#(( hey everyone. So I know I briefly said before that IRL I do be going through it. ))

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Can I get Eddie Munson x reader where he's comforting them while they're dealing with a bad home life? (Dealing with this irl and could use some comfort)

A Steady Hand

Eddie Munson x Male!Reader

Summary: Usually you can hear your parents arguing through the walls of the trailer, even if you're in your room with your headphones on. You just didn't think that your neighbor would be able to hear them too.

Warnings: Yelling, arguing, mentions of abuse, physical proof of abuse, close encounter with violence (reader is almost harmed,) protective Eddie, Eddie yelling at adults, police

Author's Note: I love this request dearly and I hold it close to my heart. This writing is coming from my soul on this one, I understand having a bad home life. And anon, I you need help on it please don't hesitate to reach out for it.

If you or someone you know is being abused, please call this help line as soon as possible.

1(800)-799-7233

That being said, please enjoy the fic and don't continue reading if you get to a point where you're feeling mentally unwell. Stay safe and look out for yourselves. I'm sorry for droning on. I'm sorry if this isn't exactly what you were wanting.

You ran your hand over your face, your Walkman loosely clutched in your hand as you stared at the ceiling. Your music was playing at full blast, an older song from some 70s album playing. You couldn't pay attention to it even with how much you tried to. Your step-dad's yelling pierced through any other sound coming from your headphones and at this point it was just getting annoying.

You heard a door slam in finality, your cue that the argument was over. You'd been dying for some water, so you slid your legs off the side of the bed and you stepped to the floor where the cold seeped into your skin.

Padding to the kitchen, you pulled a cup down from the cabinet and walked to the sink before the door once again slammed.

"What are you doing up? It's 3 in the morning, boy." You couldn't help the flinch you gave, dropping the plastic cup you were holding before turning to your stepfather.

"Just getting some-" you were interrupted by a loud knock on the door, both you and your step-dad's gaze going to the source of the noise. His nose scrunched up in distaste.

"The hell could be knockin' at this time of night?"

He snatched the door open and you turned the corner to sneak a peek at who it was. A young man shorter than your stepfather was rocking back and forth on his heels, his long dark brown curls swaying back and forth with his movement. You peeked out from behind your stepfather as he spoke. "The hell you want? Aren't you from the next trailer over?"

You recognized him, Eddie Munson. You'd both hung out and you got along swimmingly well, but you were worried about what he was doing here.

"Uh, yeah man I'm your neighbor. That trailer real close? Yeah, close enough, I heard some yelling? Came to make sure everyone was okay." When he spoke of his own trailer, he pointed to it before whirling his head back around to look at your step-dad. He briefly glanced at you, only for a moment but it was a moment too long. The tall man whipped around to look at you and you flinched when the attention was suddenly on you.

"What're you still doing out?!"

"Uh- Hey- Let's calm down, right?" Eddie stepped forward, one foot inside the house and he reached out to touch the taller man on the shoulder in an attempt to get his attention back on himself.

It happened too fast for your brain to register, but your step-dad had managed to get Eddie thrown from the trailer, down the steps and onto the grass of the lawn. You panicked, already seeing the blood coming from Eddie's nose when he sat up and you rushed past your step-dad before he had time to catch you.

You gripped on to Eddie's forearm to help him up and he squinted at you. "No, I'm fine, I'm fine. Are you okay? You good?" You nodded and he nodded in return, patting your back. "If you don't feel safe, my Uncle is in our trailer. 'Kay?" He gave a nod and you nodded in return, standing up and beginning to make your way to the trailer.

"Get your ass in this house!" Your step-dad yelled and Eddie instinctively pushed you behind him. His front door opened and who you presumed was his uncle stepped onto the porch.

"Listen, you don't have to go. You don't have to listen to him, it'll be okay- Wayne, call the cops!" You nodded and turned and he followed behind you as you went to his trailer.

Wayne darted out of the way when you got to the door, the landline in his hand which he quickly handed to Eddie when the metalhead walked in behind you. "Yeah, here he is."

Eddie took the phone, puffing his cheeks and sighing under his breath. "Yyyyyyello? This is he. Yeah."

He wanders off into his room with the phone, the cord not letting him go far but you watch as he keeps glancing at you. You were so focused, you didn't notice Wayne offering you a wet washcloth.

"I dunno if you've got any injuries, but I'd rather not be pokin' and proddin' and invading your privacy." You smiled softly at him, taking the washcloth and giving him a thank you before Eddie came back into the living room. Wayne didn't even give Eddie the same courtesy he gave you, just pressing a washcloth to his nephew's nose and earning a hiss from the brunette.

"Hey- Wayne-" He winced again as he took a hold of the washcloth from the older man. There were loud bangs on the door and Wayne shook his head with a sigh before glancing at you.

"Door's locked and I've got my gun in the closet. You're safe." You nodded along, worrying about the idea of the gun and hoping it wouldn't come to that.

In your thoughts, you felt a gentle touch to your jaw and looked up to see Eddie's big brown eyes looking at you with worry. "Hey, you okay?" He moved to sit next to you on the couch you'd managed to sit down on and you scooted out of his way. "He won't get in, cops are on the way. Wayne's got work but I'll be here if you wanna stay."

You laughed softly at how giving he was being. You looked at the washcloth he was holding to his nose to catch the blood and gestured to it.

"I should be asking about you."

"I wasn't talking physically."

Your brows furrowed in confusion. "What?"

"I was asking if you were okay up in that pretty head of yours." He gave a gentle tap to your temple for emphasis. "You don't have to worry about me, I'm fine. I'm supposed to be worrying about you." You stared at him for a long moment, taken back by his words. You didn't know what to say to that.

After a long moment, you sighed under your breath and flopped into Eddie, your head laying on his shoulder and he fumbled for a moment before resting his hand on your back.

"It's okay, it's okay. You're safe. I've got you." He gave Wayne a nod when the older man rubbed his back. He got a pat in return.

"Keep the door locked until the police get here. You stay safe, keep him safe." Eddie nodded and gave him a smile, patting Wayne on the shoulder. Wayne knew his boy would keep you Sage.

There was a knock on the door and he nodded again. "Speak of the devil." He opened the door and let the officer inside, Police Chief Hopper giving him a nod. Wayne said something about needing to go to work and he was excused, Hopper looking to where you were slumped against Eddie on the couch.

"It wasn't my fault this time. I swear."

"I know, we got your guy out there in cuffs. His wife testified against him and technically he was attempting a break-in." He gave a fake wince and shrug. Eddie laughed a bit and shook his head. He gently rubbed your back and leaned down to speak into your ear in a gentler tone.

"You hear him?" When you nodded, he kept speaking. "You want to go back home or stay the night? Whatever you feel more comfortable with." He looked up. "As long as we're not further needed." Hopper held his hands up.

"Nope, just came to tell you we caught the guy. Wanted to make sure the kid was okay." Eddie nodded and thanked him.

You had taken some time to talk to your mom and make sure she was okay. She'd said she was going to go see some friends and said you should spend some time with Eddie, stating that he was obviously calming for you and he was a safe person. You knew she was in a rough spot, but you did as she told you.

So here you were, it was 7 in the morning and you were currently dying laughing as Eddie told the tale of his latest adventure as a Dungeon Master.

"Yeah, Henderson was so confident that he goes 'I am going to kick your ass!' So I looked him dead in the eye and asked him, 'Oh really? Roll deception.' He was furious that I told him to roll deception instead of persuasion." You were dying of laughter and Eddie pulled the TV dinners out of the oven as he spoke. You were sitting on the counter wearing one of Eddie's shirts and a pair of boxers. He'd asked you if you wanted to take a shower and you accepted gratefully.

You'd missed hanging out with Eddie. He was a walking ray of good vibes and kindness and anybody who knew him could see it.

He finished prepping the food and laughed triumphantly as he handed you your own tray, smiling softly and you gave him a smile in return. "Thanks."

You both ate dinner for breakfast and settled down to watch a movie on the couch.

Even if things weren't that stable, you knew you could find some comfort in having Eddie close.

[drdtdreams]

at first the premise was like, me, as my usual irl self, trying very hard not to get outed by amazon delivery then i had a breakdown and whit young was on my couch watching concerned and i was like ‘omg sempai noticed me��� or something and started breaking down harder in hopes that he would approach me and like give me a hug or something. he did not. i remember thinking ‘ok yea that’s what ao3 is for’ then i guess dream world got bored and directly put me into drdt, so it was like, the beginning of the killing game, only the building was completely different. we were in like a huge walk-in freezer type building. come to think of it it was kind of like a 3d am*ng us building. and instead of meeting everyone in one place, it was like canon danganronpa where you have to strenuously go around the huge building and find and individually talk to everyone. first i saw veronika, and she said something to the effect of ‘wowee i love people attacking each other!!’ so i tried to look for who was attacking each other and where but there wasn’t anybody so apparently she just felt like saying that. then i go to the hallway and it’s like, a high height from the hallway platform, and there’s a magical glowing barrier on the railing, and veronika says something something ‘omg what a high height! what if you fell’ and i look down and there’s neon yellow decora min sitting in an egg chair and arei being a monstrosity as per usual. so me, knowing min is not usually neon yellow, wonder what happened. i ask the bunny ear tv on the wall and a talking red cartoon 3d model shoe appears in the static, gives me a thumbs-up, and tells me that whoever falls in gets retextured. so i go in to test it and become weird idk. then i get out, but go back in because four people just let their impulsive thoughts win myself included, i think teruko, arei, veronika, and me. so i’m like ‘oh tv shoe please let us back up’ and it actually listens and gives me a thumbs-up and i peace sign at it, before briefly considering whether min jeung would commit that hand gesture. oh yeah i’m min now, just kinda. became her. so the next room i investigate is the actual fridge room, where there wasn’t anybody but gosh golly gee there was cake. stacks on stacks. and also bottles of tea, actually one part was actual boxes with like a liter of colorful iced tea, and i was like ‘hey i think hu would like this’ and look around but she is not there. and there was food, so i was not going to look for her. then randomly i look at a pink frilly cake that says ‘diaries’ and monotv shows up is like ‘oooo that’s where things get dark’ and the fridge lights turn red menacingly. the killing game rules get explained, and it is *literally* just roblox flicker only everyone can kill each other whenever and you can also parkour. so while everyone is dropping notes and diaries and dying and killing and whatnot with paintball guns on the fridge room aisles, i, min jeung, am hiding in a corner consuming four rectangular stacks of cake and a bottle of boba tea. then i realize the crumbs on my face count as ‘evidence’ and i go through the now-white void world to wipe the crumbs off of my face. i do not even like cake irl.

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[darckcarnival]

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[worminstuff]

hello!! could you write a fic (in game or irl) about dream and the reader being friends. then he gets jealous of one of the boys and then accidentally blurts out that he likes the reader? just something really fluffy lol. i hope you have a great day!! i just got caught up on all your fics (bc i’m a simp) and i just wanted to say they make me go SO soft:) -anon xo

your brain...it must be so big...

Dream x reader

no warnings, maybe a bit of angst but mostly fluff!!!!

in this fic its set in game, so theyre not playing the games at computers an all theyre in it, not usually how my fics go but were trying it:) (dont try to wrap your head around logistics im not making this a lore)

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Dream, George, y/n and Sapnap were all say on the docks tubbo had built. George was stood fishing, while Dream, y/n and Sapnap were sat at the edge of the dock dangling their legs over.

“Sap did you ever get all those buckets for more fish for the pond around the community house?” y/n turned to him.

Dream felt a twinge of jealousy at the way shed called him sap, she never made nicknames for him..

“i have the buckets, just no fish. why?” they were both looking at each other when y/n sprung to her feet excitedly.

“well were here so why not get some fish!” y/n was already taking off her shoes and socks before he could reply. Sapnap laughed and stood, joining her in taking off his shoes. Dream watched as both rolled up their pant leg's and ran down the dock to the shore line.

“Not gonna go with?” George looked away from his fishing line to pear down at Dream.

“No. Ill let them do it, its their project not mine.” he looked down at his feet as they swung above the water.

George didn't question him but his brows furrowed. Dream was usually glued to y/n whenever they were together. George had an inking about his small infatuation, it was pretty obvious, ironically to everyone except y/n.

George and Dream sat in a comfortable silence until they heard huge splash and a laughing scream from y/n. Though Dream knew immediately that wasn't a scream of fear, he still lept up quickly turning to where Sapnap and y/n were. Upon seeing them, his shoulders shrank.

Sapnap had tackled y/n into the water and was now holding her up, threatening to throw her into the water.

 Dreams heart felt heavy. 

Suddenly Sapnap caught Dreams eyes, both of them staring at each other now. Y/n craned her neck to look back at Sapnap curious why he’d suddenly stopped laughing with her. She followed his line of sight to see Dream, and George now too, staring at the both of them.

Y/n was about to say something when Sapnap suddenly tossed her into the waters, a yelp leaving  her mouth as she collided with the cold water.

George and Sapnap busted out laughing, y/n rose to the surface and quickly started making her way to Sapnap, he laughed and quickly started getting out of the water, baiting her by walking slowly.

Y/n was still confused as to why Dream looked so...upset. She and Sapnap were only messing around. She shrugged it off in her mind though, she had to get Sapnap back.

“Before you two get any more. Whatever that was.. Y/n needs dry clothes now Sapnap, im not gonna deal with a sick y/n.” George said pointedly, as he looked towards Sapnap. Sapnap rolled his eyes and walked ahead as they made their way back to the base.

George decided to catch up to Sapnap, leaving y/n and Dream behind a bit.

Dream looked to y/n, “Are you cold?” 

“A bit, but im okay.” she gave him a small smile and his heart clenched a bit.

Slowly, he unclipped his mask from behind his head as they grew closer to the base. The other three were no stranger to Dreams face, so he kept it on only where he might bump into others like tommy or tubbo.

Y/n had seen his face before, many times actually, but every time he took off the mask, she couldn't help but stare for even a little while. 

Dream looked to her, seeing her already looking up at him. He grinned, “What?”

“Nothin. I just like you with no mask.” She matched his grin. Dreams face grew slightly red at her comment.

They made their way into the base, Y/n quickly heading to her room to get dry cloths.

The boys sat and waited for a bit until they heard y/n from upstairs, “Can I get a shirt really quick! All of mine are dirty..” She sounded slightly embarrassed but the boys were unfazed.

Sapnap got up before Dream could, “I threw her in, so ill give her one of mine.” He made his way up the stairs to his room.

Dream pouted slightly. Now shed be in his clothes? George glanced at him quickly, noticing his expression.

“why are you making that face?” He questioned.

Dream only shook his head. 

“Its not nothing, you were gloomy at the docks too. Are you mad at Sapnap?” He tilted his head a bit.

“No..well maybe a bit. But I shouldn't be.” Dream looked to George finally, and he was about to continue but he was cut off.

“Hey Alexa!” y/n yelled.

“Hey Alexa!” Sapnap yelled back.

“How many bitches can we fit in a tesla!” They both yelled together, laughing the rest of the way down the stairs.

“What?” Dream was nearing his last bit of patience.

Sapnap giggled, “Its just a thing we do, don't worry about it Dream.”

The way he had said that made Dreams blood boil, making it all the worse, he glanced at y/n. She was wearing baggy jeans, black ones, like Sapnap, and one of his shirts with the flame on it. They were matching.

Y/n briefly caught his eye before Dream turned and walked out of the house quickly. She stepped forward to follow, calling out his name softly.

Sapnap was about to follow when George held his arm, “Let her talk to him.” Sapnap nodded back.

Y/n followed Dream as she watched him walk off the beaten bath near their home.

“Dream! Slow down please.” She was trying to catch up when he swiftly turned around. His eyes were angry, his mouth a flat line. Y/n flinched back at how angry he looked. When he saw her flinch his features softened.

“I'm sorry, I just..” He huffed, not really knowing what to tell her. 

“What's been up with you? You've been all grumpy..” Y/n stepped closer to him.

Dream stared into her eyes, looking between both of them. “M’ not grumpy..im just..well..” he closed his eyes, his face already getting a red tint.

“You're what Dream?..” Y/n asked softly.

“I'm jealous! I was jealous..” He blurted out, looking everywhere but her.

“Jealous? Why? Of what?” Y/n was thoroughly confused.

Dream let out another huff, “You and Sapnap..” He was ringing his own hands, y/n had never seen him so nervous before. He was usually so confident.

She tilted her head, “Me and sap?” He clenched at the nickname.

“Yeah!” she had struck a nerve. His eyes were now trained on hers, “Of Sap, throwing you around in the water, giving you his clothes, having inside jokes with him and all! Why don't I have a nickname? Why don't we have inside jokes?” He blurted out all of his thoughts. Once he realized what he had said, he stared down at your shocked face. 

“Y/n..I-I’m sorry, I didn't mean to get mad like that. I just..I really like you y/n. A lot. And seeing you both all buddy buddy just got to me.. I'm sorry.” his glance was soft, and hopeful.

Y/n let out a small laugh, Dreams brows furrowed. “Really? You? Jealous? Cause of me?” She couldn't believe it!

Dream laughed with her, “Yes! I'm not lying y/n.” He stepped a little closer, taking her hand. “I'm a bit selfish.” His smirk was causing a blush to rise on y/n’s face.

“I like you a lot too.” Dream could've cried after hearing those words from her mouth. His face broke into the biggest grin you'd seen on him,

“Yes!” He grabbed your hand dragging you back to the house quickly.

pushing you into the house with him, he ran to where George and Sapnap were sat waiting. He pushed you in front of him pointing at you with a glare,

“Mine.” he was looking at sapnap.

The group all burst into a laughing fit at the expression sapnap had.

“Priceless” George murmured. Looking at Y/n and Dream happily.

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:)))

[dontgotothenetherworld]

love alarm au (nick x reader)

ok so i was watching this kdrama on netflix called love alarm (i think it was based off a webtoon? i could be wrong ahaha i don’t research anything) and i really liked the idea of it so i wanted to write a jlp fic about it lol.

basically, there’s this app called love alarm. if someone within a 10 m radius (i think that’s how big it was… oh well) has romantic feelings for you, and they also have the app, they’ll “ring” you. and vice versa, obviously. i’m changing one key rule; the ringing will only work if both parties have the app opened.

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cw: femreader. nbjo.

everyone was buzzing about a new app. something called love alarm? you were confused by the whole thing.

”hey! jo!” you yelled to your friend. “do you know what everyone’s talking about?”

”yeah!” jo held up their phone, they were downloading the app. “it tells you if anyone around you has feelings for you! and it tells other people when you have feelings for them. but like, it doesn’t say any names, which is kinda weird, but that’s part of the fun, i guess.”

you gulped. “uh do you know if you can change the settings to not notify other people.”

jo opened the app. “it’s called ringing, apparently, and no.” they glanced over the settings, only finding an option for the volume of ringing.

you looked at their screen. “aww no one likes you.” their phone had a big zero in the middle of the display. “wait no. romantically, no one in a, uh 10 meter radius? that’s specific, whatever, has romantic feelings for you. i obviously like, you, platonically, i mean, i’m your friend! i’m rambling, so i’m gonna stop now.”

jo laughed, but seemed disappointed with their number. “you should download it.”

”uh maybe.” you noticed your other friend walking over, eyes glued to her phone. “frankie!” 

frankie’s eyes glance up to see you, then they darted around the crowded hallway.

”hey! jo, y/n, look at this!” she held up her phone, open to love alarm.

”someone here likes you!” you yelled excitedly. “ohmygod i wonder who it is!”

jo looked down at their phone, still at zero.

”i have no idea…” frankie said, but in a way that made it sound like she knew exactly who it was.

the number suddenly jumped up to two, and she looked around again.

”do you have it downloaded yet?” frankie asked.

”i’m not sure if i want to…” 

”it’ll be fun, c’mon!” frankie urged.

”well… okay.” you opened up the app store, and started downloading. on the shitty school wifi, it was bound to take forever.

frankie’s brother, nick walked up to her.

”don’t tell me someone has rang yours yet.” frankie groaned.

”no, not yet.” he said, sadly.

”welcome to the club.” said jo. nick and jo high fived.

”look, don’t let this distract from school. you’ve still got classes to go to!” he lectured the three of you.

”okay, mom.” frankie rolled her eyes.

you glanced down at your phone. 50% downloaded, and 2 minutes ‘til first period. “shit! thanks for mentioning it, nick! i gotta go!” you started running to the opposite side of the school. “love y’all, bye!”

you got to your first period, out of breath, just in time to not be counted tardy. your teacher was really liberal with handing out tardies, even a second after the bell rang… good luck.

you checked your phone again, sliding into your seat. 87% downloaded. and a text from frankie! it was a screenshot of her love alarm, still at two, and a message saying “damn i thought u loved me :’(“

you sent back a cowboy emoji.

”phones up, class! it’s pop quiz time!” exclaimed the dictator, i mean your teacher.

a few periods later was lunch. you and frankie had the same lunch period. you were bummed that jo had an earlier lunch, but they were hanging out with nick, and his friend bella, so they were fine.

”show me your phone!” frankie yelled.

you placed it, face up, on the table. “chill out, woman. no one’s rung it yet, anyway.” you had been obsessively checking since second period. nothing. “any updates on the two from earlier?”

”well, when i went to fourth period, it finally went back down to zero, but then back up to one, so would that be three? or is one of them just, like circling around me?” frankie handed you her phone, currently at zero.

”wait, when did the first go to one?” 

”when i went to first period.” frankie said nonchalantly.

”how the fuck are you not freaking out right now? i would be hounding these two, potentially three, people down!”

”well, if they really want me to know, they would tell me. until then, i will enjoy the ego boost that the ringing has given me.”

”that’s so responsible. i’m suspicious.” you said.

”i know! i am responsible! also, i’ve only been opening the app in crowded places.”

”are you okay? this doesn’t sound like the frankie i know.”

you were going to question your friend more, but your love alarm suddenly went off.

1 person within 10 m has feelings for you.

you whipped your head around, frantically. “who could it be?”

”y/n, it’s back down to zero.” frankie updated.

”so, like, they just walked in and out of the circle, right?” you cursed the crowded lunchroom, that you were in the center of.

”probably.” frankie took a sip of water. “oh! did you hear about jamie and alyssa?”

”no, what happened?”

”alyssa wanted jamie to ring her love alarm, but he couldn’t! and then he rang violet’s!”

”what? how do they know?” 

”alyssa made jamie walk in and out of violet’s circle, and it rang every time he stepped into it.”

”they broke up, right?” you asked.

”obviously. but violet doesn’t have feelings for jamie, so they’re not together either.”

”this app is going to ruin so many lives.” you muttered.

”well, it was bound to happen eventually.” frankie shrugged.

you met up with frankie and jo, just after school ended. well, more like they met up with you. you had gone right up the bell with your test, and when you got out of the class, your friends were standing right there. both on their phones, open to love alarm.

jo stared distastefully at the zero, and frankie stared apathetically at the one.

you opened the app, but before it could load, nick ran over, startling you.

”frankie, look.” he held out his phone. it had a one on it.

”i’m kicking you out of the club.” jo said darkly.

”any ideas who it is?” asked frankie.

you slipped your phone into your back pocket, without looking at love alarm. you knew exactly who rang nick’s love alarm. you just didn’t want to know if he rang yours back.

your crush on nick had started back in freshman year, when you started hanging out with frankie. you would occasionally hang out at her house, and sometimes nick was around. and you just found nick so unbelievably attractive. 

you couldn’t believe it when, in your sophmore year, you and nick had the same seventh period. he sat behind you in class, and was always making jokes. he even offered to drive you home from school. granted, frankie was also in the car, but it still seemed kinda romantic to you.

and you had fallen in love with him along the way. 

but this year, you had no classes together. and yeah, you sent memes to each other pretty frequently, but you didn’t talk, really. you still had feelings for him, but you thought that if there was any chance that he did too, it had gone away.

you didn’t want to be disappointed, so you didn’t check your love alarm.

”y/n, has anyone rung yours yet?” asked nick. but maybe not…

”uh, no. i mean, yeah. briefly at lunch, but i might not be remembering that correctly.”

”can we stop talking about this shit? it’s fucking stupid. and who’s to say it’s in any way accurate?” jo spat.

”it’s alright, jo. not everyone has downloaded the app yet.” you tried to comfort them.

they walked off.

”well…” said frankie.

”uh, they drove me to school today, so can either of you…” you addressed the siblings.

”yeah, i got it.” said nick.

frankie laughed, “why do you want to drive my friend home?”

”she’s my friend too. jeez frankie stop being so weird.” he scoffed.

”eh whatever. y/n always complains about the mess in my car anyway.” said frankie.

”just pick the stuff off the floor and put it in a trash can! you can even put a trash bag in the car! it’s not that hard, frankie!” you exclaimed.

”case and point.” she started walking to the library. “i’ll see you back at home, nick.”

”see ya.” he said. you waved at her. you and nick began walking. “so, y/n, my friend, how has life been treating you lately?”

”like a sucker punch to the gut, my friend. i have had a test, quiz, or pop quiz in every single class to day, apart from lunch, where i got clickbaited that someone likes me.”

”ouch!” hey held open the door for you. “did you just use “clickbaited” in an irl circumstance?”

”eh technicalities.” you laughed.

nick shook his head. “anyway, do you know how you did on any of the tests/ quizzes/ pop quizzes/ forms of torture?”

”ugh no. but the suspense is killing me.”

”speaking of suspense, do you have any idea who, briefly, rang your love alarm?” nick asked, as he opened the driver’s side door.

you hopped into the passenger’s seat. “nada. you?” 

nick started the engine. “i have an idea.” you felt your heart just flatten itself against your chest. what does that mean??

”care to share?” you tried to say nonchalantly, but it probably came across very chalantly. which nick would remind you, is not a real word.

”no. i’d like to be more sure of my guess first.”

”see, when you say logical and responsible things about love alarm, it makes sense. when frankie does, i worry for the emotional safety of the two, potentially three people who rang her alarm today.”

nick laughed, “that makes sense. do you know who rang hers?”

”why, so you can beat them up? that’s what big brothers are supposed to do, right?”

”no, big brothers are supposed to be an omnipresent watchful eye.” it took you a second to get the reference, but you laughed when you did. “but really, no. more like i want to warn them.”

”i have a hunch on who one of them is, but i will follow in your infinite wisdom and not say until i’m more sure.”

”i wouldn’t call my wisdom infinite...” said nick.

you were tempted to open love alarm, but that would be stupid. nick’s phone wasn’t even on right now.

you fell into an awkward silence, and you didn’t know how to break it.

”so, uh. y/n, i’m sorry that i kinda stopped talking to you.” nick said, a couple stop signs later.

”i am also bad at maintaining friendships, so don’t worry.” why the fuck did you say friendships.

”yeah… uh i want to talk to you more. not just send each other tik toks, y’know?”

”tik toks are an excellent form of communication, i have no idea what you’re talking about. but yes.”

”okay, that’s good. by the way, when you’re scrolling on that app, do you just send me every video that says to send to your friends?”

you laughed, “no. sometimes i send you the ones that say send to your enemies. and i send you other stuff!”

”i know, i know! but like, do you send them to like frankie and jo and stuff?”

”um… sometimes? i definitely send the ones that call you ugly to frankie, and i usually send the super mega wholesome ones to jo, but neither of them ever send tik toks back, so i don’t think they really appreciate them.” nick always sends tik toks back. you’ve usually already seen them, but it’s the thought that counts.

nick turned into your neighborhood. “do you think the love alarm actually works?”

”what do you mean?” you asked.

”what if it’s just random. like the different accounts are randomly paired to go off when they’re near each other.”

you thought it over. “i don’t know. that could be the case, but there’s really only one way to find out for sure.” your heart was nearly beating out of your chest.

”do you mean… trying to ring someone’s that you like?” nick asked, slowing to a stop in front of your house.

you shrugged, “i guess.”

nick sat in silence, looking straight ahead, probably thinking deeply about something.

you picked up your backpack, and started getting out of his car.

”wait, y/n!” nick scrambled to dig his phone out of his pocket.

you turned around to face him. “uh what?”

he took a deep breath, “can you open love alarm?” he had his phone already opened to the app.

not knowing what else to do, you obliged. every second that it took for the app to load felt like a thousand hours.

1 person within 10 m has feelings for you.

”i ran through the cafeteria earlier, by the way.” said nick.

you looked up, to see nick. he held his phone facing you. it said the same thing. you pinched yourself, to make sure you weren’t dreaming. you weren’t.

”wh- wait really?” you were dumbfounded. 

nick smiled. “the app works. it really works.” he gazed into your eyes, hopefully not noticing your mouth, which was still hanging wide open.

you felt frozen on the spot, and this was probably getting awkward. but nick! smart, kind, beautiful nick! he liked you. he really did.

he hopped out of his car and ran around to stand in front of you. he placed his hands in yours, still smiling.

”can i kiss you?” you asked.

”yes.” he said. and you did. you kissed the boy who you liked, and who liked you.

@meangirlsx @meangirlmurphy @eliza-is-confused @boredomimi

[fearofaherobrine]

Roleplay Server Log #380

"Licht on the Server, EAlex goes irl, Slenders Reunited”

-There's the jangling of keys as Licht fumbles at the door, finally opening it and stepping inside.  She tosses her coat onto a nearby chair and wobbles a little.  She's obviously been drinking a little as she makes her way into her room-

[EAlex] looks out of the computer screen- Licht? Are you injured??

[Licht] - No no, I'm fine, just had a biiiiit too much to drink

[EAlex] Why does imbibing liquid make you walk like that?

[Licht] - Because alcohol

[EAlex] Does it have a poison effect?

[Licht] - I suppose you could say that

[EAlex] I'm sorry. That's awful. Would you like me to mess up the computer of whoever poisoned you? I bet I can knock the wi-fi off a phone pretty easily.

[Licht] - I willingly drank it, we were celebrating

[EAlex] Stares at her for a moment. - No offense, but humans are strange and inexplicable.

[Licht] - I don't do it often, but an officer who was a great mentor to me retired today so we gave him a farewell party

[EAlex] Did I miss anything? I mean, I'm not complaining. Just curious.

[Licht] - No, you probably would have been bored.  Just a lot of talk about the past and things he had done

[EAlex] Oh, okay. To my chagrin I ended up on YouTube, and Ebay briefly. I didn't buy anything though.

[Licht] - Then you have better restraint than most

[EAlex] Well.... I'd have to borrow money from you. I'm not going to embezzle online or anything. -chuckles- Then you'd have to bust me for stealing.

[Licht] - I think I'd be more likely to be blamed than you since you can't come out here- Licht sits and starts taking her shoes off

[EAlex] Leans against an icon. - I don't want to get you in trouble anyway. -pauses- Hey I found out something neat, wanna see?

[Licht] - Sure, why not

[EAlex] Shoves against the flat picture on the desktop and brings up the control panel and then the wallpaper. She scrolls a little and changes it to a stock photo of a very pretty empty beach with clear blue water. She shoves against it with her back to Lich and kind of falls through a small barrier and onto the sand at a larger size that fits the photo before kicking around in the shallow water like she's there. - Neat huh?

[Licht] - Lucky, you get to take a vacation whenever you want

[EAlex] Kinda. I can't go any farther then what's visible. It's like an invisible wall on the sides you can't see from there. And you can always visit me with a little help.

[Licht] - I'm well aware of that- She heads over to her closet to change into some more comfortable clothes before sitting down in front of the computer and moving the mouse to hover over a familiar icon-

[EAlex] Watching the mouse, almost afraid to say something that might make her change her mind.

[Licht] Sighs and clicks on it, pulling up Minecraft- Little too drunk to do much else

[EAlex] Awww. I'm happy anyway. I want to show you my build! - She scoots over to the loading window and hops in-

[Licht] - Alright, just let everything load first

[EAlex] From the computer in general - I have another suprise for you too once you get in!

[Licht] Clicks on the world and waits for the terrain to download- Alright, I'm in

[EAlex] Has set her to third person- Suprise! I made you a skin! - It looks like a decent likeness of Licht in some of her [non work] ordinary clothes.

[Licht] - Well it's certainly better than anything I could have done

[EAlex] Thanks! There's a website where you can recolor skins pixel by pixel. -She switches the view to first person again- The little dirt house is still there but there's a path stomped in the dirt with torches along it now leading away-

[Licht] - Alright then, lead the way

[EAlex] It'll take some of the fun out if it with you just using an avatar, but I'm too excited to wait! - They lead Licht down the path through some trees and a house comes into view. It's not huge but it is two stories and backed up to a strech of beach. The construction is mostly oak, glass, and some cobbles around the bottom.

[Licht] - A nice small house huh?

[EAlex] Well I'm in survival technically, so I did cut all the wood, mine the stone and cook the glass myself. - She opens the door for Licht- The entryway has a bit of white and gray carpet and a few scattered pictures and leads into a room with trunks and a couch made of wool blocks, a bit farther down is a kitchen area with a crafting table and furnaces-

[Licht] - Well at least you seem to have a well set up home to be safe in

[EAlex] Shy look- It's big enough for both of us if need be... But you should see the back too.- She leads outside the kitchen onto a nice porch. - I picked this spot for a reason besides the weather.

[Licht] Follows her out to see what the reason is-

[EAlex] She gestures down and there are sea turtles loafing on the shore. - There's a sea temple out there too, but I'm not tackling guardians until I'm better equipted.

[Licht] - Turtles?  I wasn't aware those were in the game

[EAlex] They're new, I updated this seed myself! You should go swimming with me. It's safe near the shore and there's tons of new tropical fish, kelp and corals.

[Licht] - Is this why you changed my background to a beach?

[EAlex] Nah, that was just good to demonstrate with since I could kick up the water. It is a pretty photo though.

[Licht] - I see.  You're sure it's safe near the shore?

[EAlex] Yeah. There's a few Drowned zombies but they move slow. We can just avoid them.

[Licht] - Alright, if you wanna go swimming then we can go swimming.  Should I empty the boxes at the bottom of my screen first?

[EAlex] Nah. It's just stuff you're carrying. Just watch your bubbles. If you go to the top they'll fill up again just like taking a breath.

[Licht] - Got it, shall we?

[EAlex] Great- she wades into the water and the turtles turn to watch them curiously-

[Licht] Follows and watches some of the fish in the water-

[EAlex] Is enjoying herself immensely and shows Licht a partial wrecked ship buried in the sand and a bit of run that looks like it should be in a fishtank. Just some broken arches.  and a bit of floor. The water is clear and blue, and judging by EAlex's smile, plesantly warm.

[Licht] Ducks under the water for a bit and then comes back up- Hey, where are the bubbles you said I should be seeing?

[EAlex] There aren't any bubbles on your bar? Wait... is there not a row of drumsticks either?

[Licht] - No?

[EAlex] Oh! You're still in creative! Then swim as deep as you want. The mobs won't bother you and you can't drown. There's some lovely coral below us.

[Licht] - Are you sure?  I don't want to leave you alone if you don't want to be left alone

[EAlex] I'll be okay. I'll stay just above you.

[Licht] - Alright- She sinks under the waves to go look at the coral

-There's tons of it in many colors and lots of curious little fish, as she gets close a pufferfish plumps in suprise and makes a rather amusing noise. -

[Ealex] Chuckles- They're so silly-

-There's a veritable forest of waving kelp and a Drowned zombie turns to look but not pursue her. It also makes weird noises-

[Licht] - Well, you can't deny that the Mojang staff put their heart and soul into this game...

[EAlex] Maybe that's why my kind arise here... it's a beautiful waiting world big enough for us all to be born into.

[Licht] - And yet from what I've seen your kind still gets persecuted

[EAlex] Brushes a gentle hand against a clownfish as it passes- Some of us... aren't nice. Maybe it's a side effect of being too powerful. They become bored gods tormenting players. Not everyone appreciates the wilderness. And... not every NOTCH allows a peaceful existence.

[Licht] - You know, I'm sure the sanctuary might have some answers for us...

[EAlex] You have questions of your own?

[Licht] - There are things I still don't understand, and I know there are things you want to learn and possibly have done to you

[EAlex] I'm still considering it... - she swims closer- I wouldn't mind being able to... make contact with you again. If it doesn't make you uncomfortable.

[Licht] - No it doesn't, I'd just like a little more warning before you suddenly go grabbing me

[EAlex] Okay. I was just a bit over-whelmed. You did save me after all.

[Licht] - And we do kinda owe them since we dropped that...  Thing, practically onto their doorstep

[EAlex] I didn't see it, but I gleaned it was pretty horrifying. I'm not ashamed to admit there's plenty I don't know either.

[Licht] - Which is one reason I think you should be there, there's a lot you can learn there, especially about what you can possibly do and what your type are as a whole

[EAlex] Maybe... but I rather like having my own space too. You're... you're not trying to get rid of me.. are you?

[Licht] - No, not at all

[EAlex] I think I need to learn how to, 'seed hop' they called it? Then I can just visit when I need too.

[Licht] - Once you learn that you probably wouldn't need the cord to get to my phone either

[EAlex] Yeah... well could you at least tap one of the beds in the house so it'll be your spawn point here?

[Licht] - Yeah, sure- She heads back towards the shore and the house- Are the beds upstairs?

[EAlex] Steps around a corner and runs her clothes through her inventory to dry them - Yes! Just go up the stairs.

[Licht] Heads upstairs-

-The staircase is small but the room it opens into is the entirity of the second floor. There are two beds near to eachother but not touching and a half round, glass window with a few yellow, and light green panes taking up most of one wall. The daylight outside paints the room in colorful squares. The floor has a bit of yellow carpet and there are trunks and a few pictures against the walls. EAlex has also put an old gold sword in an item frame like a modest trophy.

[Licht] Observes the entire room, quickly memorizing it's layout before selecting the bed which looked like it hadn't been slept in yet and laying down in it-

-There's a bit of a cluck and a chicken wanders out from behind a trunk -

[Licht] - …  Why is there a chicken up here?

[EAlex] Peeks up the steps- Oh! That's the one Doc spawned in your room.

[Chicken] bok. - Lays egg-

[EAlex] Comes up to collect it. - They're useful to have around-

[Licht] - If you say so...

[EAlex] You don't like chickens? - she tosses the chicken some seeds and they erupt in a gale of floating hearts. - Can't make a cake without eggs.

[Licht] - I've never been very good around farm animals- Has a few flashbacks to petting zoo incidents

[EAlex] Oh... okay. - She digs for a few fence pieces and makes a small pen. - I'll keep them away from you then. I don't want them to wander outside anyway.

[Licht] - You know, if you want to visit the other server to learn how to seed hop, I don't have work tomorrow

[EAlex] Is obviously excited but doesn't want to show too much. - I'd like that.

[Licht] Yawns and looks at the time- It's getting late out here, I think I'll go to bed, do you want me to call Doc in the morning?

[EAlex] Yes please. Thank you for playing with me for a bit.

[Licht] - You're welcome, do you want me to leave the game running?

[EAlex] It's up to you. I can get in either way. It just closes the viewing window on your computer.

[Licht] - I'll leave it open for you

[EAlex] Softly- Then sleep well my friend.

[Licht] Heads for bed and is soon asleep-

[CP] Tromps into Docs castle carrying a trunk on his shoulder- Oi! TLOT!

[Steve] is pruning the hanging vines and jumps in alarm- he's outside in the back cutting sugar cane. Why ya gotta be so loud?  

[CP] - Because Lie wants this gone- He motions at the trunk

[Steve] Do I dare ask what it is?

[CP] Puts it down- Take a look for yourself

[Steve] Is basically too curious for his own good and peeks in the trunk- FUCKING NETHER! - he scuttles back quickly and coughs-

[CP] Just has a shit eating grin-

[Steve] You suck.

[CP] - You're the one who willingly looked in the chest

[Steve] May you have to change all the really stinky diapers.

[CP] - I'll save the worst for you

[Steve] What makes you think I'm babysitting?

[CP] - I'm psychic, and you already adore my daughter

[Steve] bristles- Still not going to let you push responsibilities on me.

[CP] - Well of course not, but Lie and I will occasionally need time to ourselves

[Steve] slightly smug- Then I guess you should be nicer to me if you're asking for favors.

[CP] - Whatever, just give the cheese to the gaudy one

[Steve] He already knows. I think you forget  sometimes that talking to one of us is basically talking to both.

[Lie] After a few days of being stuck in the house with the baby she feels like making a bit of mischief. n She pulls out her phone and starts texting Dofta- Hey, sorry if I'm waking you up, I don't know what time it is for you, but I thought you should know that there's a new brine on the server

[Dofta] oh! That's good. Did you find another wandering brine? Perhaps save someone?

[Lie] Gets up and takes a picture of her sleeping baby and sends it- Not quite...

[Dofta] Oh my goodness!!! She's so tiny! But she's glitched?

[Lie] - The seed is reacting to her like she's a native brine, but her eyes aren't glowing.  We think that might start happening when she starts being able to see something other than light and movement

[Dofta] So what have you named her? She's yours isn't she? You and Cps little Herobrine.

[Lie] - Yes she's ours, and her name is Aether.  Yster was actually just here and left the evening before she was born

[Dofta] Oh for... so she missed it? Was it weird???

[Lie] - Yes she missed it, and as far as I know it was like a normal human birth...  Which I suppose on our end would be weird since we're digital- She notes Aether is starting to wake up and snaps another quick pic so Dofta can see her eyes

[Dofta] Awww she's so sweet. Are you okay...? A normal birth involves quite a bit of blood and screaming...

[Lie] - Yeah, had three doctors there and TLOT was handling CP

[Dofta] Laughs- A husband can be pretty in the way in a situation like that! I'm happy for you.

[Lie] - Plus if I were to hurt him while angry it would cause permanent damage

[Dofta] That too! Geeze... You're both lucky to have so many helpful friends.

[Lie] - Yeah, I think I might try taking Aether out today, she hasn't been outside yet

[Dofta] Outside the house or out-out?

[Lie] - Outside the house, but don't worry, I'll send her out with her farfar to visit you guys before her glow becomes too noticeable

[Dofta] Oh good! Should I tell the others? Or have it be a suprise?

[Lie] - We can surprise them, just let me know when a good time will be

[Licht] Pulls up outside the office with a yawn and glances at EAlex on her phone- You ready?

[EAlex] Is wearing a small chest like a backpack- Yep. I'm ready.

[Licht] Goes up to the door and knocks-

[Fangbo] Comes to answer the door. - Oh...  hi. - Let's her in- I hope you don't have more bad news for us?

[Licht] - No, is Dofta here?

[Fangbo] She is- leads the way-

[Dofta] Can be heard using talk to text on her phone- She's so darling Lie!

[Licht] - I hope I'm not interrupting anything?

[Dofta] Oh! Um... - her eyes flip back between the two- I'm just on the phone with a friend.

[Licht] - Speaking of friends- She wiggles her phone a little

[Fangbo] Am I needed here?

[Dofta] No... thank you Fangbo.

[Fangbo] Leaves and shuts the door-

[Dofta] Concerned look at Licht's phone- Is EAlex okay???

[Licht] - She's fine, she just wants to visit the other server and start learning how to seed hop.  Isn't...  Isn't Lie one of the brines on that server?

[Dofta] Yes, and- she's obviously bursting with supressed excitement- She had her baby! The first child concieved by two Herobrines. I mean, that we know of. It didn't trip anything weird on the main server, but it's so exciting!

[Licht] - A baby?  Wow, she's gonna be busy

[Lie] - Dofta?

[EAlex] That's going to be a handful. Chances are good she'll have powers....

[Dofta] Oh! Lie! Licht is here and she brought EAlex, like on her phone.

[Lie] - Do I need to open a portal?  I don't know how to get EAlex off the phone though...

[Dofta] At Licht- Lie can let you in okay. - at Lie- and I'm betting someone there can help her off the phone.

[Lie] - Yeah, true.  Dofta, is your computer on?  And do you want to visit as well?

[Dofta] Yes and yes!

[Lie] Laughs a little before creating a portal using Dofta's computer- Come on in

[Dofta] Eager hop and shift into her Mc skin- She flaps her little dragon wings happily and hugs Lie- Congratulations!

[Licht] Hesitates and follows Dofta through, shifting into her new Minecraft skin-

[Lie] Laughs a little- Not so loud, she only just woke up

[Aether] Kicks her legs a little

[Dofta] Goes right to the baby and starts making little noises at her- AWWW!

[EAlex] Can you hold up the phone so I can see?

[Licht] Steps closer and holds it up so she can see- That is a tiny baby

[Lie] Starts digging around and pulls out a fresh onesie and a fresh diaper- Time for a change I think

[CP] Comes in from trying to wear Blake out-

[EAlex] Is a bit speechless.-

[Blake] Way too excited- Boof!

[CP] - Why the fuck won't you settle down- He heads for the bedroom and frowns as he see's their visitors- The fuck is happening now?

[Dofta] Oh hi Cp! Just visiting. Congrats to you too! Your daughter is so cute!

[CP] Motions at Licht- And she's here why?

[Licht] - EAlex would like to learn how to seed hop

[CP] - Well I don't see them

[Dofta] She's on the phone.

[Blake] Inspects Licht- Urf?

[Licht] - That's a large dog...

[CP] - Well then that can be her first lesson, learning how to get off

[EAlex] Can I get a hint on how to do that???

[CP] Just grabs Licht's phone from her-

[Licht] - Hey!

[CP] - Start by looking at the code

[EAlex] You mean like the operating system for the phone itself? It's pretty basic.

[CP] - Now can you see the coding of this server?

[EAlex] From inside? Not really... but I can feel the difference from out there and in here.

[CP] - Well then it sucks to be you

[Dofta] That's mean Cp! Everyone learns in different ways. Maybe she's more prone to feeling things out then reading them directly.

[CP] - Actually that reminds me, tell your boss to stop fucking bothering me

[Dofta] confused- why is he bothering you? OH! Is it what you did with the phantoms? That was brilliant!

[EAlex] Is trying to brute force the phone and making it shake around-

[CP] - No shit, he's already called a few times since!  And you can't just force it, you have to integrate yourself

[EAlex] Okay... - She starts feeling around again and there are a few hopeful crackles around the phone like a minor electrical glitch-

[Dofta] Does he have something else for you to fix? We've been having some minor issues with the Vexes...

[CP] - Oh for fucks sake no!  I do not want the fucking job!

[Dofta] But you would be good at it...

[CP] Exasperated noises-

[Lie] Laughs a little as she picks Aether up- Calm down CP

[EAlex] Suddenly tumbles out of the phone with a yelp- Yes!

[CP] - There, you figured it out

[EAlex] Gives him a slight frown- Someone taught you to do this stuff didn't they?

[CP] - Nope

[Dofta] I thought the Zelda guy taught you? BEN?

[CP] - Only how to get Irl

[Blake] Licks Licths hand experimentally.

[Dofta] Hmm.

[Licht] - Good dog?

[Blake] Obviously slightly annoyed at being called a dog, but still friendly enough- urf.

[Lie] - That's Blake, he used to be human

[Licht] - Wait, what?

[Blake] Pads over to Lie.

[Dofta] So he's a werewolf?

[Lie] - Just wolf, he was being driven mad so Dawn changed him- She smiles at him since she's holding Aether

[Blake] Happy panting-

[Dofta] Oh, the witch? I guess as long as he's okay with it.

[EAlex] How hard is it to get irl anyway?

[Lie] - It's not necessarily hard to get out there, it's what happens afterwards

[EAlex] Is it... something bad?

[CP] - Immense pain, for weeks

[EAlex] Swallows hard- But after that you can come and go?

[Lie] - Yes, you can- She's sending a private message to Hera

[EAlex] Looks to Licht- I'd like to do that... but I'd obviously need help...

[CP] - You'd need somebody to keep an eye on you

[Licht] - If she's at my place that can be handled easily

[EAlex] You wouldn't mind? I don't want to be a hassle....

[Licht] - No, I mean you'd be alone for about eight hours most days while I'm at work...

[Lie] - Well EAlex will be completely unconscious for about a week or so, so there won't be much you can do during that time

[EAlex] When we go then, if... that's okay Licht?

[Licht] - Yeah, that should be fine

[EAlex] Dusts herself off -

[Herabrine] scoots in the door unannounced- She's here? Hi!

[EAlex] ... hello?

[Lie] - EAlex?  This is Hera, she's a glitched Alex, like you

[Licht] Is looking at the size difference between the two-

[Herabrine] Floats up to EAlex's eye level and sticks out a hand- Herabrine. Glad to see another, I was pretty sure I was the only one.

[EAlex] I'm pretty sure I was supposed to spawn as a normal Herobrine and got... cockblocked is a good word I guess...

[Aether] Makes a grumpy face-

[Lie] - Oooh, no no no, please don't start crying

[CP]  Goes to grab a blanket in case Aether needs to feed-

[Herabrine] Who's your friend? You got a random player buddy? - floats over to Licht.

[Licht] - I'm Licht...

[EAlex] She's my friend, I guess we're sorta roommates?

[Herabrine] Smirks- Found a summoner instructional on Youtube or something?

[Aether] Starts crying-

[CP] Hands Lie the blanket-

[Licht] - In a chest when the world spawned

[Herabrine] That's oddly convenient...

[EAlex] It was a trick... another entity invaded her computer and took my spawn.

[Herabrine] That's rough man. Are you coming to stay with us?

[EAlex] Just visiting to get some lessons for now- gestures at Cp-

[Herabrine] Oh, from old sourpuss? He does know his shit, I'll give him that.

[CP] Flips Hera off-

[Lie] Covers herself and starts feeding Aether- There you go, settle down

[Dofta] Awww. Who's a happy baby?

[Herabrine] Love you too Cp.

[Licht] - EAlex, is there anything else you want to do while we're here?

[EAlex] Well I wanted Cp to help me seed hop... But I guess I could ask Doc instead....

[CP] - Well you figured out how to get off the phone, figure out the rest on your own

[Lie] - Says the one who still panics when I go into the digital realm  by myself

[EAlex] Yeah... I'll ask Doc...

[Herabrine] Has turned to Lie and is murmuring sweet nothings to Aether.

[Lie] - Me thinks Auntie Hera is going to spoil her niece rotten...

[CP] - Go ask them then, if you can find them

[EAlex] Bristles- I will then! - She heads for the door- Come on Licht! Let's go!

[Licht] - Congratulations on the baby- She then goes to follow EAlex

[EAlex] Looks around outside and stomps past the small horse pen- He makes me so mad... -

-The chain chomp bounces up from it's spot by the honesty blossoms and startles Licht- AR Ar Ar ARR!

[Licht] - THAT'S NOT NORMAL!

[EAlex] Jumps as well- Sheesh! Bet you an emerald it's from another game.

[Licht] - It is, even I recognize that

[Chomp] Satisfied with a job well done. - Ar!

[EAlex] Gives it some space- Lie makes flowers right? Maybe it's guarding whatever blooms are in that pen. -

[Splender] Is happily fishing on the shore-

[Doc] Wanders over to Splender's house and says pleasantly- Hi neighbor! Catch anything good?

[Splender] Smiles brightly- Just some boots!

[Doc] Awww, what kind?

[Splender] - Leather! Two pairs! And one of them is shiny!

[Doc] The shiny one likely has an enchantment at least.

- one of the sea dragons floats by a bit off the shore-

[Doc] Points at it- that's probably why. The big critter scaring off the littler fish. How's Trender doing?

[Splender] - Doing well! So is my mother!

[Doc] Have you lured her out of the house at all?

[Splender] - A bit more often now

[Doc] Good. We've had such nice weather these past few days. Been getting behind on my side work since I can't seem to sit still inside for too long.

[Splender] Laughs and then tenses a little-

[Doc] Are you okay? You look a bit.. stressed...

[Splender] - It's time for the changing of the guard...  Are you sure you want to be here?

[Doc] Gets up excitedly- And miss your big bro seeing his mom? I wouldn't miss this for anything!

[Splender] - Okay...- He sends a quick message to Trender before creating an opening with his tendrils

[Sally] Is the first one to run through- Splendy!

[Splender] Laughs and picks Sally up into a hug-

[Slender] Steps through, he's obviously a bit annoyed at the  moment-

[Doc] Hello Sally, you're looking chipper. - Xe turns to Slender and looks up with a big smile. - And hello to you as well.

[Slender] - Doctor.  Splender, where is Trender?

[Splender] - He's coming!  He was in the house!

[Doc] Points a bit down the shore- He's staying in sight of his bro. Just give him a sec. We have a suprise for you anyway...

[Slender] - I am in no mood for surprises Doctor

[Trender] Comes up, making certain that Mirabella is not visible behind him- Hello brother

[Slender] - Trender, did everything go alright

[Trender] - Yes, very much so

[Sally] - Hi Trender!

[Doc] Oh, but I think you'll be happy. - Eyebrow waggle at Trender-

[Splender] - Brother brother brother!  Guess what!

[Slender] Sighs- What is it Splender?

[Splender] - We found mother!

[Slender] Tenses, becoming very wary- You what?

[Trender] Steps aside to let Slender see Mirabella-

[Mirabella] - Slender...

[Doc] Is all smiles- You know how there's a ritual for summoning you? A friend and I kinda, tweeked it a bit.

[Mirabella] Approaches cautiously, feeling her eldest's unease- It's alright, he did not follow me here.  You are still safe

[Slender] - Mother...

[Sally] Looks between the familiar slender beings and Mirabella- Papa?  Who is she?

[Doc] She's kinda your... grandma I guess?

[Mirabella] Reaches for Slender- My you've grown so tall...  And this must be the little one that Doc told me about...

[Sally] Hides behind Slender a little-

[Doc] It's okay Sally. She's very nice.

[Slender] Let's Mirabella touch his face- I was certain he would have killed you after what you did...

[Doc] She told me he'd basically ignored her, we've just been trying to get her out in the sun and socialize a bit.

[Mirabella] - It's alright Slender, we have plenty of time to talk

[Sally] - Papa...

[Splender] - Come on Sally, let's go play in my house

[Trender] - How about you let me out first

[Splender] - Oh!  Right!- He opens another way and Trender pets Sally's head before bidding his brothers good bye and leaving

[Doc] Very sappy expression. -Thanks for hanging out with us Trender. And nice job on your moms clothes too. Very flattering.

[Trender] - They're much less enslaving now

[Doc] Even better. Stick it to the man. - Little fist salute for Trender.

[Trender] Steps out and Splender closes the portal-

[Doc] Checks to make sure everyone is doing okay and slips away with a happy spring in hir step. Xe types a quick whisper to Deerheart- That was nice. He didn't have much of a look on his face obviously, but I got the gist.

[Deer] - Good, and Mirabella deserves to reconnect with her children again

[Doc] Also dashes off a whisper to Cp- Just a heads up, Slender's here and Sally too. But I think he's going to be quite busy chatting with his mom for a while.

[CP] - WHY WOULD YOU LET HIM ON!?  HE COULD INFECT AETHER!

[Doc] chat- Because it was his turn to watch over Splender? What was I supposed to say???

[CP] Frustrated keyboard smash-

[Doc] chat- Oh chill. Even if she was infected I could reverse it easily. Don't be like that.

[CP] - I don't care!

[Doc] chat- He doesn't even know she exists ding-dong. Keep your cool and it can stay that way.

[CP] Goes to punch his punching bag-

[Doc] Sends Cp a winky emoji - Trust me.

[CP] - Fuck off

[EAlex] Reaches the spawn and looks around in confusion. - This is a super weird seed. These two trees look like they're made of chocolate and ice cream and these headstone inscriptions are very silly. And they have a... skeleton horse rental business?

[Licht] - I've learned to just stop questioning things here...

[EAlex] It's creative, I'll give them that. And someone has certainly beefed up the Testificate village. I've never seen one with such a high wall around it.

[CN] Comes flying in in his bird form, clutching a few cold flowers in his small talons-

[EAlex] Spots the little bird- Umm...

[CN] Tosses the flowers as he shifts so he can grab them with his hand- Hi!

[EAlex] Leaps in alarm- IT'S A NOTCH!

[CN] - Um...  I'm Lie's NOTCH, CN

[EAlex] Is still really wary -

[Licht] - Why are you here?

[CN] - Lie sent me to give these to you, they're cold flowers!- He holds the flowers out

[EAlex] Takes them cautiously- Lie sent you...? Why are you giving us flowers?

[CN] - She said you were planning on going irl?  She said they'll be helpful for the..  The...  Fever?  I think?

[Licht] - A fever?

[EAlex] Oh... thank you then. And thank her for me please. Do you know where I can find Doc?

[CN] - Maybe around the castle?  That's usually a good bet

[EAlex] Looks around- Well... I'm guessing that's going to be the giant cobblestone build I can see a bit of over there? - points.

[CN] - Yeah!

[Licht] - Thank you for the information

[EAlex] Nods in appreciation and sets out that direction.

[Lj] Is outside watching amused as Yaunfen tries in vain to walk Fru on a leash. - I like this critter, it's got bangers.

[Waffles] Lounging in a nearby tree.

[Fru] Tries to chew the leash-

[Yaunfen] No! Bad!

[Licht] Pauses at the sight of the animals and LJ-

[EAlex] Umm, excuse me?

[Yaunfen] Oh, hi! Are you new here?

[EAlex] Just visiting.

[Lj] Points at Licht - You I know. How did you get here? Did you piss off Cp?

[Licht] - I was let in by his wife

[Lj] Oh, Lie. Yeah, she's nice.

[Yaunfen] Are you lost?

[Fru] Tries to run and gets pulled up short with the leash-

[Yaunfen] Heel!

[EAlex] we're not lost, just looking for Doc.

[Lj] Well you found their kid, Yaunfen.

[Licht] - That's their child?

[Yaunfen] Yep. Mada hatched me hirself.

[Lj] Don't be fooled by appearances, the Doc adopted a dragon while they were still an egg.  

[EAlex] Somehow that doesn't suprise me...

[Licht] - Do you know where Doc currently is?

[Yaunfen] I can find out! - In chat- Mada, there are some people looking for you. By the side porch-

[Doc] chat-  I'm down near the shore, I'll be there in a sec.

[Yaunfen] Headed this way now.

[EAlex] Thank you.

[Fru] Teeny roar.

[EAlex] That's a very unique animal.

[LJ] It's some kinda dinosaur, and judging by the texture, also part cake.

[Licht] - I'd be very careful with that creature of yours

[Yaunfen] Yeah, they're going to need lots of training. But Waffles is well behaved and I trained them. - Points to the sabertoothed cake cat in a nearby tree.

[Licht] - Let's hope that's the case...

[Doc] Comes up from the garden- Oh! Hello again! I got busy and I didn't see you come in.

[LJ] I take it Slender isn't mad at you for kidnapping his mom? You seem in good spirits.

[Doc] Not at all. I think he was more suprised then anything else.

[Licht] - Kidnapping?

[Doc] It's more noble then it sounds. She was in an abusive relationship and we stole her away from her husband and reuinited her with her sons.

[Licht] - I see...- She's not entirely convinced

[Yaunfen] nods- Mirabella deserves to be happy. The Wicker Man's a big meanie.

[EAlex] I actually came to ask you for a favor... I need to learn to seed hop and... I want to be real.

[Doc] Geeze... Let's not do both of those things in one day, just pick one for now. And I warn you, you will be laid up for a while if you choose to go out. Is someone willing to watch over you?

[Licht] - I already agreed to

[EAlex] Then... please take me out.

[Doc] If you really want too. Just be careful out there once you're recovered. There are human agents who will try to capture you if they can.

[Licht] - Before we go, there's a question I've been wanting to ask you

[Doc] Sure, what is it?

[Licht] - You say this place is a sanctuary, so why is there such a violent brine as CP here?  It doesn't make much sense at all...

[Doc] Small laugh - Well... intially Lie was the one I took in, she used to be human. He was obsessed with her and followed. So my friends and I used that as a crowbar to start unpacking all of his personal issues and trying to help reform him. This is good behavior for him. He killed me several times when he was first brought in.

[Licht] - He did all that, but you let him stay?

[Doc] He was... afflicted, and not in his right mind at first.

[LJ] Sighs- It's a common thing for creepypastas to be partially posessed by the spirit of Insanity. She can make a person do horrific things without a second thought or a crumb of sympathy for the victims...

[Licht] - I see...

[Yaunfen] Picks up on the hint of sadness. - Don't be sad. We know you're trying.

[Doc] He's still an ass sometimes, but at least it isn't random anymore. And hey, if I didn't know him, he would still be the only Herobrine that could go irl.

[Licht] - The only one?

[Doc] Yes, it's a special trick. He can punt people out and they'll kind of adjust... he can also draw them in, and after a long stay in the digital realm the physical body just ceases to be and the person just becomes a digital entity on their own. Either direction it's painful. But it literally saved Markus's life.

[Licht] - Saved his life?

[Yaunfen] He had a hearts attack!

[Doc] Nods- He went into cardiac arrest and Cp pulled him inside before he passed. It gave me a chance to heal him with the local methods. I think if he would have tried to go out again before completely going digital, he would have resumed his cardiac failure and instantly died.

[Licht] - I see, I suppose it's a good thing then that he's still alive

[Doc] And now he's a Notch for real too. His MC skin just became his real shape in the process. You see why it was a hassle for him to try and meet with you. And also why he just up and vanished for so long.

[Licht] - Yeah, I guess so

[EAlex] What do you mean he's a real NOTCH, does he have powers?

[Doc] Some. He can make a shield thing around himself and others, and he has a weird loud shout that can actually damage things, hearing and otherwise.

[Licht] - Is that what happened in the apartment then?  When his voice got louder?

[Doc] Yep. I consider it his dad voice. Usually stops Cp in his tracks too.

[LJ] Snickers-

[Licht] - It stops CP?

[Doc] He does respect Markus. I mean, as much as he respects anyone. Markus has been there for him in any way he could, and even let Cp beat up and kill his avatar multiple times without even fighting back. He knew Cp was in pain and lashing out at all NOTCHs because of it.

[Licht] - I hope this was before he entered the server...

[Doc] Yeah, it was.

[LJ] And there was his little brother...

[Doc] nods- That too. His little brother got a bad potion that turned him back into a child. Markus pretended to be their dad and helped take care of Stevie until he was cured of the effects. It really brought them all together. Cp had been estranged from Stevie for a very long time.

[Licht] - He has a brother?

[Yaunfen] Most brines come with a Steve!

[Doc] Yep. In Cp's case his Steve is his younger brother. He's a decent guy. Took him a very long time to settle in, he has trust issues and Cp does give him shit now and again.

[Licht] - That's not exactly uncommon amongst siblings...

[Doc] Exactly. But most of us came here with someone. A new seed has a very high chance of spawning a self-aware Steve, a smaller chance of getting an Alex too - Gestures at EAlex- and then an even smaller chance, just a sliver, of generating a Herobrine glitch. And if that happens, then the system counters with an automatically generated AI NOTCH to keep an eye on the brine so they don't do so much griefing that the players get driven off.

[Licht] - Sounds complicated

[EAlex] So like the little one that gave us these? - holds up the flowers-

[Doc] Yeah that's CN, he's a good kid. My NOTCH is decent too.

[Yaunfen] That's Buff. He's got huge muscles.

[Doc] Yeah, I got lucky. He's an overly helpful excercise nut, and the most annoying thing he does is noisy granola making way too early in the morning.

[Licht] - What happens if either the brine or the NOTCH dies?

[Doc] hesitates, remembering... - If the NOTCH dies, the system generates a new one. If the Herobrine dies... we don't know. Thankfully none of our Herobrines have died. I keep the server set to infinite respawn here to protect everyone.

[EAlex] Makes a grim face. -If you set a seed to hardcore, if the player dies, the seed deletes itself.

[Licht] - Yikes...

[Doc] Thankfully server space is cheap, and I've got lots of backups too. Keeps my family safe.

[Deer] Comes out- Hey, lunch is ready

[Yaunfen] Yay! Hey mom? Could you try ordering Fru around like you do the mobs?

[LJ] Speaking of family...

[Doc] Hello love. - blows her a kiss

[Deer] - I could try...- She concentrates a bit and frowns- That's...  Odd...- She blows a kiss back

[Yaunfen] What is it?

[Fru] Curious noise-

[EAlex] You... are not a Herobrine. -she hesitates, feeling around the codes- Good grief... what are you miss?

[Deer] - Hm?  Oh, I'm the server!

[EAlex] Is blinking at her, really seeing what's there - Like a spider... in the middle of a web of everything! - She looks at Licht in awe- It's like we're standing inside her soul!

[Doc] You kind of are. She's the physical manifestation of the world itself.

[Deer] - I'm not the only server here either

[Fru] Scoots over to Deerheart and tries to nom the bottom of her pants leg-

[Deer] - Fru no!  I'm sorry Yaunfen, but there's something different about Fru, I can't urge them like the other mobs

[Yaunfen] Awww.... There's Cp's mom, Flux!

[LJ] And your shirtless friend with the sticks perpetually in his hair.

[Doc] Chuckles- Salvatage. He's a wild one.

[Fru] blach! - cloth flavor-

[Deer] - Exactly!  Actually Yaunfen, you could try asking Salvatge about Fru, he may have better luck

[Yaunfen] Food first and then yeah! - They take out a chunk of chocolate chicken and offer it to Fru. The little dinosaur pounces on it and savages it to chunks-

[LJ] Ho-boy.

[Licht] - …  Interesting diet there...

[Yaunfen] They're from a candy seed. Like me.

[Doc] It's their main diet. The whole world is made of cake, ice cream, frosting, candy, and chocolate.

[EAlex] Is that where the weird trees down the hill came from?

[Doc] Yup. They drop saplings that are also ice cream cones.

[Deer] - Come on Yaunfen, you need to eat too

[Yaunfen] Okay mom- They head inside, pulling the dino with them. - Come on Waffles!-

[Waffles] Hops down from the tree and pads after them, their frosted back and colorful sprinkles clearly visible as they pass Licht and EAlex-

[Licht] - Well then, are we going to head back or?

[EAlex] I'm ready if you are-

[Doc] Okay. I'll make a hole for you. - They shift into their larger shape with practiced ease-

[Licht] - I'm guessing we're coming out at my apartment?

[Doc] She's going to collapse the moment she steps out. So that would probably be for the best. And you'll want those flowers in your hand close by, they'll help your fever.

[EAlex] Passes the cold flowers to Licht and swallows hard.

[Doc] Shakes hir mane a little - Remember, soft food only once you actually wake up. You're going to feel like you ate lava and that's normal.

[Licht] - Alright then, let's do this

[Doc] Steps forward and slams hir head against reality itself, leaving a crackly edged hole that leads out of Licht's tv. - Licht, you go first. Catch her if you can.

[Licht] Steps through and waits on the other side, putting the flowers on her desk for now-

[EAlex] Quietly- Thank you Doc...

[Doc] Good luck out there.

[EAlex] Steps through the hole and has only a spilt second before the pain hits and she collapses-

[Licht] Moves forwards and grabs her- Hang on, I got you- She starts dragging her towards the bed-

[Doc] Pokes just the tip of hir snout through. - Take good care of her please. We're both trusting you.

[Licht] - I will

[Doc] Pulls back and closes the portal. Xe looks down at Deerheart- Another one set free. I wonder if Cp really comprehends what a lynchpin he's been in giving us all more space to run?

[Deer] - I think he might be a little more focused on other things at the moment

[Doc] Snorts- Yeah I know! You should have seen him when Lie handed him the baby. I could have set off a block of TNT and he wouldn't have even noticed the noise. I've never seen him so spellbound.

[Deer] - That's wonderful.  It's such a change from when I first met him

[Doc] Same, and he was already a bit mellowed out by then. You weren't around for all the times he straight up murdered me.

[Deer] - I know, and I'm glad I wasn't, I may have killed himself for doing that to you

[Doc] Hunkers down and puts hir snout on the ground by Deerheart- It's all over and done, but I'm flattered all the same. You still protected me in your own way. I was never afraid to die here. - purrrs-

[Deer] Laughs and kisses Doc's snout- Come on, let's go join our child

[Doc] Shifts back down from the tail to the head and intentionally stumbles to land in Deerheart's arms- whoops...

[Deer] - Oh no, whatever will I do with you?

[Doc] You make me dizzy with love. I'll have to go sit down close to you until I get my equilbrium back.

[Deer] - So long as I don't fall over along the way

[Doc] Walks with her- You have yourself a deal-

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eddie is horribly abusive and y’all need to be aware of him

i really did not want to have to resort to this. i fully intended to not call eddie out and just let this die off. since it hasn’t, multiple friends have convinced me to come forward with the abuse, stalking, harassment, manipulation, gaslighting, misgendering, etc i have been subjected to at the hands of eddie over the past week+. i haven’t used tumblr in... ages, so i’ve completely forgotten how to use coding in tumblr posts. sorry in advance for that. this is going to be both a call out and a “hey, this is what really went down” type of thing.

before i hop into covering the hot garbage that has been happening, here’s is where to find eddie. i fully encourage everyone to block him and warn others. he has been getting away with abusing people for years.

his twitter: https://twitter.com/mrgluskin

his horror blog: https://outlastwikia.tumblr.com/

if anyone knows the url for his main blog, please let me know.

update: been told his main blog is gluskin. i have not confirmed it for myself because i simply want nothing to do with eddie.

this is going to be long, sorry. tw for... pretty much everything. reblogs are encouraged and appreciated. let’s expose this abuser before he can abuse anyone else.

alright. for background’s sake, eddie followed me on twitter because we had a mutual friend, catherine. right off the bat, he bombed me with positive attention, liking all of my tweets, complimenting me, etc. a friend has since pointed out that abusers often do this before abusing their victims. i just figured he was a friendly guy and didn’t think anything of it. catherine and i had a falling out because she kept frequently using the r slur, despite not being autistic, and it was really making me, an autistic person, feel extremely uncomfortable (this is a whole different can of worms, though. catherine has also been outed as an abuser and a suicide baiter). disgruntled by the situation, i posted this to vent my frustration.

this is my personal opinion on the issue, as an autistic person with autistic friends and family, all who agree with my stance. i’m not here to debate this. i want this to focus on eddie and not get derailed.

eddie absolutely flipped his shit at me. he claimed that since he has adhd (which he went on to say is EXACTLY LIKE AUTISM... not even gonna bother to explain how wrong that is. i have both. i should know) he is entitled to use that slur, my feelings be damned. he said that me saying he should not use the r slur erases the ableism people with adhd face. again, this is... not how it works. i wish i had grabbed screencaps because it seems that his tweets have been deleted. all i have is my side of the conversation, where you can see that i was perfectly calm and polite.

i ended things by explaining that i could agree to disagree for the sake of our friendship & that as long as he didn’t use the slur around me i would be fine. he stopped replying to the thread after that.

a while later, i received this message from eddie.

i’m going to point out real quick that the last time i posted to twitter about my makeup was months ago. eddie could only know this if he dug through MONTHS worth of tweets. this was where his stalking began. he went through hundreds upon hundreds of tweets looking for any tiny thing he could use to attack me over. he was actively looking for conflict & things to be mad about. he needed something to demonize me over, because “they asked me to not say r*tard” is obviously going to make him look bad if he cites that as his reason why he has beef with me. we discussed jeffree star briefly & then he blocked me. i wrongly assumed that was going to be the end of it.

i noticed that, during all of this eddie/catherine drama, someone had stolen my url. i thought it was petty/funny, and posted this to twitter. this is the only thing i said about the url. this is literally it. i did not and have not accused anyone of stealing it. i honestly don’t care because i very rarely am on tumblr nowadays.

i’m not sure of exactly what happened, but i’m assuming either catherine told eddie i had said it was him, or eddie somehow convinced himself of it. eddie unblocked me instantly and sent this.

he reblocked me after this. at that point, i consider it harassment.

as i’m combing through his twitter for all of this shit he did to me, i just now saw that he posted screenshots of our conversations in an attempt to turn people against me, while omitting that this whole thing began because he wanted to use SLURS. he posted a handful of tweets gossiping about me.. he has been attempting to paint me as a racist transphobe and he has been telling everyone i accused him of stealing my url, even though i told him i hadn’t accused anyone.

a mutual friend of ours (who has since ditched him) then contacted me saying eddie was posting screenshots of my social media while shit talking me.

the green thing is a screenshot of my listography. i don’t like or associate with q*eer because it’s a slur. i’ve been distancing myself from the lgbt community as of late due to the influx of rape threats, misgendering, harassment, racism, and overall nastiness i’ve been dealing with from lgbt people. i shouldn’t have to justify this. i have my reasons. this is, again, eddie grasping for anything he can use against me.

because liking problematic things makes someone a bad person, amiright? it’s not like i’m an adult who can recognize when something is problematic & still have the capacity to enjoy aspects of it. to put into perspective... eddie is vocally kin with a serial killer from a game that demonizes mentally ill people. he has no room to talk.

this whole time, eddie has been telling people that he cut me off as a friend over me owning jeffree star makeup and was incessantly trashing my name publicly while spreading lies about me. we have mutual followers, so i posted this, trying to keep his name out of things in an attempt to not escalate the drama.

eddie continues to vague and obsess. meanwhile, i’m trying to move on with my life.

not wanting to be associated with a community that treats me poorly doesn’t mean i suddenly don’t face the same struggles as them or can’t have an opinion on the issues i face, just so you know.

at this point, i sent him a message politely asking him to stop talking about me all over his twitter and to move on with his life. he deleted the response but the preview is still on his twitter.

here he is, again, lying about me. i have not contacted a single one of his friends once. i have harassed no one. i haven’t even spoken with catherine since this all began.

anyway.

1) i’m 22 but that’s irrelevant

2) anyone else think him calling my friend ‘babe’ is kind of creepy? just saying

eddie began implying if not outright saying that i’m abusive. he posted this while talking about me. he was “confronting” me at the time so... who else could it possibly be about?

i tweeted these in response, because i take abuse allegations extremely seriously. as an abuse survivor, i do not appreciate even having it be IMPLIED that i am abusive.

after posting these, i hopped in the shower. eddie proceeds to have a meltdown. he had me blocked but i had not blocked him. at this point, i had blocked our mutuals. the only way he could have seen these tweets was by refreshing my twitter over and over again, waiting for me to say something about him/the situation. eddie unblocked me & quoted my tweets with this.

i haven’t lied about anything, as my screencaps illustrate. he just wants to be absolved of any responsibility. i also did not “throw a fit” - i very politely requested that he stop gossiping about me publicly. he also messaged me around the time he quoted my tweets.

again, have not lied about anything. he attempted to gaslight me by saying he was actually calling jeffree star abusive, which is absolutely not what he did. check the screencaps.

i was tired of being nice to the person who had so far harassed and stalked me, lied about me, and attempted to gaslight me.

*drops this here*

well i mean, at least he admits he’s been harassing me?

this tweet below was confirmed about me. in it, he calls me a trans man. i have explicitly stated many times that i am not a trans man. i am nonbinary. i have told my twitter following countless times that calling me a man is misgendering. it is in my bio.

@ranunculae aka fawn reached out to me late at night on the 21st. we had a 5+ hour long conversation in which they explained to me that eddie had abused them and has spent the past 2 years harassing and stalking them like he was doing to me. eddie and catherine had teamed up and suicide baited fawn until fawn had to go inpatient. eddie and catherine have been attempting to socially isolate fawn for 2 years now by spreading lies and doctored screencaps in a sketchy “call out”. you can read fawn’s statements here.

https://ranunculae.tumblr.com/post/166659734265/i-never-abused-eddie/amp

https://ranunculae.tumblr.com/post/166779554950/ranunculae-ranunculae-keythecoward

the 2nd link includes a conversation in which a minor talks about eddie grooming him and attempting to be sexual with him.

i’m going to post some things that fawn sent to me over chat just because they’re semi-relevant.

my irl best friend, cat, was close friends with catherine. fawn and i felt that cat needed to know that catherine was involved in suicide baiting and abusing fawn with eddie. so, we approached cat about it and fawn explained their entire side of things to cat.

eddie, through his relentless stalking of me, noticed we were all in contact.

i want to clarify that fawn/katie has not been on his twitter once throughout all of this. fawn’s boyfriend periodically checks eddie’s twitter to see if he’s still stalking and obsessing over fawn. fawn’s boyfriend saw eddie harassing me, and he let fawn know that eddie had picked a new target to abuse. then fawn contacted me. it literally is a smear campaign. and fawn said the smear campaign was against ME, not them, even though eddie has been posting libel about fawn for years. 

1) actual minors have come to me and fawn to tell us about eddie preying on them and grooming them

2) this was a response to cat taking mine and fawn’s sides

3) eddie called cat a ‘cuntbag’, which is misogynistic 

4) these ‘victims’ have not come forward because they don’t EXIST. meanwhile, i am nearly the 30th victim of eddie’s that has ACTUALLY COME FORWARD.

eddie attempting to guilt trip and manipulate cat, a csa/incest survivor, for siding with fawn.

again, more lying about me. as you can clearly see, i never threw a fit. i have been calm during this entire ordeal. also... this is, once again, him trying to divert attention away from what really started this; his NEED to use the r slur around someone who is uncomfortable with it.

cyberfuneral = cat’s twitter handle

cat sent me screenshots. eddie does not have her blocked. this is, again, lies and manipulation. if it looks like we’re sneaking around a block, then we’re obviously the bad guys, right? 

when cat confronted catherine about eddie calling her misogynistic insults, eddie lied to catherine and claimed he never called cat a cunt. he didn’t even bother to delete the tweets to hide his lies. 

scroll up to see him calling me a man, which i am not, thus it was misgendering. also, childish insults.

this is referring to something i added at the bottom of my listography. i’d like to point out that he posted this within minutes of me updating my listography. further stalking right there.

this is what my listography currently says. it is a temporary placeholder in lieu of an actual call out. it will be replaced or updated with the link to this post after it is published. you wanted the screencaps posted, eddie, so you’re getting your wish.

i can only imagine what filth eddie is saying on his locked personal twitter. i think i’d rather not know, though.

it has been more than an entire week of stalking, harassment, gaslighting, manipulation, lying, smear campaigns, misgendering, misogyny, etc etc from eddie. he is awful. he is abusive and a manipulator. do not befriend him. the second you upset him, he will turn on you and treat you like he has countless others. i am just one victim out of many. stay away. block him. spread this to warn people.

@eddieabuser2

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A Rose By Any Other Name (Epilogue)

Harry Styles Au

Masterlist

Warnings: Angst, smut, and then a little more angst and smut.

Dedicated to: 

My IRL BFF Julia ( @hllwys) For being my guinea pig and reading all my first drafts for this series.

Dawn ( @whoopsharrystyles) and Laney ( @hardliquorhaz) for being one of the first blogs to read/reblog/give me feedback. The story wouldn’t have taken off if not for you guys!

And last but no least, Babita ( @mizpahes ) who I became friends with because of this story!

-This chapter is really long because I didn’t want to break it up in separate parts.

Enjoy!

One year later…

Fiona couldn’t believe how much had changed within the last year. When she had come home from Colorado last Christmas, her roommate and best friend was engaged to the love of her life. She couldn’t have been happier for Gemma and Chris.

Fiona had also gotten some good news over her holiday break. She had applied to a very prestigious art gallery in Colorado on a whim. She never imagined they’d ever call her back or even give her an interview, But they offered her the job right then and there. Of course she had said yes immediately, not even thinking about how she would be leaving everyone and everything she knew back in London.

Gemma had taken it surprisingly well. She had wanted Chris to move in anyway now that they were engaged. And within a week Fiona was all packed up and moving back to the States. She and Gemma shared a tearful goodbye. Fiona hadn’t realized how close they had gotten in the past few months. They both promised to stay in touch and visit each other. Fiona had never had a friend like Gemma before. She honestly thought she would never see her again after she moved away from London, but her and Chris visited Colorado multiple times the past year.

Gemma and Chris had planned a small wedding in the backyard of Gemma’s childhood home in Holmes Chapel. On their last visit, Gemma had asked Fiona to be her bridesmaid. They were both in tears when Fiona answered ‘yes’.

She knew it was selfish, but Fiona was worried about seeing Harry at the wedding. He would obviously be there; he was in the wedding after all. She didn’t know what she would say to him. She hadn’t even talked or seen him since their last chat that fateful morning so many months ago.

It had been a year since the day she was packing her things for Colorado when she had stumbled over a shirt of his that she had taken from his room during one of their rendezvous. It still smelled like him and she felt her eyes prickle at the memories the two of them shared. She dialed his number on her phone, even letting it ring a few times before hanging up and turning her phone off. He had to have known she was leaving, Gemma must’ve told him. If he had anything to say to her, he would’ve done it.

What Fiona didn’t know was that Harry had seen her call and immediately dialed her number right back, but he only got her voicemail. He tried calling a dozen more times before finally giving up. She must’ve dialed his number by mistake, he thought.

Harry had gone to Gemma’s the day after Fiona left to help move some of Chris’s things into her room. It felt weird being in there after all the time that had gone by. When he first walked in, he swore she would walk around the corner and tell him this was all a big prank and she would never leave him.

But she didn’t.

All that was left in her room was the desk that he helped her build when she had first moved in. Gemma had briefly mentioned that Fiona didn’t think it would survive the move overseas and she would just buy another back in Colorado. So Harry had offered to take it.

When he and Niall finally got it back to their apartment, Harry began putting his own items in the drawers when he found his old Pink Floyd shirt that he had lost awhile back. It was folded neatly and placed gently inside. He felt his heart drop at the sight of it. He had his suspicions that Fiona had taken it, and he was perfectly content with her keeping it, but apparently she didn’t want anything to do with him anymore. First the desk and now the shirt. The next day Harry donated the desk to Goodwill; he couldn’t stand having it in his room any longer.

Both Harry and Fiona had moved on respectively. Both going on dates and having casual relationships here and there; both not really having said relationships go anywhere.

Fiona had thought about Harry the whole way from the airport to Holmes Chapel. She would be cordial and polite to him; she never had a doubt about that. She wondered if he had gotten any new tattoos. She wondered if he ever thought about her as much as she thought about him. She wondered if he was going to say anything to her about their past. She doubted it. This was Gemma’s wedding and bringing up their past would be immature. By the time she knew it, she was pulling up to the Style’s childhood home. There were many cars in the driveway and on the street, all relatives and friends coming from all over for the big wedding day. Fiona stepped out of the cab, the driver helping her remove her items from the trunk. She thanked the driver, tipping him generously.

She stretched while looking at the house. Her muscles were sore from the plane and the car ride. All she wanted to do was take a shower and nap, but the rehearsal dinner was tonight so she knew she wouldn’t be able to relax. She grabbed her suitcase and walked up the drive to the door. She rang the doorbell but nobody seemed to hear. She could hear people talking and laughing on the other side of the door, so she decided to let herself in.

There were people everywhere; kids and adults laughing and chatting. Fiona awkwardly stood by the front door with her luggage, looking around for any kind of familiar face.

“FIIIIIIOOOOONNNNNAAAAAAA” A certain Irish voice boomed throughout the hallway as Niall made his was over to her, lifting her up and hugging her. Fiona had missed Niall, they had really gotten to be good friends and she never got the chance to say goodbye to him when she moved.

She hugged him tightly back as he placed her on the ground.

“Whoa, look ‘atcha! Still as beautiful as ever. I missed my lil Fi!” He held her waist and looked her over.

“I missed you too! I saw you have yourself a special someone as well, when can I meet her?” Fiona had been keeping up with Niall through Facebook and Instagram. He had been in a pretty serious relationship for the last few months.

“She couldn’t make it today, but she’ll be here tomorrow for the wedding! You’ll love her. Her name is Siobhan and she’s absolutely amazing. I’ve never felt this was about anyone before.” Niall blushed as he talked about his new girl.

Fiona thought he was absolutely adorable the way he gushed about Siobhan.

“I’m so happy for you, Ni.” Fiona pulled him in for another hug.

“Everyone’s in the kitchen, we’ve been awaiting your arrival all mornin’” Niall took Fiona’s suitcase and hand as he led her through the kitchen; maneuvering through the crowd of people. She’d be lying if she said she wasn’t looking around for Harry.

The kitchen table was crowded with food and drinks. Gemma was standing next to Chris chatting up some relative.

“The bridesmaid is ‘ere!” Niall announced to the entire room. Gemma excused herself and practically jumped into Fiona’s arms. They had seen each other less than two months ago, when Gemma had visited for the weekend to go over some wedding details. But Fiona still missed her dearly.

“Babe! I’m so glad you made it! How was the plane ride? Are you hungry? Let me introduce you to everyone.” Gemma never gave Fiona the chance to respond to her questions as she yelled for everyone’s attention.

“Everyone! This is Fiona, she is one of my bridesmaids and flew in all the way from Colorado so make her feel at home!” The entire room replied, “Hi Fiona.” Fiona just waved at everyone uncomfortably.

“Fiona!” Anne came out of nowhere and engulfed her in a big hug.

“Oh sweetheart, you look so beautiful, did you cut your hair?”

While Fiona was being introduced to friends and family, Harry watched from afar.

Fiona had instantly grabbed everyone’s attention when she walked into the room. She was wearing jeans and baggy t shirt but was still so enchanting. Her hair was shorter than he remembered. It was now lying just above her shoulders. He could tell she was tired. The bags under her eyes were big and he knew she would be jet lagged after her flight. He wanted to make his way over and say hello but he wasn’t sure how to approach her. Should he hug her? Would that be appropriate? What if he didn’t hug her, would that come off as rude? Before he could answer his own question and could see his mum gesturing him to come over. He took one more sip of his drink before setting it down on the kitchen counter and made his was over in just a few steps.

She may have looked confident to everyone else, but Harry knew her well enough to know that Fiona was nervous.

“Hey,” He greeted her quietly, deciding in that moment to pull her in for a hug. She was stiff in his arms, wrapping her own arms around his neck, more out of courtesy than anything.

“Hey,” She breathed out against his ear.

“Harry, why don’t you show Fiona her room and take her things up there?” Anne suggested as they slowly pulled away from each other. Harry knew his mother was going to be like this all weekend. She had been campaigning for him and Fiona to get back together this whole time. He knew she would have some tricks up her sleeve but he didn’t know it would start right away.

“Uh, yeah, of course. Follow me.” Harry took Fiona’s suitcase and led her down the hall. He quickly made eye contact with Niall who gave him a reassuring nod.

Fiona and Harry made their way up the stairs that Harry had climbed a million times before. He felt very self-conscious due to the fact the Fiona would be seeing all his childhood pictures and memories. The stair case was lined with his and Gemma’s old school photos and he peeked over his shoulder to see Fiona smiling slightly at them. He turned away quickly before she could catch him. Most of their relatives and friends were staying in hotels in the area, but since Fiona was coming from so far away, Gemma insisted she stay in the guest room. Fiona didn’t argue, the plane tickets were expensive and she was willing to save money in any way.

“The bathrooms right here, Gem’s in there, mums in there, I’m in here, and you’re right there.” Harry pointed out all the rooms as they walked down the hall. He opened the door to the last bedroom and placed her suitcase on the freshly made bed. Fiona walked behind him quietly. She was fiddling with her fingers as he turned around and clapped his hands together loudly.

“Alright, like I said I’m next door and Gem’s just down the hall so feel free to ask us if you need anything. Niall’s crashing on the couch downstairs…” He didn’t want to leave quite yet so he was raking his brain for anything to say so he could keep talking to her. “There’s towels in the bathroom for like showers and stuff um…”

His mind suddenly became blank and he couldn’t remember anything about his house anymore. He looked around the room searching for something to say before finally landing his eyes back on Fiona. She had her arms around her chest rubbing her fingers lightly over her forearms. He could see a slight line of black ink coming from one of her forearms.

“S’that new?” Harry gestured his head towards her arm.

“Oh yeah, just a few months old.” She looked down at the design lovingly as she rubbed her fingers over it.

“May I?” With those two words so many memories flashed back for the both of them. Harry and Fiona made eye contact for a long time before she held her arm out to him. He rubbed his thumb over the mountain design. His other hand found hers and held it. She didn’t seem to mind, not making any gesture to move it away.

“Reminds me of home.” She said flatly. Harry looked up into her eyes to see tears swelling in them.

“’M sorry,” He quickly let his hands drop to his sides. He scratched the back of his neck moving out of the room before quickly adding, “It’s good seeing you again.” He shut the door behind him.

Fiona was feeling so many emotions. After all this time he still touched her so gently and lovingly. She knew this weekend would rile up old feelings but she hadn’t even been here an hour yet. She took a deep breath, opening her suitcase and removing her rehearsal dress, hanging it up on the back of the door to prevent wrinkles. She grabbed some of her toiletries and made her way to the bathroom to shower.

By the time she had gotten out of the shower many of the guests had retreated back to their homes and hotel rooms to get ready for the rehearsal dinner. She walked back to the guest room with a towel wrapped around her. She had to walk past Harry’s room to get to her own. His door was open and she caught a glimpse of him in his mirror buttoning up a white dress shirt. Their eyes met briefly in the mirror but she urged her feet to keep going. Closing her bedroom door behind her, she dropped her towel, readying herself for the rehearsal.

The Rehearsal Dinner

Fiona was seated with all the other bridesmaids and groomsmen in the backyard of the Styles’ household. She felt out of place throughout the entire dinner. She hadn’t gone to Gemma’s bachelorette party due to a previous work engagement and still hadn’t had the time to get to know the other girls yet. Gemma and Chris’s family sat with the bride and groom at a long table at the farthest part of the backyard.

Fiona hadn’t meant to, but she kept peeking over at Harry. He was quiet throughout dinner; only occasionally making small talk with Anne who sat beside him.

He could feel Fiona’s eyes on him, but couldn’t man up to look over; only occasionally making eye contact with Niall who sat with Harry’s aunts and uncles. Every time Harry looked at Niall, Niall looked at Fiona and Fiona looked at Harry. They kept this up the entire meal.

Fiona was thankful when the speeches started because she no longer had to keep up the small talk with the strangers around her.

Anne and Des gave a heartwarming speech, as well as Chris’s mom and dad. Harry was supposed to go but decided to save his speech for the wedding. Once all the toasts were given, the DJ began playing music while family and friends filled the dance floor.

Fiona was left alone at her table sipping her wine when Niall walked up to her.

“Care for a dance, m’lady?” He bowed with his hand out.

Fiona snickered as Niall took her hand leading her to the dance floor. They danced together for a few songs, Niall constantly making her laugh with his dance moves. He told her more about Siobhan and what had happened in his life over the past year. He couldn’t help but blush and smile when he talked about her; it made Fiona’s heart flutter.

The beginning chords of “Landslide” started playing over the loud speaker. Just as Fiona was about to wrap her arms around Niall’s shoulders, a little girl, no more than 7 years old, approached them.

“Niall, will you dance with me?” the little girl squeaked.

Fiona smiled stepping aside and letting the girl take her place.

“It would be an honor.” Niall said dramatically as the girl stood on top of his feet. He was mocking being in pain as the girl laughed away.

Fiona sauntered back over to her table slowly. She couldn’t believe how much Niall had matured since she last saw him. He was making far less fart jokes ad was even considering settling down with someone.

When she reached her table, she grabbed her wine glass downing the rest of her drink.

“Tha’s my cousins’ kid. She has the biggest crush on Niall, swears she’s going to marry him one day.”

She heard the familiar deep voice behind her. She turned to see Harry, still towering over her as always.

“From what I hear she might have some serious competition,” Fiona responds.

“Yeah Siobhan…” Harry looks over his shoulder at Niall before turning back to her.

“She’s basically moved in with us. ‘M waiting for him to formally kick me out.”

“I’m happy for him.” Fiona whispers staring down at her feet.

The song ends leading into a pop song from the late 90’s to which Fiona hears Gemma scream out for. Harry and her meet eyes and laugh. Fiona begins to feel suddenly overwhelmed. Harry’s presence plus the noise was starting to make her anxious.

“I’ll uh I’ll be right back…” Harry can barely hear her as she walks further away from the party.

He’s not sure if he should follow her. Or maybe she just didn’t want to talk to him anymore. He looks over to where Niall once stood but can’t find him anywhere. He feels a hand on his shoulder.

“Don’t let her leave again.” It was Anne’s tiny figure staring up at him. He looked at her for a few seconds before nodding and following the exact trail Fiona had just taken.

Fiona shivered into the cool air. The backyard was already decorated for the wedding tomorrow. Fairy lights and flowers guided the path to the gazebo where Gemma and Chris were to be married the very next day.

She walked up the three steps to the gazebo and sat on a little bench in the corner, wrapping her arms around herself to shield her from the cold.

She thought she was over Harry, but seeing him today opened the flood of feelings she was keeping at bay. She closed her eyes, taking a deep breath through her nose and out through her mouth.

“Are you okay?” She jumped at the sound of his voice, not hearing walk up to her.

“Uh, yeah…just a bit overwhelmed, that’s all.” She forced a smile up to him.

“Yeah…” Harry saw her shiver once more, taking off his suit jacket and placing it over her shoulders.

���Thanks.” Fiona responded while cuddling further into his red and white plaid jacket. Only he could pull this look off, she thought.

He raised his eyebrows, motioning towards his finger towards the spot next to her, asking her for permission to sit down.

“Oh yeah, of course.” She scooted down the tiny bench to give him some room. They sat quietly for a few moments. It wasn’t awkward for either of them. Their legs were slightly pressed against each other, as was their arms. It reminded them both of the times when they would lay silently next to each other in bed after being so intimate. Even then, they never felt they had to force a conversation, they just held each other silently. Fiona felt her heart drop at the memory. She looked over at Harry who rested his elbows on his thighs, leaning over in deep thought.

“Harry…” she whispered his name so quietly it could have been another gust of wind.

But he heard her.

He straightened up suddenly, giving her his full attention.

“I’m-“ Fiona paused for what seemed like minutes but was only a few seconds. Harry could see tears brewing in her eyes.

“I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry for the way things went between us. I was being selfish about my own feelings, not ever once considering yours. And-“Her voice shook as tears started to fall from her eyes. She swiped at them quickly with her hand.

“No, please don’t cry. It’s okay.” Harry enveloped her tiny body into his arms, soothingly rubbing her hair.

“Please don’t take all the blame, I was wrong too. I shouldn’t have left the way I did, it was childish.” He could feel another sob rake through her body.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” She kept repeating as she wept into his chest.

Harry could feel his own tears slipping now. Why was she taking all the blame? They were both in the wrong. He was so angry that day in her bedroom, storming off leaving her in tears. He had stayed mad for weeks, not even coming to say goodbye when she left for Colorado. A week after she left, his anger finally subsided. He hated himself for not saying goodbye, even hated her for leaving.

The past year had been filled with “what if?”

What if he stayed that morning and they had talked things out?

What if he had said goodbye to her before she left for another country.

What if he told her he loved her?

Would she have stayed? Could he have lived with himself knowing she gave up her dream job for him? Would she have cared? Or would she have left anyway?

Gemma had given Harry Fiona’s flight details “just in case”.

Fiona’s plane left at 10:20 am.

He knew he loved her when the clock hit 10:21 am.

By 10:22, he knew it was really over.

But here she was in his arms again. Harry was more excited than Gemma when Fiona had accepted the offer to be her bridesmaid. He swore it was fate giving them one more shot.

He grabbed Fiona’s face with both hands lifting her up to look at him. She was quiet as her tears continued to fall. He kissed a falling tear off her right cheek. Then another.

Before finally placing a kiss on her lips.

They were still as soft as she remembered. He knew this was his last shot wither her, so he pit all of his love into this kiss.

She kissed him back with as much ferocity. They finally pulled away when they both needed a minute to breath. They stared into each other’s eyes as they caught their breaths.

“I love you, Fi. I always knew but never admitted it to myself until it was too late. Please…I love you.”

She pulled him in for another kiss, this one only lasting a few seconds.

“I go back home in two days…” Fiona’s eyes started to water again.

“We’ll think about it when the time comes.” Harry leaned in for another kiss only for Fiona to put her hands on his chest pushing him away.

“Harry…”She started to stand up. Harry’s heart raced as he stood up blocking her path.

“Please…please don’t do this again. Please don’t leave me again.” He was begging her to stay. To at least give him one more chance.

“I live in another country, we have to be rational. It would never work.” She took another step and so did he.

“Bu-“

“Harry, stop.”

“Just give me these two days. Please.”

Fiona started at him, weighing out the options in her head. Being with him now would only make it harder to leave when the time came. But he was worth the heartbreak that would surely follow.

“Okay.” She whispered.

“Okay?” He had to ask because he wasn’t sure if his ears were playing tricks on him.

“Yes.” She responded smiling.

He leaned in for a kiss, this time she leaned right in to him. His arms roamed her back, settling on her butt while her hands wrapped through his hair.

They were both brought back into reality by loud laughter coming from the party.

Harry leaned his forehead on hers.

“Wanna get out of here?” He cursed himself for sounding so stupid but was relieved when Fiona bit her lip while nodding her head.

Harry led her down the steps of the gazebo, through a path that lead to a door near the kitchen so they wouldn’t have to walk through the party.

No one was inside the house, everyone still dancing and drinking outside.

He led Fiona through his house up the steps to his room.

He looked at her one more time before opening the door. The house was dark but the lights illuminated her face slightly. This was his second chance and he knew he couldn’t ruin it. He was going to show her all the love he had for her.

He opened the door, shutting it once Fiona had walked in.

He turned to see her standing there. It was weird seeing her surrounded with his childhood things, but it made his heart beat faster at the thought of how much he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

He approached her slowly, cupping her face between his hands and leaning in to place the lightest kiss on her lips.

It was a slow kiss, but he wanted this whole night to be slow. He never wanted his time with her to end.

He slipped his tongue into her mouth, rolling around with hers. He moved his jacket off her shoulders, letting it fall to the floor. She placed her hands on his chest before gradually undoing his shirt buttons.

He walked her back onto the bed, gently leaning over so they could both be lying down. She removed his shirt, discarding it with his jacket. Harry stepped back up to kick off his shoes and undo his pants, never once taking his eyes off of hers as he slid them down his legs.

He leaned over her body, lifting up the hem of her maxi dress until he had it off her body completely.

He kneeled down in front of her as he rubbed his hands up and down her legs, finally stopping to take off her shoes. Once they were off, he kissed his way up from her ankles to the tops of her thighs where he stopped at her rose tattoo.

He placed the lightest kiss a top it, to which she let out a sigh. He was so close to where she wanted him to be. He moved over to her panties before placing a kiss on the hem of them. He didn’t want to waste his time with foreplay.

He made his way up her body, kissing and sucking randomly.

He kissed right through the valley between her breasts, stopping to peck each nipple all while loving how she wasn’t wearing a bra.

He sucked the spot on her neck that he knew she loved which earned a moan from her.

She was breathing hard when he finally reached her lips again.

She slipped her tongue into his mouth as she slid her hand in between them to cup him over his boxers.

“Don’t.” Harry whispered against her mouth. He was so wound up the slightest touch from her would have truly done him in for. He grabbed her wrist placing it behind his neck which was soon joined by her other hand. He reached down to pull her panties down her leg, and then slid his own boxers down. He was about to slide into her before he stopped.

“Shit, I didn’t bring anything.” He was starting to panic. The last thing he thought he would be doing this weekend was having sex.

“It’s fine, it’s fine; I’m on birth control.” Fiona panted.

“Are you sure? I can check Gem’s room. I’m sure Niall has some-“ He was cut off by her pressing her lips to his. He instantly relaxed into her.

He pulled away looking at her again before she nodded to him.

He took his shaft into his hands, slowly entering her.

They both moaned simultaneously. They had never had sex with each other without a condom before but the new feeling already had Fiona’s toes curling.

“Harry…” She breathed out as he moved in further. He had to stop himself halfway because he was afraid that any other movement would have him cumming right away.

“Give me a…” His thoughts trailed off but Fiona knew what he meant. She kissed him again in order to distract him.

Once he was ready, he pushed himself in completely. She groaned loudly at the sensation.

Harry swears he had never felt so good in his life. He fit perfectly in her, as if they were made for each other. He moved slowly, putting all his love into each thrust.

“I love you…” He said as he hid his face in her neck.

She scratched at his back as he hit her most sensitive spot.

“Harry,” She continued moaning his name as he concentrated on every move he was making. He felt her around him completely and was focusing so hard on trying not to cum. He wanted them to finish together.

“Go…” She sighed out. “Not. Yet.” He said with each thrust.

“Harry, I’m coming.”

“I’m ready for you, babe. Let go.”

She tightened around him as she came, practically yelling out his name. He rode her through it before finally letting himself go. He would later swear he had never cum so hard in his life. His arms started to shake as he held his body weight on top of her. They were both panting, trying to catch their breaths.

When he finally slipped out, she cupped herself from the loss.

Harry lay on his side next to her. Her breathing was slowing as she stared up at his ceiling.

He leaned over giving her a kiss on her forehead.

“I’ll be right back.” He stated as he stood up.

She shook her head still staring up at the ceiling.

He grabbed his briefs putting them on quickly while he watched her compose herself. She had looked so thoroughly fucked and he loved it.

She was so beautiful and he was completely in love with her. A thought crept up in the back of his mind, “She’s still going to leave.”

He shook his head to himself as he reached for his door and walked out into the bathroom, grabbing a towel to clean them up.

When he walked back out into the hallway heard someone clear their throat.

“Hey.” It was Chris.

“Hey.” Harry responded.

“The boys are heading out now. You staying?” Harry was supposed to go with Chris and the other groomsmen to a hotel for the night.

“Yea, I’m staying.” Harry was glad it was dark in the hallway or Chris would definitely be able to see the wet spot on the front of his briefs.

Chris nodded slightly before heading down the stairs.

Harry let out a breath as he opened the door to his room again, shutting it behind him.

And then locking it, just in case.

Fiona was still lying on her side; she turned her head to look at him.

He gave her a small smile while pulling his boxers down, stepping out of them and into the bed.

He took the towel between her legs to clean her up. She was still so sensitive she even twitched a little.

After cleaning himself up also, he threw the towel on the floor finally crawling into bed with her. She instantly cuddled into him.

“Harry?”

“Yeah?”

She leaned up so she could see his face.

“I love you too.”

He reached up to kiss her for the hundredth time that night. They both pulled away as they cuddled, wrapping their legs around each other.

They both fell asleep that night feeling something they hadn’t in a long time.

Hope.

Fiona woke up the next morning to yelling and chaos throughout the house. Gemma and the bridesmaids had stayed over last night. Fiona held the blanket above her head, trying to get a few more moments of sleep before the chaos caught up to her.

She turned around to see Harry was also awake. He kissed her forehead, pulling her closer to him.

“Maybe if we stay here long enough they won’t even know we’re missing.” Harry whispered even though he knew no one could hear him over the chatter coming from the other side of the door. Fiona laughed at the thought. She wished she could stay here. She felt a pang in her heart as she remembered she was leaving tomorrow morning. As if Harry could read her thoughts he lifted up her chin so she would look at him.

“Hey…none of that today.” He whispered before placing a peck on her lips. They both jumped at the pounding at the door.

“H, let me in.” It was Niall.

“Just a second.” Harry said but made to movement to get up whatsoever. Fiona nudged him with her foot.

“He’ll break the door down if you don’t answer.” Harry groaned as he stood up is all his glory. Fiona gave him a playful smack on his butt as he walked away. Harry let out a downright pornographic moan. Fiona burst out in laughter at his excessiveness.

“Do you want me to come back?” They heard Niall question from the other side of the door.

Fiona and Harry made eye contact before bursting into laughter. Harry slipped on a pair of sweats before throwing his dress shirt towards her. It engulfed her body as she buttoned it up. Once she was covered he walked over to the door unlocking it and letting Niall in.

“Why didn’t you go last night? Chris said ya weren’t feelin’ well. You’re mums down-“ Niall finally noticed Fiona on Harry’s bed and burst out into a wide smile.

“You dirty boy.” He smacked Harry on the arm. Fiona laughed as Harry sat down on the bed next to her.

“Yeah, yeah, what do you want?” Harry was leaning on his elbows letting his legs lay off the edge.

“Well ya mum let ya sleep in because she thought you was sick, but it’s almost 10 am so you have to shower and eat. I need to pick up Siobhan in an hour from the airport and ya mum needs help with some last minute arrangements outside. And you!” Niall pointed his finger at Fiona, “Gemma’s been looking for you mad all mornings. She says you have hair and makeup in thirty minutes so you better hurry your ass up in the shower as well.”

Harry and Fiona look over at each other with a knowing smile on their lips.

“In your own mother’s house? Really?” Niall rolled his eyes as he walked out of the room.

Being that there was only one shower unoccupied, Harry and Fiona rushed down the hall to claim it but their dreams were squashed when Gemma saw her.

“Fi, the downstairs shower is open. And hurry up! We have to be ready for pictures in two hours!” Gemma didn’t even flinch at the sight of Harry and Fiona’s hands wrapped around each other’s or the fact that Fiona was still wearing his dress shirt from last night. Fiona looked back at Harry with a disappointed look on her face.

“C’mon!” Gemma called after her again. She reluctantly followed Gemma down the stairs and into another shower. Harry looked defeated as he entered the shower alone.

.

Once all the bridesmaids were ready, Fiona couldn’t have another thought before she was being ushered off into photos. She hadn’t seen Harry since this morning even though she was looking for him constantly. Gemma had allowed her bridesmaids to wear whatever they please, same with Chris and his groomsmen. When Gemma first saw Harry, she was pissed; yelling at him for wearing white on her wedding day.

“What? No, it’s cream!” Harry fought back. They had argued until Anne had to be called in to break them up. Harry had one the battle but only because he didn’t have another suit and there was no time to get another one.

Fiona had worn a light blue maxi dress with white roses. She wore her hair natural with only a little bit of makeup on. That bothered Harry because that meant she definitely would have had time to shower with him this morning.

Fiona was holding a bouquet of flowers as she stepped aside for pictures. When she made eye contact with Harry she had blushed profusely, hiding her face in the bouquet. She had never been shy around him before but after their confessions last night she felt a little intimidated. He strolled over to her quickly before placing a kiss on her lips. She was shocked how he wasn’t bothered kissing her in front of his entire family.

“You look beautiful.” He stated low enough for only her to hear.

“And you look…wow.” He really did look amazing in his suit. He had a light blue shirt underneath that just so happened to match Fiona’s perfectly.

“Harry!” Gemma was calling him over for a picture.

“I’ll be right back.” He whispered in her ear before placing another kiss on her cheek.

“Fiona!” She twirled around at the sound of her name. Niall was walking up with a beautiful girl who she could only assume was Siobhan.

“Fiona, this is Siobhan. Siobhan, Fiona.” Niall introduced the too.

“Hi! I’ve heard so much abou’ you!” Siobhan pulled her in for a hug.

“And I’ve heard a lot about you. You have Niall completely smitten here.” Fiona nudged Niall with her elbow playfully as his face went pink.

“Aw, well he’s not the only one.” Siobhan placed a kiss on Niall’s lips. Fiona suddenly felt out of place as the two continued to kiss.

“Fi!” Gemma was running over in her wedding dress.

“C’mon my mum wants a picture with all of us.”

Fiona walked up to where Anne, Harry, Gemma, and Chris stood taking her place next to Harry who instantly put his arm around her waist.

“Alright, 1,2,3!” The photographer called out as he snapped multiple pictures.

“How about just one of you two?” Anne asked already pulling Gemma and Chris away.

“Sure.” Harry was embarrassed by how up front his mother was being but was also thankful he would have a professional photo with Fiona; it would be something he would cherish forever.

“Okay, 1 ,2,3!” Harry looked down at her just as the picture was being taken. She was absolutely breathtaking in this moment. The setting sun highlighted her features perfectly while her hair blew lightly in the wind. Even thought they were covered, he could point out each one of her freckles. She was perfect. And she was his.

Or at least she was his for right now.

“Oh that was just perfect!” Anne exclaimed as she clapped her hands together.

.

The ceremony had gone flawlessly. The vows had made everyone shed a tear. Fiona and Harry kept making eye contact throughout the whole thing. He couldn’t help but stare at her and all her beauty.

She had to look away multiple times because of how hard she was smiling.

By the time dinner came around, Gemma was married and Niall was already drinking. Fiona had talked to Siobhan some more and realized she was a match made in Heaven for Niall. She loud, Irish, and could easily drink him under the table.

They had all laughed throughout dinner, Harry holding her hand through every bite. He only let go to clank on his champagne glass with his knife, getting everybody’s attention.

“Excuse me…” Harry waited. “Speech!” Niall screamed effectively getting everybody’s attention.

“I just wanted to say a few words, if ya don’t mind. First off I want to say congratulations to my wonderful sister Gemma. And a good luck to my new brother in law, Chris.” His joke was met with much laughter.

“Gem, I feel like I’ve known you my entire life…” As Harry trailed on with his speech and a few more horrible jokes, Fiona just watched him. She looked at him as if he was the only person in the room. The lights that lit up the backyard lighted up his eyes wonderfully. She watched as every word slipped off his tongue. That amazing tongue that she had gotten so acquainted with last year. His lips moved so slow as he talked, she just wanted to grab his face and kiss him forever. She truly loved him. And he truly loved her. But with every minute passing, Fiona could feel them drifting apart. Harry would never admit it, but he felt it too. They both knew their love was on borrowed time.

“…and as I finish this speech off I would like to finish off with a quote:

‘Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.’”

Harry looked Fiona in the eye during the entire quote. She had to look away in order to stop that tears that were threatening to fall. Harry’s speech was met with applause as everyone took a drink.

Once the conversations continued and Harry was seated again he leaned over to whisper in Fiona’s ear, “Are you okay?”

She shook her head yes but the tears in her eyes told another story. She had to cover her mouth as she stood up from her seat almost running into a waiter.

“Fi!” She heard Harry call behind her as she let a sob out. She ran into the house, up the stairs and into Harry’s room. She knew he would be right behind her so she didn’t bother closing the door.

“Fi, please don’t do this.” Harry kneeled in front of her as she sat on the bed.

“I’m sorry…It’s just too much.” She choked out.

“What is? What’s too much?” He asked her as he wiped away the tears from her cheeks.

“This, Harry. Us. It’ll never work and I’m sorry because I love you so much.”

“I love you, too. And we can make this work I promise. I’ll visit you every chance I get or you could come here-“

“And how long will we keep that up? Forever? Harry, I can’t do that. It wouldn’t be fair to me or you.”

Harry knew she was right. He knew they wouldn’t be able to keep a long distance relationship up forever.

“It just wasn’t meant to be…” Fiona whispered. Harry looked up at her through tear filled eyes of his own before pulling her in for a kiss. He crushed his lips against hers as his own tears fell.

He couldn’t ask her to stay; it wouldn’t be fair to him. And she couldn’t ask him to move, as it wouldn’t be fair for him either. They both knew that as much as fate had worked in their favor in the past, their luck had run out. This was going to be the last time they saw each other for a long time and they were going to savor every moment.

Harry leaned her back onto his bed before removing his suit jacket. She began lifting her dress up but he stopped her.

“Let me.” He asserted he lifted her dress slowly off of her, the same as he had down the night before. Once it was finally off, he gave her another kiss while he kneaded her breasts. He would miss the way they felt under his hand. He would miss even more the way her piercings felt when he sucked on them. Fiona placed her hands between them unbuttoning his shirt. She rubbed his chest up and down as they continued to kiss, tongues rolling around each other.

She slid his shirt down his arms before tossing it over the bed. Their chests pushed up against each other as she wrapped her legs around his torso.

Harry took the initiative to undo his belt while Fiona pulled his pants and boxers down together. He stood up only to get them and his shoes off, taking hers off as well.

She slipped off her panties as he lay on top of her again. Their hands roamed each other’s bodies in the dark as they cherished every moment.

“’Sokay?” Harry asked her.

“Yeah.” She breathed out as he slipped into her bare again for the second night in a row. The both rocked together as they stared into each other’s eyes. He would miss the way she fit perfectly around him.  She would miss the way he knew all the right spots to hit. But most of all, they would miss each other.

Fiona had never felt so loved before. He was being so gentle with her and appreciating every inch of her body. Her eyes teared up as he slid in and out of her. He kissed away a falling tear from her cheek.

“I love you, Fiona.” He said as he hid his face in her neck.

“I love you too, Harry.” Her voice squeaked as she reached close to her high.

Harry only had to let out a few more thrusts before kissing her before they were coming undone together.

He didn’t pull out until he had gone completely soft.

Fiona sighed as she felt him leave her. They instantly cuddled each other as they drifted off into sleep.

Harry hadn’t realized how tired he had been until he woke up the next morning. He panicked when he realized he was alone in his bed. He quickly got up, slipping on a pair of pants as he went to find Fiona. He didn’t know what time it was but he was sure she wouldn’t have left without saying good bye.

He went into the guest bedroom next to his, only to find her stuff missing. His heart beat fast as he ran down the stairs quicker than he ever did on Christmas.

The house was quieter than ever. Gemma and Chris has left last night for their honeymoon and Niall had stayed the night at a hotel with Siobhan.

His mother was sitting in the kitchen drinking her tea when he walked in.

He searched her face for any explanation but she only responded with, “She left you this.”

His mother held out a piece of paper for him, which he snatched out of her hands opening it quickly.

It only contained two sentences but it would change his life forever.

 A/N: And that was all she wrote.

Thank you so much for taking time time to read and enjoy my story. I have been wanting to write for a long time but never actually got the courage too until May of 2017 when I started this blog.

I hope you don’t hate me too much for how it ended but my plan from the start was to not have them end up together. The title of this story was taken from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ so it should have given you a little hint that their love was doomed from the start. I’ll miss writing this story and Fiona but I have so many ideas for new fics.

Thank you again.

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yallnve realized by now that this is a fulltime 100% narnia blog...and as i havent slept since finding out someone somewhere was set on making "the silver chair" into a movie & the dynamic world of narnalysis is the best i can offer,

first of all im like.........ya rly gonna just jump into the silv chair!! im not really interested w the details on what anyone plans to do with the content b/c i donno, ive never been really interested in the book. not because its like bad or anything, actually it's probably the most cinematic in terms of things actually happening at a steady rate. i just like what i like, maybe because its sort of lower scale? whatever. its not like its hard to make into a movie i dont think, is what im saying. that would be either the horse and his boy or prince caspian, probably the latter b/c like a genuine 1/3 of it is an expository flashback. but all of the books are bit tricky to adapt coz theyre just short, you have to pad basically all of them in some way or another. but sure. silver chair. w/e

the thing is that you Have to assume despite starting afresh that theyre doing this one since the first three books have been recently filmed? and this being the fourth. but How Are You Going To Just Jump Into This One. thats an awful lot of exposition thats being built on, at this point in the game we're neck deep in the Lore. you'd really just have to have read the previous books or at least seen the movies. are they counting on the audience to have done that? but at the same time its really not fair to fully rely on that. in the book you can go "read the other books" and wave it off in a sentence of "and then they explained it all" which does tend to happen in the actual text a fair amt. its a bit awkward in movie form though? its a plot point right off that eustace knows who prince/king caspian is. so then you have to sum up dawn treader. and that has to do with what happened in prince caspian, in which the plot of lww is pretty important. like, alright, possibly you could just explain tvotdt & take it from the perspective of the girl who doesnt know crap about narnia yet? but thats not nearly as good a starting point as lww. on account of that ones meant to be a starting point! i'll see scholastic / any publishings that try to push magician's nephew as the first book In Hell, frankly. strongest narnpinion right there. the published order over the chronological order

anyways i'm sure it can be figured out, its just.......Interesting to think how the silver chair intro might be made into Intro To Narnia v.2.0? will they even try or will it be "ok but seriously just have read the books or whatever before you come in here." mystery unfolds

another thing thats interesting is that lww is clearly abt like, hey kids here's a version of the resurrection for you. whereas silver chair doesnt have anything to do w any Biblical Events at all (tho of course neither does prince caspian, tvotdt, or the horse & his boy). it is instead about how atheists will try to steal your firstborns for.................reasons. (no reason, theyre just evil.) this one is just a major amplified version of another particularly ridiculous CS Lewis Apologism Favorite that runs through the books: that when it comes to having no Faith (in aslan but you know also the abrahamic god) everyone who doubts aslan/god is like, actively lying to themselves, because they have that Gut Feeling telling themself that their faith is not only whats righteous but also whats true. the gut feeling of truth is a big theme in the books, shit hinges on it all the time and makes doubt all Clearly Sinful instead of a reasonable result of aslan effing off for centuries or whatever. and speaking of, god only knows if lewis is really suggesting that real life doubt or nonreligiousness is 100% populated by people who are clenching their fists like "i know in my heart jesus is real but i dont want to believe it so i won't, damnit!" which yknow makes no sense for like....life, and uh? i dont know what its supposed to mean for like....other religions? i dont think he's about putting the nuance that not every concept of religious Faith is the same as in christianity into this book, i dunno abt his thoughts irl. lord knows its a mystery how he thinks that "if jesus wasnt lying and jesus wasnt Insane then christianity is real" argument means anything. nothing in the world fits that argument for finding out if something is true or not........and also it hinges on that concept of "insanity" which......like.......i'm sure is all about nice 1940s ideas of how "insane" people act. its shit, throw it out, i mean. and besides? as though theres a Logic argument to prove christianity as truth? have you just Solved religion, lewis? have you? sometimes, i swear..

anyhow so in the silver chair its just a big ol festival of his "atheists are lying to themselves" and "atheism starts by someone who Knows The Truth (jesus is real) lying to others, likely aka the devil or whatever, and the stand-in for the devil is a witch again." and lewis really seems fond of the allegory of the cave. smh! like, in that allegory "knowing" that your faith is true is impossible! but youre also out here arguing its logically provable? and don't forget the gut feelings thing. but it makes NO sense for him to drop it into this book universe because in this allegory the prince captured by atheists & the protags are people who have hopped into the cave and seen the sun and shit!! they dont need to be the people who have only ever seen shadows who need to be convinced that an outside world can exist!!! bitch!!! get your allegory in order. silver chair just.....lord. the lying babysnatching atheists

a n y w a y s . . . thats a weird conflict to put in your third act, and its also a weird argument to make re christianity, that even though you acknowledge its impossible to know that your faith is in something thats real, you're willing to risk it? its sort of like that idea that you might as well be religious even if you dont "believe" any religion is true, because you lose nothing and potentially gain both comfort in life and reward in an afterlife. but its kind of a big deal in christianity that you're supposed to believe that what you believe in Is Literally Real. maybe apologists are allowed to do that sort of thing in their arguments, i suppose. its like in the last battle where he has a dude who believes in another deity accepted into the christian afterlife b/c despite a lack of belief, his virtuous nature is, from a practical standpoint, accepted to be for all intents and purposes to be equivalent to having believed in the christian god, like if he happened to follow all other rules except the Believing In Jesus one then he's good to go anyhow. interesting in that its also supposed to be pretty vital in christianity that one has to accept jesus as god in order to be Saved all up into heaven! i suppose that guy in the book was meant to have been converted right before death or whatever. at that point its very unclear who is exactly dead or not, but probably everyone. still, aslan clearly makes the argument that "basically you might as well have been believing in me, so you're good to go." fascinating stuff. another one to ask lewis abt

uhhhh another point is that i think theyre intending to make other movies also? but not all four remaining ones!! and if i had to guess which one they'd be leaving out uhh lets say....the horse & his boy....................which conveniently is the other sort of sparsely plotted one. two kids ride horses towards narnia, briefly have to have a shenanigansy undercover sneak through a crowded city, ride towards narnia some more, and then one of them stays at some guys house while the other kid goes into narnian battle where he himself doesnt actually do anything, but that fact is described pretty funnily. its still sort of a fun one, on account of the sneaking around hijinx, and the fact that it happens to give ANY of the details of what tf the pevensies did for like the twenty years they reigned over narnia's golden age which the lww just tells you absolutely n o t h i n g about! the answer is: a lot of battling probably, on account of narnia went from being ruled for a century by someone who could kill you in a second and also why would you have invaded narnia at that time, it wouldve been like trying to invade russia. but then a bunch of kids took the throne and upended the whole system and the snow went away, it seems like a destabilizey time to invade or whatever. imo. but then again they mightve bought themselves a few years on account of aslan having shown up and all. but lbr, they were just put into battle right off and coronated three seconds later, theres no reason on that front that they wouldnt shy away from having more battles. and the books said there were a lot of battles. and in thahb, its like, well we've been battling a lot lately and now we're in shenanigans and we'll just have to battle our way out of it, which they absolutely do. edmund straight up decapitates a guy. how ARE they supposed to just transition immediately into english schoolchildren after a couple decades of that mess??? they even have the fancy courtly speech. its magic i suppose

the point is its kind of a fun book, oh also, aslan is TOP shenanigans in this one. he straight up actually attacks one of the protagonists, for Reasons, but still. not that he doesn't murder the pevensies in the last book. i mean, i guess you could argue that its just like Divine Coincidence where what with the unaligned timelines betwixt england and narnia, aslan couldve just picked the moment everyone was gonna die anyway and just tossed them over to X point in time in narnia. but I Donno.....im kinda with that university student who's stressing about whether aslan cause ww2 for the purpose of sending the pevensies to the wardrobe. like, that train accident that killed everybody killed four people on the platform & five people on the train in different carriages and everything, or maybe the numbers are switched because i dont remember where lucy was. im saying, that was a hell of a crash. but sure. anyhow, even more fun, aslan appears as a cat to the Other protag while he's spending a night on the edge of the wilderness, and scratches him for saying he once threw rocks at a stray cat. like, hard #same, aslan!!! wtf dude why arent YOU being claimed by satan

whats also fun is that it doesn't really take place in narnia, which is also the reason besides pacing that you wouldnt really want to make this one into a film? because uhhhh the whole worldbuilding lewis crapt upon everyone for calormen is clearly racist as fuccck. if you arent already familiar with all the books (namely this one and i suppose the last battle) then its like.....i guess its some sort of vague notion of the ottoman empire? its really just a mashup of any number of white-english-variety racist notions. everyone is brown, is it an inaccurate stab at an amorphous amalgam of middle eastern culture? east asian? are people islamic or hindu? just try and guess what he was going for because its just. not based on anyone needing to know anything about reality. lewis was against seasoning food i guess, because it will mention i guess like, people cooking with onions like the heathens they are. (spoilers: this country just exists in the narniaverse to represent Those Heathens). its not necessarily an Evil place, they are noble savages ok!! with their formal seriousness and cutthroat customs.......b/c they are not as advanced and peaceful as the white northern christians, see. closer to the less developed violence of their inherently backwards ways and Cruel Society reigned by violence DONT CONVERT OR YOU'LL DIE, KIDS. but also.....you wont be white? the reason of calormens existence is really never explained. telmarines came from englandverse on accident thru a magic portal just lying around, possibly thats whats meant to have happened there too? its never attempted to be explained. anyways its basically the intro to the disney aladdin.

lewis is entirely inconsistent and self contradictory all throughout the series for the sake of the authors convenience. this is part of what makes the stories fun and the worldbuilding charming. it is also what allows him to pull stunts that have you pinching the bridge of your nose in exasperation and writing out essays to try to figure out how narnia is supposed to work. it is also what allows him, five books in, to be like, "here is the country to the south where the demon-worshipping gross scary brown uncivilized folk sit around hating narnia and confirming any racist notion you have about any nonwhite nonchristian country or culture." thanks, clive

its of course ludicrous and, of course, the protagonist shasta just so happens to be white despite being raised calormene. spoilers, he is narnian. or really from archenland, which isnt narnia but is still white and pro-narnia so its alright. i mean, technically narnia is allied with calormen at all points in time of the series? calormen just quietly tries an invasion in that book and also in the last book. so thats interesting. i suppose lewis is anti-crusades, which is big of him. the pevs arent out here trying to conquer calormen and convert them to narnianism. so that must not be the Destiny of the true christian? or are we meant to believe calormenes are beyond help? shasta who is of course secretly not "really" calormene is still representing someone undergoing "conversion," yet again, the guy is white. i suppose being brown is whats hopeless?

theres an inadvertently laughable line at the start of the book where a calormene expositorially points out that shasta is white by comparing him to the "accursed but beautiful" narnians. who are all white? is he just talking about the pevensies? the archenlanders (i cant remember where theyre meant to have come from either.) are like, all humanoid narnian natives white?? wtf, aslan. anyways, the dialogue is unnatural and funny enough, but its also like.....ok lewis, we got it, whiteness is the standard for all universes and everyone wishes they were white. stupid, sexy narnians.

what alllllmost suggests that being a poc isnt an automatic fastpass to hell is that im fairly sure the second protagonist aravis is a nonwhite calormene?? i dont remember it ever saying she was "fair" like the narnians the way the book immediately points out that shasta is. she is of course escaping an arranged marriage (the calormene plot to sort of vaguely try to invade narnia is also based on forcing susan to marry a dude she doesnt like yet who she apparently genuinely considered as a suitor when he wasnt acting like a jerk? so not only a dude who isnt white but a dude who isnt aslanian christian. its a whole complicating element to just toss out in this otherwise flat af worldbuilding, dude!! not to mention? despite the battles and shit, susan was out here considering marriage? how absolutely fucked up would it have been if any of them married and then effed off back to england. moving along) but she is from the start portrayed as equally sympathetically as shasta and nothing about her is pointed out as being Bad and Reprehensible, which the narration has no qualms about doing. she even gets to spend some time with her calormene friend, who is not exactly meant to be as sympathetic or noble but certainly isnt portrayed as at all evil. like...theres at least the occasional exception apparently, in which maybe not every person is inherently evil and violent and cruel. who knows

also aravis definitely later marries the white protag?? but apparently interracial marriage isnt entirely Unthinkable here. wait, also, aravis claims to be somehow a direct descendant of the calormene god tash? first of all, is that true, comma, possible? in the last book its confirmed that tash is real, albeit, like, a demon. dunno what c.s. is telling us with that one. is aravis related to a demon. we can only guess on account of the theme of Inconsistency

anyways. i suppose you could make it into a movie if you just threw out the racist shit. but the "calormen is also distinguished from narnia via its religion" element is also a touch janky. can it be thrown out too? if they intend to produce the last battle, will it be thrown out then. it kind of comes up again. if you get rid of those elements though, the stakes get a little blurrier and more political and more "wait well why would they have any beef with each other in the first place" if you cant just easily point out that the calormenes are shaking their fists at the narnians and their demon worship and their jealousy at not being white. again, are all centaurs white or something? wtf

truly calormene is the most racist ass shit in the whole series, but the concept comes up in less painfully direct ways other times, too. why are there native species in narnia that are considered inherently evil?? sure, the white witch as the stand-in for the devil wasn't originally from narnia. was she creating shit too? i dont remember what she was up to on account of i havent read the magicians nephew in a hot minute. i know they had to take a pegasus into a garden of eden type shit to smoke her out of wherever she was lurking for some reason or another. still. whys there whole types of creatures who are universally and unilaterally condemned? i know we're meant to believe that they just have evil intent according to their nature, but uh....theres no point at which any of these creatures are given a chance? maybe they served the white witch because she was nice to them for once. you're not given the chance to know. EXCEPT for the fact that you get shit like: giants are evil save for the occasional exception, like in lww when a "good" giant is described as having like, a long family line, and "traditions." not like Those Sorts. they do talk in like prince caspian and shit, when their numbers are miserable and theyre discussing tactics, whether to get help from the gross hags and harpies and etc and ppl will talk about Those People and Sorts and Rabble and its like...jfc. b/c apparently sommme of them can be decent! if theyre a giant or whatever. and meanwhile the dwarfs are always chaotic neutral or whatever. not believing in aslan but not necessarily being anti-narnia coz they live there. but sometimes being good guys!! but sometimes being bad guys, and jadis was cool to them apparently. like.................theres definitely cases of Types of narnians who fall outside the "born good / born bad" system, and thats pretty fucked. wolves too? theyre the Talking Beasts aslan definitely created, but on the side of the white witch? how was she having trees be on her side, too? whats going on around here. whats the moral meant to be. smh

uhh well anyhow, you could do a nice essay on gender re narnia. on account of sometimes its staleass typical sexist tropes like uhh, say,, the devil stand-ins keep being women? witches, ok. and the idea of "women need to be protected as pure creatures" as a basic sexist notion, and even lewis taking a relatively subdued jab at the idea of calling that sexist. susan being the miniature mom character type, and of course the infamous last battle bit where, in an attempt to describe her lack of spirituality as a self-insert of what lewis considered his own period of fake maturity via rejection of christianity, she's of course not only described as not believing in narnia (which????? what is anyone supposed to make of that. again, in the allegory of the cave shit, she's been outside the cave!!! she lived in narnia for YEARS AND YEARS and then WENT BACK. how are we supposed to believe she just convinced herself it wasnt literally real? its not quite the same as someone losing their faith in christianity.) but as like, wearing makeup, damn her. even if he wasnt trying to make the point that "look at boys and go to hell" which, i suppose he couldnt, as in narnia susan was being courted just fine as queen, yet i suppose also she didnt marry anyone—anyways, of course its still sexist to slight the way she decides to dress as some form of false maturity, even if its meant to be metaphor. just clumsy af & not great when again, devils are always witches around here. and being younger is to be more spiritually pure which like............mmm ok. this is sort of another one of those weirdly sexless fantasy universes, why do those keep happening. i mean sure this is a christian fairy tale for kids. but nobody even gets married save for in the last paragraphs of a couple books. its left a bit ambiguous whether thats even spiritually acceptable in the narnia rules, unless its to Continue the Line a la the telmarine monarchy from caspian the first to tirian the whateverth. hm

but also of course you get the young girl characters being...somewhat almost allowed to fight (archery mainly) but anyways at least being given equal status to the boys who are there also. theres even mention of once apparently narnia being ruled by a queen w no kings around. fantastic. and theres some non-witch lady characters on occasion. the human characters are where the dynamics are most at, i suppose, but anyways this at least has some nuance & at times seems to go just a bit beyond what you might expect from some old dude in the 50s. still not that surprising or innovative, but not completely flat, and seeming to contain at least a little reflection upon the topic

the essay of race re: narnia would be really short though. Its Racist Af. if you threw classism in too, you might get a bit more length out of it. but really its just so flat in this subject, and totally needless. there's the fact that even narnia is ruled by white english people but.....you can really do without juxtaposing this with the heinous nonwhite country somewhere over there. the rest of the books operate just fine w/o this

tolkien mentioned HIS scary brown backwards civilization to the south a lot more fleetingly in lotr but its....v much the same worldbuilding as narnia??? aka middle earth is pretty much an imaginary proto-england where you dont want to go too far east or south or you run into dangerous &/or inherently evil territory!! ok, jrr.....who was the other people in the inklings?? what did they write. could no one rein these guys in. coz lewis is over here with his Alternate Universe england. with uhhhh wilderness to the north and west and the dangerous evilish racismland to the south. and the ocean and dont forget narnia is a flat earth to the east. also? why are the lone islands like that. can aslan take care of some of that shit. for gods sake. anyways. the all-white good guys / evil poc should be thrown out of everything, thats not what makes the worldbuilding in either lotr or chronarnia at all interesting. yet is it is surely a subsection of the inherent Englishness of both examples........it warrants analysis but not "carrying on into films or anything based on either's precedence in the fantasy genre."

god who knows what im talking about at this point. im just saying "if they arent looking to even bother trying to wrangle the horse and his boy into something not ludicrously racist then i wouldnt be at all surprised." still, do you suppose theres like a curse where unless all narnia books are given some sort of film adaptation, the world won't know peace? more likely the world would end, maybe. the curse of clive. i dont really remember but that elder bbc series sure didnt cover the whole saga

well this is long enough but lets all set off in more endless, doomed narnalysis, such as

my thesis on trying to figure out what. the Fuck any reader is supposed to make out of edmund's role in the lww

whats the deal with merpeople?!

where are all these witches coming from, anyways

seriously if the narnians were just less murderous to the Undesirable species would they have been on the pro-aslan side all along

if there was only two humans staying in narnia at its birth, wouldnt their line like, die out immediately with their kid.

where did the archenlanders come from

where did the calormenes come from

oh yeah and like. are we seriously meant to believe that, at the end of the world, when aslan reveals that being goodnatured supercedes having the Wrong Religion, there is only one calormene in all of a) current existence and b) history who fits the bill? really. why even bring it up, then.

how did narnians react to their four monarchs completely disappearing......for real.....and what happened to the line to the throne?? was there just no ruler until the telmarines came in and took things over for the rest of the few centuries or whatevs.

when was that deep magic in lww written? at the start of narnia? coz thats the magicians nephew. again, how tf did the white witch get any leverage in that one. how was that supposed to be a good idea. wtf. see my thesis

whats the white witch supposed to represent as a stand-in for the devil? not helping that i dont remember the details of magicians nephew for shit, but she's definitely in the Multiverse lore of narnia as being from a different world as narnia and england. wtf is like...her nature

how weird is it in narnia that you have a god who drops in confused alien children to both go on personal journeys and save the world? is narnia-aslan/earth-jesus also dropping other children from other worlds into other other worlds? via other forms? hmm

lewis is all but inviting us the readers to be filling in the blanks with narnia fic. he's basically like, outright actually inviting fic with people wanting to speculate what happens with susan, who must inevitably return to narnia as lewis intends her to represent his own departure from (and obvious inevitable return to) christianity

a weird detail that is also never elaborated on: in addition to the narrator freely inserting loads of opinions into the narration, there's a time or two its made clear that like, the narrator has gotten this info from interviewing the characters. how'd you know about that last battle, "they all died and this happened in the afterlife" shit, huh. just another weird element

sussing out other lewispinions, like how he hates all schools apparently

narnia vs middle earth!! both quasi englands, both pre industrialization, both with christ figures running around some more than others, both with the need for rightful kings, totally different roles for humans tho. well, thats the whole comparison

and, inevitably, more.

[rorykillmore]

sooo it’s time to get to the rest of my (now belated) christmas fics! this one is for @sonofkaden who didn’t have a specific request and just wanted me to write something i thought she’d like. well i... gave it some thought, and while we’ve written a ton of wonderful and important stuff together over the years, there’s one important rp dynamic that i thought could benefit from a bit of cathartic and well-earned closure.

this is, in essence, a sort of sequel to  this fic which she wrote awhile back. writing from the perspective of a character i don’t rp as or otherwise write regularly for is always vaguely intimidating for me, buuut the last gift fic i wrote was from kara’s perspective and i thought this piece would work better (and mean more to fate) from ratchet’s perspective anyways. so uh. hopefully i pulled it off!

fate, to get sappy for a moment, this year has been a particularly important one in our friendship. we finally got to meet irl and we also built an rp dynamic in the superfriends that has become so significant and definitive. it seemed only right to write a tribute to them in their entirety, so i hope you enjoy this. thank you for consistently being kind and supportive and funny, for never failing to make me smile with your distinctive brand of humor even on my lowest days -- you really are an invaluable presence in my life. <3

privately, he hopes he’s not in the process of creating some kind of dimension-crumbling paradox. clank would kill him.

There’s an image of another world shimmering on the other side of the portal. Ratchet wants to reach out and touch it; he flexes one gloved hand, stirred by its familiarity. 

“What is it?” Clank asks, his voice careful and quiet.

He can’t construct a response that’s seamless or immediate, and he knows Clank must feel his silence like a chasm between them -- but after a moment he murmurs, “It’s been awhile.”

Five years, by his estimate -- at least on this side of the rifts. The passage of time between dimensions is a tricky thing, and the awareness that it could have been much less or much more in the other world feels like a weight bearing down on him.

He’s afraid. He can’t articulate it, but he’s afraid. He can feel it in the hammering of his heart, the subtle prickling of his fur. He stands there, staring, yearning and reluctant.

“It took longer than expected to rework the schematics of the Dimensionator into something stable,” Clank begins hesitantly. “I would understand if your feelings on this matter have... changed.”

A test run, he had called it only weeks ago. Ratchet wants to laugh at himself now for that feigned flippancy. They finally have a reliable way of traveling through dimensions, and he could have used it to find the other Lombaxes --

-- He would have been lying if he’d said that hadn’t been his first thought, despite how many strides he’s taken towards making peace with it --

But that’s an entire journey, and one that doesn’t have a clear end in sight. His proposal for today is something different -- a test in essence, sure, but also a goodbye.

A proper goodbye. One he’d almost started to assume he would never get.

He doesn’t know what to do with it now. Improbable as it once might have seemed, the prospect of it has always been there, hanging in the undefined future. If he goes through with this now, it’ll be gone -- and maybe he’ll be able to let go of what he’s been holding on to since he got back.

He’s not sure he wants to.

“Nah,” he says decisively in spite of that -- and in spite of the fact that what he’s looking for might not even be there any more, which would hurt all the worse. “Can’t turn back now that we’ve come this far. Wish me luck, huh buddy?”

A part of him aches to ask Clank to come with him - the comfort of his oldest friend’s presence is easy to fall back on, even after their separation - but this is his first time deliberately dimension-hopping with this thing, and if something goes wrong... better one of them than both of them.

Besides, this is something he should probably do alone.

He feels Clank’s hand hover over his arm briefly before settling there. “Good luck, Ratchet,” the little robot echoes, and when Ratchet turns to meet his eyes, he feels the weight of the emotion behind the words.

He greets them with a nod, because he knows his own response would fail him, and then turns and takes the plunge.

“Holy shit, he’s alive.”

It’s a grating, painstakingly familiar voice that he’s first greeted with on the other side -- though in spite of that, it takes him a moment to place it. He sits up slowly, slightly dizzy with the effect of the jump, and tries to focus on the two figures looming over him. Mostly because they’re there, and easy to focus on.

He regrets it a second later.

“How did you survive Belsnickel?” demands Chanel #3, leaning in closer than Ratchet would like to get a better look at him. “Did he restore you to life once you’d learned your lesson and acknowledged the true meaning of Christmas?”

“Don’t be an idiot, Number Three,” Chanel cuts in abrasively. “Everyone knows that’s Krampus’ deal.”

Chanel #3′s expression goes blanker than usual.  “I thought he trapped people in snowglobes.”

Quickly and without much internal debate, Ratchet decides to leave them to their argument. It’s only another moment before he’s reasonably sure that his legs aren’t going to give out underneath him, so he springs abruptly to his feet -- and dashes out of the building without a backwards glance.

“Hey!” he hears one of the girls exclaim, but he doesn’t falter, his mind racing. That building is still there, and it looks the same as it ever did. And if even those two creeps are still around, then there’s a chance --

He cuts himself off before the thought is fully formed, but allows himself a tiny sliver of hope. There’s a chance.

When he reaches their old apartment, he’s out of breath, and he’s almost grateful for the moment’s pause it excuses.

Except then the moment goes on a little too long, and he’s just staring at the door, reevaluating everything. Again.

Sometimes he hates that he thinks too much.

It’s sentiment, ultimately, that quells his doubt. The thought of seeing his friends’ faces again, the knowledge that they could be right there on the other side. So he lifts his hand and manages it to keep from shaking as he knocks. Twice. A third time.

And then he waits a short span of seconds that feel like a lifetime before door opens.

It’s Kara on the other side, and Ratchet feels his heart swell with relief -- and then stutter. She looks so much like he remembers her (but then he remembers that thing about Kryptonian aging, and realizes that probably shouldn’t tell him anything). The way the smile on her face freezes tells him that at least some time has passed, for her. Enough for her to notice his absence.

Probably, he guesses as he looks at her now, enough for her to mourn it. He hates the idea of everything they’d built together - everything he’s left behind- having splintered and broken.

“Hey,” he decides to break the silence, inevitably awkward.  “I, uh -- I know this is probably weirding you out. I can explain.”

“Ratchet,” she murmurs faintly in response, and the sound of it wrenches at his heart.  She looks as though she’s seen a ghost, and while he rationally knows he has no control over the rifts, he can’t help feeling guilty.

He hesitates, feeling his ears droop. He’s almost afraid to ask, but he can’t see anything to do except push ahead.  “...How long’s it been?”

She doesn’t answer, almost staring through him in a way he can’t remember ever seeing her do before. He wishes reaching out to her felt as easy as it once did, but whether it’s the time that’s passed or the way she’s reacting,he suddenly feels helpless.

And then a shadow moves behind her -- and Ratchet instantly recognizes Sasuke. He’s visibly changed. He’s not dramatically older, but maybe a year or two, and his hair’s grown out a little to lesson some of that inexplicable spikiness.

Too bad. Ratchet always liked teasing him about that.

For a moment, Sasuke’s expression is nearly as vulnerable as Kara’s, and that’s even more disconcerting -- but he recovers more quickly, finds his voice before Ratchet has to stumble again for something to say.

“You came back.”

“...I can’t stay.”  Telling them this suddenly feels agonizing  -- dropping in to say goodbye felt comparatively easy, in his own world. Now it feels like the first thing he needs to tell them, and the one thing he doesn’t want to -- if they’re reacting like this, how will losing him again feel?  “I just -- wanted to see you both. One more time.  I thought... you deserved that.”

His voice sounds uncertain to his own ears, and he deflates a little further. Weren’t they happy to see him? He doesn’t like that thought. It feels... selfish, somehow. But it’s been hard for him too. He’s missed them too.

A fleeting look passes between his two old friends, gone almost before he notes it -- and then something seems to give way. Kara’s the first to step forward, and suddenly her arms are around him, her voice close to his ear as she murmurs “We missed you so much.”

In spite of the whirlwind of emotion still raging between the three of them, it’s instinct to hug her back. This feels familiar, this is how things click back into place -- he remembers a time when the two of them were practically attached at the hip, when hugs like this were commonplace.

Well, he thinks as he holds onto her a little more tightly, maybe not hugs like this.

It’s only a moment before his gaze drifts past her and over to Sasuke, who’s still standing in the doorway. He’s a little startled by what he sees: in some unexpected sense, Sasuke looks almost lost, his hand flitting up to brush his hair away from his eyes in a gesture that’s strangely apprehensive. The look that passes between them is silent and loaded, and after a couple of heartbeats, Ratchet finds himself wordlessly disentangling an arm and holding it out to him.

It’s a minuscule reaction, and he might have missed it if he hadn’t been trained to watch so closely -- but Sasuke almost seems to draw away from him. But this is so much the way Ratchet remembers it being: reaching out to Sasuke sometimes means being patient until he decides to reach back. And slowly, almost painstakingly, he finally does. His grip is tight as it closes around Ratchet’s, and the three of them stand together in silence for a moment, bound by memory as well as touch.

“I’m... sorry we greeted you like that.” After what seems at once like lifetimes and seconds too short, Kara pulls away, and Ratchet gets the feeling she’s not talking about the hug. The three of them simultaneously disentwine as if they’re one mind, and he straightens, glancing between them inquisitively. “It’s just -- a lot has happened, since you left.”

He can’t help but smile faintly. “Yeah. For me, too.”

“I guess we have some catching up to do,” Sasuke remarks, though Ratchet’s almost sure he doesn’t imagine the look he shoots Kara -- or the way Kara glances behind her, in the direction of the clock on the wall.

Even so, no one has to say anything else. When they let him inside, Ratchet remembers the day Kara asked him to be her roommate and marvels at how much and how little has changed since then.

In some small, odd way, it almost feels like coming home.

The things they tell each other aren’t easy. Sure, catching up involves a lot of laughs - they share anecdotes and reminisce, and there are moments when it feels like no time has passed at all - but Ratchet also tells them how he had to sacrifice his then-only hope of finding the Lombaxes (he sees it hit Kara particularly hard). He listens as they tell him how Kara lost herself thanks to some drug concocted by Mason Verger, and how Sasuke’s newfound power entailed him hidings his meetings with Orochimaru for months -- a wound that still seems to be healing, because Kara goes tightlipped when it comes up.

It hurts him, to know they’ve been hurting, but it also makes him fiercely proud. They’ve stayed together, through everything. Their team has survived. And -- there’s something telling, he thinks, about how now none of them thing twice about telling each other everything.

Except, it turns out, there is one thing they haven’t told him.

One... kind of big thing.

“You -- met another Ratchet?”  he can’t keep himself from blurting out when they finally confess. “Another me?”

His mind flits back to the memory of meeting the other Kara, and how it prompted a discussion about another Sasuke, and he has to take a moment to wrap his head around it. Wryly, he reflects that he’s somehow managed to forget how much of a headache this can be.

“...He’s part of our team, now,” Sasuke says, watching him closely, and Ratchet feels a small jolt at the realization.

This isn’t just a one or two time anomaly. The... Other Ratchet has been with them the whole time. He’s painfully aware of how frozen he must look, and struggles to work out how to feel.

“But it’s not that simple,” Kara’s quick to put in, reading his expression. “It took a... long time for us to work things out. It wasn’t like we just replaced you.”

Ratchet flexes his hands, taking momentary comfort in the familiar feel of his glove, and wonders. Replace him?  He doesn’t think his friends would ever try. Still, this is a jarring shock,  and he can’t help but reel -- and somewhere buried beneath the startled confusion, he feels the seeds of envy beginning to burrow.

Never in a million years would he have imagined being almost jealous of his younger self.

They seem to be taking his silence as a bad sign, because it’s Sasuke who continues, “When he got here... we were still grieving you. He noticed pretty quickly. It was a mess, for awhile.”

“That’s -- around the time I got hit with the Red Kryptonite.” Kara shifts, her jaw tightening.

His eyes widen at the implication, and he hesitates for a moment, forcing himself to sort through his thoughts before he finally speaks.  “I... wow. So that’s why you guys... kind of freaked out back there.”

He can think of about a hundred questions he wants to ask, and wonders whether it would be better if he didn’t.

“Not because we didn’t want to see you.” Kara reaches out to rest a hand over his -- she’s hardly broken contact, since he stepped inside. “Just -- we thought things might get... complicated, if he realized you were here before we had a chance to talk to him.”

Ratchet doesn’t pull away from her, but for the first time, he lowers his gaze. “...Well. Like I said -- I can’t stay.”

This time, the silence that falls between them is heavy. In spite of how much all of this is, he doesn’t want this to be his last member of them - doesn’t want to leave with all of this baggage between them - so he tries to think of something else to say.

It’s Sasuke, actually, who beats him to it -- Ratchet can’t help but be reminded of the evening he surprised them all by being the one to uplift them. Funny, the details he can still remember.

“You helped build this team, you know.” His voice is level and direct, and Ratchet finally looks over at him. “Without you, none of this would have this. We’re not about to forget that.”

Kara nods, giving his hand a light squeeze.  “You know, younger Ratchet -- we’re close with him now because of everything we’ve been through together. Not because of who he is.  But you -- you were my first friend here. I still feel like I... owe you so much, in some ways.”

He glances between them, silent but pensive, feeling a strange kind of sadness even as something in him lightens.

“And -- that night on the rooftop, after the Christmas party? We promised each other we’d always be friends,” Kara finishes, sounding softer and a little firmer all at once. “I haven’t forgotten that, either.”

Her words hang in the air for a beat, and then --

“...You’re still a sap, you know that?”  Ratchet murmurs with teasing fondness, but he remembers it, too. His comment earns him a smile, and he can’t help but smile back at her. Even Sasuke’s expression looks lighter, and these are the little things Ratchet missed: Kara’s open warmth, Sasuke’s rare softness.

He knows - whatever else he might feel, looking at them now he knows - that when he has to leave them again, they’ll be okay -- and that he will be, too. He recognizes it as the peace he came here to find.

“So... I still have a little while, before I’ve gotta take off,” he ventures, his smile turning just a touch more sly. “What do you guys say to one more patrol -- for old time’s sake?”

They make for - of all things - the quarantine zone. It’s half a joke, half for nostalgia’s sake, and either way Ratchet finds it strangely peaceful for the former site of a zombie apocalypse. Sitting on the wall, facing the ocean with his friends -- it’s a little easier to put things into perspective. And even if he realizes that some part of him will always be a little sad for the things he missed, the knowledge he bears now makes up for it.

That instead of drifting apart, Kara and Sasuke have become almost seamlessly close. That Sasuke seems more comfortable and less alone now than he ever did in all the time Ratchet has known him. That Kara herself seems to... fit into her place in this world in a way she once yearned to.

Ratchet remembers his promise to her, when he vowed to help her chase after normalcy. In those quiet last moments with his friends, he thinks he might owe the fulfillment of at least part of that promise to someone else -- someone who isn’t even sitting on this wall.

And with only a hint of trepidation, he decides he has one last stop to make before he goes home.

Looking down at your younger self, it turns out, is kind of a trip.

“Now I see why Clank’s so fussy about time travel,” Ratchet murmurs, reveling for a moment in the silliness of making idle comments to himself. From his calculated position on a nearby rooftop, he blinks at the other Ratchet, marveling at the reality that this is so clearly him -- but not. He can’t fully put his finger on it, but there’s something about the kid that looks a little... softer than he remembers being, at that age.

And -- is he walking home from school?

That realization prompts a pang of mingled amusement and envy, and Ratchet’s careful to tuck it away before he swingshots down and lands effortlessly on the street.

“Hey,” he greets the other him with what he hopes is a casual enough grin. “I’ve heard a lot about you.”

The other Ratchet jolts as if struck by lightning, and whirls around to face him -- he cringes inwardly, feeling a little bad for startling him. ...Himself? Whatever.

The look on his younger self’s face doesn’t exactly manage to reassure him. It’s blank with shock, at first, and then raw with anger - and wow, does Ratchet remember feeling like that - before it finally settles into something a little more conflicted. A little more cautious.

“...You’re him,” his younger self says, and it’s almost a whisper.

“Uh -- yeah.” Ratchet makes every effort not to think about how weird this objectively is. “Look, I know you’re probably not... thrilled to see me. But I thought I should swing by and say something. I’m sorry about... you know, how rough things’ve been for you.”

The other Ratchet’s ears droop in a way that’s all too familiar, even as his tail lashes indecisively. “I...”

Ratchet waits for him to finish. It takes him a moment.

“...It’s not your fault,” the kid manages at last, though his expression is guarded and unsure.

“It’s not yours, either,” Ratchet responds simply.

They stare at each other for a long moment, and Ratchet himself can’t help but feel some of the disbelief he still sees written across his mirror image’s face. Privately, he hopes he’s not in the process of creating some kind of dimension-crumbling paradox. Clank would kill him.

“So -- so the rifts... ?” The other Ratchet begins, and he shakes his head.

“Nah, I came here on my own.”

“You -- on your -- ?”  There’s something weirdly endearing about how the younger him fumbles for words. “You found a way to travel through dimensions -- on your own?”

Ratchet rubs behind his neck. “Well... I had a little help. Don’t worry, I’m not hanging around -- I just owed Sasuke and Kara a goodbye.”

The other Ratchet’s expression falters for a moment, and he looks as though he’s not sure how to respond to that. Ratchet suddenly finds that there’s so much he wants to say - the whole ‘if you could tell your younger self one thing’ deal really shouldn’t be treated as such a hypothetical - that he pauses, too.

In the end, what he settles for is:  “You know, I took a look at some of the designs you reworked -- at the tech center?”

“-- Oh! Yeah.” The younger Lombax hesitates. “I, uh... kinda didn’t think anyone would be back. For them. I mean, I know they were yours --”

“I’m impressed.” Ratchet interrupts his uneasy rambling with a calm smile. You improved them. Seriously.”

He has to fight not to broaden his smile as the other Ratchet gapes at him, his ears starting to lift. Taking a step forward, he decides to risk it, and rests a hand briefly on his shoulder.

No paradox. No sudden crumbling of reality. Always a good sign.

“Something tells me you’ve got quite a future ahead of you,” he says quietly, despite -- despite everything. “And it doesn’t have to be mine.”

They hold each other’s gazes, strange emotion brimming between them, and he recognizes that nothing else needs to be said.

When he steps away again and swings off, he doesn’t look back -- in spite of all the warnings he could have given, the advice he could have bestowed. He’s said everything he needed to, and he realizes - has long since realized - that there are a lot of things that shouldn’t be molded or shaped.

He doesn’t need to look back anymore, anyway.

He knows now that the important things are the ones he will carry with him always.

[hgfstreamchats]

The Disaster Artist and Osmosis Jones

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Apparenty, his real living quarters weren't this nice. thenightetc 09:44 PM Huh. thenightetc 09:44 PM I wonder if he actually has a weird mural like that. highglossfinish 09:45 PM He had old strips of flypaper and expired carrot juice in the fridge. thenightetc 09:45 PM ...pffff highglossfinish 09:45 PM So. thenightetc 09:45 PM oh ew thenightetc 09:47 PM Hahaha. thenightetc 09:50 PM That's a good question really.  Now I'M kind of curious about where he gets the money for two apartments in expensive cities. thenightetc 09:50 PM "and I'm sorry but you are just not talented" highglossfinish 09:50 PM I hope they leave in the part where she tells him not to have sex with her son. thenightetc 09:50 PM oh boy thenightetc 09:51 PM wow highglossfinish 09:51 PM They didn't do his mother justice. She was angry and French. thenightetc 09:52 PM Awwww. highglossfinish 09:52 PM "Imitates laughter" thenightetc 09:53 PM Errrrrr thenightetc 09:53 PM dog! highglossfinish 09:53 PM Look at it go! Thebes has joined the party. Thebes 09:54 PM hello! thenightetc 09:54 PM hey! highglossfinish 09:54 PM Thebes human, hello! thenightetc 09:55 PM ...Wait, is Greg 16 then? highglossfinish 09:56 PM 19. thenightetc 09:56 PM Oh thenightetc 09:57 PM "haha definitely not underage, gimme some vodka" thenightetc 09:59 PM This seems like... a lie thenightetc 10:00 PM *wheeze* highglossfinish 10:01 PM Hah! thenightetc 10:02 PM Oh no thenightetc 10:03 PM He's being surprisingly tolerant of this nonsense thenightetc 10:04 PM Ha. thenightetc 10:07 PM Dramatic zoom. highglossfinish 10:07 PM Did Tommy direct this? They're really downplaying what a deplorable heap he is. thenightetc 10:09 PM hoo boy Thebes 10:10 PM I think Tommy threatened litigation highglossfinish 10:10 PM Sounds about right. thenightetc 10:11 PM And it sure was worth it, right! thenightetc 10:12 PM Reeeeaaaaally highglossfinish 10:13 PM Apparently, there was a bed in the room where they were auditioning and the Lisas had to be reassured that whatever The Room was, it wasn't a porno. thenightetc 10:13 PM HA thenightetc 10:13 PM Oh god. thenightetc 10:14 PM (The ha was at the screaming) thenightetc 10:14 PM The fuck highglossfinish 10:15 PM Dear Unicron. highglossfinish 10:15 PM Let me see if I can hunt down a particular passage from the book I like. highglossfinish 10:16 PM Found it. Message deleted thenightetc 10:16 PM 👀 highglossfinish 10:17 PM http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/45307474/#q45308754 thenightetc 10:18 PM Oh my god thenightetc 10:19 PM Wait was this 16 year old borrowing from the mob or what thenightetc 10:21 PM Ohhhhh so he wanted them to shoot in the studio so he could take the cameras and all back if it turned out he didn't actually ahve the money highglossfinish 10:21 PM Sensible. highglossfinish 10:22 PM “Would you at least empty your pockets?” Safowa asked. “Can we agree to that?” “I cannot,” Tommy said. Safowa briefly looked like she was about to punch him. Tommy, noticing this, put his hand on her shoulder. “You are very sweet, and I push you little bit. But don’t hate me yet.” From Safowa’s expression it was clear that Tommy’s request was several seconds too late. thenightetc 10:22 PM hahahah thenightetc 10:23 PM god thenightetc 10:23 PM that's MEAN but funny thenightetc 10:23 PM "yes, every single person in here except for you has memorized this shit" highglossfinish 10:23 PM By the Core. thenightetc 10:25 PM "what do you mean IF" thenightetc 10:27 PM I feel bad for this guy. thenightetc 10:27 PM He's got to know how bad it is but he's trying to like.  Mitigate highglossfinish 10:27 PM And there is no mitigating this. thenightetc 10:28 PM "this is an intervention" highglossfinish 10:28 PM "Against everything you are and do." thenightetc 10:28 PM Ha. thenightetc 10:29 PM Oh shit thenightetc 10:30 PM Why thenightetc 10:30 PM Woooow Thebes 10:31 PM Hitchcock is NOT the example to emulate! highglossfinish 10:31 PM Or Kubrick! highglossfinish 10:32 PM "With that, Tommy went off to do his seagull thing elsewhere on set—making a lot of irritating noise while simultaneously shitting on everyone." thenightetc 10:32 PM god thenightetc 10:33 PM Yikes highglossfinish 10:33 PM Well, then. thenightetc 10:34 PM Dude, do not.  It's not worth it. thenightetc 10:36 PM Jesus christ thenightetc 10:39 PM Oh no is he going to pass this up for the movie highglossfinish 10:39 PM Please, no. thenightetc 10:40 PM hahahahha thenightetc 10:41 PM :( thenightetc 10:41 PM The greatest death scene of our time. thenightetc 10:42 PM "I'm sure they can fix it in editing" thenightetc 10:42 PM Oh no is something going to happen to the beard thenightetc 10:43 PM oh man thenightetc 10:43 PM "ok cool I'm doing the show bye" thenightetc 10:44 PM That is just.  Yikes. highglossfinish 10:44 PM This is horrifying. thenightetc 10:45 PM erase the memory of today thenightetc 10:45 PM who's to say??? thenightetc 10:46 PM Yikes thenightetc 10:47 PM Wow thenightetc 10:48 PM pff thenightetc 10:48 PM spoiler: it was not fucking awesome highglossfinish 10:48 PM It was a whole lot of something. thenightetc 10:52 PM wow thenightetc 10:53 PM "pretend you didn't see us driving by like 10 minutes ago" thenightetc 10:54 PM So is there anyone there who wasn't involved in it highglossfinish 10:54 PM Probably not. thenightetc 10:56 PM "later, he would hump that dress" thenightetc 10:56 PM "before shooting himself in the head" highglossfinish 10:56 PM Hah! thenightetc 10:57 PM Did.  Did they not know about that highglossfinish 10:58 PM Why are any of you surprised by this? thenightetc 11:00 PM that's just how it be sometimes thenightetc 11:00 PM "little bit yeah" thenightetc 11:01 PM He did not do that all by himself, there was a huge cast and crew highglossfinish 11:01 PM Is he even capable of this kind of self-awareness? thenightetc 11:01 PM There were like 50 people involved highglossfinish 11:01 PM 50 people that he shouted at with a sock dangling off himself. thenightetc 11:03 PM PFFF thenightetc 11:03 PM Oh that's COLD.  I love it. highglossfinish 11:03 PM Ice cold. thenightetc 11:04 PM "oh god don't blame me for this" thenightetc 11:04 PM "i am not affiliated with this person" thenightetc 11:05 PM oh man thenightetc 11:05 PM this thing turned a profit?  amazing Thebes 11:06 PM Not just a profit, it is THE bad movie for bad movie screenings, right alongside Show Girls, Birdemic, and Troll 2 thenightetc 11:07 PM So this is the renactment vs original footage? Thebes 11:07 PM yup! thenightetc 11:09 PM That sure was a hell of a lot of something. highglossfinish 11:09 PM It really, really was. thenightetc 11:14 PM Pfff highglossfinish 11:14 PM Hah. thenightetc 11:15 PM Well then. thenightetc 11:15 PM I wonder if anyone's LPing that one game thenightetc 11:15 PM Pandemic? thenightetc 11:15 PM You know, with Madagascar Thebes 11:16 PM HAH! thenightetc 11:16 PM IRL I hear Madagascar is fine right now thenightetc 11:16 PM Oh HO thenightetc 11:17 PM So it gives you a stack modus highglossfinish 11:18 PM Is Pandemic still free to play? thenightetc 11:18 PM I THOUGHT it was on Kongregate... or maybe I'm thinking of a different, but very similar game thenightetc 11:19 PM ha! Thebes 11:19 PM I think it used to be, and then the gameplay was used for Plague Inc. thenightetc 11:19 PM Ahhh. thenightetc 11:21 PM Hmmm. thenightetc 11:27 PM Tsk. thenightetc 11:28 PM That's what I do with all MY old PC cases. thenightetc 11:30 PM Pure luxury! thenightetc 11:31 PM Oh my god highglossfinish 11:31 PM It's not a Let's Game it Out stream until someone catches fire. thenightetc 11:33 PM "whatever happens, happens" highglossfinish 11:34 PM I wonder if she's from New Orleans? thenightetc 11:35 PM I don't know, someone should ask her! highglossfinish 11:35 PM "We're just trying to make with what we have right now." highglossfinish 11:35 PM What a sage and a scholar. thenightetc 11:36 PM "hey, we're here, we might as well catch the plague" highglossfinish 11:36 PM And then toddle around in their little Plaguemobile. highglossfinish 11:39 PM Useless emulator. thenightetc 11:39 PM https://www.kongregate.com/games/DarkRealmStudios/pandemic-2 ? thenightetc 11:40 PM Oh, I see, you tried that one thenightetc 11:40 PM Drat. thenightetc 11:41 PM How could you EVER manage to play a decade-old game without the very, very latest version of flash. thenightetc 11:42 PM Yesssss. highglossfinish 11:42 PM Oh, here we go! thenightetc 11:43 PM The moment of truth. thenightetc 11:44 PM HA thenightetc 11:45 PM Could you possibly zoom in a tad?  I can't read anything on the buttons thenightetc 11:45 PM I mean--for the screen as a whole thenightetc 11:45 PM Much better!  Thank you :) highglossfinish 11:45 PM Not a problem! Thebes 11:46 PM The version of this they have on Steam lets you unlock the zombie plague and vampire bites highglossfinish 11:46 PM Oooh, tempting! thenightetc 11:46 PM I would love to try to make everyone in the world a vampire. highglossfinish 11:46 PM I'd like to do that but still call it valve blindness. thenightetc 11:46 PM Valid. highglossfinish 11:48 PM Oh, we might be in business. highglossfinish 11:48 PM It's downloading. thenightetc 11:48 PM Aha, nice! Thebes 11:48 PM Excellent~ thenightetc 11:50 PM ...You know what would be a fun movie? Thebes 11:51 PM what? highglossfinish 11:51 PM What? thenightetc 11:51 PM Osmosis Jones. Thebes 11:51 PM #PlagueGoals thenightetc 11:51 PM Heheheh. highglossfinish 11:51 PM Great minds think alike. I was *this* close to streaming that tonight. thenightetc 11:52 PM Hey, I'm up for it if you wanted to stay up that late. highglossfinish 11:52 PM You know, I've got nowhere else to be. And my understanding is you don't either. highglossfinish 11:52 PM Excellent! Thebes 11:52 PM Correct! thenightetc 11:52 PM I sure don't!  I mean, I have work tomorrow, but not until noon, so I don't go to bed until the small hours highglossfinish 11:52 PM Goodbye, valve blindness, since you're not doing anything funny. thenightetc 11:53 PM To me the fun thing was to let it spread, totally asymptomatic and thus hidden, and then bring down the hammer with a bunch of terrible symptoms once a bunch of people had it. highglossfinish 11:54 PM Oh, agreed. Thebes 11:54 PM same. Plague Inc has the bonus fun of being able to shut down the olympics thenightetc 11:54 PM Ha! highglossfinish 11:54 PM Very fun! highglossfinish 11:54 PM That's not a monkey, and monkeys eat each other. highglossfinish 11:55 PM We've seen them do it. That was fun to explain to Impact. thenightetc 11:55 PM Wow. thenightetc 11:56 PM Just let him have it, he earned it Thebes 11:56 PM Pictured: Dignity thenightetc 11:56 PM Ewwwww thenightetc 11:56 PM No highglossfinish 11:56 PM It's covered in visible filth. highglossfinish 11:56 PM He deserved whatever he picked up. thenightetc 11:56 PM And what he picked up is... well. highglossfinish 11:56 PM Well indeed. highglossfinish 11:57 PM You think? thenightetc 12:00 AM Spoiler: Nobody's gonna thank him for that later. thenightetc 12:01 AM *wince* highglossfinish 12:02 AM I would think she'd be eager for a foster home. thenightetc 12:03 AM Gosh, I wonder what that could have been 👀 highglossfinish 12:03 AM Hmmm! thenightetc 12:03 AM 👀👀👀👀 highglossfinish 12:03 AM 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 highglossfinish 12:03 AM Ohhhhh yes. thenightetc 12:04 AM Nice of them to give us a villain to be thirsty over. Jesteban17 has joined the party. highglossfinish 12:04 AM .....So! Out of curiosity. Think this virus that's giving you so much trouble right now is that devastatingly attractive? Jesteban17 has left the party. thenightetc 12:04 AM Probably not. thenightetc 12:05 AM I mean, that's a high bar. thenightetc 12:06 AM Just twist his head right around. Thebes 12:06 AM SO many puns thenightetc 12:07 AM It's hard to feel sorry for this guy. highglossfinish 12:07 AM Incredibly so. highglossfinish 12:07 AM https://viceland-assets-cdn.vice.com/blogs/en/files/2010/05/august2009-550x412.jpg highglossfinish 12:08 AM Here we are! Your virus personified. thenightetc 12:08 AM Accurate. thenightetc 12:10 AM Ozzy, you haven't even seen him yet. highglossfinish 12:12 AM The attention to detail is impressive. thenightetc 12:12 AM I know, right? highglossfinish 12:12 AM "Beer. More beer." thenightetc 12:16 AM Doggo thenightetc 12:18 AM So is he... alive in there? Thebes 12:19 AM yuuuup SpadedAce has joined the party. SpadedAce 12:20 AM -peeks- highglossfinish 12:20 AM Hello! SpadedAce 12:20 AM have I missed the sexiest animated intro-- yeah I have SpadedAce 12:20 AM this will work thenightetc 12:21 AM This part was pretty great, too. highglossfinish 12:21 AM He steals any scene he's in. thenightetc 12:21 AM Very true. SpadedAce 12:21 AM god he's so lovely SpadedAce 12:21 AM his teeth aree so narsty tho highglossfinish 12:21 AM When you sound like that, you don't need good teeth. thenightetc 12:22 AM Playing with the cord thing. highglossfinish 12:22 AM I wish he'd play with my cord thing. SpadedAce 12:22 AM also I love that he's pretty much just based on the masque of the red death story thenightetc 12:22 AM Nice. highglossfinish 12:23 AM OhmyUnicron. thenightetc 12:23 AM Ayyy. thenightetc 12:24 AM That sounds cruel to the snake. jjnr1992 has joined the party. jjnr1992 has left the party. highglossfinish 12:24 AM Just let Thrax do what he needs to do, everyone else's life would improve. SpadedAce 12:25 AM sir that is a BACTERIA DONT EAT IT thenightetc 12:25 AM Drix.  Why. thenightetc 12:26 AM Or IS it. thenightetc 12:27 AM Ewwww. thenightetc 12:29 AM Here we GO thenightetc 12:29 AM That trenchcoat trick is just great. thenightetc 12:30 AM GAH highglossfinish 12:30 AM It really is. highglossfinish 12:30 AM Every time we cut back to this human, I care less about whether he lives or dies. thenightetc 12:31 AM At one point I made a cut of this movie with most of his scenes just... cut out. SpadedAce 12:31 AM for the bettre I hate them too lol highglossfinish 12:31 AM You're doing noble work. thenightetc 12:31 AM I should see if I still have that. highglossfinish 12:32 AM It's nothing special whatsover. highglossfinish 12:32 AM ............Or so I've heard. thenightetc 12:35 AM "sure why not" thenightetc 12:36 AM Gaaaah. thenightetc 12:36 AM ... highglossfinish 12:36 AM Every human in this movie is so unpleasant. Thebes 12:37 AM agreed Thebes 12:38 AM on the other hand it's a fairly quick edit job to remove all the human scenes thenightetc 12:38 AM She shouldn't be telling him that thenightetc 12:39 AM That all seems very unlikely. highglossfinish 12:39 AM Incredibly so. highglossfinish 12:39 AM Ugh. thenightetc 12:40 AM oh jesus thenightetc 12:40 AM wear.  sandals. highglossfinish 12:40 AM Buffalo, where no one should ever be. thenightetc 12:40 AM "so what's the big surprise" thenightetc 12:42 AM "die young" highglossfinish 12:42 AM Oh, Thrax, you mercy angel. thenightetc 12:42 AM :3 thenightetc 12:46 AM What a great disguise. thenightetc 12:47 AM Ewwww thenightetc 12:48 AM Gaaaah highglossfinish 12:48 AM This movie's really one long ew, broken up by occasional Thrax. highglossfinish 12:48 AM Say more words, please. thenightetc 12:49 AM Eheheh. thenightetc 12:49 AM Oh god this scene highglossfinish 12:49 AM Is that really grounds for a restraining order? thenightetc 12:51 AM God, Ozzy. Thebes 12:51 AM he has no chill. thenightetc 12:51 AM None. thenightetc 12:51 AM 👀 highglossfinish 12:53 AM That song, too. thenightetc 12:53 AM right? SpadedAce 12:53 AM the teeacher is a bitch thenightetc 12:54 AM I just can't watch that scene. thenightetc 12:55 AM Rude. thenightetc 12:56 AM Nice. thenightetc 12:58 AM He could just tell her about the restraining order.  Then she'd know there's a reason he can't go thenightetc 12:58 AM But he's an idiot, I guess. Thebes 12:59 AM I thought that was proven by every word and action out of his impulsive body thenightetc 01:00 AM The most realistic of headlines thenightetc 01:00 AM And nobody noticed that highglossfinish 01:00 AM A chain link fence, what adequate protection. thenightetc 01:02 AM ohhhhhhh highglossfinish 01:02 AM Ohhhh~hh... thenightetc 01:04 AM ewwwww thenightetc 01:04 AM frank this is why you're dying highglossfinish 01:05 AM You absolutely positive this is who you want to break your record on, Thrax? highglossfinish 01:07 AM Mmm. thenightetc 01:07 AM 👀 thenightetc 01:08 AM ...I can't believe that becomes plot-relevant. highglossfinish 01:08 AM Ugh. thenightetc 01:08 AM Ugh. thenightetc 01:10 AM What a coincidence! thenightetc 01:11 AM Ha! highglossfinish 01:11 AM His disheveled fronds. highglossfinish 01:13 AM Alright, I've got the *perfect* note for us to end on. SpadedAce 01:13 AM hot thenightetc 01:13 AM 👀 highglossfinish 01:13 AM 👀👀👀 highglossfinish 01:14 AM 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 thenightetc 01:14 AM 👀👀👀👀👀 thenightetc 01:15 AM *golf clap* thenightetc 01:17 AM oh man highglossfinish 01:17 AM No he isn't. thenightetc 01:17 AM He really isn't. thenightetc 01:18 AM I wonder if they got the *right* dna bead thenightetc 01:19 AM Also you'd really think there'd be some permanent damage SpadedAce 01:19 AM "mom says hi" oof highglossfinish 01:19 AM Sticking in someone else's dna bead could only do him good. thenightetc 01:19 AM Fair. thenightetc 01:22 AM So!  What's this perfect end note, then? highglossfinish 01:22 AM Alright, now let me get our very exclusive last note. thenightetc 01:23 AM 👀 SpadedAce 01:23 AM i wonder...... highglossfinish 01:23 AM Or what I thought was exclusive. I thought it had been taken offline. highglossfinish 01:23 AM Oh well, still good. SpadedAce 01:23 AM do cybertertonians have toots SpadedAce 01:23 AM oh my god thenightetc 01:24 AM ...I've got a suggestion, too. SpadedAce 01:27 AM imma scoot for now, that was fun tho! highglossfinish 01:27 AM Suggest away! thenightetc 01:27 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrO-DTOamkA highglossfinish 01:27 AM And no, no we do not. SpadedAce has left the party. highglossfinish 01:28 AM Too late. highglossfinish 01:29 AM *Well, then.* thenightetc 01:29 AM I'll be honest here.  That's the one that got me into vidding. Tkay has joined the party. Tkay has left the party. highglossfinish 01:31 AM It's exceptional. thenightetc 01:31 AM It really is. thenightetc 01:33 AM Anyhow.  Thanks for the stream--it's been great! highglossfinish 01:33 AM Thank you for coming! It was an especially fun one tonight! Thebes 01:33 AM fantastic way to while away a social distancing thenightetc 01:33 AM It was! thenightetc 01:33 AM And good luck with that valve blindness. highglossfinish 01:34 AM And good luck with your non-attractive virus problem! thenightetc 01:34 AM Goodnight! highglossfinish 01:34 AM Good night! thenightetc has left the party. Thebes 01:34 AM good night! Thebes has left the party.

[pumastuffs]

The 30 Day Non-Human Challenge (but all at once and slightly modified)

1. What is your species? I am a puma!

2. Have you told anyone?  Who? I've briefly brought it up with my younger sister, and I've also told my husband.

3. How old were you when you realized you were not human?  What made you realize it? My "official" awakening was a couple years back, sometime around 2012 or 2013.  I've always felt like a cat, and that was when I finally learned a word to briefly summarize my identity.

4. Do you identify as a part of the otherkin or therian community?  What communities do you identify with? When I first discovered the communities, I lurked mainly in the otherkin tags and used 'kin terminology.  With the recent influx of fictionkin in the otherkin community and tags, I've shifted more towards therian spaces.  Nothing against 'em, I just feel more comfortable with the therian crowd.

5. Tell the story of the first person you told. I think the first person I told was my little sister.  I don't remember it all that well, but I think it started as me talking about the concept and then admitting that yeah, I am one.  We're close and she's cool, so it went well.  Basically a "yeah, that makes sense," kind of thing.

6. Have you faced any abuse because of identifying as nonhuman? Nope!  I'm not very vocal about it irl or on my main blog, and I don't tag my personal posts here with the relevant tags, so I have no audience that could turn on me, haha.

7. Do you have a favorite nonhuman character? Judy Hopps!  When the movie came out, I was the same age as her, and I just really loved her personality.  She's a very relatable character and I love her.  I have a lot of "favorite" characters, but she's the first one who came to mind, and also the most recent.

8. Do you believe there should be nonhuman pride?  What do you imagine it being like? It'd be nice to be able to be a bit more open about it in public without fear of being made fun of, but I don't think "pride" is appropriate.  More just general acceptance.

9. What does being nonhuman mean to you? It means experiencing the world as an animal and a human.  It's kind of a best of both worlds situation.  I'm a feline at my core, but I get to do all these fun things that are inherently human experiences.

10. What have other people said about your nonhuman nature? Nothing, really.  The two people I've told have been supportive, but it's not a thing that we actively talk about because it doesn't *need* to be talked about.

11. Nope.

12. Your favorite nonhuman Tumblr site. Kinfood is probably still my favorite, even if they are inactive.  Lots of good recipes, and it was one of the first kin blogs I followed.

13. Your favorite nonhuman website. Buddy, I have no idea.  I know it's a faux pas, but 99% of my online consumption of therian stuff is tumblr.

14. Tell us about a time you met another nonhuman, whether in real life or online. I don't really actively socialize with other people in the community aside from the occasional reply, and I've not met anyone irl, so I don't think I can really say I've met someone.  Encountered, yes; met, no.

15. Your favorite nonhuman celebrity/person. I've forgotten how to spell it, but I did enjoy watching Kaniishta Njaiuk's videos.  Doggrin was also a favorite.  I loved those little rambling videos while they cooked.  Genuineferalswagger was another blog that I enjoyed going through, although they've since deactivated.  I hope all of 'em are doing well.

16. Your favorite nonhuman book (as in, nonhuman characters are the main focus). Anything with cats as the lead, haha.  Redwall is a classic series.  Watership Down is a good one.  I recently remembered The Grand Escape, but I haven't read that since elementary school.

17. Your favorite nonhuman movie. The Lion King is up there.  Zootopia and Brother Bear are also candidates.  I'm really bad at picking favorites.

18. Tell us a funny joke about being nonhuman. Otherkin don’t real.  A classic joke.

19. Is being nonhuman spiritual for you? A complicated question!  I believe that I'm a purposefully misplaced soul that was nurtured by my close relationship with my childhood cat and dogs.  So basically a mix of spiritual and psychological stuff (the latter being some kind of imprinting).  However you spin it, I believe my nonhuman identity was intentional on behalf of a higher power to help me get through life.  It sounds super cheesy, but it's the easiest way to describe it.

20. Tell us a few thoughts about what it's like being your species. Being feline is so innate that it's sometimes hard to pick out feline behavior from normal human traits.  It's comfy, though.  The worst part is being weirdly territorial  on some things; I don't like people touching my things, and I get this weird, uncomfortable feeling when people come over for the first little bit, like they shouldn't be there.

21. Your favorite nonhuman quote. I can't think of any off the top of my head, sorry!

22. What do you believe causes nonhuman identity? It depends on the person, honestly.  For some it's spiritual, for others it's psychological, and it can even be a mixture of both!  All I know is my vague, wishy-washy views based on my own experience.

23. What is your favorite nonhuman pride image? Uh, the theta-delta?  It's a nice little symbol, and it's a little more subtle than shouting "HEY I'M A CAT" from the rooftops, lol.

24. Write something or post a picture about nonhumans that upsets you. I'm a little bothered by the Tumblrkin(tm) taking over and warping the terms and everything.  I'm also weirded out by how fast it went from a small community on this site to literally everyone on tumblr is fictionkin.  I'm not losing sleep over anything, but like, how did this happen?

25. What is the worst argument you've heard against being nonhuman? They're all a little tired at this point, but the "your body is human" is an obvious one.  Like, yeah, of course.  You sure showed me, buddy.

26. Who is your biggest ally? I'm gonna be cheesy and say my husband.  He's not a spiritual person at all, but he accepts my views and gives me scritches and pets and calls me a cat sometimes.  It's nice.

27. What is your favorite type(s) of cake? Ice cream cake is my jam.  Red Velvet is good, too, followed by confetti cake.

28. What is your favorite type of pie? (Alternately, is pie an acceptable replacement for cake?) Pumpkin pie and buttermilk pie are both so good.  I used to think French silk was amazing back in the day, but it's probably a little too rich for me now.  Pie is definitely an acceptable replacement for cake.

29. Where did you first learn about being nonhuman? Here on good ol' tumblr.  I first saw the word on a post someone made about otherkin going into their ask box to complain about their interpretation of a character.  That lead me to looking in the tags to see what it was about, delving into the blogs (of which Tsu's was one of the first), and deciding "hey, this fits."  All of this was shortly before Tsu went off the deep end.

30. Tell us anything about being nonhuman that you want to end with. I did this all in one go so my mind is pretty tapped for comments or good advice or whatever.

[fearofaherobrine]

Roleplay Server Log #394

"Zly Checks In, Grocery Shopping, Cn Kidnapped, The Firebird and the Sphinx”

[Zly Wilk] - makes his way back to the path he was on before meeting up with Lazur. They make their way to the general direction of the bar, passing near Lie and CP's place.

[Aether] Is crying because CP briefly put her down-

[CP] - It's okay, I'm just getting you some fresh clothes

[Zly Wilk] - hears Aether as they get close - Oh, that's right, Lie had her and CP's baby.

[Lazur] -looks uneasily at the house - Uh... good for them?

[CP] - Come on kiddo, don't cry.  Do you wanna go see the dogs?  Let's go see the dogs- He starts carrying Aether towards the door as he also works on getting her dressed

[Zly Wilk] Oh, come on... we should stop in and offer our congratulations to the new family.

[Lazur] -unsure noises-

[CP] Steps outside and watches his daughter fuss at the sunlight- You're fine, it's just a little light

[Zly Wilk] - Walks up but keeps a respectful distance - Hey, CP.

[CP] - What?- He's heading for the dog pen

[Zly Wilk] Just passing by,  wanted to congratulate you and Lie and meet the new addition.

[CP] Turns so they can see Aether better- Yeah, she's arrived alright, and is being fussy right now

[Zly Wilk] -smiles- Awww... she's adorable.  Babies can be a handful, even when they don't have powers.  

[Lazur] - is standing back slightly with a polite smile trying to hide her 'I'd-rather-be-anywhere-but-here' feelings.

[CP] - She can already set herself on fire

-The wolves are crowding the fence to sniff at Aether-

[Blake] Follows Cp out of the house and gives the newcomers a decisive - Urf.

[Zly Wilk] so I've heard. Well at least the flames aren't setting anything else ablaze... yet. - he moves his gauntleted hand around so that the light makes the gem on the back and the gold sparkle but doesn't shine on the baby

[Aether] Was reaching for Blake but gets distracted by the shiny-

[CP] - So where have you been hiding as of late?

[Zly Wilk] we built a little place in one of the wooded biomes.  Been farming, growing those glowing apples doc and Yaunfen and I created.  Been rather relaxing.... -sly look- took up making alcohol too... everyone needs a hobby.

[CP] - Alcohol, that's a good idea

[Aether] Stretches towards Zly-

[CP] - What are you doing you little silly?

[Zly Wilk] -chuckles and lets Aether grab onto his gauntlet hand's fingers - yeah, I've been working on a hard cider just for Brines... with a little more kick than a Steve could handle.

[CP] - Doubt it would do much for me, but for Lie?  Would probably make her drunk

[Zly Wilk] - produces 3 differently shaped and clearly marked bottles from his inventory-  feel free to try them yourself sometime. Let me know how it goes.

The skull shaped bottle with the white eyes is the Brine Cider, the one that looks like an apple is a little less potent, but still alcoholic, and the baby bottle shape is just regular apple juice from the native apples... in case you needed something for the baby.

[CP] - Well we are starting to introduce her to new foods, I'll have TLOT make copies when he comes back

[Aether] Tries to put Zly's fingers in her mouth-

[Zly Wilk] - keeps his fingers just out of reach - I don't think those fingers would taste very good, little lady.  -at CP- Just be careful with the skull bottle. I have a slight immunity to its effects and I was still knocked out for a couple days testing that batch.

[Lazur] -crossly- I thought he was dead, the jerk,except he never despawned....

[CP] - I can handle most alcohols, so we'll see- He shifts Aether so she can't reach the gauntlet anymore

[Aether] Fusses-

[Zly Wilk] well, we're off to the bar. Going to unload some of the mild and non alcoholic stuff on Sam if they want it for the collection.  Tell Lie we said congratulations as well if we don't see her.

[CP] - When she comes back from irl I will

[Zly Wilk] - waves at Aether - bye bye, little one.

[Lazur] - already fast walking away -

[Zly Wilk] - catches up - What was that about?

[Lazur] ....What was what?

[Zly Wilk] -gives a look-

[Lazur] Ok...ok.... I don't like kids, ok?  Not. My. Thing.

[Zly Wilk] Ok! Ok! Forget I asked.

[CP] Calms Aether down and heads back inside with Blake following.  He puts Aether in her crib and watches Blake lay  down in front of the crib as she falls asleep- Sleep well my precious little girl

[Lie] Has a decent selection of fruits and veggies in her cart for the server as they head for the meat department-

[Doc] Is just eyeballing everything. - This is all so much....

[Lie] - I know, and I guess you're not used to seeing so many cuts of meat...

[Doc] Not really no... I kinda skipped this when I went out with Cp. He's always in such a hurry.

[Lie] - Well, out here you get different bits of meat from different parts of the animal- She points to a chart on the wall behind the counter showing where each part comes from

[Doc] Pokes a package. - It's the sheer amount of plastic that unsettles me.

[Lie] - Well the plastic does help keep the meat from contaminating stuff

[Doc] I understand... but I still hate it.

[Lie] - I know- She moves a little farther down to the bacon section- Hey, here's something you and Deer might like- She holds up a red box with a black label with bacon inside

[Doc] More bacon?

[Lie] - A specific type, maple bacon

[Doc] I don't know what maple is? I presume it's just flavored differently?

[Lie] - Maple is...  It's similar to touchie syrup, but it comes from tree's

[Doc] Oh, okay? I'll try it. - They take the package and glance to one side. - That's odd. What's wrong with these eggs? Are they dirty?

[Lie] - You mean the brown ones?  No, that's how some eggs are.  Egg's can come in a variety of shapes and colors

[Doc] Puts them in the cart - Hmmm.... Can you think of anything else?

[Lie] - Well, we still need to get something sweet for Yaunfen, and maybe some cereal for Aether

[Doc] I was hoping for suggestions, you lead, I'll follow. What else is there out here that's sweet that we don't have?

[Lie] Leads the way to the cereal aisle and to where the brightly colored boxes are- Let's see here...

[Doc] Geeze... these characters look rather crazy. Everyone is super excited to eat whatever is pictured. Do these things have energy boost effects???

[Lie] - Er…  In a sense?  They're packed with sugar.  The characters are mostly to attract children...  Fair warning, there are plastic bags inside of the boxes just to keep the cereal fresh- She picks up a box of honey nut cheerios

[Doc] Frowns- I'm sure I'm going to have to take out the trash once I unwrap all this other stuff anyway. -hir fingers graze several brightly colored boxes.

[Lie] - Take your pick Doc, they're all equally sugary

[Doc] Settles on a box of Froot Loops. - I like the rainbow one. And if it's sweet, Yaunfen will most likely love it too.

[Lie] - Usually you eat these with milk for breakfast- She spots some baby puffs and grabs an apple flavored one of those

[Doc] Milk we have plenty of thankfully.

[Lie] - Exactly, shall we check out?

[Doc] Absolutely.

[Lie] Heads for the check out and spots an open self check out and goes there-

[Doc] Gives the plastic bags a dirty look. - Don't get any. We'll take the cart out and I'll carry the stuff myself.

[Lie] - Okay, we still have to put the stuff in the bagging area though- She moves pretty smoothly as she scans things until it's time to pay- Your turn

[Doc] Pulls out hir card and blazes through the small menu. - Getting better... These are really simple little computers.

[Lie] - Yup, it doesn't take very long to learn them, but some people who can't read signs still have difficulties

[Doc] I believe it. - They take the handle of the cart and push it towrds the door.  - So how are you feeling Lie? Physically or otherwise?

[Lie] - Fine, other than exhausted and sexually frustrated

[Doc] Oh dear... I know you hate TLOT's coffee. Should I be working on something that won't set off your allergies? I also know you don't want my help with the other issue.

[Lie] - I think I'll be better once Aether is on an actual sleep schedule

[Doc] So... maybe something for her? How do you relax a baby so they'll sleep better? - Xe pushes the cart around the side of the building and bends over it to start putting things in their inventory.

[Lie] - I don't even know

[Doc] Maybe a noise she likes?

[Lie] - She does get sleepy when I sing to her...

[Doc] I could make you a record for a jukebox? - They're just putting the last few things away.

[Lie] - Maybe, but I think it's about time to head home

[Doc] Agreed. I need to finish this little update. Hopefully I won't get beat up when I'm done. It's a fix for some of the water physics errors and might break a few small things.

[Lie] - I'm sure you'll have plenty of help fixing it.  It's a clean copy from the office, right?

[Doc] Yes, thankfully. - They use some nearby electronics to make a hole and hop through before reaching back for her.

[Lie] Takes Doc's hand and follows-

[Doc] Closes it behind them and they're back on Lie's lawn. -I hope we didn't miss anything important.

[Lie] - I wouldn't hope so- She heads for the front door of her house

[Doc] Just show me where you want your part of the stuff.

[Lie] - Right, we've got a spare chest set up just for Aether's food so we won't be scrambling to find it- She let's Doc in and finds CP in the main room- Hey, where's Aether?

[CP] - Sleeping, everything go okay?

[Lie] - Yeah, everything went smoothly

[Doc] We got lots of new stuff. - They sit down on a block and start ripping open packages and transfering food into normal Minecraft containers before making copies and trunking them.

[Lie] - I'm going to check on Aether real quick

[CP] - Alright, just don't trip on Blake, he was right in front of the crib when I left them

[Blake] Is in the crib with Aether and curled around her protectively.

[Lie] Heads for the room and opens the door quietly, upon seeing the predicament she quickly pulls out her phone and starts recording- Blake?  What are you doing?

[Blake] Opens one eye to regard her and parts his jaws ever so slightly to let out a very quiet 'boof'.

[Lie] - Blake...  You don't belong in the crib

[Blake] Rrrrrrrrr.......

[Lie] - Don't give me that, that space is too small for you

[Blake] Curls up around Aether a bit more and gives her a defiant look.

[Lie] - Oh my god...  You are being ridiculous...

[Blake] Huffs-

[Lie] - Alright, alright, just make sure she stays safe and warm

[Blake] Eyebrow - Since he is extremely fuzzy. Being a wolf and all.

[Lie] Stops recording and heads back to the other two, laughing to herself-

[Doc] Has a little pile of plastic, cardboard and styrofoam nonsense at their feet. - I split the eggs and bacon with you too. That cereal is.... really fragrant.

[Lie] - Yeah, it can be.  Hey Doc?  Do you mind sending something to Dawn's computer for me?

[Doc] Sure, what is it?

[Lie] - A video I just took, feel free to watch it yourself

[CP] - Just wanting to update Dawn or?

[Lie] - Go look at our child CP

[Doc] Takes the phone curiously and watches the clip before laughing quite hard. - Well Dawn did say he was clingy....

[Lie] - I think Aether has her first friend

[Doc] Sends it to Dawn with a smile. - A kid needs a pet anyway. And he'll help keep her safe.

[Lie] - Oh absolutely

[CP] Teleports into the bedroom and back- Really?  I'm not even sure how he got in there without knocking the crib over

[Doc] You should see some of the places Waffles gets into. Lh too, but I kinda wonder if he can no-clip sometimes because of his glitch.

[CP] Groans a little-

[Lie] - Let me know what Dawn's response is to the video, I don't think she has my number

[Doc] I will. - They gather up the garbage and start aggressively melting the pixels into a single block-shaped glob.

[Lie] - Need  any help with that Doc?

[Doc] No... just compacting it so none of the bits stray off. I can't think of any way to use it so I'll just take it out when I'm finished with my work.

[Lie] - Okay

[CP] - I think it's time for us to take a nap...

[Lie] - That does sound good...

[Doc] Yeah, I have coding to do anyway. You guys enjoy. - They start heading outside-

[Lie] - Thanks for going out with me Doc

[Doc] Anytime Lie. - They head down the steps into the rosy late afternoon and ride Gir back to the castle.

[Yaunfen] Has dozed off with their head on the kitchen table-

[Waffles] Is laying on the counter, covering most of it. Their giant paws and stump of a tail twitching a bit as they dream.

[Deer] Is cleaning up some dishes, humming softly to herself-

[Waffles] Rolls over to open a sleepy eye and give her wrist a little lick.

[Deer] - Good kitty Waffles- She gives them a little ear ruffle

[Waffles] Happy - Mow.

[Doc] Comes downstairs witha little click of metal on stone. They see Yaunfen tuckered out and speak to Deerheart quietly. - It's Fru isn't it? TLOT and Steve and even Stevie went out to get more iron.

[Deer] - Yeah, I'm not sure what we're going to do about them...

[Doc] Block them in until they can be tamed. Our friends are all over it.

[Deer] Gives Doc a quick kiss on the cheek- Come on, let's get our little one to bed

[Doc] In a minute, I brought food. I want to put it away. My inventory is super full. - They start unloading and the heavy sweet smell of the froot cereal fills the room as it's moved into the trunk.

[Yaunfen] Sniffs curiously in their sleep-

[Deer] - That's a lot of stuff

[Waffles] Sniffs one of the purple carrots and makes a face at it.

[Doc] No sense in wasting a trip right? - They show her one of the brown eggs and the dragon fruit. - Weird stuff.

[Deer] - Lie's world is certainly filled with curiousities

[Yaunfen] Rubs their eyes sleeply- Mom? Mada?

[Waffles] Hops down and streches.

[Deer] - Yes sweetheart?

[Yaunfen] I smell something weird.

[Doc] I brought you some cer-ea-l. You can have it for breakfast if you want.

[Deer] - It's from the real world

[Yaunfen] Oh, that sounds nice- Yawns-

[Doc] You should go strech out in your room. You're gonna get a cramp snoozing on the table.

[Yaunfen] Sudden start- Fru???

[Deer] - Sleeping

[Yaunfen] Oh.. good. -They get up and shuffle towards the stairs. - Goodnight mom, mada...

[Deer] - Good night

[Doc] Poor kiddo...

[Deer] - They're so worn out...

[Doc] I know the feeling. Randomly destructive responsibilities can really wear you down. - Thinking of Cp...

[Deer] - We should get some sleep too- She takes Doc's hand

[Doc] I want too, but I need to do the little update. I'll join you soon, just go to bed my love.

[Deer] - Alright- She kisses Doc's hand and leaves for the bedroom

[CN] He is sitting curled up in Firebirds lap, having listened to his elder explain calmly and patiently what had happened before.  The small NOTCH fiddles his fingers a bit as he works up the nerve to ask a question-

[Firebird] -Can tell CN wants to ask something and waits patiently for him to get the courage to do so-

[CN] - Um...  Firebird?  Could you...  Um...  Could you maybe...  Show me?

[Firebird] I... -He purses his lips- If.. you want me to, CN. I suppose so...

[CN] - Please?  I just...  I just can't wrap my head around the destruction you say you've caused...

[Firebird] -Sighs a bit- If you're certain.. -Stands up and tucks CN under one arm. It's actually kind of comical looking-

[CN] - Um, we should probably let Lie know we're leaving...

[Firebird] I know, I needed an available hand.

-In chat- [Firebird] I'm going out for a bit with CN, Lie.

[Lie] Sleepily- Just make sure he comes back safe, I trust you Firebird

[Firebird] Well that's handled... -There's a bit of a ripple as he opens a way, and in no time at all they're stepping into another seed. The point is grand ruins, overgrown with vines.-

[Firebird] Hm... Time's really taken it's toll here... -Sets CN down-

[CN] Looks around at the ruins- Is there anybody even around here anymore?

[Firebird] In this old place? I doubt it. You're free to look around, if you'd like. -He steps carefully to the doors at the end of the hall, regarding a painting on the wall with a frown. He shakes his head and pushes the door open to step out-

-The place seems to have been some kind of altar or similar, and if you judge the motifs around the building... probably to Firebird himself.-

[CN] Follows Firebird, distracted by the images around him- What was this place?

[Firebird] One of my last temples.

[CN] - Why'd you destroy your own temple?

[Firebird] I'd come to my senses around then and.. I didn't want to see this wretched place again. -He's looking out at the horizon and a single tower in the far distance that stretches toward the sky-

[CN] - But you were still blue?

[Firebird] Yes... It took a long time for the color to fade. Lets see.. If Teran is that way.... -Steps out onto the ruined steps to stalk around to the side of the building and look for another tower- It took me a long, long time to change. And an even longer time for my colors to change.

[CN] - But last time they started going blue, you just pulled them out!

[Firebird] Not the best way to deal with it, but it worked. There... Let's go. -He transforms into a bird and waits for CN to do so too before taking off into the air-

[CN] Shifts and flaps up into the air-

[Firebird] -Guides him along past a few ruined husks of villages-

[CN] Would remark on their saddened state if he could in this form, noting the absolute lack of life-

[Firebird] -Flaps hard into an updraft, and soars over a hill, and an expansive, ruined city comes into view in the distance. A broken tower is visible in the center of it-

[CN] Is not prepared for the updraft and tumbles through the air a little-

[Firebird] -Swings around to flick a wing under CN to make it easier on him-

[CN] Rebalances himself and soars alongside Firebird, looking down at the ruins, wondering if any life remains at all-

-There are ruined buildings, vines covering everything, and--- Is that a villager? Surely not. It was probably CN's imagination. The most damage is in the city's center, near the tower. Firebird alights to land near the thing-

[CN] Follows suit and shifts back- Whoa...  It's still so big!  Even though it's ruined!

[Firebird] -Stays as a bird for a few minutes before shifting back too- I believe this was the biggest city back then, beside any current ones...

[CN] - Cool!

-Once again, CN thinks he sees a villager in the distant ruins, but they're gone before he can blink.-

[Firebird] I.. suppose so. I never thought of it much.

[Firebird] -Rests hand on the ruined tower, and the stones flicker golden and then blue, he quickly retracts his hand with a frown- It was just a place, back then.

[CN] - And now?

[Firebird] Now It's not much of anything.

[CN] - Oh...- He wanders a little to look through broken windows inside of the abandoned homes

- There's a rustle behind Firebird-

[Firebird] -Starts after CN only to pause, head turning to look behind him.-

[CN] Turns to look at Firebird only to get pulled through the window behind him as Firebird is looking away-

[Firebird] -Doesn't see anything so he turns back only to find CN missing- CN? CN?!

[CN] Struggles as he's pulled father away from Firebird- Hey! Let me go!

[Firebird] -Hackles rise a bit as he rushes toward where he heard CN from-

[Villagers] -Frantically pulling CN further through the building-

[CN] - What are you doing? Stop!

[Villager] - I think the better question is what you are doing with Ra foolish child

-There's a bit of panicked yelling from Firebird outside as he's deterred by villagers brandishing spears. CN can just barely make out "Move! Don't make me hurt you!"-

-It makes the Villagers inside hurry CN out the back entrance and into another ruined street-

[CN] - Wait! Where are you taking me!?

[Villager 2] Away from here! Away from HIM!

[CN] - But he's my friend!

[Villager 3] Friend?! As if that monster could have such a thing. A toy, maybe, but friend?

[CN] - Yes! He... He's taught me to read and write! And... And a bunch of other stuff!

[Villager] - Quiet! You'll make it easier for him to follow us!

[CN] - No!

[Villager 2] -Digs around to try and find an available cloth to cram in CN's mouth to shut him up-

-Firebird's yelling is growing incoherent, but louder-

[Villager 3] Be glad he hasn't taught you to kill and maim, child.

[CN] Struggles as hard as he can- Firebird! FIREBIRD!

-He can't lose him like this. He can't lose him like this. He shouldn't hurt them.-

-He can't lose CN like this.-

[Firebird] Forgive me, -Flames burst from the bird, knocking the villagers around him back in a wave of hot agony before he surges into the air-

-The Villagers are rushing between half crumbled buildings and mostly destroyed streets, starting to get headway from Firebird-

[CN] Tries punching and kicking, but he doesn't have the leverage he needs to do anything other than irritate- Let me go!

[Villager] - Stop that, he is already angry enough. He will likely hurt us

[Villager 3] Likely? We'll be lucky to live! -Hushed whisper as the bird goes zooming by overhead. Slaps hand over CN's mouth to keep him quiet-

[CN] Tries to pull his head away-

[Villager] - Stop that child! Or are you suicidal?

[Villager 2] - Ties cloth over CN's mouth once the other villager removes their hand. They're reaching the cities edge now, and the desert beyond.-

[CN] Makes a face and in a bit of desperation flares his tail a little-

[Villager] Hisses in a breath seeing the blue feathers-

[villager 3] What has Ra done to you child? Believing him a friend, bearing the colors of his true form...

[CN] Muffled response-

-They've managed to get out of the city into the desert, but they don't head far. A sandstone temple past the city limits that blends in with the sand seems to be where they're going. -

[CN] Struggles, trying to get at least a hand free from their grasp to remove the gag-

[Villager] - Stop that child!  We do not want HIS attention!

-Firebird doesn't seem to have realized that they escaped the city...-

[Villager 2] We're almost there...

[CN] Gets his arm free and starts pulling off the gag, ready to scream Firebirds name as loudly as he can-

[Villager] Turns around to grab his arm again- Stop that!  You'll end up killing us!

-The villagers rush into the temple with CN and shove the doors shut behind them. The temple is plain and a few villagers in the entranceway look at the group bewildered-

[CN] Looks around, scared and unsure-

[Villager] - Ra has returned...  He had this child with him

[Villager 4] Take the child to the Sphinx, let her judge him! If that child came with Ra... Who knows what's wrong with him... What that monster did to him.

[CN] Is confused over who the Sphinx is, Firebird never mentioned her to him-

[Villager] - You're right, she will be able to discern the truth

[Villager 4] She is in the tapestry room, last we saw of her.

[Villager] Starts dragging CN along- Then that is where we're going

-The other villagers that aren't necessary for this separate from the villager dragging CN along-

-They pass through a few other rooms before going down stairs into a room full of tapestries. At the end, staring up at the biggest one is... an actually familiar shape.-

[CN] His eyes widen in recognition as he notes the familiar shape-

[Villager] - Lady Sphinx?  I have brought someone for your judgement

[Sphinx] -She turns and, Oh yep. Just like Firebird had offhandedly mentioned, she is shirtless. CN has seen this lady in a few pictures Firebird showed him.- Oh? And why is that? -She stalks over and bends down to regard CN with a calm expression.- Why is he gagged?

[Villager] - Ra has returned and this child was with him, he kept screaming for him and drawing his attention towards us.  It was for the safety of the group

[Sphinx] Ah. Well, this far down he cannot hear us. -She removes the gag from CN- And what is your name, hm?

[CN] - Your the one Firebird said he always had to put a shirt on!

[Sphinx] -Taken aback- Wh. What?

[Sphinx] Who?

[CN] - Firebird!  He's the one you guys keep calling Ra, but that's not his name...

[Sphinx] -Purses her lips before giving a wave of her hand to dismiss the villager.- You say he calls himself Firebird now, hmm? What a... plain name.

[Villager] Hesitates but does leave-

[CN] Shrinks down a little, getting nervous again at being alone with Sphinx-

[Sphinx] At ease child, I am no risk to you. Come, tell me of him now. We haven't seen Ra in hundreds of years after his defeat, and if he has changed, I wish to know of him now. Of what he stands for, if he stands at all. -Coaxes CN further into the room and to two cushions by the large tapestry. They almost vanish into the tiles color wise.-

[CN] - I...  He's my friend, he's always nice!  He, he's taught me how to read, and write...

[Sphinx] And that is all? That is not much to be proud of.

[CN] - He...  He taught me how to fly!  And build nests too!

[Sphinx] To fly? Are you like him? -Her tail curls into her lap-

[CN] - Yes?- His tail feathers fluff a little

[Sphinx] … Interesting. But you only speak of what he's done for you. Not of how he is, child. Are you sure you even know him?

[Sphinx] He never even told you his true name, after all.

[CN] - He, he didn't want to scare me...  Flowey was the one who started telling me, all Firebird told me was that he had done a lot of bad things in the past...  And...  And my brine trusts him!  And so do the others!

[Sphinx] Or maybe he just didn't want you to know. Thought you too weak, child. Ra was a tricky one, after he changed. His ire could be drawn with but a word, at times.

[CN] - He's only turned a little blue once!  And that's when he was fighting DN, otherwise he hasn't gotten into any fights!

[Sphinx] Hm... -Her head turns to regard the big tapestry, of the bird himself, seemingly... falling down? The edges of his wings in the cloth are blue.- I see...

[CN] Fingers Firebirds feather amongst his bundle of feathers at his waist- He's not bad...  He's not a meanie

[Sphinx] Maybe not now, he isn't. But I have my doubts. You never told me your name, child.

[CN] - Uh...  C...  CN

[Sphinx] CN, huh...

[CN] - Can...  Can I go back now?  Firebird is probably wondering where I am...

[Sphinx] Hm...

-There's a distant.. boom.-

[CN] Immediately turns towards the noise-

[Villager] Comes running back in- Lady Sphinx!

[Sphinx] -Already getting to her feet- How far from the temple is he?

[Villager] - Not far at all

[CN] - Firebird?

[Sphinx] Well, we best go greet him, hmm?

[CN] Nods quickly-

-They go up the stairs, and several villagers with spears are rushing out the entryway, probably to deter Firebird, but judging by the increasing booms and the sudden heat.. you could assume it's not going too well.-

[CN] Tries running ahead-

[Villager] Grabs his arm- Are you insane!?  Stop!

[CN] - LET GO!

[Sphinx] Let him run to his "friend". See if he even recognizes him.

[Villager] Gives her an unsure look before letting CN go-

[CN] Bolts forwards, pushing his way through the weapon bearing villagers- Firebird!

-Firebird is blue, and also stamping a villager out of existence a mere 10 blocks from the temple. A ball of flame is cradled in his hand, and scattered about is the remains of others who had tried and failed to stop him.-

[CN] Runs right for him, grabbing his tunic- Firebird!  Please...  Stop...  I'm right here, I'm okay

[Firebird] -Comes to a halt as CN latches onto the front of his tunic, and the wild expression he'd been wearing previously comes to a more... expressionless look.- ...CN? -The ball of flame remains in his other hand, while the other one drops and slowly pats CN's shoulder-

[CN] - Please, it's okay... I'm okay...

[Firebird] -Looks up at the Villagers that are still bearing spears and pointing them at him- …. I was worried.

[Sphinx] -The villagers part for her easily, and as soon as she gets an eye on Firebird she purses her lips.- Interesting.

[CN] - They didn't know...  They didn't know you're okay now...  You're not a meanie

[Sphinx] Judging by the senseless murder, I'm less inclined to agree. How's it been, Ra? I see you finally decided to put a shirt on.

[Firebird] Oh shut your mouth, Sphinx. -The ball of flames is flung at her, to which she easily sidesteps- I should have you all beheaded for that, you know.

[Sphinx] I'm quivering in my nonexistent boots. The child says you've changed.

[CN] Presses closer to Firebird-

[Firebird] And what of it?! Do you want to try your luck next? -Slowly calming down as he rests both hands on CN's shoulders-

[CN] Is still trembling a little after everything he's gone through-

[Villager] Is watching with a critical eye- Lady Sphinx, what are your orders?

[Sphinx] I personally would like to see the so called change in attitude our once god has had.

[Villager] - And how would you plan on doing that our lady?

[CN] Is sniffling a little, feeling safe enough with Firebird to cry-

[Sphinx] -Ignores the Villager's simple question- So, where have you been? I can see you've sunk your claws into some poor child, for him to care so deeply about you. Mind control?

[Firebird] -Scoffs a bit and gently picks CN up, holding him to his chest- There is no mind control at play. You already know I have no abilities toward that, unlike Fl..... Set.  As for where I've been... Another seed.

[CN] - It's private...  Caused my spawn to end up in the void...

[Villager] Watches Firebird carefully, certain that he'll hurt the child in his arms-

[CN] Quietly- Firebird, I wanna go home...

[Firebird] In a moment CN, in a moment.

[Sphinx] If not mind control, what power does the child hold that compels you to care, hmm?

[CN] Snuggles in closer, hugging Firebird-

[Firebird] -Purses lips a bit- … None. He has nothing that would have compelled me to care, unlike you. No truth finding, no devouring of men, no ability to turn day to night, nothing. But that doesn't matter. Now. We're leaving. You'll be free of me again. -Turns on his heel with a heavy sigh-

[Sphinx] I think I'll join you, see if you've truly changed. Brother Horus can take care of the villagers. He should be returning soon, after all.

[CN] - You can't, the server has a white list.  You have to get Doc's approval

[Sphinx] Is that so? I don't believe that's quite true.

[Firebird] -Raises his other hand to open a way, a few villagers gasp-

[CN] Sticks his tongue out at Sphinx-

[Sphinx] I'll eat that tongue of yours, child. I'm not beyond devouring pesky children. They're so soft and chewy...

[Firebird] You touch him and I'll kill you myself.

[CN] - Lie would be mad too

[Sphinx] At least others care for you than this old mess.

-Firebird steps through back to the server and Sphinx follows-

[CN] Relaxes a little being safely home-

[Doc] Is already heading to the spawn in a huff- Can't get any fucking work done without some jackass stupidity---

[Firebird, still very much blue] Troubles, Doctor?

[Sphinx] Very bright, very colorful. Already quite promising...

[Doc] YES. Did I tell you it was okay to let a half-naked cat person in? No I did not!

[CN] - Told you!

[Doc] And you dyed your feathers? Having a spa day??? Is this some lady of the late evening?

[Firebird] -Opens mouth before shutting it a few times-

[CN] - Firebird got angry...

[Doc] sarcastic-  Brilliant.

[Firebird] -Clearly suppressing the initial response to bark out "I'd have you killed for that"- And what exactly crawled up your ass and died? Hmm?

[Doc] Indicates the shirtless person next to him-

[Sphinx] -Looking everywhere but Doc-

[Doc] Do I get an explanation? Or did you just adopt a cat?

[CN] - Her people kidnapped me!

[Firebird] Oh, so it's alright for others to bring people in willy nilly? She followed me in to make sure I wasn't murdering CN somewhere quiet.

[Sphinx] To be fair, if your murderous ex god returned with a child, you'd be concerned too.

[Doc] If that's been happening I'm not aware of it. No one has come in without permission in quite some time, and for good reason! Firebird is here because Mix vouched for him. This is still primarily a Herobrine sanctuary.

[Firebird] -Takes a deep breath before calmly setting CN down- Well, I'm sorry for not giving you a heads up. [Sphinx] Mix? -Vaguely familiar expression- About yeyy high? -Gestures at roughly Mix's height- Cute?

[Doc] huffs at Firebird - Yes. A cute little Herobrine that yeets dinosaurs?

[CN] Moves so Firebird is between him and Sphinx-

[Sphinx] I was wondering where she went. What a delightful little butt.

[Firebird] -Startled choking noise- Don't say any more, I think I might puke...

[Sphinx] -Bark of laughter-

[CN] Tugs at Firebirds clothes- Firebird...  Let's go...- He does not want to be alone right now

[Doc] Will she vouch for you? Firebird didn't ask permission so I'm not taking his word.

[Sphinx] I'm not quite sure, but I suppose I should hope so?

[Doc] If not, I'm tossing you back out. I don't like uninvited guests. - In chat, - hey Mix?

[Mix] -In chat- Yes?

[Doc] I've got a lady at the spawn who says she knows you. Wild hair, cat tail, no shirt?

[Mix] Oh nooo, the shirtless lady? She's still shirtless?

[Doc] Mind if tp you? I know you're quite a walk away. I'm tossing her out if you say she's trouble.

[CN] Shifts to his bird form and flits up to Firebirds shoulder-

[Mix] If she's still shirtless I'd like to not. I know exactly what lady you're talking about. Beside not putting a shirt on ever, she's fine. The worst she'll do unless provoked is be shirtless near you and pester you with riddles if she gets bored.

[Firebird] -Pets CN a bit- What, no devouring people anymore?

[Sphinx] That fell out of style not too long after your fall from grace. Sure, it's entertaining, but out of style.

[CP] - WILL YOU FUCKERS PLEASE SHUT UP!

[Doc] Grumbles- Mix says you're acceptable but annoying. I trust them well enough to let the barging in slide. - their hands skirt over the command block they're holding under one arm- You're locked in for the moment though. Consider it a probationary period. And eating people will get you stomped by me personally.

[Sphinx] That's completely fine, I had no plans to leave so soon. And eating people is out of style anyway. -Hand wave-

[Firebird] Can I go now?

[Doc] Yes. Just don't do that again. I'm trying to do an update dammit. Everyone keeps intrupting me.

[CN] Ducks his head a little, knowing it's actually mostly his fault-

[Firebird] You could have just... Done the update. -Shrugs before skirting off with CN-

[Sphinx] -Stands there for a hot second before trailing after Firebird-

[Doc] Considering the last few times have ended up with things being majorly glitched, I'm not inclined to hurry! - eyeballs Sphinx- And where are you going?

[Sphinx] To observe, unless you are going to station me somewhere, of course.

[Doc] Has realized Cn is still really upset. -Let him comfort the kid alone dammit. Just... come with me. It looks like it might rain anyway.

[Sphinx] -Looks at Firebird and CN for a moment before turning to return to Doc's side-

-There's a little rumble from above and Doc starts heading back towards the castle. -

[Doc] Who are you anyway?

[Sphinx] I'm Sphinx, Speaker of Riddles and the only one to harass Ra more than Horus and not lose an eye. Wait… Uhh… Firebird is what he goes by now, yes? -Taps chin- I think that's what the child said. What an unoriginal name. Why not just name yourself phoenix?

[Doc] Because it's hard to spell? I'm Doc. By name and nature. - They open the door for her and head down the steps beside the horse pen just as the first drops begin to fall.

[Sphinx] -Shuts the door behind her and pads down too. Her claws make little clicky noises. Nice.-

[Doc] So... are you a glitch? - Xe shifts the block to hir other arm and passes down the second stairs near the shower and fireplace.

[Sphinx] Hm? Oh no, I don't think so. I am what I was meant to be. … probably. -Taking everything in as she follows Doc-

[Porygon] Makes a happy beeping noise as it trundles around the corner to see who's come in.

[Doc] Do you have a home game? - They reach down to pat the birdlike pokemon but don't attempt to pick them up. Obviously.

[Galvantua] Peeks at them from high on the wall as they pause in the vine room-

[Deer] Starts coming up from the bedroom, completely naked-

[Lh] Runs in front of Deerhearts hooves and sashays-

[Sphinx] The very same we stand in. Although I've seen a few others following in Firebird' footsteps... -Same hat Deer, same hat. Titties out.-

[Doc] Now I'm confused. You don't look like a NOTCH and you don't have a glitch.

[Deer] Yelps as she trips and face plants on the stairs-

[Sphinx] Yess?

[Lh] Squeaks in alarm and bolts upstairs-

[Doc] Hears the noise and puts down the command block to check on her- Deerheart! Are you okay???

[Deer] - I'm fine, why haven't you come to bed yet?

[Sphinx] -Pokes the block with a foot before traipsing down the steps after Doc-

[Lh] Comes back to sniff Sphinx-

[Doc] Unexpected guest- xe helps her up and thumbs at Sphinx-

[Deer] - Oh, hello!

[Sphinx] -Tail wiggles  as LH does the sniffy- Hello!

[Deer] - Love are you still working on the update?

[Lh] Mew???

[Doc] Trying too. I was almost done... - they look her up and down- Were you amusing yourself waiting for me my darling?

[Deer] - Of course not!

[Doc] Okay... Deerheart, Sphinx, Sphinx, Deerheart. And I suddenly feel overdressed...

[Deer] Tugs on Doc's coat- Then maybe you should remove some things

[Doc] Ah-hems- They take her gently and lead her back up so they aren't crowded in the stairwell. - When I'm done I will because, barring other emergencies; I'm going to go to bed.  

[Lh] wiggle butt and tries to bap at Sphinx's tail.

[Sphinx] -Calmly swooshes tail out of LH's reach-

[Deer] - So the only thing that needs to happen is the update getting installed?

[Lh] Little backflip-

[Doc] I just have to cross my fingers and toes and let the files in. - They're heading for the command block again-

[Deer] - Alright, so Sphinx, what brings you here?

[Sphinx] My murderous ex god, who seems to be living a surprisingly peaceful life here.

[Deer] - Murderous ex god?

[Sphinx] He goes by Firebird now, apparently.

[Deer] - Oh!  Yes Firebird has been very helpful here, especially when it comes to CN, he's taught him a lot and has untaught some things a...  Not so nice NOTCH taught him

[Doc] Winces at the mention and arranges a few things before hitting several keys simultantously. Theres a little ripple and hum and the change spreads out in a gentle wave across the server.

[Deer] Shivers-

[Sphinx] Hm... Interesting.

[Deer] - Yes, CN's grown a lot under his care, and you can see Firebirds attached to him as well.  I don't think Flowey interacts with either of them very much though

[Doc] 18w10c is in play. Lets see how it works... - they take out a stair block and place it in a little pool of water against the wall. The water flows smoothly over the step- Well it looks better at least.

[Deer] - Oh  good, now we can sit in the water without going so deep

[Sphinx[ That would explain why he murdered about 20 people in his search for the child,  definitely.

[Deer] - I'm sorry, he what?

[Doc] HE DID WHAT????

[Sphinx] I do believe the child told you he "got angry".

[Deer] - Oh dear...  Well, he wouldn't be the first here to have a relapse

[Doc] Grinds hir teeth - 'Getting angry' does not mean going on a murder spree.

[Sphinx] Well, from what you've stated, it's quite understandable.

[Deer] - He practically see's CN as his own child at this point Doc, what would you have done if it was Yaunfen instead?

[Doc] Steadying breath- He's a NOTCH. I get upset when NOTCHs murder people okay? I expect it from the creepypastas, and even a few of the brines. You tell TLOT he did that and you won't see him for days.

[Sphinx] -Calmly Swishes tail back and forth- If it soothes you, back in the day it would have been well over 20.

[Doc] Pacing a bit - No, that doesn't help at all actually. No wonder Flowey was trying to kill him.

[Sphinx] Hmmm.. Well, it's the truth. -Shrugs apathetically-

[Deer] - Doc, you've seen how often Firebird has helped us since coming here, fighting DN and Harvestman

[Doc] I know.. I know.. I'm not proposing anything. I'm just... irritated.

[Lh] Makes another grab for Sphinx's tail.

[Porygon] Rolls over to lean on Deerheart's left hoof.

[Sphinx] -Swishes tail again, bopping LH on the snoot-

[Deer] - It's alright Doc, you know Firebird will help us if we need it

[Lh] Mew! - chuffs!

[Doc] Rubs hir temples - And we can't even just avoid telling TLOT since he can read minds... I am not looking forward to this....

[Deer] - I'll talk to him, you know he trusts me explicitely

[Doc] That might be for the best...

[Deer] - But for now, bed.  Do you need a room Sphinx?

[Doc] Thumbs at the hallway behind hir. - There's an empty room here, one at the top of the stairs at the other end of the room, and another where we came in. Take your pick.

[Sphinx] I'll find somewhere.

[Doc] The kitchen is down there, help yourself if you're an early riser. - yawns-

[Sphinx] -Gives a nod before vanishing off into the house-

[Deer] Takes Doc's hand- Come love, let's sleep

[fearofaherobrine]

Roleplay Server Log #281

"Sammn’s Nightmare, Cp vs Polybius”

[Sammn] (dreaming) – She’s sitting in darkness, but not alone. Circling around her is whispering, dozens of voices all speaking in unison. She feels lost and confused, they are speaking words, but she can’t understand any of the words. Suddenly it all stops, silence floods the area.

[Sammn] (dreaming) Who is here?

[Voice] Prohibere resistentem, puer.

[Sammn] (dreaming) – spins around trying to locate the source of the voice – What?

[Voice] – a cold wind stirs - Te nostra sunt, promisit et concessit. Obedire nobis, puer.

[Sammn] (dreaming)  I belong to no one but myself! Who is here?

[Voice] – a dark shape forms in the darkness, it’s a shade of black deeper than the surrounding area. Two red orbs blink into existence as it looms over her - Nos sunt Legio, puer.

[Sammn] (dreaming) – Suddenly afraid and backs away, the cold leaching into her and numbing every limb. She turns to flee but a mirror copy of the shape is blocking her. Everywhere she looks, another copy is blocking her path.

[Voice] – reaches down toward her - Te nostra sunt, puer.

[Sammn] (dreaming) – she screams and flails out, but the black hand envelopes her.

[Doc] Goes to check on Sammn and sees the stressed expression on her face. Xe nudges her slightly, - Sammn?

[Sammn] - groans and struggles.

[Lie] - Everything okay?

[Doc] You're dreaming Sammn, you're safe. Damn, I almost wish Cp was here. This is his area....

[Lie] Huffs a little-

[Doc] What? I can't get into peoples dreams.

[Lie] Grumbles- Still mad at him

[Sammn] - can hear their voice, but can do nothing to reply but groan softly -

[Lie] - Sammn?  Hey, you're okay

[Voice] Venite, VENITE IN, Gravida! - the cold deepens.

[Doc] Pokes Sammn with a tiny bit of electricity-

[Sammn] - jerks and gasps, her eyes cracking open -

[Lie] - Hey there

[Doc] Sorry, I figured that would be less unplesant then the nightmare you appeared to be having.

[Sammn/?] - slowly blinks while listening but keeps still, trying to figure out it's surroundings -

[Lie] - Sammn, you're going to be more lucid now, but also feverish, you let me know if you need any of my cold flowers

-The bunker is lit well enough, and there's a faint smell of Lie's flowers. It's also a bit cold, but Sammn is under blankets.

[Sammn/?] - softly growls, finally focusing on the two people -

[Lie] - Sammn?

[Sammn/?] - Aqua?

[Lie] - You want water?  Just a moment- She heads for the small kitchen area to get a glass

[Doc] Pulls up a chair to sit with her. - I know you probably feel awful, just try to stay still.

[Lie] Returns with a glass of water for the other woman- Do you want help sitting up?

[Sammn/?] - struggles to sit up and slowly manages to half-way get up, reaching for the glass -

[Lie] Passes it over-

[Sammn/?] - fingers brush Lie's, they are ice cold. Carefully sips some before trying to offer it back -

[Lie] Frowns a little as she takes the glass- Sammn, you're freezing

[Doc] Cold? That's not right...

[Lie] - No, she should be burning up...

[Sammn/?] - snuggles back into the blanket, pulling it over her head -

[Doc] Do I need to put more lava around? It's kind of a hazard....

[Sammn/?]  Somnus. - her voice soft, but deeper, course and gravely -

[Lie] - Somnus?

[Doc] That doesn't sound like her....

[Sammn/?] - smiles to itself and settles down. A chill draft stirs in the room -

[Lie] Shivers a little-

[Doc] Is obviously annoyed. - Don't play games. I might not be able to do an exorcisim myself but I know people! - shakes a finger at Sammn

[Lie] Takes a step back-

[Doc] Tries a commanding tone- Who are you?!

[Sammn/?] - chuckles, shifting around under the blanket

[Doc] Is on high alert-

[Lie] Gives Doc a questioning look-

[Doc] If xe had hir tail right now it would be twitching-

[Sammn/?] - suddenly pulls the blanket back and sits up, staring at them with solid black eyes - Recede a nobis esse.

[Lie] Yelps-

[Doc] Somehow I don't think Sammn wants you inside her. Are you the thing that's been giving her nightmares?

[Sammn/?] - smiles - Quæ data est nobis, sed rebus non quid puer vult.

[Lie] - I think we might need a dictionary...

[Doc] I admit I can't speak whatever that is. But I can still read tone. Get out of her. Now. She's sick and needs to rest.

[Sammn/?] - slowly stands, her smile turning into a sneer. When she speaks next there are a dozen voices overlapping  - Stultus unus, non potest mandatum nobis.

[Doc] Warning growl and looks ready to pounce on her and push her back on the bed-

[Sammn/?] - snarls and leaps forward -

[Lie] Her vines break through the cement floor and ensnare Sammn-

[Doc] Skips back to avoid the vines hirself-

[Sammn/?] - as soon as the vines touch her, she screams and fades into black smoke. The cloud swirls up toward the ceiling, then streams toward the door -

[Lie] - SHIT!

[Doc] Is racing after the smoke -

[Sammn/?] - slips through the cracks around the door into the air outside -

[Doc] Charges out into the cold, casting around for the wisp of blackness

[Lie] Stops in the doorway-

[Sammn/?] - flows toward the nearest shadow and reforms, staggering -

[Doc] Transforms and pounces on her, trying to grab her in hir paws-

[Sammn/?] - snarls, and braces for impact, hands reaching out -

[Doc] Grabs her in a tight hug- You're not going anywhere with our friend! Get out of her now!

[Sammn/?] - screeches and twists her hands to touch anything she can. Where ever she touches burns and goes numb from extreme cold -

[Lie] - Doc!

[Doc] -Swears in binary and hangs on tight, trying to turn hir glitch up to maxium to compensate. Sparks are dancing around hir teeth-

[Sammn/?] - starts laughing, then suddenly goes silent and limp -

[Doc] Fuuuuck..... - hir mane and tail is smoking a bit

[Lie] - Bring her back inside

[Doc] I think you have no idea how much pain I'm currently in...

[Lie] - Sorry- She spawns healing flowers, but because of how cold she is the flowers are a bit smaller than normal

[Doc] Just take her from me.

[Lie] Whines a bit as she steps into the cold but does reach for Sammn- So what are we going to do?

[Doc] Heal. And watch her like a hawk.

[Lie] Manages to get Sammn back inside and into the bed-

[Doc] Painfully creeps through the wall and bunches up in a corner with a grimace.

[Lie] Covers Sammn up- Once she's physical...  Do we even want to take her back like this?

[Doc] She needs help. That's the only thing I know for sure. And I think she needs an exorcist. A good one.

[Lie] Thinks for a moment- I...  Might know someone...

[Doc] Breathes out a little smoke and jerks suddenly with a bit of a glitch- Who?

[Lie] - The woman Ever lives with

[Doc] What kinds of cred does she have? Is she another witch like Dawn?

[Lie] - She had to exorcise several souls from her own mind pretty much by herself

[Doc] Sounds like a winner- little cough- what do we need to offer in return for her help? I don't think this will be easy.

[Lie] - I don't know, let me see what sort of mood she's in first, Ever said she was really stressed lately

[Lie] Goes over and sends Ever a quick text- Hey, how are things over there?

[Ever] You know those bird things in our yard?

[Lie] - Yes?

[Ever] They're dead. They got too close to the house and Karla blew them up with the Wunderwaffe you gave us.

[Lie] - Oh dear...  So um...  Now would probably be a really bad time to ask a favor...

[Ever] It's okay, it put her in a better mood. I haven't heard her full on crazy laugh in a long time. What did you have in mind?

[Lie] - Well maybe this will put her in a better mood?  We kinda need somebody exorcised...

[Ever] Oooh... that's always complex. She's done it lots of times, but never on anyone else before.

[Lie] - Think you could ask her?  Oh, and I also have what you requested

[Ever] Oh, thank you! If you offer her something in return I doubt she'll say no. Got any ideas?

[Lie] - Ummmm, hang on- She turns to Doc- Hey, can you think of anything we could offer her in return?

[Doc] I don't know her Lie. What does she like?

[Lie] - Ummmm, oh wait, I might know- Returns to her texts- What about a veriaty of my flowers, different ones do different things

[Ever] I don't know.... we kind of got rid of all the other plants so we could focus on taking care of the tree.

[Lie] - My plants don't require care...  Or I could offer something from in game

[Ever] Hey! I know, can you spawn animals from your game irl?

[Lie] - Yeah, with spawn eggs

[Ever] Offer her some horses. Now that the birds are gone, maybe we can actually use this giant yard for something.

[Lie] - Horses require a lot of care, are you sure you don't want to start with sheep?

[Ever] Oh, it's okay. Karla can ride and do all that stuff already. and she's asked me to do a lot worse then shovel horse poop. Their fertilizer will be good for the tree.

[Lie] - Okay, I can do that then- Glances at Doc- I'm going to need some spawn eggs

[Doc] Is snoring softly-

[Lie] - Okay that may have to wait, Doc fell asleep

[Ever] No hurry. I should discuss it with her first anyway. Talk at you later!

[Lie] - Alright, bye

[CP] It's early morning in the manor and he's struggling to keep his composure and not destroy everything in sight.  He's replaced the torch on his door and he can smell breakfast coming from in the kitchen-

[Polybius] Goes slouching past his door. The creepypasta's trailing headwires swinging out to touch the redstone briefly and drain it a little with a loud crackle as he passes-

[CP] Scowls in irritation- What is with everyone and draining my torch lately!?

[Polybius] Stops to look back at the noise- Not doing it on purpose dipweed.

[CP] Slams open the door- Yeah well fuck off!

[Polybius] Stares at him for a moment and his screen flashes with red noise- Oh. Just a digtial pasta. Bite me.

[CP] - Excuse me?  The fuck is your problem!?

[Polybius] I hate stupid games.

[CP] Growls and takes a step closer to Polybius-

[Polybius] Stands up straight and is a teeny bit taller then Cp. His wires float around the back of his head with dangerous crackling like a downed power line. He notices the eyes and cracks a small smile- ah, the 'difficult child' appears.

[CP] - The fuck did you call me?

[Polybius] What Splenderman chose to call you when he told me about your antics.

[CP] Summons his sword and lunges at Polybius-

[Polybius] His screen fills with static and swirling designs and suddenly they're all the brine can see. When the vision receeds Cp feels drained and weak and more then a little confused. - Blech... Your energy tastes bad. Like burnt meat.

[CP] Leans against the wall a bit for support- The Nether did you just do?

[Polybius] Something that tends to make the luckless players of my game kill themselves.

[CP] Growls at him-

[Slender] Exits his room- Just what are the two of you doing?

[Polybius] His voice is oily and obsequieous - Ah, Slender. Herobrine here just provided me with a snack. It wasn't much to my liking, but appreciated all the same.

[Slender] - A snack?  And you're still standing Herobrine?

[CP] - Energy surge, remember?

[Slender] - Ah yes the, modification, that the Doctor gave you

[Polybius] He is quite energetic. And... is this EJ's handiwork?

[CP] - Oh fuck no

[Slender] - Another digital entities doing, the Doctor I told you about Polybius.  Now come along, it seems one of my brothers beat me to making breakfast

[Polybius] Makes a twisted face on his screen and it twitches a bit- That little runt...

[CP] - I'll be there in a minute Slender

[Polybius] I do not require food. But I will join you shortly-

[Slender] - Very well, behave, both of you

[CP] - Yes sir

[Polybius] I will.

[CP] Once Slender is gone he dismisses his sword- Where the fuck did you come from anyways?

[Polybius] I'm a predator that poses as a game. I was sleeping quite soundly until a little thief woke me up. Apparently the same one who's altered you for some reason.

[CP] - You mean Doc?  Yeah, they're an annoying asshole

[Polybius] That one managed to injure me, but I think their own pain was equally bad. They barely managed to escape my claws.

[CP] - Probably didn't stop them for long, they recover very quickly, except emotionally

[Polybius] Lots of narrowed eyes in a kalidoscope across his screen - How do you know?

[CP] - I fight with them a lot and stay on the same server as them.  They are much more affected by emotional attacks then physical

[Polybius] Ah... - his tone is more then a little menacing- then you know... Where I can find them. Leaving witnesses alive is... Unprofessional.

[CP] - There's no point, they'll just respawn

[Polybius] What is respawn?

[CP] - It means you die and immediately come back to life.  In terms of my game, when you die you wake up in your bed immediately afterwards

[Polybius] Growls a little- too easy. At least in the old games dying meant starting all over.

[CP] - Most players hate that now

[Polybius] Laughs- they were supposed to hate it! It was a challenge! And it made more money for the arcades I hunted in as well. Prey was plentiful.

[CP] - Arcades are dying out, most players play at home now

[Polybius] And thus we adapt. I've heard interesting things about this... Internet.

[CP] - Oh yes, it's a very fun hunting ground

[Polybius] Good. I can go a long time without feeding, or even stalk people and attack them directly, but I would prefer to just... plug in.

[CP] - Good luck figuring out how with those old mechanics of yours

[Polybius] scowls- I'm sure adaptor plugs haven't gone entirely out of style.

[CP] - No, but  they can be costly, although considering how much money the slenders have...

[Polybius] it will be a solved issue before it becomes a need I'm sure. So what are you supposed to be anyway? You just look like common laborer with flashlight eyes.  

[CP] - I'm a Herobrine, my specialty is dragging players into the game itself and murdering them.  It frightens characters when all they can see is my eyes, and looking like my brother has it's advantages at times

[Polybius] Who's your brother then? I haven't seen such a plain character sprite since Pitfall.

[CP] - Stevie, a common Steve spawn.  We look so plain because the players have the option of customizing their skins.  My brother is also basically a coal miner

[Polybius] Stares at him - A game where you mine coal....- Shakes his head- Humans... But then, my cabinet sat beside a game where children simulated making burgers for a while too...

[CP] - Humans are entertained by the strangest of things

[Polybius] Thankfully. A good legend can lead so many to their doom.

[Herobrine] - Oh I know that very well

[Polybius] Do they call for you young one? Seek you out with your name?

[CP] - Oh very much so, but it's different for each of my kind.  There are many different Herobrines, but I'm the only one who is a creepypasta.  I usually just seek out different players on my own, others can be summoned with totems, some actively, help, their players

[Polybius] So there are many glitches...? And they make themselves known to humans? Ugh.

[CP] - Yes, which is how my now mate and I ended up where we are...  Because of Doc

[Polybius] Oh, so you owe this one... I understand... - flexes claws a bit

[CP] - Fuck no I don't, they stole many of my victims from me

[Polybius] Why do you tolerate their interference then? Let them tamper with you?!

[CP] - Because we are limited by the native brine of each seed, where we were taken?  I am not the native brine there

[Polybius] Indicates the way Slender went- We must all bow to a king now and again. No matter how it may rankle to do so.

[CP] - Oh I know, just wish the "king" wasn't so flamboyantly gay

[Polybius] Excuse me?

[CP] - Nothing, we should be going unless we want to anger Slender

[Polybius] True.