#axl’s thoughts

[thrasheraxe]

hetfield x any reader

comfort drabble

going thru it rn and was just thinking about this, this specific era.

leaving it a bit vague so anyone can relate

james had been out all day, tying up business meetings and planning the oncoming tour, leaving you with time to think.

nothing had been particularly wrong that day, you’d just been bottling things up for a while. in fear of stressing him out but things had come back up, memories you’d rather forget from childhood and adolescence.

sat there scrolling through your phone, you sigh and set it down. nothing seemed to be working and you couldn’t get your mind off of family, life and growing up. even though you are young you’d been through a fair bit and neglected to mention it yet since things were early on with james.

feeling tired of not speaking to anyone about things, you just sat there, wallowing almost. the soft smell of james remaining on the pillow next to you.

you grab it and hold it tight, wishing for better days, wishing to be next to him and to tell him everything but you resorted to softly crying into the pillow, burying your face deep in it and taking in the comforting smell.

you hadn’t even noticed james come in and even if you did there was nothing you could do at this point, lost in your own mind.

he sits down slowly next to you, shifting close but not saying a thing yet. you feel the way the mattress sinks down under his weight but you don’t move. you can’t. you don’t want him to see you like this.

he moves over slowly, snaking an arm around your waist and pulling you closer and speaking softly

“hey hey….whats wrong sweetheart?”

you can only shake your head in response, not taking the pillow away from your face as your sobs get a little louder. hugging onto it tighter hoping it would muffle the sound.

he looks down at you softly and strokes your arm before lifting you into his lap, pillow still in your arms. he doesn’t say anything but just presses a comforting kiss to the top of your head.

“beautiful..please talk to me? whats going on?”

you mumble a simple “can’t” your sobs turning into empty cries, the sounds no longer escaping.

he sighs and nods, kissing your head again before carefully prying the pillow out of your arms, you try to fight back but theres no use as his strong arms just press you to his chest, cheek leant against his shoulder.

“it’s okay baby, it’s okay. i won’t ask, just let me hold you. let me help”

“it hurts”

muffling sobs into his shoulder and hugging him back tightly, afraid that if you let go he’d suddenly vanish.

“i know, i know.” he whispers softly, his fingers running through your hair, taking his time to touch every strand and rub at your scalp at times. his hand finally rests at the nape of your neck and he kisses your forehead.

“you’re safe here, just let it out my love”

“you’re safe”

[jounosparticles]

jouno’s eyelashes - a quick analysis

yes im analyzing jouno’s eyelashes. im obsessed with him what can i say.

one thing i’ve noticed throughout my many rereads of jouno’s segments of the manga is that he is actually given eyelashes in a lot of the panels he is present in! often times they’re just thin white lines but they’re definitely there. here are some examples.

now, if we recall back to what harukawa said about eyes a long time ago:

the darker ones eyes are, the more tainted or corrupted a person is. someone who is doing good and/or feeling good may have whiter eyes. to rephrase, one who’s eyes are dark are typically doing something corrupt and/or are in an emotionally bad state. we see this numerous times throughout the manga with many characters, the shade of their eyes changes with their emotion at the time usually.

now what does this have to do with jouno? well, i believe his eyelashes are used to display his intentions since he keeps his eyes closed constantly.

now, there are definitely some exceptions to this. panels where his eyelashes are small could be hard to colour this way, so im looking past a few instances for that purpose.

anyways, i believe looking at his eyelashes in this perspective also hints towards his betrayal of fukuchi, since you can see he has good intent. more on this later.

i'd also like to preface this by reminding you that jouno believed he was in the right with most things he did. he was sure the agency was in the wrong for a long time, times where his lashes were white while dealing with the agency was likely because he believed himself to be doing what is good.

now, starting with his debut in chapter 57, his eyelids are almost completely black as he arrests dazai

his eyelashes appear a bit darker as he torments people i find.

such as shortly after he slices kunikida's notebook and asks tetchou to kill yosano.

one scene i actually want to put a lot of emphasis on here is chapter 78's interaction between jouno and kunikida.

here is his face when he first walks in, he's simply making small talk over how a terrorist attack is awful

we can see his lashes pretty well.

we can also see it well when he's talking about his asian pear. maybe he just really likes them.

however, as the conversation progresses onto tormenting kunikida, his eyelids casually grow darker.

they're not completely black yet, but you can tell he is enjoying bothering kunikida despite his claim of innocence.

after this, you can see his lashes are a little brighter as he announces that yosano is going to be executed.

this makes sense remembering that he is under the belief that yosano is guilty of terrorism and is getting the punishment he believes she deserves.

after this, jouno walks away as kunikida cries out in anger.

his eyelashes are almost completely black here, likely because he is getting nothing but personal enjoyment out of kunikida's grief. he isn't doing good by this and this could definitely be seen as corrupt behaviour.

a huge contrast to what i've been saying falls in chapters 71 and 72, the cafe scenes.

you can see the white of his eyelashes in nearly every panel he's in.

what makes this different than when he was bothering kunikida is that bothering the cafe owner was moving his case forward. he believed he was pursuing justice and doing what is right by extracting important information here; as opposed to doing nothing but mentally torturing someone who isn't improving his case. from his perspective, his actions weren't tainted in anyway except possibly approach, but since he was doing what was right his eyelids were painted white.

another example of this is in chapters 60 and 61, when he is fighting the agency for the first time.

and when the agency escapes and he's surprised to find out the pursued terrorist group would have allies in chapter 62.

i found that these three chapters had a lot of small panels where you couldn't really see the detail of his eyes, but generally they were white as he caught the criminals. they were also white as they escaped, since he was likely confused that people were easily supporting the group he perceived as evil.

my last example of this is his eyes being very white as he tortures the bank robbers in the flashback scenes in chapter 92.5.

he believes that he is seeking justice here. the robber gets what they deserve, and his intentions are what he believes in just which explains his eyes being white.

anyways, to summarize this all: jouno's eyelashes colour often displays his morality. his lashes seem to be coloured more white when he is doing what is morally right from his perspective. even if what he is doing is considered brutal by most, his eyes glow white if it is in pursing of justice or good. in contrast, if what he is doing has no overall benefit and he is just distressing someone for purely his own enjoyment, his eyelids often are coloured much darker.

however, as i said above i believe this subtly hinted at jouno's betrayal of fukuchi.

in chapter 92, we can still see by his eyelashes that he has the right intentions when hunting for the agency.

and towards the end of the chapter we see his eyes still have a small white streak, implying his bluff on actually being willing to switch to the other side. at the same time, the thinness of the lash could be so small because he is lying to his superior as well, which i suppose could also be seen as tainted behaviour.

however, after fukuchi's plan is unraveled we see the brightness shine again.

as i stated above, when he isn't doing what he believes is right or is tormenting people for no reason but his own enjoyment, his eyes look black. but if you look at the image below you can see his eyes are partially coloured white, hinting that he was going to do what was right. it is subtle colouring, i assume that is partially due to the fact that his face was rather small on the page. but regardless it is still noticeable.

and what do we know? he did switch up and betray fukuchi shortly after saying this.

with that in mind, there's one scene i deliberately avoided bringing up until now; the scene i believe heavily tries to avoid hinting at jouno's betrayal of fukuchi. im referring to the scene where jouno confronts aya.

as i said, if jouno is acting corrupt towards someone for his own fun, his eyelids are dark, but if he's doing something that he believes is just his lashes remain partially white. i believe that out of context his eyes would likely be black as he torments aya, however since he secretly had good intention they would have actually been white.

however, the readers had yet to know the context of his approach until the end of chapter 93, so they needed to hide the fact that he may have had good intent here.

so harukawa kept his eyes covered (or coloured his face differently) throughout the scene.

the most we see of his face in this whole scene is his side profile, which is small enough to not need to colour his eyelashes in.

i believe this was an intentional choice to keep the readers from guessing that he was doing something he believes is right here.

anyways, to sum up this segment i believe that jouno's eyelashes in chapter 92-92.5 subtly hinted at the fact that he was indeed siding with aya and was preparing to betray fukuchi.

in conclusion, i believe jouno's eyelashes hint at his true intent a lot. they show that he is a good person hiding behind a facade. the shading of his eyelids is a lot more subtle than how most character's eyes look in the manga, which i believe helps add more to jouno's somewhat moral ambiguity. he is an incredibly well-written character and i can't wait to see more of him!

[unknownn-girl]

my salvatore

[atthewhisky]

need axl to give me filthy kisses. the kind where he's practically groping your ass while he sticks his tongue down your throat to taste you.

[7niicky]

god i fuckin love this song

[vizziefizzie]

Have you seen him??

[axl-rose-lover-1987]

People: Your so quiet what’s on your mind?

Me: this scene from the Since I Don’t Have You music video

[gay-robot-boyfriends]

🪦💐

R.I.P. Axl

The leaked picture

EDIT: OMG!!!! My french ass wrote thread instead of threat here tooooo!! All the reblogs of me being dumb 💀 *wheeeeeeeeeze* Please if you guys catch mistakes you can send it in an ask or PM me! 🙏

[yardsards]

mostly joking toh theory: amity and emira are both trans girls, and the fact that they got to choose their names themselves is the only reason why neither of them ended up getting named "odalia jr."

[metalbrojack]

Are there any rockstars you think dated each other at least once? For me I just have a feeling that Axl and slash at least thought about dating 🙁

I don’t know I just feel like they had a lot of chemistry back then (they literally kissed on stage so…)

[thrasheraxe]

Domestic stuff with late 80’s James?

i was just thinking about thisss, i have a nice little idea. also this is 1988 james because that is one of my favourite eras EVER. thank you for this one:3

hetfield x reader

silly fluffy business

waking up in a panic, glancing over at the time and expecting the worst. you sigh in relief realising it was not in fact monday, but sunday at 1 pm.

you turn to look at the mess of hair sprawled out on the pillow next to you and chuckle lightly. you and james had been hanging out alot lately, getting too close for comfort and waking up with this big sleepy idiot next to you made you smile.

you turn entirely, laying on your side and scooping his waist from behind, your head resting on his shoulder.

“james?”

“mmm?”

“im hungry, can we go cook something.”

“mmm…..”

“james!”

he turns to his side and looks at you with a sleepy glare, wrapping his arm around your waist and slipping the other underneath your neck to pull you in.

“later…too sleepy…” he mumbles, his eyes shutting again. you shake your head and grin mischievously, completely unaware to your ideas he just sighs happily.

you let your hands run down to his waist and giggle, he stirs a little at the sound but doesn’t move. you bring your grip to his hips and poke him with a squeeze. he jumps at the ticklish feeling and his eyelids snap open.

“fuck’re you doing dumbass?” he grumbles, still trying to press you to his chest. you laugh and keep tickling him until he jumps out of bed out of frustration, strained laughs escaping him.

“i’m hunnngry cmon!” you whine, looking up at him with puppy dog eyes. “pleeeease, lets go cook!”

“fine” he grumbles, grabbing you and chucking you over his shoulder, this never failed to amaze you because this man was so stupidly strong.

carrying you downstairs without so much as a word or a complaint led you to realise he was actually in a good mood despite his awakening. the thought drifting away as you glance over at him and he’s putting on an apron, over his bare chest, causing your face to turn bright red.

“now come on tell me you’re not distracted all ready? it’s time to make some pancakes, baby.” he said with a cocky grin, knowing your mind is just relishing the way he looks and possibilities of the morning.

[jounosparticles]

wait. wait. fukuchi invited jouno to the DoA because he felt jouno was fit for it. and jouno had to “die” thinking he was seen as evil by fukuchi. since yk the DoA is a terrorist group.

but once we found out fukuchi actually had good intent it was too late for jouno to know he was actually trying to save people.

which means fukuchi never thought jouno was evil but instead seen him as tough enough to do the hard work in saving the world and pursuing justice.

but jouno is going to wake up thinking he was only brought in by the hunting dogs for fukuchi’s bad plan.

jouno is going to come back and think he was never seen as anything but evil by the one who was supposed to save him from that life. but in actuality fukuchi seen him as good and tough enough to save the world, even if it was at a brutal cost.

oh my

[littlemissheavenonearth]

To be honest; I think that the song 'Welcome To The Jungle' has the coolest intro ever.

[atthewhisky]

thoughts. do you also think that current ax would like to be called daddy? yes? no? am i just weird?

[7niicky]

this songs a goddamn masterpiece

[robinsnest2111]

outfit idea 🌹