#i’m still pissed after all this time and tbh i hold grudges real bad it’s actually an issue 😭😭

[jasonntodd]

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[tslasvegas]

Episode 13: “What a depressing trip to Las Vegas” - Jaiden

I just have one thing to say.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! It worked! I didn't expect Joey to vote with us. I feel bad about that, but hey, we couldn't see him being sincere. If he told us who the others were voting for, then maybe we would have changed votes. Jaiden was open to it already. Kailyn is probably the one who voted with John for Liv. Maybe she thought he would play and idol or maybe jury management. Anyway, she should have told us. 

Joey got voted out. Which was not supposed to happen this round. Pat and Jeff are just so naive and easily to manipulate. I’m sure they could be convinced to self vote without any real effort. I don’t even want to bother working with them moving forward because of it. But I might have to. I can’t let grudges get in the way of getting to the end game. Honestly at this point I’d be happy going to F3 with Liv and Kailyn. Xavier is too nice. Jaiden is too... out there? Love him, but I don’t want to sit next to him at the end. And Pat and Jeff i just don’t think they deserve to make it that far

I still can’t believe tribal tonight was real. It’s been like six hours and I’m still in shock that Joey finally went home. Like... what??? I’ve been dealing with that dude for three weeks and I’ve held his little secret in until it finally came of use to me, and... now I’m in the final seven. The game has NOT been won yet and while I feel like cheering and celebrating, I need to maintain my focus and center myself as the game is nowhere close to being over yet. We’ve still got at least four tribals to go, but after tonight I might be able to say that I’m exactly halfway through the merge (assuming it’s a final three... dear god please be a final three). Top eight was a really hard mountain to climb and once I lost immunity I felt a little out of touch with what was gonna happen next. I really felt like my time was going to come, and I’m so thankful that it wasn’t. Tbh Kailyn might’ve gone home today had Jeff not told me about a Palazzo chat still being alive and well. I don’t know how I’m gonna turn this bad situation around again but I need to convince Keegan and Livingston to work with me, Kailyn, and Xavier. It is critical now that Jeff or Pat go home because one of them is going to win. Before Joey left, he told me that there is a rumor that Jeff or Pat have an idol nullifier. While a nullifier won’t affect me right now, it’s not something that I want to see in the game going forward period and I want to use that little piece of information to my benefit and finally get rid of Pat. I’ve been saying for SO LONG that we need to get rid of Pat and now the time is ticking down. He has to go as soon as possible, fuck whatever Jeff says. Tbh I want to fly into the final six with no votes cast against me, still. I wonder if I can get Jeff and Pat to target like Keegan or Livingston and I really just need Xavier or Kaitlyn to bring up Pat’s name first before Jeff.. I doubt they have the smarts to recognize the danger that they pose, but we will see... Keegan is DEFINITELY pissed off at me now too. I made the mistake of telling him that I was “a little annoyed” about how tribal went, which was such a dumb thing to say bc tribal went exactly how I wanted it to. I’m playing off the fact that Kailyn must’ve known abt Joey voting for Livingston because her name was on the chopping block too so that’s why it went 4-2-2 rather than 5-2-1 like it was supposed to. I don’t want anybody to know that I was playing for Joey’s advantage which I’m sure people think I have right now lmfao... Anyways really I need to just make Keegan NOT hate me because he’s still part of my plan long term (I think)... he’s really smart tho and I’m not counting him out to win the whole thing but he hasn’t really done much of anything whereas people like Jeff and Pat and Xavier have kinda done a lot... If Keegan isn’t prepared to be fully loyal to me til the end then there’s nothing I can say to him except adios. All I really need right now is an immunity run til the end. I hope that the next challenge is something that doesn’t require a lot of skill because I am INCREDIBLY anxious just thinking about a competition, live. I need final seven immunity because then I’m guaranteed top five... the furthest I’ve ever been in Tumblr Survivor by a mile. I’ll break so many of my own personal records with that one single immunity win. In fact, if I make it to final five, that will be the best I’ve literally ever done in a Skype survivor org. I haven’t done that good since April and it’s just really affirming to me that this was the right decision for me to come back to Tumblr. Aside from winning challenges and making more moves, I also have gotta start fixing my bad relationships. Like I mentioned earlier, Keegan seems REALLY pissed off at me for how things went down with him being left out of the vote again. I can only apologize so many times before I am simply unforgivable. Maybe say sorry less and work to do better??? Idfk. But if Jeff or Pat can just say Keegan’s name, I’ll do what I can to prove to him that I’m loyal to HIM and not them. I hope that the Palazzos are falling to pieces now and realize that the only way to the end is to stick by us and nobody else. Jeff was also pretty mad at me for pushing his buttons a lot today. But honestly he was feeding me utter bullshit. I don’t buy that he was my savior and guardian Angel today, protecting me from having my name come up. I should honestly tell Livingston that Jeff sold him out to me not too long after Livingston said my name in their little chat. That would be hilarious. Kailyn and I are pretty close, but it could be better. I think I tend to revert all game-conversations with Xavier, so I don’t consider Kailyn my main ally unfortunately. If I want to go to the final three with her and Xavier, I need to really work on building that GAME relationship up because as a person I think we vibe well but it’s gonna come down to a couple factors and if she *has* to be sacrificed for me to get further, I can’t do anything but let it happen unfortunately.. As I just said, Xavier is kind of my main strategic ally right now which is super weird to say. He has definitely stepped it up A LOT in the strategic department and I have a lot of respect for him just as a person and I want to try and pick his brain a little bit more. The only thing with Xavier is that he seems to be playing really “safe” right now - I think had the opportunity presented itself to vote for Jeff with Joey, Xavier wouldn’t have gone for it and would’ve wanted to stick strong with voting Livingston instead. Which I totally get, but this game right now kinda requires we make bolder decisions than just what kinda didn’t work last time, you know? Okay now for Pat - god our relationship is just so weird. I have virtually not ties to Pat except the one alliance with Jeff and I feel like Jeff wants to control Pat rather than let Pat be his own player. It’s weird. I wonder if Pat would be down to vote out Jeff but fuck it’s gonna be hard to pull that off. I don’t want to hold off on Pat BECAUSE if I can’t get him out next, I will need him at final six and hopefully final five to serve as a sacrificial lamb or something. I’m wondering now if maybe Livingston needs to go because people are gonna always view Pat as a huge threat to win, even though he might not necessarily do so if he gets there. Livingston... yeah I really don’t like Livingston lmfao. I think it’s because of his super close connection to Rachael but it might also be because he is like, cool and nerdy and a bit of a try hard “around camp” so to speak. What REALLY gets on my nerves about Livingston is that he possesses zero of the charisma to convince me that he sucks at this game but enough social finesse to make me think that he’s actually gonna win if he gets to the end. He’s like, that cool dork everybody was friends with in high school. Even though parts of his game have been lackluster as fuck, he’s still a massive threat to win and I might just need to kick him off to the jury as soon as possible. :) And finally... me! I’m gonna try hard to be unbiased and self-aware but it’s so difficult to do that bc I genuinely don’t know how ppl are perceiving me this time.. I THINK it’s mostly positive but tonight was definitely one of my most negative episodes bc of how stressful I was being before tribal. Just ask Jeff. I think I’m definitely succeeding in getting votes to go my way and I have had a LOT of things go right for me since the merge. From Stephanie leaving right when I needed her to, to the double removal, to the super idol coming out and getting rid of Joey... It’s been so good so far. BUT I’m not being subtle about it. Subtlety is not a strength of mine that’s for sure.. I think I succeeded in being “subtle” about the Steph thing bc I was not making it overly obvious I wanted her out but otherwise I’ve been very clearly controlling other decisions and how certain votes went. Leaving two people I don’t trust in the game (Pat/Jeff) is tough but at least I worked with them on something, right? Joey was telling me so much that he was gonna lose to me and I think he was right. Now Jeff is saying that he’s probably going to lose if we’re in the end, but he doesn’t want to vote me out. Do I trust that? Not really... But fuck, I don’t even know anymore!!! I think if the game was over right now, I’m going to be grilled to DEATH for being fake as hell to Joey. I think that’s gonna come back to bite me so I need to start talking POSITIVELY about Joey to EVERYBODY. Read him for game, not for personal reasons. And maybe I’ll even talk his game up going forward just so that the person who goes into jury at least relays that I made a “good move” voting for Joey to leave (even tho I didn’t vote for Joey hehe). I wonder if people think I’m just playing tjem as pawns and not as real people.. bc these are definitely real people we are playing with here and I recognize that, but honestly in my mind nobody here wants this as badly as me. If that makes me the villain, I’m fine being the villain. But I’m not a human being that will ever play this game with a passion to play humanely. I want to win so badly. I’m going crazy in my own head, the wheels turning in hyperspeed. I’ve never been hungrier for something like I am for this win... I can hold out another year in this environment if I have to. I can and I will 🤠

Darn third world slow internet connection! Anyway, it made others look like challenge threats more than me, so hopefully that gets me through more rounds if they think other people can win more :) 

That was a very stressful and very tense immunity challenge. Jeff was the clear front runner for the first five rounds, being the first person to advance in all of them. He’s a quick typer which made me very worried I wouldn’t be able to pull off a win. However, the last round was “Name That Song” and with the help of Siri, I snagged the immunity necklace! Final 6 here I come! This round presents me with an interesting dilemma. Since I have immunity I can be a little more ballsy. So I could throw Jeff or Pat under the bus, try to sway Jaiden, Kailyn and Xavier to vote one of them out. Or I can stick with the OG Palazzo group that is saying (for the fifth time I might add) that they want to stick together. That hasn’t worked out at all yet this merge and we’ve voted 4 people out. Pat and Jeff seem pretty interested in targeting Xavier for being a social threat which I don’t disagree with. But Jaiden is a very strong player. This is one of those rounds where I’m insanely grateful to have immunity because there’s also a bunch of advantages out there. I know Livingston has a regular idol now. But there’s vote steals and extra votes and idol nullifiers out there somewhere and that’s so nerve-wracking. Also, Jaiden mentioned to me that this is the last round for a lot of those advantages and I just don’t think I buy that. Final 7 is a weird place for that. Regardless, I’m fully expecting this to be a wild and crazy tribal tomorrow. Can’t wait to see what happens because I get to sit there looking pretty with my new bling. Xoxo Gossip Girl

I am terrified of tribal today and I have a bunch of different ideas in my head but I just want to survive. Kind of where I am at is I feel like I am getting 7th no matter what because I have never tasted top 6 in an ORG. I could play an idol here at 7, waste it, and then just get fucked at 6. One thing I thought about was "finding" the idol part of the way through tomorrow and then letting OG Palazzo know to build trust. The only issue with this is that the idol nullifier is in play. It could still be on the board. It was on the board when I got my auction advantage. But if it isn't, and Pat and Jeff turn on me, I could be fucked idol or no idol if the nullifier is played. I suppose that Pat and Jeff have both never voted me as far as I can tell, unless I have miscalculated one of the vote counts for the past 2 tribals. Maybe it'd be safer to hold onto the idol quietly and just hope I don't leave with it in my pocket. This is so stressful because if I leave with it in my pocket, I look like an idiot that had the luck to get two advantages but couldn't traverse the game much past that. 

Okay so, Jeff is my closest ally at this point. Voting out Joey was our move and I am very happy we did. I don’t express the anger that I’m feeling and I think that helps keep my relationships good with people. I think I’m good with Livingston and Keegan and also Jaiden and Kailyn. I was Xavier out this round but I feel like something is going to happen. No one knows I have an idol which is amazing and I hope I don’t have to use it til final 5 and I have immunity and can play it on someone else for the fun of it. I can’t believe I made final 7 and am actually kicking up playing the game by voting correctly on Joey. I think so far I have 2 of the 4 votes at final tribal council, Andrew and Steph. I think I have a road there, I just hope I make the right decision because I’m still in I a weird phase of the game and anything can happen. 

This tribal feels very weird. Jaiden is insisting he hasn’t heard anything at all about the vote. Which I find very strange considering he’s basically been running things most of this merge. Why would suddenly no one tell him anything? Especially Kailyn and Xavier. Seems like those three are fairly open with each other. I could not be more happy to have immunity this round. No matter what happens, I am safe and have not a thing to worry about. I really really hope that Pat and Jeff are being honest and actually voting for Xavier like they say they are. If they’re flipping and voting for Livingston.... I don’t even want to imagine that. But I’m getting some sketchy vibes. Fingers crossed it’s just me being paranoid, though any time I say that something unexpected happens.

Ok I'm calling it, I'm going home tonight ! Literally nobody is telling me anything and it's really quite pathetic to see Keegan, who says we're super cool and good friends and will be friends once this is all over, win immunity and then not make a single attempt to pick me up and flip me to his side. Unless he's so confident that the Palazzo four will stick loyal to the very end... which they probably will, but Jeff is gonna beat all of them in the end and I think they see me as a big threat or something LOL I guess it's good gameplay for them but I hate it either way. I don't really have a lot to say bc now I just feel dumb. I wish I had an idol, but of course, I do not. Anyways, I'm going to have to stick with the fact that people are voting for Xavier tonight and hope my name doesn't come up at all. I'm going to lie and tell Xavier that I'm certain its me or Kailyn tonight and hope he holds an idol if he has it... or plays it on me heh. We'll see though... What a depressing trip to Las Vegas if it ends like this. 

The last Confessional :( 

[thatfoxnamedfinley]

I’ve just seen Avengers: Infinity War for the third time. Let’s talk about it.

There are SPOILERS AF under the cut as well as rabid fangirl thoughts. STEER CLEAR OK if that’s not your shit. Thank you.

- IT OPENED WITH A BANG. The Russo Bros obv did not give ONE (1) fuck about the emotions of anybody cause it starts off intense as SHIT. Showing us the stakes of the movie and the power of it’s villain by having Thanos not only destroy Asgard, but also incapacitate The Hulk and then kill ( is he really tho ?) Loki. 

- Speaking of Asgard, I was VERY impressed with Thor’s arc this movie. He was great. His emotions as he was talking to Rocket, he was laughing and smiling while he was trying not to cry and when he listed off how many people in his life that have died, I got emotional. That shit really got me.

- GAMORA. OMG. Her storyline. She shines so much. Her and Drax. He got so many funny lines in, he had me CACKLING at WHY IS GAMORA and I CAN TAKE IT and BUT MY MOVEMENT IS SO SLOW. When both he and Gamora ended up perishing (Gamora’s death hit me harder the second time I watched it, and it hit me HARD the first time), I almost cried.

- ‘WAKANDA FOREVER!!!!!” - T’Challa before running into battle. Chills.

-That was one of the greatest cinematic experiences I’ve had. I was so on the edge of my seat with how much was going on at all times. I was overwhelmed, really.

-MANTIS IS POWERFUL Af?!?!?!?! YAL SHE WAS HOLDING BACK THANOS FOR A LONG ASS TIME!! SHE RENDERED HIM INCAPACITATED. DAMN GIRL WERK THAT SHIT

-I’m glad Nebula was back. I really LOVED her growth in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

- Scarlet Witch and Vision. WHAT DEVELOPMENT MY WORD. They were PRECIOUS. So REAL that when it came time for what Scarlet Witch had to do, I saw the pain in her eyes. As Vision was whispering “It’s alright,” to her and she destroyed him FUCK but then Thanos really fucked it up didn’t he, I FORGOT he had the Time Stone for a second

-ALL. THE. BATTLES. So chaotic but just so WELL DONE and I could see everything that ws going on. Like SHIT MARVEL YAL REALLY JUST WENT FOR IT DIDNT YOU

-Tony. Stark. TONY STARK. That’s my BOI right there. Everything about him this movie was just so FUCKING good. I LOVE him. Not everyone does, but after this movie, he won over so many people who try to hate him for no reason (I have hours of ammunition to #ProtectTonyStark). The Russo Bros really allowed a lot of Tony Stark’s character to shine without losing his sass. He was ALLOWED to tell Squidward to go home but also tell Doctor Strange that he didn’t know what to do because Thanos has been in his head for 6 years. He was ALLOWED to show how powerful he was when he made Thanos bleed but also allowed that moment of grief when he was clutching the hand covered in Peter Parker’s dust crumbled body. 

- STRANGE’S CLOAK SLAPPING TONY’S ASS, IM /DEAD

- Was NOT expecting them to kill as many as they did. I really wasn’t. The ending was so traumatizing.

-Doctor Strange has such cool ass powers. His illusions were so trippy to look at. 

- I LOVED THE DEVELOPMENT OF TONY AND STRANGE’S DYNAMIC. IT WAS HONESTLY AWESOME. From ‘douchebag’ to ‘Tony’, their evolution together was nice. Their personalities boucing off each other was great.

-Speaking of Doctor Strange, we all understand why he gave up the Time Stone to Thanos right? He said he saw 14,000,605 alternate paths to Thanos, and in only ONE of those do they win. He told Tony before they landed on Titan that he would NOT save Tony OR Peter if it came to the safety of the Stone. But he GAVE UP THE STONE. To spare Tony’s life. Saying “Tony, it was the only way.” Tony is needed in the destruction of Thanos. In the scenario that they do win, Tony Stark is neccessary. And thank goodness too, because I REALLY THOUGHT Tony was gunna die.

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((apparent triggering confession next, move on to the next point if you dont like the first sentence))

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- I left shipping Thanos and Tony. I know. I KNOW. I KNOW, OKAY?!?!? I didn’t want to. I didn’t even ship them the first time I saw the movie. Probably cause I was so freaked out with what was happening. This is perhaps the one ship I’ve shipped that I don’t want to ship. Maybe because he knew who Tony Stark was. Told him he was smart, that he was “cursed with knowledge.” Then he told Tony he respected him. Then he pet Tony’s head (honestly that made me ??????????????? inside and probably what sparked this shit tbh). AND. I was LOOKING for it on the third watch because I THOUGHT I saw it the second time; as Thanos was talking to Tony, Thanos shed a tear. Out of his left eye, after he told STark he respected him with his hand on Tony’s head. HAlf of humanity will still be alive, he said. Watching Tony and he shed a tear. I SWEAR TO YOU do look for it next time if you think you’ll go watch it again. I was like WTFFF IS THAT????????? Idk idk yal I’m so confused, and I’m TELLING YOU that I’ve never felt so bad about shipping before because IDK WHY I SHIP THEM. As I left the second tiem watching it, my brain was writing an alternate scene to that scene. IDK IDK IDK idk idk idk idk idk idk

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- I still ship Tony with Steve. I CANT WAIT FOR THEM TO MEET AGAIN. It’s inevitable, right? I know they havent spoken in 2 years, but this will force them to meet. And they fell out hard from Civil War. What will be their first words to each other? Who will speak first. Will Tony make a joke, look around and pretend he still doesn’t feel hurt? Will they hug? Will they still clash? I don’t feel like Cap is the guy that holds a grudge like that, if anything he will react based on how Tony acts. Will he ask forgiveness? Does he even need to? Did they miss each other? AFter all, Cap entered the fold when he was contacted after Tony went missing, saying “You just lost EArth’s best defender.” PHEW fam PHEW

- As Tony Stark has always been and will always be my favorite Avenger, I felt such pride on the third watch to confirm that the largest reaction out of each audience was when Thanos stabbed Tony. Loud, palpable gasping. One low conjoined sound of “OOOOooooohhh!!” echoing in the theater. Twice someone screamed. The attachment we feel to them all is immense, right? We’ve all been together with Tony Stark the longest, and that impact was so satisfying to feel on a grand scale like that for me. Whether you love Tony Stark or not, EVERYONE felt that fear of him dying in that moment. Hell, so many people were dead by that point that it WASNT IMPOSSIBLE. I cried the first time. I had to furiously wipe tears so I could keep watching the screen; I didn’t want to miss anything. I needed to see Tony’s end if that’s what happened; I owe him that. In case it’s unclear, Tony Stark is my favorite fictional character of any medium.

-omg when Gamora said, “you promised” before Quill went to shoot her, I was SHOOK fam omfg. And also when Gamora went to commit suicide before Thanos could throw her into the canyon....I REALLY felt Gamora’s story this movie. I know I said it earlier but it was GREAT.

- *mocking tone* “I am Groooooot.” everyone: WOAH THAT ATTITUDE (LOL I DIED)

-I was PISSED at Quill for fucking up the plan. THEY ALMOST GOT THE GAUNTLET OFF THEY WERE SO CLOSE and he messed it up....I get why tho and by the end I couldnt even fauult him for it, but in the moment I was PIISSSSSSSSSSED.

-The ending was.............honestly satisfying. It ended cliffhanger-y but not an IMMEDIATE, OMFG WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN cliffhanger.

Whata good movie omfg. I still don’t know where it ranks for me, Top 5 for SURE. Seeing is this many times, the story holds up, the humor holds up, the character work holds up, the pacing is seemless. It was SO GREAT. It was darker too, and I loved that.

What are yal’s thoughts?

[sage-nebula]

#Just Paradigm Shift Things

This is just a post for little pieces of Paradigm Shift canon that may or may not make it into the stories themselves (in the sense that right now it’s not planned for them to be brought up, but anything can happen). Without further ado . . .

Zethrid was raised by her galra relatives, all of whom saw her as a shame and mistake for existing (and forced her non-galra parent to leave when she was only a baby). This is an inverse of Narti, who was raised by her non-galra relatives, and likewise likened what they considered to be her flaws to her galra heritage.

Zethrid lived with her galra relatives only until she was twelve, when she accidentally-on-purpose ran away. What happened was that, due to the way they treated her due to her heritage, she ended up hitting a breaking point one day and “ran away.” She didn’t really mean it; she ran off and hid inside a docked ship so she could have a private, quiet place to be upset. Only, the ship departed and left the planet before she could get off, and then she was stranded on some unfamiliar planet, alone and vulnerable, until she eventually learned about bounty hunting and decided to do that as a means of survival. She never ends up going back to her original planet, and while she claims the reason for this is because she doesn’t need her family and is better off without them, it’s also because she’s scared they haven’t missed her for even a day since she went missing.

Because of things that were done to her on Revender, Acxa’s hair won’t grow out anymore. It’s chin length forever. Sometimes she gets depressed about this. One time she confided about it to Keith, who replied, “I think it looks fine,” which didn’t really help. Then he went out and got her some pretty hair clips that work well with short hair (because he noticed that him saying “it looks fine” wasn’t very comforting), and that did help.

Kova is Narti’s cat (now), but he’s also the #TeamPet. He likes to nap on Keith’s chest, and Acxa likes to dangle stuff for him to play with. However, he’s not fond of Ezor because Ezor has a tendency to baby talk him, and he seems to have some kind of grudge against Lotor none of them can understand, especially since he was Lotor’s pet before he was Narti’s.

Acxa has a nice singing voice and typically scores the best at karaoke. Ezor has a terrible singing voice, but likes to sing really loudly, anyway.

Both Zethrid and Keith are highkey interested in ships (as in spacecraft). Their interest is slightly different (Zethrid likes taking ships apart and building them, whereas Keith is more interested in flying and racing), but they have enough of a shared interest in it that they geek out over new ships together whenever they come across them (and are both quite excited about the Sincline ship project).

Zethrid tends to be rather physically affectionate, and this leads to her picking the others up in hugs. She also sometimes accidentally forgets her own strength, and also the strength Keith has in his ribs. This inevitably leads to a routine exchange where Zethrid insists she’s going to help him bulk up. Keith just wishes she could stop squeezing the life out of him.

Ezor has a real interest in Earth given that her favorite food is from there, and also Keith’s heritage is (at least in part) from there, so she goes to the Earth store in the space mall a lot to get stuff to try to teach Keith about “his culture.” She becomes a total weeaboo in the process. (Keith isn’t very interested in anime, despite Ezor insisting that this is the only way he can really learn about Earth, but Ezor likes it, so he indulges her.)

Ezor is also a prolific writer and posts her fiction on a GalaNet site known as Repository of Our Own (RO3). She’s a BNF for her favorite (in-universe) RPF ship, and has written the most popular fic for it on the GalaNet. Her secret? She was trolling when she started the fic. She just wanted to piss one half of the ship off, and mock the other (because remember, this is real person fic, she’s writing about people who actually exist). She wasn’t serious about it. But along the way she started believing in her own writing, got invested, got others invested, too, and lo, she ended up as a BNF with the most popular fic in the fandom. Incredible. (And I’d say who it is she’s shipping, but this extends to the canon reality as well in my mind, so . . . #spoilers)

Lotor is still very passionate in anthropology and history and such in this reality as well, and very often he likes to share his findings with Keith, particularly when he finds something that’s incredibly exciting and, he feels, sheds a lot of light on a past culture in a way that can affect the present. Keith is not particularly passionate about history or anthropology himself, but he loves watching and listening to Lotor when Lotor is going on passionately and excitedly about something, so he always listens and follows along and can’t help himself smiling during these times. He also tries to base gifts (for birthdays and holidays and such) around things Lotor told him, if possible. Lotor loves the gifts, because they pertain to his interests, but mostly he just loves that Keith remembered.

Before they met Narti, they survived on scraps stolen from Empire soldiers (particularly considering Ezor’s masterclass level skill at pickpocketing, breaking and entering, et cetera). The Empire soldiers were rich, they could stand to lose some GAC. After they met Narti, she was able to hack into Empire databases to create falsefied identities and credit sticks for them to use. Not like, impersonating real, existing people, but creating people altogether. So, defrauding the Empire in order to steal money from it for their own use while at the same time not hurting innocent civilians. I’m not sure where on the D&D alignment chart this one falls, but it’s definitely in the grey zone at least.

And before they met Ezor, they survived first on money Lotor had taken from the Empire before he was exiled even harder than he was before, and then on whatever scraps they could find around. Adopting a thief into their fold definitely helped them out, let me tell you.

Narti really likes to paint, and her paintings are always somewhat surrealist since she views the world through Kova’s eyes. Nonetheless, surreal and somewhat bizarre or not, Lotor dedicated a large room in the Castle to be a gallery to showcase her artwork, because he genuinely likes it. Somehow, and she doesn’t even get how, but she’s surprised every time he says he’s putting the newest work in the gallery.

Ezor likes to pull pranks, and one of the ways she likes to prank people is by swapping their food out with unexpected things (e.g. salt instead of sugar, onions instead of apples). Shortly after joining she tried one of these pranks on Lotor, and given his history with not being able to trust the food that people give him (poison et cetera), didn’t take it well. He just got up and left, without even saying or doing anything, but it was evident how upset he was about it. Keith went to go check on him while Acxa read Ezor the riot act over it. Truth be told, the lecturing from Acxa didn’t deter Ezor, but seeing how upset Lotor was did. She never pranked him like that again. (The others, though, are fair game, save for Narti. Ezor loves Narti too much to ever prank her. Also, she’s psychic, so that makes it really hard to get one over on her anyway.)

One time a member of one of the auxiliary teams (probably Auxiliary Team Three) asked Ezor (whom he perceived to be the friendliest of the bunch---an incorrect assumption, but common mistake) why she spent so much time with Narti when Narti doesn’t even talk. Ezor replied, “Well, I talk enough for both of us, so shut up.” It was true, and the auxiliary team member didn’t ask again.

The foundation of Acxa’s relationship with the Red Lion is at least 50% spite, because Acxa doesn’t tolerate any of Red’s moody bullshit, and Red is indignant that Acxa thinks she even has moody bullshit to begin with (she does), and thus is highkey determined to prove her wrong and be the best goddamned Lion in the galaxy. She is the best goddamned Lion in the galaxy already, despite all her moodiness, and Acxa firmly believes in that, but . . . well. There’s no need to share that with Red. (Red kind of knows, anyway. They’re vitriolic best buds, tbh.)

Narti loves Ezor dearly, but sometimes the constant chatter gets to be too much even for her. In those times, she’ll often seek out Keith to see if he wants to work on a puzzle (like, one of the thousand piece jigsaw puzzles) together with her. They like doing this together because it’s a nice, quiet activity. Good way to relax.

They’ve had to wrestle pieces out of Kova’s mouth multiple times, however. Usually Narti can get Kova to spit them out, but sometimes . . .

Keith has certain memories that are wholesale repressed due to trauma, to the point where they trigger panic attacks if he thinks on them too hard. I won’t say what the memories are of just now because that’s #spoilers and will be revealed in a fic, but I will say that Narti once tried to unbury them using her abilities to help him, only it severely backfired in a big way. She felt extremely bad, though he didn’t hold it against her, and never tried again.

Narti really likes cooking and always tries to do so because she wants to be helpful and also make the others happy, and she knows that delicious food makes people happy. However, she’s actually a terrible chef, not the least of which because there’s a high probability cat dander gets into whatever she tries to make. Ezor is the only one on the team anymore who will willingly try the things Narti makes.

Acxa, however, actually is a good cook, at least for those recipes of her grandmother’s that she remembers. Keith and Lotor have also gotten better over the years, particularly if they have Acxa there coaching them.

Favorite foods are:

Lotor: He honestly doesn’t care very much so long as whatever he’s eating isn’t poisoned. However, one particular comfort food is a pasta dish (best way to describe it) usually served with naraborec sauce on top. 

Keith: Also not picky at all, but he likes meat-based dishes, and once Ezor introduces him to an Earth food called chocolate, he really likes that, too. If he had to pick something specific, he'd probably skip a favorite food and just say that his favorite drink is pechaya juice.

Acxa: A stew that her grandmother used to make when she was a child. It has several different ingredients, but her grandmother always just called it “home and hearth stew,” so that’s what Acxa knows it as. She tries to recreate it as best she can whenever she needs a bit of comfort.

Ezor: Curly fries. Really she loves all kinds of junk food, the greasier the better (she sees no value in eating healthy), but curly fries in particular are her favorite once she discovers them. I’m telling you, the girl loves Earth. This (the fact that she loves curly fries) actually did play a small role in my most recent fic. 

Zethrid: Appomeg pie with cream on top.

Narti: Fried doloch (type of aquatic creature), usually with a special kind of sauce on top. Likes to eat fries with them sometimes, but not curly ones, generally.

[sequoiann]

❧ y.jh | assassin!au

pairing; seventeen jeonghan x reader

genre; bulletpointed, assassin!jeonghan, fluff, mentions of blood

collab with; @kpop–fics

notes; @lunarjihoon here’s the assassin au for jeonghan !! i got noticed by you omg ///honored honored honored i luv you lots too bb !!!

jeonghan,,, 

the trickster of the team 

like, he could fool around with everybody  

and some people get annoyed sometimes like jEoNghAn be serious for once

but! 

the pros of jeonghan being a lying ass

he! is! experienced! as hell !!!

like he can tell who is lying lol

and can see through everyone’s telltales

like some members could be lying about,,, anything 

he WILL detect lies 

there was once

his team had accepted a new member who was really good at barehanded fighting

and they almost sent that new member for a major mission thingy bc he really wanted to do it ?? for some odd reason ??

but jeonghan just whacked that guy’s ass out of the team bc he found out that he was a spy from another rival’s team

and jeonghan instantly became recognized as an ace member of the team

ok so

one time

both you & jeonghan were dispatched to the same mission

and you are aware that you were going to have to go against him

since his bunch of men weren’t the most… secretive ones 

their security on their mission plans aren’t very well protected, you would say

that was the reason your boss sent you out tbh

your boss knew that you would be able to get the job done

so basically

you just,,,

snitched the documents while jeonghan was sneaking around and looking for the exact same ones you got HAHAHA

and he was about to freaking shoot you bc oh my god how dare you ???? go against ??? the almighty ????? yoon jeonghan ???? mE ????

but you were fast

like really fast

like really really really fast

that was your specialty

fast and swift and stealthy!!

you disappeared really quick with the documents and jeonghan later got blamed for not succeeding in the mission 

oops?

so jeonghan’s preeetty damn pissed @ you lmao

and ever since that plot-twisting, history-changing, tables-turning event

jeonghan became vvv determined to accomplish more missions to make up for the mistake 

it wasn’t really his fault but he was just

sO fiLLED wiTH vEnGeAnCE

so his boss was glad ofc

like ha i mean

jeonghan voluntarily completing tasks?

definitely not something that was common : )

and so, jeonghan was put on the mission to steal a blueprint that another company possessed 

by coincidence, you had to too

your company really needed those blueprints so off you go !!

it was not an easy start tho

you were still working with snipers from the damn stone age 

like,,, 

you were pretty sure the thing was about to fall apart 

you got so frustrated bc thispieceofshitwasmakingsomuchclankingnoises

you were pretty sure you looked ,,,,, kinda ,,,,,,, suspicious ,,,,,

so you dumped that shit aside 

you still had mini hand gun hidden on you so all’s safe yo

you entered the building disguised as a janitor 

you tied & locked the real janitor up in the storeroom aha

the collection of uniforms you have as an assassin was no joke tbh

but hey

who knew janitors could get in everywhere without being questioned

everyone just side glances you 

and at the corner of your eyes 

you saw another janitor 

and a million question marks just erupted from your confused head bc ????? i just locked you up ????? wha ???

you were afraid to get recognized so you quickly hid 

and apparently the other one hid too 

??

why would she

you stare at her for a while and you ,,, realize ,,,

!!!! IT’S A HIM NOT A HER

WHAT’S HAPPENING

THERE’S ONLY ONE JANITOR IN THE BUILDING??

ABORT MISSION ABORT MISSION

ok no that’s not happening

you’re y/n

the strong, independent woman

but you were still confused

but when that male janitor raised his head to look at you

!!!

“SHIT” 

and you literally flew to the office 

cause you realized you had competition

it was the same guy as before oh lorD why you do dis to me

jeonghan ran too, although he didn’t recognize you yet

and he ran obnoxiously loud.

like wtf jeonghan are you an assassin or a freaking rubbish truck

you were so scared you were gonna get caught before you got there

but you managed to get to the white, bulletproof glass office first and you slammed the damn door in his face and locked it

jeonghan knew it wouldn’t be of use to shoot the glass so he didn’t, and just disappeared elsewhere

you didn’t know where and didn’t have time to care

your janitor cap was over your head and covering your face well so good job, janitor costume!

a guard was in the room obviously ,,, and he was much bigger in size than you were

but no one would leave the blueprint alone

it’s safeguarded 24/7

so he punched you square in the face,,, even though you had tried to defend yourself 

you thought your nose caved in oh my god

you quickly retrieved yourself and pulled out your gun, shooting him twice in both his knees

he fell and groaned and screamed and blood was just everywhere

i mean, it was a common sight to you. 

he pulled out his walkie-talkie and mumbled a few unclear words of “the office, i need backup!” 

but you snatched the walkie-talkie out of his hands and stomped on it

and it lost connection

you quickly found the blueprints which were in a locked safe

and the guard had the key dangling from his pocket so 

you just,,,, took it 

and your face was throbbing from the punch tht you received and you were aware that you were bleeding

and just at this moment, jeonghan jumps in through the window

you clutch the file of blueprints and try to leave through where you came from

but jeonghan just pulls you back from your collar and when you jerked back,, yoUR CAP FELL

you come face to face with jeonghan before you could comprehend what just happened

and you two just stared at each other for a few seconds 

.

.

.

“IT’S YOU”

“NO IT’S NOT WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT” 

jeonghan literally grabs your arm and twISTS it professionally and you yelped & dropped the fuckin file bc IT HURTS BRO

he picks it up with his free hand while is other hand was still holding your hand in its half-twisted position

and you kick him in his stomach but he wasn’t really affected by it

but you manage to untwist your arm and twist HIS arm 

and you were pretty strong so you two just

fight.

like really.

and you won. 

you pulled a whole bookshelf down onto him and escaped

jeonghan was delayed so !!! 

but he alive don’t worry

but the next few weeks 

no matter which mission you had accepted or been tasked to do

from taking out the major of a city to stealing a jar of nutella 

he would be there 

competing to be faster 

like honey i’m not letting those two incidents juSt enD thErE

yes this man holds grudges

so! 

in the span of one month 

you had gotten used to his company 

everywhere you were, 

he’d be there. 

watching. 

and then attempting to fuckin’ murder you.

ok not really but ya’know.

but,,, 

this day, he wasn’t there 

and that made you subconsciously sad

you mentally chided yourself like

get yourself tgt, y/n. he’s your rival what are u doing 

but he really wasn’t there

he didn’t appear for the next 6 missions or so

and you got worried.

like genuinely worried. 

and you oddly started failing more missions that you did before like you couldn’t focus omgfdskjhl

you did better even with jeonghan competing with you wtf

you got scolded a lot by your team but that didn’t really matter to you.

so this once

you were on a usual mission in the middle of the night

AND YOU GOT BEATEN UP REAL BAD BY THE GUARDS

you would usually be able to handle that number but your limbs suddenly weren’t coordinating to fight back

and suddenly

this ,,, black hooded figure ,,,, just joined into the mess and the guards were all down a minute later.

you were sitting slouched on the floor, panting, bleeding. 

that hooded figure turned to you and pulled down his mask and pushed back his hood

jeonghan.

he was panting too, and when you saw him, you just,,,,

broke out in a smile.

he smiled too asdfghjkl

“did you miss me?” 

you rolled your eyes like pfft miss you? what nonsense

but deeeeeep down inside

like really deep down

you did

he knelt down in front of you and kind of just ,,, stared at you ,,, even though you were aware that you looked like a hot mess

“i thought you said you were good at fighting,” he chuckled, although internally he was upset to see you in such a state

you laughed. “i am.” 

he shakes his head and helps you up and you start questioning him

“where were you for the past 9 missions?” 

he smirked like 

“ hey you counted ”

but he doesn’t answer your question

mostly because he can’t 

bc he was assigned to kill you 

he just 

couldn’t bring himself to it 

that lead to him avoiding you

he wanted to keep up this little rivalry 

and honestly 

so did you 

but jeonghan got kicked out of his team bc of his “incompetence” 

basically, bc he kept letting you win

he would’ve been killed honestly 

but his brotherhood with his team was stronger than you’d think

so they trusted him to keep their society a secret and had let him off

and he ended up joining yours

so yes, everyone else can imagine what happened

you two became partners :”) 

and it was the best thing ever

you both just looked after each other and everything felt safer 

[randomnameless]

Chapter 7 - Darna to Alster!

Seliph finally finishes this Naga forsaken map and says good bye to the Desert.

RETCONS RETCONS WHO WANTS RETCONS?

(joking, FE4 happened before FE5 so FE5 is the retcon game but)

Ares wants to talk to his friend - the reason why he turned blue to begin with 

but an idiot is here, blocking the doors.

so the only thing he can do in this situation, since he’s grey and can’t move, is talk to the guy.

don’t ask that

no “it is I, Ares the Black Knight”? Vengeance leaves no place to theatrics.

uh... yeah? Siggy couldn’t kill Eldie even if he wanted, he didn’t have the stats for that!

Poor Graine. Here you see miscommunication at its finest, granted, given how Eldie ignored his wife/son to run to his sister’s side and Siggy’s help, I understand why Grainne never got the true side of the story. Her version, and I believe the version of most Agustrians is “Siggy led an invasion in Agustria, Eldie died while defending his homeland and his King” which isn’t that far from reality actually! I love how Ares calls his mother “noble” and not just, my mother. Seliph is of course completely clueless, no one bothered him to keep him in touch with the Augstrian campaign - Aidean what were you doing?

uh... well, i’m sure they hold no hard feelings against each other because they were knights and knights simply do what they’re told, if they hate someone it’s the king who orders them to fight, but Eldie wasn’t totally happy at Siggy’s invasion/occupation. Hopefully Siggy went all “i’m just listening to orders i’m trying to write a letter to Azmur don’t worry” and Eldie believed him. If Chagall wasn’t such a douche the blame could be shared, but hey, we have the most perfect scapegoat so let us all blame Chagall, it makes the Augustrian campaign less catastrophic.

haha Seliph doesn’t understand a thing, Ares is the son of dad’s friend so we can be friends, right? It’s still kind of insensitive to call Ares’ lifelong grudge a “misunderstanding”, OTOH it’s clever because Seliph isn’t calling Ares’ “noble” mother a liar to his face!

Genealogy of the Holy War : sons must pay for the grudges of their fathers? S

Subverted here, Ares drops his grudge. If only we could have asked Brian or even Scipio to do the same :) But their dads had ugly sprites, so they couldn’t be Siggy’s friends so we don’t give figs about them :)

Not totally subverted though, Ares still has doubts and will murder Seliph if he lied.

i cringe a little at this line from Seliph tbh, the fate of the world resides on your shoulders (lel) because you’re the only Naga alive (lelel) F!Lewyn said so, and you’re willing to die just to please Ares? Seliph no :’(

hey you know what you could have met him when you were 3 weeks old if Eldie wasn’t such a douche and didn’t ignore his son and wife. During the occupation he could have sent them to say “hello” to Siggy and his family (or invited them at his place) before Chagall became a douche, but no, Eldie never gave a crap about his family - save for Raquie.

Once he is finished with Seliph Ares pushes him and runs to find his true friend

Here she is! He worries about her, how cute.

:’(

Ares apologises and calls himself a fool, poor Ares. And Lene confesses that she isn’t alright but she still trusted him even after he made himself a fool with that “killing Seliph” nonsense.

Daw! Why IS didn’t give them any lover convo?

Of course he won’t! He will take you home to Agustry! and then you’ll be eaten alive by the agustrian court

“are you the guy Ares wanted to kill?”

“Ares told me about you, he said “move imbecile i have to rescue Lene” when i tried to talk to him earlier”

No dancers in Isaach? 

i don’t know if that would be the word i’d use. Seliph is flustered seeing scantily clad women. Granted, any scantily clad woman would have been captured in Dozel!Isaach so...

and now for the retcon: Raquie’s children!

“who are you random knight?”

what are you talking about? Wait you didn’t knew you had a bro? But in FE5...

that’s understandable - save the part where Lewyn only tells you now that you have a sibling but fig that guy.

off screen, crawling after Shanan and Oifey because they said they could only carry one child and that one child was Seliph

hoho, so Nanna’s Leonster born, it fits with the timeline. The thing that doesn’t is Nanna still ignoring she has a bro :’(

is it me or FE4!Nanna seems to miss Raquie more than FE5!Nanna?

??? I thought you said you didn’t know you had a bro and now Raquie told you she left to meet him in Isaach??

Poor Nanna, she waited to see her, she had no mother figure during all those years

only kaga knows

she took her horse and fled with her horse in the desert with figging sand and it’s not like Quan did the same mistake but no 

meanwhile, two cousins chat

at least - well yeah at least because he had to backtrack to Darna and it took around 15 turns or something (thanks Naga for Lana’s warp staff)

prelude indeed, since Arvis hired Travant and co to assist in his coup

bad Leif, you forget how Travant first set your home in flames and only afterwards Blume arrived. You were sleeping during Finn’s history time or what?!

“my knight Finn” sounds... not strange, but I can’t see FE5!Leif calling Finn “his knight”. Finn is his father figure, he is Finn, not a knight. Heck I doubt FE5!Leif would even call Carrion and co “his knights”. August/Dorias would.

this is so... well, not strange because in FE5 Leif says retaking Leonster was his dream (Finn’s dream) but before chapter 6 he was happy living as a peasant in Fiana with his sisters (and Jugdral’s best mom) killing pirates. Maybe that’s not something you can tell to your kingly cousin, so it’s better to say that he wanted to fight since the beginning...

pff would you have helped against Raydrick when he stoned Eyvel - i mean when Dorias and co tried their multiple attempts at murdering Blume in his sleep? I don’t think so but it’s something Seliph has to say. He doesn’t have to apologise per se but... Well, the way Leif told his story we could think we should be berating Seliph/Siggy for the BBQ’s aftermath that impacted Leonster - in that regard Seliph HAS to apologise.

but this vision, of course, throws Travant in the “ignored” trashcan.

But Leif quickly apologises, it wasn’t his intention to put the blame on Seliph. It’s squarely his fault. RIP Dorias :’( (well Miranda has to share the blame too)

?? Of course he was worthy of being dubbed a knight of Nova he was a crusader. But Leif bragging about being the son of Quan? Heck, that’s something Finn/Dorias would say “don’t lose hope prince you’re the son of quan”, the words of support Ced shared with him when he was down! FE4!Leif is so... confident and assertive, it’s super... weird considering my only Leif experience was FE5!Leif.

It’s so weird that I don’t recall FE5!Leif saying something like that, or reclaiming himself of Quan’s legacy even once. 

“Marty, Othin, pack your things we’re going with Seliph now. Lifis too.”

“But Lord Leif, we’re returning to Fiana now” “don’t you dare i said we’re leaving.” Haha, restoring honor to Granvalle? It’s not about stopping the child hunts and stopping Loptyr’s resurrection? this is so un - FE5!Leif - like! remember the guy who screamed about honor and glory? he would have said those lines!

uh... sure, Quan helped Siggy a lot. And given how Quan died for/because/ during his quest to help Siggy, their deaths are linked.

OMG OMG OMG SOMEONE REMEMBERS

Indeed, but i can’t totally ignore the fact that maybe Ethlyn, even if she wasn’t a Chalpy anymore, wanted to restore her “birth” house’s name clean too, and was also worried about her dad - who didn’t even mention her but that’s how we roll in Jugdral daughters are worthless.

Again, Seliph apologises. Not for Leonster’s fate, but for Quan and Ethlyn on the behalf of his dad.

yes, the stories August told me said that Siggy manage to pierce Arvis’ plans before everyone else! He was a wise man!

As do I? What about “don’t hate the people, only the evil in their hearts?” “oh fig it”. 

pff hahaha if only you knew what were your dads’ last wishes! it was only about restoring chalphy’s good name!

he already said he was going to lend you his scrubs!

“damn that new blade shoots beams of light it’s so cool!”

“I GAVE YOU THOSE RIBBONS!” “hilda did and told me to hang myself with them it’s not a kindness”

hey look, it’s the imperial princess!

“Fear me else I’ll tell everything to daddy and he will Valflame you to oblivion”

because...

“THE MYSTELTAINN CRAVES THE BLOOD OF MEN”

but i thought Julius wanted to throw his party there? You can’t just rewarp in it, it’d be lame!

Wow no mercy for Blume? But yeah, per Aidean’s history lesson, when a baron escapes he will return to piss you off again until you kill him.

it could have been helped if we put men to block the exits, re you really a strategist? or maybe Blume just rewarped when Ares was busy screaming his finishing line for the finishing blow...

??? They’re happier than the Isaachians you fred from Danan’s rule? I honestly can’t believe it.

a real hope, not a joke like Leif’s failed attempts^^

yeah, they’re all stronger than you. Even your wife Larcei!

“have you seen that kid with Leif’s group? She can steal stuff with a magical staff!”

“just as planned and if you don’t i have a backup plan involving a minor character with naga blood”

lol Julia isn’t part of any plan.

[icespyders]

opposing lawyers au? single parent au? doctors au? thunderstorm cuddles? celebrity crush au? buddy cops au? marry someone to piss of parents au?

YELLS VERY LOUD…THANK YOU OMG THESE ARE SO FUN!!! alright these ones are gonna be under a cut bc. well. you should know me by now.

opposing lawyers au: i’m torn bc it’d be equally fun to have, like, non-romantic rivals in these roles and the entire fic is just them talking shit (i’m not a big rarepair person so that definitely limits me in au plotting, lmao, i just dig weird friendships so much more than actual proper rarepairs!!) and also pitting an otp against each other and having belligerent sexual tension that will get the characters lectured by their respective HR departments. or! they’re competing within the same firm and both trying to get ahead so it’s more of an office drama, which would lead to a funny ensemble cast, which is always a win in my book

oh dude bokuaka could be fun for this, bc akaashi is a smartass by-the-book kinda guy who looks down on bokuto’s weirder strategies, but akaashi keeps underestimating how clever bokuto is and it infuriates him, and also kinda turns him on, and that infuriates him even further. or daisuga, too, i like the idea of them being rivals bc i have a funny feeling if they weren’t on the same team they’d just push each other’s buttons - daichi holds grudges over petty bullshit (sawamura “death to everyone who’s ever played basketball bc i’ve fought with their captain” daIchi tbh) and it’d just be too easy to irritate him for suga to resist doing it all the time.

if i get into non-romances pissing each other off in professional settings i’ll be here all night so i’ll spare you, but just know there are too many annoyingly-clever strategists in haikyuu who’d square off against each other excellently and it’s great

single parent au: true story, my sister and i have this very elaborate future domestic au about all our ships having kids, so, like, i love kid fics but having one of my own has ruined everyone else’s for me whoops. i can’t read anyone else’s bc i miss the babies i invented. buries face in hands. (but if you want to hear about that i have like a 30-page notes document so i’m happy to tell you about it)

aside from that i’ve vaguely plotted out a specific single parent au, i think (my sister and i are au machines, it’s a problem). we have one where daichi and suga hook up but then suga is daichi’s kid’s kindergarten teacher so the parent-teacher conference gets Real Awkward Real Fast. both of them try very hard to act professional and not ask “so like…we still on for a second date or…uh…”

doctors au: my immediate impulse when i saw this is to only make one of the characters a medical doctor and the other’s like. i don’t know a renowed geologist or smth. full on “dammit i’m a doctor, not a DOCTOR.” somehow they have wacky adventures. my brain wants me to x-files this and turn it into cryptid hunting shenanigans bc i shouldn’t be left to make aus past midnight. this is absolutely not what you meant when you asked me this, anon, but i don’t think i’m capable of writing a medical drama? i don’t watch that many, i lack a frame of reference. but you know what i don’t lack a frame of reference for. GHOST HUNTING. also MOTHMAN. catch me turning your prompt into gay “ghost adventures” somehow??

i have no idea what i’d write for this, i don’t think anyone wants me writing a doctors au. i think the closest i’d get is a future fic abt kyoutani being a veterinarian and he takes care of yahaba’s really fat cat and criticizes how fat it is and somehow they date. sorry omg this is not my best work, au-wise

thunderstorm cuddles: THIS IS A GOOD VIBE TOO…listen in my opinion all my ships should be cuddling all the time, or else what is the point. i really need to learn how to write short fluffy ficlets, i always end up turning everything i write into an absurdly long oneshot but writing ficlets sounds nice. 

anyway! this is a lovely moment of vulnerability to work with; if you run with a childhood friends ship for this, it could demonstrate how well the two characters know each other, that they’re aware of the need for thunderstorm cuddles and happy to provide it. however, it’s also intriguing as a moment to allow greater understanding and closeness in a relationship that isn’t as familiar. it demonstrates one party’s willingness to let the other see them in an unflattering state and let themselves be comforted. man i could do this for any ship, i really adore finding these little, understated moments of love and letting them cement a relationship, and also i’m weak to mild hurt/comfort where nobody is really hurt, haha. i would write asanoya for this, they’re especially good for cuddling, i feel. they’re both afraid of storms but refuse to admit it to save face in front of each other but they eventually both cave and learn, oh hey, we’re both scared of storms, this works, and then cuddle under a big quilt and everyone is happy

celebrity crush au: i would love to get “celebrity crush” down to absolute minimum level, like, oh god, since when do i go to college with that one hot youtuber who i’ve watched for years, or, oh no, i TOTALLY thirst-follow that guy on instagram, i’ve watched videos of him bench-pressing stuff WAY TOO MUCH, or, fuck me it’s the bassist from that band that plays in the campus bar, etc etc. i think that’d be funny bc it’s not even like you’re harboring a crush on a movie star like a normal person and it’s even harder to approach a youtube crush by explaining “hey so you’re famous, a bit, to me at least, i’m sorry, i love your work, i promise i’m not creepy.” if i was writing this, circumstances would definitely force the characters together (class group project! train your new co-worker, who you’ll spend hours alone with henceforth! we’re in the same club, time for icebreakers!) and the character with the crush would either awkwardly hide it or awkwardly blurt it out, depending.

i actually do have a vaguely-arced au about characters in bands that play in the campus bar attempting to woo various bar patrons; this kagehina i wrote is in that universe and i’ve just never sat down to write the whole au, and that’s an ensemble piece so there’s a bunch of ships. i dig iwaoi for the instagram thirst-follow concept, or bokuaka. that thirst is real. i’m also getting attached to the idea of the celebrity crush being a new co-worker, like, the two characters work in the school bookstore and spend many hours alone with no one but books for company. i’d write a kuroken for that. kenma didn’t expect that cool youtuber to be such a nerd in real life. also he’s pretty sure internet people aren’t supposed to be hot in real life, what the fuck, this isn’t even FAIR. so he’s all brisk with kuroo to keep his distance bc he feels so awkward and kuroo doesn’t get what he did wrong. (answer: existing and being cute was his mistake)

buddy cops au: COOL! this is another one where i’d love a weird friendship over an otp, just for shenanigans’ sake. if i was writing this it’d be less law & order and more brooklyn 99 so comedy is key. i’m thinking like. kenma and lev, worst partners ever, who solve all their cases against all odds. suga and kageyama would be a fun working dynamic too, or any combo of competitive setters, although i think with many other setters there’d be more attempting to outdo each other. like partnering shirabu and semi would be a mess of passive-aggressive sniping amidst their detective work. oikawa and ushijima where they both think they’re the good cop but they’re actually both the bad cop and oikawa thinks ushijima isn’t human bc he never drinks coffee bc he says he doesn’t “need it” like what the hell, how does he even stay awake on shift, it’s unnatural.

and on a not-haikyuu note, i definitely had a fucking komahina buddy cop au at some point in the distant past, and i’ve always lowkey wanted to write a naegiri noir mystery where kirigiri is the mysterious detective and naegi is the inquisitive reporter tagging along and helping her with a case. dangan lends itself to shit like that since it’s already about investigating murders

marry someone to piss off parents au: oh boy would i love to combine this with a royalty au. oh BOY would i love to combine this with a royalty au!! some upstart crown prince decides to marry below their station just to stick it to The Man and falling in love somewhere along the way, bc marriage is a commitment and it takes effort and you can’t just do it for no reason, it’s not a means to an end. i just find it mildly hard to believe anyone in haikyuu is offensive enough to someone’s parent to pull this off, like, even the ones that look skeevy are actually honor roll students, you just can’t accomplish this in canonverse.

back to the royalty au, make it even better: the protag chases after the crown prince of the rival kingdom bc they’re sick of the constant fighting and border disputes and assorted nonsense, and also it’ll make their parents SO MAD. like romeo and juliet but nobody dies, they just fall in love and dare somebody to do something about it. i’d do kagehina for this, it’s hinata’s idea. “what if i just. married into their family? then we’d share everything, right? right?” he pipes up at a lame-ass strategy meeting talking about import taxes on the rivals, he’d rather be going on adventures but noooo he has to sit at a meeting, so he decides to put his foot down. and then he has to journey off to kageyama’s kingdom and somehow win his hand. that sounds fun as hell.

if i did make this canonverse, i feel like one character is essentially fake-dating the other to make the parents mad, like, they have an arrangement, the fake beau is getting free dinner out of it, but they end up charming the protag’s parents and instead of pissing them off the visit smooths things over and the protag character is really irritated but also kinda falling for the fake beau what the hell?? it all just completely backfires. give me ennotana for this. ennoshita hires the toughest-looking dude he knows to annoy his parents but his parents think tanaka’s a good influence on him, somehow. goddammit how dare he be so charming. this is nonsense.

thank you so much for letting me ramble incoherently, it’s 1:30 AM and this ain’t my best work but i had some giggles writing this so i hope you have some giggles reading it!!! :’)