#timeline branch: accidental marriage
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More Servant Nolofinweans Au in the timeline where Fingon and Maedhros marry
Nolofinwe did his best to act natural as he walked through the halls. It was far from the first time he had been summoned to Maedhros’s bedroom - though it had been awhile.
Not since Maedhros and Fingon had supposedly married.
It had been just as long since Nolofinwe had spoken to his eldest son, and nearly as long since he had seen him. A few days after the supposed marriage, Nolo had been assigned to lay the fire in Maedhros’s room. He had gone at a time the prince was normally in the council, opening the door without knocking as he expected it to be empty.
Instead Maedhros had been at his desk. He had told Nolofinwe to shut the door and come back later - but not before Nolofinwe had seen the figure in Maedhros’s bed. Fingon was face down and completely naked, and lying more still than Nolofinwe had ever seen his restless son.
The stillness was probably related to the whip marks criss-crossing his back. There were scabbed rather than bleeding, but still Fingon’s back was more red than tan. There must have been dozens of lashes, to leave Fingon in such a state even after days of healing, but Nolofinwe didn’t have time to count exactly how many.
Nolofinwe had entered the room a few hours later and found it apparently empty. He had laid the fire and straightened the covers on the bed - there was no blood on the sheets, so Fingon had not been whipped here. Nolofinwe had been to Maedhros’s room a few other times in the past month, always when Maedhros was gone, as his chores required. He had not seen Fingon again, or indeed any evidence that a second person now lived there.
So it was perhaps not so strange that Nolofinwe was nervous about going again to such a room and to see such a person.
Nolofinwe knocked, and entered when Maedhros bid him.
“What would you like, your highness?” Nolofinwe had planned to spend all his time in the room looking for some hint as to Fingon’s status, but found it unnecessary. For there was Fingon on the bed next to Maedhros, looking as healthy as ever. Fingon was naked while Maedhros wore only a dressing gown, and Nolofinwe had a sinking feeling as to what tonight’s game would be. But still, it would be worth it for proof that Fingon was - perhaps not safe, but no less so than he had been beforehand.
“Go ahead and strip. I want you to start with eating me out. Then you can fuck me while I fuck my husband.”
“Maedhros!” Fingon objected.
“What? You said you wanted to bottom tonight, but if you can switch positions with Nolo if you’ve changed your mind.”
“When I said I wanted to talk to my family, I was hoping for something more substantial than moans.”
(Nolofinwe began undressing. It was somewhat reassuring that Fingon was confident enough to argue, even though it had never changed much.)
“Well, I can hardly call all three of them in here at once. Now that you’re mine alone, my brothers are keeping the others busy. It took me two days to find a night Nolo wasn’t already reserved!”
“You still don’t have to fuck my father and me at the same time!”
“It never bothered you before.”
“It did, I just was worried about retaliation if I refused.”
“Huh, really? I though you just hated being ordered to fuck your family members yourself.”
“I hate that too, and even more! What’s not to understand that I don’t want to have sex with my family?”
“You can’t just spring that on me and expect me to change things immediately.”
“Why not?”
“Good relationships are about compromise, you know.”
“How are you compromising to what I want in any way?”
“I wore a plug all evening last week because you said edging was hot.”
“You wouldn’t wear it any longer than a few hours, and it was after you had me wear a cockcage all night.”
“I have a lot less free time to catch up on sleep than you do. But I invited Nolo here at all because you wanted to see him.”
“And because your father’s ban on fucking him expired.”
“Well yes. I’m not going to lie to my father for you Fingon.”
“It wouldn’t have been a lie, to let my father and I have one normal conversation in the last month to reassure him.”
“No, but my father already thinks I’m far too sympathetic to you. If I start to do things for your family’s comfort, he’ll be certain that our marriage has made me easily swayed.”
“Fine. I’ll go along with your plan tonight and we can work out the details after - with one condition.”
“Which is?”
“I get to actually talk to my father after, you don’t just send him from the room as soon as you’ve come.”
“I can’t allow the two of you any opportunities to plot against my family.”
“We could have made secret plans to overthrow the king anytime in the past several decades!”
“Maybe, but until this last month you wouldn’t have known the details of the council. Now you can see my mind, and are a much greater threat, along with the fact that you disobeyed your rightful place.”
“You can see my mind just as well; I couldn’t keep a secret from you. Please let me talk to my father?”
“Very well. Afterwards, in my arms, for half an hour.”
“Seriously? You could supervise me just as well if I sat by the fire.”
“True, but I enjoy holding you.”
“Alright.”
Maedhros looked over at Nolo for the first time in the exchange, gaze lingering on his muscular thighs and the hollow of his throat. “Handsome as ever. Kneel in front of the arm chair by the mirror; I want to watch you open me.”
“Yes your highness.”
“Maedhros will do during sex, just as ever.” Maedhros untied his dressing gown as he walked over. He sat on the very edge of the armchair with his legs upon the armrests. His asshole was just barely reachable, though Nolo would have to crane his neck back to avoid running his chin into the chair, or his face into Maedros’s balls.
Nolo began licking; it was far from the worst position he had been used in. After a few moments he remembered what Maedhros had said about “watching”, and began to thrust his hips in time with his movements. It didn’t add to the skill all, but making someone ask twice for a show rarely ended well.
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Fingon stretched his arms, and moved to stand, but Maedhros grabbed hold of his wrist.
“We agreed I’d hold you.”
“I’m not trying to sneak away! I was going to get a towel; we’re both far too sweaty and sticky for cuddling to be pleasant.”
Maedhros muttered something that sounded a lot like “try me”, then raised his voice. “Nolo, bring over two damp towels for us to clean up. Or three I suppose.”
Nolo did so, walking quietly enough that he overheard the conversation from the bed.
“You’re keeping the bond closed,” Maedhros said.
“Are you going to order me to open it, so that even my thoughts aren’t private from you?”
“No! I’m just concerned, normally we’ve had it open during sex, and we both like it.”
“I have. It usually makes things very enjoyable.”
“And I was worried if you were upset by something.”
“If I was upset by something - we just had sex with my father!!”
“Yes? I made sure you didn’t have to touch him, or watch him be hurt. You’ve done this plenty of times before.”
“I could I drop my walls now, let you feel every ounce of my disgust.”
“Would that help you relax?” Maedhros offered.
“No, but you’d deserve it.”
Nolo hastened out of the bathroom. Only two of the cloths were actually wet, but he could at least wipe the worst of the sweat off himself with a dry cloth and finish cleaning in his room. Better to interrupt this before Fingon pushed Maedhros into an argument, and he missed his chance to speak with his son at all.
The sound of his footsteps had apparently reminded the two spouses that they were not alone. By the time Nolo reached the bed, Fingon was glaring at Maedhros, and Maedhros was caressing Fingon’s face.
“Your towels,” Nolofinwe said as he offered the damp towels on one arm. He was still naked, but it wasn’t like they hadn’t seen worse.
“I suppose someone should enjoy the afterglow,” Fingon muttered, and began wiping between his thighs.
Once they were all somewhat cleaner, Nolo dared to talk to Fingon. “I truly am glad we can talk. I’ll admit that I’ve been worried about you.”
“It hasn’t been as bad as it could’ve. How much do you know of what happened?” Fingon asked.
“Not much. Maedhros requested your things and said the two of you were married. Since then, he hasn’t touched me or your siblings, and none of us have seen you for longer than a few seconds.”
“Wait, when did you get a chance to see me for a few seconds? I haven’t seen you even that much.”
“Shortly after you... moved out, I went to lay the fire in here. I assumed the room would be empty, but instead Maedhros was at his desk and you were on the bed. He told to to come back later, so I did.”
“And you didn’t say anything?”
“I was gagged. Feanor required us all to wear them for the first week.”
“It was well your back was healing,” Maedhros said helpfully. “I would have let you say hello if either of you had been able to speak.”
Fingon shook his head, “And you don’t see a problem that we weren’t?”
“Neither of you would have said anything productive.”
Fingon ignored Maedhros and turned to his father. “Other than the gags, have you been alright?”
“Yes. Things are much the same as ever. Turgon and Aredhel have started a new round of their elaborate card game, and are discussing using your bed as a playing space unless you’ll need it urgently.” The times one of them had returned hurt too badly to walk the next day were few, but not zero. If Fingon had returned injured, he would disrupt the card game; if he was merely weary to the bone the game could be tidied up in minutes. Not to mention that Aredhel and Turgon both were interested in card games that took dozens of rounds played across days or weeks; something that only happened if neither of them was permitted to their respective havens of the pottery shop and Elenwe’s house.
Of course, if Fingon and Maehdros really were married, Maedhros could see through such flimsy excuses the moment Fingon let his mental walls down. But if they weren’t Nolofinwe did not want to risk the rest of his family even more.
“They can use that room for whatever they wish; I won’t be going back to it.”
“Ever?”
“No. King Feanor doesn’t think it’s fit for the husband of the crown prince, so I’m here instead.”
“I am very surprised to here of your marriage; I had not known you were considering it.”
“I wasn’t, but I slipped and invoked the Name when I was playing the part of the sweet naif. Maedhros replied, and that’s that.”
“I see. Are you happy with him?”
“No. He is a coward who won’t even advocate for me if it there’s any chance Feanor would like him less afterwards, even though Maedhros assures me he won’t be disinherited.”
“Hey!”
“I asked to talk to my father, you’re the one who insisted on being here.”
“I didn’t know you were going to insult me.”
“You don’t have to listen, I could sit by the window to talk instead.”
Maedhros hugged Fingon tighter.
#For WIP Wednesday I am going to post things that are no loner WIP’s because I haven’t touched them in too long but want to be Done WIth#servant nolofinweans au#Maedhros gets dopey and relaxed after sex#he can snap out of it if he tries but he really enjoys basking in the afterglow#timeline branch: accidental marriage
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The Walker royal family (main branch)
Here they are in their glory! The main family of the Mystique tales and Great Wizards Au! (Excuse the shitty handwriting 😞)
Some lore and informations under the cut~.
Ramilia and Lavi:
—They’re three years apart, Ramilia being born on October 10th, 1594. And Lavi was born on July 29th, 1591. (This is all based on the anime timeline that Acier had died a few days or hours after Noelle was born in 1619)
—their marriage was arranged, Ramilia first met Lavi on the day she turned 14 (with Lavi being 17 at the time).
—they both come from royal families, Lavi married into Ramilia’s family. He originally was born in house Hart, he was the oldest of three (having two younger sisters, Minerva and Emma. Minerva is Mimosa and Kirsch’s mother, Making them Noelle’s paternal cousins instead of maternal).
—Ramilia is the second oldest, she has one older sister, Elizabeth. and a younger twin brother, Alexander. And a younger sister who died at 12 when Ramilia was 16, Wendy. And the youngest is Raymond, who is 23 years younger than Ramilia.
—The Walker family originally inhabited the land five centuries prior to the Silvamillion family coming to the land, the Silvamillions forced the Walker family (who were lead by the 18th great wizard at the time) to retreat to a place known as the back lands (known as the forsaken realm nowadays).
—in the late 1120’s the Walker family and the Silvamillion family signed a peace treaty. And in 1140, the clover kingdom rose with the Silvamillion family and the Walker family as the rulers.
—the Hart Family was a branch that originated from the Vermillion family back in the late 1290’s because of a disease that spread around their family that caused due to severe incest causing the members’ immune systems to fail immediately, causing the Vermillion’s to almost go extinct. So they split the Earth mages (who are known now as The Hart royal Family, keep in mind not all of them are Earth mages due to different bloodlines integrating into the Hart bloodline, Lavi’s father had fire magic hence the reason why he’s a fire mage, but his sisters have earth magic) and the Fire mages (the Vermillions, obviously the plant Vermillion’s are the exception) and forced these two families to marry out of each other, and now almost 300 years later there is not even a small percentage of incest found in the current families bloodline since the Vermillions/most royals marry from Nobility nowadays (Lavi and Minerva are the only exception today)
—the reason that made house Hart give up the man who could’ve been the next house head, was because Lavi was a failure in their eyes. He couldn’t control his magic at all, it constantly ran wild and in his first days as a magic knight he would accidentally injure his squadmates, eventually it caused the burn scar on his right eye (Also royals see scars as a sign of weakness that’s why Lavi’s family were so eager to get rid of him), and was everything a royal shouldn’t be, empathetic, caring and loyal towards the people and wanted to change the way the royal families treated their citizens of lower classes.
—when Lavi tells Ramilia this is the reason, Ramilia makes it her mission to make it possible for him to do these things he envisioned. Being the Great Wizard made it easy for her to make his ideals a reality.
—they got married the following year as soon as Ramilia turned 15 (the consent age at that time), and Lavi had already been 18 for a while (before anyone comes at me, Lavi never went near Ramilia at all. He despised the idea of being married to a barely legal child, so they never consummated their marriage until Ramilia was 23 and Lavi was 26, they had the twins at 25 and 28) the main reason that they were arranged was due to the lack of birth of any true blood successors in the last 47 years prior to Ramilia’s birth.
—Ramilia’s birth was hailed a miracle. as her Grandmother, Elizabeth the 18th who reigned as the 48th Great Wizard was the last true blood successor for nearly fifty years.
—the Walkers during this time had found out that Chaos (the power that gives them the right to use the chosen successor’s magic “Dark matter” and gives the successors the Black Blood that Walker Family is known by in the Clover Kingdom). Had chosen to abandon them during the period between the 48th and the 49th, thus causing the period to be referred to as the “the shameful era”.
—and now you’re wondering, if Ramilia is the 50th, and Noelle’s the 51st, who was the 49th then? Simple, a woman named Marlin Atkins, she was the first and only outsider to be called The Great Wizard. (She has her own lore, we’re not getting into that here)
—Ramilia came from an abusive Mother and a cowardly father who couldn’t do anything about the way his wife had been treating his children.
—Lavi is the current captain of the Crimson Lions, Fuegoleon is his Vice-Captain.
—the Great wizard is actually considered the real ruler of clover, they put a king just for show and for the sake of the peace treaty. So you can basically say Ramilia is the Clover Queen, although she hates it.
—the wizard kings are considered the second righthand men to the Great Wizards, focusing on the military power and external country affairs, and being in charge of enlisting/disbanding magic knight squads. While the great wizards concern themselves with the internal country affairs and keeping the people in check.
—there is a succession elemental cycle, it starts with, Wind-water-earth-fire. And along with it, Comes the secondary magic, Dark matter.
—Dark matter is basically a dark substance that changes depending on the element, for example, Ramilia was born in the wind cycle, the easiest to control and the most lightest element, it gives Dark matter the opposite qualities, When Ramilia uses it she gets covered by a heavy dark armour which causes her attacks when using it along with her wind magic to deliver more damage.
—the Great Wizards have the same elements as their zodiac signs, Ramilia is a Libra which is an air sign, and she possesses wind magic as her cycle element.
—each Great Wizard has a name for their era and generation. Marlin was “The shameful” Era/Generation. Ramilia’s Era is referred to as “The Mystique” Era/Generation.
Noah and Noelle:
—They’re twins, it is common for twins to be born in the Walker family (Ramilia’s parents were both twins so it made sense why she ended up having twins)
—Noah is the oldest by 10 minutes. And he takes it seriously.
—They’re born on November 15th (obviously), 1619.
—Noelle and Noah are the opposites of each other, where Noelle is friendly and lovable, Noah is a pessimist and uncaring, you can hardly get a reaction out of him for anything, the only person able to get a reaction out of him is Noelle and most of the time it’s negative ones, like yelling at her for being reckless or being a bad example for their younger siblings.
—the twins were an accident, Lavi hadn’t meant to get Ramilia pregnant as they have been busy raising Ray and agreed to never have children and hoped that one of Ramilia’s siblings would be the one to give her a successor to the Great Wizard title, when they found out that Ramilia was pregnant she had already been to far along to abort the babies, so they had them.
—it was a pleasant surprise to Ramilia and Marlin when Noelle was born with the black blood, and it made Ramilia’s problems a bit easier.
—since she’s the next Great Wizard, Noelle wears a certain coloured earring on her left ear, it is a tradition in the Walker family to wear them to indicate your status within the family, so the color of Noelle’s earring indicates that she’s the next/current Great Wizard. Ramilia wears the same coloured earring in the same spot.
—Noah also wears an earring in the same spot that Noelle and his mother do, this indicates that he’s the oldest and the next/current house head, Ramilia wears the same coloured earring in a different spot. And he has another ear piercing that is traditional for males of the Walker family to wear.
—generally, the Walker Family favours the females rather than the males, so unless the firstborn is a boy the position of house head tends to go to the deserving/stronger females of the family.
—Noah has wind magic, While Noelle possesses water magic since she was born in the Water cycle.
—Noelle’s Era has yet to be named, But Ramilia predicts that it’s gonna be called “The Valkyrie” Era. (No, this is totally not because of Noelle’s Valkyrie armour).
—Noah Joins the family squad, The White Tigers (are you really surprised that I have them in this Au as well 🌚). While Noelle is sent by her parents to the Black Bulls.
Ava:
—Ava was born on February 12th, 1622. She was an accident like the twins.
—she has fire magic, and is the only one so far between her siblings to inherit their father’s magic.
—she’s similar to Mimosa in personality.
—She’s close to Noelle. Ramilia used to joke that Ava would dye her hair if she could to look like Noelle, she admires her sister so much and brags about how she’s going to follow in their mother’s foot steps and become an even amazing Great wizard than their mother.
—Albert gets on her nerves constantly.
—she has expressed her wishes to Join the Black bulls to be with Noelle, to which Noelle forbade her from for obvious reasons.
—she’s the best one in her siblings with magic control, she was able to do a full spell at 9 despite not possessing a Grimoire at all.
—she’s a daddy’s girl, actually both Noelle and Ava are daddy’s girls. Lavi adores his daughters too much.
—she wears an earring like Noelle, but it’s magenta while Noelle’s earring is purple, to indicate she’s a “spare” successor.
Albert:
—Albert was born on august 10th, 1624. Unlike his siblings, Albert was planned.
—basically Ramilia and Lavi went through some serious shit and realized how much they loved each other, and how they wanted to leave the evidences of their love and life behind, hence why Albert happened.
—he has wind magic.
—Albert is Ramilia’s favourite, he was the easiest pregnancy and the easiest delivery and the easiest baby to deal with.
—due to this, Albert becomes a huge mama’s boy, but Ramilia knows when to step back and dial down on spoiling him so that Albert doesn’t become a brat.
—he’s the one with the most resemblance to his father, Ramilia jokes that Albert is a carbon Copy of a younger Lavi, which he is.
—he’s a known prankster, he gets on Ava’s nerves a lot and gets in severe trouble for it. (He’s the main reason Lavi started graying this early, besides Mereoleona obviously). The only person he never pranks is Mimosa because he’s terrified of her and finds his cousin scary, no one believes him when he says this, because no one can imagine sweet and lovely Mimosa as someone scary.
—he used to be the youngest and enjoyed the attention he constantly got. Then Nolan was born and the attention shifted from him which caused him to start acting more appropriately nowadays.
—just like Ava, he’s super close to Noelle. When he was a bit younger he used to sleep with Noelle in her bed when she’d let him, and they would stay up at times way past their bed time just talking about magic theories and old stories of the previous Great Wizards.
—he wants to join the crimson lions to be near his father, But Ramilia is hell bent on sending him to the Golden Dawn since Mimosa would keep him well behaved.
Nolan:
—the baby! He shares the same birthdate as the twins. He was born on November 15th, 1634. Which was Noelle and Noah’s 15th birthday.
—he was an accident, Ramilia freaked out on Lavi when she found out. And Lavi freaked out too because at that point they were both 39 and 42 and had no desire to raise a child all over again. But they had Nolan in the end and it all turned out good.
#black clover#noelle silva#my oc’s#BcOC: Ramilia Walker#BcOC: Lavi#BcOC: Noah#BcOC: Ava#BcOC: Albert#BcOC: Nolan#My art; Mystique tales and Great Wizards#mystique tales and great wizards
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Loki Fic
Series
A Change of Purpose - Loki x fem! Reader; Being an agent for the TVA, you’ve met a lot of different people. However, you’ve never met anyone quite like Loki. What happens when you’re forced to pair up with him and he leads you down a path that could have dire consequences for you?
One-Shots
Double Trouble - Loki x Reader; After creating a branch in the timeline, you’re captured by the TVA. It shouldn’t be all that bad though, right? Especially with Loki by your side.
The Flight You Won’t Forget - Loki x fem! Reader; When Loki lost that bet to Thor, you were there to accompany him on the heist. What happened on that plane, however, is something you’ll take to the grave…
A Glorious Moment in Sakaar - Loki x Reader; You’ve always disliked Loki, but when you end up stranded with him on an unknown planet, you put your hatred aside in order to work together. Turns out, the only thing you really hate is how much you actually like him.
Toxic Intentions - Loki x Avenger! Reader; When Loki attempts to make you jealous, your true feelings for him are exposed. Unbeknownst, that was Loki’s plan all along.
Requests
What I’ve Been Looking For - Loki x fem! Reader; You’ve never taken your arranged marriage with Loki seriously. You haven’t even seen him in years. What happens when you accidentally meet him again and feelings resurface?
The Heart Heals in Mysterious Ways - Loki x fem! Reader; After a devastating breakup with Bucky, you find solace in someone you’d least expect.
Patched Up for Good (Part 2 to “The Heart Heals in Mysterious Ways) - Loki x fem! Reader; Being on the run from the TVA, you stumble upon a group of people you’d least expect: The Avengers. Now, you have to face your past, with your future standing next to you.
Not on My Watch - Loki x Reader; In the void, you meet President Loki, who eagerly flirts with you. Loki notices this and immediately puts an end to it, leading to feelings being revealed.
Best Seat in The House - Loki x Reader; Buying Loki a new chair ends up being the best decision you ever made.
Capturing His Heart - Loki x Reader; After watching you cry over a TV show, Loki attempts to figure out what’s wrong, which soon leads to much more than a friendship.
Enchanted Games - Loki x fem! Reader; After everything that happened with the TVA, Loki comes back to warn everyone of what’s to come. However, no one believes him. Except you.
A Sickly God - Loki x Reader; You notice when Loki isn’t feeling well, but he tries to deny it.
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Queer books because we need more of those pt.1
My top 3:
This is How You Lose the Time War
Genre: sci-fi romance
This book was so good! The writing was so poetic and even though it was short, it was so vivid and emotional. This book is a love story (WLW) about two vicious, effective soldiers from different sides of a conflict spanning space and time. A champion of her Commandant, Red, finds a letter in the ashes of a fierce battle. It says, "Burn before reading." She reads the letter. When in war and love between two sides, does anyone win?
Cw: description of violent acts, bl**d, sickness
The Doors of Eden
Genre: hard sci-fi
I was not expecting this book to be queer but Adrian Tchaikovsky manages to surprise me yet again; this book‘s main characters include two very strong WLW cryptid hunters, a transfeminine Phd scientist, and some polyamorous folks. The world is about to end, and some humans with relationship problems accidentally find the branching timelines of the universe. With powerful neanderthals and other inter-dimensional allies and enemies, these humans must stretch themselves and deceive, love, hurt, and heal both themselves and the universe.
Cw: the end of the world, bl**d, g*ns, transph*bia (it's the villains being transph*bic)
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Genre: high fantasy novella
Nghi Vo spun such a beautiful tale in such a short piece of writing! Chih (they/them), a cleric, travels with their hoopoe companion, when they encounter an old woman who tells them the grand, sorrowful tale of the empress In-Yo. With no allies and fewer friends, the exiled empress navigates a dangerous political marriage with the help of a lowly handmaiden named rabbit.
Cw: description of violent acts, m*rd*r, mention of s*x
Tag me if you know any other queer books!
DNI: ableist, racist, bigot, truscum, transmed, TERF, anti-mogai/neopronouns/xenogender, anti-mspec gay/lesbian/etc., anti-endo, queerphobe, REG, gatekeeper, anti-decolonization, anti-abortion, prolife, anti-anti, NSFW/kink/BDSM
#lgbtqia+#mogai haven#queer books#book recommendations#nghi vo#adrian tchaikovsky#amal el mohtar#max gladstone#the empress of salt and fortune#the doors of eden#this is how you lose the time war#fav books#lgbt pride#wlw pride#polyam pride#transfem pride#they/them pride
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AU Masterlist
For ease of reference, all AUs will be linked to their respective tag on the blog; for fics marked as ‘In Progress’ or ‘Complete,’ status will link to AO3 if the work has an entry there; for fics marked as ‘One-Shot,’ status will link to either AO3 or Tumblr; for fics marked as ‘In Development,’ status will link to a Tumblr summary or outline of the complete work; all ‘In Planning’ works will be left unlinked.
Fire Emblem: Awakening
The Future Built Upon the Past (In Progress) - My Awakening magnum opus; a look at the events of the doomed timeline and how it led to the course of events that eventually sent Lucina back in time to alter the course of fate.
Affectionately Yours (Complete) - Accepting Plegia’s invitation to visit in his sister’s stead, Chrom rapidly comes to realize that everything he thought he knew about the halidom’s neighbor is at best a wild exaggeration thanks to the guidance of Plegia’s sovereign, Robin.
Cursed Fate (Complete) - A Shadow of the Colossus AU; following Robin’s death, Chrom takes his body back to Plegia for burial; when a disembodied whisper confirms that there may be a chance to restore Robin’s life, Chrom goes on a quest through the Grimleal nation to bring together Grima’s remains.
Crown of Shadows (Complete) / The Shrouded Throne (Complete) - A split-path narrative where, to stop the civil war raging in Plegia, Robin comes to Ylisse to beg aid from Exalt Emmeryn. After getting drafted by accident into the Shepherds, the Plegian and the Ylissean prince become fast friends – and very soon, something more.
Accursed Divine (In Progress) - Robin is trapped in a curse that transforms her by day into a fell beast. Once the curse is broken, the ensuing political drama follows Robin and Chrom uniting their countries after Robin’s ascension to the Plegian throne.
Sigh No More (In Progress) - An arranged marriage AU where following a crushing defeat at Plegian hands, Chrom’s father is forced to wed his son to Robin, who due to Validar’s ritual in her early life now bears more than just Grima’s mark as a sign of her fellblood; despite a rocky beginning, the two become friends and even find love in the union that had only ever been part of politics and power.
Beyond Twilight’s Veil (In Planning) - When Risen begin appearing in Ylisse, Chrom ventures into Plegia on Emmeryn’s behalf to try to find a joint solution, meeting and readily befriending Robin along the way. When things go wrong, leaving Robin half-transformed and Validar dead, the Shepherds are forced to flee Gangrel’s pursuit; two years later, Robin claims the Plegian throne and reaches out to Ylisse in an attempt to rebuild lost friendships.
War Crimes (In Planning) - A collab with anankos; the Exalt of Ylisse becomes a willing host to Naga’s power in a bid to wipe Plegia off the map, but the Fell Dragon’s return puts the war in a deadlock. Chrom is kidnapped and brought to Plegia in a desperate bid to open diplomatic channels, but when that fails he ends up as as a guest and becomes unlikely friends with Robin, the son of a Plegian tactician (who has more than a few secrets).
Manwearer (In Planning) - After becoming separated from his mother, Robin is raised by the taguel of Panne’s warren. On hearing about a threat to the Exalt’s life, the warren mobilizes to her aid, and Robin and Panne ally with the Shepherds to uncover the deeper mystery behind the attack.
Assassin’s Creed: Awakening (In Planning) - An Assassin’s Creed AU; when Emmeryn is kidnapped and slated to become a Grimleal sacrifice, Chrom and the Shepherds rush to save her – only her rescue comes at Plegian hands, instead. Defying his crusading father, Chrom chooses to stand by Robin and ends up embroiled in a millennia-old conflict between secret forces.
Smoke and Mirrors (In Planning) - A Pokemon crossover AU; Robin and her Zoroark Reflet (who prefers a human guise that passes for her brother) join with Chrom, a Pokemon Ranger branching out into competitive training; and his sister Lissa, an aspiring pokemon medic. This brings them into conflict with the Grimleal who are hunting for the Legendary Pokemon Giratina – a pokemon that Robin and Reflet have a very curious connection to.
Sibling AU (In Planning) - Grima is Robin’s older brother and unwilling puppet ruler of Plegia; when Emmeryn invites the recently-crowned king to Ylisse for diplomatic discussions, Grima sneaks his younger brother along to show him the world he’s never had a chance to see, and both unexpectedly find new friends in what they long believed were enemy lands.
Cardcaptor Lissa (In Planning) - A Cardcaptor Sakura crossover AU where Lissa accidentally unseals the Book of Naga and releases magical cards into the world; with the help of a tiny dragon named Tiki, she has to recapture them all before Grima reawakens to usher in the end of days.
Promare AU (In Planning) - A Promare AU; after Chrom thwarts a group of Grimleal dark mages from kidnapping an Ylissean family, his world is turned upside down by a series of shocking revelations, and he chooses to side with Robin to save the Ylissean Grimleal imprisoned by his father’s orders.
As You Are (In Planning) - Robin comes to Ylisse on a diplomatic mission, hoping to warn the Exalt of a potential threat; when an attack leaves the Plegian blind, Chrom confesses his feelings – only to be rebuffed as Robin believes that the feelings are born of guilt, leaving Chrom to grapple with what he fears are unrequited feelings.
Pride and Joy (In Planning) - Raised in Plegia under Mustafa’s care, Robin is drafted into Validar’s assassination attempt on Emmeryn – but decides that the orders should not be fulfilled and defects, saving the Exalt’s life. In the trials to follow, Robin tries to keep the Ylisseans safe from Gangrel’s forces without exposing her own wavering loyalties.
Prisoner of War (In Planning) - The Exalt’s war has left Plegia in ruins, its citizens scattered and the remnants of the army using guerrilla tactics to oppose the crusade. When his father calls him to the front, Chrom is captured by the Plegian resistance, and rapidly discovers that everything he thought he knew about Plegia (and the Heart of Grima who took him captive) is wrong.
Speaker for the Dead (In Planning) - Raised under Validar’s cruel abuse, Robin exists as little more than a hollow shell, surviving each day on the battlefield. When Chrom reaches out to him and offers a glimpse of something better than the threat of death, Robin cautiously accepts and gradually begins to recover from the traumas of Validar’s upbringing.
Design Defect (One-Shot) - A modern AU where Robin is the son of the head of the Grimleal mafia who enters Ylisstol University and meets Chrom, son of Exalt Corp’s CEO and the heir to the family company. While Robin might have some ulterior motives for getting close to Chrom at first, he quickly gets in over his head.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Kintsugi (In Planning) - A Golden Deer-based golden route, where Claude decides from the moment he reunites with Byleth that they’re going to save as many lives as possible.
Pre-Timeskip Fix-It (In Planning) - A Black Eagles-based fix-it AU where Byleth gets to shut down Edelgard’s alarming rhetoric every time she opens her mouth, and the Imperial princess stumbles her way through the process of becoming a better person.
Spite Project (In Planning) - A canon-divergent AU where the question of “what would have happened if Edelgard had hired Miklan to kill Claude and Dimitri at the start of the year?” leads to Claude and Dimitri saving each other in more ways than one.
Bad End AU (In Development) - A Crimson Flower AU exploring the logical consequences and fall-out associated with Edelgard’s conquest of Fodlan, her deceptions regarding the Agarthan menace, and her choice to kill Claude at Derdriu.
Proof of Life (One-Shot) - After establishing an uneasy alliance at Gronder, the joint Kingdom and Alliance forces proceed north to free Faerghus from Imperial control. On the way, Dimitri and Claude are ambushed by an Imperial assassin, leaving Claude seriously injured; on the way to safety, though, Dimitri is shaken by the Alliance leader’s words, and begins to question his purpose and his ultimate goals.
Fire Emblem: Heroes
Hard Reset (In Planning) - A bad-end Heroes AU where Muspell invades Askr and wipes out the Order of Heroes – but before Surtr can kill Kiran, they fire Breidablik, which somehow transports them to another Zenith. Taken in by the Emblians, Kiran sets about trying to prevent the ruin that befell the world they were first summoned to.
Controlled Chaos (One-Shot) - In the midst of battle against Muspell, Kiran is taken prisoner by Laegjarn and whisked away from the field; when the leaders of the Order elect to wait, the Heroes take matters into their own hands -- led by the last Hero anyone would have expected.
To The Last (One-Shot) - Though peace has finally established between Askr and Embla, Kiran is unexpectedly struck down by an old illness from their life before they were summoned; the Heroes band together in hopes of finding a cure...but in the end, it all comes down to a prayer.
Promare
Life Goes On (In Planning) - My Promare magnum opus and a direct sequel to Send the Scourge, Send the Swarm exploring the Parnassus aftermath, the Promeopolis Burnish and their recovery and reintroduction to society, and the gradual evolution of the city through the combined influence of the wider Federation and the growing Burnish activism movement.
The Enemy of My Enemy (In Planning) - A canon-divergent AU where Lio and the Mad Burnish managed to save those captured by Freeze Force before they were taken to the Lake Friege detention center; after awkwardly helping the Mad Burnish slip through Kray’s trap, Galo inadvertently becomes entangled with the affairs of the terrorist organization.
Pokemon
Project: Elements (In Planning) - My Pokemon magnum opus following a scientist in Team Rocket who discovers that her genetic theory has been put into practice without her knowledge or consent; taking charge of the project herself, she finds herself warring with the ethics and morality of her work when young lives hang in the balance.
Pokekids (In Planning) - Based on an FYCD prompt meshed with an original story in development; the story revolves around an original region and original characters setting out on their journey, the challenges they meet along the way, and the friends they make in the process.
InuYasha
The Rising Wind (Complete) - An AU fic based on loveyou-x3000′s Wind Prompt, exploring the aftermath of Kagura’s death, her revival in a borrowed human form, her developing bond with Sesshomaru, and their eventual family.
Maelstrom (In Planning) - A canon-divergent AU where Sesshomaru diverts Kagura after she betrays Naraku, preventing her death at his hands; as she becomes ingrained within the group, though, Naraku sees an opportunity to make use of her even when she is not within his direct control.
Ace Attorney
Crime of Passion (In Development) - My Ace Attorney magum opus; Miles Edgeworth is once again accused of murder and taken in by police, but this time Phoenix Wright won’t be able to take his case -- because the victim of the crime is none other than the defense attorney. It’s up to Maya to defend the prosecutor this time, while Miles is forced to confront the hard truths about his relationship with the missing lawyer.
#au masterlist#these are the big ones basically#and honorable mention to some of the things i don't usually broadcast
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FAQs
Since I started my OnlyFans a few weeks ago, I’ve gotten literal hundreds of messages asking for advice on how to get one started, how to market, how to be safe, etc. Well, ask and you shall receive.
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Meet GWENDOLINE CALDWELL. They are SIXTY-EIGHT years old and hail from HUNTSVILLE, AL. Gwen embodies the constellation, ANGENETAR. They use she/her pronouns and are currently employed as a FRONT DESK WORKER at the AMPHIRITE INN. Their faceclaim is NATHALIE EMMANUEL.
Angenetar reminds me of pair of blue denim overalls, freshly painted nails ruined soon after by a pickup game of kickball, winding down at night with a video game, doing all the voices in a bedtime story, feeling the energy of you but not you, regular family dinners, a stolen glance accompanied by a shy smile. .
BIOGRAPHY
There’s a world out there in which Gwen is happy. Where she comes home each day to a wife in an oversized Red Sox t-shirt, their daughter swinging on a play set in their back yard, living out a childhood where she doesn’t yet know that she’s going to go on to do great things, and a dog. There’s a world in which their small family gets swept up in the beautiful chaos of the Giordanos, where Gwen helps the family patriarch grill and pretends, for bursts at a time, like he’s her own father. There’s a world in which Gwen lives a quaint life, which was never what she thought she wanted, but is something that she’ll crave for the rest of her life.
(Gwen is merely a visitor in that timeline, a branch from the moment their daughter was kidnapped, a what could have been had she just been there at the right time, but as luck would have it…)
Growing up in the south during the Civil Rights Era, Gwen was quick to develop thick skin; her parents worked hard to provide her a good life and she fought hard for their rights when she was old enough to do so. She has always felt tethered to places she cannot see, but was unaware it had anything to do with being a witch; as Gwen saw it, her life was average for what she was born into, lucky to be blessed with a loving family and wanting nothing more than to make a good life for herself.
When her magic manifested when she was in her 20s, Angenetar appearing soon after just above her knee, it was a shock; although there were certainly incidents she couldn’t explain, her inclination–dimension-hopping–was too advance for her to do accidentally, and everything else had been so subtle. So when she’d been invited to Polaris, an invitation that came solely because of her sponsorship, it threw her for a loop.
Although a whirlwind, she worked hard at Polaris. Gwen’s particular inclination took a great deal of special training and research, but as a naturally curious person, she was fascinated by it. The issue was, as tough of a person as she grew to be, trying to access the energy of your alter-dimensional self was mentally and physically exhausting, and she had barely succeeded yet.
So, naturally, the first time she got stuck in an alternate dimension, it took her several years to find her way back home. Coming back was an adjustment; finding out both of her parents had passed of old age, finding out she’d missed out on several years of her own life–it was enough to make her afraid to try again, so for years Gwen rooted herself in the theory of her inclination, hoping to understand her abilities but afraid to put them into practice.
Her reluctance only became stronger when she met Christie. As the two dated, fell in love, married, and adopted their daughter, Gwen had no desire to lose any time with them. She focused all of her energy on her family, and through that, she was content. When their daughter was kidnapped and her marriage fell apart, Gwen’s whole life flipped on her head. She searched, of course she searched, but her specialties didn’t lend well to try and find a needle in the haystack.
The idea to call upon her resonance in an alternate timeline as a means to find her came from an outside source, but as soon as Gwen heard it, it took root in her brain. At first, she was resistant–she was needed here, she had to find her daughter–but, when it felt like all hope was lost, Gwen felt it worth trying to find answers in other worlds. With nothing left to lose, she dimension hopped once more.
If anyone asks, she’ll claim she was stuck; and although the hop itself had taken too much out of her, she’d grown exponentially in the time since she’d last traveled–not so much that it didn’t exhaust her, but enough that she likely could have come back. But in this dimension, she was happy. She had her family. And although Gwen found no answers, she became addicted to the draw of the timeline, and kept pushing back her inevitable return.
When she could no longer continue the excuse, almost two full years later, Gwen finally returned to her own world. She’s been struggling with coming back to the reality that their daughter had still not been found, coupled with the guilt that she’d let herself leave for such a long time. She’s told few people what she’s been up to, frankly, and has once again settled in Polaris Village. She’s taken up a position at a newly opened inn, avoiding her ex, and trying to re-root herself in her own reality.
INCLINATION
Angenetar has one of the more rare magical gifts, but one that can have serious mental, physical, and emotional effects on the witch/caster. Angenetar has the ability to call upon the resonance, or magical energy, of themselves in alternate dimensions or timelines. However, the grand scheme and usage of this power does take a toll on the user. Angenetar may be currently exploring the idea of other dimensions, and some Angenetar do have the ability to dimension-hop, but their magic is the sort that comes with a price.
CONNECTIONS
Filling the role of Christine Giordano’s Ex.
Sibling: I’d love if they were close, although perhaps less so now that she’s been gone for quite some time and has been overall preoccupied with her own shit. Either way, the specifics of this are totally open!
Best Friend: They’re a mutual shoulder for one another, a constant support system no matter how much time they spend apart. Gwen would do anything for this person and vice versa.
Tension: Gwen isn’t quite over her ex (she might be had she not just spent the past couple of years living in a fantasy dimension, but here we are) and is overall just kind of fucked up from her whole… y’know, kidnapped daughter scenario. But this person has caught her eye and is likely the first (real) person who’s had her attention in years, so there’s this… nervous, flirty, hesitant feeling between them.
Penned by Ashley ★
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Touji Saijou
Permissions
Please feel free to check any of the Sakamaki Bros.’ permission lists. It’s pretty repetitively the same.
Singleship per verse but most verses will have him already with his wife, please feel free to participate in the plots as appropriate, etc. *It’s very unlikely that I’ll ship this muse unless I’m very familiar with the other rper and their comfort zones, sorry. I’m not writing the “getting to know you” phase of Touji’s romance on tumblr, no thank you. If there’s enough “chemistry” between your muse and Touji, I’m willing to consider including your muse as his wife.
*Much of this information is based heavily in headcanons, as this is a character from a two-volume drama CD.
Biography / Stats
FULL NAME. Touji Saijou
AGE. 35-40
BIRTHDAY. October 13
GENDER & PRONOUNS. Male, he/him
ORIENTATION. Heterosexual
SPECIES. Human
OCCUPATION. CEO of the Saijou corporation, a “top 1%” kind of company when it comes to power, money and influence.
RESIDENCE. Saijou residence, Japan
HAIR. Auburn
EYES. Blue
BUILD. Fit
HEIGHT. 6'0''
TATTOOS. None.
PIERCINGS. None.
ADDITIONAL MARKINGS. None.
OTHER. Right-handed.
ZODIAC. Libra
ALIGNMENT. Chaotic neutral
POSITIVE TRAITS. Respectful, talented, devoted
NEGATIVE TRAITS. Obsessive, forceful, controlling
BIRTH PLACE. Japan
NATIONALITY. Japanese
FAMILY. A long history of being part of the Saijou group. A grandfather (alive) and parents (deceased). If in a verse where he’s married: his son, Hikaru.
EXTENDED FAMILY. Plenty, as branch families. Touji is the head of the Saijou family’s main branch after marrying.
EDUCATION. Masters of Science / College
NOTABLE SKILLS. Business acumen, shibari, kidnapping, blackmail
LANGUAGES. Japanese, English, Russian
FAVORITE FOOD. Anything made by his wife
DISLIKES. His grandfather, people who get in his way
Appearance
With auburn hair brushed carefully, cold blue eyes, and an impeccable suit, Touji Saijou is the kind of man that frequently winds up on the covers of various magazines as his company’s successes continue to tally up. Even more so when he was single, occasionally winding up on lists for ‘most eligible bachelor’.
Personality
The Saijou family has a curse. The fact that there is a curse, so to speak, is known to each direct heir. Whether or not they understand what the curse truly is, well... No one the men of the Saijou house love, not a single individual they love, will return that love. “The act of not being loved by their other half runs in their blood.” This is an accepted fact - Touji, like his father and his father, before him, have all been prepared to grab up the person they love by any means necessary to combat this.
Touji is a strange mix of practical realist and obsessive devotee - he’s a man who sleeps five hours a night, keeps to a tight schedule and constantly makes sharp executive decisions with ease. Perhaps it’s his lack of attachment that makes him able to see the big picture and the little details all at once.
He is quick to take, take control of, and use as he wants. If a bit of control and excessive stage play is necessary to set the scene and give him the evidence needed to procure something he wants, so be it.
When it comes to love, Touji is domineering, controlling, excited, boyish, cheerful and doting. He is quick to take what he wants, take control of whom he wants, and set things up calmly so that he can obtain it. He doesn’t even feel threatened or distressed by the idea of his wife killing him, so long as it makes her truly happy - it’s an accepted potential penance for what he did to make sure she would be his wife.
" … But I… in my own way, I love that child. It’s a way of loving that is different from yours, but… I intend to continue watching over him. As a father… and as a companion with the same curse, you see.”
Touji loves his son and is happy to provide proper, tried-and-true advice when Hikaru eventually tells him of a woman he, his son, desires... His son is a much gentler boy than the Saijou family typically sired; Touji does not believe Hikaru will “lift the curse” at all, despite his wife’s wishes for this to be the case.
History
Once upon a time, the Saijou family was cursed.
Many generations later, Touji Saijou was born. His mother died giving birth to him and his father committed suicide to be with her. This left his grandparents to care for him. His grandfather adored Touji’s mother and could not forgive him for this, taking great care and pleasure in separating Touji from anyone he ever became attached to while still strictly raising him to be a proper heir to the Saijou group. If his grandmother was kind, she didn’t leave too much of a mark - she died early on in Touji’s life as well, succumbing to an illness.
For the sake of ensuring Touji focused entirely on his studies and desired skills, his grandfather eliminated anything that could obstruct it to the point where Touji describes him as a “person who systematically kills everything I love.” When Touji had a dog he cared about and accidentally played with it too much and his grades dropped, the grandfather ordered it be beaten to death. When Touji raised a cat in secret, it was discovered and sent to an animal shelter. If Touji became a little too attached to a classmate, his grandfather wouldn’t kill them but take steps to break them or otherwise ensure they would avoid Touji in the future.
A successful adult heir, Touji Saijou improved the group’s finances and expanded their business carefully. His grandfather tried to shove him into loveless arranged marriages that he could control, but Saijou passionlessly dodged these as necessary.
No, his days continued colorlessly. Until he met a kind woman who unintentionally sparked something in Touji’s heart. Unknowing what she was waking up in a typically detached man, she had no idea that soon after she would be forcibly dragged into being a permanent fixture of his life.
If Grandfather had taught him anything outside of his responsibilities, one thing was clear: never leave room for someone else to step in and influence the situation. Neither his grandfather, the heroine nor her own family could change the events he set into motion, eventually succeeding in obtaining her as his wife.
And one day, they even had a child.
Touji is quite the doting husband but he has no illusions towards what he’s done. Life goes on, as they say.
Verses
Brief summaries of the verses for Touji along with potential links for those less familiar with his drama CDs but still want to interact with him. For the sake of keeping things clean, encouraging community-wide and cooperative storytelling in roleplay, and not letting things get too crazy, verses will be limited. More may be made over time as needed.
Summaries:
| Touji Saijou’s Drama CD Summary, Discs 1 & 2 | (Coming Soon)
VERSE - THE MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW LOVE
This verse assumes that he does not yet know his future wife. He may find her and fall in love, or he may continue his life otherwise. This verse may eventually mirror the main verse depending on growth, but allows for a bit of flexibility / etc. Who knows. It might be necessary, so it’s here.
Verse Details | Tag: #V; TOUJI; THE MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW LOVE
VERSE - THE MAN WHO DID NOT RECOGNIZE LOVE
*This verse will typically be the default, ‘main verse’. In this, it is assumed that Touji has found the love of his life and married her. He works hard at his career & does his best to love his wife and raise his son. Personality problems and all. He remains unable to recognize that his wife now returns his love, due to how he started the relationship.
Verse Details | Tag: #V; TOUJI; THE MAN WHO DID NOT RECOGNIZE LOVE
VERSE - MISC.
Posts that would involve duplicates (unlikely) in the same scene in a manner that would be hard to pass off as typical flow for those verses or other complicated scenarios that could arise.
Verse Details | Tag:#V; TOUJI; MISC
SITUATIONAL VERSE TAGS
#V; TOUJI; UNIVERSAL
Posts that can easily be assumed to have occured in either verse, typically answering asks, etc. that aren’t directly related to events unique to their timelines.
#V; TOUJI; WHAT IFS & #V; TOUJI; ONESHOTS
Likely reserved for one-off threads exploring a “what if”, a romantic meme that would otherwise be inappropriate, etc. If a meme doesn’t quite fit with one of the existing timelines, it’ll get one of these.
Trivia
Has more money than most of Japan combined, please stop him.
Tags
THREAD / WRITING TAG: #echoes in the halls; touji
HEADCANONS: #hc; kankinkon; touji
IMAGES: #itt // touji saijou
MUSIC: #music; kankinkon; touji
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My Thought On The Avengers: Endgame
I just finished watching it and my goodness there’s so much I want to talk about. First thing first, my plan of going to the bathroom just before the film started and not eating or drinking anything throughout the whole movie worked. I didn’t miss anything, but of course I was in a rush to go to the bathroom afterwards. XD I wasn’t the only one either.
This post will have SPOILERS, but I will make sure to put it under a read more and tag it as well. This isn’t a review, just my thoughts on some things and trying to make sense of something in particular.
Okay...so everyone had a pretty good idea that time travel would be involve, but it wasn’t until critics’ (supposedly) spoiler-free reviews came out that it was actually confirmed. I wasn’t upset, because a lot of the Avengers comics and cartoons about Thanos and the infinity stones had it in their plot. But those not familiar or new to the fandom wanted that to still be a surprise for them. Which is why everyone is now being extra careful (especially in their spoiler-free reviews) about what they say or write about Endgame.
The movie was very good and I felt satisfied to have it concluded the way it did. I’m still feeling that way, but now I’m thinking about the little things in an nitpicky way. It could be plotholes or just minor things that I felt could’ve done better, elaborated on just a bit more or included.
So to start off with, time travel. They go back to the past to get the stones. What happens there does NOT affect their own timeline. Instead it creates an alternative timeline. They still made sure to return the stones to their exact spots (so that way everything continues in the same general course).
However, Steve decided to stay in the past with Peggy. Before he did that it seems that he might’ve had an off-screen discuss with Bucky about what he was planning to do. That would explain why Bucky wasn’t all that surprised. Steve said his goodbye to him in case they don’t meet again (since there was no guarantee that he would still be alive if he does manage to come back -- even with the super soldier serum).
He ended up having a life with Peggy (while the Steve Rogers in that timeline was still frozen in ice). Originally Peggy’s husband was said to be a US soldier during World War II and they had a son and daughter. That’s all we know of her husband as there has never been any information on him besides that. But with Steve in the picture...does that mean he was always going be the man that Peggy ended up with? If so, the whole Sharon Carter (who is the great niece of Peggy Carter) and Steve flirting and the kiss is now cringey.
Or did Steve breakup the relationship or marriage that Peggy had with another WWII solider (which in the Agent Carter TV series implied it to be Daniel Sousa)? Hmm, either way he got his happy ending. But there are people who are like what about the Bucky of that past timeline?! Don’t forget that Steve of that timeline was still frozen in ice and if things continued on the same course he'd eventually wake up, the Avengers will form, he’ll find out about Bucky and later on rescue him. So this -- our current Steve didn’t have to do anything because he knew things will turn out okay in the end.
The problem I have understanding is how did old Steve come back to the current timeline? When Bruce Banner explained time travel to Scott and Rodney, he said that even if they did go back to the past to killed baby Thanos, it wouldn’t have effected their (future) current timeline at all. It would’ve actually created an alternative timeline that branched off from the moment they changed said past. And that apparently when you time travel into the future, you return to your original future timeline, not the new one created by the changes you made in the past.
It’s confusing, yes...but according to those rules old Steve shouldn’t have been able to ‘catch up’ to the current timeline. So again...how did old Steve come back? He would’ve need to use the time travel suit again in order to come back. It would’ve made better sense for an old Steve to reappear in the same portal spot, wearing the time travel suit. Old Steve waiting on a bench is a plothole. Or is this implying that this was always meant to happen? Again, I don’t think so as that just doesn’t make sense with the time travel rules they’ve set up.
And the reason Steve took the hammer, Mjolnir with him was because it’s connection with the Bifrost allows for quick travel. He was going alone and needed a way to get to all of the stones locations to drop them off.
...I wonder what his reaction was to seeing Red Skull again when dropping off the soul stone.
As for the choice between Natasha or Clint. They both love each other and it would’ve been sad to see either of them die. But I realize this mission could’ve failed completely if it was any other two people that went to get the soul stones.
Otherwise, the other group probably would’ve come back empty handed and be like “guys, we’ve got a problem. To get the soul stone someone needs to die, and it has to be someone you love or it won’t work.” That didn’t happen as it would’ve been extra work to deal with in order to figure it out, so instead they made it convenient by sending Natasha and Clint. Or at least, it seems like Nebula had a hand in making the plan and knew enough to picked Natasha and Clint to go there.
Hmmm, I felt like a twist could’ve been throw in that scene. Everyone knew a sacrifice needed to be made, but imagine if they both accidentally sacrifice themselves at the same time. What would the soul stone have done? Would it have been like damn...the combination of two souls that love each other is strong. That the soul stone couldn’t choose because neither of them is willingly to give up the other. Would such actions have been enough to summon the soul stone into existence without either of them having to die? Or would nothing happen and instead we get two dead characters? It’s something to think about...
Also, where was Natasha’s funeral wreath in the river? I get that the funeral was for Tony, but it didn’t hurt to do something for her too. Maybe hint that they're going to do something for her later (like a memorial statue or something).
So...does the past-Gamora stay in this current timeline? Or did she go back? If not, what will happen to past Star-Lord? I guess in that past-timeline the Guardians of the Galaxy won’t happen (especially if past-Gamora doesn’t go back)?
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byun baekhyun: the pretense of perhaps.
Pairing: byun baekhyun x reader.
Summary: you only wanted to think of the reasons as why this shouldn't have happened, maybe then coming to terms with the fact that it had would be easier to manage.
Genre: angst, Marriage!Au, Businessman!Baekhyun
Word count: 4+k.
a/n: this was originally a Baekhyun drabble that spiralled so completely and thoroughly out of control that I had to just make it a scenario of its own. I'm not exactly sure where this idea came from or the emotions around it but I do know that I listened to Urban Zakapa's 'I Don't Love You' at least three times. I hope you guys enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it and please excuse any word/ spelling errors.
Perhaps in a different life, it wouldn't have hurt as much.
Perhaps in a separate timeline where you were just a nameless observer in the background of the lifelessly joyous end of year office party, simply watching a beautiful man converse with an equally beautiful woman in such closeness that one could even mistake them for potential lovers.
Perhaps in another world where you didn't know the sound of the melodic laugh that escaped his lips between sips of Martini almost better then you knew your own.
Perhaps in a parallel dimension, there was a version of you that wasn't wallowing in your own pitiful loneliness and longing, the frost of your forgotten drink spreading from your fingers to the edges of your soul while he leaned closer.
Perhaps if you were a better person, you would have marched over to him and told him to stop.
But seeing as you weren't a better person and this was niether a different life, seperate timeline, another world or even a parell dimension, you didn't. Instead, you simply watched as she laughed and then he laughed until they were both laughing that you would think their voices were born to live in harmony. You took shaky sips of your thanklessly alcohol-less drink and attempted to pretend that sight of the merry couple on the other side of the purposefully dim room wasn't causing the ache that was currently splintering the already fractured organ that rattled in your chest.
The current situation was not helping at all with your state of unease and near paranoia, especially as you glanced around at the office worn faces dressed in what you could only assume was their version of 'party wear' and recognised no one. You shifted from one heeled foot to the other, trying to take small intakes of your beverage as possible so that you wouldn't lose your only distraction. Discomfort had settled over you like a second layer of fabric to completement the outfit that already clung to you.
Baekhyun had promised that he wouldn't leave your side even for a moment tonight, especially as he knew your afflicition when it came to being surrounded by people you didn't know in a situation you couldn't control. His promise had been kept for an entirety of 13 minutes, a miserable record in fact, and then suddenly there was no grip on your waist, leaving you defenceless as your shield trapped off in the opposite direction. It had taken you a few moments of wandering the conference room-turned-venue to finally spot him leaning carelessly on the bar, words of charm leaving his mouth like a song that he had been humming his entire life. You weren't even sure why he had been so insistent on you coming in the first place, his excuse of 'I love having you with me' falling flat in the face of your current seperation. The stretch of dull grey carpet between where you stood attempting to use one of the small tables as a shelter and his position of half-leaning on the counter next to him and half-leaning in to whisper something you knew would turn your stomach might as well have been a mirthless ocean with how unreachable he felt.
"They make quite the pair huh?" Was the purposefully coy start-up that was so unexpected that you startled back at the intrusion, blinking wildly at the person that now joined you at your small island of lonliness. The man who stood next to you close enough that your shoulders were near touching was impossibly good-looking and for a dazzled moment, you mindlessly wondered if Baekhyun's work hired their employees based on looks alone. But then you realised in your previous overview of the room that there had been no one who even came close to comparing with the tall structure of fathlomessly black hair and a sharp bone structure that was only met by the razor-edge of his eyes that observed you in blatant interest that no, it was only him.
You were so busy admiring him that you had near forgotten his opening statement, but then it whisped back into your disracted mind and you felt your heart shudder as you blinked the haze of your eyes, "Sorry, what?"
He simply nudged his head in the direction of where Baekhyun stood, the manicured hand of his conversation partner now resting on his arm, "Those two, they're two of our youngest supervisors. They're quite the pair no?"
"Do they work together often?" You tried your best to smoother the senseless pain in your voice with casual indifference.
"Oh yeah, all of our supervisors have to." He nodded towards them together, "They're somewhat of a celebirty couple around the office due to how much they've accomplished since she started working here a few months back. Personally, I find it a bit nauseating."
The gulp of your drink you forced down your throat did nothing to ease the lump that had formed there, instead, it just made actually swallowing that much more painful. This new knowledge was no comfort to you because instead of just being some passing face in the office or someone he had only spoken to once, he knew this woman, knew her so well that people at their work even though they looked good together. And you couldn't blame them, even you could notice how their aesthtics complimented each other.
"I'm Yixing by the way," The man beside you suddenly informed, extending his hand to you and you tried your best to keep your grip as steady as possible as you met the gesture. "What department do you work for by the way, I don't think I've ever seen you around."
"Y/N," You returned his introduction before shifting from one numb leg to the other, "And I don't work here, I teach Psycology at Seoul University."
This seemed the shock Yixing and you lapped at the distraction because it was so much easier to look away from them when you had Yixing's golden brown eyes looking at you, "Wow, I don't think I've ever met a Professor so young or so attractive might I add. How do your students ever concentrate?"
You scoffed at the frothy compliment, "That was awful."
"Yeah but it caused you at least some amusement and that's what I'm aiming for," Yixing shrugged back from the shove you reached to give his shoulder, grinning as you couldn't fight down a smile of your own.
"Well, I hope that's all you're aiming for," You warned because you could tell by the lean in Yixing's stance that clarification was needed, "I'm taken."
"Then I'll be Liam Neeson," Yixing crooned, seemingly undettered, "Your relationship status doesn't suddenly mean that you're unable to have a conversation does it."
You forced yourself to not look over to your left, instead steeling yourself forward and taking another sip, "I guess not."
Yixing was a wonderess diversion, so much so that you willed yourself to ignore the sometimes overly suggestive comments and focus mainly on the relief of having something else to focus on until Baekhyun deemed it time to leave. He was roughly the same age as Baekhyun and yourself, having worked at the same company for only less a year after being moved over from their sister branch in China. He was charming and looked at you in away you had missed more then words come summon which made it easy to forget that you most likely shouldn't be basking in the attention in the way you currently were.
"-But all the while, I kept yelling what I thought I was 'please get out' when it turns out I was saying 'please fuck me out,' no wonder the man didn't want to leave." Yixing finised describing the end of a particularly rocus tale of one of his first expierences at a sauna when he came to Korea, "That's why I get from learning the majority of my Korean from a college roommate."
You were struggling to keep yourself composed despite the near cackles that rumbled from your chest, "This is why I'm always scared to speak in other languages, I mean what if one day I'm just trying to order some food and accidentally tell the waiter I want him to eat me out?"
"Done that," Yixing deadpanned and the artifical solemn in his tone was enough to have you both rendered into a fit of barely controlled giggles.
Your face remained cracked in a grin even as you and Yixing seemingly calmed down, both of you ignoring the glowers from the painfully middle-aged couple whose less conspicuous rendezvous was being distrubed by your banter. Their glares were quickly forgotten as you and Yixing were sent into another spur of this time hopefully quieter snickers.
Suddenly, Yixing's attention was snapped to something behind you and before you could turn to face it, a hand was on your arm, "Are you ready to leave darling?"
It was as if someone had turned off the heat and you were abrutptly being submerged in a bath of ice, your joints locking under your weak skin at the warm grip that now resided on your waist.
If Baekhyun's hold on you surprised Yixing, he didn't show it, simply taking a sip of his drink before greeting him in the way collegues usually greeted each other, with an overt amount of politness with a hint of disdain, "Baekhyun, always good to see you, how are you?"
"Great, thanks," Baekhyun replied far too brightly and you felt your mouth fill with cotten, "I see you've met my wife."
Now Yixing did look surprised, but only just and his eyes made a small flicker to the hand you had unintetionally kept clasped around your drink all night, the two metal bands that resided there suddenly biting into your skin. "Yes, we've been having a wonderous conversation. I don't remember you ever saying you were married, or if you did, that your wife was quite so lovely. You're quite lucky."
"Aren't I?" Baekhyun crooned and you almost felt repulsed at the way his grip tightened on you.
You had no reason to feel ashamed, you had told Yixing straight away that you were not single so there was no guilt to be felt. Instead, you were weighed down by the knowledge that if Yixing, who had worked with Baekhyun for the better part of a year, didn't know that Baekhyun was married. You couldn't help but think Yixing's comment was more so for you then Baekhyun by the way he was looking at you with such sympathy, as if he too was remembering the way you had both witnessed their closeness and he felt sorry for you. That did hurt.
When had your life become so downright cliche?
Jealousy was not something you had ever tolerated or even contemplated. You either trusted your partners completely or you weren't with them. Even tonight, when Baekhyun had abandoned you to sout out another woman and left you stranded at his work's end of your function that he had begged you to attend with him, there had not been any jealousy to find. Only sadness and loss, the sort that you just begun to push down during your conversation with Yixing but now had returned in full form. But while you never tolerated jealousy yourself, you knew how to spot it in the swirl of Baekhyun's gaze.
"I'm ready to leave when you are Baekhyun," You attempted to distract your husband away from his scrutinisation of Yixing by answering his previous question.
Baekhyun turned to you, his stare suddenly becoming something near lovesick and you startled at the sight because that's how unfamiliar it had become, "Well then let's leave now my love."
You nodded in agreement, Baekhyun giving you almost no time to even wave goodbye to Yixing as he guided you in the direction of the exit and you had to raise your voice so that he could hear you, "It was lovely meeting you Yixing."
"Same to you Y/N," Yixing stated and you wished you hadn't glanced the look of sorrowful understanding and apology in his eyes as you left because it made you feel all that much worse.
The mortification of it followed you all the way outside where you and Baekhyun waited in silence for your car to brought around by the valet, it was awful to know that Yixing had made the deduction to feel sympathy for you so quickly. That your reason for pain was so obvious that it didn't even take an explaination for a near stranger to understand.
Your interaction remained completely wordless as you slid into the vehicle, you taking up your resident spot at the wheel as it was clear that you were the only one sober between you and Baekhyun by the way he almost tripped over his feet on his way to the passenger side. There was also the wafting smell of rum that instantly filled the car as he took his seat beside you, instantly unbuttoning the top of his marroon shirt and slumping into the leather. You had to take a breath to simply focus yourself until you deemed yourself ready to drive, the emptiness of the late-night city mirroring perfectly that of the hollow that seemed to form in your chest.
You were near frantic as you wrestled yourself out of your jacket and heels once you had crossed the threshold of your shared apartment, Baekhyung shuffling slowly in behind you though you were to busy fleeing in the direction of your bedroom before he had even finished closing the door. You rid yourself quickly of your dress-shirt and trousers, barely sparing the moment to throw on a t-shirt before you were escaping to the en-suite bathroom for some clarity.
It was easier to focus in a place that was so entirely and completely saturated by Baekhyun, especially as you picked up the whispering rustle of him entering the bedorom behind you. The blisteringly bright lights were almost enough to blind you as the bounced off of the plain white marble and sterling silver but you focused more on scrubbing the artificial face you had painted on for tonight's occassion. Your reflection was pitiful as you rubbed the clensing foam into your skin, the silver liquid pooling at your tear-line enough to have your movements quickening into a near fury.
The lukewarm water you bathed your skin in did little to wash away the hurt that was burning your chest like soap getting caught in your eye and you found yourself wishing for the mundane pain if only to have something to combat the ache. Water and residel marscara dripped from skin like tears and you were glad you had them to conceal the ones that threatened to escape at the sight of Baekhyun's reflection scrutinising your own from his place propped up against the doorframe.
"Why didn't you tell Yixing you were married?" His voice was painfully mediated, not a single influx of deviation, but the calm clashed painfully with the storm in his eyes.
You let out a dry laugh, reaching for a towel to pat your face, "If you must know, I told him I was in a relationship after he approached me."
"Sure," Baekhyun scoffed, the sound so brittle that it had your bones near shaking in a mixture of fury and pain, "I'm sure that's exactly what you did, I mean why else would he be flirting with you when you so obviously made yourself unavailable?"
"Well I'm glad to know what you think my company's worth," You gritted out, your teeth slashing down on the inside of your cheek in an attempt to not say the other thousand-and-twelve horridly petty things you could have said in hopes to somehow to soothe your mangled pride, "We were just talking."
Baekhyung matched the softness of your admittance with a harsh cackle as he steeled his chest behind a cage of crossed arms, "I would love to see what you think is flirting if that was your version of just talking."
Your finger scrambled for purchase, digging into the marble as a new anger spread through you at his indignation, as if you were somehow the one in the wrong and the words spilt from you like water from an open tap, "Probably something like what you were doing with that woman."
You almost took satisfaction in the mixture of surprise and something almost shameful that crossed Baekhyun's face as he bristled, attemtping to clear himself of any sign of wavering, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Really?" You were close to laughing now because this was all just too laughable, all of it, his face, your ignorance, it was all just so funny. "Because I could ask you why you hadn't told Yixing you were married, or anyone else it seems."
"It never came up in conversation," A cheap deflection and one that you were definitelty not buying.
"And my martial status did?" You snarked, suddenly feeling slightly more in control by the way Baekhyun's clear lack of defence as you whirled to face him so that you would be conversing with something more tangible than a reflection, "Yixing tells me you've worked with him for almost a year, I guess it's easy to assume that one's relationship status is more likely to come up in a minute long conversation rather than one over the course of an entire fucking year. Right?"
Your husband seemed to be at a loss for words, looking positively stupid as he tripped and trampled over his own tongue, "It isn't- it didn't- I wasn't-"
"You weren't what Baekhyun?" You had to swallow the sob, closing your eyes only if for a moment to keep your emotions in check before you turned around to face him, desperation smoothing over the frustration in your voice, "You weren't standing at my side like you promised me that's for sure, you weren't with me all night even after you promised me in all of your mithering for me to come with you that you wouldn't leave me even for a second. You weren't next to me even when you knew I didn't want to go in the first place, fuck why did you even ask me to come with you? To make me watch? To make me finally understand all the hints you've been putting out for months?"
"What are you talking about?" Baekhyun stuttered, utterly bewildered and took a step towards you but you instantly repelled backwards.
The knives of conclusion scraped your throat as you let out a mirthless chuckle, "I think you know exactly what I'm talking about Baekhyun. I mean, your collegues don't even know you're married for christsake!"
"How does that have anything to do with what's going on right now?" He demanded and you wished he would stop acting, stop pretending.
"Don't you see Baekhyun, it has everything to do with it." Your fingers dug so visciously into the palms of your hands that you were almost sure they were on the cusp of breaking and you forced yourself to meet Baekhyun's gaze of confusion, "You didn't even tell the people you work with, that you see every day, that you were married. And whether you were conscious of it or not, that means you didn't want to have to admit to it. It's a clear sign that you're avoiding this marriage, that you're trying to run away from it."
"The fuck I am!" You were almost startled by Baekhyun's outburst, "I don't care how much you think you know about the human psyche or whatever but that's utter bullshit, you can't just take the fact that I didn't tell anyone I work with that I'm married as me running away from our marriage."
"Maybe not," You admitted, an unsettling calm resting on your shoulders which was almost more frightening because that meant that there was no more fighting to be done, "But charming another woman surely does. Does she know you're married Baekhyun, did you tell her you were in a relationship or did you do it in the same way I supossedly didn't tell Yixing?"
At the mention of the woman who had held captive your husband's unabibded attention the entire evening your stomach curled. You wanted nothing more than to say that she was the cause of all of this so that you would finally have something, someone else to blame rather than yourself. But then you would be lying straight in the face of the truth that yours and Baekhyun's problems had been growing roots long before this woman had ever even entered his life.
Perhaps it had been you taking up the job you had been scrambling for your entire life but had also made you less available to Baekhyun that had started the chain reaction that had led you to here. You knew Baekhyun was someone who thrived and survived off of the attention of those around him, that you should have known that despite how much you loved each other that he wouldn't be able to help himself searching it out somewhere else if he couldn't find it at home. Baekhyun was right, you knew about the human psyche, you knew how it was so fundmentally human to not be even conscious of your straying if you were feeling neglected.
And to his credit, Baekhyun hadn't been the only one retreating from your relationship. You too had been creating a distance of your own whether it was intentional and perhaps your had been a bit too flattered by Yixing's attention.
How did things get this bad?
"Before you ask," Baekhyun's voice, though it boomed through the bathroom and split open the silence that had fallen over the space wavered, "I'll tell you outright, I've never cheated on you."
"I know you haven't, I wasn't going to ask," You admitted because if there was one thing you knew for certain it was that Baekhyun was no cheater, "But that's not the point Baekhyun."
The crack in his words was enough to make you want to sob, "Then what is the point? What's the point of any of this? I thought I did everything right- I thought-" Your own tears fell in empathy to the ones that streaked down Baekhyun's cheeks even as he attempted to rub them away, "-When did everything go so wrong?"
And there it was, denial gone Baekhyun had finally come to the conclusion that you had detirmined long ago but had been pushing away in hope, in blind and misguided hope that perhaps you were misjudging something. That maybe you were just imaging the way he had been pulling back and pulling away, only to then later smoother you in an enslaute of affection that you knew was more fueled by guilt than by actual love. No, Baekhyun had never cheated on you, but he wasn't in love with you either.
"It doesn't always work," You stated though the words sounded idiotic even to your own ears especially as Baekhyun let out a chuckle that lacked humour and possessed ample agony.
"But it was meant to work for us, right?" Baekhyun questioned in a near plea, eyes searching for a reassurance you would never be able to give, "This can't be the end, can it?"
You stepped foward to reach for Baekhyun's cheek, your vision blurred with tears of your own even as you brushed own from just under his eye and gave him that smile, the kind that people give other's when they both come to the realisation of the same heartwrenching truth.
Perhaps in a different life, it wouldn't have been the end.
Perhaps in a separate timeline, where you were just completely different people who met in a completely opposite sort of way and fell in love in turn.
Perhaps in another world in a parallel dimension, there was a version of you and a version of Baekhyun who never even met each other, who simply brushed past each other on the street and continued on, seeing nothing and feeling nothing.
Perhaps if you both were better people, things would have been different.
But perhaps is a word that comes far too easy, especially when one is walking away.
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Understanding a Pandemic
Writing anything about this pandemic is an ambiguously perplexing task for one simple reason which hopefully will remain impartial and subjective throughout this narrative. 'I am not a virologist and I have no idea what is this all about, other than knowing that a lot of people had already perished and our way of life has been altered drastically from what we were used to a couple of years ago. In this time of extreme contagion there is no room for half-baked pretension so let's try to be blunt with the facts.
Definitively it is a virus, any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agent that are nonliving, extremely complex molecules, typically containing a protein coat sorrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semi-permeable membrane. They are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals and plants. Summarily, according to Mirriam, it is a causative agent of an infectious disease.
Coronavirus
Any of a family (Coronaviridae) of single-stranded RNA viruses that have a lipid envelope studded with club-shaped projections that infect birds and many mammals including humans, and include the causative agents of MERS and SARS.
Infectious Disease. Fatal.
Less than a fortnight. That's how long it will take for your body's immune system to decide whether you live and will continue watching Netflix day in and day out or you're helplessly doomed and may be dead due to complication. That is also the extent of everything I know about this pandemic and for a non-scientist like me, anything other than that is bullshit.
So, lets start with every bullshit that you may have probably learned and believed from social media while living in sedentary hiatus for a year and a half as to where this virus came from.
Wuhan, China.
A bustling large industrial metropolis in the heart of the old imperial China situated along the confluences of the Yangtze river and its largest tributary, the Han river. Chinawise, Wuhan is a class-A city in terms of wealth, development, social standards and the resultant corruption mentality with a categorically upscale maritime traffic, though landlocked, that served as a major transportation conduit and a hub for trade and commerce in the central China region. Without the extensive river and the webs of interconnecting channel and canal system in the region, Wuhan and the nearby cities within the river's reach is practically non-existent. This is also one of the places in China where research institutes can be found, 350 of them to be exact, one of which is the reputably infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Wang Jian, a 3rd Engineer cadet on one of my prevous ship lives here along with his young capricious wife and her nagging mother who berates him constantly especially when he sends no money. Tradition dictates that if you hold a girl's hand her parents can demand marriage instantly to avoid familial indignity. Apparently, that is what happened in his case of which he openly loathed and forfeited to fate. I hope they're still alive by now.
Exotic Meat Market.
The first mention of the emergence of this virus strain was said to come from this place which I'm particularly confused of as all meat markets in China are deemed exotic even to Asians. Chinese markets always sell meat of any kind of animals because as Xiaopeng once said, Chinese eat everything that swims, everything that crawls, and everything that flies, except airplanes. Animals we oftentimes see in the zoo are butchered here for meat and traditional medicine including endangered species imported and smuggled from as far away as the African savannah and the Amazon rainforest. The more exotic the meat, the more commanding the price. Live frogs and dried insects are even normally displayed in most food section of large swanky supermarkets besides choice beef cuts and imported truffles from abroad. Bush meat swamped local markets. Apparently, this virus came from animals and was transmitted to us humans in an inconceivable and uncomprehending way other than consumption and infection albiet through unintentional contact or elective absurdity.
Bats and Other Exotic Animals.
The identification of a certain kind of bats allegedly found only in the caves of a particular region of China that hosted the deadly corona virus strain was discovered a few decades ago, extensively studied, scrutinized and genetically analyzed down to their sub-molecular composition by various researchers. Various entities, which in this case is not principally subjected only to the Chinese virologist who discovered it but by the entire scientific field of virology research all over the world. Bats fly but they are not airplanes so they are probably part of the menu.
The postulation of this virus coming from pangolins, another type of exotic zoo display animal of the anteater (Myrmecophagidae) specie, was also suspected although there were inconsistent research result to assume validity to the claim.
Laboratory Leak Theories
A lot of American media ballyhoos specifically pinpointed Chinese research laboratories as the primary source of this pandemic which I find very conflicting from the onset. For how could a seat of government justify the notion of intentionally culling half a million of its citizenry just to assess a virus effectivity? Apart from being too farfetched to be accepted, it does not logically imply that since the pandemic allegedly started in Wuhan, the laboratories within its vicinity are all deemed suspect as the source of its transmission. It is also widely established that there are a handful of laboratories specializing in virus research all over the world other than China. Why is it then that their existence were all discounted for considering it is general knowledge that most various research projects particularly in the field of science all over the world are openly tied up and shared research materials even to the extent of breaching national security, I have not the slightest idea. With this factual reasoning alone, the notion that some foreign agencies are covertly funding research in aiming to create advance viruses in Chinese laboratories could also be feasibly warranted. Inasmuch as an accidental release is concerned, as prattled to be one of the possible cause by most analyst in the western countries, that would be very unlikely considering foolproof measures are always a top priority in research facilities dealing with these kind of hypersensitive experiments. There are also international standard and practice commissions that certify and oversee the operation of this facilities to avoid any possible slip ups and unintentional circumstance that violates its operating protocols. However, there were verified reports of three researchers from WIV who became sick enough to require hospital care way back in November 2019 which substantiated the incipiency timeline of the pandemic and adding credence to lab-leak theorist proponents.
World Health Org.
A branch of the United Nation that specifically deals with and monitors the health of the entire world population may have dampened the spread of the disease through their information and rehabilitation programs but were unable to evade mounting criticism in its initial conduct in handling the pandemic. Their search for the source of the virus in China were also inconclusive as Chinese authorities were uncooperative and hesitant to divulge their own findings and statistics. However, there were circumstantial postulation regarding the agency's lackadaisical outlook during the onset of the pandemic that raised eyebrows among academics and other health monitoring agencies specifically in relation to their complicit reluctance in stamping China's outright culpability of the crisis. China’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation is also tantamount to admitting damaging lapses in containing the pandemic intrinsically. China's alledged funding contribution to the agency, according to unsupported assertion by some financial watchdog, is also suspect. Though blaming China for this crisis is tantamount to censuring westerners for introducing cancer catalyzing hotdogs and genetically modified foods to the world, the fact that the pandemic started in China eventually remains true in nature although the origin of the virus. Whether it was from animal spillover or laboratory leakage, still remains vague and debatable.
Conspiracy Theories
Two years ago, a symposium that chiefly addressed the virus strain was held somewhere in the North American continent. The Chinese scientist who was the leading authority on the subject mysteriously became infected and died along with a dozen investigative researchers who had audaciously delved into and exposed conspiracy theories regarding its origin and nature, including prominent WHO representatives. The death of the Chinese doctor who exposed through media the initial surge of patients and casualties and who nonetheless alerted the relevant authorities regarding the possible onset of a pandemic sadly also became a fodder for conspiracy theorist.
Black Ops
There would be no mystery casualties and conspiracy theories without black operations and this in itself is self explanatory. Most superpowered countries acknowledge their existence decades ago though initially intended as a deterrent to foreign intervention that could jeopardize national interest and security. It is however recently being expanded to covertly exercise and influence the psychological characteristic of the people within its contituency and beyond by using social media platforms as a tool. Whether this is a black ops gone haywire or an economy based deliberate strategy for world dominion, I would not know because I'm also not a political scientist nor a financial strategist.
Media Frenzy
The media and internet wars of today that is currently waged by competing superpower countries is a billion dollar industry. The corollary effect of mass communication brought about by the invention of the world wide web considerably became a lethal weapon considering it has the capability to act and produce an effect that could influence world politics and the economy. Media, as we all acknowledge, is also responsible in providing veracious reports and proliferating fake news that spread solicitude and panic other than public differential diagnostic attitude. Their actions further complicate the efforts of the relevant health agencies to combat the scourge. In as much as blaming the Chinese for the spread of the virus or creating racial tension to stave off the reproach, mass media became the focal point of interest in this war of words and the source of pointless namedropping allegation that instigated worldwide mass hysteria for reasons way beyond our already distressed comprehension.
History
There were countless pandemics and plagues that came to ravage the entire world ever since men started to record history and it is remarkably interesting to ponder the consistency of its recurrence. Though the discovery of vaccines may have saved countless lives in the past, nature has its way that we still can't figure out and relentlessly unleashes novel vaccine resistant virus strains we've never encountered previously. The progressing coronavirus epidemic at the onset of the 21st century that preceeded the lentivirus, filovirus and orthomyxovirus scare however is noteworthy. These viruses, notably MERs, SARs and the current SARs2 Covid-19, all of which are of the Coronaviridae family, came to emerge in Asia. HIV, Marburg, Yambuku or Ebola in the late 20th century all mysteriously came to manifest in Africa. Apparently, natures way of disseminating viruses is also peculiarly discrimatory.
The rapid spread of the disease however can also be summed up as the effect of inequality of living standards between rich and poor nation, the unintended result of globalization. People from poor nation immigrate to developed countries to seek affluent lifestyles as investor flocked to third world countries to extract their resources and cheap labor. With the prevalent ease of travel and border restrictions, the spread of the disease became inevitably uncontrolable. Complacency, which is a common human trait that transends all aspects of life's boundaries, may have also became the multiplying factor in the spread of infection and fatalities, a self assumption that was dispelled by the sudden shock of morbid reality. As it was before, people never learn.
Vaccine
Vaccines were available within six months since the outbreak which is quite unprecedented considering the novelty of the virus strain. This may be partly due to the alarming and rapid propagation of the disease that affected the whole world and the widespread economic downturn following the general lockdowns and quarantines imposed stringently by almost all countries. Although a host of speculation regarding the initial test phase of most vaccines were insidiously circulated through the media, the demand however validated their importance though their effectivity are still closely being monitored particularly on the emerging regionalized variants that are said to have an increased transmissibility rate. Most Covid-19 vaccine brands however have shown remarkable capability to neutralize the virus ranging from as low as J&J's 85 percent to Pfizers 97 percent effectivity particularly in combating B.1.351 strain, which is also known as the deadly South African variant, the fast spreading Indian variant and the latest dominant B.1.1.7 variant that is currently ravaging the US and Israel. Studies have shown that those who had received vaccination, especially the frontline health workers who are more prone to be infected, had a high percentage rate of immunity in staving off infection than those who shun the medication. Generally, vaccination is a must, whether the drug is made in China or anywhere else, and the only option to those who does not approve of it (e.g. gene therapy theorist) apparently is to live like a hermit inside a cave a thousand miles away from civilization for life. Eating those cave bats though will still probably end their lives in less than a fortnight.
These are some of the examples of misleading nonsense that were fed to us by the media lately. More is yet to come. But for all this hype, three things still remains essential for our survival in these pandemic and that would be by getting vaccinated, by not getting infected and by trying not to infect others. Generally, media these days are mostly for entertainment purposes only, so let's just keep it that way.
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More in the “what if in the Servant Nolofinweans AU, Maedhros and Fingon accidentally married?”
M: “Follow me. My father has agreed that it’s disgraceful for the crown prince’s husband to be doing menial labor, and that as my spouse you should share my quarters.”
F: “Alright. What will my new duties be?”
M: “Not much for now, the king doesn’t think you’re smart enough to do anything other than menial work. Have sex with me, but that’s hardly a duty.”
F: “So I’ll have plenty of free time for your brothers to use me.”
M, angrily: “You will not. You’re my husband, and thanks to the marriage bond I can feel anything you share. It would be repulsive incest for my father and brothers to fuck you, as it would be the same as fucking me.”
F: “That would be a first, for one of you to care about incest.”
M: “Mind your tongue when talking about your betters; I’ve never touched my siblings.”
F: “Maybe not, but you’ve never had a problem making me fuck mine. And the king sure enjoys using my father, despite being his half-sibling.”
M: “It really doesn’t count; maybe I’ll explain to you sometime. Anyway, we’re at my room now.”
F: “So we are.”
M: “My father said he’d think on the matter and come up with suitable punishments in the morning. In the meantime, I have nowhere else to be, so feel free to familiarize yourself with the suite – I know you’ve been here before, but I don’t think you’ve seen a lot of it in detail. You won’t be leaving this room for a while, and I can clear a corner for you to decorate to your tastes.”
F: “Why am I not leaving the room? I’ve always been allowed to walk around the palace wherever my chores brought me.”
M: “And now you have no chores beyond this room. I think as my husband you should be allowed to go with me when I travel, but I’m going to wait on that suggestion until my father’s in a better mood.”
F: “I wouldn’t object to staying here while you’re away, if your brothers truly won’t try anything with me. Even just in the room, I could keep myself from getting bored and distracting you through our marriage bond.”
M: “That’s kind of you to offer, but I’m still going to cancel my trip to Tol Sirion next month. It’s nothing that can’t be put off, and I don’t want you shut in a box for that long. My father stripped me of some committee appointments as well, and it’s better to speak to King Olwe once I can truly say that the king of the Noldor trusts my decisions.”
F: “I thought he never punished you lot.”
M: “The punishments appropriate for use on a prince are different than those to be used on a servant, I’m not surprised you didn’t notice. And he objects to me marrying so far below my station. I could have pulled out once you invoked the Name, but I didn’t. That shows at the very least poor thinking in a crisis.”
F: “He outright encourages you to fuck me, and believes in the sanctity of marriage, but objects to you marrying me. That doesn’t seem contradictory at all.”
M sighed. “It’s consistent as long as you understand the difference between the destiny of the soul and the habits of the body. I can loan you one of the treatises on the matter if you like, my tutor showed it to me when I was nearly of age.”
F: “Given that my formal education stopped before puberty, I can’t say I've read it before.”
M: “By the way, you really shouldn’t make sniping comments at my father tomorrow. I know it’s a shock, and as your husband it’s of course my duty to help you adjust. But to the king, you are simply a servant who overstepped your bounds, with the complication that harming you too much would also hurt me.”
F: “I don’t think your father has ever seen me as more than an appendage of someone else, it won’t be a change.”
M: “But please be polite, I don’t enjoy seeing you in pain.
F doesn’t say why do I care what you enjoy? “I’ll be polite. Should I go retrieve things from my old quarters, or do you need to accompany me?”
M: “None of your old things will be necessary. I’ll ask for a new hairbrush and such for you, I’m sure it will be better quality.”
F: “But – will it really be ready by morning? Including a whole new wardrobe?”
M: “What would you need a new wardrobe for?”
F: “Well if we’re not bringing my things, I can hardly keep wearing the same tunic and leggings forever.”
M: “No, but that hardly means you need a lot of clothes. Probably something to wear when we formally announce that we had a very private wedding, but otherwise you can go without.”
F: “So since I upgraded to husband from sex slave, I am now expected to be naked in your quarters at all times? What if someone walks in?”
M: “They won’t see you, because you only have freedom of the rooms when I’m present. I don’t trust you not to try to run away, but it would be a scandal to have a lock on the outside of my door. You’ll stay in here.” Maedhros gestured to a cubical piece of furniture nearly as tall as he was, with a door at waist height.
F: “I thought that was a dresser of some sort.”
M: “No, it’s a box bed. They’re more popular in colder places like Formenos, but they’re very cozy and private. I like it myself in the winter, though there’s not much room to move around so I haven’t fucked you in it.”
F: “It doesn’t look like there’s any room at all.”
M: “There’s room for me to lay down, and to stretch my arms, and to sit up. There’s even a little shelf with a lamp-stone, and blankets if you get too cold. You can take a look if you want.”
F: “Sounds lovely and not at all like an oubliette where you’ll shove me for the rest of the night.”
M: “I wouldn't do that! I’m trying to be fair about our marriage, despite you being obviously unworthy of me. You can sleep in my bed with me, and as long as I’m here you can wander the room. It’s only as a security precaution that you’ll be locked away when I have other duties.”
#servant nolofinweans au#in the morning Maedhros and Fingon are going to see Feanor in his office#to find out what fingon's actual punishment will be (moving into Maedhros's room is theoretically an upgrade not a punishment)#Feanor cares about his sons though#and any pain Fingon is in; Maedhros will feel through the marriage bond#so Fingon is only going to be beaten for a couple hours#and meanwhile Maglor is going to sit in Maedhros's room and keep hm asleep using Song#Fingon shouldn't be in much lingering pain as long as he doesn't try to walk or move or sit#so as long as he lies perfectly still in Maedhros's quarters afterwards; Mae won't have to experience the physical pain#Mae is going to be so annoyed if Fingon forgets and rolls over and sends agony down the bond though#Fingon has done a whole lot more difficult things than this before! is he trying to hurt his new husband?#(Fingon isn't trying to but /does/ think that it's plenty fair if Mae ends up experiencing a fraction of the pain Fingon's family has)#timeline branch: accidental marriage
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A sampling of some of the many, many universes in which Viktor Nikiforov and Yuuri Katsuki didn’t somehow manage to avoid each other for TEN+ YEARS and are already happily married (Inspired in part by the musings of @kiaronna and @pearlo on this topic from this post):
In 2010, Viktor is leaving an Olympic after party because it has just more or less dissolved into an orgy and that’s not Really his scene. In this universe, he decides not to go back to his room and instead finds his way to an outdoor seating area, which is not very heavily utilized given the fact that it’s February. There is only one other person out there–an athlete with his back turned, curled up onto a bench. The lettering on his jacket says Japan.
“Mind if I join?” he asks, and the other man turns to reveal dark hair and the deepest eyes Viktor has ever seen.
“Oh,” he squeaks. “No. Go ahead.”
They sit, and talk, and three hours later exchange phone numbers. Instead of going to America to train, Yuuri Katsuki goes to Russia to train under Yakov Feltsman. He takes National gold in 2011 and marries Viktor in 2012.
Phichit accidentally posts a video of Yuuri doing a bit of Viktor’s 2013 free skate to Instagram, instead of the hamster video he meant to post. The video makes its way through the figure skating grapevine until, obviously, reaching Viktor. Viktor immediately DM’s Phichit, begging to know who the man in the video is.
Yuuri wakes up to six missed calls, 609 Instagram notifications, 49 texts and a DM from Viktor Nikiforov.
“I WAS ASLEEP FOR AN HOUR,” he shrieks.
Phichit takes complete credit for their marriage in his speech at their wedding less than a year later.
Through the careful and judicious saving of money for several years, and because in at least one timeline the main waterline in the onsen and the transmission on the family car don’t go kaput in the same year, Yuuri’s family is able to send him to one of Yakov Feltsman’s ice skating boot camps when he is fourteen years old.
Viktor is there, all shining hair and huge smile and new celebrity. He has just placed at the Turin Olympics and is on his way to becoming a Russian household name, and Yuuri has been in love with him for two years already.
“Yuuri!” Viktor coos across the ice, over the heads of the fifteen other skaters in the bootcamp. “Keep your hips even! It won’t make it so hard to turn into your Axel!”
“Yuuri! Don’t hunch your shoulders on the spread eagle!”
“Yuuri! Your thigh should be parallel to the ice on that sitspin!”
“He’s incredibly skilled for his age,” Lilia tells Yakov in the back of the rink one day. “And Vitya has been behaving remarkably well, since he came here.” She fixes her eyes on Yakov, deep and determined. “He’ll be old enough to make his senior debut next year. If we groom him through his last year of juniors, he could bronze in his first GPF, or better. I want him, Yasha.”
Yakov Feltsman is not in the habit of denying his wife those few things she asks of him.
Yuuri Katsuki returns home after that bootcamp to pack his things and collect his dog and hug his parents goodbye.
“I’ll take good care of him, Mr. and Mrs. Katsuki,” Viktor assures from a Skype call. “He’ll be getting the best training in the world. I even have a poodle, so Vicchan won’t be lonely during the day!”
Hiroko and Toshiya just smile knowingly.
Yuuri Katsuki is newly fifteen when he moves to Russia and begins sharing a condo with Viktor Nikiforov. He is sixteen when he wins his first GPF silver, and eighteen when the Vancouver Olympics roll around and he stands below his best friend on the podium and accepts silver for Japan as Viktor accepts gold.
He is nineteen when, after five years of glances and touches and shared secrets and tears and laughter, Viktor pulls him into bed.
“About time,” is the general consensus to that.
They have only been dating, dating-dating, for five months when Viktor asks him to marry him.
“I know it’s quick,” Viktor says, “but I feel like–I feel like we’ve known each other all our lives, anywa, so what’s the point in waiting?”
Yuuri, of course, feels the same way.
Viktor makes a split-second decision to touch up his make-up before a press conference at the Trophee de France 2011, and as he’s patting the sweat marks off his temples hears the definite sound of someone crying.
“Um,” he announces to the otherwise silence bathroom. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah!” comes the answer, shrill. “I’m totally fine!”
“You don’t sound fine,” Viktor says, and ducks his head to see which stall has feet under it. In the last stall, he sees a pair of badly-abused sneakers. He straightens up and knocks on the door. “I’ll leave you alone if you want me to, but I can–if you want, I can show you a better place to cry. Than here.”
It takes a moment, but the door opens. The man in front of him has watery eyes and puffy red cheeks and Viktor isn’t sure he has ever found someone so beautiful.
“Okay,” he whispers, and Viktor leads him onto the roof where instead of crying, he stares out over the skyline and tells Viktor about his home town.
Viktor never does discover why Yuuri was crying, but he does get his phone number–and he does visit his hometown with him, a year later, to tell Yuuri’s family that they’ve decided to get married.
Yuuri is somehow convinced by Phichit to go out with a group after Skate America in 2013–Phichit is in his element, leading people around the city with expansive gestures and the effortless social confidence Yuuri has come to know of his best friend.
“You’re from this city too, aren’t you?” asks someone at Yuuri’s shoulder, and Yuuri turns from Phichit’s monologue to see Viktor Nikiforov of all people. Yuuri, distantly in the back of his mind, realizes that he didn’t see Viktor before because he is wearing a hat, scarf, and enormous sunglasses.
“Um, not from here,” Yuuri says, trying not to squeak, “but I–we both live here, Phichit and I.”
“But you know the city,” Viktor says, “so that means you would know a place where I can get the most disgustingly greasy food imaginable and you and I can go there and my coach never needs to know?”
“Yes,” Yuuri says immediately, because he may be timid around most people, and especially around his idol, but he has more than enough sense to realize that His Time Has Come. “I can absolutely do that.”
Yuuri takes Viktor to American Coney Island, where they eat loose burgers and chili fries and drink diet coke, which is the only cession to their diets.
“Oh Yuuri,” Viktor laughs at the end of the night, a speck of chili cheese still at the corner of his mouth, “I could fall in love with a man like you.”
And he does.
Celestino wins a radio lottery and receives tickets to Champions on Ice in Las Vegas–he decides to take Yuuri and a rinkmate. Yuuri’s rinkmate is nice, but he doesn’t know her very well, and he’s several years younger. She also has friends in Nevada who she wants to meet up with, and Yuuri doesn’t know anybody in the state for obvious reasons. On the first day they are there, Yuuri’s rinkmate disappears with her friends and Celestino takes his wife and goes exploring on the strip. Yuuri stays in his room and plays Pokemon and Skypes his mother.
On the second day, Yuuri goes shopping for souvenirs for Yuuko and his family, and stares far too long at the billboard of Viktor Nikiforov’s face that is advertising the ice show. That night, he debates which of the three posters he brought with him he should bring to have Viktor sign, before deciding on none–the odds that he will meet Viktor Nikiforov tonight are practically not any higher than they were when the were on opposite sides of the world, and Celestino won’t want to wait in the long autograph lines.
“Don’t you want an autograph, Yuuri?” Celestino asks after the show, and Yuuri thinks it’s nice of him even though they both know that the polite thing to do is say no.
“No,” Yuuri says, staring at the long line, and continues out of the building.
They branch off then–Celestino has dinner plans with his wife, and Yuuri’s rinkmate is meeting back up with her friends for some clubbing.
Yuuri is walking back to the hotel when he bumps headlong into somebody’s solid chest.
“Oh, sorry,” they say, and steady him with hands on his shoulders. Yuuri looks up and finds the same icey blue eyes frm that billboard yesterday staring back at him.
“Oh,” Yuuri whispers, wide-eyed. “You’re–”
“Shhh,” whispers Viktor Nikiforov, pressing a finger to his own lips. “Don’t give it away, I’m hiding.
“VITYA,” someone from the alley leading back towards the ice center screams.
“Come on,” Viktor laughs, and tugs Yuuri away by the hand.
It’s the spring before Viktor will cut his hair, and it flies out behind him in a magnificent cascade as they run.
They find their way into a club, where Viktor buys them drinks and laughs and laughs no matter what Yuuri is saying, and then drags him out onto the dance floor. Yuuri has not yet met Phichit Chulanont, who will drag him to pole dancing classes and teach him how to move his hips like a weapon, but he and Viktor get by in the crush of bodies, pushing against each other.
“I think I love you,” Viktor breaths against his neck, and they’re both three sheets to the wind, but Viktor is Russian and Yuuri is a college student and their tolerance is astronomical. They aren’t even stumbling. “I know we only just met, but I think I love you.”
“Then let’s get married,” Yuuri blurts before he can help it, and Viktor beams.
“Yes!” he cries. “Yes, let’s do that!”
It isn’t hard to find a place that will marry them–even though Viktor’s signature on the certificate looks more like a drawing of a tree, and even though Yuuri’s tie ends up around his forehead halfway through the ceremony.
In the morning, Yuuri wakes up with the worst hangover of his life, fully-clothed next to Viktor Nikiforov, and says, “We can–this happens all the time, we can have it annulled.”
Viktor stares down at the ring on his finger, tangled hair all over one shoulder. Yuuri realizes that he doesn’t even rememer where the rings came from. How much did they cost?
“I would rather not, if that’s okay,” Viktor murmurs, and so they don’t.
Yuuri carries out the rest of the year in Detroit, wearing the ring around his neck on a chain and thinking about his husband, half a world away, waiting for him.
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LWA: Years Later AU
Updated Post (4/26/2017)
Since my AU is constantly updating as little witch academia releases more episodes, characters, and info on the world building, I thought it’d be best to make a new post on this. Many people have partaken in this AU, and I appreciate every single one of you.
Those that have helped build this AU to what is it now:
@hanasaku-shijin @theaceofgays
i am so sorry mobile users
Anyways:
This AU MOSTLY follows Akko and Diana, it formed around their dynamics and relationship. So bear in mind that a lot of this AU is centered around them, but also features other characters.
This AU follows most of canon. It’s a canon divergence AU. It’s around the middle of the first year at Luna Nova when it starts branching off into it’s own thing.
Aoi Hane: Akko is chosen specifically to take care of a rare and critically endangered dragon baby. However, due to the fact that this particular dragon species has natural imprinting, Diana is caught in the mess when the baby imprints both Akko and Diana. Without both of them present to care for the baby, it would die. Hilarity (and feelings for each other) ensues.
[Click here to see the comic!]
I’m currently working on a fic to go more in depth with this.
Secret Relationships: After the successful release of Aoi Hane, things return to normal. However, Akko wants to continue getting closer to Diana, so she thinks that continuing her tutoring lessons with Diana would work. (Note: Diana decided to start tutoring Akko in magic since she was stuck with her while raising Aoi Hane).
These secret meetings only cause them to gain romantic feelings for each other. A, albeit, awkward confession then happens. [Here!]
After all this, they come to a conclusion that they must keep this newfound relationship a secret to everybody else, and only meet in secrecy. [Here!]
Some of @hanasaku-shijin fics that could go along with this:
[Every Second] [A Visit, Chapter 4] [Laugh Away]
Some other comics: [On a date] [Long week] [ ( ˘ ³˘)♥]
However, during the setting of episode 10 in the series, Akko and Diana accidentally get caught up in their emotions and reveal themselves in front of a lot of people. [Here!]
With their relationship open to everybody, they feel more comfortable to be affectionate around each other. Their friends, classmates, and teachers support their relationship since both are happy.
With other characters, it’s discovered that Sucy has been hiding with her left eye. She’s actually a human that can transform into a dragon. Her actual age is around 200+ years, and that the type of dragon she is is extremely poisonous.
[Comic where everyone discovers her secret] [dragon design]
Hana also wrote a fic! [In the Light]
The Sorcerer: A year passes, and things are going well for Luna Nova and occupants. However, the academy is threatened by a dark force only known as the The Sorcerer. Feeling that she can send him away, Diana goes after him to challenge him. Things don’t go exactly as planned... [Part 1] [Part 2]
It should be noted that Akko destroyed a part of the Sorcerer’s face using the Shiny Rod, this is important for later.
Hana and I took on a collaboration project for this particular part in this timeline, during Diana’s recovery!
Hana’s part [Matters of the Heart]
My part [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Diana is permanently injured with irregular heartbeat among other things. Her body can go into palpitations if stressed or overstimulated. Her will is still strong, so she never shows weakness despite everything.
The Sorcerer’s attack also affects Akko. Akko gets PTSD, often paranoid that the Sorcerer will come back to hurt Diana or her friends. She often sees/smells blood.
After the Sorcerer disappears, and Diana recovers, a new teacher is put on the teaching staff. Known as Croix Meridies, she was a student that graduated from Luna Nova 10 years before. With an extended knowledge in technology, she advances Luna Nova to a more modern time. Croix quickly gets to know students and teachers alike, and is welcomed to Luna Nova.
Things return to the usual, and another two years pass. At this point, Akko and Diana’s relationship is deep and mutual. A week before the student body is to graduate, Holbrooke comes to Diana, asking if she would like to take her place as Headmistress. Diana agrees, and a ceremony is to be held on graduation day.
Marriage: Days before the ceremony, Akko comes to Diana, needing to know the answer to a very specific question... [Here!]
On the day of the ceremony/graduation, things do not turn out as planned... [Here!]
During the two years that Croix was at Luna Nova, she had secretly been after the Shiny Rod that Akko had. Both her and the Sorcerer are after the rod as it holds magical properties that both can use for their own selfish reasons. However, the Sorcerer is also seeking revenge on Diana, as she did not die from his poison. But, because he’s still too weak to fight, Croix does it instead.
This betrayal hits hard, as many had come to trust Croix for the past 2 years. This hurts her as well, as she had gotten to know many of the students to a deeper level, making it hard. She disappears after Diana is stabbed.
A side note, Croix returns to the Sorcerer, deciding that she’ll go after the Shiny Rod herself. She then attacks him, angering him that she took advantage of him. However, she underestimates his power, and gets injured in the process as well. The permanent affects to her wounds is that she loses all feeling in her left arm, and some of her magic has been ripped away from her. This makes her weak, and unable to use her hands for magic.
After this scare, Akko marries Diana in the hospital, no ceremony or anything. She fears that she’ll lose Diana before their actually marry, and she’s not going to take any risks. They’re alone during this time, emotions are high and raw.
After doing some deep research, they discover a spell that would bound them by heart and soul. They decide to use this spell at their wedding, though the chances of it being successful are low. Despite this, they go forward with it.
The day of their wedding [Here!]
Separation: With the spell a success, hearts and souls bound together, they feel closer than ever before. The magical rings will stay on their fingers at all times, even if one partner were to pass away. The ring dims when both are far away from each other, is lit when both are in each other’s presence, and doesn’t glow at all if one of them is dead.
With Diana as new headmistress of Luna Nova, her job requires her to be at the academy at all times. With Akko being the next successor of the Shiny Rod and essentially the new Shiny Chariot, her shows demand her to travel across the world. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, neither of them are able to contact each other for 3 years.
But one day, Akko’s shows stop abruptly, just like Shiny Chariot. The truth of the matter is the Shiny Rod has disappeared on her, in search of a new holder. Without the Shiny Rod, Akko cannot preform her magic. Embarrassed of such things, returning to Diana suddenly without such as a single letter made her anxious.
So, just like Chariot, Akko thought going in disguise as a teacher at Luna Nova would be the best way to reintroduce herself.
Akko is given a snake familiar known as Serpens, and later a snow leopard familiar, the new Guardian of the Fountain.
Diana has a Unicorn familiar, Cerus, and a Harpy Eagle familiar.
She goes under the name of Ms. Ophiuchus, the new mystic biology teacher. And mostly everyone, her friends and some teachers catch on that its Akko. However, while obvious, everyone is surprised that Diana herself has not caught on herself.
While, in reality, Diana has been experiencing some pretty heavy mental illnesses due to being separated from Akko for so long. The soul-bounding spell they preformed had repercussions such as this, which is another reason why it was a forbidden spell. At one point, her own paranoia made her believe her ring stopped glowing all together, that Akko was actually dead. When the ring started to glow suddenly the day Akko came back to the school, Diana thought her spirit was coming back to haunt her.
Through the two months Akko was at the school, Diana’s health deteriorated more and more. To the point that Akko couldn’t handle it anymore.
One night, at a time where she can get Diana alone, Akko reveals herself. [Here!]
After that, Diana’s health slowly recovers. With Akko back, things start to return to normal.
Some fluff [Cuddles] [Night Patrols] [Bed] [Naked Cuddles (NSFW)]
At one point, the two decide to try to have children. Through magic, it was possible for the two of them to conceive. But Akko fears pregnancy, so Diana willingly becomes the birth mother. However, things don’t turn out right, and its discovered that the Sorcerer’s poison from years before has also effected her ability to bare children.
Hana wrote a very heavy and dark fic showing the emotional turmoil it causes them here: [The Things We Have Lost]
After that loss, they ultimately decide that children are not a necessity and will live on with each other.
Seraphine: Soon after, the new year begins with a new student body. One student stands out the most to Akko, suddenly realizing this girl has the Shiny Rod she lost. The rod has chosen a new holder.
This small girl, known as Seraphine, has a sad look to her expression at all times, dark bags under her eyes, and suffers from chronic depression. [design]
It’s later discovered Seraphine comes from a rich, yet neglectful family. She’s shy, quiet, and her small build makes it easy for others to bully her. Akko then finds out that Seraphine came to Luna Nova to go after her dream; to make people happy. She was inspired by Akko’s shows when she was only a child, and was the one small joy in her life.
Touched, Akko takes Seraphine under her wing, much like Chariot did before. Akko even has the red haired witch, still teaching at Luna Nova without a disguise, help them both through training. Akko is still a amateur at magic herself, so teaching an actual witch would prove to be difficult.
Seraphine’s teammates, Eddy and Allisandra are her closest friends. [designs]
Ed and Alli were created with the help of @theaceofgays !
As the year goes on, Seraphine starts to open up more to Akko, the more she learns of Sera’s family background. This, of course, gets the attention of Diana herself. With their own views on the gift of a child, Diana is frustrated with Sera’s parents, how the neglected her despite being a rich family.
The two of them start to get attached to Seraphine, even going as far as calling themselves her mothers. [Here!]
But, as summer break rolls around, and students go home for the season, things unfold. In a moment of anger, Seraphine’s father slaps her, scaring her, and hides to call for Diana and Akko’s help. After the events of that night, the rest of the summer is spent getting Seraphine away from her family.
The end of the summer brings good news, as Akko and Diana are given custody of Seraphine, becoming her news parents. [Here!]
story is still WIP
As for other characters:
Lotte and Sucy are married. Both of them live in a small cottage not far from Luna Nova. Sucy excuses that the soil is good to grow mushrooms, but is also a substitute teacher. Lotte runs her family shop. They have a baby girl named Chantarelle, who was also given the ability to turn into a dragon. [Here!]
Sucy has a Crow familiar, that can turn human.
Sucy has two younger sisters, Savy and Gary. (Based off the manga)
Chariot revealed herself sometime during canon events (HOPEFULLY), and still teaches at Luna Nova to the current timeline. She is in a budding relationship with Croix. She is blind in her right eye after a spell went wrong, and slowly lost her ability to see in that eye. [Here!]
After her initial redemption, Croix is accepted back on school staff. Her once cool demeanor has now faded away to be more laid back now that she has nothing to hide. She is slowly trying to rebuild her relationship with Chariot.
Some Chariot/Croix stuff: [Real Food] [Hand Kiss] [20 Years] [Hair]
Hannah and Barbara are the double Astrology teachers. Both are married, and are very open about their relationship. They have twin baby girls, Cydney and Sidney (Sid). [Here!]
Green Team are all in a poly relationsip with each other, and are all financially successful; Constanze owns a billion dollar company that connects magic with smartphones, Jasminka owns her own food business, incorporating potions into delicious flavors, and Amanda is a broom craftswoman, designing intricate and unique patterns on brooms just for her customers. They have no children. [Here!]
Serpens, since he has gotten a lot of love from the fandom, has his own section, thanks to @commonwealth-compliments
Serpens even has his own VA now, you can listen [here] [here] and [here]
They also wrote a fic for Serpens! [Fractured Memories]
@theaceofgays has more background on Eddy and Allisandra!
The Sorcerer, a personal OC of mine, is also known as Xuihcoatl. He was extremely toned down in this AU, due to the fact that he if I kept him at his full potential, there would be more people dead in this AU. [design]
This AU is still heavily a WORK IN PROGRESS, things will change or be added as the series goes on.
ihavenoideawhatimgonnadowiththemalecharactersyetbcidontlikethem
Feel free to ask about anything!
#little witch academia#lwa#years later au#dianakko#sulotte#charoix#H&B#i'll tag ships at least#i did not proof read this rip#long post
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I was tagged by @improbabledreams900!
Instructions: Copy/paste and bold your fic preferences because why not and tag someone
slow burn or love at first sight << Because I am a romantic, goddammit. Instant chemistry. “And I fell in love instantly.” That.
fake dating or secret dating << This person? Psh, this is my friend. I’m just doing them a favor. Oh. Oh no.
enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers << There is a thin line between love and hate. It’s the same line that exists between utter irritation and annoyance and passion. Sometimes you need to either kiss someone or punch them in the face, y’feel?
oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance with correspondence << Trope me up! The more tropes the better. This goes very well with fake dating.
hurt/comfort or amnesia << Please don’t hurt them. Just make them forget. It’s angst...but a different kind of angst.
fantasy au or modern au << Give me Merlin with a social media account and Spock with a coffee addiction.
mutual pining or domestic bliss << I mean...both. Both is good.
smut or fluff << Ditto above. They sort of go together. Mutual pining + Smut and Domestic bliss + Fluff. That’s the way I roll.
canon compliant (missing scenes) or fix-it fic << Toss out the canon completely. They screwed up; this is our chance to make it right.
alternate universe or future fic << If I wanted to know what happened next, I’d consume the original media. Screw that! Branching timelines, AUs, what-ifs. All that jazz.
one-shot or multi-chapter << More cake!
kid fic or roadtrip fic << Children change the dynamic of a couple in new and exciting ways. And road trips are like going to the grocery store, but it takes forever to get home.
reincarnation or character death << You are only allowed to kill your characters if you bring them back (there are exceptions to this rule). If you reincarnate them, you get to show them what they lost, and then make them lose it again!
arranged marriage or accidental marriage << The more marriage the better! Show me characters getting dropped into permanent situations and having to make the best of it with people they fall in love with! I don’t care how they get there.
high school romance or middle-aged romance << If you’re romancing in your middle-age, you’ve probably got some deep-seated insecurities. Mmm. Tasty.
time travel or isolated together << Yes. Always. If time travel is an option, you always pick time travel. Besides, isolated together is just a fancy way of saying “road trip”.
neighbors or roommates << Ain’t no one going outside to meet the neighbors. You pick your roommate. You just didn’t expect them to be your lover later. <3
sci-fi au or magic au << Yaas. Any sufficiently advanced science looks like magic anyway, but this way you don’t need to pseudo-science babble your way into logical sense. It just is. It’s magic.
bodyswap or genderbend << The same backstory, but flavored differently, with different experiences? Oh yeah.
angst or crack << I absolutely adore personifications. Anthropomorphisms? Fine, I guess. But personification. Mmm, that’s good. I mean, I don’t think a fic where all the characters are personified streets should be labeled as “crack”, but apparently I am alone in that.
apocalyptic or mundane << The world does not need to be ending for your world to be ending.
Not sure who to tag, so everyone’s tagged! Have at it!
#writing#fanfiction#amanda writes things#my writing#mine#tumblr#this is pretty much the exact opposite of improbabaledreams900's#so i guess we're actually really different#which i did not anticipate
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in the 'mae/fingon accidental marriage' timeline, does that mean that the next time fingon gets to see his family is when mae calls them all in to force them to have sex with each other? (also why does he like it so miuch? he just thinks it's beautiful?)
Yep! Probably only one at a time, as with Fingon off limits there's now seven single Feanorians for only two Servants when Aredhel is out of the palace. Which is slightly less upsetting for Fingon than having sex with both his father and brother at once, but also is less emotionally reassuring than having all his family together.
Maedhros just thinks it's beautiful, yeah. Maedhros considers Fingon the most handsome elf in Tirion, and there's a very strong family resemblance with Fingon, Turgon, and Nolofinwe. And it's extra fun for Maedhros to watch two handsome people put on a show for him - sometimes he won't even fuck Fingon himself until Nolo and Fingon have both come, so he can focus on how beautiful their bodies look together without his own blocking the view.
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