#it’s missing lian hours I think

[a-sketchy-character]

Important pre-babysitting instructions: listen to the sitter, don’t play with the hot stove, don’t let any strangers in the house, and if you do...

[c-nstantine]

Snooze

Description: Inspired by the song Snooze by SZA

Warnings: It gets kinda heated at one point, the word hoe is used

Word count: 1.0k

I can't lose when I'm with you

If you were to ask her siblings, Y/N was never to be disturbed while she was sleeping. It was like signing a death warrant to wake her. Her beauty and skincare routine required at least ten hours of sleep. However, the one person she would break the routine for was Roy Harper. 

There was something about him that made Y/N crave more. They had spent hours on hours just talking. She didn't care about how late they stayed up or what they talked about but she loved spending every moment possible with him. 

How can I snooze and miss the moment?

"Do you ever think it's kind of funny how we ended up together?" Roy asked as he and Y/N lay on their bed. It was particularly late and Roy had just gotten back from a mission. He rested his head on Y/N's shoulder and hugged her closely.

"What do you mean?" Y/N responded, not fully grasping the question.

"I mean you're like a model, socialite, billionaire heiress and I'm recovering drug addict vigilante with a kid," Their relationship had made Roy insecure several times. He knew that she loved him and that should've been enough but sometimes it felt like he was competing with the world. 

"Technically, that makes you a DILF," Y/N joked while nudging Roy's head with her shoulder.

"Very funny," Roy replied.

"On a serious note, I wouldn't trade you or Lian for the world," She said leaning in for a kiss.

You just too important

"Y/N?" Bruce asked as Y/N was packing up her childhood room in the manor. Sure the bedspread, rug, and curtains were still there but everything that had made it Y/N's room was gone now.

"Yeah, Dad," She responded while looking through an old photo album. 

"I just want to know how serious this thing with you and Roy is. I figured that you two crushes on each other as kids but I didn't know that..." If there was an award for being bad about conversing with your own children, Bruce would be the defending champion. 

"We'd actually start dating?" Y/N tried to fill in the blanks in the conversation. 

"Yes but not in a bad way," Bruce really should come with subtitles of what he means to say when he speaks. Perhaps, then he would be able to converse with his children without hurting their feelings. 

"I've dated my fair share of people. Like a lot of people, it's what the tabloids say we have in common, but Roy is the one person I keep coming back to and I don't know why." Y/N explained to the best of her ability. 

"You love him," Bruce realized. 

"I do,"

Nobody do body like you do

Roy had Y/N pinned against the door as he kissed her neck. Y/N was sure that she would combust at any moment. Roy knew exactly where to touch, where to kiss, and what to say to get her excited. 

"You gotta be quiet, I just put Lian down for a nap," Roy whispered as Y/N let out a particularly loud moan. 

"It's hard to be quiet when you do that," She whined as they moved to the bed with Roy on top. His hair fell just over his eyes but even then, Y/N could feel his gaze on her. 

"I know, that's the best part," Roy Harper was nothing, if not a tease. Roy smirked as he headed further south. Kissing her hips and waist, Roy made Y/N feel loved. He knew plenty of people wanted her for the physical but he wanted her to feel cherished in the intimates with him.

I can't lose when I'm with you

"Are you gonna leave me?" Y/N asked. She hated getting attached to those that she dated because when they broke up, she was always the problem. 

"Why would you think that?" Roy asked walking out of the bathroom with his toothbrush still in hand.

"I'm a lot. I'm spoiled, high maintenance, a bit of a hoe, and my brothers want to kill you when we hold hands in public," She listed out a few of the reasons why people broke up with her before. 

"Yeah, but I knew what loving you was signing me up for," Roy said with a dopey smile and Y/N could only hug him in response.

I can't just snooze and miss the 

moment

"I like us like this," Y/N whispered as they watched Brandy's Cinderella with Lian. Lian sat in between them on the couch while holding the popcorn.

"Like what?" Roy whispered back, his eyes leaving the TV screen.

"You, me, Lian. Our little family," Y/N responded with a smile. 

"Hushhhhhh," Lian through popcorn at the both of them. 

"Oh, I'm sorry," Y/N said eating some of the popcorn that was thrown at her.

You just too important

"We should get married," Y/N spoke randomly on one Friday afternoon. They weren't doing anything special. Roy was making them sandwiches for lunch and she thought at that moment there was nowhere that she would rather be than with him.

"Yeah, I brought the ring already," Roy said nonchalantly while looking for potato chips. 

"Wait, are you serious?" Y/N asked while taking a bite of her sandwich.

"Asked your dad and stuff, too. I even got advice from Oliver which was a bad idea because he suggested I propose to strippers but Dinah told me to find a perfect moment," Roy was glad after a certain age he stopped listening to Oliver's advice. He swore as he got older the advice got more and more unhinged.

"Let's go, right now," Y/N said as she finished her sandwich.

"Like right now, right now?" Roy asked.

"Yeah, we'll pick up Lian from school. I'll call my siblings, Bruce and Alfred. You'll call Oliver and Dinah. The Titans, too," Y/N said picking up her phone.

"I thought you wanted a really big wedding with a ballroom gown and everything," Roy had been following her wedding Pinterest board and promised that every detail would be perfect.

"That's back when I thought I'd never get married for love. I don't care how it happens. I just want it to be you," She kissed his cheek before looking for her car keys. 

Nobody do body like you do, you do

[samgirl98]

Mending a Family 33/?

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Yeah, I know, I'm late with this chapter but at least I got it done before Christmas

Jason took out the turkey and sat on top of the stove. He swiped his hand across his forehead and sat down, tired. How did Alfred cook for hours to feed so many people? Jason had only cooked for seven people, with help, and he was tired. Alfred must have the stamina of the gods. The cooking gods.

“Daddy, we finished setting the table,” Danny ran up to Jason. He picked up his son and put Danny on his lap. Danny looked cute wearing his little blue apron with rocket ships on it.

“That’s great, Danny. Let me get the turkey and put it out. Then we can start eating.”

Danny got off Jason’s lap, “What about the pies?”

Jason had put the pumpkin and pecan pie on the cooling rack. Danny was staring at them with hunger.

“Those are for after dinner.”

“Oh, c’mon, I want a piece now. Please,” Jason ignored his son’s puppy eyes and got the turkey.

“Later, chum.”

Danny pouted but went to the table. Raven and Jazz were talking. Ellie was thumping her little fists on the table of her high chair. Lian was giggling at whatever Roy was saying. Jason felt warm and fuzzy in his chest. His family was here to spend Thanksgiving with him. Him. The messed-up member of the Batfamily.

 “Finally, the main course is here,” Roy said as he got up to take the turkey from Jason’s hands.

“Yay,” Lian cheered, “time to eat! I’m starving.”

They said grace and then dug in.

“Oh my god, this turkey is so good,” Roy said while chewing.

“Daddy, it’s rude to chew with your mouth open.”

Jason laughed into his cup. It was funny to see Lian scold her father.

“Sorry, sweetie, but it’s true.”

“Thanks, Roy. I got the recipe from Alfie.”

Jason took a bite of the turkey. It was almost as good as Alfred’s. Jason missed the older man. Would he be happy for Jason? Would Alfred accept Jason’s family?

“Everything okay, daddy?”

Jason looked at Danny and noticed that everyone was looking at him.

“Yeah, everything’s fine. I was just thinking.”

Danny cocked his head and took a bite of food.

“After dinner, can we play in the snow?”

It had snowed the night before. Jason hadn’t liked the cold before, and it was worse now that he had a fire core. The cold seemed to irritate him. Not that he would tell Danny that.

“Sure, chum, after dinner.”

The rest of the dinner was spent laughing and eating. Every once in a while, though, Jason would get a pang in his chest. Every time he did, Danny would stare at him with knowing eyes.

Jason took a bite of pie and refused to catch his son’s stare.

____

Bruce Wayne looked at his family with fondness.

Thanksgiving had been a noisy but fun affair.

As usual, Alfred refused any help with Thanksgiving dinner, and, like always, it came out divine.

At the moment, his children, Stephanie, Barbara, and his granddaughter were laughing. Kori also came to the dinner to spend time with her daughter.

Duke started manipulating the shadows around him. Mar’i’s peels of laughter warmed his heart.

Bruce wondered how Jason would’ve interacted with Mar’i. Did he even know he had a niece? Bruce frowned. No, they had never told him. Jason loved children; why had they never told him about Mar’i?

In the beginning, it made sense, but as he started mellowing out…Why had Bruce not seen it earlier? His son could have returned to the family a long time ago if Bruce had taken his head out of his ass.

Now, Jason was gone, and his family was incomplete.

“Is everything alright, Master Bruce?”

“I should’ve brought him home sooner.”

“Hmm,” the butler hummed.

“It’s my fault. I thought I was doing the right thing, giving him his space. Instead, I was alienating him. As his father, I should’ve tried harder.”

He looked at Alfred, his surrogate father, “I’ll bring him home, one way or another.”

The butler looked a bit disappointed before sighing. He left Bruce alone. With a pang in his chest, he watched his incomplete family laughing.

Why did he feel left out?

Bruce was so close to having a full epiphany. He'll get there...eventually

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[nemainofthewater]

Look around you right now: if you were attacked could you use anything as a weapon?

Perhaps you've forgotten to attach your sword to your sword-belt (as though cdrama has sword-belts when it can have its characters carry them by hand *cough*the Untamed*cough*)? Or maybe you think swords are too boring; after all, everyone is using them already.

Maybe you've got a weapon that stylish and much easier to carry around with you? Alternately maybe you've got a weapon that is more unwieldy to carry (but is still stylish).

If you don't, fear not and take inspiration from this week’s poll contestant!

Vote for the character with the best non-sword weapon! Propaganda, call out posts, and write-in candidates welcome!

EDIT: due to me having done this while also being at work, I accidentally set it as a 24 hour poll instead of a week-long one. But! I am making lemonade! I'll set up a part 2 poll tomorrow, this time with weapons grouped (and weapons users in brackets). If you have any favourite weapons (and characters) let me know in the notes before tomorrow, and I'll add them in!

[h-harleybaby]

sleepover w/ cartman? what movies would you guys watch or like what would you guys do all night (video games,, 😳,, partying idk)

Got me excited 👀

Ik I said another request has my priority but like, this is really good and I’ll probably start on this one

But in the morning it’s almost 11 pm and I just woke up (btw this probably isn’t gonna be good I’m racking my brain for ideas)

Edit: ignore how I inserted my hobbies for the reader, IGNORE IT-

HAS NSFW CONTENT

Sleepover hcs w/ Cartman

• I’m gonna give it some background, the sleepovers probably after a long day of school. Maybe the guys were bugging him so ofc he’s gonna ask his gf to come over so he can rant and cuddle

• It wasn’t meant to be a sleepover but just ends up being one 💀

• That day just drained him and he missed youuuu, he needs to tell you about everything that happened and perhaps make you do his English homework because he sucks at it

• Eric’s laying on your chest grumbling about the guys while you kinda have your arms around him and are sewing

• Imagine you’re cooking something for the both of them because Liane is out partying and he just has his arms around your waist as he stands behind you with his head on your shoulder <333

• He’s whining about being hungry tho so it’s not as cute 🙄

• This man probably devours it, and it’s definitely not because your cooking is really good. Totally not, it’s just because he’s hungry

• Is what he says, it’s bullshit and you know he loves your cooking

• Y’all play all sorts of games tho, ranging from Mario cart to COD because he has a problem and chooses games he rages at when he loses

• He fucking sucks at Mario cart (the only reason he wins against the guys is because they suck even more) but won’t admit it and says you cheated during the game

• Y’all probably also watch a bunch of movies, switching between who chooses them. He’s always complaining about yours because “they suck ass” but he secretly enjoys them

• His favorite movie out of the ones you play is Mean Girls, and he definitely mocks at least one character through out the whole movie

• It’s 11 pm at this point, and during sleepovers you’re supposed to stay up all night aren’t you??

• He doesn’t even know what he wants to do but he wants your attention, desperately

• Probably plays truth or dare and you already know this is gonna end up a lil… steamy (this hc totally isn’t because an old crush of mine always played truth or dare when he came over and he’d always do really horny stuff)

• Tbh when this starts he’s kinda horny but he’s mainly bored. He’s just looking for some skin to skin contact

• At first it’s stupid, like prank call Stan or chug some disgusting mixture or whatever alcohol y’all can find but not for long 💀

• Eventually y’all just fall asleep on the couch- BUT THIS IS NOT WHERE IT ENDS

• Eric wakes up first and literally will not stop annoying you until you wake up, he wants attention >:(

• Please I just had an idea- he calls you sugar sometimes and when he wakes up and like, for the first hour of him being awake he has this hot morning voice <333 and he knows it makes you weak in the knees and you like that nickname so he probably calls you it the most in the morning-

NSFW

• Ik this is gonna sound really weird but I need you to stay with me on this, ok?!!?

• Sex with Cartman during sleepovers is usually sleepy sex or him fucking you (WITH YOUR CONSENT) while you sleep- PLEASE STAY WITH ME ON THIS I HC THAT HE'S INTO SOMNOPHILLA

• He definitely pokes/messes with your boobs just because it fun, also to try to wake you up

• Imagine sleepy sex with him tho- you're both half asleep but really horny so he promises he'll do it quickly and to make you feel good before y'all sleep. He'll hold you by the hips and fuck you on your side because he's too lazy for really anything else. But he's more gentle than normal and his pace is kinda slow, almost like he's teasing you <333

• Tbh he probably fucks you to sleep

• Ugh all I can think about is Eric pressing a couple of sloppy kisses on your neck and whispering how good you feel as he fucks you

• He's so much nicer when he's sleepy, praising you on how good you take him as his fingers circle your clit

• He's really quiet when he's sleepy, usually he won't shut up (I say this affectionately) but when he's like this it's just quiet moans and whimpers

• Eric fucking while you sleep isn't too much different tho

• He probably a little more awake and so he's rougher and gropes you more

• Your boobs are just so soft and he loves them, how could he not???

• One hand on your chest and the other on your hip so he can fuck you better <33333

• He doesn't exactly have a breeding kink but something about cumming in you is just addicting man, but he'd probably be gross and cum on your back and fall asleep before he cleans it up

• Or he cums in you... and then falls asleep IM SORRY THATS JUST SO FUNNY- he's gonna have to deal with a very angry you in the morning and you probably threaten not to have sex with him anymore for a week to teach him a lesson or something

• It does not work

• He's gonna fuck you on the kitchen counter while his mom is gone and breakfast is on the stove. The fact that half the reason he does that is to prove a point is so stupid and funny

• I mean he also thinks you're hot when you're angry/mad so like

• And like I said earlier, that morning voice of his makes you weak in the knees man

• He's gonna be smug all morning tho



I hope you like it, sorry if it sucks <333

[splatixboi]

Reposting this with tags this time, because my interest in bringing this plot to life hasn’t faded yet and I’m still thinking about it quite a lot.

While my ongoing fics are still too much of a mountain for me to climb right now, would anyone be interested in a Hualian fic based off of those abandoned building exploration videos? Not a long fic, likely no more than 4 chapters. It's been in my notes for a while now. I started watching those videos again and it keeps inspiring me. This also isn’t the only plot I’ve thought up while watching these YouTubers, so you may see my other plot in the future.

The premise is this:

Shi Qingxuan is the creator of a YouTube channel where they, (and He Xuan, who was dragged into this, but doesn't really have any complaints…… not like he'll say that out loud though.) explore abandoned structures throughout the country, and even the globe.

Shi Qingxuan's thrill seeking takes them and He Xuan back near their home and friends. Seeing this chance as both an exclusive video, and a fun time with friends, Shi Qingxuan invites Xie Lian along! To make up for the disappointment of their brother declining the invite, Feng Xin and Mu Qing tag along too, though it's less about fun and more about keeping Xie Lian safe and out of any trouble that may be caused by trespassing onto private property.

To Shi Qingxuan, though, their reason for coming matters not. The location is a couple hours away, so they all buckle up for the road trip ahead of them. it's not until they're in the car, however, that Shi Qingxuan spills the details of their next video location. A Hospital.

Xie Lian never did like hospitals… or anything medical for that matter. But, despite the worries from his two childhood friends, he decides it would be a shame to miss out and disappoint Qingxuan.

What he did not know, though, is that maybe there was more in store for him than he thought. He would come to find that in that quiet, empty hospital, was a Ghost who wished to seek help from him.

[mochegato]

Never Gonna Say Goodbye

Marinette took a deep breath before delicately pushing her elbow into the Queen manor doorbell so she wouldn’t risk dropping the three-tier cake she was barely able to support.  She’d had to focus all of her attention and brain power into not tripping, because if she dropped this cake now, she might actually cry.  She had spent three days doing nothing but work and the cake and decorations and had lost more than a few hours of sleep during that time.  She’d actually lost more sleep than she’d gotten, but who was counting?

Her single-minded focus had the added benefit that she hadn’t had the mental capacity to think about how she was going to be seeing Roy for the first time since he’d moved to New York without saying goodbye to her.  She had thought they were building toward something.  Up until he moved, she had been spending a good portion of her time with him and Lian, eating dinners together, her and Lian baking together, her and Roy sharing a glass of wine and chatting into the late night.

And then there was the kiss.  The single hottest, most toe-curling, skin tingling kiss she’d ever had.  A goodbye, be safe, come home to me kiss before he went on a mission.  But then she found out he was planning on leaving.  Not from him.  Oh no, he didn’t say a word to her.  No, she learned it from Jason, who assumed she knew, because why wouldn’t she?  She and Roy talked about everything else.

Until that moment.  Because after that, they didn’t speak… at all.  About anything.  He left, moved to the other side of the country, and never said a thing.  And now she had to spend an entire night in the same room with him.  If it had been up to her, she wouldn't have even come.  But this was for Lian… and Jason, but she was more concerned about Lian.  She wasn’t going to miss a chance to celebrate Lian’s birthday.  She hadn't stopped talking to her when Roy had shut her out, she certainly wasn’t going to stop being there for her even if it came with having to fracture her heart.  One more fracture wouldn’t be noticed.

She almost kissed Jason when he finally opened the door for her and cautiously took the cake from her.  “Hey Pixie Pop!  I was worried you weren’t going to make it,” he teased, but there was an edge of authenticity in his words.

She smiled at him and bumped her hip into his thigh.  “I just wanted to do some last-minute touch ups.”

“And it had nothing to do with getting lost… intentionally?” he joked.

Marinette rolled her eyes, knowing full well that he could feel it even if he couldn’t see it.  “No,” she insisted.  “And I’m here and I’m smiling and not hiding, so be nice.”

Jason stopped and turned to face her with a solemn look.  “I got you.  You know that right?  You don’t even have to ask, I’m there for you.”

Marinette’s lips widened into a watery smile.  If he hadn’t been holding his cake, she really would have kissed him… on the cheek.  “Yeah, I know.  Thank you, Jason.”

He maintained eye contact for a few more seconds, making absolutely sure she believed her own words, before nodding and continuing into the dining room.

As soon as they entered into the room, everyone was on them, trailing after the cake like large ducklings.  “What did you make?” Wally asked.  Marinette cursed him and herself under her breath, him for scaring her and herself because she should know better.  She always had to be on guard for him to just show up right in front of her out of nowhere.

“Well, Lian said she wanted chocolate so…” she trailed off, turning dramatically, her eyes sparkling with excitement.  “It’s chocolate chiffon cake with chocolate chips, chocolate hazelnut mousse filling, whipped chocolate caramel ganache, chocolate Italian meringue buttercream, with chocolate macaroons and pink and milk chocolate decorations on the top.”

Tim’s eyes had gotten wider with every utterance of the word chocolate until his eyes resembled a bush baby.  “That’s a lot of chocolate, isn’t it?” he asked carefully.

“You shut your filthy mouth,” Jason growled, pushing him away from the cake so he could observe it.  “It’s Lian and my birthdays and we want chocolate.”

“You have a problem with chocolate, you can walk yourself home,” Stephanie hissed.

“I drove,” Tim hissed back.

“There’s coffee in the cake and I brought coffee ice cream,” Marinette cut in placatingly.

Tim slowly turned away from Stephanie to size Marinette up, his eyes narrowed as he weighed her offering.  He maintained his position for four long beats before nodding.  “Yeah, okay,” he shrugged.

Jason smacked the back of his head, but it lacked the normal strength behind it.  “Just enjoy the cake, Timbo.”  He looked over to Marinette anxiously.  “But that’s a lot of coffee for a five-year-old.  Not that I’m judging!” he added on quickly.  “I’m just… helping put Lian to sleep tonight.”

“You’re okay with the massive amounts of sugar but not the tiny bit of caffeine?” Dick asked.

Jason glared at him and opened his mouth to snap at him, but Marinette cut in again before he could.  This was Lian’s birthday party.  She was not going to let petty bickering ruin it.  “I also brought vanilla ice cream and made raspberry sauce to accompany it if anyone wants.  It’s not all coffee.”

“That sounds absolutely amazing,” Stephanie breathed as she stared at the cake, her mouth watering.  “So, ah, for no particular reason, do we know when is the birthday girl is going to sho…”

“Marinette!” a small voice screeched, pushed through the people standing around, and barreled into Marinette’s legs, almost knocking her down.  She would have fallen back into the cake if it weren’t for Jason’s steadying arm holding her up.

Marinette picked her up instantly and set her on her hip with a kiss to her head.  “Happy birthday, Lian!”

“Hey, where was my birthday kiss?” Jason quipped as he kissed Lian on the other side of her head.

Marinette met Lian’s eyes and rolled her own dramatically, causing the birthday girl to burst out in giggles.  She gave Lian another kiss and smirked at Jason.  “It’s there.  You’re going to have to talk to Lian if you want to get it back.”  She looked up and caught Roy’s gaze with a timid smile.  Roy smiled back, bright and charming, almost like the ones he used to give her, but slightly more strained.  The difference broke her heart.  She turned away quickly so he wouldn’t see her smile falter.

Jason jumped between them and patted Roy on the shoulder.  “Good to see you.  I mean I suppose, you brought Lian and all so I guess you’re okay,” he offered with a smirk.

Roy groaned and shoved him away.  “This is my house, idiot.”

Marinette took advantage of the reprieve to center herself.  She focused on something other than Roy’s soul-shattering smile until her heart slowed to a manageable rate so she could shake it off and paste on a brilliant smile for Lian.  “How was your first day at school?  How was your teacher?  Was she as amazing as you hoped?  Did you get to do lots of fun things and meet lots of fun new friends?”

She was grateful she had a good grip on Lian, because the little girl had suddenly squealed loudly and started bouncing on Marinette’s hip, unable to contain her excitement.  “It was so much fun!  I met so many new people and I showed them my new Hello Kitty backpack.  There was another girl there.  Well, there was more than one, but Rose had a Hello Kitty shirt on.  We’re best friends now.  We even get to sit at the same table!  We played on the bars together.  She can’t do a flip yet, but I can.  We’re going to work on it Monday.  I can’t wait for Monday!”

Marinette grinned at her excitement.  “That sounds amazing, honey.  I’m so glad you’re having fun.”  She hugged her.  “You were so brave.  I’m proud of you.”

“Yeah, I was scared when I first got there and Daddy left and I was all alone.  But then I remembered you said I should try and be brave because you bet it would be fun and I wouldn’t know if I didn’t try,” Lian rushed out in one breath.  “And it was.  You were right,” she cheered.

Marinette had been so focused on Lian; she’d missed Roy coming over to watch them together.  His brow furrowed as he tried to work something out.  “When… um… when did she say that, Squeaker?”

“On Jay Jay’s phone before school.  We talked forever,” she answered breathlessly and collapsed against Marinette dramatically but popped back up almost instantly.  “Did you make the cake like you said you would?  What did you make for the cake?  You made the cake, right?”  Her head whipped around in search of the cake.  Her face scrunched in increasing distress when she couldn’t find it.

“First of all, hello to you too,” Jason huffed as he tweaked Lian’s nose causing her to giggle.  “Second…” he stepped to the side to reveal the cake hidden behind him.

Lian gasped, her hands flew to her mouth as her eyes widened in wonder moments before she emitted a high-pitched noise.  “It’s so pretty!”  She hopped down and ran to the cake until her face had almost smashed into it.

Roy stepped up next to Marinette and watched Lian, his face considerably more somber than anyone else at the party, except perhaps Marinette.  “It really looks amazing,” Roy agreed quietly.  “You did an incredible job.  Thank you for doing that and thank you for showing up.”

“It was Lian’s birthday,” she shrugged with forced nonchalance.  “Of course, I came.”

Roy turned toward her.  His eyes drove into her, fixing her with a weighted stare as he tried to read her, but no matter how long or intensely he stared at her, she refused to meet his gaze, fixing her own gaze at Lian, with an interest that would be more convincing if she were breathing.  “Daddy!  It’s so chocolatey!” Lian squealed, jumping into Roy’s arms.  “Can we eat it now?”

Roy reluctantly tore his gaze from Marinette to catch Lian in time.  “Not quite yet, sweetie.  But we can look at it until it’s time.  Come on, let’s go welcome your guests.  I thought I saw a few kids wandering around.”  He led her away but couldn’t stop himself from tossing a look over his shoulder in time to watch Marinette fall against Jason, his arms easily wrapping around her.  He glowered at the familiarity but pasted his smile back on for Lian.

The party moved quickly, all the friends conversing and laughing easily, everyone seemed to be in a light, joyous mood, but all of it felt wrong to Marinette.  She couldn’t breathe in the room.  Surrounded by some of her favorite people, she couldn’t relax.  She couldn’t enjoy the party.  She smiled for Lian and cheered as she blew out her candle and squealed about how much she loved her cake, but she needed to get away, somewhere she could be on her own and away from the suffocating atmosphere.  She let her feet lead her out into the Queen gardens, not paying attention to where her feet were taking her or who was noticing her leave, just letting her subconscious lead her away until she could finally take a full breath and then another.

Roy stepped up next to Marinette.  Closer than he had been in ages.  Close enough that he could hear her breaths and the way they sped up just slightly as he moved closer.  He waited for her to initiate the conversation, but just like before, she didn’t say anything.  She didn’t breach the void.  It was clear.  If he wanted to speak, it would be on him to start it.  “This is one of my favorite places,” he offered.  His voice tentative and soft.  He may have had the bravery to initiate the conversation, but not to do so without shaking.

Marinette startled slightly and tore her eyes from the flower bush she’d been staring at to look around like she was just noticing where she was.  “Oh, right.  I remember,” she admitted, her voice light and slightly dreamy.  “You brought me here before.  Sorry.  I didn’t… I was just wandering.”

He quirked his head as he examined her, usure how to proceed.  Unsure how to move their relationship forward like he desperately wanted to.  The last few months had been torture.  He no longer knew how to live without Marinette there and each and every day he lived since that glorious kiss, had felt like a half-life.  And now, he was lost and at a loss for words.

“Mari… I wanted to… um… I wanted to thank you… for continuing to talk with Lian.  You mean a lot… to her.  I think it would have broken her heart if she lost you.  You can…” he broke off and looked away with a shrug.  “You could always use my phone now.  Call me… to talk to Lian.”

Marinette focused intently on the flower bush again, attempting to ignore the way her heart compressed until it felt like it had been squeezed so tightly it had become transparent.  “I could… if you’re sure, I could do that,” she agreed.  She focused even more intently when the flower bush began to swim until it was out of focus.  She wanted to speak with Lian, but if she called Roy to speak to her, then she’d have to speak to Roy, and she wasn’t sure her heart could take that.

“You never said goodbye,” he said quietly, so quietly, she almost didn't hear it.  So quiet, she wasn't sure she was supposed to.

Marinette blinked as she tried to process his words.  “What?”

“I wanted… I was hoping you would come see me.  Why didn't you see me before I left?  I know you knew,” he answered, this time louder, more confident, though more vulnerable than before.

“Oh?” she asked, her voice sharp and pointed.  There was a dangerous edge to it that any other time Roy would have noticed and heeded.  “And how do you know I knew?

“Because people told me,” he glowered.  “Jason told me you knew.  He told me he told you.”

“Because you didn't," she snapped.  "Because you took time to tell everyone who mattered to you.  Because you made sure to sit down and go out and talk with everyone you cared about.  Because you gave presents to people before you left, even the people who would be closer to you after the move.”

She stood as straight as possible, subconsciously making herself larger and more imposing.  She stalked toward him.  “But you never did any of that with me.  So, no, I didn't seek you out.  I didn't call you up or run to your apartment or take special time, because I knew you wouldn't care.  Honestly, I didn't even think you'd noticed.”

“Oh?” he sneered.  He leaned back toward her, towering over her even without trying to.  “And what else do you know?  I want to know what things I should rethink.  Because if you were so epically wrong about that, I'm sure there are other things you've told me that are embarrassingly wrong.”

Marinette's anger flared; her eyes almost glowing in her fury.  And then it was gone.  She deflated with such speed, she had to blow out a breath from the force of the shift.  She looked away but he could still see the heartbroken look in them.  "Look, Roy, it’s late.  I should get home.  Thank you for allowing me to come tonight."  Her voice was flat and tired, wrung of all emotion.  She hesitated for just a moment like she wanted to add something, Roy held his breath for what she had to say, but then she left as silent as she’d been before he left.

The air seemed to fight Roy after she left.  It refused to refresh him or fill his lungs even as he gasped for it.  He pulled is hair until he could feel the pain radiating throughout his skull and groaned, the strength of it echoing throughout the garden.  He paced up and down the path a few times kicking some of the hedges as he moved.

That hadn’t gone how he’d anticipated at all, let alone how he’d hoped.  He’d anticipated it at least not getting worse, but he’d hoped she’d fall into his arms and apologize for cutting him out.  But instead… this.  He yelled again and kicked a hedge but groaned when he accidentally caught the corner of a stone bench.

He paced a few more times before his mind cleared up enough for him to finally think.  She had been waiting on him.  He’d been waiting for her to say something after their kiss and had assumed when she didn’t say anything, even knowing he was leaving, he’d assumed that was her comment on what she wanted, or rather, didn’t want.  That she didn’t want him.  That the kiss hadn’t been as tantalizing and mind-blowing for her as it was for him.  But she’d been waiting on him.  She hadn’t ended it, he had… and she was getting away again.

He raced through the gardens and into the dining room, pausing only a few moments to scan the crowd for her, before continuing through to the driveway.  He stopped in the doorway searching for her again, hoping and praying he hadn’t messed it up again because he waited.  Luckily, this time spotting her just a few steps from her car.  “Marinette!” he yelled as he ran after her, not slowing down until he was a few feet away from her, not willing to risk her deciding to leave for good.

He slid to a stop in front of her, chest heaving and eyes wild. “I noticed," he said breathlessly.

She blinked at him; her eyes open owlishly wide.  "What?"

“I... I noticed,” he repeated.  He reached out to run his hand along her face but pulled his hand back at the last second with a groan.  “Fuck, Mari, it's all I thought about for weeks, months.  Why didn't you call?  Why didn't you come see me?  Why didn't you care?  I could have sworn you did but then...”  He threw his arms out in frustration.  When he looked back at her, his eyes were intense, deep and swimming with emotion.  “How could you think I didn't care?  That you weren't the most important thing to me?”

She studied his eyes until her own started to water and her lips pulled down in an anguished pout.  “How was I supposed to know?” she begged, desperate for some guidance.  “You never called.  You never came to see me.  This massive thing happened in your life and you just...” she threw her arms out as well before meeting his gaze, but instead of the intense emotion his held, hers was resigned.  “And I knew.  I knew I was just another girl to you.  Just another one of those women you loved and left.  Just another hero you got caught up in a rush emotions with.”

She tried to look away when the tears started to fall, but Roy was having none of it.  He cupped her face and gently brushed away her tears.  “You were never just another anything.”  He moved closer until their chests were almost touching, his hands never leaving her face.  “You are the single most amazing woman I know.  You are brilliant and kind and creative and loving and supportive.  Just the thought of you makes me smile.  Even when I thought you hated me, thinking of you made me smile until the realization set in.  These past few months have been miserable.  New York hasn’t felt like home this entire time and it’s because you weren’t around to talk to.  You’ve become my home.”

Her tears were now falling so rapidly, he couldn’t keep up with them any longer.  She lurched at him, wrapping her arms around him and burying her head in his chest.  “I thought you didn’t care,” she managed between sobs.  “And I cared so much about you.  You and Lian mean so much to me.  It hurt so much.”

Roy’s lips were on hers in an instant, insistent and forceful trying to force out the pain with his fervor.  She responded in kind, pushing up against him and winding her hands into his hair to pull him closer.  He groaned as her fingernails grazed his scalp, and pulled her closer until her body had molded to his, no space between them.  His arms wound around her waist and shoulders, holding her in place for only a few moments before his hands started to wander, caressing her sides and back and eventually down to her thighs.  He lifted her up and set her on her car, pushing between her legs to get closer and encouraging her to wrap her legs around his waist.

She groaned at the sensation but pushed him back just far enough to breathe.  She looked up at him from under her lashes, chest heaving.  “I think we need to slow down.  Get back to where we were first.”

Roy nodded breathlessly.  His eyes searched her face like he was trying to make sure it hadn’t changed in his time away, reassuring himself that her cheeks still curved the same, her lips still bowed the same, and the same flecks still radiated out from her pupil.  “I’m so sorry I hurt you.  I promise I’ll do everything in my power to never make you cry again,” he promised, his breath fanning out against her lips.

Marinette smiled and let her eyes wander his face as well.  “Maybe we can start with a date,” she offered.

Roy’s smile widened, back to the brilliant and charming smile she was used to.  “How about tonight?  Now?”

Marinette giggled at him.  “Now?  What about the party?  Lian?”

He gestured wildly to wave away her concern.  “It’s Oliver’s house and Jason already planned on putting Lian to bed he’ll be fine doing it on his own and Lian would love for me to take you on a date.  Come on, let’s go now.  It would be her favorite birthday present.”

She looked unsure for just a second as she contemplated his words, but then a brilliant smile overtook her lips and she nodded.  “Yeah.  Let’s go,” she agreed, “but first…” she pulled him into another toe-curling kiss, the first of many, many more to come.

@maribatserver

[ghooostbaby]

thinking about this AU/head canon more, it does feel so impossible for hua cheng to ever even pretend to lose his memory. his investment in his identity, especially through very obvious not at all subtle visual aesthetics, is such an integral part of him.

and then he xuan is a total inversion this, integral to his identity is disappearance and disguise, his identity is unknowable, shifting, deceptive, hidden, opaque. (verrrry deep ocean creature of him, if i must say)

and god, this is the whole poetry of huaxuan for me ...

so allow me to change it to say that he xuan finds the imploded husk of a ghost form hua cheng after the end of tgcf and takes him in, and disguises himself

but as hua cheng heals he of course realizes it's he xuan but seeing as he's in disguise, assumes it because he xuan does not want to be recognized or want anything to do with hua cheng any more, perhaps he's only doing it to fulfill the "debt"

so he just soaks up all these moments of he xuan being sweet and open with him

and he xuan thinks hua cheng doesn't want to see him anymore, when hua cheng never shows signs of thinking about anything but xie lian. after the black water arc where he xuan made hua cheng go against his xie lian's wishes and then hua cheng never looked for him again except to demand he help shi qingxuan with the human array in imperial city, he assumes it was over. hua cheng never shows signs of wondering about he xuan, or even seeing through he xuan’s disguise, it is pretty weak after all (maybe on purpose). so he plans to only stay until hua cheng is well enough to go back to dianxia and then vanish again

so they're both lying to each other, while devouring every moment they get to be close to be each other before it ends. allowing myself the rare hurt&fluff

oh and stealing a scene from the show that gave me this brain worm - when hua cheng is back in a human form, (and of course there is only one bed!) in the middle of the night hua cheng wakes up to feel he xuan’s limbs holding him (octopus lover) and sees he xuan has unconsciously transformed into his true form and tentatively cuddles him back

also: i spent a lot of nearly-delirious-with-exhaustion-too-hot-to-sleep hours last night imagining hua cheng's post-implosion forms. i would especially enjoy if hua cheng never claimed to be hua cheng toward he-xuan-in-disguise, and thinks he's done a good job playing it cool, but his forms have been the most crimson rain dramatic aesthetic of all time...

he xuan finds in the volcano a tiny silver egg with fine tiny engravings (probably should be a cocoon for the butterflies but caterpillars/butterflies kind of disgust me so that can kindly get OUT of my imagination thank u) that after a few weeks of keeping it warm hatches to a deep red one eyed bird that sits on he xuan's shoulder singing the tune of the lullabye hua cheng's mother sang to him while he xuan is trying to read

anyway... after hua cheng left one day when he had recovered (he xuan thinking since he never said goodbye and went directly to xie lian he must have realized his real identity, and hua cheng thinking since he xuan never came after him he must really have only been doing it out of obligation). enter xie lian! who on his scrap collecting journeys he had found an old lonely scholar with a lot of rare and beautiful scrolls, and often had a lot of junk as well. they become friends and she would give xie lian scraps after sharing a cup of tea and snacks and getting xie lian to blushingly tell stories about his husband

one day at the end of the visit xie lian sighs and says "forgive me lord black water, but san lang really misses you."

*he xuan being shaken to his core*

anyway then hualian start dating he xuan and they all fall in love and are happy and cuddly and well fed forever :)

also he xuan wrote the scrap immortal ghost king smutty fairy tales book (who else would know both of their sexual proclivities, and personal tendencies so well?)

until the next climate despair avoidance heat wave sleep deprivation delirium night!

~

also, like i said in the previous post, i think there’s plenty of evidence that hua cheng and he xuan are important to each other and get along throughout and after the black water arc but for the purposes of angsty fluff here we are

[zahri-melitor]

New(ish) Comics: Gotham War Edition

So I’m doing this hey. Going to read a few lead ins I haven’t got to yet then dive in.

Batman #136: Tim is baby here. Bruce is…not doing well. The set up for this conflict is actually reasonably entertaining (aka ‘both Bruce and Selina have been keeping secrets that are causing problems’, the scale of which really pisses off the other). Gosh, that family scene is very much calculated to be circulated as a panel out of context, and I’m wondering if it’s real at all.

I am NOT going to advocate that Bruce needs therapy (folks. FOLKS. The therapy Bruce has had previously has got us into this mess) but I am going to point and laugh at his mental state a lot.

Knight Terrors Batman #1-2: I’m on record as disliking the whole Zur-En-Arrh mythos but at least this storyline is actually revisiting all aspects of it? We got the sensory deprivation tank back. Apparently me reading the entirety of the Black Casebook was actually worth it for something. Golly, this nightmare is so BORING. It’s literally ticking the boxes – lack of control, everyone is dead, replay of Crime Alley, etc. The Gun-Bat (gun-bat. GUN-BAT. ffs) just isn’t convincingly scary. The only interesting twist at ALL was Bruce getting to play as Joe Chill for a bit.

The Arsenal backup – seriously the lack of creativity in everyone’s nightmares SHOWS. Not being able to use the Cry isn’t a nightmare for Dinah, it’s something she understands intimately and knows how to work around. (“Nobody listens to me” is slightly better but also if you just pop your earrings back in Dinah, I am SURE Babs would be happy to go back to obsessively stalking you and being available to talk at any or all hours) Roy being beset by the events of 2010 to present and accompanying costumes is at least meta but it’s still ‘I miss Lian’ (we know, we know, you already lived through your nightmare).

Batman/Catwoman The Gotham War – Battle Lines #1: Maxie Zeus my sweetie!!! Oh wait I’m supposed to care about everything else here, but the fact it’s Tim kicking around Maxie is very satisfying. Love to see Robins against their own period rogues (one of Tim’s first proper times working with Oracle was a Maxie Zeus case).

Okay fine, whatever, Selina’s pitch for how to stop violent crime in Gotham. It’s incredibly silly, as has been widely canvassed, and ignores basic common sense questions like ‘what happens when security increases’, ‘what happens when you run out of these low risk high value targets’, ‘who is fencing all this and how is the increased black market bearing the weight of a higher flow of goods without dropping prices too far’ and ‘how is the entire room of detectives who’ve been operating in Gotham unaware of any changes in crime levels’. The whole club scene is just clearly here to start fracturing the family (yay!).

Wow I hate this version of Montoya I hate it so much, this is so jarring after just having read Gotham Central.

Anyway Selina is getting handed the idiot ball hard here, which is unfortunate, given this issue literally goes ‘here’s the clear point you’ve ignored’ as the last few pages.

Batman #137: Vandal Savage causing problems on purpose! LOVE YOU SAVAGE. (He’s so annoying. Nice to have him as a change to Ra’s) So battle lines are drawn up with Jason in Selina’s camp, Damian in Bruce’s and the rest of them currently in the centre trying to work things out. I still think everyone is being a bit helpless due to this storyline, but we’ll see how it develops.

Catwoman #57: Ehhhhhhh. Jason is weirdly excited about jacking cars here? This is trying SO HARD to position the whole conflict on a classism front and it just doesn’t work for me. “We can just solve financial inequality by Robin Hooding!” uh it doesn’t quite work that way folks. You know what also helps get people out of poverty? Education, healthcare and steady jobs that AREN’T likely to land people in the prison system. Yes also a cash injection can help but your whole training is oriented at continuing to acquire money by criming.

Dick dropping by to go ‘hey do you realise you’re being an idiot? Think about it, Selina’ was cute though.

HELLO SCANDAL PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HAVE A DECENT VERSION OF YOUR PERSONALITY. YOU ARE ALWAYS FUN.

Batman/Catwoman: the Gotham War - Red Hood #1: (the name goes on a bit hey) Can’t believe I’m reading a Red Hood tie in.

It’s pretty ridiculous, but at least Jason is aware this plan is goddamn stupid and is just exploiting it for his own ends?

Ah and there we go, people using guns when they shouldn’t, aka the whole self-defeating part of this whole scenario.

Okay. About to start Batman #138 but will pop that in a separate post with even more spoiler warnings.

[ungrateful-cyborg]

Happy Birthday! So, 💬: Any new character developments in the realms of your OCs? Any at all?

The Advocate has a friend!

Granted, we mostly wrote their first meeting fifteen years prior to our campaign, not long after TA got in trouble, but still. A friend. About as un-aging as him and who promised to kill him should TA lose control. He might have some trouble keeping his promise though, because in fifteen years TA has grown stronger while his friend is currently weaker than he used to be, but it's always good to have options.

More importantly, they understand each other and that's precious. And rare, for both of them.

Currently missing after he fell in a crevasse in Garlemald. He's not dead but he'll come back changed. Didn't have much development, however, because what I did with him was basically just his introduction.

(Realistically, a lot of my characters are glorified NPCs in my FC's verse but it's fun and it gives me more freedom with them than I'd have otherwise.)

He's killed his first enemies during a mission. One by accident (he didn't incapacitated him like he wanted to), another one because he didn't give Lian and A'idan any choice.

For now he's too worried about his boyfriend's health to really think about it but it'll come and it'll be difficult. Interesting though, because for all he's been wanting to be an adventurer, he definitely didn't take the measure of the cost until now.

Astrid will soon be back in Sharlayan, with the goal to give herself the Echo, or at least some way to jump into someone's body.

But I feel like to understand why Ms Goody Two-shoes would want something like that, I might need to explain that she very much died on the Isle of Val and is only back because the Lifestream spat her out. There was no will behind it, nothing. Think of it more like a solar eruption, but she was the aether sent out in the world.

And now that she knows she's dead, and that she doesn't technically have a body but is just a ghost in solid form, well... She knows enough about the Scions on the First to be aware that her time is limited. And Astrid doesn't want to die (again).

So, she's hoping for an alternate solution. And to find a fresh corpse to inhabit, morbid as it is. Or maybe a clone. She's not picky.

(Obviously it's not something she'll admit out loud :'D)

Skaar's finally in the East! And he's managed to punch his son's boyfriend less than one hour after meeting him o/

Currently he's trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in the adventurers' group a few of his FC members helped create. So far he's mostly under the impression that they've decided fucking was more important than doing their job but, in their defense, he's gotten that impression because his 'host' is an agent of chaos who described their current situation in hm... colorful ways.

He's realized that eventually, but I've yet to write the fall out with my rp partners. It'll be fun, though!

And that's it. The others are just living their life without much changes so far.

Thank you for the ask, @dragoons-mid-jump! Helped me realize that they've been through some things, in fact, despite me not having much energy to roleplay.

[c-nstantine]

Sneaky Link Roy

Description: A deeper dive into sneaky link Roy and Y/N

Warnings: Suggestive content, allusions to sex, cursing, sneaky links

Word Count: 0.8k

"Roy, what did I say about calling me?" Y/N asked while she rubbed an expensive cleanser onto her face. He just happened to facetime her the one night all of her siblings were in town for some mission. Her phone was placed on her vanity counter as she did her nighttime skincare routine. Her knotless braids sat in a bun on top of her head while she wore a robe with her name embellished on it.

"I know, I know, but I need you," Roy's eyes couldn't help but travel down the silk robe. His mouth went dry at the sight of her cleavage.

"We're not exclusive, you could call someone else," Y/N offered. As much as she hated the thought of him with someone else, it would be the safer alternative if Jason or Dick caught them together.

"I want you, though," Roy whined and Y/N had to reconsider her choices. For him to be just her sneaky link, she didn't like the power he had over her emotions. She didn't appreciate how sweet he was to her but she loved how he begged for her attention.

"Okay, you always know what to say. I'll be over in thirty," Y/N said hanging up the phone.

Y/N had an important in the city that she rarely stayed in. It made the perfect place for her and Roy to meet up. Donning a pair of sweats and a zip-up hoodie, Y/N stuck her head out of her bedroom door. The key now was to avoid Alfred. If she timed it right, she could make it through the front door without anyone knowing she was gone for at least two hours.

"It's late, where are you going?" Damian asked as his sister attempted to sneak out of the manor. Y/N almost cursed once she remembered that Damian was off patrol because of his broken arm.

"Out," Y/N suspiciously drew out the one-syllable word.

"Out or out-out," Damian questioned trying to gauge if he wanted to come with her or not.

"I'll buy you a month's worth of vegan Ben & Jerry's if you walk away and don't tell anyone," Y/N offered with a quirked eyebrow. Damian contemplated his choices and realized that ice cream is always the answer.

"Deal," He backed away slowly into the hallway and Y/N dashed the excite.

- Roy doesn't remember how he ended up shirtless and cuffed to Y/N's bedframe. All he remembered was walking into her apartment and being attacked with kisses. She had him stripped to his boxers and she wore the thinnest lingerie he had ever seen. She straddled his lap and placed a ball gag in his mouth.

"Don't start whining, yet. We've barely started," Y/N said as she kissed his cheek. She stopped when she heard a phone buzzing on the floor.

"It's Jade," Y/N said as she held up his phone. Roy's eyes widened as he realized how this was about to go. Jade managed to call Roy almost every time he was with Y/N. It was never about Lian, either and that just pissed Y/N off even more.

"Hello," Y/N spoke into the cell phone while running her hand up and down Roy's thigh.

"Who is this?" Jade asked.

"Let's not pretend you don't know who I am,"

"Where's Roy, Y/N?" Jade asked with venom on her tongue. Y/N enjoyed teasing the assassin. It was like taking the bully's favorite toy.

"He's a little busy at the moment," Y/N said as she searched her bedside drawer for more fun playthings. Roy was sweating bullets. He knew that Jade was mildly crazy but Y/N was wildly petty.

"Give him the phone," Jade demanded.

"I would, but there's a gag in his mouth. He looks so pretty tied to the bed," Y/N winked at Roy and his cheeks turned an even brighter red than his hair. He was in for the night of his life.

"I will fuck your shit up," Jade threatened into the phone's speaker. Y/N simply removed the phone from her ear and waited for Jade to finish her string of curses.

"Bitch, you're the one who calls every time we're together," Y/N noted without missing a beat.

"And you'd think that the spoiled princess would learn to take a hint," Jade spoke and Y/N chuckled to herself a little before responding.

"You know what, I'm not arguing with a woman whose baby daddy just ate my ass," Y/N said without a hint of remorse. She had a smirk on her face the entire time. The line went quiet before Jade began to scream into her phone.

"You bi-," Jade started before being rudely interrupted.

"Have a blessed night. Okay, where were we?" Y/N turned to face Roy with bright eyes.

[secondgenerationnerd]

Hey can you do more speeding arrow fluffy posts on how they FINALLY realised their feelings for each other ☺️ like I'm curious about the exact moment they realised Oh fuck I'm in love with my bff

Hey, my love! So I work weird hours/don’t always have the energy to write things, which is why I tell people my inbox is always open. It helps me under what people want to read 💜💜

As for speeding arrow, they’re “oh fuck” moments fall on opposite ends of the spectrum. The emotional connection had always been there between them. This was their person, the one they could never bullshit, the one that has their back but calls them out.

Lian’s realization hit her like a ton of bricks. After the girls got back from Themyscria, Lian had a wet dream about Jai. It freaked her out because this was Jai! Her best friend! How could she imagine him touching her like that…wanting him to touch her like that….touching herself and wanting it to be him…She definitely hates herself for it. With Jade in and out of her life and Roy doing free lance work, Jai’s one of her few constants in life. As much as she wants, she can’t act on her feelings. Losing him would break her.

Jai, I think, slowly realizes it as they grow up, but his “Oh.” Moment was watching her perform on stage. They were maybe 15, before the girls left for Themyscira for the summer, and Jai had been cheated on by his first girlfriend. He was dating his second (who would later cheat on him), but Omega had gone to one of Lian’s shows as a team. When she preforms, Lian is radiant. She has a power over the crowd, feeds off their energy, and is impossible to look away from. Jai’s “oh.” Moment was him realizing this is how he thinks about her all the time.

I’d love to say they figure it out quickly but…they be stupid. Neither of them wants to cross that line, because if it fails they lose the one person who means everything to them. Omega spent several months watching them pine for the other, new couple Colin and Milagro getting cockblocked by both of them repeatedly due to another crisis.

Once they are dating, the only thing that changes is a few physical boundaries. They’re still each other’s person.

Jai is still the one to hold her when she misses her mom so much, she can’t breathe. Lian’s still the one Jai goes to when the voices in his head are too much.

Jai’s still the one to call her out when she’s being bitchy (he never calls her a bitch, just that she’s acting bitchy). Lian’s still the one who won’t let him run from his problems.

They come into the relationship with 12+ years of friendship. Even with added physical intimacy, the early relationship awkwardness just…isn’t there. They’ll tease each other, flirt like they’re the only ones in the room, cheat at video games and accuse the other first, and just…when they’re together, anything is possible. They can do anything as long as they have each other.

[sanini-panini]

last night i mentioned i was doing this oc ask game and some friends off tumblr threw questions at me but i thought i’d cross post here for funsies (part 4). this one is... also long because it involves all nineteen characters.

🙊 SPEAK-NO-EVIL - what is something your oc will refuse to stay quiet about?

ENNEAD

jinal - injustice. if she sees something wrong, she's going to step in and fix it. after what happened with skye, she's done being a passive observer.

haku - ask them why they haven't used their powers of infinite regeneration to fix their vision yet and you will earn yourself a free lecture on the necessity of imperfection.

minerva - i talked about this here already! the tldr is that she will always advocate for her loved ones and their well-being.

ven - they are very vocal about their hyperfixations, which tend to be related to music, TV, or movies. it's the ADHD.

kai - if he sees someone making what he considers a mistake, he will intervene. often this intervention takes the form of gentle advice or a cryptic discussion that prompts self-reflection, but sometimes he is more direct.

mateen - he's not the Advice Friend like kai is, but given his past, he is unable to stay quiet when he sees someone acting recklessly and doing something they'll regret later. it just reminds him too much of himself.

ridwan - injustice. they refuse to stay silent in the face of the same kind of fear-based persecution that almost got them publicly executed. they are a staunch activist for civil rights and if you mention the word capitalism while they are in the room you will hear about unionization.

silpa - ask them about any of the unsolved problems in mathematics and you will earn yourself a free lecture, most of which will probably go right over your head.

felix - kpop. i said what i said.

NEW GUARD

ilia - this is difficult because ilia is a fairly quiet person actually... but i think she could talk for hours about historical fiction and period dramas

morgan - if you accuse her of being wrong (even on the smallest thing), she will give you a ten page reply with footnotes. this is how peter and juli got her to deliver a passionate diatribe about the color chartreuse.

peter - i was stuck on this one until i remembered his reaction to morgan throwing away dirty dishes and like. yeah. that's it. if peter sees someone being wasteful, he will not stay quiet.

juli - kpop. felix is about to get an hour-long powerpoint presentation on all the kpop moments he missed during his fifty years in prison.

lian - high school musical. next question.

joshua - if he feels like he or his loved ones are being wronged, you will hear about it, and he will tell you exactly what he thinks of you.

rae - injustice. this applies to the big obvious things (the classist structure of modern society under corporate capitalism and the inherent corruption of the justice system under the Soul Stealers), and it also plays into his philosophy on parking tickets, a la henry david thoreau.

karyme - so her public passion is media preservation, and she's a big name in the archival scene online. that said. if you know her well enough you will unlock the rant on all the ways the internet is absolute shit when it comes to media analysis. this includes a visceral denouncement of modern retellings, a lament on how found family has morphed into a mirror of nuclear family structures, and a list of all of the tags you should probably blacklist if you want to avoid absolutely braindead takes.

auster - this is difficult because auster is like. the master of Not Speaking. but i think one thing that gets him to speak up without fail is self-deprecation from people he cares about. he knows they're wrong, and he'll tell them why in the most earnestly beautiful speech you've ever heard, and then he'll turn bright red as he realizes exactly what he just said.

and as a bonus...

joel - his math homework. it's torture, don't you see? absolutely horrid. none of it makes sense. why do people do this for fun.

[tmosp]

Hello and welcome to The Mystery of South Park’s Tumblr page!

This a zombie apocalyptic mystery Au which takes places aprox. 2 years in the future, and will end 4 years in the future.

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Kenny and Tweek are NOT dead, just missing. Kenny was just thought to be dead

groups/teams are chosen at random, not based off friendships

Most people snuck out/ didn’t show up to school the day of the lockdown so more people show up later on!

each chapter finale will be an animatic (they take a while so apology in advance!)

there will be gore

I don’t “kill off” characters for the sake of killing, but based off of who i think would survive and based on the characters luck

Randy and Sharon got divorced a year prior

Old art is REALLY bad

A portion of zombies can infect people, the rest just kill

Kenny no longer wears his hood over his face

tweeks hair is a little bit longer (for now) so he can tug on it easier

Each chapter= new designs

my art is still improving, gets better the more i get used to this style

kenny can die,he needs his mom to be revived, his moms dead.

kenny is immune to ONE bite if he were to get infected by said zombie

Kyle and Cartman really hate each other (important later on)

Kyle and Stan are close friends and trust each other most

Craig shows most emotion when worried

Tweek is more likely to startle/ alert zombies when panicking or getting stressed

1 half of the country is still safe

hordes can be alerted if a zombie screeches

some other random survivors (not any key characters) went insane, so they have to look out for those too

this is inspired off of the zombie virus animals can get because of that parasite thing, except in this AU it spread to humans

someone has 1 hour until infected after being bit by an infectant zombie, if they die they will come back an hour later

somebody is behind all of this

characters still alive as of epilogue/ beginning of ch.2

Stanley Marsh

Shelley Marsh

Randy Marsh

Sharon[redacted](safe, different state)

Kyle broflovski

Ike broflovski

Kenny McCormick

Karen McCormick

Eric Cartman

Liane Cartman

Leopold Butters Stotch

Tweek Tweak

Craig Tucker

Tricia Tucker

Clyde Donovan

Jimmy Valmer

Tolkien Black

Scott Malkinson

Bebe Stevens

Nichole Daniels

Wendy Testaburger

Heidi Turner

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Why did stan and wendy break up?

Because they break up a lot in the show so i decided to implement that here, it also has a role in the story later on. Im torn between stendy and style as well, i love both.

Are Tweek and Craig still together?

of course (they’re so silly I love them)

they just had a fight and Tweek got lost wandering angrily.

Are clyde and Bebe dating?

Yes!

How long will this story be?

It will be about 10 chapters minus ch.1/ epilogue consisting of about 25 parts each, so 11 chapters in total possibly more.

How many deaths?

Im not too sure yet, not too many, but also not too few.

what inspired this?

Literally almost every South park AU ever.

do you ship kyman?

NO. (i really want that to be clear 😭 i do NOT ship kyman in any way shape or form.)

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I will answer any other questions anyone may have!

I will post every chapter after the epilogue on here and insta!

Thank you

[awhitehead17]

Batfam Alphabet: V - Valentine’s Day

Summary: Finding himself bored on Valentine’s Day evening, and no it’s not because he’s single, Jason ends up dragging Damian along with him to go and spy on their brother’s date to see how it’s going.

Enjoy! :D

When the front door slams shut with a loud bang Jason shakes his head in disbelief. For the last three hours both Dick and Tim had been running around like headless chickens as they each got ready for their dates that night. After trying on several different outfits and scrambling around the house trying to find their wallets and phones the two of them ended up practically sprinting out the front door claiming, ‘they’ll be late for their dates if they don’t leave right now.’

Once they’re gone the place settles into silence Jason sighs and mutters to himself, “Valentine’s Day is such a stupid holiday. Why is it even a thing?”

Jason most certainly doesn’t jump when a voice speaks up commenting on his muttering.

“You’re just saying that cause you’re single.”

Jason glances over and sees Damian sat crossed legged on a love seat with his sketchbook on his lap, the kid isn’t even looking at him as he’s focused on his drawing instead.

In amusement Jason snorts. “This may surprise you but so are you brat.”

“I’m 12 what’s your point?”

“People date at your age.”

Damian finally looks up and sends him an unimpressed look. “Tt, I have no interest in such things. there are far more important things to be doing than… that.”

“Sure, sure.” Jason says rolling his eyes.

“It must hurt that Harper clearly has something better to do tonight than hang around with you.”

Jason straightens up and narrows his eyes at the kid for the unnecessary comment. “I have no idea what you’re implying brat, but yes actually, he does. He’s busy being a date with Lian to her school dance and then he’s taking her out for ice cream afterwards.” It was a cute thought, even cuter because Roy sent him a picture of Lian all dolled up in her fluffy purple dress with matching sparkling shoes.

Damian doesn’t seem bothered by his explanation. The kid shrugs and continues drawing. “And yet you’re still here badgering me. It’s like you have nothing better to do with your time Todd.”

“Okay that’s rude and for starters I was here first.” Jason points out. The kid is probably looking for a fight but Jason isn’t taking the bait.

When Damian doesn’t respond to him Jason thinks it’s probably for the best. It’s either hit or miss with the two of them. They either get along well, as they can often relate to one another’s experiences regarding their time in the League of Assassins, but at other times they’re like oil and water, they just don’t mix and the tiniest spark will set them off.

The two of them sit in silence, Jason with his book and Damian with his sketch book, the only sounds being from when Jason turns the page and the constant gentle scratch of pencil against paper. After reading several more pages Jason finds himself bored, not even the great words of Jane Austen is helping to distract his mind that evening.

After a moment of pondering Jason turns to Damian again, watching the kid for a second before he speaks up. “Fancy going and spying on their dates?”

The pencil continues gliding across the page and when Damian doesn’t answer for several beats Jason begins to think that perhaps Damian didn’t either hear him or he’s ignoring him. Before he could ask the question again, and yes Jason is that desperate to do something that evening that he's asking his youngest brother to go and spy on their other brothers while on their dates, Damian looks up and the pencil stops moving.

“Grayson or Drake?”

“I was thinking Tim.” Jason answers, having already thought about it. “He's more awkward and his relationship is newer, he’d be more entertaining to spy on than Dick because he and Babs have been together for years and no longer have that awkwardness to their relationship anymore.”

Damian shuts his sketch book and stands up. “Very well. We’ll leave in 10.” Then with that the kid walks out of room leaving a blinking Jason to wonder what just happened.

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Almost half an hour later, Jason finds himself sat next to Damian on a rooftop opposite a restaurant where Tim and his boyfriend are current having a late dinner together for Valentine’s Day. The restaurant is filled with couples on their dates all doing the same thing.

Jason rolls his eyes at the concept. Seriously, what is it about Valentine’s Day? It’s so commercialised, overrated and just tends to make people feel either pressured to do something for or with their partner because of the day or those who are single feel shit about themselves because they’re not in a relationship.

Jason isn’t bitter about the holiday because he’s single, he couldn’t give a damn about it, but his points stands. If he remembers rightly, when Valentine’s hit when he had been living on the streets the amount of either half empty or even full boxes of chocolates he used to find made it worth it, it was one of the only times a year he would get to taste something sweet.

“This is pathetic.”

It’s great to know he’s not the only one who despises the holiday. Jason glances at Damian, who’s to his right, and shrugs. “Are you talking about us or them.”

Damian scoffs. “Both?”

Jason nods accepting the answer because it’s true.

Jason glances at the restaurant again and just about spots Tim with his date. They’re sat opposite one another on a small square table, a little to the side of the window. They currently don’t have food in front of them but they do have drinks and Tim is constantly fiddling with the glass and is often taking sips from it. Jason snickers, the fiddling is Tim’s tell tale of his nervousness. The kid is a vigilante, skilful in various of martial arts styles and is a boy genius and yet he’s nervous on a date. How cute.

His date leaves the table, Jason is going to assume he’s going toilet, and Tim continues with his fiddling despite being alone. Tim wipes his hands on his trousers and his leg starts to bounce up and down repeatedly in another sign of nervousness.

“We could literally be doing anything else right now Todd and yet we’re sat here.” Damian scowls from his seated position next to him.

“Hey, you agreed to come along baby bat. You didn’t have to.” Jason points out. “Anyway we won’t be here all night. I just want to see how things are going then we can be off, we may as well patrol while we’re out here.”

They’re dressed in their suits of course. After deciding to go via rooftops, being dressed as their personas made more sense.

Jason’s attention is soon drawn away from Tim when the door of the restaurant bursts open and a petite woman storms out. There’s a guy right behind her who stumbles when the door hits him but he quickly recovers and chases after the woman who’s started to storm down the street.

Jason whistles quietly. “Oh drama…”

He’s too far away to hear what’s being said but as soon as the guy catches up to the girl there’s shouting going on. It was clear the woman was furious at the man and it’s obvious he’s trying to apologise for whatever happened. She isn’t listening to him though, she’s stubbornly shaking her head and slapping his hands away every time he tries to touch her.

The two of them have drawn in quite the crowd. People passing them on the street are watching with either interested or fed up looks, those in the restaurant are watching the scene unfold from their seats through the window and are clearly talking about what’s going on.

In the end the woman’s clearly had enough, she shoves the man backwards and storms away. Dejected, the man watches after her, his form slumping forwards and in on itself. Apparently deciding to not go after her a second time he turns on the spot and heads back inside the restaurant.

“That’s rough.” Jason comments. He glances at Damian who looks bored and like he would rather be anywhere but here right now. “See, that’s why I stay single. No drama happens when you’re single.”

“Noted Todd. Not that anyone would date you anyway.”

Damian deserves the shove Jason gives him. The little brat’s full of sass tonight. Is Damian taking it out on Jason because Tim isn’t there to take the brunt of it? He doesn’t know but speaking of the third Robin, Jason turns back to him to find his date’s returned and they seemed engrossed in a conversation, Tim's still fiddling but it seems to have eased down than moments before. The date must be going well then, at least it looks like it is.

Sighing he stands up and stretches his muscles. “C’mon kid, lets go. There’s not much else to see here, though I’m glad we saw some drama, at least it made the trip worth it.”

“How you to find pleasure in others misfortune.” Damian remarks, now also standing up.

Jason rolls his eyes. “It isn’t like that, and also I’m not the only one to comment on drama happening y’know.”

“Whatever Todd. I’ll leave you to your weird fetishes.” Jason blinks at Damian, thrown off guard by his continuous comments of the night. It turns out Damian wasn’t waiting for an answer anyway as the kid continues talking. “Now let’s go. We can still patrol a decent amount instead of sitting here wasting our time.”

Shaking his head Jason gestures for Damian to go ahead and take lead. As the kid disappears Jason glances at the restaurant one more time, Tim’s still yapping away which is good to see, however he spots the same man from the argument earlier walk out of the doors of the restaurant this time alone and with his head hung low.

He’s going home single tonight then Jason muses to himself. Whatever happened between him and that woman will sort itself out, whether they make up in the end or split apart he’ll never know but it certainly makes him wonder.

After a moment he shakes his head and clears his mind, Damian’s gone now and he needs to catch up with him.

[twistedhxart]

❛  honey, i’m home!  ❜ - from Ruben, bc he wanted to hear how it sounds and see how Lian reacts :D

It wasn't that Lian was surprised at his arrival, knowing Ruben would arrive at this hour, it was more how he greeted him. He couldn't deny, and probably couldn't hide, that a familiar heat was building up in his cheeks, turning them a reddish color.

'Honey' - Thinking about it for too long while standing still in the room would attract attention and perhaps lead to an awkward situation, so Lian practically forced himself to pull himself together and moved in the direction Ruben had called out to him from.

With a pleasantly warm feeling in the pit of his stomach, he spotted him just brushing his jacket off his shoulders. "I… Hi!" Raising his hand, he gave him a quick wave. Didn't he deserve an equally affectionate gesture?

Before Ruben could completely disrobe, Lian had stepped over to him and embraced him warmly, pressing a soft kiss to his cheek. "I missed you." It was only yesterday that they had last seen each other, but that didn't matter now.