#Fragile Strength

[hollow-knight-fights]

Hollow Knight Charm Fight: Round 1

[lithesunflower]

Fragile Strength Part 14

Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5  Part 6  Part 7  Part 8  Part 9  Part 10  Part 11  Part 12   Part 13

Author’s Note: Thanks to @hes-a-tough-kid for giving me the idea for this part and for allowing me to write it out!

Storms hadn’t really been a thing for the past few months that the Sullys had been with the Metkayina clan. But that morning had started out grey and cloudy and progressed to a full on storm outside before anyone had even woken up.

Anya had woke up earlier than normal and just laid curled up with Spider listening to the waves and some thunder in the distance. When she heard the bell for breakfast she stirred and gently nudged Spider but the boy was quiet almost groaning in protest when she kept pushing him to wake up.

“It’s time for breakfast” she said softly.

“M’not hungry” he mumbled. That was pretty out of character for Spider who was usually the one nudging Anya to get her to hurry. He was always so sure Lo'ak would take his share of the food if he didn't appear to defend it. Anya wasn't sure how to react to Spider being so insistent he wanted to stay in bed.

"I'll go and I'll bring breakfast back for you okay?" she offered and Spider hummed in thanks. After all he might find himself hungry later.

Anya wiggled out from under his arm and there was a part of Spider that wanted to ask her to stay close to him. The lack of her warmth beside him made him shudder a little and his head was starting to pound. But he knew she probably needed food.

“Just going to sleep a little longer” he assured her, though maybe it was more for himself than for Anya. He could sense the girl's hesitation about leaving him but she seemed to decide that getting breakfast for him was the best way to help.

"I'll be back soon okay?" she cooed before disappearing.

Everything started to hurt more when Anya moved away from him. He tried to say something as he felt her moving away but even the idea of speaking, of forming a coherent thought, hurt.

Spider lay there almost awake but almost asleep. There was a feeling in his head like energy was zapping it’s way through his brain, bouncing off his skull and shooting across to either side of his head. He was disoriented and confused. He tried to move but it hurt too much and the pain seemed to be getting more intense. He realized his mask felt like it was suffocating him and he wanted it off so badly. 

He managed to open his eyes and move slightly towards the opening of the hut. He needed to get to the med capsule, he could take his mask off in the lab. But every movement felt like he wasn't just moving his own body but several bags of sand, like someone had tied them all to his arms and legs, weighing him down.

It took everything he had to get to the med capsule. A few times he stumbled and wasn't sure he was going to be able to get back up but he pushed on, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling towards the pod. It had started to rain and he could hear the thunder getting closer. Each noise, the crashing waves, the thunder above, the wind blowing, it all sent threads of pain through his head. Sometimes he could hear and other times he just had a ringing in his ears.

The second he found the door to the labs he pushed the button and pulled himself inside. The door closed behind him and he yanked the mask off hoping for relief from the pressure in his head.

But the pressure didn’t stop, it subsided a small bit, enough for him to stumble to the bed that Anya had cleaned for him when he hurt his hands. He found himself wishing she was there and worrying that she wouldn't know where to find him. Maybe he should have left a note, or waited for her to come back.  She would know what to do about his head.

As he swayed over the bed contemplating how to communicate with Anya a new surge of pain splintered through his head causing him to cry out as he collapsed on the bed, curling into himself. He felt awful, nauseous, disoriented, scared. He didn’t know what was happening. Spider had only felt this kind of pain once before and he had tried to push it from his memory. 

Now as he lay curled into himself in the bed flashes from the past played in his mind. Being strapped to the cold metal machine unable to move. Unable to look away from the spinning lights above him, unable to tell which way was up or down, unable to feel his own body because of the effects of the monstrous machine.  He remembered being asked over and over where the Sullys were, Jake specifically, he had fought hard to keep from letting his mind form a thought like they asked him to. He had done everything he could to keep from giving away his Na'vi family and eventually the swirling had stopped leaving him shaking and bleeding. He heard Quaritch talking to General Ardmore and somehow pieced together that it was the Colonel that had stopped the machine.

As Spider lay there in the science lab he didn't know how to handle the pain he felt. It felt like hours were going by but he couldn't move, couldn't get up, couldn't do anything but lay there in pain, actual tears running down his face. He longed for the relief that had washed over him when Quaritch had stopped the machine. He even would have settled for Lo'ak coming and giving him a good old fashioned punch to send him into unconsciousness, anything to stop the pressure he felt.

Eventually, he felt Anya's presence in the room. Relief did wash over him for a moment as he realized the girl had found him. He knew he shouldn't be surprised anymore by how easily she managed to locate him.

"Spider?" she asked softly. Her voice was melodic and soft, it didn't hurt his head when she spoke as the other noises around him had. He found himself whimpering softly trying to explain what was wrong but words weren't forming. Anya moved closer and slipped onto the bed beside him gently turning him towards her.

"What is it? What's wrong?" she asked him, her fingers brushing over his cheeks searching for heat or injury.

"My head...it hurts..." he managed to get out. Anya shifted herself so that he could lay his head against her lap. Her golden locks falling around him like a sort of canopy.

"Where?" she asked softly. "Show me where it hurts"

Spider reached up and tapped on his forehead and Anya's hands quickly moved to begin to massage at his temples. Spider felt the pressure begin to ease away. It still hurt but somehow the gentle motion of her hands, the feeling of her presence, made it more bearable.

Slowly, the pain started to subside and Spider found himself relaxing more and more into Anya's touch. His trembling had stopped and he was finally able to open his eyes again. The warm glow from Anya wrapping him in a pocket of safety.

"Are you okay?" Anya asked her eyes full of concern and gentleness. Spider considered her question then nodded softly.  

"Y-yeah...I...I don't know what happened...that...that hasn't ever happened before, not here" he said. Anya picked up on his phrasing

"Not here? What do you mean?" she asked him. He took a deep breath and looked up at her. How could he explain this without worrying her?

"Remember I told you that I was tortured?" he asked her. She nodded slowly, the pain in her eyes evident.

"They stuck me in this machine and it would hold me down tight and spin around me. it made me sick, scared...I couldn't...I couldn't let go...I couldn't close my eyes or move and it hurt my head...like a bunch of pressure trying to crush my skull..."

"Until someone stoped them" she finished for him, tears in her eyes just from his recounting the torture.

"Yeah..." he whispered softly and she moved so she could curl up next to him. He could see that the sun was starting to peak out of the clouds now, the rain had stopped and the thunder was gone.

"I'm sorry I left and didn't tell you" Spider said. Anya just shook her head and smiled

"It's okay...I figured out where you were, you can't hide from me for too long" she teased him. He found himself smiling at her and rolling his eyes playfully. He glanced around the room and gasped

"You brought food?" Anya raised a brow and laughed at his obvious excitement. 

"Of course I did...I told you I would"

"You're a lifesaver!" he said springing out of bed, almost all thought of before erased from his mind. Anya watched him carefully but he seemed to be okay now. Perhaps this was just a one time occurrence...a flash back from his previous experiences like he said...but there was no denying that it made Anya uneasy.

Part 15

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

So it turns out I might actually be good at Hollow Knight. Huh. Fun.

[zu-is-here]

Fragile | Happy birthday to Horrortale ★

[1/16] horrortalecomic by sour-apple-studios

[hellenhighwater]

hell I am so excited for kitten updates you have no idea!!!! I hope the new foster litter is healthy and well

I need you to know that AGM Kimothy has been yelllllling until I come in and take a babysitting shift so she can go elsewhere in the room to nap. Domesticated cats are usually not fans of single motherhood if there's another mom around to coparent with, and I've just been pressganged into stepmotherhood.

She's off shift.

[heybiji]

he has a library card

[fluffylord]

TWELFTH DOCTOR | TWICE UPON A TIME

[dooblebugss]

I wanted to start a new Steel Soul save bc I've never beat Steel Soul before

But for some reason, it wouldn't let me start a new one. I assumed it was bc I had a new PC and I hadn't beaten the game on the new PC

So I loaded up my 100+ hour save, walked into the black egg temple, and proceeded to beat the shit out of Hollow and the Radiance within a few minutes

[erithel]

Enjoy!

Read it here.

[hollow-knight-fights]

Hollow Knight Fight Round 2, Wave 2

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[lithesunflower]

Spider finding Anya Romance AU

[quippip]

my silly little trimax theory that i will forever stand by is that i think razlo was the one who actually ran forward to catch jasmine when she fell off the roof when they were kids.

my main reasoning is that when he runs forward, he’s completely obscured in shadow, with only his left eye visible. which is how razlo is often portrayed in livio’s flashbacks!!

[Image ID: A panel from Trigun: Maximum volume 9, depicting the scene in which Livio runs forward to catch Jasmine as she falls off the orphanage, roof. In the panel, he rushes between two kids, who are depicted in normal detail, while he himself is obscured by shadow with only his left eye shown as a single white dot. end ID]

while I do think it was livio who was fronting by the time he actually caught jasmine, i sincerely believe it was razlo who got them running in the first place. plus, we see this scene from wolfwood’s point of view, and of course he wouldn’t be able to actually know if it was livio or not in that moment

[fatuismooches]

ahaha back with another fragile reader brain rot :))

this one’s a lot more fluffy than last time so some way, somehow, fragile reader has been cured of their illness

but yk, I don’t have the brain power or rot to explain how so we’re gonna talk about what they do after being cured

let’s say that after the celebration of being cured has died down a bit, they decide to see what kind of work their partner does and what better way to do so, then to become their secretary!

woohoo! secretary x boss trope - very original ik /j

but now we venture to Dottore territory because he and reader already have such a close bond so it’ll be so confusing to onlookers for his subordinate - though unbeknownst to them: lover - to give him sass

“And the body?”

“No body no crime. Nothing was found. Just like your social skills.”

(insert petrified recruits here)

It would also be confusing to fellow harbingers as well; who in teyvat is this secretary? where did they come from? why is dottore just letting this slide?

“so, dottore. care to explain your choice of… secretary?”

“No.”

dropped by from: 🧸 anon

UGH YES... Reader getting back to their rightful place at Dottore's side as they should 🤭 They would be so elated to finally truly redeem their role of assistant once again! The only thing is that you don't have a complete grasp on what he does nowadays since you were so preoccupied with your illness... (Don't worry, he has a lot of paperwork for you to do, his #1 secretary... you get your own desk at least [you definitely have photos of him on your desk and he scoffs every time but is secretly happy] 😅)

Ahh i do love to imagine everyone's reaction to your unfiltered and not scared of the consequences at all comments... as soon as you say something the agents instantly freeze and prepare themselves to haul out another dead body but nope. Dottore doesn't even look phased or affected. Just another regular day for the two of you. You know as soon as the two of you are gone the gossip is going DOWN.

Pantalone would be so up in his business like he wants to know all the details 😭 Bro will not get discouraged even though Dottore is giving him the driest answers known to man 💀 (You will probably end up cornered by him eventually as he sits you down for tea and thoroughly tries to interrogate you)

[fisheito]

now that i've seen the DIK fight island obstacle course and how it's. a course. not just them swimming all day makes me wonder who would do best at running through sand. bc you gotta have a technique. or a certain kinda muscle built up. sand is difficult terrain but by pitting garu-dante-quin against each other... hmmm... that's tricky bc they ARE pretty evenly matched. a trio of athletic little lads

[fippydarkpaw]

I just cannot engage with Lord of the Rings in typical fandom style. That is a religious text to me.

[sakitenmaenjoyer]

tsukasa and physical affection with wxs (to me)

rui - for a long time, they were the least tactile duo and kinda just stood next to each other; but post pandemonium, they got a bit closer! tsukasa started tugging at rui's sleeve to get his attention/pull him a certain way, pinching the back of his cardigan to pull him back, patting his shoulder firmly, etc. rui started setting his arm on his shoulder to lean. theyre still not the most tactile but they sure are in each other's personal space (also, if they sit together, they start trying to subtly kick each other for no fucking reason)

nene - tsukasa treats her like she's an injured baby bird that's throwing knives at him. aka when he touches her it's extremely gentle, but he's also yelling his head off. he tends to hover hand a lot, like he wants to touch her, but he hardly ever does. it's so funny bc he treats her like he's gonna damage her if he applies even a little force, but doesn't treat her like that in any other aspect. sometimes nene will elbow him or pat his arm/back/back of his head firmly (he acts like he's been shot every time lol). once in a blue moon she'll grab onto his arm or give him a side hug

emu - they are the most tactile duo. name literally any form of affection and they've done it. head pats? holding hands? hugs? piggyback rides? cuddling? playing with each others hair? bridal carry? fireman's carry (LOL)? hands around each other? air punching each other? picking each other up? they've done it.

tsukasa can pick emu up pretty easily, and if they're doing a bit he can carry her under his arm. but the problem arises when she tries to get out of his hold, or when she tries to do it back. emu's stronger than she looks! she can carry tsukasa, technically, but she always insists she can sustain the hold (she can't lmao). tsukasa's always shrieks in surprise bc she either lifts him an inch off the ground or gets him completely off his feet.

emu is just very affectionate, and tsukasa's always like "AAAAA WHAT THE HELL!!!" [doesn't put a stop to it ] he tends to man handle her more than he does nene, or even rui (bc she usually starts it 💀) they both have a lot of fun with each other!