#anyways they really take their parents' stories about their own siblings to heart

[paintedscales]

Cinnamon kids. Now with the youngest, Hami!

[foggyfanfic]

Camilo Analysis

Bruh, who even is Camilo? He is arguably the Madrigal we get the least real characterization for, other than Teenage Boy, which is a very broad category of person. So as per usual, it helps me to get my thoughts in order if I write this stuff down.

First, Mirabel introduces Camilo through song and we right of way see him shapeshift into a young mother so he can sooth her baby while she takes a nap. That's actually a really great way to imply several things about his character (oh my god guys, this movie is so well written).

Thoughtful enough to offer a new mom a chance to rest

Comfortable caring for infants (probs helped care for Antonio?)

More patient than I would have thought, because taking care of a baby while the mother rests is not a quick and easy favor

Sort of implies that he likes kids

Then Mirabel sings he "won't stop until he makes you smile today" while he turns into multiple people and doing goofy stuff. Everybody already knows he's an entertainer at heart but I gotta add it to the list anyways.

5. Likes making people laugh

6. Plays around with his gift a lot

Moving on to Antonio's party, he's the guy greeting all the villagers by name, and he changes his energy to match each person.

7. Knows a lot of the villagers

8. Charming and personable

9. Respects his elders (kisses the old woman on the cheek)

He jokes around with Antonio, probably in an attempt to soothe his nerves, and teases his Pa. This reinforces points one, four, five and six. If this was a different list, I would talk about what it means that Camilo is clearly comfortable teasing his father, despite the seemingly stern reaction Félix has, but I digress.

He stands with Julieta while Antonio and Mirabel walk to the door, giving birth to a lot headcanons about them being especially close, and I'm going to roll with it.

10. Of his siblings, he's closest to Julieta.

Then he's very excited for Antonio as he discovers his room, it's actually the happiest we see him in the movie (other than perhaps when he's dancing in We Don't Talk About Bruno). So:

11. Supportive? Or maybe just enjoys seeing other people happy?

Plot happens, fast forward to breakfast when he pretends to be Dolores so he can get double the food. Then teases Isabela about Mariano, something he does a lot in the movie.

12. Likes food.

13. In his Little Shit era

Fast forward some more, all the way to We Don't Talk About Bruno. He absolutely kills it, and clearly enjoys the whole production. If you're like me and you headcanon that the musical numbers happen in universe then we can conclude:

13.5. Fucking loves living in a musical

And if you headcanon they don't:

14. Enjoys telling stories.

15. Probably hasn't thought through the consequences of telling everybody his Tío is a seven foot tall boogy man that feasts on screams. Which is very normal for a fifteen year old boy.

Teases Isabela about Mariano again. More plot happens. Time For Dinner. Dolores gossips to him as soon as she can, then he immediately gossips to his Pá. When Félix accidentally spits his drink onto Mariano, Camilo has to hold in a laugh. It's possible he doesn't really like Mariano, he keeps making jokes about the guy, at the very least he doesn't take him seriously. I wonder if he's the sort of guy that prefers to hang out with women?

16. Close to his sister.

17. Close to his father.

18. Shapeshifts reflexively/accidentally.

More plot. We see him try to soothe his mother.

19. Takes care of his Má. Pepa is literally unable to hide her emotions, so it would make sense that, through no real fault of her own, the kids slowly learn to take care of her as they grow up. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and all. On the flip side, the fact that sun beams come out whenever they get home from school or learn a new skill probs means the kids can never doubt that Pepa loves them. Plus, she likely has the easiest time transitioning from a parent-child relationship to a parent-adult offspring relationship of all the adults. So Camilo might be growing closer to his Má as he gets closer to adulthood.

The longer the plot goes on the less we see him. He's clearly frustrated with his gift glitching on him, but that doesn't really tell me much. It's a situation that would frustrate anyone and they don't show us how he handles those negative emotions. They also don't show us how he handles hearing the end of Mirabel's and Abuela's argument. Rude. They do show us him leaping to the candle's aid while the house crashes down around him so clearly:

20. Sees the Miracle as more important than his own safety.

The house falls, the candle goes out, in the background we hear him first remark on his gift being gone, then wonder how this will effect his little brother. We already know he enjoys using his gift, I can theorize he's made Being a Shapeshifter an important part of his identity, but all we have that's concrete is:

21: He doesn't just enjoy his gift, it is important to him.

22. Empathetic.

Mirabel runs off, resolution happens, Mirabel comes back. He is the one who cuts through the reunion to point out their house is gone, and even gets a little exasperated when he catches a bit of flack from Félix.

23. Not an optimist. Might be a pessimist, but most likely just not particularly sentimental.

For the rest of the scene he exists in a state of confusion. The hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Apparently Tío Bruno is just suddenly back now? And it kind of seems like half the family isn't surprised or asking any questions?! There's not a lot of conclusions I can draw from him being shocked and confused that Bruno just sort of appeared out of nowhere, I think most people would be. And unlike the parents or the older cousins, he doesn't have enough memories from when Bruno was around to be swept up in the joy of seeing him again. His reaction is relatable and endearing, but not very revealing.

The last character moment we get is when he tries to twirl the shovel around all fancy, almost drops it, then checks to make sure Mirabel wasn't watching. It reinforces things already mentioned, like him being showy, and wanting to entertain those around him, but also:

24. Wants to be seen as cool. Another very normal trait for a teenage boy.

It is interesting that the first person he looks at is Mirabel, I can't help but wonder if that would have been the case at the beginning of the movie. There's room for interpretation there, but regardless, by the end of the movie:

25. Respects Mirabel's opinion.

[sibylsleaves]

if you’re still doing established buddie asks (and if you haven’t already answered) - do they have kids after Chris? How many? How did they come to have those kids (egg donor/surrogate, adoption, safe haven baby)? Also when/how does Buck adopt Chris (if he does at all). You’re the best!

I think I've mentioned it a few other times but I'm for sure a "they have more kids" person. And for selfish reasons, I would want it to be a baby because. well. have you seen Buck holding a baby? or Eddie holding baby Chris? I need more of that on my screen posthaste!!!!!!

Buck definitely adopts Chris officially. For sure. It happens right after he and Eddie get married and they take some kind of fun family trip to celebrate.

But yeah, more kids. I'm not decided on how I would want them to do it. Mainly I think we've gotten a lot of "expanding the family" storylines with HenRen so if this is something I'm speculating about actually happening in the show, then I think they'd really need to find a way to tell a unique story for Buck and Eddie. I like the idea of a Safe Haven baby just because it's kinda wild to be that you can do that at a fire station and like. that's a REAL thing so the potential is there. and it would be a unique take on the story. Plus I like the idea of maybe Buck and Eddie are discussing the kids thing and they're not sure if they're ready but then it just. happens. I guess that's kind of like what they did with the Chimney/Maddie baby storyline though.

Or honestly I'm kind of recently digging the idea of introducing an entirely new tertiary character who they meet on a call/maybe during a big disaster arc who's like. a pregnant teen or something. Who Buck or Eddie or both really connect with and get to know (honestly im leaning Eddie here just because like. obvious young/teen parent connection) and she's already decided she's gonna give her kid up for adoption and her parents suck or are dead and she tells them she wants Buck and Eddie to be the ones to adopt her. And maybe it's an open adoption, where she'll get to meet the baby and watch her grow up and be a part of her life but she also gets to live her own life and have her teens/twenties/thirties without being a single mom. On a personal note, that's a story I'd really like to see because I have a family member who went through that (family member was the bio dad). And on a thematic note I think it'd tie in nicely with all the found family and nontraditional family structure stuff we've seen on the show.

Anyway I think they have at least one other kid although my heart is saying two.

And as for Chris, I think he loves being an older brother and being given that responsibility and that role. I think it's something he takes too really well (plus he has practice from hanging out with Jee-Yun) and it's something he really relishes. he dotes on his younger sibling(s) and is very generous about teaching them exactly the best ways to manipulate their dads.

[anangelwhodidntfall]

Hi! I really liked your dad!jake stories and I've got an idea for an alternative version of Picasso (Specifically PT 2) where The reader ends up feeling really insecure and starts changing everything about herself, like she removes the color from her hair And doesn't even do her art anymore, and even begins to talk less and less and starts to just avoid people until Jake confronts her about it comforts her

I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort with dad!Jake lmao If you do take this idea could you tag me in it if you don't mind? :))

Oooh I love this idea <3, I literally wrote this during my planning period so I apologize if it isn't the best. Anyways dad!jake warms my heart, I wish he was real :(

Picasso P.II-Alternate Ending

Your dad was the first to notice you changing and not for the better since arriving at the island. It started with the removal of the pink from your hair which wouldn't have been a big deal until he asked if you wanted to put color back in and you shook your head no before he even got the question out of his mouth.

"Hey is everything alright with your sister?" He asked your twin.

"I haven't noticed anything different about her yet but I can keep an eye on her." He offered as your dad nodded his head.

The next red flag was that you stopped doing your art completely which neteyam brought to his attention. It had started when Tuk asked you to help her draw something and you said no poor Tuk didn't understand so neteyam stepped in and you bit his head off about it before leaving and leaving your siblings confused. 

"She just snapped at us." Neteyam said to your parents concerned.

Your parents looked at your room in concern as your siblings told them about your changing behavior and tried to figure out what was going on.

"Give her some space maybe she is just having a hard time adjusting to the situation." Neytiri said but your dad couldn't help but feel like something deeper was happening.

And he was right just as your siblings told him a few days ago, you truly stopped doing art which made him sad to see because you were just so talented in his eyes and he didn't understand what was happening with you. 

The final red flag was when you started avoiding everyone and talking less. Your dad noticed that you were less talkative with everyone but especially him, it was like you were closing yourself off from the world.

Your dad had enough and was planning on talking to you about it when you got home only when he returned he could hear your cries.

"Babygirl?" He asked stepping into your room.

All he saw was your tears before you ran into his arms and wrapped them around his waist making him concerned as he comforted you.

"It's okay baby girl, I'm right here." He said as your tears finally stopped and your breathing started to mellow out.

"I don't fit in here Dad...ever since we got here I've been picked on about my hair, my art, and just everything and I thought that maybe if I stopped doing that stuff I could fit in....but it still didn't work they still picked on me and I didn't want to say anything because it seemed like Neteyam and lo'ak we're adjusting fine...so I that kept it to myself but I can't do it anymore." You said as your father's heart broke.

"I just want to fit in." You said quietly snapping your dad out of his thoughts. 

"Look at me baby, you were born to fit in. You were born to stand out...the hair color... the art.... everything about you is born to stand out you're not supposed to be like me or your mother or your siblings....you are supposed to be your own person...and I know it's hard right now and I know what you are going through right now but don't conform....show them who you truly are...because the right ones will love you for it." Your dad said staring into your eyes as you nodded your head. 

"I love you baby and the next time you are even remotely feeling like this, I want you to come to tell me, I don't want you to ever suffer in silence again, you hear me?" He asked you. 

"I do. I love you, Dad, thank you." You said hugging him and feeling him squeeze you a little tighter. 

A few hours later, you were passed out in your dad's lap from all the crying when your family had come back for the evening...all laughing until they saw you and your dad and instantly shut up not wanting to disturb you. 

"Is she okay?" Your mom asked taking a seat next to your dad, running a hand through your hair. 

"She will be. Turns out some of the islanders had been making some comments about her and she took it to heart..she just wanted to fit in." Your dad said as your mom frowned not realizing her daughter had been hurting so much. 

"Oh, my sweet girl." She said placing a kiss in your hair. 

"You two..." Your dad said but they stopped him.

"Already on it..no one hurts her and gets away with it...but tomorrow let's spend the evening with her." Neteyam said taking a seat on the other side of your dad as your siblings gathered around you to make sure you felt how loved you were.

You smiled a small smile to yourself hearing all the kind words your family had to say about you and your uniqueness maybe being different was a good thing after all. 

[ridiasfangirlings]

1/2) Yata tells Fushimi that he needs to see and meet Yata's family. Fushimi says he knows them. Yata answers, no, you only know my parents (well, my mother and stepfather. Yata himself doesn’t know my biological father well), I’m talking about my ENTIRE family. It is a tradition to introduce the bride/groom to their family. You are my fiancé, which means you will soon become part of my family tree!

…why does this make me think of that old unfinished Sarumi fic where Yata was possibly in a cult XD Imagine Yata’s whole family is constantly having big boisterous reunions and Fushimi somehow never realized that most people don’t go visit their families that often, his baseline for family visits is underground so he has no idea what too much is either. Oh maybe this is the Yata stepdad side of the family, like his stepdad actually comes from a huge family and they like to get together a lot and of course they always introduce any new significant others too. The family was always really accepting of Yata but he still felt out of place because he wasn’t blood related to anyone there, and it’s not until post-ROK that he really realizes he was accepted all along and starts going back to reunions with his parents and siblings. 

So then when he and Fushimi get engaged Yata realizes he needs to introduce Fushimi to the rest of his family. Even Yata is smart enough to realize that this will be overwhelming for Fushimi so imagine him trying to be all cool about it, like yeah as my fiancée you just need to meet my family, no big deal. Fushimi clicks his tongue all I’ve met your family, your family has known me since middle school, and Yata gives this nervous laugh. Fushimi glares at him suspiciously and Yata’s like so now you need to meet the rest of my family. Fushimi’s like since when did you have a rest of the family and Yata’s all so funny story. 

Yata hurries to reassure Fushimi that it will be fine, his family isn’t picky and they’ll love whoever he brings with him (Fushimi’s all is that supposed to make me feel better, Misaki). Yata’s like anyway my mom and stepdad and siblings all love you so the rest of my family will too. It takes a while but he does finally manage to wrangle a promise out of Fushimi to come to the next family reunion, Yata’s like we don’t even have to stay you can just come with me and we’ll get some food and leave. As soon as Yata’s gone though Fushimi can only think about what a terrible idea this is and how much Yata’s going to regret it, there’s no way a big family like Yata’s would like Fushimi. He doesn’t know what Yata’s told them either, like will they all know how Fushimi broke Yata’s heart and was an asshole to him for years, will they all know that Fushimi wasn’t even good enough to be cared for by his own family, will this be like Homra all over again where he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do and won’t be able to breathe. 

The day of the reunion comes and imagine Yata and Fushimi  at the door to like the big restaurant or whatever that they’re all meeting at. Outwardly Yata actually looks like the one who’s so nervous he’s going to pass out, imagine he put on his nicest outfit (the red garbageman outfit of course) and he’s trying to look cool and put together. Fushimi meanwhile is slouching and complaining that they should just go home, Yata’s like no it’s fine they’re gonna love you. Fushimi looks at Yata and is like ‘what if they don’t.’ Yata’s all ‘huh?’ and Fushimi says it again, if they don’t love me what will you do. His voice is flat and emotionless, like he’s just asking about the menu, and Yata takes a moment to let that sink in. Yata’s finally like well if they don’t their loss, Fushimi’s like can you really say that so easily. Yata’s like fuck yes I can, he’s doing this because he wants Fushimi to have this family too but if they don’t like Fushimi then Yata doesn’t need their opinions — he wants Fushimi, and that’s all that matters. Yata says if it’s just his parents and siblings at his wedding that’s fine, the rest of the family will just have to miss out on how amazing Fushimi Saruhiko is. 

[leonscape]

fun facts about my oc’s family because i love them and they have the least amount of trauma ❤️

so i’m gonna yap about camellia’s family

they’re from benitoite but most of the kids lived like most of their lives in rhodolite it’s a long story a big family conflict

actually their parents are traumatized but they’re ok i guess. they just don’t like their families so yeah the kids don’t really have cousins or grandparents lol

their surname is actually from their mother’s family. i mean when you hate your family a lot you aren’t ashamed to take your wife’s name

anyways they have six kids

the oldest (in the main story he’s 37) charles or charlie idk it’s cute. he’s a doctor. labeled as a disappointment. he’s actually one of them military doctors but he’s getting older and he has a family of his own so he wants to be a civilian again and practice family medicine and stuff.

the second oldest is connor (hes 34 in the main story). idk he kinda dumb but he’s got a good heart. he got two other friends who are also kinda dumb but they have good hearts. one of his friends is a sailor so he ain’t really on land much. but his other friend is a noble so he rich rich. they are just a trio of himbos. connor plays the guitar or lute (ugh history idc anymore) and he can also sing.

the third oldest and eldest daughter is cattleya (shes 30 and she hates it and she was the first of her siblings to be born in rhodolite). she’s got a bit of a temper and she’s picky when it comes to suitors. many have tried to court her but they have all gone awry. she’s beautiful but she can be a handful. she plays the harp and she likes singing.

the third oldest is cassius (he’s 27) idk his mom heard the name in a story once and thought it was cool. he’s a fraternal twin. none of them tell other people they’re twins. the first of the children to be born in rhodolite. he mainly plays the piano but he’s got potential for many different instruments. he likes composing music. he’s kind of a tsundere haha.

so the other twin is carlina-rose (i literally just changed it because i didn’t like how similar i made the twins’ names). i wanted a flower name but i also wanted to put rose in there bc the twins were born in rhodolite too. idk maybe i’ll change her name again i can’t decide. she’s got some bad anxiety so she doesn’t like performing in front of others but she plays the cello. she doesn’t talk at all so it’s hard to communicate with her.

and the youngest camellia (she’s 22) and she plays the piano but she doesn’t like it that much. it’s just something that was taught by default. she’s a little lost in life but she’ll figure it out.

[h0ney-gl0ws]

Hi! Just found out in the Greek mythology, Hypnos had 3 sons?? So I was wondering if you could write hcs of Hypnos being a dad to triplets T.T I think it’d be really cute,, Ty!

Omg yes of course I can! This IS a really cute idea! I did a bit of research of my own on the subject and obviously got a lot of different information on his sons, so I’m gonna do what I do best which is headcanons lolol and take some creative liberties with these cuties.

Anyways, thanks for requesting, your patience, and enjoy reading!

Word Count (approx): 744

Hypnos! Parenting headcannons!

Three kids that are all the same age are quite a handful, especially when they are equipped with omnipotent powers

So whenever he is in a bind with the young ones and doesn’t know quite what to do, he turns to the greatest parent he knows. His mom :)

Seriously, Nyx, has so many kids and she has experienced having three young ones at once as well. Practically the same situation. And while she may not have been the best parent to Hypnos he still loves her with all of his heart.

Alright, let’s address the cuties separately starting with, Morpheus, the eldest of the triplets. He has the ability to manipulate the dreams of gods and men. Because his powers are very potent he is the loudest, and the most rambunctious of the triplets.

Hypnos finds his son’s energy a bit hard to deal with when he’s awake, but he has such a kind soul, and gives Hypnos the most pleasant dreams. He just adores how cheery Morpheus is, though, it’s refreshing to have someone else smiling around the house.

Often times Hypnos will pass Morpheus over to Zagreus to watch for some time. Zagreus does not have the ability to sit still for more than a few minutes, and has no trouble keeping up with the eldest of the triplets. In fact, Morpheus returns to Hypnos tuckered out from spending the day/night running around attempting to keep up with the Prince. How ironic.

Overall, Morpheus really loves his father, and Hypnos loves Morpheus in return.

Next is Phobetor, he is a timid yet mischievous kid. He is the personification of nightmares, and he appears in dreams in the forms of animals and other nightmarish beasts.

Phobetor often hides away, he’s not as energetic as his elder sibling, and is more similar to Hypnos in that matter. But Hypnos has to be weary of falling asleep when he is around.

Phobetor is unsettling, and since he’s so quiet he uses those abilities to his advantage by playing little “pranks” on people around the house by giving them a “little” scare.

Dusa, honestly, almost turned him to stone once from how bad he got her. Hypnos had to give a lecture on not messing with the staff after that incident.

Phobetor gets along really well with Uncle Thanatos. Thanatos can also seem pretty scary due to his outward appearance and somber attitude. So most children shy away from him, except Phobetor. Phobetor finds him to be tolerable, unlike the loud prince who is unbearably cheery. So, Phobetor was kind of drawn to his uncle. He’s mesmerized and very curious about his uncle’s line of work, knowing that while it is unintentional he sparks fear into the hearts of the mortals. He likes to listen to Thanatos’ stories of the mortals that he brings in, the way they died and such, it gives him inspiration for his next big “prank”

Last but definitely not least is Phantasos. Phantasos is the god of surreal dreams, he appears as inanimate objects in prophetic dreams.

Phantasos is calm, and wise for his age. He’s pretty cryptic as well though. Hypnos finds it hard to understand his youngest son all the time, but with some help from his mother they are usually able to figure out what it is he’s trying to say.

Phantasos is nearly always talking with his grandmother Nyx, he’s enthralled with his three aunts, the fates, and uses Nyx as a sort of bridge of communication between them. Nyx often has messages for the youngest triplet from the fates themselves. They give him glimpses of things yet to come, so that he may tell humanity through the means of the dream world.

Hypnos is a pretty good dad, much to everyone’s surprise, for the most part his kids are polite, friendly, and are mindful of their responsibilities to the house. And while Hypnos isn’t the best parent around, he has people to help him get back on track when he falters. 7/10 parenting :D

[filmbyjy]

jay – bad boys

— bad boys main masterlist

pairing: park jongseong x fem!reader

summary: jay was always the guy living next door to you. with his reputation, you never expected to come across someone like him. until you became friends with his little sister. how will your relationship with jay go?

no.of words: 5.06K words

warnings: neglect, hallucinations, probably a little mention of forced pill taking (it's sleeping pills), bullying not done by jay (do read at own discretion), tons of kissing :D slightly suggestive too

taglist: @nyfwyeonjun @ncityy04 @cutiejseong @minkyeos @madebyreyy (@onyourecha) @yuakagi @hoonstrology @luvrjn @kawaiisharkcopjudge @missmadwoman @aerinaga @jiwlys @wtfhyuck @astrosmistisa

NOTE: I’ll be honest. I don’t really like jay’s episode since you’re kinda hallucinating and you think he did this when in reality he didn’t. it’s confusing really but if you read it and enjoy it, thank you!

Here we are with another edition to the bad boy’s tales. Meet jay, as previously introduced briefly in jungwon’s story, our mr.perfect. A walk in the hallway surely would garner tons of girl’s attention. He was most popular when he dyed his hair blond but of course, the black hair with blond highlights still captured tons of many people’s hearts.

The sad tale of jay begins with his broken family. When jay was younger, he could hear his parents arguing in their bedroom behind the doors. He would frequently run over to his little sister’s room to protect her, distract her from the crashing of flower pots onto the ground. It was terrifying to say the least.

By the age of 13, jay witnesses his dad bringing over two younger girls into his bedroom. At that point, jay knew his parents would get a divorce. He clenched his fist and mumbles under his breath.

“I hate you dad.” he stomps over to his room.

When young jay turned 15, that’s when he started getting into shady business. He and his two close friends started to take up hitman jobs. At first, it was terrifying for jay. Running from the police but he knew, even if he got caught...his dad would pull him out of jail secretly anyways. Pros of having a rich dad i guess. After all, if his kids were to get into trouble, the whole world would know and his business would go to waste. By the age of 18, jay has killed over 20 men or it could be more, jay never counted anyways.

“h-he’s here.” one of the henchmen say. jay scoffs and rolls his eyes before stepping hard on the bullet wound that jake and sunghoon shot. the guy groans in pain and soon enough due to blood loss, he lays limp on the ground. jay’s eyes were soulless, he’s seen too many people fighting to stay alive. Once the guy lays limp on the ground, he turns to his two best friends.

“jesus, one of the worst ways to die.” jake hisses. jay shrugs.

“let’s go, we still have school and it starts in 2 hours.”

“oh come on, two more hours? That’s a long time.” sunghoon says.

“we still have the blood and guns to hide.”

“Right.” sunghoon hands jay’s his car keys.

“we staying at your secret lair?” jake asks.

“yeah sure, i’ll go shower in my room. You two can make it work in the lair’s bathroom.” jay says.

A new year starts, their senior year. Jay shoves his books into his locker. The group gathered around him, chatting about god knows what.

“hey, that girl over there doesn’t seem to care about you jungwon.” jake says. Jungwon shoves his hand into his pocket.

“and why should i care?” jungwon says. jay’s eyes fell onto the younger girl. His little sister, nobody knew he had a little sister. Even his friends. He wanted to keep it a secret because after all, he didn’t want her to get involved in all the mess he’s done.

“Because she’s different.” jay smirks, pretending since no one knew about their sibling relationship. The younger male rolls his eyes.

“And? Just cause she doesn’t want me doesn’t mean she’s any different from other girls.” jungwon says. jay chuckles before lightly slapping jungwon’s shoulder.

“Look at you mr.class president. Can’t believe you’re growing up.” the other two 02z snicker at jay’s words. jungwon shoves jay’s hand off his shoulder.

“I’m going, you three should go touch some grass right now.” the other boys laughed. 

“good luck class pres.” heeseung winks. jungwon rolls his eyes before waving his friends off. jay sighs.

“hey what’s up with the sighing?” jake asks.

“nothing just remembered that i have some shitheads to deal with later.” jay says.

“ouch?” sunghoon says. jay looks over to sunghoon unamused.

“I wasn’t talking about you.”

“YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT YOU?? HAHAHA FUCKING IDIOT.” jake laughs out loud at sunghoon. sunghoon glares at the boy

Put that aside, we still haven’t met you just yet. In fact, you were actually just walking into the school compound. A few eyes trailed you like you were a foreign object but that’s how it always has been. Since you were in middle school. Let’s say, a few people may not exactly like you. They were jealous and confused as to how you, a ‘poor’ girl got into one of the most prestigious schools. Though you were very much living in an average home and your parents earned average wages.

They simply didn’t understand that and wanted to make you quit somehow and what better to way then to fuck up your brain and hurt you. It was horrible. you were about to open your locker when you got pushed. You could feel the stinging on your back.

“do you have the lunch money, my dear (name).” your bully, ara, says. You couldn’t say anything, not when you were frozen and scared. Ara was one of your bullies since middle school, she along with her boyfriend, she started dating back 2 years ago, had been tormenting you.

“No words to say? Are you really scared of me? I won’t do anything.” she says. scenes flashing in your head, your body was physically shaking by now. That’s how much she has harmed you. The looming dark figure before you gets pulled away. You were being pulled up and dragged over to somewhere else.

Your saviour brought you over to a secluded and quiet spot so you could take deep breaths, after all you did just have a panic attack.

“hey, listen to the sound of my voice.” his voice was sweet, it laced with honey and it was warm. “You need to take deep breaths.” you tried to do so but every time you tried, you choked up. He pulls you into a hug and rubs your back. He smelled of sweet vanilla candles, surprisingly felt like home.

Once he hears your breathing was steady, he holds you at an arm’s length. Your eyes met, it was…

“Are you feeling better?” jay asks. You nod a little.

“thanks for helping me. I must’ve looked pitiful huh.” you say. jay shakes his head.

“Not at all. We should get to class.”

jay, your classmate, your neighbour and the school’s mr.perfect. Friends with jake and sunghoon, part of the bermuda triangle of enhypen. As expected, he was handsome. Tons of girls are after him and his friends. You obviously thought they were good looking but you knew you had no chance even if you tried. After all, who’d want to date someone who looks pitiful.

The next day, you and jay went back to practically strangers. It was like yesterday never happened. Anyways, school was as per usual. homework and the teachers just assigning things. You were on the way home when your parents called you.

“hello?”

“(name) honey, could you stay over at the Park’s house?”

“umm mom, i don’t feel com-” the call cuts off, “fortable.” you sighed before walking over to the house next door. You quickly ring the doorbell and guess what? Jay was the one who opened it. He would’ve said something but his little sister comes forward.

“(name)! Oh my god, it’s you!” his little sister, mia, screams. (if you haven’t already read jungwon’s chapter, i suggest you do *wink*)

“mia, how are you.” you smiled at her. Jay eyes his sister down.

“What? Am i suddenly not allowed to have social interaction?” she asked jay in a cold tone. He shakes his head.

“You are allowed to have friends mia, it’s just that i don’t want you to hurt yourself and find bad friends. (name) is nice so i allow you to be friends with her, just be careful and don’t easily trust people.” jay says.

“Oh look at you acting like a real older brother.” she rolls her eyes before turning to you. “Let’s go (name).”

“Mia-” jay sighs. “I’m having a party later on, please stay in your room.”

“okay.” and so you went with jay’s little sister up to her room.

“Still hasn’t changed one bit.” you sighed as you jumped and laid on her bed. She chuckles.

“It’s been a week since you’ve come over.”

“Too long to be away from my favourite child.” you say before patting her head.

“I’m literally 2 years younger than you.” she pouts.

“How adorable, bet some cute boys will go after you.” you smiled. She rolls her eyes.

“yeah sure, like that will actually happen.”

“Trust me.” you say.

“What about you huh? Any guys caught your attention?” mia nudges your shoulder.

“What kind of guy would like me?”

“Hmm…maybe jay?” she smirks.

“Oh fuck off, noooo i would rather die then have him be my boyfriend.”

“You don’t find my brother attractive?”

“He is attractive-”

“HAH SO YOU DO LIKE HIM!!” you smacked mia a couple of times.

“I SAID NO.” she laughs at you while you chase after her around her bedroom.

About 1-2 hours later, you could hear the sounds of songs blasting downstairs, bass boosted up and the ground shaking to the beat. Mia ordered pizza about 30 minutes ago so it should be arriving any second now. You hear a knock at the door and mia pauses the kdrama to open up the door.

“Who’s that?”

“Probably jay. Why, wanna open the door so you two could possibly have a moment?” she smirks.

“Mia, i won’t hesitate to disown you by the way.” she sticks out her tongue to tease you and then opens the door. You easily tell whoever was outside that door was not jay. The door opens slightly and you realise it was ni-ki, a fellow friend of your sister.

“Here you go-” jay pauses.

“Jay hyung, why is she here?”

“I’ll tell you later.” he hands mia the pizza and his eyes fall onto you. You blush before looking away but you swear you saw him smirk a little before he turns his attention to the two younger ones. Once jay and ni-ki leaves, mia shuts the door shut and locks the door.

“That tall guy, he’s pretty cute.” you say. Mia shrugs.

“I heard he is 16.”

“Umm…alright, i take that back.” you quickly say. She giggles.

“Just eat the damn pizza.”

It was about 1am, the music was cut off quickly since you heard Mr.Park was coming back at 2am. Which technically was also your queue to leave since Mr.Park did scare you. He looked sweet and nice but you know, he isn’t all flowers and daisies.

You and mia made it downstairs. As you made your way down, your eyes met with jay’s. You quickly looked away, never once in your times of coming over has jay looked at you like that. Was that worry? You had no idea, all you knew was that it gave you chills. Jay’s gaze was just chilling.

“Thanks for coming over! Hope you had a great time (name).” mia smiles.

“Of course but the snacks…they seem to be running out.” you teased. Mia sighs.

“well if you informed me you were coming over, i could’ve prepared.” mia whines. you laughed before hugging her.

“Sorry, i was just joking. I’ll tell you whenever can before coming over. It’s just you know my parents, unpredictable timings as per usual.”

“what do they even do as a living?”

“I don’t know. All i know is they come home as late as your dad sometimes. Imagine they were criminals.” you laughed.

“I honestly won’t be surprised if they are. I mean, you know what happened to my parents and how my dad suddenly became one of the most famous CEOs. Dirty work is everywhere and cheap.” mia says.

“I should get going. It’s late, see you.” you waved to mia. She waves back. Suddenly, jay pops beside mia.

“It’s late, i can walk you home.” he suggests.

“nono, it’s okay. My house is literally right next to yours.” you say. Mia eyes jay down.

“Why are you getting all worried about (name)? I’ve never seen you so actively wanting to strike a convo with (name).”

“i’m being a gentleman.”

“Do i laugh or?” mia says. jay sighs.

“Forget it.” he walks back into the house.

“goodnight (name).”

“night.” you quickly made your way home. The short walk home was peaceful, quiet and it felt nice but you felt like you were being followed so you quickly ran into your home and locked the front door. Both of your parents turned to look at you.

“what’s wrong sweetie?” your mom asks.

“I felt like i was being followed from the park mansion.” you witness your parent’s faces drop like something bad just happened. “Something wrong?” you asked.

“no, everything is fine honey. Why don’t you go get some sleep. you have school tomorrow after all.” your mom says. You turn to look at your dad and nods in agreement.

“alright. Goodnight mom, dad.”

“night darling.” your dad says. you walked over to your room. your phone rings and you noticed it’s from an unknown number so you don’t answer. Then a text message pops up.

- unknown: it’s me jay.

- you: jay? how did you get my number?

- jay: from mia

- you: okay, umm what do you need.

- jay: from now on, stick with me

- you: huh?

Jay doesn’t answer anymore and leaves you on read. You placed your phone on your nightstand and just tried to fall asleep and you did in a matter of seconds.

The next morning was normal, well it felt like it. You went to school as per usual but when you noticed your bully, you noticed she cowered in fear. Weird, you thought. You felt an arm snake around your waist.

“Act like my girlfriend for a bit.” he whispers. You turned to jay.

“What? Why?”

“your bully and actually anyone who tries anything on you will not touch you if they know we’re dating.”

“Look, jay-” he leans close. You backed up against the locker, jay smirks and places his hands on the locker beside you.

“You look intimidated, scared i’ll bite?” he says. you couldn’t say anything. Not when this reminded you of what your bullies used to do to you before they beat you up. You start to feel breathless.

“jay, p-please step back.” you voiced out, trying to breathe properly and your voice visibly shaky.

“shit.” he grabs your hand and brings you over to the staircase, the one where he previously helped you. He settles you down on the steps and holds your hand, rubbing it softly.

“hey, i’m sorry. Concentrate on me okay? The sound of my voice and breathe in and out slowly.” jay says. You do as he says but it doesn’t work, tears pricking your eyes. You felt like you were being swallowed up, you couldn’t breathe. jay notices that and so he does one thing he could only think of.

he kissed you. Your eyes shut, you tried following jay’s pattern of kissing just to stop the panic attack. It works. you quickly pulled away after realising what you were doing and just fled the scene. You couldn’t face jay after you did that.

As for jay, he was left there stunned. Never once has he felt this. He’s kissed tons of girls before but something about kissing you was…heaven. He felt his cheeks redden at the thought of kissing you again. He clears his throat before fanning himself.

“park jongseong, you are down bad for her.” he mutters. Yes, you read it right. Jay, was in fact very much in love with you. Sure, he acts cold and you two never officially interacted until this year but jay has always watched you from far.

He doesn’t know you’ve been bullied though, your bully only strikes when no one important was around since they had to uphold a reputation and respect. Guess jay just caught them on time since he saw what happened a few days back. He walks over to his locker and there he witnesses his sister and jungwon holding hands.

“yang jungwon, why are you holding my sister’s hand?” jay shows a fake smile.

“she’s my girlfriend, hyung.” jungwon says. jake chokes on his drink, sunghoon hands jake a towel whilst making a disgusted face.

“It’s been one day jungwon.” heeseung says.

“yeah, plus she’s jay’s sister. Are you sure you’re in the right mind right now?” jake says.

“hyung, you trust me right?” jungwon says. jay clenches his jaw before calming down and sighing.

“yeah, just don’t hurt her.” jay says.

As for you, you still couldn’t get the image of jay kissing you out of your head. You were going insane. His lips felt soft, somehow perfectly moulded with yours.

“Miss (name), could you share with us on how to do this math equation.” the teacher says. You nod and stood up to solve the equation. You easily answered it cause well…you were the top in the class for a reason.

“Thank you (name). This is why you’re our best student in the class but do remember, just cause you’re the top student doesn’t mean you can be distracted.” the teacher warns.

“yes ma’am.” you settled back to your seat and sighed. The bell rings about an hour later, lunchtime. You’d usually settle on having lunch somewhere secluded since you were practically an outcast but then you noticed jay waiting outside of your class.

“let’s go.” he says. your eyes widened.

“uhhh what do you mean?”

“i told you to stick by me so let’s have lunch together.”

“but-” he holds your hand and drags you over to the canteen. His friends noticed you.

“jay dude, who is this fine girl.” jake says. you did in fact know all of his friends since they were the popular bad boys after all. jay rolls his eyes.

“assuming this is your new target. you gonna rip out her heart?” sunghoon jokes. your eyes widened.

“(name) no, i’m not some monster.” jay says.

“who knows, maybe in bed he is.” jake snorts. jay glares at jake. you blush.

“ay ay, look at her blushing. jay, are you sure you and her aren’t dating.”

“we’re just,” he looks over at you, “friends.” he mutters. you could hear your heart break, like glass shattering into pieces.

“she doesn’t look too happy.” sunoo notes. you turned to his friends and all of them were looking at you.

“ah, no. i agree with jay, we’re just friends.” you gave them the best fake smile you could muster. They seemed to believe it and just went back to eating. jay slides a sandwich for you.

“Take it.” he mutters. Somehow it sounded like more of an instruction rather than an offer and besides, jay’s commanding tone scares you so you took it.

“you know jay, i’m pretty sure you scare her.” sunghoon says.

“And how?”

“she’s shaking.” jake points out. Jay’s eyes widened, he holds your hand.

“are you okay?”

“h-huh? yeah i am.” you slipped out your hand from jay’s. “i’m going to the bathroom, excuse me for a bit.” you quickly ran. Once you made it into the bathroom, your heart races.

Jay was doing a bunch to you and you knew you shouldn’t mess with him. You were not dumb to know jay is linked to a few crimes and shady businesses. The most famous case that you assumed he had done was killing one of the famous mafia bosses and beating his men and him. Sure it was a heroic act but it was still a dangerous thing. Maybe if you got on jay’s bad side he might-

Someone knocks on the door. You were in a handicapped stall so you only assumed it was either a student or an elderly cleaner. You opened the door and lord and behold jay was standing in front of you.

“Jay-” he swoops you into a kiss. You felt butterflies playing all over your tummy. You backed up into the handicapped stall and the door shuts. Your back against the door as jay hastily kisses you.

tap tap tap

“miss (name), please come up to the board and solve this question.” wait was that all a dream? “Miss (name)?” the teacher calls you again.

“sorry.” you stood up and went to solve the question. you were going insane, what actually happened this morning?

You found mia talking to her friend.

“Mia, i think i need help.” you say.

“what’s wrong?”

“Do you remember what happened this morning?”

“we went to school. My brother was being the usual shithead he is and then he asked you to meet him somewhere. You rejected him though.”

“nothing else?”

“Yeah.”

“jay didn’t wrap his arms around my waist and tell him to be my girlfriend?” mia looks at you weirdly.

“why would my brother do that? you know you and him never get along.” mia says. Your heart shatters. Everything was a dream?

“I see, well i better get home.” you say. Mia nods and waves at you. You need to get some sleep or at least think this through.

As you walked home, you felt an arm wrap around your waist.

“Hey.” jay says. You felt your heart race.

“jay, what the fuck are you doing?”

“listen baby, you need to follow me. some guys seem to think we are dating and are willing to get their hands on you just to threaten me so stay close.” his eyes were cold, unlike the jay you had previously ‘imagined’

Maybe it really was a fake reality. You were just living in it because you hoped to actually be close to him. So was jay still very much down bad for you? Yes, he was. Except in the actual reality he knew how to conceal it better. Jay was very much still a ‘criminal’.

You felt your heart break. This was the reality.

“alright, just please don’t talk to me for a few days. I need to sort out my life.” you say as you walked away from jay. he runs up to you confused as to why you said that.

“what do you mean?”

“the life i thought was my reality was all fake and you were part of it so please just leave me alone for now.” you say, already feeling tears pricking your eyes. Before jay could even mutter a word out, you left him.

You looked around, your parents weren’t home. This was the reality, your parents never cared for you and always took overtime. You were considered a burden. You imagined them actually caring about you. You were hallucinating everything. You let the tears fall. You were on the verge of insanity and this was the first stage or as you call it. You grabbed your phone and dialled your sister.

“hey big sis, what’s wrong?” sana, your little sister, says.

“can i come over to grandma’s house?”

“oh big sis, are okay?”

“no. i think i’m going insane.”

“come over.” you say. you ended the call and grabbed your things. You turned back to the house and just left. your little sister was staying with your grandparents since your parents couldn’t take care of her. She’s been living here since birth but still goes to your school.

You made it to your grandparents house. Your little sister lets you in. she hugs you.

“did mom and dad do something?” you slammed the pills on the desk. Your little sister’s eyes widened.

“insomnia pills?” you nod.

“They forced me to take this after i talked about not being able to sleep.”

“why can’t you sleep?”

“The pressure, they want me to be the best when clearly i already try my best. I’ve topped the class but they want me to top the school? I can’t do that sana, i’m not as smart as others.”

“Unnie…” sana holds you close. Your phone rings, sana goes to pick it up after seeing that it was your mom.

“hello mom? Oh she’s with me at grandma’s house. she just wants to visit me, it’s almost dark out, let her stay with me. Fine.” she ends the call.

“mom wants you home.”

“but i don’t want to.” your little sister holds your face gently.

“hey unnie, you’ll be fine. Just leave the pills here. Go home, if you can’t sleep, call me or facetime me. Keep talking to me.”

“You have to get to bed.”

“I’ll talk to grandma about this. You don’t have to worry.” sana says. You smiled a little at her and wipes the tears that were still falling.

“Can’t believe i’m the older sister.” sana chuckles at your words.

“you’ve comforted me with riki, now it’s my turn.” you hugged her once more.

The walk home was dreadful. You hated this. You made it to your front door, you were hesitant to go in. one step in and suddenly a hand reached out for you. His eyes were practically glowing red with anger.

“Follow me.” jay says. He drags you over to his house, ignoring his little sister’s questioning. You made it over to his room. He clicks on a few buttons and the bookshelf reveals an opened passageway.

Jay settles you down on the couch that was in the room. It was a pretty big room, one bed, a couch, tv with consoles and a bathroom. A man cave as you’d describe it.

“Why are you bringing me here? My mom requested for me to be back home.” you stood up to face jay. “Don’t you know this is kidnapping.” he turns to you and comes closer, you fell back on the couch.

“Don’t go home.” he says.

“Why?” jay sighs.

“(name), i know what happened.”

“how do you know? we aren’t even close.” one click of a remote reveals the computer and many other tech stuff.

“I know you’re not dumb. You know i do shady work so you know i’m capable of finding anything out.” this tension, it felt weird.

“(name), please stop.”

“why do you even care about me. you know my life is horrible. I don’t understand why, do you always help me out. You’re not the jay i know in my dreams.”

“(name), we can get through this together.” you scoffed at his words.

“you can’t help me. I’d rather be erased from this planet.”

“don’t say that.” jay clenches his jaw.

“why? it’s true, i would rather be gone because nobody cares about me.” jay pulls up and closer by your waist.

“I care about you (name).” was all he says before he pulls you into a romantic kiss. His phone rings. He ignores it and when it rings for the 3rd time, jay pulls back groaning. “sorry babe, duty calls.” you blushed.

“you can stay at my house for a bit. I’m moving out with my sister soon. My dad is planning something on her, i just know it.” he sends you a wink before answering the call.

He didn’t leave the room so you could hear him talking but you didn’t care about what he was talking about, you were staring at him. jay notices you staring at him and so he goes over to peck your forehead.

“no i’m not fucking someone. that kiss sound was just me kissing my girlfriend. yes, i have a girlfriend jAEyUn.” jay rolls his eyes. “yeah, sure i’ll be there and stop making kissing sounds fucker.” jay ends the call and turns to you.

“I have to go, the boys are calling me over. stay here okay? Don’t answer any calls from your parents. your sister is fine, just not your parents. We wouldn’t want them to find you.”

“jay?”

“yes?” you grabbed his arm and pecked his lips.

“stay safe.” he smiles. “hey, why are you smiling. aren’t you the heartless killer? you’ve killed a bunch of people with a cold gaze.” you say.

“well, when your girlfriend is being so adorable…” you pushed him slightly.

“just go jay.” you say flustered.

“See you later.”

He didn’t come home that night and you wondered why but you understood, he was probably doing some late night things. The next morning, you were woken up with a kiss. You whined.

“jay, go away.”

“my beautiful girlfriend. we need to get out of here. I got us tickets.”

“Tickets to?” you rubbed your eyes.

“australia.” that’s when you really woke up.

“a-australia??”

“we need to run, jungwon and my sister are staying at his grandparent’s house right now. The other boys are waiting in the jet.”

“but my clothes and things.”

“Already raided your room, babygirl.” jay smirks.

“Did you see something you weren’t supposed to see.”

“maybe just your panti-” you glared at him, “okay,  i was kidding.”

“Pervert.”

“I was joking babe.”

“help me up.”

“Who knew you’d be such a baby.” jay says.

“who knew you’d be such a simp for me.”

“I’m not a simp.”

“are you sure jongseong.”

“how did you find out my korean name?”

“you point over to papers on the desk.”

“you do realise there are papers over there that have your name written on there.”

“so you were snooping around?” jay raises his brow.

“no.”

“Oh now you’re lying. Why don’t i punish you.” jay starts tickling you. You giggled.

“jay! stop!!” you tried to say in between laughs and screams.

Jay’s phone rings and so he stops to pick it up.

“hey.” places it on speaker mode.

“get your ass here.” sunghoon says.

“coming over. I was just informing (name).”

“informing or fucking.” jake asks.

“shut the fuck up.” the boys were laughing. “But maybe since she was being a brat…” jay stares at you. your eyes widened.

“YO DON’T DO IT WHILE WE’RE ON CALL WTF. WE WERE KIDDING.” jake yells. jay leans forward.

“jay.” you warn him. He smirks and only leans forward.

“YAH END THE CALL BEFORE YOU TWO DO IT. WE DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING.” heeseung yells. Jay ends the call. He pecks your lips.

“let’s get you into the shower.”

“You won’t do anything right?”

“Well…”

“jongseong.” you sternly told him.

“I'm joking.” you roll your eyes.

jay park, a cold hearted criminal but a fool for you.

[kindatired]

Genshin Impact: First Impression

I know, "You just NOW getting into Genshin after four years?'

Well, I didn't want to play on my phone so I waited to buy a laptop. I did bought a MacBook for school but then I found out that even though this game runs on IOS it doesn't run on MacOS...

(I should've known since the game isn't on the Switch...

Why most of the games I want to play isn't playable on the devices I have- Anyways back to the point.

I just finish Mondstadt in Genshin and so far I really like the story which makes me excited for what they have in store in Liyue. So this is all my thoughts about the first Archon quest, all in one go.

This chapter was a nice introduction to the world of Tevyat and I like how we already have to worry about two antagonistic groups (The fatui and Abyss Order)

Matter of fact let me list down how I think of each character:

The traveler:

I wish they have more character to them especially during the cutscenes. Despite being the protagonist I feel like they’re just in the backseat most of the time with the exception of them needing to action scenes. (Due to this my version of the traveler is that they're snarky but their heart is in the right place.) But I like how they showed us what the other sibling is doing because most stories they will have it a mystery right before the final arc

Paimon:

She’s cute but also WHERE IS HER PARENTS? At the start, she said that she was saved from drowning and I was like “Who was watching you?? Do you have any friends or anything?” I truly believe she will be a plot point in the story considering she can float around and have a space aesthetic to her

Venti:

I really like how mysterious he was at the start of the story and then later we see how much of a doofus he is. (Not saying he's dumb but carefree) Despite not wanting to be a ruling god, he still cares for his city in his own way. I don’t know why but if you mix Pit and Palutena together and then boom there’s Venti.

Amber:

I love her design so much. It's simple yet effective especially with the red bow. I feel like the team knew this too which is why she comes with her own plushie which is so freaking cute! Her character quests is fun too when she taught us to get our own glider's license. I don't know why but she gives the first classmate you befriend in class energy (Probably because she is the first person beside Paimon that we met in the game)

Kaeya:

I’m down bad I like how he has a laidback personality yet he’s always behind the scenes. Despite the front he puts up, you know he’s doing something else. Kind of wish we get to see more of him but I’m satisfied with what we got

Lisa:

At first I thought she was going to be a flirt she kinda is But I found it funny how she’s has a “I don’t have time with this bs” attitude on her side quest but still have a lot of patience for people's BS at times. I can't exactly remember but I think when she was trying to find all the overdue books, she went "I might as well make it fun" and brought the traveler and Paimon along too.

Jean:

Once I take a step back and think of all the things she had to deal with during this arc, it was definitely something. Abyss Order, The Dragon, The Fatui and trying to keep the citizens calm. She doesn’t get enough credit where it’s due. There's this one line delivery in the English version, I can't exactly point out when but it was about how the Fat couldn't get the upper hand in the situation. I don't know why but her tone of voice was passive aggressive, like she was praying on their downfall.

Diluc:

Mix opinions on him due to him sending us to find four of those ice flowers and I had to spend a hour and thirty minutes trying to find the fourth one. So yeah I have bitter feelings about that Serious note, he's probably my favorite character in Mondstadt if we're not including Amber and Kaeya. Bro is the Batman of the game, they even call him the Dark knight

Abyss Ice Mage:

Yeah I dedicated a whole section to this NPC because Imagine being electrocuted by Lisa and flamed by Diluc within a week. Like bro was put in the wringer (rightfully so). Kinda hoped they appear in the future story so this trend of Ice Mage being comedically abused continues.

My thoughts of the story:

I thought the first archon quest of the story is neat. It has nothing too spectacle as it works as a exposition to the world of Teyvat and it done that job very well.

The twist of knowing where the traveler's sibling is doing was definitely something I never thought would happen. Usually in most stories, they would have the sibling in prison but nope.

Your sibling is doing fine just helping out the big bad organization that is trying to destroy Teyvat.

Now this may be a reach but I like how each character has the freedom of accomplishing their goals by their own way.

First you have the traveler, by default they have the freedom of not being born in Teyvat as they are not from this world. Because of this, they have the ability to use more than one element. Another note is that because the traveler isn't bound by the nation's rules as they wasn't raised in Teyvat, they're always the person with a third option, sort of like a spectator...

is this why they're so quiet? So he can hear the opinions of others before making their own conclusions???

Paimon also has freedom as she doesn't have a parental figure which allows her to tag along, traveler on their quests.

Moving on to the people of Mondstadt, even within the Knights of Favonius who are under strict codes, handle tasks using their own method.

Example of this is the uniforms.

While Amber, Lisa, Kaeya, and Jean share the same motifs as being in the same group, their uniforms are completely different. You know how in magical girl shows, where you have sailor moon, where every soldier wears the same design but different color palette? Then there are other shows like Magica Madoka, where the girls where completely different outfits? The knights of favonius fits the latter, with the exception of the NPCs.

Even the way they handle tasks are different. Amber make sure she does her best to follow the rules but with a bit a flare. Lisa is a tad strict but her approach is passive. Kaeya always tries to find a loophole in the situation to see the whole picture. (Example: Him "staying behind" in the city, to get more information about the Abyss Order). Jean who follows the rules, but know there are times when the rules have to be bend.

Then you have the outliners like Diluc and Venti who are not apart of the knights. Diluc doesn't trust the knights to completely solve the problem so he acts as a vigilante, to pick up the pieces they fail to notice.

Venti who is the god of freedom, decided to not rule his region like the other archons. Instead, he watches it from afar, like the guardian he is, and steps in when the time is right.

All these characters are different in one way or another but they all come together to work together because they all share a common goal. Still even if you do things your own way, you still have to bear the responsibility of your actions.

Venti was too nonchalant in his approach of protecting his region which resulted in a Harbinger, La Signora, taking his Gnosis.

I say he was nonchalant because he was focus on the current problems of his country, which was storm bringer, and not future problems such as the Fatui. Because he wasn't focus on them, he let his guard down when the problem with storm bringer was solved.

I know this may be a stretch and I'm just writing what pops up in my head but that's what I got from the message of the archon quest.

Speaking of La Signora, how the hell did no one saw her attacking Venti and traveler or at the very least heard it? I know Barbara did but you're telling me that only ONE person heard that shit?!

So after talking to Venti it appears that we have to go to every seven regions to find the traveler's siblings. Or in this case, try to convince them to not destroy this world.

The fuck do we look like Pokemon Trainers?... Because I can sing the theme songs if you want

Either way, I had fun with the story. Gamplay-wise... I'm not really much of a gamer myself. I don't go into the mechanics of the game.I play fighting game, barely knowing the combos and just smash buttons to win

However, I can say the gameplay of Genshin is easy to get into. Unfortunately, it's a rpg so I have to farm for materials... yay, I guess. But it's not as bad as Fate Grand Order, Fate grand order farming system is a shit storm especially considering how it's a turn based but doesn't have a auto-farm system.

(for those who want to get into the story of FGO, just look it up on Youtube, do not play the game. )

When exploring, I often hesitate of where I go, because the game doesn't want you to explore said region yet, They will send Paimon telling you "Let's explore that later" only to yeet you off the cliff.

Speaking of Gameplay Paimon, she always setting us up. There was this purple spot, and she told us to blow it away to see what it is, only for it to be the eye of the storm... Its not like it was hard but it was annoying to fight it.

At least she let us control the time though.

Overall, I had fun with the game, I'm looking forward for Liyue and thank you for reading all of this as I was writing as I go so I know there is MANY grammar errors in this review.

Can't wait for Liyue because then I will get to see the character that convinced me to play the game.

[pixelchills]

Not sure if you've been asked but have you read any good sun/moon or sun/moon/y-n fics lately or have any you recommend? I'm in the process of reading yours. So far so good!

Hi! Sorry it took me a couple of days to answer this, I had to actually think really hard of some of my favourite fics to recommend, as so many of the on-going ones have been abandoned for months, but I personally like multichapter fics over one-shots. So, anyways.

None of my recommendations are Sun/Moon/Reader fics, because I do not read reader-inserts. Besides one Solar/Reader fic based on my own AU, all the other fics are Sun/Moon (mostly romantic, but I have a couple of platonic ones I like as well!)

My current favourite on-going fic is "Yellow" by Haru1027: Moon gets a new human partner to do his nightly patrols with him, and Sun doesn't like how the girl acts around Moon. She is literally trying to steal Moon from Sun! Sun and Moon are in an established relationship here. I love this fic because Sun's anxiety, Moon's obliviousness, and the unnamed nightguard's character are so well written and I've been on the edge of my seat every time a new chapter gets posted because I'm so scared of what she will try to do next to mess with Sun's love. Moon is obviously a very adoring and loving boyfriend, but the girl keeps coming up with a lot of stuff that just stings right into poor Sunny's heart! (CW: Has smut in some chapters.)

The next fic I'm not completely sure if it's still continuing or not, since it hasn't been updated for a while, is "Runaway Robots" by Made_Of_Galaxies: Sun overhears that he and Moon are about to get decommissioned. Moon takes forcefully over their body, and runs away. The story focuses on their survival in the outside world; they need a place to stay, a way to hide, and a spot to charge. I love this fic because their relationship is so cute. Both of them are written in a way that I personally headcanon them to be, and they're just so sweet with each other my heart literally melts. The adventure and slight angst add nicely to the story.

The next fic is "Long Distance In The Same Body" by SplatteredRaccoon, though, I'm not sure if it has been abandoned. It has a short prequel, "I'll Be Waiting, When You Wake Up...". Sun and Moon lose their headlink connection due to their new body upgrades after the fire. Thankfully, the new staff is nice enough to gift them a phone! They start recording videos for each other. The fic is very cute and has that sort of silly miscommunication tease of both of them obviously pining over each other, but being too shy to admit it aloud. Some Sun-sided jealousy is added as well, which I always find interesting to read.

This one is not a ship-fic, but more of a parental/sibling relationship. "Big Brother Moon" by NightingaleWitch7: Moondrop is an advanced Daycare robot good at his job. But he starts to get stressed, and it ends up in an accident where the Daycare needs to be closed for a while, and his supervisor starts to look for another helping hand for him. Moondrop thinks he doesn't need it, but the higher-ups think the opposite. After sneaking around the Plex while being bored due to the Daycare being closed, Moondrop stumbles upon a small robot baby in his supervisor's workshop. He takes the baby to himself, eventually naming it Sundrop. Moondrop's caretaking code clearly was playing some tricks on him, as he tries to accompany himself with the new, adorable baby bot he literally stole while the Daycare goes through its renovations. Baby Sundrop is literally the most adorable thing in the world. This fic is very slow-paced, and I was actually struggling a little bit at first because of my short attention span, but now I'm waiting for the new chapters a lot because Moondrop is written in a very nice and funny way, and baby Sundrop really makes me want to get a baby robot on my own... XD

Another fic that can be read either romantic or platonic is a oneshot, "Be Still" by QueenEvac: Sun is ADHD and ASD coded, and can't sit still to appreciate the world around him. Moon helps him, and it is just so fricking cute.

Another oneshot recommendation is "Love of Mine" by RanniParty: This is literally in my bookmarks as "Re-read when u need fluff". After the fire destroys the Pizzaplex, Sun wakes up, but he is alone in his body, without Moon is his code. He grieves over his other half, only to see him walk through the door in his own, separate body. The fluff in this is so immaculately cute, this fic is my rainy-day saviour.

And here are some explicit/adult-content fics that I'd recommend for adult readers:

"Redeeming the Stinky Man" by quixotic_calamity: The Solar x Reader fic I mentioned. Now, as I am not a big fan of reader-inserts, nor am I into smelly mutants, but chapter 2 of this fic literally made me simp for my own stinky character. Quix did an amazing job writing him so well, and the story is set very nicely in the universe, even though it's mostly just going to be smut for the two last chapters. So far, Quix has only posted the first chapter, but I've already read the second one since she sent it to me privately, and it is very... interesting and Solar-like. Boy just needs a bath and a reward- I know this isn't Sun/Moon/Reader, but more of Eclipse/Reader.

Another smut fic from Quix is "Blackberries and Lavender", which I'll soon post separately as its own post too. This is also from my Animutant AU, and after reading it, I've decided to make it canon to the universe. It's a oneshot about Moondrop overcoming his trauma of 'being not pure' and hating his vagina due to the past he had with El Chip. Sunrise helps him to gain the trust and worth of his body back in a very Sun-typical way. The fic is absolutely adorable, and despite being a sex fic, it is so fluffy your teeth will rot worse than Solar. Sun and Moon are perfectly in-character, which makes it so perfect to fit the AU Canon.

The next, possibly still on-going(?) NSFW fic is "All's fair in Robo-Dicks and War" by LavalampGoldfish: This fic is, as the name suggests, technically about robot genitals. It's written from Monty's POV, but Sun and Moon play kind of an important role in this. Monty loses a bet and is forced to go to the weirdo-land (Daycare). When he sneaks in he sees Sun and Moon having sex. The fic follows Monty's inner and outer struggles of trying to understand WHY the Daycare attendants have dicks, who gave them to them, and can he have one too. The fic is so funny and well-written, I am in love how (to my own headcanons) accurately this fic describes the relationships between the characters. I would lie if I didn't say my own fic was inspired by some of the characteristics given to the characters in this fic. The parts where Sun and Moon show up are so adorable, Moon is SO overprotective of his precious Sunshine, and Sun just wants to be friends with everyone. I don't wanna spoil too much, but reading Sun and Moon from someone who dislikes them POV is a refreshing experience. The humour is really top-tier in this one as well.

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Here's my recommendation list, I hope you like it! :>

[cult-of-the-placeholder]

Uhhhh so. I can't draw, so please don't throw rocks at me 😅 is anyone gonna see this? DUNNO. But I'm throwing it into the void anyway

Behold: 4 cute babies for me to traumatize with my War on the Lamb AU

This AU wouldn't exist without @heketsbroodau and their amazing fics. Go read them! Literally right now! All of them! Every single one!!!!!!!

The general idea this WotL AU works with goes as follows:

- The demigod children of the bishops (cousins), quailing and listless in the wake of their parents' slaughter, decide to counter attack and wage war on the lamb for ruining their lives and killing the family they loved so dearly

- In each brood, one was voted amongst the siblings to take up the Crowns to use their power to lead the vengeance quest (because the crowns are at least partially sentient, I imagine that they vanished when their bearers died to keep themselves from being ceased)

- The children have mostly been raising themselves since the lamb destroyed... literally everything

- They're planning to essentially use one of themselves as a sacrifice: taking up the Red Crown and agreeing to be locked away in eternal banishment to prevent it from ever causing trouble and strife again

Though their ages when each Bishop died varies, they are in order: Adami, Ylindri, Phereo, and finally No Name. When Shamura dies, their ages go as follows: 19 (Adami), 14 (Ylindri), 12 (Phereo), No Name (9). When the story kicks off they'll all likely be in their 20s but I haven't decided fully yet.

Adami:

As the oldest amongst the cousins, she feels it is the duty of her and her siblings to look after the younger ones. She loves them all very much, every, single, one. She and her dad were really close, and though she didn't have his aptitude for magic she was a born scientist at heart. She was always tucked away in the temple labs, fussing with bacteria cultures and scribbling in her notebooks. Thoroughly enjoyed Kallamar's genetics hobby, and still has the the very first genome they ever wrote together memorized

When he died, she and her siblings all felt it. They heard the commotion and tried so, so hard to get to him, but Kallamar had cast a magic ward on the temple's inner sanctum, preventing his children from entering or even coming near, not trusting that Narinder's appetite for destruction wouldn't extend to his little ones. He was right, and only after he'd been dead for several hours did the barrier fade

Adami wrote her own speech for his funeral but was crying too hard to deliver it, so it fell to her older sibling to speak on her behalf. She was very much a daddy's girl, and prays at his shrine almost every day, wishing for a peaceful afterlife for him, begging her uncle to be kind (though she knows he won't be)

She splits the Blue Crown with one of her siblings: she's the best scientific mind they've got and is therefore excellent for inflicting biowarfare, but she's got -3 magical ability and so whenever there's need for mass healing or protective magic, it goes to her sibling

Would've probably become a very sweet, bubbly person if not for losing Kallamar. She's a lot more reserved these days, but is still generally pretty peppy when excited about something

Ylindri:

As mentioned above she's the most unbalanced of Shamura's children: meaning, while their domain is wisdom and war, she skewed heavily toward the first one. The majority of the spiderlings (eleven of them in total) are right in the middle, wielding their brains and brawn as one. There's only one other severe skew like Ylindri: her older sister, who's very skewed toward war

A scholar first and foremost, she spent countless days studying medicine and old divine texts trying to find a way to help her Lifegiver's brain damage. She regularly helped change their bandages

Worried they might forget them all, Ylindri wove her Lifegiver a special band of spider silk, which each of their names and a prayer for health delicately woven in. Her hope was that their love would stay with Shamura easier, and might help them feel better. Shamura wears it on their 4th wrist

In public Ylindri calls Shamura her Lifegiver, in private they are Ama

Very softspoken, and thoroughly heartbroken by Shamura's death. Tried to stop them from going to meet the lamb in the sanctum, but their mind had slipped again and Shamura didn't truly recognize her in that moment

Phereo:

Leshy's thirdborn child and second daughter. Is the only girl to have wings but has sworn off flying after Leshy's death

They were really close, and Leshy actually died while the children were in their first chrysallis (they're demigodlings. They undergo multiple metamorphoses in their lives), so when she emerged she and her siblings were greeted by the sorrowful Witness and the earth-shattering news that they had been orphaned

They preserved Leshy's remains so that his childreb could attend the funeral, but Phereo didn't go. She couldn't bear the thought. She was so terrified to make her chrysallis because everyone knows that girls don't have wings, and the only thing that got her to start spinning was her father's promise to be ready to recieve her when she'd emerged, and the whispered secret of, "You're just as I was. You'll be fine." After that, she doesn't want to appear in public, doesn't want anyone to see her, and spends all her time locked in her room mourning the loss of Leshy

She's got hardcore depression in wake of her dad's death. Everything is unstable and scary and she feels so lost and out of sorts. Years pass and her mental health stabilizes but doesn't improve: when the cousins start planning their war and how to defeat the Red Crown for good, she offers her body to the cause. She'll hsve to be banished and locked away, for all eternity. If it will avenge Leshy's death and let her go to a place where she can forget that she exists, then she's happy to do it

Someone get this worm therapy smh

No Name:

Someone seriously help me name him I've gone through like 5 names and none feel right 😭

The smallest, height wise and age wise. He hates it

This froggy is a MAMA'S BOY. He was very, very close with Heket, and loved her more than life itself. She was his mother, after all--there was no one in the world he loved more. The whole gaggle of froglets found Heket's still cooling corpse in the Temple sanctum, and just. Basically did Simba and mufasa. Just kinda snuggled against her and begged her to get up, to heal, to be ok

I don't have a whooole lot of development for him but he's generally pretty quiet and brooding. Very angy. Late teenage angst when thebwar starts but also his mom was murdered by the guy they're waging war on so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regardless. He's not having a good time. Eats his feelings a lot and is quietly hoping the war kills him

Was voted among his siblings to bear the Yellow Crown and he despises it. It feels so wrong, like the desecration of his mother's memory, to have him stand in her place and wear that which rightfully belongs to her and no one else. Prays to the crown every morning before he puts it on, asking his mother's forgiveness and hoping to serve her memory well

[tripleyeeet-archive]

My brain has been rotting with Romero and Wyll so buckle in, it's gonna be a bumpy ride in infodump land.

To refresh, Romero is a bard, one son of the famous bard Gerhart Tulb, who left a lot of families behind on his own adventures. Gerhart reconciled with his lovers, married most of them, and built a large house for his kids and partners to live in. Anyway,

Wyll is an only child. He's used to a small, compact family. He would love a kid or two of his own one day, but the idea of a large family (especially one as large as Romero's, with ~11 parents and ~14 or so kids) isn't really on his mind.

In comes Romero, somewhere-in-the-middle-child of a huge family, who isn't used to having a small family. He get married to Wyll after the tad-venture and lives with Wyll, helping with politics and social reforms where he can. But it's empty. Too empty. Romero is literally begging to fill the space up as quickly as possible because it's off-putting for him. He's used to taking care of his little siblings and helping in family matters.

They take the time to settle into home living again, take time to really talk and think things through and just enjoy life and love. And then they adopt a few kids. One to start, but then comes another, and another. I haven't actually put much thought into their kids, but at least one is definitely a tiefling.

Wyll is the sweet, always gentle parent. He'll teach his kids how to fight and be brave and all that, but he never hurts them in their little sparring sessions. Not even a scratch. He's busy with being a Duke, but he always finds time for his family. It's everything he could have dreamed of and more.

Romero, on the other hand, pure chaos. He's picking up the kids and swinging them around by their feet, carrying them around everywhere under his arm and slung over his shoulder. Their littlest, the tiefling, he's more careful with, but even then he's pretending to toss her into the Chionthar. He teaches them music and instruments, and magic. He's a little shocked if any of them don't want to take up music - almost his entire family are bards, to the point it feels like it runs through their blood. But he takes it in stride, trying to be a good dad and help them get where they wanna go.

I also imagine Wyll and Romero spar each other with their rapiers to put on a show for the kids. Who's to say if Romero cheats by trying to distract him?

They both tell the kids stories each night. Usually they switch off, but sometimes one is busy and the other takes over. Romero's a great story teller without music, but he loves getting to play his lute while traveling from bed to bed as he sings about their adventures. He'll also tell them about the Blade of Frontiers, about the Blade's triumphs, but he doesn't tell them one of their dads is the famed hero. He leaves that to Wyll, because he left the Blade behind to become Wyll Ravengard, Duke of Baldur's Gate. It's not his place to put the mask back on.

I've rambled on for long enough, but!! They deserve a family and kids and all the happiness in the world!!! I love themmm <33333 I'm currently 3k words into a smutfic for them and it is the sweetest thing istfg

If you want me to infodump again, I have so many thoughts on Wyll's "forgive but never forget" versus Romero's "never forget, never forgive, especially if it wronged someone I love"

Also bc idk if you saw it, here's some art I did perfectly displaying their parenting styles okay I'm done lmao

first of all, LOVE ROMERO TO DEATH. i remember when you first mentioned him to me (i think it was the scene where he's helping take care of wyll's horns?) i was kicking me feet. they're so cute together. and the idea of them growing alongside each other and getting the opportunity to raise their own in the way that they want must be so healing for wyll?

like, i know this is about romero but i just have to mention the idea of wyll getting to provide his kids with the love he didn't receive growing up has my heart HURTING. that man went through hell and back and came out humble and loving and just???? he'd be the best dad.

same with romero though. in a different way, obviously. but nonetheless in one that both of their parenting styles i think would compliment the other.

also. screaming at the pics you've provided. that meme format is one of my favourites. <3

[loonie-and-proud]

a dream of a dream

Elliot has six when he first dream about Narnia. He was twelve when he found it.

Elliot was six when an enormous thunderstorm wake him up in the middle of the night, he jump out of his bed and run to his parents bedroom. His mother Susan trapped him into a hug quickly, she knew how much her boy hated big noises.

The boy snuggles by his mother sides of the bed, the place just a few months ago was occupied by his father.

Susan kiss his forehead and ask him to sleep but when the storm doesn't stop for a couple of hours they decided to get up.

Elliot could see that his mom was tired but she take him to the kitchen and prepare tea anyways, and listen to him talking about how the other boys in the neighborhood make fun of him for being a coward.

"being scare doesn't make you a coward" his mother says.

But is not just the storm. He felt scare almost everyday since his father die. He was scare that her mother could die too and then he'll be alone.

"You know, I got scare too" says Susan after a long silence. Elliot make a sad smile thinking that his mother is just saying things to make him feel better.

"no you're not, you're brave mama" says Elliot taking a sip of his tea "you're a grown up and Simon says grown ups doesn't get scare like little babies... Like me"

"grown ups get scare, baby. Is just... Not about the same things... Or show it the same way"

"were you scare when dad die?"

Elliot could see the way his mom tense her shoulders at the mention of his father, she wasn't really talkative about him since he pass, maybe it hurt too much, maybe she's suffering like him.

"of course"

She murmured. Take a sip of her own tea.

And with a deep breath tell him "just like when a lost your uncles and aunt"

Elliot eyes sparkle with enthusiasm, he heard stories about his mother siblings before, from aunt Alberta in family reunions or old friends of his mother, a lot of stories with no relation between them except that the four of them were really close.

But she never talk about them and eventually people stop asking about them too.

So he wasn't sure if ask would be the best choice right now.

"You know during the war we... We used to play around the house so your aunt Lucy doesn't get scare" she tells with a smile, but not a sad one "I don't really remember who came with it first but... We pretend that we were in this magical land called Narnia where we were kings and queen with no war or adults to tell us what to do"

"how was it?" he ask "Narnia"

She told him about the woods, the creatures, the cities, the nobles and the magic.

About the stones, and the songs, and the caves.

The parties, the food, the friends and the enemies.

She told him about the Lion.

Later that night in the comfort of her mother bed, Elliot dream about that Lion, playing with him in the coast feeling that they know each other for a very long time, deep down in his heart he felt that was true.

Elliot was twelve when his mother was called by the school, he was failing three classes and got into a fight.

He could hear from outside of the principal office how his mother says the teachers that he's not like that and them telling her how she's wrong.

"Don't get me wrong, Mrs Evans" Elliot heard one of his teachers voice, probably the only one who isn't using a angry tone "Elliot is a great kid but he spent too much time daydreaming"

The trip back home was quiet.

Elliot thought that his mom would be more angry, he was expecting a scream or a disappointing look but instead he got silence?

When they enter the house Elliot took the risk of asking.

"mom are you angry?"

Susan sighs "yes, Elliot I'm angry"

She interrupt herself.

So that's why she wast talking, she didn't want to scream at him, she was struggling with how correct Elliot from something she is sure is her fault.

"why on earth did you punch Simon? I thought you were friends"

"he's an idiot. he's cruel and boring and he started!"

"is this about your stories again?"

"MY stories??"

Suddenly the conversation became full screaming.

"You were the one that tell me is good to believe in something and now you're angry because I do it and you don't?!"

"Don't talk to me like that!" she hated when he get like that, it reminds her of Peter in the worst way, so stubborn "You can't spend your life in a fairytale"

"Is not a fairytale! I know!" he scream trying not to cry, it's ok when other kids say things like that but it hurts when is his mother "It's not my fault that everyone is death inside!"

Susan laugh from exasperation, now he sounds like Lucy, like the morning before the accident when she didn't want to go on that train.

"Oh my God are you even hearing yourself now?! You sound... You sound..."

She didn't want to say crazy. He didn't want to heard crazy.

Of all people, not by his mom.

So he run to his room and slammed the door behind him, let himself fall at the floor with his back in the door.

He cried for a long time, hugging himself. He felt alone, like there was no one in this world who understands him, not even the woman who he though could always count.

She was worried, he guess, it most be hard having him as a son.

Maybe if wasn't here his mom wouldn't have to worry so much, she didn't have anyone to lay on after all.

Elliot crying were interrupted when he felt a cold breeze entering the room, he look up at the window in front of him, the curtains were almost in the roof. He get up decided to close the window when he saw outside.

The woods.

"Imposible" He muttered to himself before going out of the window.

It was Narnia.

[myhauntedsalem]

REAL NURSES SHARE TRUE GHOST STORIES

Don’t Let Them Take Me

The best I have heard is from a nurse who said that one night she was floated to oncology at the hospital where she used to work. She was given a patient who was passing away and had been unconscious for several days. At one point during the night the nurse went into the room and the patient was at the top of the bed and looked at her and said, “Don’t let them take me!” The nurse was freaked out and asked the patient who was going to take her and she said that black thing up there and pointed up in the air. This patient died within minutes.

Calling From the Grave

We had a patient who was always on the call button. You know the type. The nurses have to take turns during the shift answering the call button so the primary can actually do other work.

I work 7pm-7am. He died about 8pm. Oh, the look on his face, like, “How could you let me die!” Like it was our fault. Anyway, family came and gone by 9pm, funeral home gone at 9:30pm. About 10pm, the call button starts going off. I was there – call button going off every 5 minutes.

One of the nurses was a very spiritual girl. At about 2am, after like 4 HOURS OF THIS, nurse Mary snaps, “Enough!”

She walks down and practically screams into the empty room: “Mr. X, you have died. You can’t be in here bothering us anymore. Move along. In the name of Jesus, I’m exorcising you from this plane of existence. Go to the light and be happy!”

And I kid you not, the call button stopped going off then and there.

Time to Die

I don’t know if this qualifies as a ghost story but here it is. I was taking care of a 12 year old with aplastic anemia. A week before she died, every day, at 12:15pm, I would get a cold chill across the back of my neck and the hair there would stand up. I mentioned it to the evening nurse, who was convinced she would die at that time. Several days later, her parents decided to cease all treatment. She lapsed into a coma. At 12 noon, she woke; asked me to hold her up; said goodbye to her parents, grandparents, and siblings; and died in my arms. It was 12:15 pm.

Betty’s Back

I work as a CNA in long term care. We had one resident, “Betty,” who was totally independent. All ADL’s were done on her own and she did fine on her own, never had an incident. The only time she wanted help was showers and then she only wanted you around to make sure she didn’t slip and fall. Betty came down with pneumonia and had to be hospitalized. When she came back she was too weak to do things on her own but too stubborn to ask for help. The last thing the CNA told her before going to bed was “If you want to get up, hit your call light. I’ll come help you.” Of course she didn’t, got rid of the bed alarm, climbed out of bed, and fell. Betty died from the fall. Her bed has been empty since.

The following week the call light for the room went off at night. Thinking it was the resident in bed B I walked down the room to see what she wanted. I walked into the room only to see the call light for bed B and A off, the call light for bed C (Betty’s unoccupied bed) was on. My eyes filled up with tears, I backed out of the room, and made someone else turn the call light off.

Don’t Let Me Die

This is really more of a possession than a ghost story. I was helping another nurse with a patient that had lived a very hard life. He had numerous things going on with him, from cardiac to renal failure. This man was very much afraid to die. Every time his heart monitor beeped, he would just go into a rage screaming, “Don’t let me die! Don’t let me die!” The other nurse and I found out why he didn’t want to die.

About 0200 his cardiac monitor starts alarming V-Tach. We both rush into the room. I am pulling the crash cart behind me. When I get to the room, the other nurse is completely white. This man was sitting about 2 inches above the bed and was laughing. His whole look completely changed. His eyes just had a look of pure evil in them and he had this evil smile on his face. He laughed at us and said, “You stupid b****es aren’t going to let me die are you?” and he laughed again. We were kinda frozen. I did reach up and hit the Code Blue button and when I did the man went into V-fib. He crashed back onto the bed. We started coding him, but after 20 minutes it was called.

Five minutes after the code, several of the code team is in the room cleaning up when this man sits straight up in the bed and says, “You let him die. Too bad.” and then begins laughing. The man collapsed back to the bed. We heard a horrible, agonizing scream (actually every patient in the unit that night commented on the scream), and then you could hear “don’t let me die” being whispered throughout the unit. Every one of the nurses that night was pale and scared. Nobody went anywhere by themselves. By morning the whispers of “don’t let me die” were gone. The night shift nurses had a prayer service in the break room before we left for home and then we all had nightmares for weeks.

[thunderbone]

English

It's not really a birthday drawing, but this drawing is like a birthday present, you know. Furthermore, this drawing is dedicated to all autistic people in the world, as this drawing continues the series of autistic characters that I created. The first drawing in this themed series is a wonderful art that I won from my friend, Tururs, in a art raffle. So if you want to see this art, click here: https://www.tumblr.com/thunderbone/746660868952064000/english-happy-world-autism-awareness-day-this-is

Anyway, I decided to share with you a book that I've been planning to write for a while now. This book is a sequel to Alice in Wonderland, as well as being a "modern version" of the story. My story was inspired by Hook (1991) and Disney's live-action Alice in Wonderland.

This beautiful and wonderful drawing was made by Nicolai, also known as ahdortable on Instagram. In this drawing made by Nicolai, Alice was inspired by American McGee's Alice, while Jack was inspired by Tsaiko Tails, a grown-up version of Tails created by @tsaikonautz, also known as IndigoBeatss. Thank you very much for drawing Alice and Jack/Sunset Fox, the drawing was amazing 💖 If you want to see his drawings, click here: www.instagram.com/ahdortable/

The story revolves around Alice, a 20-year-old girl who lives with her older sister, Elizabeth, and her younger brother, Peter. Their parents died when Peter was 3 years old and Alice was 11 years old, so Elizabeth had to take care of her two brothers. Alice has Asperger's Syndrome, which is already a reason for Elizabeth to be super protective of her.

Because of her atypical mental and emotional condition, Alice is seen as childish and unreliable by her sister, who believes that she is not prepared to be independent and live her adult life because she does not understand anything about the outside world and its dangers, beyond the fact that she has great difficulty expressing her own emotions and recognizing or understanding the feelings and intentions of others.

Because of this, Alice tries to prove her worth to Elizabeth, believing that she can live without depending on her. Alice is very close to her younger brother, Peter, where he loves her very much and sees her as a mother figure, just like Elizabeth. One day, the 3 siblings were traveling on vacation, and headed to a nearby city. However, a deer appeared in the middle of the road, where Elizabeth tried to avoid it but the car ended up overturning.

After the accident, Alice ended up waking up inside a teapot, which, to her great surprise, had been shrunk by the Mad Hatter, who soon returned her to her normal size by giving her a cupcake. The Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Sunset Fox, the Dormouse, the twin siblings Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the Cheshire Cat are reunited with Alice, which leaves her confused at first.

They explain that when she was a child, she once visited Wonderland, where she befriended them. Furthermore, she helped them defeat the Queen of Hearts, as everyone was already tired of her tyranny and her cruel, dictatorial kingdom. Alice remembers a little of this, but she thought everything that happened was just a dream. However, after Alice left and never returned to Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts devised her plan to get her throne back and take revenge on Alice for ending her reign of several years.

It was the queen who made Alice return to Wonderland with her siblings, where she captured them. Alice's old friends barely saved her before the arrival of the Queen of Hearts' subordinates. To make matters worse, Alice's friends are fugitives from the law, as the Queen also wants to take revenge on them at any cost. Knowing that Wonderland and her siblings are in great danger, Alice, with the help of her friends and the White Rabbit (who works for the Queen of Hearts but is secretly on the protagonists' side and is their informant), went to try stop the Queen's evil plans.

During the adventure, Alice gradually remembered her adventures in Wonderland as a child and her friendships with the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the hare, the dormouse, the twins, the rabbit and the fox, the latter who soon becomes her best friend.

There are a few more details that I thought of for this idea, such as the fox. This character does not exist in the original Alice in Wonderland story, he was invented by me. His story is very sad, you know.

His name is Jack and he lived in a forest inhabited by anthropomorphic foxes. However, he has autism, which is a bit serious. I mean, he's not like people who have very severe autism, who are very aggressive, have difficulty speaking, learning, relating to people... He doesn't have this type of autism, which unfortunately is a stereotype , where people think autistic people are retarded.

Let's just say that he is very impulsive, allowing him to do things without thinking twice, in addition to being irritated very easily, and can be a little aggressive. Furthermore, every late afternoon and early evening, Jack became agitated and very anxious for no apparent reason, where he was unable to sleep several times, in addition to being extremely frustrated with his own confusion. Because of this and the fact that he was very different from other foxes (since he was autistic), he suffered a lot of prejudice, being called crazy by many, in addition to receiving the nickname Sunset Fox.

And the worst thing is that no one in Wonderland knows what autism and other types of mental disorders are, which only made the situation even worse. At one point, Jack is abandoned as a child by his parents, who did not accept him the way he is. That poor little fox lived alone for some time, in need. Until one day he was found by the Mad Hatter and his two best friends, the March Hare and the Dormouse. The Mad Hatter decided to adopt that fox, because he felt very sorry for him, saying he understood his pain.

However, the Mad Hatter didn't really understand what Jack was going through, because the Mad Hatter doesn't have autism and he thought Jack was crazy just like him, and having autism is very different from being crazy. In short, the Mad Hatter didn't know what it was like to suffer bullying and prejudice for being different, for being born with an atypical mental and emotional condition.

Despite this, the Mad Hatter went to help the boy. Jack then lived with his adoptive father and his uncle and aunt until then, drinking several cups of tea and living many surreal adventures. Jack loves the Mad Hatter very much and sees him as the father figure he always wanted, as he accepted him the way he is. Jack met Alice when he was 10, while she was 7. When Alice returned to Wonderland, Jack was very happy to see her again.

Throughout the story, Jack opened up to Alice about his atypical mental and emotional condition, and to his great surprise, she understands the prejudice he suffered for being different all these years, as she also has autism just like him. Yes, Jack finally met someone who is just like him and who knows what it's like to live with a mental illness that affects his life. But both will learn that it's okay being different, where both will have pride of their autism and will being positive about being different.

At that moment, Jack started to fall in love with Alice, but he didn't want to admit his feelings to her or anyone else, because he knows that his love for Alice would never work, since she is a human and he is an anthro animal. As the story progressed, I imagined Alice and Jack having a lot of chemistry, where she would also fall in love with him. In the final stretch of the story, he confesses his love for her, but they don't stay together.

Another thing I thought about is that while the other characters have special powers or abilities, Alice is the only one who doesn't have any of these. However, she uses things from Wonderland to her advantage, such as sweets (cakes and cookies) and non-alcoholic drinks (juices and soft drinks) that have the ability to make her look giant or small.

She's like Mario when he eats specific mushrooms to become giant or have super powers, as well as picking up things like that little cape that turns into a superhero cape so he can fly. Another thing I thought about is the possibility of implementing a stalker villain who will make the protagonists' lives hell until the end. He would be like Nemesis from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), where he would be the biggest son of a bitch in history, second to the Queen of Hearts.

I imagined him being the Jabberwocky, a monster from a poem in the book Alice Through the Looking Glass (sequel of the original work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, also written by Lewis Caroll). In my version of this monster, he would be a type of dragon, just like his counterpart from Disney's live-action Alice in Wonderland (2010). He would probably be a monster created by the Queen of Hearts, being programmed to eliminate all the protagonists, including Alice. That's why he chases them until the final stretch of my story and he's definitely going to make everyone angry at him, lol

Furthermore, I also imagined Alice being a rocker/metalhead girl, like me XD That explains why she was wearing a punk leather jacket lol Anyway, what do you think of my story? What should I improve?

Português (Brasil)

Não é bem um desenho de aniversário, mas esse desenho é como um presente de aniversário, sabe. Além disso, esse desenho é dedicado à todas as pessoas autistas no mundo, pois esse desenho continua com a série de personagens autistas que eu criei. O primeiro desenho dessa série temática é uma arte maravilhosa que eu ganhei do sorteio do meu amigo, Tururs. Então caso queiram ver essa arte, cliquem aqui: https://www.tumblr.com/thunderbone/746660868952064000/english-happy-world-autism-awareness-day-this-is

Enfim, resolvi compartilhar com vocês um livro que estou planejando escrever já faz algum tempo. Esse livro é uma continuação de Alice no País das Maravilhas, além de ser uma "versão moderna" da história. A minha história foi inspirada no filme Hook: A Volta do Capitão Gancho (1991) e o live-action Alice no País das Maravilhas da Disney.

Esse desenho lindo e maravilhoso foi feito pelo Nicolai, também conhecido como ahdortable no Instagram. Nesse desenho feito pelo Nicolai, a Alice foi inspirada na Alice de American McGee, enquanto o Jack foi inspirado no Tsaiko Tails, uma versão crescida do Tails criado pela @tsaikonautz, também conhecida como IndigoBeatss. Muito obrigado por desenhar a Alice e o Jack/Raposa do pôr-do-sol, o desenho ficou incrível 💖 Caso queiram ver os desenhos dele, cliquem aqui: www.instagram.com/ahdortable/

A história gira em torno de Alice, uma garota de 20 anos que vive com a sua irmã mais velha, Elizabeth, e seu irmão mais novo, Peter. Os pais deles morreram quando Peter tinha 3 aninhos e Alice tinha 11 anos de idade, onde Elizabeth teve que cuidar de seus dois irmãos. Alice tem Síndrome de Asperger, o que já é um motivo pra Elizabeth ser super protetora em relação à ela.

Por causa de sua condição mental e emocional atípica, Alice é vista como infantil e não confiável por sua irmã, que acredita que ela não está preparada pra ser independente e viver sua vida adulta por não entender nada do mundo exterior e seus perigos, além do fato dela ter muita dificuldade em expressar suas próprias emoções e de reconhecer ou entender os sentimentos e intenções dos outros.

Por causa disso, Alice tenta provar o seu valor pra Elizabeth, acreditando que ela pode sim viver sem depender dela. Alice é muito próxima ao seu irmão caçula, Peter, onde ele a ama muito e a vê como uma figura materna, assim como Elizabeth. Um dia, os 3 irmãos estavam viajando de férias, do qual se dirigiam para uma cidade próxima. Porém, um cervo apareceu no meio da estrada, onde Elizabeth tentou desviar mas o carro acabou capotando.

Após o acidente, Alice acabou acordando dentro de um bule de chá, que para sua grande surpresa, ela havia sido encolhida pelo Chapeleiro Louco, que logo fez ela voltar ao seu tamanho normal dando à ela um bolinho. O Chapeleiro Louco, a Lebre de Março, a Raposa do Pôr-do-sol, a Arganaz, o casal de irmãos gêmeos Tweedledum e Tweedledee e o Gato Risonho se reencontram com Alice, o que a deixa confusa de início.

Eles explicam que quando ela era uma criança, ela já visitou o País das Maravilhas, onde ela fez amizade com eles. Além disso, ela os ajudou a derrotar a Rainha de Copas, pois todo mundo já estava cansado da tirania dela e do seu reino ditador e cruel. Alice se lembra um pouco disso, mas ela achava que tudo o que aconteceu era só um sonho. Porém, depois que Alice foi embora e nunca mais voltou ao País das Maravilhas, a Rainha de Copas arquitetou o seu plano de conseguir de volta o seu trono e se vingar da Alice por ter acabado com o seu reinado de vários anos.

Foi a rainha que fez Alice voltar para o País das Maravilhas com seus irmãos, onde ela capturou eles. Por pouco, os antigos amigos da Alice a salvaram antes da chegada dos subordinados da Rainha de Copas. Pra piorar a situação, os amigos da Alice são foragidos da lei, pois a Rainha também quer se vingar deles a qualquer custo. Sabendo que o País das Maravilhas e os seus irmãos correm um grande perigo, Alice, com a ajuda de seus amigos e do Coelho Branco (que trabalha pra Rainha de Copas mas secretamente está do lado dos protagonistas e é o informante deles), foram tentar impedir os planos malignos da Rainha.

Durante a aventura, aos poucos a Alice foi se lembrando de suas aventuras no país das Maravilhas quando criança e de sua amizade com o Gato Risonho, o Chapeleiro Louco, a lebre, a arganaz, os gêmeos, o coelho e a raposa, este último que logo se torna o seu melhor amigo.

Tem mais alguns detalhes que pensei pra essa ideia, como por exemplo a tal raposa. Esse personagem não existe na história original do Alice no País das Maravilhas, ele foi inventado por mim. A história dele é bem triste, sabe

Ele se chama Jack e vivia em uma floresta habitada por raposas antropomórficas. Porém, ele tem autismo, que é um pouco grave. Quer dizer, ele não é igual a pessoas que têm autismo bastante grave, que são muito agressivas, têm dificuldade na fala, no aprendizado, em se relacionar com as pessoas... Ele não tem esse tipo de autismo, que infelizmente é um estereótipo, onde pessoas pensam que autistas são retardados.

Digamos que ele é muito impulsivo, deixando-o fazer coisas sem pensar duas vezes, além de se irritar muito facilmente, podendo ser um pouco agressivo. Além disso, em todos os finais da tarde e início das noites, Jack ficava agitado e bastante ansioso sem motivo aparente, onde ele não conseguia dormir várias vezes, além de ficar extremamente frustrado com sua própria confusão. Por causa disso e do fato dele ser muito diferente das outras raposas (já que ele era autista), ele sofria muito preconceito, sendo chamado de louco por muitos, além de receber o apelido de Raposa do Pôr-do-sol.

E o pior é que ninguém no País das Maravilhas sabe o que é autismo e outros tipos de transtornos mentais, o que só piorou ainda mais a situação. Em um dado momento, Jack é abandonado ainda criança por seus pais, que não o aceitaram do jeito que é. Aquela pobre raposinha viveu sozinha por algum tempo, passando por necessidades. Até que um dia ele foi encontrado pelo Chapeleiro Louco e seus dois melhores amigos, a Lebre de Março e a Arganaz. O Chapeleiro Louco resolveu adotar aquela raposa, pois ele ficou com muita pena dele, dizendo que entendia a sua dor.

No entanto, o Chapeleiro Louco não entendia de fato o que Jack estava passando, pois o Chapeleiro Louco não tem autismo e ele achava que o Jack é louco assim como ele, sendo que ter autismo é muito diferente de ser louco. Resumidamente, o Chapeleiro Louco não sabia como é sofrer bullying e preconceito por ser diferente, por ter nascido com uma condição mental e emocional atípica.

Apesar disso, o Chapeleiro Louco foi ajudar o garoto. Jack então passou a viver com o seu pai adotivo e seus tios até então, tomando várias xícaras de chá e vivendo muitas aventuras surreais. Jack ama muito o Chapeleiro Louco e o vê como uma figura paterna que sempre quis, pois ele o aceitou do jeito que é. Jack conheceu a Alice quando tinha 10 anos, enquanto ela tinha 7. Quando Alice voltou ao País das Maravilhas, Jack ficou muito feliz em vê-la de novo.

Ao longo da história, Jack desabafou pra Alice sobre a sua condição mental e emocional atípica, e para sua grande surpresa, ela entende o preconceito que sofreu por ser diferente durante todos esses anos, pois ela também tem autismo assim como ele. Sim, Jack finalmente conheceu alguém que é igual à ele e que sabe como é viver com um transtorno mental que afeta sua vida. Mas ambos aprenderão que tá tudo bem ser diferente, onde ambos terão orgulho de seu autismo e serão positivos por serem diferentes.

Nesse momento, Jack começou a se apaixonar pela Alice, mas ele não queria admitir seus sentimentos pra ela e pra ninguém, pois ele sabe que o seu amor pela Alice nunca daria certo, já que ela é uma humana e ele um animal antropomórfico/furry. No decorrer da história, eu imaginei a Alice e o Jack tendo muita química, onde ela também se apaixonaria por ele. Na reta final da história, ele confessa o seu amor por ela, mas eles não ficam juntos.

Outra coisa que pensei é que enquanto os outros personagens tem poderes ou habilidades especiais, a Alice é a única que não tem nada disso. Porém, ela usa coisas do País das Maravilhas ao seu favor, como por exemplo os doces (bolos e biscoitos) e bebidas não alcoólicas (sucos e refrigerantes) que tem a capacidade de deixá-la gigante ou pequena.

É tipo o Mário quando come uns cogumelos específicos pra virar gigante ou ter super poderes, além de pegar coisas como aquela capinha que vira uma capa de super herói pra ele voar. Outra coisa que pensei é a possibilidade de implementar um vilão perseguidor que irá infernizar a vida dos protagonistas até o fim. Ele seria igual ao Nemesis do Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999), onde ele seria o grande filho da puta da história, ficando atrás da Rainha de Copas.

Eu o imaginei sendo o Jabberwocky, um monstro de um poema do livro Alice Através do Espelho (continuação da obra original, As Aventuras de Alice no País das Maravilhas, também escrito por Lewis Caroll). Na minha versão desse monstro, ele seria um tipo de dragão, assim como a contraparte dele do live-action do Alice no País das Maravilhas da Disney (2010). Provavelmente ele seria um monstro criado pela Rainha de Copas, sendo programado para eliminar todos os protagonistas, incluindo a Alice. Por isso ele os persegue até a reta final da minha história e com certeza ele vai deixar todo mundo com raiva dele, rsrs

Além disso, eu também imaginei a Alice sendo uma garota roqueira/metaleira, que nem eu XD Isso explica o motivo dela estar usando uma jaqueta de couro punk rsrs Mas enfim, o que acharam da minha história? No que devo melhorar?

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I'll probably doodle these out at some point but here's a Picrew at least 👉👈

Unaek and Sanji:

Two kids. Two girls.

Delphinium Prince. Red hair like her mother with her father's eyebrows (obviously just imagine it because the Picrew doesn't have that option) She's got her mother's fair skin and lots of freckles. Delphi loves the outdoors, is kind to animals, is soft-spoken, and a gentle soul. She loves to cook and surprise her family with dishes straight from Unaek's garden. A lover at heart, but no good at flirting. Luckily, she probably won't need much help in that department. Loves animals and will bring in little stray kittens or field mice or frogs.

Since neither of her parents took their own birth name, she grows up as Delphi Prince. Being named after her father's favorite flower, the blue Delphinium.

Liatris Prince. Takes after her father's blonde hair and a bit less of her mother's freckles. She's the lover and the flirt. Very good at smooth talking and especially loves cooking. (The sisters often combine their talents for gardening and cooking much like their parents did.) More outgoing and flirty of the two, and often the better voice of reason. Also a big animal lover like her parents. She is the sibling that can get out of trouble pretty easily.

Named after some beautiful flowers, also taking the last name Prince. The Liatris flower symbolizes Joy and Happiness.

Unaek and Luffy:

Two kids. One girl, One boy.

Rosie Prince. Named after Unaek's half-sister, Rose. Rose has the innocent face of her mother and the mischievous mind of her father, making her really good at getting into and out of trouble. She's a natural-born leader who likes getting into adventures, especially in nature. She likes going into places she shouldn't be and feels very at home on the land or the sea. She's got a sarcastic mouth and knows how to stand her ground, often being the one to stand up for her siblings if things go wrong, and doesn't mind swinging a fist at someone who's wronging them. She has her father's hair and her mother's eyes and freckles.

She actually alternates her last names. Unaek's married name is Prince, but she also goes by Monkey (D) Rose. She's not sure if she should commit to the middle initial of D, but usually includes it because she likes how it sounds.

Monkey D. Ace has all the fire and leadership as his father. He is energetic and outspoken, loud, and friendly. He cares for many people, whether friends or strangers, and thinks that no animal is too small or strange to care about. He likes bugs and small rodents, has a knack for getting into trouble (which his friends and siblings usually get him out of) and definitely inherited his father's appetite (and metabolism, apparently.)

There was quite a bit of debate over what to name their son, but after many suggestions from both of them, some sweet, some funny (Beetle was an option for quite some time), the couple took one look at their baby boy and Luffy decided right there that he would be Monkey D. Ace.

Jocasta and Usopp:

One kid. One girl.

Mary Erotas. Taking the last name based on the island where her parents fell in love, Mary is as much of an adventurous worrywort as her parents. She's the girl who always has a roll of bandages on her hip pouch, who will always patch up her friends, who brings extra snacks so everyone has something, and will be a shoulder to cry on. Mary is a kind woman, dorky, nerdy, easy to talk to, and a little bit accident prone from time to time, especially as her friends begin trying exceedingly dangerous challenges, but somehow she always ends up joining in anyway, trailing along behind them and clinging to a hand for support. She gets her embellished story-telling from her father.

She was named in honor of the ship that started Usopp's pirating journey, The Going Merry.