#of fun exploring different dynamics

[swhhdr-wthhr]

new dynamic i'm having a lot of fun with in my new fanfic im writing: virgil and patton who have just started dating flirting with each other all the time in the most corny "two middle schoolers who just got into their first relationship" way, and logan and roman being so fed up with it

[deoidesign]

It's my right to tell myself I can do just a little animation just for fun just for really quick to do some action and then spend 3 days straight on it

[sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now]

Slay the Princess probably has the most shipping potential out of all the fandoms I’ve joined

Probably because the whole game is about love and relationships(in general!!), so I guess shipping the characters just feels like something natural that should be happening

(Edited to have this cause I have a stupid idea. Ignore this)

[this-is-fox-speaking]

sorry i’ve been thinking really hard about them i wasn’t kidding when i was i’m obsessed with exploring toxic dynamics

rich but unlikable mole rat taking out his insecurities on the most lovable doctor in the country.

being rich in status and money but not in likability. and you meet a man who has everything you want. everything you feel you need. you need him, you need to become him. unbridled rage and bloodlust which is like only a little mixed in with a repressed but heavily unrequited crush. for good reason. cuddles is scared to shit.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Au where Tuvok succeeded in 'Prime Factors' and Voyager got home in like a year or less BUT Tuvok got court martialed and sent to a penal colony or something and his days quickly become divided between sad visits with his wife and children, tense visits with Janeway, and homoerotic psychological warfare with his quickly established cellmate - Lon Suder. Because in this AU, since they get back to Federation space so quickly, the Maquis that Voyager 'captured' are still considered criminals that need to be taken down, primarily to send a message to the rest of the Maquis who're still active. (Though their sentences are lessened due to their cooperation on Voyager, also to send a message.) This also means that a not insignificant amount of Tuvok's time is spent being attacked or harassed by the Maquis, their sympathizers, or just in general people who know him as a traitor twice over. Being in close contact with (known extreme violence inflictor) Suder is helpful for that. Unfortunately...the psychological warfare.

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

This Gilded Abyss

fantasy/thriller/romance, start of a series

gilded-age fantasy world where a rare magical substance is mined deep undersea

a sergeant struggling with grief and trauma of her best friend dying in a mine collapse, is asked by a young royal (…her ex girlfriend) to help her investigate a strange murder - on the luxury submersible heading exactly where she never wants to return to

when there’s another massacre, confirming their suspicions that it’s caused by an illness inducing a violence craze, they have to find a way to survive, trapped on the ship until it arrives at the undersea city

[mach1ne-g1rl]

i forgot i can post these here too

[rcguish]

permanent plotting/interaction call.

heyhey hello! i’m gonna be saving this post as my lil hub of interaction. liking this is the go-ahead for me to approach ooc, and to throw silver at your muse(s) at random / with any plots we might’ve talked about and solidifed. whether it be shooting the shit with askbox memes, or para/novella replies, or even discord exchange, this is the indication that you’d like to!

[suffarustuffaru]

i need to share my very horrible idea to combine the reinhard/julius/otto/subaru boy drama into one julius-centric fic

ok so a little while ago ive made all kinds of ottojuli and reinjuli posts and while i havent finished all my major julisuba posts Yet i am quite fond of julisuba also and i think itd be incredibly funny if you just dumped all of these ships into one story. just go ALL IN on that boy drama!!!! go big or go home amirite!!!! the worlds WORST love trapezoid youve ever seen!!!!

this post is just me rambling fic ideas bc i sadly dont have time for Every Fic Idea and also i just. i just think itd be funny putting multiple ships with the same person in them into one fic. on a serious level its like mimicking real life relationships where sometimes people come and go and you have different dynamics with each person!! on another level i just think this is also very funny so!! here we go. under the cut:

anyway so my idea for this is that you know, julius of course meets reinhard when hes ten and reinhard is eight and then it alters julius's brain chemistry. at first he's in complete awe of reinhard. and then over time the shame starts setting in. that julius isnt as strong as reinhard. and the jealousy sets in a bit too, so julius's got this chip in his shoulder trying to carry his family's legacy and trying to carry the weight of knighthood to be as perfect as possible. to be as close to reinhard as he can. they meet again in their teens and julius shows reinhard the ropes of like basic knight stuff bc reinhard just joined the knights. and of course reinjuli become friends but julius has spent his whole life quietly watching reinhard from afar and now julius still has that distance with reinhard even as theyre supposedly friends now. reinhard is a God, you know? his powers and his leash from the kingdom and his family keep him distant and the two of them are ignoring that. classic homoerotic "do i want him or want to be him" friendship where both of you are too scared to get any closer for various reasons with a Twist (reinhard's very real monster complex that keeps getting validated bc Everyone Around Him thinks hes a monster).

anyway but then julius remembers that you know, shit between reinhard and him wont work out for many reasons, like reinhards family deciding to torment julius at various points in his life (heinkel, whos julius's boss, and reid, who went from julius's childhood idol to. you know.), and also reinhard needs to have kids because hes the sword saint, and also homophobia exists in rezero. and also even if those werent all obstacles julius still has his Complexes connected to reinhard and they got that distance between them so. no go. (repression gets in the way of relationships :((( )

also quick side note is that ex 4 happens and julius reinhard ferris go to vollachia and julius interrupts a meeting with vincent vollachia himself to go "I UNDERSTOOD THAT LITERARY REFERENCE YOU JUST MADE. THATS A REALLY GOOD REFERENCE I LIKED IT A LOT" bc hes a massive nerd and ig this is slightly-more-of-a-disaster-gay julius au so julius is like ............................. vincent was kinda cool for that.

AND THEN SUBARU CRASHES INTO JULIUS'S LIFE and julius is like seeing this guy who's also got a chip in his shoulder and then he insults the knights and says the knights are all depending on their dads (nepotism) and julius is like .......the chip in my shoulder was bad enough and also youre kinda like me fr. and you are clearly a fucking misguided kid so now i have to save your ass. i cant NOT save your ass. and reinhards like "julius and subaru nooo you dont have to do this :((((" and julius cant admit atm that hes also doing this to save subarus life so julius is just like "he disrespected the knights >:(((("

but yes we all know what happened there. julius saves subarus life. julius has to slice subarus throat in that one failed loop. they become friends across several timelines. they also homoerotically share souls, you know, typical bromance things, rivals to lovers except subarus the one going YOURE MY RIVAL and julius is like he is SUCH an upstart. hes really grown on me like a fungus but thats the appeal. and julius i think sees subaru as like a kindred spirit (or at least thats how i interpret julisuba) except subaru is like way more freer than julius is. same desire to prove yourself but subarus not restraining himself constantly like julius. its sometimes to the point of recklessness and general stupidity and what have you, but his boldness and bravery and determination and heart really is admirable.........................

yeah so anyway julius falls for ANOTHER guy again, you know how it is sometimes. the heart wants what it wants and julius is cursed to always have the worst meetings with his closest friends. and of course julius gets heartbroken bc wtf i have to kill my new friend :((( noo!!!! but in the finished loop its like. oh subaru...... hes really improved himself. hes grown so much already. hes kind of. inspirational really. idk how he does it. except subarus you know got that Mystery to him the same way reinhard does (theyre traumatized and Cant Take About It Normally so they just randomly lore drop what they can) and also subarus SUPER into emilia. and julius is like .................... well. subarus taken. haha. and reinhards. taken. fuck me. fuck. and like somethings going on with subaru and rem and emilia right. fuck. and subarus got his whole toxic masculinity / gender crisis..... and he doesnt know hes Bisexual yet...... man. what a loss for julius amirite haha.

and also subarus busy after arc 3........... and julius has no idea whats happening there but that seems Real serious :(( and julius's got other things to attend to so he hopes subaru reaches out to him eventually..... or that they cross paths again since subarus in the emilia camp and julius is in ana camp (and of course reinhard is in felt camp and like that was a whole debacle bc wtf. reinhard, u do know thatd be a big deal to our mutual friend felix?). so. julius pines from afar ONCE AGAIN HAHA.

(also of course subarus still attracted to reinhard here. its um. well julisuba can bond now over pining over reinhard but thats for later also!!)

anyway of course during arc 3 julius briefly runs into some gray haired merchant twink thats being dragged around by subaru bc ana camp rescued this guy from a cave somewhere??? and this new guy and subaru made a deal or whatever so he was just helping out in the background of the fight against sloth??

and whaddya know................ julius goes to drink at a bar bc you know he probably tastes wine for fun in his free time (hes definitely Fond of wine anyway iirc) and now hes Sad over the Ones That Got Away so. bar it is. and gray haired merchant twink is there!! no way. they start talking a bit casually while drinking you know and julius's taste is Unfortunately either the graceful ones (anastasia, because julius has great taste in women) or the cringe fail ones (all the twinks - except for felix - that julius keeps having the wildest first meetings with, because julius has slightly shit taste in men) so julius is like huh this otto guys kinda funny lol. endearing in a weird way!! and -

oops they both end up being a little. they make a little bit of a move on each other. bc they were drinking and got a Bit tipsy. ottos Also not over the one that got away (subaru) (again) and hey. the finest knight truly is. Fine. objectively fine. totally. so you know. things get a little out of hand, maybe they do a bit of cringe fail flirting hidden underneath five million layers of repression and the Horrors of Being Known but ultimately they both embarrass themselves somehow (read: how far they went with each other while under the influence is up to you) and agree to Never Speak of This Again bc oopsies they were both technically each other's first time being Straightforwardly Not Straight with another man. oops. anyway julius has to go back to his camp and otto fucking bolts but he bolts right into subaru and gets his ass dragged into sanctuary drama.

julius is totally not a little bit envious about that.................... about otto getting to accompany subaru to sanctuary... but dont worry julius!! youll get to make up for it later!! bc eventually arc 5 stuff happens. and julius is Glad to see reinhard and subaru again. even with all the Baggage. and subaru is of course Weird about julius but eventually subaru reassures julius after they both confide in each other about the astrea drama (theyre honorary astreas via being dragged into the astrea family mess). and subarus reassuring to julius in a whole new way okay. subaru, whos unrestrained and incapable of being on the down low about anything, and julius, whos always holding himself back with a gazillion layers of repression, starts learning to let go a bit...

but also juliotto meet again. its terribly awkward and they both agreed to never speak of their awkward encounters again. subaru is going ??? and reinhard is clueless. otto then also goes to save reinhard and felt from heinkel trying to take felt hostage, which was also terribly awkward but reinhard and felt are grateful about it (but lbr if reinhard and otto knew each other deeper reinhard would maybe be a little. Apprehensive. around otto while otto would be sympathetic with reinhard bc hes like male emilia). but then while otto manages not to get erased by gluttony....... julius gets erased. of course. which you know results in being forgotten by reinhard in julius's THIRD first meeting ever with reinhard. and subarus the only one who remembers him of course.

then arc 6 happens :,))))) and julius of course has to confront his ideas of knighthood, his identity, his self esteem, and who he is outside of His Name. and also julius gets his ass beat by reid. his childhood idol. who reinhard KNEW was a shitty person but never ever told julius (whether this is because reinhard wanted to spare julius's hero worship or because reinhard never got the chance to tell julius is hard to say lajdsf). but julius does get to triumphantly win in the end!! grow as a person!!! learn to undo a bit of that repression and not hold himself to impossible standards all the time!! hes growing still!!! hes finally solidified his friendships with people like subaru and emilia!! hes remaking his relationship with anastasia!! hes asserted himself, hes planning on going to meet reinhard again one day and duel him!! things are looking up even if its still bittersweet that he doesnt have his name back yet!! does this mean?? perhaps?? a HAPPY ENDING?? julius can have the two men (reinhard and subaru) he admires the most in his life?????? as friends???? or as boyfriends?????? slowburn mutual pining????????????????????????????????????????

and then comes. arc 8 otto. that piece of shit.

julius is very much someone who has to grapple with the weight of the expectations that people throw at him. and also reinhard is someone who May envy julius a bit, but there's also you know, joshua and subaru with the Explicit Envy and (past) resentment because theyre placing heavy expectations on julius!! theyre pointing blame at julius!! julius is trying to find himself outside of stuff like that, especially after arc 6, but he's still got stuff to work on you know? he still has duties to fulfill!! loyalty that he has to act on bc hes gotta help subaru and co in arc 8!! and then in comes otto.

otto is also someone with expectation placed on him, but its Different. ottos mostly a nobody and when hes Not a nobody, his reputation tends to be Derogatory. hes a menace. hes a bad luck charm. hes grappling with the fact that he has to keep being left behind - post-arc 5 bc he was injured, but also repeatedly during arcs 7 and 8 because hes too physically weak to be on the same playing field as emilia or garfiel or subaru on the battlefield. he feels Useless after placing his identity on the expectation that hes Dependable and Useful.

julius is a bit more on even ground with otto now that julius is. also mostly a nobody bc his name is still gone. and also julius had to deal with having that part of his identity crushed. julius tried to be useful over and over in arc 6 only to get his ass repeatedly curb stomped by reid in the beginning. he was a nobody. he wasnt dependable anymore. and also otto is that one guy he had a Passing Fling with over having The Ones Who Got Away and julius was still vaguely hopeful about maybe being pals at least but ottos brushed him off a bit since arc 5. theyre like each others secrets you know? and now otto doesnt know that shit - julius is the only one who Knows - and otto also hates julius's fucking guts now. over SUBARU. and julius has been through this whole rodeo clown circus with arc 3 subaru so this is an absolutely terrible ride through memory lane.

and this is julius's THIRD twink that hates him for terribly unfair reasons. julius is very tired and a bit heartbroken in this au trying to pretend it doesnt bother him. on one level it doesnt. bc ottos pathetic and clearly Overcompensating for Something. on another level it kinda does bc julius had a Thing going with otto. and otto is the complete opposite of julius. like hes different from the other guys julius has liked.

julisuba is about complimentary opposites - they appear Extremely Different at first glance but theyre very similar. theyre people who try to look and act bigger than they are, people who keep reaching to be The Best, to be Perfect, because theyre overcompensating. theyre worried their entire identity is only built off of trying to be bigger than the shadow that other people in their lives (like their families) cast. but they cant reach perfection. and julius is like subaru but if subaru tried to really make himself "refined" - if he tried to stop putting his heart on his sleeve all the time. reinsuba are very similar too. theyre very refined knights who try to keep themselves in check at all times while the weight of the world is on their shoulders. they cant have a hair out of place. except julius is like the "smaller" version of reinhard. julius is less powerful. its like comparing a human and a "god" - reinhard, whos untouchable. but its a double edged sword, because julius gets to be a normal person, because half the expectation placed on him is also purely from himself, while reinhard isnt. reinhard isnt Free. hes on a leash by the kingdom and his family. julius even gets his kind of "celebrity" status stolen from him via the loss of his name. hes truly kind of Normal now - julius is like if reinhard didnt have his crazy abilities and had a little more of a chance to be free.

otto? yeah otto is. very very far from all of that. hes so obviously imperfect that most of his reputation, when its brought up, is just him being known as a mess who's caused various forms of chaos everywhere he goes. either that or hes just. There. Invisible. very very average. and otto is someone who wants a nice comfortable life, someone who wants to fit in - julius and subaru arent Exactly like that, and while reinhard also wants to be normal, ottos the one who has more of an opportunity. but he doesnt. because otto Dooms Himself by being recklessly cutthroat. otto is like if subaru was just. More of an asshole, so ottojuli would just be a rather Extreme Challenge for julius to have to deal with HAH. and normally otto is someone who repays how people treat him - a very "you treat me like this, i'll treat you the same way in turn" kind of deal, except ottos developed a vendetta against julius and its basically like if subaru never let go of his arc 3 julius vendetta.

yes so anyway. etc etc stuff probably happens but i ran out of ideas lajdlfjasdf i just think combining ALL the boy drama and recontextualizing + adding to canon would be. batshit crazy. and terribly entertaining. im so sorry julius but i want to see you crack a bit under the pressure. reinjuli as a ship is like tragic gay yearning that never goes anywhere past being friends with quiet homoerotic tension, then julisuba is. you know. extreme rivals to lovers, starts out Rough but then ends up being super super sweet and theyre Trying their best underneath the self esteem issues. and then ottojuli is. toxic yaoi at its finest (pun intended). you get Every flavor of mlm possible!!

ok so you may be asking "ok what would you even name this fic then" and to that i say that this would be called To All the Boys I've Loved Before.

anyway i really wanna write this idea someday ill inform you guys (if youre reading this and are Interested) if it ever happens :< so. in conclusion this is just julius the entire time throughout all of these events:

[artheresy]

I haven't finished the quests from 2.4 just yet, but I have already so many thoughts that I can just barely keep contained especially about Huaiyan, Yunli, Yingxing and just sm too much in fact, I'm dying rn

[headfullof-ideas]

Presenting two more characters and their redesigns in my HTTYD/The Deep story! One is more involved in the story, but the other makes PLOT, and neither really ever interact or connect to one another plot wise to my immediate knowledge in the overall story.

Introducing Savage and Eret!

Savage is not an Outcast and Alvins right hand man, but a true Berserker warrior, serving Oswald and his family for years. But when Oswald the Antagonistic becomes Oswald the Agreeable, Savage starts to grow restless. The Berserkers aren’t at war with the Berkians and surrounding tribes anymore, Oswald trying to maintain a semblance of peace in the dragon-war ridden Archipelago. Savage is a follower, not a natural born leader, but years of peace treaty after peace treaty, and babysitting Oswalds whelps has made him seek out other like-minded Berserkers, planning an uprising against the passive Chieftain. Oswald seemed to have caught on to what Savage was doing, escaping their attempted assassination, and now Savage is trying to commandeer the Berserker Tribe as a whole through sewing doubt amongst the tribe against Oswalds children, and trying to pit the siblings against one another in hopes they’ll simply get rid of the other for him. Savage isn’t good at thinking things through though, especially what the aftermath of his plans to stage a coup or civil war amongst the tribe to try and take leadership might be.

Eret son of Eret is a budding Dragon Trapper, partaking in his father’s business of trapping dragons and bringing them to Auction Markets run by the Grimborn brothers. Dragon Trapping was introduced to Erets family through his paternal Grandfather, with loans being taken from the wrong people, with no money to pay them back leading his Grandfather to Dragon Trapping. With similar habits being passed on to his son, Eret Sr, Eret has been taken on as crew for his fathers quest to pay off the debts his grandfather failed to pay, and his fathers own drunken mistakes. Eret isn’t sure how to feel about it all, his father pushing the looming mantle of Captain on to Eret as his eventual future, leaving whatever debts his father fails to pay before retirement for Eret to try and absolve, with old bedtime stories from his deceased mother and her side of the family speaking of dragons being more than wild animals. Eret’s been grappling with his internal struggles for a few years now, and a sudden interaction with some Archipelagon teenagers apparently riding dragons only rattles his inner beliefs even more.

I decided to go a bit of a different route with Savage in this story, making him a member of the Berserker tribe instead of the Outcasts. There are a lot of elements of his prior design still in this one, but he’s got a lead part in a lot of the early Berserker central arks and plots, especially in Heathers early story, and why she makes some of the decisions she does in Riders and Defenders of Berk, which has a sort of butterfly effect on the way she is in RTTE. He’s not a MAIN villain like the Grimborn brothers, Alvin, Heather, Drago, and a certain someone from the games, more of a small villain and a reoccurring nuisance. He gets his comeuppance however, as he’s not good at thinking things through, especially in the long run, and eventually gets revealed for all his nefarious schemes, and promptly exiled

Eret is a little different to the swashbuckling Dragon Trapper that’s in HTTYD 2, but he’s also nearly five years younger, a little older than Dagur and around the age that the riders were in RTTE. So, eighteen-nineteen-nearly twenty. He’s not Captain of the ship yet, and dealing with a lot of inner family struggles and trying to come to terms with what his future may hold. Generational and pawned off debt is how I play off (Headcanon wise) how he came to be under Drago’s employment in the films, and I’m playing with the setting of the early stages of how that happened here. With his grandfather and father both taking loans they couldn’t keep or pay back, and turning to Dragon Trapping to try and pay them off. Afterall, dragon parts and living dragons sell for a LOT of money. The Dragon Riders throw a bit of a wrench in things though, and Eret ends up being one of their first allies beyond Dagur and someone else in the Archipelago. He’s also a little shorter and not nearly as beefy as he is five years from then, not having the experience to build up that kind of muscle yet. I did this partly because of his age, and partly because Nico Marlets early concept art for him (whose HTTYD art I love and want tattooed to my brain) had him being a little more scrawny, and so I thought that was a nice callback

More characters to come…eventually, as it takes time to draw these, especially with the designing process I go through

[bougiebutchbitch]

wait u have a woundfucking kink and u work in the OR???????? 💀💀💀

ah yes, the 'I want to stick my hand in that gaping incision for horny reasons' to 'orthopedic surgeon' pipeline

[cconfusedkat]

AHHAHDHAHDHAHD Sorry ive had this shower thought haunting me so i need to yap about this

First ill just get my easy thoughts out the way ;;

Allure is the embodiment of Jesus He Knows Me, while Shamura is the embodiment of Satanized

There's a TON of differences between alluremura,, the biggest difference is how they process/processed trauma.... One has severe religious trauma and the other has runaway trauma + moving around constantly, never wanting to move away from each of their friends every few months their family had to move across the lands

Shamura would've done anything to move constantly. Allure would've done anything to stay in one place consistently and "not have any expectations"

OK song comparison yapping below, (and also just me yapping about pretty realistic relationship dynamic that i tend to ignore for them tbh,)

For jesus he knows me it's a song about people seeing you as highly as they do with jesus (i think?) and its a cover anyways by Ghost specifically- Satanized is a song about guilt of sinning against your religion and focuses on the religious trauma aspect

Allure is VERY content with being compared to the most powerful lambs that died millennia ago,

while Shamura (as a follower anyways!) feels a sort of. Like. Discomfort? The religious cult aspect? Cults arent a new thing to them to begin with but they slowly grow to hate how cults behave and how much of an idol thing it can be,, though theyre consistent with lying and forgetting about this discomfort due to their migraines and brain trauma/damage,,

honestly its just emotional manipulation at play within being inside the cult

After all cults *are* supposed to be an escape from reality, arent they? Im kinda just projecting my own cult survivor trauma onto how actually Scary it is to be in such a big cult and how many people are willing to follow under such a propaganda of gods coming back and like. Ensue world armageddon or blah blah

I think a lot of people forget how cults actually behave lmao,, or yet to put actual research into them,, youre being manipulated and told that these things are SINFUL and that the outside world is the wrong choice to follow under

Really everyone is trapped within the cult

Which is why i believe alluremuras relationship to be much more messy than what i actually want them to be: domestic. How can you be a domestic couple if youre being manipulated into following this false idol? 24/7? They arent aware of it because of how much their head hurts. Despite being healed, they still feel phantom pain and have religious trauma they dont remember mentally but their body remembers physically what happened to them

Plus... Being a bishop for nine millennia? To have it taken away for 200+ years now as a follower? Despite having a role as high as undertaking (yes really its a high role in death & wisdom cult,) and candlemaking, they still feel as they lack a purpose in life

Theyre still pretty conservative regarding silk cradle law. But thats the THING. They dont remember the old testaments of silk cradle!!!! But they still follow it!!!! Thats how weird your mind can work when youve grown SO used to ignoring your trauma/acknowleding you have trauma

Alluremura love eachother, but the dynamic in itself is really toxic

But alas i ignore it because yay 💜 yuri 💜

I dont disregard it though always i like to play with their dynamic of toxicity ,,, its just two people struggling mentally no matter what position they're in powerfully,,, theres no possible way shamura was mentally all there pre betrayal and after betrayal

Purgatory shamura begged allure to kill them, anyways

They still often wish they couldve died instead of becoming a follower

Ok these werent really related to the songs but i guess i just like to think about this big difference of allure loving praise while shamura just wants to become a regular person wahaha-

[amelikos]

What's you all favorite trio in Horizons? Could be a group of three characters tied narratively, or a trio that is more straightforward and established as friends, etc.

Mine is the trio of Liko, Friede, and Amethio.

[cryptidca]

hi hi hey howdy I would like to hear about some blurclancy if thats ok. do you have any tidbits to share pretty please 🥺 i love fucked up abusive doomed yaoi so much

hhhhhh this is the best ask thats ever graced my inbox anon i LOVE you

I feel like none of my blurclancy thoughts are THAT original, but that's okay, because I can make up for it with ✨️enthusiasm✨️

first thing you need to understand- Nico is a freak. the other Bishops aren't great people either, they abuse their power over citizens too (YES, even Keons), but NO ONE does as much fucked up shit as Nico. he is an outlier. you think your Bishop is bad because he's physically abusive? Oh, buddy. if you only knew what's going on in Nico's district, you'd know better than to complain.

that being said, obviously, not every single citizen deals with it to the same extent. it's a huge city, most people are going to fly under his radar. So Nico has favorites, y'know? people (victims) he takes a particular interest in. those people generally bear the brunt of his freak-ness.

Clancy is one of those favorites. no- Clancy is THE favorite. the favorite OF the favorites. you could interpret this in a million different ways, how long has he had his eye on Clancy? why him in particular? I, honestly, don't have any specific answers to those questions that I consider better than any others. all I know is that Nico is COMPLETELY obsessed with him. unhealthily obsessed. he is deranged.

now, as for Clancy, I don't personally have any specific timeline or details that I subscribe to more than others, but during SAI, he's obviously getting super messed up. idk if I'll be able to explain this right >:[ but I'm gonna try

Nico's sadistic. Obviously. He enjoys Clancy being in pain, he enjoys his suffering immensely. Nico would probably hit him for no reason, just to see him cry. He does... even worse things to make him cry too.

But that isn't enough. like I said, Nico is deranged. Imprisoning him isn't enough, beating and torturing him ISN'T ENOUGH. Nico wants to own him not just physically, he wants to mentally break him too. Not just to the point of obedience, like the others do, he wants to be Clancy's everything. He wants worship. He wants the sun to rise and set with him. He wants Clancy to look at him like he put the fucking stars in the sky. he NEEDS that, he needs Clancy to feed his ego.

and do not even get me STARTED on how much worse it gets when you add smearing into the mix...

as for, like, other hcs about what their dynamic is like. idk I feel like publicly, in front of other Bishops, Nico at least TRIES to keep up a facade of normalcy. doesn't always go well, anyone who pays even 0.01% attention (Keons) winds up going 🤨🤨🤨, but he tries. privately, I feel like they're both really touchy/ clingy? Clancy's the clingy one, he's so touch starved / deprived of any kind of affection, he's constantly seeking it out, even if he's still bleeding from injuries Nico made not five minutes ago. Nico's less clingy, more... creepily physical? He's constantly moving Clancy around instead of just asking him to move himself, he always has an arm around him or a hand touching him or whatever.

idk man they are just soooo so toxic and then they kiss a bunch and it's great 👍

[lizardkingeliot]

i'm 4.2k into writing this loustat seven-years-underground-era ~fucking and fighting~ fic and i'm finally getting to the fucking the fun part and i deeply want this thing to be 1) under 10k and 2) finished and posted by this time next week so everyone keep your fingers crossed for me this is going to be a chaotic weekend and the psychic damage 2x07 is about to inflict on us all will def be cutting into my writing time 😭

also honestly as much as i don't want this season to be over i'm looking forward to how much extra writing time i'm going to have when my brain isn't being constantly pummeled with the impending excitement/fear of A New Episode for a while at least lmao