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[dixidin]

I had a thought

[heyimkana]

AS PROMISED ON THE COMMENT I SAID~

How would Jinwoo meeting reader’s parents go?? ✨🫣

OKAY SO CONTINUATION FROM THIS

I feel like the first time Jinwoo met her parents was also the first time he ever looked nervous—like visibly nervous.

I’m talking about that man spending half an hour standing in front of his closet, trying to decide which outfit best conveyed: “I’m not a pervert, I swear. No, I don’t only think about slaughtering monsters to gain EXP. Yes, I’ve been using protection when I sleep with your daughter. And no, I never initiated it—your daughter did." <- last one is a lie obviously.

He ended up wearing black pants, a grey trench coat, and a black turtleneck… because that’s all he had in his wardrobe 💀

I’m talking about Jinwoo with sweaty palms. Jinwoo looking like this 😐 instead of this 😑 during the drive to her house, which was a remarkable improvement.

“You’ll be fine, jagi,” his girlfriend said, bumping her shoulder against his playfully as they walked through the gate. “You’re an S-Rank Hunter. A celebrity. Everyone’s going to love you.”

He didn’t respond right away. He barely looked like he was breathing. “I’m not nervous.”

“Never said you were.”

“Oh.” A beat. “Well, I’m not.”

“Okay,” she chuckled. “Just remember that I’m lucky to have you, not the other way around.”

Only then did he turn to look at her. Jinwoo grabbed her hand, lacing their fingers together. “I’m the one who’s lucky to have you,” he said softly, sincerely—and it melted her heart a little.

She squeezed his hand, smiling back. “Just be who you are. You’re easy to love.”

She warmed his heart, just like always.

“Yeah,” he mirrored her smile. He took a deep breath. Exhaled. “Your father’s never killed anyone before, right?”

“Not that I know of.”

“Good. Okay, let’s go.”

By the time they entered the house, her parents were already standing by the door. Her mother had the brightest eyes, chirping out his name: “Oh, you’re finally here! You look even more handsome in person!”

She rushed to hug him, and Jinwoo was like 🧍🏻😶.

GF: “Mom, you’re crushing him.”

Mom (sighing contentedly as she pulled away): “It felt like hugging a very warm, very comforting rock.”

Dad: 🧍🏻

GF: “This is my mom. She’s super friendly, obviously. Sorry about that.”

Jinwoo, internally screaming what the hell is going on: “P–pleasure to meet you, ma’am.” He offered his hand, but her mother reached out to squeeze his arm instead.

Mom: “Oh my, so this is what an S-Rank Hunter’s body feels like.”

GF (dying inside): “Can you not harass my boyfriend, please? And this is my dad.”

Dad (shaking his hand): “Firm grip. I like that.”

Jinwoo (swallowing hard): “Thank you, sir.”

Dad: “You haven’t been sleeping with my daughter, have you?”

GF: “DAD!”

Jinwoo: 😧

Beru whispered to Igris from the shadow realm: “Sir Igris, what potent force doth that man wield to make our mightiest liege tremble with fear?”

Igris, who had survived a marriage and insufferable in-laws: “You wouldn’t understand.”

But real talk—her mother immediately treated him like her own son. She offered him cookies (and wrapped extra for him to take home for his sister and mother). She even cooked his favorite dish for dinner. Jinwoo was nervous at first, yes, but he quickly felt at home. He smiled often—awkwardly, but sincerely—and he talked more that night than he ever had before.

Her father, though a bit strict and judgmental, wasn’t completely hostile. He kept sliding beers toward Jinwoo (probably hoping to get him drunk and extract the truth about everything lol), but since Jinwoo couldn’t get drunk, it was the dad who ended up wasted at the dining table 💀

Mom (grimacing at her husband drooling on the table): “Sorry. He’s not usually like this. I think he was nervous about meeting you.”

Jinwoo (blinking): “Me? Why?”

Mom (smiling tenderly): “Because you’re the Sung Jinwoo. Everyone knows your name, darling. It still feels unreal to me that you’re sitting in our living room.”

Jinwoo (a little bit awkward): “I’m just a normal guy, ma’am.”

Mom (gaze softening): “I see that now. A very normal, very sweet and charming man. Thank you for being with my daughter—for keeping watch over her when her dad couldn’t, and for taking care of her when I wasn’t there. I know she can be a handful sometimes, but I hope you’ll be patient and love her the way we do.”

Jinwoo turned toward his girlfriend and smiled. “It’s always been her who takes care of me. She makes me feel like I’m home whenever I’m with her.”

His girlfriend turned flustered, but when Jinwoo took her hand beneath the table, she smiled softly at him.

Mom, eyes glistening: “I’m glad you two found each other.”

“Me too,” his girlfriend whispered, stroking her thumb across his knuckles.

Jinwoo took a breath and turned to her mother. “I’m here to properly ask for your permission, ma’am.”

“Permission?”

“I intend to marry your daughter.”

Her mother gasped, eyes wide. His girlfriend lifted her hand, showing off the diamond ring with a sheepish grin. “I said yes.”

“Oh my!” Mom looked ready to cry—then she slapped her husband’s shoulder. “Honey, wake up! Our daughter is getting married!”

Dad (completely drunk, slurring): “Married? She’s like… 19.”

GF: “I’m 25, Dad.”

“Still so young! What are you in such a rush for?” He then glared at Jinwoo. “You. Did you get my daughter pregnant?”

Jinwoo (turning pale): “No, sir—” He turned toward his girlfriend. “No, right?”

GF buried face in hands. Probably contemplated suicide.

Mom: “Oh my god, this is so exciting!!! I’m about to be a grandma!”

Girlfriend: “I’M NOT PREGNANT.”

[bayetea]

sometimes you just open up the canvas and a steamy office worker au comes out

♡ my daily pjo art tag ♡

[shadow0-1]

Hi, it's me again! (I hope I don't bother) I finally calmed down enough from last time's nonsensical yapping to remember what I meant to ask. Feel free to ignore if you don't wanna answer yet or at all, I just got curious about a few things.

in one of your posts there was a mention that Graves got his burns from being burned by Sheperd to tie up loose ends, and that the events of MWII would have been different with Jax around.

Do you know how different it'd be? In broadstrokes or fanfic-level details? I just got super curious about it, does that mean Graves would make different choices because Jax is around? Or Jax helps Graves go through it without digging his own grave? I love when OCs change the course of events of canon material so that mention got my attention. Again, no need to answer if you dont feel like it o/

I saw Jax has quite the burn mark on his stomach too. Did he get that from saving Graves from that fire, or is it an unrelated wound?

and my last question, how did Jax and Graves meet and/or how did they fall in love? If you already answered this one in a previous post then I haven't found it yet sorry ><

Thank you for your time, love your work and OC so so much! Bye 👋

Hellooo! I can't remember if I've said it before or buried it in tags somewhere but basically the later half of the MWII just straight up doesn't happen 💀 Graves leaves mexico shortly after the dark water mission which is when he meets with Shepherd to clear the air and let out his grievances but it doesn't go well for him 😅

He definitely does make different choices because of Jax and has significantly more to lose if he kept following Shepherd's orders because I will be on the "Graves was manipulated by Shepherd" hill until I die. Especially cause at that point, he and Jax have known each other and worked very closely with each other for a few years now, with Jax being involved with Shadow Company despite not even being a Shadow as well Graves basically gets torn between saving his own skin and doing the right/hard thing and it takes Shepherd telling him to kill the 141 to finally make a real decision and stand his ground

And then MWIII basically becomes about hunting down the Konni (and Shepherd) where they then uncover the whole Konni infiltration instead of whatever the hell the actual game was about

As for Jax's burn, it's completely unrelated kjsdgkjbsdkj he got that during his time in the army when he got exploded 💔 but hey, it's just another thing he and Graves can match over

For how they meet, it's sometime after the Armistice initiative gets dissolved after the MW19 events. Alex sends Jax some intel about suspicious shipments coming in and out of Urzikstan and it turns out that a small cell of Barkov loyalists are trying to restart the chlorine gas productions again. Jax tells Laswell, who then tells Shepherd and they hire Shadow Company to go overseas to help Farah and Alex, and Jax is put in charge of the entire mission (on the US side)

They chase the trail until nothing else substantial comes up inside Urzikstan, and they get lead towards Russia instead. Farah and Alex stay behind as Jax and Graves get the green light to do some digging and they meet up with Kamarov. It's a lot more waiting and sniffing out dead trails but they do uncover a couple hidden bunkers with gas left over and they destroy those (all this takes about a year ish??)

They get to go home afterwards, and then a while later, Laswell gets Graves' help again because they're trying to lure general Ghorbrani into a trap. One of his close officials frequents a casino so Graves and Jax get to go infiltrate it and set up a (fake) arms deal for Ghorbrani. Graves poses as an arms dealer that the CIA have been setting up for years, and Jax is the security and intelligence guy, and then MWII starts

A lot of yapping sorry 💀 On the falling in love front, it's definitely because they've spent so much time together, in close proximity and even down time. Jax spends a couple years watching Graves' back and providing general overwatch since he doesn't do any real field work, it would be hard to not get attached in some way, especially if you end up knowing the other person better than you know yourself.

Jax (and Laswell) realized he was in love wayyyy sooner than Graves and Jax didn't do anything about it cause why risk potentially ruining their friendship? They already work really well together. It was sometime during their stay in Urzikstan, Alex and Jax took some time off to hit the town and do a little bar crawl and the conversation ends up leaning to Shadow and Graves, Jax starts yapping and Alex just gives him The Look

Graves doesn't realize until they go back to the states after Urikstan, I made a little render of it a while back skgjdb. He thinks it's nothing serious and it'll pass, but right after the hindsight mission, when Shepherd says they're burying the whole thing and the thought of having to lie to Jax for god knows how long makes him feel like ripping his chest open. Especially cause Shadows he was close with died and there was nothing Graves could do 🙃

[aleksanderscult]

Hi ! I'm just sending you a message here to ask if you're okay (since I haven't had any private response for a while), in any case I hope you're okay and I still love your content on your blog. While I'm here, I might as well ask a question: how would you imagine Darklina as parents ?

Hello! And thank you for checking up on me. You're very kind.💜 Just like I had said awhile ago, I've taken a break from this page and I'm only occasionally active.

About your question, I think their issues as a couple wouldn't be resolved. On the contrary, it would get worse. I don't think they would even know how to be proper parents. Alina has her own problems: she doesn't know what she wants in the books and she hasn't resolved how to be okay with her own self as a very rare and powerful Grisha. Aleksander has mommy issues and has seen Baghra abandoning his brothers and sisters. Not a role model to have. Furthermore behaving like a kind, playful and responsible father is just not in his character (at least in my opinion).

They would quarrel about how should the child be raised. Alina would probably want it to live a quiet life away from the violence and cruelty of the world while Aleksander (a cynical man) would find the very thought laughable. And even if Alina had her child's best interests at heart, she would still mess up from her inability to handle the responsibilities of motherhood. She could turn out to be either an overbearing mother (attached to the child and projecting her fears to him) or neglectful ('cause she wouldn't know what to do).

[willyhoos]

"shadows are inverted flames" -> wilsons hair is made of shadow -> YOUR BOYFRIEND'S HAIR IS MADE OF FLAME??? PETPETPETPET

also wilson can't leave the throne so he just has to deal with her doing this 24/7

[rusty-lustful-fireflies]

I didn't know such a thing was possible, but this woman made me gayer (lesbianer? or rather sapphicer? wlwerer?) than I already was.

🖤🖤🖤🦇

[metamorphiacreations]

suuuuuper unfriendly reminder that if you ship the beasts with their ancients in any capacity. fucking block me. or let me block you.

i dont give a single fuck about whatever bullshit "redemption arc" you pulled out your ass to justify it in your head, the fact that youre trying to justify such a lethal, toxic and abusive relationship at all is horrid and i dont wanna see it so

if you dont know how to block someone, you press the 3 little dots in the top corner of the post and in red text youll see "block [username]" just hit that, confirm it and we never have to see each other ever again 🥰

[maverick-prime]

huge fan of characters with genderfluid identity headcanons

[felikatze]

at some point in a series you do just stop having a harem and start having a predominatly female cast of well rounded cool characters

[shiawasekai]

I remember I did catch one of them with Bokura no Kiseki and he was essentially like 'I was worried at first it would focus too much on relationship drama but it was your recommendation so I stuck with it'. Then he came to me after devouring the entire thing fawning about the writing.

👍Mission Success

[cabeswaterdrowned]

This is quite literally Spencer Hastings in Shadow Play, change my mind. (‘happy, committed relationship’ being code for

- your dead best friend/worst enemy who thinks you want her dead (in a sexual manner)

- her substitute blonde girl aka your best friend who does anything you say while stalking her other brunette friend and loathing men

- lesbian brunette who sleeps with other girls and gets called out by same dead blonde friend (“Who sharpened your tongue, little girl?” GAY)

- other brunette friend who HAS to stay away from her boyfriend no matter what (and literally walking towards her boyfriend in the dream is enough to take Spencer out of the dream)

- your boyfriend I guess (rat bastard which I say as a Toby shooter lol)

Truly. And that’s not even addressing the Mona and Paige portrayals lmao

(also since I know you watch Community will raise you that the og post also gives mad Annie Edison vibes. Which does further support my hypothesis that she’s what a Spencer/Aria love child would be like.)

[sirpeppersto]

anyways im really excited to see sonic 3 tomorrow :D and i think some of my coworkers are going to emo night(including the manager i hate.............) so i think it'll be fun for them to see what i actually look like. no one at work knows im have a mullet bc i have to wear my hair in a ponytail

[luv-again]

i'm so out of it that idek how shadamy leaning i wanna make this fic. ofc, the intention is These Two but how romancey do i wanna go ? and should i even be if amy's lowkey in a mood ?

[snail-noodle]

the first thing shadow milk cookie does when he finally gets his physical body, he immediately embraces clam cookie and showers her face with kisses 💖

that clown cherishes his wife and his heart is filled with absolute joy now that they're officially reunited 🥰

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

"Oh, that reminds me..."

"Oh, Ma, don't bring out the picture!" Randall protested-even though he knew it wasn't the picture taken many millennia ago, the new one taken when he was a tot was still plenty embarrassing in its own right. Meaning Emily would have another piece of ammo to tease him with!

"Oh, Randall, there's nothing to be embarrassed about-you were so cute!" his mother smiled as she pulled the picture from the photo album to show Emily, adding warmly, "It's an adorable photo-I always felt we should frame it and hang it up somewhere, it really is one of my favorites!"

"It's not one of mine..." Randall mumbled in embarrassment, hiding his face as his mother passed the photo to Emily: Unlike the sepia-toned portrait of years past, this one was actually in color, showing the colorful emerald green of both his kilt and his little jacket, both of which were hand-me-downs from his father. They also showed how red in the face little Randall was, deeply embarrassed to be standing underneath a tree in the park in this outfit, having his picture taken.

"We had that taken a little before Saint Patrick's Day," Wilhelm explained, smiling just as fondly at the photo when he saw it, while his son buried his face in his hands. "And boy, did he not want his picture taken that day-he refused to get out of bed and into the tub, and he certainly didn't want to get dressed. Had to bribe him just to get him into the kilt-and we have to pack a pair of jeans with us so he could change after he had his picture taken!"