#at least some of the ingredients from there exist here too i guess. some of them
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Wait Merchant you're latino as well? So cool! :D
I am :P my parents immigrated to the country we live in now in the 90s. English is my second language, my parents taught me our mother tongue first (my mom was actually worried I would struggle in school because of it lol. They had a hard time teaching me English because they themselves weren't great at it at the time. I did just fine because I learned English watching cartoons 😂 thank you SpongeBob, I'll forever be in your debt). I've lived my life both here and in our homeland. I visit when I can since most of the family is still back home and I miss them a lot (it gets really lonely here sometimes. All I have for family is my SO and my parents). Unfortunately, it's a long and often very expensive trip lol. But I try
#i don't want to say exactly what I am... I'm not Mexican I'm something else. there's your one hint#maybe someday I'll reveal what it is... whenever I learn to draw better haha#there are drawings/comics/animatics I hope to one day make using music from our country so that would give me away on the spot#as imperfect as that place. i really miss it. i miss my family. as imperfect as they are too#things have really gone downhill in recent years over there. i worry about my family's safety a lot. our government is worthless#i also often miss speaking to people in my mother tongue. i like English but there are things I want to say but can't in English#our language is a very vibrant and expressive one. there are so many fun sayings I want to say but can't#because there's no English equivalent and direct translations make them sound like gobbledygook#my SO is also Latino but he speaks a different language than me so I can't speak mine to him either. just my parents#i miss the food there too. we got the best food dude. i heart my people's cuisine above all others'#i could really go for a certain something right now... if I was there then I could just walk down to the corner bakery and get it. sigh#at least some of the ingredients from there exist here too i guess. some of them#merchant asks
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Thoughts on either tweel eating a rival? Saw some fanart of og school boy Jade making a rival disappear the 'humanitarian' way and I guess they are basically sea predators so why not. It's not polite but neither is NRC so....
warnings: Human eating, courting, kissing, blood
Oh yeah, they 102% would eat a rival, not even would, they probably ALREADY HAVE. Not even just a romantic rival either, maybe a friend who walked too close to shore, a coworker who sailed alone on their seas, or a stranger who lingered too close and found themselves face to face with giant serpents and their unending appetite.
Their methods of feasting are definitely different, though.
Floyds meals are messy, they're messily consumed, or even WHOLLY consumed, with no trace of their existence. If there are any remains, they're haphazardly thrown the moment Floyd grows bored of them.
Right after, he'll look for you with a clear hint of mead and clothing threads stuck in his teeth. Questioning him will do no good, as he'll either tell you in his sing-songy voice to forget about that and come with him, or let his eyes fall and look at you with a clear emotion that say 'Don't ask'. You don't have the courage to tell him to wipe his lips when he kisses your cheek like an overjoyed boyfriend.
... and you don't think you can wipe the crimson off of your cheek, he might ask you if you hate him. Or, rather than incur his disappointment, he'll lean in with a soft smile, brushing hair, or maybe dirt from your face. It's so gentle you forget about the crime for a moment.
"Do you want me to kiss your lips instead shrimpy?" ... When you're done, your mouth will be stained with red too, and it's then you remember, why he's not hungry anymore.
Jade, however, eats his enemies like fine dining. Certain parts are left untouched as he uses a piece of a coral-like knife and cuts precise pieces of flesh. It's horrible, but he uses the entire human, not daring to waste a pristine ingredient.
When you see him on the beach, you assume he's simply setting up a table from memory. He'll turn to you with a smile on his face, his tail hitting the water once and having the ocean splash you. His face is clean, the typical facetious smile planted on his face.
He'll ask you to join him, gesturing to the spot on the sand in front of him, two plates set up on the ground, with a single covered platter. It's... mundane, normal as if he's simply a man who's asked you to dinner. Perhaps it's the single candle light that illuminates your surroundings at night, but a sense of encroaching dread surfaces.
"What... What's under the cover...?" A part of you hopes he'll pull the lid up and see seashells, but you remember who it is that sits on the other side.
"Hm? Well... It's only appropriate, after all, it's dinner time." His part-bone arm reaches out, slowly lifting the lid before you slam it down. "Oh? I thought you wanted to know? And I worked so hard on this for you, you'll make me sad...-"
You successfully stop his attempt at guilt-tripping you, your head resting on his cold shoulder from jumping over the plate and holding him. Your body blocks off the platter, the only thing you allow for his arms to wrap around, being you.
"I'm not hungry, Jade." Momentarily, he's shocked, but he's eager to hold you close to him. He'll turn his head, sharp teeth leaning into your earlobe as he whispers.
"If you're here, I don't think I'll be hungry. Well... not for now at least." you bring your head up to look him in the eyes before you feel lips graze the corner of your mouth, sharp teeth grazing you.
...
You taste iron, but you're not sure if it's from you, or his meal.
Afterwards, after drying your clothes from water and sand, when you return talk of a coworker of yours reaches your ears. He had disappeared after hunting smaller monsters in the rivers connected to Octavinelle.
...
The same coworker he saw you talking to.
#monster!twst#askves#yandere twst#yandere twisted wonderland#yandere jade leech#yandere floyd leech#twst x reader#twisted wonderland x reader
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Very NSFW request if you don’t mind 😂 Idk if this is sexy (I think it is lol) but can you imagine writing a fic/ one shot where they’re in 7th year, and Sebastian and MC are alone somewhere chatting, and they start talking about sex - both having some experience in this. They’re just friends (but like each other) Seb reveals quite sheepishly in convo that he cums too quickly through bjs/sex. And she… offers to help ‘coach’ him lol? Which seems insane at first but then she says that she can help him through it, how he can trust her blah blah, and it convinces him (plus I think deep down he’s dying to be with her like this, and so is she). So they do it. And I can imagine it being quite intimate, hot, and maybe kinda funny at times.
(I asked you and applin by the way. I’m not sure if you’d both want to write different takes on it, collab, or decide who should write it - but I thought I’d mention it)
Hellooo lovely! Thank you for this fun request. Here's Part I -- this'll be at least a two-, maybe three-part series, so buckle up. (:
What Are Friends For? | Part I
Sebastian Sallow x F!OC
Rating: Explicit/MDNI (smut, language); all characters are 18+ Words: ~8,300 Tags: friends with benefits, friends to lovers, sexual exploration, oral sex, semi-public sex, mutual pining, 3rd person POV
Notes: Characters are 18-year-old seventh-year Slytherins.
Read on AO3 or below the cut.
Spring had settled nicely over the Scottish Highlands, meaning Sebastian Sallow could be found outdoors. He took advantage of the favorable weather whenever he could, as the winter months tended to make him rather stir crazy.
On this particularly warm afternoon – or at least warm by April’s standards – Sebastian lounged lazily on his back in the grass near the edge of the Great Lake. He had charmed pebbles from the lakeshore to hover above him, perfect for some Confringo target practice.
Sebastian squinted an eye as he aimed and blasted the small rocks apart, leaving little trace of their existence, until one final rock remained. Sebastian followed it with the tip of his wand, waiting for the right moment, when–
“Accio!”
The rock zipped from the air above Sebastian straight to the open hand of Stella Alves. She smirked at Sebastian, her wand hand still outstretched as she tossed the rock lazily toward him. It bounced off his stomach and into the grass.
“There you are,” Stella said as she approached. She sank to the ground next to Sebastian, her legs outstretched as she sat back on her hands. “I thought maybe Sharp had given you detention for Friday’s incident.”
“That incident wasn’t my fault,” Sebastian drawled. “It was Weasley’s.”
“Oh? Garreth forced you to add lionfish spine to your cauldron?” Stella mused.
“No, but he left it on the table near my ingredients, and I accidentally picked some up while I was adding griffin claw,” Sebastian noted. “Not my fault.”
“Fair enough,” Stella snorted. “Guess I should’ve known you’d be out here. Though we do have that arithmancy exam to be studying for.”
“Callum’s got Violet McDowell in our dorm room,” Sebastian explained. “Can’t study in there.”
“And you can’t study in the library? Or the Undercroft?”
“I suppose,” Sebastian said with a dramatic sigh. “But it’s far too nice out to be cooped up inside.”
“Can’t argue with that.”
The pair fell quiet for a moment, interrupted only by the occasional chirps from the birds perched in the surrounding trees. They both stared outward at the lake, its shimmering surface guarding the inhabitants of its indigo depths.
“Wait,” Stella finally said with a furrowed brow. “I thought Violet was going out with Andrew.”
“That was last month, apparently.”
“Oh.”
“That doesn’t mean you should get back with your ex, by the way.”
Stella turned her head to glare at Sebastian. “And who said anything about that? Andrew and I broke up ages ago.”
“Just checking,” Sebastian said in a sing-song tone. Stella scoffed at him.
“Do you really think that poorly of me?”
“Of course not. But I do remember how in love with Larson you were.”
“I was not!” Stella insisted, her cheeks tinged with a treasonous shade of strawberry. “It was nothing more than a harmless fling.”
Sebastian tilted his head for dramatic effect. “A harmless fling,” he deadpanned. “Stella, darling, the two of you had to be damn near pried apart with a wedge every day.”
“So?” Stella countered with narrowed eyes. “A healthy sex life is nothing to be ashamed of. You of all people should know that.”
“And what’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means that you’ve no right to judge me for any of my past romantic encounters.”
“Oh, that’s what we’re calling them now,” Sebastian snickered. Stella smacked him gently on the back of the head.
“Sounds like you’re just bitter that you’re not the one in your dorm room with Violet McDowell,” she teased. Sebastian barked a sharp laugh.
“Darling, I’ve had Violet McDowell,” he noted. “Twice. Maybe three times. Can’t remember.”
“Charming,” Stella muttered blankly. Sebastian flashed her a cheeky grin. “Is there anyone you haven’t defiled?” Stella demanded.
“Other than you? Maybe a handful,” Sebastian chirped. He laughed at Stella’s disgusted expression. “Only joking, doll. Despite your harsh and judgmental assumptions, I haven’t made it a point to bed half of Hogwarts.”
“Oh? Then how many of our classmates have you had?”
They were inching toward tricky territory. Sure, Stella and Sebastian talked about sex, but they rarely revealed explicit details. Doing so always felt too suggestive, too flirtatious; it crossed an unspoken line that the pair avoided at all costs. But Stella had grown tired of the boys Hogwarts had to offer. It made her impatient and impulsive. Sebastian was the last man standing, because he was truly the only one standing – the one man she wanted and couldn’t have.
Meanwhile, Sebastian swallowed. He and Stella kept very few secrets from one another. After all, Stella had kept quiet about Sebastian’s sinister slip-up their fifth year, meaning Sebastian’s secrets couldn’t get much worse.
But there was one, tiny thing he didn’t want Stella to know. It was a secret that caused him constant stress, fearful that one of their female classmates would spill it. That was why Sebastian sometimes embellished his sexual escapades – to conceal the embarrassing occurrences that made him insecure.
“A-are you really asking me how many girls I’ve been with?” Sebastian asked, hopeful his tone sounded more amused than anxious.
“Why not?” Stella challenged. She, too, silently prayed her confidence was masking her pounding heart. “I’ll tell you the same.”
Sebastian raised an eyebrow. Now this was an intriguing offer. Though he knew Stella had sexual experience, she had never disclosed just how many of their classmates she’d granted such a privilege.
But that would also mean revealing his own number of past partners. And while he would never judge Stella for her number, whatever it was, he feared she’d judge him for his. It wasn’t nearly as high as he often implied, though he’d never explicitly revealed it.
“All right,” Sebastian finally agreed. “Out with it then.”
Stella blanched. “What? No, you have to go first.”
“That hardly seems fair.”
“Fine. On the count of three?”
“Fine. One, two… three– four,” Sebastian revealed. He couldn’t be sure, but it sounded like Stella said the same.
“Well?” Stella demanded with narrowed eyes. “What is it?”
Sebastian frowned in confusion. “I told you – four.”
“Oh. I thought you were still counting.”
“No, four is… is the number.”
“Oh.”
Sebastian suddenly felt like he was going to be sick. He wasn’t sure how Stella would react, but certainly not like that. Not with a simple, anticlimactic oh.
“Oh?” he demanded. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Stella’s cheeks were deep crimson now. “Nothing,” she said quickly, her voice squeaking several octaves higher than usual. “It’s just… I just…” Her eyes suddenly became fascinated by her own shoes. “I just thought yours would be higher, is all.”
“Why do you sound disappointed?”
“I’m not!” Stella insisted. “I mean, it’s not like it matters. It’s not like I care. I’m just surprised, is all.”
“Did you really think I’ve been with half the school?”
“Maybe not that many,” Stella said as she fidgeted uncomfortably. “Just more than me.”
“It’s not a competition,” Sebastian laughed.
“I know that! I just- I really thought yours would be higher.”
“You really think I’m like that?”
“You know I don’t,” Stella huffed. “I just thought you were way more experienced than me.”
“Why, you want me to teach you a few things?”
“Sebastian!”
“Only joking, darling.”
Sebastian could sense the shift in their connection. Stella was genuinely surprised by his revelation, and seemed to feel guilty for it. Sebastian, ever the protector of Stella and her feelings, decided some vulnerability might relieve her discomfort.
“You’d be surprised,” Sebastian said, his eyes decisively avoiding hers. “By my experience – or lack of. It’s… it’s not been easy for me.”
“What exactly does that mean?” Stella asked with a curious gaze that Sebastian couldn’t bring himself to meet.
“It means that sometimes… I struggle,” Sebastian said carefully. Stella clearly wasn’t catching on, because she was staring at him in utter confusion.
“Struggle with what?”
“With… sex,” Sebastian answered through a clenched jaw. He couldn’t believe he was revealing any of this to her of all people. He could have sworn he’d dig an early grave before ever admitting this, especially to the one and only girl whose opinion actually mattered to him.
“How do you mean?” Stella had now turned to face him fully, her attention clearly engrossed by this exchange.
Sebastian chickened out. “The details aren’t important,” he said, unable to quell the surge in fear that gripped his nerves.
“Seb, it’s me,” Stella said in her best encouraging tone. In truth, it only made Sebastian more uneasy. “You can tell me.”
There was no turning back from this. They hadn’t just toed the boundary, they’d leapt over it with a running start. Sebastian sighed.
“Sometimes I… finish quicker than I’d like,” he said through gritted teeth. Silence answered him. He considered flinging himself into the lake and sinking to its onyx depths, never to return and never to address such an embarrassing revelation.
“I see,” Stella finally said tactfully. Sebastian’s insecurities weren’t squashed.
“Yeah,” was all he could manage. The wheels in Stella’s head were turning at breakneck speed, desperate to find the right words. She was stunned. She’d never met someone as confident and self-assured as Sebastian. Though his bravado sometimes stoked her ire, she’d always assumed it carried over into the bedroom.
It was a vulnerable admission and Stella was touched to know Sebastian trusted her with it.
“Does… does it happen every time?” she asked gently.
Sebastian shrugged. “Not every time. But more often than I’d like to admit.”
“Oh.” Stella bit her lip, unsure how to proceed, but even more unsure of just how much information she was willing to seek. The thought – the dreadfully detailed visions – of Sebastian doing those acts with their classmates made Stella want to drive her own wand through her right temple. “Is it… do you think it’s because you’re just… excited to be with them?”
Sebastian began to sweat. Beads formed over his brow and hairline as he shifted in his spot on the grass. “I don’t know,” he admitted. “I mean, it’s always exciting for me. I am an 18-year-old bloke, after all. But it’s not like I’ve ever been too enamored with any of the girls I’ve been with. Especially since I’ve been with a few of them more than once.”
“I see.”
“I guess maybe I just overthink it.” Sebastian was rambling now. His brain screamed at him to stop talking, that shutting the fuck up would be his best bet, but untamed words kept pouring from his mouth. “And maybe overthinking it makes me tense up. And maybe all that tension makes it hard for me to… contain myself.”
“I see.” Stella was quite aware that she wasn’t contributing much to the discussion at this point, but she couldn’t speak freely. She couldn’t tell Sebastian she was secretly relieved he hadn’t had dozens of girls in his bed. She couldn’t reveal that she wanted to be one of those girls. And she certainly couldn’t tell him that his admission only made her want him more.
Could she?
What if there was a way she could get what she had always wanted without admitting it? Would that be wrong and deceitful? She wouldn’t act without Sebastian’s full consent, but would it be wrong to initiate sex with him when she was secretly in love with him? And what if doing so made her fall even harder for him?
Or worse, what if she offered and he said no?
But would it be so wrong for two friends to rely on each other to improve their natural desires to be good in bed? And shouldn’t two friends be the ideal participants in something as simple as self-improvement?
Stella’s silence was driving Sebastian mad. He began to wonder how immoral it would be to obliviate her and make her forget they’d ever had such a conversation. But just as he was reminding himself that doing so was absolutely demented, she smiled kindly at him.
“Well, I’m sure you’ll sort it all out in time,” she said, hoping he understood her sincerity. “Maybe you just need a little more practice.”
“Er, right,” Sebastian agreed. Shame creeped across his cheeks in the form of a deep blush. He felt like an absolute fool. Surely, she must think he was a pathetic, sorry excuse of a man – an amateur who had no idea how to please a woman. And surely, she’d never see him on a romantic level now.
But Sebastian noticed that Stella was chewing thoughtfully on her bottom lip. He waited for her to speak her mind, squirming as he fought to suppress his impatience.
Stella was working up the courage to propose something so bold, so forbidden, she’d surely die if Sebastian said no. And there was a very good chance he would. After all, they’d formed an impenetrable bond over the last near-three years. If Sebastian had any romantic interest in her, he would have certainly acted upon his feelings, right?
Such a proposition could absolutely disintegrate their friendship. But this might be Stella’s only shot at exploring Sebastian Sallow in the one way she’d never known. She willed herself to be bold enough to take a chance.
“What if…” she began slowly, her palms sweating as she spoke. “What if I helped you practice?”
Her offer hovered in the air between them, a heavy haze that damn near made Sebastian choke as he processed the words. He had to have heard wrong.
“Wh-what?” he said stupidly. “Practice what?”
“You know,” Stella said, fighting to maintain a casual air though her breathless words betrayed her. “Sex. I could help you practice.”
Sebastian shifted, certain that doing so would wake him from the very obvious dream he was having. It wouldn’t be the first time he’d dreamt of Stella in such a shameful manner. There was no other explanation for this. In no other realm of possibility would his best friend and the object of his unrequited desires be offering to have sex with him. But he wasn’t waking up. There were no bed curtains mocking him to remind him he was alone. There was no cold sweat or arousal that would need relieving in the boys’ showers. This was real.
“A-and how exactly would we do that?” Sebastian stuttered.
“We could just practice,” Stella said simply. “I could, you know, coach you through things. Different acts and positions and whatnot. We could practice them together until you, you know, gain more confidence.” When Sebastian didn’t immediately reply, it was Stella’s turn to babble on anxiously. “I just figure it makes sense, you know? We help each other out with everything else. It wouldn’t have to be any different than how we practice dueling together, or study together, right?”
But it would be different. They both knew that. But they were both too driven by desire to think better of it.
“And you’d… you’d be okay doing all that?” Sebastian asked softly. “With me?”
“Why not?” Stella offered boldly, though her shaking hands suggested otherwise. “I mean, we trust each other, right?”
“Right.”
“So why not? It seems like this could benefit us both. We can learn from each other, like everything else we do.”
Sebastian wasn’t sure how to respond. Of course he was going to say yes. He knew this arrangement could send their entire friendship spiraling south, but he was too desperate to know how it would feel to be with Stella to say no. This was his one and only chance to feel her, and to potentially convince her to consider him romantically. He could sweep her off her feet and make it impossible for her to think of anyone else.
Except there was that tiny, little problem of his inability to last long enough to prove himself to her.
But if there was one thing Sebastian couldn’t resist (other than Stella), it was a challenge. He would learn. He’d figure it out or die trying. If this was his only shot at winning Stella over, he’d find a way, because he sure as hell wasn’t going to squander it.
But he also didn’t want to appear too eager. He didn’t want Stella to know he’d spent damn near every night dreaming about her in ways that would make her hair curl. She couldn’t know he’d spent day in and day out scheming ways to make her fall for him. He couldn’t let her know he was hopelessly, haphazardly in love with her.
“Well, I do suppose we tend to work together on everything else,” Sebastian mused carefully.
“Do you… find me attractive enough that you could… you know…” Stella paused, terrified to ask such a question. “Become aroused.”
“Huh? Oh! Erm, of course.” The moment Sebastian answered, he wanted to sink into the ground, never to be seen again. But how else was he supposed to answer such a loaded question?
Stella was fucking stunning. Surely, she knew that. Surely, Sebastian didn’t have to tell her so. But he wanted to more than anything. He wanted to yank her by the collar of her shirt, pull her in close and tell her she was so beautiful, it made the heart inside his chest hurt and scream for relief.
“You’re beautiful, Stell. Do… do you find me, er, handsome enough to… you know?” Sebastian stammered.
Stella rolled her eyes. It was her most common defensive mechanism, her strongest veil for her insecurities. “Seb, come on,” she said, gazing at him with a pointed stare. She blinked for emphasis. “All the girls in our year practically fling themselves at you in hopes you’ll make them your wife when we graduate. You have to know you’re handsome.”
“Was just making sure.”
And then came the silence. It squeezed itself around them until both of their airways felt constricted.
“So, are you saying you want to try it then?” Stella finally had the nerve to ask. She tucked her hands beneath her thighs in an attempt to keep herself from fiddling with her hair. It was her common tell for nervousness.
“I do if you do,” Sebastian replied, far too aware of the tightening sensation happening within his trousers. All this talk of sex was forcing the blood to rush from his brain to the one place he didn’t want Stella to see. But she’d see it all soon enough.
“Alright,” Stella said with an air of forced confidence that she prayed sounded sexy and alluring. “When would you like to start?”
“Um, whenever it’s convenient for you.” Sebastian wanted to smack his palm against his forehead. He was speaking like he was in a formal job interview or having tea with the Minister of Magic, not agreeing to sex with his own best friend.
“We could start now,” Stella offered shyly. She glanced downward at the tent forming in Sebastian’s lap. Sebastian reddened even more.
“Oh. Okay, sure.”
Stella swallowed. This was it. She and Sebastian were going to plunge into the very risky waters of intimacy. But more importantly, he trusted her enough to guide him through one of life’s most personal, vulnerable endeavors. She wanted to get this right.
“We could use the Beasts classroom,” Stella offered. There were no classes that day. There’d be no reason for anyone to go anywhere near the classroom. At least that’s what Sebastian told himself as he found himself nodding in agreement.
Stella climbed to her feet and brushed loose blades of grass from the backs of her legs. It was then that Sebastian noticed how her skirt clung to her thighs. The pressure in his pants mounted.
Stella offered him her hand to help him up, her eyes averted as she led him toward the empty Beasts classroom. When they reached Professor Howin’s desk, Stella finally gathered the nerve to look Sebastian in the eye. Her gaze softened as she realized he was just as nervous as she was. The ever-confident Sebastian Sallow was unsure.
They didn’t speak at first, staring at one another as they both waited for the other to initiate action. Finally, Stella cleared her throat.
“Maybe we should start small,” she offered gently. “You know, foreplay stuff. Does that… does that sound good to you?”
“Yeah, sure,” Sebastian croaked.
Stella’s eyes shifted to Sebastian’s very evident erection. Her breath hitched at the notion that it was all for her; because of her. She’d touched herself in the quiet solitude of her bed to the very thought on countless occasions.
As Stella subconsciously ran her tongue across her bottom lip in thought, Sebastian clenched his jaw. His cock was pressing far too hard against the stiff fabric of his trousers for his liking, and the sight of Stella looking so fucking seductive was already testing his control.
“Maybe you should lean back against the desk?” Stella suggested. Sebastian obeyed without a word. Stella stepped toward him, her nerves still evident as she slowly lifted a hand to reach toward Sebastian’s erection. “May I…”
Sebastian nodded silently, too terrified that words would ruin the moment. Stella eyed him for a moment longer until her fingertips traced gently along the length of Sebastian’s erection. He inhaled sharply through his nose.
“I’ll go slow,” Stella whispered. Her fingers moved with tact over his taut trousers, tracing tantalizing lines over him. She suppressed a moan as she realized just how hard – and big – he was. She could swear she felt Sebastian’s cock twitch beneath her touch. “Does that feel good?” she asked innocently.
Sebastian nodded slowly, his failing attempts at controlling his breathing evident.
“I’m going to pick up the pace,” Stella warned, her eyes searching Sebastian’s for any indication he wanted her to stop. Instead, he nodded earnestly. “Tell me if it’s too much. Just… just keep breathing.”
She stroked his length faster, the friction of the fabric rough beneath the pads of her fingers. A grunt rumbled from Sebastian’s throat.
He knew this would be difficult. It always was. But he hadn’t properly accounted for the fact that this was Stella touching him. The way she was determined to take care of him, the way her voice purred as she spoke… it all made his self-control even slimmer. He was terrified he was going to embarrass himself.
“Relax,” Stella ordered gently. “Remember, it’s just me, Seb. Trust me.”
She clearly had no idea how much she affected Sebastian. So as she gazed at him with a soft, doe-eyed stare, Sebastian’s knuckles turned white as he gripped the edge of the desk behind him.
Sebastian squeezed his eyes shut as he fought for control over his body. He didn’t want to tense, certain that would result in an accident. But when he felt Stella’s fingers fumbling with the button of his trousers, his eyes shot open wide and his spine straightened.
“Alright?” Stella asked, her voice raspier than usual. Sebastian pretended not to notice and nodded his reply. His throat dried as he watched Stella reach inside his open trousers and fish his erection out. It popped eagerly from the fabric, but remained rigid in Stella’s hand. Sebastian held his breath as he watched her fingers curl around him before she began to stroke him with her soft hand. The surreal sight felt like a vision only meant for one of Sebastian’s most explicit dreams.
Sebastian cursed under his breath at the sensation. It certainly wasn’t the first time he’d been touched like this, but this was Stella. This actually meant something, because she meant everything.
“Relax,” Stella repeated. “Stop tensing so much. It’s just me.” She flashed him a reassuring smile, unaware that her curved lips and bright eyes were Sebastian’s very undoing. “Take a deep breath and exhale slowly, okay?”
Sebastian nodded and obeyed, exhaling until his shoulders slackened and the tightness in his abdomen eased.
“Now close your eyes,” Stella added. Sebastian’s eyes fluttered shut. “Tell me what you feel.”
“I feel… fuck, that feels so good,” Sebastian breathed.
“Tell me. Describe it.”
“Huh?”
“Just do what I say, you git.”
Sebastian wasn’t sure how describing their current sex act would help, but he certainly was in no position to argue. The only position he wanted to be in was on top of – or beneath – Stella, preferably with much less clothing between them.
“Your hands… they’re smooth,” Sebastian murmured with closed eyes. “Warm, too.”
“What do you usually think about when you come?”
Sebastian resisted the urge to pop open a panicked eye. He couldn’t exactly tell Stella that the answer was always her. He couldn’t possibly explain that picturing her plump lips, curious eyes and the curve of her full hips was always the tipping point that sent his body into a euphoric state. She couldn’t know she was the cause for his filthiest behavior.
“Erm, I don’t know,” Sebastian lied. “I think about lots of different things.” He grunted as he felt Stella’s thumb swipe over the tip of his cock.
“How’s this feel?” Stella asked, her hand pumping harder.
“S-so good,” Sebastian panted.
“Do you feel like you’re going to… you know?”
“I-I don’t know.”
Stella’s line of questioning stopped for a moment as she continued to stroke him. She was thankful Sebastian’s closed eyes couldn’t see the flush creeping over her, or the way her eyes lingered on his cock. He felt like velvet and looked like he was big enough to fill her completely – and then some. It made the ache between her thighs throb.
Stella watched as Sebastian’s chest began to rise and fall, his labored breaths audible inside the classroom. He didn’t notice as Stella fell to her knees, her hand still dragging around his shaft.
Sebastian’s eyes shot open again the moment he felt the moisture of her mouth surrounding him. This was a display beyond anything he could envision – such a sinful act performed by an angelic figure was a paradox his brain could never conjure. It was enough to make him moan.
“Remember to breathe, okay?” Stella said, her eyes peering up at him. She returned her lips to his cock and Sebastian bit back a groan as they tugged around his tip.
The classroom soon filled with the coarse sounds of lips pulling around wet skin. Sebastian’s hands tangled in Stella’s hair, tightening as the coil inside him did the same. He was careening toward the edge, unsure how to stop himself.
He tried to breathe through it, but he was far beyond the threshold of sensory overload. The feeling of Stella’s mouth hungrily engulfing his cock, the vision of her on her knees before him, the sounds of her gurgling around his length – Sebastian was sure there wasn’t a single soul who would be immune to such divine sensations.
“Stella,” Sebastian panted. “I can’t-”
Stella hummed, the vibrations coursing around Sebastian’s cock until he was surging toward his ending. He didn’t want this to stop, but couldn’t help but feel impressed with himself for lasting as long as he had, especially given the circumstances.
“Stella…” Sebastian repeated. The warning merely spurred Stella on. She was eager to prove to him just how worthy she was to coach him through this. She'd show him just how good she could be at this - better than Violet McDowell or any other dumb girl who dared to approach Sebastian. Her cheeks hollowed and she sucked harder, her eyes watering as Sebastian’s tip dabbed the back of her throat.
Sebastian let out a sharp shout, his hips jutting forward as his cock twitched. The small of his back pressed against the edge of the desk as he spilled into Stella’s mouth. Her throat closed around his tip, the warmth of her flesh guiding his release downward as she swallowed.
When it was over, Stella released him, his cock bobbing as it popped from her mouth. She remained on her knees while Sebastian caught his breath, his chest quietly rising and falling as he slumped against the desk.
They didn’t speak. Sebastian quelled the urge to thank Stella, to praise her and tell her how fucking good she was, while Stella withheld the desire to beg Sebastian for more.
“You alright?” Sebastian finally asked, his eyes searching Stella for any signs that she was upset. But she smiled upward at him and nodded assuredly.
Sebastian extended a hand to help her to her feet until the pair stood, the awkward silence exposing their uncertainty on how to proceed. But Stella reminded herself that she had promised to help Sebastian, and she was never one to back out on her word.
“So how was that?” she asked casually as Sebastian tucked himself back into his trousers.
Sebastian’s brain stuttered. The truth was it was the most incredible encounter he’d ever had, simply because he’d shared it with her. But that kind of honesty would surely sever whatever this was – and the entirety of their friendship.
“It was… you… you’re brilliant,” Sebastian finally managed, still shocked that such a lewd act had just occurred with the girl he'd deemed his best friend for more than two years. Stella seemed content with his analysis.
“I think the problem is you’re just so damn tense the entire time,” she noted. It was bizarre to be assessing a sexual encounter with her best friend like they were discussing quidditch tactics, but she had offered to coach him, hadn’t she?
But her evaluation had fallen on deaf ears, because now, Sebastian’s guilt was dissecting his brain.
“You didn’t… I didn’t…” he started, his voice trailing off. “...How can I repay the favor?”
“You don’t need to,” Stella said with a dismissive wave of her hand. “Not this time.”
Sebastian frowned – mostly because he didn’t want to be greedy, but also because he was desperate to touch her and wouldn’t forgive himself if he missed the opportunity to do so. He had to know how she felt, so yielding beneath his touch, how she moaned, how she looked when she fell apart at his orchestration.
“Please,” Sebastian pressed. “I can’t let you walk away without your share.”
Stella snorted. “Seb, really, it’s fine,” she promised. “You can make it up to me later.” She smirked as she smoothed out her skirt. “I’m pretty sure we’re just getting started.”
—
Sebastian was certain the entire afternoon had been some kind of demented dream when he woke up the following morning. But the details were far too vivid in his memory to have been a figment of his imagination; Stella’s fingers tracing over every ridge of his cock, her lips raw and red after they had wrapped around him, the plush sensation of her throat hugging his tip. It was better than any dream.
But now, how was he meant to face her? Guilt had clawed away at him the entire evening for not returning the favor. Now, all he could think about was how eager he was to do so. And what about their friendship? Had they really been stupid enough to jeopardize their entire bond all because of some suppressed sexual tension?
The war within his head made Sebastian want to sink into his porridge at breakfast. Ominis, sensing his friend’s tension, raised an eyebrow from the seat across from him.
“Alright mate?” Ominis asked. But Sebastian was too busy straightening in his seat to hear him. Stella was approaching the Slytherin table.
“Good morning,” she said breezily as she took the seat next to Ominis. Sebastian watched as she reached for a pastry, his eyes glued to her hands – those same hands that grabbed at his cock just hours before. He swallowed.
“Morning,” he managed. His eyes searched Stella for any indication of awkward tension, but she seemed as calm and content as ever.
“Have you two studied for tomorrow’s arithmancy exam?” Ominis asked.
“No,” Stella said as she shook her head, her right cheek puffed out from a large bite of pastry. “Not yet. Haven’t had the time.”
“Me neither,” Sebastian chimed in.
“Haven’t had the time? What were the two of you doing all day yesterday? I didn’t see either of you after lunch,” Ominis said suspiciously. Stella shrugged while Sebastian began to spiral toward a panic attack.
“Oh, we went to Hogsmeade,” Stella explained with casual ease. “I rescued a handful of diricrawl the other day and took them to Brood and Peck.”
Sebastian blinked. It was rather alarming – and impressive – how easily the lie left Stella’s lips. Of course, Ominis wouldn’t mind if he learned his two closest friends had spent an afternoon engaged in illicit sex acts, but none of it actually meant anything, right? Meaning there was no point in disclosing such details to Ominis.
Sebastian was pulled from his spiraling thoughts when Stella’s stare shifted to him. “Perhaps we can study tonight?” she asked him. Her eyes glimmered pointedly and Sebastian picked up on her implication.
“Er, yeah,” he agreed as his stomach performed a series of somersaults. “Tonight.”
“Well, as enthralling as it would be to pour over charts tonight, I’ll have to leave you two to it,” Ominis prattled on, unaware that no one would be studying numerical values that evening. “I’ve got to pen an ancient runes essay and I promised to help Violet McDowell.”
Sebastian couldn’t help but snicker. “That all you’re helping her with, mate?”
Ominis scowled as Stella snorted. “Unlike some people, I actually care about my studies,” he said, his tone taking on a self-righteous air. “Right, Stella?”
Sebastian couldn’t help but bite back a laugh as Stella nearly choked on her pumpkin juice. “Oh, right you are, Ominis,” she said as she stole a quick glance at Sebastian. “Some of us are quite dedicated to our studies.”
Sebastian smirked into his own juice.
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Hours later, Sebastian found himself pacing outside of the library. Stella had instructed him to meet her there, which sent Sebastian into a confused, manic state.
Had she decided she’d no longer help him with his little problem? Had yesterday been a letdown? Had she expected more from him? Why weren’t they meeting someplace more private? Had Sebastian misread Stella’s eyes? Were they actually going to study? He’d left all his books in his dormitory.
“Hey.”
Sebastian looked up to see Stella approaching. She wore another skirt that barely draped from her curves, making it difficult for Sebastian to focus on much else – though the top button of her blouse had popped open, serving as another excruciating distraction.
“Hey,” Sebastian croaked. Stella raised an amused eyebrow at him.
“Alright?” she asked.
Sebastian nodded. “Ready to… study?”
Something flickered in Stella’s eyes that told Sebastian books and notes were not on the evening’s itinerary. “Ready,” she said, hoping she sounded more intriguing than nervous.
She started toward the nearest library door and Sebastian followed as she descended the staircase. The library was quiet, even for its usual standards. A small group of students sat at the right table, anxiously shuffling through Transfiguration notes. A fifth-year girl sat quietly in one corner, a romance novel open in her lap, while Duncan Hobhouse was flipping through an Herbology book at a table to himself.
“Come on,” Stella whispered as she led Sebastian to a table at the far end of the library, free from any students. She gathered an armful of books from the nearest shelf and dropped them on the table, her chair quietly scraping against the wood floor. She opened one to a random page to make it appear as if she was studying.
Sebastian took the seat next to her, his knees feeling wobbly as he lowered himself. He sat with a stiff back, his posture uncharacteristically prim and proper. It made Stella smirk.
“Relax!” she hissed quietly, one hand finding the top of Sebastian’s left knee beneath the table. It was anything but soothing. The muscles of Sebastian’s thighs went rigid and Stella gave his knee a gentle squeeze. His trousers were already feeling tight. Stella snuck a sideways glance at Sebastian, who was holding his breath. “If you make it through this test, I’ll reward you with something even better.”
Merlin, help him. He was a goner.
Stella slid a book in front of him. “Here,” she instructed. “Pretend you’re reading this.”
If her hand hadn’t been wandering up his leg, Sebastian would have laughed. It was an Introduction to Dueling book meant for first-years.
Sebastian flipped the book open to its center pages and focused on the words to keep himself from reacting to Stella’s hand, which was presently exploring his inner thigh. He gripped the edge of the table when it found his erection.
“How are you so hard already?” Stella whispered in his ear. Sebastian shot her a sideways glare.
“Kind of difficult to be anything but hard when you’re making lofty promises,” he growled back.
The friction of Stella’s hand running over the fabric of Sebastian’s trousers was just as glorious and agonizing as it had been the day before. Sebastian began to wonder if he was a hopeless case; a lost cause, meant to live his days in misery because he was too infatuated with his best friend to focus on their “practice.”
Stella shuffled in her seat and before Sebastian could react, she was unbuttoning his pants.
“Are you mad?” he hissed. Stella merely shrugged.
“Do you want me to stop?”
“...No.”
"That's what I thought."
Stella’s hand disappeared, her fingers grazing the skin of Sebastian’s waist before they found the base of his cock inside his pants. Sebastian chewed his bottom lip to stifle a groan. Stella traced a teasing finger down the full length of his shaft until it found the tip, where she made tiny circular motions. Her movements were slow and tantalizing, signaling her genuine intent to help Sebastian learn to withstand such pleasure.
But the forbidden nature of their act was making it far too difficult for Sebastian to focus on the task at hand. The thrill of sharing such a salacious moment with Stella made his heightened arousal evident in his flushed cheeks and strained breathing. Stella seemed to notice he was struggling, because her strokes around his cock became slower and gentler.
“Close your eyes,” she hummed quietly. Sebastian nodded and let his eyelids flutter shut. Stella squirmed against her chair, her own arousal testing her patience. As much as she enjoyed the power of controlling Sebastian’s ultimate undoing, she was desperate for her own. She wanted nothing more than for him to treat her the same.
But for now, Stella was content with studying Sebastian’s face. She gazed at him in quiet adoration, her eyes scanning his flushed cheeks and the locs of tousled hair that had fallen out of place. She watched as his jaw clenched and unclenched with certain strokes of his cock, particularly the way the muscles strained whenever her thumb pressed against his tip. She would have sold her soul to merely climb into his lap and kiss every freckle on his face.
Her focus on Sebastian’s handsome features forced Stella’s attention to falter. Just as she found herself wondering if Sebastian was good with his own hands, Sophronia Franklin rounded a corner and strode into view.
Stella jumped, her surprise causing her fist to squeeze around Sebastian’s shaft as her elbow smashed against the table with a sharp bang. She swore loudly as the pain stung through her arm while Sebastian yelped, his eyes popping open in surprise.
Stella did her best to remain still, her palm pressed against Sebastian’s cock as she smiled politely at Sophronia, who was studying the pair with a quizzical stare. Stella returned her eyes to the book in front of her, pretending to think critically about the prose on its pages.
“Perhaps this spell would conjure manacles to bind the person on the receiving end,” she mused loud enough for Sophronia to hear. But her plan backfired, as Sophronia stopped in her tracks to double back.
“Were you two just talking about the alternate form of Incarcerous?” she asked curiously. She stood about three feet from the table, seemingly oblivious to the debauchery occurring beneath it.
“Oh,” Stella blinked. “Um, sort of. But doesn’t Incarcerous conjure ropes?”
“It does.” Sophronia nodded in approval of Stella’s knowledge. “But a modified version of the spell can conjure manacles.”
“Manacles,” Stella repeated blankly.
“Yes. You know, like shackles used for fastening hands or ankles,” Sophronia offered.
“Right.”
“I can’t imagine what one would use them for nowadays,” Sophronia continued. “But I suppose they have their uses.”
“Can’t imagine,” Sebastian chimed in tersely through gritted teeth. Stella squeezed her hand gently to send a message. Sebastian wheezed.
“I suppose manacles might be a bit sturdier than rope,” Sophronia rattled on. “Much more secure, at least. They’d certainly be more likely to keep people in their place.”
“How wonderful for them,” Stella said stupidly.
Sophronia, seemingly bored with the rather one-sided discussion, shrugged and spun on her heels to continue toward the spiral staircase. Stella and Sebastian sat in still silence as she ascended, waiting in searing agony until her footsteps faded.
“Fucking hell,” Sebastian whined, his shoulders slumping forward. “Can you be more careful?”
Stella clearly found the encounter more amusing than unsettling. She shot Sebastian a sheepish smile, which instantly dissolved his aggravation.
“Sorry,” she offered. “My bad. Didn’t notice her coming.”
“Yeah well, keep it up and she won’t be the only one.”
Stella snorted, eliciting a shush from Sebastian, who was looking positively distressed.
“We should probably move,” Stella noted, her eyes scanning the area for any more potential intruders. “Consider this the passage of your test and the start of your reward. I’ve got just the place.”
“We can’t risk the Restricted Section just yet,” Sebastian said. “It’s too early. Scribner’s still around.”
“Not the Restricted Section,” Stella said as she removed her hand from Sebastian’s trousers. He swallowed a whimper at the sudden absence of her touch. “I know a better place.”
She waited for Sebastian to adjust his clothing before she stood, the books forgotten on the tabletop. She made a sweeping glance around the room before brandishing her wand to apply a disillusionment charm. Sebastian blinked at her invisible form and followed suit.
“Where are you? I can’t follow you if I can’t see you,” he hissed. The sudden feeling of Stella’s hand closing around his wrist was his answer. Stella guided him quietly across the library toward the fireplace.
“Glacius,” Stella breathed. The flames dissolved and she tugged Sebastian through the fireplace to the small, discreet room on the other side to shed her disillusionment spell. “See? Told you this is better.”
“How the hell did you even find this place?” Sebastian demanded as his own disillusionment charm fell. He gazed around the space, impressed by the tapestries on the walls and furniture in the corner.
“Shh!” Stella clapped a hand over his mouth and shot him a sharp look. “No one can see us but they can still hear us. Remember, we’re in the library so silencing charms won’t work.”
“Still one of Scribner’s most asinine ideas,” Sebastian muttered.
Stella whispered “Incendio” to reignite the flames in the fireplace, closing them in and guarding them from any wandering passerby. When she turned to face Sebastian again, her eyes drifted downward. His trousers were still tented. Now completely alone, Stella’s mind began to run wild with ideas of all the things she wanted to do with him.
“Wait,” Sebastian whispered as Stella reached to unbutton his pants again. He stopped her with a gentle hand around her wrist. “When do I get to return the favor for you?”
Stella squeezed her thighs together. The thought of Sebastian touching her had been burning between her legs for quite some time. “Now, if you want.”
Sebastian didn’t hesitate. His hands snapped to her waist and he pulled her closer. “Now’s as good a time as any,” he murmured. He nudged her gently toward the armchair in the corner, guiding her backward until the backs of her legs met the seat. Stella sat and Sebastian dropped to his knees in front of her.
His hands skimmed beneath the hem of her skirt and over her porcelain thighs. The heat between them made his cock stir with desire. As Sebastian bunched her skirt up around her waist, Stella held her breath. His eyes settled on the damp spot at the center of her panties. He stared for a moment as he mustered the courage to touch her.
It was finally happening. He was going to discover the depths of Stella he’d assumed were only reserved for his dreams. But he could feel himself starting to freeze, gripped by his insecurities that he wouldn’t be able to impress her.
As Stella caught his gaze, Sebastian could feel his intensity soften. She smiled at him, her warmth radiating through him with a sense of comfort only she could offer. Sebastian decided he wasn’t going to leave that library until he had Stella squirming from his touch.
He planted a trail of kisses up Stella’s right thigh. He could hear her inhale sharply, her hips lifting off the chair as the ache became unbearable within her core.
Sebastian’s hands drifted toward her hips, peeling the waistband of her panties downward until they pooled around her ankles. The sight of her soaked entrance ignited an invigorating surge of avidity in him. He’d fling himself into the flames of that fireplace before he allowed anyone to deny him a taste.
But first, he needed to touch her. He had to know how soft, how slick she felt. When his thumb made contact with her clit, Stella whimpered. He pressed against it, the pink flesh warm, wet and arousing.
Sebastian swiped his thumb, drawing a soft moan of approval from Stella. He began dragging his thumb back and forth in a steady rhythm while he sank a slow finger inside her. The surge of moisture surrounding his finger made Sebastian curse under his breath. There was no way he’d last long enough to bend Stella over the desk like he wanted, but if there was one thing he would ensure, it was to make Stella moan his name by any means possible.
Sebastian’s index finger pulled upward against her front wall as his thumb continued its assault on her clit. The fireplace room soon filled with the lewd sound of slick flesh, but the library’s visitors remained none the wiser.
Stella’s knees parted more as Sebastian added a second finger inside her, dipping and dragging against her walls in desperate determination to incite her undoing.
“God, Sebastian,” she breathed, her fingers gripping the armrests as she clenched her cunt around his fingers to coax her release. Sebastian hastened his movements, his fingers dabbing at the sensitive and spongy flesh until Stella was practically riding his hand.
She let out a quiet whine as her hips lifted off the chair, grinding her cunt around Sebastian’s fingers until she was hurtling toward her pinnacle. The pressure within her core mounted, her walls pulling greedily at Sebastian’s fingers until they began to quiver.
Stella unleashed a breathy hiss as she climaxed, her thighs clamped around Sebastian’s fingers in an attempt to prolong her peak. Her walls pulsed as his fingers continued to beckon. When the quaking subsided, she was breathless and sweaty, albeit fully satisfied.
But Sebastian wasn’t. Now, it was time for a taste.
Stella flinched when Sebastian’s tongue made contact with her sensitive entrance, but her hands immediately pulled at his hair, demanding more from him. Sebastian lapped at her folds and hummed in arousal at her taste. The pressure in his pants was excruciating.
His tongue flattened against her clit, pressing and prodding until Stella’s legs were shaking.
“Sebastian,” she panted, unsure if she could withstand the sensitivity between her thighs. But the way her hips were jutting upward, pressing her entrance against his tongue, told him she wanted more.
He drove his tongue harder against her clit, forcing it in swift, short swipes until Stella’s feet were kicking from the pleasure swelling inside her nerve endings.
Her back arched and her nails sank into the back of Sebastian’s neck as heat sprawled across her cunt, its ripples triggering a blissful shriek from her. Sebastian was too preoccupied to address the sinful sounds threatening to expose them. The tight, binding tension inside him cracked. He swore loudly as the sensation of Stella’s seeping arousal against his tongue sent him over the edge.
When both of their highs had subsided, they froze, fearful for the sound of approaching footsteps that never came. Sebastian remained rooted in place, shame spreading over his features.
This had never happened to him before. Sure, he’d had those premature incidents, but those always occurred as a result of someone touching him. It had never happened at the mere sight of someone else’s orgasm.
Stella couldn’t help but smirk at the damp spot that had appeared on his pants. The sheer thought of her release triggering Sebastian’s own undoing was more empowering than any bit of ancient magic. Sure, it was counterproductive to the coaching she had promised, but considering he had satisfied her – twice – she decided there’d be plenty more opportunities for carnal education.
And selfishly, there was something quite satisfying about causing the temporary downfall of the great Sebastian Sallow. She’d never admit to it, though.
“Alright?” Stella asked tenderly.
“What do you think?” Sebastian muttered as he brandished his wand. “Scourgify.”
“I think,” Stella mused as she pulled her panties back up, “Maybe we started with the stakes too high.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe we should try a more private setting – someplace where you’ll actually relax,” Stella explained. “Maybe these… public places are causing you too much stress.”
“What are you, my therapist now?”
“Sex therapist,” Stella quipped with a smirk. Sebastian turned red again. “To be fair,” Stella continued in a serious tone, “This therapy session was quite a stress reliever for me, so at least one of us benefited from it.” She frowned slightly as she rose to her feet. “I really was going to reward you, though.”
“Trust me,” Sebastian mumbled. “You’ve done plenty.”
Stella grinned as she flicked her wand toward the fireplace to freeze the flames. “What are friends for?”
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Here comes my review (mostly writing & lore) of the Mass Effect Official Cocktail Book. I also included a list of all characters named with all page numbers related to their mentions.
I’m including this for our Andromeda Appreciation Week because the last part of the book is Andromeda-related :)
Introduction:
Cassandra Reeder is the recipe developer and Jim Festante is the writer.
The book is written by two writers in-universe. The first one is an asari calling herself “Ambree T’Sia” who is a lot like Gossip Girl (“you won’t guess and I’ll never tell” is an actual line in the book). We have to guess her identity but she doesn’t mind spreading a lot of stories about people and their drinks.
The second writer is an angara called Roa who decided to add recipes to T’Sia’s existing ones, but more adapted to the Andromeda Galaxy. Roa dreams of a better world for everyone. He’s friend with Dutch and Anan from the Vortex.
Each writer presents drinks based on locations: bars and spots in the two galaxies. There also some snacks recipes as well.
Review:
It’s hard for me to say anything about the recipes, though I will say it seems like there are different ingredients so a bit of everything for everyone. The difficulty can be adjusted: I thought some drinks looked really complicated to make (and some use other drinks in the books as base), but if you want to do a simple cocktail/mocktail, there are at least 10 good options.
Some recipes are directly named after characters or inspired by characters, so it might be fun to try some based on your favs.
One drink seems weird to me, and that’s the N7 Shooter (mostly because of the mix of ingredients). If you try it, tell me what you think.
Regarding American measurement: if you want to be precise, I would wait for a translation. Otherwise, I would get a cup and google some stuff before making it.
The drinks I'll try at some point, in a mocktail version only:
Tuchanka Sunset - 22
Perfection - 54
Tupari Blast - 61
Denorian Beer Granita - 64
Tequila Se’lai - 70
Shadowbrokertini - 74
The Mindfish - 83
Calibration Cooler - 95
Pink Marble - 130
Marljeh - 142
Kadara Sunrise - 143
So that’s pretty much it for the food & drinks, sorry!
My review is more about the lore and the writing.
I found the witty tone enjoyable. I like that there’s a distinction between how T’Sia writes and how Roa writes at the end of the book. T’Sia gossips a lot but there’s no malice. Roa is very earnest and seems quite adorable to me.
You’ll see I wrote down all the characters named and the pages, sometimes it says something about the writer, sometimes not. A good example: Samantha is mentioned 5 times by T’Sia. She finds her charming and young, and mostly links her to drinks and other people (a full EDI/Traynor-like drink is in there). Meanwhile, Drack is mentioned 4 times, Vetra 3 times, but Roa has an entire page about how fascinated he is by Vetra.
Regarding what we learn, lore-wise: not a whole lot. It mostly plays on what we already know.
What we do learn has to do with some characters. Without being too spoilery, it’s very light and fun for the most part - like Joker and Steve having a challenge, Vega seducing T’Sia, characters loving specific drinks (like Traynor), etc. Some characters (like Kaidan and Miranda) are sharing their woes or backstory. Roa, in the later part of the book, talks a lot about Dutch and their meeting is very very cute.
My favorite anecdote is that Liam’s movie night spreads to the Nexus and becomes a tradition :)
Some characters are very absent while others are more present. I would say it’s logical in a way, but it’s one thing to be aware of. If you’re a fan of Jaal, there are no mentions in the book. Though, like I said, a mention doesn’t always mean a lot: Peebee is mentioned once but we learn nothing new. I also found it a bit sad that Ashley is not in the book. Obviously, I’m happy to have Kaidan there, but Ashley would have been a wonderful character for fun anecdotes here.
Characters named and pages:
Note: if you find that I forgot a mention, drop me a DM. I’ll add the page and/or character!
Joker - 12, 98
Sel Vass - 14
Solem Dal’serah - 21
Karin Chakwas - 25
Padok Wiks and and Urp - 26
Wrex - 26, 65, 106
Aria - 19, 27
Oleg Petrovsky - 27
James Vega -29, 46, 112
Shepard - 33, 30, 41, 93
Garrus - 37, 38, 95
Samantha - 42, 43, 73, 97, 106
Kaidan - 49, 106, 116
Miranda - 54
Kasumi - 55
Doran - 59, 60, 61
Grunt - 66
Fist - 69
Anderson - 71
Elijah Khan - 81, 88
Emily Wong - 93
Jack - 94
EDI - 97, 106,
Steve - 98, 120
Tali - 101
Aethyta - 51, 57, 106
Dutch smith - 123, 126, 127, 131, 156
Anan T’Mari - 123, 127, 131, 156
Ryder - 123, 128, 133, 135
Drack - 133, 134, 137, 152
Umi Henon - 133, 134, 135, 138
Vetra - 137, 144, 154
Peebee - 137
Sloane - 138
Lexi - 138
Khan Dagher - 141, 143, 147
Kesh - 150
Suvi - 154
Buxil - 156
Niilj - 156
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50Au Part 23
“ You let him fall asleep!?” Donnie hissed. featuring with both hands at the current situation on the couch. Which was a possibly reset Leo and a guily-looking Raph.
“ Raph didn't mean to-” Raph protested, but snapper his mouth shut when Leo stirred a little.
Donnie tried not to groan, knowing that could wake Leo up. They needed a plan, Now.
Even with all the data he collected, it was hard to say if sleeping caused the reset or if it was a time thing. So Leo could be a ticking time bomb for all they knew. Or he could wake up perfectly normal, since technically it was the same day.
Either way, Donnie didn't want Leo waking up here in the TV room. He didn't want to take a chance on Leo panicking when he saw Raph and running again. Or trying to run.
At least they had gotten the rest of the ingredients. Barry was cooking them up in his lab right now to make the potion or salve or whatever it was. Tomorrow he would prepare the memory spell and they’d be able to go into Leo's memories and get rid of the curse.
They were so close to the end of this thing and yet Donnie felt as if he'd learned almost nothing about the actual curse.
As much as he didn't want Leo to freak out and run…this could be a good moment to gather a bit more data. Just in case they needed it.
Just in case, for some reason, they weren't able to break the curse in the next two days and they needed to know this.
“ I'm going to wake him up,” He murmured, “ Raph, be ready to grab him if he tries to run.”
“What? Donnie, if we wake him up now, he'll run for sure!” Mikey whispered. He grabbed Donnie's arm, “ let's just put him.in his room and wait for him to wake up again”
“he’ll probably wake up if we move him anyway,” Donnie pointed out, wrenching his arm away with a huff, “besides, this way we'll know if he resets when he sleeps or if it's some kind of time based reaction. I'm just gathering data,”
Mikey let out a frustrated huff, but didn't argue.
The lair was locked down, Leo's swords were locked away, and Donnie had a hand on the tranq gun, still tucked away in his pocket.
Donnie gave Leo's shoulder a little shake, watching with bated breath as his twin woke up.
He yawned and stretched a little, before sitting up. Not waking up in a total panic was good, at least.
Leo blinked awake, glancing between the three of them with a confused expression.
“ Um…why are you guys watching me nap?” He asked, frowning faintly, “ I asked Raph if it was okay if I napped on him, so-”
He glanced at Raph and shot him an apologetic smile,“ I guess you didn't actually answer, sorry about that man”
Donnie kept his hand on the gun in his pocket. He gave Leo a once-over. He didn't seem any more suspicious of them than he had been this morning, not from what Donnie could tell anyway.
“ what do you remember, Leo?”
Leo rolled his eyes, “ geez you guys are persistent. I woke up this morning and apparently spawned a family into existence, then we ate breakfast and then me and Raph sat down to watch Punch Chowder!”
Well. This was a development.
“Ha! New data!” Donnie quickly pulled out his phone and typed it into his notes, recording that Leo took a nap and still remembered the morning's events, “ so it's not triggered by sleeping! It must be a time-based curse, so you forget at midnight or 2 am or something,”
He grabbed Leo's shoulders, “ tell me, about what time did you wake up last night? I might be able to figure out the exact time you're memory is being erased, if not I can at least estimate the hour-”
Leo grimaced and seemed to shrink away from the touch, Donnie remembering a moment too late that - montage or not - Leo still didn't exactly trust them.
“Sorry- anyway, about what time would you say you woke up? Midnight? 3?” He pulled his hands away with what he hoped was an apologetic smile, “oh! Wait, I can just check the cameras. To the lab!”
Donnie spun on his heel to run up to his lab and check, only to run directly into Splinter.
“ Oh! Purple, please watch where you're going, you almost spilled my tea,” he scoffed, stepping around Donnie and into the TV room.
Donnie spun on his heel and turned right back around. Data could wait. They'd forgotten a key component of their montage. And that was Splinter.
“ Pops, you shouldn't-”
“Dad Now’s not really-”
“ What is with you boys? I just want to sit down and watch my show, I've had a long week!” Splinter huffed, stepping past them all and flopping into his chair, “ You all are acting very suspicious.”
Donnie looked at Leo, who was staring at Splinter with huge eyes.
“Um…I think you guys have a rat pr-”
Raph slapped his hand over Leo's mouth, quickly shaking his head.
“ Um, Pops, look, we kinda, sorta forgot to tell you about-” He started, but Splinter shushed him with a couple waves of his hand.
“ shush shush, this is my favorite part. You can tell me after!”
They all watched as Lou Jitsu slid of a building on a motorcycle, Splinter cheering giddily at the scene.
“ yes! You know, I broke my leg in two places doing that stunt!” He chuckled, “ But we got the take and I won an award for it!”
Leo pushed Raph’s hand away, mouth agape.
“ I'm sorry, are you saying you’re Lou Jitsu?” He questioned, grimacing, “ Are we sure I'm the one with the memory curse here, because you don't look like him at all?”
Donnie sighed and ran a hand down his face. They really needed to add in a bit on the montage about Splinter’s whole…situation.
Splinter turned to look at Leo with a frown, “I’m not that old, don't try and mess with me, Leonardo”
Donnie cleared his throat. This was going to be both awkward and annoying, that was for sure.
“ Papa, Leo was cursed to forget us, and we may have forgotten to tell you about it and also may have forgotten to tell him about you,” He explained, trying to keep it as simple as possible, “Leo, this is our dad. He is, in fact, Lou Jitsu.”
Leo studied him for a moment before deflating with a sigh, “ I mean its not the weirdest thing I've been told today, and its not as if I have any choice but to believe it”
“ Good! You better believe it!” Splinter huffed, before he turned to Raph, “Now please explain what all of that means, because I am still a little confused. How long had he been cursed?”
Raph thought for a moment, “....4 days, five or take,”
“ and you didn't think to tell your father because…?” Splinter sighed, setting his tea aside and standing up, “ I thought you boys were supposed to be relying on me more…”
He walked over to Leo, who leaned back a little as Splinter stepped into his space.
Splinter put out his hands, but Leo leaned back further.
Donnie remembered after the invasion, when Leo couldn't leave the med bay. When he couldn't even move.
Splinter would come in and check on him and hold his hand. And sometimes, even though Leo had been delirious with pain or so confused he didn't even know who he was, Splinter would hold out his hands and Leo would press his face into them.
Papa used to do it for all of them when they were young. He'd hold out his hands and they'd press their faces into them with a giggle. And Splinter would lovingly squeeze their cheeks, or give their face a little pat, or he would thumb away tears.
But Leo didn't know about that. He didn't think he had any of that right now.
So Splinter held our his hands and Leo just looked at him.
Papa pulled his hands away with a sigh, “ I see. You really have forgotten us, haven't you?”
“Uh, yeah, that's like the whole point of the curse,” Leo muttered, frowning faintly. He opened his mouth as if to say something else, but shut it when he saw whatever expression Splinter wore.
“ Dad, how ‘bout me and Donnie fill you in on everything that's happened while I make lunch, okay?” Mikey suggested, already getting up.
Splinter followed without question, glancing back at Leo with a growing frown.
“ Don't worry. We're gonna fix everything, “ Donnie murmured, already starting for the kitchen himself.
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forgot to write the author's note cause I was distracted! I do have thoughts on this. I actually wasn't sure if I was gonna go this route or not. I don't really like this part simply because it's really just me trying to get information out? Like I usually try for a bit more feeling, but this part feels..cold to me. Also I hate writing Splinter but this was too funny of a oppurtunity to pass up cause man how wild would it be if you woke up and suddenly had a dad who was famous BUT ALSO apparently a rat man? yeah that'd be wild.
also can you tell I posted this from my actual computer this time. It looks way better but I usually post from my phone cause I write it on google docs there without editing and then just throw it out here for ya'll lmao.
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Hey, Could I, please, have a story with picture number 2? It'd be awesome if you could turn it into a time traveller story, but you don't have to. I fully trust your talent and skills.
On the other hand, I think it's awesome how you could turn having very bad anxiety and panic attacks into such a nice short story. I hope you're better now. I don't know if you wrote it for the sake of the story or if it's true for you too, but The Last and Snooze are my two favourite songs from Yoongi :) I really loved that part in the story where you wrote about Yoongi's indigestion problems, it made me laugh.
Take care and get well soon :)
They are great songs that help a lot!
I hope this is okay. It’s kind of time traveler-ish but probably not what you were expecting. It’s spooky season themed too.
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Here is number 2 from the picture game!
Warnings: mentions of death, very slightly suggestive, angst
Disclaimer: Some things may not be correct for the time period. I tried my best.

��Spells, Potions, and Magic, Solutions for the Everyday Witch”, you rolled your eyes before tossing the heavy ornate book into a box. You always knew that your neighbor Ms. M as she was called was a little on the odd side but when her daughter offered you $200 to clean out her moms home after she passed away, as a broke college student you couldn’t say no.
It was simple. You could keep anything you wanted and everything else got chucked into a large dumpster that was sitting outside. There was also this book that apparently Ms.M had insisted you have even though you thought it was a little weird. Other than the book you kept a few pots and pans, a couple vintage sweaters, and what looked like a handmaid quilt. You had a box of stuff you thought that maybe you could sell for a little extra cash too.
You felt bad just throwing away this woman’s entire life like she had never existed but that’s what you were paid to do.
After you were all finished you collected your payment and your items and headed back home to your place.
The box of stuff you were planning to sell consisted of mostly some jewelry, a very old vase, a Chanel purse you were praying was real, and the spell book. You knew the campus bookstore would definitely send some cash or at least store credit your way for that one and you did not want it taking up space in your already cramped home.
After making yourself some dinner your curiosity got the best of you and you started flipping through the pages of the book.
‘How to turn your enemy into a frog. A step by step guide.’, you rolled your eyes because how original?
‘Black cat following you around? Use this spell to reveal their true identity.’, okay maybe the cat is just hungry you laughed.
‘Death by chocolate cake’, you 100% expected to find just a normal recipe for chocolate cake which you did until the very last ingredient said a touch of arsenic and you realized they weren’t kidding about the death part.
Interestingly there was one page in particular that seemed to have been opened to more times than the others.
‘How to bring someone back from the twilight.’, useful I guess if someone accidentally ate your death by chocolate cake you chuckled.
You wondered if maybe Ms.M had spent much of her life trying to bring someone back from the dead, maybe a former lover. She was probably so grief stricken she was desperate and thought something as ridiculous as a spell could work. You felt bad for the woman and whomever it was that she thought she could bring back.
Putting the book aside you started going through some of the jewelry you took to see what was profitable. What looked to be a man’s ring caught your attention first. It was very intricate with a beautiful carving of what you thought was a jaguar. The eyes appeared to be made out of diamonds or so you hoped because that would definitely up the value when you try to sell it.
You went through some of the other jewelry but for some reason that book kept pulling your attention back to it. You went back to the page with the spell about bringing someone back. As you fidgeted with the jaguar ring you began to read,
“When the moon reaches full peak and the skies are clear, read this verse, there is nothing to fear. Lost in the twilight, shall be no more. Once true loves companion, completes the lore.”, what the hell you laughed. You would have thought this was meant as a Halloween book for toddlers or something if it wasn’t for the recipe on how to murder someone with chocolate cake.
Having had enough you decided it was time for bed and you’d deal with the stuff after your classes tomorrow. You kept the ring with you wanting to make sure it was safe and went upstairs to finish your nightly routine.
When you woke up the next morning you stretched feeling a little sore from all the heavy lifting you did the day before. You reached over to turn off your alarm clock when you felt an arm wrap around your waist and pull you close. It took a second for you to realize what just happened and that someone was currently in your bed with you, but once it hit you, it hit you like a bus.
You jumped out of bed in one quick movement stumbling for your light switch. Once the room was illuminated you got a good look at who was in your bed.
A man, yes a full grown man was peacefully sleeping next to you and at one point had his arm wrapped around you.
You had experienced one night stands before. It wasn’t your favorite thing to do but you had needs too. Never though had you ever had a one night stand that you didn’t remember. And you didn’t even leave your house last night so how did this happen?
What made you even more curious was that this guy didn’t look like the typical guys you were used to seeing around town. His hair was dark black and wavy and long, one side gently tucked behind his ear. His skin care routine must’ve been top notch because he didn’t have a single blemish and judging by how pale he was he either rarely left his house or was strict about sun protection. His clothes are what threw you off the most. Most of the guys you were around wore tshirts, hoodies, jeans, sweats and things like that. Not this guy. He looked like he was straight out of an 1800’s men’s fashion magazine, if that thing existed back then. The worst part was that you caught yourself staring at him a little too long. He was breathtakingly beautiful and you were a little sad that you didn’t remember anything from your time with him because you definitely would’ve liked to.
And then you reminded yourself that he was some guy you didn’t know and you should probably wake him up so he could get the hell out of your house and you could go on with your day.
Gently you poked at his shoulder but with no reaction. So you poked a little harder. This time he swatted at your hand and pouted which only made him look more beautiful.
So then you poked him even harder, “Um excuse me.”
This time he groaned before opening his eyes to look at you. It took a second but then he screamed and jumped out of the bed making you scream and jump back towards the door.
“Who are you?”, he asked groggy and out of breath.
That hurt a little that he didn’t remember you even though you were in the same boat but you’d like to think you were unforgettable so how dare he?
“Y/N, who are you?”
“Min Yoongi.”
“Okay Yoongi well whatever we did last night is over so it’s time for you to get going. I have class to get to.”, you said motioning towards the door.
You must’ve hit snooze instead of off on your alarm because it started making that familiar annoying ringing again.
Yoongi quickly brought his hands to his face to shield himself and he slightly crouched down, “What is that thing? Is it going to explode?”
You looked at him confused. “I wish. It’s just the alarm clock on my phone.”, you said showing him that you were turning it off.
He stood back up and smoothly moved his hair back behind his ear.
“Mmhm, where is the lavatory?”, he asked suddenly.
“I’m sorry what?”
“The lavatory, latrine…the toilet?”
“Ohh down the hall and first door on the left.”, you said pointing. He walked past you with a nod and you heard the door click shut.
“Jeeze, where did I find this guy?”, you asked yourself.
You took the time that he was in the bathroom to get dressed and went downstairs thankful that you had a second bathroom so you could finish getting ready there. Once you were done you went into the kitchen and got your coffee going and poured yourself a bowl of cereal, too tired to really cook anything. You took the book and the rest of the stuff from the night before and tossed it in the box so that it was out of the way.
After a few minutes Yoongi walked into the kitchen. You were kind of annoyed that he didn’t get the hint to leave but you still wanted to be polite because that was who you were, “Would you like some coffee?”
He nodded so you poured him a cup, “I have pumpkin spice or caramel macchiato flavored creamers.”
He looked at you with a straight face, “Pumpkins aren’t spicy.”
“Okay black it is.”, you whispered handing him the mug.
“Would you like some cereal?”, you asked.
Thankfully he shook his head because you had no idea how you would explain why your breakfast cereal had different colored marshmallows in it, something you just knew he would question.
You ate in awkward silence hoping he would eventually just get up and leave after realizing you weren’t interested.
Your phone which had been sitting on the counter charging dinged with a notification making Yoongi flinch back. “Why does that thing keep making noises?”, he asked still shaken.
“Well it’s a phone. That’s what they do.”, you said starting to get annoyed.
“Well back in my day there was only one phone for the whole city and it was attached to a wall at the courthouse and only made one sound.”, he said just as annoyed.
You took another bite of cereal unsure how to answer that but knowing that you needed to get this man out of your house and then reevaluate your life decisions.
“So uh did you need me to call you an Uber or something?”
“Uber?”
“Or Lyft or taxi or give you money for the bus?”, you said running out of options.
“Do you not have a horse and buggy to take me home in?”, he asked as if you were the odd one in this situation.
Slowly you shook your head, “Noooooo I’m sorry my buggy is currently in the shop and my horse is on vacation.”
You realized rather quickly that he did not appreciate the joke.
No longer having an appetite you started to collect your dishes when Yoongi grabbed your hand. He inspected it closely and that’s when you released you were still wearing the ring.
“How did you get that? That’s my ring.”, he asked.
“Umm it was in my neighbors stuff that I helped clear out yesterday.”
“Your neighbor? Where is she? I must see her.”
You were taken back a little by his outburst.
“Well she died about a month ago so I don’t really know how I can do that.”
Yoongi scoffed, “Good, I hope she’s burning in hell where she belongs that evil shrew.”
You raised an eyebrow not having heard anyone use that word outside of movies.
“How did it happen? Was she hung from the gallows? Slowly and painfully from Cholera?”, he asked a little too excited.
“Ummm she was like 100 million years old so I’m guessing that had something to do with it.”
“What year is it?”, he asked suddenly?
“2024”
“About 221.”, he stated matter of factly.
“I’m sorry?”
“She…your neighbor…Lenora…She was born in 1803 so she would be 221 years old.”
“And you know this how?”
“She’s my little sister.”
“Oookkkaayy”, you said, “Why is it always the hottest ones that are the craziest?”
“I am neither hot nor crazy. It’s quite chilly actually.” Yoongi said after overhearing you.
“No hot means like attractive, sexy, good looking.”, you said before feeling your cheeks heat up at the realization. Thankfully it seemed like he didn’t really understand anyways so you moved on.
“Sooo I’m gonna call someone to come give you a ride.”, you said reaching for your phone.
“A ride…with a horse?”
You smiled, “Uh no in a car with flashing lights that plays a song as it’s driving so people know to get out of the way.”
He looked impressed and nodded his head in acceptance.
“There it is!! I knew that evil witch had it this whole time.”, he suddenly gasped making you jump forgetting about the call you were trying to make.
Yoongi reached over taking the spell book that you had thrown in the box.
“I was looking for this. I knew she had it but she refused to give it back. She probably knew I’d become even stronger with it in my possession.”
“Stronger?”
He nodded, “Yes and then I’d become The Supreme.”
“The Supreme?”
He sighed, “The Supreme Witch. We’re witches. Do they teach nothing at school any more?”
“Sorry I haven’t taken Witches 101 yet. I’ll see if they offer it next semester.”
He shook his head, “Don’t bother. I’ll teach you.”
You sighed but took a seat anyways.
“You see every two hundred years a new supreme is appointed to each coven. A selection of witches go through seven different tests to gage their strengths and weaknesses. My sister and I were in the finale up against each other tied three to three. She knew there was no way she could beat me in the finale test on her own. So somehow she disabled my protector spell while I was sleeping and she used a curse to send me to the twilight. I’ve been stuck there ever since…until you got me out somehow. Are you a witch by the way? What family do you belong to?”
You chuckled, “Yeah definitely not a witch. All I did was read something from that book. It was a page that seemed to be used a lot. Maybe your sister was trying to get you back.” He started flipping though the pages of the book when a photo fell out. It was black and white and low quality but you could still make it out. Yoongi stood smiling next to a woman you figured to be his sister and former neighbor. You could definitely see the resemblance of your former elderly neighbor in the young smiling woman’s face. Yoongi looked exactly the same just with a big gummy smile that made your heart race.
He smirked as he looked over the photo, “Doubt it. We’ve always hated each other.”
He read something on the back that you couldn’t see before tucking the photo in the book.
“Can you take me to the city? I need to speak with someone.”, he suddenly asked.
You checked the time and figured since you were already late for class and probably dead for all you knew at this point, you agreed.
“Sure but first we need to get you to change your clothes.”
Yoongi looked offended, “What’s wrong with my clothes? These are very expensive and in high fashion.”
“Maybe in the 1800s but right now you look ridiculous.”, you chuckled.
Thankfully you had a stash of your brothers clothes that he always forgot whenever he visited you and they might just fit your new friend.
When he finally came downstairs your mouth unapologetically dropped open. You thought he looked good before but this was on a whole other level. The jeans fit perfectly. The tshirt a tinsy tiny bit too tight in the arms and chest area but no one would complain. The Jordans that you knew your brother would kill you if he saw you letting anyone else wear looked like they were made just for Yoongi. He had put his hair in a half up half down situation and you were wondering where he got the hair tie from but you didn’t care because you were ready to buy them in bulk for him anyways.
“NOW I look ridiculous. This is how men dress these days?”, he said feeling insecure with you staring at him.
“You know if we stop at the seamstress I’ll have her patch your brothers pants. Poor guy can’t even afford to fix the holes.”, he continued.
“It’s done on purpose. They’re supposed to look like that.”, you laughed
This time it was Yoongi’s mouth that dropped open, “Wait so he actually pays money to buy pants that already have holes in them?”
You nodded and laughed, “Yeah a lot of money too.”
He shook his head in disbelief.
In the car you showed him how to use the seatbelt and once he was comfortable you started the engine.
“Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Seven days a week
Every hour, every minute, every second
You know, night after night
I'll be lovin' you right, seven days a week”, blasted through the speakers reminded you that you were definitely not the same person you were last night so you turned the volume way down.
“Ugh what is that racket?”, Yoongi questioned with his hands over his ears.
“That’s Jungkook. He’s like one of the most popular musicians right now.”
“This is considered music now?!”
“Yeah it is.”, you laughed showing him a photo of Jungkook on your phone.
“He’s adorable.”, Yoongi cooed, “And HE’S the one that sings such a stupid song about days of the week?”
“Well the song is not really about days of the week”.
Yoongi stared waiting for you to continue, “It’s about…it’s about sex.”
His eyes went wide. “And they let that be played to the public?”, he hissed almost more embarrassed than you.
“Yeah this song is pretty mild compared to others.”, you chuckled.
You offered to drive in silence but Yoongi insisted on listening to more of this Jungkook fellows music which you happily obliged.
“Where exactly are we headed? I kind of need to know where to drive.”, you asked.
“Well it’s a book store. It’s right next to the horse stable and across from the general store.”
“Okay well uh I’ll start driving and you tell me if anything looks familiar.”
Yoongi was amazed by all of the new technology. Traffic lights, billboards, hundreds of cars passing by.
“Wait wait wait…So we don’t even have to get out of the car? They just hand us the drink through that little window?”, he asked after you had stopped to use a drive thru for a snack.
You smiled as you watched his eyes light up when he sipped on a pumpkin spice latte completely forgetting about his disdain about it earlier.
Eventually you somehow made it to the location he wanted which also happened to be the campus bookstore.
You followed Yoongi inside and watched as he walked right up to Jimin who was standing at the counter.
“Hi Y/N”, he smiled until he noticed Yoongi standing next to you, “Yo-Yoongi?”
“It’s been a while. How is Emmy?”, he asked.
“She’s good. We have two kids now, two little girls.”
Yoongi nodded, “I’m so glad to hear that. I’d love to meet them.”
“You look good.”, Jimin praised him but Yoongi scoffed, “I look absolutely ridiculous.”
“No man this is what the kids these days are wearing. You fit right in.”
You watched on in awe as you found out that the guy who worked at the campus bookstore whom you at one point had a small crush on was apparently a 250 year old witch who was also married to a fairy. And he was now talking to a 250 year old witch who you accidentally brought back from something called the twilight where his sister, your deceased elder neighbor, sent him over a hundred years or so ago. You thought you were going crazier by the minute.
“So do you have it still?”, you heard Yoongi ask Jimin.
“Yeah uh she dropped it off about six weeks ago. She probably knew her time was coming. I thought about throwing it away since I didn’t think there was any chance but I’m glad I saved it since you’re here.”, he said handing over a small envelope to Yoongi.
“Thank you.”, he nodded before turning to leave the store. You said goodbye and followed after him outside.
Once back in your car he stared at the envelope in his hands. His name elaborately written on the front.
You remained silent realizing that he was going through something. It seemed like he was afraid of whatever was in that letter.
Gently he broke open the seal watching as the letter floated up in front of him and unfolded. A voice that you recognized as your neighbors began to speak,
“Hello brother, Good to see that you finally made it out of the twilight. I admit that I only sent you there because I fully believed you would be able to get yourself out of there in no time.
Honestly every-time a black cat crossed my path I thought it was going to be you. I know they were your favorite to shift into. If I had known that I’d never see you again though, I never would’ve done it. I missed you Yoongi. It was hard going through life without you. I hope that you can forgive me and maybe we can see each other again one day.
I left the spell book with my neighbor. Her name is Y/N. I think you’ll like her. She’s got a good head on her shoulders and there’s something special about her. I can sense it. I think she could be the one.
Take care Yoongi. Love your little sister and still the better witch, Lenora.”
There was a spark and then then letter burst into a hundred little pieces before disappearing into nothing.
“Ar-Are you okay?”, you asked after noticing he hadn’t moved.
He smiled, “Yeah better than I thought I would be. That’s all I ever wanted from her. An apology and to know she was okay.”
You nodded then began to drive home when he cleared his throat, “Y/N, can I court you?”
“I’m sorry, what?”, you chuckled.
“Can I court you? Like we spend time together and talk and hold hands and then kiss and then eventually we partake in the sexual pleasure of each other?”
You choked on air, “Oh you’re asking me out, like on a date?”
“Sure if that’s what you want to call it.”
“Yes I’ll go on a date with you but let’s start with dinner or coffee and then slowly work our way up to sexual pleasures.”, you smiled hoping he couldn’t see you blush.
He shrugged his shoulders, “I mean you did call me hot and I have been told that my tongue can work magic on the body that no spell could ever do but suit yourself. We can stick to pumpkin spice lattes if you’d prefer.”
You awkwardly laughed before deciding to hit the gas pedal just a tiny bit harder.
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if you havent yet, could you do an almond x latte fankid? i love that ship a lot :)
Here we are, this is Almond Milk Cookie
Funny enough, I was actually trying to go back and find this post after editing something, only to realize I never actually posted it and left it in drafts. Only for one day, but still
Anyways, so on to him
So Almond Milk here is a healer, using almost exclusively milk magic. He started out in Parfaedia, and spent a good portion of time there, until he switched over to the Vanilla Kingdom to learn healing magic, where he now works as a doctor
He’s a very friendly and kind sort, and he’s very dependable. Also, despite what some may think from his profession, he’s quite physically strong as well
However he is self conscious about not being made of “real milk”, instead being made from almonds, and he wonders if his false ingredient hinders his healing abilities. His mother has told him that whether or not his ingredient really counts as “real milk” doesn’t matter, but it’s never been something he’s able to let go. He doesn’t really make it that known anymore though, preferring to keep it to himself
Now on to design things
So I’ve had the name Almond Milk as an almondlatte kid idea for a good while now. Lattes are made of coffee and milk, and there exists a form of milk made of almonds, so it’s the obvious choice
Almond milk:

I made the initial rough sketch some months ago, so I don’t entirely remember the thought process behind it. But it looks nice, and like Latte’s but with one of Almond’s hair colors
I’m not sure why I gave him a thicker body type, but whatever, he has one. It’s not like I’m that good at drawing super skinny Cookies anyways
His outfit was originally going to be more hospital like, and probably somewhat closer to Butter Roll’s, until I decided that maybe I should make it more fantasy looking. Especially with all of my Almond kids generally having more modern looks to them, or at least in the way that Almond is “modern”, I don’t know the right word
The small cloak thing was a bit of a struggle, especially with his smile, but I eventually got something
In the sketch I gave his almond brooch something around it that looked nice, but I wasn’t really sure what it was going into the lineart, so I made it leaves. They probably shouldn’t have lines and should instead be solid green, but whatever
I gave him that spoon last minute in the sketch, since I remembered that as I said prior, I tend to not give my fankids accessories or tools anymore, and I wanted to rectify that. Unfortunately his pose didn’t really lend me well to putting it in his hands, so it’s just slapped on to the back. I’m also noticing now that the spoon itself it too small, at least on the bowl thing. But it’d be a big hassle to try and fix it, so I guess I’m stuck with it annoying the crap out of it
Oh yeah, so as mentioned earlier, I came to edit something in his design, that being his colors. Originally he looked like this
I liked the blue, and it does give him a color scheme unique from his parents, but my big problem was that the colors reminded me of Marcille from Dungeon Meshi. I don’t know if the outfit is exactly like hers, but it was bugging me, so I changed it. I think overall I like the new color scheme better, but I just wanted to mention the old one
I’m actually quite satisfied with how he turned out. Though granted I did have ideas going in about what to do with him, so that probably helped
Anyways, so that’s Almond Milk. I hope you like him
#cookie run#cookie run kingdom#almond cookie#latte cookie#almondlatte#cookie run oc#fankid#fanchild#almond milk cookie#my OCs#my art#requests#answers
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Hi! I discovered (or I guess more accurately rediscovered because I've seen a bit of it before but not much) this blog yesterday and I'm going to be real with you, I cannot articulate the amount of pure, unfiltered joy your art and PPG AU bring me. Every time I so much as think of it I get a big dumb smile on my face, and NO OTHER ART that I've seen has EVER DONE THAT! Everything about it, from the style, to the writing, LITERALLY EVERYTHING ABOUT IT is just made for me and I cannot thank you enough. When given the time, I promise I'll draw stuff for this, it's too good not to.
Now, as an actual question (and this may have been answered elsewhere but I haven't read too much here), how exactly did Blossom determine what to use to make what would become Beam? From everything I have read, the ingredients appear to vary at least somewhat from the original recipe for "the perfect little boy/girl" (even beyond Chemical X or Chemical-X-infused blood (which is one of my favorite details)). I got that impression from the mention of "his ingredient" under one of your older posts with Beam, which kind of implies there's some other thing mixed into them? I was just really curious as to how that ingredient (and possibly others) were determined. Was there research? Trial and error?
Ayyy thanks so much for the kind words!!
I think I have gotten this question before about how Blossom figured out what to use for Beam. I dunno know how the Professor would've known the ingredients he chose would 100% work, but then again that's from a pre-existing nursey rhyme so I figured he would have known from there. I think Blossom would've carefully chosen the ingredients for Beam, making sure they're something sweet and cohesive like she and her sisters' were, and unlike the Rowdyruff Boys' gross ingredients and Bunny's randomly picked ones (I guess that sort of answers the research question?)
I was originally thinking of Beam being made out of only one ingredient (one ingredient for each girl/boy), but then again Bunny was one girl who was born out of multiple ingredients, same with Bliss in the 2016 show (as much as I like to ignore that one). We tried coming up with a set of ingredients for him in STATION but I dunno if I'm satisfied with them
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Do you remember when the job progression quests had dialogue cutscenes and difficult quests? Each town had its own gear and you'd have to drop blue-background items to upgrade it. And it was character-specific too. Ice statues had to be crafted, and the ingredients would just pile up in your inventory. There was Unique equipment for every region you had a chance to drop after a boss battle, and it'd be shown in the chat. Plant Overlord's accessory was the top trending thing. Rena was blonde and did a flip when she double jumped. The first field introduced was the one between Hamel and Velder. The level cap was 40 and it was *hard* to get there.
I sure don't miss a lot of this stuff, but looking back, it feels like a wholly different game.
i played around when the game was still like this for the most part, except the level cap at the time was 70? and then over time it jumped to 90 but my middle-school/high-school ass couldn't keep up. actually, i remember seeing the new UI the game has for the health bars and that was already enough to throw me off. not that it looks bad, but i remember seeing this UI for the longest time:
vs this:
like as much as i miss the one i got acquainted with, this new one is a lot simpler and cleaner? yet it retains that cartoony vibe with the slanted bars so thats neat. and then there's THIS:

i'll admit i havent played during this era but man this looks busy af. it was simple yea, but something feels off about it. like i love the look here too but it kinda clashes colors-wise. there's not too much of a difference between the original UI and the one after it but i could tell it needed slimming down.
while i was gone i also learned that the previous privately-hosted server VoidEls was shut down but was eventually replaced by another, which is fair enough i guess.
"Each town had its own gear and you'd have to drop blue-background items to upgrade it. And it was character-specific too."
this was both cool and annoying, for me personally at least. it's cool in that every town having gear gave you a way to progress before getting even stronger gear. sort of like a jumping-off point for every town you got to as they handed you their own version of stuff you could use. and you could emulate their aesthetic by wearing their gear. the annoying part is that constantly switching gear means item management is necessary to prevent your inventory from maxing out, and not every item looked good on you. if you didn't have skins? tough luck. (my memory might be wrong here so please correct me if i messed something up)
"...job progression quests had dialogue cutscenes and difficult quests?"
THEY GOT RID OF THOSE!? maybe im jaded but as a writer, i liked seeing the player-characters' personal struggle as they progressed through a job-specific mission. those short cutscenes let us see what they're really like. even if some of the requirements really were trash. i still remember spamming the same dungeon over and over hoping for a quest drop (or multiple) so i can move on. but after hearing the story was consolidated to be one singular, linear path regardless of who you played, maybe they streamlined the job class progression system too?
update: yea it seems you still have to spam dungeons to upgrade to Master Class but it looks less tedious than before for previous class ranks.
"Plant Overlord's accessory was the top trending thing."
boss accessories were the bane of my existence so this makes sense. it seems like it's unobtainable, as many overworld zones and dungeons have since been removed based on what i just looked up
im assuming Plant Overlord isn't fightable anymore or only shows up in some elite zone now so rip
"Rena was blonde and did a flip when she double jumped."
i didn't know this. in fact when i checked her wiki page, the change was because her hair wasn't green enough despite her class art showing her as having green-hued hair.
speaking of the wiki,
holy fucking shit thats a lot of classes
#mod wt#ask#i did an unnecessary amount of research just for this skull emoji#this was genuine fun thanks for taking me down memory lane#if anything the last i looked up was people asking if elsword was worth coming back to-#and someone described the progression system having a neat mechanic that speeds the process up a lot and is more forgiving#so uh#thats cool#elsword
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Dead to Me.
(Obey Me/Reader)
Summary: ‘The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb’, it was one of your favorite quotes. It meant that found family can often mean more to you than the family you were born with. The ones you share blood with. And often times it would get shortened down and paraphrased into meaning the exact opposite of what was initially intended.
But after coming back home from your year long stay in the Devildom, your house and family in shambles, it is no longer your favorite quote. The water of the womb that you shared with your sister meant more to you than any blood spilled between you and those 7 demons in hell.
Warnings: Violence. Death. Fighting and Shouting. Thoughts of suicide.
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I totally forgot to post this to Tumblr. Oops. Just know this story would not exist without the talented earthliving on AO3 or @another-lost-mc here on Tumblr. My inspiration came from their headcanons Taken. (Hope you don’t mind me tagging you again girly. I totally thought I posted this here rip.)
Your stay in the Devildom was far from easy. Not just because demons threatened to kill you, eat you, or worse. Yes, there was a worse apparently. But because you had to leave behind everything you knew and loved. How the Prince of Hell even had a file on you to begin with was a mystery to you. You for sure don’t remember signing up for any exchange program. Supernatural or otherwise. But they did. And you were chosen. Just like that. Not because you were special or anything, no Lucifer made sure to drill it into your skull that you were chosen by happenstance. And nothing more.
In the beginning everything was rough. And it didn’t help that your ‘dorm mates’ were complete assholes. Stealing from you. At least what little you had to your name. Be it snacks or trinkets. And others ridiculed you. On your fashion sense or lack there of. And, peculiarly enough, on your lack of knowledge on Devildom gaming and anime. You thought for a second that Leviathan could be a friend to you considering your similar interests. You and your own sister grew up around video games and anime. You thought he’d be easier to befriend. But no. He couldn’t care less about you. You remember almost shouting at him after a particularly harsh verbal lashing. You wanted to remind him that anime (and you’re pretty sure video games too) were a human invention and he should get off his high horse and stop gatekeeping like a total incel. But no. You didn’t. Because even though you were upset, you still feared for your life here.
But slowly, things that seemed unnatural almost became… normal. Like some of the food. Although you couldn’t stomach some of it, others weren’t too far off from some human ingredients you were used to. Although no matter who cooked dinner or whatever take out was bought, it could never satisfy your hunger for a home cooked meal. And by home cooked you mean from your home. You didn’t cook often. You were kinda shit at it. But your sister? She liked cooking. And she would sometimes make you foods based off of tiktoks she saw earlier in the day. They may not have come out perfect, but they were great. And you would tell her time and time again how amazing her food was.
Being surrounded by a group of brothers would often bring up thoughts and memories of your sister. Though you tried not to linger too long, otherwise you might cry. And god forbid any of these demons caught you crying in the middle of the hallway. You wouldn’t be able to deal with that embarrassment and ridicule. No, instead you tried your damnded hardest to get used to living here. You’d be here for a year. A whole ass year. Not long for immortal demons sure but it was a lot for little human you. A year away from your little sister. Away from your loved ones and everything you knew. But thankfully, things got better. A lot better.
The brothers started to warm up to you. Starting with Mammon and Beelzebub. I guess it was inevitable with Mammon considering you had made a pact with him on your second day here. He was assigned as your protector. Or as he put it, your babysitter. And you would often tell him he did a shit job at it at first. But eventually after a few too many get rich quick schemes he started to learn more about you. Your dreams. Your fears. He tried to play it off like he didn’t care but it was hard to not care for somebody you eventually spent every waking moment with. He learned to love you. Just like Beel did after he formed a pact with you as well. After you protected him from Lucifer. You both shared stories about your siblings. Yea, Beel was the only one that knew you had a little sister. And he wiped your tears away as you cried about how much you missed her.
And after that each and every brother started to fall like dominoes. You remember the second to last brother to fall. Belphegor. You remember freeing him from the confines of his makeshift prison in the attic. He had tried to kill you. You can still feel the slight scratching of his claws as they grazed against your throat. No wait. He did kill you. You were pulled away by a strong magnetic force as you look at your own corpse on the ground. Bile rose up your throat. You remember your back colliding into a wall and when you looked up, all you saw was dazzling amber. Lord Diavolo and is ever loyal butler Barbatos were quick to arrive on the scene. They had explained who you were. And that maybe you were picked for a reason. The universe wanted you here evidently. Considering you shared blood with their long since dead sister. That day they all found out that Lilith survived and was turned into a human. To spend the rest of her days on earth happily. And you were her descendant. You remember looking around the room at the brothers. Some tearing up and others just looked at you in either awe or confusion. Except for one pair.
Belphegor had a hard time adjusting to this newfound knowledge. His hatred for humans ran deep and it was hard to override something that spanned eons. Even if his beloved sister had become human, it still didn’t mean they weren’t at fault for what happened. And he tried to hate you. He really did. But you wormed your way into his heart. Slowly but surely. Just like you did with the rest of his family. He learned to love you and all of your weird little human habits. He came to remember why he fell in love with the human realm all the way back in his Celestial years. Every time he looked into your eyes he remembered. And he hopes this time he doesn’t forget. Not just for you. But to honor his sister. He wishes he could burn the color of your eyes into his brain so he could see them every time he blinks. He told you that once. You just called him a weirdo and walked away.
You carved out a spot for you in this dysfunctional family. And you learned to love them. Though you had to set boundaries for each of them, lest they walk all over you. You were still human, you had to stick up for yourself ya know? But just because you learned to love these demons as much as they loved you, they can never fill the hole in your heart. And you started to get antsy. You weren’t allowed to contact anyone back home. To protect the Devildom and all that. But you swore up and down to who ever would listen that you wouldn’t jeopardize them like that. You loved them too much to do that. But you also loved your family back at home. And you wanted to just make sure they were ok. And although Lord Diavolo seemed to understand where you were coming from, all your requests were still denied.
Lucifer could tell you were trying to figure out ways to circumvent your denials. So he made sure to tell the other exchange student, mostly Simeon and Solomon, that they were not to help you contact anyone in the human realm. Simeon understood, considering he wouldn’t want to jeopardize his home, the Celestial Realm, either. Solomon just laughed it off but agreed once he saw Lucifer’s glare. He didn’t believe that you would come talk to him or better yet, ask him for a favor. He knew the brothers filled your head with rumors about him. Conniving, sly, shady and untrustworthy little wizard man. He still laughed every time he remembered the hushed whispers, that were a little too loud to still be considered whispers, that Mammon spewed to you about him. No, you wouldn’t come to him for help.
But color him surprised when you showed up at his bedroom door the very next day asking for help for the very thing that Lucifer warned him about. You pleaded your case very well in hindsight. He could see the hope in your eyes as you looked towards the only other human in Hell for help. Sadly for you, it’s been a long time since Solomon has felt such an intense love for a family member such as you do right now. He just didn’t understand your need to contact anyone. And he told you what everyone else did. It’s better for everyone if you just waited till the year ended to see them again. So you did.
You pushed your love for your sister to the back of your mind and tried to cover it up with the love you had for the brothers. You spoiled them rotten. Lucifer too when he would allow it. But he was often times the one to tell you to stop babying his brothers. Asmodeus would shout that you were a grown woman and if you wanted to baby him then Lucifer should let you! Everyone decided not to acknowledge the fact that he only mentioned you babying him and not any of the others. You learned how to cook with the best of them. Though you were still kinda scared of knifes. But you had to. To help feed Beel and his never ending appetite. You felt so bad for him that you always made sure to make extras for him every time you cooked. It must be Hell to feel like you’re starving all the time. You even bought him a mini fridge to keep in his room. Lucifer admonished you for that too.
No brother was left out of your loving and giving ways. Gaming with Levi was fun, though you did mention how much he hurt you at the beginning of your time here, he soon went on a spiel about how he was a yucky otaku and he didn’t deserve your friendship. You kind of wanted to let him know that this manipulation thing wasn’t cute but it was already 3 in the morning, you were too tired. So you just said you forgiven him and went to bed. Once in your room you noticed Satan on your bed, asleep with a book you had bought him from the human world open on his lap. You set the book aside and curled up next to him. He grumbled about pirates and treasure islands as drool dripped from his lips. No these brothers could never replace your lovely little sister. But they were becoming more of a family to you than some other members of your real family. You soon fell asleep and dreamed about memories long since passed.
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You were sitting on your bed as your sister sat beside you. You both watched your tv and laughed as your favorite streamer said something stupid again. She turned to you and spoke.
“You know, I love it when I infect you.”
“What? What does that mean?” You questioned.
“I just like to see you enjoy stuff that I like. I like showing you my special interests and you actually listen and enjoy them too. It makes me feel nice. Appreciated isn’t the right word.” She grumbled, trying to find words for her jumbled thoughts. “I don’t know. I just like that you’re here with me.”
You stare into your sisters eyes as your own begin to tear up. You were always the one to cry in your family. A big ol’ crybaby. But you couldn’t help it. Sometimes you just ‘felt things’ way too much.
“I understand what you’re saying. I like that you’re here with me too.” You pull your sister into a hug. “I’ll always be here for you. No matter what. You wanna talk about something you like for hours on end? Let’s do it, just let me get comfortable first.” She elbowed you. You kiss the top of her head. “If you ever need someone to talk to about your feelings, or if somebody is scaring you or bothering you or whatever, I’ll be here. I’ll always be here. You know you’re the person I care most about in the world right?” She lifts up her head and smiles.
“I know.”
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It’s been a year. A whole year away from your family and you’re getting ready to finally see them again. You can’t wait to see them… but it feels… wrong somehow. Like you’re leaving a part of you behind. The whole house was in dismay this last week. Everyone was quiet. The brothers were contemplating on how they were going to get on with life without you. Some of them believed they can go about their regular business just fine without you. But they knew. In the back of their minds they knew that you stepped into their lives and shook up their world. Altering it forever. They loved you. Fully. And when these 7 demons loved something, it was hard for them to unclasp their claws from that something. But with you, they couldn’t hide you away. Lock you in a room and throwaway the key. Though some contemplated it. No. They had to let you go.
And like you said, it wasn’t just hard on them. You loved them too. Through all the blood, sweat, and tears you survived and came out the other side with a whole new perspective on life and a new family. It was gonna be hard leaving them. So when the day finally came to go, you cried. You couldn’t bring all your Devildom trinkets with you, considering some of their origins. So you gifted them back to the brothers that would cherish them the most.
You gifted Asmo a peculiar hexed hair comb that a RAD student gave you. It was supposed to be cursed so the user would always have bad hair days if they used the brush. Luckily for you, that person flunked their Hexing 101 class, so it literally did the exact opposite. You told Asmo that his hair was beautiful and he’d never need it, but he should have it, just in case. He wept into your shoulder as he hugged you. Levi got a anime figurine that you bought yourself. It was from a random Demonic Anime that you’ve never watched but you bought it because it was cute and pink. He told you exactly where he would be putting it and how he’d dust it everyday. You just giggled as you moved on.
Satan got a spell book from you. It belonged to your spell casting teacher that took a particular liking to you. Satan didn’t have the heart to tell you that he already had that edition. But he still cherished it regardless. Beel and Belphie got scarves that you crocheted yourself. Apparently the yarn was magical and imbued with a special silk webbing that would take the makers feelings and use them to keep itself warm. So if you loved the person you gifted it too, it would exude heat. And boy, were they toasty every time they wore it. Luckily it was always decently cold in the Devildom.
Then came the next two, Mammon and Lucifer. You stopped in front of them both as you knew you were keeping everyone too long. You took out a necklace and a ring. Both bought for you from your own mother. You felt a little bad giving these gifts away. They did mean a lot to you. But so did the 2 demons standing in front of you. You handed the necklace with a simple sunflower charm to Mammon as you handed the accompanying sunflower engraved ring to Lucifer. You told them they didn’t have to wear them or anything. Especially since the ring won’t fit Lucifer’s fingers anyways. But still, you wanted to leave a little part of you with them. A small sliver of your soul. Solomon told you once that if a human wore something or had something on their person for long enough, that object could retain pieces of that person spirit. Their energy. And you wore those bits of jewelry your whole life. It felt right to give these two men something from the heart. Since they truly stole yours.
You walked back over to Diavolo and Barbatos as you stood side by side with Solomon. They asked if you were finally ready to go back home. You nodded as you turned towards the portal, you wiped away your tears and pushed your way through the fog. Leaving this place you called Home.
Mammon looked down into his hand. The simple silver chain and sunflower charm glinting in the moonlight. He could feel a tear slip down his cheek as he saw your aura encapsulate the pendant. A beautiful shimmering glow that only creatures such as him could see. He quickly closed his hand into a fist, already feeling his sin clawing at his heart. Wanting no one to see the beautiful piece of yourself that you left for him and only him. Well, him and Lucifer. Lucifer ushered his brothers back the House of Lamentation. As they all walked into the parlor, a silent yearning filled them all. Belphegor was the one to brake it.
“I miss them.” All the brothers could do was nod, as they all felt the same.
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No. No no no no. NO. This was not supposed to happen! What the fuck happened!? No no, you promised her. Now look what happened. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE! WHY WEREN’T YOU THERE!?
You sobbed and begged and pleaded. You choked on your own vomit as you heaved into the trash can. The people around the police station looked towards you in pity as you screamed and wailed that this was all just a bad dream. They had to interview you, as were a potential suspect but they could tell you had no idea what happened. The pain in your voice, in your eyes, was real. Now the interrogation was more so a formality , for the paperwork than to get any real answers.
You couldn’t go home. There was no home to go to. It was infested with men and women in blue uniforms and wrapped up in yellow tape. Your house was a crime scene. Your sister was gone. You promised her. No. You lied to her.
You look towards your phone and see the millions of messages and calls that never went through to you since you been stuck in hell. The last one replayed in your head on loop. Your little sisters voice pleading for you to come home, she’s scared. There’s someone in the house. She called 911 but their not here yet. Why’d you leave me? What did I do? Oh god. Their in my room. I can see him. No no NO! HE’S… than nothing but blood curdling screaming and sobbing came after that. You hear a wet squelch before someone picked up the phone to end the call.
You heaved into the bucket as you cried. Your baby sister. Your everything. Is gone. She’s gone. And it’s your fault.
This is all your fault.
It’s ALL YOUR FAULT!
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It’s been months since any of the brothers have seen you and they’ve, for the most part, have gotten things back to normal. All of them miss you dreadfully but there’s nothing they can do. Despite how hard some of them try.
Belphie has tried multiple times, along with Satan, to open up a portal to the Human realm to visit you themselves. Lucifer thwarted each and every one of their attempts. Mammon tried bribing Witches and Warlocks alike to take him up top so he can see you all by himself. Of course, none of them helped him. And then there were the others that held onto their sadness but kept chugging on anyways. Like Asmo or Beel.
It was just a normal day in the House of Lamentation when Lucifer gets an urgent call from Lord Diavolo. Ordering him and his brothers to come down to the castle now. Lucifer rounds up his brothers and leave’s immediately.
“What’s the big rush? Why does he need us there right now?” Mammon shoves his hands into his pocket. Toying with his little piece of you.
“I don’t know but he sounded urgent. If there’s something wrong in the Devildom and Lord Diavolo needs our help with it, then we shall abide.” Lucifer storms off in front of everybody as he knocks upon the ginormous doors of the castle. Barbatos opens them and ushers everyone inside.
“Barbs~, what’s the problem? I don’t feel like getting my clothes dirty today.” Asmo groans as he glided next to Barbatos. He sighs. “It’s quite… difficult to explain. They’re back.” Levi rolls his eyes as he toys with his D.D.D.
“Who?”
“(Y/n).”
And with that, all the demons went sprinting towards the main dining area. As they got closer they heard shouting and screaming. They all feel their pact with you flare up. The burst through the doors as they see you being pinned down to the floor by some royal guards. All of them shifted into their demonic forms but only two of them went in for the kill. Mammon and Belphegor were held back as Lucifer and Beel struggled to keep them in place.
“What in the Hell happened here!?” Lucifer shouted. Satan looks around the room and sees destruction of plates and chairs. He looks towards Diavolo and notices a very slight reddening on his cheek. Had you… Had you hit him? How did you achieve that? He looked towards you and all he could see was a mess. Clothes dirty. Hair oily. Face splotchy and red. Your eyes were even redder. Puffy. Like you haven’t slept since leaving them all those months ago. But you didn’t look tired. You didn’t look sad despite the constant tears running down your face. He didn’t need to be the Avatar of Wrath to be able to tell that you were furious.
Lucifer has also came to the same conclusion as he eventually let go of Mammon and made his way to you. He kneels down by you as he ushers the guards away. The reluctantly let go and you slowly push yourself up. He tries to help you but you smack his hand as hard as you could. You sit on the floor as you try and catch your breath.
“(Y/n)… what has gotten into you? What has happened that would cause you to behave this way?” You wipe your face and look at your hand. Red blood smeared across the surface. Your nose was smashed pretty harshly on the ground when the guard tackled you. Lucifer just keeps calling your name. Spewing questions left and right. You don’t answer any of them. You don’t need to. No. No. They answer to you. You pull yourself with the broken chair beside you as you look towards Diavolo once again. There’s a sadness in his eyes that you refuse to acknowledge. You wobble your way closer to him but the guards stop you. You can hear A few of the brothers growl in the background but you pay them no mind.
“It’s your fault.” You whisper. Barely holding back a sob. “It’s… it’s all your fault!” You cry. Diavolo tries to ask you about this perceived slight that you have against him. But you cut him off. “Out of all the shit that I’ve been through…” spit flies past your teeth as you stutter out your words in barely veiled anger. “All the shit I’ve done for YOU!” You point towards him. “For THEM!” You wave your arms towards the 7 demonic entities behind you. “And all I ask for was a call. Not even! A fucking text! Anything. FUCKING ANYTHING!” You grab a broken shard of something off the table as you chucked it at the Prince with all your might. You barely grazed his arm. “And look what fucking happened!”
You fall to your knees as you sob and heave. “She’s gone. I promised her and because of you I couldn’t be there. SHE needed me and YOU took me away!” You bang your hand against your chest hard enough to give yourself a bruise as you moaned in despair. The air in the room seemed to vanish. The brothers were told about your sister from Beel. You had never mentioned her to them. But Beel took it upon himself to mention her. They grew excited at the prospect of meeting another one of Lillith’s descendants. You were the oldest? Sooo, were you more like Lucifer or more like Mammon? The thought of meeting this person that you clearly loved, at least from what Beelzebub had told them, instantly left their minds as they all connected the dots. Your little sister was dead. She had died while you were down here. Having fun with your new family.
Asmo gasped silently into his hand as everyone else took their turns as shock and horror ran through them. Beel and Belphie however, stood stock still. The complet and utter pain you were feeling. They new it all too well. All the brothers did. But the twins had dealt with a different type of pain. Considering they were once triplets. Belphie made the first move to try and comfort you. But you just shoved him away as you clumsy maid your way to Barbatos. You cling to him as if he was the only thing keeping you alive. Sane.
“Please. You can bring her back. You did it with me you can do it it again. Please bring her back. Please just please do it. Please I’m begging you please…” you sob into his chest. Tears soaking into his butler uniform. He pays your back and says. “I’m sorry (Y/n). But that’s just now how it works.” You fling yourself off of him.
“YES. YES IT DOES! It has too. You have to bring her back. You did it with me. Why not her!?” You slowly raise your hands, palm up. “Or… or… you can take me instead? Yeah. You can do that right? My soul for hers.” You ask quietly but his constant shaking of his head just angers you. You claw at your head, pulling at your hair.
“You’re a fucking demon! Souls are your thing! Not only that but you’re the only demon in all of Hell to have fucking time powers. LIKE HELL IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY! Are you really that fucking stupid!? That fucking WEAK?” You feel arms pull you back towards a warm chest. Belphegor holds you close as he tries to overpower you with his Sin. You can feel yourself get sleepy. You start to fall back towards the ground but Belphie holds you up. He whispered in your ear.
“I know (Y/n). I understand your sadness. Your anger. Your violence. But let’s sleep for now.” You try and struggle out of his arms but your arms feel like lead. You feel numb to the world. So instead you use up your last bits of energy to spew out one more sentence.
“I don’t give a shit. You’re dead to me.” Because even though you knew they could understand you better than most, the guilt that warped your brain lingered heavily. The day your sister died was the same day you told the brothers during dinner that you considered all of them your family. Levi jokingly asked which of your family was better? And you jokingly replied… them. So in the back of your mind, to keep you from killing yourself in despair you pushed every single negative emotion you felt onto those around you.
“You’re fucking dead to me.”
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i have to depend on my mom currently financially since i can't work because my health just makes it unfeasible at the moment, and has for what feels like nearly a decade now, but recently because of Political Things her pay was hit on a federal level (taking more for taxes) that'll have her making a good chunk less per year which is. such a severe blow to someone who is already struggling to get by and i feel wretched that i have to be an extra burden to that but even though we haven't felt the impact of it yet, i realized how fast i've slipped into Food Scarcity Mode from my formative years when we struggled even harder to make ends meet. like. i keep going into the kitchen, seeing a pre-prepped meal i made or ingredients for a meal and going "well wait if i don't eat it Now i can have food for later...." and then i go into the kitchen later and my brain is like "okay but if you don't eat it Today then that's food for Tomorrow...". i've managed to push myself to eat at least a meal a day but i'm just now realizing that's all i've really been concretely allowing myself because eating anything more stirs up some Ancient Dread that i won't have food when i need it most and i end up too anxious to eat out of turn or properly there's no real scarcity yet though, i think i'm also just minimizing my intake heavily subconsciously to try and require less so my mom can feel the impact of her paycut less. (and to a lesser degree, because of health concerns) i have been trying to have snacks in place of meals at least, or a spoonful of peanut butter for Calories if nothing else but. god it does not feel great to have the old anxiety resurface and i know i need to do better while i still can, especially because not eating is going to make my energy levels even worse i wish so bad i could find some kind of at-home work but then i get staunch reminders of why i don't work at all, in the form of only being conscious for like 4 hours a day for days on end when my health is in the Pits. which has been me almost every day the past couple of weeks which is annoying. (also if why my activity here has mostly been my queue) ((god i wrote this several hours ago but i kept falling asleep on and off so much to where i am posting it like 10 hours later. apt i guess.) anyway. on the plus side if i continue eating just one meal a day i'll lose enough weight to be Doctor Approved and the doctors will take me seriously : ) (statement made with the deepest resentment. i've gotten down to the weight they wanted before, they took me seriously for that time frame, and then dropped everything the moment i was fat again despite the problems having existed when i Wasn't. they really do love to blame that even when it's glaringly Not That but they have no other moves at this point ig)
#rambling venting sobbing crying etc#i really do wish i could find a way to be creative for profit but it's been hard to create#alternatively wish i had a brain for literally any more marketable a skill than Art and Writing#i miss doing the treadmill but i haven't been able to do it in Months now because health#i feel restless blegh
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June 23, 2013
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what's cooler than being cool?
..... being yourself. That's what.
I was just thinking the other day... Looking at random blogs, fashion sites, online zines... and I got sad. Mostly because I feel like a lot of the different subcultures that exist today, exist because at some point there was someone who felt like they didn't fit in. (Stay with me.)They had a movement of their own to live for. So they did and maybe at some later point, it caught on or somebody else felt like they could fight for those same things. Maybe it wasn't even a "fight", maybe it was just a way of living. Marching to the beat of their own drum. My Granny always told my sisters and I from a very young age... "You girls just march to a different beat". I didn't really get it back then and honestly, I'm glad I didn't because when I was that young I didn't see the point in pointing out people's differences. It was just a way of living. Still is, I suppose. Or at least, I hope.
I do get it though and I see it in other people now... mostly young people. My sisters, for sure. But in a lot of our fans, as well. Again, mostly in the younger ones. Cause when we're just young enough, we're not yet jaded or bothered by what's "cool". We're not quite as worried about fitting into some of society's little cliques or sub-genres of human beings. So, we just do whatever comes naturally to us. Funny how there's an entire part of our culture completely obsessed with youth and beauty - yet we forget the most essential ingredient to youthfulness is that clean slate, non-judgemental, wide-eyed curiosity. You can't be sold any of that.
Anyway, I got sad because within these subcultures and an entirely new breed of "too-cool kids"... there are likely some people who, at some point, didn't fit in, weren't "normal", and probably needed somewhere to go to feel like they could fully express themselves. I see it everywhere. These are the nerds from junior high that got bullied everyday but then ended up in a band and now they've turned their old loser status into a trophy of pretentiousness to beat everyone over the head with. The guys and girls who wouldn't be caught dead in a regular old mall where they once probably got made fun of for what they were wearing... but are now wearing unique and fun brands like UNIF or Lazy Oaf (which, to be extra clear, I love) and calling everyone else "basic". I'm just saying, why doesn't the cycle end with the people who should've learned their lesson? Why aren't the once regarded weirdos and freaks raising up a new generation of people who are more self-assured in their individuality? Why does it seem like some of the strange ones found their bit of success and now look down on anyone else who doesn't look, think, or have the way they do? It's like seniors who constantly give sophomores a hard time as if they weren't just sophomores themselves like 3 years ago. I was not the most popular person in school. And even when I did have friends I still felt a bit like a weirdo. I'm not threatened by that... It's something that I hope to encourage other people with. That's a huge part of the message behind Paramore. To lift up the people who feel ashamed that they're different. To tell them that that's probably the coolest part about them.
At this very moment, at 24 years old, sitting here in sweats and looking/feeling utterly disastrous (hey, i got my rights)... I have to say, I'm really proud that as a kid I never felt like I fit in with the popular crowd. And as an adult, I don't feel like I fit in with the self-righteously uncool crowd either. Honestly, it's nice to be on a real quest to just be me everyday. No matter what. It doesn't matter if I'm in Silverlake, CA - land of the upturned noses - or back home in Nashville. Doesn't matter if we're on a red carpet. I guess I just couldn't care less. I'm not saying it's always easy but it's always worth it to stay true to you.
If anything, this could be a Back To The Future type of warning, to anybody who cares enough about this post, that high school ends but it never actually ends. There will still be people around who try to point at you and laugh. Who think you're not on some tip like they are. Who feel like their job, their shoes, their money, their boyfriend or girlfriend, their lifestyle ... is on some level that you haven't even ever heard of. The truth is that no one else could live your life. Nobody else - man or woman - could wake up and put on your shoes in the morning. Nobody else could pull it off. So own that. Cool is a lie. Cool doesn't matter and it never did. Merely perception.
In conclusion, you are your own torch carrier. Don't let anybody steal your light. Wear what you want. Think how you want. Challenge normal. And yes, even challenge what's "cool".
In total conclusion... We're really excited to be posting the video for "Anklebiters" in a couple of days. This is not an official single release, this is just a video we wanted to have done because of what the song has come to mean for our band. Thanks to all the people who came up on stage with us over the last tour and a half and sang it with us. This song is our way of contributing to the art of self-love and self-acceptance, no matter the odds.
We love you guys and we love you most when you're being yourself.
xxxxx h
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About fifty percent of the time, instead of taking a nap, I need to start taking a short walk outside and getting some food.
My sister bought those halloumi fries from Aldi, and I tried to make them because I hadn't read the ingredients and I thought cheese fries on tacos would be good.
The package didn't say anything about drying the cheese off or optionally coating them, which personally, I think would have been better. So I'm going to toss them in the freezer, because that's how I know to make a coated, fried cheese.
Then I tried making tacos, but I wanted them to be onion-y, but I used onion salt, so the taco meat came out salty. We're almost out of onion salt, so once we are, I had her get some onion powder, so we can use that instead.
My sister doesn't like my cooking, which is fine because I'm bad at cooking and have little interest in trying to build my skills.
I just got the crock cleaned back out after the rice disaster that I made Friday night. I think I give up on trying to make any rice that isn't minute rice. I feel like rice shouldn't be so hard. One rice to two waters, let sit in hot water until cooked. Except, in NM, the water always boiled off prematurely and here, for some reason, my rice always comes out gloppy.
Although, I finally figured out popcorn again, and this time I left myself a note on my phone where I'll always find it as long as my notes app exists (color note, I've been using it since 2012 and relatively recently, they made the search function more accessible, so now you can readily search for keywords).
Once I figure out rice, I'll make a note about that too. Because I'm going to figure out how to make rice.
Tomorrow, I'm going to make burger soup hopefully before the ground beef is no longer edible.
And then I need to get a move on making beef stew before that meat goes bad.
But for now, I guess I'm not really sure what to do. My wrists are really tired. I can barely make my grocery lists, but maybe I could dig out my keyboard and type up my Beauty and the Beast fic.....nah, that's too much effort.
Idk maybe I really am just tired. It kinda makes sense. My wrists have felt muscle pain for days. I still can't quite use my thumbs to pull on stuff. I've never really been the most resilient person, in body at least. Probably because I've put all my resilience in my brain.
Well, while I'm rambling, so the other day, I was having trouble sleeping, even though I was tired. I had just drifted off when the new dog barked. So I yelled across the house that it was quiet time. I had just drifted off for the second time, when he barked again.
So I got pissed off and stormed off to find the sheet that had been in my cats' carrier but it had had to be washed after traveling across the country and then just got shoved somewhere. I took that down and covered the dog's kennel. I guess I was cussing to myself and my sister didn't appreciate that and told me we need to lay off the cussing at the animals.
Here's the thing. I just cuss. I'm just foul-mouthed. It gets worse when I'm angry because it goes from about once a sentence to about every other word. I'm not usually angry directly at the animals. It's usually more about not knowing why they're behaving in unusual and disruptive ways. My sister was concerned that my foul language could lead to violence toward the animals.
First, I would like to point out: never. I would never hurt an animal physically (on purpose), and sure as fuck not because they're acting out. Second, storming around the house, cussing because a dog snatched away the sleep I was managing to get, on my way to try to solve a problem, seems far less violent than standing over a working dog screaming at them to shut up shut up shut UP because he's been in his kennel 97% of the day and you're PMSing. Jussain.
Anyway, the point of this anecdote is: This morning was the second morning of covering him. I came down late this morning (late for me) to find that he'd decided he was all done being covered.
When I covered him this evening, my sister's original dog wanted to be covered too. Luckily, I'd grabbed both red sheets because I couldn't tell the difference. I decided since it was my decision to cover the new dog, I would take the risk if he chewed it up. I used her sheet to cover the first dog.
So now both dogs are covered up.
For now.
Until one or both of them decide they've had enough of being covered up.
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Hi!! Could I get some Yandere Toy Bonnie x Reader headcanons? Have a good day!!
Thank you for requesting, beautiful reader! (*^ ‿ <*)♡ Was I the only one put off by Toy Bonnie's voice in Fnaf AR? Don't get me wrong his lines are perfect. They fit very well with his high and mighty personality but his voice sounds so off compared to Toy Freddy and Toy Chica. ╮(╯∀╰)╭ I'm certain if they didn't edit the Voice actors voice to be high pitched it could've come off better (*/ω\)
♡ How could this happen!? The last thing Toy Bonnie wanted was to fall for some… creature. If it wasn’t for your constant niceness, maybe he wouldn't think of you as often. He hates how much of a distraction you’ve become, yet he can never push you away because of that. *Sigh* Well, since you're obviously a fan, he can't just turn you away. Guess he’ll have no choice but to indulge in your presence.
♡ Toy Bonnie believes you are the luckiest person in the world. Why? Because he likes you, of course! He doesn't take hours from his “Me Time” for anyone. From the moment you enter those doors, you’re supposed to walk straight to him.
♡ You need him, so he’s doing you a huge favor by letting you bask in his presence. Well, at least that’s what he thinks. In reality, he depends on you. He expects you to comfort him, cater to his desires, and listen to his long rants and gossip.
“It’s a good thing I'm here for you Y/N! I wouldn't want my star to be alone on lunch break again” 🤭
“Weren’t you the one who asked-” 😔
“HUSH!! I’m doing you a favor!” 😡
♡ Toy Bonnie thrives on attention. Your regards, praise, hell you asking him how he’s feeling that morning makes him feel like a king. You are playing a dangerous game as too much praise will make him overwhelmingly cocky.
♡ Next thing you know, the boy needs repairs because he decided to rub it into withered Bonnie’s non-existent face. Too little will make him really whiny and annoying. He’ll glare at you and let out the most dramatic sighs until you bring it up to him. Even then, he’ll pretend it’s nothing if you don’t beg for it.
♡ He loves bragging about his star just as much as he does about himself. He has no problem talking for hours upon hours about how amazing you are. He’s like a used car salesman. You could be the worst at everything and he’ll still find a way to boast about you like you're worth a million bucks (He believes it but wouldn't say it out loud).
♡ You’re meant to be his and he deserves only the best. He often pulls you close and kisses you in front of his friends. Not only does he love seeing your flustered face, but he gets to make sure everyone knows exactly who you belong to. It’s a win-win!
♡ Toy Bonnie’s is extremely possessive. You could give Toy Bonnie thousands of compliments but he will never overlook the time you complimented someone’s new outfit.
♡ Sure, he'll be pouty around you, but the person receiving the compliment is going to go through hell. He goes out of his way to sabotage their day until they get the message to stay away from you. Next thing you know your co-worker has been fired due to “tampering with animatronics”, “defamation of ingredients”, and in your bosses words “fucking everything up”.
♡ Master manipulator. Toy Bonnie uses it against you constantly and he knows how to use it well. All of a sudden, he tells you how much he hates that co-worker you’ve been talking to. Did you not notice the way they forced their job on you despite them being able to do it? It doesn't matter if they need to attend to someone else. They don’t consider your feelings like he does. They're going to take advantage of you if you keep letting your guard down like this.
♡You’re so used to seeing his sassy front that when he shows defeat you can’t help but feel bad. As soon as you respond to his request, he'll embrace you, supporting your decision. The smug grin on his face would have been more noticeable if it wasn't for his hug. He has you wrapped around his finger and he can’t help but fall for you harder.
♡ Now let's say Y/N is really good at seeing through Toy Bonnie’s Academy Award Performances. Bonnie's final resort will be kidnapping. You’d think he’d be too refined to do it himself, but he enjoys the chase. However, he’s suddenly reminded why he avoids it as you struggle against him. Why are you screaming so loudly? If you only listened, he wouldn't have to drag you by your foot to his room.
♡ Now that you’re both alone, it should be easier to maintain your concentration on him. Your stubbornness now is really bothersome, but it’s nothing he can’t fix now that you can only see him.
“Ya’ know not just anyone is lucky enough to be so close to me. So make sure to only keep those eyes on me, star!”
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Chapter 7 of 'Artificial Wingman' is here!
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Delicately pulling the last poppy free of the sand-like mixture from the kit, Danny sat back with a sigh. It had taken less time than he thought it would to dry the flowers out, only having to leave them sitting overnight surprisingly, but now he could move on to the next step. Brewing the potion
Beside him, Robin sat up from where he had been slightly slumped over the table. His gaze was hidden by the sunglasses, but Danny could feel the intensity of his stare as he set about shaking the flowers out. "Alright." He started after a moment, sweeping the grainy substance up with his hand. "Now we can start brewing."
Robin grunted, standing and gathering the shopping bags as Danny grabbed a pot and set some water to boil. Over the next few minutes, Danny began to carefully measure, grind, and pour the ingredients into the boiling water, stirring as needed. From his position next to him, where he had been handing Danny the ingredients he needed, Robin watched with increasing interest as the liquid began to glow under Danny's administrations.
A quiet gasp was heard as the kitchenette was cast in warm golden light, the not-quite Latin flowing from Danny's mouth slowly fading out as he brought the potion to a simmer
Backing off, Danny wiped his brow with the back of his hoodie sleeve. "Whew. Okay, now what?" He questioned himself, dragging his finger along the page that listed the potions process. "It says…" Robin leaned over his shoulder, scowling slightly at the words that only Danny could read.
He let out a groan as he read the next step. "What? Is something wrong?" Robin asked, his scowl softening into a concerned look.
Sighing, Danny closed the book. "Nothing is wrong per say." He nudged past the teen, heading back over to the stove. "It's just, the next step is a bit… long. And there's no way to really speed it up." As he talks, he grabs a Mason jar from the cabinet, a small churr escaping him as he hunted down its lid. "The potion needs to settle, at room temperature, for three days." He poured the glowing, steaming potion into the jar, hissing slightly at the warmth that met his hands. Quickly, he screwed the lid on tight and put it down on the counter, wrapping a hand towel around the jar to conceal its glow.
Looking over his shoulder, he flashed Robin a nervous smile. To his surprise, the teen didn't seem the least bit perturbed by the news. A small, almost pleased, smile settled on his face. "That doesn't sound too bad."
Leaning back against the counter, the two fell into silence, Danny awkwardly patting his thighs as he tried to think. "I guess we just… wait now?" He suggested after a few minutes. Robin nodded, following him into the living room. The both sat down on the couch, Robin grabbing a book from the side table. After looking around for something to do himself, Danny grabbed the remote and turned on the TV.
Flipping through the channels, he finally settled on some sort of news outlet, where he observed what a normal news channel was like. He had to admit, though it was nice to see that the weather report didn't have any mention of dangerous drivers, it was kind of… boring. Nevertheless, he leaned back into the couch and listened to the different stories they reported on.
He was just beginning to dose off when Robin shut his book with a snap sound he thought only existed in cartoons. Danny sat up as the boy stood, shutting off the TV and grabbing Danny's arm in a firm yet gentle grip.
"Where are we going?" He asked as the teen lead him out the front door and into the alleyway. A slight chill hung in the air, not that it bothered him. Having an ice core was good for that. He could feel Robin's little shiver at the change, though.
"Out." Was all the answer he got as the teen pulled him along, down side streets and alleys that were beginning to become familiar. Danny fell silent, following the teen without hesitation. Eventually, Danny found himself in a familiar place. The Batburger that Robin had introduced him to. He didn't have time to ask any questions, because the next minute he found himself in the booth from last time, Robin ordering at the front before joining him again.
He started to ask why they were back here, but Robin pulled his phone out as soon as he was settled into the cheap pleather seat, typing quickly and scrolling through something with an intense kind of focus. Instead of interrupting, Danny made himself content with tapping his fingers on the tabletop, finding the rhythm a song he half remembers hearing at Dorthea's castle.
Robin didn't look up from his phone as he stood to collect their food, still staring at something as he sat their tray down and gestured for Danny to grab his. It was only after they had both gotten halfway through their respective meals that he finally spoke.
"What do you enjoy doing in your free time?" He asked, finally putting his phone away and turning to face the teen. Even through those sunglasses, Danny could feel the intensity of the boy's stare.
Danny stuttered for a minute before saying the first thing that came to mind. "Video games." Robin raised his eyebrow. "I mean, I don't usually have a lot of free time, so what time I do have is usually spent relaxing at home, playing games with my friends." He defended.
"Hmm." The vigilante took another bite from his veggie burger, looking over his phone's screen again. "Are you bothered by cold temperatures?" The teen looked up at him again.
Danny's mind drew a blank. Cold temperatures? "No?" His answer sounded more like a question, but all Robin did was nod before applying himself to his food again. Shrugging to himself, Danny did the same, wolfing down the burger and fries while he tried to puzzle out what Robin was planning.
When both of their plates were cleared, Robin led Danny out of the restaurant and down a new sidewalk, taking him further into the city. He didn't answer any of the teen's questions as they walked, only giving Danny a slight smile in return to any attempt at getting information.
It was only when they came to a stop that Danny realized what Robin had planned. "An Ice Rink?"
"Yes." Robin nodded, pulling him into the large off-white building. "I have heard that this is an acceptable activity for teens." The way he said it made something else click in Danny's head.
"Is this what you were looking up at Batburger?"
Robin's cheeks turned a light shade of red, answering Danny's question for him. He smiled at the teen, bumping his shoulder slightly as they approached the lobby desk.
As they paid and waited for the man to return with two pairs of skates, something else came to Danny.
"Hey, Robin?" The teen cocked his head towards him, making it obvious he was paying attention. "Have you ever… been skating before?"
Robin was quiet for a moment. "No. But I don't think it will be hard. I am, after all, an experienced and adaptable person." Danny held back a small groan at the almost cocky way Robin spoke. Danny remembered that confidence from his first time on the ice.
His eight year old hubris had taken a mighty fall that day. Jazz still teases him about it, every time it snows.
Danny said nothing to Robin, though. If he, at eight years old, hadn't heeded the advice given to him, then why would a talented, agile teen superhero listen? The only way to learn that lesson was to fall. But just like eight year old Danny, Robin would have someone there to catch him when he did.
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Damian laced up the sleek black skates he had been given before sitting up, watching with amusement as Danny tied the slightly bulkier white ones he had been handed. Hair in his face and tongue sticking out from the side of his mouth, his fingers moved clumsily over the laces, finally achieving the right know after a moment.
When Danny stood, so did he, both of them gripping the handrails as they wobbled past the benches and to the ice. Danny reached the ice first, transitioning from unstable to graceful in a few quick slides. The teen did a loop on the ice, heading back towards him as he set the first bladed shoe onto the slippery surface.
Almost immediately Damian's leg slid forward, the blade having zero traction. Grunting, Damian pulled his leg back towards him before throwing his other leg onto the ice. His skates teetered shakily from one side to the next under his full weight, before collapsing and sending him sliding, belly first, towards Danny.
Danny was quick to slip out of the way, letting Damian's momentum carry him a bit further out onto the ice. When he finally slid to a stop, he just laid there for a moment, his face burning from more than the ice cold ground. 'You are an ex-assassin, vigilante sidekick to Batman.' He scolded himself, pushing himself to his knees. 'A bit of ice should not be able to best you.'
"Are you okay?" Danny called out, gliding over and coming to a sharp stop about an arms length from him.
"Fine." Damian grumbled through gritted teeth. Taking a steadying breath, he pushed himself back to his feet.
"Are you sure you don't want help?" Danny asks, following close behind him as he tries to push off. His knees shook with the effort of staying up right and keeping his feet from going opposite directions.
"I'm fine." He repeated, completely focusing on moving his right foot forwards. His left decided that it would be the perfect time to move as well, and Damian once again found himself belly down on the ice.
From above him, he could hear the concerned noise Danny made as he inched closer. With a defeated sigh, Damian admitted to himself that ice skating was not as easy as it looked. This time, he didn't try to tell Danny that he was fine, allowing the teen to pull him to his feet.
Part of him expected Danny to let go as soon as he was steady. But he didn't. Instead, Danny held him upright as he slowly skated backwards until Damian could reach out and grip the safety railing himself. "This was a bad idea. We should leave." Damian ducked his head slightly as he began to pull himself along the wall.
"No." He turned around in surprise at Danny's firm response.
"No?" He echoed the teen, not moving from where he held himself up with the wall as the teen glided up beside him.
"No. You wanted to skate. So we'll skate."
"But, I do not know how to skate." Damian pointed out.
Danny smiled brilliantly at him. "That's okay," he said cheerfully. "I'll teach you!" Without waiting for a response, the teen grabbed his arm and pulled him away from the wall.
"Wha- hey!" Damian stammered, his legs beginning to shake again. He grips Danny's arms tightly, not wanting to fall again.
Danny laughed lightly as they moved about, never once faltering when Damian slipped and scrambled for a foothold he wouldn't be able to achieve.
Eventually, when he felt that his legs would hold him, he let go of Danny's arms. Danny shot him a questioning glance, not letting go of Damian's arms until he nodded.
Slowly, Danny eased his grip, backing away as Damian stood as still as possible. Both teens considered it a huge success when he didn't begin trembling immediately. Emboldened by his newfound steadiness, Damian tried to push off again. Beneath him, his skates collided as they both slipped under the shift in his weight, sending him back towards the floor. Only this time, Danny didn't get the chance to move out of his way.
His landing was softened by the cold body of his companion, both of them letting out little 'oof's' as they fell. When the world stilled again, Damian found himself sprawled across Danny's chest. Danny himself was starfish-ed on the ice, facing the ceiling.
For a moment, neither of them spoke. They were too shocked to speak, still processing what had just happened. Damian was the first to recover.
"I-I apologi-" he didn't get far into his apology before he was interrupted. Danny had sat up a few seconds after he had, staring at Damian as he tried to formulate words. But now his head was tipped back, mouth opened. Laughing.
His laughter was airy and soft, yet loud enough to echo all around them in the empty rink. Honestly, it reminded Damian of the sound snow makes as it falls in the dead of night, the little hitches when the flakes hit the window. He found his gaze stuck on Danny's face as the teen bellowed, mesmerized by the carefree expression he had.
As his laughter faded into hearty chuckles, Danny let his head tip forwards again, meeting Damian's gaze, through the askew sunglasses on his face. A delicate blush spread across his pale cheeks, his eyes softening in a look of fondness that was usually reserved for couples that had been together a long time.
Damian's sneeze broke their trance. Abruptly, in a slightly startling display of power, Danny levitates off the ice, his skates making a slight clack sound as they settle against the rink once more. Clearing his throat, he offers a hand to Damian.
"You okay?" He asked as the teen stumbled up.
"Yes. I'm alright." Damian couldn't help the way he clutched the sleeves of Danny's hoodie. Taking a deep breath, they tried skating again. As Danny pulled him along the ice, he gave tips to help him along.
"Spread your legs a bit, and don't angle your feet towards or away from each other." He advised, using one of his skates to guide the other teen's feet in the right direction. "There you go. Just like that." His encouragement and praise made it impossible not to preen a bit. With his feet facing the same direction, he slid forwards without much resistance, the blades sliding along the ice instead of cutting like they had before.
"Alright. Now, to turn, angle one foot in the direction you need, and lean forward a bit." Danny demonstrates as he talks, not letting go of Damian once as he glides them from left to right. "And to circle, aim one foot outwards, and the other at an angle." They moved in a wide circle before straightening out again. "There we go! Now, ready to try this again?" The teen waited for Damian's response as they slid to a slow stop.
Damian hesitated for only a moment before nodding. 'I can do this.' He told himself as Danny slowly released his grip from Damian's wrist, backing out of the way a bit quicker this time, but staying close enough to reach out and grab him should he falter. Luckily, he stayed standing once released, feet angled in the same direction. He started to push off physically with his skate again, but paused. So far, every time he did it that way, he had crashed quite quickly to the ground. Instead, he relaxed his knees slightly and leaned forward, forcing himself not to flinch as he began sliding forwards.
Damian's body relaxed when he found himself moving slowly, Danny still right beside him. A small sigh escaped him, before he turned one of his feet slightly to the left. Miraculously he didn't crash to the ground, but instead turned slowly in the direction he wanted. The teen couldn't stop a small laugh that escaped him as he began to pick up speed, letting his reflexes take over again as he slowly got the hang of it.
Beside him, Danny cheered loudly. "You got it!" He shouted, fist bumping the air as a purr rattled from his chest. Distracted, the teen didn't notice the slightly mischievous tone Damian's smile took. Nor did he see the leg that slid his direction. Instead, the rumble in his chest was abruptly cut off with a loud yelp as he hit Damian's leg, flying forwards and landing ungracefully onto the ice.
He whined from his place on the floor. "What was that for?" He grumbled, pushing himself to his knees.
Damian pretended to turn his nose up. "For laughing at me, when you're clearly more experienced at this than I am." His voice held a note of laughter, his eyes sparkling with an unusual light behind his tinted lenses.
"Excuse me? You're the one that wanted to go skating!" Danny stuck his tongue out in a childish display, huffing good naturedly as he crossed his arms and pouted.
Damian snorted. "Well, I suppose you have a point there. But you won't get an apology from me." His smirk stretched into a wicked smile. "Unless you can catch me, of course." He challenged the teen.
"Seriously? You couldn't even skate until a minute ago. Do you really think you can beat me in a speed contest?" Danny pushed himself back to his feet, hands on his hips as he cockily grinned.
"Try me." With that he was off, gliding across the ice in fast, controlled motions. Danny's laugh echoed behind him as he pushed off as well, gaining speed every few minutes as he practically launched himself forward.
Damian didn't know how long they dodged and weaved around each other on the rink, only that it felt much too soon when the manager told them they would be closing soon. Both he and Danny had a nice sweat going, despite the cold of the air, as they slid over to the exit and sat down to unlace their skates. Neither talked as they put their own shoes back on and returned the skates. It was only when they left that Danny heaved a loud sigh and tossed his arm over Damian's shoulder. "That was awesome!" He exclaimed, leading the teen in the vague direction they had come from. "We should totally do that again sometime!"
Damian ignored the small part that whispered that there probably wouldn't be a next time if he let the teen leave, instead humming his agreement.
"It's still a bit early." Damian remarked as he nudged Danny in a different direction. Truly, he would rather avoid the diamond district. As clean as it was, there were also more cameras there as well. "Why not do something else before we return?"
"Hmm…" Danny brought one of his hands up to his chin, rubbing it thoughtfully as he narrowed his eyes in thought. "I know!" He snapped his fingers and pointed at Damian. "Why don't we catch a movie?"
Damian thought about it for a moment. "I suppose that would work. As long as we don't have to sit through an insufferable romance." He shuddered at the memory of the last romance movie he had been forced to watch. The Notebook was not his favorite from Brown's list, and he would give up his sharpest knife to never hear the title again.
"Deal." Danny said immediately. Plans made, Damian took the lead again, pulling Danny through a shortcut to get there faster.
In the end, they watched a nice horror/comedy, something with dolls and old cliches that were obviously being made fun of. While it was not one of Damian's top choices, he could not say he hated it. Anything that made Damian able to hear that beautiful laugh was worth suffering through.
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Jazz slung her bag into the Specter Speeder, looking through all her messages one last time before chucking her phone in after it. Both of her parents had called earlier that day, saying that their trip had been extended slightly. A friend of theirs has met up with them and invited them to another convention, this one a few hours drive from their current one, taking them further from Amity.
Her father had claimed that they would 'be back before you know it, Jazzy-pants!' But her mother had been a little more realistic, estimating that it would be at least another week and a half, possibly two weeks. Jazz had assured them that it was fine, she would watch Danny while they were gone. Having no reason to suspect anything amiss, her mother had bid her goodbye, asking that she tell Danny that just because it was Summer Vacation, didn't mean he could stay up all night and sleep through the day.
Sighing, she ran a mental catalogue of what she had packed. Clothes, food, water, a few ecto-weapons, a can of Fenton Pepper Spray, and a Fenton Phone. The Boomerang sat in the back seat, a last resort if she couldn't track her brother down the normal way. A box of ecto-contaminated blueberry scones sat in the passenger seat, a gift for a certain Ghost of Time.
Jazz knew she wouldn't be able to find the dimension her brother was in without help, and she also knew of Danny's allies as Phantom. If anyone were to know Danny's location, it would be Clockwork, after all. Heck, he was probably already expecting her.
Not seeing any reason to keep the ghost, or her brother, waiting, she hopped into the Speeder, firing it up and pushing carefully through the ghost portal. A wave of coldness raced through her as she passed into the neon green dimension, forcing a shiver out of her.
Once through, the craft sped off, following the GPS Tucker had set up for it through the odd floating structures. Getting to the clock tower would take a bit, Jazz knew, so she engaged the autopilot and leaned back.
She shoved her face into her hands with a loud sigh. 'Oh Danny.' She prayed. 'Please be okay.'
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(I know there's probably some spelling mistakes or Grammer mistakes, but it's okay because I tried my best.)
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i guess the take here is that i believe in pretentious versus unpretentious dining as a useful gastronomic rubric the same way i believe in it as a useful literary rubric ie. pretty much not at all. what i think is constructive is thinking about how particular styles of food + service attract or detract from prestige and how the social currency of those styles is determined relative to the usual suspects of broader social formations ie. class, racism, colonialism.
which cuisines are allowed access to a 'pretentious' sphere in the first place? western european, undeniably. 'street food,' to me, is a racialised term; off the top of my head (& speaking from a specifically british metropolitan context), jamaican, indian, chinese, nigerian, southwest asian, greek cuisines, among others -- 'authentic' or otherwise -- are "street food" (found at food stalls or in cheap cafes and restaurants w/ a v. basic standard of service). paying the same prices for an upscale chinese or indian restaurant meal that you might for an upscale french or italian catches ire, often irrespective of the quality of the meal or service; there's a derision towards these spaces that i think gets caught in the net that 'pretentiousness' casts, and i don't like the assumption that western european countries get to dominate the upper echelons of culinary development whilst racialised cuisines in european settings are only ever cheap, accessible, low-fuss meals.
& similarly, what does it mean to 'elevate' a racialised cuisine to a higher price point & a more involved standard of service? i hate dishoom is a great piece about the british 'indian street food' restaurant phenomenon -- i worked in one of these places in central manchester, hated it, and used to say all the time that it attracted a crowd of white people who wanted to think of themselves as the sorts of people who ate "authentic" south asian food but were too racist to go to places like the curry mile. in conversation w/ a friend about these sorts of restaurants a few weeks ago, she described the discursive apparatus of one of them as a "noble savage"-type view of indian cuisine; the family recipe, passed down through generations, coming straight from the orient to yr doorstep. it's not at all uncommon for racialised cuisines to be picked up by predominantly-white ownership, predominantly-white FOH (and even BOH sometimes), and get sold back to a predominantly-white clientele in a neutered form, often pricing out people from the communities from which it originated. so you see the contradiction here -- i don't like the assumption that the food of racialised communities ought to be shut out from these higher-end settings (i do think higher-end settings have a lot to offer, i find as many of them to be interesting and unique and intellectually involved as i do pneumatic and unchallenging and overpriced, and i do think there exists w/ pretty much any dish you can think of a gradient of quality that comes into being to some extent relative to quality/expense of ingredients and expertise in craft), and nor do i like what often ends up done to those cuisines in order to break into those spaces, or at least mimic them.
& how do these more elevated spaces sustain themselves? dress codes, security guards, different codes of conduct for different guests. who gets to be a welcome and uncomplicated recipient of hospitality in fine dining/premium casual settings? i used to work at a fine dining-adj place where we were instructed to give far more careful + attentive service to the tables who were willing to spend £100+ on a bottle of wine. like, it's a classed space, and maintains itself the way any other classed space does.
i want culinary styles outside of the western european hegemon to emerge into the more 'elevated' spaces in hospitality on their own intellectual terms & through interaction w/ gastronomic science that allows for the development & elevation of a dish, but that feels like a tall order. i ask the same q's of restaurants relative to prestige or a lack thereof that i ask of texts relative to the literary canon; why do we attach value to this but not that, why do i like this, why do i dismiss that. what do i think it's saying about me as a person to enjoy or deride this or that, what assumptions have i let go unchallenged. what interests me, how do i follow up on this interest. what do i know about this, what don't i understand, do i want to understand, how do i go about understanding. how did this get here in this form. i like what i like w/ restaurants -- i like an elevated service, i like complexity, i like food and drink that tastes good -- i think the best i can do is discard this v. inchoate framework of 'pretentiousness' and simply try to consistently challenge myself & my assumptions along the way of developing my taste.
Assumption: you dislike the pretentious restaurant type industries and primarily prefer a well executed street food type meal
i hated the menu (2022) actually
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