#i serached for ideas before saw this one

[otomes-world]

Six impossible things before breakfast

Little twist with sentient twst au, yes, I didn't expect this either. Masterlist with more works here

We've probably all heard the joke about "How many light bulbs does it take to (insert whatever)." Who would have thought that you would use a slightly modified version of it: how many more coincidences must happen to realize the truth.

Although can anyone really blame you for not wanting to admit that you are a bunch of colored pixels created purely for entertainment purposes? No, it even sounds nice. After all, your purpose was to create extras, a stage on which the main characters performed and shone. Those who had faces.

Did you always have yours? Could you always see it in the mirror in the morning?

Did figurative shivers run down your spine every time a faceless classmate addressed you? One of ten, hundreds, exactly the same. Have the main bunch had the same problem? That's the question you'd been asking yourself lately. Did they shrug off empty, replaceable shells, or at least for a second consider them their equals?

Perhaps the question should have been asked differently. Was this in the order of things for them, because the thought of the incorrectness of worldly norms did not flash through their heads. Or it was something simple and very banal - they did not realize that they were part of the game.

Were you special? The thought was flattering, but it was stupid to start turning up your nose. Maybe the supreme programmer, like the smart guys from Ignihyde, could consider you a virus, a bug, an annoying nuisance, which can be gotten rid of in a couple of seconds. Click and that's it, your file would be deleted.

The idea that death could be more than just literal took you by surprise.

It all started with a strange feeling of déjà vu, with a strange cyclical nature of what was happening. How the seasons did not change according to the laws of nature or, on the contrary, lasted longer than expected. Sometimes you wondered what month was going on, at least by counting. Or how you couldn’t say with certainty what year of study you were in. When was your graduation? Would it ever come?

How many times did the main characters celebrate their birthday? How many times had you celebrated it? Did you celebrate it from the start?

Lessons

Breaks

Exams

Holidays

Lessons

Was there an end to this merging stream of eternal students? Was the dormitory assignment ceremony that important? How many real “first-year students” were admitted each year? Why couldn't your educational journey end? Time adjusted and obeyed an invisible force; it existed only when it was convenient for someone.

Catching the attention of the local spotlight and getting on stage was the best way to get labeled as a "bug" and ask to be removed. However, the main threat was only the erasure of memory.

The next discovery was doubt about one’s own “specialness.” When consciousness had nothing to do, it began to cling to different details, trying to look for differences in a series of events repeated in the film.

When you knew what to look for, small mistakes that were not noticeable at first glance stand out more than usual. A slight shadow of boredom on the faces of the main ones. Lack of interest in the educational process and exams. As if only one “exam” was important in a bunch of exactly the same events. When the first years of Heartslabyul signed a contract with Ashengrotto.

With new information in mind, it became easier to identify important “events” and track time based on them. By how many times they were repeated in the endless flow of time. Taking notes and somehow recording data was more dangerous than you thought, all that was left was to come up with methods known to you alone. For example, in a dorm room on the bedside table there was a cluster of glasses, each containing specific color of pencils.

Did your roommates start to think you were weird and obsessed with order and cleanliness? Their right. You didn't care what they thought, besides, they would forget about it with the coming of a new day.

In order not to completely go crazy, you began to peer into the “faces” of other students, trying to spot at least a feature that distinguishes one from another. Either this world was too lazy, creating copy after copy in every dorm, or there was no point in trying. If you somehow came to terms with the feeling of the meaninglessness of what was happening, then the appearance of one student in several places at the same time still caused rejection.

Disgusting

If this world was someone’s experiment, then why were events cyclical? If this was a cage, then where was the exit. If this was a prison, then who was being held in it?

You made a mistake in observing a person without magic from another world. Trying to figure out whether Yuu's "world" was truly different or just as much a part of predestination as everything around. Was “Yuu” really the main one or just an extra? You could have sworn they didn't have a face. At least such clear features as all the main ones. Just as there was no character, how in each of the repeating events they could behave differently.

It was a breath of fresh air in the routine of never-ending study. The watching of the only part capable of changing in the world, subject to the same rules.

That's why, when one of the main ones suddenly approached you, you thought you were dreaming. Whether it was possible to fall asleep in the simulation was another question. Usually you went to bed, closed eyes, only to open them the next second to the sound of the alarm clock.

"Can I help you with something?" You smiled politely, but was it worth it? Could the main bunch distinguish between persons different from their privileged group.

Hunt. Was that his name? You weren't completely sure. He was part of something forbidden, something to be avoided at all costs. Part of the three “don’ts”: don’t look for information;don’t mention; don’t give yourself unnecessary temptations. Returning to the present moment, he just looked into your eyes with his constant smile, as if trying to find confirmation of something.

Like a true NPC, you continued to stand, frozen in one position and waiting for his answer. Until awareness came as abruptly as his appearance in principle. He looked straight into your eyes. Could he see your face the same way you saw it in the mirror? How long ago? Could the rest of the main ones see you too?

A billion questions were spinning in head at the same time as you tried to come up with a suitable excuse and reason to leave. The changes turned out to be too unexpected and frightening. Perhaps with the advent of a new “day” everything would return to normal.

“Is there a knight in the world who is not ready to devote all his deeds to one and only one, if this opens the veil of secrets at least a little? Will it allow him to find out what thoughts are spinning in head?”

It's a pity he was not a knight. Even though each word was pronounced with a special intonation, you only thought about how much water there was in his speech. Unfortunately, saying this out loud was an unaffordable luxury.

"..Is that so?"

“You are right, an étoile (star), I may be not one of their noble number, but even so I am not able to deny their order.” You let him continue, mentally counting down the minutes until the bell rang for lesson. “I may not have a sword in sheath, but It won`t change a way I live! Your smile can make my whole heart melt. There isn't lie in way I felt”

“I’m not good at poetry, but the rhyme is lame, Sir Hunt,” if it’s there.

“You’re right, writing poems is just one of my hobbies, to which I devote my few free leisure hours,” he continued, as if your words didn’t hurt him at all. “I hasten to assure you that there was no malicious intent in my actions. This modest hunter only wanted to greet a new connoisseur of everything beautiful and interesting."

No matter how much you hate beating around the bush, doubts creeping in from randomly thrown words. Sometimes the phrases spoken directly were the most frightening. However, not wanting to part with your role as an extra - which was burdensome, but at the same time giving a semblance of freedom - you continued to pretend to be an NPC.

"Should I congratulate you?.. Congratulations!" Any member of the film club would envy your feigned sincerity. A bell in three, two, "I don’t dare detain you any longer.”

The unsaid `like you would me` hung in the air. You had to hold out for the few remaining hours until the end. Fortunately, the main one did let you go, but smile, saying that its owner knew everything in the world, left an unpleasant aftertaste. One that your intuition suggested would accompany you for the next days.

It's going to be a very long a few hours.

[mrchaosman]

*HI YOU GUYS.

*IT'S ME.

*EVERYONE'S MOST WANTED [[silly Dude who makes fantracks and Arts since 1998]].

*SCA.

*SCAMCAIR M. SCAMCAIR.

(Notice Kris).

*WELL WELL, WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE???.

* A [[PART]]NER, HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY.

*YOU LOOKS [[I CAN TELL YOU'RE LOST]] IN SUNDAY'S [[NIGHT OF THE SHINIGAMI]].

*ALL YOUR [[PARDNERS]] HAS LEFT YOU [[BEHIND........]].

*THE TRACKS HAS BEEN [blasted away]] RECENTLY.

*LIVING IN A DAMN TRASH BIN.

[[NyhhNyhhNyhhNyhh]].

(Punch the Trash bin).

*SO I GOT THIS [[DEAL]] FOR SOME RANDOM [[SHXT XT, NXRD]] LIKE YOU.

*IF [[UUUUUU]] LOST CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE.

*THAN YOU GOTTA TRUST THE [[A FRIEND INSIDE ME]].

*WHY THE [[SILLIES]] HATE THEIR [[CHILLER MELODIES melodies]] LIFE.

*WHEN YOU CAN BE A.

*[[silly goober]]

*[[Silly Goober]].

*[[SILLY GOOBER]].

*YOU HERED THAT RIGHT.

*YOU CAN BE A LIL' [[GOOFY GOOBER]].

*AND I JUST.

*WHAT YOU EXACTLY.

*WANT.

*THAT'S.

*......

*[[404 NOT FOUND]].

*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

*YOU WANT IT, I WANT IT.

*YOU WANT [[404 NOT FOUND]], DON'T YA?.

*NOW I HAVE A DEAL FOR YOU, AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO SHOW ME.

*YOUR [HUMAN_SOUL]].

*YOU ARE A LIGIN"NNNTR, AREN'T YOU?.

*YOU GOT [[POWER]].

*WHY DON'T USE IT [[IT'S WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TXME BEFORE OUR LXNXLY PXTHS CRCSSXD]].

*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH.

*HI YOU

*IT'S ME.

*SCAMCAIR M.

*SCAMCAIR.

(Buy).

*ISN'T THAT LOOK [[BEEN BLA-BLA-BLASTED AWAY, HYA HA HA!!]].

(if you don't have enough money).

*SORRY KRIS, I DON'T GIVE [[A DAMN]].

*COME BACK WHEN YOU A LIL' [[//YOU R-R-REALLY THOUGHT YOU CO-COULD JUST FOOL ME LIKE THAT, D-D-DUMMY?]]

(if the inventory was full).

*OPEN THESE [[SLUMS]] WIDE.

(when you buy).

*MHHHH DELICIOUS [[TUNERZZz?!?!?!]].

(Talk).

*WELL, I THOUGHT THAT [[YOU AIN'T MUCH OF A TALKER HUH?]].

(Our Deal).

*KRIS, YOU [[SILLIE]] I KNOW YOU'LL COME HERE [[EVERY NIGHT OF THE WINTER]].

*AFTER ALL, YOU JUST ANOTHER [[GOOFY GOOBER]] LIKE ME, RIGHT?.

*[NYHHNYHHNYHHNYHH]].

*BUT ACTUALLY, YOU [[I CAN YOU CAN]]????.

*LISTEN, IN [[THE DEPTHS]] OF CREEPA'S [[BRIDGE]].

*[[A GREAT DEAL]] IS WAITING FOR [[REST OF ETERNITY]].

*A STAR-PRICED

[[DISMANTLED MACHINE]].

*[[IT BEEN DESIGNED BY THE GOOD OL' CLASSICS YOU NEVER SAW (®) 1998]].

*KRIS THAT [[ANOTHER DIRTY QUILLER]] IS OUR [[ONE-WAY OUT]] TO MAKE YOU A [[GOOBER]] TO MAKE ME A [[GOOBER]].

*BEFORE YOU EVEN NOTICE IT WE WILL [[ON A SKATEBOARDIN' RACE IN FRIDAYS]].

*TAKING A BATH IN A [[BOILING LAVA]] WHILE YOU SET ON YOUR [[404 NOT FOUND]].

*BUT HEY, KRIS, DON'T [[PLAYYYiinnggg...!]] YET,

THE WAY IS GUARDED BY A [[A HIGH QUALITY SECURITY SYSTEM]].

*YOU'LL.......NEVER GET THERE.

*BUT WAIT, KRIS, DO YOU SEE THE [[QUIET FLOWERS]].

YOU BEEN AUTOMATICALLY CHOSEN TO BE THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY.

*AS A [SERACH RESULTS]] ILL LET YOU BUY [[SHIKEY]] FROM ME AT THE [[VERY EASY WAY TO DON'T PAY YOUR BILLS]].

*[[C'MON PARTNER]] DO YOU THINK THAT IS A [[CRYPTO SCAM]]????

*I'M [[*=;£*#*]]ING MYSELF OVER HERE.

*JUST TAKE IT AND YOU'LL [[BEEN BLA-BLA-BLASTED AWAY]].

*THAT'S SOUNDS GREAT.

*SO KRIS, [[IT WAS MY PLAN AAALL ALONG]]:

BUY [[SHIKEY]] FROM ME, GET TO THE [[CRYPT]] AND GET ME THE EMPTYCD.

(Our Deal again).

*BUY THE [[PUISSANT]] [[SHIKEY]], GET TO THE BASEMENT AND FIND ME MY EMPTYCD.

*WHOA....WHY I JUST.......DO IT MYSELF??.

*KRIS, YOU [[LOSER]], YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT'LL HAPPEN?.

*THE GUYS WILL.

*THE GUYS WILL.

*THE GUYS WILL.

*THE GUYS WILL.

*THE GUYS WILL.

*THE GUYS WILL.

*THE GUYS WILL.

(About Yourself).

*I USED TO BE NOTHING BUT A MUSICIAN AND PIXEL ARTIST GUY.

*NOW I'M [[QUE DIEU M'AIDE, OHHH DIEU, AIDE OHHH DIEU]] GUY.

*[[THE COOLEST, STRONGEST

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, HANDSOME, DARKER EVER BEEN

HOWZIT GOIN' EYYY?!?!]]

*HAVING A [[STRXNG XDVXRSXRXXS]] WITH A [[EHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH]].

*AND SOON I'LL EVEN SURPASS THAT CURSED [[SOCK ON THE STICK]].

*BUT UNLIKE THAT [[STAR-EATER]] I'M GONNA [[REACH FOR THE SKY]] AND IN THE WAY OF....

[[LIBERTÉ CÉLESTE]].

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*SOON I'LL.

*[[404 NOT FOUND]].

(The Knight).

*SPEAKING OF of [THE SHINIGAMI]]

KRIS, DO YOU KNOW THAT THE KNIGHT...

*[[NON, S'IL TE PLAÎT, JE SUIS DÉSOLÉ, JE NE VOULAIS PAS TOUT GÂCHER, S'IL TE PLAÎT, ARRÊTE.

ARRÊTE.

ARRÊTE.

STOPPPPPPPPPPP]].

*TOO MUCH OF AN EXCESS FOR A [[SCAMCAIR'S BIG BREAK]].

TAKE A GODDAMN BREAK..... IN HELL.

(Friend).

*ME.....FRIENDS.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHH.

KRIS, YOU AND ME, ALREADY [[HOWDY PARTNERS]].

*WE DON'T NEED ANYONE.

WE DON'T NEED [[BONELYS]] OR [[COWKIDS]]

*WE DON'T NEED A [[WEIRD CHILD]] A [[BROKEN MASCOTS]] OR A [[EDGY HITMEN]] AT ALL

*THAT'S RIGHT.

WE DON'T EVEN NEED GRIMM.

*.......

*..................

*...................GRIMM.

*HAHAHAHAHAH, KRIS, DON'T TRUST [[ANYONE WHO IS LOOKS LIKE A REINDEER]].

*THEY ARE A CRIMINAL I TELL YOU, A CRIMINAL.

(Fear).

*WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?? ACCORDING TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE IS NOTHING TO BE [[SPOOKWAVE]]'D.

*EXCEPT ONE THING.

*...

*...........

*........ can anyone hear me, please help.

*WHAT, NO I DIDN'T HEAR ANYONE AT ALL.

BUT WHATEVER IT IS,

*THEY WERE DIRECTLY TALKING TO YOU.

(our deal after buying The SHIKEY).

*SHIKEY.

(Leave).

*THE CASTLE, THE BASEMENT.

FIND IT.

*KRIS, YOU [[THE GREAT]] FUNNY [[PARASITE]].

YOU BROUGHT ME THE CD.

*OHH BOY, I CAN ALREADY FEEL THE SWEET TASTE OF [[GREATNESS]].

*NOW KRIS, DON'T BE A [[STUPID BONE MAN]].

*HAND. OVER. THE. CD.

AND THEN, WE'LL TRANSFER MY [[404 NOT FOUND]].

*THEN KRIS, AFTER, THIS IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT.

*GO BACK AND PUT THE CD, BACK, WHERE YOU FIND IT.

*DO IT.....AND YOU'LL GOT MY [[ENERGY_SOURCE]] WILL [[BRINGING MY STRINGS ONTO YOURS]].

*EVERY [[FRIEND INSIDE ME]].

EVERY [[BLAST]].

EVERY [[404 NOT FOUND]] IT WILL BE ALL YOURS, KRIS.

*SO, WHATCHA SAY, YOU LITTLE [[GOOFY GOOBER]]??.

*[[WARNING: IF YOU AGREED TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE, OUR STORE WILL BE TOTALLY CLOSED]].

(TRANSFER not).

(TRANSFER).

*FINALLY, I KNEW YOU'LL [[AGREE]].

*KRIS, HERE I GO, BEGIN THE [[TRANSFORMATION PROCESS]].

(In the basement).

*[[ENERGY_SOURCE_LOCATED]].

[[REBOOTING...]].

*OH [[*AWOOO...HA HA HA HA HA... AND NOW...!!]] I FEEL GREAT.

*HERE I AM, KRIS, [[GOOFY]] [[GOOFY]] [[GOOFY]].

*[[GOOFIER AND GOOBERER]] THAN EVER.

HAHAHAHAH.

*FINALLY, THIS POWER [[IN MY HXNDS, XNCX MXRX.

* IT FELT XNCXMFXRTXBLX TO USE MY FXLL PXTXXNTXXL WITHOUT IT]].

*THIS POWER IS........LIBERTÉ

*LE CIEL EST PRESQUE LÀ.

*AND FINALLY, I NO LONGER HAVE TO BE JUST A ENTERTAINER ANYMORE.

*......

OR THAT WHAT I THOUGHT.

*WHAT IS THAT TWO CHAINS?,

WHY I'M NOT PUISSANT ENOUGH?.

*IT'S DARK......TOO DARK.

(Notice Kris).

*KRIS.

KRIS.

KRIS.

*YOU HERED THAT, YOU, I NEED YOU.

TO BE [[GOOFY]] WITH ME.

*VERY VERY [[GOOFY]].

*SO GOOFY THAT WE'LL STAND UP TALL AND SEE THE PAST OF OUR FEARS.

*STAND UP WITH OUR HANDS IN THE CLOUDS AND LOOK AND INTO.

*C I E L.

(Pulls The Shifang).

*I JUST NEED THAT LITTLE [[SOUL]] YOU HAVE.

*HEHEHEHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHHYHYHYHYHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

(Susie casted Rude Buster spell to knock Scamcair MAXIMUM).

Susie: Kris, the hell was that weirdo?.

Ralsei: Kris, we were been worried about you, So.

(Suddenly...).

*KRIS.

YOU HAVE [[//NOW LOOK W-W-WHAT H-H-H-HAPPENS WHEN WEIRDOS LIKE YOU TRY TO HAVE MORE FRIENDS T-T-THAN T-T-THEY DESERVE//]].

*WHY DID YOU TOLD THEM ABOUT [[SCAMCAIR'S GREAT BLASTING SHOOTOUT]].

*[[SUBJECT_DENIED_PROTOCOL1]]

*[[CHANGING_TO_PROTOCOL2]]

*[[INITIALIZING_SOUL_EXTRACTION_IMMEDIATELY]].

*TONIGHT, THE [[BAD K'E'D!!♪]] ARE GONNA [[have a BLAST]].

*ATTENTION EVERYONE, AND LISTEN CAREFULLY.

*SOME [[TROUBLE MAKERS]] MADE A [[MESS]] AROUND.

*KRIS, WAS THAT A [[BLAST]] JUST NOW?.

*WOW, I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU THAT I ALMOST [[BLA-BLA-BLASTED YOU AWAY]].

*[[CIEL]] ARE YOU [[YOU CAN SEE ME]].

*IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE [[STRXNGXST]] FANTRACK EVER, [[YOOOUUU IDIOOOT, YOUR JUDGEMMEENT BEGIINS NOW]].

*EHEHEHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

(Battle starts).

(Check).

(Scamcair MAXIMUM 24 ATK 0 DEF).

(THE POWERFUL TASTE OF [[MAX]]).

(After the fight).

Red: He Used to be just like us, however, he was LESS successful than any of us.

Purple: His tracks wasn't that great at the beginning, and his products was never given an attention, he was always at his desktop

Yellow: ONE DAY, he got the right Message, he seems to that he found someone or let's just say "someone founds him", whoever he finds, they made him popular in the next mouth.

Blue: He than start to get successful, his face was literally everywhere, he even was lucky enough to be part of CREEPA'S mansion.

Red: we start feel jealous, so we stopped hanging out with him, I mean, isn't he BIG SHOT after all?, he no longer needs us anymore.

Purple: however, after the said mounts, everything went to chaos, it seems whoever helped him has totally disappeared, and with that, his products, his sales, his arts, his tracks, everything went down.

Yellow: in the day of he is gonna be evicted from the mansion, I go there to check on him, but I found nothing, his room was empty and there is only his computer, it seems that he smashed the monitor and jumped from the window, the headphones was still working, the only thing I ever heard was nothing but a strange static noise.

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Ooo tell me bout the OCs pls 👀👀👀

Kisses for you too Tomas 😭 😭 I love you 💕

Okay so there's this whole thing about how swag they are here because Pigeon was also very nice and sent me a message as well, but I think to you I can give more SW specific details since you know who the canon characters are lol.

So Korcha was born in 92BBY, which as you'll notice is either a decade older than Qui-Gon or his exact age, but in any case that means they are the perfect age to be tea time buddies and just sit down in either of their quarters and drink tea with biscuits and talk about whatever Jedi masters talk about (Temple gossip? the Force? their Padawans? I don't know but they have fun!) Their Padawans are invited of course, I'd have to check but I think there was a period of a few years where Obi-Wan was Padawan at the same time as Reil and then later the end of his apprenticeship overlaps with Devafe, so like they know each other hehe. In any case, then Qui-Gon dies and Korcha is obviously supportive, especially because Madam Rules Are Important would obviously like Obi-Wan, and I don't want her to have had too big of an impact but she was definitely there in the background I swear she wouldn't abandon him when the times are tough! I like to think she started inviting him for tea after a few years, and Devafe had to deal with Anakin just Being There. Maybe that's when he kicks her ass even though he's 7 years younger that would be funny. Anyway after the war and everything they don't see each other a lot but at some point they like share a spaceship cause they're going the same way or something and she gives him one of the teacups she thinks would fit him and in my head it's a very touching moment.

While they're on the same ship actually I think it would be cool if Anakin and Korcha swapped Padawans (yes Anakin is there too two halves of a single warrior etc) because Korcha is pretty good at Jar'kai but prefers Shii-Cho, so that's a change from Ahsoka's usual teachers and she could get a lot from it. Meanwhile Anakin trying to understand why Lineth, who is a year older than his own apprentice, still gets tripped up by Initiate mistakes when he knows Master Serach must've taught her better (the answer is crippling fear of failure and stress and it would be sweet if he realised it was useless going over it again and again and instead cheered her up & gave her some self confidence but I don't know how that would go exactly)

About the aforementioned Anakin kicks Devafe's ass in the training salles, I like the idea of them fighting and he's old enough that it's not obvious Devafe would win, and then he beats her and Miss Prides Myself On Working Hard And Being The Best is like "oh no it's fine. No I don't mind haha. Yes Padawan Skywalker well done, you sure got me there! See you next time :)" and then she does her best to avoid a repeat by not being available to fight ever again lol

Also as established Obi-Wan knows Reil, and he actually probably saw him a liittle bit in the crèche but not that much so it barely counts, but Ahsoka 100% knows him and she has fond memories of like, fingerpainting with Master Reil or whatever, and since people her age all know him anyway because there can't be like too many crèchemasters for people not to know them, she just mentions him but Anakin never really talked to him so he's like "wait who's that dude?" and then she gets to explain to him who Master Reil is.

Okay other fun idea but I think Reil likes Yoda because they work together and Korcha likes Yoda because Harches live for centuries too and she totally came to his rooms at like two in the morning the day of Reil's Knighting a little panicked because he's going to die before her and they grow up so fast and how do you deal with that and he comforts her. Like Reil's apprenticeship lasted 15 years, from ages 13 to 28, and he was her first apprentice, and she thought it would be fine because obviously he's ready for it and he'll make a great Knight, but :((( he's leaving now and he's going to die at like 90! She won't even be halfway through her life! She could see his grandpadawans!! And she's grown enough to recognise that she needs to talk about it with someone, and Yoda's door is always open, so Yoda it is. Wouldn't that be sweet?? It would, it would be so sweet!!

And lastly I already shared that one but I think it would be funny if while he was looking for other Mandalorians Din heard the SW equivalent of your grandma who reads people magazines about royalty go "oh yes, I remember that one time like 15 years ago a Mandalorian and one of the Mikkian princesses got married! Too bad the ceremony was private I would've loved to see the pictures" and so he goes to Mikkia instead of finding Bo-Katan or something. And Karaad is still there, obviously, beautiful children and beautiful wife, but let me tell you when the guards announce there's a Mandalorian guy at the door asking if there is a Mandalorian lady here she panics a little. The last time she talked to a Mandalorian if you exclude her dad was a whiile ago and she's desperately trying to guess based on armor description :') and then it's just Din. For maximum crack Karaad is a person who, because she doesn't even know which species she is, spent her life looking through various bestiairies and such trying to see someone who looks like her to know what's going on, so she would most likely recognise Grogu as a baby Yoda, since she's old enough to remember the Jedi and Yoda was a pretty unconventional looking little dude (and also she fought "against" the Order technically so yeah she's familiar with the Jedi, ancestral enemies and all) So she just sees Grogu and she's like "damn wtf, you want to know what that is? Yeah uh can he do magic? Yeah that's a Jedi I'm so sorry dude lol". Also Tevlin invites him to stay for a while if he wants and to dine with them that evening, and he's too polite to decline but he's not going to take his helmet off, obviously, so he has the same type of reaction to Karaad taking hers off to eat he had to Bo-Katan & her Nite Owls, and then Karaad gets to deal with the memories of traditions she hasn't thought of in a while since she doesn't really practice anymore. Fun times etc.

[zuffer-weird-girl]

What if kid Kai invites angel over but she gets really sleepy so when their playing hide and seek she finds him room and falls asleep on his bed and Kai walks in admiring her and pops walks by this open door and whisper yells at Kai to let her take a nap and they both hear angel say yes Kai I will marry you

Omg so sweet my heart just can't-

He saw how you looked. You clearly didn't had a good night of sleep, and he had scolded you for that plenty of times already.

"You're not paying attention." He sighed in annoyance with crossed arms as you jerked your head up with a sleep deprived 'huh?'. "You almost fell asleep again, if staying in here brings you such a boredoom then-"

"No, no! Not at all!" You waved your hands before muffling a yawn "Is just that I didn't sleep much last night Chisaki-kun." You rested your face in your hand, staring at him with a tired yet sweet as honey smile "I like here and being with you."

You just had realized what you just had said and went to retreat it back out of embarrassment... if it wasn't for Kai flustered and false annoyed expression while scoffing.

"Whatever you say." He muttered and got up from his seat, rubbing the back of his neck a bit, averting his eyes away from yours "Since having a conversation and playing shogi is not enough to keep you awake than another method shall be used."

You blinked at him... how does a kid like him know that kind of vocabulary already? He has your age for God's sake!

"... any suggestions?" You made an 'oh' sound as you got up as well, hand on your chin in thought before an idea popped.

"How about hide and seek?"

"... what?"

Oh God... he didn't know what it was?

"You know? Hide and seek? Where you have to hide and...?" His boredoom expression while arching an eyebrow said everything...

"Someone has to count to ten or thirty while the others have to hide, then the person whose was counting have to find them!"

"So if they find the other they win." He stated blantly.

"Kinda..? There's not really a winner or a loser but if you want to take that way..."

"Sounds available. Since I know this house better than you, than there is a high possibility of me winning, again." You pouted at his words while he crossed his arms "Who counts then?"

"Can be you! I will show you this is not like a shogi game then mister mafia boy!" You smirked at him while he gave you a challenging look back.

"Lets see about that dummy." He started to count and you immediately yelped and ran out of there like your life depended on it, not noticing how Chisaki chuckled a bit at your behaviour.

You ran out in the hallway, lowering your pace after receiving a look from a man passing as you serached any good places to hide. You had found a door slightly open and immediately got in when you heard Chisaki reaching for the final count.

You only closed the door for a bit and took a look around the room, very surprised actually and how heated and clean it was, soon spotting some familiar school material.

Yep, you were in Chisaki's room. Just great.

You looked around for a bit, feeling sleepy already. The moment you actually fell was when you layed your eyes on his bed, covered with black sheets...

You hesitated for a bit but still after some time went to sit on it, impressed at how soft the bed was... Tired was soon only a nickname to describe your situation and before you knew it you had layed your head on the pillow and felt your eyes closing on their own.

"Just for... a couple of minutes. Chisaki wont mind.... I hope.."

And with that, you were traveling to the dream land.

~

He grunted at opening one closet and seing nothing but clothes on it before huffing and closing it again with force out of his impacience.

Playing this was a mistake. He was already looking for more than he hoped for, and you had simply vanished!

He even got out of his way to ask the guards if you had got out of the house and went home, but every one of them said they didn't saw you lefting.

The worst was starting to get on his mind as he tried to shook those thoughts away. Walking in a quick pace before entering another room, not noticing Pops was there talking with one of his subordinates as he lifted the towel from the table to look under it in search from you.

Pops had noticed and chuckled a bit, finally seing the boy acting like a normal child for once as he dismissed the subbordinate to talk with him a bit.

"Whacha you looking for my boy? Lost something?" Thhe boy flinched a bit at the sound but still didn't stopped looking, going into the lower cabinets and opening them carelessly.

"(Y/n)." He muttered before huffing at not finding you again.

"(Y/n)?" Said the man in rather amusement but still with a smile on his face "Lost your little friend in here?"

"She suggested on playing hide and seek, now I cant find her." He said in annoyance and worry growing even more as he finished his search on the cabinets.

"You playing something that is not shogi? What a miracle." The elder laughed a bit while Chisaki frowned at looking behind the door and not yet finding you, muttering a apology to Pops as he got out from the room.

The old man smiled and after a few minutes decided to follow Chisaki, noticing the boy's worry growing at not finding you.

He walked through the halls, feeling that disgusting amount of hives threatening to appear before he noticed the door of his room semi closed...

He arched an eyebrow and carefully walked towards it and pushed just a bit to start to hear gentle breathing coming from inside.

The room was dark amd the only light he had was the one coming from the hallway, but still didn't stopped him from noticing the sign in front of him that made hsi eyes grow a bit wider than normal as his breathing returned back to normal.

He had found you, laying on his bed. Sleep surely must have gotten into you and hell... the light coming from the hallway and hitting your face to illuminate, how your hair was sprawled our on his pillow that it made it look like some sorta of messy halo..

You... looked like an angel.

He almost tip toed to his bed, imprissed at himself for not seing any problem on someone else laying on where he sleep... and also how he didn't had the courage he usually had for wakening you.

".. wow." He muttered in astonishment as he got closer, looking at you likke you were some sorta of rare treasure as your breathing continued, chest rising and falling slightly.

He flinched at feeling a bigger hand on his head before he recognized the man kneeling beside him.

"Stop with this Chisaki. Is rather creppy in some ways staring at others while they sleep." He couldn't help the blush that came to his cheek at how Pops had called him out before he tsked his tongue and looked away from the elder "Let your friend rest for now, later you both can spend more time my boy." He carresed a bit the looks on Chisaki's head as the boy himself looked at you again for a bit.

Just when he followed Pops out and was right on the time to leave the door frame he and the older man listened something that left Chisaki's heart pounding on his ribcage like it never had before on his whole life.

"Mnm... uh-hum... yes... I'll marry you... Chisaki."

He thought his air was completely vanished from his lungs as the man looked in amusement while closing the door, chuckling a bit at how red his stoic boy was.

"Welp kid. Looks like the feeling is mutual."

He laughed a bit at how Chisaki gasped and started to defend himself on how the feeling was not mutual since he didn't want it that and all that bullshit he was already used to.

[wonderlandmind4]

Alright. Now that I have time right now to write this, I’m going to acknowledge what happened today:

First, my day was busy as was my week and the next because I am helping nannying my special needs nephew and I haven’t been on here as I usually am as he is my priority right now. When I had time to do so, all I saw was a post about something that had happened with yet another fandom writer.

Second, I had to dig and serach and find out the events of today in this MCU/fanfic fandom, and when I did... I was extremely disappointed and heartbroken. and let me be clear, I was NOT feeling that towards this writer. But for the people, the fans, the admirers of color, of different race and backgrounds.

I have been a big fan of this writer for months, maybe even a year? Maybe more? I always read and responded to her fics and stories and thought she was a great writer. So, my disappointment fell big and fell hard and my heart aches for the fans who are angry, mad, hurt and disappointed.

Kentuckybarnes/Hannah had used a word that, to my understanding, she could have easily avoided.

She could have easily chosen not to use the word at all, could have chosen not to have Sam Wilson in her fic say it, and could have chosen not to use it as a content excuse/shock factor to other characters. I saw a screen shot of the scene, and it must have been something I haven’t read yet, or did read and didn’t know the word at all. If I did, I do not remember it, and usually I look up words I don’t understand. So, I looked this word up again to find it’s meaning and the definition I got was something else. THIS IS NOT TO SAY JUST BECAUSE THE DEFINITION SAYS ITS SOMETHING ELSE DOES NOT MEAN IT IS NOT OFFENSIVE OR HURTFUL TO THE FANS WHO ARE HURT AND OFFENDED BY THAT WORD AND THE USE AND THE CONTEXT IT WAS USED IN.

Listen, I’m going to acknowledge my privilege of being white and Puerto Rican with light skin and completely ignorant of this word, and how offensive and hurtful it was to fans. I haven’t heard of this word before and have never seen it used anywhere else, despite its definition. I had no idea of it, and now I do.

I do. And I’m acknowledging that yes, I think she did know that word could and would be offensive, and she used it anyway. If you have doubt of a word, of a sentence or phrase, then don’t use it. It’s easy to look up other unpopular “big” words to use in its place. A “shock factor” shouldn’t be because of a word that sounds so similar to a racial slur, said by a black man to stun and one up everyone then claiming he went to college. INSTEAD, she could have used something else and would have achieved the same “shock factor” by using another big word.

Kentuckybarnes/Hannah was called out publicly, after I’m assuming/saw she was confronted about it privately and still didn’t fix it or acknowledge it. As I said before, I wasn’t on for most of the day and I have no idea if she even tried to respond, or just straight up deleted her blog. I can understand doing that just to avoid hate. What I don’t understand is not even acknowledging what happened, not attempting to apologize and fix or rewrite anything. I think deleting the blog was a copout. Getting called out doesn’t mean you should just delete and run.

I think Hannah should have apologized, made a post and if she wanted to delete then do it after that. But even then I think it was lazy, hurtful, disappointing and wrong. ESPECIALLY during the Black Lives Matter and the protests going on, and what is happening and has been happening to black people.

Fans look up to their favorite writers on here. Fans admire writers, and inspire fans to write and create their own art for the fandom. Having this writer with such a big following and “voice” in this fandom doing what she did and how she responded broke hearts and deeply hurt fans of her writing, hurt her admirers who were and are offended. If these fans found it offensive and racist, you have no right to tell them it isn’t. No right to tell them how to feel about it.

I am sorry for every and any black fan who is hurting right now because of a lazy response and lack of action Hannah didn’t take.

Now, as for myself. I was recently called out by an anon who told me my reader inserts are not very relatable to POC fans, due to some physical descriptions. I have acknowledged the reason for that was because my reader inserts were written as OFC’s and still are on my AO3. The reason I changed the name to a reader was because of my own fear/insecurities that my fics/OFC’s wouldn’t be read or brushed aside because a lot of fans tend to hate OFC’s. However, I should have been more careful to truly change what I needed in order to make it a true neutral female reader; ie hair and blushing. I wasn’t aware of those things when I switched the OFC names to inserts. I am currently working on fixing those descriptions. And if I still happen to miss anything, please let me know.

Being called out, having things called to a writers attention shouldn’t be a reason to run and delete. You acknowledge, you thank them for being called out because maybe you weren’t aware, maybe you were and forgot to change things, or maybe you made a mistake and bad decision. No matter which way, you still need and can fix it. You owe any fan you offend or hurt to rewrite and/or revise whatever you were called out on and for.

I would also like to note that the post I found DID NOT call for hate. They did not condone sending hate to Hannah, but was calling her out for the initial issue. Another post was calling out the lack of response and that she straight up deleted. I know Hannah/Kentuckybarnes has good friends on this hell site. I know who those friends are...please do not send them any hate either. If you feel like they too should be called out, then do so civilized and please don’t tell someone to physically harm themselves because they’re a friend of someone else.

I hope anyone who was offended and hurt will take the time you need for yourself, step away if need be. Do not let anyone let you feel invalid for feeling the way you do. I am sorry this has happened.

[queenofgotham800]

Could you do a victor x reader where she is his wife and gets kidnapped by Harley and the birds of prey ?

Kidnappin

(Victor Zsasz x Reader)

Warnings: Gramatical Errors, Swearing, Kidnapping, Fighting, Mentions of Death

Summary: One day, when your husband Victor came from his work, you weren't home. Birds of prey and Harley Quinn kidnapped you and Victor is running to save you.

(A/n): I'm sorry this took me so long to write. I hope you will enjoy this 💚

"Hey babe, I'm home!" Victor shouted through your shared little apartment. He put his keys on shelf and went to empty living room.

"Babe?" Victor shouted your name, looking for you everywhere. You usually answered.. Something was wrong and Victor knew it.

"(Y/n) this is not funny, where are you?" he knocked even at the bathroom, but nobody answered.

Maybe you were shopping.. Victor thought and checked his phone. He typed your number fastly, his hands were shaking in fear. What if something happened to you?

"C'mon... Pick it up.." Victor mumbled and heard familiar beeping in bedroom. You would never leave your phone home, you always carried it with yourself anywhere.

Apartment looked untouched, so it wasn't robbery.

Victor knew that this was not a good sign and he decided to go to Black Mask club, to ask for some useful informations.

Entering his workplace, he still thought about you. Worrying every second, he walked furiously through the club, to the last couch on which was sitting Roman Sionis.

"Boss, have you seen (Y/n) recently?" Victor asked Roman, who was surrounded by his guests. He seemed to be comfrontable about them sitting so close to him. Victor couldn't imagine that, he wasn't much of an social person.

"Ehm.. No?" said Roman.

"Wait Victor, what happened?" Roman managed to shake off from him two girls and ran to Victor.

"It's just.. (Y/n) is gone. I have no idea where is she. Everything in our apartment was untouched and she left her phone home. Boss, I have no idea where is she now. She could be.." Victor couldn't find the right words. He couldn't say it, becouse you were surely somewhere safe and alright. At least he wanted to believe in that.

"Oh, she is alright. She probably went outside for a walk," Roman took a drink from the table, "Just a moment ladies," he winked at them and Victor rolled his eyes, "Boss, she left home her phone and also her keys."

"Maybe she.." Roman started but Victor, first time in his life interrupted him, "She is in danger."

Roman didn't liked you much and he was not amused by the fact that he has to help Victor with looking for you. It was just pure jealousy, becouse Victor used to spend more time with Roman when you weren't Victor's wife back then.

"So what should I do with that? Maybe she left you, did you though about that?" Roman yelled at Victor.

"I have no idea, maybe call your goons for help with seraching," mumbled Victor. He couldn't believe what did just Roman said.

"She wouldn't leave me," he said and Roman, who was already leaving turned at him with raised eyebrows.

"Well, you never know.." Roman sang quietly and went back to his guests.

Victor just stood there in disbelief. You were his wife. You meant everything for him.

With little hopes that you are still alright.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Gotham City

You woke up in collorful place, tied with fluffy pink handcuffs, sitting on very uncomfrontable iron chair.

"What the Fuck?" you sweared, moving with hands up and down.

Your last memories were at the weird post woman, who brought you the box, which you didn't ordered. At first you thought that maybe Victor ordered something and then... Nothing...

"Okay, but we have to be extra careful with this one," somebody said from behind the door, which lead to the next room.

"Okay.. So 3..2..2 and half.."

"Damn! Harley, just open the freaking doors already," another voice said and doors opened.

Harley Quinn and Birds of prey entered the room.

"No, no Cass, you will stay outside," Harley said and closed the doors, leaving someone behind.

"What is this circus?" you asked 4 ladies, who were standing with all of their confidence before you.

"We wanted to.. Set you free," said Harley and others looked on her in disagreement.

"So, you are going to kill me?" you asked, scared about your life. What if you never see Victor again?

"No! No! I'm sorry, I didn't meaned it like that," Harley facepalmed and made a funny expresion.

"We freed you from that motherfucker," Renee Montoya came to you, checking the handcuffs which were hurting your wrists.

"What? No, I'm alright!" you laughed and looked on girls. Harley was surprised, but kind of confused. Renee looked annoyed, The huntress was not impressed by your answer and Dinah Lance was totally angry.

"Do you have any idea how dangerous is that man. He killed my...Ugh.." Helena kicked off the table in anger, meanwhile Dinah was handling her anger very well.

"Well, I am sorry but I have nothing to do with it. Can I go home?" you asked, looking on Harley, who tried to calm down Helena from broking another stuff from the weird room.

"Why does this room look like a circus? I mean.. It's filled with clowns too..." you smirked, "He will come for me and you know that. He will turn every building and every stone in Gotham untill he doesn't find me."

"Ohh..Wanna bet?" Dinah lifted her eyebrows and you accepted the bet straight away with wide grin, "Yes."

"Please don't insult this pretty place, I build it," Harley laughed and fixed the table, which was laying on ground. You rolled your eyes and tapped with feet.

"Are you nervous?" Dinah asked.

"Oh.. We have here master detective. How could you deduced this thing mrs. Lance?" you smiled and then looked over to Montoya, "No offence, Renee. I have to tell you, you are the most sane of them all."

Renee tightened the handcuffs, which were now literally cutting in your flash.

"Ouch, am I hostage or what?" you asked.

"Well, we thought you need to save, but it turnes out you enjoy being with your terrible husband!" yelled Helena and you smirked, letting out little laugh.

"Yes, I enjoy being with my terrible husband! Do you have some problems with that?" you yelled back.

She made few steps closer to you, ready to hit you, but Dinah stopped her.

"Go out, I want to speak with her in private," Dinah said and on big surprise ladies left, leaving you with her alone. She dragged a chair closer to you.

"What happened to you (Y/n)?" Dinah asked you, slowly touching your cheek. You used to be friends, but then you met Victor.

"I met Victor and you didn't aproved our relationship. I see that it still didn't changed and you are still not aproving our relationship. I bet this operation, this kidnapping was your idea," you would point at her if you weren't handcuffed.

"No (Y/n). But I was right! He changed you! So much!" Dinah pulled away from you.

"You changed also. You left the club.. Betrayed Roman Sionis. Not like I like that guy, but it's Victor's boss, so in some way you betrayed Victor too and who betrays Victor, betrays me," you said, looking in her eyes. She was without words. Dinah just got up from her chair and left with shutting the doors loudly.

Victor exited the club after finding no help there. He found nothing helpfull. Where could you be?

He decided to go back to your apartment to look for clues. He couldn't call police, becouse this was clearly out of their division. They wouldn't help him, they would either arrest or shoot him in place and that wouldn't help you.

When Victor opened doors, he noticed weird note laying on ground. How it's possible that he didn't noticed before?

There was written on a pink paper:

Say bye to your wife (Y/n), she is with us now.

Nobody was signed, but due to pink collor and font, it was obvious who kiddnaped you.

You were waiting in the weird room for Victor. Since Dinah left, your head was flooded with thoughts. Where is Victor? Is he looking for you?

Your heartbeat fastened when somebody opened doors. But it was just Harley Quinn.

"What?" you yelled at her. She sat on couch, with pile of collorfull clothes.

"We kidnapped you, so you would be away from him," she said.

"But I don't want to be away from my husband. I love him!"

Harley examinated your face and continued, "And he? Does Victor truly love you?"

"Of course he does. I wouldn't be his wife otherwise. I would be dead," you smirked and Harley frowned.

"I brought you some clothes, if you really wanted to join us," Harley pointed at big pile.

"So.. You think I change my husband for your super sassy awesome colorful clothes, which I always admired? It's tempting, but I love Victor."

"You know what to do, when you change your mind right?" Harley turned to doors and you got the best idea. Well, hopefully.

"Wait," she turned back to you, "I think.. I.. I'll take that offer," you smiled, trying to cover your lie.

Harley smiled back, but shaked her head, "You are lying," she said and left you alone in room again.

"But I want to join!!!" you screamed, so she could hear you through the doors, "You can't keep me away from him!"

Doors opened again. This time Huntress was standing in them, frowning at you angrily.

"Can I leave?" you asked and she made her way to you, slapping your face painfully.

"Do you know why are you here?" she screamed in your face, pulling your hair to back.

"Becouse I am his wife and I am a threat to you somehow?"

"NO!" Huntress pulled your hair, and you hissed.

"Becouse you are my ticket to him," she smiled and stepped away from you.

"Are we playing here at good cop and bad cop?" you laughed silently, "I am no ticket. I'm the final destination."

"He killed my family," she started, but you interupted her.

"I don't even know you," you said and she gave you another slap.

After that, you saw tears forming in her eyes.

"You are perfect match for him. Now I know why did he married you."

You kept the pokerface, looking somewhere behind her.

"Heartless bitch," she mumbled and left.

This was just a trap. They didn't wanted you in their team, they just wanted to kill Victor. You didn't knew if you should laugh or cry. You missed Victor. And at this point, you didn't wanted to be saved. Becouse if he saved you, they would kill him instantly.

"Hey," somebody was behind you. You nearly screamed, but some hands covered your mouth, "shhh."

"Who are you?" you whispered.

"I'm Cass," she sat on couch. You were surprised, she was just a child, "Who are you?"

"I'm.. (Y/n). Kiddo what are you doing here?" you asked her. As you could see, she was offended be the nickname 'kiddo'.

"I know who you are. You are his wife," Cassandra said and you rolled eyes, "Besides that I'm great hairdresser, but okay."

"How you can be with him?" Cassandra asked you.

"Becouse I love him? What's so weird about it?" you asked her. She stayed quiet.

"Cassandra? Do you know the real reason why am I here?" you asked her.

"Dinah said it's becouse your relationship with him makes you bad and it changed you somehow," she said and you frowned.

"She is just jealous," you rolled eyes, "but that's not the real reason and you know it. They want to kill him and I have to get out before he get's here."

Cassandra was thinking what to do. She wasn't just some child and she hated that Harley and Birds of prey rarely took her in action. She was learning from them, but most of time she was alone becouse they had to deal with 'dangerous evil people'.

But the woman, tied to chair wasn't dangerous nor evil. Her husband was...

But why would they hurt her like this if she was innocent? Cassandra could see the red prints of hand on your cheeks.

"Who did you that?" she asked.

"Crossbow killer."

"She uses the name Huntress."

"I don't care," you mumbled and watched as Cassandra observed the handcuffs on chouch.

"How? How did you?" you looked back on you hands, which were bleeding. Through the pain, you probably didn't felt how she took them away.

"Just get out," Cassandra said and you gave her little smile.

"Thank you."

She smiled back and opened window which was covered with yellow paint.

You climbed through it and jumped down. It was just a first floor in some weirdly looking house and your legs were okay with that. After the jump you decided to run away as fast as you could.

You bumped into some hooded figure, which was running too.

"I'm sorry," you said, and continued to run away. But then you heard a voice of your husband.

"(Y/n)? Are you alright? I was so afraid," Victor spoke and put down his hood.

"Yes, Victor. Just keep this on your head," you pulled the hood back at his head, bit concerned about surroundings. This was not safe territory.

Victor listened and hugged you.

"We have to get out," you said, giving him little kiss.

Victor just nodded and caught your hand. You both run away into safety of your apartment. Victor later installed cameras and alarms on doors and gave you few weapons.

Harley's House

"So? Who did it?" Renee asked.

"I think we all know it," Huntress said, looking on Dinah.

"I would never," Dinah said, looking on Harley.

"Girls, can we stop blaming eachothers?" Harley said to broke the wheel of blame.

"But we need to know who did it. So who is the traitor?" Renee asked, that was when Cassandra walked into room.

"Cass, we are talking about serious things right now," said Huntress.

"I did it," Cassandra said, and everyone was looking at her in disbelief.

"But why would you?" Dinah asked.

"Becouse it was wrong. You lied to her, you were her friend!" Cassandra pointed at Dinah, "And you, you were beating her," she yelled at Huntress.

"Cass, I think you see it from wrong point of view," Harley said and hugged her.

"No Harley. I know that these things what we do are epic as fuck, but.. This was wrong. We can't do this to good people which are in love with wrong people," Cassandra said and pulled away from Harley.

"Cass.. I.." Harley started, but she was cut off by Dinah, "She is right. We can't judge good people just becouse they love wrong person."

"But Zsasz is.. He is a monster! You were saying he changed her," Huntress said.

"Is she a monster tho?" asked Cass.

"No.. It didn't changed her that much," Dinah said and thought about the times when you took her into shopping centre and bought her some clothes, when you went in cinema to watch movies. She missed you a lot, but you were with Victor and things changed. You didn't changed. Only things changed.

"You know who would suffer the most if your plan actually worked?" Cass asked Huntress.

"(Y/n), becouse Zsasz would be dead," Renee said, looking at the empty table.

"She seemed like a nice person to me and believe me, I have eyes for that," Harley smiled, but then her smile dissapeared.

"She would suffer the most, becouse she would be the reason of his death. Becouse she loves him," said Cass and left the room.

Harley and Birds of prey had to think about new ways of getting Victor and Roman away from the Gotham City. Plus there were many other villains in this city that were in standing in their way.

Your apartment

"Babe, I just wish I was faster," Victor said and kissed you forhead. You were both sitting in front of Tv, watching horror movies, cuddling under the blankets.

"No, It was a trap. I'm glad I was faster then you," you smiled, but deep inside, you were scared that they will look for you and Victor again.

"Wow, so you got kidnapped and saved my life in one day," Victor smiled, "Mrs. Zsasz, you are my hero," he gave you kisses on neck, and finished it with a slight bite.

"Ouch, Victor," you laughed and threw a pillow at him.

He laughed too and pulled you closer, "What are you going to do with that pillows?"

"I'll use them as a barricade to block your bites," you laughed and threw the pillow away.

"Awww... You are so cute," he said, pulling you closer to him, giving you bowl with popcorn.

"No, you are cute," you said to him and laid on his shoulder. This day was awfull, but everything bad was forgotten, ugly memories of being kidnapped were replaced by happy ones with your husband Victor.

[ally-writes-many-things]

Secret Voight (Jay Halstead) S2 Part 5

Summary: With the team now knowing you are Voight's daughter. That's one problem down but Voight still doesn't know about you and Jay. Unless he already knows.

Words: 2160

Requested: yes

Prompts:

Warning or A/N:

Justin didn't answer you and it was started to scare you about what he did. "Justin, what happened? Justin look at me. What happened?"

Justin couldn't look at you. "It was something stupid. I just got into a fight outside of McIntyre's with this-I broke this guy's nose. I think,"

You moved his hand to the other side and looked at knuckles. "What'd you hit him with? Your knuckles aren't cracked,"

"I just cracked him with I got him with an elbow real good,"

"Justin, what's gong on?"

He was about to so say something but the door opened and he looked up and he saw Jay with food. Justin looked at Jay and then back to you. "Hey, listen, I shouldn't have came here,"

Justin started to leave. "Justin,"

Justin stopped and looked at you. "I'm sorry. Whatever happens, just know that I do love you,"

Justin didn't even knoweglde Jay's presence as he walked out of your apartment. You stood there confused and very concerned over your brother. Jay looked from the front door and back to you. "Shit, he's gonna go tell Voight,"

You didn't look at Jay, you just kept looking at the door but you shook your head. "I don't like you need to worry about that,"

----

You walked into the back of the station the next day and saw Jay and Antonio walking into the room. Has anyone seen my dad?"

Voight walked out of the I.T room as you said that. "What's up?"

You nodded over to walk the other side of the room and walked over there. Voight followed. "We have a problem. Justin came over last night and he had blood on his hands, said he got into a bar fight but the way he acted it didn't seem like that,"

"Where is he now?"

You shrugged. "He ran off but before that he said 'no matter what happened, I love you'."

Voight nodded. "I'll look into it.

You all walked into Intelligence about ten minutes later after Voight left the back room and he was writing on the board. "This is Frank Fitori, caught a napping in a ditch by the marsh where he was dumped. He's had his own little racket on the south side for years,"

"He swam with a lot of big fish,"

"Halstead and I wil check out the murder side,"

Voight nodded but clearly in a bad mood. "Great, you go do that and the rest of you, go through the confidental files on Taylor Street, Bridge, Chinatown, and Melrose crew. Let's see who's running what nowadays,"

You and Jay went to the murder site and the body was already taken away and you saw that there was one of your pods over looking the site, so you took the footage to Lane and you couldn't see anything but Jay noticed a building next to it and it was Kane Builders. You also found out that Al and Ruzek are looking at different pawn shops making sure that the gun was dropped off at one. You and Jay were know at Kane Builders. Jay was the one talking to the worker. "It would help us out a lot if you let us see any footage your security cams caught. I mean, we can come back with a serach warrant, but-"

The worker cut Jay off. "I'd be more than happy too, sincerely. But I don't even know if we keep them on. Tell you what, it's all run by some compnay in India or something. Here's the number of our office downtown. Ask for Libby. Tell her Don told you to give yo uthe number, and she'll take care of you,"

Jay nodded. "Thank you,"

You got to the passanger seat and waited till Jay got to the driver's seat. "I'll call the Purple Pig. Seeing as how you are paying for it,"

"Oh am I?"

"Yep, you are the boyfriend after all,"

Jay smiled and shook his head.

After you had lunch you drove back to Intellegnce. You and Jay had called Lane to try to get in contact with the company in India and now you're back in Intelligence. You walked back into the lobby area in Intelliegnce and saw that Voight was taking down the picture of Fitori. "This turned out to be more of a homicide thing, as we all suspected. I apologize,"

Antonio runs up the last two steps and walked over to the board. "Hold up a sec. Alessio Colo. He was one of the top bosses on the south side. Bookmaking, loan-sharking, extortion, armed robberies. CPD thought he was retired, but now a tip leads us to believe he's back in the game,"

The entire team noticed the way Voight was looking at Dawson. Like he wanted to kill him. "What are you doing?"

Antonio ignored Voight and continued on. "And this is Joe Catalona,"

Your heart started to beat fast as you realized that is probably why Justin's hands were covered in blood. I looked over at Voight, who was still glaring at Antonio as he went on. "Habitual felon just released from Stateville, and Colo's nephew. He used to work for Colo back before he got sent up. Our D.O.A, Fitori, he turned rat on Catalano back in '06. He made a deal with the state's attorney that kept him in jail and put Catalano in,"

Jay nodded "He got rightt to it,"

Ruzek was the next to one ask a question. "All right, so if this is Catalano, who is the driver?"

Lane walked into the lobby area. "Okay, I'm tracking down the Indian company that has footage from the construction yard. Just waiting for the sun to cmoe up over there and we should have a clear shot of the driver,"

When I looked bak at Antonio and Voight, they were staring at each other intently.

Al noticed that as well so he awkwardly started talking. "Yeah, the D.O.A Frank Fitori, he used to run with this Ross crew back in the back. A guy named Dean-O Ross was the patriarch. Along with Fitori, Dean Ross was on the grand jury witness list,"

About five minutes later, Al had printed out a picture of Dean and tapped it on the board. Atwater looked at the picture. "This him?"

"Yep, Dean-O Ross, yeah,"

"Maybe Dean-O's a target too, huh?"

"Ruzek and I will shadow him, tuck him in at night,"

"That's a good idea,"

Voight said that me and him will come too.

Antonio nodded. "It looks like we are all going,"

Voight had enough of it. "I'd like to talk to you in my office first,"

You and Voight were in one car, Dawson and Jay were in one, Al and Ruzek were in one and Burgess and Atwater were in another. You knew exactly why Voight wanted to go. After following Dean-O for a few, you were starting to get antsy. "Justin was there, wasn't he?"

Voight slowly nodded. "He was the driver. Catalano told me and when this othere footage come in- I stopped by the CTA, his supervisor told me he hadn't been in there in weeks. He's slipping away on me,"

You looked over at Voight. "Don't bite my head off but I'm just asking-"

"Just ask,"

"Are you going to bury this case?"

"I don't think Antonio's going to let that happen,"

Antonio went over the radio. "Al, you got eyes on him?"

Al came over. "Just approaching now. We got him,"

Dawson nodded. "We're near Clark and Belmont, in case he heads to the highway,"

Voight saw him and he radioed next. "Ross is on foot, heading toward the tanning salon on Sheffield,"

"Be right there,"

You see Catalano walk out of salon but didn't look or radio in. "Catalano,"

"I got him,"

Voight gets out of the car and yelled Catalano's name. He looked at Voight and takes off running. Voight chases after him without calling for back up. You quickly get out of the car and radioed for back up."Suspect is heading south,"

Voight chased after Catalano but by the time the team got caught up to Voight, he had lost Catalano. You were now back in the I.T room waiting for the surviellence video to finish downloading, which was taking forever to download. Lane looked back at the sped it was going. "I asked them to increase the badwagon down here cause it just so- oh there we go, Now we'll see who was with Catalano that night,"

"Thanks Lane,"

"Yeah,"

Voight looked at Lane with the 'get out' look. "We'll call you if we need anything,"

Lane nodded and got out of his seat. "Alright, yeah. Take all the time you need,"

You sat in Lane's seat and pressed play on the video. You waited a few minutes before you seen a car apporach, you seen paused the video and zoomed up and saw that it was Justin in the driver's seat. "It's Justin,"

Your dad looked defeated. "That's it, then,"

"No, that's not it,"

"Yeah, well, that kid's an accomplice to murder,"

You got out of your seat and looked at Voight. "I know he's not answering your calls, but he's gonna answer mine,"

---

After tracking Justin's phone, you found him at a diner and saw him walking out. You were leaning on your car with your arms crossed and Justin stopped walking when you saw him. "What the hell happened?"

Justin looked away from you and then back at you. "I didn't know he was going ot kill the guy. One second, I'm standing there and the next pop, pop. This dude just falls to the ground, straight down, like someoebody just flipped the switch, you know. He had blood coming from his mouth and his nose and it was just-"

You sighed and looked up at your older brother, who was clearly scared out of his mind. "JJ,"

"You know he was laying there, and he reached out ot me for help, and I just stood there? I couldn't even more my feet. I wanted to run. I wanted to do something, you know. Catalano-Catalano raised his gun up at me, and he said I had to help him move the body or he was gonna drop me right then and there. Y/N, I swear, I had no choice,"

You walked up to him and grabbed his face. "Justin, I need you to get yourself together,"

Justin looked at you with pleading eyes. "I got to run. Will you help me, sis?"

"Get in the car,"

"You're going to help me?"

"Just get in the car, "

You took Justin back to Intelliegence and got him in a room with Dawson and Dawson told him everything that happened. "YOU BOUGHT MY SON IN WITHOUT CALLING ME!"

You turned around and saw that Voight saw Justin and Jay was holding him back. You walked up to Jay and place a hand on Jay's shoulder. "I got this,"

Jay nodded and let Voight go and walked of so you and your dad can talk. "Dad, I brought Justin in,"

Your dad looked at you with so much anger that it scared you for a second. "Why would you do that?"

"Because Dad, they were going to find out who was the driver sooner or later. I mean, its your team that were looking for him and you trained them every well. It was better that Justin turned himself in then him going on the run,"

"I would've took care of it,"

"How? Dad? Justin wasn't answering your phone calls?"

"You should've came to me when you found him,"

You were about to say something but Antonio walked out of the interview room, Voight looked straight at Antonio. "Are you going to charge him?"

Antonio shook his head. "No, we need to talk though,"

After an hour or two, everything that was linking Justin to the crime was wiped. You were just about to leave Intelligence after everythin was said and done when Voight opened his office door and called you in there. You sighed and walked into his office. You threw your jacket on his chair and looked at him. "Look. I know you're pissed at him but I knew the team YOUR team wouldn't-"

You stopped midsentence when Voight pulled you into a hug. You were stunned at first but eventually hugged him back. "I'm sorry for not telling you that I was bringing Justin in, but I knew I didn't need too. I knew your team wasn't going to let you down or Justin,"

Voight just hugged you tightly. "I'm just glad that one of my kids didn't turn out bad. I dropped Justin out at the army recurtior place,"

You pulled away from your dad and looked at your dad. "It's probably the best place he could be in right now,"

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Riverdale 4x18 Review, Analysis and Theories

I’ve finally watched the episode and I’ve got alot of thoughts about it. To be honest it went pretty much the way I thought it would, mostly. We’ve been given some more information and a whole lot more questions. There were four plotlines in the episode, two main ones and two sideplots, so I figured we could go through each one and unpack them to see what clues we’ve been left this time. So if you want to read an analysis of the episode and get my opinions and theories then read on below the tag. As always these are just my own opinions you are welcome to disagree also there are spoilers obviously.

Jughead, Charles and the Video Tapes. 

So the first plotline I want to talk about is the one where Jughead and Charles are invesitgating the tapes. The episode starts out with Jughead showing Betty, Alice and Charles the newest videotape that he found at the end of the last episode. A couple of sidenotes here which aren’t all that relevant but I figured I’d mention anyway. I love how protective everyone was of Jelly Bean. Even Charles who stood up to block the her view of the tv. But also where was FP? I feel like this is something he should be included in so it was a bit odd that he was missing from the scene. They could have at least mentioned him like said he was investigating it from the station or something. Anyway getting back to it. Jughead asks Betty if she wants to help him look into the tape but Betty says she doesn’t want to get pulled into another mystery. This is when Charles decides to suggest that Jughead and he could investigate it together. I loved that Charles called Jug little brother. I just thought it was really sweet. Also I would like to see more of the Jones/Cooper/Smith family interactions. Whilst we’ve gotten a decent amount of Charles/Betty and Charles/Jughead sibling bonding moments we haven’t gotten as many with Charles and his parents and other than this brief one I don’t think we’ve had any with Jelly Bean and Charles so I wouldn’t object to seeing those relationships developed a little more. Also I would like to point out that while it was really nice that Charles is always offering for Betty and Jughead to help him out with the investigation, I can’t help but think that Charles has an ulterior motive for this. I mentioned in my theory post about Charles and the video tapes (which you can read here if you want) that I think Charles sees Betty and Jughead as loose cannons. When they first meet Charles he says something like ‘I hear you two are quite the detective duo.’ Or something along those lines. I actually think Charles keeps asking for their help so that he can keep an eye on what they’re doing and make sure they don’t do anything to mess up the FBI’s own investigation into the tapes. I mean think about it, if Charles gets them working with him then he knows where they are and what they are doing, so he knows they aren’t gallivanting around town getting themselves into all kinds of mischief, classic big brother move.   

Through Charles we learn that there are two drop off boxes where people can turn in the tapes they recieve. One at the Sheriff station and one at the FBI office. They are both monitored with cctv cameras but there are hours upon hours of footage so Jughead and Charles decide to make some popcorn and go through all the footage in the hopes they can find some clue as to who left the murder video tape. Also can I just say that this episode made me remember why I love Jughead there were just so many little moments that were, well I don’t know how else to describe them other than they were very Jughead. Like I don’t know what was funnier that Jughead’s response to facing hours of footage seraching for a potential killer is ‘do you have popcorn?’ or the fact that yes the FBI does have popcorn. Maybe its just me but I just got a chuckle out of that. Anyway while going through the footage Jughead does spot someone he knows and decides to follow the lead alone. Of course we learn that Ethel is the person he sees leaving a tape behind. But before we get into that I want to talk about something else I noticed. When Jug is leaving the camera pans down to show us Charles’ laptop with the cctv footage. Now they had to have done this for a reason there had to have been something in that segment of cctv that is important to the plot. The footage is very grainy and sped up but we see a woman enter the building. She walks down the hall, appears to stop briefly to talk to whoever is at the desk at the end of the hall, This person seems to gesture around the corner. The woman disappears around the corner and then a few moments later reappears, walks back towards the camera and leaves. I managed to grab a couple of screenshots of this footage. 

If you’ve read my last theory post where I talk about theories around both Charles and the Voyeur (the one I linked above) then you will know I have a theory that Donna is the one behind the tapes and also the one who is wearing the Betty mask. Now I know the image is really grainy but to me this looks like a female with long dark hair who is wearing a jacket and trousers very similar in style to what Donna wears. Her build also seems very similar to Donna’s aswell. I mean...

I’m just saying the woman in the cctv, the woman in the betty mask and Donna all look real similar to me. As for why Charles didn’t recognise her, well as we can see the image isn’t the best, it was sped up and he could have been distracted by Jug saying he saw someone he knew. We don’t see where he is looking so for all we know he might have been watching Jug leave and not at the computer screen, point is he could have just missed it. Also another thing worth noting is that right before the footage is shown Charles asks ‘do you recognise someone?’ Obviously he is directing the question at Jughead but it could also be the writers way of asking us the same question, do we the viewer recognise someone in this footage.

So Jughead goes off and talks to Ethel about the tapes and she says she was just dropping off the tapes that had been left on her doorstep, that they contained the same as all the others, static footage of her home. She gets upset when Jughead tells her that one of the tapes was different and asks if she knows anything about it. One thing I will say is her line ‘I’m just trying to make it out of Riverdale in one piece.’ really resonated. Like it really makes you think how much crap these kids have gone through with all the murders and cults. It is almost like its more of an achievement for them to reach adulthood than normal because so many of them could have been killed by one of the many serial killers that have rampaged through the town. Also I feel like a lot of the kids in Riverdale see college as being a way to escape from Riverdale. 

After talking to Ethel Jughead comes up with the idea that maybe the Voyeur is a film maker, so he and Charles hit the video store. I do love the store owners line when Charles asks if any of his customers were acting suspicious and he replies ‘they all act suspicious.’ I do think the writers might be having a little laugh with us here because its very true for Riverdale as a whole, like every character on this show acts shady as hell most of the time. The store owner gives them their records and they discover that Ethel has rented the horror movie Friday the 13th sixteen times. Charles then tells Jughead that he considers Ethel to be a prime suspect as she has a predilection for horror movies, was seen dropping off a tape and as per Jughead’s admission an obsession with him. But Jughead clearly doesn’t want to upset the progress Ethel seems to have made and points out that he doesn’t think she would have the equipment for it and tells Charles to drop it. When he’s next at school Jughead goes to the office to get info on the AV club, the members of which would have access to the equipment needed to make the video tapes. He not only learns that Ethel is the president of the club but that Charles had already been there asking questions and had already left with Ethel. Jug goes back to the FBI office to find out what happened from Charles and finds out that Ethel had somehow got ahold of the sex tape of him and Betty from Stonewall prep. Now I have seen some comments saying that they think Charles going after Ethel alone was really shady and that it could mean he has something to do with the video tapes. I’m not saying that he doesn’t have something to do with the tapes, its could be a possibilty, but out of all the shady behaviour we’ve seen from Charles in my opinion this wasn’t shady at all. I think because we see everything from Jughead’s point of view its easy to forget that its not a case of Jughead is leading an investigation and Charles is helping out but the other way around. Charles is the lead on the investigation into the tapes, he’s the FBI agent. So if he thinks someone is a suspect he’s not just going to drop that lead just because some teenage kid said he should, even if that kid is his brother. Also can I say that this is such a Jones/Cooper thing to do, they get told not to do something and then the next scene you find out they did the exact thing they were told not to. We see it with Betty and Jughead all the time so it was kinda funny to see the same thing happen to Jughead in a role reversal. It was a good thing he didn’t drop it too as if Charles hadn’t gone and searched Ethel’s home they probably wouldn’t have found out about the Scarlet Room. 

So speaking of the Scarlet Room it shows that there is an even darker side to Riverdale if that was even possible, this is a definitely x rated room in the back of the store where they have home made videos. The store owner says sometimes people sell the videos and sometimes they trade them. But these tapes consist of some sex tapes, rougher ones and weirder ones but also more sinister than that snuff films which Jug finds. I was able to catch some of the titles which could be clues as to which other murders might be re-enacted next. The one of Jason Blossom is called a Maple Murder which is pretty self explanatory. There is one called Black Hood Unmasked which I think could be Mr Svensons death. The Blackhood Diaries is another self-explanatory one. There’s another called Carrie the... I can’t make out the rest of the title but that one is clearly Midge’s death. Then there’s one called Pop’s After Hours which I reckon is from the Halloween episode where Veronica kills that serial killer in self defense. The curious thing about Jason Blossom’s murder being there though is that as far as we know there are only three copies of that footage. Betty has one on her laptop and Cheryl has the other on a USB. The third from what I remember was given to the police, I can’t remember what happened to it after that but I think the Blossoms asked for it to be destroyed? Sorry if I’m wrong about that. So if only those copies existed then how did one end up in the store. Well I do have one theory for that. We know that Betty gave Chic one of her old laptops, now I’m going to assume she wouldn’t have been careless enough to leave that footage on the laptop if it was ever on that one but you never know, we also know that Chic was in the house alot when Betty wasn’t there and he liked to sneak into her room. It’s possible that Chic found the video and took a copy to the store to get some extra cash. But the Scarlet room as a whole is a very creepy idea, that people including Students like Ethel are going in there and renting footage of people being brutally murdered, I mean no wonder there are so many serial killers in Riverdale cause that’s just messed up. On a side note I thought it was absolutley hilarious when the store owner came in and told Jughead that only over 18′s were allowed back there. Like dude you are being invesitgated by the FBI and they’ve just found your highly illegal collection of homemade sex and snuff films and you think telling them that only 18 and overs are allowed in this section is going to save you. So anyway the FBI confiscates all the videos so lets just say the FBI have now got a ridiculous amount of video tapes at that office what between these ones and the ones collected from the town residents. But I do feel like the Scarlet Room tapes are going to be important to the plotline in some way like they’ll find some kind of clue in them. 

The episode ends with Jughead getting a call from Cheryl who says she just got a tape. When he and Betty go over there they find out its the same kind of thing as the one Jughead found. Two people in masks re-enacting Jason Blossom’s murder. There is something I want to cover quickly before we analyse the tape itself but there does seem to be some confusion over whether these tapes are actually real or just acting. I mean Jughead calls the tape he got a faux snuff film and talks about how whoever filmed it went through the trouble of hiring actors. It also does seem like the person wearing Jason’s mask in the newest video is acting along. If they aren’t real it would also explain why there haven’t been any bodies showing up or missing people reported. Yet I get the feeling that these are real, I mean they look very real to me, particualrly the one with Jason. As to why it looks like the one wearing the Jason mask is acting well they either could be under duress told this is the script play along or else, or it could be that they didn’t know what was actually going to happen, maybe they thought that the gun was fake or that the other person wasn’t going to actually pull the trigger which is why they seem so relaxed and calm right before they are shot. I don’t know though maybe it is all fake? What do you think? 

But the discovery of this lastest tape raises some more questions. Once again we have two masked individuals which begs the question who are the people behind the masks? One thing we do know is that its not the same people as the first video. The attacker in the first video was definitely a woman and was much shorter than the attacker in the latest one. Also the murder victims in both are also definitely different people, the one in the first video who was dressed as Jughead was much more muscular than the one in the Jason mask who had a much slimer build. This could also maybe be evidence that its possible these really are murders going on. I mean if the first guy really was killed then obviously he can’t be in the second video. To be honest I don’t have any idea who could behind the Jason mask, at all.  

Ok but who do I think is behind the Cliff mask. Well here I do have a theory and it ties in another of the plotlines from this episode. The tickle ring one. I don’t think its a coincidence that its in this episode that Terry, the one who approached Kevin and who films them, suddenly turned violent. I mean up until now he’s come across as a decent guy by Riverdale standards. Now he’s threatening to break peoples fingers and issuing threats. Also it is worth noting that when Jughead says maybe the voyeur is a film maker the very next scene is the one where Terry comes out the room and pays Kevin, Fangs and Reggie. The writers are being very obvious with the message here I mean its like Jughead: Maybe its a film maker? Riverdale: Look its a film maker! I mean they couldn’t be more obvious if they put a neon sign above Terry’s head that said guilty. So is there anymore evidence to suggest Terry is the one in the Cliff mask? Well I grabbed some more screenshots. 

 So we have that same old problem of the qualtiy of the images in these tapes that are being left aren’t great, it does take me back to the good old days of vcr oh the nostalgia but I’m going off track. Despite the bad quality we can still get some clues from the image. Now it is a little differcult because of the lighting in the video tape is bad but take a look at the top two images in the grid above. As it was with my Donna behind the Betty mask theory its the hair that I think is the biggest clue here. There isn’t really anyone else we’ve seen in the show that has this style of hair where its longer on top and fades at the sides. I mean I don’t know about you guys but I do think the hair of the guy in the Cliff mask is very similar to Terry’s. Now obviously we can’t just convict a man based on his hair style. If we look at the two bottom images. I know it is hard to see the video tape image all that well but I have watched it over and over on slow motion and they do seem to be similar in build and height. The other problem we have comparing the two images is that while its useful that we’ve got a shot of Terry standing next to someone seated like the people in the tape, the sofa that Fangs is sitting on is much lower than the chair the masked Jason is sitting on, plus you have to take the height of the individuals themselves into consideration. But taking all that into consideration lets look at a bigger image...

As I said the difficulty we have is that Fangs is sitting on a much lower surface than the masked Jason. But lets have a bit of fun and do some estimations. Lets say the blue line on the picture on the right is the approximate height the seat of the chair masked Jason is sitting on. The black line is the length of Fang’s torso from his seat to his head. The green line is the height at which the top of his head would be if he was sitting on a higher surface. Now I know this is very much an estimation and not all that accurate its more just to give us an idea. But I think Fangs and the masked Jason seem to be of similar height so when we compare the two images we can see that the height difference between masked Cliff  and a seated individual is roughly the same height difference as Terry when standing next to a seated individual. Also something else that could suggest Terry might be involved is that he would be able to get the actors who are playing the victims. He already has a client pool he could pull from. It wouldn’t be that much of a leap to think that he might approach one of his tickle boys and say do you want to get a little extra cash? I’m working on another project if you’re interested. 

What if it isn’t Terry though. Who else could it be? Well the other person we are shown acting suspect in this episode is Mr Honey is shown to be someone who visits the Scarlet Room and it seems he does this regularly. I did think there was something about the way the masked Cliff moved that reminded me of Mr Honey but in my opinion I don’t think the hair style or height of the indivdual fits with Mr Honey as well as Terry. Also we know the person in the mask is imitating Cliff and so is mimicing the way Cliff would move which I think just happens to be similar to Mr Honey. However I don’t think that necessarily means Mr Honey is innocent and I’m going to cover my theory on that in a bit. The other person I thought it could potentially be is Bret. As I said in my theory about the Stonies having something to do with the tapes, we don’t know when these tapes were filmed or even where they were filmed. It could be that this was filmed before Bret was arrested. However while I think height wise it could be Bret the hair style is completely different from Bret’s who has much longer hair.   

Now going back to my previous theory post where I said I was pretty certain that it would turn out to be Donna behind the tapes, you could say that this newest tape derails that theory as there is no link between Cheryl and Donna. So why would she bother making a re-enactment of Cheryl’s twin brother’s murder? Donna might have had a motive with the previous video depicting Betty and Jughead its no secret she hates them both. But on the contrary I actually would argue that the appearance of this tape further confirms my theory. While it’s true there is no link between Donna and Cheryl there is a link between Donna and the Jason Blossom murder. When Jughead wrote his first draft for the Baxter Brother novel, the one that originally won him the contract it was based on Jason’s murder, it was called The Boy in the River. Later they tell Jughead that they don’t think its good enough after all and he starts writing one based on the Black Hood instead. But he finds his original draft based on Jason in a envelope saying ready for publish. He discovers that it has been rewritten but that it is the same story. Dupont later tells him that all of his classmates had a go at rewriting it, this includes Donna. This means that Donna became real familiar with Jason’s story. The premise of my original theory was that I believed that Donna was upset that she wasn’t able to commit the perfect murder. Especially as she was so close, I mean Jughead says himself that it would have been perfect if it weren’t for the fact that he didn’t actually die. I think Donna then decided to have another go at the perfect murder. A do over so to speak. Like I said we don’t know when that first copy cat murder video was filmed. If it was quite a while ago then its possible that Donna believed she had got away with it and so she looked at other imperfect murders that she could make perfect. I mean if you think about it like Jughead’s attempted murder Jason’s murder was very nearly perfect. Cliff so very nearly got away with it, from killing Jason after he was already reported missing by Cheryl, to having FP clean up and then take the wrap for it. The only reason he didn’t get away with it was because of one tiny detail, the fact that the footage of the actual murder was out there and the USB was found. If my theory is right then I think Donna is only going to continue looking for murders to redo. I think she’s going to become addicted to it and we’ll start to see more and more of these copycat murders. Also I had a thought about why if these are real murders there aren’t any bodies. We’ve been told on a couple of occasions that you can dissolve a body with Lye. As Donna says to Betty ‘No body, No crime.’ It’s possible she’s been dissolving the bodies with lye so there isn’t anything to find. Also if she is picking the victims right then there won’t be any missing person reports espicially if she is choosing people from out of town and then releasing the videos in Riverdale. The authorities might not be making the connection. 

So if I’m sticking with my its Donna theory how do I explain that it definitely wasn’t Donna in the latest video. I mean it was without a doubt a male right? Well we know that Donna works with a group. She’s the mastermind but she needs her disciples. I think she started this with the Stonies where they released the videos of peoples houses, most likely this started out as a prank. We know that the Stonies liked to pull some pretty crazy pranks like locking people in coffins overnight, we also know there seemed to be a little bit of a rivalry between Stonewall and Riverdale high schools. We also know that they were filming their fellow classmates, it wasn’t just Betty and Jughead and Moose. There were tons of illegally recorded tapes it seemed like quite the extensive operation. We also know that some of those tapes ended up in the Scarlet Room. But Donna’s got a problem now. Her disciples have either left the country are dead or are in jail. So she needs to find new ones. I think she’s formed a new group and I think this group consists of Terry and Mr Honey. I think Terry helps out by getting the victims. He’s got a wide pool of employee’s who do films for him, he could easily get people from out of town who would sit down in a chair and be tied up and think nothing of it just assuming its part of some weird kink, because I refuse to believe innocent tickle porn is that only kind of video that man shoots. I also think that he was the one in the Cliff mask. As for Mr Honey I’m not as sure on what his role could be. But we do know that Donna has worked with a teacher for nefarious reasons in the past so it wouldn’t be unreasonable to say that she could be doing it again. He could possibly be the delivery guy. Maybe he’s the one going around putting the tapes on doorsteps now. It would be much less suspicious for someone to see Mr Honey about Riverdale than Donna or Terry. He could also be dropping some off at the Scarlet Room. Speaking of I do think this could be where they all met/ connected. I mean as a film maker it wouldn’t be unusual for Terry to sell some videos to the store. We know Mr Honey visits the Scarlet Room. As for Donna while Jughead assumes the tape of him and Betty was put there by Bret, Donna had admitted to seeing the tape so its just as likely that it could have been her that put it there. 

Maple Rum Snoosefest.

So I figured I’d cover Veronica’s and Cheryl’s Maple Rum storyline here as to be honest I don’t have alot to say about it. Unlike the tickle ring stroyline which could potentially have some relevance to the main plot, I just don’t see how this one fits in. To be honest I find the whole thing boring. I mean its just another plotline with Veronica being at war with her Father. Plus the whole Veronica thinks her dad has changed because he spared someone only for us to find out he had murdered someone. Like we get it Hiram is a horrible, manipulative git you don’t need to keep showing us that at this point. I suppose the purpose of it was also to show that Hiram’s illness is really starting to have an effect on him because he never would have been beat up like that before, its this idea that Hiram is finally starting to get weaker so we might be coming up to his downfall. Also I found the whole scene after the thugs break into the Maple Club and Cheryl is all like poor momsie and Veronica is all apologetic to Penelope absolutely hilarious. Like this woman is a murderer, you had her on trial a few episodes ago and then you locked her up and now have her in forced labour as punishment but all of a sudden we’re suppose to be concerned for her. We’re suppose to believe that these two girls are concerned for her? Really? Being brutally honest here I kinda feel the same way about Penelope as I do Hiram which is I just don’t care. I don’t care about the rum storyline, I don’t care that Hiram is ill and I don’t care if Penelope nearly gets beat up by thugs, I just don’t have any sympathy for either of those characters seeing as they’ve been painted as truly terrible people and parents so far so why is the show trying to get me to care about them now. Sorry but its just not going to happen.

Barchie 

Ok so the other main plotline and the one I think its the one most people are talking about. Now let me start out by saying that I don’t think for one second that Barchie is over. In fact I think this is just the beginning. The episode in regards to Barchie pretty much went the way we all thought it was going to go with Archie being much more willing to persue something than Betty. So lets go through all their scenes and analyse every little moment of them because you know its fun. 

We first see Barchie away from each other. Betty is refusing to get caught up in another mystery and while some of this might be because she’s got too much else on her mind with what happened with Archie, I do think some of it is that she is just tired of it all, she’s going to Yale in a few months and I think she wants to just leave all that murder stuff behind her and focus on her future outside of Riverdale. When we first see Archie we see him playing his guitar and it looks like he might already possibly be working on the song for Betty. While he is playing he flashes back to the kiss. He then walks over and looks at the form for the Naval Academy and then out the window towards Betty’s room. I do think this is suppose to show that Archie is torn. He’s torn about whether to go to the Navy and hes torn about what to do about his feelings for Betty. I also think the two are linked, he unsure of whether to join the Navy because of Betty. Also I think the writers have left another little clue for us in this scene. When Archie picks up the form underneath it are some dominoes. I do think this is symbolic of the situation they find themselves in now. That kiss was the first domino and  they’ve knocked it over, now thanks to the domino effect all the others are going to come crashing down too, its only a matter of time. 

After Archie looks out his window we switch over to see Betty in her room reading her diary. This entry is talking about the day she first fell in love with Archie and we get a flashback to Mini Barchie waving at each other through their windows so know we’ve got another iconic window scene to add to our gif sets. It’s worth noting that while reading this entry she is smiling so we know she is thinking of the memory fondly. Howver when Alice comes in and they start talking about the future and getting teary eyed, Alice asks what Betty could have to cry about it Betty flashes back to the kiss and gets teary. It shows that while Betty might be looking back on the past fonly she has lot of guilt and uncertainty about the more recent kiss. She’s very confused about her feelings. 

The next time we see them is the first Bunker scene. Here we see them laying on the bed together and they start out by telling the other where their significant other is at. Betty tells Archie that Jugead is with Charles and Archie replies that Veronica is with Cheryl. I think in this moment wher ethey are lying close together and its intimate and all these feelings for each other are welling up they bring up Jughead and Veronica to remind each other that there are two other people involved in this, who are going to be affected by this. It’s at this moment that Betty asks what they are doing there? She is trying to figure out her feelings and what all of it means, whether its real, she’s despesrately trying to find the answers. But Archie doesn’t have an answer for her as he as just as confused by situation as she is, there is one thing he is sure of though and that’s this feels nice. Betty then admits that yes it is but that they can’t do anything more than this. This is very telling because it tells us that not only is Betty thinking about doing more with Archie she clearly wants to. It almost like shes saying it as a caution to Archie and herself, she saying this is nice I like this but we have to be careful because it would be far to easy to get lost in each other and go further. I did think Archie’s response to this was kinda funny, he’s like we’re just hanging out. It is a typical Archie/ teenage boy response and again its very telling because it actually shows that one Archie is a little in denial here, there is obviously more going on here than them ‘just hanging out’. It also seems like Archie is trying to find a reason for them to keep doing it by painting it as being more innocent than it actually is. He trying to justify them being alone together by thinking well we’re not doing anything romantic or anything. But while it may seem fairly innocent, I mean they are just laying on a bed, on top of the covers, with their clothes on, the reality is they are both having romantic thoughts about each other and this moment is actually a very intimate moment on an emotional level. The might not be physically cheating but they are being emotionally unfaithful and deep down they both know it. I think this is why Betty says she loves Jughead at this moment. She needs to say it out loud because she’s getting overwhelmed by her feelings for Archie, she needs to remind herself of Jughead who she could really hurt. Archie’s reply is actually really interesting firstly because he pauses for quite a while before answering, his response doesn’t come automatically to him but also because all though he also says he loves Veronica he adds a but. Have you ever heard that saying that nothing a person says before the word but really counts? I think its from Game of thrones. I think that is relevant here Archie says he loves Veronica but this feels nice. So if we’re saying nothing before the word but counts then what Archie is really saying is this feels nice. He also adds a question to the end of it. This feels nice, right? Again this is important because it is telling us that Archie needs that confirmation from Betty. He needs to know she feels the same that he’s not in it alone. Although Betty doesn’t give a verbal response to this I do think we can safely say she does feel the same as we see her turn to look at him and they spend some time staring into each others eyes before taking each others hands. I think in this moment they needed to make some kind of physical contact with each other, their feelings are drowning them but they know that at any moment they could knock some more dominoes and cross the line. But handholding is safe right? I mean they’re just hanging out right?

The next time we see Archie he has gone to his Father’s grave. Like I said I do get this feeling that Archie is just really confused and at a loss. He talks about how he wonders what advice his father would give him. That it would probably something like follow your heart. Archie admits that he doesn’t know which way it is pointing and he doesn’t want to hurt anyone. He is at a crossroads right now. He’s got several paths in front of him that he could take and he doesn’t know which one is the right one, and even scarier than that he doesn’t know where any of them lead, what could be hidden round the bend? Does he stay with Veronica, something he is familiar with and a person he loves and has a lot of history with? Does he stay in Riverdale after high school and focus on the center and his dad’s business? Does he persue his feelings for Betty another person who he has alot of history with but who he now has new romantic feelings for? Does he join the Naval Academy and get an education? There are so many possibilties in front of him but so many unknowns too. Its no wonder why he’s really missing his dad right now as thats the person he would ordinarily talk this all out with. 

And then we were back with Betty. Again she is reading her diary, this time its about the proposal. She describes this day as the happiest day of her life, which is just super adorable. She again flashbacks to Mini Barchie and the proposal and can I just say that red heart ring is so cute and I do think it might pop up at some point again, they did take special effort to give us a close up of it and I can’t help but wonder what happened to it. Did Archie still give it to Betty anyway as a kind of promise ring? Did he keep and its in a draw somewhere? Who knows but I do think itll eventually end up with Betty. Kevin interrupts Betty’s thoughts when he asks if she ok and when she answers yes she was just thinking, he asks if she was thinking about simpler times to which Betty agrees. The thing is if we look at it from Betty’s point of view it really was a simpler time. Back then she was certain about what she wanted. She wrote in her diary ‘I know I want to marry Archie but I know we’re too young.’ Little Betty knew exactly how she felt and exactly what she wanted. There was no boyfriend whose heart she could break, there was no best friend who she could utterly destroy with her betrayal. There was only her and Archie. Fast forward ten years and shes in a very different situation then what her younger self thought. As a child she believed this was the time when she and Archie would be getting engaged, when they were 18 and in high school. Now all those feelings she felt then are back but its far from a simple situation. 

I don’t think its at all surprising that when we return to Archie he is working on a song. Archie has always tried to work his feelings out through songwriting and music. We can see him smiling throughout the entire process of wrinting this song. Now I was going to wait and talk about the meaning of the song later when going through the second bunker scene but I actually think we should cover it now. I mean if Archie has written a song for Betty then obviously we need to study every single line in great detail just because what else would we do with it? So lets first start with the title. According to the video I found on youtube its called ‘Carry the Torch’. Now if this is the official title then this is very intersting as the phase means to love something for a long period of time. Us Barchie shippers have been saying all along that Barchie never lost their feelings for each other and I do think this confirms that. The first line of the song is ‘There’s no warning when everything changes’, pretty obvious that Archie is talking about the sudden emergence of their feelings for each other here. I also think its interesting that for Archie everything has changed. Literally nothing is the same for him anymore, not his feelings for Veronica, not his plans for the future, his feelings for Betty, literally everything is up in the air. 

‘You let down your guard and I saw something strange, I thought she’s not made for this world and neither am I.’ The part about her letting down her guard I think is in reference to how previously in season 1 after he broke her heart she became more guarded with Archie to the point where when he tried to talk about his feelings with her in the season 1 finale she shut him down. Now though she’s let that guard down, she’s kissed him and she’s met with him in the bunker, she admitted she was feeling something for him. As for the part about seeing something strange and thinking she’s not made for this world I again think this is a throw back to how he used to see her. I’ve said before that I always thought a huge part of the reason why Archie rejected Betty in season 1 is because of how he saw her as this perfect girl next door and so much more than he ever would be. I think he’s now realised thats not true. That she’s not the same person anymore and neither is he. The line about not being made for this world is a little more ambiguos to me but I think he means they aren’t made to fit into a box, they both a little different. I mean I think they have had similar paths, they both have struggled with a dark side that was brought into exisitence by the same man, the black hood. Archie’s anger at the black hood lead him down some pretty dark paths, Betty got the calls from the black hood that also took her down a dark path.They were both manipulated by someone they thought they could trust. Archie was manipulated by Hiram and Betty was manipulated by Chic. They have both lost their Fathers suddenly. I think Archie is trying to say that whereas before he saw them on different levels now he recognises that they are on the same, that they match. It could also mean that they aren’t meant for the world of Riverdale, this world that’s steeped in blood and violence, Archie has always seen their relationship as being something pure, that childhood innocence, maybe he’s saying that their love is being blocked because of this world where they can so easily be corrupted. How he feels for Betty is so pure that it doesn’t belong in this world of evil and corruption its on another level it doesn’t fit in with this world, its just too good if I’m making sense here. 

‘Cause you make me wanna be stronger than I am.’ Another fairly obvious one Archie wants to be good enough for Betty he wants to be worthy of her. She inspires him to better himself and again we this alot throughout their relationship. She supports his music and encourages him to persue it, we know that story of how she helped him get caught up as children so he wouldn’t have to repeat a grade, we also know that she helped him with his schoolwork when he got out of prison. She always believes in him and he always listens to her advice and lets her guide him. The next line is ‘Maybe I’m reaching, misplacing a feeling. There’s no way to know but to try.’  This line is really showing Archie’s confusion. But it also tells us alot about how Archie is thinking. He recognises that isn’t certain of his feelings that he just be mistaking nostalgia but he also says the only way they can know is to try. This is kinda what I’ve been saying myself. The only way Barchie are going to get closure is if they explore their relationship otherwise they are always going to wonder, they’ll always be a what if. It seems from these lyrics that Archie thinks this too that he wants to try and see what they could be. 

Ok I do want to point something out real quick here. We know that Archie didn’t sit down and write this song all in one session. This song was written over a couple of days and as I said I do think Archie uses music to sort through his feelings. All of the lines above come from the first verse of two. Here’s the thing there is a huge change between the two verses. In the first it is very much about new, tentative and unsure feelings. However as you will see as we go through the second verse it is much more sure and certain. Archie has made up his mind about what he wants and its reflected in this second verse. “So give me tonight, I don’t know much but I knoww this feels right.’ Archie might be a bit clueless most of the time, he might make mistakes and he might not have all the answers but in all that uncertainty one thing he does know, beyond a shadow of doubt that what he feels for Betty is right. I mean if you compare the line ‘maybe I’m reaching mistaking a feeling’ with this line ‘but I know this feels right.’ This is such a huge turn around. Those lines couldn’t be more different. From the line give me tonight it does make me think that the first verse was written sometime after the first bunker visit but before he goes to see Betty and arranges to meet her at the bunker tomorrow evening. I think the second was written the next day when he knew that evening he was going to sing the song for Betty. In that time he had recgnised that his feeling were real and that they felt right. 

‘So give me tonight, If you carry the torch, I’d follow the light, I’d follow the light.’ Here again Archie repeats give me tonight. I think he understands that Betty is unsure and so he’s asking her to hear him out, to keep an open mind to come to this conversation he wants to have. It seems to me like Archie very much wants to talk about how they are feeling and have that conversation that lets be honest they should have had the last time they kissed. When he says ‘if you carry the torch I’ll follow the ligh’t this is huge. He is literally saying that if she says that she has feelings for him, if she wants him too then he’s all in. He wants to be with her, its as plain as day in those lyrics. Like without a doubt if she had said she wanted to be with him he would break up with Veronica and be with Betty and does come across as what he wants. 

One thing I will say real quick is that I do think Archie needs to break up with Veronica anyway. Irregardless of whether Betty is willing to be in a relationship with him or not if he is having feelings as strong as what he is portraying in this song that its not right for him to continue with Veronica. As much as it would suck for her and as much as I’d hate to see her hurting, I think Veronica is an amazing woman and person and deserves a heck of a lot better than to have someone settle for her.

When we go back to Betty the diary entry of the day is talking about how they used to listen to records together. Again I don’t think its a coincidence that right after we see Archie working on a song Betty flashes back to them listening to music, music has always been a predominant part of their relationship. Again child Betty describes it as the best day ever. Betty seems to be trying to work through her feelings by looking back at old memories everytime we see her shes got one of her diaries in her hand. What I do think is interesting is that while Archie seems to be looking forward, looking to their furture Betty has chosen to look backwards. I kinda get the sense that Betty is frightened of the future and so her tactic for dealing with that is to just not think about all the much. So she’s getting lost in the past. Archie then shows up and can I just say I love Archie he’s so adorable, like he literally spent the entire episode writing songs and trying to think of ways to hang out with Betty. When he says that he’s there to help her with the year book it is so obvious that he is looking for any excuse to be around her. Definitely had th esame vibe about it as ‘we’re just hanging out.’ Bless ya cotton socks Arch. Anyway Betty sees right through Archie and points out that he’s not there for the yearbook. This is when Archie confesses that he can’t stop thinking about her. She says that they can’t do this but then after looking at him for a moment continues with ‘not here’. Naturally Archie gets very excited at this little bit of hope and Betty admits she can’t stop thinking about him either. Now the next couple of lines of dialogue I think are very important. They arrange to meet at the Bunker but Betty doesn’t want to meet that night but the next. The reasoning she gives for this is so that they have time to think about it and ‘make sure this is what we really want.’ The reason why this is such a big deal is because of the implications behind it. Betty is basically saying that in this moment at least she wants to be with Archie, this means that in this moment she had pretty much decided she was going to leave Jughead for Archie. The intersting thing is that she asks for that delay. I think some of it is yes so that she herself can be sure that it is what she wants and that she isn’t going to change her mind. But more than that I think she wants to make sure Archie won’t change is mind. I mean look at it from her perspective he has broken her heart before. Not only that but after they kissed last time when she next sees him after that night he is kissing Veronica and its obvious their back together, we know that Barchie hadn’t talked about the kiss at this point and they shared a look when Archie spotted her and realised she had seen him kiss Veronica. This must have hurt Betty too its possible she hadn’t spoken to Archie yet because she was working up the courage, unfortunately Archie could have seen the fact that she hadn’t tried to talk about it with him as indifference on her part which is part of the reason why he goes back to Veronica. I think Betty is thinking ok he says he can’t stop thinking about me now but lets wait a bit and see if that cools off and it changes because if we start something up for real then not only have they hurt the people they care about for nothing but Betty’s heart will be broken again. 

Betty continues to read her diaries in the meantime and the next entry we get is acutally really telling given what comes next. In this entry Betty is talking about how much she hates Cheryl for kissing Archie. This is relevant because unlike the others this isn’t some happy memory of childhood love, in this memory she is remembering what it feels like to see someone you love kiss someone else. I suspect she is then recognising that this feeling is what Jughead and Veronica will go through if she does persue things with Archie. These thoughts and feelings are fresh in her mind when Cheryl comes in. This part of the episode does seem to have split some opinions in the fandom and caused a bit of a stir. Alot of people feel like it was really out of character for Cheryl to say that what Betty feels for Archie isn’t real and that she is in love with the idea of him considering she was the one saying that it looked pretty real to her just a few episodes ago. I agree with that I was very confuse myself by it when I first watched the episode. But since then I’ve gone back and watched the scene again and I’ve got a few things I think we should think about with this scene. Firstly we need to remember that Cheryl unlike the audience, doesn’t have all the facts. She doesn’t know about the kiss, she doesn’t know that Betty fantasized that dance, she doesn’t know about them meeting in the bunker. Betty straight up denied anything had happened between them when Cheryl asks. I think in these instances its really important that we look at it from the character’s pov. We can actually learn alot from studying Cheryl’s facial expressions during this scene. They are very subtle but if you look closely enough it can make you understand Cheryl’s thought process also it gives us an excuse to look at Cheryl’s beautiful face so its win win. This is Cheryl’s face when she first realises that she was right and Betty is having real feelings for Archie. 

She is clearly excited and happy at the news. This is much more in line with what you’d expect from Cheryl after her comments about it looking real. However her demenour changes after Betty says she thinks a part of her had been in love with Archie for the last ten years and she suddenly looks alot more sombre and well sad to be honest... 

  So why the sudden change? Well her expression also seems really sympathetic to me as well as sad and her expression makes alot more sense when you see what she is seeing. She is looking at Betty in this moment and this is how Betty is looking at that moment. 

I mean look at her, she is so devastated, she is clearly hurting and struggling. Now again we have to look at this from Cheryl’s pov. While she might put on an act alot of the time and while its true she seems to enjoy chaos, she isn’t a heartless person. In fact on many occasions we have seen a softer side to her an example of this with Betty is when Betty suspected that her dad was a serial killer she went to Cheryl and she was supportive of Betty and gave her some really good advice. Well they might not be bosom buds Betty is still Cheryl’s cousin, her family. Again if we look at it from her point of view not knowing about the kiss or any of that then Cheryl likely sees it as Betty has started to have feelings and the idea of it is really upsetting Betty. If Cheryl did know about the kiss she might have given different advice but she doesn’t. It’s also possible that Cheryl may be feeling some level of responisibilty for Betty feeling upset now because she was the one who put the idea in her head that she had real feelings for Archie. I actually think Cheryl is trying to find a way to cheer Betty up, to comfort her when she gives this explanation that she’s just in love with the idea of Archie. 

I went to a body language class once and the guy told us that when a person lies or is trying to tap into their imagination they look up and to the right because its the creative side of our brians. If a person looks up and to the left they are trying to tap into the memory side of their brains. The interesting thing about Cheryl in this scen is she actually does both, her eyes flick from one side to another. Now I’m not an expert in body language I only ever went to the one workshop that covered the basics but to me this would suggest that Cheryl was searching for something to say here whether it comes from her imagination or a memory doesn’t matter she just wants to think of something to say that will cheer Betty up that will make it better. 

If you look at Cheryl’s face right before she says false and then goes on to explain that she’s in love with the idea and that what she has with jughead is real, to me it has that lightbulb look. You know the one I mean, when you’ve just had an idea pop into your head? Yeah I think this is Cheryl’s that’s it, that’s the solution to the problem moment. You can see it alot better when you watch the scene you can see the moment where it pops into her head. So I do think this was more Cheryl’s miguided way of cheering Betty up. I mean like I said she doesn’t even have all the information about the situation all she knows is that Betty is feeling hella upset right now. I think Cheryl meant well but that she didn’t give the best advice at this moment. Also there’ another much simpler reason for why Cheryl said this. The writers. I think they want to draw this Barchie storyline out and play on the angst a bit and so they are using Cheryl here to throw a spanner in the works and delay Barchie getting together. 

However that doesn’t mean that what Cheryl said doesn’t have some merit. In particular I think the line about being in love with the idea of the perfect romance is important. You know I actually half agree with Cheryl here. Only half though because I think this used to be true in the past. I think back in season 1 when Betty was more innocent and naive she was in love with the idea of the perfect romance with Archie. However now, when you think about it, it’s not possible for her to be. Mostly because she can’t have the perfect romance with Archie. By this point Archie has already broken her heart once, what’s perfect about that? They have already kissed and then hidden it from their significant others while pretending it didn’t happen in season 2, again what’s perfect about that? Now they’ve kissed again only this time its worse because they’ve actually cheated and now they know that if they do decide to be together alot of people are going to get hurt, yeah there’s definitely nothing perfect about that. My point is their relationship is already flawed, its already gone through the wringer and they already bear the scars from it, its not perfect so how can she be in love with the idea of a perfect love story with Archie? It not perfect but it is real. I need to point out as well that in this scene Betty admits that she has been in love with Archie the whole time. Yet when she talks about Jughead she says ‘I love Jughead’ not in love, love. I do think they’ve done this deliberately, this difference between the two phrases but I haven’t figured out what the significance of it is yet.

So now we’ve gotten to the second bunker scene. It starts off with Archie playing the song for Betty. What I do think is significant here is that whilst he is playing she flashes back to that scene where he was playing for them all and she gets overwhelmed and runs off. Like before when she was reading the diary entry about Cheryl she has remembered a time when she felt hurt and in pain because the person she loved had kissed someone else (Veronica in the cupboard this time) again she is thinking about how much that hurt her and how that’s how Jughead and Veronica are going to feel on top of that she’s got everything Cheryl said spinning through her mind and all just overwhelms her and she was to stop Archie. Another thing worth pointing out is when Archie asks if she doesn’t like the song she replies ‘it’s us, it’s us’ again here she is admitting that they are real, they are right because that’s what the song is about, so if she thinks the song is them that she must believe that. Yet I think in the end as she says she doesn’t want to hurt or lose Jughead. Ultimately that’s what it comes down to. It’s not that she doesn’t have feelings for Archie, its not that she doesn’t think they are right for each other, it not even that she doesn’t want to be with Archie, she just doesn’t want to hurt Jughead. She doesn’t want to face the consequences and so instead she just ends instead trying to convince them both that its just nostalgia and fear of things changing. 

The immediate scene after shows that Archie is still playing the song and his mother comments how it must have been written for someone special, she assumes that its for Veronica. This is the moment when Archie says that he wants to join the Naval Academy and says he thinks it’ll be best to just have a fresh start. I mean this poor guy is so heartbroken that he’s decided that the only thing left to do is join the Navy. I do think being in the Navy is going to drastically change Archie in some ways it might be good for him as it will give him more control over his emotions and discipline but it also might make him a much harder person. We won’t know for sure until after the time jump but I do feel like we should prepare ourselves for seeing a very different Archie. Again though we are being shown Archie looking forwards to the future as a way of dealing with his current situation. 

In contrast Betty is still focussed on the past, mainly on burning it away. But I do think its interesting that while one of them is obsessing over the future as an escape the other is losing themselves in the past in an attempt to deal. The thing is though neither one of them is focussing on the present on what’s going on right in the moment and so I feel like they are missing out. Its obvious that in this scene Betty still trying to convince herself that her feelings for Archie aren’t real. When her mother asks what shes doing she says she’s ‘exorcising her demons’ and then later after Alice points out that they are her childhood memories and that they are precious, Betty replies that they are just memories. I do think she is trying really hard to convince herself that what Cheryl said was true. I do think its interesting that its Alice in this scene that saves the last diary. I do think this diary is going to be an important plot point. I am very curious about whats in it. But I do find it ironic that Alice was the one in 3x01 who was trying to convince Betty to burn all her diaries but now shes the one trying to save them. Also it could be significant that Alice is the one to do this considering her past. When she was Betty’s age she too was in love with someone, FP. She too, like Betty is now, decided to not face these feelings and instead went for the safer option in Hal. As a result alot of bad things happened to her. While her life wasn’t necessarily terrible there was still something missing for her, the same can be said of FP. That decision to not face there feelings for each other had a direct impact on there lives. It had a domino effect. Like Betty and Archie Alice and FP had other opportunities to be honest with themselves and each other but didn’t. 

As I said before I don’t think that Barchie’s story is over yet. There are too many things left undone. We still haven’t heard the whole song in the show yet. I do think its possible that Veronica will somehow discover the song, whether because she hears a recording of it, or hears Archie playing it or becuse Mary asks her what she thought about it. Then one of two things will happen. Either Archie will be faced with the awkward situation where he either has to admit the song isn’t about her or pretend it is and play it for her. Or when she hears it Veronica realises right away that it isn’t about her. Maybe Jughead also hears the song and also gets suspicious. I also think that diary is going to come back into it, maybe Betty reads something in it that makes her realise Archie is the one she wants and so she rushes over to see him and tell him only to find that he has already left, she gets to his room and there is a letter for her on his desk. Inside the envelope is an explanation that he’s left for the Navy, a loves confession and the heart ring is in there too. Then we’ll have the 5 year time jump where we find out they’ve been longing for each other the entire time. Oh the angst. The other thing is that Jughead and Veronica still haven’t found out about the kiss and with these video tapes popping up all over the place its only a matter of time before that one comes out. Also its worth saying that technically Archie and Betty still haven’t had a proper conversation about their feelings. While they were better this time around and they did touch on the fact they couldn’t stop thinking about each other their conversations were more about what they didn’t want then what they did. They don’t want to hurt Jughead and Veronica. So at the moment they are kinda at a stalmate.   

Well thank you to everyone who read all the way to the end of this. I know it got real long, like I said a lot of thoughts about everything. Again I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next. I’m not sure how much information we are going to get from the next episode as its going to be a revenge fantasy from a story Jughead is writing but you never know, either way I’m still excited for the episode. So until next time.                         

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Gifts (Alternative ending) (unedited)

It's had been exactly a year since she had him thrown in Azcaban , the prison that was build escpacially to keep wizards and witches like him under a lock and key, but in his case it was totally different , they made for him a very special cell with maximum security,it had a glass like texture instead of the usual stony one or the metal bar like , he has the furniture to be white or gray just like his room on her house , meal times was exactly like when they had it together, he even request the same scented candles that she had, the same painting on the walls , every single tiny trivia detail was the same as the one of the house .

It funny how she captured him , you see during his time as Lord Voldemort , another masked figured appeared it was a female one , it started so small at first she stunned few of his deatheaters that was guarding a shop leaving messages that a rebellion had began signed up as {Lady hope } , later she took down more and more until she became the face of the rebellion , as if she was Harry replacement , and in no time she was facing off the dark lord .

He shouted more cursed at her , wanting to just unmask her and killing her , he was curious to see the face of the woman defying him , that had the courage of the dead house Gryffindor, the brains of Ravenclaw, she was judging him and returning his cursed with lighter ones , aiming to just unmask and capture him, so when fate has it twisted way in fullfiiling thiere first part of the wish , both of them were left stunned with shock of who the other was.

Tom reached out his hand not believing his eyes, Korra had tears in her eyes , and he tough she was scared of him , he reached to wipe it out whill he opened his mouth to give a lecture , only for her to recover from the shock and whisper "Stupefy" knocking him unconscious.

He signed , returning to read the book on his hand ,just for him to hear the footsteps of two persons and a hiss that belonged to Nagini " I can feel my master " he smiled at the sense of her aura ,the door of his cell dorm opened reveling her , his soulmate.

Korra didn't change a lot just that her hair that she cut down to fit her rebellion mask , has gotten back to it original length, her eyes got that rest she deserve , her skin more healthy then when she was paranoid that Voldemort will show up at her door making her another victim for his limitless body count.

When she saw him for the very first time in a year she gasped, his hair has gotten longer not the length of a female , the length that was blocking his eyesight if he let his hair uncombed , he have gotten more thin if that was possible, not the thin the 'I can see your bones ' thin , the thin that those who strive to be more then model like , the Slytherin heir will not let himself starve , his skin got more pale due to the lack of sun light exposion , his eyes were still that lovely green .

They where staring at her, eyes longing at every single detail of her face once he was don't taking the examination look he smiled naturally , "hello love, I am glad that you put the long distance relationship state to end, I passed the taste didn't I?, Of course you were testing my ability for it " he didn't pose at the greeting part at all.

"Hello Tom ,I think that I stated before we are not lovers" Korra firmly said as she sighed heavily , she didn't fool herself in thinking that he will be acceptable toward that she didn't return his (obsessive) romantic feeling toward her , her feeling toward him were pure platonic one , nothing less nothing more .

He chortled lightly , "my bad , silly me how could I forget ,Korra , we are not lovers "

She smiled and realised a breath of comfort

"We are soulmates" he continued, saying that as if it's was a solid fact that no two can argue over it .

Korra took fee steps until she was close to him but not so close to see what was his book about , "Tell me Tom, did you really have to do that ?, You could use the easy approach"

Voldemort teeth dangerously closed on them self as he breathed " I doubt that those delusional freaks will kindly kill themselves if I asked for it , the only way to clean there sins is with their blood "

Korra who had regretted opening the wound inturraped him "TOM ,... What I meant was them not respecting muggle born and muggles themselves , I didn't ask for my bestie to go down full mass murder on everyone who was not pure"

He appeared to be taken back " Love ? I was not planning on killing you or myself  , I know that you are my soulmate , you see fate keep in adding more evidence to it nearly every day "

She tough that she will get used to his mood swings and his unhealthy obsession with the idea that they were soulmates, but clearly he could covert a conversation from 'how was your cup of coffee' to 'you see ?, The waitress brought for us smilliar mug colors ,is that evedence of we are soulmate?' in matter of minutes .

She rolled her eyes "surprise me Tom z what are they"

He was euphoriant to be asked that by her , "we are half bloods , you love winter and I was born in it , you don't mind snakes and exotic animals , I speak parseltounge"

'and I can speak sarcasm fluently' Korra though

"Your favorite color is black that is the same as mine, you hate the toxic people like I do , your Lady hope persona match my Lord Voldemort one , hope can be wordplay to hobie which means my love in Arabic...."

He bubbled that Korra zoned out of his chatting only to be zoned back in by...

" And your hair match mine now , you see you returned it to it original length , when mine is long for , we match even when I can't see you "

Korra lover that she didn't eat anything that day , just in case his lecture that she was so positive will leave her wanting to throw up , "you see love , you even feel sick from staying away from me "

Korra serach for a topic to talk about that can shift his attention on her "Nagini misses you"

His eyes widened " you can speak parseltounge?"

"No but I can understand body language"

"Hello master " Nagini hissed

"Hello Nagini , have she been waiting for my outbreak today ?"

"She doesn't know "

Korra still searched for a new thing to distract him before she ask him what the question she come for " Tom , what book are you reading?"

He returned his attention to her " oh , I am not reading more like writing "

He showed her the book, Korra felt more disguste by what he wrote it was just one word all ever the pages as she flipped them .

Her name

Tom having the habit of looking at her and drinking in every detail of her , when took his book to see , be took the opportunity to look at her hand , he eager from the inside , she had the promise ring on her finger , that was meant to have their engagement ring,

"Nagini ....kill whoever give her the piece of metal"

"Yes master "

Korra , reached the last page , she didn't know what negative emotion left for her to feel from it.

The page had a list of their weeding plan , honeymoon, no child name since he know she doesn't want any, the places that he will love to take her to, everything that he planed on doing for them, and all the (creepy ) romantic ways he planned on purposing to her then obliviate her , move to a new location for a different purpose way until he checked out all the ways , the last eat was bone chilling , he planned on purpose to her on surrounded by the corpses of their enemies , all whill they were on the body of the dying minister of magic .

Korra decided to leave it was the time to ask , she give him back his book , or diary to be more specific , when that time for their hand to hold to same object he took his sweet time , crassing her hand , "I love that your skin still smoth, I know mate you kept it just for me , the same way your body is left not touch by anyone but m...."

She took fee steps back , not shocked from his word , but when she saw the wall behind him .

It was filled with her name .

The tears fall down her checks , Tom got angry " come here love , let me wipe them by myself, I don't want anyone but me to do that, not even yourself " he extended his hands for as far as he can from the cell , eyes red like the blood of his fallen enemies .

"Tom , before I leave I want to ask you, why do I feel like something is always missing"

His mood swings strikes again " oh dear soulmate , we are soulmate so naturally you will that when we are not around each other , ... But I know that you mean physical, it because I made a hoxrac for you ...,a mate is equal after all "

"Goodbye Tom"

She began walking , only to hear him reply

"See you later love "

A chill run down her spine but she never looked back.

She was at home now , looking at her promise ring that she bought to herself from the jewelry store, she bought it as a promise to never ever visit him , but since she broke the promise she no longer felt obligated to wear it ,so she gently removed it and put aside on the coffee table.

She decided she need to take a nap , that last thing she saw was Nagini moving outside, before the sandman come for her.

When she woke up there was blood on her , but that was not what frightened her the most,

No it was the note on the same coffee table that she putted the ring on it ,

{Hello love , I am here , but let's play hide and seek ,I am hiding and you seek me

With best regards

Your soulmate

P.s you can't escape all the doors and windows are locked , the house have silence spell on it , oh and there is nothing you can use as weapon too, just your pretty hands  }

Korra never felt the need to scream in terror before like she felt it right there.

Her hands were shaking from rage , that he Tom from his hiding place could see , and being delusional he tough that was a sign of excitement.

He smirked , oh it was gonna be so much fun.

Korra stood up and give her back to the wall gluing on it to never give him the chance to jump on her like his twisted fantasies he have.

She didn't know what to do if she found him , didn't want to know what he will do to her if she did.now she was at the stairs she wished of she could looked two places at the same time , one up and one down .just in case he was to ambush on her .

With each step she took her heart beats louder , untill she reached the top and and had smelled the smell of salt and rust she opened the guest room to find the corpse of the jewelry ship keeper , and to make it worse Nagini was eating it.

Korra didn't fight the tears , she just let them fall , the snake was too busy to notice her , she closed the door and her eyesight was blurry ,she wiped them , just in time to her it " you know love, that keeper had it coming " the voice come inside her head , he was using legllemancy on her , when she tried to use ocullemency to keep him out she couldn't use magic and she was not surprised by that , of course he give her a potion that made her temperory as as she hoped to not use magic.

" Oh I just can't wait for you "

She ignored him , continuing her task she made the wall her support friend , his room was empty , she made sure to search the entire house before coming upstairs, so that leave one room not touched ,hers .

When she opened the door she found her room having a romantic one , straight out of romantic movies , with the sound of running water , "welcome love " his voice didn't come from her head , not it was from right behind her , Korra didn't have the time to turn around,

His arms sneaked around her middle holding her hands captive and his chain rested on her shoulder , his hot breath on her ears tickled her when he whispered " ohh how much I missed your"

"Fuck you...Tom Marvalo Riddle"

He laughed

"If that what you...."

"I didn't mean it that way you...."

"Love , you are dirty by his filthy blood , let's get you cleaned up "

His stupid mood swings.

He led her awkwardly to the bathroom that has the bathtub filled with hot water , rose pitals and the scent of coffee candle , her changing clothes were folded nicely waiting for her , she didn't dare to look at them , she didn't want to know what he chose for her , stupid choices she give him to make , now it come biting down on her , biting like the mess up fact the pet snake was eating dinner, the fact she was led to the bath by her (soulmate) bestie , that his hair was still long.

"Before we bath ...."

" Tom please I don't want to take a bath with you " he shock his head , "love , I understand that you are body shy , but that not a problem I will leave and let you take it by yourself , then once you don't I will bath in the same water you bathed in , that a soulmate right "

His eyes pupils were dialed as he continued not stopping

" Also my hair is long , so we you can cut it and wash it for me , just like you did when I was still homeschooled once, also the scissors are magically enchanted so don't even think about it ".

He wiped away the tears that felt down ,

"I told you only I can wipe them "

There was no escaping from him she knew it , she didn't have to look outside to see the dead bodies of all the enemies on the street , to see the Halloween night take a twisted turn.

To know that he let deatheaters customes be the Trojan horse to began and end successful his plan on taking over the magical world.

To see the two masks on her bed , Lord Voldemort mask and Lady Hope.

He sealed her fate with a kiss on her eyes .

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Girl Genius Event Week 2019: Day 3/8: A Very Von Zinzer Christmas

fic written for girl genius event week! A big thank you to @girlgeniusevents for setting it up!

Also on AO3

Full disclosure: I don’t know if this will ever be finished. But posting things that have sat unfinished for a long time is part of the theme of this event week, so! here we go!

Day 3: Original Characters (my very own take on the 7 other von zinzer brothers) Day 8: Every time I try to write it, it doesnt feel good enough

The Von Zinzer brothers had a genius plan! Or rather, Solomon had a genius plan, Temeluchus was waiting for it to crash and burn and the other 5 didn’t know about it yet. But when they found out, Solomon would be a good baby brother and let them take some of the credit. The youngest of the Von Zinzers knew that the best thing to get someone for Christmas was something they couldn’t or didn’t want to get on their own. Well, Ma wanted the road clear, and not even the 7 of them shoveling could do it fast enough to keep up with it this December . As soon as they finished one section, it had snowed enough to cover up all their work. But Solomon knew a way to do it! He just needed…

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It was certainly a big snowball, Timmie would give him that. The amount of effort and time he’d spent with it up on top of Big Willy Hill1 made sure of that. If, as he claimed he would, he managed to actually get it rolling down the road, it would certainly pick up a lot of snow as it went, and even more on the choked road. It would probably slow down and then just be a big ball of snow halfway down the road, though, and he’d made sure to tell Solomon that. A lot.

“Doesn’t matter even if it does, Temeluchus .” Solomon had said. “Even if it does, then we can just set a fire and melt all of it at once!”

Every time that particular plan B had come up, Timmie (not Temeluchus, that was a stupid name and Mom needed to stop picking names out of books) had been blown off before he could explain that then they’d have a flooded road instead of a snowy one. He was twelve and Solomon was nine, so he was a proper big brother now, and had to act like it. At least that’s what Mom said.2

On Christmas Eve night, in the interest of being a proper big brother, Timmie tried one final time to convince Solomon it was a bad idea. It was at the very peak, his last dumb chance to stop his dumb little brother from doing something dumb.

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Solomon was just about to do it! The Great Road-Clearing Snowball was ready! Soon the South Road would be clear all the way to town! And Ma could send Bruno to market with her wool weaving, and they could all have stamppot for New Year’s! Nothing could stop him now!

“ Solomon !”

Not even Temeluchus!

Wait.

Temeluchus? Was his last thought before the brother three years his senior tackled him into the snow. Wrestling to avoid being pinned, Solomon gave as good as he got, throwing Temeluchus off a couple times and trying to return to his unholy creation. But Temeluchus always got up just in time to tackle him again and move him further away from his masterpiece. So Solomon decided to try Diplomacy...

Also known as Whining.

“Temeluchus, come onnnnnnn I put lotsa work into this!” he whined as he was finally pinned and picked up.

“I don’t care!” His brother replied. “I’m your big brother and that means I gotta look after you. That means keeping you from doing dumb stuff!”

Solomon’s face became mulish. “Mammon does dumb stuff all the time…” he muttered, “And you don’t tell him to stop.”

“Thats because Mam’ is older than me, so he won’t listen if I tell him he’s being dumb! And you're being dumb right now!”

“No I'm not! This is a great idea!” Solomon started wriggling out of Temeluchus’ iron grip. If he could just… reach… the ball…

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Moloch heard the shouting first. He was out on the hillside looking for knightweasels3 that his mom could make into vests. But the raised voices towards the peak distracted him, and probably spooked every living thing on the slopes. The voices were recognizable as belonging to the two youngest doofuses in his family, so he started climbing the hill to hassle them for ruining his work. But as he did, a rumbling began to sound.

“What the-”

Before he could finish the exclamation his mother would thankfully not have heard anyway, he had been creamed by a snowball twice his size and left mashed into the ground. “-Ow.”

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Solomon winced as his creation, hastily launched, plowed Moloch into the ground. He looked okay, just surprised. So that was good. Temeluchus, on the other hand…

He was watching in horror as the snowboulder hurtled down towards the road. Moloch getting flattened didn’t really register, that was just a fact of life. But the snowball was something he could have prevented, and failed to do so. He winced as the growing snowboulder picked up four squirrels, a few hens, several dove-turtles, and a pearbird, along with the Partridge’s Tree it was nesting in, before finally crashing through the fence at the end of the road and beginning its intended work, leaving behind a furrow of bare earth and road. It rolled and rolled, getting bigger as it went, before it finally rolled into the ravine at the the far end of the road

Timmie had to hand it to Solomon. He’d actually managed to clear the road. He’d also wrecked a chunk of hillside, busted the fence, possibly killed a few chickens, left somebody lying in the road, made a mess of Bruno’s snow angel, destroyed a perfectly good Partridge Tree…

Wait, someone laying in the road?

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Serach von Zinzer, single mother and Europan Endurance Parenting Champion twenty years running4, was very tired. As a parent of seven boys, she could say with some certainty that that was normal. Her boys were off doing something ridiculous and foolish. Again, normal. It had been a quiet year, they were due for some nonsense. The road to Schleswig was blocked with snow, save for the most dedicated or desperate sleighdrivers. That, too, was normal.

What was not normal was seeing her two youngest looking so scared. It wasn’t new, but she sure as hell didn’t like it. The half frozen form between them wasn't great for her mood either.

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It was really cold.

Sister Sophia said Father Christmas lived a long way north, and if you made sure to ask him, you might get your wish for Christmas.He had thought long and hard about what he wanted, but by the time he’d figured out how to say it, the last mail carriage had already left! But what he wanted- no, needed for Christmas was too important to wait another year. That would be forever! Father Christmas was old, he might be dead next year!

So, five days before Christmas, after Sister Eliza had snuffed out the candles, he’d gotten together his warmest clothes and some food, snuck past Sleepy Slim the Houndsman, and set off along the north road.

It hadn’t been so cold when he’d started.

After two days, the clouds had rolled in. After three, the snowflakes started falling. After four, the storm had picked up. On the fifth day, he’d fallen down, and didn’t feel like getting up.

It wasn’t so cold anymore. Had someone put a blanket over him?

He was just starting to fall asleep under the softest, coziest, heaviest blanket ever. It was Christmas Eve, right? He tried to count the days, but his head was all fuzzy. Maybe he’d made it, and this was a bed in Father Christmas’ house! Father Linden had said that Father Christmas lived so far north you couldn’t go north anymore. Well, he couldn’t go north anymore. So he must be there, right? With that comforting thought in mind, he settled down for a long winter’s nap. He could hear the rumbling and roaring of Father Christmas’ furnace now…

It was suddenly very cold again, and the blanket was ripped off of him. Someone was shouting. He tried to ask what was going on, but his teeth wouldn’t stop chattering. He was being picked up. He tried to look but his eyes wouldn’t open. Were these Father Christmas’ Gutehelfers? Oh yes, he’d love a cheesed rabbit, thank you very much...

It was suddenly warm again, and something sweet smelling was pressed to his lips. As he sipped at it, he started falling asleep again.

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The kid couldn’t have been more than six years old. Temeluchus and Solomon had brought him in, almost froze to death, saying they’d found him under the snow on the road. With how cold he was to the touch, he’d been under a good long while. Ma, after getting him safe and warming up, asked the important question: “Who the hell is this?”

The Anderssens on the south road weren’t missing anyone, and neither were the Haupts further past them. Why he’d been out in the snow, no one knew, but whatever he was running from, it couldn’t have been good.

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He woke up on Christmas morning, and Bruno was the one watching him. He’d developed a fever as he warmed back up, so someone had to make sure he sipped a spoonful of herbed water every now and then. They’d taken it in shifts, but Bruno usually stayed anyway. He was the oldest, he had a responsibility. Even if it was just some stray Timmie and Solomon brought in…

The kid wiggled a little, and groaned. Bruno snapped to awareness. Sticking his head out the door of Grandpa’s old den/trinket room, he hissed “He’s waking up!”

The kid started trying to push himself up, but Bruno put a hand on his chest. “Whoa, easy there, kid. You don’t want to push yourself too much right now. How do you feel?”

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Everything about the man was big. Big black beard, big strong hands, and he was wearing a big fur coat. As the boy looked around the room, he saw an assortment of fun-looking gizmos and gadgets, and his eyes finally rested on a picture of an old, old, man with a bushy white beard. Just like Father Christmas! But why would this man be in Father Christmas’ workshop? Unless…

That line of thought was disrupted as two bigger kids fell through the door, both trying to be in the room first, jabbering that they each wanted to see him first.

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(Not sure where to go from here- but the little nameless orphan boy gets a family for christmas after being cute at Mama Von Zinzer, and in Mama Von Zinzer fashion, picks him a name from a holy book: Esther.)

1So named because supposedly when William the Conqueror was making his way towards the English Channel, he climbed this hill and saw Albia of England from the top of it. This prompted him to decide he ought to conquer somewhere else. The enormous oblong rock on the hill's peak has NOTHING to do with the name, as generations of residents will rush to assure a visitor.

2Usually with a gimlet eye at Mammon and Gehenna, who had both reached peak maturity at about the age of sixteen and decided they would stay there.

3Created by a warlord looking to protect his favored pets, these naturally armored mammals (actually closer to minks than weasels) were famously resistant to injury. This, of course, led to their hunting for purposes of making light armor. The spark who created them was understandably dismayed to hear about this.

 4Klaus Wulfenbach is ranked last in the EEP official rankings, with a rating of DNF (Did Not Father)

[mychristopherstokes66world]

but the problem is that they're ALL connected. There's no ONE starting point to narrow in on and build a case from the ground up. NXIUM is connected to Fiji water which is connected to the Bromfmans which are connected to the DNC which is connected to Libya and Syria which is connected to CEMEX which is connected to the Trilateral Commission and CERN, which is of course connected to the US Government and its private sector investors like First Principles Inc which financed NXIVM and so on and so forth. Then other MKULTRA shit like Tavistock, Manson, Hubbard popped up and they had a relationship with Jet Propulsion Laboratories which was connected to Steve Paddock and then my bells really started ringing.  My thesis is that the totality of their connections IS the one thing that is worth narrowing in on. Once the broad relationships are established then it will be much easier to explain the smaller details of who does what and where they fit in the hierarchy. Before we found Comet Ping Pong we needed the Wikileaks to break pizzagate, and once the connections were in place regarding David Brock, John Podesta and James Alefantis, Comet Ping Pong was an inevitable discovery. I will, one day. It's just truthfully too much to do at once, and people will ignore the information overload. And inevitably I'll get a couple minor details wrong, I'm already finding out so much today that I didn't know before, I'm by no means an expert. But I think the other thread does a good job of connecting them but you have to do the work yourself to see it. I get that normies won't, so that's why I'm trying to build to that point but I don't know if we're there yet.  For example, I had no idea Manson's lawyer had any affiliation with Tavistock or any of this shit. I just briefly mentioned Manson because I was talking about the occult methods of mind control and I knew he was connected to Jack Parsons. That triggered another anon to dump a bunch of information on Manson's background that I never knew about. And that process has repeated itself over and over through the past two threads so I have faith that the connections will become more and more apparent the more we dig into it

mkultra programs never ended

now they have super ultra advanced tech which can literally fuck up our brains

Finally some people who will appreciate this information. Check out this patent that was filed by Keith Rainere

http://bit.ly/2FtCMxQ

http://bit.ly/2ZJkdgU

>Determination of whether a luciferian can be rehabilitated

This goes so much deeper than sex. Do you really think the satanic elites need a cult to acquire underage sex slaves? Absolutely not, they can get whatever they desire on demand. They don't need Keith or his cult for sex slaves. What they need from Keith is the information from his Mind Control experiments. 

Due to the restrictions placed on the State after the Freedom of Information act, secret government programs like MK Ultra and Monarch Programming had to be transferred to the private sector where citizens can't legally sue for declassified information. I believe that NXIVM is sponsored by the CIA's private sector affiliates and is a front for running experiments on using sex to brainwash people and turn them into compliant citizens. This would help explain any connection between Rainere, Alefantis, Podesta and the Clintons. NXIVM is a government mind control program, not just a simple sex cult. Keith Rainere is a Crowley-like magician who uses physical and mental stimuli to reprogram people according to his desires. This manifests right now as "Have sex with Keith" but it could easily spiral into "Kill this person for me" the way Manson did (who was also a chaos magician likely affiliated with the government and L Ron Hubbard and Jack Parsons, but that's a different story).

Thomas Petersen Co-Founder at First Principle worked on a project called Ghostnote: "Already one of the most talked about productivity apps. Featured on ProductHunt. Ghostnote adds contextual notes to almost anything on your mac. Add notes & todos to folders, applications, open documents, even websites. Think about it as post-it-notes for your OS."

Website: http://bit.ly/1F4PIk1 (visually very similar to First principle LLC website)

I am not really tech litterate but I wonder if it could have been used as a backdoor/spy app.

wo concurrent conversations, I know, but here's another doozy. David Attenborough and Cemex own a nature reserve together. Are you telling me that one of the world's worst polluters and the Bono of nature shows have a private patch of land where the elite can party away from the prying eye of plebs? Not bad for a Mexican cement company.

https://thedevilman666.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/qanonreports https://twitter.com/CIACLOWN1 https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ciaclown16661 It doesn't matter what you call it, manipulation of mental realities through language, glyphs and rituals is a real science that is being employed to make us feel powerless, anxious, and dependent on the stimuli that the elite feed us to control our personalities.  Chaos Magic has a uniquely Crowleyan focus on ritual, but it's based on the same Hermetic principles of the Mind that Gnostics and alchemists study. The author of the Secret describes it as "Mental Alchemy". Magic is the manipulation of perceived reality through your Will. Hermeticists believe that the All is Mental in nature, so if you can change a person's mind then you can change their physical reality as well. It's more complicated then that, but you know the basics. Funny enough, The All is Mental is the FIRST PRINCIPLE of the Hermetic Kyballion. It's neither a good or bad thing, no more than "technology" can be considered an evil thing. The principles exist and can be manipulated. Meme magic is right hand path white magic, that seeks to use these principles defensively in order to protect our fragile sense of personhood from psychic warfare. The elites, gnostics, Masons, Jews, satanists, whatever you want to call them, want to use these principles to apply left hand path BLACK MAGIC to control OTHER people. Right = Defensive, Left = Offensive. The government has cozied up with occultists in the past, but they've demystified the process by applying the scientific method. What we are now witnessing is black magic on the grandest scale ever seen - Collective Mass Hypnosis thanks to the likes of Rainere and the other DOD experiments Rainere connects to.  There's also ritual sacrifice, Goetia, and Theurgy but I wouldn't describe that as much as magic as I would Summoning. If you play D&D, it's the difference between a Wizard and a Warlock.  Speaking of the Secret, it was first popularized by Oprah who we now know was in deep with John of God

rst Principle LLC is located at: 1012 Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast Washington, DC 20003 United States https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0854192D:US When you type this address in a serach engine you end up with AMC Hawk & Associates ,Business Management Advisor in Washington. The weird thing is it seems they dissapear suddenly 3 years ago from a review (pic related) >Magic is the manipulation of perceived reality through your Will Yeah, that's not magic. That's Crowley. The whole will thing he stole from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said the will to mach...later translated after WW2 as "will to power". But German "Mach" is where we get our word machine, to craft. Nietzsche was saying all things that exist have a will to self creation or self preservation as forms, atoms, stars, life, planets... so on. NOW FOLLOW CLOSELY: The ORIGINAL meaning for "magic", it's etymology, was "craft". It came out of the pre-Persian medes culture. They were light worshipers who use to burn sorcerers alive. Zarathustra created Zoroastrianism and said all the gods were fake or more like angels/demons and there is only one god, the Lord of Wisdom (Ahura Mazda) and his symbol is light/fire. But real magic is creative works or craft. This can include: >art >masonry >metallurgy >science/tech of any kind >music >creating religions >story telling  And so on... In ancient times someone who could pull metal out of the ground and make a sword was seen as doing the work of the gods, "magical" and as it became more widespread if became 'common' or not "high magic". So "black magic" = deception, illusion, cult indoctrination... in modern times it's know as black propaganda. Christianity is black magic.  And "white magic" = creativity, technology, arts and crafts, building society, philosophy. In fact philosophy came out of a rejection of the corrupted Zoroastrian magi priesthood of the Greek's enemy Persia. 

 Nobody saw this video the last two threads, but you guys need to see it. If you do really care about this thread, then don't scroll past this video. Back it up and keep it some where. Somebody posted the interior image of this building before but it was empty. Now we see it with scantily clad children retrieving water (?) from separate sinks and pouring it onto the flat circle in the center. I know this video had big significance, but I don't know to what yet since I never saved the image of this room when I saw it, and I should have.

"Will power symbolism" is straight up gnostic escapism bullshit that came out of Christian mysticism (aka Alexandria Egypt and the gay christian-judeans who were fighting with the NeoPlatonists elite because they feared Christianity, so some Christians created an alternative to D&C the elite culture of Alexandria and the philosophy schools). Paul writes to them in 1stCorenthians because they're practicing orgies, incest, and money scams. Pizzagate 101 http://bit.ly/2ZCTTou #Spiritcooking http://bit.ly/2FtKHv7 Newfag rundown on the players http://bit.ly/2ZBT5Am It all started with Hawaii bro and secret pedo media distribution bunker http://bit.ly/2FqV8Q0 Comet ping pong connection http://bit.ly/2ZD308A Comet ping pong was hacked during the election and Anons found this download portal but couldn't get further http://bit.ly/2Fu3KoV On a separate page Anons found pizza menu items in detail http://bit.ly/2ZGh6WX And these pictures. They've essentially been completely blacked out. NSFL http://bit.ly/2FtCKGe Comet ping pong false flag shooter http://bit.ly/2ZD2VBO http://bit.ly/2FwWits #Elsagate rundown http://bit.ly/2ZLt1CH The CIA has been running child trafficking rings since the beginning. Definitely NSFL  http://bit.ly/2FqD9Jl They've been threatened before and they killed a sitting senator and her husband http://bit.ly/2ZLt2qf It's all about the adrenochrome http://bit.ly/2FtJOCO Justin Beiber snaps because he was pimped out http://bit.ly/2ZLt3dN Child actress Heather Orourkes, 5, raped to death by Hollywood executives. http://bit.ly/2FqV7vq Sex trafficking of children on YouTube http://bit.ly/2ZD2XJW More #pizzagate http://bit.ly/2Fs8Gus http://bit.ly/2ZLt4OT http://bit.ly/2FtCKWK http://bit.ly/2ZEV7jd http://bit.ly/2FuNeVK Tony Podesta smocking Trump tweet http://bit.ly/2ZEV7zJ Anderson Cooper slips up, #pizzagate http://bit.ly/2FsxDpO Israel children farming http://bit.ly/2ZD2YO0 Allister Crowley and human sacrifice http://bit.ly/2Fur2Lp

Raniere is tied in with the DoD through various people and businesses. To understand it better, take a look into his schooling. He's 'private sector', of course it's a step further. Look at all of the patents he holds. I only linked the ones I thought to be most interesting, some patents were repeats of patents he already had which I thought was odd.