Whumptober Day 1 - "How many fingers am I holding up?"
"-an? Stan, I need you awake right now mate!"
Piper woke to someone shaking her... but was woke the right word? She hadn't been sleeping. She'd been...
Her hand drifted to her chest. The movement was clunky in a way she couldn't fully comprehend, more focused on how the skin was undamaged. Not even any blood.
Someone snapped their fingers in her face.
"Come on buddy, I know this is a big deal but we need to make sure you're ok first. Look at me, how many fingers am I holding up?"
"I'm fine," Piper said, then immediately recoiled at her own words. They were deep and gravely without any of the years of work she'd put into training it. "What's happening?"
The security officer, and only one, weren't there two before? looked concerned. "Someone broke in, and you... you did what you were trained to do, ok? You're not going to be in trouble for this, I'll make sure of it. We'll be ok, Stan."
Piper's other hand tightened around the amulet. She would have thought she'd dropped it when she'd been shot, but it tingled in her hand. Her hand that was too big and calloused and wearing a ring that was so tight she wanted to tear it off with her skin attached.
At least it was quiet. Only two sets of breath and a quiet drip, drip, drip.
She slowly turned around.
"Stan no, look at me-"
And there her body lay. It was already growing pale, hair spread like a halo across the polished tile.
"You killed me," Piper muttered.
"Stan? Come on, get away from it..."
"I would have surrendered."
Her arm lifted the amulet without conscious thought, placing it gently around her neck.
The officer was pointing a gun at her. She was being threatened again.
"I don't know what's going on, but just put that back where it belongs and we can sort it out with the cops. I know you normally take the lead, can you trust me to keep us safe this once?"
He looked so hopeful, so sincere. Piper barely registered any of it. Only when he reached for the amulet did her emotions come flooding back, anger and fear and a need to get out.
Do you want a way to leave? something deep inside her whispered. You know how. It's part of you now. Embrace it.
Piper ran. Walking turned to a flat out sprint turned from two sets of boots to one turned from feet to four paws that carried her out and into the night.
And as she found a spot to lay down and sleep, Piper Danaus become Morph.
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in light of tedtrent becoming so real, im also jumping on the tedtrent epilogue 😊
there's just no way ted wouldn't keep in touch with the others (and have weekly zoom meetings just like in the christmas special) and I just love the thought of the whole team having reunions once in a while.
and going back to trent's arc in s3, the sunflowers conversation, "And your daughter?" "She's never been happier." I think it could go the same for ted.. we've never really properly saw how henry felt about his dad being in london, it's always other people that told ted his son misses him, who's to say henry would rather see his dad happy because that in turn would make him happy too? he was there to win the whole thing, right? I just know ted’s story isn’t done yet when he still hasn’t learned to let others take care of him in return and who else to pair him with than the man who blew up his career because a man was nice to him (and also because they were so. so cruel for the fakeout tedbecca scenes for that finale) 🥺
I'm no writer so just pretend these are snapshots of a slow burn fic where ted visits london for their team reunion and slowly realizes that trent has a crush on him and they kiss about it 💛
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thinking about the tidestrider siblings and just how tragic they are cause like you have gillion the prophet the chosen one by his unfortunate birth right and raised by people turning him into a weapon rather than a diplomat/scholar. a boy taken away from his family to be corrupted for government need all because of the day he was born. a boy who’s life has been lie given the recent episode (110). someone who has been fighting for not the entirely right reasons. someone who is trying to undo all that has been hardwired into his head because of the family he’s formed above water. and then there’s edyn. who had to watch her younger brother be taken away. who could only visit when given permission because family means nothing. do you think when she heard the prophecy she assumed he was going to be raised different than he was? do you think the first time she visited and saw her baby brother beaten and covered in scars she knew something was wrong? do you think she was weary of the elders from the beginning but didn’t feel like she could do anything until gillion was banished? do you think she ever regrets the fact that she had to watch him grow up from a far and couldn’t spend quality time with him? do you think she left the undersea to try and do anything to get him protection from the elders? do you think maybe she works with raft to give herself and gillion protection? do you think she feels she has to do this because if the elders won’t protect him and she can’t who will? do you think she trusts in her brother to do the right thing but ultimately, knowing his training, is worried he’ll make the wrong call? do you think relief washed over her meeting chip and jay and knowing he was still able to find a family?
do you think gillion ever considers the pain he may have caused to edyn? do you think he would assume edyn to be disappointed in him not having an identity outside of the chosen one? do you think while in the black sea he remembers her letter and how she may never know what happens to him?
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So I been wanting to post the doc of lore I have for Sai lore and Snatcher and Sai first meeting so I thought 'WHY NOT BOTH?'
SO THATS WHAT I'M DOING!!
1) Sai lore info here (This isn't finished cause when I get more stuff wrote down for Sai the more I will fill in the doc!)
2) Snatcher and Sai first meeting + There's info lore with Lurker who belongs to @chocowhomps who is also the friend that's in this doc! AND ITS ALL SCREEN SHOTS in the future I might have it typed out but for now you guys get screenshots!
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