Price: Oh he's gonna be a right cunt about it--
Graves: *obnoxious gasp*
Price: what.
Graves: You kiss our boyfriend with that mouth??
Nik: He's done worse than that.
Price: I need both of you to leave.
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thinking about hopper who suddenly has two kids in his grandfather’s hut that he’s not entirely sure how he acquired them. thinking about hopper who tries to get steve to talk, and even after he relents, keeps asking steve “how are you?” which he knows is a loaded question but might be the only offer a boy looking right through him might accept.
thinking about steve who spends days unmoving except for when he accepts food or reaches for el’s hand — the only offer he does accept. thinking about steve who gets nauseous at the idea of driving because what if he gets me and makes me get behind the wheel until i’m unable to stop the car. thinking about steve who stares at the phone on the wall not quite recalling robin’s number anymore because his thoughts have stopped taking shapes that aren’t about death and destruction, but he’s sure he could never forget the muscle memory of dialling her house phone. thinking about steve who tries to have mental conversations with robin that always end with the memories of her death, so he tries and fails to think about her, crying silent tears that won’t stop running down his face.
thinking about steve who always gets uncomfortably warm because he knows el feels safe like that, but also remembering will’s screams of agony as the mindflayer was tortured out of his body with heat. thinking about steve who goes outside in winter wearing only a t-shirt to see if it’s still cold, to see if he still shivers, to see if it’s still bad when it’s cold. terrified that the lightning scar in his arm means something other than the remnants of pain.
thinking about hopper who finds a hypothermic steve shivering and stuttering through a barely coherent explanation of “i wanted t-to see if he— if he’s s-still not there”
thinking about steve who flays his own mind, thinking he’s a monster
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How's about Diesel?
He's so fucking funny I love him, I do!
Freespace: He's so tragic I love that for him
Really, the guy shows up on Sodor and his only crime is being a bit of a kiss ass and Duck immediately starts taking swings at him. Yes, steam engines rightfully feel threatened by diesels and the animosity is well founded. But take the 'diesel' part out of the equation, because years down the line most of the cast don't really care about diesels vs steam engines anymore unless someone is feeling particularly racist that day. He's a new guy who shows up and after the first punch is thrown, he's destined to be the pariah over something he didn't even start. Yes, he retaliates, but who doesn't?
He doesn't even get the mercy he did in the railway series where he doesn't *really* come back to Sodor, not consistently anyway. He goes back to the mainland permanently, where he can remain amongst his diesel peers. The incident on Sodor doesn't shape his whole life like it does in the show. Coming back to Sodor permanently means he never escapes from the incident, like being forced to keep living with an ex after a breakup. You can say he does it to himself by being an asshole, but it's not JUST that, and I don't think its any less sad for characters who make their own battles and hardships. In fact, it's even sadder if you ask me. He's a tragic fucked up little guy and he's so ANGRY and bitter and that must be so damn lonely, but he knows no other way of being. I would give him a biscuit.
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