#baby needs a hug

[slayfics]

He sit.

[sydsaint]

Please! I just wanna give him a big ol' hug

Summary: The reader makes an attempt to comfort Max after the incident at Worlds End.

There isn't a feeling in the world worse than having to stand by and watch someone you care for get their heart broken by someone they trusted. But that's what you're here doing. AEW's Worlds End PPV special is closing out and you're stuck between Excalibur and Nigel watching Max get the crap beaten out of him by the man that was supposed to be his best friend. Adam Cole. 

"I have to say, I feel a bit bad for the lad." Nigel admits as he begins gathering up his papers from the desk. 

"Yeah, me too." Excalibur agrees while doing the same. 

You fidget with a pen in your hand, trying your absolute best not to vault the table and rush to help Max. "A bit?" You shoot a glare at Nigel. 

Nigel shrugs and slips off his headset, ready to head backstage. He walks away from the desk and Excalibur does the same. You watch the pair walk off chatting with one another and scoff. Sure, Max isn't exactly popular with either of them. But for them to not even offer the fallen champ a consoling glance is utterly ridiculous. In your mind anyway. 

Cautiously you make your way around the commentary table and head toward the ring. Adam Cole and his new posse of goons have slinked back into the darkness for the moment and Max is sitting defeated on the floor near the ring steps. 

"Do you need some help up?" You walk over to Max quietly with a sympathetic smile. You have no idea how Max will react to the offer of help. Not after everything that's happened to him. But you have to at least try. 

Max looks up from the floor with red and puffy eyes. "Y/N? What do you want?" He asks you, shifting his body to point away from you. 

"I just wanted to see if you're alright." You reply. "That beating you took looked rough. And the thing with Adam..." 

Max scoffs and shakes his head. "I shouldn't be surprised at this point." He sneers. "No one ever stays. Not my fiancé, not my friends, or people I thought were my friends. No one." He sighs deeply. "I'm just a loser that's destined to be alone. And I'm not even a champion anymore. So there goes the fans as well." He looks out at the crowd now starting to spill out of the arena. 

"I'm here now." You reply and kneel down so you're not towering over Max. "And I know that we don't know each other that well. But I want to help if I can." You offer Max your hand to help him up. "At least let you know that you're not 100% alone." 

Max looks at your hand and then back up at  your face. He repeats this a couple of times before reluctantly taking your hand. You pull him up to his feet and walk backstage with him. 

"I'm sorry that you lost." You speak up while you're walking. "I know what it's like to have a friend stab you in the back like that. In fact, I'll never wrestle again because of it." You laugh at your misfortune. 

"You used to wrestle?" Max glances at you. 

You nod, briefly recalling the painful memory in your head. "Yep. I worked for ROH before Khan bought it out. I was helping out this new girl. Showing her the ropes and stuff. And she stabbed me in the back during a ladder match for a title opportunity. Threw me off a 15 foot ladder and into a pile of smaller ones." You explain. "She went on to win the title, and I damn near broke my spine." 

"Damn." Max replies. "I had no idea. I just thought you had always been in commentary and backstage stuff." He admits. 

"It's fulfilling enough work." You shrug. "Sure, it'll never beat being in the ring. But at least it's still a part of it, right?" 

Max nods and the two of you come up on the locker room area. "Thanks for talking with me." Max stops in front of his room and turns to you. "I...I needed that." He admits. 

"No problem." You nod. "I know when it happened to me all I wanted was someone to talk with. Someone that knew what I was feeling. So if you ever need some company, just shoot me a text or something." You offer with a soft smile. 

"I think that I'll take you up on that, thanks." Max nods. "I'll see you later, Y/N." 

You step back from the door with another soft smile. "Mhm. Take care, Max. And hey, try not to beat yourself up too hard." You add before you turn and walk off. 

Max lingers at the door and watches you disappear down the hall. That sinking feeling in his chest lightens a bit as he watches you walk off. No one has ever shown him kindness and an willingness to just be there for him before. 

It's addicting. 

Max finds himself smiling a bit as he heads inside his locker room. He's lost everything tonight. So why the hell is he smiling? What have you done?

 Given him hope, that's what. And hope is a dangerous thing for a man that's already lost so much. 

[lunolu]

*Points at THK* This baby right here can contain so much trauma it’s impressive!

[inlovewithjemily]

Migraines suck! 😭😭 That is all... If anyone needs me I'll be hiding under my duvet with my stuffies

[autumnalsteahouse]

LISTEN TO THIS HC I HAVE

I think that when you hold hands with suguru— fingers interlocked and everything— his thumb pets yours ever so lightly. gentle swipes from your knuckle to the tip. he isn’t even aware that he’s doing it but it makes your heart flutter every damn time

[i-love-the-little-things]

Little Hunter - "Eyas" Fanart

I loved this story on Ao3 'Eyas'. It's short, but sweet and filled my need to have Hunter cared for and held and cuddled <3 <3

Support the author! They deserve lots of kudos and praise <3

[aesthetiicly]

waittt will oh my god

[pigeonwhumps]

!!

A character who has, I believe, had a whole couple of sentences about them and none of that was in canon chapters (iirc anyway).

It's Alicia!

CW: child abuse mentions – her parents are pretty crappy to say the least

She's Phoenix's sister, three years younger than them, although they haven't seen each other since Phoenix was disowned. They used to be very close, so not seeing each other is... hard, for both of them. But although Phoenix sends cards, they don't ever leave a return address or phone number because a) they don't want to get Alicia in trouble and b) they think she's probably better off without them, and Alicia hasn't managed to find them, partly bc she'd like a place to live until she can move out and their parents WILL disown her if they find out she's been in contact with Phoenix.

Yeah. They're about to have 0 children talking to them once Alicia leaves home (so as soon as she moves away to uni, or potentially before then if something goes wrong).

That doesn't stop Alicia once she does find Phoenix though, but that's later. Five years after Phoenix was disowned, actually – they're 21 and she's 18, in her last year of sixth form.

When Alicia grows up, she's going to be a social worker (not she'd like to – she will, goddammit, she's determined). Her parents think she's going to work for the local government in some sort of sycophantic job (and it speaks to how little they know her that they think that's not suspicious), but she's not. No way. She's sick and tired of the way children with powers are treated by the law sometimes, of how trans children are treated, of how neglect isn't seen as child abuse unless it's, like, a lack of basic necessities – her and Phoenix were fine, obviously, because they weren't being beaten (nevermind the homophobia and transphobia in the household which got worse when Alicia was outed as pansexual, or the yelling, or the way their parents just didn't care so long as they looked like the perfect family – yes, Alicia tried to report her parents once, and it didn't go anywhere. Phoenix took the blame for doing that and she's never forgiven herself). Anyway, she plans to go into social work, because no child should be treated the way she and Phoenix were, and just because a child has powers doesn't mean they're any more able to look after themself when they're small and fall off the flat roof because their parents weren't paying enough attention to them, thank you very much.

There are way too many adults like that in the world.

Anyway, she wants to go into social work because it'll help people directly, and she thinks it's the best way to do it. She considered becoming a therapist or a politician, but she thinks she'd be shit at both of them. She'll have to deal with police as a social worker, but hey, she can do that.

And, as she's soon to find out, she can get autographs from some of the city's heroes for the children. Phoenix, Kai and Aaron are more than happy to help. She's already on the books with several youth/children's charities she volunteers with, although she has to be careful around her parents – not that they'd care much, most of the time, but just in case it was one of Those Days that they found out.

Her parents will find out what she plans to do if when she applies for student finance. Which'll be a trip and a half, but hey, at least then she'll definitely be able to apply as someone who's estranged from her parents. And she has somewhere organised to live if needs be.

Besides, she doesn't think they'd kick her out just before or during her exams. It'd look bad.

As you can probably tell, she's very passionate, and protective of her sibling. She loves them very much.

She also loves flowers and nature. She dyes part of her frizzy hair white bc she thinks it's fun, although the rest of her hair is the same bright red as Phoenix's. They are very clearly siblings (and they have the same eyes – she's been mistaken as Firebird before and will be again, and she's trying hard not to think why that might be). She wears a flower crown whenever she can get away with it. She adores picnics and prodding Phoenix into infodumps. She is also, unsurprisingly, very ADD – she's related to Phoenix, after all. She has not yet figured out which member of the family it's inherited from.

She will punch you in the face if you insult Phoenix or herself even vaguely, especially Phoenix – and she can punch very well. People don't tend to bother her much. She went to a different secondary school to Phoenix though, so she couldn't do much defending them there. Phoenix went to her parents evenings when they could, because their parents certainly wouldn't, and her best memory is of them taking her to the zoo to meet wolves for her birthday. They went for ice cream afterwards (two scoops for Alicia bc she's indecisive, one strawberry and one vanilla – Phoenix joked that it matched her hair).

As you might've guessed, her favourite animal is wolves. They're also currently one of her hyperfixations.

She has possibly hundreds of unsent letters and drawings to Phoenix hidden under a loose floorboard under her bed which nobody knows about, covered in boring textbooks corporate textbooks just in case anyone does find it. They don't have Phoenix's name on, as an added layer of protection, but they're for them. One day she'll be able to deliver them.

One day.

Also under there are Birthday and Christmas letters from Phoenix (and one treasured note from Kai containing a phone number).

As you can probably tell, she really misses Phoenix. The house feels empty without them. But she has a decent number of very good friends, which helps. And she's counting down the days until she can leave.

Also, her favourite colour is purple, and she hates marmite with a passion. Watching Star Wars makes her sad, although she does, every year on Phoenix's birthday – the same way that Phoenix watches Princess Bride every year on her birthday, even though they haven't spoken for years and neither of them likes the other's favourite film much alone.

Believe me, once she meets Phoenix again, Kai and Aaron won't know what's hit them (it's like... double Phoenix, except bubblier and quicker to punch and slightly less traumatised. Also very chatty, Kai's starting to regret giving her his phone number 😂).

Picrew!:

[readrantannotate]

I love that the show is giving Grover so much more screen time and is really diving deeper into his character. Particularly his reaction to his uncle’s death.

In the books, he was a little shocked when he first saw his statue at Medusa’s place but he quickly moved on.

In the show, he was visibly grieving and the first thing he said to Augustus was that his uncle died and he doesn’t know how to talk about it with his friends. Or rather, he doesn’t think they’d understand.

There’s just this clear divide between his perception of the world and Percy and Annabeth’s perception.

[jedi-starbird]

Time Travel is my favourite trope and I think we need more fics where both Obi-Wan AND Qui-Gon time travel together because no matter when they get sent it's chaos. They're saving the galaxy and being physic flash-bangs to everyone around them.

like before Bandomeer?

The entire council is baffled to watch as Qui-Gon 'never taking a padawan again' Jinn has suddenly cut off his post-Xanatos depression tour to return to the temple and beeline to the creche with a frantic energy. His wild eyes immediately single out a fluffy, red-haired initiate.

"You." he exhales with a pointed finger, slightly ominous as he towers over the child. Said child starts vibrating with delight. "Me." he agrees, launching himself at the man. Qui-Gon drops to his knees with a thud that cannot be healthy. Obi-Wan's attempts to clamber into Qui-Gon's robes and maybe onto his shoulders is thwarted by the fact that Qui-Gon's massive hands are cupping Obi-Wan's tiny squishy cheeks. He stares at the initiate for a few minutes with an intensity that is starting to worry people.

Finally, "You're so small." Qui-Gon sounds like he might cry.

'What the fuck?' Plo Koon projects at Mace.

"I'm 9! That tends to be the case!" the child chirps back.

"You're nine." Oh. Ah. Qui-Gon's eyes are distinctively misty. He squishes the boy in a hug so hard he squeaks. Mace makes a series of gestures that imply the need for a head-scan. Depa obligingly drifts off towards the halls. Qui-Gon scoops the child up onto his hip and claims him as his padawan on the spot. The assorted council members and creche-masters burst into noise. Mace tells Depa to bring some space ibuprofen as well.

after Naboo?

Anakin is a little apprehensive of his place in both the order and Obi-Wan's life, but then one day Obi-Wan wakes up and is suddenly a lot less sad in the force?? In fact, if Anakin didn't know better he'd say he was almost giddy, but he's watched Obi-Wan try to pretend his world hasn't fallen apart for the past few months so it can't be that, right? And um, Miss Bant? He knows grief is a funny thing that affects people differently but he's pretty sure 'massive mood swing' and 'having full conversations with invisible people' is not...great? and you said to tell you if Obi-Wan got really weird in any way.

Anyway after a lot of medical exams, intense consultation with the archives, and a couple exorcisms, Anakin ends up being raised by his 'real' master and his ghost master. He is far more well adjusted emotionally and far less well adjusted for what counts as normal people behavior(not talking to thin air). When questioned on this, all he ever says is that he's talking to Qui-Gon. Isn't he...dead? Well, yes. Wait, he's a ghost? Ghosts are real? ...Well this ghost is real.

This starts a great number of existential crises among non-force sensitives and incredibly heated theological arguments amongst the Jedi. Whenever Obi-Wan is questioned on this, all he ever says is some variation of "the force got to know him for 5 seconds and kicked him back out." Mace backs him up on this even though that reasoning is technically blasphemous. Qui-Gon is having the time of his un-life. He's ascended to his final form, his sheer existence is a heresy, this is truly all he has ever aspired towards.

the Clone Wars?

The minute they get dropped back Qui-Gon immediately goes and haunts the shit out of Dooku. They have a signed terms of surrender and promise of info on the Sith Lord within the year. Only half of it is because Qui-Gon's giving Dooku complexes that are only perceptible to shrimp, the other half is because they now have a ghost spy that is not bound by the laws of physics nor spacetime.

Obi-Wan only nominally pays attention to this as he immediately goes and implements his 19 step seduction plan with Cody (he had to focus on something on Tatooine to pass the time). It fails. Spectacularly. Publicly. Ah right. Tatooine was not exactly the height of his sanity. Everyone in the GAR and temple is now riveted by High General and Councilor Obi-Wan Kenobi's attempts to go on a date with his Commander, who bats him away him like a particularly annoying stray and seems one bouquet of cactus away from committing mutiny. Anakin is worrying if it means his master knows about his secret marriage and this is some sort of really weird power play. (It is, but not in the way he thinks)

The next time Dooku goes after Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon spends a good few months appearing tear-stained at the edge of Dooku's perception and only communicating in terrible wails and discordant mutterings of 'padawan. my padawan. my little one.' 24/7.

"Wait, you're annoying Dooku into surrendering?"

"Oh no Anakin, we're crushing his psyche like a bug. :)"

[ceaseless-watchers-special-girl]

i'm... *inhales* happy you're happy

bullshit detector: BEEP

[bleulone]

"And the most important, Roi, is that you have shown pride. And dignity. And balls"

JULIO PEÑA FERNÁNDEZ as ROI in BERLÍN (2023-)

[valdotpng]

as i arrive 23 years late to the majoras mask party, i trip and fall and 100 drawings of skull kid fall out of my pockets. his laughter echoes in the distance

(fun fact! all of these were drawn w/ my non-dominant hand. still feels awkward to use it like this, but i think it lends itself well to drawing this lil guy :} )

[ipostmysimpingstuffanonymously]

Part 2. This time its the Tokyo Five (As I named them) Headcanons in the reblog tags appreciated

[torturedspoetsdepartment]

let me get this straight. miles missed his friends for over a year, got gwen back, heard her say she would never visit him again, was told by the spot that he was going to lose everything he loved, learned his dad needed to die, got chased by the entire spider-society, thought he found an ally in peter until he was betrayed, got slammed into a train, was told he was a mistake and never meant to be spider-man, said goodbye to gwen after she broke his trust, got stuck in the wrong dimension, hugged his dead uncle, begged for his life, met an alternate version of himself, and thought he had no one left on his side by the end of the movie. give my boy a BREAK

[deathbyfiction]

IM FUCKING CRYING SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE THIS BOY FROM HIMSELF