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THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT ❖ Episode 01: "Openings"

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Valvert cowboy au say WHATTTTT

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Does Javert sometimes follow you around? 🧐

Yes, sometimes 😊.

-JVJ 🕯🕯

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hi guys I haven’t been online for uhhh (checks watch) like 10 days… sorry… I was playing Roblox 😕

some dbh doodles :)

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idk if anyone’s said this but Fine, Great by modern baseball is SUCH a Hilson song (from houses perspective) like it’s genuinely insane

“I hate worrying about the future cause all my current problems are based around the past”

TYE LEG THE LEG HIS LEG CMON BRO

“ And I hate when you call me late at night Just to check in to make sure I got nothing to be sad about”

are you fucking kidding me 🩵 (THIS IS LEGITIMATELY ONLY THE FIRST VERSE)

“I'm guilty as charged for leading you on”

this is so house ok. Ok

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Let’s go lesbians!! 🥳

Reference ^^^

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what if they had matching dogs

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Easy white chocolate…. 😈

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vincent - don mclean

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quick connorkus fic based on a cute lil idea by @thiriumstained-lemonblossoms

Connor is facing a dilemma.

He didn't intend for things to go this way, but it's how it unfolded and now he's uncertain how to untangle himself from the web he's caught in.

Connor knows the technical definition of dating. A status in a relationship between people indicating the intention of pursuing romance and/or physical intimacy. Theoretically it's a straight-forward definition, but in practice…

From his extensive research, he knows even humans have trouble with defining when a relationship went from "just friends" to "dating". The clearest indication is when someone is "asked out." But, sometimes, situations arise where one party thinks they're dating but leaves it unsaid, while the other member of the party doesn't realize the relationship has escalated to that point. Connor fears he may have fallen into the latter circumstance. Twice.

He thinks he's dating Markus and North.

Markus and North never explicitly stated that they were dating Connor, and Connor certainly never "asked out" either of them. But according to the evidence, there was a high probability that his relationship with both Markus and North had escalated to "dating."

Connor had run numerous reconstructions to examine how he ended up in this predicament, and he's attempted to filter every encounter with either deviant under the guise of "just friends." But there are some notable exceptions that couldn't be categorized so simply.

Like the pet names.

Nicknames are common among friends. Pet names are less so. North calling him Con? Acceptable. Perhaps even expected with a friend. North calling him "babe"? Not something you would typically call a friend. Markus calling him "love"? Something you definitely reserve for someone you're dating.

The increase in physical touch is another indication.

Though Connor likes the physical contact, he's never initiated it himself. And skinship between friends is not unusual. Some people are just more physically affectionate. Markus has always been this way. So the shoulder touches and hugs were not out of character. But the extended time they spent holding hands was… telling. North was touch-averse with everyone except Markus… and now, apparently, Connor. She'd sometimes loop her arms around his and lean her head against his shoulder. Occasionally, they even held hands. That fact that North didn't mind being physically affectionate with Connor was very telling.

The most damning piece of evidence was the kissing.

In some human cultures, a kiss on the cheek was an acceptable greeting among friends and family. It would not be strange for some androids to adopt this practice even if it was just a way to signal to humans the closeness between androids. But those weren't the types of kisses he's been receiving. He hasn't kissed either deviant mouth to mouth, but they both seemed to have a penchant for placing a light kiss on his LED. North hadn't done much other kissing besides that, but Markus would sometimes bring the back of Connor's hand up to his lips while their hands were interlocked. Now, it's possible that kisses between androids could have less intimate implications compared to humans, but Markus and North seemed to only reserve those types of kisses for him… and each other.

And therein lied the problem.

Connor doesn't mind that he's suddenly and apparently dating both Markus and North at the same time. In fact, he'd venture that he actually likes it. But the issue is that Markus and North are supposed to be dating each other. Not Connor. Their relationship is widely publicized. They've essentially become a celebrity couple overnight. Connor dating Markus and North separately while they were a couple posed a potential publicity scandal.

Especially since he isn't even sure Markus and North know that they are both separately dating Connor.

Life in Jericho has been busy. Markus is often away going to press conferences and political meetings. He's always out, and more often than not Connor is accompanying him as his bodyguard. Meanwhile, North is at Jericho helping organize and establish the deviants along with Josh and Simon. When Connor isn't with Markus, he's with North as an interim head of security. The long hours spent in both of their companies seemed to have blossomed the intimacy between them. But the three of them haven't been in the same room for almost a month, and it was during this time period that Connor noticed the shift in his relationship status with the two of them.

Perhaps, it's Connor's fault that things had gotten "out of hand" as humans would say. He let himself get too close despite being well aware of the relationship between Markus and North. He had been endeared by the way North's nose crinkled every time he said something that made her laugh. He had been enamored by the dazzling smile Markus gave him whenever he entered the room. He didn't pull away. In fact, he pursued that fluttering feeling that made his face flush and thirium pump thrum faster. He enjoyed their company and they seemed to welcome his. But now, Connor suspects he's what humans would call a "homewrecker."

North and Markus haven't seen each other in weeks, and Connor is… concerned about what will happen when they do finally meet. Will they realize that they both separately decided to date Connor? Would they break up because of that? Where does that leave Connor caught in the middle? Maybe they would blame him for this? For dating both of them and not telling the other? But Connor hadn't even realized he was dating either of them until recently. But maybe he should have been more perceptive?

The best case scenario for this to play out between Markus and North is what Connor would be hard-pressed to admit is the worse case scenario for him. That they both pretend none of this intimacy with Connor even happened. That they'll go back to "just friends" with him and resume dating each other. That this whole time he was just a proxy to fulfill the hole their other half had left behind. That when they were holding his hand and kissing him, they were just thinking of someone else. He didn't want to be discarded, but, theoretically, it would be for the best to not shake up the status quo at Jericho.

His thoughts have been spiraling around this topic for a full day now, but Markus is returning to Jericho tomorrow so he had one day to—

Connor stops in his tracks. Just around the corner, Markus and North are talking to each other.

Markus is here early?

He stares with indecision about what his next move should be. His processors firing to preconstruct the best course of action.

Then they both turn their heads towards Connor and—

"Where is he going?" North questions as she watches Connor's back frantically retreating around the corner.

"I think he just ran away from us." Markus pouts. "He looked panicked."

"Why?"

They both look at each other and they both come to the same conclusion.

North face palms. "You don't think he thinks—"

"Does he know that we know that—"

"Have you told him?"

"I thought it was obvious."

"I thought so too."

They both stare back at the space Connor had once been occupying.

"That dumbass thinks we're cheating on each other with him, doesn't he?"

Markus frowns. "I wasn't sure if he even realized we were dating. I was planning on asking him out properly with you once I got back to Jericho."

"So much for android detective. He couldn't even deduce that he's in a fucking polycule."

"To be fair, we haven't seen each other in weeks, so he probably assumed the worst."

Their eyes are still riveted forward. Markus' eyes meet North's again and they both have to stop themselves from laughing.

Everything about this was just so Connor. A mixture of exasperating and endearing.

"Shall we hunt down the deviant hunter?"

"Let's go find him before he burns a hole in his head from overthinking everything."

there will be a day where i write a connorkus fic where it's not just norkus pulling connor into their relationship. but today is not that day.

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Valvert redraw as that one gif from Wilde (1997) 😋

(+ closeup, other versions, & reference below the cut)

Yeah I’m never drawing backgrounds ever again 💔

Reference ^^^

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My first official posted fanart and of course it has to be for @little-linda ❤️ (love you 🫶) I adore her and her valvert fic and everyone who hasn’t read it to go read it right now!!!! This specific art is inspired by the ending of chapter 4

The background is not accurate like at all but honestly that’s not really the focus here 😂😭

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some javerts and the pajamas I think they would wear

roger allam

terrence mann

philip quast

earl carpenter

stewart clarke

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The girls are fightingg

Ft the cat from @xcspy s amazing college au fic!!

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Doodles from today :) ft my favorite doodles below

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quick doodle I made last night (or rather very early this morning) that I edited for more clarity

I really like the idea of Javert already being a deviant. It makes him feel more .. Javert,,, like yeah, he’s a victim of the system but he still actively CHOOSES to hurt people because his objective is above all else

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Bonjour fine shyt 😈