#jericho rant

[jerichothejester]

I've done a deep dive into tales from the gas station and the lack of x reader fics is abominable I'm literally tweaking out in a corner rn someone please sedate me

[babellanas]

Noxus:Dogs & Masters,

sometimes Wives & Husbands, sometimes Faux-Comrades

I think the most I've ever elaborated on the parallels of these three pairs(Darius-Swain, Vlad-LeBlanc, Sahn-Uzal-Katash-Li) is by joking about an apparent husband-wife dichotomy, but well, here it is, an analysis, from the interpersonal to the culture to the narrative.

The husband-wife joke works as it expresses the expected submission from one of the parties, I must point out that I mean it more symbolically than anything, because it is also relevant for the narrative that these people don't share any meaningful intimacy, then it becomes a sour marriage-like dynamic present to different degrees of both subservience and honesty:

1. The Blueprint

Sahn-Uzal and Katash-Li's relationship serves as the base in the sense both of the other two ultimately drawing back to it and that it is the most base. The most honest on this expected submission, there is no illusion of equality between them, Sahn-Uzal is Katash-Li's master, and that's that. And yet there is hope for more. There is longing for real camaraderie, but that camaraderie requires them to be on equal terms which they never were, even in Katash-Li's hope that they were indeed friends. So what does this make Katash-Li, a man so desperately trying to gain the warmth of his master, but a dog.

2. The Reluctant

Then enters the man of the hour, LeBlanc, and trailing behind her in her shadow, Vladimir. The two founders of the Black Rose are stated repeatedly to have formed their alliance based of a mutual sentiment of finally finding an equal for the first time. And yet it appears LeBlanc plays the Sahn-Uzal role, unknowingly, unwittingly living up to his tyranny. The souring of LeBlanc and Vladimir's relationship overtime is due to a clash on interests and approaches (ex: Vladimir loves a public appearance, LeBlanc prefers working from the shadows) but if that were the end of it then it wouldn't manifest in the way it does, the rot of the problem is that LeBlanc doesn't respect this initial sentiment of camaraderie. She is constantly making a point of asserting herself as the one in power and thus of asserting Vladimir as her inferior:

She's extremely condescending towards him, she's not subtle in the fact she can't stand the fact he's stubborn enough to reject her authority and settle himself as her equal. She has to remind herself to NOT underestimate him because it is her first instinct to do so, he's Cute, he's Outliving His Usefulness and yet she monitors him like Big Brother 1984 at the faintest hint of Suspicious Behavior (look at his pink cheeks, think about all the useless frivolous hedonistic activities he must have engaged in last night...thess are normal thoughts to have about my second in command) because to her he's like a dog she has to keep on a leash, ergo she must affirm herself as the master.

3. The (more or less) Unaware

And finally our last pair, Swain and Darius. Now, these two seem to share a undeceptively equal relationship, there's a tenderness and familiarity towards Darius in Swain's voicelines that is not found towards any other. But I think about this one Legends of Runeterra card interaction a lot, the one where Swain calls Darius his "favourite kind of soldier" and the other one where he tells him very sternly not do disappoint him...there's definitely a power dynamic here that is not present in their more personal, dare I say, intimate lines in the main game. That, along with the fact that while Swain deeply admires and respects Darius he's quick to speak over him in order to appease a fellow aristocrat of his coarse,commoner way of speaking, so to say the least, there is a clear class distinction between them due to their respective backgrounds even if they hold equal political power. In his in-game voicelines towards Darius, Urgot taunts him and in such refers to Swain as his "master", in a similar manner to Katash-Li being referred as Sahn-Uzal's dog.

The masters here being Sahn-Uzal(Mordekaiser, onwards), LeBlanc and Swain. Sahn-Uzal being the blueprint of these honestly tarnishing and eventually self-tarnishing behaviors has no need to conceal them, LeBlanc as much as she's able to recognize the pattern that repeats in history is surprisingly lacking in self-awareness (what exactly do you think is going to happen when you keep condescendingly poking at a man with a record of betrayals towards anyone who dares force him into subservience behind him?).

Then comes Swain, who is trickier, as we know rather little of his inner thoughts; Swain is by all means, a sadist, as much as he poses himself as a pragmatic man, he enjoys getting his hands dirty("I have killed more men with words than by my own hand. Not for lack of trying"), he's a lot more playful than LeBlanc, who is rather indifferent to the deed (In spite of how terminally constipated he looks in his splash, he smiles quite a lot in canon, and never for a good reason!). Swain relishes in his enemy's failure, in their agony and dare I to go as far as to say their pain, he doesn't need to be righteous to be in the right. Then it is also relevant to point out that even in her stone-faced machinations, anyone with half a brain is able to see how needlessly cruel and psychological, personally torturous many of her methods to the point of questioning if she actually enjoys herself when she does this, even if it just a minuscule part of her buried deep.

The Dogs, being Katash-Li, Vladimir and Darius, are all very aware of the power structures that permeate their standing to various degrees: The most keenly aware here would be Vladimir who is very staunchly against any power being exerted over him so he finds himself in a constant push and pull with the one he refuses to be his master. Katash-Li, on the contrary is completely resigned to this position, is not that he likes being called a dog behind his back, is just something that is inevitable. Then there's Darius, who is aware there are settled social dynamics at play but is also set-on on "overcoming them.", just as Swain is. While LeBlanc ignores, willingly or not the patterns she repeats, Swain wants Change.

But he fails, or rather, refuses to realise that there is no possible Change for Noxus, because there is no future for Noxus. It's meant, like every other Empire to ever be, to collapse from within. A inherently destructive culture has no choice but to eat itself away and then implode.

There is a certain cultural, social determinism Swain and Darius' dynamic is more or less doomed to fall into. Sahn-Uzal constitutes the greatest cultural influence in Noxian culture, the heart of the Empire which manifest itself not only in the form of edifications like the Immortal Bastion or traditions like the Reckoners Arena but in social practices too.For the domination Noxus preaches about to exist there needs to be subjugation, and this subjugation doesn't just exists at large in their conquest of foreign land, it is expected to manifest at an individual level as well, within a Noxian's interpersonal relationships they must assert themselves as the dominant one or obey the dominance of those above him. There is no ground for an equal relationship, why? Because a man millennia ago was incapable of making a real friend.

That's who Noxus has always built their so-called virtues and values around and for that reason all human relationships within the paradigm of Noxian culture must always orbit around Use, around Control, Ownership and nothing else. There is no room for tenderness, it isn't Useful, it isn't Resourceful, if anything, it is a weakness that must be purged from existence along with anything akin to it in order to only leave behind pure, unadulterated pragmatism, pure, unadulterated subjugation.

[daiisiy]

you guys ever wonder if jericho thinks about the tiefling who'se throat was slit so he could be born. do you guys wonder if jericho misses the children that would follow him to the hut and wonders whatever happened to them. do you guys think jericho hates vergil because he killed his "best gals." do you think jericho was happy when the masquerade happened and he got to dance with someone instead of being relegated to just watch other people dance. do you guys think-

[dreams-of-void]

I think one of the things I love most about Joey is that when he starts loving others, he never stops, and that no matter what they do.

He isn't naive, and generally knows when people try to manipulate him, but if it's someone he loves, he lets them, as long as no one else but himself get hurt. For instance, he let Penny lead him around (in Teen Titans Spotlight 3-6), but the moment his mother was threatened to be hurt, he let her go; He only harmed Isherwood (in Deathstroke rebirth) because he was threatening his engagement, only went against Slade (both the Judas Contract and Titans 08) because he was going to harm others around him, and he could do something to stop his father. And in all those cases, while he felt an extreme amount of guilt afterwards, he kept loving them.

He also chooses to not hold grudges against those he loved. Again, it's not because he's naive; he's making that choice willingly, knowing how he was wronged. He pardoned Adeline for hiding from him the fact Penny was alive (again, Teen Titans Spotlight), even though it had sent him in a deep depression. He was still willing to marry Etienne (Deathstroke rebirth) even though she was a spy and had cheated on him with Slade.

[codyswhitebelt]

it literally gets me so angry when people just say “i hope all the victims recieve peace” SAY THEIR NAMES.

-janel grant

-taralyn cappellano

-heidi doyle

-ashley massaro

-briana sparrey (kylie rae)

-mercedes varnado(mercedes monè/ sasha banks)

take one moment out of your miserable life to aknowledge them, and if you’re religious, pray for them and pray that the abusers receive exactly what they deserve.

these brave and incredibly strong women didn’t come foward and risk EVERYTHING calling out wealthy creeps for you to not even have the balls to look up their names.

so screw brock lesnar,

screw vince mcmahon,

screw ric flair,

screw john laurinaitis,

screw sammy guevara,

screw chris jericho,

screw tony kahn for letting these abusers still work in his company,

and screw you if you’re too lazy to be a respectable human being.

do better.

(please let me know if i have forgotten anyone else)

[spinmethestarz]

okay so with all the hanoi hannah content going around on tiktok, i’ve learned a lot about the vietnam war. i learned that there was something called the ‘jericho’ trumpets.

that being said, do we think that jericho in detroit become human is a reference to that? since the jericho trumpets are war related and the game mentions a civil war quite often.

[harryinramshackle]

Jericho Ichabod I NEEEEEED YOUUUUUUU I NEED YOU SO BADLY

[ohlookitsthearkhamknight]

The Wilson-Defiance fam (defiance-wilsonfam?) goes to see the barbenheimer double feature and this is what I think they were most excited for/enjoyed the most

Slade Wilson: Barbie (I will fight you on this. He's seen enough bombs let this man enjoy his pink whimsical movie)

Rose Wilson: Barbie (has been waiting for months and is all dressed up in the cowgirl outfit)

Joseph Wilson: Oppenheimer (I debated this ALOT. I think he would really enjoy barbie especially Allen but I also feel like he's a giant history nerd)

Grant Wilson: Oppenheimer (but wears a black shirt with an explosion on front that has the words "destroyer of worlds" on it but in barbie font)

Tanya Spears: Oppenheimer (duh she's a scientist. Also rose needed someone to dress up as Oppenheimer so they could recreate the pink Floyd album cover) (Slade wouldn't let them light Tanya's back on fire)

Wally West: he is there for the true barbenheimer experience. Refused to pick one. (Enjoyed Barbie alot and started to fear for the world after Oppenheimer)

Tara Markov: Oppenheimer (liked the aesthetic but also enjoyed Barbie and thought about getting her old dolls out of storage)

Poppy: Oppenheimer (duh she literally calls herself poprocket and has the powers of a rocket/bomb)

William Wintergreen: was dragged along to see both (secretly enjoyed Barbie because he likes to see Rose happy. Also thought Oppenheimer was a good warning to humanity)

Adeline Kane: also dragged along but enjoyed Oppenheimer (kept muttering things about Communists tho)

+ Garfield Logan: secretly came along and hid as a lizard until he got caught. Loved Barbie and started to also fear for the world after Oppenheimer

[pigeonrocks]

posting Jericho's design bc uhm. I've been playing a lot of mass effect 2 soo..... . blegh.

[owengrose]

You are correct, white child, Mahalia Jackson IS singing the word "fit" rather than "fought." YOU, however, will say "fought" or I'm quitting

[jerichothejester]

Wanting to make Bill x oc/Self insert art is so crazy especially with aus of Bill because I feel so bad like that MF is still attached to Ford WTF AM I GONNA DO

[babellanas]

love when the league wiki is written like

Highly Esteemed General Jericho Swain got ass whooped by a FOURTEEN YEAR OLD girl that was BARELY FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE who should've been learning the quadratic formula in the EIGHT GRADE like an EIGHT GRADER that just turned FOURTEEN does

[cowboyink]

Anyone else see that video of Jericho complaining about Chyna??

Like stfu, you fat, old bastard

"she wasn't good, but she thought she was" fuck off, sounds like you now, trying to keep up with anyone you step into the ring with

[chaoticcutiewhirl]

I love how Kremy is Nonbinary and Ace colored

And Gideon gets to ge an honorable Lesbian

Aro Extended Frost hehehe

And Torbek is like very muted trans... Transfemme "Gorebek"... speaking of to rant:

Edge of Midnight spoilers ahead [29+] (as well as Beneath Dark Wings [33+])

Jericho still handles the idea of plurality so much better tho like omg the contrast is Jericho is the Host and Anxiety holder, Zurn gets to be the gatekeeper and protector and perhaps the original trauma holder and either way has Exomemories, and after Yorgrim's death you get a split into what may be true Raum, an anger and trauma holder, pr it could be a remant of Pazuzu, a factive introject of sorts in being a reforming from the demonic remants. Either way, Jericho has a lot less of the stereotypes of plurality while still being plural coded making Edge of Midnight a fucking amazing piece of plural representation. Case and point when the party came out of the barrows with Jericho and Zurn switching to handle a stressful situation, Zurn knows he has the repetoire and general demeanor to be of help and not be panicking, so he forces himself to the front to protect Jericho. The morally grey to good alligned high general from his last appearence in BDW returns fully to wrote his wrongs and overall this arc shows this but Zurn is more Zurn now than he is Raum and the Taroka card reading has Jericho mention something else, I assume the demonic essence Raum had, a split.

In contrast Torbek was originally implied to be schizophrenic coded, touching the subject lightly but never deeply. And then his reintroduction occured... "Gorebek" came into being and this is treated like as Plurality in the sense of media that bears into the stereotypes of creating violent alters and borderline goes more into demonic possession as a trope than Jericho does with Virgil/Raum who is coded as plural in an amazing light. I know the Witchlight party is supposed to be a less morally upstanding group while EOM has mostly moral greys given their genres, but given what goes on with Torbek it is disappointing.

It has been 4 months since we realized we were plural, and 3 of us in the body love Legends of Avantris, but plurality altered our perspective heavily. Torbek no longer feels like sweetly pathetic boy and more so midtier effort idea of something that Andy is still figuring out. Meanwhile Jericho feels much closer to home and if Mikey decides to have a session frame where the scarecrow system were to be too blurry to tell who is fromting, I will scream because Micheal Gilder is a master storyteller

Carnivale Lecroux colourpicked pride flags :) free to use

i dont think gideon is a lesbian thats just the only flag i could make from his colours but he does love women so for this month he can be an honorary lesbian

i also couldn't find transparent pngs of Frost Gid or Kremy so i made them myself, theyre below the cut and also free to use

[letorip]

Can you do headcanons about meeting/first date with Jenna’s characters?

meetings & first dates

very funny to think about, i really did have quite good fun writing this one. thank you as always to the anon who requested, i was happy to oblige. also this isn’t what i originally planned to put out but casual [iii] should be out soon so maybe this’ll fill the void. i'm also on holiday at the moment, so that's why i'm posting at a weird hour (5 am) my ass had a plane to catch

i think i cooked on the lorraine one, would y'all want that one too

wednesday addams

you meet her in jericho, working behind the counter of the hardware store your parents own, when she stomps inside in her rain soaked boots and down a random aisle without a word at you

when she comes back with a shovel, some duct tape, a taser, and some rope, you have to awkwardly joke that it looks like she's trying to kill something

she doesn't laugh at your joke, instead staring right back at you, and you feel yourself gulp

that's your first interaction, and you don't see her again for a few days, until she comes back to buy a box of nails, and then a week later, a bucket, and a few days after that, a plunger

you won't know it until later, but she didn't actually need the nails or the bucket, she just needed an excuse to go back to the hardware store and buy some stuff so she could get up close to you

after four or five trips of her buying the most odd, random shit, she works up the courage to actually start talking to you a bit more. after a few more trips after that, you ask her what the stuff is all for, and she lets you in on the creature in the woods killing the locals, and that she claims to have seen it

for what it's worth, you believe her immediately, about rowan and the hyde and crackstone, and you listen to her theorise, leaning on the counter until someone else comes in and asks you where the plywood is, and you have to actually go do your job. wednesday stares down the intruder, trying to smite them with her eyes, but you always give her an apologetic smile before you leave

she tells you later when you're better friends and she's confessing, but she thinks of you as an odd comfort and home that she never realised she desired, and being in the hardware store and having you smile at her gave her a single fluttering of that warmth

eventually she brings you on her investigations and her cold, dead heart is running a million miles an hour the entire time, but you have to hide how close you are to wednesday from your father, because of his passionate dislike of outcasts

wednesday comes to your back window and chucks rocks at the glass to get your attention, romeo and juliet style, so that you can sneak out

when you actually ask her out, it's before you've even kissed, and wednesday wordlessly nods yes with her mouth hanging open, before she grabs the collar of your jacket and messily kisses you for the first time

your first date is to a movie, and to a horror movie, to be more specific. you take her to get food at a local diner that's open 24 hours, super late at night, and though she makes a remark about how these restaurants were unhealthy and an indicator of what's wrong with america, she thoroughly enjoys her waffle and you even manage to get her to wear one of those silly diner hates for a moment. she doesn't admit it, but she likes making you laugh

the movie is an incredibly rough experience. you despise horror movies, but wednesday is left smiling at the screen as a man is ripped to shreds in front of your eyes

that is until she realises your discomfort, and she realises you only did this because you knew she would like it. the realisation literally blows her mind, and she watches your face contort in disgust and fear, before gently reaching over and hastily grabbing your hand

she doesn't say another word, struggling to process the new emotions until you're both done with the movie and walking home. you're ranting about how gross it was and how you would be having nightmares for weeks because of it, and then she reaches up to the back of your neck and pulls you down into another fiery kiss, right as it starts to rain

tara carpenter

you've known tara for years, since you're also from woodsboro. you went to the same elementary school and she’s known of you for a long, long time since you chased her around the playground with a lizard in your hands

tara's always liked you, and you've both always had some attraction to each other and magical chemistry, but there's always been something to keep you apart

tara's involvement with amber and then chad, and then your own girlfriends, it was never the right time for you both to explore whatever electricity you could feel between you, so you didn't until you were both well into your year at blackmore

you only really get close until you take the same film class as tara. tara takes it because she's a film major and you take it because you need the credit and it's the only option of a class that takes place after 8 in the morning

you sit right next to each other and for the whole semester, you two slowly grow closer and closer, poking each other and whispering stuff while the professor prattles on

she's the de facto film buff of the group, only rivalled by mindy, and so you go to her whenever you're working on a project, because you're definitely the type to watch stupid shit, and not the high-brow film stuff the class requires

it means you end up hanging out a lot, at the library, at the coffee shop, on the couch of her apartment. you both set up the '1 for 1' rule, in which she gets to show you a movie for ever movie you get to show her

and she shows you really annoyingly good stuff, while you make her watch utter garbage. neither of you admit it, but you end up liking some of the high-brow art she pushes and she ends up having fun with the stupid movies you show her

when she makes you watch the babadook, you make her watch hot tub time machine, when she makes you watch citizen kane, you make her watch bridesmaids, and when she makes you watch la la land, you make her watch zoolander. it's a mutual exchange of interests, and you both lean against each other when you watch them on the couch or on her bed

paddington absolutely makes tara carpenter cry, there, i said it, and you show it to her and hug her when she does

things are genuinely just so easy and perfect with you, and it's so natural in a way that is unnatural for tara, but in a good way. you're unlike anyone she's ever been with, and it's refreshing and new in a way that's so exciting when you both kiss during the movie before sunrise

that's why it's so funny when your first date goes absolutely awfully

it rains on you, while you both walk to the restaurant and neither of you brought an umbrella because it wasn't projected to rain. then the sushi place you're bringing her to completely forgets your reservation and you're both waiting 30 minutes to get a table, and to top matters off, you end up being allergic to a fish you try for the first time, and need to get taken in hospital

you're not even choking really, just broken out into hives and feeling lightheaded, and tara's in the ambulance with you on the way there, and you're both talking casually, like "how was your day?"

you both get there and realise tara forgot her phone at the restaurant, and whereas anyone else would be pissed and call it a terrible date and give up, you both are fucking laughing your heads off at how cartoonishly awful the date went, even though it's a hospital, and that probably isn't the right place to be laughing in

when you're released super late that night, you both end up just wandering around new york until the late hours of the morning, just talking and occasionally holding hands. tara mentions that it reminds her of la la land, and you kiss, and what would've been a deal-breaking, awful date for anyone else just becomes something you shared with each other, and brings you even more in love

reminds me of the song ant pile by dominic fike

lorraine day

you meet lorraine as the kid of the new corn farmer in town, after your grandfather gets too old to be able to maintain his land by himself. your father has to come back and take over, due to his declining health, and you first see each other when lorraine and her daddy come to say hello and talk business for cow feed

she spots you in the back, leaning on the fence next to the field with your arms crossed and your hat pulled low, and you're just watching her and her dad talking to yours with a frown

she's set on edge by your presence, even though you're not really part of the conversation. she has to stop herself when she realises she keeps looking over at you every couple seconds, and you're still just staring at her and her father in a way that isn't exactly friendly

your dad is a generally nice guy, and he gives her your name in a passing mention and graciously accepts the pie lorraine's momma made to bring to the new partners, but it overall isn't a great first impression, and she decides right there in her daddy's truck on the ride home that she doesn't like you very much

when you're brought up again, it's by her father a week or so later. he's mentioning how helpful you are around your grandfather's farm over dinner, saying how your grandfather is blessed to have someone so good-hearted, and lorraine can’t help but remember the look of you glowering against the fence at them and doubt how true that is

she still doesn't like you, when you actually talk for the first time. RJ is bringing her home after an incredibly awkward date and gets a flat, and just as it starts to rain, guess who spots her and decides to pull over in their rusty ass pickup truck with a weird look on your face that lorraine can't help but assume is smugness

your truck bed is full of tools and supplies for your grandfather's farm and you haven't got a spare on you, but you know there's one in the shed on your farm. there's only one seat open in your truck, and even though lorraine heavily hints to RJ that she doesn't want to go, she's volunteered, as RJ doesn't want to leave his van on the side of the road, even though there's not many people who would touch the piece of junk

you snort when he insinuates that lorraine wouldn't be strong enough to fend off anyone who would take the van, and even though she's equally as miffed by RJ's assumption she's a bit annoyed by you defending her

the ride home is incredibly tense and neither of you say much until you're pulling into your yard and you say, "for the record, i highly doubt he'll be fending anyone off either." it's funny and it almost makes her laugh until she remembers she decided she didn't like you and she has to get serious again, and tells you not to talk about her boyfriend that way, and you don't say anything for the rest of the time you're helping her

she sits in the truck watching you from the wing mirror as you roll the spare out from your shed and then hoist it into the truck bed, looking sweaty and muscles tensing with effort. even though you're kind of annoying, you're tanned and you're fit, and it's something she can't help but notice whenever she goes to your farm in search of her father, who sometimes comes over to buy corn for his cattle

you both naturally start to grow into something resembling a friendship. you'll shoot the shit when you're not working, leaning on the handle of a shovel half in the ground, and lorraine will walk over and just kind of talk to you for a while. she doesn't even really realise the annoyance has melted away until it smacks her in the face that she was really wrong about you

your first date isn't actually a date until it's over. lorraine is at a lake day with her friends when one shows up with you in tow. she didn't even realise you had friends, but you're there with them and you look damn good in your swim suit, and you actually start talking a little bit about leaving the big city for your grandfather

you're all having fun, swimming around and talking, and she sees you're pretty funny when you want to be. it's kind of jarring to see just how wrong she was about you, and you both end up dancing around to your friend playing guitar and singing along

you end up being her ride home, and though there's still an underlying tension in the air, this time your truck is full of laughter and you're both actually talking. about halfway through, you accidentally let it slip that you asked your friend if lorraine was going to be there, and though the tips of your ears are red and you're apologising, lorraine can't help but reach right over and kiss you, and suddenly everything feels right in the world

cairo sweet

you meet her on the first day of creative writing, as the new student at your school, and mr. miller's seating chart places you directly next to her. she stares at you a bit, as if unimpressed by your existence, and you stare right back at her, equally as unimpressed

though you're new, you quickly skyrocket to incredible academic success, and cairo is enraged to find that with the transfer of credits, you're now really the valedictorian, sweeping it from underneath her feet at the very end of her senior year

with that, she absolutely despises you and everything you stand for

you have to trade papers for peer grading and while you calmly grade it at first, when you see that yours is covered in marks and cairo is being absolutely brutal beyond belief, nitpicking every little punctuation mark and symbol she can, you get a bit annoyed and start doing the exact same thing to her

it's a giant game of one-upping the other, and you guys repeatedly mess with each other like a chess match of fucking each other over. neither of you will admit you find the other annoyingly magnetic and captivating, you instead resort to messing with each other's standings

you both are duking it out over each little test grade, as cairo desperately tries to regain her spot at number one and you attempt to fend her off and keep your place. she'll brag about her perfect score on the calculus exam, and then you'll clap back with your extra credit. you absolutely dominate her in maths and sciences but she has you beat in creative writing and histories

winnie is greatly amused by the whole ordeal, and keeps insisting to cairo that you both should get it over with and fuck already but she scoffs and claims to resent the implication. doesn't mean she hasn't thought about it, though

her involvement with mr. miller is something she's only doing to maintain her spot as mr. miller's favourite student. cairo has the writing skill to back it up and is incredibly gifted with the pen, but you ooze a certain charisma that makes the teachers around you all giant fans, and she would be lying if she didn't say she was worried you would pull mr. miller's recommendation letter with it, and steal it right out from under her. it's entirely possible for a teacher to write more than one recommendation letter, she just wants the satisfaction of being the first one to get it

when you're partnered up on a group writing project that needs to be done in pairs, cairo sees it as the perfect opportunity to gather intel on you. another thing she hates is how mysterious you are, and how not many people actually know that much about you, other than how pleasant you are

she insists it has to happen at your house, and though you try to argue, she insists it has to be the case. it surprises her, when she puts your address into her phone and she sees it's a small one bedroom apartment in a bad part of town, without air conditioning and with terrible plumbing, and that your father works three jobs to support you

she doesn't know what she expected, but that's definitely not it, with your ability to dress and intelligence. suddenly her arch nemesis gains a third dimension, and she understands just how hard you work

though you're guarded at first, you both actually slowly discover that you don't exactly mind the other that much. you still want to keep your spot and she desperately wants it for her own, but you say something silly and it makes her laugh- really laugh- for what feels like the first time in a long time

you work together on the project more and more, and suddenly she's enjoying your company and wanting you around. she's definitely a little bit disgusted by that at first, but it's something she can't deny

she asks you on your first date to a poetry reading on a saturday, and you're a bit confused since the group project is already over, but you decide to go anyways and you have a great time. you say something profound after one of the poems, and cairo's eyes just drop to your lips in a weird amazement

she's dragging you to the bathroom immediately before the next poem can even start, and i don't think i have to say what happens next, but it's messy and there's lipstick everywhere

your father snorts when you get home that night, and there's dark red lipstick smudged all over your lips and a bit down your neck, and you roll your eyes at him with a smile

[jerichothejester]

Finding good Stanley Pines and Standford Pines art is so great until you find out that the artist is a stancest shipper