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hobie brown x o’hara!reader

request?: yes

request: “I know you’re probably busy 🙏🏽 but can I request a hobie x reader Where reader is miguels kid but from another universe and we were known as “dangerous” to the multiverse and miguel had to watch over us and we find out while hanging out with hobie and hobie has to comfort us as we try to process the fact that Miguel wasn’t our real dad and just someone keeping the mutliverse safe?

I really hope this makes sense i just don’t know how to make is make sense uk? 😭 💀”

requested by: @millerworld​

word count: 1.7k

genre: angst with some fluff

Warnings: language, mentions of childbirth death, big feelings of betrayal, probably horrible spanish, honestly a lot of angst

A/N: apologies for the wait for this one! i love writing angst though so i was rubbing my hands together like an evil lil bitch writing this. i apologize if the spanish is wrong/not how it would actually be said/worded. been a minute since i took a spanish course, so i am a little rusty. please enjoy, and thank you so much for requesting, love! :)

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Ever since you remembered your dad, Miguel O’Hara, was there. Of course, there are certain moments of your childhood you don’t remember, as every child has, but your earliest memory is your dad picking you up and soothing you as you cried at two years old. And ever since then, he was always there. Your friends at school would always say you were so lucky that you had a dad that was so devoted to you, and you agreed. To an extent. See, he was very particular about what he allowed you to do. It wasn’t in a negative way, necessarily, he was just protective. His favorite saying and your least favorite saying in your house was ‘I just want what’s best for you, cariño.’

It resulted in you staying home from school events, friend events, and generally any type of event where your safety could have been compromised. It caused you to be a bit of a loner, always hearing about the parties, the gossip, all of it instead of actually experiencing it for yourself.

Of course, it annoyed you.

It still does.

He’s loosened up a bit eventually, though, allowing you to go to work with him. Which also meant you got to meet many spiders. Quite a few of the spider-people quickly became your closest friends, as it was simpler and easier for your dad to keep tabs on you in Spider Society. Much to his chagrin, you quickly became best friends with Hobie Brown. The two of you were around the same age, and since you were annoyed at your dad and in your rebellious era, you got along swimmingly. A little too swimmingly, actually, which Miguel purposefully chose to ignore for the most part. Until he saw Hobie sucking his little one’s face off. Regardless, Hobie was always quick to validate all your conflicted, annoyed, and even positive feelings about your father. He even helped you come out of your shell and rebel against Miguel occasionally.

Miguel didn’t like this very much, but he also knew that Hobie was still a good influence on you. No matter how many times both of you tried to convince him that he wasn’t. But sometimes, Hobie would talk you into doing things that he very much disliked. Hated, even. And this time was one of those times. While he was out, containing a particularly difficult anomaly, Hobie convinced you to search through Miguel’s personal files on his supercomputer because he bet if your birth certificate would be anywhere, it would be there. When you found a folder with your name, you expected to open it to see some family pictures, hoping for your birth certificate with the name of your mom. Your dad never really talked about your mom, just that she passed away during childbirth. You stopped asking because every time you did, he would get very quiet and a guilty look would appear on his face. But you’d be lying if you said you weren’t curious. So you went into this endeavor excited to see what you might find out. Unfortunately, that excitement didn’t last for very long. See when you opened your file expecting these mundane things, that wasn’t what you were met with.

In fact, that was nowhere near what you found.

You found detailed notes all about you.

“What the hell,” you mumble, scrolling through the various pictures of you as an infant, with two adult strangers. Hobie said nothing, looking at all the pictures and skimming the important parts of all the files you were pulling up with a frown on his face. You stop on a specific picture of a woman holding you in a hospital bed. She was smiling.

And she was very much alive.

Tears immediately start to well up in your eyes as Hobie gently pulls your hands away from the computer. “Think that’s enough a’ that, love,” he says softly. You yank your arms away from him. “No.” You scroll to the next photo, seeing a man you’ve never met before holding you in the same hospital room, with the same strange woman right next to him. The next time you scroll, it’s a detailed account from Miguel about who you are. Notes from your dad declaring you a ‘danger’ and that you ‘must be contained somehow.’ Talk of your biological parents, their names, and how you had to be separated from them before ‘irreversible damage was done to the multiverse.’

You stare at the screen, and Hobie pulls your hands away again, successfully this time. He steps between you and the screens, blocking your view and slowly walking you backward and away from the files. You’re too shocked to say anything, the only thing you can do is quietly cry. Hobie opens his mouth to say something when Miguel’s voice rings out. “What do the two of you think you’re doing?”

The two of you turn your heads toward Miguel, and his annoyed frown turns to one of concern as soon as he sees the look on your face. “¿Qué tienes, mi corazón?” Miguel asks, his voice much softer as he approaches you. Hobie moves, positioning himself between you and your ‘father,’ and scoffs. “Think you got some explainin’ to do ‘ere, mate,” Hobie says, and Miguel looks at him confused. Then he sees what’s on the screen. A look of horrified realization spreads across his face, and he looks at you. “(Y/n), cariño, I can explain.”

“Don’t call me that,” your voice, albeit shaky, finally comes back to you. Hobie turns his attention to you, squeezing the hand you’ve been holding onto for dear life ever since he pulled you away from the computer. “(Y/n)—”

“Who am I? Who are you to me?”

“…Please, let me—”

“WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE?!” you shout, desperately yearning for your dad to say they weren’t what was said in his reports. But all he does is frown. “They’re… they are your biological parents,” he confesses, and you make a choked noise. Hobie subtly begins turning his watch to his universe, ready to make an escape from your dad at any point. “If you just let me explain—”

“I’m a threat to the multiverse?” you choke out through your tears, “What the fuck does that mean, papá?! If I can even call you that.” Miguel’s jaw clenches. “Don’t forget who raised you.”

“How could I?! How could you?! Is this why you never let me do anything?! Too worried your querido bebecito would destroy the fucking multiverse?!”

“(Y/n). I did it to protect everyone.”

“What about me?! Did you ever plan on telling me?! How is separating me from my family protecting me?!” Hobie places an arm around your shoulder, pulling you closer and keeping you shielded by him as Miguel tries to step closer to you. Miguel glares at him, and Hobie glares back. Miguel holds out his hand in a surrendering way. “It was to protect you just as much, if not more, as it was to protect everyone else. If you would just listen—“

“No. No, I’m done listening to you.”

“Cariño—”

“I am not tú cariño. I am not tú corazoón. You are not mi papá,” you say, venom behind your words. You can practically see Miguel’s heart shatter into tiny little pieces.

That was the worst thing you could have ever said to him.

Before he can say anything else, Hobie opens the portal, pulling you through and closing it almost immediately. You find yourself in the familiar atmosphere of his flat. “C’mere, love,” he mumbles, pulling you into his arms. You grip his shirt, sobbing into his chest as he rocks you back and forth, softly shushing you occasionally and rubbing your back. After what feels like hours, but was really maybe a minute, he swiftly picks you up, carrying you bridal style to his bed as you continue to cry into his shirt. He sits down, placing a soft kiss to the top of your head and rubbing up and down your arm. He can’t help but feel guilty for this. If he didn’t convince you to look at the computer…

“Don’t blame yourself, Hobie… please,” you whimper, and he sighs. “Love, you needa stop bein’ so good at knowin’ what i’m thinkin’,” he mumbles, and you look up at him with a soft smile. “Can’t help it. Even your thoughts are loud,” you say, and he snorts. “Chuffed to see the cryin’ made ya feel better,” he says and you shake your head. “I still feel like shit, Hobie,” you whisper, and he frowns. He gently wipes some tears away from your cheeks. “Reckon all ‘at cryin’ has you knackered?” he mumbles, and you nod softly. He lays backwards, maneuvering the two of you to be laying down. The two of you face each other, one of his hands cradling the side of your face while the other soothingly rubs up and down your side. You grip onto his shirt, and he places a soft peck on your nose. “‘m sorry, love,” he says, and you sniffle. “I already told you it isn’t your fault.”

“‘Kay, still feel like it was,” he says, and you sigh. “That’s not important right now,” he mumbles, gently pulling you closer. “What’s important is that I make you feel better.” You look at him, your eyes are still glossy from tears. “Never met someone who looked so stunnin’ when they cry,” he says, gently stroking your cheek. You smile softly, and he does too. “There’s my favorite smile,” he whispers before softly placing his lips on yours. It’s only for a second, but it makes all the pain go away. And you’re grateful for that. Even if it is just for a second. “Get some sleep, love.” He kisses your forehead, tangling his legs with yours and pulling your head into his chest. You relax into him. He was right. The crying was exhausting. Before you know it, you’re asleep as Hobie gently traces shapes into your skin, whispering anything and everything he loves about you to you so softly that if you weren’t really listening, you wouldn’t hear any of it. No one makes you feel protected quite like Hobie does.

And even if it’s just for a moment, thanks to Hobie, you feel like everything will be okay.

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[applestorms]

the restoration of greatness to rome

Beyond Birthday is an exceptionally average man with an exceptionally weird name. 

Except, no. That isn’t quite the case either. It’s a bit of a misnomer to claim that Beyond was in any way average, at least when looking to any degree below the surface. 

That surface-level mask was, however, nearly flawless. Bland and uninteresting, sweetly endearing in a way that added up to nothing, the type of boy you’d take home to your parents and they wouldn’t be able to remember the face of afterwards. It had almost turned Naomi away at the start, flicking through dating app photographs so generic they could’ve been repurposed stock images. It was everything she wasn’t looking for after Raye, after the complete and utter destruction of her fairytale daydreams about living a normal and peaceful married life. As a little girl playing with dolls she had never considered the possibility that she might be the one leaving her fiance hanging at the altar. But what is life if not a continuous train of terrible surprises? Where you find out that, more than anyone else, you are not the person you thought you were? 

Beyond Birthday had plain black hair which he kept plainly and neatly cut, a plain face with a small nose and boring jawline, and a sweater vest so milquetoast and typical she only remembered he was wearing it while in the process of looking at it. He had a job so asinine and lifeless she’d forgotten it nearly the second the words came out of his mouth, and lived in an apartment complex so lacking in notability that she had lingered around the doorway for five minutes trying to find the right building before realizing she was already outside of it, thereby rendering herself a full three minutes late to their date, as Beyond himself was quick to point out. 

Frankly, the fact that she had ended up on the date at all was a stroke of luck, the stars and planets perfectly aligning to allow her cat to dig his claws into her leg at the exact instant that she happened to be scrolling past his profile. Certainly, ghosting probably would’ve been easier. An accidental superlike is an annoyance, perhaps a particularly awkward one, but not the end of the world. But, still… 

There was something else under the surface. 

“Are you going to finish that?” 

She shoves the plate of jam tarts across the table without a second thought, blinking out of her stupor. 

Beyond Birthday was a stranger. They had exactly one conversation through text and two conversations through calls, all of which culminated in this exact meeting on this exact date. She knows that his name is the real one written on his birth certificate, that he was born somewhere in England but lived in “alternative circumstances,” that caused him to never develop the accent outside of rare instances of words like, “chthonic” or “eschatological,” and that he claims to have a bit of a sweet tooth but subtly gags every time he tastes anything even slightly sugary. This final point is confirmed shortly after she pushes said plate of tarts across the table, sharp eyes catching the way his jaw clenches and throat rushes to swallow as soon as the food enters his mouth. 

She can’t understand why he would bother to lie about such a thing. But then again, she never was all that good of an FBI agent. 

She finds Beyond much more pleasant to deal with in bed, with his face down in the pillows and his back arched into the mattress, ass up in the air. His moans are very high and endearing, honest in a way that he isn’t otherwise, and very, very different from Raye, a highly appreciated change of pace. She kisses the back of his ear and quietly praises him when he squirms, and then holds him in her arms and brushes the hair back from his face when they’re done and he falls asleep long before she would ever be able to. 

She doesn’t quite know why she accepts a second date. Usually, fucking on the first was a good sign that the relationship simply had no room to last. She shows up at his apartment at the usual time regardless, this time half an hour early to make up for her previous mistakes. He scolds her for intruding on his private time. Their date begins with a trip to a jewelry store where she sits, silently fuming, in the white leather chair they keep at the back of the store for tired old husbands and over-enthusiastic holiday shoppers, waiting impatiently as he picks out the single most expensive silver watch in the store and then gets on his knees to clasp if around her wrist himself. 

She doesn’t know much more about him by the second date, and doesn’t gain much knowledge either. But, luckily, what information she does have becomes very relevant when it comes to enacting her own revenge by teasing and edging the pleasure out of every square inch of his body, holding him down until he whines so loud she has to stuff her own t-shirt in his mouth to keep from waking the neighbors. 

The next morning she offers him breakfast as an apology. He accepts, tersely, and then fucks her in the bathroom in front of the mirror, hiding his face in her hair while he pins her up against the counter. 

At some point, she simply stops leaving. 

It’s everything she ever wanted with Raye, but three steps to the left. Twisted, unusual, perverse. This isn’t the way that things are supposed to happen, and this isn’t the type of man she’s supposed to fall for. He’s perfect and average and she likes him for all the wrong reasons, for the lies and the temper and the borderline psychopathic ease with which he describes the process of how he would theoretically enact a series of murders, betraying his own underlying anxieties and weakness in the process but staring at her like he’s trying to see if she notices. Below the surface is something convoluted and tangled and jagged, and she delighted all too much in the fact that she had found what she had sought, a mutual, greater evil to drown out the call of her own insecurities. 

Naomi Misora never liked herself all that much. 

But perhaps, in this, she can find something she wants more than to keep hating herself.

[autisticempathydaemon]

Redactober 2024 Day Twelve

Prompt: Dealer's Choice & Diamond

Pairing: Marcus/Love

cw: vent piece, Marcus is that thoughtless motherfucker who's afraid of commitment

"That’s a diamond ring,” Marcus says, muting the tv in the middle of the jeweler’s commercial, on a smiling couple holding hands with the two carat diamond on full display."

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“What’s that?”

“What, on her finger? That’s a diamond ring,” Marcus says, muting the tv in the middle of the jeweler’s commercial, on a smiling couple holding hands with the two carat diamond on full display.

“I can see that,” Love says, watching the screen with rapt attention and a wide, curious green gaze. “What is it for? What is its significance?” 

“It’s a… a custom, I’d say? When someone proposes to someone else, asks the other to get married, they ask by getting down on one knee and presenting the ring.” The android hums thoughtfully, the processor in their head whirring as they look down at the unadorned polymer skin of their left hand. “Do you have any other questions, or shall we continue?”

“When will you give me a ring and ask me to marry you?”

“Wh- wha- what brought this on? What led you to this conclusion?” Marcus asks, coughing into his fist to mask his shock. 

“Marriage is defined as the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship. Colloquially, it is also defined as a commitment, a social and legal promise to be together till death do they part because they love each other.” Love looks up at Marcus standing above them and smiles before taking his hand in theirs to mimic the pair in the commercial. “Or is it my responsibility to get the ring and ask? I might find that difficult, given I lack the funds, but I could find a way.”

“No!” Marcus exclaims, nervously patting the strong hand gripping his own and switching off the tv completely, putting an end to the Culture and Media lessons for the day. “No, you won’t need to do that, Love. As much as I wish I could, we can’t legally get married. You’d need a birth certificate, a social security number, lots of things… It’s not possible.”

“Oh…” The light in the android’s eyes literally dims as they process this new information and attempt to troubleshoot. “Can we have just a wedding then? I’ve seen some that happen without the legal proceedings, that are more informal.” 

“We can’t do that either, Love; of course we can’t,” Marcus says, soothingly stroking their synthetic hair and contemplating the image of their mechanical lover in a wedding dress and veil. A quick, startled laugh escapes him due to its absurdity, and Love with their ever present, intense scrutiny does not miss it. 

“I don’t understand why that’s funny, why we can’t. We love each other, and people who love each other get married,” they insist, taking his hand from atop their head and intertwining their fingers. Marcus’s joints pop in their inhumanly strong grasp, and Love’s facial recognition software fails to read the wince of pain on his face in favor of looking for the adoration and devotion he once wore without reserve. “When can we stop hiding?”

“Is that what this is about?” Marcus says with a weak laugh, kneeling to kiss their face reassuringly and alleviate some of the tense pull they have on his hands. “We’re not hiding, we’re just… we’re just being smart. The suits above wouldn’t understand, wouldn’t let us be, so for now, only the people who matter know about us, and that’s you and me.” The android’s grip loosens, and the human takes the opportunity to pull them against him in an embrace, pressing more placating kisses into their hair and running a soothing hand down the sensory receptors they put alongside their manufactured spine. “You and me, for better or for worse. We don’t need a certificate or a diamond ring to prove that; we have each other.”

[zimwy]

hello folks, home after a long morning. i STILL am not done with the process of changing my gender marker and name, but i am done with my hearings, my judge was quick and kind and approved everything and wished me luck. now i have to wait for a NEW birth certificate with my amended name and gender marker on it to be mailed to my apt, and once that gets here i can go to the DMV and get a new ID then the SSA to get a new social card.

[a-araiguma-a]

Prologue. Between the serving and Her smile.

Chapter 1. Towards the inevitable

Fandom: Harry Potter Pairing: in the future Oliver Wood x fem!reader Warning: drama, problems of parents and children, mention of a loved one dying, much pining a/n: It is a pity that the number of characters is limited and I will have to divide the chapter into several parts, because I cannot shorten the introduction to the story. First, I will tell you about the heroine, her childhood, how she entered Hogwarts, after the events will go faster. It will be funny if I describe the child's life in such detail and describe the relationship between our couple poorly. Once again, English is not my native language

Start - Prolog (Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5) - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry stood on the slopes of the Scottish Highlands, hidden from prying eyes, which gave it the appearance of an old, abandoned castle. For those who weren't privy to the mysteries of magic, Hogwarts was just a ruin, long abandoned and forgotten. But for wizards and witches, this castle was the heart of the wizarding world, the place where their abilities were developed and legends were born.

Any child with a magical gift who reached the age of eleven always received an invitation to enter Hogwarts. Enrollment in the school was almost automatic, because immediately after birth, their names were entered in a special Admission Book stored in the bowels of the school. A certificate of admission confirmed their membership in the wizarding world, and on the threshold of their eleventh birthday, an owl would bring them a coveted letter with the Hogwarts seal.

But if the child was a Muggle-born or a half-breed unaware of their magical heritage, the enrollment process was a little more complicated. For such children, a special envoy was sent from Hogwarts, who personally visited the family, explaining to them the amazing truth: their child is a wizard or witch, and the path to the wizarding world opens up before him.

So it was with Margaret. Born in 1976, her birth was marred by tragedy. Her mother, Charlotte, barely had time to see her newborn daughter before her heart stopped. Doctors warned that the birth would be difficult, but the parents hoped for a miracle. Alas, fate decreed otherwise. Her father, Bennett, was completely broken by the loss of his beloved wife. Grief-stricken, he couldn't accept that he now had to take care of the tiny life they'd created together. Margaret was a constant reminder of what he'd lost. Every time he looked at her, he saw the ghost of Charlotte, the same blond hair, the same expressive eyes-features that should have made him love, but only hurt. Unable to bear the pain, Bennett gave her up to be raised by his parents.

Meanwhile, Charlotte's family, although distant, never forgot about the child. They were full-blooded wizards, but after Charlotte's marriage to a Muggle, they decided to keep their distance. They understood that Bennett knew nothing of the wizarding world, and they respected his grief by staying away. However, they watched their granddaughter from afar, hoping that one day, when Margaret turned eleven, she would enter Hogwarts, enter her true world, and the connection that had been lost would be restored.

Over time, Bennett's wounds began to heal, and this was helped by a colleague at work, who gradually became closer to him. She understood his suffering and supported him. Over time, their relationship grew into something more, and when Margaret was six years old, they married. It brought some stability back to Bennett's life.

Margaret's stepmother was a kind woman, but she also had her own difficulties. Denied the opportunity to have children of her own, she saw Margaret as both a challenge and a gift. It was difficult at first. The little girl was quick-witted and insightful, but she didn't understand why her father barely paid attention to her, but this was a woman he loved. He bought the child whatever she wanted, but his eyes, when they did meet hers, were filled with sorrow.

As the years passed, Margaret learned to live in this world with quiet fortitude. She found solace in books, escaping to worlds far removed from the cold reality of her home. Her stepmother, despite all her efforts, had never really won the girl's heart, and Bennett's aloofness remained an unhealed wound.

As Margaret grew up, she began to notice strange things happening around her. Objects sometimes moved on their own when she was angry or upset, and she could predict things before they happened. These glimpses of magic were disconcerting to a girl who had grown up in a world of logic and common sense, where such things were considered impossible. She didn't know that there was an ancient magic flowing in her veins, a legacy that was just waiting to be awakened.

And now, her eleventh birthday was approaching, and with it the possibility of a new beginning — a world in which she might find her true place, a world that could fill the void in her heart.

It was the summer of 1987. Her life went on as usual, surrounded by a caring stepmother and a distant father, whose attention was focused on a new family and work. A few weeks before her eleventh birthday, a normal morning in the house was disrupted by an unexpected knock on her room window. Margaret approached curiously and saw a large owl with a letter sealed with an unfamiliar coat of arms. The letter was addressed to her, with an exact description of the room she was sleeping in. Just as she took the letter in her hand, there was a knock on the door of the house. When she opened the door, she saw a tall man in an old-fashioned robe. His eyes were sparkling with good humor and a touch of mischief. He introduced himself as Professor Maxwell and explained that he had come to deliver some amazing news.

Margaret's world changed the moment she learned of her magical heritage. Her mother, Charlotte, was from an ancient wizarding family, and now, thanks to her, the girl had to go to Hogwarts — a school that she didn't even know existed.

Professor Maxwell patiently explained everything to Margaret's father, answering his questions and dispelling his doubts. Bennett was stunned, but he knew that this could be a real chance for his daughter to find her place in a world where she had always felt like an outsider. Miranda, trying not to show her excitement, hugged the girl, assuring her that they would support her in any choice.

And so, on that day, Margaret realized for the first time that her life would never be the same again. There was a new world ahead of her — a world full of magic and amazing discoveries, a world where perhaps she would finally find her place.

Several days had passed since Professor Maxwell's visit, and Margaret was still trying to realize that her life would change radically. Questions swirled in her head like a whirlwind: what kind of school is this? Why had she never heard of magic? And most importantly-what will happen now?

The answers to these questions came unexpectedly when Charlotte's parents and Margaret's grandparents arrived at Bennet and Miranda's house. This was their first visit in years, and their arrival was a complete surprise. They had come with a clear intention: to take their granddaughter home before Hogwarts, to help her learn magic and answer all her questions.

When Bennett opened the door and saw them, he froze, not knowing how to react. Inside the house, Margaret and Miranda had already heard voices on the doorstep and stepped out into the hallway. When Margaret saw the elderly couple with their stern but kind faces, she immediately knew who they were, even though she had never met them before.

"Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild," Bennett said quietly, ushering them into the house. — Please come in."

The Fairchilds went inside, looking around the house. Grandmother Margaret, an elegant woman with graying hair, looked at her granddaughter warmly, and her husband, a tall and imposing man, nodded in greeting.

"Margaret," Grandma said softly, taking a step toward the girl. — We're your grandparents. I'm sorry we weren't there before, but now that you're about to be a part of the world of magic, we want to be there for you.

Margaret felt a little confused. Her eyes darted back and forth between her grandparents and parents, not knowing how to react.

"We'd like you to come and stay with us for the rest of the school year," Grandpa continued. We have everything you need to help you prepare for school, and we can answer all your questions.

Bennett nodded in silent agreement.

"It's the right thing to do," he said at last. — I can't explain everything about magic to her myself, and you can do that. This is her world, and I want her to be ready.

But Miranda, who was standing next to Margaret, pressed her lips together and shook her head.

"Bennett, you can't just send her away," she said, sounding worried. "She's part of our family. I know something special is waiting for her, but how can I just let her go? We barely managed to establish a relationship...

"Miranda, I understand," Bennett said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "But think of Margaret. She needs to learn about her magic, learn how to control it. The Fairchilds can help her.

Grandma took a step forward, addressing Miranda:

— We don't want to take her away from you, Miranda. We just want to give her a chance to learn about her roots and prepare for what awaits her at Hogwarts. We know how important this is, especially for children who are experiencing the world of magic for the first time.

Miranda took a deep breath and looked at Margaret, who had been silent all this time, listening to their conversation.

"Margaret," she said softly, " what do you think of all this?" Do you want to go with them?"

Margaret hesitated, not knowing what to say. On the one hand, she felt that her grandparents could give her answers to the many questions that plagued her. On the other hand, she didn't want to leave Miranda, who had become almost like a mother to her.

"I — I do not know," Margaret said at last. — I want to learn more about magic, but I'm scared. It's all so unexpected...

"We'll be with you, honey," Grandma said, taking her hand. — This is a new world, and it will open up amazing opportunities for you. But you don't have to decide right now. We can wait until you feel ready."

Miranda, feeling her anxiety subside a little, looked gratefully at the Fairchilds.

"Thank you," she said. — I just want her to be happy and not feel lonely."

"That's what we all want," Grandpa said, taking a step back. "We can wait a few days for you to get used to the idea, Margaret. You can make a decision when you're ready.

Margaret nodded, feeling understood and supported. But the decision was still up to her, and she knew that many difficult choices lay ahead.

[thegirlwondcr]

continued from x @cxpedcrusxder

Life? Had been going pretty well for Emma. Albeit, a bit overwhelming. She had not quite yet been able to really sit down and just process everything, as it felt like she was learning one new thing after another. There just were so many things at Wayne Manor she had access to, it honestly felt like very poor thinking. Should she really be allowed in the kitchen at all times? She could very much just wait for whenever it was time to have a meal. Should she also have overly expensive pieces of furniture, fabric, and technology also just at her fingertips? She honestly was too afraid to touch half of the things in her room--including her bedding. It was still hardly touched, she was debating just laying on top of it and not untucking the sheets.

A lot was on her mind, so it was one hell of a surprise for Batman to suddenly be at her window. Was he stalking her? Or was this already on the news? Would this be on the news? Another thing for her to get overwhelmed about. Just when she was about to yell out for Bruce or his butler, Alfred, she saw the documents in hand...the very thing she'd been longing for.

Emma felt guilt now, for having said all those things at him before. That despite all of that, he still went and got this. Even if it was not everything she ever wanted, half would certainly do. Her eyes remained locked on the documentation, even before being handed it. Her mind thought up several things that could be in there. It could be photos, things that told her who her mother is, what she's like, where she is now--the possibilities were practically endless in the teen's mind. Sure, the lack of a father on her birth certificate did put a damper on things...but this was so much. "Thank you." That was all she could really say, it's not like she got to say that often.

"I've never seen my birth certificate..." She mumbled, trying to take a simple thing like that in. "It has the time I was born?" Something she never thought of wanting to know but happy she could know now. "I was born at three am?" Such odd and random information that she now had and knew about herself.

Then she began to sift through the documents, like a kid on Christmas morning. However, she kept to herself initially, quickly going from one paper to the next, looking for something specific: an address. She could take the time later to get all the details, but for now, she needed to know the upmost important thing, how and where was she going to find her mom?

A lot of it was a bit boring, from what she saw with quick glances. Documents regarding loans, taxes, property...a lot of legal jargon. There was one page she came close to skipping entirely At a glance she thought maybe it had been her own mother's birth certificate or some generic record of her information...that was until she read the top of the page: certificate of death. She took the safe route in handling things. She pushed the documentation away and finally looked up at him, the feelings from many nights before returning. "This is fake." She said with full confidence. "Or you got the wrong woman...did you just grab a woman's file and fake my certificate to get me to forgive you?" Now that felt like a logical reason. "Can you not deal with the fact some random kid out there hates you? Or you can't deal with the fact that now a kid with access to Bruce Wayne hates you?" She then took a good step back. "You just want money."

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BOLD the FACTS

RULES: BOLD what applies to your OC I was tagged by @elvenbeard tysm! here's some little v lore before i hide in the bushes again 🏃‍♀️💨 and him being so touched people want to know MORE about him

⭕❌⭕ PERSONAL ⭕❌⭕

Little V grew up dirt poor as a Heywood kid who never joined the Valentinos. But he was smart enough to get himself by (even if he cuts it close sometimes!) Technically he's pretty well off after becoming the go-to merc guy that fixers call, but old habits die hard and he often forgets he could afford the bigger treats. He was also sickly when he was a kid due to his ganic lungs being bad and Night City's air being dogshit. But then he got himself synth lungs and was fit as a fiddle all the way until Johnny happened and now he's back in square 1. I once wrote a fic about his history with his cybernetics that doubles as a little snippet of him throughout the years !

Financial: wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty Medical: fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / non-applicable Class or Caste: upper / middle / working / unsure / other Education: qualified / unqualified / studying / other Criminal Record: yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but not caught yet / yes, but charges were dismissed >> was arrested multiple times and actually went to prison for a bit for some crimes he couldn't wiggle out of and had to pull in party favors and bribe the guards to hotfix the system and get himself out faster than he's supposed to serve. the minor crimes record stuck though.

⭕❌⭕ FAMILY ⭕❌⭕

His nice "everyone helped each other in the streets" story he told River was code for leeching off the soft-hearted joytoys and two-bit thieves who plays hot potato with children just like him. He was either abandoned in the hospital once he was born, or his parents were dumb teens who got themselves killed, or he was dropped off in the middle of a crowded street--the detail's kinda fuzzy and he doesn't bother to try and clear it up. His birth certificate most likely just listed some random generated name the hospital got before handing him to the nearest person willing to have him, so he never bothered to identify himself with his surname.

Children: had a child or children / has no children / wants children Relationship with Family: close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings / sibling(s) is deceased Affiliation: orphaned / abandoned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parent(s) / not applicable

⭕❌⭕ TRAITS AND TENDENCIES ⭕❌⭕

Little V loves friendly quips, sometimes borderline into being a quick-tongued smartass (especially more so if he wants to annoy someone to death). he's always eager to listen to people's experiences and expand his horizons! that said, at the end of the day if it comes down to it, he'll always put himself first. he believes it's better off that he does things alone because of that, especially to minimize the chance of hurting others in the process.

♦ extroverted / introverted / in-between ♦ disorganized / organized / in-between ♦ close-minded / open-minded / in-between ♦ calm / anxious / in-between / highly contextual >> he tends to have a hard time sitting still but is otherwise calm in demeanor. ♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in-between ♦ cautious / reckless / in-between / highly contextual ♦ patient / impatient / in-between ♦ outspoken / reserved / in-between / highly contextual >> he tries to see other's POV and keeps his head down and mouth shut just to avoid prolonging time spent with people he disagree with. he won't sit still and take shit if it gets personal though. ♦ leader / follower / in-between >>he's not too happy that being the top dog means taking over the afterlife in the don't fear the reaper ending and would rather give the role back to Rogue, both because he knows she loves the place and treats it right; and because he can admit he sucks on making choices when they involve other people. ♦ empathetic / vicious bastard / in-between ♦ optimistic / pessimistic / in-between ♦ traditional / modern / in-between ♦ hard-working / lazy / in-between ♦ cultured / uncultured / in-between / unknown ♦ loyal / disloyal / in-between / unknown ♦ faithful / unfaithful / in-between / unknown >> i headcanon that the whole dating both kerry and panam thing is consensual from all parties in a "this is my boyfriend v, and this is v's boyfriend kerry" thing; but he knows it isn't the real exclusive experience.

⭕❌⭕ BELIEFS ⭕❌⭕

I actually wrote a fic about his 'faith' so yes this works as ANOTHER fic plug. tl;dr-- he believes there's a higher power, somewhat, but just chalks it up to Death incarnate... and death's pretty fucking final. He also thinks ghost/spirits only exist in a manner of living on as memories/legacies. He loves aliens and thinks werewolves are totally real though, just to balance it out. Also used to like T-Bug's fun shakespeare-esque philosophies, makes for good convo starters.

Faith: monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic Belief in Ghosts or Spirits: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / in a manner of speaking Belief in an Afterlife: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / in a manner of speaking Belief in Reincarnation: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / in a manner of speaking Belief in Aliens: yes / no / don’t know / don’t care Religious: orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious Philosophical: yes / no / highly contextual

⭕❌⭕ SEXUALITY AND ROMANCE ⭕❌⭕

little v's relationship with sex is pretty grim. He used to think he'll have more time to find actual love and something more than quick fucks when he's made it to the big leagues... but then the whole relic business started and now he can't waste time to fuck much less to properly find love. still, if presented with the chance, he's never going to say no. AND he likes to think he managed a little slice of real romance here and there, with his big feelings with Panam and his mutual crush with Kerry... even if both won't last and he eventually broke it off. his actual one true love is Night City, which really, nobody can compete with :/

Sexuality: heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual Sex: sex-repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable / naive and clueless Romance: romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and clueless / romance suspicious Sexually: adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious Potential Sexual Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all Potential Romantic Partners: male / female / agender / other / none / all

⭕❌⭕ ABILITIES ⭕❌⭕

he quickly learned that his smaller stature gets him in tight places and if he could hack cameras and klep things without alerting any system in said places, people would pay him, and pay him well. sometimes his MO doesn't work out in his favor and he has to fight his way out; which sucks since he's HORRIBLE at aiming with a gun and would have to resort to close-ranged stabs with a knife or his mantis blades... but more often than not his stealth and quickhacks saves the day. he can read but he's not a reader. and he has no idea what could be considered art, much to Johnny's chagrin.

Combat Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor/ none Literacy Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none Artistic Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none Technical Skills: excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

⭕❌⭕ HABITS ⭕❌⭕

it's not that he doesn't like drinking or partying, it's just that he thinks you should do a job sober, and you never know when the next job's gonna pop out. getting a snack doesn't count though. actually it should be encouraged. he needs the energy and all, right? and besides, quickhacks make him hungry! two fishball sticks please.

Drinking Alcohol: never / special occasions / rarely / sometimes / frequently / alcoholic / former borderline alcoholic turned sober >> he'll always order a drink at a bar, but he likes the taste of ice cold NiCola after a hard day at work more than he does a beer, sue him. Smoking: tried it / trying to quit / quit / never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / chain-smoker >> only smokes for Johnny. he had a bad experience with his ganic lungs to ever condone smoking Recreational Drugs: tried some / never / special occasions / sometimes / frequently / addict Medicinal Drugs: never / no longer needs medication / some medication needed / frequently / to excess >> uses stims and other combat drugs if shit hits the fan; and is generous with his use of Bounce Back and MaxDoc instead of visiting the nearest ripper. he tries not to think about the possibility he might be too reliant on them Unhealthy Food: never / special occasions / rarely / sometimes / frequently / binge eater >> street food enthusiast ganggg Splurge Spending: never / sometimes / frequently / shopaholic >> he hustles to buy the pricy things he want/needs and then it's "why do I need more stuff, I like the things I have now." Gambling: never / rarely / sometimes / frequently / compulsive gamble

PHEW that was a long one. thank you for reading about him if you managed to get all the way here! no pressure tagging @bunwithantlers @killyourrdarlingss @glitchinginthegarden @mail-me-a-snail and anyone who'd like to!

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act iii: final notes

edit: 4/9/2024: added some more stuff!!! i'll put this emoji 🫧 next to the new things so u know where to scroll.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH I FINISHED MY FIRST FULL LENGTH FIC HOLD ON LEMME JUST THROW UP IN THE CORNER REAL QUICK

i am sooooooo normal rn anyways let's get into it thank u for having me on the show, mr. kimmel. i've had a raging headache all day so the content underneath each sections will be kinda short. i'll go through and add more to it once i recover but i wanted to get this up before the week got too busy!

krolia

guys…. im so sorry for the angst….. it was necessary for the plot…….

maybe it’s just me projecting but in the actual show, i kind of wish we had seen more of the emotional fallout that occurred after krolia revealed that she was keith’s mom. because let’s be real here, there’s no way that keith’s traumatized ass would just willingly accept her back into his life. he’d have questions. he’d be in disbelief. it’s hard for him to open up to others and he carries a lot of hurt from being abandoned.

it was crucial in the course of this fic to have that confrontation between krolia and keith. it's not always going to be rainbows and sunshine, and even though they both missed each other deeply, you don't just automatically connect and forget everything that's happened. even if keith hadn't gone into the foster system, he definitely would have carried a lot of anger and hurt towards krolia when she shows back up. i'm sure that things won't just be smooth sailing and they'll need to hash things out multiple times as they rebuild their relationship but that first fight was a big hurdle to get over.

if you’re curious, i have a whooollleeee backstory for what happened with krolia and why she couldn’t get back to her kid. i couldn’t really fit it into the fic but i’ll put it right here for those who are interested:

2000: krolia in the US on student visa, first year of of PhD program

krolia meets heath and they fall in love

2003: krolia gives birth to keith

2008: krolia finishes grad school/PhD program/doctoral degree and applies for a work visa 

2009: she and heath and baby keith are living their life but krolia’s parents find out and are like girl you need to come home NOW or we will disown you 

krolia’s family are really wealthy and powerful 

krolia: i’ll come back for you guys idk how but i will 

krolia goes back to the states

2009-2011: she and heath write letters but then the letters start getting intercepted by the family and eventually peters out

krolia in arranged marriage and thinks her partner forgot about her or didn’t care

meanwhile heath doesn’t know what happened to krolia but can’t do anything about it bc she’s in a diff country and he doesn’t speak korean

2011: heath and keith move to texas for job or whatever

heath tells keith all about krolia and how she loves him but can’t be there and obvi that fucks keith up bc he misses his mom but where tf is she? how does he know she loves him if she’s not even there? he's a little kid

2013: heath dies and keith is put into the system

heath has no other family members

krolia put her english name on the birth certificate and so ofc she doesn’t exist in the US

texas social services try to reach out to krolia along with some friends but letters are intercepted

2016: someone reaches out to krolia after she finally gets facebook 

friend: thinking of you. miss you. so sorry about heath

krolia: …. what the fuck about heath?

friend: uhhhhhhhh

krolia goes on rampage to her family like wtf u mean u didn’t tell me that the father of my child is dead

cousin shows up with the intercepted letters (official notice from social services, heath’s letters and pictures, keith’s little notes and drawings)

krolia starts the process of legally and financially emancipating herself from her family (she basically was Britney’d)

2017/2018: finally is free and able to get a job in the states

starts tracking down heath (they only had a forwarding address for krolia so they’re like wtf who is this bih)

at this point, keith has already met the shiroganes and changed his name

krolia is in a different state and can only do so much 

spends the next few years trying to find him, hires P.I., again keep running into blocks bc social workers and case managers are NOT going to budge on giving up keith's personal information

2023, winter break: krolia reaches out to keith through facebook but it goes into his spam since they’re not facebook friends

allura

what better allegory for sacrificing yourself to save the universe is there than graduating college? in all fairness, i felt like sticking to the notion of allura saying goodbye and leaving the group had its merit, just y’know, i wanted to take a step down from the whole dying thing. i tried to pay homage to the canon material as much as possible while also providing my own spin on things.

one thing that’s been important to me is depicting allura as a college student. sure, while i think most iterations of allura as a kind and a great leader and intelligent are great, even in modern au fics, i just wish there had been a bit more... silliness? outside of her being like the girlboss, the hell yeah supporting character or love interest or bone-tired leader, i always wonder what she would have been like if she hadn't had to save the universe and was just trying to heal on her own terms. yeah, i nerfed her parents in this universe but i tried to showcase her doing normal college things as well, like presenting at research conferences, getting a bit messy drunk, having pizza nights and group hang outs. the funny thing about grief is that life does not stop for it, so you have to just figure things out along the way.

i also didn't want to elaborate too much on her relationship with lotor. she didn't magically heal from that one conversation with lance in chapter 8 but i wanted the readers to get a taste of what was going on in her head through their dialogue. plus, it was a little moment to show how she was allowing herself to open up to other people like lance. no one woman is an island, no matter how much of a bad b!tch you are.

🫧 also, i wanted to include it somewhere but basically, keith knew allura and romelle were hooking up since chapter 14! keith caught romelle sneaking out of allura's room early one morning and he just kept it to himself because snitches get stitches.

pidge

they are so precious to me. they're an amalgamation of 2 of my closest friends, and well, me.

i always knew that pidge was going to be a super important piece in klance development. while lance and keith are great friends, i think pidge played a crucial role in bridging them together in the beginning, before the two of them had cleared up their misunderstandings and made that truce. sure, allura asked them to be on the paintball team but pidge really forced the two of them into close quarters. lance might have extended the offer to keith to hand out without pidge or he might not have. honestly, i'm not really sure. but pidge inviting keith to hang out in chapter 4 was a quiet but big moment because both keith and lance are friends with pidge and will set aside their differences long enough to tolerate each other's presence in a shared space. pidge just has #babyofthefriendgroup privileges.

🫧 i honestly think that after the main two, pidge has undergone the most growth (physically and emotionally) throughout the fic, even though they're a supporting character. we can all benefit from community and friendship but i think pidge needed it a little bit more.

🫧 i partially wrote pidge to represent my younger self, especially when i first attended college. i was scared and alone and i had never been away from home and it was a struggle to form new relationships (and figure out my gender identity. mannnnnn fuck that). it was nice to see pidge find their place and niche among the greater social fabric of college, kind of like comforting my younger self for all the loneliness and uncertainty i endured.

hunk

i love hunk so dearly. ngl, i wanted him to have a bigger arc than he did but hopefully i did a decent job at making feel more well-rounded as a supporting character. i decided to actually kind of lean into this distance in the later chapters as well, esp from lance's pov, as they both got busier. at the end of the day, though, i knew that those two would come back together. hunk is a kind and sympathetic friend and his and lance's friendship will persevere because they're good communicators. their little talk in chapter 17 was me talking to myself and to anyone else who has went through a similar thing where they find themselves drifting a little farther from a friend.

people get busy and that's okay! there will be ebbs and flows in every relationship. even though shared history is a crucial part of a friendship but it can't be the only thing that will keep it going. you need to nurture it and tend to it in order for it to keep it alive and flourishing. hunk understands this and he and lance will be just fine after their talk. hunk is probably the most emotionally intelligent person after adam in the group, and i'm glad he was there to help both lance and keith out when they needed it.

adam

this man!!!!! got i have gotten so fucking attached to adam throughout this fic. he is so dear to me. i know in chapter 10 i wrote from adam's pov and he's a goofy guy in his twenties who's just trying to be a good dad friend but somehow he ended up being a voice of reason and comfort for klance in this fic. lance misses his family a lot and i think adam can not only relate to lance with the homesickness but also lance has started to rely on him a bit like he would with his siblings.

i wanted to try my own spin on adam and keith's relationship. i've seen fics where adam and keith hate each other, don't interact much, or adam takes on a parenting role towards keith as a kid. i wanted to look at keith and adam in the context of two people who both love shiro and then grow to be good friends/surrogate brother-in-law? idk. long story short, adam is very emotionally intelligent and i think he genuinely wanted to get to know keith outside of his connection with shiro and was patient enough to coax keith out of his shell. i tried to write in small ways adam takes care of keith like giving him LactoJoys because Keith likes the taste better than Lactaids, being there for him for his panic attack, adding food to his plate. things that won't draw too much attention, because we all know how keith is about receiving acts of kindness.

i mentioned this in a comment under one of the chapters but all of the advice adam gives keith is either advice i personally received myself or something i wish i could tell my younger self. i hope those words bring you comfort as well!

shiro

i had a lot more planned for shiro but goddammit i had no fucking time or space at this panned out. it's more so klance's story than shiro's.

look, there's a small moment in chapter 18 where shiro is very pleased (and a little surprised) that keith has talked about him with krolia. it has less to do with his faith in keith and more with how he sees himself. shiro has already acknowledged that he has heavy imposter syndrome and deals with his own struggles with self image. it's just always a jolt to your system when someone (could be your own family or your partner of years) validates your relationship.

shiro loves keith very much and just wants to be the best big brother. he has such eldest child syndrome, where he tries to pretend that everything is fine even though things are actually crumbling around him. the thing is, though, you can't build intimacy— real, lasting intimacy and depth in a relationship— without being vulnerable. shiro understands that even though he wants keith to work on opening up, he has to do the same and reciprocate the actions, or else neither of them will really get anywhere and be stuck in that loop of "are you mad at me/i feel like you're hiding something from me/i don't really know who you are."

i tried writing a bit from shiro's pov but i quickly realized that that would drastically change the tone of the fic so i had to scrap it. i might post a little oneshot in the distant future with adashi, though.

keith

🫧 i've talked about this before but although i think keith grew the most as a character in the canon show, that shit was WAY too fast and off-screen. also, i know that the whole found family trope is what drew a lot of fans to voltron in the first place (like me) but is the found family in the room with us rn? i felt like they all started to fall apart or at least weren't as close as the show wanted us to believe. it felt a lot like telling with no showing. other than some occasional moments in the show, the whole #teamasfamily felt hollow.

🫧 i wanted to build on this potential found family for keith's character. he's never had a support system before and he's used to pushing people away but now he has a whole ass friend group that's ready to fight for him if he gives the word.

🫧 initially, when i was writing keith's pov and trying to get a feel for his voice and tone, i struggled a bit. keith is one of those characters that i liked and sympathized with, but getting into his head was a whole different story. i'm more of a lance kinnie but once i got the hand of keith's voice, it was a lot easier. some of my best pieces of writing are from keith's pov! i tried to be as cognizant of keith's development as much as possible as i wrote (think me having various checkpoints for his journey whereas with lance i could just coast on vibes), and i'm pleased with how far he's come.

🫧 although both keith and lance's progress can showcased through their consciousness and thoughts (like duh ur reading from their povs), i leaned into keith's behavior as a way to portray his progress a bit more than lance. things like him being more open to physical affection, not sitting on the outskirts of group dynamics and sticking to shiro, and allowing himself to collect things, which by the way:

🫧 i like the idea of keith's room, once being so empty and ghost-like, is now full of stuff, mementos of his relationships that he's built. i tried to sprinkle in some relics from past chapters (paintball flag, polaroids, ticket stubs), as well add some new tidbits, like shiro giving him a cacti and that korean cookbook!

proud of u, keith bby <3

lance and marco

no i did not just torture lance for the sake of torturing him i would never do that to my boy.

i know this is a fanfiction, but from the start, i wanted to ground this fic in reality and breathe some life into it. lance's little arc with his brother having a substance abuse problem was loosely inspired by events in my personal life.

🫧 i'm not saying that everyone goes through something as drastic as a loved one going to rehab, but as young adults, when we leave home for uni, jobs, other opportunities, etc, there's this worry that something bad will happen while we're away. and often times it does. someone gets sick, a beloved pet passes away, it's all bound to happen. your childhood becomes a thing of the past, and things that you thought would stay the same just won't.

i projected a lot of my feelings onto lance ngl, and writing him work through his own grief and guilt over not being able to be with his family when they're going through a crisis helped me process a little bit more.

although lance had a happier ending than a lot of families might get in reality, i still wanted to show lance having a support system at college and realizing that he has a second family to lean on, and people who love and support him. he doesn't have to pretend to be okay for anyone and that's okay.

black paladin lance or as close to it as i could get

it was so important for me to make lance the new captain of their paintball team, as a stand-in for the black paladin arc he could have had in the show. he’s always been a selfless guy who puts others first and really pulls up when he needs to. he deserves to be recognized for that. not only did every single one of his friends validate him, but the person he looks up to the most literally endorsed him. lance struggles with his inferiority complex and the election scene was a little feel good moment for me, personally, so that he could receive the acknowledgement he deserves, especially with his growth. he's gonna be an awesome team captain (he'll be shuffling down to shiro's room at 2am covered in hickeys and talking about paintball strategies).

wrapping up loose ends

i tried to wrap up as many loose ends as possible and give all the characters a proper send-off. originally i wanted lance and hunk to also move into the house in castle street, like repurpose the basement or something but i realized that that just wasn’t possible because most college basements don’t even have heating or like,,,, a livable arrangement.

ultimately, i think it makes sense for pidge to be the one to take up allura’s room at the house. pidge has lived a single during the academic year but they also had lance and hunk right fifty feet away so it’s not like they REALLY lived alone that year. there was also the logistics of the house having a vacant room, and as much as i would have loved to have all of voltron under the same roof (hunk and pidge sharing a room, keith and lance sharing a room), i think they would kill each other. pidge filling in the gap felt like the right move. and lance and hunk are gonna be over a lot anyways, so it’s not like much has changed in the trio's group dynamic.

🫧 what was your favorite chapter to write?

i think i have different chapters in mind for different reasons, even if it's a copout answer. here are the chapters that are dearest to me:

chapter 4: recalibration this is the chapter where i really got to play around with character interactions. keith and lance's worlds were beginning to integrate in chapter 3 but in this chapter, i got to explore different friendships, like keith & pidge and lance & hunk, and the dynamics they entailed. you can see how important these friendships are to both lance and keith, and how their connection with others eventually helps them to reflect on their previous feelings toward each other, like "hmm maybe i've been too harsh with the other."

chapter 10: let's go to the beach the group dynamics were so solidified to this point, and it was so fun to write. i loved writing from adam's pov and being able to zoom out and showcase klance's relationship progression.

the winter break interludes i waxed poetic about these in a previous faq but to reiterate: i'm really pleased with the way each individual chapter turned out. i love a good character study, and it was a great challenge to my writing and characterization to dig deeper into their home lives and see how the past confronted the present, where their respective childhoods were brought into the light, and how long-held notions of belonging, home, and identity were challenged and remolded.

chapter 17: warm and light my beta reader drunkenguac said that this was some of my best writing and i've been coasting off of that validation for the past 4 months. keith's reunion with his mother was especially cathartic for me. as an adoptee, writing this chapter honestly helped me work through some of my feelings about my adoption as i pictured what it would look like if i was ever reunited with my birth mother. i'm very fortunate that i didn't have to go through the same experiences keith did, but i tried to imbue as much humanness as possible into his section.

chapter 18: moving on it just felt like a proper send-off, the one that we never got from s8 of voltron. i wanted the last chapter to basically have this vibe of "hey, things won't be the same but it's going to be okay because we have each other." when shiro tells matt in the end, "we'll still be here," that's me as the author, telling you, the reader, that this fic will still be here whenever you want to revisit it. it was a comfort to write and i've heard that it's a comfort to read, which is so so so gratifying. when i set out to write this fic in august of 2023, i didn't have any plans of grandeur or even expect like more than 100 people read it— it was just a passion project that i decided to share, and i'm glad that others have sought safety in it. outside of fandom, this fic is a love letter to my own college experience. i remember reading a college au fic when i was still in high school and lonely and closeted and repressed and wondering if i would ever be able to get out of my hometown and find a community as tightly-knit as the fic portrayed it. in a way, i got to reflect on my college experience by writing looking out for you. i find solace in this fic when i read back over it, and i can see aspects of my adventures throughout my freshman and sophomore and junior and senior years, waving from behind a thinly veiled curtain. this fic is dedicated to all the people who made my college experience.

anyways that's me rambling for now! thank you again to everyone who has tuned into looking out for you. this is the first piece of creative writing i've done in a long time, and i never expected to actually finish it. i'm so happy with the way it turned out and the love it's received. until next time!

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After Story

Zack Foster x Reader

Tw in that there are some references to an abusive boyfriend that Zack "took care of" I know there seem to be a lot of Zack posts, most of them had been Wattpad requests made by people reading my Zack Foster Boyfriend Scenarios book over there.

Zack sighed as he stared out the broken window of the abandoned hospital, it had been 4 years since he escaped prison and narrowly avoided death at the hands of the government. Shortly after his escape there had been a series of killings that surprisingly he had not committed, due to this they weren't able to put as much focus on his case and so it didn't take long for him to fall off the radar. He had made a companion along the way at around 2 years in, she had sympathized with him and hid him away from the world in her own home. Though when he discovered she had an abusive boyfriend that peace didn't last long, one night he heard their fighting from his makeshift room in her basement. He had creeped up the steps and peeped gap of the door, the crack allowing him to see into the living room. His blood boiled at the sight of the male screaming curses and insults at the woman who saved him, but when that bastard began to choke her Zack had seen nothing but crimson.

Unfortunately, this would be hard to hide, he told her to just call the cops and blame him. As he planned to leave that night, and he didn't want to drag her into the dark world that he lived in, but that didn't quite work out. To his surprise she was relieved, even happy. That moment took him back to his own childhood, when he had ended the lives of the abusive makeshift orphanage owners, he understood her far more than he ever realized as he recognized her happiness at not only freedom but revenge for all that she suffered. And as she sat against the wall, bruised with a busted lip and hair a mess, he realized just how beautiful she was. Of course, as a teen he recognized lust but now that he was in his mid-twenties, he was able to recognize that this was different, he didn't just desire her body but her presence in general.

It was that night she chose to flee with him, taking a bag of essentials and all the money she had and could take off the male before they left. She had actually been a bit of a cosplayer, so this made things easier, she was quick to disguise herself and leaving Zack to cover their tracks at the home she had left to get some items. When she returned, she had been quick to dye her hair, a process that confused Zack until he realized that dying her hair would make it easier for them to survive. She had no scars or tattoos and looked fairly normal, so by dying her (H/c) black and buying a few extra boxes she would be able to blend in with others in the city and gather things as they'd need them. He had managed to make a few friends on the underground and he was able to get her high-quality false ID and Birth certificate, he had let her take over the planning as she was better at this than him. He knew how to survive, but she knew how to do so in silence.

Now here they sat, 3 cities away and hiding off in a medium sized county. She was looking for a job, planning on getting a quiet place just outside of town if everything worked out. She wanted to hide him away from the world, her dedication to him was unnerving at times but it was one of the things he quickly grew to love. He held the sleeping girl close, he tried to display his love as best he could when she was awake as he knew she was doing a lot for him much less both of them. He had mostly turned his killer skills to hunting when not hiding, allowing them to save their money for necessary things and buy more time to ensure things have calmed down before they started over here. She had an interview for a good job in a few days, he had never preyed before but now, if only for her sake, he prayed everything fell into place.  This woman understands and loves him unconditionally, and he in turn has begun to find himself obsessed with her.

The way she loved him was addicting, her willingness to do so many bad things but still having the ability to look at him with innocence and care. He didn't understand it, he tried to understand where all this compassion and willingness to sacrifice herself for him came from. His only conclusion was that she was just as obsessed with him as he had become with her, just as reckless and overwhelmingly obsessed as he was. And he loved that, it meant that she would be his without question. And though he would have hated the idea of belonging to someone when he was younger, now he couldn't help but take pleasure in the idea of being hers. She was his savior, his goddess and if he was ever to worship anyone unconditionally it would be her. And he knew she felt the same, she told him every day that he was her life. They had saved each other that night, and now they were bound together, and he'd be damned if that bond ever broke. His grip around the girl tightened as his eyes narrowed at the dark sky, the thought of someone trying to take her from him made his heart burn and pound with rage. "Zaaaaaack.... Ish too tight...." Her sleepy mumbles slowly calmed him as his grip loosened, his head hanging as he looked down at the drowsy girl.

"Sorry princess..." His quiet mumbles brought a smile to the girl's face, her body shifting lazily to curl more towards him as she snuggled into his chest. Though they were sat on an old mattress they preferred to sleep like this, Zack preferred it as it would make it easier for him to defend if anyone came rushing in while she simply liked to be held. "Just go back to sleep..." His forehead rested on the top of her head, his arms gently curling around her. Her soft hum brought a slight smile to his face, finally he felt sleep coming to take him, often he had issues sleeping due to his nightmares, but she always seemed to chase them away. He had begun to calm down and feel a bit better as he began to sleep semi regularly for once in his life. "You sleep too..." Her sleepy order made the male chuckle, his thumb stroking the top of one of her hands. "I am, don't worry." They sat in silence a few minutes; he could feel her body relax and as her breathing shifted, he knew she had fallen asleep. Only then did he begin to allow himself to fall into a quiet sleep, dreamless and free of his usual pain and anger.

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Marriage certificate authentication is the process of making sure that an Indian marriage certificate is real.  This is done by certain government officials to make sure the paper is acceptable in another country.  The certification proves that your marriage certificate is real and acceptable under the law.

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Next, the document is sent to the State Home Department or the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) for state-level authentication.

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Once the state attestation is complete, the document goes to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for central government attestation.

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Finally, if you're applying for a visa or using the certificate in a specific country, their Embassy or Consulate in India will need to attest it.

Documents Required

To attest your marriage certificate, you typically need:

Original marriage certificate

Passport copies of both spouses

Passport-size photographs

Authorization letter (if applying through an agent)

Supporting documents like Aadhaar card or PAN card

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PAN card number

Aadhaar card number (linked with your mobile for OTP verification)

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PAN Card (mandatory)

Aadhaar Card (for address proof and e-sign)

Photograph (passport size)

Cancelled Cheque or bank statement (to link your bank account)

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Tying the Knot at Surfers Paradise Registry Office: A Step Toward Your Spouse Visa in Australia

Getting legally married is not just a romantic milestone — it can also be a vital step in securing your future together in Australia. If you're planning to get married at the registry office in Surfers Paradise, you're choosing simplicity, efficiency, and the perfect coastal setting. Plus, it could be your pathway to a Spouse Visa in Australia.

Why Choose Surfers Paradise for Your Registry Wedding?

Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast is more than just a tourist hotspot. With sparkling beaches, vibrant city life, and a warm coastal breeze, it’s an idyllic backdrop for saying "I do."

Benefits of a Registry Office Wedding in Surfers Paradise:

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Stunning Location: Take memorable wedding photos right on the beach.

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How to Get Married at Surfers Paradise Registry Office

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1. Book Your Ceremony

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2. Submit the NOIM Form

The Notice of Intended Marriage (NOIM) must be submitted at least one month before your wedding date. This can be done online or in person.

3. Prepare Your Documents

You’ll need:

Passports or birth certificates

Proof of ID (driver’s license, etc.)

Divorce or death certificate if previously married

4. Attend Your Ceremony

On the big day, bring your ID, any witnesses (18+), and enjoy a short but meaningful ceremony. You’ll receive a ceremonial certificate on the spot.

Connecting Your Marriage to a Spouse Visa in Australia

If your partner is not an Australian citizen or permanent resident, your marriage can support a Spouse Visa (Partner Visa) application.

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Once married, the Australian citizen or PR partner can sponsor their spouse to apply for a Subclass 820 (onshore) or Subclass 309 (offshore) partner visa.

The registry marriage provides a valid legal basis to show:

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Commitment as a married couple

Evidence required for visa assessment

Key Tips When Marrying for Spouse Visa Purposes

Focus on Genuine Intentions Immigration looks at more than a marriage certificate. Joint finances, communication, cohabitation, and shared life goals matter.

Collect Comprehensive Evidence Photos from the registry ceremony, guest lists, wedding invitations, and personal statements can strengthen your visa application.

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With rising wedding costs and visa pressures, many couples are choosing to get married at the Surfers Paradise Registry Office as a smart, affordable, and visa-friendly option.

It avoids delays in lodging partner visa applications

It ensures compliance with Australian marriage laws

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Whether you plan a larger celebration later or keep it simple, a registry office wedding in this beachside location ticks all the right boxes — especially if you're applying for a Spouse Visa in Australia.

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Getting married at the registry office in Surfers Paradise is more than a quick ceremony — it’s a turning point for couples building a life in Australia. If your goal is to stay together long-term, this small ceremony can lead to big opportunities — including securing a Spouse Visa Australia that allows your relationship to thrive on Aussie soil.