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astrowaffle · 10 months

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Wow you guys really seemed to like the steampunk AU, that post got way more attention than I was expecting, so here's some more information and stuff:

-The world is still like a videogame that they got trapped in but now it’s a steampunk adventure-y type game with circus elements

-The adventures are probably a bit different

-They’re probably more like, fantasy adventure video game style things with like puzzles and fighting? Idk I'm not a big gamer I've never actually played any steampunk video games. What are those like?

-Instead of circus tent, there is a big wagon thingy that I'll draw eventually

-there's still not much of a story and I'm not sure If there'll ever be

-I'd also kinda want to make some mini comics for this au but I suck at coming up with ideas :/

Pomni:

-She likes to craft things

-friends with Gangle and Ragatha

-still very anxious but less anxious then normal Pomni?

-has a very logical mind and is good at puzzling things together but also doesn’t do well under pressure and typically panics in stressful moments where these skills might be useful

-She can play the flute because flutes are good, they are the best instrument. (I am totally not biased just because I play the flute in marching band)

-My headcanon for regular Pomni is that she’s less anxious than she initially is in the pilot after getting used to things, like, beyond the anxiety, her actual personality is very cheery and friendly, also very logical, because idk it just fits her somehow? So yea, that headcanon also applies to this au

-but of course she is still an absolute nervous wreck because yes

-How else is she supposed to react in this situation

-also look at those fingerless gloves I want those

-the gears in her eyes turn when she is thinking

Gangle:

-Also likes crafting things

-friends with Pomni, Zooble, and Kinger

-she often borrows sewing needles from Ragatha to sew her comedy mask back together when it’s torn, and also constantly tries to craft new ones

-She really likes her boots

-I don’t blame her those are some nice boots

-Ok wait a minute what if that little wing bow thingy on her head is actually a pen/quill that she can use to write stuff?

-ooooooh yes I like that

Caine:

-✨monocle✨

-He can control the time of day with the clock that’s on his hat

-It’s a lot harder for him to heal injuries in this world, he can’t just instantly fix anything anymore it requires a bit more effort

-I’m doing this because I like when injury and pain and suffering

Bubble: um- idk it’s just bubble but now they’re a robot I guess

Kinger:

-ok but what if he had a collection of mechanical insects? Omg designing mechanical insects would be so fun-

-The clock that he wears is broken but he doesn’t notice. And Time is irrelevant anyways

-damn those gloves are fancy

-they probably feel really silky

-and his robe is also very silky because mmm good texture

Zooble:

-They are a robot now

-also a mechanic/inventor because nobody else is and somebody had to learn how to make new robot parts

-their right arm can go s t r e t c h

-bonds with Gangle over their hatred of Jax

-they’re also kinda protective over her

-I lowkey ship them (this ship is so underrated)

-No but seriously why do see zero art of this ship

- Zoob’s in denial about their feelings and still pretends not to care because they’ve had such a “I don’t give a shit about anything” attitude that suddenly developing feelings for someone has caught them off guard cause they suddenly are giving a shit about something and they don’t know how to handle it, But if Jax does anything to Gangle they will rush in to protect her in a heartbeat and just try to play it off as it just being because they don’t like Jax BUT WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH ZOOBLE JUST CONFESS ALREADY-

-ok that got way too rambly let's just move on now

Jax:

-MY FAVORITE

-he likes shiny things

-He will collect those shiny things

-He also very fast because look at those LANKY RABBIT LEGS

-I mean technically that’s already cannon, did you see how fast he ran away after seeing abstracted kaufmo? He just z o o m e d outta there

-those keys on the chain are only a small portion of his collection

-his room is definitely full of weird steampunk knick knacks because yes

-He uses them to prank people

-the centipedes he has to scare/annoy Ragatha are mechanical

-I’m so excited to design mechanical centipedes I love bugs so much guys you have no idea I finally have an excuse to draw insects and maybe people will actually care because it’s fandom related now

-He does not like getting wet. At all. (this is also just a general headcanon for him but especially in this au)

-floofy

Ragatha:

-the seams of her fabric are prone to tearing so she always carries a needle and thread to sew herself back together. she's good at sewing

-My main headcannon for normal Ragatha is that her button eye is a parallel to an eye injury she had in real life before joining the circus, but in this AU she probably acquired the injury in this universe.

-she’s good at using tools and weapons but not in like, a mechanic sorta way like Zooble but in a defense sorta way

-like, she’s very kind and caring but also sorta tough and even though her body is good at falling apart, she knows how to use strategy to fight and um wait what would they even be fighting-

-idk I haven’t thought about that yet

-Gloinks?????

-do those exist in this au???

-wait it’s my au why am I asking this

-overall she is very, “tries to help everyone else and seems very tough on the outside but is prone to falling apart both physically and mentally but just gets good at quickly patching it up and ignoring it until it become too much for her to bear”

-pls help her she needs therapy

-they all need therapy

-I’m pretty sure we’ve all established that at this point

-but I’m just making sure you know that it’s still a consistent factor in this au

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percyramblesabouttadc · 10 months

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so i drew up some designs of what i think the cast would look like outside of the circus🥺

i wanted to make them look different while still keeping aspects of their circus designs

NOW LET ME JUST..TALK ABT THE DESIGNS FOR A MOMENT!!!

i saw like a post somewhere that gave humanized zooble prosthetics and i just loved that so you know i had to incorporate that somehow! i also wanted to try and get some of the colors from their circus design onto them too bc i felt like that would be nice. i'm not super happy with their design, like i feel like i could do better but like.... i'm lazy atm.... i'll do that later!

for kinger you know i had to keep his piercing blue eyes. you know i did. it's such a fun and silly aspect of his character how could i not.(his design is kinda basic so i don't know what else to say about it i'm very sorry kinger enjoyers)

when it comes to Jax's design! i still wanted him to have some pink and purple so you could recognize him but also have it be different from his circus design so i did the best i could. i also kept his teeth yellow because it's a thing you can translate to a human design and it doesn't need to be changed. i like that Jax has yellow teeth because so do i. HE KEEPS HIS YELLOW TEETH👹👹

GANGLE!!! omg i do rlly like how i designed her! i still wanted to incorporate ribbons some how so i gave her a braid with a ribbon at the end, however i do feel like she changes up her hair often in order to use more ribbon because it's something she enjoys!!! to me she gives off scared ex-theater kid. for obvious reasons. did i do that vibe justice? idk you tell me!

ohhh Ragatha..how i love you so.. Ragatha! her hair is infact dyed! bc you know her hair is so iconic to her character but i originally didn't want her to be ginger, why? felt too close to circus her! but i didn't want to rid her of her ginger entirely. so i toned it down, made it a bit more orange than red and made it dyed! i think it looks nice:) she's also a waitress! felt as it might fit sense she does give off people pleasing therapist friend vibes.

and for last but certainly not least POMNI!!!

she was the one i designed first! and obviously she doesn't have her normal colors from her circus design other than her hair!(did you know that pomnis circus design hair is supposed to be black but it just ended up looking brown? yeah. yeah.) it's mainly because she is infact wearing her work uniform and she doesn't really get to express herself through it but also i just wanted to change for her to be really present. because i can😁 but you know i had to keep her looking tired and depressed bc thats pomni for ya

see like the reason i wanted to make my own designs was because i didn't like the idea of them looking so similar to their tadc counterparts, it leaves more angst opportunities when they look so much different from their original bodies. right now this is kinda some concept work, i might change things(cough cough zooble) but right now i'm happy with them!

holy moly this post is so long i am soososo sorry

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #tadc gangle #tadc kinger #tadc zooble #tadc fanart #human designs!!#idk if i like em all but whatever

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the-missann · 6 months

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Next up is

Jax Barmen!

He's a super cute cutie and aside from his role in the story being related to the researcher who initially discovered 4th Dimensional beings (no, that's not a big deal in the story). Jax serves as the groups researcher.

He's extremely intelligent and enjoys theoretical research. Being a senior in high school, he has plans to go off to college and become a theoretical scientist.

Jax is also the pretty/popular boy of the school. Everyone loves him because he's personable and friendly. Jax is my sweet boy who tries his best to make sure the girls and women around him are taken care of and comfortable, and anyone else is met with nothing but kindness. I don't even think it's possible for him to even have bad thoughts.

Jax is also kind of the dad of the group being able to settle everyone down when they're feeling stressed or anxious about something. Outside of that, Jax often is the reasonable one of the group being able to make rational decisions and account for what they should or shouldn't be doing.

I actually just made this drawing randomly and it's not based on the excerpt. Here, Jax and Cassie are essentially having a sleep over where Jax is going to teach her something she's interested in. They're so cute too, they're suppose to he wearing matching PJs ☺

Also, his hair is different because I'm very bad at drawing 😄

Here's a snipit of him!

It was now silent in the car, Jax got to a stop light and spoke to the pair.

“You guys are arguing about this? Have either of you thought about the actual situation?”

Larson looked at Jax. “You must want to die.” Larson threatened. “I am thinking about the situation.”

“No, you’re only thinking about disagreeing with Cassie because you believe she’s wasting our time. You have yet to say any kind of idea you have.”

Larson looked off and let out an audible sigh.

Cassie smiled. “Yeah, at least I’m trying to come up with something!”

Jax looked back at Cassie. “And you are deciding things without concern about consequence.”

Cassie shrunk under his voice. “But I-”

“I know, Cassie, you think this will be good. So I have to ask you, why is it good?”

Cassie sat back. “Because… we’ll get to have allies if we help them?”

“That’s a good reason, but here you miss a major point—we could also find out more about rifts. If they know things we don’t then it’ll only benefit us, but at what cost?”

Cassie was going to say something, but remained quiet.

So Jax continued. “We don’t know if they’re stronger than you guys and they very well might be. So maybe next time just say you have a good idea and we can go from there…” Cassie pressed her lips together. “And Lars, maybe don’t doubt Cassie for every little thing she does. Have some faith in her gut choices and listen to her suggestions, but I agree with your concern. This might be a huge waste of time, but I believe we’ll get something out of it and that’s worth the risk.”

The silence continued after he finished talking. The frustrated pair sat with his words without a single retort. Eventually, when the light turned green, Jax started to drive again.

Larson let out a sigh and spoke. “Besides sounding like a parent who’s scolding his children, you…have a point,” Larson began, “but what are we even going to get from this?”

“As I said, we may be able to learn more about rifts. As well as other species that might exist within them.” Jax stated calmly.

Larson sighed. “Fine, we’ll consider taking this guy down…”

“Alright, we’ll go from there.” With that Jax ended the conversation...

Fun fact: his design still isn't what I want, but it's close enough that I'm willing to settle for this. Jax also does his own hair and at one point, I added a scene where Cassie doesn't know how to give herself cornrows and Jax helps her 😊

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origami-is-life · 9 months

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[…hmmm I’m bored

random fun fact of the day

Kit/Tea anon was originally supposed to be a five second joke cameo of my sona

that’s why some of her old lore hints aren’t really canon anymore, like her signature weapon being a tattoo gun instead of a crossbow like it is now

I decided to make her her own character over time, and saw it only fitting to make Kit a reference to/recreation of a similar “sona that turned into her own thing”, the ORIGINAL Kitsune.

Both Kit and Kitsune’s whole motivation revolves around basically trying to single-handedly fix everything, fix-it-fic style. But that doesn’t workkkkk sooooooo :I

You can actually see some of that “meta girl” stuff in her design: Kit’s outfit is supposed to be reminiscent of a typical fantasy heroine, just fox themed.

Her witch form also references this: she has two forms, named “the hero” and “the villain”.

I have so many design/character notes on kit lol]

[oooh, thats fun to know.

to be honest, thats how sign and origami happened. i originally sent an ask to the jax blog giving him a sign that said he was cool, and then sent another ask later using the tag "sign anon" (we dont talk about how i forgot to hit anonymous on both asks, therefore outing my main to the jax mod ;-;). after a while, sign developed his own personality. like, literally, i never meant for sign to be a character.

for origami, though, i kind of meant for her to be one? i wanted another anon identity because sign, at the time, was dead. so i made origami because at the time, i was obsessed with making origami cranes. i always intended to reveal that i controlled both anons, but them being siblings and them being their own characters happened mostly on its own.

i never expected them to make such big impacts on the roleplay world, though. i thought theyd just be some silly side thing that id do for a while, that wouldnt really affect much. but then sign somehow snagged bob as his boyfriend, and origami became besties with hammer and kit, and, uh...

yeh. my sillies are more important than i thought theyd be lmao.]

#[mod lily]

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maxwell-grant · 2 years

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Thoughts on Mortal Kombat's favorite Jackass, Johnny Cage?

A lot of times when people bring up the more comedic characters in franchises as "the actual/objective best character", it's usually done so in ironic or semi-ironic jest, like that "Dan Hibiki is the Streetest Fighter" gag, but I'm not being ironic in the slightest when I say that Johnny Cage is genuinely a serious contender for The Best Mortal Kombat Character, and it frankly wouldn't even be close if his design and moveset had that "it" factor that other characters like Goro and Raiden and the ninjas had.

The worst thing you can say about Johnny Cage is that his fatalities and moveset used to be lame for most of MK's history and that the games didn't consistently tap into his appeal until MK9. But by the time he was tattooing his name on his chest, fulfilling the same role in the MK9 Story Mode that he did for the movie, breaking his glasses and getting identical replacements for every win pose, and also doing stuff like karate-chopping heads to shove Oscars in the vacant neck holes, that's when they started going somewhere with him.

Johnny Cage was the first character we shot, so he’s like the father of Mortal Kombat. When we were shooting him, we did every movement we could think of to try to get some kind of idea of what path to take during the game.

People think Johnny Cage is based on Van Damme because that’s what the game was supposed to be, but he was really modeled after Danny Rand, AKA Iron Fist. Same thing with Jax, who is actually modeled after Power Man. So we goof around and say that this was really the first crossover, because we were inspired by Marvel comic books, but the game’s owned by DC.

Johnny Cage was first, and my original idea for his fatality was to punch the guy so hard that his head goes flying off. But then John was like, because Van Damme had said no, “You want to poke a little bit of fun at Van Damme?” And I was like, “Uh, what do you got in mind?” He was like, “You can do the splits, and we’ll have him punch people in the nuts.” So I did that - An oral history of Mortal Kombat

I think a lot of what works about Johnny Cage, where other funnyman fighting game characters don't, is that Johnny started out unique in his own way, too. While visually he was just a dude in tights, he made a hell of an impression in the first game. Not just because of the Nut Shot, unheard of in fighting games at the time and still pretty rare even now ever since Cage made a name as “the fighting game character that punches you in the dick”, but also thanks to his fist-pump-and-sunglasses victory pose that kind of immediately established him in MK1 as the character with the most personality, even before you knew he had this movie star background, character traits the movie would wind up expanding on as it essentially defined much of Cage’s role and personality going forward.

I suspect he’s probably the favorite character for the devs to write because so much of the dialogue and jokes surrounding him comes out so naturally. He has terrific interactions with everyone in the cast whether they’re hero and villain, they get to insert as many references and in-gags as they like in said lines and still be in character, they get to constantly refer to his in-universe film career and make interactions out of what the characters think of it (still love that he only has one in-cast fan, in Tremor), really, Johnny Cage’s personality is so much more well-defined than that of most (if not all) other characters, even today, that in MK11 he was one of the few characters who was given the honor of being an Announcer, a honor that’s only reserved for Boss characters and characters with deep and impactful voices (Raiden and Robocop). Johnny Cage was the exception because the devs rightfully knew people would wanna hear Johnny Cage get to roast and name-call everyone. Johnny really is a league of his own in terms of characterization.

Johnny's always had not only a unique hook and niche, but an important niche in the cast, as the funny human character who’s out of his depth next to all of these gods and monsters and warriors, who gets to be vain and goofy and as humiliated as he is humiliating to fight against, and he gets to be at genuine risk since his storyline contract wasn’t death-proofed until the reboot (and even then, Cage still gets the shit kicked out of him a lot, and usually in ways that hurt a lot more than what usually befalls guys like Scorpion or Liu Kang). I’d argue Cage is the most successful comic-relief character in fighting games partially because, unlike other comic-relief goofballs like Dan Hibiki or Paul Phoenix, Johnny Cage is part of a franchise that for the most part (that is, regrettable exceptions like Bo’Rai Cho aside), really, really doesn’t have any explicitly funny characters, or even that many human characters.

It’s one thing for a cartoon character to exist in a setting that’s already skewed towards funny or cartoony or silly characters, but when the game is fought between realistic-looking designs and the setting is an eternal life-and-death struggle between vicious superpowered murderers who, even at their most benign, commit unspeakable acts of gore and torture as a player reward with the fate of Earth and the universe hanging in the balance, having one character who’s both a lot more lighthearted than the others, as well as the one most prone to looking at it and going “hey, that’s kinda fucked though, I don’t wanna kill weird lizard dudes I don’t know just cause an old man’s telling me to do it”, goes a long way to making him stand out and also ensuring that his jokes land, even when they’re not that funny. His jokes don’t even need to be consistently that funny or well-written, the fact that he’s a self-obsessed douchebag boomer goes a long way in ensuring even the most childish or basic insults are still in-character, but the fact that he’s cracking these kinds of zingers against these monsters and badasses at all in open defiance to them and their power definitely is also part of what makes him endearing to the audience.

Johnny’s a comic relief character who really emphasizes the “relief” part of the term, and there’s an interesting contrast with Johnny in that he’s got this laundry list of character flaws that all the others will extensively comment on, but on the other hand, he’s also consistently one of the most decent people in the entire setting and one of the most unambiguously heroic characters. Unlike a lot of other MK anti-heroes who will switch allegiances on a dime, it’s never into question that Johnny will fight for Earthrealm and even sacrifice himself to fight in the name of good and protect his world and his family.

I also realize that I’m saying this about a character who I just described as one who will karate chop skulls to then stuff trophies into the leftovers for an ironic gag, the same character who rips people in two and then holds their dangling torsos to pull off the world’s shittiest ventriloquist dummy act, something you can have him do against his wife and child but, look, it’s Mortal Kombat, you kinda have to get used to everyone turning into a bloodthirsty psychopath at your command no matter how they’re otherwise written in lore. Also, it’s funny and that goes a long way.

Despite the way I’m describing it, I actually think Mortal Kombat is really, really silly a lot of the time and that’s actually how I tend to prefer enjoying it, and I definitely appreciate when the devs have fun packing humor into it as well (I know this is gonna sound lame or whatever but I actually like the Friendships more so than pretty much most Fatalities. I think they paint a more interesting picture of the characters (even if inaccurate) and they make me appreciate the characters more, even those I’m otherwise indifferent to), so I’m definitely not opposed to Johnny Cage being around making a fool of himself and everyone else, if anything he usually makes the Story Modes of these games more bearable for me.

I also really like what they’ve been doing with him character-wise since the reboot, not just in terms of his humor but also in his general role in the plot. I like that they’ve let him age and mature, have a kid who’s the next-gen protagonist in her own right and who one-ups her old man by punting people in the groin so hard their spine and skull wind up ejected out of their body, and let Johnny come on his own as a family man and warrior and hero, even putting him next to his younger version for contrast to show how far he’s come, and yeah I absolutely think the character deserves props for actually having consistent character development across the games, and for them to have turned him into a genuine family man on top of a great hero. They’ve let Johnny Cage mature and grow real nicely without having him lose what makes him funny and entertaining. I think he’s a really, really solid, well-made character who has consistently some of the best lines and moments of all characters, he’s not quite my favorite (although he’s definitely in the Top 5) but I could very well agree with the idea that he’s overall the best character.

I especially love also how lately they’ve been further incorporating actor antics into his playstyle, giving him moves where he summons a stunt double, bashes your skull or stabs you with his trophiesm does a mime act that can lead to a Brutality where he smashes your skull with an invisible door, having him stun opponents with a camera flash which can melt their face off, bump into a boom mic between rounds, using said boom mic to impale opponents through the mouth and then doing a mic check, and that absolute 10/10 Fatality where he’s trying to uppercut someone’s head off poorly and they have to keep redoing the takes while he gets frustrated, before he just throws the head against the camera and literally breaks the 4th wall even further. I absolutely love this direction they’ve taken with his moveset and I would love to see it get pushed even further.

It’s hard to even fault Johnny Cage for having that much of an ego when, not only is he a genuine badass and funny hero, but it’s so readily apparent his creators have a blast writing stuff for him, he’s gotta be at minimum the favorite character of at least someone in the MK staff. He’s like the one character who actively allows for the dumb jokes that have consistently defined MK’s sense of humor, to the point they canonized his Friendship (a character-breaking show of sillyness for most other cast members ) where he gives an autographed picture of his face to an opponent as something he just does on the regular, and even his new Friendship where he does the Warner Bros Frog Dance is comparatively tame compared to all the other bullshit Johnny gets up to on the regular like win poses where he poses his own action figures. I don’t actually have to work very hard to come up with texts of positive stuff to say about Johnny Cage, I just have to describe all the great stuff that he already does in the games. His appeal is incredibly self-evident as well as his role as one of the greatest and most iconic of fighting game characters.

Frankly I wish he’d get into more crossovers, the way the ninjas or Raiden seem to. He seems like a great and ideal character to have show up in just about anything, as clueless and out-of-his-depth as he was when he first started in the tournament but not letting that stop him from being a great hero and an even greater jackass to whoever has the misfortune of being in ear-shot of him. He’s a ready-made magnet for other characters to insult or reference having history with, as much as he’s the kind of character you can very easily have fun with imagining the ways he’d interact with a different cast of characters for him to antagonize and be antagonized by. Cage just has it all.

#mortal kombat #mk #replies tag #johnny cage #mk11 #netherrealm studios

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poorlytunedukulele · 4 years

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Day 6 - Triad

The triad is a rhetorical form whereby objects are grouped together in threes, with a heading indicating the point of likeness; for example, "Three things not easily restrained, the flow of a torrent, the flight of an arrow, and the tongue of a fool."

The Flow of a Torrent

“Azra.”

The Arcstrider looked up. Andal met her eyes and saw the confusion there. He gestured at the report he was writing. “You’re distracting me,” he explained.

Azra nodded and turned to look back out the Jumpship window. Andal went back to his report. It was quiet for a minute, but soon the rhythmic thumping edged back into his awareness. He cast a glance sidelong at his packmate. She was sitting stiffly in her chair, eyes locked on the stars outside. Her leg jiggled up and down in a frantic beat.

He cleared his throat and the shaking stopped. It wasn’t thirty seconds before it was replaced by a different noise- the sound of a knife popping free from its sheath and then sliding back home repeatedly.

“Jax,” he commanded in exasperation. “Sit still.”

She complied, lips pressed into a thin line, hands balled in fists on her knees.

Then the cockpit speakers crackled. “Whoa,” Andal’s Ghost announced. “Nav’s gone offline. Radio’s on the fritz, too.” Andal looked at his projection. It skipped and stuttered.

“Azra?” Barring some crazy solar flare, the closest probable source of electromagnetic interference was the Arcstrider sitting shotgun.

The young Hunter stood abruptly and strode back towards the cargo hold. The speakers quieted. Andal’s projection flickered once more and returned to normal.

He abandoned it and poked his head into the cargo hold instead. Azra was pacing back and forth, barely making it five steps one direction before she was forced to turn around. She was fiddling with the straps on her forearm guards and grimacing.

“You alright?” he asked.

“Has it always been so small back here?” Azra asked in response. There was anxiousness plain in her voice.

“What’s the problem?”

She looked dismayed now. “We transmatted straight here. I was still in Super.” She had been, he realized. There hadn’t been the usual time to calm down and take stock- their retreat had been more of an escape. “Things looked pretty bad there at the end,” the Arstrider continued. “I... went too deep, probably.”

It was easy to forget sometimes that for all the power she had, she was still young. Sometimes control could only be gained through patience and time. He reached for her hand-

She jerked back violently, hands up clear in the air, tense. Her eyes were blue-white with Arc Light. The hairs on Andal’s arms stood on end.

“That’s not smart,” Azra said. “That’s really- I’m fine. Really. I just need to…” She tightened the straps on her guards again and grimaced. “I’m gonna… chill. Over there.” She gestured to the back of the cargo hold.

“Punch it,” Andal called over his shoulder. He felt the ship accelerate as Charin obeyed. Andal turned back to the Arcstrider, who’d taken several steps backward. “Alright, kid, we’ll be in Camp in five minutes.”

“I’m okay, really,” she said. She sounded like she meant it, at least. “Just antsy. Can't just turn off the Arc like that.”

“If you say so.”

The Flight of an Arrow

“Tevis!”

The Nightstalker hissed and turned his aim elsewhere. But there was nowhere else to shoot. The refugees from the caravan they’d been guarding were just too close. The foliage was too thick overhead to let a Shadowshot through, the brush off the trail too dense. He couldn’t even shoot at what he’d aimed at; there were too many people nearby.

Tevis, apparently, hadn’t prepared himself to wait. He’d seen the Captain and pulled his Bow on instinct. The shriek of the unspent death in his hands was audible over Shiro and Cayde’s gunfire, rising in pitch even as his head whipped around, desperately looking for an avenue of escape.

There just wasn’t one. Andal reached the Nightstalker just as he gave up and took the metaphorical bullet. The Void weapon disappeared from his hands and he fell into a crouch, head tucked in, hands in white-knuckled fists against his ribcage. Andal himself had eaten Shadowshots before; he knew they could hurt like hell.

The refugees were panicking, even though the Captain and its crew were already dead. They jostled dangerously close to the Nightstalker. A concerned woman reached out a hand-

“Don’t touch him,” Andal snapped. “Cayde, Shiro, get the civilians out of here. We’ll catch up.”

Shiro was beside them in an instant, like magic, appraising Tevis. He made brief eye contact with Andal, nodded, and turned back around, issuing orders to the cluster of Humans.

Andal put a tentative hand on the Nighstalker’s shoulder, jerking back with a hiss when Void ripped up his arm like icewater in his veins. He shook the offended limb and settled into a kneeling position beside his comrade. Every muscle in Tevis’s body was locked tight.

It was only when the frantic chatter of the refugees faded that Tevis let out the breath he was holding. It came out a long, raspy squeak.

“Breathe,” Andal soothed. “You’ve got this. Just breathe.”

Tevis’s breath hitched, his shoulders shook, but he made no more noise. He relaxed slowly, by degrees, letting a knee sink to the ground to steady himself, unclenching his hands, letting his shoulder slump.

Finally, Tevis opened his eyes. “Close,” he panted. “That was too close.”

He made to stand, shaky. Andal helped him to his feet, relieved to not feel even a tingle of Void on his skin. Tevis had things under control.

The two stood a moment as the Nightstalker checked his guns. Andal only moved when Tevis shouldered the strap of his rifle and gestured. “Dusk’s not too far off,” the elder Hunter reminded.

“Miles to go before we sleep,” Andal replied.

The Tongue of a Fool

“Cayde.”

“Whaaaaat?” the Gunslinger drawled in fake offense.

Andal pinched the bridge of his nose. “You really need to learn when to shut up sometimes.”

“Just call ‘em as I see ‘em, bud,” Cayde said easily. “And wow, it is hard to not see you. Did you come that big, or you got platforms in your shoes?”

He was speaking to the Exo that loomed over them. The Titan must have stood at almost 7 feet, though Andal would guess that his armor did add a few inches. He planted his hands on their table, causing the wood to creak under his weight. “Do you want to repeat what you just said to my face?” The Titan even sounded menacing, low and growly.

“I said,” Cayde leaned forward, uncowed, “that’s the most ridiculous-looking helmet I’ve ever seen in my life. You’re not gonna have any luck wooing that lady with that ugly thing on your head.”

Andal cast a glance back to the table their interloper had been sitting at. True enough, there was a female Warlock sitting there, face halfway between relief and concern. Andal nodded at her. She abandoned her seat and made for the back door.

Cayde just rambled on. “Though maybe it’s because what you got under it’s uglier. Hey Andal, bet you a hundred glimmer this guy’s ugly as a Thrall’s butt. No! Two hundred.”

Andal sighed and looked mournfully at his drink. Cayde had obviously seen the Warlock getting uncomfortable with the Titan’s advances, yet instead of checking in with the Warlock or talking to the Titan like a normal person, he’d decided to crow out an insult at a volume the whole bar could hear.

“You owe me a drink,” he accused his Exo companion. “I’ve barely started this one.”

The Titan drew himself up to his full impressive height, rolling his shoulders. Cayde reached for a knife.

TYPE: Transcript. DESCRIPTION: Conversation. PARTIES: Two [2]. One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter, designate Cayde-6 [c6]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter, designate Andal Brask [ab] ASSOCIATIONS; Brask, Andal; Cayde-6; The Last City [Earth] //AUDIO UNAVAILABLE// //TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS.../

[c6:01]: Beautiful night.

[ab:01]: Shut up, Cayde.

[c6:02]: No, really. Air’s practically balmy.

[ab:02]: I’m sure I’d appreciate it much more if I weren’t in a gutter. And if I weren’t bleeding internally.

[c6:03]: Hey, isn’t your blood supposed to be internal?

[ab:03]: You realize the hell our Ghosts are going to give us when they get here? I think we interrupted Charin’s gossip session.

[c6:04]: I saw that guy make like five passes at her. Wasn’t taking her ‘no’s like he should.

[ab:04]: So you find a way to distract him so she can leave.

[c6:05]: I did!

[ab:05]: Without starting a brawl that leaves us bleeding in the gutter.

[c6:06]: Ah, but where’s the fun in that?

[ab:06]: I hate you so much sometimes.

[c6:07]: You love me and you know it. I bring excitement into your life.

[ab:07]: I think I lost a tooth.

[c6:08]: Stop moping about that and start moping about the two hundred Glimmer you owe me.

[Silence]

[ab:08]: That guy was pretty ugly, wasn’t he?

[c6:09]: Thrall-butt was too kind, really.

[ab:09]: Fine, you can have your Glimmer. But you owe me that drink.

[c6:10]: Laaaaaaame.

Whoops it’s 1,500 words this time. Though I guess it’s a three-in-one, so each one’s 500, so it kind of counts? Success!

Ao3 Linky

#destcember #destcember2020 #destiny #destiny the game #andal brask #tevis larsen #shiro-4 #cayde-6 #if you don't end up beaten up in an alley somewhere #you've had a boring night

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drethanramslay · 4 years

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Hand that you hold

Pairing: Kamilah x MC (Dakota Rivers)

Summary: Marriage is a beautiful union of two souls. When two people whose soul's sing for each other, it's then you know that that person is worth keeping around.

Word count: 3.4 K words

Warning: NONE. Its pretty much fluff and a bit of swearing

Masterlist

Taglist: @miyakokurono @trappedinfandoms @vampiregirlsblog (lemme know if you want to be tagged)

Song: Hand that you hold by Dan Owen

Forgive me for any mistakes 🥺

"I swear on my fangs Justin, if there is even a decoration out of place, it's your ass on the line." Dakota spoke into the phone with a cool voice. Lindsay was going around her like a mother hen, making the final alterations to her wedding dress.

Today was the day and things were already going berserk.

"Ummm I don't know what are you talking about...?" Justin Mercado spoke, with a tremble in his voice.

"Oh really? So whose employee was the one who flipped a fucking table in her blind rage, hmm? And I had asked you to leave the cobblestone path alone, but some dumbass on your team went ahead and put roses. ROSES?! That's so damn cliche and I specifically asked for non cliche and unique things. What had I asked for?"

"Non cliche and unique. We are already cleaning that up." Justin audibly gulped.

"When I had last come down, the fairy lights were not up and the podium where I am supposed to get married, does not have the flower arch up yet?! It's six in the fucking evening, the moment the sun sets people are going to start coming. The greenhouse doesn't have the floating lights yet. Just because we are supernaturals and have heightened senses doesn't mean we to drink and socialize in the dark!!"

"Yes ma'am we are almo-" Justin began but Dakota cut her off.

"When I asked for your services, I was promised the best. The only thing I am getting best is problems.... and an amazing wedding dress."

Lindsay blushed as she looked down at her feet. Dakota gave her a small encouraging smile.

"Ma'am that was a...a honest mistake. The decorations are all set, the tables have the pastel flower basket centre pieces. The food caterer reached and have started plating the appetizers. The bar is open and well stocked with blood and alcohol. We are good to go for your first guest."

"Good. I want this day to be perfect for my wife. For the love of the moon, if anything else goes wrong, I will skin your hide and make a carpet out if it. Got it?" Dakota threatened him. She hung up the phone and Lily snickered in the background.

"God Dakota you are such a bridezilla." Dakota just sighed, "I just...want it to be perfect. Agreed it's a small and intimate ceremony but still."

"It's gonna be lit af. The talk of the century. So don't worry. You just worry on sitting still and looking pretty." Lily said as she went into the adjacent bathroom to change.

Dakota sighed, for what seemed as the millionth time, as she turned towards the mirror to see herself. The person in the reflection had the same grey eyes and pale skin. But, she looked gorgeous. Almost like a different person.

She had decided to throw the traditional white wedding dress out of the window and went for something more unique, just like their love. She had opted for a baby blue wedding dress with layers of chiffon, making it look like ballroom gown. It was sleeveless but the neck of the gown extended till her midriff.

God Kami is going to lose her mind... Dakota thought, smiling slyly.

There were pastel colour flowers embroidered into the net like material which made her look like a blossoming flower. Just like after a long harsh winter, spring comes, causing the flowers to bloom, similarly, after three grueling years of fighting off the bad guys and loosing so many people, they finally have happiness and peace.

And there is no other way she would like to commemorate this happy occasion.

Her blonde hair had been tied into a low bun, stubborn strands of hair escaping it. Lindsay helped her put on the blue stone 'ridiculous' tiara, which Kamilah had bought her after the harrowing fiasco.

Dakota smiled to herself as she wore it, reminiscing the day in the empty jewelry store. "I'm such a pretty, pretty princess, dammit." Dakota spoke, from her memory.

"Yes that you are, Ms. Rivers. I must say that you are one of the most prettiest brides I have ever seen. The henna tattoos on your hands are just making you look so unique...IN A GOOD WAY." Lindsay spoke, as she flushed.

Dakota looked down at the henna designs on her hand. She wanted to respect Kamilah's Egyptian heritage so they both got henna tattoos on their hands just two days before the marriage. As they got them done, they laughed and swapped stories.

It was such a pleasant experience.

"Thank you so much Lindsay, this wedding dress is just perfect. Wouldn't have been possible without your hard work." Dakota said earnestly as she squeezed her hands, as a sign of gratitude.

Lindsay flushed and dipped her head and walked out of the dressing room. Dakota sat down near the large mirror and checked her make up. She was just finishing up her touch ups when Lily stepped out of the bathroom in a black suit. She was wearing formal trousers and a blazer, which showed the valley of her breasts. She had paired this with a golden pendant, which went till her midriff. She finished of her look with a pair of black stilettos.

"Damn Lily, you looking hot." Dakota told her.

Lily smiled and she walked to the mirror and placed her hands on Dakota's shoulder. "You are looking so gorgeous.... I am so, so happy for you. You deserve all the happiness in the world."

Dakota reached and held her best friends hand, unable to say anything because of the intense emotions she was feeling.

"I just wish Jax was here..." Dakota said as tears pooled on the corner of her eyes.

Lily sighed. "I bet he has got first row seats to this function. Being the boomer he is, he would end up coming an hour earlier than the starting time!!"

Both of them laughed out loud, making the sad atmosphere, a little lighter.

"C'mon girl. Let's gets you on the podium so that you can watch your sexy wife walk down the aisle."

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Justin had not screwed up.

Which was a huge relief.

Kamilah and Dakota had decided that they would have the ceremony in a private garden. Nothing to big. Dakota had made several mood boards about the way she wanted to decorate the garden and the adjacent greenhouse.

The greenhouse would be the place where food, drinks and the reception would be held.

The greenhouse was like a magical place of its own. It was a mix of glass and wood which complemented each other perfectly. Green vines hung from the roof, over the tables. The hanging lights amidst them made it look enchanted. The tables were covered with simple white tablecloths but the center pieces along with the tealight candles, really made the entire venue colorful.

The party favours had been placed on each chair. Kamilah decided to order baklava and give it out as party favours. Dakota hundred percent agreed because she may or may not have had a box or two of those sweet, sinful delights.

Everything looked perfect.

The guests were already present when she came down to the greenhouse. They were laughing, drinking and mingling. When she entered the place everyone stopped their conversation and turned to look at her. Even though she was one of the most powerful vampires of their time, the person who slayed Rheya, the goddess, she still felt so awkward when everyone's eyes were on her.

Dakota shyly waved before speaking, "Hey guys! Thank you so much for coming. The appetizers are being distributed and the bar is open. We will be starting the ceremony in half an hour."

Nikhil was the first one to come up to her. "Ah Miss Dakota! You look as ethereal as a fairy. I'm in awe."

"Thank you so much for your kind words Nikhil. I must thank you for helping in finding the venue."

"It was my utmost pleasure Miss. Go on, greet your other guests. If you need any help, I am at your beck and call."

Smiling Dakota headed to meet the other vamps. Serafine had donned a beautiful evening gown. Adrian was standing there with a drink in his hand, wearing a black tux. When she reached them, they stopped their conversation and turned to greet her.

"Hey Sera! Hey Senator Adrian." Dakota said with a teasing smile. Adrian groaned while Serafine let out an elegant laugh. "Oh my love, you look so gorgeous. Kamilah is indeed a lucky woman to have met you." Serafine said as she hugged Dakota, and kissed her cheeks.

"Thank you for coming. I know you were busy with the opening of your nightclub." Serafine just waved her hand. "Ah those things come and go. But seeing Kamilah settle down, never. Couldn't miss it for the life of it."

"Kamilah was saying that you managed most of the decorations. Must say that they look beautiful." Adrian complemented her. "Thank you Adrian. Can't say it was easy. I may or may not have threatened four people today." They laughed and Adrian checked the time in his watch.

"Gotta go and check on Kamilah. I hope she doesn't have a breakdown. It wasn't fun the last time." Adrian grumbled as he gave Dakota a side hug.

Dakota then headed to the New Orleans gang who were laughing loudly. "Hey Cal, Krom, Ivy."

"EEEEE!! Thank you for inviting me. I may be dead but all these cute ceremonies almost make me feel alive." Ivy said as she hugged Dakota.

Krom groaned. "Can you go one day without the death jokes?"

"Over my dead body." Ivy shot back.

Krom just threw his huge hands up with defeat. "I can't win. I give up."

"Congrats Dakota! Still can't thank you enough for helping me escape from the weirdo's place." Cal said as he shook her hands.

"Cal... We sang karaoke together. I think we are past the 'thank you stage'."

"Oh. My. God. Cal you did karaoke?!" The petite girl with ombre hair beside him squealed. Cal started cursing under his breath. "Yeah babe. It was before we met."

"Can you please send the video to me? Also how rude of me. I am Alex Reyez-Elrich." She extended her hand and Dakota shook it.

"Wait, are you the heir of lord Elrich? I have heard so much about you!! Shit, should I call you 'lady' or 'duchess'?"

Alex let out a laugh. "Don't worry Dakota. Lady is the title they use for my step mom. And, I could say the same about you!! I can feel the power in your veins. And I have read about how you revolutionized the entire vampire- human coexistence. I'm impressed."

"Thank you for coming. By the way, where is Garrus?"

"Behind the bar obvio. You can talk to him later. It's time." Ivy said as she took a sip of her whiskey on rocks.

It's time for my wedding. Dakota smiled at that thought.

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"Kamilah if you continue pacing around the room I swear I will put your ass on the ground." Adrian groaned.

"You wouldn't stand a chance against me." Kamilah shot back.

Kamilah sighed as she sat down near the dressing table, staring at her reflection. She had decided to wear a suit instead of the usual gown. It was porcelain white, and it fit her perfectly. There were occasional patches of embroidery on the blazer which made it look so elegant. Her hair had been left open, looking glossy underneath the yellow tinted lights. Her lips were painted red and she had put minimal make up. She was wearing her brother's pendant. She reached to touch it, wishing that he was watching over her from heaven.

Henna tattoos designed her hands and she smiled looking down at them. She would have been happy even if they got married in a courthouse, but she appreciated the gesture. Dakota was so incessant to follow the ritual and she just couldn't say no to that beautiful face.

Letting out a breath she didn’t know she was holding, she wore the white stilettos and stood up.

"Last chance to escape. Tell me and I will be your getaway driver." Adrian teased.

"Shut up Raines. It's not helping."

Adrian laughed before he clasped her shoulder. "Kamilah you deserve a happy ending. Dakota is perfect for you and I can see how much she loves you. You don't have to doubt her or her love for you."

"I'm just so nervous.." Kamilah wiped her palms on her trouser pants.

"And that's totally normal. I remember when I married my wife, I was so scared that I jumbled up the vows!!" Adrian laughed.

"If this is your way of comforting me, please shut up at this instant." Kamilah said as she picked up her bouquet of wild flowers, tied with a blue ribbon.

He offered his arm to her and Kamilah grabbed it and walked out.

"Thank you brother...for everything."

Adrian smiled and squeezed her arm. "Let's go and get you a wife."

I'm getting married to the love of my life, my habibti. Kamilah thought as a beautiful smile stretched on her face.

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"Fuck." Dakota breathed out as she saw the fairy lights darken again. "Goddammit! Justin get your ass right her-"

Dakota was cut off as Alex tapped her shoulder, in the dark.

"Dakota, if you don't mind... I can help with your light setting. I don't see it getting better anytime soon."

"Thank you so much Alex. I owe you a bottle of wine after this."

"Mention not." Alex whispered under her breath and rubbed her fingers together and snapped. A ball of yellow light started growing on her palm. It kept on growing until it was the size of a basket ball. Dakota was in awe.

Alex threw her hands up into the air and clapped, resulting in the giant glowing ball to rise in the air and split into its smaller counterparts. Alex waved her hands and the the small light balls spread all over the garden and gazebo, illuminating it in a soft yellow light.

"Yeah that should do it." Alex said as she winked at Dakota.

"Damn girl..." Lily breathed out before regaining her composure and clapping to get the attention of the guests.

"Hey people! Please sit your asses down, we have to get my girl married on time." People took their places and Dakota climbed up the steps of the gazebo.

The cobblestone path led to the gazebo. There were white chairs on either side of it which were slowly being filled by the guests. The gazebo had a teal blue roof which was supported by the white wooden pillars. There were intricate designs on the railing. The entrance of the gazebo had a beautiful flower arch, decorated with pink and white wildflowers.

Everything finally came together.

The Wedding March played and Dakota stood straighter, clutching her bouquet of flowers, to hide how her hands were trembling. She was so nervous. Her heart was racing and she could feel sweat on the back of her neck. She let out a breath, to dissipate her nervousness.

Her eyes landed on the aisle and when she saw Kamilah, all the breath in her body vanished.

Kamilah was walking with her head held high. She was clutching the bouquet and held Adrian's arm. She looked at the gazebo and she was in a trans.

It wasn't Adrian who was holding her, but the grey eyes that tethered her to this world. Reminding her that this was real. She felt like she was floating in a sea of euphoria, but the woman in front of her anchored her. Even if a nuclear missile were to fall out if the sky, or a unicorn was to show up here, she still wouldn't be able to take her eyes off Dakota.

Her love. Her baby. Her habibti.

It was the same thing for Dakota. Time seemed to slow down, people began to vanish until it was just Kamilah and her. Tears welled up in her eyes, by the sheer beauty of this moment. She knew, that this would be the one moment she would never ever forget till the end of time. How her Kami walked down the aisle to her.

Her soulmate. Her rock. Her Queen.

Adrian handed Kamilah to Dakota and patted her shoulder. "Take care of my sister Dakota. Congratulations." Dakota dipped her head. Kamilah reached the podium, and Dakota could see tears pooling in Kamilah's eyes. "Why are you crying?" Dakota joked through her tears.

"The same reason you are habibti." Kamilah answered, with a bright smile that illuminated the entire room. Dakota giggled and reached for Kamilah's hand. They held hands and turned towards the priest.

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here this evening to witness the beautiful union of these women in holy matrimony. Please sit down." The priest said and the guests sat down.

"If you have your vows written, please tell them."

Dakota turned towards Kamilah and started saying her vows. "Kamilah, before you my life was empty. I never really cared about love, but now, here I am, with you. I see these vows not as promises but as privileges: I get to laugh with you and cry with you, care for you and share with you. I get to run with you and walk with you, build with you, and live with you.

"I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen you patient and frayed. We have been through everything. Through thick and thin. And I know, what a great team we make. Together we are so strong and exquisite."

"You are my favorite person, and I choose you to be my partner in all of eternity. I vow to take you as my wife. Let's be awesome together, even when the world isn't so awesome at times. My heart is yours. Forevermore."

Kamilah took a deep breath, as tears of joy rolled down her face. Smiling, she began her vows. "Love...was something that I never understood. It was a question unanswered. Though I have been with different men and women, deep down I knew, that it was not love. I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way."

"I want nothing more than to share my future with you—my triumphs and my challenges, my joys and my sorrows. Together, I know we can accomplish the life we both dream of living. You are beautiful inside and out. You warm my heart and make me soar. You are my queen, and now my forever best friend."

"You are my first, my last, my everything. You are mine until the end of time, and I am yours for as long as you'll have me."

Dakota was crying. Her heart was bursting with overwhelming love for the Egyptian grace in front of her.

Lula, the ring bearer got the rings. Kamilah slipped the elegant diamond ring on to Dakota's ring finger. Dakota slipped a dainty platinum ring with diamonds on it into Kamilah's ring finger.

The priest continued. " If anyone objects this marriage, speak now or forever hold your peace."

Dakota gave a hard glare to the guests, daring someone to say something. The power emanating from her veins was so strong, that Kamilah's eyes widened and the priest shivered. The guests looked as if they were going to suffocate.

Silence.

Dakota rolled in the power, reducing the intensity so that the priest could speak without wetting his pants.

"Do you, Kamilah Sayeed take Dakota Rivers as your wife?"

"I do."

"Do you, Dakota Rivers take Kamilah Sayeed to be your wife?"

"I super do."

"With the power vested in me by the state of New York, I now pronounce you wife and wife. You may seal this union with a kiss."

Kamilah bent down and kissed Dakota chastely. Dakota wrapped her hands around Kamilah's waist and hugged her. It felt as if fireworks were going off in her heart and the feeling of her wife, in her arms was such an amazing feeling.

My wife...never going to get old of that. Kamilah though as she kissed Dakota under the starry night, a promise that she was going to stand by her wife’s side forever and always.

I think my heart melted. UWU

lowkey sad that bloodbound ended but hey! we got to marry her :))

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emblem-333 · 5 years

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Rebooking WrestleMania 35

What stays the same:

Kofi beats Bryan

Whatever else I didn’t care enough about to mention.

Brock Lesnar retains vs Seth Rollins

Why: Is Brock a good champion? No. He works very few dates and his best in-ring days are long gone. But give me him over Rollins as a Babyface. Rollins is a fine wrestler, one of the best in the WWE. However, his microphone skills are nonexistent and his feuds subsequent winning the strap from Lesnar have either been uninspiring or downright pathetic.

Still, there was a groundswell of support from fans eager to see the Universal Championship around the waist of a full timer once more. The secondary WWE title has had many misadventures. It’s inaugural champion Finn Balor suffered a legitimate shoulder injury and relinquished the belt the day after winning it at SummerSlam. WWE held a fatal-4-way match on Raw a week later between Kevin Owens, Roman Reigns, Big Cass, and Seth Rollins - the winner being Owens. He went on to hold the belt for nearly 200 days, but his reign came to a screeching halt when Goldberg returned and steamrolled him.

Since Owens ate a Goldberg spear, the belt spent nearly two-years around the waists PF part-timers. Frankly, I’ve forgotten it’s existed at points. To be honest, I was glad to see Rollins win initially for these reasons alone. Then came the night after ‘Mania, Rollins is in the middle of the ring out comes Triple H, his former rival who tried to derail his career... and they hug. THEY HUG. Instantly I get this feeling Rollins is a corporate backed champion packaged as a Babyface. While every WWE champion is a corporate champion at the very least give me the veneer Rollins isn’t a suck up behind the scenes by making him one during the show.

But the WWE is infatuated with themselves. They were so satisfied to have pulled off the angle and believed to have gotten Rollins over as a Babyface they couldn’t help but rub it in for all of us to see.

Lesnar, in hindsight, needed to remain champion. Rollins simply wasn’t the guy. But Vince McMahon isn’t going to put over someone like Samoa Joe- and let’s be honest, neither is Triple H or Stephenie. Whoever beats Lesnar has to be a creation of the WWE laboratory. If not Rollins, then there’s nobody on the Raw roster worth giving a look at.

If I was booking the WWE, I’d have Kurt Angle’s last match be against Lesnar and call it a night.

Sasha Banks and Bayley retain vs The IIconics, Nia Jax & Tamina, Beth Phoenix and Natalya

Why: The Women’s Tag Titles are the offspring of Bayley and Sasha’s constant lobbying. It is odd the women’s division does not have a tag championship in the first place. For all this talk of a “Women’s Revolution” and the idiotic elevation of “The Four Horsewomen” as if on par with “The Four Horseman,” the whole thing proves to be a farce despite the wrestlers being insanely talented and effective.

Heading into the eight women tag match the “Boss ‘n Hug Connection,” the inaugural champs had held the belts for 49 days. While their defense wasn’t something to write home about the whole point of their run was supposed to add legitimacy and mystic to the strap. Yeah, the IIconics are solid heels, but after winning the titles their reign didn’t last long either ending in 120 days before dropping them to Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross, who later lost it to the current champions Asuka and Kairi Sane after their heel turn. (Why are the tag titles primarily held by heels?)

Just let Bayley and Sasha keep the belts. Since ‘Mania, Bayley’s won Money in the Bank, cashing in on Charlotte Flair and is still the champion today. Holding the belt for 197 of the last 202 days. The interim period occurred when Flair beat Bayley at Hell in a Cell. On the following Smackdown, Bayley returned for her rematch with a new look and a new attitude. The lovable hugger with a back bone became a chicken shit heel over night. Instantly undercutting months of booking. While she did get a main event slot at pay-per-view at Survivor Series, she was treated as an afterthought by many inside and out of the company. The morning after Shayna Baszler made Bayley submit, the WWE twitter account reminded fans that Baszler didn’t beat “The Man” a.k.a the champion they actually care about. (https://twitter.com/wwe/status/1198805122681147392?s=21)

It’s a damn shame how Bayley’s been booked. A complete waste of her character and even from the standpoint of solely caring about making money, WWE circumvented an avenue of revenue by turning her heel. Bayley’s whole character is designed to appeal to young kids, girls in particular. Changing her to someone who makes them cry is a fun thing to do on paper, but in actual practice is awful.

Batista def. Triple H

Why: Triple H is 46. He sucks as a Babyface and is a fraud. He should retire. He does the same goddamn thing every year where he wears a suit, acts as an authority figure and then takes the suit off because things have gotten serious. This happens every year. It’s beyond annoying.

Bobby Lashley retains vs “The Demon” Finn Balor

Why: Poor Finn. Never able to find his footing on the main roster. Such a big star at NXT putting on clinics against Samoa Joe and Kevin Owens. Ironically, neither of them have been properly booked since their NXT days came to a close. WWE has a habit of restraining their talent. Balor fell prey to this and his run as Intercontinental Champion wasn’t relevant and later would lose it to fellow roamer of purgatory Shinsuke Nakamura.

I don’t see a reality where Balor as I.C champion works out. He was a lukewarm, forgetful player on the main roster. It’s good he’s back at NXT. They let their talent express themselves a little more than WWE. Best thing for him.

The Main Event:

The main event between Ronda, Becky and Flair was.. okay. Nothing special. I was happy for Becky. Initially booked to turn heel after SummerSlam in 2018, her promo the night after Flair stole her title made her a star overnight and plans changed to have her turn Babyface and keep Flair heel. Despite numerous attempts by WWE to make Lynch a heel fans simply weren’t allowing it just so Flair could win another title. That didn’t stop them from giving Flair titles, but at least it won’t be at Becky’s expense anymore.

Why did this culmination of months long storytelling feel so underwhelming in its conclusion? Simply put, it wasn’t a good story. Every participant was an absolute fool and the WWE doesn't remember how to book Babyfaces anymore. Becky failed at the Royal Rumble losing to Asuka clean. Then hijacks the No. 30 spot in the rumble when there were more deserving candidates available. What makes matters worse is Asuka would have the rug pulled out from under her a week before WrestleMania losing the belt to Flair. So why bother having her retain against Lynch and making things more complicated?

Following the rumble, Flair and Lynch battled for the right to go to WrestleMania. Despite being cleared to compete weeks before the PPV she still entered the ring on crutches and got the crap beaten out of her before Rousey inexplicably crashed the party, got Flair DQ'd and doubled the chances of her losing her title making the match a triple-threat.

The main event of WrestleMania didn’t need to be a triple-threat. It didn’t need Charlotte. And most certainly didn’t need to have both belts on the line. You had an actual fighter in Ronda Rousey and someone from the wrestling world who took an actual punch to the face, broke her nose and suffered a concussion so both participants had credibility entering.

In my eyes, the WWE could’ve done the following, dominate the headlines for their inclusivity, make everyone who needed to look good look good, and not marginalize Asuka in the process:

Becky Lynch def. Asuka for Smackdown Women’s Title at the Royal Rumble, Flair wins the rumble:

Asuka submits to the “Dis-Arm-Her” and Lynch is once again on top of the world after being unceremoniously knocked off by Nia Jax. Flair wins the rumble, and demands both belts are on the line to prove she’s the “Queen.” Both parties oblige and volià! There’s your WrestleMania main event done without unnecessary detours.

Asuka retains vs Becky Lynch, faces Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville in a triple-threat for the title; Banks wins vs Rousey, Ronda is the one to enter No. 30 into the rumble and turning heel in the process.

Pushing Flair to the side here. She’s had enough moments in the spotlight and she’ll have tons more. Being omitted from me, WrestleMania isn’t the end or the world. This year belonged to Becky and Ronda. Let them have the spotlight.

I kind of think a Ronda heel turn would have worked if they paired her up with Paul Heyman. Would’ve made sense since she isn’t much of a talker and is from the ultimate fighting background as Lesnar. But that’s far too simple! And we can’t forget about The Queen. Heavens, no!

Sasha Banks wins vs Rousey; Flair wins the rumble. Lynch vs Rousey has no belt on the line. Banks vs Flair for ‘Mania:

Oooh, this is probably my worst take, but c’mon the Becky Two Belts story didn’t really lead to anything besides Bayley’s revival when a simple win over whoever was champion at the time would’ve done the trick.

Sasha Banks and Ronda had a very nice battle for the Raw Women’s Title. Perhaps the best match of Ronda’s one year stint in the WWE. If anyone doubts Banks’ in-ring capabilities, tell them to look at how she guides the green Rousey through the match. Booking Banks to win the title is a risky proposition. Ronda built a mystic of being unbeatable. A real fighter. Not a fake entertainer pumping ‘roids. Beating her essentially undos all of that. I guess Banks’ could have turned heel here and used a chair when the referee is unconscious and smashed it over Ronda’s head knocking her out of commission for a couple of weeks.

Anyways, Banks defends the title versus Flair. Asuka defends vs Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose; Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey have an old fashioned grudge match settled at ‘Mania. How’s that for inclusivity? Why aren’t I working for the WWE? Is it because my ideas suck and have no basis in reality? Probably.

#wwe #wrestlemania #fantasy booking #becky lynch #bobby lashely #finn balor #brock lesnar #bayley #sasha banks #seth rollins #triple h #batista #charlotte flair #asuka

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Duchess - 2

Chapter 2 – He Did Look A Bit Crazy

NEED SOME IMPORTANT FEEDBACK-PLEASE READ TO THE END TO LEARN ABOUT MY CAT

Since leaving LA, my life had become so boring. Charming was cute and everything but it was dull. It took one afternoon to look around anything that might be interesting, which was nothing by the why. There was nothing here. Daddy said I should go out with my family to make a good impression so I went with them a couple of times to introduce ourselves to the people who owned the stores and stuff. There was literally no designer stores or even a Target.

“Come on,” Daddy said as he opened the door to my room, “we’re going to see the man who owns the garage. He and his wife are big parts of the community.”

“Really?” I scoffed, “now? I’m just about to go and sit in the garden.”

“Dressed. Now. We want to make good first impressions with these people so make yourself pretty. Ok sweetheart?”

“Yes Daddy.”

He nodded, satisfied with my answer and shut the door when he left. I threw the blankets off my body and made my way over to my walk in closet, Romeo yawned and I couldn’t agree more. 11:30 is way too early to get actually dressed. What did Daddy even mean, “make yourself look pretty”? Like, obviously.

It only took me an hour and a half to get ready. I put the white cardigan over my short floral sundress and fastened the pearls into my ears. My hair was curled to perfection in golden ringlets down to my waist and pushed back with a baby blue headband. I decided to wear high white wedge sandals on my feet and I was ready to go. I know Mom would be really pleased with my minimal makeup so when she smiled at me I felt all warm and fuzzy.

“You’re going to have to leave Romeo with Greta; it will be dangerous at the garage,” Daddy said with an apologetic tone.

“Seriously?!”

Jack laughed and I glared at him. We spent another half an hour having the same lecture that he always gave us whenever we were going to a social event. We stood there obediently but I had stopped listening as soon as I heard the words “now listen”. Jack and I shared a fed up look.

“Yes Sir,” we said together when he had finished.

We had to go in Mom’s car since we couldn’t all fit in the Lambo. Daddy didn’t stop talking the entire time he was driving. He was telling us about the work that this guy’s wife did with the local schools and how the garage was a family run business and just boring stuff. Greta had baked a cake that I was supposed to tell them that me and Mom made together earlier in the morning. I nodded along without listening. It was stuff I had heard before.

“Right,” Daddy said as we pulled into the garage, “best behaviour from you two and leave your phones in the car.”

“Oh come on!” Jack protested.

“Daddy! Why?”

“You are going to be friendly and sociable with the people that work there, ok?”

“Yes Sir.” We said with a huff and a sigh.

Once our phones were safely tucked under the seats we got out of the car to go and play Brady Bunch with this guy. Ugh. All I wanted to do was sit in the garden and maybe go for a swim but no. we have to come out here to talk to some boring old guy and his wife about cars and this boring town. I didn’t even care about cars and the garage looked disgusting. Why the heck did we even need to come if Daddy was just going to leave us to talk to the other people anyway?

Across the lot there was a couple walking towards us. A guy with grey hair and a woman with brown hair and tacky blonde highlights. Great.

Daddy greeted them with a fake smile and friendly voice that he always used when he was going to brown nose someone. Mom gave the woman her cake that we had to pretend we made then Daddy introduced me and Jack.

“This is my eldest,” Daddy said pointing to me, “Catherine and her brother Jack. Come on kids, be polite.”

I stepped forwards with a sweet smile to shake their hands. The old man, Clay, explained that their daughter was out right now with her boyfriend but their son, Jax, was working on some cars. I turned to look at Jack with a smug grin. All I had heard from him since we left that disgusting motel was Jax this, Jax that, isn’t Jax so cool? My brother totally had a crush on him and it was hilarious. Jack looked at me with wide eyes and an open mouth but then composed himself to make his introductions. He looked at me and shook his head but there was literally no point in telling me no; I was totally going to find that guy and tell him all about Jack’s crush.

“Well, the boys love cake. What is it?” The woman, Gemma, asked as she looked between me and Mom.

I looked around to Mom who told her it was chocolate and raspberry. I nodded, happy that Mom at least knew what it was because I had no idea. I could tell that Gemma wasn’t buying Daddy’s act but Daddy didn’t look like he had realised this. They talked for a bit in the middle of the lot while Jack and I looked around bored. While they weren’t looking, Jack pulled a face and it made me laugh.

“Ok kids,” Daddy said, “we’re gonna go talk to Clay and Gemma in their office. You two will be alright won’t you?”

“Yeah, totally.” I said with a smile.

They nodded then started walking away with Gemma and Clay. I immediately looked around for Jax, the blonde guy from the motel. Jack went to grab my arm but I pulled it out of the way just in time as I saw Jax in the car place. I shouted over to him and started to jog over. He looked up and raised his eyebrows in shock but greeted me with a wave. Jack ran after me and tried to pull me back but I just pushed him off with a scoff and irritated sigh. The guys in the car thing were now looking at us in amusement and I laughed at Jack’s embarrassment.

“Well hey there Darlin’” Jax said with an easy smile, “how are you doing? Feeling better than when I last saw you?”

“Totally! That motel was so disgusting I don’t even know how you slept in it! So my brother, Jack, has the biggest crush on you and literally hasn’t stopped talking about you and your friends since we left!” I laughed.

Jax looked behind me to Jack who was probably bright red and moving his mouth like a fish. He smiled and laughed a bit but then grabbed my arm and pulled me as he stepped back. I was disgusted at first but then realised he had pulled me out of the way of Jack who had tried to grab me again.

“Oh Jax!” I wailed and turned around to Jack with a smug smile, “he is so cool! You think he liked me? He’s so good looking! How old do you think he is?”

“Shut up!” Jack growled.

I ducked behind Jax as my brother went for me again. Jax was laughing now too but Jack was so unimpressed.

“Oh Jax!” I sighed again, “Do you think he styles his hair? Should I grow my hair out too?!”

“You bitch!”

Jack went for me again and Jax moved out the way. I shouted at him, calling him a traitor but running around the car he had been working on so it was now between my brother and me. Surprisingly none of the guys that were in the garage were stopping us. Instead, they had stopped working to watch us.

“You think he would like me?! Oh Jax!”

Jack growled and rounded the car and I ran back into the lot to see Daddy coming back out of the office. I started to stop, my feet shuffling on the floor and Jack running into my back as he saw Daddy a bit too late. I straightened out my dress and cardigan as Jack tucked his shirt back into his cargo shorts and we smiled and waved back over to the adults across the lot.

“Are you kids behaving?!” Daddy shouted over.

“Yes Daddy!” I shouted back, “Jax is teaching us all about cars!”

Daddy looked back at the blonde man who came out to stand next to us, wiping his hands on a rag. He waved over too, going along with mine and Jack’s act. Daddy’s nodded, pleased with what we were doing and walked with Mr and Mrs Morrow over to Mom’s car. Displeased that they would now be able to see what we were doing, I sighed and crossed my arms only to see an oily handprint on my white cardigan.

“Oh my gosh!” I squeaked, “this is Gucci!”

“Sorry Darlin’” Jax said, “just tryin’ to help.”

I huffed but just rolled my sleeves up so that I couldn’t see it anymore. I guess I couldn’t be too angry because he had stopped Jack from getting me. I could just throw it in the garbage if Greta couldn’t get the stain out. Jax invited us into the Sons of Anarchy hang out and I thing Jack was gonna explode. He hadn’t stopped talking about joining their gang as well. I was getting really bored with it.

“You think Dad will let me get a tattoo?” Jack whispered to me when he looked at the black marks under Jax’s white shirt.

“Daddy won’t even let us have boyfriends,” I told him and rolled my eyes, “plus you’re 15. You aren’t even old enough to get one. What would you even get?”

“I don’t know, like a wolf or something on my chest. Besides I look 21, right? I could get a fake ID.”

“I’m not letting you get a fake ID just so you can get a tacky wolf tattooed on your chest. Forget it. Wait 3 years and see what Daddy says.”

“Such a killjoy.”

I scoffed and rolled my eyes again as we were led over to the bar. Jax asked us what we wanted and I told him that Jack will have a diet coke and I would have a sparkling water with a slice of lemon. We weren’t allowed sugar. Jack protested saying he wanted a beer but I cut him off, saying Daddy would never forgive me if he got drunk. Jax seemed to find this funny and let him have a sip of his beer. The face Jack pulled was hilarious.

“That’s disgusting!” he exclaimed and I laughed, “why do people drink that?”

Jax shrugged but laughed as well. Ok, so maybe this guy wasn’t so bad, he was kind of fun. He and his friends just looked scary and the fact that they were in a gang was kind of scary too but I couldn’t help but wonder if that guy that broke the vending machine was here. I wasn’t going to ask though, obviously.

“So, we heard you’ve been doing the rounds in town,” Jax said and pointed to a table, “sit down if you want.”

I looked at the chairs and table sceptically but thought I was already dirty so I may as well sit down. Jack sat beside me and in front of Jax, looking at him like he was a god or something. He was pretty good looking and muscular too but Jack and I had spent the summer at Venice Beach so I had seen bigger guys.

“Do you how many times we have had to introduce ourselves?” Jack said.

“And we had to pretend to be interested in literally all the people and stuff that we saw! There are only so many questions you can ask about combs and scissors, you know?” I agreed and rolled my eyes, “it’s been so boring. And there’s literally no good looking guys! Everyone is either old or a kid.”

Jack nodded.

“Oh,” Jax said and looked at Jack with raised eyebrows, “you’re actually gay? I thought your sister was joking.”

“Is there a problem with that?” I asked.

I saw Jack look away, embarrassed or angry I couldn’t tell. I put my drink down and looked at the blonde guy with a scowl. Me and Jack might not get along all the time but he was still my little brother and if anyone made him feel bad or hurt him I would kill them. Jax put his hands up and shook his head.

“Nah, it’s cool.”

“Good.”

We stayed for way too long. I don’t know what Daddy was talking to Clay and Gemma about but it took hours. We learnt about the gang that they were apart of but I tried to steer the conversation away from it before Jack exploded with excitement. He just kept asking questions so I just stopped trying in the end. When I looked around the bar that we were in I couldn’t help but notice how brown everything was. It was kind of cool looking but it was all motorcycle themed and stuff so it was a bit boring. Eventually, Daddy came in to look for us.

“Ready to go guys?” he said with a fake smile.

We nodded, said goodbye to Jax and made our way back to the car. A few steps away from the car I happened to look around towards where there were guys working on cars and my eyes almost automatically found a man that I recognised as the guy from the vending machine. He was stood leaning against the wall at the back of the car place with his hands in his pockets and watching me. Not the family or looking around the view, me. I stopped in my tracks and looked back at him. I was way too far away to see his eyes but I knew they were dark and brown and really intense.

“Want to stay Cat?” Jack asked, making me look at him.

“Heck no.”

I took a hesitant step towards the car, with this guy watching my every move. I felt myself blush so I hid my face behind my hair and got in the car quickly, almost stumbling over my shoes. When I looked back through the window, the man was still there and still watching me.

“You ok sweetheart?” Daddy asked, looking at me in the rear view mirror.

“Yes Daddy, I’m just really tired.”

He nodded and turned the car around to leave the garage. It was like I could feel him watching the car but my family talked happily on the way back home.

“Dad, Jax is so cool!” Jack was saying but I rolled my eyes and just stopped listening.

When we were finally home, I cuddled Romeo and we went up to our room to get changed for the garden. When we went back down to the garden I saw Daddy sat under the parasol talking on the phone. He waved at me but kept talking on the phone. He was talking about his business and what we were doing in this boring little town.

Apparently, we were building some luxury apartments on the land outside of the town and a cool mall with actual stores in and clubs. Thank goodness! Maybe the Charming people would finally learn to have fun and dress better. Maybe Gemma could get a less tacky hairstyle.

“-had to pay Clay Morrow for some protection business,” Daddy was saying as I lay on the pool lounger, “I know, I know but he told me there’s some shifty people around Charming that might not want these apartments built up... I don’t know Jerry, these people are stuck in the 50’s.”

He was talking to Uncle Jerry. I had known him since I was a little girl and he was the person that gave me Romeo as a puppy for my 21st birthday. I shouted to Daddy to tell Uncle Jerry hi from me.

“Yeah, that was Catherine. She says hi. He says hi back sweetheart! Jerry, come on, it’s not that much. We’ll just ask the investors to put a bit more money towards the project; they don’t want the site to be sabotaged right? Yeah exactly… The Sons of Anarchy… I don’t know some club or something… no, you think I would really make a contract with criminals? I’ve got better business sense than that. Gemma and Clay are big in the community, everyone loves them.”

I turned up my music so I could tune out of the conversation wanting peace and quiet. I really wish Daddy would leave and go somewhere else. The whole business thing was so boring. I found myself thinking about Jax and his friends. Maybe he wasn’t so bad, he was actually kind of funny so maybe his friends weren’t so bad either? Then I started thinking about the guy with dark eyes and tattoos on his arms. He was so intense; it was like I could feel his eyes burning a hole through me when I was in the car. I needed to stop thinking about him but I couldn’t get that intense look, and the way I felt under it, out of my head. He was just so interesting to me, I had never in my life seen someone that looked like him. We never hung around with people with tattoos because Daddy said that tattoos were only for prostitutes and criminals. He didn’t look like a prostitute but Daddy said that his friends weren’t criminals. Maybe he was crazy; he did look a bit crazy.

HAPPY – 3RD PERSON POV

“You’re gonna make her uncomfortable,” Juice told Happy with a smirk, “stop staring.”

“I’m not staring.”

He was definitely staring at her; he was always staring at her but this was the first time she had seen him. He had seen her around town with her little yapping rat in her arms, never on the floor. They looked like they had come from some kind of 80’s TV show, they were the perfect nuclear family with two married parents, a boy and a girl. The boy looked like any high school football player- tall and broad with a handsome face and dark hair like the dad; the girl was probably a cheerleader, top of the pyramid kind of girl- small and slim with curly golden hair and Happy knew she had silver eyes that widened like a bunny in headlights when she was surprised. The family dynamic was strange to him; he had never had that in his life. They had probably never even been near a prison or drugs or guns.

“She is cute though,” Juice said and joined his friend against the wall as he watched her, “you think she’s single?”

Happy scoffed; a girl like that wouldn’t be single if his disjointed knowledge of popular kids in high school told him anything. She had a boyfriend who was captain of the football team or something.

“You’re not her type,” he told the younger man.

“How do you know? She might like a bad boy.”

He doubted this very much. Before he could reply though, Clay called them all over to tell them they were needed in the chapel after the garage closed for the day. It could only be about what had been discussed between Clay and Mr Duke-Dillinger.

Happy made sure everything was tidied away and cleaned up before they closed up for the evening. Clutter was not something he could live or work around, something he had probably got from his mother. He found himself cleaning when he couldn’t think clearly. It was like the cleaner the surfaces and items around him were the calmer he felt. Once everything was lined up and put in its proper place he went and joined his brothers in the chapel to see what Clay was thinking about the Duke-Dillinger family. If it wasn’t big it wouldn’t be being taken to church.

“Right,” Clay said and banged the gavel on the table; calling the men to attention, “the Duke-Dillinger’s are gonna be a problem. I guess you’ve heard the rumours in town of what they are planning on doing and you’ve probably guessed that no one is happy about it.”

“Yeah, the kids were saying they’ve been going around town talking to everyone,” Jax said, thinking back to his talk with them, “kids are nice though.”

“You think? I found them sickening.”

“Nah, they were like that for ‘Daddy’ but when I got them on their own they were great.”

Tig and Juice nodded in agreement, mentioning the fight and game of chase they had in the garage. Happy had been there too but had been hiding in the corner office of the work area. It had been amusing to watch two rich kids running around the cars and tools looking way too polished to be anywhere near motor oil and car grease but they ran around like it was a playground.

“Whatever,” Clay shrugged, “if we let them build all that shit we lose control of the town. I’ve been in this town for 31 years, Jax was born here and these guys have been here for two minutes thinking they can over turn and take control of everything we have. We’re not gonna let that happen.”

“What do we do?” Tig asked.

“I’ve told Mr Duke-Dillinger about The Mayans and told him they won’t be happy with the new development. He’s gonna pay us for protection.”

“So we’re gonna let it happen?” Jax asked, taking a drag of his cigarette.

“Of course not! The closer we are to the project, the easier it will be to shut it down.”

“Good plan,” Tig said, “they’ll never think it was us.”

Clay nodded and with all of their agreements, the gavel fell back down onto the table and the heavy, serious atmosphere dissipated and joyful chatter resumed. Juice and Tig were talking about the kids, Catherine in particular. They said she was cute and speculated about how she was in bed, saying she looked like a virgin but was most definitely kinky and dirty in bed.

“It’s always the quiet ones,” Tig said in a conspiratorial voice, “that’s what I’ve learned. Under that sundress and pearls there’s piercings and tattoos, I bet you.”

Happy rolled his eyes and walked away from the conversation, leaving the guys to their dirty conversation.

WOOOOO- so this is how its gonna go. Catherine couldn’t give a shit about what her dad was doing and what’s going on in Charming because she is completely self-centred. Because she isn’t interested, we are going to be seeing it from Happy’s side of things every now and again, I hope this is alright. I still think she’s cute though and her brothers crush on Jax is adorable, I hope you don’t think she’s too mean to him- she is his big sister after all, that’s just what big sisters are like lol.

For the way that Happy is going to be around her I took inspiration from my cat (Bandit), believe it or not. This is usually how it goes.

1. Hide around corners and behind walls to watch the new person until he knows you are not a threat.

2. When no threat is established, he will sit in full view of you but will not come any closer- runs away when you come near-> go back to step one.

3. He will sit on the same piece of furniture as you but will run away if you try and touch him-> go back to step one if touched.

4. He might come for some attention (likes head and cheek kisses)

5. He will then sit with his paw on you, wants constant attention

6. Will stare at you when you are asleep then when you are awake

7. He probably likes you at this point so he will start to bring you gifts, a half alive mouse (you need to learn to kill, useless human) or other small creature. If you are particularly special, you will get the head of a bird.

8. He now loves you and will not stop pestering you for your attention, no peace, will wake you up if he wants a kiss and a cuddle-needy boy.

9. Follows you everywhere

I’m not saying Happy is gonna start giving her the heads of dead birds (even though it does kind of sound like something he might do). I don’t know, I just kind of imagine it is hard to get Happy to like and trust you so you have to work really hard and go slowly because he’ll be scared away if not. Tell me what you think!

See you in the next one!

Lots of love, from

Doe

Xxxxxxx

PS- I am a vegetarian and killing things (even insects and stuff) makes me cry but I have to pretend to be happy and proud of him because he caught it, ripped the head and off then carried it all the way home for me. My boy is a killer but so loving, just like I imagine Happy to be! I have up to now received about 6 bird heads, a live fish, 5 mice, 2 frogs and someone’s pet hamster. He must really love me.

#duchess #happy lowman #happy lowman x oc #happy lowman fanfiction #SOA #sons of anarchy fanfiction #sons of anarchy #sons of anarchy imagine #headcanon

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happyslittlegirl · 7 years

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Head Over Boots

A/N: I do not own the picture above, the characters, or Kurt Sutter’s creations. I own (Y/N) and the plot. This is my first imagine, so please bare with me.

Trigger warning(s): Some curse words and fighting.

Word Count: 1745

Based off of: Head Over Boots - Jon Pardi

Here I am, at yet another SAMCRO party. In my opinion, SAMCRO parties are legendary. I’ve been coming to them for a couple of years now, maybe three or four years. Granted, they have them at least once a week, a lot of shit can happen at said parties. For example; Jax getting caught with Ima, prospects hitting on Gemma, and Tig being…. Tig. Despite all of that, who wouldn’t want to party with a whole bunch of sexy bikers? Now, don’t get it twisted, I ain’t a croweater. I don’t chase anyone in a cut, I don’t see joy sleeping with everyone in a charter. I simply come to these parties to drink, play some pool with the members, and have a good time.

I’m sitting by myself at the bar with Phil behind the bar, he’s a newly patched Son. He was the designated bartender when he was just a prospect, but he’s the only one I trust mixing my drinks. I’m looking into space, absorbed in my own thoughts when they are interrupted. I look to my right and see the one and only, “Tacoma Killer,” Happy Lowman has sat himself beside me. I must’ve been staring longer than I anticipated because next thing I hear is him clearing his throat.

“See something you like?” Happy asks in a voice so gruff that it sends tingles all the way down my spine.

I blush and tumble over my words as I answer, “Uh, maybe.”

Happy chuckles, turns to fully face me and says, “You don’t have to admit anything to me, I can just tell. For the record, I like what I see, too.”

My mouth drops agape, “Me?” I question flabbergasted. “Really?”

Happy gives me a smirk that almost has me dropping my panties right here in the middle of the clubhouse. He finishes off the last of his beer, stands up, grabs my hand and leads me to the makeshift dancefloor. The guys pushed all the tables towards the walls to make an open floor plan big enough for people to dance as they wish. Happy pulls me by my belt loops as close as I can possibly get while still clothed. We are now chest-to-chest and I am so close that I can feel his ever growing groin in between our bodies.

I blush again as Happy asks me, “Does that answer your question?”

I giggle as a surge of confidence rises in my body. I wrap my arms around his neck as we slowly start to sway to the beat of whatever music was playing. He grips my hips in his large hands and that lets my mind wander to what else those hands could do. I lean closer to his ear and ‘whisper’ as best as I could considering how loud the music is, “Yes, but I want more.” I turn in his arms so my backside is now pressed against his groin. I start to grind to the heavy bass of the music that was playing throughout the clubhouse. About 15 minutes pass and I’m really feeling myself. I mean I’m dancing with the “Tacoma Killer,’ who wouldn’t be feeling great? I feel Happy grip my hips, making me come to a stop so he could ‘whisper’ into my ear.

“Little girl, I’ll be right back, Pres needs me outside,” Happy says as he nods towards the entrance. I look over his shoulder to see Jax, Chibs and Tig all waiting patiently for him.

“Go big guy, I’m not going anywhere but back to the bar,” I smile and squeeze his bicep softly as I pull out his embrace. I start to walk away when I’m suddenly pulled back into Happy’s body as he pushes his lips against mine, hard. We stay like that for a good thirty seconds, and I’m loving every second of it. When he pulls away from the kiss, I’m a little dazed and keep my eyes closed, relishing in the remnants of kiss we just shared. Happy chuckles as he notices my expression, kisses my forehead and finally walk towards the group waiting for him.

I walk back to the bar and sit myself onto the stool I had previously been occupying. I flag down Phil to get me another vodka cranberry and pull out my phone as I pass the time. I’m scrolling through Facebook and occasionally sipping my drink for about a half hour when I feel someone sit next to me, a little too close for comfort.

“Hey beautiful,” he slurred as he spoke. I had never seen him before, so he must be from a different charter.

Rolling my eyes, I give him the benefit of the doubt and reply. “Hi.” Trust me, I am only interested in one man right now and he’s currently outside.

He gets a sickly smile on his flushed face as he leans so close that I can smell the alcohol on his breath. He asks, “What’s a pretty thing like you sitting here all alone?” I lean as far away as I could, but my back hits the wall, stopping me from getting any further. I look towards Phil, who has an eyebrow raised, watching this encounter closely just in case something happens.

“I’m not alone,” I reply. “I’m clearly here with, Phil.”

He scoffs, “Tsk, tsk. You could be having so much more fun with me, baby.” His tone is giving me the chills and not the good kind.

“Listen, buddy,” I start. “I’m going to walk away now before you say or do something you’ll likely not remember in the morning.” I nod my farewell to Phil as I grab my purse and stand up to make my way towards to entrance. I make it just through the threshold when I spot Happy from across the lot. He’s standing with his brothers near the garage. I go to take a step towards them when I feel a hand wrap around my bicep. I whip my head towards the perpetrator to see that the drunken MC member had followed and grabbed me.

“Where do you think you’re going?” he seethed as he tightened his grip around my arm.

“Let go of me,” I practically growl through clenched teeth. I keep tugging my arm to try and release his grip, but it’s no use.

“Do you know who I am?!” he screamed. “You’re not supposed to turn me down. You’re nothing but a croweater. A sweetbutt. Nothing!”

I clench my jaw and go to finally rip my arm out of his grip when all of a sudden, I see the creep and Happy on the pavement. Happy had tackled him to the ground and now was leaned over top of him, continuously pounding his face in with his fist.

I’m pulled away from the scene by Chibs as he looks over my arm to see if I need medical attention. To say I’m in shock is an understatement. I couldn’t move because this all happened so fast. It felt like hours though before Jax and Tig pulled Happy off of the creep. Chibs left my side to go pick up the creep and toss him out. As he was unconscious, Chibs left him out on the sidewalk. I blink repeatedly as I am once again aware of my surroundings and realized what had just happened. I walk slowly over towards Happy as Jax and Tig finally let him go.

“We’ll leave you two alone,” Jax said as he, Tig and Chibs all walked back inside the clubhouse. Leaving Happy and I outside in the dead of night, alone.

Happy broke the silence by asking, “Are you okay?” His eyes drawn to the fingerprints already forming on my bicep. I subconsciously begin to rub my arm where I know the marks are as I make eye contact with him.

“I’m fine, Hap,” I say calmly. “He didn’t know who I was.” I walk up to Happy and wrap my arms around his torso to get close to him.

“That’s not an excuse, (Y/N),” He exclaimed. “He shouldn’t have put his hands on you regardless of who you are!”

I sigh in content as Happy puts his hands on my cheeks, keeping our eyes locked. His eyes are so warm, they always make me feel like I’m home. “I don’t have my crow on display tonight, baby,” I say as he starts to calm down. “I’m sorry, Hap,” I close my eyes and lean my head against his chest as he tubs a hand over the base of my neck where his crow was permanently etched onto my body.

“Don’t be stupid, babe. You have nothing to be sorry for,” Happy says as he pulls my forehead to meet his as he looks deep into my (e/c) eyes. “We really need to stop thinking it’s kinky to act like we’ve never met before,” he chuckles as he pulls me in for a short, soft kiss. “You’ve been my Old Lady for four years. But, god damn, stranger sex roleplay is a god send with you.”

I laugh and nod my head in agreement. “We can always come up with a new roleplay that’s just as kinky, baby. It can’t be that hard,” I say as I smile up at my Old Man and silently thank God he’s all mine. “I’ve always been in the long haul, Hap.”

Happy beamed as he replied, “Me too, little girl. Forever. It’s going to be you and me beside each other in rocking chairs when we are old. Talking about shit like the weather on our front porch.”

I hum in agreement and lean up to kiss him harder than before. I pull away slowly and whisper against his lips, “Take me home, Happy. Show me just how kinky you can be.”

Happy gets a sexy smirk on his face as he reaches down to pick me up by the thighs, so I’m currently tossed over his shoulder. I let out a yelp of surprise as he smacks my ass and Happy just chuckles. He walks us towards his bike to drive us home, taking his sweet time with me over his shoulder. As he sets me on my feet on the concrete, he reaches for my helmet. Happy clips my helmet on my head, he looks at me lovingly and says, “I’m head over boots for you, baby. Let’s go home.”

#happy lowman imagine #happy #happy lowman x reader #jax teller #chibs telford #tig trager #soa imagine #soa #sons of anrachy #sons of anarchy imagine #fluff #one shot #happy lowman #samcro #samcro imagine #fanfic #fanfiction #x reader #david labrava

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Watching the Legends episode. Pretty good episode, for once! Still probably only a B, maybe a B+.

Rip is investigating vampires, while pretending to be Sherlock Holmes.

Poor Jax. I’m amazed he didn’t try to break up sooner. Ray, it’s very rude not to tell people about side-effects in advance.

Amaya heart-eyes Zari. Zari finally has an articulation of what we all knew she was there to do, good! Interesting to see where they for this.

Did Nate really just “wazzup” the crew? Does he even know how out of date that is? Also, Mick is reading Dracula BEFORE they find out about the vampire plotline of the week! Which means he’s literally just reading it for fun! One of the most dense works of fiction out there! Mick <3

Why does Nate know anything about math, exactly? He was supposed to be a historian? Except they don’t care about that.

Nate says vampire. Mick: *perks up* *randomly has a stake* I carry it around my whole life! So much fic potential here... and he wears garlic <3

Nate’s accent is awful.

The gag with the smartwatch is funny.

Sara waits until AFTER mind-wiping the guy to announce that they’re going to break the law?

How did Rip get into the grave...? Though this actually supports the idea of an alternative plotline where Rip isn’t as much of a bureaucratic asshole.

Amaya: *heart-eyes Zari LIKE WHOA*

Rip always goes straight for “THIS IS THE BIG BAD IT’S SO BAD LET ME TELL YOU HOW BAD IT IS”. Always.

“The Time Bureau is too bureaucratic to understand this” = this would have been a good place to start. Unfortunately, Rip only bringing it up now - AFTER he was so pro-Bureau the last few episodes - makes it come off less as sincere and more as outright manipulative. and then he offers to call off the pursuit only AFTER Sara starts negotiating, not before? even more manipulative. He was holding that back deliberately so that he could use it as a trading tool.

Good on Mick for not trusting Rip.

Stein gets to play dress up even more in this episode. Evil ancestor, I assume.

Nate = potatoes. I dunno, guys, maybe keep the potatoes?

Yep, evil ancestor. Sir Stein, an actor AND a Renfield.

...Order of the Shrouded Compass. Okay. You know what, I’ll go with it.

I really enjoy how into the vampire hunting Mick is.

Do you think the mystic is from America because the actress couldn’t do a British accent?

RAY SUGGESTS CALLING SOMEONE??? Good lord, it’s like they actually listen to us sometimes.

Sara enjoys hitting people. Rip enjoys watching. If they didn’t have such an awful start, I’d ship ‘em.

Demon eyes - I’ve always loved that effect. Oh, interesting! Zari was the older sister.

Damien Darhk, who literally no one wants to see again. *sigh*

Okay, Sara, he’s still asleep? Literally all you need to do is, like, slit his throat? cut off his head? stab him in the heart? YOU’RE IN A ROOM FILLED WITH SHARP IMPLEMENTS. THIS WOULD TAKE YOU LESS THAN THREE SECONDS AND THEN YOU COULD GO RESCUE THE OTHERS. WHY DO YOU NOT DO THIS??? (also, Rip is ALWAYS saying “don’t worry about your own issue, worry about mine - I mean, the greater good”)

...wow, I wrote that BEFORE Rip starts defending not killing Darhk. “Personal prejudice”. Wow, Rip. You’re being a real bitch here. But at least he eventually admits he’s wrong?

(okay - how many people want to vote in Rip to be Mallus? it’s pretty typical for the obsessed hunter to be revealed as the bad guy. Though that’s probably too advanced for this show...)

Zari has even more tragic backstory. Also, her view makes no sense. He had magic powers, she didn’t? but okay, okay, whatever, grief makes things weird.

Stein is right; Jax shouldn’t be sneaking around behind his back. He should’ve just presented it to his face. What is WITH CWverse and a complete inability to tell the truth?

SERIOUSLY? No one has removed Rip’s controls over Gideon yet? NO ONE? after last season? are these people STUPID?

Mick: “told you so”

Can we all agree that Rip is being an unmitigated jerk here? He deliberately agreed with Sara in order to lull her suspicions while planning on stabbing her in the back, he gave her the captaincy only to undermine her while pretending to support her, he’s deliberately keeping them helpless using their own ship (THEIR ship - he turned it into a training ground! he turned off Gideon!) because he sees it as his own private property - he sees the Legends themselves as extensions of himself, really, “I made you I can break you”, “you disagree with me, fine, then I’m going to force you to sit in time out”, etc. He’s being a reall dick.

Obvious con going on with Zari here.

Though Eleanor being able to use the totem is...weird. I thought it was more specialized a tool than that?

At least it seems like they TRIED to do something about the secret commands, but seriously, you can’t just ask Gideon; she’s incentivizd to lie because of her programming.

I love Mick just reading the entire time. I have been there. When you’re into a book, fuck the world. Mick reaffirms himself as my favorite.

Another claims-he’s-a-God character? Really? We’re going with that again?

*laughs* Okay, Darhk’s vampire-esque rising is just too silly to take seriously. And the “who stole my watch” is funny. I would like him if he wasn’t, well, a Nazi.

Okay, the music cue and Darhk’s brand-new power set is funny. But seriously, where is the music coming from? (as in - he lost his watch. The Legends took it. Where is it now? he certainly doesn't have it. So the music can't be from the watch.) and why haven’t the Bureau picked up some anti-magic skills at this point? Especially if Rip knew about Mallus?

...what the fuck. What...the...fuck? If Rip has a time freezing device, why doesn’t he use it more? or ever? or anything? Though the “I’m going to walk slow” thing obviously backfires. If you know you have a time limit, then seriously, just shoot the guy?

Interesting, Darhk remembers everything, even post mind-wipe.

Why couldn’t Zari pull the totem back earlier in the fight? If this was meant to be a reclaiming moment, it was a bit too understated. Though I approve of her doing it to defend Amaya (at least obliquely).

Dead Time Bureau agents. Lovely. Rip, you’re the WORST leader. Ever. Everyone who follows you is just a pawn to you, aren’t they?

Amaya: *EVEN MORE HEART EYES TO ZARI*

Amaya, Zari is 1000% a step up from Nate.

Rip doesn’t care about the dead agents. Sara has a good point about how Rip goes rogue all the time from everyone who ever trusted him.

Hahahahahahahahahaha, Rip creates a legal system and is surprised that it applies to him. Oh, sweet justice. He always did think he was above the rules - from the very first introduction scene of season 1, when the Time Masters literally designed an entire plan that counted on Rip breaking the rules and being a selfish asshole. That was literally the plot of season 1 - “let’s assume Rip will do this breaking the rules thing”. At that time, it seemed like his justification was his grief over his family - understandable! even I thought it was understandable - but the more we see of him, the more we see that it’s not. If only this show goes in full-fledged into making this Rip’s character arc, rather than just his characterization, that would be cool.

Now if only the Flash would realize this whole “law” thing applies to everyone...

Though seriously, they just undermined it. If the other Director approved the mission, the blame falls in part on him. He who authorizes can’t suddenly blame he who suggested. That’s not how responsibility works!

Oh, well. It was a decent attempt at a moral.

Though I don’t really like how Sara characterized it as being “cold”? It’s just...law.

#lot liveblog

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lotrewrite · 7 years

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Recap of 8.26.17 Chat

So in this chat, we started out with some general points which all writers should take into account when revising their episodes, and then went episode by episode. This time around, episode-by-episode, I've focused more on the substantive comments rather than the love (there was love for all the episodes)

First: for everyone's convenience, someone apparently wrote a script to put in all of the html code needed to transition your fic from gdrive to ao3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19eZnBQ4989Dr17v2ODFgE8QWAo9Oahi4USDNS3hOSvM/edit

Second: We’re going to be using TV Rules in terms of rating – no sex/full nudity, avoid swears like ‘fuck/shit’, but ‘damn/hell/crap’ are OK. Seemed easier to have everyone try to keep this in mind for a consistent tone than to try to figure out how many f-bombs we can drop in an episode

Third: The “basic” introduction we’ll be using is "Time travel is real, and all of history is vulnerable to attack, which is why we must travel through time to keep anyone from damaging it. We are a team of outcasts and misfits. So please don't call us heroes, we're legends." If you’ve already come up with an alternative intro, feel free to keep it! if you want to alter the above intro, feel free! This is just the most basic, unadorned version.

Fourth: Things we should include more references to in various episodes:

Mick being a pyromaniac

Ratigan exists (post episode 9)

References to Nate and Lisa once they’re gone (i.e. "Lisa would've liked this" and "Nate's going to hate us all SO BAD when we tell him" and "wish we had Nate/Lisa here")

Mentions that Oculus!Len has attempted to make contact with the others and failed (post episode 12 only)

Fifth: Names (for consistency)

Len: In episodes 1-12, we call him "Len" in narrative and "Snart" in speech (except Lisa, who refers to him as "Lenny"); post episode 12, Len is introduced as "Legion!Len" and "Oculus!Len" respectively - use the full names (i.e. Oculus!Len not O!Len) for clarity; this applies even when a given Len is alone on screen, but exceptions can be made if you're deliberately trying to confuse the issue of which Len is which

Eobard Thawne: "Eobard" in narrative, "Thawne" in text; Legion!Len starts calling him "Bard" or "Bardy", followed by Oculus!Len once he hears it, but Legion!Len stops once he has been brainwashing only to slowly resume once it begins fading

Damien Darhk: "Darhk" in narrative, "Darhk" when the Legends are talking about/to him, "Damien" when the Legion is talking about/to him

Queen Bee: always referred to as Queen Bee unless someone is explicitly making a joke

ASIDE: I feel like we're missing a lot of jokes for Queen Bee's name

Someone needs to tell her to buzz off

"You've been busy." "...is that supposed to be a pun?"

"Queen Bee? Yeah, Queen B-rated"

"BeeGees"

"It's the Bee Team" that's DEFINITELY a Ray comment, which he'd ruin by going "Get it? 'cause we're the A Team???"

these puns are giving me hives

she needs to call everyone honey

crowdsourcing puns, who would BEE-lieve it??

(also at some point you should also make a joke about there being "Lenses". You can see better with two Lenses.)

Let’s move on or we’ll bee here all night (sorry)

Gideon and Rip call everyone by Mr./Miss, except for “Captain Hunter” and “Captain Lance”

Everyone calls Jax "Jax" except Stein (Jefferson) and Gideon/Rip (Mr. Jackson)

Mick has nicknames for everyone: Ray (Haircut/Pretty), Nate (Pretty), Sara (Blondie), Stein (Professor), Len (Boss, Len, Lenny), Kara (Skirt), Jax (Kid), Amaya ("Rules"), Lisa (Goldie), Rip (Englishman)

For historical characters, use whatever works for the historical time period but is understandable to readers of a modern audience (i.e. use "Octavian" not “Gaius Octavius/Octavianus”)

Episode 10

They should look Queen Bee up at some point after the initial fight

Gideon confirms that Queen Bee is an enemy of Mari’s and thus would know something about Amaya’s future, making Amaya more anxious

Episode 14

It'd be great if Amaya could look up her future at the end of the Tudor episode, maybe while Mick and the others go burn down the Globe; that way, Amaya can struggle with it and Queen Bee’s comments in the next episode

maybe in Episode 14, after O!Len's shock at seeing his "other" self we might want to have a short scene where he asks Gideon what the hell was that, and Gideon explains that he was picked up in 2014 and he has a moment where he goes "wait, so that's...me? that's really me? a me that's not DEAD yet?"

Episode 15

Make Amaya being picked up by British/white colonialist forces to be used by them, so she was fed a lot of propaganda, and most of the lessons about the British should come from Ching; possibly also a conversation with Sara in which Sara explicitly notes that she can’t understand the experience of being colonized - "I can give you examples about what they've done but I can't tell you how you or anyone else they affect should feel about it" kind of thing

Amaya should be struggling with her knowledge about her future - I really like how you have Amaya resisting Queen Bee's offers; but I think the resolution might work better with Amaya deciding against making Sara's mistake from Episode 4 rather than not looking it up at all? That would explain the dialogue where Amaya’s considering changing the future

Lily aberration arc: the end of episode 15, she forgives Stein for keeping it from her, but she's still upset and "needs space" because she's still an aberration and scared - leave it ambiguous at the end of 15, so the audience initially thinks she's still angry about Stein hiding it from her

Shay Hannibal Houlihan - immigrants were told (or forced) to change their name, maybe he could mention that, you can mention that they changed his name to Hannibal at Ellis Island, but he still prefers Shay, you could also have Josephine calling him Hannibal; Maybe his bar is name Hannibal and when asked, he explains that's his legal name

Len arc: Len starts encouraging Mick to go talk to his other self so that he can tell him not to die - the emphasis should be Oculus!Len wants Mick to go to his other self rather than the Legion

Episode 16

I really liked the characterization in this episode; I thought it was really spot on

Lily aberration arc: at the end of episode 16, when Stein gets back to her, he basically announces that he will fight ANYONE who tries to hurt her even a little and the Legends back it up and agree that no one will be "fixing" her aberration

Lily needing a bit more to do this episode, maybe a conversation with Jax, who she can have that "I don't know what being an aberration means and it's freaking me out" conversation with. The conversation could maybe go while they're following Rip to the place with the ship parts

Len arc: the emphasis should be Oculus!Len wants Mick to go to his other self rather than the Legion

Episode 17

Fantastic episode, emotional whiplash, so much fun

They're dropping Lily off - do we make it clear enough that happens before episode 17 starts? maybe we could put in a brief comment about how it's been a few days since they dropped Lily off or something?

Episode 18

Legionnaire Len joke

Len calls Eobard ‘Bard’ at the end, causing them to comment about possibly needing to reinforce the brainwashing, but Queen Bee resists because how dare they question her

Gag reel: Darhk in a leather skirt with lace up sandals; "Show some leg, Damien! That'll distract her!" "Shut up, Snart!"

They can’t read the graffiti because it’s slang/graffiti, not because they can’t read the foreign language - the babelfish applies to that too

Episode 19

Awesome representation, superpowers, fantastic battle sequences, emotional moments; it was a great episode AND it felt like a great backdoor pilot for a Ystina-themed episode

the only section I had any issue with was there was one or two that had no Legends

scabbard – Nimue stealing it or maybe when she's knocked over (iirc?) it can fall under her or some other object and out of sight

can mick just watch the cigarette burn down? Yes

Doomworld:

Jessica Cruz should show up as a Green Lantern, since she shows up in episode 17

Jax goes to QB's place in Africa to get Amaya, but it seems like this is really far to travel and be back in time within an episode. should she have a hq somewhere closer, just for visiting while at board meetings? Yes, they should go to Queen Bee’s local embassy

I really liked Mick's opening.

I also like that Nate bursts in but they don't even humor him

what exactly is the brainwashing cure? don't think we had one; I think we just planned to have Ray design a mind-fixing gun again - I did make a note that they could pick up Ted's BB gun which works on light spectrum; it also used the emotional spectrum in the comics; that could work

The second part seemed short – maybe add the part where we picked up Rip again - there should be a scene where they break in and steal him and the waverider

also there's a comment about the lanterns going away to space and coming back to a mess, but it contradicts Queen Bee complaining about her 'pest' problem in the first half

There should be a moment where Len weakens the brainwashing and becomes aware that he’s being brainwashed, and is now resisting unsuccessfully

what O!Len's motivation is for not revealing L!Len's brainwashing to Mick - O!Len can dance around the subject until he tries to warn Mick about L!Len going to kill him; Mick probably wouldn't believe that so easily until O!Len blurts out "He's been brainwashed! Since before all this happened!" "...Why didn't say that earlier, I would've listened to you then!" I don't think Len would ever be able to actually say the words brainwashed about himself, too horrifying maybe some reference to "remember what the Time Masters did to you? to make you Kronos?" "yeah?" "that's what they did to him. to make him like that." That scene would fit in well in Doomworld and explain his earlier reluctance to speak

Finale

after Rip, Len and Mick decide to take a break, maybe everyone feels they deserve a vacation until, whoops- dinos in LA they do still have family outside the Legends after all!

can Bambi be our new mascot?

Queen Bee says something like "It is beneath my dignity to brainwash people like you!" I can add a line to mine where they comment on "you did it before" and she tries to bluster

#recap #chat #episode 10 #episode 14 #episode 15 #episode 16 #episode 17 #episode 18 #episode 19 #episode 20 #episode 21 #episode 22

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S15E6

I had an AP test today and I decided the most logical thing to do was to analyze the fuck out of this episode. Beware: it’s rather lengthy- like that of an essay + I’m open for discussion about the points made. Spoilers under the cut:

Ok, I just want to start off by saying that I think Grif leaving has been a long time coming, and while it did initially surprise me, I have to say I’m not quite so much shocked about that than I am about everybody’s reactions to it. More clearly, I think everyone- including Dylan- reacted in almost entirely the wrong way.

-Starting with Dylan, personally, I think Jax should’ve been the one to go in and talk with Grif rather than her for a few reasons. The first reason is, he almost had no involvement with delivering the message to the Reds and Blues besides being there and saying at most two lines. The second reason is, he’s treated in the very same position that Grif is with the Reds, as Jax is for Dylan. They are both belittled, they both have their ideas shot down, and they have both been shot at for the purposes of their CO’s. I believe these aspects of Jax’s character would’ve made him a better fit to go talk to Grif than Dylan, but since he didn’t I’ll discuss why I think Dylan did the wrong thing and did “fuck something up.”

Dylan is probably the worst choice to go talk to Grif simply because her character is very similar to early Carolina, especially Season 10 Carolina. You know, the same Carolina who dragged them on a personal vengeance quest and was a major reason why Grif left and decided to not deal with her problems, and the rest followed. Personally, I can see parallel’s between Dylan and S10 Carolina (cursed WHAP exam and its synthesis’) and it’s hard for me not to see why Grif reacted the way he did.

Dylan is someone who just waltzed in on the Reds and Blues during their retirement, is dragging them on another Church quest. Not only that but she just waltz’s up to Grif talking as if she knows him, saying things about his character and what he’s really like. Grif is a character who doesn’t like having things be decided for him, and he probably doesn’t like someone telling him what he’s ‘really’ like (even if it’s 100% true; he just doesn’t want to see it).

But what I think Dylan did that really pushed him over the edge was mentioning Kai. I think that was a slap in the face for Grif because he’s still not with his sister- the reason why he hasn’t been with his sister is because of being dragged on quest after quest after fucking quest and that, I think that’s what made him finally decide ‘that’s it; I quit’.

But Grif can be easily swayed and has been in the past with proper encouragement, so I don’t think his decision was as set in stone as he thought it was, which is why the reactions from the Reds and Blues are absolutely atrocious to the mental dilemma Grif was having.

-First up, Washington. Listen, I love Wash, I really do and I can see why his first impulse when seeing Grif arrive late is to insult him- because that’s what everyone does in the BGC. But that was just another reminder to Grif that he doesn’t belong with them, because really, for him it’s one insult after another on an almost daily basis. So they’re already starting off on the wrong foot.

-Then we have Caboose (skipping the immediate reactions for a bit), who I think was the safest character to react to the news. His first reaction was to ask about Church, who he’s constantly focused about but it also gives Grif a chance to somewhat explain why he’s not going on this quest specifically as well as it gives him a chance to try and reason with the others. Caboose’s later reaction of having someone try to stop him is a little less ok as it’s just another reminder that until now Grif really hasn’t been given a choice on anything.

-Then we have Tucker, to which I found his reactions to be appalling. We have him from the start insulting Grif- by making fun of the fact that for once Grif was being serious and thinking about something concerning himself. Then we have him acting hostile when Grif initially says he quits, saying along the lines that he ‘can’t do that’- taking away Grif’s right to choose. And finally what I think really sealed the deal was him calling Grif ‘selfish like always’. Listen, I get that Tucker is angry and his grief about Church has been cut open like a wound but is that really the best he could come up with? Grif has given so fucking much to the BGC and this is exactly how he’s treated every damn time.

If Tucker was trying to get Grif to stay, this is the polar opposite of what he should’ve done. I’m not surprised that Grif says, “I don’t like you. Any of you” because when you have ‘you’re selfish’ being thrown at you and you’ve actually done so much shit for your so called ‘friends’ I’d proclaim a little more than ’I don't like you’ at them. Grif could’ve said so much worse than that, but he didn’t- because these people don’t deserve his time of day.

Tucker reminded him that he actually gets nothing from going on these quests; no respect, no admiration, nothing from his supposed friends.

-While Sarge’s reaction wasn’t as violent as one would expect from his character, it was still a reminder to Grif that he has a superior officer who wants him dead at every turn. Someone who has repeatedly shot at him, wouldn’t look over to cliff to see if he was dead and even mentioned that he would celebrate it, belittles him, questions his intelligence, has emergency plans where the first course of action is to always shoot Grif, and so on and so forth. It doesn’t matter that Sarge said, “Seriously, Grif. Turn around” after his whole charade of acting like they usually do because it doesn’t matter at that point- Grif has already made his decision and that’s just supporting it.

Sarge inadvertently reminded Grif of the physical and verbal abuse he faces on a daily basis when he’s with the BGC.

-Getting on to Simmons, he didn’t do much- and that’s the problem. When first hearing about Grif being ‘missing’ his first action was to go check the pantry. Really, the pantry? In the previous episode we were given a plethora of other places Grif could have been- down by the beach or over by the oasis, but no. The first place Simmons decides would be the logical place to look was the pantry. And then we have his reaction to Grif thinking, to which he says along the lines of “thinking about food”.

If that doesn’t say much about their relationship I don’t know what will. But that’s what their relationship is founded on- insulting each other- so I won’t focus too much on that because Simmons thought it’d be another one of their bantering moments.

Then we have his only reaction to Grif leaving; nothing. He just sat there and stared. He didn’t say anything to convince him to stay, didn’t chase after him; he just did nothing. And I can understand him being shocked speechless because he probably knows as much as the viewer that Grif’s never done that before- he’s never left. But from Grif’s perspective, it just solidifies one more thing for him:

Simmons, no matter how much he loves him, will never put Grif first or grow a backbone to go after him.

-In total, I feel like most of the reactions came off wrong and felt like attacks especially for Grif. But I think it’s the fact that no one really chased after him to get him back is the zinger here. Because here’s a group that will risk life and limb time and time again for a guy who can’t stay dead, and yet when one of their friends decides he’s had enough and leaves no one really puts their all in convincing him to stay. Most the attempts are lowered down to downright insulting him and just saying he has to stay. In comparison to Sarge’s speech at the end of Season 8, this attempt to get Grif to stay was seriously lacking.

And look, I have no doubt that they all see Grif as a valued friend, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that Grif is treated like literal dog shit in this series but still comes back to the group and for what- to have them choose a dead guy instead of him.

Grif is probably feeling like nobody in the BGC has ever given a shit about him, and they did a great job not proving him wrong.

-Not only that but his role in the group has been replaced too. Grif from the very start of the series has been the designated vehicle driver. We’ve seen him be the primary driver of the Warthog, we’ve seen him manage to figure out an Elephant (not sure which season this was, but I’m sure it was Season 7), he’s flown a Pelican, a Hornet, and the list goes on.

Something that’s always bothered me about Season 13 was the fact that Grif was replaced- twice- as designated driver. First during the escape from Armonia and second during the flight to the Staff of Charon. It always rubbed me the wrong way and I really didn’t know why until now that is.

Believe me- I know there’s more to Grif than just his ability to be adept in driving/flying any vehicle, but to Grif, he probably doesn’t think he’s much more than that.

He’s not a strong fighter (Carolina, Wash), doesn’t have a magic sword that works only for him (Tucker), isn’t inhumanly strong (Caboose), he’s not a robot (Lopez), he doesn’t have an amazingly strong throwing arm (Donut), he’s not a hacker or a cyborg (Simmons), and he can’t do half the stuff that Sarge can.

He’s their driver, and even then he’s easily replaceable.

Grif probably has no place in the BGC anymore and that probably contributed to his deciding to stay on the island.

TL;DR: The Reds and Blues did a terrible job trying to get Grif to stay with them and I hope this leads to self-enlightenment and an arc designed for the development of Grif and the Reds.

#rvb15 #rvb15 spoilers #S15E6 #rvb S15E6 #Dexter Grif #long post//#character study #writing #what to do after taking an AP? write an essay of course!

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