#thought this was scorpy for a second

[a-substantial-trash-pile]

quick post art while nobody’s awake 🫡

first drawing: thought it would be fun to see how close i could get to replicating NITW’s artstyle.

second drawin: redraw of a screenshot taken from scorpy’s halloween stream that i thought was real nice. that stream was short n sweet and reminded me of one time as a kid where i woke up with my dad at like 5am and he let me watch teletubbies on our tiny ass tv with crooked attennas as he packed his lunch for work.

[sonicasura]

I've been rewatching an old cartoon from my childhood, Mixels, and just had a crack thought.

Kafka being stuck having to look after all of them. For those who don't know, Mixels is Lego series where each one introduces three tribes and three characters per a tribe. There were 9 series so 81 Mixels in total.

I'll cut the himbo some slack but letting him deal with the Series 1-6. Infernites, Cragsters, Electroids, Frosticons, Fang Gang, Flexers, Glorp Corp, Spikels, Wizztastics, Orbitons, Glowkies, Klinkers, Lixers, Weldos and Munchos to sum it up. Partly cause my ass hated the last two specials with Series 7-9.

Anyway, an unknown anomaly drops all 54 Mixels across Japan with our himbo coming across Scorpi of the Spikels Tribe. Kafka isn't fully aware about the situation since the small scorpion can't exactly talk. Until he finds his second Mixel, the Infernite Flain, around two days later.

The man knows he's way over his head upon learning just how many friends are lost all over Japan. Nevermind the potential chaos as they're highly likely to be mistaken for kaiju. However Kafka is determined to help them.

Cue a countrywide road trip to find the remaining 52 Mixels with some help from the Monster Sweepers. (He needs a good reason to borrow the company van for so long and his coworker friends know when the himbo is lying.) Encounters with the Defense Force are prone to happen.

Kafka is gonna have to be crafty in order to not only dodge them but any nearby Mixels to safety. Who knows what would happen if either are caught? Especially when their unique abilities become apparent.

Housing is an issue they'll have to find out on their own.

[dangerouslydateable]

Scorpio (Star Crossed Myth) my very first route

So, let me get this straight—I’ve been dragged into a celestial soap opera, and my assigned godly nightmare is a guy who looks at me like I personally ruined his entire existence? Fantastic. He radiates ‘I hate humans’ energy so hard, I half expect him to burst into flames just standing next to me. And yet… why does that only make me more curious?”

“I thought I was meeting a god, not a walking anti-human propaganda machine. Every time I breathe, he looks like he’s deciding whether to smite me or just glare me out of existence. If I had a gold coin for every time he called humans weak, pathetic, or useless, I’d be richer than the entire heavens. He’s not just cold—he’s ice-cold, with a side of celestial superiority complex.”

“That moment—that moment—when the disgust in his eyes flickers into something else. When his voice, usually laced with venom, softens just enough to let the truth slip through. He’ll scoff, roll his eyes, and grumble about how annoying I am… but his actions say something different. The way he protects me, the way his touch lingers just a little too long, the way his carefully built walls crack if only for a second. It’s like watching a dying star reignite—blinding, unexpected, and impossible to look away from.”

“The Human-Hating Heartthrob” – Because for someone who despises mortals, he sure has a hard time staying away from this one.

“Scorpi-nope, he hates me” – Until he doesn’t. And then I’m doomed.

[meandmyechoes]

King-Ohger ep42

on a trip and my stream is jumpy so just jotting down as we go

"Gira, don't think anything now. Stand up and defeat him" He's a leader our king

AHH I forgot to revise with the spinoff!! ah parallel lovers out there beware

Oh Lil Racles…

🤔 that confirmed him coronating at 17. Anything more from Prev!Red (and Blue?)

(why did he suddenly started narration like the slide show before death???

wait it IS time for a recap ep at the end of the year 🤣

But the Kings' Theme will make me cry

He did everything for Gira… 😭😭😭

He only knew AFTER the wedding??

So he DOES know something is off during the movie!!

Suzume Dybowski!!

WAHah suzu racles!!

Leave it to kingoh to do a recap ep and still have us on the edge of our seats

Only 9 eps left can you give is a nijichou ep instead of a recap 😭😭😭😭

Woah I… I feel like I'm watching fanfic on screen…

Oh the 'miss your vital points' is recovered here!

They are even recovering THAT clue?? Scorpi's poison from episode 8? So he got the anesthetic from Kagu/knew it's not the real poison

Oh my god Suzuracles!!

"Second thoughts? If you do this, you will be a traitor to humanity too."

"I just want to take another look if I'm not going to see you for a while."

"Meeting you is the luckiest thing that happened to me."

they are not divorcing after the show

And he took the POISON HIMSELF

So… Gira is immortal? But there's still room for why

takamina wrote his snippet into the show

I like how you can't hear Suzume's fake cry until it cuts to the throne room

ZERO helped!!

wait no i actually want to cry even though I heard "Racles's brother" so many times in the preview

HE COVERED FOR HIM

Oh that flash of the creature it's FAR from over

So my guess is Minnogan is the nest of new generation of Dugs and there's just a bunch of Dug embryos inside him and why Dug lets him off easy

Promise now. You will save the people!

I promise you, as King of Shugoddom, to (inherit your determination.)

😭😭 The confidence, the resolve, the understanding that his brother is on the good side after all!!

Ah you're not gonna call him a ototou back?!!

O NII CHAN

They are the LIFE-SAVING TASKFORCE 😭😫

Gira didn't even expect them to help (Racles)… It's okay baby… you're not alone anymore…

[tucsonfog]

Watching scorpy and wayne stream planet 51 did something bad to my brain. i was stuck in traffic omw home today and for a second i had the very genuine thought of "no it's fine i'll just use my car's jump feature and take a shortcut"

[gub-bins]

ok. okokok. i saw the apology. i am formulating thoughts. my intitial reaction is that i liked most of what they had to say. i personally think that wayne's reflection is the most indepth and i appreciate scorpy going the extra step to see if this is something they could talk to fangamer themselves about.

im not native, in fact im mostly white. so i have no grounds to accept this apology whatsoever but im also not gonna say "we all need to look to the native fans/letter writers to see what they say" because they've already had so much attention on them recently and i really really hope none of you are bombarding them with "so what do we do now" questions. just for the sake of not overwhelming them.

overall i still stand by my sentiment that i don't think RTVS are racist, i think they did a racist thing. im glad that they took the time to make sure they worded themselves correctly considering how much of wayne's intial backlash was based off of the assumptions he made and that's what ended up causing most of this.

things of merit take time. patience is a virtue all too undercherished in today's society. that goes for both the members of RTVS, the fans who attacked the letter writers, and (although to a lesser extent) the fans who were mad at the crew when they thought the response was taking too long. everyone needs to take a second to breathe and read over everything once or twice before starting to formulate a response and then think about it two more times before hitting send.

for now i think im gonna keep taking a break from rtvs content just cause i could use less screen time in general but im also not gonna burn my beautiful discs shirt just yet.

[kelzosmellzo]

i just woke up from a dream where i watched rtvs, specifically wayne, mira, gir and scorpy, play the new splatoon dlc but they did it in 4 player co-op. and they achieved this by doing it through gmod, which means the first part of the dream was them setting everything up inside a circular room that looked like a half-life 1 level, and the rest of the game looked like half-life 1 but was splatoon gameplay. and for this stream mira went "i wanna be gordon this time!" which wayne was like "thank god" for and enthusiastically went to pick his "favorite" half-life 2 npc to play as from the gmod menu, which was one male civilians wearing a bright, bright orange shirt.

the entire time they never even acknowledged they were playing gmod they said "we're playing the splatoon 3 dlc" and when they started playing it it was just splatoon 3 gameplay, so it didn't feel like a bait and switch stream where they were joking about playing one thing then doing another, they genuinely thought they were playing splatoon 3 side order through gmod. but anyways, since mira was gordon and wayne was the one streaming, we got to see behind the scenes where we saw him setting everything up with gir and trog, who was also there. and when the stream actually started they kept antagonizing a sentient computer by blowing it up with half-life 1 grenades in the first room while doing the splatoon gameplay. when the computer was blown up, it didn't actually explode but the screen would change to say something Iike "stop hurting me" or "i will remember this" and one sentence that didn't make grammatical sense but scorpy thought it was really funny and i wish i could remember it.

anyways after they left the first room of the game, it became way more about the splatoon gameplay, and everyone was doing their part and playing well, but anytime wayne got an upgrade, gir would insult him for picking swim speed and shoot speed instead of any damage upgrades. and it wasn't like how gir normally pokes fun at wayne, it was rly venomous and hurtful, like he was actively trying to make wayne cry, but wayne just got slightly annoyed. after 2 rooms or so, wayne started lying about the amount of fish eggs he got from each encounter, going "ohhhh, this one just gave me a million eggs?" and when he said it the second time when everyone was on the elevator waiting for him, mira shouted at the top of her lungs going "NO YOU DIDNT! NO YOU DIDNT!!!! SHUT UP!!!!" and then i woke up.

[collarofguns]

on second thought scorpy socpens seems to have streamed it so it looks like i will be watching that and then deciding if i will actually play it myself afterwards 👍

why is everyone on my dash suddenly posting about mouthwashing

[void-watcher-eldri]

oh my gods

Before the stream started I was watching chat spam the blue circle emoji and vaguely thought about how the last fandom I watched a stream for did the same (HLVRAI), sorta reminiscent of that and nostalgic, and just waited it to start

Then the analogue started and I sat there for a second, like, 'this feels like Scorpy's stuff, there's no way. there's no way'

then for it to turn on and be fucking wayne. I'M LOSING MY MIND.

anyways take some of my favorite screenshots I took while this was live

[weirdrtvscomments]

not dream related but one time i was watching a stream (i think it was a scorpy stream) and fell asleep. and woke up and somehow i was in an AI generated stream on another channel. but for a second i thought i was still in the scorpy stream so i tried going back asleep before i realized What The Fuck

.

[imhereforscm]

The gods if they ever went to an escape room

Warning: Dirty joke ahead, if you see any grammar/spelling mistakes... *Sobs into pillow* I tried.

(I love all the gods, so don't come at me for bullying your babes. I'm only joking.)

Leon

Orders Karno around to find the clues.

Keeps making Zyglavis angry and now the workers have the entertainment of their lives.

Karno abandons him.

The people working there have to take him out by the end of this, because boi is STOOPID.

"Karno, I want you to- Karno? Karnoooooooo!"

Scorpio

Curses.

Screeches.

BEGS Zyglavis to let him sacrifice Ichthys.

"Zyg, look at me. This will solve all of our problems."

Teorus

Even if he finds a clue, he'll get lost, so what's the point?

Dui has to hold his hand the entire time, so he doesn't get lost.

"Weird. I remember seeing the EXACT same room 10 minutes ago. Why would they set up two identical rooms?"

Dui

They DID get lost and now the escape room people have to get them out.

Shadow Dui is punching the air, wanting to come out and break his way through the walls.

Or Teorus' face.

He wants to break something. Anything.

"Teorus... How do I put this...? We're lost." —Dui

"We don't need a key, we can use the bull's face and break down the door." —Shadow Dui

Huedhaut

He's the reason why they all managed to get out.

Is tempted to leave their butts there to suffer.

100% sure he says some top of the line roasts, which end up in "Things players have said during escape rooms" tiktoks.

"I was never friends with any of them, so I'm not betraying anyone."

Ichthys

Oh boy, when he finds the cameras.

Surely this evening has led to many ideas for pranks for the very very near future. (Like, the second they get out.)

100% breaks something.

"Scorpy broke it! Come to think of it, he's always angry, right?👀"

Karno

Feels refreshed once he abandons Leon.

But that doesn't mean he can relax. No.

He still has 9 more children (because Hue can manage) that need to be kept alive.

Tries to look for Teorus and Dui, but gets sick of it soon enough and turns his back on them, like "fuck them kids."

"Maybe if Leon never gets out I'll get a promotion. I deserve it after all."

Zyglavis

Is in the brink of allowing Scorpio to sacrifice Ichthys.

Probably actually allows it, but the cameras provide way too many witnesses.

Finds out about Leon's hopeless ass and praises the escape workers, because "bless them."

Constantly stressing out about the possibility of Ichthys breaking anything.

"Ichth-... What's that in your mouth...? Don't make me come over there! Show me. What's in. Your. Mou-"

Aigonorus

Is sleeping the entire time. (They brought him along though, because "Ohana means family family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.")

The only thing that got him out is Tauxolouve, who carried him.

Probably fell asleep on a button/pushed something and ended up solving a riddle by pure accident.

With the way he F E L L down to hibernate, the workers thought he fainted or even died.

*snores loudly beside Tauxolouve's ear*

Krioff

Keeps pressing the help buttons, because "What is that circle on the wall?"

Also brings his face REALLY close to the cameras and stares at the souls of the workers without even blinking.

(He's adorable through the whole thing though. Let's face it.)

"So humans like to decorate their walls with pushable buttons? Nice."

Tauxolouve

Tries to flirt his way out, but let's face it. Trying to be smooth and sexy with a sleeping man on your back, is not very feasible.

Ngl, kinda helps with the clues. (But that's still not even to escape Huedhaut's big revenge.)

"Aigo, I don't know if you're hurting my back or my ego more right now."

Partheno

Also flirts with everything in his way.

Forgets they have cameras and makes pervy comments to Zyglavis and Scorpio.

Once he finds out about the cameras, he does it even more.

"I sure can push the button, but I would prefer pushing you against the wall and-" "Partheno!"

Results

Hue makes the final decision and traps everyone back in the room.

Now he sits with the workers, enjoying the show of everyone trying to get the fuck out without him.

"Wine anyone?"

(Lol, what if the MC worked at an escape room and the gods were players.)

[regaliasonata]

Kingohger Episode 8 had me hooked.

However throughout these recent episodes and the revwla of the Wrath Of God's I've been having theories on where the plot might go.

As we know from Himeno the Wrath was an event that happened when she was a child. Ishabana was attacked by a sickness and her parents were killed via poison from Scorpi. The attacker remains at large however the bugs inhabiting the kingdom during the event looked like locust.

Now Gira, he's been quite the talk of the kingdoms ever since he began to oppose Racles, well even before that because his own brother saw him as a threat against his rule(there's evidence in real history and fiction of brothers killing each other to secure succession but something feels off here).

His motto is to become the evil king but that's all a ruse as Gira is using a metaphor of usurping Racles and his corrupt rule. To change the world for the better, he even can talk to the shugods and form kingohger himself. Now this made me think, that couldn't be the only reason why Bugnarok wanted him.

But then I went back to a small thought from a while back, what if Gira is supposed to be Lucifer in a sense. He's the devil in everyone's eyes but wants to truly alter things, there might be more to him than meets the eye hence Desnarok seeking the guy out.

However back to my full on theory, I feel that the wrath of god's has had various semblance throughout their history. What if there are four full stages approaching before a world changing event, like the four horseman that appear before Armageddon.

The first wrath being conquest, back in ancient times when Bugnarok first appeared. The kingdoms untied with the shugods to fight against the empire, setting up the will for human superiority against "devils".

The second wrath being pestilence, Ishabana being attacked by locusts and a sickness. The pinnacle of medicine throughout all the kingdoms targeted.

The third and current wrath being war, all the kingdoms fighting for Racles or Gira to be on the throne. Human ignorance and lies stirring up tension between the citizens and rulers.

And that leads the final wrath, death. Bugnarok needed Gira as he could be a beacon or "lucifer" to the prophecy to usher in a new age. The end of the world, kingohger controlled by both Desnarok and the evil king leading a crusade against humanity.

Now what's to happen next after that who knows, but for now I just like to think a bit.

Tell me your thoughts?

[scalproie]

subscorp for the ship meme?

teeheehee :)

002 | Send me a ship and I will tell you:

• When I started shipping them: hey did you guys know theres a chin tilt™ in the movie Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle Of The Realms (2021) that Ive seen this january of the year 2022

• My thoughts: I hate them so much. theyre perfect foils in almost every way you can think of. they have an extremely appealing enemies-to-friends arc. in fact they tick most of the enemies-to-friends-to-lovers dynamics in one way or another, in one incarnation or another. with the multiple timelines deal you can even sprinkle a little bit of soulmates trope in there. you cannot have one without the other in the general consciousness. theyre perfect opposites and so similar at the same time. their shared storyline is Romantic with a capital R, with its fair share of drama, revelations, guilt, duty, honor, and conflicted feelings, two assassin clans alike in dignity, in fair earthrealm where we lay our scene. theyre LITERALLY fire and ice and everything about them just bring you back to that point. AND theyre both stupid pretty on top of that.

• What makes me happy about them: they were grown in a lab for 30 years to appeal to me personally💙💛 literally tick every single boxes

• What makes me sad about them: if they werent two guys they wouldve been canon ages ago and you know it

• Things done in fanfic that annoys me: mischaracterization in favor of the author's personal fantasies, usually sexual. Sucks so much when a good fic or a good concept gets ruined by them being OOC during (sometimes uneeded) sexy times. I know thats like, 90% of the fics on AO3 but still, lemme mourn.

• Things I look for in fanfic: if we're going Legends or OG timeline, you can never go wrong with a good old devoted protector scorpion. If we're going current timeline, oooh babey gimme that grandmasters middle age mutual pining, sometimes keeping things simple is where its at.

• My wishlist: so fun fact, most of my wishlist already kinda happened, thanks snowblind but literally everything before it. So I guess I would really just like to see the two of them interact in a casual setting for once, see how theyd normally interact. Second would be cuddles and kisses ofc.

• Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Im a subsmoke enjoyer but ONLY in a tragic doomed teenage romance kinda way, two boy best friends in an extremely restrictive environment that forbid close bonds let alone intimate, come on. Other than that... kuai has stupid chemistry with a lot of characters but in the actual story i dont see a lot of potential candidates. As for hanzo, I like him with harumi ngl, if he manages to get his family back good for him, but just like kuai, the ninjas are pretty isolated otherwise and have the closest narrative bond with each other so if not with the other well I dont think Id see it :/

• My happily ever after for them: Legends/OG timelime wise, scorpy continues to play guardian angel with benefits while kuai gives him a purpose, current timeline is the two grandmasters accidentaly making their clans more and more alike due to them sharing a similar mindset, which could perhaps eventually end with them reuniting the clans as it once was, as joint grandmasters wink wink. but my personal favorite is the mk9 sub zero ending where both of them "disappear together into legends" and are just living together in a little house in the middle of nowhere when theyre not avenging the innocents. and disappear even more into legends when they both get to the netherrealm killing the shit out of everything in sight there.

[atdhpgirl]

So a random thought of mine:(4)

Alright, this one has been in my head for a VERY long time, also we're back to the timeline after the second wizarding war. (Albus had no idea about scorpius's relatives)

Teddy: (minding his own business)

Albus:(talking to scorpius) hey, l haven't introduce you to teddy yet!

Scorpius: Teddy?

Albus: yeah, he's my dad's godson and basically grew up with us.

Scorpius: really?

Albus: yep, though just so you know... His real name is Edward.

Scorpius: EDWARD?? You're kidding!

Albus: no, I am not. You wait a minute.

Scorpius:Oh no

Albus: HEY! TEDDY! COME HERE!

Teddy: WHY?

Albus: JUST COME!

Teddy:( comes over to them) what were you yelling for??

Albus: I made a friend from my own house, just wanted to introduce you two..

Teddy: you made a friend?

Albus: yep, meet scor-

Teddy: scorpy idiot! Haven't seen you in a good while...

Scorpius: keep your mouth closed, Edward..

Albus: you two know each other??

Scorpius: yeah.

Albus: how?

Teddy: because his grandma and my nana are sisters..

Albus: what really??

Scorpius: yep, sometimes when your family was busy anunty Andromeda would leave Edward with us..

Albus:oh... Your related.

Teddy: what ever.. bye sea animal and old wizard.

Albus and scorpius:(together) KEEP YOUR MOUTH CLOSED WEREWOLF !!

[parchmentedpetrichor]

➳the girl in the lilac dress ♠ ♡

in which y/n meets fred's ex-girlfriend, days after fred confessed his love for her. there's still some confusion on the status of their relationship. angst -> fluff. narrated by you, y/n l/n.

fred weasley x fem!reader

word count: ±5.4k

tw: angst (not too bad though), mean words, blood, mentions of auror missions, kidnapping, needles, st mungo's

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ft. hermione, lee and alicia

I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you

I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you

the girl in the lilac dress

i was in a good mood. on the way to work to receive my mission, i was humming a song that had just come out. it was catchy and worth the wait.

out of the corner of my eye, a lilac colour appeared suddenly. strange, i thought. it approached me, in the form of a beautiful woman. she had the lightest grey eyes and the smoothest milky-white skin, and the shiniest locks of dark brown hair. she walked in a flowy lilac gown, her slim model-like body walking in a model-like fashion.

i was pretty sure she wasn't headed towards me, but when her luxurious voice said "good morning" in the calmest tone possible to me, i looked at her confusedly.

"hi!" i replied brightly, smiling.

she smiled sinisterly, "my name is pretoria aphrodite, i'm fred's ex-girlfriend."

he hadn't ever mentioned an ex, but i knew he had dated quite a few people. she made me seem like a glass of water next to a glass of red wine, naive and ugly. i was those two things anyway.

"oh! i'm y/n l/n! nice to meet you, you do seem like a daughter of aphrodite," i said politely.

"darling, all women are daughters of aphrodite. i understand fred's interested in you?"

she observed me and i laughed.

"i don't think that's quite the word. he's my best friend."

"friends with benefits?"

"oh gosh no! i don't really know where we stand, honestly."

"bitter about it?"

i thought for a second, "nah, i couldn't be. love's a hard thing."

"it is, indeed, and you work for the ministry?"

i nodded, "head of the auror office. what about you?"

"i model for witch weekly."

i gasped, "you're the p. aphrodite? i should've known!"

"big fan?" she looked amusedly at me.

"my friends are, so naturally i am."

"you don't seem the type fred usually goes for."

"i wouldn't say he's even going for me," i said cautiously.

"you are much too cutesie for his type."

i glanced up at her. she was smiling kindly.

"pfft, but better cutesie than nothing, amirite?" i asked friendlily, "well it's been nice to talk with you, but i gotta hurry!"

"no worries, i'll come with you, i have some business at the ministry too. have you seen his past exes?"

"uhh, not really?"

"well they're all models for one magazine or another."

"oh, okay. and that's important because...?" i asked her carefully.

"i just thought you should know."

i laughed, "i'm not model material, am i? i don't mind at all."

she looks taken aback. "i would say, with longer hair," she plucked a hair out of my poor mess of locks, "and a shorter upper body, with perhaps lip fillers, you'd look model-like."

her tone was analysing and not at all attacking.

"only three things??" i asked, shocked.

"you are rather... pretty already," she mused, "not model-like, but cute."

we had reached the ministry.

"thanks, see you later!" she waved and disappeared.

all that was left was a buzzing fly which soon flew away.

i immediately dialled in my auror code in the red telephone box and was sent into hermione granger's office.

"'mione! how good to see you!" i hugged her.

"hello y/n!"

in the ministry and the auror department, the head of the auror office was probably more important than the minister for magic. i didn't know why. she had brought me a cup of hot chocolate.

"thanks, 'mione, you didn't need to. what's the mission today?"

"two babies are being held hostage in a coded location by a person who calls themselves the light lord. dark lord, light lord, y'know?" she handed me a coded piece of parchment.

i thoughtfully pondered, "the light lord. who do you need?"

"i was hoping you go on this mission, then you could give me some news on this light lord person."

"that's doable. we'll need to bring in hepole and a ministry official to negotiate passports and such. and a strong auror team."

"right on it. i'll get wally becker and charlotte-ann becker. they're a force to be reckoned with on the borders."

"how much experience?"

"they're twins, been doing this for about fifty years now."

"perfect. and hepole?"

"on the way."

"thanks, minister," i winked at her, getting out my telephone and dialling the disguise unit.

"hello, poplinn speaking."

"pop, we need a few disguises. light lord."

"miss l/n! o-of course!"

"and pop?"

"y-yeah?"

"call me y/n."

i hung up, dialling harry's office.

"harry, call draco and be in my office in ten minutes. i don't care what business he's doing with scorpius, we've got babysitters here. light lord, perhaps a second of voldemort."

"of course."

i picked up the ringing phone that was in the corner of hermione's office.

"y/n, me and scorpy are having a zoo day, we're at the muggle zoo you suggested."

"sorry dray, but it's important."

"there's no one else?"

"there are others, but we need your expertise."

there was a pause, "i won't need to show my dark mark?"

"it's fading anyway. no."

"i'll be paid?"

"in hundreds."

"how old are the children?"

"2 and 4," hermione said.

the silence told me he was sold.

"i'll be there."

i picked up the big microphone and said, "auror unit 156 to the brief room. no need to bring anything. see you there!"

"good luck," hermione grimly said, "be safe, head."

"mhm and cup o' coffee tomorrow? if i survive, that is," i grinned.

"'course."

i smiled, "c'ya!"

she was shaking her head.

"oi, no disappointment, 'mione! i was the one who got the ministry out of paperwork!"

"burning paper doesn't count, y/n."

"it wasn't burning paper, hermione granger, it was arson."

"no, it was the saddest form of arson i've ever seen."

"hey! that's rude."

"just go on your mission already."

i laughed, "on it, minister. kalle?"

kalle looked at me, "yes?"

"tell miss minister to take a break and play a game or something, will you?"

she smiled, "okay."

"give my thanks to your mother too, loved the cookies!"

"alright, good luck, head!"

"thanks, bye!"

i apparated to the brief room, where everyone was strapped into special camouflage clothes.

i handed hepole the parchment and immediately began briefing the unit, harry and draco, on the mission.

"please be safe out there. if you're injured, apparate or travel back here, okay?"

i looked at hepole.

he cleared his throat, "they're in albania. the forest there."

"okay. harry and draco will provide attacking forces," the two nodded.

"i want lopex, quentin blake, quentin grill and hilly to break into any establishment," i say to the team, "and eron, hawks, melv, argonas to hold the offender hostage. johnathan, team healer as always. i'll take the children. hepole, you come and accompany us till the forest, then you have my permission to stay back, and beckers, stay invisible with the cloak, write a report for the minister when you come back, understand? have faith, team! i believe in you. we travel by apparition with the machine in three minutes. call your family, chat, have a snack, drink some water, and relax."

i picked up my telephone and dialled my parents.

"hi mum, dad, i'm going on a mission!"

"alright, be safe sweetie," my mum called.

"yeah, don't die kiddo," my dad added.

"right right, i love you, bye!"

the mission was successful. we rescued the children and sent the kidnapper to trial for azkaban. i escaped with a gash on my forearm, but quickly fixed it up with a spell. it ended late in the evening, so the team healer had gone home. the wound kept opening again, but i wasn't sure if it needed stitches.

putting everything away and making sure the aurors were okay, i headed back to the apartment i shared with fred.

i felt emotionally and physically drained, ready to enjoy a good shower and a good late dinner.

when i fiddled with the key to the door and opened it, my heart absolutely stopped.

pretoria aphrodite was kissing fred passionately. i felt my heart fall ten thousand flights of stairs in disappointment. of course. i was all a rebound who was pathetically in love with him.

when they stopped and saw me, pretoria smirked and fred stood up, astounded.

"uhh, continue? sorry," i apologised awkwardly.

"wait, y/n, it's not what it looks like-" he said.

"i don't mind, be safe," i smiled, too tired and too weak to do anything, closing the door and feeling tears well up in my eyes as i took my bag and myself somewhere. anywhere away from this all. my wound burned. i cursed under my breath as i made my way to st mungo's.

"y/n, you should have come here earlier!" yvonne, my friend, says, as she slowly injects a needle into me, "it's infected! and it needs stitches."

i laughed, "everything needs stitches. this is why i didn't become a healer, yvonne."

she shook her head in dismay.

"lol."

i watched the needle go in.

then she stitched the bloody mess of a wound up, cleaning it gently.

"now i can't stay, y/n," i pouted, "no, don't give me that face, i have other patients."

i nodded, "thanks yvonne."

"no problems. take care. you're too reckless."

"am not!"

she laughed. "that's funny."

after the trip to st mungo's which was pretty short, i wondered what to do. my mind kept floating to the scene i had just witnessed.

i was just the stupid, stupid, girl he used as a rebound. he didn't even use me as a real rebound, just someone who was simply infatuated with him to help him forget his unforgettable ex.

looking at a shop window, i caught a glimpse of myself. i hated being insecure but it happened.

i looked ugly. eyes too small, nose too big, lips not full enough. my thighs touched and i didn't have abs. i had a long gash running down my forearm, surrounded by other cuts. my hair was messy and disgusting. compared to the angel on earth pretoria was, i was nothing. small and plain was nothing when luxurious and beautiful was present.

and it hurt. my heart hurt. my head hurt.

i shook my head gently of my thoughts, chuckling bitterly.

fred weasley was completely and utterly out of my league.

whatevs, i thought. hurting was fine.

deciding to get over him once and for all, i bought some groceries and apparated to the doorstep of lee and alicia's glamorous cottage.

i knocked twice on the door. "hellooo!" i called out.

"baby, can you get that?" lee asked alicia.

alicia opened the door, smiling as she saw me.

"hey ali!"

"hi! come in!"

at first glance i could tell she knew something wrong.

"can i sleep here tonight? and take a shower? and eat some of your food please guys? and maybe steal a shirt i left here for safekeep? and maybe use your telephone? i'm really sorry for troubling you, so i got you guys snacks."

i was the second cousin by marriage of lee. it was good overall, but he was super naughty.

"snacks?"

"your favourites."

"then i guess you can," he said cheekily and i laughed.

"alicia, i don't know how or why you ended up with this child, but i'm glad you did," i told her and she laughed heartily.

"he's cute, isn't he?"

"no," i quickly stepped into the guest bedroom and took a long shower, letting a few tears slip but not enough so that it looked like it. i was subtle.

i bundled up in heavy clothing and wrapped my hair in a towel.

gingerly, i bandaged the wound.

by the snores in the other room, lee was asleep. i crept out quietly, going to cook something.

alicia was sitting down, with my favourite comfort meal prepared. i felt tears of appreciation well up in my eyes.

"thank you, ali, i love you."

"you damn well do."

we both giggled.

"what happened?" she asked me.

"nothing. i just wanted a change."

"from fred? liar. i'll ask again. what happened, y/n?"

"just a long mission, that's all."

"after long missions you usually watch movies with fred."

"couldn't i visit my best friend and my cuz?"

"you visit us on weekends. it's a friday."

"well i wanted to visit you!"

"bullshit."

"is it that hard to believe?"

"what the fuck did fred do to you?"

"nothin'?"

"c'mon y/n, you have to tell me. there's a reason why you didn't go to angie and george's tonight."

"i went here because they're super kissy. you guys have space and act normally. i appreciate that."

"you're awesome at lying."

"i'm not lying!"

"does this happen to involve pretoria aphrodite?"

i nodded, sighing, "she's so nice and pretty." i played with my food.

"i bumped into her. she's pretty, but not nice."

"oh?"

"she called me fiercely ugly. she forgot i model for witch weekly too."

"what did you say back?"

"i told her to fuck off."

i laughed, "she was very nice to me. but next time i see her imma kill her."

"of course she was nice to you, you're a lil angel! anyway, she's an animagus, didya know?"

"whoa how did you know?"

"caught her in a jar. she's a fly. who do you think told hermione to catch rita skeeter in the jar?"

i laughed, "rita skeeter is a beetle! gosh, she's annoying."

"what did fred and pretoria do?"

"nothing."

"please tell me?"

"they-" i swallowed, "they were kissing, and so i came here because i didn't wanna watch anymore."

"hang on, he told you he loved you a few days ago?"

i nodded.

"that doesn't seem right."

i shrugged, "pretoria's better than me. i don't blame him."

"his mother would kill him!"

i shrugged again, "i don't think he was legit when he said that."

"molly weasley, y/n!"

"look, he can explain it to you, i don't even wanna hear it. the first stage of mourning is denial, they say."

"doesn't mean it's good."

"denial is awesome. it's ignorance, but you choose to be stupid. i'm already so stupid!" i groaned, covering my face with my hands, "so so so so so so so stupid, foolish, dumb, and i don't want you to tell me i'm not because i know i am. pathetic."

i gobbled down the rest of the meal, "ths 's delicous," i said, swallowing, "g'night!"

"don't be afraid to let it all out."

"yeah."

i shut the door softly, before brushing my teeth and collapsing exhaustedly on the bed, nodding off quickly.

the next day, i woke at 4am, and put on new clothes, apparating to the phone box and filling out paperwork for the missions yesterday.

i joined hermione quickly, handing her a cappucino and sipping my mocha.

"court sitting this early?" she asked me.

i nodded, "mistake of sirius black, now they do all court sittings within 24 hours of arrest."

"that's smart."

"yeah. it's good. he's obviously guilty right? just a dust of veritaserum to bring it all out?"

"i reckon he'll just confess."

"criminals don't go down easily."

"you guys did a spotting job. the children were unharmed."

"are they here today?"

"they're in st mungo's. being monitored."

"parents?"

"dead."

"oh gosh, those poor children. what's going to happen to them?"

"someone's adopting them, wally becker and his wife."

"that's awesome."

the court hushed as we entered the room. hermione and i shared amused glances and began the sitting.

he was found to be guilty and was chucked in azkaban.

"what an idiot, sending a message like that."

"yup," i chuckled, "what with hepole in our ministry, they never escape."

we laughed.

"how's everything with ron?" i asked her.

"i don't know if he's still into me?"

i almost laugh at her statement, "bro. of course he is."

"i never see him."

"then see him more!"

"how? i'm so busy!"

"busy enough for ron?" we both took sandwiches from the canteen lady with courteous smiles and words.

we sat down at the cafeteria.

"i guess not, but he's busy!"

"busy enough for you?"

"i guess not."

"'xactly."

"but he might not wanna go on a date."

"why? the boy's obsessed with you, 'mione!"

the aurors and ministry workers looked at us in fear as i rose up. i chuckled.

i immediately skipped over to the telephone, putting in the WWW's number.

"y/n! what on earth are you doing?" hermione said in a panicked tone.

"nothing to be worried 'bout."

"hello?" it was george. i thanked the heavens for that.

"yolo george, give the phone to your lil bro please."

"'kay."

hermione was gaping at me. i smirked at her.

"y/n?"

"hey ron, i want you to meet me in rosemary park at 5pm today."

"o-okay."

"could you also bring hermione's favourite snacks and wear an extra jumper?"

"what? why?"

"i'm curious, that's all," i said, "see you there!"

"is that y/n?" i heard fred's voice.

"nup, it isn't," i replied.

and with that, i hung up.

"hey 'mione?"

she was glaring at me, "what."

"meet me at rosemary park at 5pm?" i batted my eyelashes at her, before bursting out in laughter.

she laughed, "i love you."

"pfft, love ya too. you really are too careful. like he would reject you."

"what do you think i should wear?"

"let's go off work early today, at 3," i suggested, "we're both on top of our work anyway."

"okay! you wanna go now?"

"it's 11?"

"yeah!"

"alrighty! kalle!"

kalle turned to us, "yes?"

"hi! me and minister are going out to talk about the mission."

"alright, bye."

we apparate to hogsmeade.

"what theme do you wanna go for?"

"hmm," she thought for a second, "floral!"

"alrighty!" i fumbled for my cell phone and dialled the WWW's again.

"hello?" it was fred this time.

"heyo freddie," i said to him like nothing had ever happened, "tell ron to dress up at 5 pm in something cute but not too out there, preferably in florals or somethin', and he better bring me hermione's favourite flowers."

"wha? if he's going with you then- ohhhh."

"thanks, bye."

"wait!"

"mhm?"

"can we talk?"

"erm- about what exactly?"

"everything."

i sighed, "later, okay? i'm out with hermione and you've got work."

"okay. have a good time, lovely."

"you too."

i was utterly confused. here he was one day kissing pretoria, and now he was calling me lovely?

what the hell was going on?

"let's go, mione!"

we went and bought her a pretty pink dress with white lilies adorning it. it was cute and definitely casual, sort of like a sundress.

"what if he doesn't come?" hermione chewed on her lip.

"hermione jean granger, we both know that ron is absolutely definitely a thousand times head over heels in love with you. he wouldn't ditch you for the world! and look at you! anyone can see he's lucky to have you! you both are star-crossed. when has he ever ever ditched you?"

"with lav brown."

"lavender, she's, she's dead, hermione," i said carefully, "fenrir greyback bit her to death. it was a tragic, heroic, death. she was listed in the extended casualties sent to my office a few months after the battle. i think she's watching down on us from wherever she is up there."

"she's dead?"

"yeah," i replied sadly, "life is so short."

"yeah."

"what i'm tryna say, is that that might've happened, but it won't happen again now that he knows you love him and he loves you. understand?"

"yeah."

"and love him well, for the sake of lavender brown."

"for the sake of lavender brown," she said, smiling.

"yup, now, light lord. his name is actually pont knight."

"pont knight?"

"former assistant of me."

"pont knight?"

"yeah, i know right."

"how did he go again?"

"oh, i fired him," i laughed.

"why?"

"smart guy but terribly lazy and he kept asking for promotions! like please do something if you want money."

"interesting."

"he moved to eastern europe to chase after the trendiness of the islands. i think it was just an excuse. he's changed. he used to be clean-shaven and have the blondest hair."

"do you think he did anything else?"

"we did put him on veritaserum, right?"

"yeah, but it's illegal to put someone on it for more than 10 minutes now in court sittings."

"we could go visit him in azkaban later? i'll take gregir."

"yeah, maybe tomorrow or the day after?"

i nodded, "'course. today is a rest day for the aurors right?"

she nodded, "yeah, half of the agency is at home or working out in the gym."

"good. sometimes this work is so tolling, 'mione."

"yeah, i heard from st mungo's you got hurt?" her eyes were concerned.

i rolled up my sleeve, "that's it."

"that's it? what do you mean, that's terrible! you need to take better care of yourself."

"well sometimes it's hard to. it was worth it."

we continued chatting until it was 4:30.

"oop!" she checked her watch, "i have to go!"

"good luck! tell me how it goes, minister! i'll head back to check if anyone's called for you or me and dust it all up."

"thanks. i owe you."

"nah. i owe my job to you. if minister for magic didn't exist, i wouldn't either. i love you 'mione, be safe!"

"love you too!"

i apparated to the phone box and typed my letters in.

with a whoosh, i immediately spotted two letters and a beeping phone. i answered the phone, solving the problem of the woman on the other end of the line and scribbled a reply to both of the letters.

i finished the paperwork and sent it off, then visited my office. it was piling with letters. i answered all of them, redirecting some of them to different departments, before calling everyone back.

i spotted some of the aurors from yesterday's mission sitting in the cafeteria and talking.

i sat down next to them, "how are you guys doing? any injuries?"

they shook their heads, "we've been spending time in the healer's office and just exercising lightly by the orders of johnny," argonas explained and i nodded.

"take it lightly, and go home if you want to. seeing family always helps the process, hopefully not too many nightmares?"

they laughed, "nightmares all the time, miss," hawk said lightly, "get used to it in this job."

i frowned, "have you tried speaking to doctor yvonne? she might have ways to solve nightmares."

"ahh, miss, sleeping draughts can only do so much," hawk replied cordially.

i laughed, "alright, hawkeye, but just make sure you're not getting traumatised okay? what about you, lopex, quentins?"

they shrugged.

"it's okay? the door was very hard to bust into," lopex said quietly, "we had to try several bombarding charms."

"now, lop, it was easy work!" draco said, sitting down, "hello, head auror, hello unit."

it brought on a cacophony of greetings.

"how are you doing, dray?" harry sat down next to him, "hi everyone!"

we all replied with more greetings and a steady conversation started and flowed for a couple of hours.

i felt my cell phone go off and i excused myself, noting it was 9pm already.

i apparated to the apartment doorstep, knocking on the door just in case anything was happening. i checked the caller id, it was hermione.

fred opened the door, hair messy, still good looking. i smiled at him, patting his shoulder as i ran to the ringing telephone and picked it up.

"y/n!" i could just hear the beam in hermione's voice.

"'mione! how did it go?"

"absolutely wonderful, head auror, ahhh, he's so cute!"

"what happened?" i asked, smiling already.

"well it was really cold when i saw the picnic blanket, which was matching my dress for some weird reason, and ron was there in the cutest button up and he looked so handsoME and he gave me a flower, he's always handsome but i just can't! ahhhh!" she squealed and i clapped my hands in excitement.

"and then i was shivering and he gave me hiS JUMPER and it smelled like him and oh my gosh i think i might just be in love, y/n!"

i giggled, "my cooling charm did work!"

"whaT y/n????"

cackling, i said, "continue, i wanna hear more this is so adorable!!!"

i ignored the dirty glance fred gave me, quietening my voice.

"and then we had food and he said he had cooked it himself and was being such a dear and i told him that i loved him over and over again!!!"

i squealed silently again.

"and, and, gosh my english has gone out of the window!"

"english is nothing compared to the language of love!!" i giggled.

"we watched the sunset whilst cuddling, and i fell asleep and then when i woke up i was in his bed and he was looking at me intently and i just, i'm the luckiest girl alive!"

"you are but you deserve it! that's so sweet! i'm happy for you goshhh, you are the cutest couple. you're both such darlings!"

"and then we watched a muggle movie and he got scared of the spiders and it was so adorable ahhhhHHHH!!!"

"that's the cutesttttt," i gushed.

another dirty look from fred. i gave him a frown back.

"and then he walked me home and it started raining and we kissed in the rain and another check off of my bucketlist and oh my gosh he's so perfect."

"oh gosh that's beautiful," i was smiling uncontrollably.

"anyway," her tone changed into one of mischief, "wanna meet up tomorrow to talk about it?"

"sure thing! when and where? i'll be there!"

"erm, lemme chec- think," i heard the suspicious rustling of papers.

"you're sus. let's just talk about it over the phone. i don't want anything weird."

"how about 10 am in the morning at the field of fireflies?"

"that's a highly romantic place, miss minister. isn't it for couples or something?"

"no? you must be talking about fiona farm."

oh. "yeah, probs, well okay, it better have good coffee. i'm dying of boredom too, does it have a playground??" i asked, hopefully crossing my fingers.

"nope."

"awww, shucks, i don't think i'll go then. you wanna come over though?"

"no please come! there's a surprise!"

i was sold, "lovely. i'll be there at 9:30!"

"no, no, don't do that."

"what the hell, hermione, you're being so suspicious!"

"i'm not, okay? just come on time, you won't regret it."

"if there's any funny business i'm not committing arson ever again."

"oh crap."

i sighed.

"just come anyway!!! good night cheerio!!!"

"what the-"

the line ended.

i frowned, noticing the glare fred gave me yet again.

"is everything okay??" i asked him.

"no," he said rudely.

"well, do you need any help?"

"no."

"how was your day?"

"fine."

i sighed, "okay."

"you called ron cute."

i laughed lightly, "that's it?? and so what's kissing a girl huh, nothing? i called him cute because he treats 'mione like a goddess, because she is a goddess, for goodness sake. and he is cute, in a completely objective way," i added absentmindedly, "all you weasleys are."

he frowned.

"she kissed me!"

"oh i don't mind, i couldn't. my two braincells can't handle it. you kiss whoever you wanna, okay? live, laugh, love, and all that." i smiled.

he was silent.

"and we can talk after i meet up with hermione, okay?"

"okay."

"we don't needa if you don't wanna, of course. g'night."

"have a nice sleep."

the next morning, i got up and went to the field of fireflies or whatever.

it was a beautiful place. it was a full on field. meadows stretched across the near english countryside. the sky was clear and light, and the world around me was stunning.

winds blew from all directions, and i soon found myself accio!ing a jumper.

"hermioneeee???" i called, "you're leaving me hanging."

had hermione stood me up? i chuckled at the very thought, soon rolling in the field of flowers as i laughed.

"hermione you devil you stood me up! you left your poor little work wife hanging!" i shouted dramatically.

i suddenly spotted a little house? by the side of the meadow.

i ran towards it.

"whoa."

it was absolutely magnificent. beige little bricks were stacked on top of each other, grey bricks dotted in. the shillings were dark green, and plants hung out everywhere in the cracks of the house.

large windows which reflected the blue light in the sky spanned across the whole house, and a single wooden door stood ajar.

i just wish i had brought a camera. i sat on the grass, playing with the hem of my jumper sadly. even hermione didn't have time for me. i wondered what a sad person i must seem like.

"contemplating life there?" i heard a far off voice. i swung my head around, seeing fred standing and grinning.

yeah well duh i was, no thanks to you, i thought.

i immediately got up.

"we can talk here, right?" fred asked, as he brought me into the house.

"wow," inside, it was cluttered and messy, with plants sprouting everywhere and bookcases and things everywhere. i loved it.

"you like it?" he asked.

"love it."

"good, because i bought it," he laughed at my flabbergasted expression, "i'm rich, darlin'. let's sit, i cooked lunch."

"was this your plan? to have hermione stand me up?" i asked.

"love, i wouldn't call this a plan. simply just a boy trying to explain himself."

"look i don't need an explanation. i told you, you can love whoever you wanna, i don't mind, i don't care, i support."

"but i'm gonna have to explain because i wanna kiss you."

"then go ahead," i sighed, "if you're lying i will stab you."

"jeesh okay."

i looked at him.

"oh yeah, i forgot the food, here," he said casually, handing me a plate filled with yummy looking delicacies. i was willing to put up with his rubbish story telling for the food, i guess.

"alright, i'm all ears."

"okay. so she talked with you right?"

i nodded.

"did she take a piece of hair from you?”

i nodded again.

"so you came home just right about when the night lights flicker on in london. or so i thought it was you. it was actually, aphrodite, yeah? in polyjuice potion. and she knocked on the door, which i thought was strange. i opened it and she immediately kissed me, as you. and it was weird but it was you and i would give the world to kiss you like that," he said bluntly and i could feel my face heating up, "and then it went like that for a few seconds and she turned into pretoria, and by then the woman had her claws on me. then the door opened and i knew i had made a mistake and then you left and apologised so sweetly. i'm so so sorry, my love, please, i never meant to hurt you, i never meant to do anything. i broke up with her last year. i haven't wanted to be with her since. i want to be with you."

i looked at him. i knew he was genuine.

"okay. i'm sorry too, for not trusting you. i guess i was just really unsure of our relationship. it's still kinda blurry."

"what do you wanna be?"

"could we be official, please?"

he grinned, "of course."

then smiling sheepishly, he added, "can i kiss you now?"

"only if i'm the only girl you kiss from now on," i teased, smiling.

he blushed, placing my hands over his heart. it was beating very very fast.

"feel that, beautiful?"

i nodded.

"only you."

he gave me a cheesy grin and laughed at my blushing face, before tilting my head upwards and going in for a kiss but kissing my cheek.

"that's not fair!"

and that's how his head ended up falling into my lap, as i ran my fingers through his ginger strands.

he had fallen asleep just as the sunset began.

it was breathtaking. hues of orange and red danced across the sky.

"i can think of something a lot more beautiful than that," fred said, smiling.

"oh?"

"yeah. yeah."

"i don't believe you."

"that's because you can't see yourself right now."

[mchi22]

☕ Tell us about your thoughts on an HLVRAI character of your choice

oh bestie you have given me too much power <3

so benny from funny. nobody knows how 2 characterize him correctly and it pains me. wayne said MULTIPLE times throughout the commentary/q&a streams that scorpy basically wasnt even playing a character, and scorpy mentioned that he kept needing to chime in with random antagonistic shit because he forgot he was even supposed to be playing a villain. repeatedly through the series, but more noticably in act 4 specifically, benrey alludes to not wanting to go to xen, which can be interpreted as being because he knows theres no way he can avoid his role as the final boss once they go there.

during the battle, he switches between being actively hostile towards everyone else, and saying how he didnt want things to go this way- he doesnt want to be the final boss.

benrey isnt a bad person, really. he had to fulfill his role as the final boss, but ultimately the only person he hurt was gordon, who got his hand back in the end anyway. he was a fucking nuisance and intentionally provoked gordon repeatedly, but hes not evil.

when benrey comes back in the acab stream, he doesnt hold any resentment for gordon or anyone else in the science team for killing him. a lot of people like to take the more realistic approach of depicting their relationship where both parties need time to become used to each other's presences, but in the acab stream, the time it takes between gordon acknowledging benrey and saying "im coming to terms with the fact that benrey is here" is 56 seconds. now that theyre out of black mesa, benrey has no obligation to be a villain, so theres no reason for him to hate gordon or vice versa. hes still an asshole, sure, but that all ties back to the fact that hes a character played by scorpy, who is friends with wayne. they dont hate each other, so its presumably hard for them to try and depict hatred between their characters, so they both act half-heartedly rude and petty to each other in a way thats still obviously just baseless banter

so like yeah, benrey is still causing problems and being antagonistic, but its clearly in a friendly way, or at least much more so than in hlvrai

so basically in conclusion benny is a little bitch but hes not evil and didnt wanna be the villain ok thanks (-: