#kj daybreak

[pzyii]

I like josh and kj, they are sweet

[jimmycarterghostland]

I loved it when Josh, Wesley, Angelica, Ms. Crumble, and Eli in Daybreak were living together at the mall, before the foreign exchange students moved in.

When it was just Josh and his friends living there and no one else, it made them seem more like a family. The mall was like a cozy house for a family of five. But when KJ and the foreign exchange students moved in, the mall seemed more like an apartment complex, and less like a comfortable house that Josh and his "family" lived in. Sure, after those other kids in moved in, Josh and the others still lived together, but the vibe had changed.

[theguardianofmagic]

A Few Thoughts On Daybreak

Loved it.

Josh: Interesting, someone funny you can root for but also incredibly flawed. An amazingly written character, who needs to mature before he has any romantic relationship (Sam, KJ, whoever, I’ll get to that). I really loved his POV and missed it when it was gone, but I loved how he wasn’t the only narrator.

Wesley: Again, another amazingly written character. I can’t relate to his being black as I am not, but I was so glad they went there with it. I’m a bisexual white girl, but I am so happy Netflix had a character like this in their show. He felt so fleshed out and genuine. Just because he’s not a white gay DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN SLEEP ON HIM FANDOM, YOU GOT THAT? Also his scene with Sam was hot damn! He was really cool.

Angelica: I can’t choose if she was my favorite character or I’d Crumble was or Josh. So I liked her a lot. She’s absolutely fucked up and an asshole but she’s also a kid and so clearly desperate for someone to love her. Her and Crumble’s relationship was one of the best parts of the series.

Crumble: 10/10 A queen. A monster. Human. I loved her.

Turbo: Ehhhhh I liked Gary. RIP Gary. Hope Turbo gets fleshed out more.

Mona Lisa: BADASS. LOVED HER. Did you see her biceps? What a queen. (Oh and I’m putting this last minute so I don’t forget but as long as they develop everyone properly I am absolutely down with Mona Lisa and Sam being girlfriends, sounds amazing).

Burr: Fascinating.

Gary: RIP Gary

Eli: So many mixed feelings. But I loved him even though I knew I shouldn’t. I wish he could have gotten more time. Also his Magic cards.

Mavis: Loved her, whether or not she’s real. Is she? Idk. XD

Michael: Very background, yet stole the show. Marriage material.

Barry: Poor Barry.

KJ: Uhhhhh well... I didn’t really like her. The tv seemed to scream LOVE HER. LOVE HER. At me all the time, but she felt like a plot device. She’s a badass and I want to like her, but... I didn’t feel she was integrated well. I think she’ll have more time to grow next season, but if she gets with Josh I’d like to see her on her own being badass and growing and being flawed first. Their friendship felt forced and rushed. Okay their friendship felt rushed. Their romance felt forced, but I could really dig it, if I was given more time with her. Facts show: she’s a badass and I am into female badasses.

Sam Dean: The most controversial character. Personally, I loved her. Maybe that’s because she was just so fucking attractive to the gay part of my brain. Buuuuut she also annoyed me. Nobody knows you? Fucking let them get to know you. You’re smart, you’re cool, open up. You’re acting like a cold mystery when you don’t have to. And honestly, I like the idea of her and Josh growing as people and working together more than I like the idea of Josh and KJ right now. Because so far we’ve been shown Josh and Sam work really well together when they actually work together and communicate and lift each other up. Josh and Sam both need to grow up so if they do that and are end game, I’ll be happy. If Josh and KJ are end game I’ll probably be happy too because I believe in the writing of the show to do it well. Sam at the end was a queen and I’m so intrigued and also still annoyed cause she can be sooooo pretentious. Still, I loved her.

FYI, y’all don’t have to have shipping wars. Poly relationships exist and it is the apocalypse and certain characters (cough Sam) have expressed possible interest in such things.

Episode eight broke the flow of the story for me. It was important yes but sex bores the shit out of me, plenty of the dialogue was forced and awkward, and there was absolutely no apocalypse part to it which sort of put off the balance.

Final episode was a masterpiece. The use of sound, god. It was amazing.

“I Want It That Way” in Japanese is all I never knew I needed.

The romantic relationships of the show all needed to slow the heck down, except Sam and Josh who need to grow up and figure themselves out entirely. Sam and Josh were a weird situation though cause it was mostly flashbacks.

Subverted tropes well.

JOSH’S FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHARACTERS TRUMP ANY SHIP THAT COULD EXIST IN THIS SHOW. Family > romance. Ugh KJ and Josh, okay. Sam and Josh, sure I guess. But Josh and Angelica being asshole loving siblings? That’s the good shit. The found family is where it’s at.

All of the platonic relationships were the best part of the show. I wish there had been more of just that. Season two, do it.

Just my opinions. No hate. Hope we can agree to disagree. Sorry for the long post.

[wumblebum]

There’s actually this extra, hidden stage of grief that u get over cancelled TV shows and it’s screenshot redraws.

[queen-littlebird]

KJ is a lot more chill than Sam "NLOG" Dean

[normvni]

Look, we all do what we need to do to survive.

[clintbartons]

[maarigolds]

Anyway I have some opinions 

[beth-cassidy]

We’re a tribe, because we all lived to see the break of new day. We’re daybreakers.

[trans-josh-wheeler]

Aria: You remind me of the ocean.

KJ: what? Because I'm deep and mysterious?

Aria: No. It's because you're salty and you scare people.

[nightshade-moon]

This exchange is all that matters on my twitter timeline

[twoidiotwriters1]

Starcrossed Losers 2.II (Josh Wheeler xF!Reader)

A/N: I should’ve told you this earlier lmao but the first half of this season is heavily inspired on the show’s podcast, meaning that the plot follows the podcast’s occurrences of the last episode, if you haven’t you should listen to it, pls -Danny

Words: 2,646

Warnings: Swearing

Series’ Masterlist

Previous Chapter // Next Chapter

Listen to me!

It takes me about fifteen minutes to go back to the mall, my mood has improved and it only gets better once I see the main entrance. Josh made this graffiti of a sunrise on one of the stores' windows to represent our tribe: Daybreakers. I thought it'd be cool to make a bigger version of it and hang it outside the entrance; so that's where it's proudly hanging.

"Where were you?" Alex walks up to me. "We just got a whole box of medical stuff, we need to store them!"

"Glad I didn't miss it," I grin.

As I make my way through I get a glimpse of the small little groups that have settled on the mall and that you probably wanna know about. We'll get there, don't worry. We have time. Right now I have to hurry.

'I fell in love again All things go, all things go Drove to Chicago All things know, all things know'

Wesley passes by, he sees me and hollers.

"Our Doc is back! Any good news, Y/N?"

"Take a guess," I smile brightly. "I have to go and store some things, but I'll see you in a moment, okay?" Wesley raises a brow.

"I don't see why not," He smirks. "I have my own business to attend right now, anyway..."

"What business?" I ask.

"We had this idea for a race across the mall and it's about to start. I'm supposed to be the one who gives the green light so I gotta get moving."

When he says 'we' I know he means Angelica, Josh and him, they're always doing this fun and exciting competitions, and it's been barely a week! They're supposed to make us grow closer, we're about 80 people here, which is quite a lot. A mix of cheeramazons, gamers, former jocks, and og daybreakers. But I know pretty much everyone personally, I have to, I'm their healer after all.

'We had our mindset All things know, all things know You had to find it All things go, all things go'

"Who brought all of this?" I ask Alex while we put the little boxes on each shelf.

"Leila and Tyler, they were doing their rounds when they found this a few blocks away, they're mostly from abandoned houses..."

"Good job, Leila and Tyler," I say in amazement.

"So how did your meeting go?" Alex raises a brow.

"Oh my god, I feel like the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders," I sigh heavily. "Sam finally accepted our offer, but there's a few things I need to talk with the others. I still think everything's fine, though."

"I'm glad, the jocks were the only tribe that was acting up, it was about time..."

"You know it was all Maya's fault. I hate her."

"Don't we all?" He snorts. "She's still living her best life?"

"Sam still has her there with her in the Queen's office, so of course."

"Y/N!" Angelica runs into the pharmacy and hugs me briefly. "Took you long enough! How did it go?"

"A total success," I grin, hugging her back. "But you know, since you're here I'd like to talk to you about some things the jocks are trying to get. I know you'll say no, but I'm still obliged to say it."

"So tell me."

"They're asking if it's on us to provide food for their movie nights."

"Fuck no! They have a full fuctioning orchard and they want us to give them more food?" Angelica frowns.

"It was Maya's idea," Alex says over his shoulder.

"Yes," I roll my eyes, "but Sam wasn't exactly against it, so I had to ask. I did tell them it wasn't likely to happen, so it's okay, we can say no, they agreed to it anyway."

"Good, because we won't agree to that."

"Done!" Alex turns around with satisfaction. "You can go and take off those skates. God, your poor feet must hate you."

"They're used to it," I laugh. "I won't say no to a well-deserved nap, though..."

"Now that we have all of those deals with the tribes, what's next?"

I'm about to answer when I see Josh approaching with his signature grin. He gets over to where I'm standing and lifts me off the ground in a swift movement. I'm aware we're being sickengly cute, but we're still in our 'honeymoon' phase, we tend to be cheesy. I laugh and put my arms around his neck before he puts me back down.

"How's your day going?" He asks me, clearly expecting to hear about the Jocks.

"Well, dearest leader," I smirk, taking off my backpack and rummaging through the papers. "I'm pleased to announce they finally accepted. They're trying to force us to provide the snacks, though. But all you have to say is no and that'll be it. Sam will understand, she's the one growing food, she can't expect us to give away ours."

"You're serious?" Josh asks. "That's awesome, Y/N! I knew you could do it!"

He leans down to kiss me, but before we even touch Angelica yells at us.

"Hey, if you guys can keep it in your pants for a moment," I hear her beside us. "KJ's looking for you at the gamers station."

"Oh," I frown. "What for?"

"I don't know, I think there's some problem with the signal, the gamers' WIFI is slower than the one in the cave so they're whiny about it."

"That's not something I can fix," I roll my eyes. "I'll go and listen to them."

"I have to go back to the Cheeramazon station," Josh comments. "I just wanted to know how it went with the Jocks."

"And here I was thinking you were glad to see me," I tease, and he chuckles. I put the notebook in my backpack. "Oh! Before I forget..."

I tell them about the Tribes book and how they'll send a jock at some point during the week to ask about the subdivisions and all. Angelica thinks is a bit silly but she agrees to receive the jock anyway, Josh agrees with it a hundred percent, he thinks this is the final step to become a real tribe. I agree, it took us a long time to find a home, we're happy.

'I was in love with the place In my mind, in my mind I made a lot of mistakes In my mind, in my mind'

When I find KJ I see that there's an actual crisis happening. Aria and her are arguing and they only stop when I arrive, both coming up to me at the same time.

"The wifi is-"

"I think someone is trying to hack-"

"–We can barely play tetris on this shit-"

"Hold on," I huff. "Aria, you said someone is trying to hack into your computer?"

"Not my computer, the whole net," Aria continues, pleased to see it was her concern the one I decided to talk about. "It's weird, and we're having comunication problems with the other tribes, the signal falls every half an hour."

"I'm no expert at tech," I frown. "Why were you wanting to see me?"

"She says it's my fault," KJ replies. "I helped Angelica with the set-up for the gamers division and the solar panels on the movie theater, she thinks I fucked up the signal."

"It's because we didn't let you join back into our lines, just admit it," Aria rolls her eyes.

"I don't want to be in your stupid tribe! I'm fine here!"

"Enough!" I interrupt them, "Aria, as much as we want to be good hosts while you're our guests, I must ask you to not start fights with the members of my tribe, the daybreakers will always be my priority. KJ, maybe try not to react so aggressively with our guests? Listen, I'll talk to Angelica so we can find a solution, I bet there's something we're missing here and I doubt it has to do with KJ's abilities. Give me two days, alright?"

Both girls nod, KJ glares at Aria one last time before leaving.

"We appreciate your efforts, Y/N," Aria tells me out of the blue. "I wasn't trying to be rude, it's just... even if Triumph is no longer a thing, there might still be threats out there, it's better to remain informed, and for that we need a strong internet connection."

"Yeah well, I'll see what I can do," I give her an awkward smile. "You think the cave's renovation's will be done anytime soon? Not that I'm kicking you guys out, I just... my kids are getting nervous about the lack of food and..."

"One more week and we'll go, I promise," Aria tells me. "We're working no it."

An hour later during lunch, after I tell the whole story to Wesley and Turbo, both seem happy that my meeting was a success.

'Is everyone alright?' Turbo asks me.

The cheeramazons and Josh have been teaching sign language to all of us, so Turbo's life is improving now that he can speak to more people than before. He's also healing, and if I manage to do things correctly, he might be able to speak again in a few months.

"The jocks are just fine," I reply happily. "Don't worry, Sam is taking good care of your boys and girls."

He nods, though I can see he's a little sad about being thrown away from his former home, I know how that feels like. Sort of.

"You know, Doc, I'm really proud of you," Wesley raises a brow. "You went for it, took a place in the community and slayed your demons, now look at you! You're a higher power in our youth!"

I laugh at his observation.

"I'm doing the bare minimum," I shrug.

"It's more than I ever did during my time with the jocks as second in command," He sighed. "But still, you should be proud, sister."

"I'll be, eventually," I say simply.

Before we can continue our chat Josh sits down next to me and offers me water, which I accept with a soft 'Thank you'.

"So what now?" He asks me.

"What do you mean?" I tilt my head.

"You made deals with every tribe there is, now what's the next thing on your list?"

"Keep them going," I reply matter-of-factly. "Just because they said yes doesn't mean it'll stay like that forever, you know? We gotta mantain our relationships healthy and strong, perhaps we could organize events for all the tribes to join us... like New Year's Eve, or another Prom night..."

"Woah, hold on there, Miss President," Wesley scoffs. "We gotta focus on our tribe first. Our food is lacking, so are our living space and medical supplies."

"Well perhaps is because you won't stop organizing dangerous competitions where half of our kids get injured, our supplies would be fine otherwise," I point out.

"Don't take away their joy, Y/N," Wesley says. "Turbo's with me in this one, right?" He turns to his boyfriend and the boy nods.

'Kids need the distraction' Turbo explains. 'So they don't start fighting each other.'

"I know that," I sigh. "We'll find a solution, okay? I'll think of something..."

"You look exhausted," Josh says worringly, he stands up and then helps me to do the same. "C'mon, let's take you to bed."

"Just don't be too loud, it's the middle of the day," Wesley yells at us from his place once we're halfway gone. Josh and I turn to him in outrage.

"Is not- we're not-" I try to say, but the words tangle in my head.

"I'm just walking her to the mattress store!" Josh replies, blushing. "I wasn't going to put my hands down-"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence," I say.

We share a look but we quickly turn away.

The thing is, Josh and I haven't had sex. We made out a couple times when we were alone, but those times are gone, more so with eighty people walking around the mall at all times. Besides, I've never had sex in my life and I'm terrified of the possibility of getting pregnant during the apocalypse, I mean, that equals to be asking for a painful, slow death.

Josh understands that, and he said he'd wait. He even said that if I never want to have sex that's okay too. But who knows if that's the truth, Josh is an eighteen-year-old. He won't be understanding all the time.

Now that Wesley killed the mood we walk in silence until we reach the mattress store, Josh puts a hand on my shoulder and looks at me, struggling to speak.

"I... uh-" He shakes his head lightly. "I..."

"I know," I say with a reassuring smile. "Wesley's joking. He knows we're not... that I'm not ready."

"I know that too," He frowns. "I... You know I care about you, right?"

"Of course," I grin. "Don't worry about it. I really want to take a nap, so is it okay if I go?"

"Yeah, totally," He removes his hand from my shoulder and gives me a shy smile.

I nod and start my way towards the nearest bed, but an arm grabs me by the waist and turns me around. Before I understand what's going on Josh's lips are on mine and he's kissing me.

It's a good kiss, firm and loving enough to relieve all the tension from my shoulders. When we part I see the softness in his eyes looking for approval. I let out a short laugh.

"What was that for?" I ask in amusement.

"Was it okay?"

"It was great."

"Good," Josh nods, still looking quite insecure. "Just making sure."

"Okay, you freak," I giggle. "See you in a while..."

When I wake up from my nap it's around 7 pm and I still feel a bit groggy. My phone rings and I pull it out to see a notification from Spotify. It's from the podcast the AV club has been doing for a while. I eagerly unlock the phone, it's a reminder that I haven't listened to the last two episodes and that last episode I heard ended in quite a confusing moment. I was afraid they'd been hurt, I'm glad to see that's not the case.

I like those kids, last time they did an episode to honor Eli's death. They also talked a bit about Hoyles but no one really ever liked Hoyles. Eli's part was sweet.

As I start listening to this episode Melissa says they're hiding from some kids in suits? And not many things make sense, why would they be following them? They also talked about their strange poly relationship but that wasn't the point.

The point is that the AV club was about to die, and there was no one listening.

I fearfully click on the next episode, waiting to hear they escape.

'I made a lot of mistakes I made a lot of mistakes I made a lot of mistakes I made a lot of mistakes'

"This isn't about spying like the germans gathering all kinds of intimate information," Melissa aka Harvard continues in a panicked voice, "and we are most definitely not being forced to do this by a tribe that has tak-"

The audio cuts there for a moment, but that's all the confirmation I need.

We have to save the AV Club.

"Josh!" I run out of the mattress store, looking everywhere. "JOSH!"

'You had to find it (I made a lot of mistakes) All things go, all things go (I made a lot of mistakes)'

"Wheeler!"

"Woah! Hey!" Josh's body crashes against me and stops with an amused smirk. "What's going on? Did you have a bad dre-?"

"We need to gather our kids now," I say quickly.

"What? Why?" He replies, stepping back from me.

I gulp, panic raising through my body and cutting my breathe.

"We're being watched."

Taglist.

@letsbe-queer​ @slythermyg​ @loving-u-3000​ @one-loud-mind​

[lifetanes]

chelsea zhang as kj in daybreak

[incorrectdaybreak]

Eli: I find it very unseemly of Josh to start dating again. Isn't the customary period of mourning 10 years?

Wesley: Die. Let's find out.

[philldiffys]

[blackthorn-ink]

Y’all I’m coming back from my inactive cocoon to say WATCH DAYBREAK ON NETFLIX. It’s literally so inclusive and so fun to watch. They way they tell the story is outstanding and is so funny. There’s so many badass female characters and POC GAY MAIN CHARACTER. There’s an ASL character and an lgbt romance that is complex and tugs at my heart. It just got canceled AFTER ONLY ONE SEASON. Please please please watch it to rake in views for the off chance that it can get renewed. It truely saved me please give it a chance