#MARCO MY BELOVED

[leoneldsw]

ink sketch 😗

[introspectivememories]

buggy drunk, flirting with marco: heyyy~ marco

marco responding because if nothing else it'll make shanks mad: heyyy~ bugs

shanks, halfway across the grandline, tense as hell as he gets a that's so raven like premonition: buggy and marco are fucking

benn with his head in his hands, halfway to crying because this is the fifth time kashira has turned the ship around because he cant stop chasing after that fucking clown and he doesnt get paid enough for this and-: this ship is fucking NIGHTMARE!!!

[thisisallthehattersfault]

Someone makes a choked, shocked sound. Someone else yelps. It occurs to Ace, somewhere between the howling in his ears and the ache in his lungs and the taste of salt and iron flooding his mouth, that this is probably pretty surprising for his brothers to witness. Maybe even downright upsetting.

The thing is, Ace was wading into the jungles on his own as early as four years old. Dadan taught him how to do basic shit like talk and wipe his ass, but he honestly didn't have a ton of human interaction before meeting Sabo. And the thing about Sabo was that he had more than enough human interaction for the both of them. Ace learned some manners from Makino, but while Sabo was still around, there wasn't really any reason to get... good, at people.

But then Sabo died, and Ace needed to teach himself not only to talk his way out of trouble but also how to be the nice brother, how to treat Luffy with the softness he needed and deserved, how to gentle his hands and his voice and his words. So Ace did that, because he needed to, and it turned out to actually be pretty useful for dealing with people when he wasn't actively looking for a fight. So he stuck with it.

Which is all to say that by the time he'd joined up with Whitebeard, Ace was as close to tame as he had ever been. Almost downright domesticated.

Ace snaps his head to the side, putting some real momentum into it, heaving with all his weight until something tears. When he drops to his feet he springs right back up again, lunging. He spits out his mouthful as he goes, lets his jaw drop open.

The thing is, Ace is a child of the wilderness. He raised himself among that wilderness, and then he raised Luffy among that wilderness. He's a son of the jungle at heart, no matter how good he's gotten at pretending to be a person.

The sea-stone cuffs are chaffing his wrists. He feels tired and heavy, but he doesn't need his fire to be dangerous. Doesn't even need his hands.

Teeth find an artery. Body-hot blood sprays his face as Ace bites down, lock-jawed and snarling. Rears back and rips.

Another marine goes down. Ace spits out a chunk of the man's throat and is already rounding on a third. Notices, with a vague annoyance, that he's gonna need to find a toothpick -- there's a scrap of tendon or something caught in his teeth.

Mmm. Boar. They had pork for dinner, ah, the other night? Three days ago? Something like that, but it doesn't taste the same as wild boar does. And anyway, meat on the Moby is always overcooked. Ace is allowed to eat blue steak, but everybody always yells at him when he tries to steal bites of poultry or Sea King or whatever else while it's still tender and bleeding. This fight is giving Ace a real craving!

Duck. Lunge. Bite down, hard, thunder of a rabbit-quick pulse against his tongue, bulge of tender flesh against his soft palate. Iron and salt in his mouth.

Fear has a flavor. It is bitter and acrid, reminiscent of char, and Ace hadn't liked it much when he was young and still learning how to hunt. It stiffens up the meat, too, makes it kinda chewy. Somewhere along the line, he'd acquired a taste for it, though. He still marks it as a point of pride, his ability to hunt and kill prey without it ever knowing he was there, roasting something that is tender-sweet and gives easily under his teeth -- but the taste of fear isn't so bad either. Sometimes he even prefers it, gets a craving for it. Like wild boar, he hasn't had it in a while. Maybe he'll chase down his own dinner tonight.

Ace rears back. Muscle fibers split, skin stretches until it snaps. A heave, and a body crumples to the ground, gurgling. He gnaws kind of idly on his mouthful while he catches his breath, snorting blood out of his nose and straining his ears. Sounds like the fight's over, then.

Another lump of trachea gets spat into the dirt. Ace turns to face his brothers, counting heads -- good, it looks like nobody got hurt too bad, everybody is still standing! He grins. Ah, they're all pretty pale though, that's a little bit concerning, he hopes nobody's in shock. He learned from Marco that that can happen to anybody, even if they've been in a whole lot of fights.

"Hey!" Ace chirps. "Is everybody okay?" His wrists are killing him. Also, he really needs a shower. He's got blood in his ears, how the hell did that happen? But first he jogs over to where the others are all standing, clumped together, still just. Kinda staring at him.

Okay. Concerning. "You guys alright?" He asks again, lower. "Is anybody hurt? What happened?"

"Ace, man," Deuce says. His voice sounds kind of shaky. He drags a hand through his hair, fucking it up even worse than it already is. "What the fuck was that?"

[nolassolace]

Grant and Marco wedding day 🥺

Guess who's lighter and whos coffee stain I dare you.

I loved this one though, and it's such a fun little welcome back after my weekend, and I'm such a sucker for GraMar ( take this ship name from my cold dead hands) love them is all.

[verdemint]

bez playing pingpong in pink shorts, cute cute

[schmel-schmel]

'Woody'

[marcobodtlives]

I saw so much fanart with Marco having an eyepatch before I got too far into s1 so I was watching it like:

Me: this must be where he gets his eyepatch!

Me: oh he’s not -

Me: oh he’s not getting up…

Me: haha… when - when’s he gonna get his eyepatch

Me:

Me: when - when’s the eyepatch… when does he come back to life and get an eyepatch guys?

Me: guys?

[the-boy-who-sought-freedomm]

Do you ever think about the fact that Eren knew so much about the past and future, yet never knew it was Reiner that killed Marco? And he lived until his last day thinking Marco's death was his fault? Because he couldn't close the hole in Trost fast enough?

Yeah don't think about that. Isayama, when I catch you Isayama, when I catch you😠

[hotmessmaxpress]

I just think marc should be able to tuck his face against vale’s chest. I think he should be able to hug vale and tuck his nose up against vale’s neck and relax. He should get to snuggle up to vale and be warm and comfortable. I think vale should stop being a dick so that can happen.

And while I’m at it, bezz deserves that too. But not!!! just for winning. All the time. Especially when he’s in his Sad Gay Crisis phase. Vale hug the boy. Hug him and maybe he’ll stop getting weird emo sad boy tattoos.

[ejunkiet]

Ask Take Two (/lh): I would love to know about "marco my beloved" because I have no idea what that would entail /lh

>:3 MARCO MY BELOVED. GREAT CHOICE.

Okay, so first off I need to introduce you to Marco, AKA love of my life, werewolf extroadinaire with the puns and the biggest heart who smokes too much. He's one of the main characters in Blood Moon, the incredible text-based interactive fiction game by @barbwritesstuff (link to the demo in pinned post!)

this art by phantom-d remains my favourite

this art by @artsyaprilmr is from a scene in this wip, a continuation of this fic. >:3 marco (left) and my mc, evie, taking a break from [redacted].

now let me talk to you about blood moon. you play as a werewolf in a pack who have just relocated from the woods to the city to try to build a better life. it's not easy, when there are also vampires and hunters in the city, and werewolves don't have the best reputation.

it's a game about found family and pack and struggling to survive when the cards are stacked against you, and about fighting for what matters to you. the story has stuck with me, and I love it.

the sequel game that focused on the vampires is in the works, and it is beautiful. go play the games PK, you'll love them. >:3 <3

[azul-days]

💚💚💚

[clonerightsagenda]

Back in my Homestuck days (HS2 do not interact) I feel like there might have been less discourse about whether Dirk was an unrepentantly evil master manipulator if more people had read Animorphs. Or at least the discourse would've been more interesting.

[verdemint]

Bez special helmet for Misano 2022

Bez special helmet for Misano 2023

[toad-games]

Okay, I have been obsessively playing Blood Moon, because I missed Marco, and I still love him and his route so much But Also why is no one talking about Farro???????????? Like????????

In response to, “You really think I’m beautiful?”

And after his spicy scene which holy fuck that was super hot

AND HIS EPILOGUE DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED

Like please this man is so soft until he isn’t and then it’s hot af please go romance this werewolf DILF I am begging

@barbwritesstuff thank you so much for such a wonderful game and such wonderful characters

[hufflepuffhabs]

Some people came and served, others came and were present

[braindos]

I have a pinterest board that consists of basically just shirts i want to draw marco in