#amber ranting like a nerd

[selfshipping-shapeshifter]

If you see this you're legally obligated to rant about your f/o(s), whether it be in the tags or in an ask :3 /silly /nf

DNI: Proshippers

[nose-rice]

Guys I NEED to rant about my thoughts on Nuru because i love her <3 ramblings ahead

Like I feel like in almost every fic i read, she's just like, a side character that's there to make whitty remarks to Hugo and be the levelheaded one. If she has an insecurity or problem it's usually pretty surface level and solved quickly, or only mentioned once or twice. I think there are SO many aspects of her character that are so cool.

Okay first, I think we sometimes forget that she's a nerd just like the rest of the gang. Yes, on the outside she's definetly the most 'normal' one, but I think we should concider the fact that she's the only girl in the group, and she's literal royalty. She was raised with a completely different set of standards than the other three. I don’t think I've really ever seen anyone cover that. I feel like she would get called "mature for her age" when she's only 15/16, and almost always gets critisism when she talks back with her own ideas (like her concerns about the meteor shows for example). I feel like out on her journey, she would finally get the freedom to just be herself, and be a kid and be able to rant on about her intrests with the rest of the group. It could be a struggle at first, but it would be awesome to see her getting more comfortable with the group the longer they spend together! Nerds encouraging nerdy rants lol

Since she is a kingdom figurehead, you could also argue that she always has a lot on her hands (especially since she's very proactive when it comes to science and solving problems). This could bring up a need to be productive, or always feeling like she needs to make the right decision, even for the littlest things.

I also feel like a lot of the time she's potrayed as the "right" one, who is 100% right when it comes to stuff like arguing with Hugo. Since they're opposites when it comes to class, they often are compared through that lense. I think it's cool just having Nuru tell Hugo off for judging a book by its cover, but I feel like they have a lot more in common than they realize. I think it would be interesting to see Nuru judging a book by its cover too. Maybe not to the degree that Hugo does, but I feel like calling out both their judging would not only call out character flaws, but it also enforces that even though they hate eachother and would never want to be like the other, they have a lot of the same flaws.

Also, being sheltered in a palace her whole life, I think she might think kind of black and white sometimes, and while she knows when people are just being mean as an act, she might struggle when it comes to people like reformed criminals.

Maybe she's able to be meaner to Hugo because she justifies it by telling herself he's criminal, and therefore bad, possibly glossing over the reasons he might be like that (maybe it crosses her mind, but she tells herself it's not a good enough reason, because stealing is still stealing, and he literally steals EVERYTHING. Even little trinkets and stuff he definitely doesn't need!). When they find out about Varian's criminal history, maybe she reexamines her views on morality and how she used to see people, because by her standards, Varian is a 'bad guy' who's caused harm to SO many people, but he's also the kind, caring, helpful friend that she's been traveling with who would never willingly hurt anyone.

Moving on to Amber x Nuru, I honestly never find myself liking the ship because Amber isn't developed enough which is fine. I don't think every character has to be a magnificent work of art. Side characters are side characters, but their romance is usually written like: "wow that girl is cute! I have a crush now!" Which is cool, but then that's about as far as it gets, then timeskip! Or offscreen they're a couple now. I know it's a side couple so it won't have as much devlopment as something like Varigo, but I never really see their dynamic play out in different situations. Like I don't know how to explain it, but it feels like they solely exist to be a couple? Amber sometimes just feels like an extention of Nuru, and their relationship feels surface level a lot of the time.

I feel like too often she's just watered down to the nice, smart, grounded friend, and I don't know I just think there’s so much more to explore with her. She’s not just some side character. She's literally part of the main cast! Even in fanart I feel like she doesn't really get a lot of stuff besides funny art and just like, pictures meant to look pretty. Unlike something you get a lot with characters like Varian or Hugo.

And honestly I get it. Some characters you just don't take an intrest in. I know I find Varian, Hugo, and Nuru more relatable than I find Yong, but I feel like part of that is developing their characters rather than just seeing them on a surface level. Ofc there are exceptions and there are some stories that dive deeper into Nuru's character out there! I just happen to see this A LOT.

Wow i said "surface level" a lot didn't I 😭😭

Anyway thank you for reading my rant i wanna know what you guys think!!

[comet-forgot-you]

I’m alive once more after my days of hiding away and I got the idea after reading something similar in another fic. Amber x Reader ( either like a collage au or in the “canon” ) like either a drunk amber or a drunk reader after one of ambers parties? Can be either like fluff or smut I know either one is gonna be amazing 👍

-🐦‍⬛anon

ooh okay

do not repost for any reason.

drunk!reader

amber getting a little worried with how much you’re drinking, but she lets it slide, its a party after all, you gotta have a little fun. her hand doesn’t leave your hip all night and she’s finally telling you no more after you nearly get into a fight with someone.

after that, she’s guiding you to the couch, trading your beer for a water to sober you up just a little. you’d be mad at her for like two seconds and then you’re sitting on her lap pressing kisses all over her face because she’s just so cute and you can’t control yourself.

it totally ruins amber’s mysterious act she has going, she can’t help the smile that takes over her lips because how can she stay neutral when you’re pressing so many kisses all over her face? its cute. and then you’re moving to sit beside her, holding onto her arm and whispering nonsense for a while. its hard for amber to hear you, the loud music drowning you out, but she’s trying her best to listen to what you have to say.

drunk!amber

she’s holding onto you like her life depends on it. she’s just so possessive of you, her hands are on you at all times. she’s pressing kisses against the skin of your neck, whispering compliments to you every chance she gets.

she’ll pull you closer every time someone tries hitting on you, which is stupid really. then she’s dragging you to find chad to kick them out for her because you’re her girl and this is her house, she’s not taking that kind of disrespect, obviously. then she’s dragging you up to her room because she’s not close enough to you.

she’ll be ranting on about any little thing she can, her head on your chest, listening to your heartbeat. she’s such a nerd and its so cute. point is, shes just a lot clingier when she’s drunk and the usual barrier she has that keeps her from talking about anything and everything is gone.

[scudevils]

thriller — NH13

pairing: nico hischier x fem!reader

warnings: swearing, mention of murder, blood and knives, nico is a movie nerd, not proofread!

synopsis: halloween movies were never your thing, but they were nico’s [<1k]

a/n: idk if i hate this or not but oh well it’s from this prompt list!!

"why is she still answering the phone?" you say with a groan of annoyance, rolling your eyes when ghostface was on the other end of the phone yet again, just like he'd been the first three times it had rang. "why can't this guy be more original."

you heard nico shushing from beside you, completely enthralled with what was happening in the move despite him forcing you to watch it every year, like a child watching his favourite movie no matter how bad it was. you hated scary movies, always had, and you were certain you always would, the experience of being voluntarily scared one was that did not appeal to you and you couldn't imagine why it would appeal to anyone.

to nico however, it very much attracted h. it had become somewhat of a tradition now, a halloween movie marathon, while you complained about how cliche and unoriginal every movie was, nico stuffed his face with whatever halloween sweets that had been for the trick or treaters (you would definitely have to go to the store tomorrow to get more).

the silly ones you could handle, hocus pocus being one that you had to force nico to watch now. one of the reasons that you hated the scary ones was that you couldn't help but be spooked a little by them, an unexplained noise outside your room would have you awake for hours, despite the swiss man reassuring you it was nothing. you'd imagine you were seeing things in mirrors, convinced you were about to be the next victim of a non existent serial killer.

another was that the movies were mediocre at best, the attempt at gore came off as cheap, the characters making idiotic choices had you rolling your eyes, the trope the same in every movie you were sick of it by the end of the first one.

but as you looked over at nico, you stuck it out for another 30 minutes, then another, eventually a scene piquing your interest.

you wouldn't lie and say you knew what had been going on, the last scene in your mind being when drew barrymore had been killed, but you could tell that had been well over an hour ago, characters who’s names you couldn’t even hazard a guess at now filling the screen. the setting of the room helped set the scene, an amber glow emitting from the candles which bounced off of the white walls, a warmth coming off of them as you settled into the blanket on the couch, laying your head against nico's arm as his attention was focused on the screen.

at the next scene you feigned a scare, watching on as ghostface appeared behind principal himbry's door, a little comical to you, but you felt nico's arm drape over the back of you, holding you closer to him. he looked so comfortable, the grey hoodie he had on fitting his shoulders perfectly, his soft features illuminated by the changing colours on the tv. you weren't worried about being caught staring, trying to get nico's attention whilst watching a movie was practically impossible.

he winced slightly at the decision one of the characters had made, clearly one he disagreed with, and rolled his eyes as it ultimately ended in their death. you were sure he'd be able to recite the whole movie script by now, holding in a laugh at his disapproval.

"you see why i think they're silly?"

"its just, why would she go to the garage alone? when there's a killer!" nico exclaimed, eyes flickering down to yours and you could see the seriousness behind his words before they focused back on the movie, even when you were sat there laughing at him, finding how seriously he took these movies adorable.

you pressed a chaste kiss to his cheek, feeling his day old stubble scratching against your lips, patting his thigh as he continued his rant about how stupid it was of tatum to go to the garage herself. "it's just a movie, babe."

nico ignored your comment, and you sighed making yourself more comfortable against his body, forcing yourself to actually watch the movie. this time, when you jumped, it was real. the killer appearing behind one of the girls had actually surprised you, they hadn't played it as comical as before, and no music accompanied. you'd actually been scared by a horror movie, and scream of all of them to be scared by.

you would’ve felt embarrassed at the scare if you weren’t so focused on the film, practically shrieking when billy was revealed as ghost face, covered in 'blood'. “what the fuck do you mean he was the killer!" nico looked down at you, waiting for your reaction to what was next to come, your lips falling open in a gasp when he revealed, "he killed her mom!?".

you whipped your head to look at up nico, who'd now been the one laughing at you, he’d been waiting for your reaction to the reveal ever since he realised you were actually paying attention. "it's just a movie, babe." he mocked, earning a quick and playful smack across the chest from you.

"i can't believe they made the hot guy the killer!" you spoke as nico scoffed, pulling the blanket over your head and keeping you under. managing to break free, you're stomach was beginning to hurt from laughing, the pout on his face a picture you wished you could frame. "yknow, you kinda look like him, next halloween costume?" you wiggled your eyebrows, a half smile forming on nico's face.

[seancoffe]

HaiKaveh HC:

@gay-salt-amber helped me with this

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- Their petnames for each other:

Kaveh to Al Haitham is Nerd or Haitham or Baby or Babe

And Al Haitham to Kaveh is Brat or Princess or My Love

- In private they act lovey dovey to each other, in public they act like they hate each other. Unless traveler is there

- Kaveh takes care of the birds that smash into their house

- Kaveh teases Al Haitham about the books he reads, but reads them in secret to try to win any book related argument

- Al Haitham takes Kaveh on expensive dates and gives him expensive gifts

- Al Haitham steals Kaveh’s keys so that he runs to Al Haitham and begs him to open the door

- They furiously make out in the middle of arguments

- At night, Al Haitham will whisper ‘I love you’ into Kaveh’s ear when he thinks he’s asleep. Once Kaveh did the same to Al Haitham before he was asleep and he was red and blushy the entire night

- They’re childhood friends

- Al Haitham used to read on the playground while Kaveh talked his ear off

- Al Haitham has a bunch of metals/trophies for something in the Akademia and Kaveh acts like he’s jealous when he brings home another but is secretly proud of Al Haitham

- They have matching coffee cups, Al Haitham has a Kaveh themed one and vice versa

- Once Al Haitham stole and used Kaveh’s hairpins to go to a meeting and everyone was so confused

- They share a closet but Al Haitham only has a corner

- Kaveh will talk to Al Haitham about his construction and Al Haitham has no clue what’s going on

- Once Kaveh got a concussion at work and so Al Haitham wouldn’t let Kaveh leave the bed unless he had to use the restroom, and even then Al Haitham was right there with Kaveh making sure he was ok

• Kaveh- Haitham, if you keep making me breakfast in bed and pampering me like this, I might just hurt myself more at work

• Al Haitham- For the love of- no

Al Haitham made him breakfast in bed from now on

- Al Haitham can barely sleep whenever Kaveh is somewhere away from home for work and vise versa

- Whenever Kaveh doesn’t feel like working, he makes Al Haitham call in and say he’s sick

• Kaveh- Baby, can you call me in sick?

• Al Haitham- Why?

• Kaveh- I dont wanna go

• Al Haitham, looking at the calendar- Fine but just this once

He proceeds to do this many times

- Al Haitham does most (all) of the chores because if not Kaveh throws a fit, this is how their conversations go-

• Al Haitham- Brat, you need to go do your chores

• Kaveh (In a whiny voice)- But whYyyYyYy

• Al Haitham- *sigh* Kaveh, my love, you only have two things

• Kaveh- But they’re so harddddd (That’s what she said)

• Al Haitham- Says the one who uses a claymore

• Kaveh- *Rolls Eyes* Please baby

• Al Haitham- *Goddamnit-* Fine, go lay on the couch, I’ll do them

• Kaveh- Awh, thanks babe~

- Al Haitham calls Kaveh a ‘spoiled brat’ while buying him expensive gifts or coffee

- They have one of those ‘aesthetic’ kitchens you see a lot on Pinterest

- Once Kaveh bugged Al Haitham so much to call when he was on a trip that they stayed on a call for 37 hours, 18 mins, and 38 seconds

- Al Haitham is a naturally hot person and Kaveh is a naturally cold person and so Al Haitham is Kaveh’s personal heater

- On their wedding day, they told the pastor to “Cut this shit short” so that they could dance, have champagne, and talk to their guests for like 10 minutes

- Al Haitham will have Kaveh sit on the ground and rant about his upcoming assignments while he listens and brushes Kaveh’s hair

- Al Haitham in a meeting with the Sages:

• Al Haitham- Well, I would ��love’ to stay for this meeting but uh, my boyfriend is better

• The other Sages: *Seriously?*

[kingofkings1315]

OK TOH THOUGHTS let’s go (these are just in order of the episodes progression btw)

Spoilers for Clouds on the horizon below

-look at the collector being a silly little guy!! Love them fr fr

-“what if it’s all chaaaanged? What if YOU changed??” Dude

-“you can barely keep your human shape anymore!” DUDE

-ok so at the very least we know that they aren’t gonna make a new grimwalker while Hunter is still around

-but also Belos��� utter lack of care about him makes me :(

-Yeah Belos free the collector, I don’t think they’re one you want to break a promise of :)

-“you need to have more faith in pinky swears >:(“ the collector grows on me more and more every episode I swear

-I could go on a whole rant about why the shift from their initially just kinda silly behaviour (in my opinion) to truly childlike nature is what both warmed me up to them and made me very scared for him

-but that’s for another post

-KIKI GOT FUCKING DEMOTED LMAO

-I’m gonna punt her

-hidden Blight kids what they doing

-“Blights always uphold their end of the deal” FUCK you

-oh hang on so Odalia talks about “reconsidering her deal” with Alador and immediately moves into talking about how the kids should get more involved, does that mean that Alador has been convincing Odalia not to shove them into business work? I hope so

-HE LOOKS SO DISTRESSED OH NO

-I must say I am enjoying Alador’s gradual redemption. I like that he hasn’t been forgiven right away, reasonably so, but is working to be better I think that’s just a very good way to go about his character and I’m very happy about it

-ok scene change to sum up fuck Odalia I’m gonna crime her

-Dude I want to give King a hug so bad

-LUZ HAS A LITTLE PONYTAIL

-Eber is real funny lookin’ I love them

- AAA Eda seems like she’s trying to put up a brave face and I’m gonna sob

- EGG EGG WGG EGG EGG EGG THATS SO SWEET

-AWE EDA ENCOURAGING LUZ TO GO SAVE AMITY

- “bossy boots” 🥺🥺🥺

-Raine making a promise to Luz aaaaaa

-YES MAKE IT YOUR BATTLE CRY CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR DARIUS SPECIFICALLY

-DUDE Katya is so fun and also my sister is so gay for her

-THEY’RE BEST BUDDIES I LOVE THEM

-H U N T E R MY DARLING THERE HE IS HE HAS A NEW OUTFIT I AM GOING TO GIVE HIM A KISS

-HÉ HAS A HANDSHAKE WITH GUS AWE

-HUNTER BB NO YOU’RE MORE THAN THAT :(

-Gus using the thingy he nabbed from Adrian is so excellent

-“SORRY MAN” Hunter my beloved

-why’d they slide in like that gkdjdhd

-YESS Hunter jumping in to help Luz they are siblings your honour I love them

-THEY ARE ALL SO POWERFUL LOOK AT THEM GO

-LUZ GO BLUSHYYYY THEYRE SO CUTE

-ROMEO AND JULIET MOMENT WITH THE BALCONY MY GOD

-AYO flowers around the balcony??

-ODALIA FUCKING BROKE THE TAMAGOTCHI I’m gonna commit a crime actually

-they tried to burn down. The FUCKING factory. I sometimes fear the Blight twins just as much as I love them

-NOOO AMITY :( I’m giving her a hug too everyone is getting hugs

-Emira prompting Amity to talk about Luz,, I’ll cry methinks

-“I would say all that :)” they’re so cute I’m on the FLOOR

-THE FLOWER FRAMING RESEMBLES THE VINES AROUND THE WINDOW WITH EDA AND RAINE FROM TTBK

-LUZ SPINNING AMITY AROUND IS SO GOOD AND SWEET

-holy shit did the frame rate go up when amity said “I know”

-KISSKISSKISSSKISSKISSKISS AAAAAAAADJGIKSJDDH DISINTEGRATING

-c r i k e y

-They are such nerds I’m going to scream slash positive connotation

-AMITY MAKING THE SAME FACE AS BACK IN THE TUNNEL OF LOVE SHE LOVES HER GIRLFRIEND

-oh yeah everyone else is here too

-HUNTER LOOKS SO GRUMPY

-STEVE TIME

-ooh haven’t seen the elixirs in a while that’s slightly concerning

-HOOTY WEARING CLOTHES WHO DID THIS

-why is Amber the one piloting the ship she’s too TINY FOR THAT

-“it won’t change your voice, so try not to say much” that’s gonna come back

-EDA STILL HAS HER GOLD TOOTH I GUARANTEE THATS GONNA COME BACK

-oh god there goes her head I forgot she could just do that

-mmmm I don’t quite like that they just h a v e a sigil glove

-I trust Steve with my life but it is TERRIFYING that he can (is about to) brand Eda with a sigil just at any given notice

-why the FUCK does Odalia’s hair move like that

-Kiki looks so pathetic it’s incredible

-they are hiding :)

-AWE NO LET KING HELP

-THE COLLECTOR IS IN KING’S HEAD THATS PROBABLY NOT GOOD

-I do NOT like how even the collector HIMSELF is doubtful of Belos’ integrity I am so prepared for him to betray the collector (never planned on freeing them in the first place maybe?) and the collector to go NUTS

-maybe that’s how we get collector!Luz? They team up because the collector feels betrayed and they’re like “Y’know what we do not like each other but this puritan bitch has to go”

-is king getting kidnapped with a trail of hex mix I swear to god

-The music is always so peppy when we get a new Blight product that dichotomy of sound and what’s actually happening is AWESOME

-SNORSEPOWER

-Snorses :)

-dude Kikimora just getting fucking picked up is so funny

-“IM TALLER THAN E V E R Y O N E” she’s so unhinged oh my god

-she’s going to kill someone with that

-and I have no idea if it’s going to be on purpose or not

-WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A RAT THAT LOOKS LIKE ALADOR

-is that his palisman

-I’m gonna start a riot if that’s his palisman

-I don’t even mean it negatively just fucking RAT

-Hunter trying to trick Odalia has no right being as funny as it is

-Dude how did Odalia not notice the abomination-purple hair poking out of one of those masks

-stop calling his voice annoying :(

-“sOrrY mAn” coven scout noooo

-AYO every one of the wild witches in this scene look awesome why are these designs so jammin’

-ok good King didn’t get kingnapped

-King hanging out with Alador? Not what I expected but I’ll gladly take it

-how is Odalia still running a business dude you can’t just fire HALF A TEAM and expect the same work rates

-I hate her

-she’s literally a toxic store manager but a million times worse

-GIRL GIVE YOUR HUSBAND A WEEKEND OFF WHAT THE FUCK

-“sounds like I joined the wrong coven” does mans not get LUNCH BREAKS??

-THE WIND BLOWING AFTER KING MENTIONED NEVER MEETING HIS DAD

-IS THE TITAN TEYING TO GIVE HIM A LITTLE PUSH ON THE SWING

-SCREAMING

-dude did Alador make that swingset for the kids??? It’s very abomination-y so it doesn’t seem unlikely

-I hope so that’s so cute

-“I’m gonna spend more time with my kids. Get to know them.“ SOBS

-oh fuck he knows now

-“I’m tired of all this draaama” I’m going to kill you

-AWE AMITY DEFENDING LUZ LOOK AT HER STANDING UP TO HER MOM I’M SO PROUD OF HER

-“oh no, no, that won’t do” dude she’s literally acting like Luz is like,,, a fashion choice or an object she’s so yuckyyyy

-YESSS GO AMITY SHE’S SO POWERFUL

-STOP HUNTER LOOKS SO SCARED AT KIKI THREATENING TO BRING HIM TO BELOS

-all the more reason for me to punt her

-“The Emperor has eyes everywhere” THERE BETTER NOT BE A TRAITOR I SWEAR TO GOD

-I really hope it’s just the collector watching through King and not a traitor

-oh fuck they plotting

-GO AMITY HELL YEA SHE IS UNBELIEVABLY POWERFUL

-“IT WAS THE POWER OF SCIENCE” what a nerd

-WHAT THE FUCK SHE KNEW ALREADY

-ODALIA IS SO SO ICKY

-G O D

-bro Amity gets her red-faced trait from her dad that’s kinda cute

-THANK YOU ALADOR FOR REALIZING YOUR WIFE IS SHIT

-I forgot how oracles fight that’s pretty sick

-WAITWAIT LUZ DID THE HUNTER TELEPORT

-THAT’S NOT NORMAL

-ARE THEY ILLUSIONED AS EACH OTHER

-ok “Hunter” blowing a raspberry at Kiki they’re definitely illusioned as each other

-“Hunter” did Luz’s classic little lip curl

-I will now be pointing out every detail that is proving this until either they switch back or I am proven wrong

-“LUZ” HAS A TOOTH GAP

-I REPEAT

-TOOTH GAP

-also both of them aren’t talking much did Steve not say illusions can’t change voices 👀

-Ok so Luz’s plan was definitely to illusion them as each other for some reason yea

-unfortunately, the jet pack did indeed work

-NO ODALIA LETS NOT GET BACK TO BUSINESS I AM GOING TO BITE YOU

-YES GO AMITY CUT HER OFF

-mmm Odalia calling amity “princess” just really gave me the icks I Do Not Like

-AYO Alador can pack a fuckin punch his eyes went purple and everything

-“Also, I quit” DIVORCE ARC

-“I’ve been meaning to find a new competent business partner anyway” Odalia that’s your fucking HUSBAND. Who you are MARRIED TO

-this slightly implies that she married him purely for business and that’s just :(

-and off into the mist she goes

-bye bye bitch I hate youuuu

-damn even Alador is scared of Odalia

-Gus is still holding an illusion even though the fight is over 👀 👀

-DUDE I FUCKIN CALLED IT

-THERE HE IS

-HE LOOKS SO DISTRESSED HE IS NOT USED TO KINDNESS FROM ADULTS ALSO HE IS NOT IN FACT LUZ

-oh no

-OH NO

-OK SO LUZ GOT HERSELF CAUGHT AS HUNTER ON PURPOUSE

-WOW THATS NO GOOD

-FUCKING CLIFFHANGER GOD DAMN IT

FINAL THOUGHTS

Very good episode 8.5/10 Hootys from me

[mxldito]

character sheet

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𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬

FULL NAME. Coyote E. Menendez, they're stingy with disclosing what the E stands for

NICKNAME. Meta: Gogurt. Canonically: Chop Top or Five-Shot Menendez

GENDER. This one.

HEIGHT. 5'10"

AGE. 30 in total

ZODIAC. Gemini

SPOKEN LANGUAGES. English, Spanish

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬

HAIR COLOR. Natural black

EYE COLOR. Amber

BODY TYPE. Tall, willowy, with minimal curves

VOICE. Androgynous tone, husky, with a slight Chicano accent

DOMINANT HAND. Right

POSTURE. Alternates between upright, chest puffed out and kinda deflated and closed off

SCARS. Various scars between shoulder blades, on knuckles, and sporadically placed scars on upper thighs

TATTOOS. Chest, belly, back, and both sleeves

BIRTHMARKS. Small dark patch behind left ear

MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S). Their eyes and demeanor

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝

PLACE OF BIRTH. Watts, Los Angeles (Main verse)

HOMETOWN. Huntington Park, Los Angeles

SIBLINGS. Luis Menendez (bio brother), Michael Miranda, and Agape Dacosta ("Blood Siblings")

PARENTS. Jesus and Xiomara Menendez (bio parents) Hugh Belmonte (Sire)

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞

OCCUPATION. Political extremist Baron of London

CURRENT RESIDENCE. London

CLOSE FRIENDS. Morgan O'Broin, Lennox LaRoux, Theo Richter

RELATIONSHIP STATUS. Single like a Pringle :y

FINANCIAL STATUS. Broke but happily so

DRIVER’S LICENSE. I mean, they can drive

CRIMINAL RECORD. None, technically but it should look like: Illegal possession of a firearm, breaking-and-entering, petty theft, grand larceny, car theft, concealment of death, disturbing human remains, operating a chop shop, inciting a riot, murder, and jaywalking.

VICES. They are most prone to lust and wrath.

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. I've never really attached a label to them but I guess I can call them pansexual.

PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch

PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE. submissive | dominant | switch

LIBIDO. A coin-toss. The desire is there but the rest requires work

TURN ON’S. They have A Thing for submissive personalities and a softer appearance. Specifically with men, they like them to be on the prettier side.

TURN OFF’S. If you work for the other sides 👎. You won't catch them in bed with any Camarilla unless they're in it for vital information.

LOVE LANGUAGE. Quality time and gift giving

RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES. Has never had a serious romantic relationship. Most of the time ends up in "friends with benefits" dynamics. While they'd love to have a romantic relationship, they worry about leaving a widow behind since their unlife is unpredictable.

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. En El Radio Un Cochinero - Victor Cibrian

HOBBIES TO PASS TIME. Reading, writing, particularly writing poetry and journaling, and shooting.

LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. Not to be a nerd but I don't vibe with the left brain right brain thing. Sparring ya'll the rant, Coyote can be imaginative and emotionally sensitive while still being analytical and logical.

PHOBIAS. Fire :v

SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL. High.

VULNERABILITIES. Is physically weak and relies on distance in combat. Can have an extremely implosive reaction to their life as a human being brought up, especially if somebody knows explicit details surrounding the final days of their life and their death.

[mystic-monkey-express]

Main Placeholders Protagonists quick description:

Minori Løgner- a dishonored god of knowledge, chaos and tricks. Legends alludes to them killing their late lover and the main goddess of spring. She is 5’8 and is primarily legs. Appearance seems to be somewhere in their 20’s. She’s a relaxed, intelligent albeit goofy trickster. She wears a long white lab coat, pale yellow dress shirt with a light blue tank top under it, brown pants that’s being held up by a belt, and dark dress shoes. She has short black hair, light skin and beady red eyes. She has only two modern day followers and while her name is despised they aren’t recognized as THE Minori. Has a hobby of getting a new job everyday before ultimately getting fired the same day. (she/her; they/them)

Yoshino Iwasaki- short messy multi colored gray hair with black eyes. 23 years old. 5’3”. Friendly neighborhood atheist, college student who works at the Purri Purri Cafe that Minori unfortunately worked at in the first chapter. An intelligent otaku, who’d rather believe that super humans from anime exists over gods existing. Mainly out of spite then anything. High school best friends with Vergel “Jun” Masipag. Very much into Vocaloid and bullying Minori. She’s cool headed, book smart but a little bit dumb elsewhere, hardworking, serious and deadpanning (She/Her) (A/N: I have yet to decide what Yoshino is in college for forgive me)

Yasushi- Minori’s head fox familiar as well as her only familiar after her descent. The closest person to Minori as a honorary brother. Medium length wavy blond hair with a long cowlick and with even longer fennec fox ears. Pastel green eyes with red pupils. Pale skin with freckles. Wears a red Japanese shrine maiden tied together with a big black bow. Usually stays back at the shrine him and Minori resides in and tends to the garden and maintains the shrine. Gets spoiled a lot by Minori and when he doesn’t want to go somewhere he’ll turn into his fennec fox form and run away and hide or just sit pathetically on his seat cushion. Easily anxious, shy, sneaky, friendly, considerate and kind. Early 20’s appearance. 5’2

Vergel “Jun” Masipag- Goes by Jun both online and by his friends and family. Dark skinned, with short styled dark brown hair with brown eyes. 23 years old. He’s a YouTuber similar to CdawgVA and is the social butterfly of the group who usually has connections to a weirdly wide net of people. Also an anime nerd along side Yoshino and loves to try to binge watch anime with her when he isn’t busy with video making. He’s confident, happy go-lucky, secure and a bit naïve. Best friends with Yoshino Iwasaki and likes to send her into a passion filled rant about the gods as background noise. 5’9

Hyousuke Fujimura- a 29 year old Demi-god of war and is a bartender at the Valerian bar. He has long straight crimson hair that’s partially tied back, an eyepatch over his left eye, facial hair with light tanned skin and an amber eye. Despite being extremely intimidating looking and frequently having to take the role of bouncer with unruly patrons he’s extremely soft and sweet to his friends and daughter. Single dad. The only follower to Minori and gets somewhat free baby sitting from it. Has anger issues towards his daddy issues, a tad bit over protective, genuinely strong and knows it. 5’11

[raining-dreams]

Things I hate about season 3

Okay so, I actually like season 3. Despite it's flaws, the plot is just as compelling and well written as the other seasons. I honestly always forget how good season 3 actually is until I rewatch it again. That being said, there's still a lot to hate that I just want to rant about. So without further ado, the worst things about HOA S3

1. Nina not returning

2. The in-universe explanation they came up with to explain this makes no sense. Saying the osirian and chosen one can't be in the same place??? I thought the osirian was the protector of the chosen one????? Like, make it make sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. Patricia and Eddie breaking up between the seasons

4. Opening season 3 exactly the same way they opened season 2 (S2 opened with Jerome hiding from Poppy, S3 opened with Patricia hiding from Eddie; basically the same scene)

5. The fact that KT got to be a member of sibuna. I really think the 5th member should have been Joy

6. The way they tried to force a connection between Fabian and Mara right at the end. Just because they're the 2 nerds ig

7. Amber leaving

8. The way they changed the type of person Eddie was. In S2, he was lazy and rebellious. In S3, he was basically the exact opposite. I get that there's character development and that he became the main character since Nina was gone but idk Eddie was my fave character after Patricia but in S3, they took away all the best qualities from him that earned him that spot in my mind (I guess I just like crude characters lmao)

That's pretty much it though. Other than those 8 things, season 3 was actually pretty entertaining. I even liked the Jerome and Joy plotline despite being a Jerome and Mara shipper. I just wanted to get all that off my chest

[selfshipping-shapeshifter]

I've been seeing nonsharer hate recently in the selfship tag and I just want to let y'all know that nonsharers are 100% welcome here <3

[drabbles-of-writing]

Pls my dude take one au and one subject that you want to rant about

I would LOVE to hear thing you just wanna dump

diggin up an old ask to talk about craig of the creek au lets gooo

Vee is Luz's cousin which is why they look so similar. She moved to live with Camila for a bit due to issues going on at home getting sorted out. She wants absolutely nothing to do with the creek and covers for Luz a lot when she goes off there. She got the shapeshifting basilisk title due to her looking pretty similar to Luz and causing some mishaps where a kid thought she was her cousin. She's the normal kid among all the other funky ones and is So Tired

the Bat Queen is some goth lady who also lives deeper in the woods w her 3 kids and a dozen wild (and pet) animals she rescued on her own little private land thing. after she got along with Luz she agreed that any kids who had the proper care could take in any of the animals from her they liked. pet (or sometimes exotic) type animals could be taken home, but wild ones like opossums had to stay in the creek. kids made their own little places for them anyway and deemed the animal as theirs and called them palismans. Amity's is just her house cat, Willow's is some bees that recognize her from gardening and that she gives them water, Gus's is a chameleon he sometimes lets hang out on his shoulder, etc.

Belos is a land developer that wants to destroy the creek for like. parking lots or something stupid. point is hes old and an asshole and all the kids hate him. Kikimora's kinda like the second in command and Lilith is a cop that lets him get away w some things cause Belos has like. influence or something and promises free medicine cures or somethin for Lilith to give to Eda but hes just a lying bitch. he goes as Belos but his real name is technically Phillip

Raine is the music teacher at the school that moved away about 20 years ago but then came back. they just fucking hate Belos and have fond memories of the creek when they were younger (and also a lot of wildlife and what have you in the creek that they dont want destroyed) so they go out of their way to sabotage his work like the other kids in the creek. Katya, Derwin, and Amber are band kids that Raine teaches that help them out. and they are STILL pining for their ex that lives in the woods what a time to be alive. the thorns Kikimora gave Raine in canon is just them being taken and investigated after getting caught doing, yknow, illegal shit.

Hunter is Belos's nephew but was raised by him his whole life since his dad died before he was born and his mom either died in childbirth or peaced out. hes the kid who insists hes too old for the games of the kids in the creek but secretly wears his cloak and mask and calls himself the Golden Guard to terrorize the kids and stop them from sabotaging his uncles work. he's a massive nerd he just wont admit it. I'm still debating if Rascal was some baby cardinal his dad helped out once (hence saving him from nothing worse than a scar over the eye) or if young Hunter helped Rascal and the bird recognized him but Hunter didn't recognize the bird.

[kpopchangedme]

Midnight Somewhere | Bang Chan

It’s the last day of the year at work and the lack of supervision has apparently made your coworker lose sight of your office dating ban.

Protagonists: Bang Chan & You

Word Count: 2.6k

Genre: SFW - Office Romance -  Best Friend - Humour - [Drabble 2k]

Prompt: “You’re up to something, and I want in” 

Requested by: @chessireneko​, I hope you like it!

Lys’ note: I wish you all a wonderful new decade! Happy New Year! (Don’t come @ me for being late, this is still my first fic of 2020 after all)

Stray Kids | M.list

It’s a slow day at the office but that’s pretty standard. Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, most of the company’s employees don’t even bother coming in. If no one is working upstairs to have tech issues, phones on your floor remain silent.

Still, every year, two employees of the nerd squad need to report for duty and it’s usually the loners, foreigners or asocial. You don’t belong to any of those categories but you’re one of the chosen ones this New Year’s Eve. Your whole family went on a Holiday trip to Bora Bora, abandoning you behind. Of course, you could be in worse company. You mostly agreed to come in knowing you’d be all alone with your work friend… And long-standing crush.

In front of you, Chan is ridiculously stretched, feet resting on the desk of his absent neighbour and head thrown behind. You spend every weekday facing the other, your computer’s screens back to back. You’ve been working together for two years, his family is back in Australia so he doesn’t bother with Holidays. The young man’s chair is tilted back precariously, unbalanced. His eyes are covered with a sleeping mask, a phone headset messily thrown on his head. He’s not sleeping though, just aggressively hungover. For some reason, his empty coffee mug – his second one – doesn’t seem to be helping much.

“I hear you, Mr. Radcliff,” you assure in your own headset, opening Minesweeper on your computer, “Yes. Yes. Of course. No. No, Yang is not here today. He’ll be coming back in two days. Yes.”

Chan slides up his mask to gaze at you curiously and you make eye contact. His eyes are bloodshot, matching his bedraggled looks quite nicely. The head of Marketing you’re on the phone with – Raymond T. Radcliff – is a divorced workaholic, infamous at tech support for his lack of both humanity and computer skills. Every time he breaks something, he calls to yell at whoever picks up, eventually requesting to speak to a supervisor. Today, for better or worse, you’re flying solo. Smile, Chan mouths you, grinning, they can hear your smile. That’s Yang’s motto, but the boss isn’t here to breathe down your neck. You flip your hungover friend the bird and his dimples dig deeper. At least someone’s having fun. 

Radcliff’s rant lasts for a whole hour, by the end of it you have switched to Mahjong. From the corner of your eye, you see Chan’s starting the drip coffee maker again. Frowning, you perk up and spin on your chair to be sure you aren’t hallucinating. He must be in pretty bad shape because he’s the only human in the whole building who is not addicted to caffeine. It’s like he has a superpower, he rarely drinks it. You though the pot from this morning was exceptional, but him brewing a second one must mean he’s on the brink of death.

“Um-Um.” You hum for Radcliff, unbelievingly following Chan’s movements as he fills the water tank, puts a new paper filter on and presses brew. That’s something you don’t witness every day. “Yes. Yes. I’ll spread the wor–” There’s a loud clicking noise when the Marketing god hangs up and you’re left hanging in the middle of a sentence. “What an ass!”

Chan laughs, shaking his head in disbelief. His back is turned on you, built shoulders perfectly outlined by his too-tight dress shirt. He has been hitting the gym in 2019. It’s an older one that doesn’t fit as well anymore, you haven’t seen it in months, he probably couldn’t be bothered with laundry these days. Usually, he’s tidy and clean-cut, the only thing that never screams ‘profesh’ about him is his perpetually dishevelled dark curls.

“What an ass,” he echoes and you twitch in surprise. You had drifted away, too busy shamelessly gawking at him. Bouncing back, you run fingers through your bangs, entangling them. "You okay?” 

Meeting his perplexed gaze, you smile, “Yeah, sorry I just…” Trailing off, you desperately search for something to say but Chan saves the day. 

“You know, it has its perks, holding the fort with me while everyone’s away at home…” Claiming so, he brings a mug full of hot beverage under his nose, inhaling it before winking suspiciously. He’s hinting at something. “You just need to make the most of it.”

“Christopher Bang, you’re up to something…” Glad he doesn’t seem to have noticed you staring, you cross your arms over your chest and circle the office to join him against the counter. In the meantime, Chan sips his coffee with the smile of an angel. “And I want in…” When you’ve made it, he offers you his mug and one draft is enough to make you shrink back. Your eyes round in shock. “You’re drinking!”

He gasps, faking to take offence; “Am not! It’s coffee!” He would have a lot more impact if he didn’t look half as bad as he did at your November company’s Christmas party… And you remember all too well how that ended. The dust has just settled down between you too, things barely back to normal. Chan’s all wobbly and intense eye-contact, definitely tipsy.

“More like coffee-flavoured whiskey!”

“Uh?” Chan pouts and looks down his mug, tilting it dangerously; “Then no wonder I like it so much.”

“You’re impossible,” you laugh despite yourself, glancing at the elevator doors, “I thought you were curing your hangover.”

“Care to join on the fun?” He pulls out a whiskey bottle, poorly concealed behind the box of Froot Loops tagged ‘Han’ in capital letters. “The best hangover cure I know is to never stop.”

“We’re at work, Bang.”

“Alone, together. It’s New Year’s Eve.”

You scoff, “It’s still early.”

Unbothered, he gulps the amber liquid without breaking eye-contact. “It’s midnight somewhere.” He’s the one drinking, but somehow it’s your throat that is burning, staring when his tongue darts through his lips.

“We could get caught,” you hush, winded. Chan always has that effect on you. It might be the facing-each-other-all-day but there’s a spark, more than your simple crush. A mutual attraction you would definitely have acted on years ago if it weren’t of your no-dating office policy. Whenever you go out for drinks with the nerd squad, it always resurfaces, enough for the others to blatantly call you two out. If they only knew.

“Oh no, and lose the most fulfilling job ever? Who would Radcliff yell at?” He smiles, sipping again. “You don’t have to join me, don’t worry. I know how hard it is for you to let loose, y/l/n.”

“Hey,” you breathe out, irked, “I let loose.”

“Do you?” He tilts his head, playful, “When was the last time?” You both know when. You’re about to tell him off when his desk’s phone rings. Chan chuckles, pressing a button on his headset. “Lemon Tech Support. Christopher Bang.” Not breaking eye-contact, you quirk a brow defiantly, stealing away his mug. Chan watches intently as the white ceramic meets your lips, gulping himself when you drink the peaty liquid. “How can I assist you?” He reaches for your bangs, gently combing them back into place with his fingers and your heart races. There. There’s the thing between you again. If he wasn’t already flushed from the liquor, you bet his ears would colour cutely. 

Feeling your whole body combust at the intimate gesture, you drink the rest of the lukewarm coffee in one go. If you weren’t at work if there were no ban… You’d scratch that itch. You kissed at that Christmas party and you know you’re doomed to do it again. You just didn’t think you’d crave it so soon. Seeing you shoot the alcohol, Chan’s eyes darken, lips pressing into a thin line.  

"Dark?” Humming his approval in the mic of his headset, he moves to press you against the counter. Your surprise doesn’t seem to affect him much. “I see…” Chan gazes down at you through his eyelashes, palm climbing your hip and waist slowly. He must have lost his damn mind. “Yes,” he breathes out ludicrously serious, “I understand it is very frustrating. We should do something about it.” Is he talking about you two or to the person at the other end of the line? “Have you tried turning it on and off again, Janice?” Nevermind. Despite the situation, you can’t help but chuckle at the sheer plain mockery in his tone. 

When you try to slide away to safety, Chan expertly prevents your escape, smirking. You hate him. You hate how he knows you won’t resist. Hate that you can’t do anything, just remain stunned, wishing for more. His hand has stopped, fitting the curve of your waist perfectly. His thumb is on the side of your stomach and you can feel him through your thick shirt. Maybe it’s all those years just looking at each other because even this little is much. You feel light-headed and not from the whiskey. 

“Fantastic. You’ll just need to reenter your Intranet password after the restart.” Chan’s face is still sliced up in two. “It might take a while… Of course, I’ll hold the line.” His eyes glimmer of mischief when he pushes the mute button, it’s clear what he has in mind now. “Hey. This is nice.”

"This is not allowed,” you hush as if someone could hear, aware neither of you cares anymore, “and you are woozy.” 

Chan shakes his head, “I was when we were under the mistletoe, but you were perfectly sober.” You’re still holding on to the mug and it presses against your chest when he leans closer. “Yet, you kissed me.”

“I kissed you back.” You correct, making him scoff.

"Debatable.”

“I’m surprise you even remember.”

“Are you kidding? I’ve been obsessing over that moment for two years.” You bite your lower lip to avoid smiling. You can’t believe he just said that, he shouldn’t. You’ve been there too. “It doesn’t help that you’re doe-eye lusting after me every damn day. I’m trying to get some work done here, y/n.” Sarcastic, he lets out a hollow chuckle when your mouth falls open in awe. 

“I do not.” You opt to lie and protest but then change strategy. If he’s going to be a tease, so can you. “What about all the inadvertent feet brushing under the desks?”

“Oh yeah, not accidental at all.” Chan snaps back, brazen, “I just love that you gasp every single time I touch you.”

That’s exactly what you do just then, gaze wide. “You’re crazy!” There’s no way he’s actually saying all that aloud. He’s lost it. You might be alone but you’re still in the office. 

“You kissed me,” he counterattacks. 

“I kissed you back. You can’t tell me these things. We aren’t supposed to be like that.” 

“I know you like it when I wear white shirts. I’m also aware you park your car next to mine on purpose to walk together. You stare a lot, but I do too. It makes me hot the way you toy with your hair when you’re on the phone. I’ve been bribing Yang for a year to send us on break at the same time, I take all his worst calls. Should I not say all of that either?“ 

“Chan,” you groan, ears burning up. 

“Relax, let loose. It’s cute. We’re cute.” His smile hasn’t faltered and it only widens at your bashfulness. “Oh come on, we both knew this would happen from the moment you kissed me.”

“You kissed me.” Incredulous, you can’t conceal your excitement anymore. You knew he felt it too, but you didn’t think he’d be one to suggest sneaking around. He usually likes to stick to the rules.

“If you say so,” Chan rolls his eyes, “I was going to do it again anyway.” Pausing, he studies your reaction. You’re still trapped against the counter, gazing up at him. “Tonight. I’m taking you out.” Your toes curl at the idea. 

“Maybe I have plans,” you oppose jokingly, knowing very well he isn’t going to fall for it. 

“Are you saying no?” He side glances at the empty office, amused. “I was going to kiss you at the stroke of midnight. I think that’s the right way to start the New Year.” You’re about to reply something witty when Chan reaches for his headset. “Yes, I’m still here.” Giggling, you drop your head, having forgotten all about the woman from accounting in his ears. “You need to enter the intranet password… Yours, yes. I certainly hope you don’t ever use my login, Janice.” There’s a faint laugh at the other end of the line. Winking, Chan reaches for the mug between you, discarding it on the counter. His thumb on your waist begins to rub tiny circles as his free hand climbs your neck, caressing your jawline and making you shiver. Flirtatious, he tilts your head so you are fully looking up at him. It’s not unfamiliar, remnant of that night under the mistletoe, still, butterflies soar in your stomach. “Fantastic. I’m glad I could help…” Feeling him up, your fingers slide up his shirt, tracing his collarbones through the fabric and his shoulders. You always dreamt of doing this and it’s way better than you imagined. “Yes, well… Happy New Year to you too, Janice.” Your touch gets more adventurous by the seconds. “Bye…” Chan licks his lips, irides now devoid of any playfulness. "Oh, bloody hell,” he grunts suggestively when your hands find their way to his ass. You hope the woman has hung up, “It’s midnight somewhere.” 

This time there is no doubt about who initiates it. Chan kisses you, arms wrapping around to hold you firmly into him. There’s no hint of hesitance when you respond, abandoning yourself against his chest completely. You both know what you are doing, know what you want. Your mouth toys with his, hands lost in his curls messing them up and making his headset fall to the carpet floor. You struggle to catch a breath, unable to tame the urgency of your embrace. He doesn’t seem to mind, tongue tracing your lower lip over and over again. His kisses are ardent and needy, never breaking completely. The counter is digging your ass but you don’t mind. This is both blissful and disquieting, you didn’t expect this to be so intense. All of a sudden, Chan pulls away, leaving you feverish and beggared at the dearth.

“Fuck me dead.” He groans, oblong eyes wide and breathing irregular. The swear is barely a sound at all, almost inaudible despite the quietness of the empty office. 

“E-Excuse me?”

“We’re going to have to be a lot more discreet from now on,” he states, categorical like he isn’t the one who crossed the line in the first place. “I can’t be just friends anymore.”

Heart thumping, you smile at him; “But you can’t keep a secret for shit, Chan.”

Laughing, he kisses you. “I guess I’ll have to quit.” Humming against his mouth, you don’t immediately notice the way his hands creep up, getting rid of your own headset to play with your hair. “Happy New Year.”

“Happy New Year,” you sigh, rapturous. There couldn’t possibly be a better way to start anew than this. “Are you still taking me out tonight?”

“Absolutely.”

“Fantastic.”

Stray Kids | M.list

[cartoonfangirl1218]

Love in a Fiery Place or Hot and Bothered

Summery: Lisa tries matchmaking. Never let her matchmake. See my (shamlessly self promoted) other fic, Just like Fire, for who the heck Volcana is.

It's been months since Lisa had seen her brother or Mick ever since they went on their time travel, earth saving mission and she was bored.

Sure she had pulled off her share of heists and gone on a few dates with her favorite, babbling engineer but jewelry and sex had it's perks for so long. Especially with Cisco having a job.

She really needed a hobby, but one evening after too much beer and watching Love Actually on Netflix she thought of a brillant idea.

Matchmaking! 

She could matchmake someone she knew and watch them act all blushy and idiotic. It would be definitely entertaining.

She could match up her brother, but Lenny would never go for it. Besides she couldn't exactly see her brother in an attractive way. The guy made cold puns and read Kant during his spare time. Who would go for such a nerd like that!

But Mick. Mick was an equally challenging prospect with his unhealthy obsession with fire, alcoholic tendencies and general unpredictablness. But there were lots of the pyros in the world, she just had to find one who would be willing to date him.

Unfortunately that was a lot harder than she thought.

After checking most dating sites, she found that most Pharos were either dead, in jail, old or jailbait or that they weren't super into it. Just a few trash can fires.

She needed someone who would be just as willing to burn a building down.

So she had to up the search a notch. And what better way was to hack into S.T.A.R. Labs. More specifically, Cisco accessing into S.T.A.R. Labs.

"Please..." Lisa pouted. 

"No no no. I'm not helping you find MICK of all people a date,” Cisco protested.

"Why not? Don't you believe in love conquers all? You redeemed me,” Lisa purred. 

"Hardly." Cisco snorted. 

"Very true, my corrupt little scientist," Lisa smiled, leaning over his chair and basically falling into his lap. "But love could get him off the crime paths he's been on.” 

"Then he can fall in love with a psychiatrist. Putting him with another pyro will only cause more crime." Cisco stammered as Lisa caressed his long hair

"Pyros can handle pyros. Psychiatrists are suicidal and it won't do any good if the girl dies of fear after two dates." Lisa pouted again, bringing her lips closer to his, ending with a nice smoldering kiss.

Plus three more after that.

"Umm what we're talking about?" Cisco asked dazedly coming up for air

"Files. I'm not going to let this go Cisco. I always get what I want,”  Lisa smirked

Cisco paused, "If I do this, I'M choosing the movie and the restaurant for our date."

"Fine! We'll go to that disco bar." Lisa rolled her eyes.

"Alright!" Cisco started humming Bees Gees as he typed away on the computer for pyro meta criminals.

"There's none. That's impossible. There really aren't ANY pyros in Central City besides Mick?l Lisa cried

"Guess they didn't want to steal his gimmick," Cisco shrugged, looking relieved

"Do you think there are any in the Starling city?" She asked "Don't know, it's more mercenary and assassins then metas." He answered

"Maybe there are fire aliens?" Lisa thought out-loud, 

"Only Earth 3,” Cisco shook his head.

"Earth Three?" Lisa froze. 

"Shit!” Cisco eyes widened "No, no, no. That's just some crazy dream I had. There's no such thing as Earth Three is like there being Earth Two. Totally stupid" Cisco babbled

"Take me." Lisa demanded Cisco started taking off his shirt.

"I like how your mind works. But no. Take me to Earth Three. Tell me all about it. Are there really such things as fire aliens?" Cisco groaned

"I'll do it myself. You know I will. So you can come help or I'll trash this place doing it myself" Lisa insisted

"We are so lucky that Caitlin and Flash are out today" Cisco groaned again "Yaaas"

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They had entered to Earth Three just as Supergirl finished saving a bus full of children. Once the reporters left, Cisco introduced himself and her as friends of the Flash. Lisa explained her mission to help Mick find love. 

Supergirl had been just as convinced as Cisco at the idea that love redeems but with a lot of wheedling and encouragement about second chances, Supergirl had allowed the idea of helping them.

"I think I know the girl perfect for Mick" Supergirl explained enthusiastically as they walked to the government building, DEO. "Claire Selton, code name Volcana. Born with pyrokenesis and trained to be a weapon by the government. She went rouge on them and used her powers to steal and cause crime. Superman had to put her on a deserted island in hopes not to harm any more civilians. But stay here. I'll be back soon." She left them in a plain white room, suitable for a noir style interrogation scene and waited. Five minutes later, Supergirl was back with a young thirty year old. The girl in question had long flaming orange hair that reached to her ankles in a messy braid. Her tan skin glowed brightly against her white bikini, her ambers eyes sparked with confusion and annoyance.

"No" Claire hissed, sitting down on the table. Lisa noted with pleasure that the metal table steamed and let out drifts of smoke when Claire touched it.

"No what?" Cisco asked.  "Supey told me what you want. My answer is no. I am not going to a totally different Earth for a guy I never even met. What is this? 1689? Supergirl take me back to the island I am missing my afternoon tanning" she demanded. "Oh oh well that's understandable but did Supergirl mention that this guy has a heat gun that radiates about 220 tons of fire power in a single shot" Lisa rattled off.  "It's 225 tons of fire power btw. Plus how many guys here can say they burned a house for the sake of watching it burn" Cisco added.  "And he's been practicing flame swallowing,” Lisa added.  "Claire.." Supergirl started calmly.  "It's Volcana to you.” Claire scowled.

"Volcana. You're not going to get married to him. Just one date and if you don't like it you can come back here. Besides aren't you tired of being alone in your little island?"

"I wouldn't be there if it weren't for you!" Volcana shot back.

"You were hurting innocent people!" Supergirl retorted.

"Well those "innocent people" we're hurting me. I didn't want to be a weapon but you all treat me like a bad guy because I am what I am.” Volcana ranted, flames suddenly burst from her hands.

Lisa and Cisco jumped back and Supergirl put on a defensive stance.  "And he will love you for it" Lisa put in.

"We have a lot of metas. They get what it's like to be used for their powers. Now Mick will get you even more because he understands how pretty the flames are. It doesn't have to be a date, just two adults talking, fellow pyro to pyro." Cisco said

Claire glared at them in silence, contemplating. "Fine, only for the sake of watching something burn."

The three nodded eagerly at each other. --------------------------------------------------------------- Claire changed into a more appropriate outfit of red leather top and black leather pants with combat boots as they left Smallville.

"Good luck," Supergirl gave a tentative thumbs up and left.

As the three went through the portal, Lisa interrogated Claire and was pleased to find out that she and Mick had a lot in common. Love of alcohol, way too graphic descriptions of explosions and fiery deaths, and had no filter when it came to humor.

"They are practically soul mates!" Lisa whispered giddily in Cisco's ear as they left the Earth One S.T.A.R. labs to Mick's abandoned apartment.

"Oh joy," Cisco muttered sarcastically. --------------------------------------------------------- Cisco had left immediately, stating he didn't want there as a witnesses for future villainy. 

Lisa settled Claire to the guest room of the apartment and waited for the boys to arrive. Claire had gotten bored so she sat down, turned on the oven and stared. Another pastime she shared with Mick. Lisa swore her face was going to break open if she smiled anymore. 

Oh this was going to be so good, and if it ended badly damn it was going to be more entertaining than the firework bomb Mick had set up for April Fool's Day. Leonard and Mick arrived at 7 pm. They didn't say anything about where they had been, they were just so exhausted and about to fall asleep but Lisa insisted on keeping Mick awake, slapping his cheek the whole time as he walked to the kitchen. 

"What do you want?" Mick scowled, shoving her hand away from his face.  "I'm about to change your life, Mick this is Claire" Lisa introduced "Claire this is Mick.” 

Leonard gave a questioning look to her but she just grinned. 

"Oh you gotta be kidding me. Look however she suckered you into this I'm not interested. Leave." Mick instructed Claire.

"Aren't you a charmer? I've seen midgets more handsome than you" Claire spat. 

"She's a pyro. Claire, show him" Lisa said.  Claire sighed but showed off anyway by blowing a kiss as her hand spouted fire like a dragon. "Where's smoke, there's flame. That's me. Volcana" Mick just stared in awe. 

"Heatwave" he lifted the gun from his belt, "Do that again, I need to try something.” 

Volcana complied, Mick shot his gun at the same time and it set the table on fire, and quickly spread to the oven. 

"Holy Shit!" Lisa screeched and grabbed the fire extinguisher taped to the door for emergencies like this, spraying it everywhere. 

"What the hell are you two doing" Leonard yelled but the two heat villains ignored. 

"Volcana huh?" Mick grinned maniacally, leaning against the charred table. "I like your heat gun. Sure could have used it on those cold Metropolis nights" Volcana flirted back, staring up at Mick. "I'll leave you to it. C'mon Lenny," Lisa shoved Leonard out the door. When she stopped by the apartment to drop off a six pack and to get her golden bra for her date with Cisco, she saw the living room an absolute mess with scorch marks in random places, a torched smoke detector on the ground, pile of clothes and the smell of smoke in Mick's room. 

She was good. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following weeks just reeked of success. Claire stopped by the apartment regularly. There was a new headline everyday as the couple started fires and explosions around Central City for their dates, and Lisa had overheard their nicknames for each other. Fireball and Spitfire. 

Since it went so well she was even thinking of setting up the other Rogues like Trickster II. Maybe with some Metahumans that Cisco watched like Peek a Boo. She was once again considering setting up her brother but she had pick pocketed his phone earlier and saw that he seemed to have sort of "thing" with White Canary from his Legends team. Which prompted her to stalk any information about Sara. Purely for research, not that she wasn't worried about him getting hurt. Please Len was way too cautious for that to happen. 

At the same time the success of her match had come with a price. Due to their fire kink, the two had burned Mick's room, her room, the guest room, the living room and the kitchen was beyond repair. 

She had to crash at Cisco's place which was nice, but Leonard came also because his cold gun was in the threat of being torched at any second. Nor could he get any piece of quiet with the all the fire puns. "Not fun to hear them," Lisa taunted. 

"That's different. Mine are clever. Theirs are just about fire and sex. Some things I do NOT need to know about my partner." "Thanks for the nightmares," Lisa sighed as a "lovely" mental image entered her head. With them crashing at Cisco's place, Leonard resigned to glaring from the love seat while she and Cisco were on the couch. It was not helping date night. So it was up to her to save the apartment. 

She had entered the apartment expecting another scene of quite literal hot love but found more burning rage.

"You are weak!!!" Claire screamed, "You don't even have pyrokensis you just have a gun huh. I can start a fire whenever I want! You are nothing!" "You're just a hypocrite! Oh the government just wanted to use me" Mick mocked with a falsetto "Screw that. You're just as selfish as me. You just use your powers for petty thief but you could be better, so YOU ARE WEAK!" 

"You have nothing. No brains, no strength and yet you think the world would bow to your awesomeness. And you are the most impulsive idiot I ever met. You just forge along with no regard for logic or what we are suppose to be doing on our date. Honestly what am I suppose to do with you, tell me!" "You think you're so hot. Well I'm hotter, hotter than Cold." Mick sneered.

"I thought you didn't care about that!" Claire protested.

"In the middle of sex, yeah I do." Mick retorted.  "Well the TV was on, I happened to mention he was cute get over it!" 

Lisa cringed, ewwww!

"You also said the same about the police officer, Scarlet, the bartender..." 

"You are just jealous." Claire scoffed.

"JEALOUS! I'll freeze your ass in a place where fires die!" A loud crash sounded through the apartment followed by a explosion. 

Lisa scrambled out of the apartment and never looked back. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After that incident, Lisa rationalize it was a natural lovers quarrel and that the two would work it out, therefore there was no need to tell anyone. That because of her honest assumption it was a lover's quarrel or her pride not letting her admit that her match might not have been as successful, it was up to anyone's guess but a phone call three days later confirmed the worst case scenario. 

It was the middle of the day and Lisa was online shopping using the money she stole from a heist earlier that month when Cisco called.

"Lisa, have Mick and Claire been having any trouble that you know of? Any that you feel like warning us about?" Cisco asked, calmly with a slight edge that gave Lisa a sinking feeling. Best to play it dumb.

"Uh just some spats but you know. Couples fight, they fight. Why do you ask?" Lisa chirped. 

"Well you should know that you're little pet project has gone up in flames." Lisa rolled her eyes. Wonder how long he was waiting to use that pun? "Heatwave was stealing from the Central City bank when Volcana stopped by, something about how "she was better than him" and was trying to one-up his heist. Thankfully we were able subdue them both. Mick's back with the Legends and Claire was sent back to Earth Three. No one knows she came from Earth Three except you, me and the Flash. You and I are the only ones that know how she actually got here." 

"All's well that ends well," Lisa weakly smiled.  She could just feel him glare through the phone. "We're going to talk when I get home." ---------------------------------------------------------------- "So what are we not doing?" Cisco asked pacing in front of her as she sat on his couch. 

"Match making Mick with a pyro." Lisa muttered.  "And...." 

"Match making Mick with anyone." 

"And...." 

"Match making in general." "Ever.” Cisco said.  "Ever," Lisa repeated. 

[onewfantaesy]

Does other mini heroes go to the same school with Taemin? Or do they know each other's identity?

All the other teenage heroes are from different cities. Except Artemis, whose secret identity is Amber. She’s also from Gotham, and Minho actually picked her for a full scholarship to Gotham Academy. But she’s fifteen when the covert team is formed, and Taemin is twelve, so she’s in high school while he’s in middle school. Even though they’re both on the same campus, they never interact with each other. The middle school and high school schedules are very different when it comes to morning break and lunch times.

Plus, Taemin and Minho’s secret identities are very secret. None of the heroes know what Taemin’s full face looks like, let alone what his name is. They try to sneak up in him plenty of times, try to see his face beneath the mask. It always annoys Taemin, makes him feel like his supposed friends and teammates are conspiring against him. It does put a strain on their teamwork for a while, because Taemin feels like he can’t trust them.

“Stop!” Taemin shouts, flying up and hovering above them. His heart is pounding and he’s so upset. They’ve been trying for weeks to look under his mask, and this time they actually tried to take it off while he was napping after a particularly rough training session. “What are you doing?”

“We just want to see your face!” Superboy shouts. “We all know each other’s identities except yours. What are you hiding?”

“I’m not hiding anything!” Taemin shouts back. “It’s a secret identity for a reason! I told you guys I wasn’t going to tell you, just leave it alone!”

“No!” Superboy argues. “You’re definitely hiding something! How are we supposed to trust you if you don’t trust us to even know what color your eyes are?”

Taemin’s heart is beating too fast, he feels sick, and he just bolts over to the zeta tubes to teleport to the Batcave. He doesn’t want to do this anymore.

“I don’t want to be on the team anymore,” Taemin says, his voice shaking as he falls over into Minho’s lap.

“What?” Minho asks, his arms instantly wrapping around Taemin. “What happened? I thought you were excited about being on the team?”

“They keep trying to look at my face,” Taemin whines, his arms snaking around Minho’s neck. “And today they tried to look while I was sleeping.”

“What?” Minho hisses.

“Even Kai,” Taemin says in a shaky voice. “I thought he was my friend.”

“He is your friend,” Minho says with a sigh. “Sometimes friends make mistakes. I’m sure they’re not trying to make you upset.”

“They said I’m hiding something,” Taemin tells him. “Because I won’t let them know my secret identity!”

Minho sighs again, holding Taemin close and resting his cheek on the top of Taemin’s head. He lets Taemin rant and whine and tell him how upset he is. Sometimes Taemin just needs him to listen. When he’s quiet after fifteen more minutes, Minho looks at him with a very serious look on his face.

“If you don’t feel comfortable being on the team anymore, you don’t have to be on it,” Minho tells him. “I won’t force you. And I don’t want you to do anything that makes you uncomfortable.”

“I don’t wanna train with them anymore,” Taemin mumbles.

“If you don’t train with them, you don’t get to go on missions with them.”

“I don’t want to,” Taemin insists, pushing his face into Minho’s shoulder. “I can’t go on missions with them if they don’t trust me.”

“That’s very true,” Minho agrees. “But if you change your mind, you just tell me.”

All the teenage heroes ask where Robin is for the next couple weeks. Every time they’re told the same thing: Batman has told the League that Robin is no longer interested in being part of the covert operations team. When they ask why, they’re always told the same answer: Robin doesn’t feel comfortable working with a team that doesn’t trust him.

One morning before school starts at Gotham Academy, Taemin is running around the quad with his friends Ravi and Moonkyu when he trips in front of a few sophomore girls. Amber is one of them.

“What are you looking at, kid?” one of the girls snaps.

Taemin gasps out a, “Sorry!” and quickly gets up and stumbles back to his friends.

“Come on!” Moonkyu urges. “If we’re too late, all the good cards will be traded already!”

“Coming!” Taemin calls, running after them. The seventh grade boys are having a big Pokémon card trade that morning before classes start.

Taemin has dropped one of his cards in front of the girls. Amber picked it up and wanted to give it back to him, but the three boys had disappeared already. She ended up bringing it to Mount Justice to put on their souvenir display.

After a couple months, Taemin does show up to Mount Justice to train. Minho convinced him to give it another shot with the team, but he insists that Minho stay with him the entire afternoon.

The team eventually works out their issues with each other, as there had been other things the team was arguing about besides Taemin’s secret identity, and Taemin comes back to join them.

When Taemin is hanging out at the mountain after training one day, he sees the card and gasps.

“I thought I lost it at school!” Taemin laughs, taking the card. “I can’t believe I found it! Where was it?”

Kai was going to say that Amber actually found it at school, but Amber nudged him in the ribs.

“I found it behind a couch cushion,” she says. “Thought we’d keep it as a Robin souvenir until you came back.”

“Thanks for keeping it,” he says, holding it tight. “It’s my favorite card, I was gonna show it off at school and then couldn’t find it and thought I lost it forever! My friends are gonna be so jealous when they see it!”

He starts talking about Pokémon, words spilling from his mouth at a mile a minute. The entire team is a little bored with the conversation, but they let Taemin talk anyway. Amber especially is very interested in learning more about him, especially now that she knows for sure that they go to the same school. She just wasn’t sure what grade he was in - no one even really knew how old he was.

When she sees a group of middle school boys the next week huddling at the front stairs staring at one boy with a Pokémon card in his hands, she knows that’s Robin. She doesn’t get a good look at him though - she feels like she’s intruding. Like she shouldn’t know this is her teammate without his mask on.

“Chanyeol is coming!”

“Hurry, hide it!”

“He’s gonna take it!”

The boys are all scrambling to hide their good Pokémon cards, and she sees the boy in the middle - Robin - hide his in a folder in his backpack.

“Hey, nerds,” the lanky middle school boy walking up the stairs says in a snotty voice. “Got any good cards today?”

“I got a couple Weedles you can have,” she sees Robin talk back. He even sounds the same. “Or a Magikarp.”

“Fuck off, Taemin!”

“You fuck off!”

“Hey losers,” Amber calls, stomping over to them. They all immediately look intimidated by the high school girl walking up to them. “Why don’t you stop cursing and go to class?”

“Let’s go,” one of the boys hisses in Robin’s - Taemin’s - ear, and three of them run off to go inside the campus.

Meanwhile the bully, Chanyeol, is still looking at her.

“What are you looking at?” She snaps.

He runs away instantly. It makes her feel good to know she may have put her little teammate’s bully in his place. She’ll have to pay more attention to the middle school kids; she’ll make sure no one is mean to her teammate.

She doesn’t tell anyone on the team she knows who Robin is. It’s his secret to tell, after all.

[elkheadmagic]

Hi, yes, denzians of Tumblr, I would just like to say -

If we, by some chance, become friends do not come to me for advice. School advice, life advice, love advice, gift advice. I am not an advising person. And I have discovered this the hard way.

I will tell you to do whatever the fuck feels right.

If I am older than you, please note, I am not an all knowing god. I am 23. I have very little experience in the grand scheme of things. Please, do not ask for advice in relationships or grown up shit.

I, too, have no fucking idea what I'm doing.

But I am here to talk about other things. You may rant and rave. Nerd out to me - I don't care. Just do. Not. Ask. for. Advice. I cannot help.

Thank you lots,

Amber

This has been a PSA.

[ettadunham]

A Buffy rewatch 6x19 Seeing Red

aka dick move joss

Welcome to this dailyish (weekly? bi-weekly?) text post series where I will rewatch an episode of Buffy and go on an impromptu rant about it for an hour. Is it about one hyperspecific thing or twenty observations? 10 or 3k words? You don’t know! I don’t know!!! In this house we don’t know things.

And after today’s episode, who’s ready to get drunk and do some math? *points to self* It me. I’m drunk.

Seeing Red has not one, but TWO of the show’s most controversial scenes in the entire series, so that’s a distinction I guess. One that I should probably be talking about, but… you know. Turns out that when you drink the rest of your apple liquor in one sitting, your ability to form critical thought exponentially deteriorates with each and every second.

But math? Math is easy. You can do math drunk while walking on your hands. So let’s do math.

So, did you guys know that Amber Benson appeared in the most Buffy episodes per season while not being in the credits? It’s true. I made a very detailed excel sheet.

(Yes, these are all the actors who appeared at least 14 episodes of the show. I didn’t really need to include all of them to prove my point, but I did it anyway.)

Those purple highlights you see? Those are for actors who appeared at least 70% of the episodes while not being part of the main cast in a season. Apart from a few special cases where someone has been promoted to the main cast during a season (like Michelle Trachtenberg after one episode in season 5 or Marc Blucas following the first 10 episodes of season 4), the only ones this applies for is Kristine Sutherland and Amber Benson. And the latter’s 18 appearance during season 5 (aka 82% of the season) is our biggest outlier among those even.

Now, to be fair, actors who are part of the main cast never actually go below 83% in their own respective season appearances on Buffy (see the blue highlights that show the two instances that goes below 90% even), but like… Appearing in 16-18 episodes of at least two 22-episode seasons in a major capacity is still a fucking lot by any TV standards.

So the fact that neither of these actors have been promoted to regular status during their run is kind of weird. Maybe Joyce was often forced into the background, but Kristine Sutherland was a huge presence in season 5 in particular. Up until Joyce’s death in The Body, she appeared in all episodes, and had a cameo later in The Weight of the World. She should’ve been in the credits for that period, imo.

Similarly, if you look at other characters who occupied a comparable role to Tara – so, basically characters who were introduced as love interests to one of the Scoobies –, each and every one of them have been promoted to the main cast by their 3rd year at the very least. And Emma Caulfield, who was one of those third year joiners, only appeared in 5 episodes in her first season. Seth Green, who with his 10/22 appearance is much closer to Amber Benson’s 12/22 in their respective debut seasons, was part of the credits by his second year on the show.

In conclusion what I’m saying is that fuck you Joss for pulling that opening credits shit on us. No. This should’ve happened two seasons ago, and now you’re using it to play on the audience’s attachment to this character, dangling that promise of having more of her on the show just to take it away.

Not cool, my dude. So very not cool.

In other bad news, making that excel sheet sobered me up a bit (damn you, math), and now I’m just kinda tired and sad. It’s starting to dawn on me that this is the last I’ll see of Tara during this rewatch.

Maybe I should just start over from Hush? There’s an idea…

There’s also a reason why this episode is cited as such an egregious example of the Bury Your Gays trope even after almost two decades. With the show having been limited on what they can show of Willow and Tara’s relationship early on, the inclusion of the many sexual moments in this episode especially jumps out. Having that precede Tara’s death somehow manages to maximize the negative impact of it even more, reinforcing pre-existing harmful associations in the audience.

But then again, would it have been better to not have these moments at all? I don’t know the answer to that.

In any case, when I talked about character deaths earlier on this show, I mentioned that there are two criteria that I judge those: story impact and social impact. Meaning on one hand, that when you kill off a character, you want that to have a meaningful impact on your story and characters. It needs to have a purpose and long-lasting effects for it to satisfy your audience’s emotional needs. And on the other hand, there’s also the bigger media and societal landscape to consider. Especially when you’re killing off a character, who’s already part of an underrepresented group.

I think I probably already alluded to how I consider Tara’s death to be well-executed story-wise, despite being extremely poorly done in the latter regard. There are arguments to be made of course about how maybe the show could’ve killed a different character to achieve the same effect in the story, etc. – but I find the following arc captivating as it is regardless.

Then again, I also love Tara, and definitely wouldn’t have complained if the show just randomly brought her back from the death, story be damned. Unbury your gays, you cowards.

I guess I’ll also need to touch on the other controversial scene in the episode, huh? Well, I don’t want to.

But fine.

Hot take, but I just don’t connect to Spike. Not during this rewatch. And looking back at my feelings on it, I think that part of that is the very association that’s textualized here.

See, vampires are giant rape metaphors. Well, they can be metaphors for a lot of things, this is Buffy after all, but that’s definitely a big part of them. And the show’s been playing up this aspect with Spike in the past – usually it’s just been done for comedy.

Think about his scenes with Willow in Lovers Walk or The Initiative. The latter is especially chilling with the way he attacks Willow on her bed and turns up the music, right before we cut to black… and then we find out that Spike’s “impotent” and can’t bite her, and suddenly she’s comforting him? And it’s a comedy?

That scene is super weird. And uncomfortable. And that was probably part of its purpose, but it also means that I’m just not shocked by what he almost does here.

Spike’s a romantic, but he’s also a soulless vampire who can’t differentiate between love, death, sex and violence. He tells Buffy in a previous episode that he wouldn’t hurt her, but while he may believe that, it’s not true exactly. He doesn’t understand what Buffy needs. They share an understanding, but in this, he’s unable to empathize with Buffy beyond a certain level.

Afterwards though, he does seem to understand what he’s done, and given what we know of vampires, that’s pretty fascinating. He finally realizes that he can’t love Buffy without that empathy. And he can’t be the monster he used to be with these conflicts. So he’s off to rectify that.

Meanwhile Buffy’s out there, fighting superpowered nerds right after that fucking traumatic experience. Which… don’t get me wrong, I can definitely see how beating up Warren can be therapeutic, but there is also something to be said about the show not giving Buffy enough space to process certain traumas, and focusing more on Spike’s development instead.

Again though, it’s not that I don’t get it. Spike’s an intriguing character, and I can definitely see how a lot of people connect with him. His more negative traits are balanced out by his vulnerability, and his ability to self-reflect and grow. Just because I have a hard time relating to him, doesn’t mean that others shouldn’t enjoy his character. God knows that I have plenty of problematic faves...

Oh yeah, and Xander and Buffy share a nice scene by the end of the episode. Still, I guess I wanted a bit more out of it? Like Xander acknowledging how putting Buffy on a pedestal leads to him judging her more harshly, and how it’s something he should be working on in order to be a better friend to Buffy? Maybe I just want too much.

A character who was just perfect in this episode though? Dawn. Actual picture of Dawn Summers looking at Tara and Willow.

Same, Dawn. Same.

The last three minutes of Seeing Red? I don’t know her.