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flowerflamestars · 5 months

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I don't know if my continued Rhys Efflorese babble gotten eaten so here it is again. (if I'm repeating myself I'm very very sorry)

Rhysand being so certain that Cassian and Azriel's Illyrian honor and loyalty will keep them on his side without having even a shred of awareness about what Illyrian honor even MEANS much less what it might mean if they feel that HE'S the one who betrayed them first. I'm not sure that Rhysand even has any concept of Illyrians beyond the asshole camp lords that Night put in charge. (Why were they freezing in the mud, huh, Rhys?! WHO PUT THEM THERE?! Why might they not be will to share their whole selves with the Prince of Night, huh Rhys?)

It says a lot about how much faith and respect they had for Shahar (I can't remember how to spell her name right now) that even though she didn't live among them as one of them, they still very much considered her theirs and believed she could (and would) make the future better for them. (This is a thought I had while reading Starlight: the House of the Wind is possessed by the ghost of Rhysand's sister and she's fucking Pissed at him)

Rhysand is very bad a cost-benefit analysis. Particularly because he doesn't seem to have any concept of what a 'cost' actually is, especially when it's someone else who'll be paying it. Or even what a benefit is really. (Dude, you have two business savvy, policially knowledgeable, intelligent humans who are personally invested in keeping Feyre safe. This would be a FANTASTIC opportunity to learn about the state of the human lands and kingdoms and formulate plans based on new information instead of, you know, deciding you already had a perfect plan despite the fact that you haven't talked to a single (not Feyre) human in at least 500 years.(*insert the "no it's the children who are wrong" Simpsons guy meme here*) Or that maybe there's this guy right here with friendly acquaintances all over the place that could be very useful if you weren't, you know, a shithead. But nope, slightly bruised pride too much cost)

Rhysand's desperation for Feyre to only see him in a very specific light is greatly aided by Feyre's equal determination to only see him in that exact light.

Rhysand thinking that, even after learning he fucked off to the continent and got arrested for gambling debts, bringing shit-head papa Archeron into the situation will keep ANYONE in line (kinda love that even though we're all, like, Everyone Gets a Name but then none of us will can shithead papa Archeron anything but shithead papa Archeron)

Rhysand hoping this situation that he doesn't want to deal with implodes while not comprehending that it will implode into A WHOLE NOTHER SITUATION

Do you think he's a bit baffled when Feyre comes to the conclusion that her sisters hate faeries? Like he's perfectly pleased with the situation and happy to roll with it because it'll drive a further wedge between her and her sisters do you think he looks at the perfectly polite chats with Cass and Az despite the glowing siphons and giant bat wings (plus the Shadows in Az's case) and the House Full of Blood Magic/ Lucien FUCKING Venserra situation and think "Whelp, I guess you've got an immortal lifetime to learn some observation skills" (not that she'll learn good observations skills from HIM anytime soon)

Rhysand thinking that Feyre loves and cares about these people and that therefore they are a THREAT to HIM instead of that meaning that he should maybe he should care about, or, a least, try to get along with them.

Elain just keeps smiling a playing the perfect hostess is nearly as infuriating as Nesta snarling in his face. Then she puts Cassian's knife to his throat. That's probably one of them most WTF moments of his life. (someone please tell the Illyrians that Elain held a knife to Rhysand's throat. They deserve knowledge that this tiny human girl was willing to pull a knife on a High Lord for her people (a people they are now part of))

Did he notice that Elain served him some funny tasting tea and just think nothing of it because human food is all shit to him? (Also Cassian had almost zero reaction to Nesta saying that Elain had tried to poison Rhysand, his High Lord/'brother')

(in your Nesta/Eris story, the Valkyrie priestess says something along the lines of "Rhian's sniveling brat son may think the world revolves around him but it doesn't" and "Shahar would be disappointed in him." These statements feel applicable this Rhysand (or all Rhysands really))

Rhysand is about to get a crash course in how loyalty is a two-way street. The Archerons' people (now including a bunch of awestruck Illyrians) are so ride-or-die for them because the Archerons are just as ride-or-die back.

All three of the Bat Boys are in the process of completely loosing their shit in different directions.

Side-note: When Elain offers Cassian tea and calls him sir and Cassian's like "WTF I'm not a sir" and Elain's like "It's a courtesy given to any man with a title" and Cassian's just "naw I don't have a title" and then in her head Elain's like "WTF in what world is General not a title?" It just makes me wonder about Cassian's (and by extension, Azriel's) actual place in the Night Court's (barely existent) court hierarchy.

Side-note the second: While mentioning the Night Court's barely existent government system the thought of Amren having secret peons in place helping keep the court running. It might have started as a bit of a game 'How much functioning government can I make before Rhysand actually notices" however I think it got boring pretty quick through a combination of, 'he barely ever notices anything not shoved directly under his nose' and mild concern that Rhysand might actually notice and stop her and the court will implode even faster than it already is (and she's gotten stupidly attached to some of these colorful insects and would like to keep them around a bit longer) (Side-side note: I'm SO hyped for Amren to meet the rest of the Archerons)

Side-note the third: if there's Archeron ships in Night then there's probably Archeron ships in Summer too right? That could spin the whole Summer-book theft debacle in... interesting ways. (I'm imagining Tarquin talking to Feyre about Archeron ships bringing in supplies to rebuild the city at greatly reduced transpiration fees or something and Feyre's just mentally like "wtf my sisters hate faeries why would they do that" (because she's still operating under that particular delusion) but (because Rhys thinks it's a good idea) she plays along like she knows about it or something and uses it to gain more of Tarquin's trust before, you know, Rhys's whole *brilliant* plan takes place. Imagine how abso-fucking-lutly pissed OFF, Nesta, Elain and Lucien would be. Like, the whole situation would already piss them all off but add in deliberately taking advantage their family's reputation and kindness to do it? Rhysand had better stay well out of stabbing distance. (Side-side-note: Tarquin's, like, less than one hundred right? The dude spent more than HALF is fucking life Under the Mountain. Give him a fucking BREAK.) (Side-side-side-note: Just popped into my head. What if there were babies BORN down there. Like, that's their whole life down there. I just realized that this isn't actually much of a what-if scenario because really we just have to look under Rhysand's OWN fucking mountain to see how that goes.)

I think that's all of the babble for the moment. <3

Oooo so much good stuff here! I'll try to go in order 💜

Rhys is canonically shitty about Illyria and the Illyrians! I almost feel like I'm hitting the bottom of the barrel to give it emotional nuance- Effloresce Rhys has wrapped together all his grief and ego into just. Complete bullshit. Nesta sees this immediately! ( Cassian and Az have. Had to live within this, which I'll get to)

But yeah, that's the center for him in so many ways: he has to The Most Right, Fully in Control, Always in Charge and also does not take responsibility for shit. Ever.

So he belittles it. A warrior culture? Savages. Mor blatantly using Cassian when they were young? Oh that drives Cassian crazy. Azriel is wildly fucked up? No, it's the fault of his childhood not his continued life! Cassian gets close to his literal soulmate? Are you fucking around with Feyre's sister, Cas?

One of my character things for Rhys is that he wants Everything just barely more than he wants nothing. He is SO voraciously is the center of his own world while being so utterly careless with that world. So there is no balance. There's just what Rhys wants.

And he wants Feyre so Feyre is also always right. And just. Canonically does not seem to value her sisters as people so much as auxiliary manifestations of her own self.

They're like her irksome pets Rhys has to deal with.

Cassian's actual rank is going to come back, but I would say that you could easily call Rhysands perspective on the Archeron alliance making 'huh, the dogs AREN'T smart enough to be afraid of bears, and I, a person, find this quaint'

(Elain is going to kill the fuck out of someone over this.)

Poison doesn't matter because Cassian chose a side basically the second he crossed the wall. Even without Nesta. (You could possibly say he has always had a side, and it has always been Nesta.) Further, Lucien absolutely clocked that blood! All these things add together, really.

As for Amren, she's less focused on a functioning government as she is invested in a broad outcome. She keeps her vows. She is, perhaps, playing an elaborate game of wondering what Rhys does and does not know.

Oooo Summer is a stop on the Elucien honeymoon diplomatic carpet bomb, actually. They're not actively trading there, but they're not unknown. Rhys is definitely still hunting the book to use Feyre's Super Specialness.

Tarquin is young and progressive! I know the books utilize this to be like 'oh, he'll give Rhys a chance', without ever clarifying if Tarquin or anyone knows the actual degree of Rhysands willing or unwilling cooperation with Amarantha. It doesn't make a ton of sense. I like to take it in another direction.

#an excellent ramble!#we're clarifying on the Illyrians points in the worst ways soon #kind of funny when I think about it that the books act like Rhys is ever good at strategies #commiting atrocities to spare yourself personal pain is. not that #And! he believes his own hype! all the time!#the crux of Feyre is the more things go wrong #the more she listens to Rhys #(or herself)#stress just heightens the hero complex bullshit #meanwhile Nesta: worked so hard to stay safe in a place that is no longer safe. no reason not to full throttle #not to mention Elain #or Lucien with Ya Know all those friends and allies and POWER waiting to be unleashed #human rules all out

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beelzebuddy-catan · 11 months

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The Not Entirely Human-Human Exchange Student pt. 11

Summary: After Cass makes amends with the Mammon and Levi, they work to get Lucifer out of his room. Cass gains a new insight in to why Lucifer not only follow's Diavolo's orders, but gives him his unwavering support. Warnings: Swearing, mentions of death Spoilers: Up through Lesson 14 Characters: Cass (OC), Lucifer, Mammon, Levi, Satan, Asmo, Diavolo, Barbatos, Lilith, Solomon, and various OCs. Previous Part • Next Part

Lucifer followed Barbatos’s gaze to his wings. The last remaining white feathers shifted to the inky black of the rest of his wings. Lucifer closed his eyes and nodded gently, the reality of the situation finally catching up.

Then Diavolo did something Cass never would have expected. He knelt down next to Lucifer. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place. Lucifer may follow Diavolo’s orders because he saved Lilith, but now Cass understood the unwavering support and loyalty he had for the demon.

At his lowest moment, Diavolo joined him. Suddenly, the prince wasn’t Lucifer’s executioner, standing over him waiting to deliver the final blow. Instead, he sat beside him as an equal. A silent promise that by his side, Lucifer wouldn’t be a disgraced angel who was taken advantage of but a respected friend who wasn’t alone.

“If you can ensure that she stays alive, I will make any sacrifice,” Lucifer maintained eye contact with Diavolo as he spoke with measured breaths. “There’s no decision to make. Angel or demon, I will always stay true to my convictions. You have my solemn oath, my allegiance.”

Diavolo nodded, a soft yet sad smile gracing his features. “Would you like to take a moment to say goodbye?”

Asmo was holding back tears as Cass approached him. He seemed like he wanted to give her a hug but was stopping himself. Once she was close enough, she pulled him into an embrace. His body sagged as he fell into her arms.

“Everything’s going wrong,” he sobbed into her shoulder. “First you abandoned us and then Lucifer was holding Belphie hostage and then he was put on house arrest and Belphie was arrested and then,” his words became indecipherable as he gasped for breath.

“Woah, woah, slow down,” Cass said, trying to stay calm. “Let’s start with the first thing. What do you mean I abandoned you?”

Even though he was crying, Cass was able to make out most of what he said. True to her assumption, they had been playing a prank on her and Lucifer trying to get them to get along better. After Cass stormed out, the brothers had come looking for her, only to be told off by Lucifer.

“How could you leave us forever without even saying goodbye? Did you really think we’d be okay with just a text?”

“Can you take a deep breath with me?” He nodded, taking a shaky breath. “I never planned on leaving forever. I was just coming up here for a break and then was moving into Purgatory Hall.”

“Why?”

“Me being there was just causing problems with Lucifer, and I didn’t want it to affect the rest of you.”

Asmo pulled back, letting his arms fall so he could look at Cass. She felt a tinge of guilt about having caused them any stress thinking she was disappearing. They had bigger issues than that though. Her suspicion was right that Lucifer was hiding Belphie from Diavolo, but that might not matter now.

If Belphie was arrested, how much could she really help? Lucifer had said before that he would stand with Diavolo, not Belphie if something happened. Even if Lucifer got involved, what were the odds they could change Diavolo’s mind. Especially since he believed this was his purpose in life.

“What are you going to do about Belphie?”

“I don’t know! No one will talk to each other. Beel only came back because Belphie was arrested, but he gets so angry when he tries to talk about it. Mammon and Levi are wallowing in their rooms because they think you only made a pact with them because of Belphie. And we can’t get Lucifer to leave his room. Cass what if something happens to him? We have to do something.”

“What can I do?” Cass asked. Asmo looked at her like she was their only hope, but why would Diavolo ever listen to her? She sighed before addressing the Nephilim. “It was lovely meeting all of you, or I guess seeing you all again? But I need–”

“You can’t leave,” Hera interrupted. “You just came back. We just found you again.”

Cass looked back at her and the others. They had been laughing and acting like her presence wasn’t that big of a deal. It was as if she’d never been gone, so she figured it wouldn’t matter if she left. Yet, their concern and worry were evident.

Hera was staring at her with wide eyes and seemed to be holding her breath. Zeus wasn’t meeting her eyes, gazing off somewhere behind her. Psi tilted his head, resting it on his hands, his elbows on the table. Narcissus was playing with his hair to distract himself from what was happening. Even Hermes looked shaken up, but gave her a comforting smile, like he understood.

“I can’t lose you again, none of us can. I mean, what about Styx, Cate, Hades?”

Cass wanted to say something to comfort her, but she had nothing. It’s not like she even knew who those people were. Why was it everywhere she went, someone needed her? Why was it up to her to fix things?

“I know, and I’m sorry, but I have to do this. I promise, I’ll come back.”

Cass turned away, knowing she’d feel worse about leaving if she didn’t. As Solomon grabbed her arm and prepared to go back to the Devildom, Cass heard Dion call out, “shit, did you all see we had a Kore and a Narcissus impersonator for Oschophoria.”

---

Teleporting was something Cass didn’t think she’d get used to anytime soon. Even though she’d only done it a few times, it was just as jarring as the first time. Each time, it was as if someone violently pulled the rug from beneath her feet only for her to stumble into an abyss. After a few seconds of vertigo, she was pitched forward into the new location. She tried to catch her footing, but instead crashed into Asmo.

Asmo caught her with ease, holding her tight. “You know I love it when you’re so forward, Cass, but now's not the best time.” Even in the state he was in moments ago, he would make a joke like that.

“Don’t make me regret this,” Cass grumbled, swatting his wandering hands away. “You said Lucifer won’t leave his room?”

“Wait, you should check on Mammon and Levi first.”

Cass nodded before running to Mammon’s room. She knew why Asmo had told her to visit them first. Knowing them, they were probably spiraling. What had Belphie told them in the time she was gone? They couldn’t really believe she made pacts solely because of him? She didn’t even know he was there until after her pact with Levi.

Before she made it to Mammon’s room, however, she collided with Satan at the top of the stairs. While she would have thought he’d be angry, he looked surprisingly calm. Cass wondered for a moment if he’d actually be happy about Lucifer’s arrest were it not for Belphie.

“Oh, hi.” Cass didn’t think it’d be this awkward talking to the brothers. She bounced on her feet, hoping his demeanor wasn’t the calm before the storm.

“Look who decided to come back after all.” His voice was harsher than his expression. Satan looked like he was enjoying how uncomfortable she was. After a moment, however, he smiled and shook his head. “You don’t have to worry about me.”

“You’re not upset with me because of Belphie?”

“I might be if it were true. If you were really making pacts with us for his benefit, then you would have made one with Asmo. You also wouldn’t have told me no at first. If there’s anything to be angry about, it’s that you think I’m that stupid.”

Cass sighed in relief. Reassuring Mammon and Levi she could handle. If she had to also do that with Satan and Asmo, she’s not sure she would have been able to make it through those conversations.

“Speaking of being that stupid, you were probably on your way to talk to Mammon?”

Cass shot him a disapproving look, but he just laughed and stepped to the side. As she went to pass him, she swiveled, giving him a quick hug. Satan stilled before returning the gesture. Cass mumbled a thanks before continuing to Mammon's room.

“MAMMON,” she yelled, banging on his door. “Open up!” Her knocks were met with silence. “If you don’t answer the door, I’ll tell everyone about the time we watched horror movies, and you started cry–"

“FINE!” Mammon yelled back, the door finally unlocking. “That’s how you try and make it up to me?”

“No, that was just to get you to open the door.”

Not that Mammon’s room was ever the most picked up, but it did look like more of a disaster than normal. On the coffee table was the matching souvenir he’d picked out when they were in England. Mammon didn’t look at her when she entered, just stared at the table.

Cass locked the door behind her, crossing the room to join him on the couch. As she was sitting, Mammon stood, walking to the other side of the table. He shoved his hands in his pockets, kicking the edge of the leg lightly.

Even though he wasn’t looking at her, she could see how upset he was. His hair was messier than normal, as if he’d been running his hand through it. It’d only been four days, but he already had dark circles forming under his eyes from lack of sleep.

“You’re upset.”

Mammon finally looked at her. His face was a mix of disbelief and anger. “No shit. Yeah, I mean, fuck, obviously I’m upset. I’m pissed.”

Cass didn’t answer. She didn’t know how to answer. She hadn’t even expected to be in this situation. When she’d left, she figured they’d move past it soon enough. After all, they were the ones that reminded her time and time again that she was just some random, average human.

“You’re my,” Mammon stopped before changing his mind. “Me, I’m the first demon you made a pact with after comin’ here. Me.”

“I know.”

“So, it all meant nothing to you?” Cass flinched at the words, unsure how he got to that conclusion. “You did all of this for Belphie. Ya made a pact with me because of him.”

“Are you an idiot?” Cass said before she could stop herself. Her hand flew to her mouth and Mammon stared at her in shock. “Sorry that’s, I, it’s just – why the fuck would you think that?”

“Because he said–”

“Mammon, I made a pact with you on my second day here. I barely knew who Belphie was, let alone that he was in the house. Besides, you know damn well I made a pact with you because of Levi and that stupid figurine.” Mammon went to respond, but she cut him off again. “And did you forget that you only agreed to a pact with me because of a cheap piece of plastic?”

“Hey, don’t insult Goldie like that!”

Cass glared at him. “Did you really think it was because of him?”

Mammon sighed before joining her on the couch. He took her hand in his but stayed facing forward. The tips of his ears started turning red as he tried to stay cool. “Obviously not.”

“Then why–"

“I already told ya. Why do I gotta repeat it?” Cass studied his face, waiting for him to continue. “’Cause you’re important to me, dammit! I care about ya, but what if you don’t,” he trailed off, not finishing the thought.

His eyes didn’t leave the hand that he was still holding. Cass didn’t know what she could say that she hadn’t said already or what to say that would make up for her leaving with nothing more than a text. Finally, he dropped her hand, turning to put his arm on the back of the couch.

Cass made sure he was looking her in the eye before speaking. “You know I do.”

“Yeah.”

“Arguably to a fault.”

“Yeah.”

“Can we be good?”

“No more secrets?”

Cass paused. “I have one more.” Mammon eyebrows shot up in a silent question. “But it’s something I have to tell you and your brothers at the same time because it’s not entirely my secret. Do you trust me?”

Mammon grumbled, pulling her into a tight embrace. “Do I trust ya? Now who’s the idiot?”

After making sure Mammon was okay, Cass went to talk to Levi. Levi didn’t turn away from the aquarium when the two of them entered his room. In fact, he just kept complaining to Henry 2.0 why he should never trust humans, except all his reasons were specifically targeted at Cass.

“Levi, I’m going to be honest with you, okay?” Cass said, sitting next to him on the floor. “One of the reasons I wanted to make a pact with you was because I needed to borrow your record. Which, I needed because I couldn’t sleep due to a mysterious voice in the attic. Did that happen to be Belphie? Yes. Did I agree to a pact because he wanted me to? No.”

Levi sighed one of the most dramatic sighs Cass had heard in a while. “Did you hear that, Henry? They trick you into thinking you’re friends and then just use you.”

“You’d never guess I gave Levi an option not to make a pact with me, would you Henry?” Levi’s hand, which had been mindlessly drawing shapes on the aquarium wall, faltered. “I even pinky promised that I wanted to be friends and that I would only make a pact with Levi if he was comfortable with it.”

Cass glanced at Levi, but he was still staring into the tank. “I’ve made mistakes, and I’m sure I’ll make more.” Cass turned, making sure Levi was listening. He looked at her out of the corner of his eye. “But I never break a pinky promise, Admiral.”

“What the hell is a pinky promise?” Mammon yelled behind them.

They ignored him and Levi held up his hand with his pinky extended. “Promise?”

“Promise,” Cass whispered and locked her pinky around his.

As quickly as she had done before, Levi twisted his wrist and brought her hand up for a kiss. He let go immediately after, covering his face and the blush that appeared. Cass couldn’t help but giggle at the action.

“Hey, don’t ignore me! Cass, what the hell was that? Is it some kind of secret handshake? How come we don’t have one?”

“Shut up, Mammon,” Levi groaned.

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In terms of bad ideas, Mammon’s had to be at the top of the list. Despite the shared skepticism, no one had any better idea for drawing Lucifer out of his room. It was simple enough, grab the grimoire off Lilith’s empty coffin like Luke had done.

Simple enough, except for one thing, that is. Last time this happened, Lucifer almost killed Cass, Luke, and Beel. The brothers were worried about Cerberus attacking as well, but given their last encounter, Cass wasn’t too worried about the hound.

Cass cast the brothers a weary look before taking a deep breath and stepping up to the coffin. Steeling herself for what may happen, Cass picked up the grimoire as delicately as possible. The second she lifted it, however, the tomb faded, and she was standing in what looked like a distant memory.

Even for the Devildom, it was dark. She could hear movement. There was running water nearby, and it sounded as though someone was in the water. It took her eyes a while to adjust, but even then, there was a thick fog surrounding her that made it hard to see. The waters of the river swirled in a way that demanded retribution.

Someone coughed, gasping for breath. Though they were white, she recognized Lucifer’s wings as he crawled towards a motionless body. Cass wasn’t sure why, but even as a ghost, Lilith looked more alive than she did lying on the ground of the Devildom.

Lilith, who looked unconscious, was next to a river. Her wings and clothes were soaked, as if she’d just been pulled out of the water. Lucifer knelt next to her. His six white wings and clothes were equally wet. The wings hung low from the weight of the water. The tips of the feathers were starting to turn black.

Lucifer’s screams echoed around them as he begged Lilith to get up. Cass was grateful that the sounds were faded with the memory because she was sure it would have destroyed her. She was certain she’d never forget the raw pain and fear still audibly etched in his voice.

“Lucifer?”

Both Cass and Lucifer looked towards the voice. Not too far from Lucifer stood Diavolo and Barbatos. The prince sounded so much younger, less confident of himself. He even stood less assured. It was hard to believe the demon in front of her was the same one ruling over the Devildom now.

Barbatos looked over Lilith’s form before speaking. “Her injuries are far more severe than yours. I doubt she has long.”

A renewed wave of agony washed over Lucifer’s features as he looked between Lilith and Diavolo. “Please” his voice shook with desperation “you have to save her. You, you have to. I’ll do anything.” His voice dropped to a whisper so quiet, Cass only saw him mouth the word please.

“If I do that, it won’t be how you desire,” Diavolo contemplated. He stepped closer to examine the two of them himself. “And, you have to pledge your loyalty to me.”

Even in a memory, Cass felt time grind to a halt. Both Lucifer and Barbatos stared at Diavolo in shock. She knew the course of events, but watching it, being there, was different. Lucifer’s lowest moment was unfolding before her. She was watching him beg for Diavolo to help. With bated breath, she waited for Diavolo to exploit the angel’s fall.

“The Celestial Realm rendered its judgement. The consequences of interfering are immeasurable. Yet, I think the risk is worth taking if you end up on my side.”

“Are you suggesting, no, demanding, that I pledge loyalty to the son of the Demon King?”

“Though this may be the greatest disgrace for the one once celebrated as the pride of the Celestial Realm, I wouldn’t recommend taking much time for consideration,” Barbatos chastised.

Diavolo nodded, a soft yet sad smile gracing his features. “Would you like to take a moment to say goodbye?”

Lucifer looked down at Lilith once more. He brushed a lock of drying hair from her face before tucking it behind her ear. “No matter how far you go or how much time passes, even if you no longer remember me and you’re not yourself, I will never forget you. I wish nothing for you except the happiness you deserve. I will always, always love you, Lilith.”

As he said the last word, the memory began fading and Cass was once again standing in the tomb next to the coffin. She held the grimoire tightly to her chest as she looked forward with blurry eyes to see none other than Lucifer. She fought off the tears, trying to slow her breathing.

Cass wasn’t sure how long they stood there in silence. The other brothers waiting, unsure what either of them would do. Before she had time to second guess herself, Cass marched towards Lucifer. And, with all the strength she could muster, punched him.

#obey me #obey me mc #obey me oc #obey me spoilers #obey me lucifer #obey me asmo #obey me diavolo #obey me barbatos #obey me solomon #obey me belphie #obey me lilith #obey me beel #obey me satan #obey me mammon #obey me levi

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merlinbingo · 1 year

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Month two of this round is over, and you guys are still going strong! We got a stunning 46 fills this month, created by 22 fantabulous people. 52 of you have already earned your participation badge (getting on for half of all participants, and only 20 fewer than in the entirety of round two), and one lunatic (affectionate, also amazed) who has filled everything on their first card and come back for more!

In terms of the kinds of fills, we got 37 fics, 7 artworks, a poem and a very impressive 'Where's Wally/Waldo?' esque gaming app - if you're struggling to fill a square, remember that we want to see absolutely any kind of fanwork you can possibly think of!

As for ships, Merthur is unsurprisingly still top of the list with 17 fills. Gen is second with 11, followed by Arthur/Gwen (five), Merlin/Morgana (three), and Gwaine/Percival and Gwen/Morgana (two each). We've got six other ships with only one fill each, skewing equal parts towards Arthur (with Gwaine, Lancelot, or Percival) and Merlin (Freya, Leon, or Gwaine and Lancelot).

And now, on to the main event: the fills! As always, they're hidden below the cut and sorted by ship and then by rating, and we encourage you to check out the warnings and consider your own limits before clicking on those links!

Gen/no ship

Merlin: Where's Team Free Will? by willowsmarika Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Buffy crossover, Supernatural crossover, Game app, twist on where's waldo Summary: Team Free Will (along with Giles and Buffy) somehow ended up in Camelot. Help Dean, Sam, Cass and Dean's pie get back to their future.

Your life is not the price by Robin_Fai Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Merlin's Magic Revealed, Magic Reveal, Magic Ban Lifted, Light Angst Summary:

Nostalgia by firsthandskeleton Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Summary:

Code Name: Emrys by Stelle Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Cyberpunk au, fanart Summary:

Mark of the Beast by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: angst, birthmarks, canon, happy ending Summary: A birthmark wasn’t a problem usually but Arthur’s was too brightly coloured, too detailed, and people whispered about it being the mark of a beast.

Never Name Your Cow Daisy by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: silly, Geoffrey needs a hobby, schenangans, cows named Daisy Summary: When Geoffrey of Monmouth finds a book of old laws and mistakenly thinks Arthur gave him permission to have the guards enforce them, people start getting arrested for the most ridiculous things.

Space Opera by archaeologist_d Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: fluff, canon era, leon's voice is great, gwaine as troublemaker Summary: Leon’s voice wasn’t the best but singing an opera that Gwaine had composed, a space opera about dragons no less, was a step too far.

A Swan And Her Prince by Sage_Owl Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, First Meetings, Canon AU, Canon-typical Violence, non-consensual daemon touching Summary: Arthur nearly dies of suffocation when he is six years old.

Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown by DSabian Rating: Teen Warnings: Major character death Major tags: Fanart, Cubist, Hurt no Comfort, Summary: Arthur has no choice. He is the King. He wears the crown. The act of Treason carries its own penalty and the laws must be upheld. He does not know whether to be thankful or unnerved by the lack of screaming. He does not know anything anymore.

Eat Your Sins With Hemlock Meals and Wash it Down With Wine by royal_spud Rating: Mature Warnings: Major character death Major tags: Rivalry, revenge, Uther dies, Dark morgana, poisoning Summary: Twenty one years of life,ten years of imprisonment under Uther's control, and Morgana believes that enough is enough. There has been enough suffering, enough bloodshed, enough pain, and Uther Pendragon could not go unpunished for his sins. And what better day to make him pay, than on the anniversary of her oh so glorious capture?

Veil by Stelle Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence Major tags: fanart Summary:

Gwen/Morgana

call my bluff by honoraryPevensie5 Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: 1. Fluff and Humor 2. Alternate Universe - Modern Au 3. Sexual Tension 4. Animatronic Bull-riding 5. Eventual Smut Summary: Gwen meets a dark-haired stranger whilst road-tripping to her ex's wedding. And tries very hard not to fall in love.

The Most Beautiful Thing by lavender_spice Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: artist au, public sex Summary: Morgana believes something as beautiful as Gwen belongs at an exhibition.

Merlin/Freya

Love is Blind by demitimelord42 Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: modern era, slight crack, merlin and freya are idiots in love, gwen and arthur just want them to get together Summary: Slightly crackish, modern era oneshot where Gwen and Arthur are tired of watching their friends run around their feelings for each other... until they're not.

Merlin/Morgana

Shall hate be fairer lodged? Chapter 1 by archaeologist_d Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, Rape/non-con Major tags: non-con, aftermath, morgana seducing merlin, rough use Summary: Morgana had a plan, seduce Merlin, take over his will so that he could be the assassin that would finally kill her hated brother. A perfect plan. And if she used sex and pain to pay back Merlin for poisoning her, so much the better.

Arthur/Gwen

Reap the Wild Wind - chapter 1 by archaeologist_d Rating: Mature Warnings: Major character death, Graphic depictions of violence Major tags: canon au, Lancelot lives, angst, violence, poor Merlin Summary: When Lancelot sacrificed himself to save Camelot from the Dorocha, Merlin blamed himself. And he tried everything to get Lancelot back, everything.

Merlin/Lancelot/Gwaine

A Big Hug by Stelle Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: fanart Summary:

Merlin/Leon

Option Number Three by thetreeofwillow Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Getting Together, Humour, Adorable Aithusa, Leon's Hair Summary: Merlin was, for once, enjoying a nice quiet moment up in a high tower with only himself and— “Merlin?” says a voice Merlin really does not want to hear right now. A voice as loyal and steadfast as the suns journey through the sky, who may struggle to understand the baby dragon currently being held in Merlin’s arms.

Arthur/Percival

Touch Line by ravenwilds Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: BDSM, Rugby AU, Sub!Arthur, First Time Summary: A rugby AU, where Arthur has always thought he might have a thing for pain and Percy helps him find out if he does.

Arthur/Lancelot

assassin au by kairennart Rating: General audiences Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: digital art, sketch Summary:

Arthur/Gwaine

Oh Noble Hearts by queerofthedagger Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Canon Divergence, Gwaine's Nobility, Getting Together, Fluff Summary: Gwaine has a confession; Arthur, as so often, manages to surprise him.

Gwaine/Percival

It's All In The Brows by DSabian Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Gwaine/Percival, Fluff, Getting together, Soft boys being soft, Eyebrows are the new windows to the soul Summary: Gwaine's been watching Percival. And while it might have started out with his biceps, or maybe those thighs, now it's all about the eyebrows.

Untitled by Stelle Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: perwaine, fanart Summary:

Merlin/Arthur

When I can't sleep it's because of you by EvannaWebb Rating: General audiences Warnings: Major character death Major tags: drabble, poetry, post-battle of camlann Summary: A poem of Merlin's thoughts when he can't sleep after Arthur's death

scar crossed lovers by kirani Rating: Teen Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: magic reveal, arthur knows about merlin's magic, hurt/comfort, first kiss Summary: Merlin wakes up to his old serket scar aching, but he still needs to serve Arthur. Arthur, however, is more observant than Merlin gives him credit for.

Chemistry chapter 48 by archaeologist_d Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: angst, modern AU with magic, plague Summary: Merlin is being an arse and thinking with his head instead of his heart. Arthur isn't buying it.

Cum stains by Viviriki Rating: Mature Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: Semi-public sex, cum stains, sharing clothes, bottom Merlin , kinky arthur. Summary: Merlin and Arthur have a little fun in a corridor. ;)

Tear them down by TyalanganD Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Canon divergence, hate sex, miscommunication, angst, hopeful ending Summary: It started easy, if extraordinary: a prince and a peasant in a marketplace, insulting each other and yet, somehow taking an instant liking to each other. And then, everything collapsed. Are Arthur and Merlin impossible?

Cuddles by Stelle Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: merthur, fanart Summary:

To Have and To Hold by TheManTheMythTheLazy Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: fluff without plot, body worship, naked cuddling Summary: Merlin recounts the ridiculous events of his day while Arthur listens and worships his body

The Secret Sharer by firsthandskeleton Rating: Mature Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Summary:

What the Heart Doth Hold - chapter 2 by archaeologist_d Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: arthur/lancelot, angst, sexy times, banter Summary: When Arthur wakes up with Lancelot in his bed, he doesn’t remember much of why. But Merlin is not happy about it.

Getting to hope you like me by Sage_Owl Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Fluff, Christmas, love at first sight, getting together, presents Summary: Merlin and Arthur meet for the first time at one of Morgana's lavish Christmas parites, and the attraction between them is instant.

Triad by archaeologist_d Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: polyamory, arthur/gwaine/merlin, arthur is shy Summary: Arthur watched Merlin closely, especially when he was with Gwaine. Those two often got into trouble, but it was their relationship that drove Arthur mad. Arthur couldn’t have that, could he?

Chemistry chapter 49 by archaeologist_d Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: angst, modern with magic, plague, magic users hunted Summary: The scrawny kid knew more about chemistry than Arthur did. Who knew he’d fall in love with the idiot? And what’s more, the idiot claimed he had magic but everyone knew that magic wasn’t real. Until it was and then it all went to hell.

All Tied Up by Sage_Owl Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Incubi, Modern With Magic, Unsafe Sex, Dubious Consent, Bondage Summary: He'd been waiting for a rainy day.

If I Gave All My Heart - Chapter II by paceprompting Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Canon Divergence AU, Alternate First Meeting, Pining Arthur Pendragon Summary: Years before a young boy with destiny on his shoulders walked into Camelot, there was simply…Arthur, Crown Prince of Camelot: a young man vying for his father’s approval and desperate to prove his worth. A desperation that earns him a curse, even if it saved his life. Now his heart lies outside his chest, kept safe for the time within the metal of his mother’s sigil… But it cannot hold his heart forever.

Idol by SauraUnderscore Rating: Explicit Warnings: No archive warnings apply Major tags: Modern Au; Football AU; Football Player Arthur; Fan Merlin; Wanking; Blowjob; Voyeurism Summary: As soon as Merlin opened the door to his childhood bedroom, he cursed. It was lovely of his mum, leaving everything just as it was when Merlin fled for uni, but damn it. Arthur’s surprised laugh confirmed his worst fears: the prat was going to be insufferable.

#merlin bingo #round three #round up #march fills #i say it every time #but you all amaze and astound me #you create so much #what beautiful beautiful people you all are

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For the ask.... I apologize but I'm here asking about crack ships only! So, Zhan Tiri x (presses random tts character generator... gives me Pascal, I'm picking another one... got Maximus, wtf, picking another one...) Captain of the Guard!

I guess Cassandra didn't have enough parent issues already.

Thank you for the ask !!

I'm really unsure of what to reply. I guess I wouldn't want them together under canon circumstances, but in an AU? As an optimist, I believe it'd be really fun to have a push and pull kinda relationship where the only way for them to stay together is either if Captain turns against Corona, or if Ziti gets redemption.

Initially, my first thought was that she'd only be using him to get to Cass, or something of the sorts (which led me to think of a Cinderella-ish AU where Ziti is the Stepmother heh). But now I have a new idea and I got very 👁️👁️

I remember reading a fic once about a Hero and a Villain falling in love; and the climax was that they ended up having to fight, because the villain was unwilling to step down for the hero, and the hero couldn't abandon their duty for the villain. The hero ends up nearly dying by the villain's hand, and that's when they break—they didn't want to lose what they had, didn't want to lose their hero. Villain then gives up their victory to ensure Hero's survival.

Hero survived! But, as they were conspiring with a villain, they had their license revoked; Villain was arrested, and was undergoing a redemption program of sorts. In the end, they both managed to reunite, after losing their roles as Hero and Villain and being able to be just... Them.

Granted, applying this logic to Captain and Zhan Tiri would be 10x more complicated granted that Cassandra exists, BUT the idea makes me very happy. The sheer concept of Ziti finding a real friend, finding she can still love even after the whole Demanitus ordeal, makes me very happy; and knowing that the friend could be Cap, who also looks like he could use a friend, makes it a lot more impactful to me!!

I can imagine Captain being relieved of his post after Ziti nearly destroys the Kingdom, but for his sake (and her general compliance), she isn't sent back to the Lost Realm nor executed. Rapunzel and Cassandra (and Eugene and Lance, really) definitely seem like the type who'd try to form a Redemption Program, and with a little bribing in the sense of ("If you're redeemed, you'll get to see him again before he..."; After all, she is immortal, and can therefore stay arrested for the 500+ years of sentence she got. Cap unfortunately has no such luxury)

Overall a very fun pairing that has the possibility of working out with a few tweaks to canon. Therefore, I ship it !!

- My favorite thing about it is probably how they'd both have to step down from their Hero/Villain dynamic in order to stay together. It sounds very interesting. Another thing I'd appreciate is if Ziti and Cass could actually bond, and if paired with my HC that Ziti used to mentor many magic students throughout the years, she could be almost (almost!) maternal to Cassandra. Plus she could teach her magic.

- An unpopular opinion is... Well, the ship as whole, again. But! I guess my unpopular opinion is that Captain isn't as loyal to Frederic as he believes he is. He may be very loyal to the Crown, but Frederic as a person? As a father, he might understand it, but as the Captain of the Guards, how could he ever be loyal to the man who willingly traded his Kingdom for his family?

#what a ride hehahhe #tts #tangled the series #rapunzel's tangled adventure #tangled #tts zhan tiri #tts captain

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greywoodrpg · 1 year

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𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕤 𝕖𝕧𝕒𝕟𝕤

he was born twenty-three years ago, he is a werewolf who lives in white oaks as a mechanic at bolt’s auto repair, and is in the pack. he looks an awful lot like elijah hewson.

“and sorrow’s native son, he will not smile for anyone”

tw: drugs, neglect, death, abandonment

Cassian Evans was born in England to a single mother, and raised secondary to the initial love of her life - her drug addiction. His birth father was absent, unknown, not listed on his birth certificate and thus Cass assumed his was the same situation, addicted and unprepared for a child to come into the picture. Or a one night stand forgotten about until the consequences arrived nine months later. The only hint he’d ever had towards his father’s identity was his name, and even then all he could do was assume it was Welsh and perhaps that was a factor. The reality was something he wouldn’t have imagined - his father was a faerie and subsequently Cass was born fae. Unable to remain in the human realm his father had left before his birth, but protected his son with a glamour designed to last until his eighteenth birthday, the day he would become an adult, meaning that he wouldn’t show any outward signs of being of fae heritage until then. Thus he remained unaware of his true species, believing himself to be a human, and equally unaware that his mother’s drug addiction stemmed from time spent trapped in the fae realm and her desperation to get back to a dreamland state. Instead, Cass grew up fending for himself, cycling through a series of foster carers and social workers, occasionally moved back to his mother’s care when she got clean only for her to lose him again soon enough when she chose drugs again over him.

By the time he was twelve he was permanently removed from her care, and by the time he was thirteen he had been adopted by a couple claiming to give him a new life. Cass didn’t buy it. He’d been acting out by this point, becoming increasingly difficult to deal with and increasingly closed off, a side effect of the neglect he’d experienced in his formative years. Three years of tension followed with his adoptive parents making fleeting efforts to bond with him, before these efforts became few and far between, replaced with frustration at the fact that Cass just didn’t appreciate them acting like his heroes and preferred to run away and spend more time with his mother, refusing to even call his adopted parents the titles of mum and dad.

By the age of sixteen he had become impossible to control, skipping school to smoke weed or drink with friends, getting into fights, and once arrested for stealing a car. They had had enough of the problem child. His adopted mother was American and by virtue of the adoption Cass had gained dual citizenship, enabling them to ship him off to her childless sister in New York under the pretense of giving him a fresh start, ridding themselves of him and proving him right - that nobody would stay with him. Stateside, Cass didn’t exactly try to change his ways. If anything, he became worse. School for him was simply an avenue for meeting people, he spent more time in detention than in the classroom and often left halfway through the day. Devoid of an adult to actually discipline him he became more out of control than ever, ran through girlfriends and boyfriends at a speed even his friends struggled to keep up with and continued to perfect the type of behaviour that had gotten him sent away to start with. In fact, it was this behaviour that changed his life forever - a girl he’d been pursuing, just two months before his eighteenth birthday. He followed her into a park, the night of a full moon, aiming to ask her out. Instead, he found himself with a bite mark on his arm. He assumed it was a dog and left it at that.

Come the next month, alone in his room, he found himself suddenly transforming. Cass had never believed in the supernatural before, never even considered werewolves as a possibility. When he confronted her about it, she had only one suggestion - that he should run away. She’d heard talk of Greywood. He had no other options, and figured talk was better than nothing, dropping out of high school and driving himself across the country without so much as a goodbye to his adopted family. Which was how Cass ended up in Greywood right as he turned eighteen, a new werewolf and unclear on where to go from there. Able to gain a job at Bolt’s through his experience fixing his own car and teenage car jacking hobby, he set about preventing himself from getting close to anyone ever again.

“what power did he attain when settling in greywood?”

Cass has gained the power of telepathic communication, but he’s only able to use it with one person - the person he truly loves. As a result he’s never experienced it nor is he aware of it..

penned by... fern

#supernatural rp #town rp #oc rp #mature rp #horror rp #literate rp #fionn whitehead fc #werewolf #drugs tw #neglect tw #death tw #abandonment tw #retired

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The Perfect Son | Freida McFadden | Published 2019 | *SPOILERS*

Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night...

Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door.

A high school girl has vanished from Erika’s quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika’s teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive.

Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbing in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he’s innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can’t deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.

Now she must ask herself:

How far will she go to protect her son?

Erika Cass is the mother of two teenagers - sassy 14-year-old Hannah and 16-year-old Liam. While Hannah is your normal teenage girl, Liam is a bit different. He’s an attractive young boy, as evidenced by girls’ reactions to him anywhere they go, but he’s harboring a darkness inside of him that Erika has been trying to keep at bay since it was first brought to her attention when Liam was 5 years old.

Erika does anything in her power in order to control her son’s darkness, but it is getting increasingly hard to do so as he gets older, especially as he’s so close to heading off to college where she won’t be able to watch him every minute.

Despite everything, she loves her son and her family, and will do anything to protect them. When it is brought to her attention that Liam is interested in a girl named Olivia, Erika contacts a private investigator she hired named Frank. She wants him to handle things the same as last time. But, Erika has made a grave mistake - she gave Frank the information for the wrong Olivia.

The right Olivia is a girl who is equally as infatuated with Liam as he is with her. He invites her on a date, with a group of others from his track team, to grab milkshakes at the diner in town. That night, Liam drives, illegally, over to Olivia’s house where they share their first kiss, with plans to see each other again. When Erika awakes in the middle of the night to find Liam gone, she wakes her husband, Jason, who tells her that he had given Liam permission to go for a walk in the middle of the night if he ever found himself having difficulty sleeping.

Jason supposedly gives Liam a harsh talking to once he got back, and not wanting to keep reiterating the same information, Erika just tells him it isn’t a good idea to do that. But, when they arrive at school later that morning, they find out information that a young girl named Olivia has gone missing.

Liam is immediately suspected as being involved in her disappearance. The police question him, informing him that a neighbor of Olivia’s saw the two of them together around 2am that morning. A day later, the police return with a warrant to investigate Liam’s room as well as the car he drove. While this is happening, Erika receives a call informing her that Liam had been involved in a fight at school with his former friend, Tyler. When she arrives, Liam is suspended for one day, while Tyler receives a week suspension due to previous fighting, though Tyler’s mother finds this unfair. Tyler attacked Liam as he also feels that he had something to do with Olivia’s disappearance.

Eventually, the police return with a warrant to arrest Liam. Liam’s lawyer informs Erika and Jason that the evidence against him is pretty strong, but that he is hopeful due to his age and that it is his first run-in with the law, that they’ll grant bail, which they do. After posting the $20,000 in order to get him out, they return home though things are not peachy. Erika loses her job at the local newspaper, and Liam keeps to himself while Hannah tries to make her parents see that Liam has nothing to do with this, though Erika believes otherwise.

On the fateful night, Liam comes downstairs and informs Erika that he does know where Olivia is, or at least knows what is happening to her. Erika wants to contact the police, but Liam is adamant that they wait. When they arrive, Erika notices Hannah’s bike is also there. We find out that the person who was involved in Olivia’s disappearance was Jason. For the last 20+ years, Jason has been murdering young women all over the country on what he called his business trips, and Erika was non-the-wiser, but Liam was able to see through him, and Hannah had followed him the night before to where Olivia was being held.

When Jason exits the cabin in which he is holding Olivia, he tells Erika that Liam is the person involved in everything, and that he found both Olivia and Hannah dead. But Erika realizes that this isn’t the truth. When Liam is able to subdue him, Erika gives him the knife that Jason had hidden and they kill him.

They are able to save Olivia and Hannah, who are not dead but being kept inside of a trap door covering a deep hole in the ground. Olivia had an injured ankle and was severely dehydrated, and has been spending the last several days in the hospital. Liam visits her, and the two of them set up a time when she is better to go out again despite everything.

A year later, Liam and Olivia are still together, and the three members of the family are living. Erika has sold her story in book form for quite a bit of money in order to help them make ends meet; Liam is about to graduate and he and Olivia are hoping to go off to college together. While making breakfast one morning, Erika is listening to the radio when she learns of a young woman’s disappearance about 15 minutes from Albany, where Liam recently was for a debate competition. Has the cycle begun again?

This book was a doozy. I totally felt that Liam was the culprit in Olivia’s disappearance; I didn’t see the twist coming, as I usually don’t when Freida is involved. 4/5 on this one!

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alicent-hightowers-spouse · 2 years

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Omg so I know season four was released a while ago but I recently found my reaction notes to the first six episodes. And they’re really funny so I want to share them with you guys lmao.

My notes on Stranger Things

Before I begin:

-Byler no matter what

-Ronance no matter what

-please don’t let any main characters die 😭

-but if someone has to go make it Hopper please

-or at least just please don’t kill Robin or Max or Dustin or Will

-I want an open confession that either Will is gay or that he has a crush on Mike or both

-although I think it would be best if Mike was the one who confessed feelings first

-I already know I’m not prepared for this at all

-Future Cass, how r u feeling?

Edit: I was correct I was not prepared for that at all 😀

Episode One:

-THERES A WARNING IN THE DESCRIPTION?!

-Why is the lab so gay? 💀

-AYYY IS BRENNER VECNA?

-Don’t know who this boy is that BRENNER is manipulating but he has OCD 💀✋🏼

-Love him for that 🤪

-LMAO HE BE TELLING BRENNER THAT HIS DRAWING SUCKS

-I LOVE TEN PLS DONT KILL HIM

-😀

WHAT

-WHAT

-EL?! YOUVE GOT SOME EXPLAINING TO DO BESTIE

-OMG WAIT IS BRENNER NOT A COMPLETELY TERRIBLE PERSON JGJRJRJ

-Ayo just noticed that Mileven and Jancy are together in the intro so they can’t actually be a couple because none of the other names are 😁🥰

-DAMN EL IS WHIPPED

-AYO JOHNATHAN SMOKING POT?!

-SUZIEEEE LOML YSSSSSSSSSSSE

-DUSTIN STOP PEER PRESSURING UR GF 😭

-BOOBIES HAHA

-I too love BOOBIES 💅❤️

-MAX MAX MAX MAX I LOVE U YESSSS

-Robin’s a trumpet player WHAT?!

-THE DUFFERS DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT BAND 🙄

-ROBIN IS A QUEEN AND TRUMPET PLAYERS ARE REDDIT USERS

-Do research next time besties

-AHYY I automatically approve Vickie because she plays clarinet.

-she can do no wrong 💅

-LUCAS?

-I mean get it bestie

-slay

-don’t know who this dude is but can he just shut up for a second he’s so annoying 💀

-WHAT?! DOLL?!

-Why the heck is this girl annoying Will?

-Omg why are these kids making fun of a dead person

-But LIEK Will SLAYYYY

-OMG Max 😭

-Does Chrissy have an ED 😟

-OMG someone save Chrissy

-AYO VECNA LEAVE CHRISSY ALONE

-EDDIE SUS

-NOT TAMMY LMAO

-ERICA YESSS

-WHAT WHAT WHAT JFJRIWJDJJFJDJJD OMG I- CRAZY ENDING

But like also I loved Chrissy why did she have to die 😭

Episode Two:

-I’m not buying it 🙄✋🏼

-Hopper SHOUKD not be alive but whatever

-PLEASE MIKE STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE AND GIVE WILL A HUG 😭

-Joyce is such a girl boss

-But Murray is so smart

-THE GUN TO PUNCH TRANSITION WAS SO CLEAN

-Poor Will 😭

-POOR ELEVEN OMG 😟

-AYO NANCYS HAIRCLIP ITS THE SAME AS THE GIRL THAT DANVED WITH WILL AND ITS FRUITY

-AYO BYLER IS DEF HAPPENONG THERES NO WAY ITS NOT AFTER THAT LMOA

-DAMN EL, but like Angela low key deserved that anyways lmao

-Damn VECNA be killing someone every episode

-AYO DINNER WITH MURRAY DINNER WITH MURRAY I HOPE HE SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT BYLER

-Please they literally just confirmed that Mike isn’t actually in love with El 💀

Episode Three:

-BAHHAHA WHY IS ELEVEN GETTING ARRESTED SO FUNNY TO ME PLEASE

-“experiment sexually”

-IF THIS ISNT A CONFIRMATION I-

-AYO ROBIN AND NANCY ROBIN AND NANCY OMG ITS HAPPENING AHHH

-This is some Saw shit right here 💀

-Lucas is an asshole I can’t believe that he’s ratting on Eddie 😒 and I loved him so much before this too 😞

-I TAKE IT BACK SLAY LUCAS SLAYYY

-NOOO MAXXX

Episode Four:

-BAHAHAH THE FROM

-NO BUT LIKE NAMCY AND ROBIN DO BE SLAYING

-ALSO SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE MAX SHE CANT DIE 😭

-NO BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE LUCAS’ REACTION SO BAD WHEN MAX TELLS HIM SHES DYING

-PLEASE I LOVE MAX

-YESSS ROBIN SLAYYY OMG SHE MIGHT BE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER THJRHT

-Ayo this season is violent and gory

-I hate Hopper but that was a very cool escape

-I swear that was so fruity OMG Byler is happening HDHRJ

-PLEASE NOT HOPPER NARUTO RUNNING

-AYO YURI IM ABOUT TO THROW HANDS HOW DARE HE KINDAP JOYCE AND MURRAY THE GIRLBOSS DUO 😡. when they wake up they’re gonna girlboss him so hard thta VECNA is gonna kill him by throwing the homophobic dog at him

-PLEASE WHY WAS THE BABY ON FIRE SO FUNNY TO ME

-MAX IS GETTING ME IN MY FEELS HELP

-STOP THE WHOLE TIME NDING SCENE I JUST- WOW FHJFJF

Episode Five:

-HELP THE WAY HE FLIPPED THE BED THRJRJR

-Death Note vibes 🤪💀

-No but also why does El dress like a Disney charactor 💀 so many layers

-HUHHHH MY JAW JUST DRIPPED

-nahhh THERES no way this crusty old guy is still kicking

-he probably died just from being knocked to the floor

-nah but I’m shitting bricks here what the duck is going on

-OMG OWENS I TRUSTED U WHYYYYY 😭

-Ok so this is a horrible situation for El BUT THE FACT THAT SHE LITERALLY DREW A PRIDE FLAG IS SNEDING ME 😭✋🏼

-This is making me feel like I’m on drugs for fr

-But this whole seaosn is giving me Hereditary vibes

-OMG WAIT A SECOND NO BECAUSE IM FREAKING OUT BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS GOING EXACTLY HOW I PREDICTED AND ITS SO REAL THEIR ACTUALKT GONNA MAKE BYLER CANON OMG IFHJRJEJEJ

-ALSO I LOVE ARGYLE OMG YRS

-YO HOPPER THATS KINDA FRUITY BESTIE

-NOT THIS EPISODE MAKINB ME FEEL BAD FOR HOPPER

-also now I ship him with Enzo. Oops.

-no but seriously poor Chrissy 😭

-but also not her Mom being a Karen 😒

-PLEASE JOYCE AND MURRAY R BOTH SUCH GIRLBOSSES I LOVE THEM BOTH ONG

-I swear to god if this mother trucker messes with Eddie I’m going to throw hands

-OMG STEVE AND NANCY? STRVE AND NANCY?

-OMG THAT ALSO COULD BE A HUGE BYLER HINT (the Sherlock thing)

-LUMAX SUPEEIORITY LUMAX SUPERIORITY

-Joyce and Murray rlly do be slaying though 💅

-No but like was cutting her hair rlly nessecary 😭✋🏼

Episode Six:

-“Steve takes one for the team.” THE DUCK DOES THAT MRAN?!

-Jason r u stupid or dumb? Did u not hear Eddie screaming?! And you can’t beat the devil lmao 😭✋🏼

-Damn these bitches think they’re Miss Trunchbull or something 🧍‍♀️

-AYO MIKE IS WEARING THR INVERSE OF THE SHIRT FROM THE NOT POSSIBLE SCENE OMG BYLER BYLER BYLER BYLER CONFIRMED??!!!????

-OMG YES SUZIE SLAYYY

-QUEEN BAHVIOR

-THE MORE I WATCH THE MORE GIRLBOSS MURRAY AND JOYC GET

-POWER DUO SLAYY

-EHY DO THE PPL TRUST THE FOOD SO QUICKLY THEY ABOUT TO DIE 💀

-religious ppl r so dumb omg 💀

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yourtrustyvault13canteen · 2 years

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How ‘good’ is Arcade, really?

I really like thinking about the companions’ desired endings. And how messed up they are (apart from Lily’s and Raul’s, which don’t really have the same moral implications anyway)

Cass wants to give into her bloodlust and doesn’t mind killing a lot of innocent people along with the actually guilty

Veronica hates everything the Brotherhood is going to do, but unless you prise her away from them with a crowbar, she will just grit her teeth and help them commit what she believes are atrocities

Boone wants you to side with NCR, though he has misgivings; and he doesn’t believe he’s capable of redemption. If you go along with his preferences, he’ll die in a murder-suicide. If you put more weight on his misgivings, he’ll become a heartless assassin!

But the worst is Arcade. We already know Cass has a temper, Veronica is a coward and Boone is violent - it’s more or less how we’re introduced to them. It makes sense that things end the way they do for these characters if we don’t set them on better paths. But Arcade? Everyone thinks he’s some kind of moral paragon, and I can see why, but it’s just not true!

Arcade’s preferred ending is to fight for an independent Vegas. There’s nothing wrong with this on paper, but the way he actually does it?

He really wants you to believe, and possibly really believes himself, that he hates the NCR for good Followers reasons, and not the way Orion Moreno hates the people who defeated the Enclave. If this were true, he would probably have a more Followers-looking solution for Freeside than stomping around in his daddy’s fascist boots, very literally.

His ending slide in this case says “Arcade used his Enclave knowledge and technology to keep order wherever he could”. If you know anything about the Enclave - and it’s quite possible your Courier doesn’t at this point, because everyone including Arcade is very cagey about what exactly the Enclave used to get up to (even Johnson, the one with the most conscience amongst them, makes it sound no worse than the NCR!) - you know this is very very bad.

But how does this even happen? The ending where Arcade fights on behalf of the NCR says that it’s not just that NCR will arrest him in their territory but that he’ll be “pursued by bounty hunters, NCR rangers, and the Brotherhood of Steel”. These people could easily hunt Arcade down if he remained in Freeside, so why don’t they? We also know the NCR can easily wipe out the Kings if they want (I mean, the Van Graffs got halfway there with only a handful of men), and they don’t have to be worried about diplomatic problems with Mojave locals any more in this ending.

It also says Arcade is forced out of the Followers, which may simply be because they don’t want to be seen as harbouring him, but it may be because they themselves won’t tolerate him (for a variety of reasons which I’m sure includes the parallels between Arcade & the Courier and Edward Sallow & Joshua Graham). All of which makes this ending even more baffling! It could be that the people in Freeside are hiding him to some extent, but whether this is due to fear or adoration (or both) is hard to guess.

What is his new position in an independent Freeside, if it’s not just ‘big bloke with a big gun’? If you go for an independent Vegas but convince him not to fight - meaning you have his power armour - instead of the spooky obviously Enclave stuff, you’re told “Arcade did his best to help the locals govern themselves”. This is the man who tells you straight up he’s not a people-person, so are we really supposed to believe he’s talking to people? And like, what is there to help with? The Kings already have it in hand, don’t they? This is Arcade’s own stated beliefs about independence - he’s no Benny. He never breathes a word about wanting to have a hand in running things himself. If things are worse in the direct aftermath of the fighting, is it not more Arcade’s job to be patching people up? If we’re to believe that his adventures with the Courier have helped him get over the personal issues that made him complain about being a bad doctor (and I do), then why doesn’t he use this personal growth for that, and not for whatever the hell he’s started playing at?

Because he can! And he still wants to! And he wants similar things, too. The only ending in which Arcade not only remains with the Followers, but remains recognisably a Follower, is an NCR victory, in which he gives up on Freeside and goes home to the Boneyard to be a teacher. As if the people in Freeside don’t still need his help, probably now more than ever? And these people literally know him and love him and greet him on the street (which is despite his efforts to be inconspicuous, despite his efforts to avoid people, and despite him working as a researcher - if it’s not that he’s often treating people either because he’s a skilled surgeon or because the Followers are understaffed, and I think it’s both, then it’s only because he’s so kind to people and so charming! But claiming to be bad with people).

But his membership in the Followers was never really about helping people - probably more about the access to education and technology he could get with them. (And maybe some kind of teenage rebellion - the Followers are about as opposite to the Enclave as you can get.) I know, this sounds so harsh, but it’s true! In his other endings, if Arcade is neither dead, nor on the run, nor a slave, he gives up on the Followers entirely and goes into private medicine. Does he really seem like he’s devoted to their mission?

Obviously there is nothing wrong with being a doctor, and I think his attraction to medicine really does stem from wanting to help people, as he claims. But his story is about more than a man with no bedside manner who wants to be a doctor. This is a man whose morals take him so far as realising that he shouldn’t want to be his dad - but he still does. So he wants to be a new version. An Enclave officer who defends helpless wastelanders and fights evil!!! It’s a child’s idea and when it meets the real world, he either gives up on it or he gives in to it.

Arcade may have never been truly Enclave himself, but he’s never been close to anyone outside the Enclave, either. He tells you he’s never had a lover he felt he could confide in; he’s never had a close female friend; and though it’s kind of a joke, it seems like he’s used to being blanked by other Followers. Even then, it seems like after his mother’s death he’s only close to Daisy and to a lesser extent Judah - Arcade kind of implies Daisy is a substitute mother to him, though he doesn’t go into it, and Judah recognises him and knows that the Courier is a new friend, implying he’s visited recently (potentially only when he was in Westside with Tom Anderson - it also implies that Judah knows Arcade doesn’t have any friends!!). The other remnants don’t really care, apart from Johnson - but he doesn’t immediately recognise Arcade’s adult appearance, so this is clearly a reunion for them more than a catchup.

It’s obvious when you meet Cass and Boone that they don’t have anyone (though in Boone’s case this is more self-inflicted, and no, I’m not just being mean about Carla lmao) and it quickly becomes obvious that Veronica is more or less in thrall to the Brotherhood. It’s not so obvious that Arcade has all of these problems and more. It seems like he’s more together than the other three. He doesn’t need help with any kind of personal problems, and he can not only give you his personal opinions about the political situation but what seems like good advice, from someone who admits to reading political textbooks for fun.

And all of this disguises that he’s the most messed up of the lot, and that he not only has the greatest capacity for evil (I never get over the Caesar comparisons. He can also be the Joshua Graham to your Courier’s Caesar, of course!) but has the greatest desire for it. And this is actually strengthened by both his desire to do good and his fear of doing harm (the position he’s put himself in, with doing whatever Julie tells him to - which ought to involve human experimentation, but apparently doesn’t - is fascinating). Obviously evil people are obviously scary, but it’s a one-dimensional fear. The only thing scarier than someone like Boone or Johnson who will carry out awful orders and then cry about it is the one who’ll give those orders and then cry about it. And that’s Arcade - or what he’s trying not to be, or trying to be, or both. And that’s why he’s my favourite character!

#i love arcade so much i wrote a little essay about how he's secretly a bad person lmao. no i don't think he's bad. just complex #fallout new vegas #arcade gannon #followers of the apocalypse #fnv companions #veronica santangelo #rose of sharon cassidy #craig boone #fnv #arcade #veronica #cass #boone #followers #enclave remnants

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flashflashhundredyarddash · 4 years

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batkids and their relationships with their siblings headcanons. under read more because this got fucking LONGGG

dick

dick is the eldest so he doesnt want to bog down his younger siblings with his problems, but if he DOES, he tends to talk to jason about it

dick and cass start to really begin to bond when Cass shows up to dicks gymnastics class for 3rd-6th graders and then cass shows up all the sixth graders and they get frozen yogurt after lmao

dick and tim are Very much thick as thieves. tim is very much like bruce on the Emotional Suppression scale, so dick just really wants to make sure his little brother is safe and happy ALL the time

Duke and Damian are the only two really permanently at the manor anymore, so when dick drops by he tries to do something with both of them. duke frantically zoom calls dick every other week to help him with his his trig homework. dick shows up to dukes high school graduation with literally the BIGGEST SIGN

everyone insists damian is dicks favorite but he does actually genuinely love all his siblings equally, his relationship with damian is just Very different from the others because of the age gap and being dami's primary caretaker for a year. dick babies dami every chance he gets

jason

would sell Dick to satan for One corn chip

him and cass don't have the greatest start to their relationship because cass is very much Against Killing so it takes a while for jason to warm up to her and earn her trust. now, though, jason is competing with steph by showing cass all the classic American Teenager things she missed out on. steph is currently winning but jason is like 98% positive a crunch wrap from taco bell is going to push him over the edge

tim and jason are currently competing over who can solve the most cases in a month. tim is winning. that won't last long.

jason Loves to Big Brother duke its so embarrassing. duke will get out of school and go to his car and jason is SITTING IN THE FRONT SEAT FRANTICALLY WAVING TO GET DUKES ATTENTION. JASON THAT IS MY CAR. signal has one (1) mission with arsenal and arsenal goes hey did you ask that girl to homecoming yet and duke is like I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU.

Damian is proof that Actually, Little Brothers are Pests. Jason fully believes that he was brought back from the dead PURELY to torment damian and he will fulfill this mission at any cost

cassandra

it actually really upset her when Dick didn't accept her at first. she knows her other siblings really adore dick so his lack of trust was really disheartening. it takes dick a while but once he Actually Accepts that cass is going to be a permanent part of their life and oh, wow, dick you really hurt her feelings he really hyperfocuses on bonding with cass for a couple of months which definitely improves their relationship

she really likes jason!! their relationship doesn't start well but because he's close with steph and tim who are cass's top two favorite people to exist ever, cass is like well i GUESS ill hang out with him more. jason is fun to talk to because he always tries his best to explain jokes and give context to what people are talking about (also tim took her to taco bell already but she didn't tell jason she just wanted to hang out)

cass LOVES tim. they just click okay. tim always seems to know when to give her space and when to push and come closer. Tim's "guest room" is just her room lets be real. tim and cass occasionally get mistaken for twins and Cass Loves it.

duke makes cass listen to metal once and cass loses. her. damn. mind. they bond over music a lot because they both Love Music to a degree the others in their family don't.

damian!! damian is her little brother!!! dami isn't As Hostile to cass at first because he is 100% aware cass has the edge in fighting and respects her. cass likes all of his instagram posts and they have a snapchat streak going

tim

tim Loves dick, dick was his first sibling!! he had Very strong hero worship when he first met dick but it mellowed out when tim got older because wow 17 is really not that cool and mature lol. tim has an open invitation to dick's apartment which he does occasionally take advantage of. tim has more than once scared the shit out of wally when wally comes over and wally is convinced they're being robbed (HA) for half a second. i mean. he's not wrong.

listen. tim understands that forgiving the guy who tried to kill you would be a Struggle for some people and it was! definitely! but also at least he can trust jason to, uh, be open about if he doesn't like tim. which is not an assurance he has with other people. so if the guy who tried to kill him tells him tim is cool now then like. maybe tim isn't that bad or annoying a person? also jason arrested a whole gang and won the cases competition but then it created a power vacuum that the whole batfam had to clean up the rest of the month. thanks, jason.

tim LOVES cass. you know how most of the time theres this empty feeling inside you and you just kind of ignore it because you don't know what will fix it or if you do, you know you can't fix it? cass makes that empty feeling feel a little less empty. they just click. tim always tries to travel with cass whenever she leaves gotham.

tim and duke. Tim is actually the sibling who duke goes to whenever he has questions he doesn't want to ask bruce or alfred about, like, life or vigilante-ing or school or college or whatever and Tim is always like yes!! i love Giving Advice and Solving Problems!! tim and duke and jason fill out their college applications together.

tim and damian. LMAO. ROUGH START THAT'S ALL ILL SAY. at some point alfred goes like fuck it. family therapy. and tim and dami are PISSED. tim and damian get along best when they have a common enemy to work against. their relationship gets much better when damian is older and they actually talk about their feelings like emotionally stunted bats. despite how bad their relationship was, tim will ALWAYS protect damian

duke

very much intimidated by dick at first. dick is so much older and has his own job and friends and life and is very much AN ADULT. dick likes to take duke out to do lots of cool stuff (paintball, lasertag, tech exhibitions, concerts, etc). also, dick PERSONALLY introduced duke to superman and is dating THE FLASH. 10/10 awesome big brother.

was intimidated by jason for 0.5 seconds before jason actually opened his mouth and started speaking. jason is literally. So Embarrassing. which is weird because nobody else really seems to feel that way about jason but duke knows he's 100% in the right here. like yeah jason is also An Adult and does Adult Stuff but he's also at the manor like every other weekend???? and he always complains about bruce but always seems to be in the same room bruce is in????? like okay jason. they bond over literature!! jason and duke and alfred will spend literal hours talking about books and duke loves it. duke is the only one who doesn't think jason is funny and jason gets so upset about it lmao.

cass has this one week where she gets really into photography and by virtue of being nearby (and also not nocturnal), duke becomes her victim subject. duke prints out all the pictures and hangs them up in his room (his favorite is one he took when he stole the camera and took a really bad selfie of them together).

tim is closest in age to duke so duke tends to hang around with him a lot. tim introduced duke to his young justice friends and duke is like yes!!! meta-friends!!!! tim really helps duke out with his powers because tim is always like wow i wonder if your powers would work if we did This? can you see farther than other people? is your visible spectrum of light different than other humans? Bruce does the same thing but bruce is boring about it lol.

damian and duke live in the same house and will be in the same room and just send each other social media posts back and forth. they follow each other on instagram and will, OCCASIONALLY, make tik toks together because they're tik tok fiends. each of his siblings have visited his parents once or twice but damian routinely comes with him.

damian

damian gets a special bullet point to say that it took him. forever to come around to the idea of having siblings. he very much believed that he was Bruce's Blood Son and everyone else were just tagalongs or allies. it took him ages to acknowledge that dick, jason, tim, and cass were his siblings, so when duke came and like a week later damian was like Ah, Yes, this is my brother Thomas everyone else was like dude wtf

listen. LISTEN. Obviously. Richard is very highly skilled. and also Father values him highly. and also Richard will listen to Damian complain about his schoolmates. and also Richard is much more patient with Damian than other members of his family. listen....,,, (all this to say damian kind of fucking adores dick lmaooooo this kid).

Todd is kind of unbearable but damian has been informed this is both a normal feeling when it comes to Todd and also big brothers. damian was an only child for ten years so yes, Father, if Todd attempts to tickle me I WILL break his fucking nose. yes i WILL put money in the swear jar but I want you to know i don't regret it. they always try to sneak up on each other but mostly fail.

DRAKE!!! but no lol once damian grows up and is like I Apologize for attempting to murder you it was wrong and you are just as much a son to Father as I am tim is like UGH i guess its cool since ur being so emotionally mature and all. also im 2 for 5 on siblings trying to murder me so im definitely going to win trauma bingo and damian is like i take it back you are insufferable. When Will My Older Siblings Stop Joking About Their Trauma.

CASS!!! listen. cass is cool. Cass Gets It. They have a special Bond. also damian really likes it whenever cass is home because 1) he gets to hang out and do something cool with cass and 2) he feels significantly safer with cass in the house because Nobody will be able to hurt any of their family if Cass is there. ALSO he tries to call her cain but everyone is like DONT DO THAT and he doesn't want to call her wayne bcus theyre ALL wayne (dick adds it on as a middle name but also Richard John Wayne West-Grayson is just. the lamest name ever so dick needs to reconsider it before his upcoming nuptials)((dick will not reconsider it except maybe whether grayson-west would work better)) and so he tries cassandra but cass is like :) call me cass and damian is like cassandra is more formal and respectful and cass is like :) and finally damian just has to give in.

Duke! him and duke actually live together so they get the Most Bonding Time and have a bunch of inside jokes as a result. (is it bad i wanted to laugh because inside jokes... joker... i'll see myself out). they're eating breakfast together (and also alfred sits with them IM NOT A MONSTER ALFIE'S LIKE 70 NOW OKAY) and duke laughs and bruce is like what are you laughing at, son? and duke is like oh damian just showed me this funny meme and then he shows the phone to bruce and bruce grabs it (both the boys groan) and after WAY TOO LONG is like "i don't get it" and so now duke and damian have to try and explain the comedic intricacy of bob's burgers

#this took. two fucking hours #batfam #batman #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #cassandra cain #cassandra wayne #not sure which one to commit to yet #tim drake #duke thomas #damian wayne #dc #the burd squawks #birdflash #birdflash was like. one of my first ships lmao

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batarangsoundsdumb · 3 years

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hae interrogationes multae respondeant quia demens .

if you read this entire ask post you deserve a gold star and financial recompensation

Um, Obviously because when you’re adopted by a white guy you automatically become white duhhh

this is about this post lmao and yeah youre absolutely right, you have to hand your poc card in when you get adopted by a white guy.

Do you think Cass would listen to Yanni, the YouTube channel epic symphonic rock, or some other stuff? There's some cool mashups but idk if that's up your alley, I kinda feel like I'm pushing it with my weird taste of music by recommending an orchestra cover of metal, but i just love that sort of thing and mashups :P @harvestyourcherries

i haven’t heard of that? but in my personal (correct) opinion steph listens to classical music, and then both modern and older, and then also stuff like black sabbath, iron maiden, but also hardrock and hardcore. i like the idea of cass just liking the most extreme screaming songs full of noise and then also listen to pachelbel’s 370th sonata yanno? THANK YOU for the rec tho

speaking of ur cass playlist hc...reminds of the time (yesterday) i found 2 playlists randomly on spotify from the same user. one was abt 3 hours of instrumental/classical "dark" & "nostalgic" music. the other almost 11 hours of nothing but hardcore bass/synth/electronic music. just an incredible tightrope act to put on in public. the synth one was also called like "psalms for synth sluts" which is Also incredible

tbh i LOVE synth SO MUCH like for no reason at all but then also cannot handle a poppy electronic beat lmao. but this seems like the kinda thing i’d do but just in one (1) playlist bc i just sort songs by vibe instead of genre? that’s how i end up with britney spears and billy ray cyrus in the same playlist.

Oh, I want Kate Kane playlist next! It would be amazing if you could do one when you have time and will 🙏

how rude would it be of me to just say no? like sorry kate but idk you and also you seem way too keen on the us military for an institution that homophobically targeted you? (and also commits war crimes) but let’s unpack the fact that the institution that caused the death of your mom and sister and also got you blacklisted for being gay is still one you align with???

'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' --- when i tell you i fucking screamed LOL!!!!!!! i can imagine the cameraman not knowing if he should cut to commercial or keep it on these two weirdos fighting on stage (bruce definitely ruffled dick's hair/noogied him right??

about this post but yeah lmao. this cameraman just turns to like the audience to get a reaction and it’s just multiple moments of CLEAR shock.

you are the only funny person on this hellsite

how egotistical is it for me to say that i get this ask multiple times a month? bc it literally happens so often it’s hilarious to me.

Wish there was more john/Bruce content 😔😔😔 was so hungry I actually looked at canon media 😔😔😔 (Justice League Dark babeeeyyyyyy)

check out batman: damned for some mediocre content but at least it’s john/bruce (also very interesting story and stuff, just got very >:( over this weird part where harley quinn tried to r*pe bruce or something? it’s not for everyone)

dick grayson but he's nicki minaj

his anaconda don’t want none,,, unless......

Dick Grayson was never a cop, he played Marshall on Paw Patrol

you are SO right. also paw patrol is a fucking good show idc. that shit could’ve been the new steven universe on this hellsite.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1lI0bLI7-/?utm_medium=copy_link

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why do people keep reposting my CONTENT. if you are not funny yourself don’t just grab shit off of tumblr and post it on insta,,, get a life. sidenote: should i start an insta and get all these ppl to take my content down that would be funny as hell.

Might I suggest for a Gotham City Meme: something about the true crime fandom thirsting for the rogues gallery

ok can i just say something slightly controversial?? no? i don’t find true crime ppl who are into criminals funny, that shits disturbing irl im not gonna bring that into my very chill universe.

i may have never seen a 'jason cleaning guns in sink' fic but i do know he WOULD

THANK YOU

bestie im sorry to say this to you but while you can, and people do wash their guns in the sink, that is a lot of lead in a very vital part of the kitchen.

people tend to do it in the bathtub.

WHY???? like damn why do you even have guns

i dont think i read many gun sink fics exactly but i have read lots of fics where jason cleanes his guns in the living room. usualy dissembles them and cleans them with a rag i think

lmao fair enough, like i think that’s a large part of what i remember as well.

if you say you've seen/read gun sink fics I believe you. I think those of us who didn't see them are lucky or maybe didn't search for fics by tags or something idk

i mean ive never sought them out but i HAVE seen them,, like definitely i know almost for certain.

saw your tags and I'm interested in Steph/Kara now. They would be the most chaotic couple <3

literally thoooo, i have a wip where they get together in a zombie apocalypse and like UGGGHhhh i am so in love with them.

I am the Breece anon. Thanks for the recommendation; am reading now. I’ve always been a hardcore Superman fan because I love my pure himbo farm boy. My logic is, if one Bruce is a Broose, then multiple Broose are a herd of Breece. And this is a hill upon which I will perish.

fair enough,,,, like moose, meese, goose, geese, bruce, breece. i get your logic and i stand by it as well. (glad you enjoyed the comic recs!!!!)

It's a beautiful day in Gotham, and you are a group of horrible Breece

OH my god dude lmao

there only being 42 fics on ao3 for tim and bernard is honestly so sad i need more

it’s like twice that now!!! we did it lads. (tho very sad that my fic isnt number one but like number 4 :(((( )

i'm too late you already did the poll lol but may i suggest bethy (bernard + timothy)

shit dude that wouldve been so fucking funnyyyyy. think ppl have just stuck to timber tho, tim/bernard kinda died down recently and i think it’s too bad, they’re a great couple and i love them.

Wait, hear me out

Bernothy @redlightofdawn

great recommendation (lmao this ask is from like a month ago) but very sorry to announce that NARDTH is the superior shipname

Wait, we know that bernard likes milfs (Tim's step-mom) but what about dilfs? gilfs?

Wait no, I regret sending that ask

these were two seperate asks and they’re HILARIOUS. in my personal opinion tho,,, milfs, gilfs, dilfs are just about vibes and bernard is just attracted to sexy ppl who may sometimes be milfs, dilfs, or EVEN gilfs.

crime in bludhaven would drop to half if nightwing had a boob window. in this essay i will-

WHERE’S THE ESSAY ANON, WHERE’S THE FUCKING ESSAY

Wait if Barbra and Tim r at opposite ends at all times what happened to Barbra once everyone’s Tim’s ever love before started dying lol

she won a lottery ticket and spent 2 weeks on a resort in the bahamas before returning home and finding out that the joker was arrested for tax evasion and then spent a month staying at her big tiddie goth girlfriend’s house before conner came back to life and she broke her pinkie playing table hockey.

Why is the opposite end thing so funny and compelling to me. Tim comes back from his depression quest for Bruce and Babs is now a literal god

lmao when tim loses his spleen barbara reaches nirvana.

Are you still taking music recs because I have three songs that remind me of Jason that I think you'd like

send to me or lose a toe

🌸 ⭐ put this star into the inbox of your favorite blogs. it’s time to spread positivity! ⭐🌸😋

thanks, i wont tho on account of i wont.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMduBy3Sr/

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This is the whole of Blüdhaven and everyone anywhere.

Nightwings ass alone saves more people in a calendar year and does more for so society than most heroes do their whole career.Also u are one of the funniest tumblr pages out there. The vibes are unmatched and the memes and tags ✨send me✨.Thank u and goodnight @julia-flow

fanksss also lmao.

That's going to be a little bit difficult to explain, but

There's some music that you listen to and you think, "oh my gosh, I can perfectly imagine Dick Grayson singing this song, with the same voice as the singer because that voice matches with Dick Grayson"?

oh yeah totally lmao. i have a lot of songs that i think are just entirely dick grayson yanno? kind of all of my playlists have that vibe, but i really find bleachers to fit with dick? idk.

"Lois lane/Superman" fics this, "Lois lane/Clark Kent" fics that, (/lh) let's get into the real good stuff. Some people ship Lois, Clark, and Superman as a throuple. Most popular fic tag for sure

yes totally, i think they’d be absolutely killer on ao3 and clark gets so fucking embarassed about it.

I miss your post, hope you’re doing okay!!

haha this was like 2 months ago, but i was doing fine then too! just didn’t have a lot of inspiration in terms of content.

Doot doot!

noot noot

I’m confused. What did DC do now? Like with nightwing? And another sibling? Please spoil everything for me

lmao they gave him a secret sister plotline where they had his dad cheat on his mom with tony zucco’s wife, bc dick’s life wasn’t traumatic enough yet.

sorry but it's so funny that batman is called "the dark knight" when the gotham city baseball team is called the gotham knights. it'd be like if a vigilante was running around new york called like "the scary yankee"

lmaooo no. but like yankee comes from dutch names or something so wouldnt it be HILARIOUS if gotham knights came from like german names and bruce would be running around called the dark KLAUS UND NIEK @graysonnightwing

(not a batcest shipper) it’s so funny to me that the responses are “i’m a batcest shipper because i can differentiate fiction from reality and and it doesn’t bother me personally, but i understand why you oils think it’s weird” to “i wish all batcest shippers a very fucking die”

yeah lmaoo. i personally basically flipped my entire stance around to ‘i dont care please leave me and everybody else alone’ bc i think there’s really no point in starting a moral dillema over some fucking fandom bullshit. Please just,,, go home,,, log off, find a nice forest to have a little walk in and remember that somewhere in history, somebody probably died in the place you’re standing. and you will also die someday, and somebody will have to look at your internet usage and see you fighting multiple people anonymously while being named ‘nightwingsbuttchin200186′ like... calm down, we’re all gonna die this is not the thing to worry about.

so since like "wards" don't really exist in modern society almost all the batkids are foster kids, right? i used to work in the system and imagine: monthly visits from social workers and guardian ad litems, bruce having to get permission to take the boys anywhere out of state, calling their social worker at like 8 a.m. like "yeah dick broke his arm again... a gymnastics accident this time...." their poor social worker. bruce send her a huge bouquet and box of chocolates every month to stay on her good side

i imagine the social worker just getting into the case like ‘yeah let’s get this kid a good guardian’ and then ending up having to work with 22 y/o bruce wayne and his 50 y/o dad. and so this social worker is like ‘okay we can work with this, this is the best home i can find’ and then like it ends up landing on its feet and then the kid gets adopted and then they get a call a year later like ‘uhm so hi, this kid tried to steal my tyres can i adopt him?’ and like 3 years later. ‘okay so basically, my neighbours’ kid imprinted on me and now they’re dead, can i keep him?’ two years later it’s like ‘okay so this assassin child-’

ever since I saw that one post of yours, the meme that's something like "I know that abba's backup dancer got me" with a picture of discowing, I've been haunted. Every once in a while I'll be minding my own business then the image of abba's backup dancer dick grayson aka nightwing aka discowing will flash in my mind and I'll be frozen in place. Today at work I was in the middle of folding clothes and suddenly once again discowing entered my mind and I suddenly lost the ability to see anything except He. Thank you.

wow. the IMPACT.

Braver than any US marine man props to you🤝

this shit is about the time i wrote an article on batcest, like man,,, the fact that i didn’t get cancelled is MIRACULOUS. also like,,, uh if anybody on here did gossip on me,, send screenshots i’d love to see it.

Hello, just wanted to say your article was great. Thank you for taking the time to provide an unbaised answer. It should provide people with nuances they couldn't possibly conjure on their own.

May I ask where your username originates from?

yes you may (also thanks!!!) i thought it up when i was trying to find an original username bc i didnt want to be called like ‘timdrakes something something’ or ‘jason todd something smoething’ or ‘dick grayson something something’ yanno? so i thought batarangs, they sound so dumb and that’s my username story... now it’s my whole entire brand lmao.

yno that bit in kick ass where red mist asks kick ass if he wants a hit of his blunt, was that the inspo for stoner tim

no? it’s bc i think stoners are hilarious and drugs are great. (dont do drugs tho)

How would u feel if someone actually wore one of those bruce or ollie pride shirts u edited

fenomenal next question.

Dick as lil huddy and Jason as James gave me radiation poisoning and now I’m screaming crying throwing up so thx for that

(Rico suave as Tim is perfect tho literally no changes needed)

i was so funny for that shit wasn’t i??? lmao i loved those weird ass fancasts

You're doing the Lord's work by providing us with all these Gotham/Metropolis citizens memes, thank you for being so relentlessly funny @nellethiel-aranel

you’re welcome!! i really enjoy making memes, but getting validation for my content and my memes is REALLY nice.

Bruce is such a slut in your memes and honestly i love that for him @rhodey-rhudert-rhodes-main

he’s that much of a slut irl too dw.

Bruce and Alfred have an emergency pride flag for the batkids. Oliver Queen printed an emergency "I love my gay son" t-shirt and as soon as Roy told him he was dating Jason, Oliver started wearing that shirt everyday and Roy always cringes when he sees it. Oliver also has an emergency "I love my lesbian daughter" shirt just in case for Cissie.

lmao YES i had a post like this bc like all of their kids/family members are so gayy

stop bringing back batfam fancasts it is not real it is not real it is not- 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

oh yes it is my darling.

did discowing burn down the notredam because he hates the bees? @allulily

no he did it bc fuck the french.

im gonna beg for 1 thing and 1 thing only. please please please put physical by olivia newton john on dick's playlist

okay then beg. bc i wont. physical reminds me too much of glee and that hurts me mentally.

your playlist is sorely missing some Madonna. Specifically Into the Groove, Like a Prayer, and Vogue

i’m scared of madonna that’s why she’s not on there. she haunts me in my dreams.

suggestion: son of batman by aaron dews for dick’s playlist🤩

sorry, i listened to it and the vibe didn’t agree with me.

Hear me out, metropolis citizens sending rare pair fics of Clark Kent x Superman fics to Lois to edit

yes, absolutely hilarious. even more funny if they send like physical copies, no address attached and lois sends it back marked with red ink, SOMEHOW

Imagine all the smut Clark must of read editing the fics

clark reads smut confirmeeed

NOT LOIS READING SUPERBAT PORN AND EDITING IT A 2AM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hc that alfred is a meta that boosts healing factor of the people around him. if the bats are injured as much as they seem to be they would be doing bat stuff MAYBE half the year. no one including alfred knows about this. whenever the kids move out they inexplicably dont recover from injuries as fast and feel better whenever they visit the manor they just chalk it up to homesickness. bruce just thinks he heals really fast. alfred thinks everyone doesnt take care of themselves properly @finchcollector

that’s actually such a great idea, but i think that alfred would find out and learn how to concentrate it better so he can help more people, bc he’s great and i love him.

One of your dickfast posts reminded me of that tweet that goes: 'so you've had sex how many times? Yeah technically that's not a bromance' lol that's dickwally or dickroy

literally tho. like that’s all of dick’s friendships. once it gets past a certain time dick is like ‘wow i wonder what it would be like to make out with wally, wally come make out with me’ and wally’s like ‘we’ve done this like 40 times, dick, you know what it’s like’ and dick is like ‘sorry are you complaining?’ and they just make out.

superfam and batfam associations??

-batman and superman

-dick/barabara and supergirl?

-conner and tim

-jon and damian

pls enlighten me I am confused

nope,,, uhm batman and superman, but dick and superman as well, and then conner and tim, jon and damian and steph + babs with supergirl

I came across a fic in which Wonder Woman calls Batman "Stella" (like Stellaluna, the children's book) and I can imagine the batkids hop on the trend and maybe copies of the book appear at random places (aka, everywhere Bruce frequents)

sorry can’t reciprocate that was the name of my high school chemistry teacher and it gives me nightmares to think about.

good human what are your pronouns?

wouldn’t you like to know?

I need me some gothamites preferring harley over joker memes

everyone prefers harley over joker youre just very fucked up if you dont

don't understand why people try to add like veteran policy to the batfamily

dick pulling out his veteran batfam member card so he can eat first: step aside, peasants

Do you know the song Simmer by Haley Williams? It (the first verse anyways) reminds me of Jason? It's about rage.

damn yeah i LOVE HAYLEY!!!! youre right thoo

Okay so I like listen to your stoner Tim Drake playlist 24/7 but would he listen to skegss? Also I keep adding songs mentally it’s killing me 😩✋🏼 Anyways,, I literally love and worship your playlist 😃🤞🏼 And uh yeah have a good day ✨

stoner tim drake playlist is lyfeeee. also dont know who skeggs is? i’m stupid? have a good day!!

All the Robins (and Batgirl) decide to trade costumes for one night just to fuck with Batman and all the villains in Gotham. @subspacecadet

batman knows it’s them youknow but like,,, what does he call them? he’s like ‘red hood?’ and 3 people answer and he’s not about to compromise some identities so he’s just Pissed.

I aspire to treat cops the way my dad treats them. This man is a 45 year old Asian immigrant to the US and the treats them like his pets. He talks about them like unruly children. Sometimes he pays off local cops to shut up and stop acting racist. And usually it works. I don’t know why but I can see Oliver Queen doing this

vibes... and also yes? oliver queen handing a local cop a donut to shut the fuck up lmao. but yanno i commit enough crimes to not really want to ever see a cop ever, so they kinda scare the everloving fuck out of me.

seeing as tim hasn't aged in years, that means he was 17 at peak emo tumblr era. im back on my emo tim bullshit and im not letting it go

emo tim had a wattpad account send tweet

People seem to think that batman is so dark and serious when the rainbow batsuit is right there. He wore it with no shame.

dude the 60s were a DIFFERENT TIME

dick grew up in a circus, jason grew up on the streets, and tim was probably raised by the internet

all of them cuss every other word and you cannot tell me otherwise

bitch i KNOW but dc has to change to an 18+ rating if they want to sell comix with swear words in them so we gotta deal with imagining the swear words in ourselves

thoughts on teen titans and young justice

haven’t seen teen titans on account of havent seen it and young justice was LITERALLY my favourite thing ever, tho i do gotta admit it’s not at all similar to the young justice comics unfortunately. i really wouldve liked to see timmy bart kon cassie and cissie animated on tv!!

ew ew ew how to delete batcest shippers I genuinely digust them

log off tumblr?

Okay as poc who was called racist for calling an Italian pastabrain: in the batfam are Italians bit Damian just yells various insults about the others being Italian. Just him yelling “What are you doing you moronic spaghettihead!” At steph etc

huh? i meant real italians. homeboy is telling steph he hopes she chokes on her fucking garlic.

I think it's dumb as hell to pull the batman is the best fighter in the batfam argument because like it's just irresponsible of Bruce to let his kids fight when they couldn't possibly be on his league or something

fair enough, but also like who cares they could all kill you just sit down and take a beating.

lady shiva, thalia al ghul and Selina Kyle are all milfs @notanothertimburtonenthusiastugh

unfortunately, i have to admit,,, you’re right

why tf didn't someone give joker a death sentence already? like he's a mass murderer...give him the electric chair treatment wtf

idk i think plenty of people would have tried to murder him already (boring answer is: he is a popular character so they can’t kill him off bc he brings in lots of money)

There’s no such thing as “ copaganda”.

all american media is propaganda. happy to clear this up for you

is it bad that I find lady shiva owa owa

no. find her as owa owa as you want.

aight I'm guessing the order of your favs in batfam:

1. tim

2. Steph

3. dick

4. Duke

5. the rest

you’re wrong but it’s cute that you tried, i generally don’t have favourites, but i have a special place in my heart for steph, tim, dick and cass. bc they were like my introduction to batfam. but damian, jason, duke, bruce, babs and alfred are NOT FORGOTTEN OR UNLOVED

oh my god i was literally just readily willing to believe that italians werent white ty for clarifying it was a joke im so dumb sdkvjskdfs

i mean some italians aren’t white? italian is a nationality as well as an ethnicity, so like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

since I saw so many people doing headcanons about the nationalities of batboys, I see Dick as an Italian.

dont know if youre serious or not, but sure.

super random but

jason 🤝 damian

old english

lmao fair enough.

tim absolutely has 1 gay uncle and his parents shit talk said uncle all the time so after bruce adopts him he specifically reaches out to this uncle to be like "heyyyy just so you know you majorly influenced my life yes i know i havent seen you since i was 5 and at the family reunion yes i know you dont remember my name idc thank you im gay too" and then they never talk again.

yuppp lmao that’s definitely something that could happen. i can also consider tim having no family members, like none. until he does like a dna test and he realises he has like an aunt living barely 2 miles away from him who’s like some illegitimate child of his grandpa.

I dare you one of them sends clark superman/clark fic and clark corrects the shit out of it and then goes like ps his dick is not that big, just telling as someone who has seen it. internet either explodes or goes who tf did he not fuck at this point.

i think everybody would call clark a buzzkill and try to cancel him over that.

so you're telling me Tim Drake wouldn't buy Starbucks?

no. dunkin donuts all the way

One of my favorite things is imagining people finding out jason came back from the dead and being like "oh no does he have magic powers now?!?!?" and he just pulls out a gun and tries to shoot joker

now he doesn’t even have the gun :) lmao

my favorite batfamily fanfictions are the ones where they use their shitty codenames, unironically, in any context

bruce gets codename ‘ugh’ everytime. he hates it.

crazy that tim being a 17 y/o ceo and a stoner who does brand deals are all actual canon things written in detective comics comics and not made up for shits and giggles by you, tumblr user batarangsoundsdumb @rowdeyclown

SO CRAZY HUH?

batman au where everything is the same but his utility belt is bright pink

absolutely, but i raise you, his boots light up like sketchers when he kicks people.

unbeknownst to the superhero fandom writers in the dcuniverse, clark and BRUCE are one of the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag on ao3. clark writes the best lois x superman angst, full of unhappy endings and scenes that are a so detailed you'd think you were in the middle of a superhero beatdown. bruce made an ao3 account to fuel "the do the butts match" thing, and makes batman/bruce fics from time to time. he wrote a superbat fic as a joke but ended up making it REAL porny. @concrastinator

dude they’re WAY too busy for that. Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan on the other hand are the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag writing what is Mostly porn.

When the dining table topic gets to politics, Steph says "eat the rich" as the solution

bruce just silently takes away her fork and knife while she’s talking.

#literally if you got through this i just respect you #this is mainly just for the people who sent me an ask in the past few mask #i hope your ask is in here :)#sorry for everybody else #ask #bataranswers #this took me 4 hours to do so i hope youre happy #also sidenote #does anybody know the latin translation for 'to become'#bc i just used future of 'esse' but it could be a different verb #who cares tho latin is a dead language #big congratulations to everyone who translates my sentence #here's a bonus sentence: tuam matrem futueram

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Chapter 1: Turnabout Newbie

[July 18th, 9:45, Outside the Courtroom]

Rebecca’s heels clacked against the linoleum as she ran down the hall to the courtroom. It was her first case and she was not going to be late. She saw her mentor, and waved at them.

“Boss! Boss, I’m not late!”

“I can see that, Rebecca. Almost late, though.” Cass looked at their watch.

“Not late means I wasn’t late!”

Cass laughed and pet Rebecca’s hair. “You’re right, I’m sorry.”

Rebecca pouted before sighing. Jeez, how did you end up being so late, you failure of a human being?! Cass thinks you’re unfit for this, and you know they do!

“I don’t like what you’re thinking.”

Rebecca looked up. How did they know.

“I can see it on your face. You can do this, Rebecca. I have faith in you.”

Rebecca smiled. “Thanks. I got this… I’m fine!”

Cass covered their ears. “I’m surprised I haven’t gone deaf, yet. You always shout in the office.”

“Sorry.”

“Rebecca!”

The young woman turned to her friend who ran up to her. Rebecca pulled her into a hug as she cried and shouted. Cass gave them a look.

“You know your client?”

“Yeah. She and I are friends.”

“Huh. I hadn’t known that.”

“It’s not something that’s well known.”

Cass nodded before walking away from them. Rebecca gave her friend a reassuring smile. Or at least… it was supposed to be a reassuring smile. Ndesah Jones frowned even deeper before pulling away.

“What’s with that look?! Do you really I killed him?!”

“No! I promise! I’m just really bad at reassuring people who have been accused of murder.” Rebecca’s tone was flat by the time she finished her sentence.

“Yeah, that was obvious. Alfred’s really worried about the outcome of the trial, y’know?”

“Yeah, of course I know. But!” Rebecca jabbed a thumb on her chest. “I’ll get you off! I promise!”

“That’s what he said.”

“Nice to know you’re still in there.”

Ndesah was taken by the bailiff and Cass walked over to Rebecca.

“C’mon. Trial’s starting.”

[July 18th, 10:00 AM, Courtroom #17]

The two walked into the courtroom, and stood on the defense’s side and looked across, seeing the prosector. Rebecca gulped in fear, and Cass patted her shoulder.

“Calm down. You can do this.”

Rebecca nodded. “Yeah…”

The judge banged his gavel, gathering everyone’s attention. “The trial for Mrs. Jones will begin. Is the prosection ready?”

The woman standing across the room from Rebecca nodded. “The prosecution is ready, Your Honor.”

“T-The…” Rebecca lost her voice for a second. She was really nervous. You’re fine. Yell out you’re ready! “The defense is also ready, Your Honor!” Rebecca bellowed, scaring everyone in the courtroom.

“Counsel, are you okay-”

“I’m fine!” She shouted once again.

“R-Right…” the judge cleared his throat, “Um, p-prosector, your opening statement?”

The woman cast a glance at Rebecca. “Yes, Your Honor. The prosecution will prove that Mrs. Jones was the one who brutally murdered the poor Mr. Vargas.”

Ndesah winced and Rebecca nodded. This prosecutor means business. She’s so intimidating. But also… seems kinda weak.

“The prosecution would like to call Detective Stormy to the stand.”

Detective Stormy took the stand, looking out at everyone. “Good morning, courtroom.”

“Good morning, Detective.” The judge greeted.

“Please state your name and occupation for the court.”

“Stormy. Occupation: Detective.”

“So, detective. Explain the crime scene.”

“Ma’am, yes, ma’am. The scene was simple. One man and bullet hole through his eyes. There wasn’t a gun found at the scene or the surrounding area, but Mrs. Jones was found across the street from where he was killed-”

“OBJECTION!”

Rebecca banged her fist twice on the desk. “That’s not enough to say my defendant did it!”

“QUIET!”

Stormy banged the witness stand. “Actually, Mrs. Jones was also found with a gun as well. And the bullet matched her gun.

“Did you look at Mrs. Jones’ hands?”

Ndesah, what the fuck where you- oh, it was probably Alfred’s gun. Alfred, why the fuck do you own a gun?! Rebecca was screaming internally. She sighed thinking about all the facts.

“What?”

“I know Ndesah personally and she doesn’t really like wearing gloves. While most people would to keep their fingerprints off the gun, I doubt Ndesah would since I think her husband’s would’ve been documented accidentally. Did you see any gunpowder or test the gun for prints at all?”

Stormy’s face flushed. “Um…. no. We did not. We assume everyone uses gloves.”

“WHAT?!”

Stormy cowered behind the stand. “It wasn’t my decision! It’s the forensics team’s decision to do that!”

“OBJECTION!”

Rebecca frowned. Dumbass forensics team. “Fine. But you still don’t have enough evidence to convict her!”

Everyone was directed to the prosector. “We actually have an eyewitness who says he saw Mrs. Jones commit the crime.”

Rebecca groaned loudly and Cass patted her shoulder. “Don’t worry Rebecca. You got this. You really believe your client is innocent?”

“Yeah?”

“Then fight. Fight till the very end and keep on fighting to make sure the court also believes she’s innocent. Got it?”

“Yeah… I got this!”

Cass smiled. “Let’s tone down the random shouts, yeah?”

“Sorry.”

“The prosecution would like to call our eyewitness.”

A man joined Stormy on the stand and Rebecca immediately noted his unruly eyebrows. He wore a dull army uniform and his blonde hair was messy.

“Please state your name and occupation for the court.”

“Arthur Kirkland. I’m a chemistry teacher.” The man had an English accent.

“Please tell the court what you saw.”

Arthur cleared his throat. “I was walkin’ past the room when I saw her. She had the window open, shot once into place where the man was, killin’ ‘im instantly! I ‘eard the glass shatter and everything! I ran away and called the police!”

“I see this as open and shut. Therefore, the defendant is-”

Rebecca placed a hand on her chin. Damn, that was an airtight testimony. But… it’s weird… Right!

“OBJECTION!”

Rebecca banged her fist twice against the desk again. “Something doesn’t line up here! Detective Stormy!”

The detective jumped. “Huh?! Yeah?!”

“Was there any glass on the floor where the victim was?!”

“Uh, n-no. Jeez, newbie, why’re you shouting?”

“Volu-” Cass started, but they were cut off by Rebecca shouting once more.

“So then, Mr. Kirkland has contradicted the detective! He couldn’t have heard the glass shatter since the window was open! Wasn’t it, Detective?!”

“Ah, y-yeah, it was. Jeez, you’re loud…”

“-ume.” Cass finished.

“Huh?” Rebecca looked at Cass.

“Volume, Rebecca. You were loud as fuck.”

Rebecca looked around. “Ehe… sorry.”

“Well, you’re right counsel. Mr. Kirkland? How do you explain this?”

“Oh, well! Um… well… you see… bollocks. Um, I remember! Someone down the hall had knocked over a vase down the hall! I heard the shattering of that glass!”

Shit. This is bad. He’s got a good testimony. Rebecca groaned and slammed her face onto the desk. Cass jumped and patted her back.

“Rebecca. What did I say.”

“Fight, fight, fight… why not just lie down and accept that I’m not winning this?”

“Because do you really think she did it?! Fight to get her off the hook!”

Rebecca raised her head up. “Mr. Kirkland…”

“Y-yes?”

“I have to ask… Where did you see Mrs. Jones?”

“Apartment 35.”

Rebecca’s eyes shot open and she stood up straight. “Room 35?! Mr. Varga was a floor above her! She couldn’t have shot him! Detective Stormy said it was a straight shot!”

“That it was,” Stormy informed.

“So, she couldn’t have done it if she was in Room 35!” Rebecca shouted louder than she had ever shouted, making everyone in the courtroom cover their ears in pain. “Um… sorry again.”

“Right…” Stormy sighed, “I think Miss Rebecca is right, there’s no way Mrs. Jones could’ve-”

“SHUT UP!”

Everyone looked at Arthur who looked pissed. He breathed in deeply and punched the witness stand several times.

“I’m telling you, she did it! I saw her! And what I saw is the only damn thing that matters!”

“Mr. Kirkland!” Rebecca banged her fist against the desk. “You should know that conclusive evidence is the only evidence the court accepts!”

“But I’m a bloody eyewitness, goddammit! I know more than anyone else in this courtroom!”

“You also should know that Mrs. Jones lives a floor below you as well! And since you’re a floor above her, it gives you a perfect straight shot into Mr. Vargas’ room!”

This statement caused Arthur to fall back, and glare at Rebecca. She glared right back, and before Cass could calm her down and stop her from shouting even louder, Rebecca was talking again.

“This is what happened. You shot Mr. Vargas and knew that it would be hard for you to get away from it so you framed your downstairs neighbor. You called the police and said she did it and you were hoping that the court would see that you were the perfect, innocent witness when it was all a lie! Isn’t that what happened?!”

Arthur lowered his head and looked at the ground. He was silent for a second before he yelled out, making Rebecca and Cass cover their ears from how loud he was. Rebecca screwed her eyes shut and when he finished, she slowly opened her eyes.

“Are you done sir?”

“Yes… and I must admit… I thought I was going to be able to get away with it. I suppose that might’ve been a bit too ambitious.”

Rebecca took a second to realize what she had just heard. “WHAT?!”

Cass pushed a finger into their ear. “Wow… no blood and I’m still able to hear.”

“Sorry, Cass.”

“It’s fine.”

“Mr. Kirkland are you-”

“Yes, I killed Feliciano and tried to frame Mrs. Jones. Lock me up and throw away the key, officer.”

He turned to Stormy who was still surprised. “U-Um. Yeah.” Stormy pulled out a pair of handcuffs and proceeded to handcuff him and take him out of the courtroom.

“Well… it’s not everyday that we have someone arrested within the courtroom.”

Rebecca and Cass nodded slowly. The judged cleared his throat, banging his gavel.

“Well… this is a formality at this point, but the court finds Ndesah Jones not guilty!”

Rebecca sighed out a breath of relief and dropped her head on the desk. She felt Cass pat her back and when she looked up, they had a smile on their face.

“Nice job, Rebecca. Especially for your first trial. Very impressive.”

“Thanks boss.”

They left the courtroom and saw Ndesah and Alfred hugging each other.

“You’re not going to jail! I’m so happy!”

“Yes! Yes! It’s amazing!”

Rebecca smiled at the scene and walked over to them. She tapped Ndesah’s shoulder and when she noticed Rebecca, she hugged her as well.

“Thank you! I knew picking you was the right choice!”

“Yes, thank you, Rebecca!” Alfred pulled her into a tight hug.

“Ack- Alfred! Thank you for the hug, but it’s too tight!!!”

“That’s what he said,” The couple spoke at the same time.

Rebecca sighed and wriggled her way out of his hold. She breathed and watched the couple cooing at each other. Rebecca walked back over to Cass and when they saw Rebecca, they ruffled her hair.

“Great job, kid! You’re really something! I can see great things for your future.”

“Really?!”

“Of course! In a single trial you got a not guilty verdict and you revealed who the real murderer was! That’s way more than what I’ve done in my 5 years of being a lawyer. And I know that my first trial wasn’t like that.”

“Really?”

“Uh, hell yeah! You’re fricken amazing, Rebecca! And trust me, you’ll do amazing things. And I can’t wait to see them all.”

“Thank you, boss.”

Cass patted Rebecca’s back once more before holding up their wallet. “You wanna get some drinks? My treat. You did win your first ever case.”

“I’d like that! Let’s go!”

@lucifers-golden-bitch-apparently @notajerusalemcricket @nagytoe @strawberry-lemonade @suck-on-my-jingle-bells

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When Sorrows Come reactions

Spoilers: I did not get bingo.

25 squares, from left to right, top to bottom: 1. Malvic appears at the wedding 2. Sylvester attends the wedding 3. The High King or Queen gets elfshot 4. One of Tybalt's enemies from the short stories appears 5. Hope chests are relevant 6. Something is revealed about the False Queen 7. There's at least 3 Firstborn at the wedding 8. Someone calls Toby a kingbreaker 9. Dianda punches someone important 10. Toby drinks someone else's blood 11. August attends the wedding 12. Hirsent crashes the wedding 13. [Free space] Toby's dress gets blood on it 14. One of Tybalt's friends from the short stories appears 15. Eira is behind the trouble 16. Gillian attends the wedding 17. Lore about the Torquill family 18. Quentin's identity gets revealed 19. Sylvester doesn't attend the wedding 20. Someone mistakes Sylvester for Simon 21. Raysel's plotline moves forward 22. Toby learns about Tybalt's short story past 23. Someone gets elfshot for the second or third time 24. Toby insults nobility we haven't seen before 25. Lore about the Sollys family

Date: April 11, 2015, roughly 6 months after A Killing Frost. No mischief occurred around Christmas 2014.

Are nobles seriously inviting the kingbreaker in order to make contact with her mother who she pissed off during the divorce? Have they been paying attention at all?

Technically, Toby has never committed treason. She definitely didn’t commit treason against Rhys because she never swore loyalty to him.

I think this is the first book that introduced Simon ahead of Sylvester and described Sylvester as Simon’s brother as opposed to the other way around. Sylvester is still on thin ice, by the way. There’s a reason I have both “Sylvester attends the wedding” and “Sylvester doesn’t attend the wedding” on the bingo card.

The Luidaeg denied Sylvester’s request to wake Raysel up - why? Did she want to get the wedding out of the way before Raysel’s trial and October’s next rolling emergency?

Yes, the Quentin problem when getting married at the High King’s knowe. Don’t change his appearance and everyone knows where the Crown Prince is fostered. Do change his appearance and everyone in Toby’s party now knows who the Crown Prince is.

“Dean Lorden is probably technically my brother now” woot.

Toby is voluntarily eating and drinking! After so many books of having food forced of her because she keeps forgetting to do so.

Confirmation that Toby officially owns her place and Luna can’t get Sylvester to reverse that decision.

Dean kissing a strange boy -> ah, they went with changing Quentin’s appearance and bloodline. And they went to the Luidaeg for it. Banshee, huh?

Poor Dean. Toby’s approval means something to him. And Toby continues to eat, good for her.

Yes, I too would love to know more about Sylvester’s Dark Years. Sylvester POV, when?

Dean has now officially heard that Oberon is back, and isn’t reacting. I have to assume the Lordens know the details behind how they broke August’s curse.

Oh Quentin, I love you.

Dean still thinks the Merrow descend from only Titania, but Pete confirmed in The Unkindest Tide that Oberon is her father.

Dean does not understand the value of landlines. Kids these days...

I had not considered that Toby and Tybalt’s wedding would be a historic event.

Surprise wedding date! It really couldn’t have been any other way.

Yes, who would have told Sylvester about the date?

Yep, calling Bridget and Etienne is the best option. And Etienne knows May didn’t tell Toby the date, interesting.

Dammit, Sylvester. I can’t cross that square off yet, he might redeem himself. And Etienne talking sense into Toby!

Did the fae make their kingdoms based on state borders? The West at least was based on SCA kingdoms and principalities. I wonder if Highmountain has a new Crown yet.

Good to know that Oberon can go where ever he wants in Faerie. He could probably bring Riordan back if he wanted to. Is Danny not coming? I can’t say I blame him.

Jazz knows about Oberon too.

I do hope August shows up at the wedding, it’s on my bingo card.

Huh, I knew that Ash and Oak aka New York was a place without fae these days, but I assumed some purebloods and changelings could still live there. Uncomfortably, perhaps, and maybe you couldn’t anchor a knowe there anymore, but I didn’t think it was actively hostile to every fae.

Hey, is that Lowri and Nolan? Nolan’s on guard duty, interesting.

Yes, the Ludiaeg could have married you at any time. Should have thought of that before everyone started offering you their knowe for the wedding.

Oh good they’re bringing Walther.

Makes sense Arden can’t come but she is sending Nolan. Nolan definitely is enjoying life these days.

Confirmation that Madden’s boyfriend is human and doesn’t know about the fae.

“I can go order her to arrest herself, if you’d like” Love it.

I have to assume the Tuatha Express is faster than air travel and not as tiring for the people who aren’t opening portals.

Nessa, the Gwragedd Annwn, a new species. As pretty as the Daoine Sidhe are to a nearly human Toby, wow.

And... she thinks the Luidaeg is Toby? I hope this isn’t a calculated insult. I know Quentin grew up with some bigoted people but this is deliberate.

And Oberon is apparently Tybalt?? What is going on her?

Kerry! We haven’t seen you since A Local Habitation. ‘There are no bad Dayes in this week” aww. I love you, Kerry.

Beacon’s Home is actually a Kingdom and not a Selkie-now-Roane holding? Cool.

It seems important that the Maples vs Ash and Oak decision was happening right before/during the American Revolution but I don’t know why yet.

“The ducal consorts are Daoine Sidhe”, yep both of them.

“Sweet Titania, I love that woman [Dianda Lorden]” Still waiting for Toby’s bisexual awakening.

The Luidaeg confirms the Gwragedd Annwn are Black Annie’s descendant line.

Quentin confirms something’s wrong with Nessa, maybe she isn’t like this at all.

Whee, slightly more Stacy weirdness. I think Barrow Wights would be descended from Maeve, her illusions shouldn’t be better than Toby’s.

Tybalt is apparently descended from both Oberon and the Luidaeg, if his line comes from the Cait Sidhe Malvic sired with his Roane lover.

Confirmation that the Luidaeg can see the future, at least some of the time.

At least Aethlin and Maida seem happy to see Toby.

Maida doesn’t recognize Cass’s bloodline - interesting.

“Um, my boss is Queen Windermere, and my [human] graduate advisor is Professor Weinstein, and my parents are Mitch and Stacy Brown” Cass I love you.

Oh, Nessa isn’t Nessa.

Not!Nessa, holding Toby at knifepoint is not the detergent you think it is.

Toby has a new knife now, sweet. Not!Nessa is a Doppelganger, we haven’t seen one of those in several years. The one in Rosemary and Rue, who wasn’t Gillian?

“Archers,” “I was right about that?”

Perhaps Toby shouldn’t be the one giving orders to open portals, but Aethlin clearly isn’t doing it.

“I punched it in the face” Why do I have the feeling that’s going to solve a lot of problems in this book? And hey, this isn’t a Firstborn or Queen, so Toby got her wish of punching more punchable people.

“You don’t have the authority to order an arrest in my knowe.” Well, maybe you should give her that authority, High King of the Westlands who was almost assassinated.

“Purebloods forgot things, quickly, when they can’t see them anymore” Interesting.

“And even in a backwater Ducky run by a politically unambitious man” Shadowed Hills predates the Mists, Sylvester really just went as far as he could. Or maybe settled there once Amandine built her tower.

“Is he going to try to stab me? Is he better at stabbing than the last batch was at shooting arrows”? I love you Raj. I wonder if the local King of Cats will make an appearance.

Ah fuck, first dead body.

Toby having the most sense in this scene, I love it.

Did Aethlin basically make Toby a hero of the Westlands as well? “Our visiting hero”

Aethlin is not showing up well in dealing with security, nor are his guards.

“People who put deadly traps on doorknobs often forget the obvious, which is that it’s a good idea to lock doors.”

Three dead bodies? RIP Aethlin’s guards.

Only two dead bodies so far. Once Broken Faith had 4, I believe, but we’re only a third done. Good job on not dying, Caitir.

Gordon, hello. I thought the reference to ALH in the “books to re-read” was about the nighthaunts but didn’t expect to see her.

Looks like neither Nessa nor Honey are dead.

This poor Ellyllon doctor, welcome to Toby’s world.

Ah fuck, Tybalt’s elf-shot again.

Good thing Caitir’s a Candela. Thank you, Raj.

Jazz is apparently betting that Toby’s getting elfshot before/during the wedding, this is a girl after my own heart. As is May.

Walther has a fan, I love it.

The Bridge Trolls can search for clues if they want, I guess. We don’t need to worry about people messing with the crime scene anymore.

Toby’s sweet talking the knowe, that didn’t take long.

Toby, Quentin is never going to leave you behind even when he’s knighted and moves back home. He would sooner move the capital to SF.

Evening got her hooks into Aethlin back in 1906, huh?

“I am the breaker of the unbreakable” Yes you are, Toby.

Black Annis was originally named Ismere? I love the lore we’re getting in this book.

There are rumors that Quentin is Toby’s squire, probably started after OBF. The Beacon’s Home Selkies knew about him, after all.

All the Maeve descendant lines with dead Firstborn imprint on the Luidaeg, this is so cute.

So many reasons why Tybalt shouldn’t go looking for Toby as she walks up. Tybalt’s back!

Nolan is great, I love him. Aethlin’s reassuring Nessa, glad to see it.

How does Fiac know enough about Simon and Amandine’s marriage to have negative feelings about it? It sounds like he was around them to notice it.

The Doppelganger isn’t bringing the Revolution, what a pity.

Fuck, she can’t kill Aethlin now. Damn.

This is exactly the scene I wanted to see with a different Daoine Sidhe, but fine. The guards need more training.

Eira killed other seers than the Roane, did she? Did she want there to be no one who could guess her plans?

Toby thinks Maida is upset with her, while I think Maida thinks Toby is the only one she can trust.

Why do none of the Daoine Sidhe save Simon specialize in blood magic? They all suck at it.

“We need to interview your entire staff, and by ‘we’ I mean ‘you’, and by ‘you’ I mean ‘someone you trust’“ Toby’s got this under control.

“I’m sorry, was that disrespectful? I meant fuck you, Your Majesty.” Quentin is not holding back. Chelsea and Raj are literally eating popcorn while watching this. Despite what Toby thinks, she has a court of teenagers.

I wonder what the series would have been like if Penny was sent to Shadowed Hills with Quentin.

I’m glad Quentin got the chance to yell at his father, he needed it. Look, family drama that isn’t related to Toby!

Walther: “I carry the base ingredients [of elfshot] whenever I travel with Sir Daye.” I would too, Walther.

...Are the rest of Stacy’s kids also Seers?

Oberon exists to be more than background, apparently.

Confirmation that the Luidaeg is a century older than Eira! And the Luidaeg will know if she wakes up.

Yes, Toby gets her own court with all her squires and also brothers. Quentin, Raj, one day Chelsea, Peter if he can convince Toby to do it. She has two Seers, an alchemist and her favorite aunts and family in Saltmist.

So the Summerlands have suns as well as moons.

Oh hey, Julie, I thought you died off screen. We haven't heard from you in several books. They’re getting the band back toge- the High King got poisoned?!

“For example, it would be really unreasonable of him to die right now, thanks.”

“If this is where you want to suddenly remember the High King’s evil grand vizier who you just forgot to tell us about until now, that would be great.”

I thought Maida’s father was still alive?

Aethlin has survived his third assassination attempt in the past 24 hours, sweet.

Why did the Librarian call Fiac the Seneschal? He’s the Court Seer.

Oh, so Toby did settle her debts with Mag about her mom’s biography.

We’ve met Tybalt the Torquill family historian, now meet Yenay Ng, the Tybalt historian.

OK, I... didn’t see that coming.

I approve of Toby punching former King Shallcross in the nose. She should punch more nobles on screen.

Huh, I guess that’s where Eira was before she showed up in the Mists.

Is this guy Dawn’s father? The timelines sorta fit.

Aethlin has managed to not get poisoned or stabbed again, good for him.

Of course they enchanted the wedding dress to not get covered in blood. Good thing my ‘free’ space on the bingo card was “Toby’s dress gets blood on it” which was technically fulfilled with the first dress.

I assumed “wine-colored” meant white until it was described in more detail. I approve of dressing the wedding party in red - it will hide the blood.

Sylvester?!? Nope, Simon.

Aww, Simon gets to walk his daughter to the altar. He gets to see his daughter married!

“Then go. Get married. Be happy. You’ve earned it.”

And the wedding is finally on! The local Cait Sidhe are here! Surprise appearance by August!

“As did the man who looked heart-stoppingly like Simon Torquill, but absolutely wasn’t” Oh Sylvester, you made it after all.

I think this is the first time Sylvester’s been referred to in terms of Simon rather than the other way around.

Whoops, more assassins.

I see you, Simon, using your blood to fuel your transformation spells, just like your daughter. Followed immediately by Sylvester charging into battle. And Oberon continues to be background scenery.

Another guard’s death - 3 now? Maybe more?

“Now I have a longbow, motherfuckers, ho, ho, ho” Love you, May.

Badly attempted jailbreak is a bust. Toby’s dress remains pristine.

Surprise appearance by Gillian! I assume August tackled her to the ground when the arrows started flying.

Wedding is complete! Reception go!

I assume Etienne was instrumental in getting Sylvester to the wedding, not only physically but also by yelling at him about what an idiot he was.

Etienne is a little younger than Tybalt, good to know.

They’re going to Disney world without the kids, neat. Surprise August again! Good to know Helen’s seeing a therapist.

Galen has a crush on Poppy. I love this man that we will probably never see again.

Why is Simon a Count again? Shouldn’t he also be Duke Lorden? Does he get a lower title because he’s the second husband, like a courtesy title? Also, glad to see him and August being Lordens.

She hugged him!

Oh hey Sylvester. You could have started with “You make a beautiful bride” and avoided a shitton of trouble. You made it all about yourself. It’s better than if you didn’t attend at all, but man, Sylvester. You disappointed Toby and me.

“Once and future King of Cats”

She accepts the Lorden boys as her brothers!

What does Cliff think of Gilly spending so much time at Half Moon Bay? Does he think she’s in a cult?

Aw, May and Jazz are going to get married!

Oh hey Pete. Only two Firstborn at the wedding, can’t mark that one off. Nice blessing!

That cake sounds super delicious. Fuck, did Oberon give his knife to Toby and then not take it back? Toby has a replacement for her iron knife now?

Oh hi, Gilly. Your mother’s really excited to have you here. I love Quentin egging Toby into eating the cake. “Quentin pressed a fork into my hand, trying to urge me to get on with it.”

And the final blessing comes from Aethlin. He has got to do something to thank her for all her help in stopping the assassination attempts.

Afterthoughts: I am sad none of Tybalt’s friends and family from London/Europe attended. Morane was alive as of 1911, with no word on the others. Hermeline, if she’s still ruling in the Court of Fogbound Cats, has been ruling for nearly three hundred years.

On the other hand, we got a ton of Toby feels and secondary characters. Love the reactions of the Teen Squad.

What a good and heartwarming book.

Spots crossed off:

2. Sylvester attends the wedding 8. Someone calls Toby a kingbreaker 10. Toby drinks someone else's blood 11. August attends the wedding 13. [Free space] Toby's dress gets blood on it 16. Gillian attends the wedding 18. Quentin's identity gets revealed 22. Toby learns about Tybalt's short story past 23. Someone gets elfshot for the second or third time 24. Toby insults nobility we haven't seen before 25. Lore about the Sollys family

Spots not crossed off:

1. Malvic appears at the wedding 3. The High King or Queen gets elfshot 4. One of Tybalt's enemies from the short stories appears 5. Hope chests are relevant 6. Something is revealed about the False Queen 7. There's at least 3 Firstborn at the wedding 9. Dianda punches someone important 12. Hirsent crashes the wedding 14. One of Tybalt's friends from the short stories appears 15. Eira is behind the trouble 17. Lore about the Torquill family 19. Sylvester doesn't attend the wedding 20. Someone mistakes Sylvester for Simon 21. Raysel's plotline moves forward

I should note some of these are rather literal - Eira caused trouble in the back story but she wasn’t active in the main story like she was in both The Unkindest Tide (telling Torin to stop the restoration of the Roane) and A Killing Frost (taunting Toby).

#october daye #october daye spoilers

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