his face. he's somewhat generic in terms of design, but protags have to be generic to some degree, so i'll accept it. his whole "quirk forces him to be active scurrying around the feet of the citizenry, which creeps them out a little" thing is a good schtick, a good place to work from. his motivations are simple but clear: he likes to help people. his personality is simple but clear: well-meaning, slightly oblivious, easygoing and forgiving, easily roped into things, unsure as to how to go about what he wants to do, but eager to do what he can. he’s weak, scrawny, and emotionally a bit of a pushover, so he’s not perfect, which is good. i suppose his main flaw would be that he isn't really facing any active conflicts in his life, other than what knuckleduster has roped him into. and he's going to college, but what's his major??? 
also, this takes place several years before the start of heroaca, going by ingenium's quip that tenya can't even turn corners yet, so the tenya in that little flashback is probably less than 10 years old, and if i were to go with my gut, i'd say that tenya is around 8 years old, meaning this takes place around 8 years before deku's story begins, meaning that the iida tensei who appears in chapter 7 of vigilantes is approximately 22, MEANING... that he is a perfectly appropriate age to ship with haimawari koichi. score
i was surprised and intrigued to see proto-stain appear as a character in recent chapters... and a noséd stain, at that. (he even says so himself!) his costume is p rad. when it first became clear that this guy is probably stain, my reaction was "could this be... recycling?" as in, how convenient, we get to reuse an antagonist from the main canon, and it doesn't count as reusing because it's technically in the past. but i guess this is actually a little more than just recycling, so i'm fine with it. it's interesting how he has just as few qualms about killing as he does in regular heroaca, yet his character seems more... mature? self-assured? confident? healthy...? than stain. but that makes sense, because the stain who appears in heroaca is much more... eroded. by that point, he's spent years and years stewing in his own disillusionment, losing sight of anything but his ideology, losing faith in nearly everyone... and i wonder if there was one incident in particular that set him irrevocably on that hopeless path, an incident that occurs between now (vigilante time) and then (heroaca time) that results in the loss of the nose off his god damn face. (p.s. that moment when he was like "THE RED OF LIFE~ THE BLACK OF DEATH~" wow what an akaguro chizome thing to say, nameless stranger whose quirk and tongue happen to be 100% identical to stain’s. i can’t believe the heroaca wiki page on stendhal doesn’t acknowledge that he’s definitely stain) (and that dolphin cap he puts on omfg and he keeps his ponytail up, he totally puts his ponytail through the hole in the baseball cap like holy shit)
this porcupine fucker... (his name is souga, apparently...) they tried to treat his character as redeemed without actually giving him a redemption. as soon as he's reintroduced as a potential ally, he gets all pissy when they remind him (not accuse him baselessly, but REMIND HIM of what he ACTUALLY DID) about how he and his buddies threatened to literally rape and kill popty ping, like, THE LAST TIME THEY MET. and this fucker doesn't think of APOLOGIZING or making it clear in any way that he's REFORMED or promising to NEVER DO IT AGAIN; he just skips ahead to getting frustrated that they don't forgive him immediately. NOW WHY IN THE FUCK WOULD THEY FORGIVE HIM IMMEDIATELY? who would??? and then we get a humanizing moment at the hospital with lizard boy and flame boulder and then we're suddenly pitting him against stendhal, and he gets that page where we see how he feels like everyone is always laughing at him in a condescending way and it's like, we've actually seen two of the situations on that page (koichi and popty ping) and they weren't smiling condescendingly at all! you're seeing shit that isn’t there, so that’s your problem, not theirs!!! but that's supposed to make us understand this guy enough to root for him in this fight? all we've learned about him is that he expects forgiveness he hasn't asked for and he perceives ridicule and condescension where there is none! those are Not redeeming character traits in the slightest!!! in fact, they’re very worrying and abusive character traits! now, to be perfectly clear, i'm not saying that stain is right in trying to kill this guy. obviously stain feeling he has the right to be judge, jury, and executioner is at least as flawed as souga's perspective. so it's good that koichi is trying to save him. but that doesn't mean souga is anywhere near redeemed or even likable. don't be so careless in turning antagonists into allies!!! you can't just put the same character in a different slot and expect it to stick!!!
knuckleduster is the embodiment of the male gaze on male characters. he's cool, tough, muscular, mysterious, violent, and confident, and that's it. he's about as shallow as pop, but not sexualized, because they're not trying to make him Attractive (it is the male gaze, after all, which carries strong het connotations); they're trying to make him cool and ultra-masculine in a way that men are expected to aspire to be. it's not a good message, and certainly nothing new, but i don't think he's as much of a slap in the face as popty ping. so idk, i don't have any strong feelings about knuckleduster. he's badass and strong and even blander than koichi. we don't know his real name or age yet, do we? yet somehow it doesn't seem like something we urgently need to know. (i want to say "tell me his age so i can figure out whether it's appropriate to ship him with koichi" but a] koichi is 19 and can take care of himself, so i guess even a wide age difference ship wouldn't put me off too much, and b] knuckle is not even really interesting enough to ship tbh.) and note that i'm not equating quirkless with bland. his quirklessness is like, one of the few points of individuality his character has. but even that isn't played in a very interesting way, because it's not like we see him get hurt or put in any especially vulnerable positions as a result. so if they're going to build knuckleduster up from "a single pure, undistilled trope" to "a developed character of some interest" by giving him an intriguing backstory or something... hurry up and do it already, he's been in practically every chapter since chapter 0.
don't even get me started on the portrayal of midnight (the hero) in this comic. if you don't see something wrong with her deciding to be a high school teacher so she can (as she Almost Explicitly Stated) jerk off the high school boys, i'd like to encourage you to think once in a while. and the way she stopped that suicide bomber villain, that wasn't even in character with the already messed-up character of actual canon midnight-- she's supposed to be a dominatrix, but in that suicide bomber scene, she was just seductive and nurturing! isn’t a dominatrix supposed to be hot but neither seductive nor nurturing? she didn't step on him or anything. they couldn’t even get that specific over-sexualized character right without over-sexualizing her in the wrong way. smfh. did horikoshi-sensei really sign off on this?
in conclusion: the primary saving grace of heroaca vigilantes is the fact that iida tensei appears and is wonderful for a whole chapter. i’ll keep reading because it’s interesting in how it relates to the main heroaca canon, not because there’s much of anything that makes it worthwhile in its own right. though i do like koichi.
EDIT: no wonder there’s hardly anything about this on pixiv...
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A Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Chat Noir Fanfic  
Another Note for the List
Disclaimer: I do not own Miraculous Ladybug. It probably wouldn't be as popular if I did.
Overview: Rated T for that one subtle, inappropriate joke. Can either be in the canon 'verse or a Modern!AU (up to you, honestly). Aged up. Technically.
Summary: Just a story thing to get a feel for these characters, so read at your own risk. Nothing major though. There's fluff and a subtle sort of a short-running, inappropriate joke. Like I said: nothing major.
Pairing(s): Adrien/Marinette, Nino/Alya
Word Count: ~3.5K
A/N: Like I said in the summary, this fic is just a tester to see how far I'll be able to take these characters' personalities while still remaining relatively canon. I want to see how much breathing room I have with them before actually dedicating my time on a full length story. I like to stay as true to them as I can, otherwise I'd just lose motivation.
FanFiction || AO3
Another Note for the List
Adrien knew, even from the first time he laid eyes on her, that Marinette was definitely a force to be reckoned with.
He may be a little biased, but only because they definitely did not start on equal terms. In fact, Adrien had experienced—first-hand—the intensity that her tiny stature hoarded. Namely what Alya and Nino would call the gum incident. And as unintentional as the circumstances of their first meeting had been, he quickly vowed to never do anything that made her that mad ever again. Unintentional or no. An angry Marinette was definitely not someone he wanted to meet in a dark alley.
On one hand, she forgave him for the incident once he apologized. On the other hand, she wasn't able to form a coherent sentence around him for a long time afterward.
At first, Adrien thought the blushing and stuttering was adorable. She flushed the most brilliant pink every time he glanced at her, and hid behind Alya every time they (accidentally) crossed paths during lunch break. He assumed that she was still embarrassed by how quick she was to jump to conclusions before (which he definitely didn't blame her for, honestly), but then a week passed. Then two. And when a month came and went, the fond amusement at her quick retreats turned into anxious concern.
He had absolutely no idea why she seemed so skittish around him. And it was only around him. Adrien probably once fooled himself into thinking that she was just a naturally shy person, but her personality always did an entire one-eighty when she didn't notice him looking.
Coupled with her being a reckoning force, Marinette was a confidant. And not just because she was the class president. She was always accompanied by someone, whether it be Alya, Nino on occasion, or just a random member of their class. They'd always be in close proximity, as if sharing secrets that no one else around them could ever dream to figure out.
With Alya, they'd be rapidly talking about random things, bouncing from topic to topic so quickly that Adrien couldn't even hope to follow. Sometimes he would see her stare bravely up at Kim when he was being particularly competitive. She and Max would occasionally enter a heated debate about some character in some game. She babbled occasionally with Rose while Juleka listened off to the side with a smile on her face. Even Nathanaël, when the red-head was approached by the bubbly half-Asian, curled over his sketchbook and exchanged whispered tips and snickered over something or the other.
Eventually, everything that Marinette was had been just too complex to ponder, so Adrien started to note everything Marinette was not.
Shy? She was not, apparently. If the way she effortlessly flittered from person to person was anything to go by. Reserved? No, most definitely not. Her entire person had always thrummed with energy and she was not afraid to show it. Quiet? That would be the biggest and probably the most amused no that he would ever give in his entire life. Adrien was half-convinced that she had no volume setting whatsoever. Her conversations were always expressive, bubbly, and not at all quiet. Sure, she had her moments where she could giggle and whisper, but she was primarily loud and easily startled.
Normally, Adrien would frown because she had rarely ever been loud and expressive whenever he was in talking distance.
He wanted to experience what their classmates experienced, she was one of his first friends after all. It wasn't all bad, however. Thankfully, talking distance wasn't hearing distance. So whenever he was left feeling particularly down in the dumps from another one-sidedly coherent conversation with the half-Asian, he'd hear a completely disarming sound chime from her. It wasn't always influenced by him, but she always lifted his spirits just a little more when she laughed.
It wasn't much to be happy about (especially since he wasn't a direct cause of it), but the thing about her mirthful noises were that when Marinette laughed, she guffawed. No holds. No barriers. No reservations. Admittedly, he was startled the first time he heard her laugh from talking distance. The loud, happy sound from the skittish bluenette had been delivered with no hesitation. And right in front of him, to boot.
It took enough bruising nudges from Nino and nearly tripping up the stairs into collège for him to snap out of the startling hold her laughter trapped him in. It was absolutely mortifying.
Even more mortifying, though, was that Marinette saw his little stumble on the last step and stared a good minute at him, looking just as startled as he had been a moment prior. They stood, staring at each other with wide eyes, then she did it. She snorted, quickly dissolving into the same guffaws that sent him spiraling earlier. It was embarrassing to say the least, but better because he was the direct cause of that laugh. It took him looking an utter fool, of course, but she quickly warmed up to him after that.
She stuttered (that time it was because of her laughter, thankfully) out an apology but was unable to to say anything else because the bell shattered the moment. Alya shot him an amused look before taking Marinette's arm and dragged the giggly half-Asian to their class. Nino clapped his back, the meaning behind the gesture was completely lost on the blonde, before tilting his head towards the school and shrugged a shoulder.
It kinda just got better after that.
Every so often during his first class, he could hear giggles behind his back and after making sure the teacher wasn't looking, he turned to look. Marinette's blue eyes were shining as she stared back at him, her face flushing as she quietly slapped a hand over her mouth to smother her laugh. He was aware that his cheeks flushed as sent her a small smile, only letting the quirk of his lips grown when he turned back around.
Of course, her transition to him wasn't all smooth sailing. It wouldn't have been another two months until she could actually hold a lengthy conversation with minimal stuttering, and another handful before she was anywhere near comfortable enough to just cruise around the town with him for the rest of the evening when Alya and Nino suddenly disappeared from another one their group outings. Once she got over her initial hesitance, they—along with Nino and Alya—created a bunch of memories that would never leave him.
One of his favorite moments was during their première of Lycée when she and her family extended him an invitation to celebrate on a particularly lonely Christmas Eve.
He only planned to drop off the presents for Marinette and her parents and leave afterwards. He had already gave Nino his present and left Alya's along with the dark-haired DJ, seeing as the pair were going to spend Christmas together; their first one spent as an official couple. After an extended fencing lesson, Adrien was feeling drained and all he wanted to do was wish the Dupain-Cheng family a Merry Christmas, drive home, and kick his feet up.
Despite that, he found it quite hard not to be pulled in by the boulangerie's warm atmosphere and heady scents. He found it exponentially more difficult when Marinette beamed so brightly at him from behind the cash register. The empty mansion he wanted to return to before seemed less and less appealing when she bounded around the counter to greet him heartily, announcing his presence to her parents as she daintily dodged the presents in his arms to pull him into a hug with warmth that rivaled (and beat) the bakery's.
He desperately wanted to prolong the hug, but his arms were too full of wrapped boxes to return it and the joyful greetings from the backroom drew Marinette back at a safe, platonic distance.
"Feel free to stay over, son. It's Christmas Eve after all," Marinette's father, Tom, had offered after he emerged from the back, clapping him jovially on the back. "Hope you don't mind, but it's a Dupain-Cheng tradition to pass out on the couch after one too many cups of eggnog."
"It's a Dupain tradition, actually," Tom's other half, Sabine, joked after she joined them and naturally gravitated under her husband's arm, patting the large man's stomach lovingly. "We Chengs are very empathetic people and we don't want to leave him all by himself on the couch, so we end up falling asleep next to each other in order to keep Tom comfortable."
Marinette had nudged his arm then, a playful smirk on her lips as her bluebell eyes sparkled mischievously up at him. "In other words," she started, a joking jab already forming, "Dad's just too heavy for me and Mom to lift on our own, so we give up before trying. It's pretty much a habit at this point."
Adrien remembered Tom shooting her a playfully affronted look. "But isn't that what a tradition is?"
The four shared a laugh, the atmosphere warming enough to plant smiles on the last batch of holiday patrons. Shortly after, Tom announced that he needed to finish a few customers before closing up the shop for the day. He enlisted Adrien's help before the model had a chance to open his mouth. He, of course, agreed and then started to protest when the two Dupain-Cheng women started confiscating the gifts in his arms.
Sabine just waved off his efforts to take the presents back, a laugh following her as she started towards the back. Once she was gone, Adrien immediately turned to Marinette and tried to convince her. Much like her mother, however, the bubbly half-Asian merely laughed and expertly dodged his advances, smiling cheekily at his grumpy look. She playfully bumped their hips before skipping into the side door that led up to the house. Tom only chuckled and patted Adrien's shoulder before assigning him to the register.
Together, the two men made quick work of satisfying the boulangerie's customers and packed the leftover goods into containers. Tom let him flip the sign (a real treat for Adrien, honestly) while he started helping a few workers from a local shelter load the boxes into a pickup truck.
Reassured that Tom had enough help moving the leftovers, he started up to the house. He could hear the holiday music pounding from inside before he even opened the door and couldn't contain the smile that stretched across his lips when he opened the door. What he found was just another thing to add on Marinette's not list.
A dancer? She definitely was not. What made it better though was the mortified blush that steamed her face when she caught him watching and– ah, cue the stuttering. He was starting to miss it, honestly. Unlike before, however, Marinette didn't shy or attempt to run away. Instead, she pouted at him and clicked her tongue, daring him to do any better.
Adrien only grinned at the challenge and strode over to her. He took the remote—that she was using as a microphone—from her fingers and changed the song. She rose an eyebrow at him when he chuckled the remote over his shoulder, knowing for a fact that it bounced harmlessly onto the sofa, and bowed to her with a hand held out invitingly. He doesn't remember exactly what he said, but it was stupid enough to make her laugh and grasp her hand in hers.
He could easily the cute squeal she made when he pulled her up to him, lifting her off the ground so they were eye-level. The intensity in her glare was lost beneath the harshness of her blush and Adrien only laughed before he twirled them dramatically around the living room.
That's how Tom and Sabine found them, dancing and giggling like idiots as 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus' of all songs played in the background. The couple soon joined in soon afterwards with Tom holding Sabine much like how Adrien was holding Marinette. The four started snickering on every pass of each other. Just to keep the ridiculous mood, Tom kept the song on repeat until empty stomachs started to protest. They finished the night with a huge Christmas feast and some eggnog while relaxing into some cliché, B-rated Christmas movie.
Adrien wasn't sure if Tom meant he could stay overnight, or if he meant just for dinner, but he woke up the next morning on the ground, pressed up against the couch with the back of a hand dangling from on the couch pressed up against his face. He could smell breakfast cooking and failed to notice the lack of Tom and Sabine's presence in the living room as he sat up, too focused on the face that was smooshed into the couch cushions.
He chuckled at the sight. Another note for the list: Marinette was not a graceful sleeper. But he found that much more endearing than he should've. It was then when he started to wonder if there were anything that she did that he didn't find ridiculously adorable.
After noticing him awake, Sabine treated him to a breakfast that would've left his dietitian in a stupor while Tom jokingly said that he was going to 'wake the beast'. Adrien was puzzled for a split second but then roared out a laugh not even a second when he heard Marinette's loud, disturbed growl (that did, in fact, sound very much like a beast, much to Adrien's amusement) when Tom started belting 'O Holy Night' it the most off-key tone that he could.
Marinette looked surprised for a split second when she stormed into the kitchen, scowling soon after when he playfully called her a grumpy bug. She shot him a sharp look and called him a skittish kitty, no doubt referring to that one time he screamed during a scary movie marathon at Nino's.
Needless to say, it was a very eventful Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. Between the vision of a very grumpy Marinette pouting her way to the kitchen table and the gifts they surprised surprised him with when Marinette pulled out them from behind the tree with a dramatic tah-dah, it was one of his better Christmases in a very long time.
"...ton? Chaton? Adrien, honestly. ADRIEN!"
Adrien yelped in surprise, his head hitting the trunk door of his SUV. There was an exasperated sigh and two different pairs of snickers when he crouched low to the ground, holding the top of his head while hissing in pain. Slender fingers were slipping under his a moment later, gently shooing his hands away while another joined the first, assessing the damage.
"Dude," came the familiar voice of Nino, amused like always. "You actually did sound like a cat. I now understand the nickname."
"A little late, babe," Alya laughed, "she had been calling him that since Lycée."
"I knew about the kitty cuddling and extreme laziness," Nino defended himself and ignored the protesting whine from the man in question, "but I never heard him sound like a cat. Tell me, my man, has Mari ever made you purr?"
"Babe."
"What? It's just a question!"
"A really stupid one!"
"Oh, right," Nino said in a knowing tone, no doubt nodding to the line of thought only he followed. "Of course she has. That's not even a question."
Adrien heard something that sounded very like a slap echoed through the air, quickly followed by a 'manly' yelp that was more surprised than hurt. He wanted to roll his eyes when the couple started to bicker but was distracted by the gentle fingers that wove through his hair, drawing out a content sigh despite his throbbing brain. He lifted his head and peered up in the concern blues.
"Are you alright, mon minou?" Marinette asked, letting him take one of her hands to press against his lips.
"I'm fine, bugaboo," Adrien smiled and straightened out from his crumpled position, towering a good head above her but bent forward too keep her hands tangled in his hair. He shot her a flirty smirk and all but purred. "Much better now that I have your concern, ma lady, but maybe I'd feel even better if you could check again so I won't have to fear for my poor head?"
"No need for that," Marinette rolled her eyes and pulled her hands away, ignoring his protesting pout. "If you have enough energy to flirt, kitty, you're perfectly fine."
"Meow-ch!" Adrien exclaimed theatrically, holding a hand over his heart and placing the back of the other on his forehead. "But, purr-incess! If you don't check over your lowly knight, we might have to call the paw-amedics!"
Marinette blinked twice at him before she shook her head, snatched a decently sized box from the back of the car, and walked away. "Three puns, Adrien. You definitely cleared inspection."
"What a catastrophe!" Adrien fell back into the trunk, his back landing on a pile of rolled up carpets. "Quick! Someone cat-call the paw-lice! It's an e-mew-gency!" He gasped dramatically. "A cruel, cruel princess broke a poor kitty's heart!"
"Hey, Mari," came Alya's interjection, "maybe we should call call him in."
Adrien sat up and was about to thank the woman's kind heart for a broken kitty, but–
"He's obviously delirious from hitting his head so hard earlier. How do you even deal with that?"
"Hey!" The blonde model protested, shooting her an affronted look. He ignored the smirk Alya shot him in reply and turned to Marinette—his savior—only for his pleading expression to drop when he saw the look of extreme contemplation on the woman's face. "Mar?"
Her bluebell eyes rolled to him and he tensed, only relaxing when she sent him an affectionate smile and a playful wink. "With a lot of love, obviously."
A bright smile slid onto Adrien's face, a warm tingling traveling through him at her gaze alone. "Love you too, bugaboo."
"You two are disgusting," Nino groaned when Adrien caught the kiss Marinette flirtingly blew to him and pressed it against his chest. Nino turned to Alya with an exasperated look. "We weren't like that, were we?"
"For about a week," Alya admitted with a shrug, resting her elbow on her boyfriend's shoulder and snickering at his distressed moan. "But keep in mind that these two dorks started dating each since our last year in Lycée and they're still like this."
"Might as well get used to it," Marinette smirked, picking up another box with Adrien's help and placing it on the sidewalk. "Green really isn't a good look on you two."
"Take it from Mari," the model laughed, pulling a particularly heavy box from the back of the truck and setting it right next to the one they just put down, "she's the professional designer after all. Besides, after we move all of this inside, we're officially your new neighbors!"
"Oh, joy," came Alya's sarcastic reply, a playful smirk on her face.
"Hope you like the neighborhood, man!" Nino greeted with a cheerful clap to Adrien's back, pointing to one if the windows on the third floor. "I heard that apartment has a really awesome DJ. I really hope he doesn't wake up guys up in the middle of the night with his sick beats."
"Ohh," Marinette's voice came in knowingly, a joking smile on her lips as she shot him a mischievous look. "So that's what the earplugs were for! Thank's Alya!"
Nino swiveled his head towards his girlfriend. "Babe!"
Alya held up her hands innocently. "I bought us each a pair too! And who knows? We might need it when Mari ever decides to make Adrien purr."
Immediately following that comment was a loud, undignified snort from the girl in question. Soon enough, the four friends found themselves dissolving into fits of laughter.
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 Although most cars and truck transport companies are actually most likely credible, blindly relying on a company's credibility is not bet you need to take. Therefore, it is actually always a wonderful idea to take photos of your automobile coming from all sides, especially of all existing scrapes and loss on both the inside and also outside. This way, if you identify a new blemish or damage on your auto after transportation, you can prove that it was certainly not a preexisting shape, and also the automobile transportation company is actually responsible Youngstown.
 A good transport solution might additionally offer their personal car examination solutions, which is actually beneficial because they will definitely document the shape of the lorry just before transporting so that they can contrast it to the shape of the car after delivery. Ensure to request for a duplicate of the assessment of report before transportation to ensure you can match up the document to your own evaluation.
 And just like any type of business or even company, you ought to check auto transportation solutions out on the Better Business Bureau. On the Better Business Bureau you may read objective details regarding the provider and may even find any type of latest problems submitted versus all of them. Although the BBB may certainly not have the capacity to provide you all the details you need to have, it may conveniently raise some warnings if there are complications
 Any good automobile transportation company need to be relaxed in giving you with a checklist of suggestions. Consulting with people that have used the transportation solution in the past is a terrific means to receive straightforward comments concerning the stability as well as premium of solution of a vehicle transport company. Although it may take some additional opportunity, it may be worth the attempt if it helps you locate a terrific auto transport firm.
 Yet another factor to check out when locating a fantastic car transport solution is actually shipment options. Different solutions use various types of distribution companies. Some will certainly pick the automobile up at your door and drop it off at your brand-new house, while others just pick-up and also provide cars at business terminals that might or even might not be actually surprisingly near where you live. Although terminal-to-terminal distribution might be actually a lot more bothersome, it may likewise be actually cheaper than door-to-door solution, so it is actually absolute best to look at each one of your alternatives relative to your requirements Youngstown.
 When employing a car transport service, it is also significant to be very clear on the routine as well as to book ahead of time. The majority of transport solutions can't pick up a car on simply any kind of day of the week. A lot of ship numerous lorries at once as well as sweat off a somewhat adaptable schedule. Explaining organizing along with the transportation service comprehensive lengthy just before the moment you need to transport your car will allow you to possess a lot of opportunity to create the necessary agreements that will definitely better accommodate their and your timetables.
 It is actually likewise crucial to note that due to the fact that carriers deliver several autos at once, they must create numerous quits along their path, which indicates that it may take a number of much more times than expected to deliver your automobile, so always remember to become individual and also to anticipate at least 8 to 10 days for transit. As well as although holding your horses is excellent, you need to likewise inquire if the transport company promises punctuality or even will definitely reduce a specific quantity coming from the overall cost if they're behind time. A lot of quality transport companies will certainly use these promises.
 Lots of transport services ask for by the weight of the automobile, so a mostly-empty gasoline tank could potentially save you a few money. And also as a courtesy to people using the exact same transport solution, make certain to say to the servicer if your cars and truck leaks oil or even every other liquids in order that they put your lorry under row of the trailer. The liquids could potentially destroy the cars and trucks listed below it if they place it on the best.
 As well as naturally, among the most ideal traits you may do to discover a budget friendly transportation company is to look around. Create excess of your budget plan, as well as take a look at the costs of a number of automotive transportation providers in your region as well as contrast prices, packages, and also services. And bear in mind that the most significant provider is actually certainly not consistently the greatest Youngstown.
 Opting for a Safe and also Reliable Car Transport Service
 Never mind if your vehicle is actually a cars, a vintage cars and truck, and even simply a simple loved ones car, if you desire it safely and securely supplied to you, you will need to find a reputable and affordable transportation business that has an auto transport deal that matches your requirements and your budget plan.
 But, when picking a cars and truck transport company you must recognize some issues pertaining to the transport and distribution of such. If you failed to take the effective preventative measures, transporting one thing as priceless as your automobile would certainly be actually suicide.
 Here are actually some traits to keep an eye out for when considering a vehicle transportation company.
 Insurance
 Your automobile allows assets. You might end up with a badly banged up automobile if you enable your automobile to be delivered carelessly. To prevent this you can easily have your transport company insure your cars and truck. While studying on what transport service to hire, always take a look at the overall rate plus insurance policy. It may seem like a waste of money to some, however, for those who have actually experienced having their cars shipped to all of them along with nicks, scratches, and - gulp - other significant damages; insurance coverage will seem like an appreciated advice.
 Know What Type of Transport You are Dealing With
There are actually numerous choices on exactly how to have your cars and truck delivered. You may possess door-to-door, encased, open, terminal-to-terminal, as well as rail company and many more. A few of these possibilities might possess functions that you carry out not need to have, or functions that are more than what you need. Be sure you comprehend the particulars of each choice as well as select one depending on to your requirements Youngstown.
 Set up
 You have to be crystal clear on the schedules of pick up and also shipment.
 Get time is actually the amount of your time it draws from voucher of the purchase to carry till your vehicle is actually filled unto the trailer. This time is usually 2 and also 10 times. Transport solutions appreciate a 3 day allotment to find a trailer and assign your car to that trailer OH.
 Transportation time are going to get approximately 8-10 times. This depends on the place and option gotten. These trailers are going to commonly carry regarding 10 vehicles simultaneously. And also as me produces the essential quits to provide each automobile, he can consume a ton of time. It would certainly perform properly to be actually patient in the course of these times.
 When you and your automobile transport service concern conditions on the days, enhance the simple fact that your will be actually anticipating promptness in the delivery as well as pick up. You could also want to take into consideration whether the company enables you to cancel the transaction if they are late for pick up, or to reimburse a certain amount if they provide you auto late, or with harm.
 Your car transportation service need to notify you ahead of opportunity so you are going to not have to lose anytime fussing over what happened to your auto if they are to be actually delayed.
 Record, Report, Report
 It pays for to have every thing documented and in paper. Have the transportation company assess your cars and truck just before as well as after transportation so you may evaluate whether there was any kind of damage sustained during the procedure. They must inspect the shape of the auto and details this all down in newspaper. This is actually standard procedure for a number of the cars and truck transport companies around OH.
 Conclusion
 Locating the ideal auto transportation trailer to suit your particular necessities as well as finances need to be a very easy activity delivering that you know you finances limitations, unique traveling demands for your car, as well as length of journey. In today's market there are literally manies car transport trailer possibilities out there, as well as you can depend on locating the ideal one for you in a snap in all OH.
 The size of the vehicle transportation firm is certainly not the making a decision variable. What really determines whether you can trust your transport service is the capability and record of the company. Constantly explore the past transactions of the transportation ensemble to observe if there are any sort of prospective problems concerning their company.
 Forms Of Car Transport Services
 Automobile transportation firms deliver a wide choice of companies to the discerning customer. Whether you're delivering a thousand buck unusual auto, a perfect classic a vintage car or a typical household auto you can easily constantly count on finding the best vehicle transportation company along with an automotive company package created to accommodate your necessities and spending plan.
 Furthermore the accessibility of international services has actually never ever been far better. It is advisable to determine just before you look into auto transportation firms what form of solutions you are actually seeking. A number of the absolute most usual kinds of solution are actually door-to-door cars and truck transport, terminal-to-terminal transport, special auto agent, delivery to a defined area, storing needs, as well as tracking your vehicle. On top of that, numerous car transport firms give worldwide automobile transit answers to individuals. These services specialize in trusted, effective service along with constant retirements coming from primary U.S. slots. Many companies will provide you along with a skilled client service rep to ensure the mindful transportation of your cars and truck overseas OH.
 You may additionally request a protected transportation; this are going to cover your auto from severe climate and other hazards of the road. Expense depends on span, mode of transport and also time of delivery, some automobile transport business will certainly supply within many days of your delivery date other with a few weeks. The car transport company should caution you of feasible delays in advance, this is a basic solution.
 If you need a certain date for pick-up, many auto transportation companies can pick-up your car as well as keep it at a secure place for an added fee. Some automobile transport companies may deliver this service for free. Your cars and truck transport company should supply you along with a fairly specific shipment time. Inspect to find if there any type of costs to terminate, and also compensation for rental vehicle 44512.
 Your vehicle must be actually guaranteed against damage of any kind of kind. Acquire a duplicate of the transport provider's insurance policy coverage and also develop how their insurance coverage collaborates with your insurance. On top of that, find out if there is actually any type of kind of insurance deductible.
 Car storage is a solution worthwhile of mention as there is a large range of prices as well as locations for automobile storage space; a guarded location along with an assurance a safe storing place storage facility is ideal. Additionally, lots of automobile transport companies are going to supply various monitoring companies including modern satellite tracking and also cellular telephones to keep advised of your car's condition throughout the cars and truck's adventure. Just knowing the general truths concerning cars and truck transport will certainly make locating the appropriate car transport company a guaranteed effectiveness.
 Automotive Transport
 If you own a vehicle as well as are vacating to move to a brand new home, or merely intend to go out for a long holiday with your automobile in tow, after that you need automotive transportation services 44512.
 Auto moving - also called motor vehicle shipping - is actually the procedure of transporting a motor vehicle or even relocating from a resource point to a place factor. The resource aspect performs not automatically mean your property, as well as neither carries out the place factor refer to your brand new home or even villa. You could possibly move an auto coming from anywhere to anywhere.
 Transporting a vehicle is no average duty. An unique vehicle is actually normally needed to have. This is the reason that most moving companies do certainly not feature car delivering in their checklist of companies. Vehicle transportation is actually a highly-specialized service all on its own, so you require to tap the services of an automotive transport broker or a car transport service provider.
 Often, an 8- or even 10-car hauler truck - the same type of vehicle made use of for transporting brand new lorries to car dealerships - is used to move your car. These are usually open trucks that evaluate seventy-five to eighty feet long and also fourteen feet high. If you're certainly not enticed that these trucks can easily move your motor vehicle safely, you might opt for a confined vehicle. This are going to cost you extra, nonetheless.
 Thus if you're intending to move out at any time very soon as well as you desire to take your motor vehicle with you, you better beginning trying to find an auto transport business right now. Auto transport providers generally require a 2- to three-week allowance prior to your recommended transportation date. They use this time around to arrange the transport of your auto effectively. If you carry out not have added time, however, you can easily regularly request for a prompt transport, although there's no warranty that your ask for would be approved 44512.
 Automobile Transport "Free Auto Transport Quotes"
 Free Shipping prices estimate:
 When trying to find automobile transport, a well-liked hunt will lead to a lot of web sites supplying cost-free freighting quotes or even complimentary transport quotes. These quotes are based on various nationwide automotive transport costs that feature a lot of variables. These variables could be the moment of year (period), dimension of lorry, location of beginning and also location, etc. Also, how the rate is actually computed depends upon whom it is actually arising from, and also most of free of charge online quotes are actually coming from automotive transport brokers. This means the transportation quote will certainly include a broker's expense.
 Free freighting quotes are a means to entice in possible transport projects. It brings in curious consumers to car shippers' companies. As discussed in the past, these quotes will vary depending upon lots of variables. The biggest aspect to getting great company is actually how a lot the actual transport truck is receiving spent. The total transportation price minus the auto transportation brokers charge are going to calculate the transportation vehicles total purchase the work. A greater paying out cost to the transport vehicle will certainly result in much better and also quicker company. The vehicle driver calculates the high quality of the transport service United States.
 Today, the lorry transportation market has evolved relevant that your complimentary transportation quote may be sold as an automobile transport top, additionally called a "Hot Lead". Your facts might be submitted on an online top board the moment you place your complimentary quote request for automotive transport. Brokers searching these top panels will certainly get your demand based upon how much money they have actually purchased the "lead". The more funds they spend per lead means the much less competition they will certainly possess completing for the transport top. You will get phone calls coming from around a dozen or even additional auto transportation broker business. They are going to inform you about their solution as well as try to get your organisation. Whichever car carrier you opt for, the procedure will certainly work the exact same. Any kind of more inquiries or even issues about just how the "process" works, you can easily review our previous posts "How Auto Transport Works" and also "Problems and Solutions".
 To insure a great auto shipping experience, always do your research so that you experience stable and self-assured regarding your selection. There are numerous Transport Review sites that publish comments on all automobile transportation brokers. Practically every broker will definitely possess a married couple unfavorable responses accounts. Normally, lots of people opt for the car carrier along with the lowest volume of damaging feedback. However, this is actually not consistently the very best technique to create a great decision. You need to consider that when using an automotive transportation broker, there will definitely be 2 gatherings included. Many of the amount of time vehicle brokers receive negative reviews when they help make commitments that they may certainly not always keep. You must understand the truck driver/transport company has their very own agenda so the broker has little to no control. With that being actually claimed, if you wish to aid cover the high quality of your service, you can ask how much the actual transport truck will be actually purchased moving your auto. Given that as recently said, a greater paying for cost to the transportation vehicle often results in far better and also quicker service United States.
 How to Select a Quality Auto Transport Service
 In today times, vehicle transport solution has ended up being incredibly necessary all over the globe. For many years the demand for cars and truck carriers has actually improved and because of this a variety of transport providers have actually surfaced out. Because of this, a considerable amount of competition in the field had emerged as well as picking the ideal vehicle transportation company for your needs has actually ended up being challenging while shipping a car. After that deciding on the best vehicle mover would certainly become challenging, if you are actually not having appropriate understanding of transport. There are actually a variety of companies which are actually taken part in the company of car transport.
 There are some details things which you must remember prior to going forward to choose a really good transit solution. A number of them have actually been actually stated below:
 ( 1) The number one and initial point which you ought to comprehend is that whether the transit solution possesses an insurance and permit or otherwise. If something goes wrong, insurance policy is truly an excellent trait which will definitely protect you. You need to be certain about the insurance scheme. The other factor is actually that you should know whether your automobile transporters are actually licensed or otherwise given that if they are registered after that this will definitely suggest that every little thing is actually legal United States.
 2) The 2nd factor which you ought to enquire has to do with the cost as well as type of payment required for the transit service opted for. You need to know about the freighting price of the vehicle transport service. The automotive carriers will call for a down payment coming from you once you have actually made a decision to utilize their company.
 3) The third factor which you have to be certain approximately is that where your company will definitely select your vehicle as well as where will definitely it go down. As there are some car transportation company firms which want that you ought to steer the vehicle to their incurable at the point of origin. After that, it is needed at the location point that you get the cars and truck at the incurable once again.
 Transit as regularly has actually been a part of our daily routine. A good auto transport firm provides not only the transportation but also deals with your vehicles being delivered. The vehicle transporters ought to possess the sense of accountability which is extremely essential. These firms are actually attempting their ideal to offer superb centers to their clients of course.
 There are many web sites that offer you full particulars on the transportation solutions. You should pick up all your inquiries pertaining to the resources provided as well as automobile transportation fees. You ought to correctly recognize the conditions and also terms delivered due to the company before you pick all of them. Therefore, you need to opt for only that company which provides you practical transport rates and outstanding components.
 Vehicle Transport Companies
 If you want to transport your vehicle from point A to a remote point B without driving it, you've really obtained certainly not just 2, however three choices. You can easily talk to a truck driver to do the hauling for you, spend for the services of a relocating provider, or even ask a vehicle transport firm to do the work. If you wish nothing but specialist automobile transportation service, after that you must pick the third choice United States.
 There are 2 standard kinds of automobile transport providers: auto transportation brokers and automobile transport providers. Brokers, in essence, are intermediaries who may set up transit services for your motor vehicle by discovering automotive transportation companies who can easily perform the work. The carriers, meanwhile, are actually those companies that have the true locations to deliver your car.
 If you select to manage a broker, it is actually a good tip to very first personally examine the automotive transport business that the broker uses prior to authorizing any sort of agreement, just to make certain it is actually genuine. You can do this through only seeking the firm's records from the Federal Government's internet site, from the Better Business Bureau site, or even coming from your neighborhood Chamber of Commerce. By checking these reports, you can easily find out not simply the legitimacy of the transporter, but likewise find whether they carry out a really good job or otherwise.
 After deciding on the automobile transport firm, you need to decide on the cost, strategy of settlement, regards to the deal, and also the level of delivery insurance coverage. It is incredibly necessary to inquire about the firm's insurance coverage. The majority of firms will definitely cover your motor vehicle against damages and burglary during the course of its own transportation, however some may have confined or even focused protection United States.
 The cost of an auto transportation relies on a several traits, like the span between the true beginning as well as place location, the departure date, the kind of car/ motor vehicles to be held, the type of transport solution you favor, and also whether you will be taking advantage of special companies or not. When this cost is actually calculated and also every thing else has been actually settled (consisting of the arrangement), the firm may inquire you to pay a deposit of as much as 10 percent to 25 percent of the complete price. You have to pay the hinge on distribution.
 Because your motor vehicle is actually a big financial investment, it is critical to make sure that your automobile transportation service delivers insurance on your automobile during the course of transportation so that in the instance of blemishes, damages, or even more severe complications, you will definitely receive the money you require to restore the damages.
 Car transport is actually a highly-specialized company all through on its own, so you need to have to hire a car transport broker or an automobile transportation carrier.
 The complete transportation fee minus the automobile transportation brokers cost will figure out the transportation vehicles overall wages for the project. Today, the lorry transport sector has developed to the point that your free transport quote might be actually marketed as an auto transport top, also understood as a "Hot Lead". There are two overall kinds of automobile transport providers: vehicle transportation brokers and also auto transportation companies.
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Just how to Discover a Inexpensive as well as reputable Automobile Transportation Service
Just how to Discover a Inexpensive as well as reputable Automobile Transportation Service
 Regardless of what kind of vehicle you own, taking excellent care of your auto is very important. Buying an auto is a primary purchase, thus you'll would like to go over and above when locating high quality vehicle treatment. When most people think about taking appropriate care of their vehicles, they consider organizing routine oil improvements as well as song ups, yet it also implies locating the best services when you must deliver your car.
 Moving lorries may be a discomfort, yet along with a little research study and also knowledge, it isn't too hard to find an inexpensive service to relocate your lorry anywhere it needs to have to go. Whether you're seeking car transport in Youngstown, by adhering to the observing tips and pointers, you can locate risk-free and also trusted automobile transport services to relocate your automobile anywhere in the country. Expedited Car Shipping
 When choosing a car transportation solution is actually insurance coverage, maybe the very most significant facet to think about. Even when you locate the absolute most trustworthy transportation company on call, incidents and problems are always feasible. And the final assume you wish, is actually a ravaged or even banged-up cars and truck. Considering that your automobile is actually a sizable investment, it is actually critical to make sure that your car transport service supplies insurance coverage on your auto throughout transportation to make sure that in the case of scrapes, damages, or even much more serious troubles, you will acquire the money you require to repair the loss.
 A lot of car transport companies are actually probably credible, thoughtlessly trusting in a service's credibility is certainly not gamble you ought to take. Thereby, it is actually always a fantastic concept to take images of your car from all sides, specifically of all existing blemishes as well as damages on both the inside and also outdoors. That way, if you find a brand new blemish or even nick on your vehicle after transportation, you can easily prove that it was not a preexisting shape, and that the cars and truck transport company is responsible Youngstown.
 An excellent transportation service may likewise use their personal auto evaluation companies, which is beneficial considering that they will certainly record the state of the vehicle before shipping so that they may review it to the state of the automobile after shipment. Make sure to ask for a copy of the inspection of record just before transit to ensure you can contrast the record to your very own assessment.
 And also just like any sort of company or institution, you should check auto transportation services out on the Better Business Bureau. On the Better Business Bureau you may read objective info regarding the firm and can also view any current problems submitted versus all of them. Although the BBB may not have the capacity to give you all the details you require, it can quickly elevate some warnings if there are actually issues
 Likewise, any sort of excellent auto transport company should fit in giving you with a list of suggestions. Speaking with folks that have made use of the transportation service previously is a wonderful means to get sincere reviews about the reliability and also top quality of service of a cars and truck transport provider. It might take some added time, it may be worth the attempt if it assists you locate an excellent car transport business.
 When finding a fantastic automobile transportation service is delivery alternatives, one more thing to check out. Various services give different sorts of delivery services. Some will definitely choose the auto up at your door and fall it off at your brand-new property, while others simply pick-up and also deliver motor vehicles at company terminals that may or even might not be extremely near where you stay. Terminal-to-terminal delivery might be a lot more undesirable, it might also be actually more affordable than door-to-door company, so it is actually absolute best to look at all of your choices in association to your necessities Youngstown.
 When working with a cars and truck transportation service, it is additionally crucial to be crystal clear on the routine and to book beforehand. The majority of transport solutions can not pick up a vehicle on merely any time of the full week. A lot of ship numerous automobiles at a time and work off a rather adaptable schedule. Reviewing booking along with the transportation company comprehensive long before the moment you need to have to ship your automobile will allow you to possess loads of time to create the essential arrangements that will certainly most effectively match their as well as your routines.
 It is actually also important to take note that given that providers ship numerous autos instantly, they have to create several stops along their option, which implies that it might take numerous extra days than expected to deliver your auto, so keep in mind to be patient and also to count on a minimum of eight to ten days for transportation. And although being patient is actually good, you must likewise talk to if the transport company warranties punctuality or even will certainly deduct a certain amount coming from the general price if they're behind time. A lot of premium transport companies will provide these assurances.
 Lots of transportation solutions bill through the weight of the auto, so a mostly-empty gasoline storage tank might possibly conserve you a couple of money. And also as a service to other people making use of the same transport solution, ensure to say to the servicer if your vehicle leaks oil or even any other fluids to ensure they place your automobile under row of the trailer. The fluids could potentially ruin the cars and trucks below it if they place it on the leading.
 And also certainly, among the very best things you can do to find an affordable transport solution is actually to search. Establish excess of your finances, as well as look at the prices of many car transportation business in your region and also match up rates, companies, and packages. And keep in mind that the largest firm is actually not always the best Youngstown.
 Opting for a Safe as well as Reliable Car Transport Service
 It does not matter if your cars and truck is actually a cars, an ancient automobile, and even simply an ordinary loved ones cars and truck, if you desire it safely and securely delivered to you, you will certainly must locate a reputable and also economical transport provider that possesses a car transport bundle that matches your demands and also your budget.
 When choosing a vehicle transport service you have to be actually aware of some problems relating to the transport as well as shipment of such. Transferring something as valuable as your vehicle would certainly be self-destruction if you didn't take the suitable preventative measures.
 When taking into consideration an automobile transportation solution, listed below are actually some traits to look out for.
 Insurance
 Your auto allows expenditure. If you enable your car to become transported thoughtlessly, you could wind up with a poorly abused car. To prevent this you can easily possess your transport service cover your automobile. While doing research on what transportation solution to tap the services of, consistently check out the total cost plus insurance. It might look like a refuse of cash to some, but for those who have experienced having their autos delivered to all of them with nicks, scrapes, and - gulp - other primary damages; insurance will appear like a welcome suggestions.
 Know What Type of Transport You are Dealing With
There are actually several alternatives on exactly how to have your auto delivered. You can possess door-to-door, enclosed, open, terminal-to-terminal, and rail company and many more. A few of these possibilities may have components that you perform certainly not require, or components that are more than what you need to have. Be sure you understand the information of each possibility and also pick one according to your needs Youngstown.
 Set up
 You need to be actually crystal clear on the timetables of choice up as well as shipment.
 Grab opportunity is actually the quantity of your time it extracts from proof of purchase of the purchase to move till your car is loaded against the trailer. This moment is actually normally 2 and also 10 times. Transport companies cherish a 3 time allowance to locate a trailer and also designate your auto to that trailer OH.
 Transportation time will take about 8-10 times. This relies on the location and route gotten. These trailers will normally lug about 10 autos together. And also as me makes the needed deters to deliver each automobile, he could possibly consume a ton of opportunity. It will do properly to be actually client in the course of these opportunities.
 When you and also your auto transport service concern phrases on the days, bolster the simple fact that your will definitely be counting on punctuality in the shipping and pickup. You may additionally wish to consider whether the company enables you to call off the purchase if they straggle for choice up, or to give back a certain volume if they supply you vehicle behind time, or with damage.
 Your car transport service ought to notify you ahead of time so you will certainly not have to waste anytime fussing over what took place to your cars and truck if they are to be postponed.
 Record, Report, Report
 It pays for to have actually every little thing chronicled and also in paper. Have the transport solution examine your vehicle prior to as well as after transportation so you may evaluate whether there was actually any sort of damage received during the process. They need to inspect the shape of the automobile and also note this all down in paper. This is actually standard procedure for a number of the auto transportation companies around OH.
 Verdict
 Finding the suitable vehicle transportation trailer to accommodate your particular demands as well as spending plan should be actually a very easy task offering that you know you spending plan limits, unique traveling requirements for your car, and duration of excursion. In today's market there are essentially numerous vehicle transport trailer options available, and also you may rely on discovering the best one for you in no time whatsoever OH.
 The dimension of the cars and truck transport company is certainly not the determining factor. What actually determines whether you can easily trust your transportation company is the skill as well as track record of the company. Regularly investigate the past purchases of the transportation ensemble to find if there are actually any kind of prospective problems concerning their service.
 Forms Of Car Transport Services
 Automobile transport firms use a large selection of solutions to the discriminating customer. Whether you're delivering a thousand buck exotic vehicle, an exquisite timeless a basic family or even a vintage automobile auto you may constantly rely on finding the correct auto transport business along with a car service provider package created to match your necessities as well as spending plan.
 Additionally the schedule of worldwide services has never been actually far better. It is actually suggested to make a decision prior to you explore auto transport firms what sort of services you are looking for. Several of the best typical types of service are actually door-to-door automobile transport, terminal-to-terminal transport, exclusive vehicle moving company, shipment to a pointed out site, storage space demands, and tracking your auto. Additionally, lots of automobile transportation business offer worldwide car transportation services to people. These organisations focus on trusted, dependable service with recurring retirements coming from major U.S. ports. The majority of firms are going to provide you along with a skilled customer support representative to guarantee the careful transport of your car overseas OH.
 You can additionally request a covered transportation; this are going to shelter your car from stormy weather condition and also other risks of the street. Price relies on distance, method of transportation as well as opportunity of shipment, some car transport providers will definitely supply within numerous times of your arrival day other with a handful of full weeks. The car transport business must caution you of possible problems beforehand, this is actually a basic company.
 If you need to have a details time for pick-up, many auto transport companies can pick-up your auto and hold it at a protected location for an additional charge. Some automotive transport firms may supply this service cost free. Your auto transport company need to deliver you with a sensibly accurate distribution date. Inspect to observe if there any sort of charges to terminate, as well as compensation for rental cars and truck 44512.
 Your automobile must be insured versus destruction of any kind. Acquire a copy of the transport provider's insurance protection as well as set up how their insurance coverage partners with your insurance policy. On top of that, know if there is actually any type of tax deductible.
 Auto storage space is actually a solution worthy of acknowledgment as there is a wide range of prices and sites for vehicle storage space; a secured resource with a warranty a secure storage space place stockroom is superior. Even further, numerous vehicle transportation providers will definitely provide a variety of monitoring solutions such as state of the art satellite tracking as well as mobile phones to keep apprised of your automobile's state throughout the cars and truck's adventure. Feeling in one's bones the essential truths concerning automobile transportation will certainly make locating the right automobile transport firm a promised excellence.
 Auto Transport
 If you possess a car and also are leaving to move to a brand-new property, or just would like to go out for a long holiday with your car in tow, after that you need auto transport companies 44512.
 Vehicle transporting - additionally contacted motor vehicle transporting - is actually the process of carrying an automobile or even relocating coming from a source lead to a location factor. The source factor carries out certainly not necessarily indicate your house, and also not either performs the place aspect refer to your new house or vacation home. You could possibly relocate a vehicle from anywhere to anywhere.
 Delivering a lorry is actually no common task. An exclusive truck is actually normally required. This is the main reason why most moving firms carry out certainly not consist of automobile transferring in their list of services. Automotive transportation is a highly-specialized company all on its own, so you need to hire an auto transport broker or even an automotive transportation carrier.
 Usually, an 8- or even 10-car hauler vehicle - the exact same type of truck made use of for delivering brand new cars to automobile dealers - is actually made use of to relocate your car. These are typically available trucks that determine seventy-five to eighty feets long and also fourteen feets higher. However if you're certainly not encouraged that these vehicles can transfer your automobile safely, you might choose a confined truck. This will certainly cost you a lot more.
 If you're preparing to move out any type of time quickly and you yearn for to deliver your auto with you, you far better begin appearing for an auto transport company now. Automotive transport companies typically demand a pair of- to three-week allowance prior to your popular transportation date. They utilize this time around to schedule the transportation of your lorry correctly. If you carry out not possess added time, having said that, you can regularly request for an urgent transportation, although there's no assurance that your request would certainly be actually approved 44512.
 Automotive Transport "Free Auto Transport Quotes"
 Free Shipping quotes:
 When seeking auto transport, a well-liked hunt will lead to numerous sites using free freighting quotes or even free of cost transportation quotes. These quotes are actually based on different national vehicle transportation prices that feature numerous variables. These variables could be the time of year (season), measurements of motor vehicle, site of origin as well as destination, etc. Exactly how the cost is determined relies on whom it is happening from, and the bulk of complimentary online quotes are coming from vehicle transportation brokers. This indicates the transportation quote are going to consist of a broker's cost.
 Free shipping quotes are a method to lure in potential transport tasks. It draws in interested customers to car carriers' services. As pointed out before, these quotes will differ depending on lots of variables. The greatest element to receiving good service is just how considerably the genuine transport vehicle is actually acquiring paid. The complete transportation rate minus the auto transport brokers fee will definitely determine the transport vehicles complete pay for the task. A greater paying out cost to the transport truck are going to result in better as well as quicker company. The vehicle motorist determines the top quality of the transport company United States.
 Today, the lorry transportation market has developed relevant that your totally free transportation quote may be actually offered as an automotive transportation lead, also known as a "Hot Lead". Your information might be posted on an on the internet top board once you place your free of charge quote request for car transportation. Brokers viewing these top boards will certainly acquire your demand based upon just how much loan they have spent for the "top". The even more loan they spend per top implies the less competitors they will have completing for the transportation top. You will acquire telephone call coming from as much as a number of or even more vehicle transport broker providers. They are going to tell you regarding their company as well as attempt to get your company. Whichever automotive carrier you opt for, the process will certainly function the exact same. Any type of additional inquiries or even issues concerning how the "procedure" jobs, you can easily review our previous posts "How Auto Transport Works" and also "Problems as well as Solutions".
 To guarantee a good automobile transporting experience, regularly perform your analysis so that you experience positive as well as at ease regarding your choice. There are actually several Transport Review websites that publish comments on all car transportation brokers. Nearly every broker is going to have a pair adverse responses stories. Commonly, many people pick the vehicle carrier with the lowest amount of bad responses. Having said that, this is actually not consistently the most ideal way to make a really good decision. You need to have to remember that when utilizing an automobile transport broker, there are going to be actually two parties involved. When they produce guarantees that they can not maintain, most of the opportunity automobile brokers receive bad responses. You must discover the truck driver/transport business possesses their personal program so the broker possesses little bit of to no command. With that said being stated, if you intend to help cover the top quality of your company, you can inquire how much the real transportation vehicle will be paid for relocating your vehicle. A higher paying out fee to the transportation vehicle often leads in much better and also quicker solution United States due to the fact that as previously specified.
 Just how to Select a Quality Auto Transport Service
 In the here and now times, automotive transportation service has actually become very necessary across the planet. For many years the demand for auto carriers has improved as well as because of this various transport companies have actually emerged out. As a result, a great deal of competition in the market had actually occurred as well as selecting the right automotive transportation service for your requirements has actually become hard while delivering an auto. If you are not possessing sufficient understanding of transit at that point picking the appropriate automobile mover would become complicated. There are a variety of business which are actually engaged in the service of auto transport.
 There are some specific factors which you must remember prior to going on to pick a really good transit solution. A few of all of them have been mentioned below:
 ( 1) The firstly factor which you ought to understand is actually that whether the transportation solution has an insurance and also certificate or not. If one thing goes wrong, insurance policy is actually definitely an outstanding point which will certainly safeguard you. Thus, you must be sure about the insurance policy system. The various other thing is actually that you must recognize whether your automobile carriers are licensed or not given that if they are certified then this are going to imply that every little thing is actually legal United States.
 2) The 2nd trait which you should ask concerns the cost and type of settlement demanded for the transport service selected. You should understand about the transporting price of the automobile transportation company. The vehicle carriers will require a deposit from you as soon as you have determined to use their service.
 3) The 3rd thing which you should be actually specific approximately is that where your company will certainly pick your car and also where is going to it drop. As there are actually some motor vehicle transport service business which want that you must steer the automobile to their incurable at the aspect of source. Afterwards, it is needed to have at the place aspect that you grab the cars and truck at the terminal again.
 Transit as always has belonged of our daily regimen. An excellent car transport firm supplies certainly not just the transport but likewise deals with your automobiles being transferred. The automobile transporters must possess the sense of task which is actually very crucial. These business are attempting their ideal to provide superb resources to their consumers of course.
 There are actually numerous sites that offer you full details on the transit services. You should clean up all your inquiries concerning the resources given as well as automotive transportation rates. You must appropriately know the health conditions and also conditions offered due to the firm just before you choose them. You need to choose simply that company which uses you reasonable transport prices as well as outstanding features.
 Automotive Transport Companies
 If you want to move your auto from point A to a remote aspect B without driving it, you've in fact obtained not merely 2, however three choices. You can inquire a truck driver to carry out the carrying for you, spend for the solutions of a moving company, or even ask a car transport business to do the project. You ought to go with the 3rd alternative United States if you really want nothing at all but expert car transportation service.
 There are 2 basic kinds of vehicle transport business: car transport brokers and car transportation carriers. Brokers, in essence, are middlemen who might organize transit services for your auto through discovering auto transportation companies who can perform the work. The companies, on the contrary, are those providers that have the real facilities to carry your car.
 If you decide on to deal with a broker, it's a really good idea to 1st personally look at the automobile transportation provider that the broker utilizes just before authorizing any sort of deal, only to ensure it is genuine. You can possibly do this by merely looking for the company's documents from the Federal Government's web site, from the Better Business Bureau site, or even coming from your nearby Chamber of Commerce. By checking out these files, you can calculate not only the legitimacy of the carrier, but likewise see whether they carry out a good work or not.
 After deciding on the car transportation business, you ought to pick the rate, procedure of remittance, relations to the contract, as well as the magnitude of delivery insurance coverage. It is extremely necessary to ask them about the firm's insurance plan. The majority of firms are going to cover your automobile versus damage and also fraud during its transportation, yet some may have confined or even specialized coverage United States.
 The rate of an automobile transportation relies on a many things, like the span between the real beginning as well as destination area, the variation time, the sort of car/ automobiles to become lugged, the type of transportation service you choose, and also whether you will be utilizing unique companies or otherwise. The moment this rate is actually identified as well as everything else has been resolved (consisting of the contract), the company may inquire you to pay for a deposit of as much as 10 per-cent to 25 percent of the complete cost. You need to pay for the rest on delivery.
 Given that your auto is actually a sizable financial investment, it is critical to make certain that your vehicle transport company offers insurance on your car in the course of transport so that in the case of blemishes, dents, or more severe complications, you will obtain the funds you need to repair the problems.
 Automobile transportation is a highly-specialized company all by on its own, so you need to have to hire a car transport broker or an automobile transport provider.
 The complete transport fee minus the auto transport brokers cost will certainly identify the transportation vehicles complete salary for the project. Today, the auto transport industry has actually grown to the factor that your complimentary transportation quote might be actually offered as a vehicle transportation lead, additionally known as a "Hot Lead". There are actually two standard types of vehicle transport providers: car transportation brokers as well as automotive transport service providers.
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