#listen house is far from perfect rep

[selfaware-bungou-stray-dogs]

I hope this isn’t too much to ask for 😅 could you write something about a high school dropout user who’s doing really good in life, she has a girlfriend (use Jane as a name pls), she’s living really good in a fancy apartment, she has a good job as a sales rep and kinda streams on the side. But she has to go to a family reunion and so she takes some of the bsd characters with her (preferably dazai, kunikida, and fyodor) and her father doesn’t like that she’s doing so good without doing what he wanted her to do to succeed, but the bsd characters back her up and take her side and defend her.

Here, I hope you enjoy it. 

You are happy, and that's the most important thing

Platonic! Self-Aware! Dazai Osamu x Fem! Reader x Platonic! Self-Aware! Kunikida Doppo x Self-Aware! Platonic! Fyodor Dostoevsky

Description: You are happy with your life. Unfortunately, you had to met with person, who doesn't like your current life. Thankfully, you have friends by your side.

Established Relationships (reader has a girlfriend)

Warning: OOC. Judgmental father. English is my second language.

🐾 Some people say, that you need to go to college, to be successful in your life.

🐾 But, in some cases, you don't need it. 

🐾 You were extremely lucky. 

🐾 Despite being a high school dropout, you manage to succeed in life.

🐾 You had a well-paid job, you had a fancy apartment, you were quite popular streamer. And, last, but not least, you had a perfect girlfriend. Jane was the sweet girl. She was the best girlfriend in the whole world.

🐾 And, after some events in your life, you got a bunch of new friends.

🐾 But, you wish, you didn't have to speak to people, who judge your life choices.

🐾 Unfortunately, you had to meet with him.

____________

"Are you sure, you want to take us three to your family reunion?" asked Fyodor, looking at you skeptically. You nodded and take a sip from your tea cup.

"Yea. Don't want to deal with my father's comments by myself?"

Kunikida adjusted his glasses.

"But why us? Why can't Jane accompany you? Or someone else? Why choose me, Dazai and Dostoevsky?"

You explained.

"Jane is out of town and won't be there during the family reunion. As for why you three... Well, I just want someone to support me. I could ask Gogol, Kaji and Q... But I am pretty chill with my other relatives and don't want to ruin the reunion for them. So... Will you three come?"

Dazai was the first one to agree.

"I am with you."

Fyodor nodded, still looking skeptical.

"I still can't see how we can help you, but, fine, I'm in."

Kunikida only nodded.

_____________

🐾 Soon the day of the reunion come.

🐾 You and three of your new friends arrived at your grandparents' house, where the reunion will be held.

🐾 Some of your relatives were already there. They were curious about your life and people, who came with you.

🐾 So far, so good. No one was judging you, and your aunt wanted to meet Jane.

🐾 Kunikida, Dazai and Fyodor were doing great. They were talking with some of your cousins.

🐾 But, of course, something had to go wrong.

🐾 Your father arrived. And he was disappointed at you.

___________

"[Y/N], when will you stop fooling around and go to college? You can't spend all your life without proper education! I was doing everything so you can become a lawyer! And you are an ungrateful child, who burnt her chance for a normal life."

It... hurts. You wanted to be accepted by your father, but, he didn't want to listen to you. For him, you were a failure, who destroyed her chance for a good life, because she didn't follow his plan.

You were shaking. And then, your new friends back you up.

Dazai grinned, but his gaze was terrifying.

"And how did you succeed in this life? Your daughter is a good person, and she is happy with the life she has now."

Fyodor's eyes were cold as eyes.

"Your daughter has a bid appointment, girlfriend, job and hobby that she loves. In my opinion, she already has a good life."

Kunikida looked stern, like he was a teacher, disciplining your father.

"She is a hard-working person, who live her life at fullest, despite dropping from high school. So, don't you dare judge her"

You feel happy. It was great, that they were on your side.

Your father didn't know what to say. He looked away, mumbles something, and left the reunion early.

__________

🐾 The rest of the reunion were peaceful. No one was judging, no one was questioning if you are really happy.

🐾 You were in a good mood.

🐾 At the end, you were happy with your life. And it was the most important thing for you.

[innocentlymacabre]

nine people tag by @phynewrites <3

three ships:

lumity from the owl house ofccccc

nick and charlie from heartstopper, my perfect boys

blackbeard and stede from our flag means death (gotta throw in that queer pirate rep in honour of ntcmp)

currently listening: DREAM GIRL BY BABY QUEEN (+ malang sajna but that's not an english song lol)

last movie: honestly don't remember but i wanna watch red white and royal blue asappp

currently reading: finally gave into the hype and have started a good girl's guide to murder! quite liking it so far. i really like the way it's told, with investigative documents interspersed with the actual story.

currently consuming: water lmao sorry to disappoint

currently craving: coffee, and since i'm in a coffeeshop rn, that should be an easy fix

current obsession: heartstopper and good omens season 2 brainrot

no pressure tags: @anarchyandroses @mrunmione @mjparkerwriting @my-aliens-wont-write-themselves @caspersgraveyard

[fayraje]

Now that the owl house is over, I’ll be dreading the next show with queer rep. The same people who criticized Steven universe and she ra shows are gonna move on to bash the show. Its far from perfect, and the fandom can be very obnoxious, but any decent lgbt representation should be celebrated.

 Like yeah, they could’ve made amity’s parent troubles more obvious, cause she sometimes feels like two different characters, but people really turn on queer shows a lot. It has flaws, not just from being cut short, but everything has flaws.  It’s like people can’t enjoy imperfect shows. I know everyone has different thresholds for these things, but expecting perfection is unreasonable. You can criticize the show, but be reasonable about the creators resources and dont bother people who don’t want to hear it, they won’t listen if you’re too pushy.

[opedguy]

Huckabee Sanders Gives GOP Response

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Feb. 8, 2023.--President Joe Biden, 80, delivered a clever State-of-the-Union speech Feb. 7, working the joint session of Congress like skilled impresario at a three-ring circus.  For anyone listening, Biden exceeded all expectations reading short lines on his teleprompter often mangling words or grammar but nothing really mattered.  Biden showed, beyond any of former President Donald Trump’s descriptions of Biden’s impaired, that he knows how to throw red meat to an audience.  Biden benefited from a brilliantly written speech, allowing the president to play folksy Uncle Joe to a largely receptive audience.  Whatever outbursts took place by Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Biden’s State-of-the-Union was a campaign speech, in effect, announcing that he’s running for reelection in 2024.  Nothing in Biden’s speech delivered any factual accuracy, only a self-congratulatory personal sales job.

If you listened to Biden, the U.S. economy and foreign policy have never been better, touting U.S. alliances overseas to battle the evil 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Biden didn’t admit how the U.S. proxy war, using Ukrainian troops, has fueled the worst inflation in 40 years, all because Ukraine defends European democracy against an existential threat from Putin.  Much of Biden’s speech was a hodgepodge of platitudes, far from even the most partisan reality.  Biden said that backing Ukraine helped save European democracy, the same malarkey said by Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky to a joint session of Congress Dec. 21, 2022 that Ukraine was not a charity case but an investment in preserving democracy.  Biden said the same rubbish knowing that Ukraine’s war-torn, bankrupt government only fights for its own survival, certainly not Europe’s.

Delivering the GOP rebuttal, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders went over the deep end talking about Biden pandering to “the woke mob.”  Whether that’s true or not, ordinary voters, those tuning into the State-of-the-Union, don’t know what she’s talking about.  “Whether Joe Biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to resist it, his administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left,” a fashionable term in conservative circles.  Most voters want to know what the GOP plans to do to fix the ailing U.S. economy.  What, if anything, the GOP plans to do about the proxy war in Ukraine against the Russian Federation.  How the White House plans to stop a war with China over Taiwan or some other useless dispute.  “Everyday, we are told that we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags and worship their false idols,” Huckabee Sanders told a largely bewildered audience. Uncle Joe spoke to the working class voters, looking for government to bail them out of their financial woes due to runaway inflation and economic problems.  Huckabee Sanders grossly missed an effective rejoinder to Biden’s utter nonsense, delivering his announcement that he’s running for reelection in 2024.  “Americans want common sense for their leaders, but in Washington, the Biden administration is doubling down on crazy,” Huckabee said.  Huckabee tried to say Biden squandered the prosperity and peace of the Trump administration but, somehow, got lost in translation.  When 58-year-old  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) kept telling Greene to pipe down, what kind of message did that send about “crazy?”  Huckabee-Sanders had the perfect chance to call Biden out on his nonsense about the economy and foreign policy, when the U.S. is in the worst place in decades.

Huckabee-Sanders talked about Biden’s failure on the border, violent crime, while Democrats ask to de-fund the police, all because African American lobbying groups have a stranglehold on the Democrat Party.  “Despite Democrats’ trillions in reckless spending and mountains of debt, we now have the worst border crisis in American history,” Huckabee-Sanders told her audience.  Instead of offering propose GOP fixes, Huckabee-Sanders on complained about what’s not going right.  Most voters like Biden’s profligate government spending because they benefit from more outlays of cash.  Instead of going after Biden’s disastrous foreign policy, Huckabee-Sanders highlighted how Democrats and Republicans are on the same page when it comes to Ukraine. Only former President Donald Trump, 76, has had the guts to question Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine, telling the public the war must stop.

Biden played Uncle Joe, working the crowd like circus impresario, selling the American public a bill of goods.  Trump was dead wrong about Biden’s cognitive deficits, proving he can work a crowd like the best of him.  Watching Joe laugh when he accused the GOP of trying to gut Social Security and Medicare, shows that Joe knows how to gaslight the crowd.  Joe managed to get applause from both sides of the aisle, even from McCarthy, who, like other Republicans, have fallen into the Ukraine trap.  Biden has no plan in Ukraine other than a perpetual blank check, pouring billions in tax dollars down a rat hole.  Huckabee-Sanders talks about the “woke mob,” but she doesn’t call Joe out on his reckless foreign policy that has the U.S. dangerously close to WW III, possibly nuclear War.  Where’s the GOP when it comes to Biden’s abysmal relations with Russia and China?

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

[keerishima]

hi hi!! i loved what i saw so far on your blog 😎 it’s so cuteee waahh

for requests could you do something likeee um um soft things they do? SORRY IF THATS TOO BROAD- LMAKFKAKDK

oh oh or for bakugo could you do a small thing about trying to hold his hand for the first time? idk idk you don’t have to do any of these but just know your writing is amazing !!

hi there! this is actually so cute omg of course im going to do these! i hope they were okay, i sort of did it in a way where it would work with and without an s/o but some leaned more to either side,, if that makes sense

also thank you so much, i’m so glad you like my blog so far!! i hope i can continue this level of work for the future <3

Kirishima sometimes sneezes so hard his whole body hardens by accident- like he’ll just poof up like a pufferfish. Sometimes he doesn’t even realise he’s hardened 💀 it’s adorable to watch the both of you jump confusion when he tries to lie back down but he ends up poking you

todoroki juggles with the ice he can make. There’ll be days where he is watching or listening to something and suddenly his right hand turns blue and there’s three small ice balls between tossed between his hands. someone started a competition to guess how long he could do it for and so far, Shoji is in the lead

iida has a habit of shushing you in his sleep. like maybe you’d wake up before him and be on your phone, he’d roll over all bleary-eyed and you’d know he was basically still asleep because his normal I’ve-just-woken-up-and-you’re-the-first-thing-I-saw smile isn’t there. he’d brush his fingers against your mouth all ‘mmfhm shhh don’t worryyy don’t worry i'll t-ake..care’ because even in his sleep he wants to make sure you’re okay at all times. his role as class rep really is perfect for him 😩

denki is so energetic. and so clingy. sometimes a bit too much but just tell him and he’ll bound off and give you your space. anyway because of his energy, he sometimes struggles to sleep and rest. before he could never find peace with it and sleep, so he started to ask you to take a long walk with him before bed. you’d go around the area around the dorms and the woods area and talk about literally anything and everything. sometimes you’d walk past houses and try to guess the names of the house owners.

‘Someone called Sakura definitely lives there’

‘Why because there’s sakura trees?’

‘...yes’

shoji always wanted to help you. ALWAYS. if you were doing something that needed a bunch of tools like your makeup, or cooking, or building something like a new dresser after you told aizawa your old one broke, shoji would come RUNNING. ‘hey y/n can I help you?’ and the way he helps is he holds everything you need for you, and hands it over as soon as you need it.

‘okay mascara time shoji can y-‘ *shoji is already shoving the mascara into your face*

‘oh gosh I need a wrench-‘ *shoji’s wrenching it for you*

basically he just wants to help you 25/8

sero absolutely loves using his tape to drag you to him. if you’re across the room from him he’ll  loosely wrap it around your waist, and then pull you in towards his body with a smirk on his face. his favourite time to do this is when he’s in his hammock and you’re standing across his room, he’ll just pull you along no matter what you were doing or holding so he could hold you. another thing he’d do is pull you in for a hug and then suddenly tightly  wrapping his tape around the both of you like a snake, only smiling cheekily when you give him a questioning look.

‘sero?’ ‘I’m not letting you go’

bakugo stares at your hands. bakugo REALLY likes staring at your hands, I feel like bakugo has an obsession with your hands...because his are rough from his quirk but yours are soft and comforting :( and man does he want to hold them. but he refuses. holding hands is for extras. and also he doesn’t want to hurt you by accidentally setting off his quirk, but also because holding hands is for extras >:(. hon you’re going to have to take the initiative and one day randomly grab his hands, when you’re out don’t give him time to really comprehend that you’ve just grabbed his hand, because he really really likes it but his pride won’t let him enjoy it. if you grab it randomly he’ll probably short-circuit and walked with you dazed and again, just stare at your joint hands. his thoughts are running wild ‘fuck hands so soft fuck we’re holding hands oh god don’t let go bakugo or else I’ll smack you don’t sweat don’t sweat don’t sweat’. meanwhile you’re just smiling happily because he hasn’t let go! in fact he’s just tightened his hold around your fingers, grumbling under his breath

midoriya is so cute oh my lord. he's absolutely adorable. we all know he loves his note-taking and if you don't know, he also takes invisible notes when he doesn't have his books. once he got close to you, you became his new notebook. kind of. if you're dating midoriya you need to be able to handle his chattering. he'd do the boy thing and lean into your face so his breath is brushing your cheeks and not realise that he's making you flustered. 'hey y/n did you see the way mount lady did that? she runs and makes sure she has space to not step on anyway y/n what if she ever stepped on anyone what would the hero handbook say can you imagine??'

tokoyami would fluff his feathers omg i'm just imagining it and its the cutest thing ever holy shit. and he normally only does it when he lays down in your lap. he'd fall asleep resting on your thighs and then get up, just to stretch out his legs and back, change positions, oh and shake his head to fluff out his feathers. the first time you saw him doing that you literally stopped breathing in surprise, it was so cute. nobody else knew he did that until denki walked in on tokoyami curled in on your lap and your boyfriend chose that exact time to do his little birdy wiggle. best believe denki ran out gleaming to share the new information

shinsou takes you on a walk, to one place specifically. and this one place is a little secluded area in the park literally filled with cats of all sizes and shapes. according to shinsou all of these cats have names and favourite foods and favourite ways to be petted and their favourite person is shinsou himself! okay that changes a bit when you get involved too, but shinsou isn’t a jealous person especially when it comes to cats obviously. these are your favourite moments with him because as i’ve said before, shinsou values privacy so this is where he lets himself relax in public. when he’s comfortable he pulls you onto his lap or tucks you onto his side or lays his head on you. he’ll litter kisses on your neck whilst you stroke the kittens as per his instructions of what they like. he even picks up each kitten and says hi, pecking them on the nose when you two arrive, god my heart that’s so cute. when you leave the kittens would all meow briefly before teetering away, as you make shinsou promise to bring you back

[therealieblog]

Body Positive Exercise and Joyful Movement In A Diet Culture World

I find exercise generally very enjoyable, and it helps me improve my life in a plethora of ways. It makes me stronger, more flexible, gives me more stamina, lowers my stress levels, helps me sleep better, helps me write more creatively. But... That being said, many people cannot afford to join a gym, or have a limited living situation that prevents them from exercising. Some people have physical limitations due to disabilities that might prevent them from exercising. Or maybe you just flat out hate exercise. That is valid. You own your body. What you do with it is YOUR BUSINESS. But... if you would like some advice on exercising/Joyful Movement using a body positive/intuitive model, then please read on. 

My preferred forms of exercise (or Joyful Movement) are workout videos in my  room, or long walks around town while listening to a podcast. As I’ve mentioned in other blog posts, you can move your body in any number of ways to get exercise or increase Joyful Movement in your day. Cleaning house, playing sports, walking the dog, dancing, yoga, doing laundry, interactive video games, all of these will get you moving. 

Diet culture tells us we must suffer to exercise and this is a lie.

Diet Culture tells us that we must push our bodies to their limits, because it is selling rapid weight loss, and so it behooves people with this agenda to promote intense, high energy, painful forms of exercise. I exercised this way for probably twenty years off and on before I quit. Now I just can’t do it anymore. And you don’t have to push yourself until you are a gasping, sweaty mess to add movement to your day. 

You are in charge of your own limits. You get to decide how many reps to do, how many minutes to exercise. You decide how long your walk should be. YOU decide when to quit. You don’t actually have to do every set of squats or every set of bicep curls. You can stop when you feel tired, or when you sense that your muscles are being pushed too far. 

Make sure that if you ARE doing a workout video that it is body positive. What does this mean? It means no talk about “burning calories” or “burning fat”. No talk about “slimming down” or “sculpting” your body. No talk about “lets get you swimsuit ready!” If you have a body, it is already a beach body. You don’t need to lose weight to go to the beach. Fuck that. 

It’s best if you choose workouts with alternate moves for lower impact if possible, as I’ve found those very helpful. I am old and have bad knees. You will not catch me jumping around. If jump-squats are horrifyingly difficult and painful, then just don’t do the jump part. If you can handle the steps and leg work of a workout, but the arms are too complicated or too intense, just don’t do the arm movements. Again, you are in charge. Not the instructor. 

Sustainability is very important. Many people who begin intense exercise regimes (almost always designed to get them to lose weight as quickly as possible) can only stick with them for a few weeks or months. Once the novelty wears off, and (like most human beings) we get lazy and don’t want to go for a miles long run at 6am like we did in the beginning, we start to slack off. Then beat ourselves up for slacking off. This is just painful and unnecessary. If you can’t see yourself doing this particular form of exercise indefinitely, for the rest of your life, then it’s highly likely that you’ll tank out within a year. I have been walking my entire life, and I enjoy it. It’s easy enough to not be prohibitive, but challenging enough to give me a bit of a workout. Walking is sustainable. Boot camp workouts? Less sustainable. 

Boot camp/blaster/high intensity workouts are geared toward the ever present diet culture goal of weight loss and the changing of the shape and size of one’s body. There is always a sense of urgency and intensity surrounding these types of work out videos because they are largely based in fear and self criticism. Intuitive Eating, HAES and body positivity are anti-diet, anti-purposeful weight loss, and therefore the intensity and push for perfection disappear when you take diet culture out of the equation. 

I no longer work out to change the size and shape of my body. And I fully believe that this should never be a goal of exercise. Exercise brings with it many benefits, if it is practiced for the sake of health and for feeling good, and not for the purposes of weight loss. Once you remove the relentless diet culture drive that surrounds exercise, you can free yourself up to see it as a means to improve your health and your life outside of your appearance. 

here is a more comprehensive list of things exercise does for us that isn’t related to being thinner or changing our appearance:

Increased cardio vascular health

Better sleep

Improved mood and improved self esteem

Increased physical strength

Increased flexibility

Increased mobility - ability to spend time with friends, go on hikes, play sports, run around at conventions or festivals etc.

So do whatever you want with your body. Move it. Don’t move it. Take a yoga class, or just stroll around the block. I changed the way I viewed exercise, which completely changed the way I engaged with it, and I am far happier now than I was when weight loss was my motivation. 

[ririchanva]

Summary: Marinette gains a new ally in a student from Japan, although he’s not what he seems. Lila makes her move, proving to Marinette that her threat is real. But what she didn’t count on, was that Marinette would have a few friends that has her back. Although they are the most unexpected people. When Lila pushes too far by getting Marinette and her friends expelled, there is a certain hero that lends a hand. But wait? BECOME STUDENTS OF U.A.?

Chapter Eight: Ladybug, Choosing Sides

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Chapter Warning: Mentions of blood and bodily harm to a minor.

A/n: This is it ya'll. The last chapter before The Battle of the Miraculous will begin. Not to mention a TON of changes than the original manuscript of the story. There is a chance I won't be posting the battle chapters until the first week of November since I'll be preparing to watch for My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission. But hopefully you enjoy this chapter until then~ 

    Enjoy reading~!

  “BWAHHHHH! IT’S YOU!”

     Felix raised a brow at Alix screaming and pointing at him, while Nathaniel stood there with a surprised face next to her. Adrien was smiling happily as he stood with the two and Marc was at Felix’s side looking sheepish.

    “I didn’t know you were going to school here,” Nathaniel breathed out, then glanced at Adrien, “You knew?”

   “I wanted to surprise you guys!” The happy blond chirped as he was bouncing a bit in place.

    Alix murmured, “You sure did surprise us.”     “How are you in Mlle. Mendeleiev’s class so far, Fe? And your other classes?” Adrien asked curiously, while Felix shrugged.

    “Pretty easy. Although I must admit, Mendeleiev loves to challenge my intelligent at times.”

     Marc smiled, “Felix i-is considered the smartest kid in our c-class! Making him the biggest competition against Aurore.”

    “And I’ll take my number one spot back as soon as we get our test results back today, Graham de Vanily,”

    The playful teasing voice of Aurore Beauréal sounded, the blonde was smiling brightly as she walked to the group with Mireille at her side.

    “Just you wait~! I’m pretty sure I got the perfect score!”

    “We shall see, Mlle. Class Rep.” Felix said coolly, and Adrien had to grin.

    Even though Aunt Amelie and Felix had finally moved into their new house (which happens to be down the road, which meant that Adrien and Felix could ride to school together!), there were times that Adrien’s aunt tended to barge into his father’s work time randomly, asking for some time to talk. What they were meeting about, Adrien didn’t know. But this meant that Felix was also over quite often.

     According to Felix, he hadn’t really gotten close to all of his classmates. They are all the same to me, he would say, but at least Felix was getting along with Marc. He was also on a friendly rivalry with Aurore, who had wanted to show Felix around the school as Class Rep but the two ended up trading words of sass and playful teasing. As Deputy Rep, Mireille Caquet also had the pleasure of meeting with Felix, although somehow Felix had asked if her hair was a natural color.

    Marc leaned into Adrien with an amused smile, “I heard that Felix said that Aurore reminded him of someone, b-but they weren’t blonde. Said something about pigtails being way too common around here because when he saw Marinette, he looked stunned.”

     Felix heard Marc’s whispering and ignored it, even if it sent a cold sickening feeling in his stomach.

     The school bell rang, signalling that classes were starting. Waving goodbye to Felix, Marc, Aurore and Mireille as they headed to Ms. Mendeleiev’s class, Nathaniel, Alix and Adrien were heading into Ms. Bustier’s class together. Adrien and Nathaniel sat next to each other at the very back, while Alix sat in front of them.

     Soon, the rest of their classmates were trickling in.

    Lila’s voice was the loudest as she was telling Alya some story of her hanging out with Ladybug while Alya was listening with rapt attention.

     “That’s right~ Ladybug’s told me a lot about the Miraculous Heroes she’s working with~ I’ll be happy to talk about that in your Ladyblog this weekend, Al~” She said with a smile, and Alya was vibrating in her seat for a moment as she seemed to have a bunch of questions at the tip of her tongue.

    Adrien raised a brow as he listened in, making Nathaniel and Alix stop talking and look where the blond was looking.

     “Tch, doesn’t she ever stop to breathe? Where does all that air come from?” Alix said with a mocking tone as Nathaniel chided her sternly, Adrien’s eyes soon followed to Nino and Marinette coming in last.

      Nino glanced up as Lila and Alya were laughing together while talking, then glanced over at Marinette worriedly, the said girl was looking at them sadly.

      Now Alya was the one blowing off Marinette everytime to girl asked to hang. It hurt whenever Alya said she’s free to hang, she would add with “Could Lila come with us?” and sternly tell Marinette off about not giving Lila a chance to befriend her.

     “You gotta stop being jealous over Adrien, girl! She doesn’t like him like that, she told me herself~!’

     Oh how much Marinette wants to tell the truth.

     And Nino has tried himself.

     But Alya was stubborn. Stubborn as a mule.

     Anything bad said about Lila? It would usually cause Alya to be defensive and look for a fight.

     It almost costed Nino and Alya’s relationship.

     “Let’s take a break. It’s not a breakup, just we need some space, you know? I can’t seem to trust you right now”

      Alya had said to Nino one night as they were arguing about Lila again, and Nino felt his world crash down.

      “Call me back when you’ve come to your senses and stop this Lila hate.”

    Shinso ended up letting Nino sleep over his place and cry it out for two nights.

    Speaking of Shinso, he was pretty worried about Nino. A few times the boy almost fell into akumatization. But thankfully Shinso had been capturing the akuma and keeping it locked, then calling Ladybug to purify it.

      But that’s not the only thing he was worried about.

     Today is the day.

     “You nervous about the test results?” Rose chirped at his side as she peeked at his pale and tired face, “I’m sure you did great! After all, we studied really hard together!”

       Shinso smiled wryly, nodding his head.

       “You’re right.”

        He had study dates with Rose and Juleka, the two also joining in at times with Marinette, Chloe, Sabrina and Nino. Although him and the other four had to excuse themselves at times to Rose and Juleka whenever Hawkmoth decided to get an akuma running around the city.

      …However, that’s not why he was looking nervous.

  "I've graded your mock exams papers. Most of you did quite well...some better than others," Ms. Bustier hummed with a serious look, then looked to a certain student in concern, “But before I hand them back, Marinette, could you bring your schoolbag to me please? I need to check something..."

     Shinso closed his eyes as he was leaning his forehead on his joined hands as if praying, breathing out quietly. Rose noticed and looked at him questionably.

     Marinette and Nino looked at each other in confusion, while Chloe and Sabrina also looked up, puzzled. Obeying, the baker girl was coming down from her seat to place her pink backpack onto the teacher's table, and then looked up at the teacher, who looked at her with a small tight smile before looking back to the class.

  "Today someone placed an anonymous note in my mailbox, claiming that you'd stolen the exam answers," The woman unzipped the bag, rummaging through it until she pulled a piece of paper and had a look of disappointment, "And it looks like the anonymous person was right..."

  Everyone gasped in shock, looking at Marinette as the said girl was horrified.

  "But…But that's not true!" Marinette defended herself with wide eyes, "Someone must've planted that piece of paper in my bag!"

  "But Marinette, you answered all of the questions correctly.” Ms. Bustier pointed out with a frown.

  "I did?" Bluebell eyes shined for a moment in pride but snapped out of it, "Yes! B-but because I studied!"

    Nino frowned and was standing up with a raised hand, “Mlle. Bustier, Marinette always score high on your tests!”

   “That’s right! Besides, she was studying with me, Chloe, Rose, Juleka, Hitoshi and Nino for the exam! There's no way that Marinette could cheat!” Sabrina pointed out, as Chloe nodded her head.

    “If you need proof, you can ask the security at my Daddy’s hotel~! The cameras have us coming in and out of my room to study.”

    Ms. Bustier looked confused for a moment but slowly frowned, “Six of you also have the same perfect scores…now this is very serious.”

     Marinette looked back to her friends with fearful eyes, before looking back at Ms. Bustier.

   A soft voice carried around the room as a certain Italian girl portrayed a concerned classmate, misty eyes shining with worry.

    “This is so terribly unlike you Marinette~! You're usually so well behaved~! And dragging our friends to cheat too~?”

  Marinette's jaws dropped for a second, then slowly turned to the Italian girl, narrowing her eyes in suspicion.

    Shinso watched as Marinette slowly lost herself in protective anger.

  “Of course...YOU put the answers in my bag! YOU'RE the anonymous informer!" She accused, pointing her finger at Lila.

Lila gasped, hand over her heart as lower lip wobbling, tearing up on command, "I'm coming to your defense and you're accusing me~?"

  "You can't accuse someone without proof, Marinette.” Ms. Bustier chastised her gently yet disapprovingly.

  Marinette turned around to face her teacher, eyes determined, "I'm sure it's her! She stole the test answers!"

  Ms. Bustier didn't waver, "That's impossible, Marinette. Lila got the worst score in the class.”

  Marinette faltered for a second, then looked down.

    “T-then..." She looked back up and pointed out with desperation, "She flunked the exam on purpose!"

  "Now why would she do that, Marinette?" The teacher asked once more, not understanding why her best student was being this way.

  Chloe rolled her eyes, "There's no way that someone was goody-goody as Dupain-Cheng would dare cheat! And that's coming from me!"

 Adrien looked surprised at Chloe. So did Nathaniel and Alix.

  "Yeah! I've known Marinette for a long time!" Nino passionately claimed, defending his childhood friend, "She isn't the type to cheat!"

  He looked over at Kim.

   "You grew up with us, you'd know this!"

   Kim frowned, looking away and baffling Nino.

  "Guys, you know Marinette! Our everyday Ladybug! She always does the right things and everything!" Rose, the ever sweet girl she was, tried to see if anyone would back them up, but it seems that they didn't dare speak up, or they actually believed Marinette could cheat.

   Not even Alya, who was her best friend.

    In fact, Alya was looking at Marinette with disbelief and disappointment in her eyes.

  Marinette's eyes watered, obviously heartbroken.

    Shinso was shaking in his seat, wanting to speak up. He so badly wanted to.

    ‘I cannot interfere.’

        Adrien looked to Nathaniel and Alix, as the two nodded their heads. He hardened his resolve and was about to open his mouth until Ms. Bustier had enough. She sent Marinette and Lila out to go to the Principal's office, and was trying to get the class to calm down again.

  Nino narrowed is eyes, turning to his supposed classmates.

   ”How could you guys not believe her!?" He whirled to Alya as he huffed, clearly disappointed in her, “And you! Y-you’re her BFF! I thought you of all people would know Marinette by now!”

    Alya narrowed her eyes as she hissed, “It’s always Marinette with you these days, isn’t it?!”

    Nino felt like he was slapped in the face as he stared at her, “W-what?”

  "With Marinette having an…infatuation to a certain person, it’s no surprise she’d act out for attention.“ Max pointed out, pushing his glasses up, "It sort of makes sense if you logically see it.”

    “Max’s right. Marinette has known to be pretty weird around Adri—“ Kim felt his mouth covered by Max, who was shushing him.

    Adrien tilted his head. What was Kim going to say?

  "Besides, what does Lila gain from framing Marinette like that?" Mylene asked softly with a frown, "When poor Lila has been trying to make friends with Marinette since she arrived?"

  Chloe huffed, "Ridiculous! You're all utterly ridiculous!"

  "That's rich, coming from you Chloe!" Alya hissed with fury in her eyes, "Maybe you're rubbing off on Marinette, that's why she's changed so much!"

    “Actually I agree with Chloe for once.” Alix stood up as Chloe looked back at her in surprise, “Don’t look at me like that, Precious. I’m just saying that there’s no way that Marinette would cheat!”

    Nathaniel nodded in agreement and Adrien was about to speak his piece when Ms. Bustier’s voice sounded in the room.

  "That's enough class," The red haired woman clapped her hands, getting everyone's attention, "I have noticed that there has been a lot of negativity in the class as of late, and that stops today. We should remember that we're all friends here, we're better than this! And I'll be sure to give Marinette a talking to when she returns. As Class Rep, she needs to set a good example and not be bringing the class down like this.”

    Shinso was pursing his lips, gripping his hands together tightly with narrowed eyes.

    Rose saw this and touched at his shaking hands, “Hito, what’s wrong?”

    Suddenly, there was a scream outside and everyone looked to the door in surprise.

   "AHHH OWW OWW~! OUCH! MY LEGGG~! MARINETTE PUSHED ME DOWN THE STAIRS OOWWW~"

  "What?!" Everyone yelled in surprise, whispers going on all around.

  Nino, Chloe and Sabrina looked at each other before they all raced out the door, despite Ms. Bustier’s protests. Adrien, Nathaniel and Alix also got up and ran out to follow them. Once they were all out the classroom, they looked down at the source of the cries and screams. Lo and behold, they saw Lila crying on the bottom of the steps while holding her leg, one of the janitors helping her up as many students from other classes were coming out to see what's going on.

   “M-Marinette pushed me! She really pushed me down the stairs!” Lila sobbed as Mr. Damocles was coming out to see what the commotion was about.

    Marinette just stood, shellshocked of what just happened.

    Shinso was peeking out the door with Rose and Juleka, guilt swelling in his eyes.

  "IN MY OFFICE! NOW!" Mr. Damocles yelled, grabbing Marinette's arm and pulling her to his office.

   Alix growled as she watched Lila being carried to the nurse's office, gripping the railings, "That...that bit—!”

  "Careful! You're gonna attract an akuma!" Nathaniel whispered as Adrien watched Marinette be dragged into the Principal’s office.

   Nino was feeling anger swell around him, but then felt the hands of Chloe and Sabrina on each of his arm as the girls rushed Nino out of there to calm him down. Adrien saw this and soon followed after them.

    Nathaniel was about to follow when he was stopped by Felix, Marc, Aurore and Mireille.

   “Was it true? Did M-Marinette really push Lila down the stairs?” Mireille asked with concern, and a bit of confusion.

    Alix looked aghast at the suggestion and glared, “Of course she didn’t! You know Marinette! She wouldn’t hurt a fly!”

    “So Lila faked it right?” Aurore didn’t ask, she confirmed as she was tapping her chin, seeing the students getting back to their classes, “But it seems everyone believed that Lila was pushed.”

    “A desperate diva, but even I can admit the girl staged it perfectly. This Marinette girl fell for her trap in just the right time.” Felix murmured then glanced around, “Where’s Adrien?”

   “He followed Nino, Chloe and Sabrina. I was going to follow them,” Nathaniel answered as he was already walking to the locker rooms were, Alix, Marc, Felix, Aurore and Mireille soon followed after him.

    They walked in just in time to see Nino and Adrien sort of arguing, Chloe and Sabrina stepping in between them in case they decided to get physical. Or in this case, stop Nino from decking the model in the face.

    "I-I just...I didn't feel it was right exposing her and making it worse at the time!” Adrien tried to defend himself but kept his stance, “And I’m realising that now that it was wrong! I  know now I shouldn’t have told Marinette to let go and take the high road—“

    “You bet your ass you shouldn’t have told her that! And look where that’s getting her! IT'S GETTING MARINETTE INTO TROUBLE! AND PROBABLY GONNA GET HER EXPELLED!" Nino was shoving a finger at Adrien's chest, but let out a hard sighed, “And I'm sorry. You’re my bro. I really am sorry since I know you've been harassed a lot by Lila. But I won't be forgiving you if Marinette's gone. You knew, and you could've helped us!"

   “Hey! He’s not at fault here!” Alix came to the rescue as Nathaniel was soon pulling Adrien back a bit protectively, “We knew as well!”

    Nino blinked as he then looked to Nathaniel, who nodded.

   “We-we all kinda knew,” Marc spoke up as he, Felix, Aurore and Mireille stepped up.

    Chloe looked aghast when she spotted Felix, pointing at him, “YOU!”      “Yes, yes, nice to see you too, Chloe,” Felix rolled his eyes and folded his arms, “Hope you’re not the same spoilt little brat that I knew of when we were younger?”

    “And I hope you aren’t still the pompous, snot-nosed dweeb that always hogged Adrien and fooled me with you two switching your clothes and confusing me!” Chloe stomped her foot on the ground, glaring daggers at the smirking Felix.

    Nino coughed, ignoring the blonds before looking at Aurore and Mireille, “So how do you two and Marc know about her?”

    “I never really liked her. Her tales are so farfetched that I stopped listening to her completely,” Aurore shrugged, “She’s been getting a lot of loyalists on her side from other classes lately, thanks to her fantastical life she paints and making fake promises for everyone. So if anyone tries to go against her, she sics them onto the person so she doesn’t have to get her hands dirty.”

    “O-one time she spun a-a story t-that I was bullying her because I was “obsessed” with Adrien. And s-so Adrien’s f-fanclub t-tried to corner me,” Mireille sobbed at the memory and Aurore was hugging her close, “O-Oh gosh, i-if it wasn’t for Aurore and Marc calling a teacher, I…I dunno what would have happened to me…”

   Adrien felt his stomach drop at hearing their testimonies, especially when Marc shared his own story with his encounter with Lila.

   Nino was right.

    “If this many people knew…” Nino murmured, looking away for a moment.

  "No point on getting angry now, let's calm down for a second,” Nathaniel was raising a hand up as everyone looked to him, “What matters now is to make sure that Marinette isn't gonna be in bigger trouble that she is at the moment. Question is, how can we prove her innocence?"

    “We’re gonna help Marinette?” Adrien asked dumbly as Alix nodded.

     “Sure are! And once we get her out of trouble, we won’t hold back exposing Lila!”

     Felix sighed, “I don’t know why you guys don’t report her or something?”

     “A lot of students have tried, but it always backfires,” Aurore replied with a grim look, folding her arms, “I wanted to interview someone that knew of Lila’s misdeeds but he mysteriously transferred out of school the next day before I could ask.”

    Chloe sighed, rubbing her temple, “If only I could call Daddy to fix this mess.”

    “Well, we can’t always rely on your dad, Precious. So let’s all think here,” Alix said as she looked around the room, “How can we help Marinette?”

  Everyone were looking thoughtful for a moment, until Nino snapped his fingers.

   “Maybe the security cameras?" He pointed at the CCTV cameras that were posted on every corner, "If we could sneak into the security room, maybe it has a footage of Lila placing the test answers in Marinette's bag!"

  “G-good thinking Nino...but how to get in? T-The school guard is the one that k-keeps the keys.” Marc asked as he looked at the cameras.

  Chloe smirked confidently, "You can leave that to me~"

  "How? No offense, but this is when you usually use Sabrina to do that kind of work.” Alix raised a brow.

  "Even I know how to be sneaky about things.” Chloe huffed, offended a bit as Sabrina smiled.

   Adrien looked around the room, realising that everyone was willing to go out of their way to help Marinette. And honestly? He should be too.

    After all, Marinette was his most precious friend.

    With determination, he breathed out, “So let’s get to it!”

    Everyone looked at him as he gave a grin.

    “Let’s save our Everyday Ladybug! She’s always helped us, now it’s our turn to help her! Just tell me what’s the plan and I’ll help the best I can!”

     Nino stared at Adrien and slowly smiled, before he lifted his fist to bump into Adrien’s, who accepted it.

     “Alright dude! My man!”

    “So we cool, Nino?” Adrien asked tentatively as Nino nodded.

   “Yeah. We cool dude.”

    “We shouldn’t all go to the security room. It would be suspicious if many of us vanished,” Felix stated seriously.

     “Felix is right. So maybe only three people should go. One to get the keys of the security room, one to handle the computer whizz stuff and one as a lookout.” Nathaniel spoke, knowing both Nino and Chloe were definitely going.

    “I’ll go,” Sabrina raised her hand up as Chloe nodded.

    “Me too. Lahiffe, you’re coming with.”

      Nino nodded his head.

     “Meanwhile, Nathaniel, Adrien and I could maybe look around for clues when break time happens. Like go back to the scene of the crime, which is Marinette’s locker. Get fingerprints and stuff.” Alix said, already liking this idea, “Man, this feels like we’re doing espionage! So cool!”

      “I could ask around too. See if anyone has seen or heard anything,” Aurore smiled and glanced at her classmates, “Marc, Mireille and Felix could help me with gathering witnesses and testimonies.”

     “Then it’s settled.” Nino tipped his hat up, “We do this when the time is right and save our girl!”

      Before they could talk anymore, some other students were coming into the locker room, and were talking about what happened with Lila and Marinette.

     "Can't believe Marinette would go so far as to hurt Lila! All because she's jealous of Lila hanging out with Adrien!"

     Alya happened to be one of the students leading the charge, having Kim, Mylene, Ivan and Max behind her, along with some other students from Ms. Mendeleiev’s class. And it looks like they were already talking bad things about Marinette.

   "She didn't hurt her! It's obvious that Lila was faking!" Nino turned to them with anger, already feeling his headache growing, "And she wasn't jealous!"

   Adrien raised a brow at this, confused.

  Alya turned to Nino, narrowing her eyes, “Of course you’d be defending her!”

   “What’s that supposed to mean??”

     “Oh, like you don’t know! Maybe Lila was right about you!”

     Nino felt his head spin as he then breathed out, trying not to be even more pissed than he was, “What did Lila say?”

    “You still having feelings for Marinette!”

    Nino felt his face flush with humiliation as everyone looked to him, betrayal and hurt slowly morphing on his face.

    Adrien, noticing his bro’s face, finally snapped.

    “Nino loves you! Adores you and never stops talking about you!” Adrien defended, stepping forward as he narrowed his eyes, “He and Marinette are childhood friends! Just like Chloe and I! And you don’t see me fawning over Chloe in that way!”

    Chloe pouted but sighed, “As much as that hurts, he has a point. Adrien is special to me. Because we’ve known each other for so long.”

    “That’s not the same!” Alya breathed out then looked at Nino, “Then look me in the eye and tell me where you keep disappearing to with Marinette, huh?”

     Nino looked to her and said sternly, “We. Are. Just. Hanging. Out. You can’t just assume that I’m doing something unfaithful just because I decide to spend time with other girls! You don’t have to know every second of where I go and what I do.”

    Felix decided to intervene before things got ugly, judging by the reddening face Alya was sporting now.

     “Besides, how do we know that Lila actually fell down the stairs?”

    "Very true. If Lila really did fall, we would've heard the fall. The sounds of the metal of the stairs clanking and sounds of pain.” Nathaniel tried to be logical, not wanting to fight.

   One of Mendeleiev’s students, a boy named Jean Duprac, looked unsure but somewhat taking Nathaniel’s words into account.

     “B-But what? Do you mean Lila just...walked down and faked falling down the stairs? But why?" He asked as Chloe was breathing through her nose.

  "Because Lie-la loves to stir up drama and has it out for Dupain-Cheng!" The Mayor's daughter screeched, making the boy squeak out with a flinch.

  “I’ve just had it with you Chloe! All you seem to do is cause trouble!” Alya stepped up as she went toe to toe with Chloe, “You’re worse than Hawkmoth! You’re the reason that akumas happen! Changing Marinette and always hanging around her, then Nino, and even the new student, Rose and Juleka! I bet you have something on them, huh?! Bribery? Blackmail?”

    Chloe growled as she was giving a cruel smirk, itching for a fight.

    It was a long time coming.

      “As if I’d stoop that low, Cesaire. At least I can be trusted and be given a second chance to have real friends and not liars.”

    “You? Change? HA!” Alya laughed, making the people behind her laugh, before she turned furious, “You’ll never change! Once a villain, always a villain! You couldn’t even be Queen Bee properly! No wonder Ladybug renounced you when she did!”

    Sabrina stepped up angrily as she shouted at Alya, “Don’t you dare insult Chloe like that! She has changed!”

   “Of course you’d say that! You’re Chloe’s number one slave!” Kim argued, making Nino step up as well.

    “Back off!” The DJ stated as he glared at his old friend.

     “What are you gonna do? Bubble me?” Kim mocked as Nino was itching to punch him.

    "Guys, please!" Adrien stepped in between them, trying to placate everyone.

   Shinso was rushing in along with Rose and Juleka, helping Adrien hold Nino back from attacking the sporty boy. Rose and Juleka stayed back, looking at everyone in worry.

    Alix was already being held back from punching Max herself when he stated of Alix possibly turning to an akuma for her “famous temper”, Nathaniel and Marc trying to hold the skater by the waist.

     Mylene was crying from Aurore’s stern words, and Ivan holding his girlfriend with a threatening glare.

   Rose gasped as she was seeing Alya all up on Chloe’s face and stepped between them, “E-everyone! Please calm down, w-we might attract Hawkmoth’s akumas!”

    Another student from Mendeleiev’s class spoke up, “She’s right! Chloe Bourgeois might turn into Queen Wasp again and doom us all!”

    More murmurs and fearful whispers were talking about the rich girl, and Rose looked panicked.

    “No! She wouldn’t! Chloe isn’t bad!” She defended, as Juleka was trying to pull Rose back, “Believe me, I’ve seen it with my own two eyes that Chloe is nicer than she seems!”

       “You too Rose?!” Alya looked at the tiny girl in surprise before her expression morphed into concern, “I knew it, Chloe is holding something against you isn’t she?! Tell me! She can’t keep making people her slaves!”

    Juleka stepped up before Alya could grab and shake the scared Rose, glaring at the reporter.

    Shinso looked around the room as everyone seemed to be divided.

     What a mess.

    Before a war could break out, the doors open to reveal Marinette coming in with her parents, Lila, Mr. Damocles and Ms. Bustier. Everyone turned silent as they watched, almost as if witnessing an execution.

  "What's going on?" Nino whispered as they watched when they stopped at Marinette's locker.

  "Open your locker, please.” Mr. Damocles asked calmly.

  Marinette was opening her locker, then gasped as something fell out. A white box that had...a fox pendant.

  "My grandma's pendent~" Lila picked up the necklace, placing it over her heart as Marinette's parents, Damocles and Busiter looked at Marinette in disbelief.

  Marinette felt her stomach dropped, as she looked around the room. With the exception of the concerned looks from the people that want to help clear her name and believe in her, everyone else was judging her with harsh glares. This included Alya, who was folding her arms, shaking her head. Looking at her like she’s some criminal.

      This caused Marinette's heart to break even more than before.

     Shinso’s eyes closed as he turned his head away, knowing what’s going to happen now.

   "She's making up this whole thing! It wasn't me! I didn't steal anything, I swear!" Marinette tried to defend with tears, looking around even at her disappointed parents then right at a guilty looking Adrien, "Y-You know Lila's lying, d-don't you Adrien?"

  Adrien bit his lower lip, looking down. He wanted to speak up, of course he wanted to! Marinette was his friend.

     But...if everyone was easily turning their backs on Marinette and the rest that are on her side…who's to say they won't with Adrien? He felt scared of being yelled at just like Nino, Chloe and the others had gone through just moments ago. He didn't want to lose any friends.    

    No wait…

    Adrien looked over to Nathaniel and Alix, who wanted to step in and beg Mr. Damocles to change his mind, tell him that Marinette was innocent.

   He did have friends. Friends who believed in him. Friends that knew the truth.

     Alix was right.

    They should expose Lila right here, right now!

   Feeling brave, he soon stepped forward.

"Mr. Damocles, Marinette didn't—"

  But the principal wouldn't hear of it, as he held his hands up and bellowed in finality.

    “Marinette Dupain-Cheng! YOU ARE EXPELLED FROM THIS SCHOOL!”

  Everyone in the room were in shock, as Damocles was telling her to pack her things and leave the school grounds. At this time, Nino and Sabrina were stepping forward, begging Mr. Damocles to give them time to prove that Marinette wasn't the culprit while Chloe was trying to dial her father once more to help.

   Shinso opened his eyes and looked to Marinette, his facial features softened with pity. She looked like she was going to cry.

    Honestly he wanted to reach out. Just to comfort her.

    But he held his hand back from lifting up to touch at her shoulder. He bit his tongue, and stayed quiet.

     Tom and Sabine sighed, pushing their daughter gently out the door...until red butterflies were flying in and attacking everyone.

  "Marinette!" Nino yelled as one of the butterflies aimed at her purse, but soon calmed his heart when one butterfly was about to touch him.

   Chloe and Sabrina calmed themselves down as well, the blonde standing in front of Sabrina protectively as the two watched carefully with the butterflies hovering over them. Shinso had grabbed Rose close to him and protectively held her, Juleka at his side and looking out for the crimson butterflies. Marc, Aurore, Mireille and Felix also stood still, not looking a bit afraid. Sadly, this meant that everyone else was akumatized under Scarlett Moth's control.

  "What now?" Nino hissed as he looked around, then blinked noticing that Adrien, Nathaniel and Alix have vanished.

  Where did they go?

    "Dupain-Ch—MARINETTE—NO!” Chloe yelled, noticing the controlled Marinette was about to remove her earrings.

     The blonde covered her mouth with her eyes widening, making both Nino and Sabrina pale in fear.

     Shinso was moving forward quickly as he was reaching to stop Marinette’s hands and pulled her into his arms.

    That was when the red butterflies flew out from the people, turning back to white butterflies and breaking the control. Marinette gasped, falling into Shinso’s arms freely and holding onto him, tears welling in her eyes as she sobbed into his chest, scared and shaking. Nino, Sabrina and Chloe sighed in relief, but looked at each other with major amount of fear from just seconds ago.

   If Marinette took off her earrings...they would've been doomed.

   Once Marinette was taken home by her parents and everyone dispersed back to their classrooms, Shinso took this time to escape using the Rabbit Miraculous, appearing by Master Fu’s new apartment.

    The man himself was looking back at the young man with a knowing smile, “The time has come?”

    “Yes…” Shinso nodded once he had de-transformed, stepping forward with his hand out, “I’m going to need the Horse once last time, Master.”

     Fu let out a hum, already walking to his old record player and keyed in the password, “It would seem that things are moving too fast, my young friend.”

     “Which is why we need to speed up this plan now. Especially when Hawkmoth will be on the move in a few weeks and try to recruit Lila and possibly Chloe.” The purple haired male murmured as he fed Fluff, then glanced at the man taking out the Miracle Box, “This is the right decision, Master Fu. I know you have your heart set on making Marinette especially the next Guardian but trust me—“

    “I am aware that I am pushing a huge responsibility on her. I was even thinking Chat Noir would join her and share in the role of Guardian to ease the burden. But if you say that it would cause dire consequences, then I shall trust you.”

     Holding the Horse Miraculous to Shinso, Fu looked at the young man in warning.

    “I hope you are right about this.”

     “You and me both,” Shinso murmured as he placed the glasses on, feeling it switch to goggles as Kaalki appeared at his side, “I only have one chance at this. Kaalki, Full Gallop!”

      "Marinette, could you come down for a moment?"

  The pigtailed girl looked from her phone to see her calm yet upset mother at the open hatch.

  "B-Be right down, Mamon," Marinette whispered, her mother nodding her head before she went back down.

    The girl looked at the phone with Nino, Rose, Juleka, Sabrina and Chloe on screen.

     "I'll call you guys later.”

    "Don't worry dudette! We're gonna get to the bottom of this, expose Lila and get you back in school. I promise," Nino assured with a small smile, tipping his hat up.

   "Mom and Daddy aren't helping right now, but I'll be sure to get some way to clear your name, Dupain-Cheng," Chloe huffed, hanging up first.

    Sabrina was smiling on screen, “We have your back, Marinette!“

     Rose nodded as Juleka was giving a thumbs up as her best friend spoke up, “We are on your side, Marinette! Even Adrien and some others are willing to help you out too!”

      If this was a month ago, Marinette would’ve swoon at the thought of Adrien coming in as Prince Charming.

      But she was glad that she wasn’t alone at least.

    "Thanks guys, you're the best friends a girl could ask for. Even Chloe," Marinette smiled gratefully, waving as everyone signed off.

   Sighing, she then glanced over when Tikki floated to her, nuzzling against her cheek.

    "You've got good friends there, Marinette.” The kwami cooed, as Marinette nodded.

    "Yeah, I do...but I feel bad that I'm involving them," She said, feeling touched that she knew who were true friends.

     Although, where was Shinso in all of this?

      He had made sure she was okay, sure, but he vanished once Marinette was walking back home with her parents. Did something happen?

    Pushing that thought back for now, she was making her way downstairs where her parents were waiting for her with troubled looks.

    "Listen honey, we love you but this whole thing has gotten very complicated," Sabine started as she looked at her daughter with a sad look, sighing, "I've made a few calls to our relatives on my side of the family, but your Godfather has suggested maybe you going off to the school he works at in Japan might be the best course of action right now.”

    Marinette's eyes widened, "W-what?"

    U.A. High School…the school that Aizawa had told her about.

      That can’t be a coincidence…right?

    "But until then," Sabine glanced at her husband, who nodded, and the woman looked back at her daughter, “We've decided that you should help around the bakery.”

    Marinette felt herself flail for excuses, her eyes panicked since her parents seemed so…defeated and don’t look like they will change their minds.

    “But I'm telling you! I didn't do anything! If I had to spend all my time in here, how am I gonna be able to prove that I’m innocence?!"

    The Dupain-Cheng couple looked at each other, and Tom tried to smile in reassurance.

    "It's...fun here at the bakery. You'll see sweetie.”

    Marinette took the apron her father offered, sighing softly as she knew Tikki was getting frantic inside her jacket.

    There was no way Ladybug could leave Paris!

Meanwhile back in school, Sabrina was leaning against the wall and waiting by the security door, looking around in case someone was coming back.

  "Hey, psst!" She leaned against the door, knocking on it gently as she whispered, “How much longer are you guys gonna need?"

  The door opened as Chloe's head popped out, narrowing her eyes, “Sabrina. This requires some time and patience. So be a good look out and LOOK OUT for anyone coming our way, clear?” She closed the door, making Sabrina sigh in boredom.

   “Crystal…”

  Sighing, Chloe turned back to Nino, who was busily typing on the computers.

  "What's taking so long?"

  Nino huffed, turning his head to look at the rich blonde, "Like you told Sabrina, this kinda takes some working. So keep your mouth shut while I work!"

  Chloe harrumphed, as she sat down next to him with her arms folded, pouting.

  Since Marinette had left, the trio were hard at work trying to prove Marinette's innocence. Adrien, Nathaniel and Alix were working on looking for some clues to help with the case while Aurore, Marc, Mireille and Felix were asking around the school. Chloe tried again with coaxing her Daddy's help, but to no avail.

  But at least they were getting things done.

  Nino leaned back, watching the screen that showed the download bar once finding what they were looking for, and waited along with Chloe in silence.  

  "Hey, can I ask a question?" Nino suddenly spoke up to break the quiet and Chloe turned to him, raising a brow as if to urge him to continue.

  "What is it?" She asked.

  Nino fixed his cap, looking thoughtful, "...Why did you stop being friends with me and Marinette back in école?” He asked quietly, as Chloe froze.

  The blonde was silent for a moment, before she sighed.

  "It's...because you guys left me behind first.”

  Nino whipped his head around in shock.

  Chloe rolled her eyes, "Don't be surprised. Kim came along and it was you three always together. You guys always tended to forget about me. It hurts. I already get ignored by my cheater of a mother—“

    “You’re mom’s cheating?!”

    “Not the point right now,” Chloe waved as Nino stared at her, but breathed out softly, “I thought maybe to get your attention again I...decided maybe being mean would get you guys back. Mom always said that strike fear to get people to notice you. Show them you're in charge, don't show weakness and be the boss to get everyone to look at you and keep the spotlight on you. Respect was better than friendships…and I took those words to heart.”

  "I'm sorry," Nino turned fully to face Chloe, "If we would've known—"

  "But you didn't," Chole shrugged, trying not to look hurt, “I didn’t expect you to once we reached collège. By then it was too late as we reached lycée.”

  Nino's eyes softened, pushing his glasses up as guilt welled up inside him, "Damn..."

  "Plus...Adrien was there when you guys weren't so...I thought maybe he's all I ever needed. Then there’s Sabrina…I know I didn’t treat her right a few times, but I was scared to get close again. I didn’t want Sabrina or Adrien to end up like you and Marinette. Leaving me behind.”

Nino patted at Chloe's shoulder as she looked down with sad eyes.

  "Well...you've got me and Marinette back. And Sabrina is a loyal one, she’s never going to leave you. She always tells us you’re her BFF, someone that was there for her when others wouldn’t be.” He smiled, but then rubbed the side of his neck, "And...I'm real sorry we drifted apart. Me and Marinette should've tried harder to get you included in our friendship. We were bad friends. We...we shouldn't have left you behind and hurting like that and turning you into a bully. I'm real sorry.”

  Chloe looked back up at Nino, then scoffed, hiding the smile, "This doesn't mean that I'm not gonna change and be nice.”

  Nino laughed, "Wouldn't have it any other way. You being bossy is your trademark now~" He joked, feeling Chloe slap his arm playfully.

  Sabrina peeked her head in panic, "Guys! Hurry up, someone's com—"

   A cough was heard as Sabrina was pulled back, the door swinging open to reveal a disappointed looking Ms. Bustier having her hands onto Sabrina’s shoulders, along with a smirking looking Lila.

    Nino gulped as Chloe glared back at the weasel behind their teacher.

  "Stealing the security keys and playing around with the school cameras? C-Could it be you're erasing evidence of Marinette bullying on me?" Lila’s lower lip wobbled and pretended to look sad, "W-why are you guys being so mean and helping her? I'm sorry Marinette's gone but—"

    “That’s a lie! Why I oughta—” Chloe shouted but Ms. Bustier raised her hand, “Mlle. Bustier!”

     “Into the Principal’s office, the three of you!”

     As Nino, Sabrina and Chloe trudged off with their teacher behind them, Lila smirked as she was backing away for a moment and turned to the security footages, pressing delete at the download bar.

    “Whoops~ There goes the evidence~” She giggled but then glanced to the screen currently running the cameras at this moment and saw a familiar trio snooping around the lockers, “Ciao ladri…what do we have here~?”

   “Maaaaan, no finger prints!”

    Alix puffed her cheeks out as she stared at Marinette’s locker, then looked at the clear cello-tape in hand that she used along with some dark powder she had gotten from her brother.

    Nathaniel sighed, rolling his eyes, “Did you actually think that CSI bullshit would work? Besides, you know the janitors clean the lockers every few hours, so the finger prints would be gone by then.”

   Adrien sat on the bench as he watched the two, humming a bit, “Well, the finger prints are a dud. Maybe now we should try something else.”

    “Oh! Let’s break into Lila’s locker!” Alix clicked her fingers as she smiled, “Maybe she has hidden evidence that she’s keeping!”

    “Why would she be dumb enough to keep anything that might incriminate her in her locker?” Nathaniel asked but then saw Alix tip toeing dramatically to the Italian girl’s locker, “…Aaaand you weren’t listening.”

    Adrien stood up as he and Nathaniel followed Alix, who was already fiddling with the dial of the lock, “Alix, I-I don’t think we should do that? Maybe we should—“

    “Hey, how about Cataclysm the locker?” Alix asked as a joke, then she heard Plagg snickering in his shirt.

     Adrien looked at her, deadpanned.

    Alix sighed, “Fine, I’ll do this the old fashion way—“

  "Just what do you think you three are doing~?"

   The door opened as Lila appeared with a shocked looking Max and Kim.

  "This is highly against the rules! What did you think you were doing in here without permission—?” Max wondered, as Lila gasped, hand over her mouth.

    “W-why are you three breaking into my locker!?”

     Alix looked confused before she felt something click in her hand. She looked down and saw that the lock she was about to crack open was already broken. Her eyes sharpened with a growl, realising she was played. The skater was already throwing the lock down on the ground and soon was racing to tackle Lila, but Kim caught her by the waist and held her up. Kicking her legs up in a struggle, Alix was snarling like a rabid dog, almost swiping to slap at Kim’s face. Nathaniel was reaching to get Kim to put her down but was stopped by Max.

    Lila was walking towards Adrien as the chaos was happening, placing the innocent act, “Oh Adrien~! What would your Father think, having such bad influence as friends~?”

    Adrien wasn’t fooled as he stared down at her, “Don’t do this, Lila! It’s not too late to fix this. Let my friends go and tell the truth to everyone about Marinette!”

     Lila’s facial expression changed as she heard Nathaniel and Max screaming at each other while Alix was growling out loud while Kim wailed under her hits. Knowing they can’t hear anything, she then raised a brow at Adrien coolly.

    “And why would I do that~?”

    “Because it’s the right thing to do.” Adrien said in a low tone, green eyes sharp, “Last chance Lila. I won’t let you get away with any of this.”

     Lila stared at her as Adrien was placing a hand out to shake, a sign of a second chance and friendship.

     What a fool he was.

     “Won’t let me get away with it? Oh Adrien~ I already have~”

     The girl took this as a chance and stepped forward. Adrien was confused as she made his hand touch her stomach, before she crumbled to the ground in a pained cry. Adrien’s eyes widened as he stepped back in shock, before everyone turned to them with confusion as Lila clutched her stomach and sobbed.

   “AH! A-Adrien, please! Don't hurt m-me please! OW OHhhhH~”

  The model’s eyes widened, raising his hands up and stepping back more, "I-I didn't touch her! She fell on her own!"

   Kim and Max glared at him as they rushed to help the shivering, scared Lila up while Nathaniel and Alix rushed to the paling Adrien’s side.

  "Not cool dude! You don’t hit girls!” Kim yelled as he carried Lila in his arms.

  "We're gonna tell Mlle. Bustier what you miscreants did to Lila! I expected better from you three! This is bullying and harassment and we’re going to report you!” Max pointed his finger at the three of them, as the trio looked panicked.

     Lila covered her face as she smirked behind her hands, wanting to giggle.

     Too easy~

    Aurore felt a headache coming on as she watched two of the girls she was talking with scurry away from her, hands on her hips in slight defeat.

    She just didn’t understand.

    Why was it that anyone she talked to were either afraid or shrug her off as crazy?

    And Jean Duprac.

    When she was trying to find and question him, somehow he magically disappeared. Her classmates told her that Jean had suddenly fallen ill, and was picked up by his Uncle to go home for the day.

    Sighing, she was about to go and find Mireille, Marc and Felix to compare notes when she was stopped in her tracks. Standing before her was Alya, who had her hands on her hips with a look of suspicion.

    “What do you think you’re doing?” The Ladyblogger asked as Aurore kept her strong stance.

    As if she was going to be scared off by her.

    “If you must know, I’m doing the very job that you should be doing. Finding a way to prove Marinette’s innocence because she’s my friend and I believe in her. Because I know she wouldn’t do anything horrible.” The blonde weather girl said coolly, jutting her hips a bit as she placed her hands on each side of them.

    “Oh please! Marinette isn’t innocent! You know how the girl’s Adrien crazy!” Alya was waving her hand as she scoffed, “The girl was mad jealous and obsessed on hating Lila for no reason! All Lila has been doing is trying to make friends and fit in, like any new kid would.”

    “So as a new kid yourself once, have you ever lied about yourself? Made promises you can’t keep? Or say, use people to your advantage and make them do your dirty work by bullying and harassing people that you don’t like?” Aurore argued angrily.

    There was a dark look swirling in Alya’s eyes and the blonde frowned.

     “There’s something else isn’t there?”

      Alya raised a brow as Aurore continued.

    “I think you’re using Lila as an excuse. Why are you really angry at Marinette, Alya?”

      Alya blinked in surprise for a moment, but then huffed, “You wanna know? Fine. My so called BFF has been backstabbing me by stealing my boyfriend from me!”

       Aurore blinked for a second but then started laughing, loud and boisterous before she stopped, no really amused.

     “Are you kidding me? Nino would pull the sun and moon down for you! The boy has always been nuts about you and we all see it! Plus, he and Marinette are obviously like brother and sister if you look closely.”

     Aurore had a feeling that Lila had something to do with Alya’s wild accusation.

    “I thought so too! Until I saw with my own two eyes how close they have become! And with Marinette always choosing to hang with Chloe and Sabrina, I could tell that she was slowly changing,” Alya murmured as hurt was shown on her face, “She…she was leaving me out on everything. Always disappearing and not inviting me to things anymore…it hurt. I was being left behind…not to mention Marinette seems to be totally fine without me, not thinking of me once with that smile on her face.”

    Aurore scoffed, not feeling pity at all.

     “Then talk to Marinette. Tell her what you’re feeling, but don’t make up stories that aren’t true or listen to some liar and be delusional!”

    “Lila isn’t a liar!”

     “She is! You’re just so blind to see it!”

     Sighing, Aurore closed her eyes, then opened them with a soft look.

    “What happened to you, Alya? You used to be so cool. You were all about justice and so passionate about your Ladyblog, giving the news about Ladybug and Chat Noir and bringing people together for the love of our heroes. You gave information so precise and told the truth. You inspired me to make my own blog. Now?”

   Aurore’s smile fell as her eyes looked disappointed.

   “It’s full of nothing but garbage about Lila. Just another trash tabloid that does nothing good for anyone. And for what? The promise to be the next “Lois Lane” and make it big? Lila won’t bring you up, she’ll make you crash and burn…”

    Alya’s eyes looked conflicted for a moment, and Aurore thought she had gotten through to her.

    But Alya shook her head.

    “You’re just trying to psyche me out so you’ll be the top blogger in this school, or the whole of Paris! Well you won’t fool me!”

    Aurore held back a sigh. Alya was long gone.

     “Whatever. I tried to warn you.” Aurore murmured as she was soon walking off.

      Aurore was about to make her way downstairs, but felt hands at her back and suddenly, Aurore’s world was spinning around her. Pain battered her body as she was soon landing at the bottom of the stairs. Groaning, Aurore struggled to look up at the top of the steps, seeing a blurry figure running off, leaving the blonde sprawled onto the ground as she fell unconscious.

    Just in time for Felix to come out from a classroom with Marc.

    The two were questioning some kids when the spotted Aurore’s body.

    “Aurore!” Marc shouted as he rushed over to her, seeing there was already blood pooling under her head.

    Felix was quick to call an ambulance as Mireille was coming from another classroom, rushing over to see what’s going on.

  "Well this didn't go well.”

  Nino and Sabrina were sitting on the stairs in front of Françoise Dupont, Chloe also sitting with them in sympathy.

  After being called to the Principal's office for being caught in the security room and "hurting" Lila, Nino and Sabrina were expelled and their parents were called to pick them up.

     Sabrina knew her father was going to be furious, especially since it was against the law to break and enter a security room. She knew she was going to be shipped into a police academy for young girls for sure!

     Nino’s parents weren’t exactly strict, but they would probably just either let Nino travel with his father on his job or just go to another school.

     Chloe got off with a warning thanks to her father's intervention, but it didn't mean the blonde was out of the clear yet.

     The three let out a sigh in defeat after Lila had gotten them in trouble, but soon were joined by a sad look trio consisting of Adrien, Nathaniel and Alix.

     Looking over at the three hunched over and upset, Nino had to guess they were on the same boat.

    “What happened?” He asked.

     “Alix and I are expelled. Apparently for violence against other students and being a bad influence,” Nathaniel murmured, gripping at his bag as Alix kicked the ground.

    “At least Adrien got off with a warning. But still! This totally sucks! My old man’s gonna kill me!” She said, punching her fist in hand, “All thanks to that Lila brat!”

    “What about you guys?” Adrien asked Nino worriedly, wondering how their thing went.

     “Me and Sabrina got expelled too. Chloe got off easy with a warning like you cuz of her dad.” Nino replied, sighing, “But this does suck…”

   “I wouldn’t say I got off easy. There’s a high chance that my father will pull me out of school if he hears I got into trouble,” Adrien murmured as he folded his arms, sitting down next to Nino, “I…I really thought I could get Lila to turn around…”

    “She’s not a tiger that could change her stripes, Adrikins. She’s going to be a queen bitch through and through until her greed makes her head swell like a balloon,” Chloe huffed, flipping her hair, “And you guys call me egotistical.”

   “Either way, I don’t think things can get any worse.” Sabrina said softly, but everyone soon perked up as the sirens of an ambulance was heard coming their way.

    It stopped right in front of the school, paramedics grabbing a gurney. rolling it over and bringing it into the school frantically, the kids moving out of the way.

   “What do you think is going on?” Adrien asked as Sabrina and Chloe stayed at his side and Nino, Nathaniel and Alix were opposite them.

    They soon saw the paramedics coming back, rolling the gurney down back to the ambulance and the teens gasped seeing an unconscious Aurore on it. There were towels under her head as it was bandaged, her body looked like a broken doll.

   Marc, Felix and Mireille were rushing out to follow, but the head Parademic told them to stay put as they were readying to leave.

    “W-what happened to Aurore?!” Nathaniel breathed out once the shock was out of his system.

     Marc was crying, being held back by a grim looking Felix.

    “A-aurore fell down the stairs! W-we heard a cry and something falling when me a-and Felix were interrogating some students a-and when we came out their classroom, s-she was at the bottom of the stairs and bleeding out—there was so much blood—“

    Marc looked green as he almost threw up at the memory of seeing how broken Aurore looked, and Felix was ready with a brown paper bag provided by Mireille.

    “…I think Aurore was pushed down actually,” Felix theorised as everyone looked to him, “I don’t think Class Rep would be that clumsy to miss any steps. Someone had intentionally shoved her down from the very top.”

   “Who would do such a thing?” Adrien exclaimed in horror, “It can’t be Lila. She’s in the nurse’s office before me, Nath and Alix were sent to the Principal’s office.”

    “Maybe one of Lila’s followers?” Alix suggested, “They’re rabid enough to do so?“

    “Can’t be one of our classmates. They can’t be capable of hurting anyone like that.” Nathaniel shook his head.

    “I-I’m going to call my parents and see Aurore at the hospital.” Mireille said quietly as she was grabbing for her phone and dialling the number, walking off to talk to either one of her parents.

    Felix hummed as he watched her go, “She had quite the fright. I believe her and Class Rep were close.”

   “They’re best friends since the Weather Girl Competition. So I guess it’s understandable if one of them gets hurt, the other would be panicked,” Nino explained as he tipped his hat up, “Oh, I don’t we’ve been introduced properly and officially dude…I’m Nino.”

    “Charmed. Felix,” The blond murmured, nodding his head in greeting.

    “But what should we do now?” Marc murmured, “T-this is all getting out of hand…”

    Sabrina hummed as she stood, “I’m going to talk to my Dad about maybe helping us out this time around. With what’s going on, this is becoming a serious and dangerous situation.”

     Adrien winced, “You sure we should involve the police?”

      Sabrina nodded, “My dad and his brigade are good people. If we just explain everything then—“

 Suddenly, there was buzzing in everyone’s phones and they all pulled them out. News of Ladybug fighting Mayura was shown, and a few people looked confused.

    Adrien was quickly standing up as he then was gripping his stomach, “Ahhhhhh…I-I think I ate something f-funny…” He fake gagged, covering his mouth with wide eyes as Nathaniel and Alix got the signal.

   “We-we’ll take you somewhere to throw up!” Alix was quick to appear at Adrien’s side while Nathaniel was at the other side, and the three were soon running off.

    Everyone blinked at the weird exit the trio made but soon Chloe’s car sped in front of them and the blonde was quickly grabbing Sabrina and Nino.

    “I gotta take these two with me to see my Daddy about getting us back in school!” Chloe quickly excused, comically throwing the two in the car before slipping in, shutting the car door as they sped off.

    Felix frowned, glancing at Marc and Mireille; both look equally confused at what just happened.

"Isn't Marinette grounded? How is she out?" Nino asked, looking confused as he looked down at his phone as Chloe was driving them to Master Fu’s new place.

   Chloe obviously smelled something off.

  "She would've called us if she was facing Mayura of all people. Which is why we’re gonna go to Master Fu and find out what’s going on!”

    The trio arrived at the very outskirt of the city, Chloe twitching her nose since the streets weren’t…exactly safe. Sabrina had suggested maybe they should walk the rest of the way so as to not draw attention to themselves. Chloe told her driver to pick them up later when she calls him, and soon she and the other two were making their way to the apartment buildings. They reached their destination, Nino being trusted to have Master Fu’s spare keys (thanks to Wyatt) and were surprised to see Kirin sitting alone in the room.

   “W-where is Master Fu?” Nino asked, looking around the room.

    The Horse Hero looked over at him as he was sitting cross legged on the floor, raising a brow.

    “He’s…busy with a guest.”

     Nino raised a brow, “Ladybug is currently fighting Mayura and—“

     “I know.”

      Nino, Chloe and Sabrina looked at Kazesagi, mystified.

      The hero looked over to them and hummed, “Nino, transform into Carapace and go to the Dupain-Cheng bakery. Chloe and Sabrina, stay. I’ll need you two here.”

    Nino breathed out, “Wha—?”

    “The Ladybug fighting Mayura is a Sentimonster.” Kazesagi explained as he hummed a little, “Marinette is still at home, grounded. Go retrieve her and stop Mayura.”

    “I knew it!” Chloe clicked her fingers but then frowned, “Wait, why only Carapace go to Marinette? Where’s Chat Noir?”

    As she said this, Nino’s phone still sounded with the news going on, saying Chat Noir had arrived at the scene.

    “Better hurry.” Kirin murmured while calling his voyage to create a portal near the Dupain-Cheng’s residence.

    Nino yelled a ‘Shell On!’ and transforming into Carapace, then jumped into the portal as Kirin was closing it.

   Chloe raised a brow as she looked at the hero, “SO why are you in the horse costume today? Why aren’t you using Fluff?”

    “Someone is using it currently. Master Fu is with them in their “burrow” training.” Kirin explained as Sabrina looked puzzled.

    “Another Rabbit Hero? Who is it?” Sabrina asked softly as Kirin sighed.

    “You’ll find out in a while. But for now, be prepared since Master Fu is gonna give you two your final exams in preparation for your Miraculous.”      “Today?” Chloe’s eyes sparkled, “So I can test out my new Bee Form with Pollen?”

     “Yes. And Sabrina is going to be tested which Kwami will have true synergy with her.” Kirin murmured, although he looked conflicted, “I am sure you feel impatient, Sabrina.”

   “I-I’m just happy I’m included, is all. I never thought someone like me would be a Miraculous Hero, you know?” Sabrina said shyly as she fiddled with her fingers, “But I’m prepared for anything! I’ve studied so hard this past few weeks with the Master….I-I’m ready!”

    Kirin’s eyes softened, nodding his head.

    Suddenly the burrow opened in a bright flash of blue as Master Fu calmly stepped out, hands behind his back as he smiled.

    “Hello Chloe. Sabrina. Are you ready for today?”

    Kirin was getting up as the girls nodded, and the young man looked to Fu.

   “I’ll get going with the newbie. You think you’ll alright?”      “I shall be fine, Young Kirin,” Fu nodded to the Horse Hero before turning back to the figure now stepping out from the portal, “What says you, Young Usadori?“

    A forest haired Rabbit Hero with bright emerald smiled brightly, resting his umbrella on his shoulder with a chuckle.

    “I’ve only studied being a Rabbit Hero for five hours, but it feels like five years in my burrow. Ah, I’m Usadori, nice to meet you two! I hope we can get along!”

   Chloe and Sabrina tilted their heads staring at the young masked man, who was flustering under their gaze.

   Kirin was rolling his eyes as he reached to grab the Rabbit Hero’s ear and started pulling, dragging him to the door and ignoring his whining.

    “C’mon you idiot, let’s get going.”

    “Ow! Oh! OW! Shi—A-ahhhh—Kirin-san, please!”

     The two vanished into Kirin’s portal, closing behind them.

     The blonde and red head looked at each other for a moment then looked to Master Fu, who just smiled with a shrug.

    “At any case, you two shall be joined by two other people in your tests. Although they are new, they are quick on the uptake.” Master Fu said, making his way to his study table.

    “Two other people? Who are they other two?” Chloe asked.

    “Are they people we know?” Sabrina wondered out loud, making Fu smile.

     There was a knock on the door, and Fu was making his way towards it to answer. As he opened the door, Chloe and Sabrina’s jaws dropped, both shouting in surprise.

    “IT’S THEM??!”

  Chat Noir was jumping from building to building, making his way to the Arc de Triomphe, where he knew Ladybug and Mayura were fighting. He took a big leap, using his bo-staff as a propeller to fly himself there, landing gracefully with a wild grin.

    “Chat Noir to the rescue, Ladybug!”

     Mayura smirked as she whispered something to Ladybug, then suddenly landing a hard punch onto the heroine’s stomach, making Ladybug yelled out in pain. Chat’s eyes widened as he watched his partner crumble to the ground, rushing to her side.

    “Ladybug, no!” He was struggling to help her up, his eyes worried, “Y-You okay?”

   Ladybug panted as she held her stomach, her teary eyes looking up at him as she struggled to stand.

   “D-don’t worry about me…g-go after Mayura—oh, ow, owww—“

    Chat managed to catch her before she fell back down again. She looked up at him with pained eyes, telling him she wasn’t feeling too good.

   “There’s something wrong. Our suits are supposed to be invulnerable…” The feline hero was murmuring to himself, wishing that he had a healing power instead of destruction right now.

    “Chat Noir…”

    Chat blinked as he felt a soft hand over his chest, the young hero looking down at his partner, who was giving a soft look. A look that was unfamiliar to Chat. For as long as he has known her, that kinda look she’s never given him before.

   “Don’t leave me.”

    Chat looked confused, “W-what? Why, what’s going on, Ladybug?”

   “I’ve always gone out of my way to hide my true feelings for you,” She started solemnly, “B-But I just can’t do it anymore…”

    Now the blond feline hero looked even more dumbfounded. Frowning almost at her words.

    “But…didn’t you say you loved somebody else?”

    He didn’t miss how she looked surprised for a second, but continued on with a shaky sigh.

   “It’s…it’s over. After all this time…I’ve realized…” She slowly let her hands grab to his own, gently placed it over her heart, both her hands resting on top of his with a small loving smile, “You’re always here for me, even when I keep rejecting you. Your feelings for me haven’t changed, but mine? They’re growing stronger everyday~ I can’t keep pretending anymore…”

    If this was happening to Chat Noir a week ago, maybe he’d be over the moon at this kind of confession. Finally, the girl of his dreams actually reciprocating his feelings?

   But now?    The butterflies that he used to get whenever she smiled at him like that were gone.

    And as she was leaning in for a kiss, Chat Noir had turn his head away and move back, letting his hand slip from her grasp as he shook his head.

    “I’m sorry.”

    Ladybug looked confused, almost annoyed, but Chat didn’t notice.

    “I…I can’t do it.” Chat Noir murmured as he was closing his eyes, “I can’t accept your feelings.”

    “WHAT?!” Ladybug yelled, but then groaned and held her stomach as Chat Noir reached to hold her, “W-why…?”     “You were right. I mean, I confused our friendship, our partnership, as something romantic. I was too blind to see that we cannot be more than that. And I did promise that I was going to treat you as just that. My friend. Someone that means so much more than some fantasy. I think…” Chat smiled a little as he looked like he confirmed something in his heart, “I don’t want to ruin what we have into something that I think I wish for. I want love…But I know now that our kind of love is something precious, not forced like a movie or fairytale…I’ll find my special lady one day, but I’d rather much be just your best friend and partner in crime.”

     Ladybug stared at him and growled, trying to take Chat’s hand again.

     “How can you betray me like this, Chat Noir?! I hate you! Maybe I should take your ring back!”

      Chat’s eyes narrowed and soon was leaping back away from her.

     “….You’re not Ladybug!”

    “Good thing you’re using your head today, kitty~”

    Chat Noir brightened as he looked over to see Ladybug and Carapace landing behind him, already ready for a fight.

    “As if I could be fooled by a fake~” Chat Noir chuckled as he smiled, “There’s only one Ladybug, and she tends to smack me if I try to woo her~”

     Ladybug smiled back at him but focused on Mayura, who was hiding from them.

     “Gotcha, little birdie~!” Carapace grinned as he appeared beside Mayura, kicking her out of her hiding spot and was ready to attack when Mayura blocked his hit.

  "Hello Mayura~!" Ladybug smirked as Chat Noir narrowed his eyes, Carapace landing back to their side.

   “So this Ladybug here…”

    “Is a Senti-Monster, yes.” Ladybug nodded as she looked back at her double, “Things are not always what they seem at first sight.”

    “It’s true…but…” Chat Noir’s face softened as he titled his head, “She seems more elaborate than the ones we’ve faced before. There’s nothing monstrous about her…”

    “It’s because she’s not.”

     The three heroes looked back as Kirin and a new Rabbit Hero appeared before them, making all of them shocked. Including Mayura.

    “Who…?” Ladybug breathed out as the bunny like hero smiled.

     “I-I’m Usadori! Just a temp trained by Master Fu. Er, I-I’m a huge fan of you and Chat Noir!”

     “Focus Usa…” Kirin drawled before the new hero snapped out of it.

     “Right! Sorry!” Usadori nodded as he was twirling his umbrella in hand.

    “A new hero?” Mayura murmured, interested.

     Kirin was soon using voyage, suddenly appearing behind her, taking the Eiffel Tower keychain she was holding and disappeared.

     “NO!” Mayura screamed but coughed as she held her chest, crumbling down on the ground.

     The Senti-Bug froze for a second, almost slumping like a puppet without her strings. Kirin appeared back near the real Ladybug, handing the object to Usadori. Mayura growled, raising her hand to snap her fingers but real Ladybug quickly tied her up with her yo-yo to stop her. Usadori called for his burrow as he rushed to grab for Senti-bug and the two jumped into the portal together, the said portal vanishing.

    “Wha—?!” Mayura gaped at where her Senti-monster and the Rabbit Hero were gone just as Ladybug, Chat Noir, Carapace and Kirin surrounded her.

    “It’s over, Mayura. I don’t know where Usadori went off with our Bug-gette, but you’re dealing with us now.” Chat Noir murmured as Ladybug was reaching to take the Peacock Miraculous.

    Finally, it’s theirs.

    That was until Carapace yelled Shell-ter, his shield surrounded himself and the team as a barrage of blue fire almost rushed in between them and Mayura, like some sort of high firewall. When the fire died down, Mayura was gone.

    Kirin’s eyes widened as he looked at the scorch marks before them, his eyes hardening while his teammates wondered where the fire came from.

     ‘He’s already here. Way earlier than I expected…’

     “Man, we were so close!" Carapace sighed as he was placing his shield down.

     “We’ll get her next time. But I suppose I should summon a lucky charm and use Miraculous Ladybug to  clean this up,” Ladybug pointed to the burnt markings on the Arc de Triomphe, and soon got to work.

    “Well if that’s all, I suppose I should head back,” Chat Noir was about to leave but Kirin stopped his arm, “What—“

    “Master wants to see you. Actually, he wants to see all of us, together.” He looked to Ladybug, giving her a look, “It’s time.“

   Ladybug’s eyes widened as she glanced at Chat Noir, then back at Kirin’s serious look. But she knew deep down, Kirin was right. The time came and…she was nervous.

    ‘What if something went wrong?’

[k7l4d4]

Revamping Near-forgotten Retro Cartoons!!

Hey all, today, I decided to revisit some of the cartoon reruns I saw on TV back when I was like, wow, six or seven I think? How the time flies! Well, I decided to look some of them up, and decided, why not give them a revamp for the modern era? Everybody clap your hands!!

When Cartoons first started getting serious, beyond just shorts and whatnot, anything even remotely successful was milked to the bone, copied and cloned to hell and back, and just rung out all together. This is me attempting to find those old shows and make them a little more unique. Enjoy!

Jabberjaw: You would expect a show about a band travelling an aquatic world with a frequently disrespected and harassed shark to be a pretty unique concept, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, of all the clones of Scooby-Doo, this, to me, was one of the laziest, even though I loved the show. NO effort in the slightest was made to give it any original flavor beyond the setting, like, at all.

My version, would have the friends still be a band, but, instead of being native to the fantastic, setting, would be struggling local performers of a sea-side town who, despite being acknowledged as some of the best in the state talent-wise, are frequently the subject of local mockery and disdain, as they can never seem to stick to a theme or style. The band consists of Buford “Biff” Brisk, the lead guitar, Charlie “Clamhead” Wilter on the Trumpet, Wendy Bubbles on Keyboard and occasionally Keytar, and Shelly Swanson on Bass.

For all there skill, in an effort to find a theme they can work with and stick with, the band attempt to practice in a local cove. After a few hours of jamming and experimentation, the tide comes in, and, just as they believe they are going to drown, they wake up to find themselves in a strange, almost futuristic aquatic world, inhabited by Fishfolk and Merfolk, with themselves being some of the incredibly few Mammals in existence. While they initially panic over the lack of air, they rapidly calm down as they realize they can still breath.

The band’s near unique status has them pegged as a side-show attraction, granting them no small amount of fame, and plenty of gigs. However, the lack of a drummer, something they have always struggled with, and their inconsistent theme, causes them to lose both gigs and crowds, their primary source of income as they try to find a way back home. While wandering the local waters, searching for a drummer, they eventually discover some of the impressive drumming any of them have ever heard, but when they go to investigate, who do they encounter but a shark!?

After the initial bout of panic, the shark manages to calm them down and introduce himself. Enter Joebar Jawkowski, also known locally as Jabberjaw. In this world, sharks are highly prejudiced against and ostracized, seen as thugs and bullies at best and vicious monsters and killers at worst. Jabberjaw has always tried to bridge the gap between sharks and the rest of the water-dwellers, yet his efforts are always rebuffed; every time he tried to hang out with others, he was either chased away for being a shark, or used as a scapegoat to avoid getting in trouble. After all, who would belief that the local guppies would splatter ink all over someone’s house as opposed to the “dangerous and brutal shark!” His efforts to hang and bond have often resulted in him accidentally blabbing about his fellow sharks, revealing local hangouts and meeting places, causing many of the local sharks to be harassed and persecuted by abusive authority, losing him the trust of others.

However, despite his bad rep and numerous screwups, Jabberjaw is a sweetheart to his core, always willing to help and be there for his friends, and he still wants to make friends with others. After they hear his story, the band tentatively, but genuinely offer him the role of their drummer; he’s done so much and gotten himself nothing but grief, so why not? Of course, Jabberjaw accepted.

Biff is the leader of the band, always being the first one to show up to practice, and the one who always insists on staying after to clean up. Passionate and upbeat, Biff is the driving force behind the band, always pushing forward to have the band succeed, and always ready to listen, to be a shoulder to cry on, and just be there for his friends. He isn’t perfect though. For all his claims about being all about the music, Biff is usually always the one getting caught up in whatever fame the band has managed to accrue at any given moment, much to the annoyance and occasionally concern of the others. Biff comes from a pretty conservative family, and while they love him, they do not approve of or respect his decision to be a musician, often wondering when he’s going to “Stop all that nonsense and get a real job.”

Clamhead doesn’t say much, but when he does start talking, it usually means something is going down. Clamhead was frequently bullied as a child due to his constant use of made-up words when he got excited, as well as his strange turns of phrases and his near exclusively seafood diet. Due to this harassment, Clamhead became something of a self-imposed mute, often using the bare minimum of words, when he managed to talk at all. Music quickly became a strong outlet for his feelings, allowing him to express himself more effectively. Clamhead rapidly formed a strong bond with Jabberjaw, due to their shared diet and the ire it earned them from the locals.

Bubbles, she prefers to go by her last name, is a sweetheart to her core, often going out of her way to help even people who everyone would agree are self-absorbed jerks, themselves included. Bubbles, for all her ditzy demeanor and simplistic language, has always been a true genius. Even as far back as Elementary School, she took high school and college classes in her free time, having racked up an intimidating number of degrees and diplomas before she ever even Officially graduated. Bubbles was routinely bullied into submission as a child, as her spacey demeanor caused many to look down on her and not take her seriously, mocking her whenever she tried to help with, well, anything!

Shelly is a cynical introvert, bitter and detached from the world, not that you’d know it by looking at her. Shelly has always been extraordinarily beautiful, attracting attention from a wide variety of sources, including those that are... creepy. This attention unnerved and confused her as a child, leading to her closing herself off, and later to biting back with viciousness, and in some cases cruelty, as she got older. She genuinely enjoys her time with the band and considers them all her best friends, yet occasionally feels like an outsider looking in, in comparison to her gloomier attitude and behavior in relation to the others. Much to her surprise and disgust, the odd attractive quality that draws others to her is even stronger in the new world, leading to all sorts of... unwanted attention.

[madamspeaker]

Rep. Juan Vargas with the truest words ever spoken.

I don’t know what will happen today, whether the votes are there for the BIF to pass (seems unlikely, and you can never rely on Republican votes, plus their “leadership” is whipping against it), whether it goes down, or whether the Speaker pulls the vote and sets it up for a later date (with the original nine mods who forced it to this point probably crying foul) when the reconcilation package looks more complete, that is to say when Tweedle Dum and Dee over in the Senate actually decide what they will accept. I do know that this week is pretty much the fault of both the moderate and progressive wings being idiots and not doing the easiest of things which is to simply trust Nancy Pelosi - it’s not like she has ever let them down. The mods broke first of course from the original twin track plan for the two bills, insisting that the BIF had to have a vote ahead of the BBB or else they wouldn’t even vote to let the reconcilation process start. The logic of those nine, and later ten, remains pretty iffy - they had, unlike the progressive wing, a concrete assurance that the CPC would vote for the BIF once reconcilation was done. The moderates never really offered that in kind - there was balking at the price tag for one, and some squeamishness regarding the tax plans. Gotheimer and his crew essentially engaged in what feels like an increasingly idiotic bad faith power game in which they insisted they get what they want without offering anything concrete that the other side would get the same from them. This isn’t to say that the CPC is blameless in this - far from it. There is a solid argument to make that they are once again letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Jayapal, whose political instincts I find to be seriously questionable (she voted against the Heroes Act for one thing), was quoted as saying that the BIF was meant to be finished months ago, and that if it had finished when it should have, then the bills would have never been paired together -- which sort of negates her own argument as to why she is now insisting that they must remain paired. I mean presumably if the BIF had indeed been through the Senate late spring/early summer, the CPC would have voted for it rather than sink it. The other thing to note is that most if not all of the CPC are in safe seats - their election worry is a primary, not the general. Most of the moderates (except Ed Case, which makes his postion doubly wtf) are in much more electorally volatile seats. You can sort of understand why they would want to pass the BIF and go home and tout it. Of course the damn trouble is that both sides have dug in. I have to hope that they understand or at least can see how their mutual positions are untenable and how someone is going to have to “blink” as they say, but we’ve reached that place were to blink now is considered all out surrender, and there is a lot more influencing this dick measuring contest between the factions than just infrastructure - it’s about the future of the party, which side holds the most sway. Nancy Pelosi has an exceptional skills set in keeping both sides happy, but we know this is her last term as Speaker, and although no one is saying it, it has to be assumed that running under all this external posturing between mods and progs is the fact that members know this too and recognise that the Pelosi’s power has an expiry date. From a personal point of view it’s horrid to contemplate, but pissing Nancy off in 2021 probably holds less terror for members now than pissing Nancy off in 2019 did. Then of course there is the question of just what the hell Schumer and the White House are doing. Word is that the White House hasn’t made much to any effort to corral votes for the BIF today, indeed it seems to be very hard to decipher what Biden’s position is on the current state of things. One suspect it would help de-muddy the waters quite a bit of the president explicitly stated what he wants done, rather than leaving various caucus chairs and senators to “interpret” on his behalf. As for Schumer, either that flip-phone isnt working anymore, or he’s decided he’s more interested in a staring contest with McConnell over the debt ceiling. And in the middle of it all is Nancy Pelosi - seemingly the only damn person trying to make anything happen. In a way it feels wholly typical that everything would once again come to rest on her shoulders, and it’s bad news for Dems that she appears to be the only person who can make anything happen - and that includes those looking to succeed her. Why the hell can’t they just all shut up and listen to her?!?!

[taylorswiftdiscographyrate]

#70-61

70. Wonderland (7.441) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 3

This is the only song to not receive a regular placing on the 1989 tour setlist! AYHTDWS, This Love and YAIL both rotated on and off depending on the night, but according to setlist.fm those 3 all at least got a good number of performances, while poor Wonderland only got a whopping 4 times in the spotlight. Wonderland used to be a favourite of mine on 1989, but unfortunately for me I think it has aged a bit poorly.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “can someone please tell me what you hear in this song?” @yourivysgrows: “This didn't deserve to be a bonus track”

69. False God (7.447) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 3.9

Haha, nice.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “PUSSY IS GOD” @yourivysgrows: “This murdered me”

68. mad woman (7.459) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 4.5

The first time we heard the fuck word from Taylor! And what a great fuck word it was. mad woman is, in my opinion, by far the greatest song about sexism that Taylor has ever written. The simmering rage that lingers beneath the whole thing, the way she drags Scooter through the mud... *chefs kiss*

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “fuck you forever”

67. The Way I Loved You (7.488) Highest score was 9; Lowest score was 5.9

We need to start a support group for people who took way too long to realise this song was about two different guys. By people I mean me, but also please tell me I’m not the only one. I was so confused for so long with this song.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “banger of a song but -2 for promoting toxic relationships :/”

66. Back to December (7.494) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 3

This is a great song, but honestly after hearing the mashup with Apologise and You’re Not Sorry from the Speak Now tour, I cannot listen to any other version. I also remember some weird story about how Taylor Lautner attended a Speak Now Tour date and was witnessed muttering “it’s too late” under his breath during the performance, which now that I’m repeating it sounds so obviously like fanfiction but 12 year old me bought into it back when Taylor Squared was THE ship.

Highlighted comments: @corneliaavenue: “rip tay²” @yourivysgrows: “Track 5 energy (a yes)”

65. Come Back... Be Here (7.519) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 3

Remember when we begged and begged and got Taylor to relearn the lyrics to this song so she could perform it on Rep Tour? Good times.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “Due to my long distance relationship this one hit home” @everfolk: “God tier song” @liabilitys: “one of my fav songs but v underrated”

64. New Year’s Day (7.544) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 1

I think the perception of this song is harmed by how the sessioners hyped it up as “the new All Too Well”. Which I mean, is just wrong, but I can’t blame them - if I had heard “hold on to the memories they will hold onto you” in Taylor Swift’s house I would probably burst into tears every time I heard it afterwards too. In all seriousness, I think this is a great end to reputation, its calm and understatedness is perfect alongside the aggressive cacaphony that makes up most of the rest of the album.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “The most beautiful closer” @corneliaavenue: “it is a little boring, but i like the lyrics”

63. Christmas Tree Farm (7.559) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 5.15

This is so fun and wholesome, it almost inspired me to make myself a Christmas playlist. I don’t even listen to 99% of Christmas music, so the playlist would pretty much just consist of this, All I Want For Christmas Is You and Santa Tell Me by Ariana Grande.

Highlighted comments: @itspeterlosingwendy: “the only song I listen to at christmas” @treacherousdemo: “that intro is the best thing she's ever done.. i stand by this” @leadinmeon: “i don't even celebrate xmas. but this song is so cute”

62. Sad Beautiful Tragic (7.572) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 4.6

I used to be attacked for saying I didn’t like this song, to the point where I was bullied into liking it </3 Half joking, this song has actually grown on me a lot! But can we just admit it is a tad too slow and dare I say... verges on being boring?

Highlighted comments: @leadinmeon: “same as last kiss: lyrically iconic, musically boring to listen to” @liabilitys: “another fav”

61. Dancing with Our Hands Tied (7.581) Highest score was 10; Lowest score was 5

If the album version was the acoustic version, I would’ve given this a much higher score. But the production... after listening to 10 previous songs full of heavy synths and drops, I frankly just get tired of that by this point in the album, and DWOHT does that style a lot worse than the other songs, in my opinion. The acoustic version is very nice though.

Highlighted comments: @yourivysgrows: “I would die for this song I think”

[softscummymammon]

Beelzebub x Male!reader

Can I Have Some More?

@otomeman

You and Beelzebub sat next to each other at the table waiting for breakfast. Your boyfriend licked his lips in delight as he stared down the pancakes. Syrup was slowly running down the stack of pancakes, the withered cow butter sitting on top just made it all that enticing. You chuckled and stared at the drool slowly running down his chin as he held himself back just barely, from jumping over the table and devouring them whole.

You set a hand on Beelzebub's bicep, rubbing it lightly. Though it did little, the comfort it created you was enough. You watched as the other plates were set down on the table, and the brothers serving sat down in their chairs. Lucifer gave the wave of his hand to go ahead, and in a flash Beelzebub took a stack of pancakes of his own. You smiled and grabbed two for your own. The bowl of hash browns was passed to you, which you grabbed some then handed to Beelzebub.

The cry of disbelief made you snort as it was most likely Mammon got the empty bowl of hash browns. You looked up to see the pouting face of Mammon, the Avatar of Greed. You looked back at your plate, waiting for some other food to be passed around. Grabbing some more food and putting it on your plate, you begin to eat. You snuck some of your hash browns onto Mammon's plate, since you felt bad.

You look up from your plate with a mouth full, Beelzebub wasn't that much different. Only he had a fork in hand, and reaching for more to put on his plate. Catching at the perfect time was key for your question, you just had to get the timing right to ask. Beelzebub was about to put more food in his mouth after swallowing a mouth full of cockatrice eggs before you caught him. " Hey, Beel? "

Your boyfriend looked over at you and nodded at you to continue. You cleared your throat, " Is, um, is it okay if I stop by your room after school? "

Beelzebub smiled his innocent smile, " Sure! "

You smiled, then frowned at his follow up answer. " But only for a few minutes, I have to head to the gym after school. "

You stuttered an answer, " O-oh, okay. Maybe later then… "

Beelzebub nodded and continued to eat.

When Lucifer called out that it was time to leave, you all quickly picked up your plates and put them in the sink to clean up later. You caught up to Beelzebub and his twin Belphegor by the door. You both made your way to school grounds and walked inside, splitting up to head to your classes. Your boyfriend's answer kept swimming in your head as you walked inside your class and sat down in one of the rows of seats. You tapped your pencil on the notebook you had brought with you as your thoughts still swam. You would have to try again later.

It was a few more classes till the lunch bell rang, signalling end of class and head to the cafeteria. Who got your stuff together, and met up with the twins at the line. Beelzebub got three double burgers, Belphegor got sushi, and you got (favorite/food). When all of you got your stuff, you three headed outside to the courtyard and ate there. It was nice today, not too much wind but a nice breeze flowing through the air.

You all started to eat and enjoy the nice weather that was few and far between in the Devildom. You look over to your boyfriend and saw him happily eating his burgers. You sit straight and put down your utensil.

" Hey, Beel? "

Your boyfriend looked up, " Mhmm? "

His mouth was full, so he could only hum in acknowledgement. You smiled and shook your head, " It seems like your eating more than usually, are you that hungry? Maybe, even for me? "

Belphegor choked on his sushi and coughed loudly. He bent down below the table top and wheezed. Beelzebub worriedly patted his brother on the back, slowly rubbing it. You both shared a glance as Belphegor slowly caught his breath from the sudden choking hazard. He gave a side sneer at how bad that hint was. You checked to see if Beelzebub was looking, then shrugged. You mouthed, ' He's so oblivious…'

Belphegor chuckled and shook his head. Beelzebub titled his head and gave a few more pats to the back before going back to eating, since he could tell if his twin was really hurt or not. He looked back up to you to answer your question that has yet to be answered. He smiled sweetly, " With you by my side, that's all I'll ever need. "

He took a big bite of his burger with closed eyes. You looked towards Belphegor and gave him a look and a wave. The Avatar of Sloth nodded in understanding. He didn't even know Beelzebub was that oblivious. Your hint was so obvious, he had a hard time swallowing it, literally.

The bell rang before you could bury yourself even further into your grave, giving you a quick out. You hurriedly collected your things together and threw out the trash, rushing back into the school building and making it to your class. Beelzebub watched you run off and gave his twin an odd look. Belphegor shrugged as he watched you quickly run from the situation.

It was a few more hours before the bell rang, signalling the end of class. Everyone collected their things and slung their backpacks on their shoulders. The professor was quickly calling out possible homework they were assigning, but no one was listening to them anyway. You made your way out to the entrance of the school, only getting a few shoves here and there. Just because everyone was in a hurry to get out of here and do their own thing.

You found most of the brothers near the doors, possibly waiting for you and the rest of the seven demon brother group. You caught up to them and waved, getting a few nods and waves in response. When everyone was there, you all started heading towards the House of Lamination. On the way there, you passed by Beelzebub. Running your hand over his hip, you blew a cold breath on his neck. When you completely passed by him, you could tell he shivered and was confused. Belphegor gave a raised brow towards you, but you shrugged it off and hip checked Mammon to get his attention, who then blew up into a blushing tyrant.

Beelzebub rubbed the back of his neck, feeling the hair there standing on end. He got goosebumps on his skin, making him even more confused than before about why you would do that. He slowed down, setting a hand on his twin's shoulder. They slowed to the back of the group to where no one would hear them. Beelzebub whispered to his twin, " Why did (M/n) do that? It's so unlike him to do something like that. "

Belphegor instantly knew where you were coming from. He sighed and ran a hand down his face. He looked up at his confused twin and shook his head, " I don't know Beel, maybe he just wants to try something new? "

He felt bad for his oblivious twin, and for you. He bit his lip after his lie, hoping Beelzebub wouldn't be able to pick up on it. But, Beelzebub was quick to nod at his twin and continued to walk home.

Belphegor could tell Beelzebub was getting somewhat mad at himself for not being able to get the hints thrown at his face. He wondered why you were so persistent about this. Beelzebub hummed and would have to ask you about it at dinner. He sighed and looked up, entering the house they were walking to.

Beelzebub watched as his boyfriend went towards the hallway, leading to his bedroom. Beelzebub bit his lip and went down his own hallway, getting to his room. When he went inside, he quickly changed into his gym clothes and walked back out. His gear was all set up in his bag that he slung over his shoulder. Beelzebub waved to his brothers as he made his way out, even giving Mammon a rub on the head. (Had to put in a sweet Mammon moment.)

He got to the gym and got done what he needed to get done. Beelzebub was so used to you being by his side at the gym, he was quick to catch himself from asking you for help with counting his reps. Beelzebub got his stuff all put away after a few hours at the gym and waved bye to the other demons there. He mulled over your actions this past day and a half, and why you would do such things. He bit his lip in concentration until he got back to his house.

Once he walked in, he frowned as his stomach growled. The smell of food quickly hit his nose, making him quick to set his bag down and take a quick shower in his bathroom. It was just when he sat down the food was getting served. Asmo giggled and ran his slender fingers through Beelzebub's wet orange hair. The Avatar of Gluttony smiled and leaned into the touch, put straightened up when the food was set down. Lucifer sat down and looked around the table, raising a brow when he didn't see you. " Is anyone aware if (M/n) will be joining us for dinner this evening? "

Beelzebub widened his purple eyes as he looked around the table and next to him, where you usually sit. But no, an empty spot was in the middle of Beelzebub and Belphegor, where you usually sat. The brothers made sounds of confusion, and others shrugged. Lucifer sighed, " Well, if that's the case, then we'll have to proceed without him. "

He gave the wave, letting everyone eat. They were a little hesitant, but eventually gave in and started putting things on their plates. Beelzebub was slow to begin, but started to eat nonetheless. It was unusually quiet at this dinner, like the energy was completely gone from everyone at the table. Beelzebub felt a pit form at the bottom of his stomach, and it wasn't the normal starving empty pit. Beelzebub became worried for his boyfriend.

When everyone of the brothers didn't feel like eating anymore, they all got up and put away the plates into the sink. Beelzebub was quick to set up a plate for you, and help with getting everything away into the fridge. When he was done, he grabbed the plate he made for you and started heading towards your room. When he got to your room, he knocked on the wood a few times. When no one answered, he slowly opened the door to find you nowhere inside.

He hummed and looked around. When he didn't find you, he sighed and closed the door. He held the plate in hand, and had to keep himself from devouring it completely. Walking towards his room, he decided to eat it there. His footsteps echoed through the hallway as he made his way towards his own room. When he got to his door, he stopped when he heard a soft noise coming from his room. He stopped and listened to what was inside. Beelzebub paused and tensed when he recognised the voice making pitched noises.

Beelzebub grabbed the door knob and slowly opened the door. Thank goodness, the door didn't squeak when he opened it. He peered behind the door and silently gaped at what he saw. You were laying on his bed, sheets in a little disarray. You were holding one of his t-shirts to your nose. Due to the size, it covered your naked upper body, and a little of your naked lower body. Your legs were spread, and your (left/right) hand was in between them. You held his T-shirt to your nose and smelled his scent, moaning into the fabric as your hand jerked up and down.

Beelzebub swallowed thickly, forgetting about the food in his hand. He listened intently as you moaned into his shirt, smelling his scent from the shirt. Your hand jacked yourself off, and your voice was muffled by the fabric of the shirt, but that didn't stop Beelzebub from picking up you calling out his name. He could feel himself harden in his pants. Your labored breathing, and the lewd sound of you jacking off filled his room. He slowly opened the door and set the plate on the table near the door.

Now that he was inside the room, he could hear you more clearly. He gulped as he heard you moaning his name, " Ah~... Beel! Beelzebub, please… I need you, here! Ha, ah~, ngh! Mmm~, Beelzebub, I need your cock..please. " Your boyfriend finally realized what all the little hints, touches, and looks you gave him ment.

He slowly walked up to the bed, watching predatorily as your body shook from the pleasure you were giving yourself. Even with his weight mass, his footsteps were utterly silent. Your eyes were closed, allowing him to approach you easier. Once he stood at the side of the bed, he bent down and leaned over you. You felt the shadow loom over you and gasped, your (e/c) eyes shoot open. You scurry away from him and look up at him in horror. Beelzebub dipped down and kneeled onto the bed. He sat on his calves and planted his hands on either side of your chest. You gulped as he licked his lips and leaned down inches from your face. Beelzebub leaned down and suckled on your neck. You tensed and shivered, " B-Beelzebub, w-what are y-you doing? "

Beelzebub licked behind your ear, " I now know what all those little hints were for. This is what you wanted? "

You shivered and sighed shakingly, " B-Beel. "

Beelzebub sat in between your legs and rubbed his covered crotch against your bare one. You moaned and leaned against the pillows. Beelzebub leaned down and licked your neck, searching for a sweet spot. When he got to the juncture between your neck and shoulder, you moaned and grabbed onto his shoulders.

Beelzebub parted his lips and open mouth kissed your sweet spot, making you breathe out shakingly. You moan and clench your teeth, breathing heavily. You flinched when he bit down on your neck, making a bruise, but not breaking the skin. You winced at the sore feeling of the hickey forming on your skin. Beelzebub worked his way down your way to your shoulder, biting and sucking on your skin. He got down to your collarbone and nipped at the skin, slightly pulling on it. Your hands gripped his shoulders, starting to shake.

He started working his way done, to your chest, and stomach. You laid back against the pillow and tried to slow your breathing. You were sweating heavily and throwing your head back every time Beelzebub would suck on your skin. Beelzebub reached up and took off his jacket, tossing it to the side. He did the same with his shirt, leaving you to awe at his physic. His greek sculpted body made your mouth water. You blushed in embarrassment as your whole body was covered in hickeys. He even got some to make a heart, making you blush a red hue brighter than some of Asmo's clothes.

Beelzebub got to your twitching cock and licked the underside of the shaft. You moaned and threw your head back, gripping the sheets underneath you. Beelzebub panted heavily, hot breath fanning your dick. You gulped and curled your toes. Your boyfriend looked up, " Is this what you wanted? "

You nodded with a groan as he licked it yet again, much like a popsicle. You blushed redder and sighed as shivered wracked through your body. Beelzebub smiled, " Can I have some more? "

You nodded again, not looking him in the eyes. Beelzebub closed his eyes, " Itadakimasu… "

You yelled out and your eyes buldged as he took in your cock whole. Your mouth gaped and you lost your breath before receiving it in waves. You gasped and breathed heavily as his warm and wet mouth took you in. Your shaking increased tenfold. It was almost expertly done, it puzzled you. You grit your teeth and clamped your eyes shut. You timed his bobbing head with thrusts of your hips, meeting his lips in the middle with a wet smack. Since Beelzebub wasn't an expert in sucking dick, you could tell he was slightly startled by your thrusting hips. He gripped them roughly and pushed them down to the bed, speeding up his efforts with his mouth and tongue.

It all happened so fast. Your cock twitched at the back of Beelzebub's throat, and hot, sticky cum spurted down his throat. Beelzebub jumped at your sudden climax and grunted as he struggled to swallow the salty liquid. When he imagined it as a goey tart, it was a little easier to take down. You jolted and your scream got caught in your throat, coming out in broken intervales. You fell to the sheets again and breathed heavily from the shocking of your nerves.

Beelzebub let go of your cock and swallowed the rest. He rubbed your hips in reassurance and smiled at your pleasure filled expression. He eyes all of the hickeys he marked you with, a smirk adorning his features. He leaned up and gave a kiss on your forehead, making you smile and slowly sit up. But, Beelzebub was quick to grab your hips and turn you onto your stomach. You looked at him quizzingly over your shoulder. Your boyfriend smiled and dragged his hand down your bad, a fresh canvas yet to be marked. You blushed and watched as he curled his hand so his index finger dragged down to your ass, poking it.

You blushed and shifted your hips so he wouldn't poke you. He recoiled, but once you stopped he poked you again. You whined and tried to move again, but he just pinched your ass afterwards. You yelped and pouted, making Beelzebub chuckle. He pointed towards the drawer in his bedside table, making you raise a brow. Reaching towards it, you open the drawer and rummage through it, finding a bottle. You grabbed it and tossed it over your shoulder, closing the drawer. Beelzebub easily caught the bottle and opened it, a clear and cold liquid coming from the nossle. It poured into his hand and onto your ass. You shivered from the cold and blushed when you heard lewd wet noises.

Beelzebub was quick to warm up the lube and rub it over your entrance. You hid your face in a pillow and raised your hips, both from the need, and the want to put a pillow under your crotch so you didn't get sheet burn. Beelzebub liked the raised angle the pillow gave from under you. He inserted a finger and watched as you shifted uncomfortably. He pumped it in and out of you, finger fucking you. Your whines turned to quiet moans as he added another finger into the mix. It was uncomfortable at the beginning, but the more he put into it, the more pleasurable it became. You groaned into the pillow you held close.

Beelzebub scissored his fingers inside your ass, making you hiss. Beelzebub was careful with how he prepared you, wanting to make sure he didn't hurt you. He soon felt like you were spread enough for him, pulling his fingers out of your ass. A string of lube connected you both together before it fell apart. Beelzebub heard you whine from the loss, and was quick to undo his pants. He unbuttoned them, and unzipped the fly. Pushing down his pants and boxers, his dick sprung to attention. You gaped at his size, worried he wouldn't be able to fit in you without breaking you in half.

Beelzebub gave a reassuring pat on your hip before aligning himself to your entrance. His free hand wrapped around your side and pressed against your lower stomach. You tried to regulate your breathing as he pushed himself into you. You hissed and whined, feeling uncomfortable. Even with all of the preparation, it was nothing compared to his actual length. You hid your face into the pillow, gritting your teeth. Quick to reach behind yourself, you grabbed his thigh to stop him from proceeding. Beelzebub gave you a worried look and rubbed your stomach with one hand, and the other rubbed your side. You relished in his comforting touch and spread your legs a little wider. Beelzebub gave you a proud smile and slowly began again.

It was only a second or two later before he hit the base of his cock to your ass. You were breathing shakingly as he hugged you around the waist with both arms and leaning down to kiss you behind his ear. Your lips fine lined as you waited for yourself to regulate to his shaft size. Beelzebub was patient with you, knowing this was completely different than what you were used to. You hid your face into the pillow and blushed when you felt Beelzebub nuzzle into your cheek.

Giving a quick exhale, you swayed your hips back into his own. Beelzebub and you both made a sound of pleasure. Your boyfriend saw that as the cue to begin and slowly started to sway his hips back and forth. Pulling out half way, then pushing it back in. You moaned with a voice an octave higher than your normal tone. You hugged the pillow in your arms as his thrusts jolted you up and down. Your cock rubbed up against the pillow you placed under your hips so it wouldn't get sheet burn, creating that extra wave of pleasure.

Beelzebub could tell you were becoming more comfortable and loose with the thrusting he was at. He gripped you tighter and raised his hips up and gave an experimental slam. You jolted and gave a louder moan than before. Beelzebub smirked and picked up his speed. Slapping his hips into your ass, making a lewd slapping sound echo through the large room. Your moans and heaving breathing also accompanied the sound of slapping skin. The faster he went, the closer you became to your second climax. You could feel it start to form in the pit of your stomach. The labored breathing and the accompaniment of deep grunts told you he was also close to climax.

Thinking of a good trick in the haze that is your mind, you tighten your lower muscles. Beelzebub made a sound you didn't think he could make. A deep moan purred through his chest, it rumbled through his upper body, vibrating against your back. You smirked and tensed your muscles in waves, in time with his thrusts. He seemed to be really enjoying it, as he bit down on your shoulder to try and muffle his pathetic sounds. You didn't even do it in waves anymore, just a constant hold you hand on him. You winced as your knot was also becoming close to snapping.

Beelzebub's hips were now slamming into you. His length was reaching a depth so deep, you were scared he was at your stomach at this point. His hold on your stomach also helped with knowing where his shaft reached. You moaned loudly, like a yell to be exact. Beelzebub felt your cock twitching against one of his forearms, letting him know you were also close. He slammed into a few more times before making you grunt and moan through clenched teeth. You felt the pain of Beelzebub biting through the skin, drawing blood, and both of your climax's hitting at the same time.

Your hot cum smothered against your stomach and the pillow casing, coating it in streams of white. Beelzebub's cum coated your insides a curtain of white, coming in spurts at a time. You hissed at the hot feeling of the liquid smothering inside you. Beelzebub noticed he broke through the skin and licked the wound, giving it kisses till it stopped. You both panted heavily from the movements before. You collapsed onto the pillows and sighed.

Beelzebub pulled out of you and groaned. He picked up your limp body and brought you to the connected bathroom. He set you on the toilet and helped clean you out. You shivered at the help and the embarrassment of it all. When you were cleaned out, Beelzebub picked you back up and brought you to the bed. Beelzebub put a pair of boxers on you and himself. He sat down and laid down to his side. You opened your eyes you didn't know you closed and watched as Beelzebub snuggled into your chest. He wrapped his arms around your waist and hid his face into your chest. His legs curled and went in between your legs like a sandwich. You smiled and watched as Beelzebub fell asleep, with you close after.

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Out of My League (Midoriya Izuku X Reader X Bakugou Katsuki) PART 4

PART 4 to PART 3: https://ice-cream-kitsunegirl.tumblr.com/post/189764193989/out-of-my-league-midoriya-izuku-x-reader-x

Taglist: @dailyojiromashirao​, @asja-the-hoarder​, @breezy-chan11414​, @captainw0lfy, @sunflowergem​, @lenkiryuu

Summary: Izuku and Bakugo attempt to make you feel better after the video of you goes viral and humiliates you. 

What could a guy like me ever really offer? She's perfect as she can be Why should I even bother?

'Cause she's so high High above me She's so lovely She's so high Like Cleopatra Joan of Arc or Aphrodite... She's so high High above me...

‘She’s So High’- Tal Bachman

A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO…

You didn’t know what was going on though, you just ran to your house, threw your bags to the ground and flipped your shoes off and threw yourself into bed to sob, tears freely streaming down your hot, sweaty face as you cried so hard that no sound came out.

You weren’t going to the dance… you couldn’t…

NOW…

You were just sitting in your bed, remote in your hand alongside your favorite snacks with a dull look on your face. Somehow you mustered up the strength to get your favorite snacks like Oreos and (O/F/S) only to crawl back into bed so you could watch a marathon of Friends, Game of Thrones and even one of your favorite movies.

Of course you had the strength to get snacks, after all, now you were just the Fat Girl from that video that had just been uploaded of you a couple of hours ago and went viral. You didn’t dare look at the comments but you could practically hear the rest of the world laughing at you.

Might as well spend the rest of your life inside your house, stockpile all the junk foods and drinks you liked so you could just watch TV. That was kinda something you had planned on your list anyway should being a hero not work out.

You ignored all the calls and text messages you were getting on your phone, at least until the credits from Game of Thrones played after you saw Ned Stark get his head cut off. Picking up your phone you looked over at the messages and got like 40 different texts and your (E/C) eyes widened slightly.

That was officially the biggest number of text messages you had ever received in your life and it shocked you, and then there was like 10 missed calls.

Aww… of course they were from Izuku and Hagakure. Some from Bakugo too… and Yaoyorozu for that matter. It made sense that Izuku, Hagakure and Yaoyorozu wanted to call you, Bakugo was a surprise…

The text messages were from nearly all your classmates, but especially Izuku, Hagakure, Yaoyorozu, Uraraka, Kirishima and Iida.

‘Please don’t feel too bad (Y/N).’

‘Don’t listen to those jerks! Really! They’re just jealous!’

‘(L/N) please come back to the dorms, we all want to talk to you.’

‘It’s okay (Y/N)! It really wasn’t that bad!’

‘Those a-holes are just a-holes trying to get attention! Don’t let them bring you down (L/N), you’re awesome!’

‘(L/N) I would like it if you were to return to the dorms because frankly we need a discussion and I promise as your class rep that I will do everything I can to protect you from getting harassed.’

You heavily sighed at all of these messages, as much as it touched your heart, there was just no way you could return to see them all. You couldn’t face them after that video showed off just how much of a gross, fat, ugly pig you really were. Who were you kidding trying to feel beautiful for a change? Obviously, you weren’t, so you blamed nobody but yourself for this.

And you groaned when you got yet another call, not from Izuku, but from Bakugo. Which was shocking because he hasn’t called you in over 9 years. Come to think of it, why did you even still have his number? And why did he even still have YOUR number? Wasn’t he the one who always said how gross you were? Unless he’s so entitled that only HE can call you gross?

Typical…

You ended the call the more you thought about it. It was going to piss him off of course, but at this point you just wanted to watch the Season 1 finale of Game of Thrones and then watch (Y/F/M). And you weren’t surprised when you got yet another phone call from Bakugo, which you again, ignored.

 ‘DON’T FUCKING HANG UP MY CALLS SHITTY GIRL!’

Then came the text you couldn’t ignore after his calls failed to reach you, and then you sighed in annoyance. Clearly nobody was going to stop bothering you unless you answered them, so you put in a group-messaging text to everyone.

‘I’m not going back to the dorms and I’m not going back to school.’

You almost felt bad for texting them all of that but you refused to face them all after that, and you definitely weren’t going back to school. Hell, this alone was probably going to make the school look bad given that someone was bound to recognize your face from the Sports Festival since you made it somewhat high enough. Well, actually now you remembered it all. That’s where you knew Shinsou from…

You were on his team in the cavalry race with Aoyama and Ojiro, except for some reason he didn’t brainwash you like he did the other two. So that’s why you remembered him, you didn’t speak much that time, but now you knew each other a little better.

Damn… no someone was going to notice you and you were going to make the school look bad…

Sighing you lied your head back down onto the pillow as you listened to the opening theme song of Game of Thrones and hummed along with it.

Yeah, this was peaceful. This was where you belonged, not with your super cool and attractive friends. And not with Izuku, or Bakugo for that mattered. You were never really as good as they were, no matter how hard you tried you could never get on their level. Not just in terms of power but in overall demeanor, you weren’t society’s idea of beautiful, and you weren’t hero society’s idea of strong enough because you weren’t going to conform to their idea of beautiful because apparently all the heroines needed to be sexy.

That wasn’t you.

You sighed as you looked at the pictures you had taken of yourself, how ‘sexy’ you looked and ‘cool’ you thought you were being the whole time.

“That’s not me.”

Shaking your head, you put your phone down, even though at the same time you remembered what some of your friends said to you.

“I think you look very powerful (L/N).”

“YES! You ARE. You’re pretty (Y/N)! And you’re gonna show everyone!”

“That’s awesome! Now all seven of us can go to the dance feeling good!”

“If there’s… anyone who can take care of yourself… it’s you (Y/N).”

Aoyama, Hagakure, Ashido, Izuku…

Kind souls, and then the other girls, especially Yaoyorozu, were so kind to you. They weren’t like the other girls who mocked you for your shape, eating habits and taste in fashion. You felt so bad for just leaving them but… how could you return? Even though their words and encouragement made you feel good, you liked how it felt. You liked feeling powerful and pretty like Aoyama and Hagakure said you were, and how Ashido and Yaoyorozu included you with the other girls for when you attend the dance.

And Izuku, he never once patronized you, he seemed to believe that you were good enough, of course you knew deep down that you didn’t need to have him think you were good enough for him, but still… it was nice knowing that he saw something in you that you couldn’t see for yourself.

It was nice… but… right now you were still sad, and wanted to be sad for a little while longer.

But then your phone blared up again and it wasn’t Bakugo again, instead it was Izuku. God you wanted to talk to him just so you wouldn’t feel like a jerk about not answering but you couldn’t bring yourself to talk to him either. So you didn’t answer him, and instead just let your phone ring and give you everyone’s texts that you didn’t answer.

THE NEXT DAY...

Getting up to go to school was the hardest thing you’ve ever done in your life thus far, today specifically because the video was still popular and people were still laughing about it. So you left your house and walked into school with an oversized hoodie to cover yourself up, not just your face, but your body so none of the girls could make fun of you.

Somehow, entering the dorms once again was even harder than coming to school, because many of your classmates jumped to see a ‘mysterious figure’ come in.

“Hey! Who are you this isn’t your-“Kaminari at first thought you were someone else until Sero nudged him and whispered, ‘It’s (L/N)’ and he stopped with an awkward ‘oh’.

“(L/N)!”

“Are you okay?!”

“You didn’t answer any of our messages!”

Several of your classmates, particularly the girls and Bakugo’s crew kinda came over to see if you were okay but all you did was keep your hoodie around you so they didn’t have to look at you. “Classmates, please don’t crowd her, I’m certain it’s the last thing she wants.” Iida came to the rescue, but you knew he was going to remark on what you were wearing.

“Now (L/N)… I understand you must not be in the best of moods but… why are you wearing that? It’s not part of the school dress code.” He was gentler about it, but you weren’t really planning on listening to him should he tell you to take it off.

“To be candid Iida, I’m gross and fat and my body’s disgusting.” You replied to him softly, eyes downcast as he gave you a look of sympathy. He didn’t know what kind of deviant posted that video but he wished he did so he could deal with them himself for humiliating his dear classmate like that.

“(L/N)… is it because of the video? Please don’t let that kind of juvenile thing get to you.” He tried to remain gentle, because he didn’t like seeing you like this, but underestimated how crappy that video made you feel.

“No… it’s not just the video… it just… finally let me give myself a hard look in the mirror.” You shrugged your shoulders and admitted, and before Iida, Yaoyorozu or any of the others could reassure that’s when Izuku rushed into the common room.

“(Y/N)?! (Y/N) are you in here?!” He almost didn’t notice you because of the hoodie you wore to hide yourself as your eyes went wide and you kept your visage away from your friend. Oblivious to a nervous Kaminari pointing at you to let Izuku know that you were right there.

“(Y/N)… h-hey are you okay…?” He normally wasn’t the one who got so close, but he wanted to see you. Izuku’s been so worried since the video made you run out of the mall like that, and then you didn’t answer his calls or his texts, he almost feared the worse.

And you knew that he must have been worried sick so you finally answered him, ““I’m fine.” You muttered and shook your head, “If you think it has something to do with that video, it doesn’t. What makes you think I care about what those jackoffs even think?” That came off a bit colder than you intended but just thinking about that video made you mad as hell.

“I-I don’t but… y-you just looked so upset a-and I tried calling you and… I-I got worried, I just… please look I don’t want you to think that that video changes the way anyone here looks at you because it doesn’t.” Was the first thing he said because he was well aware of how self-conscious you were about your appearance and how people looked at you even if you always pretended like you didn’t care. He knew it based on the fact that you were wearing this hoodie just to hide.

“Hey! Shitty Girl! I know you’re here, stop hiding already!” Before Izuku could even finish talking, you and him perked up and gasped when you heard Bakugo’s voice and saw him coming over once he loudly entered the commons.  

“K-Kacchan…”

“Ugh…” You looked away more and further pulled your hoodie down when you expected Bakugo to yell at you, and he did, “You ignored all my phone calls last night idiot! What the hell is that all about?! Just because a bunch of assholes made a video about you don’t mean you can just ignore me!”

You narrowed your eyes, obviously he was trying to help and shockingly he WANTED to help, but you didn’t know how to really respond to that properly. “I didn’t want to be pitied.”

Bakugo outright laughed at your response and you understood why since you were doing that to yourself, “You’re already doing that to yourself you moron! Look at yourself! Take this damn thing off!” And he roughly pulled the hoodie down just so he could see your face even if it made you cringe and nervously blush in embarrassment, but you still found it in you to glare at him.

“Are you really going to let this get to you? Are you seriously going to hide just because of that?” He was partially aware of how your feelings could get easily hurt at times, because he’s the one who’s done that to you in the past, but that didn’t mean he’d let anyone else do that.

“Yeah, I am.” And you remembered all the times he did that to you, but when you said that Bakugo just looked even madder, “Seriously (Y/N)? What happened to Ms. ‘Too cool to give a shit about what anyone thinks of me’?”

Despite everything, Bakugo respected that you didn’t care about what you looked like, how you came off to people, and what other people thought of you, and that included him. So, it was a little shocking to see you like this. Well… actually not that shocking, but he didn’t really want to remember the times where he noticed that some of his remarks in middle school and elementary school no doubt hurt the feelings he would pretend that you didn’t have.

“Hey…  come on Kacchan…” Izuku knew you a little bit better than that though, at least, he secretly told himself that because he knew Bakugo didn’t entirely know about what emotional turmoil you suffered from at times since Bakugo drifted away from you and him until UA.

“Fuck off Deku!” But Bakugo was quick to shout at his childhood friend as you scoffed and rolled your eyes, all these years and he was STILL mean to Izuku. “Wowwww…” And your louder than normal voice caught their attention as Bakugo paused before he could yell at Izuku anymore.

“First off Katsuki, you really haven’t changed, second, it’s easy to pretend to be Ms. ‘Too cool to give a shit about what anyone thinks of me’ than it is to actually not give a shit about what anyone thinks of me. I CAN actually not give a shit, but sometimes I just do all right? I wish I didn’t but I do and it fucking sucks… this fucking sucks.” You still weren’t looking at either of your friends, and it pissed Bakugo off to no end.

“You shouldn’t even care though! All those damn extras who do stupid shit like this all do it for the sake of attention for the sake of getting rid of the boredom in their pathetic lives!”

He was right, and you knew it, but it didn’t mean you weren’t going to just stop feeling humiliated and upset as you refused to let the tears in your eyes fall as you wiped at them angrily. “You’re telling ME not to care?” You laughed a little bit which genuinely shocked him, “You? Famous Katsuki Bakugo? You can’t tell me not to care about what people think of me. I mean… you’re embarrassed to be seen with me Katsuki, you always have been, especially in middle school where I was just something for you to mock and belittle.”

So, you did remember, and although his rough exterior hid it well, Bakugo did feel guilty knowing that he DID treat you pretty badly, but he refused to let you think being seen with you embarrassed him, even if it did a little bit. “No, I’m not! Don’t just assume things!”

“You and I both know it’s not an assumption. Come on Katsuki… I can’t even remember the last time we had an actual conversation until yesterday, I only talk to your friends because they’re nice enough to actually talk to me. Which honestly shocks me because people like me don’t get talked to by people like them, or people like you.” You told him a hard truth, because he WAS embarrassed to be seen with you, but only recently has he started to feel bad about it. And he couldn’t stop just HOW bad he was feeling about it as he growled and stared at you angrily, but all that anger wasn’t at you, it was at himself. He didn’t know what was worse, the fact that you were right, or the fact that he was so terrible to you that you couldn’t even pretend to act like you didn’t care.

“(Y/N)…” Sensing the tension, Izuku tried to lessen it by reaching out to you but you weren’t even looking at him either, “I’m sure it’s not like that I mean-.”

“Yes, it is Izuku… you know it too, and honestly, I don’t get why you still talk to me to be honest… because… people like me don’t hang out with people like you either.”

This shocked Izuku, he’s never seen you or heard you talk to him like this, not once. “I-I don’t understand, what are you talking about? What makes you think that you can’t hang out with me? We’re friends…”

“Maybe… but even then, you’ve always been cooler than me Izuku. Don’t deny it, ever since we got into UA you’ve gotten better, stronger and cooler, and I’ve been under the radar. Under you.” You said as you averted your eyes as Izuku gasped quietly and continued to look at you in shock. Is that really what you’ve been thinking about him all this time?

“I’m nothing compared to the two of you, so just… go… this is an issue people like me deal with, not you guys.” You said softly, sadly as Izuku looked at you sadly and Bakugo growled and glared at you.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean huh? People like you?” He couldn’t believe you were saying this stuff about yourself, were you really this insecure? And did he play a factor in that…?

“It means you’re WAY out of my league.” Finally, you looked at him, anger sparked in your (E/C) eyes which made his eyes widen slightly when he recalled the time he told you those exact words. “Remember?” You snickered and shook your head, “You said it yourself Katsuki, I’m a fucking dork, and I’m gross, and I’ve known that, it’s true. I’m not ashamed to admit that, and you know what? I also know that you wouldn’t dance with me if I was the last girl on earth, I’ve always known that… I was just stupid enough to believe that maybe, just MAYBE I could dance with someone like you.” You repeated what he said as Izuku gasped as soon as this news hit him, because he never knew that Bakugo would say such things to you. It was one thing when he told him to go jump off the school building, but it was another thing to break you down like that.

It hurt Bakugo more than he was proud to admit, so he did play a factor in making you feel this horrible about yourself, and he fucking hated himself for that. “I didn’t mean what I said back then all right?! I was a fucking stupid kid! You can’t… still be holding onto that!” That was rare, he was actually apologetic for what he said? You almost didn’t believe it.

“You WERE a fucking stupid kid, but during that time you did mean it. And I’m fine with it.” You said, which left the fuming blonde speechless as he wanted to just apologize, but his pride almost wasn’t letting him do that.

“(Y/N)! Please… d-don’t feel… don’t feel like that, you’re not out of anyone’s league! You’re… you’re so much better than you think! And those, t-those… jerks are just trying to put you down.” So Izuku didn’t single anyone out, he tried to make you feel better, but it wasn’t really working. “Oh Izuku… I’ve always been out of yours and Katsuki’s league. It’s just a fact and it’s made me realize ‘wow, why am I still friends with these guys? Am I an idiot? I must be’. Because that’s not how it’s supposed to be, and I’m not going to let it be like that anymore where all I do is make you guys look even better by being the loser I am.” You were tired of this as you turned your back and started to leave the commons.

“(Y-Y/N) you’re not a loser!” Izuku’s voice nearly cracked the more you put yourself down and for some reason, put himself on a higher pedestal when he’s always thought you were the one above him. It hurt his heart to hear you say that about yourself, and it hurt even more knowing you didn’t believe him.

“Don’t you just fucking leave (Y/N)!” But Bakugo almost didn’t let you as he was ready to bring you back but you raised your hand, making him grunt and widen his eyes when the invisible force kept him away from you as he tried to move but the force wasn’t letting him move. Did you just use your quirk on him?

“No… I just… I don’t wanna talk anymore.” You shook your head with a glimmer of guilt in your eyes, but ultimately you did keep walking as you left your shocked friends and classmates behind.  

Although Izuku wanted to go to you, instead he stood where he was and looked down at his feet, eyes shimmering with melancholy while Bakugo had a mix of remorse, shame and anger in his the entire time he and his childhood stood among the rest of the sad, shocked and sympathetic classmates glancing where you walked away.  

Izuku knew that things changed for him quickly ever since he got into UA, but he couldn’t believe that subconsciously kept from seeing from your point of view, and the fact that while things changed for him, things might still have been static for you. How could he have been so blind? He should have been a better friend to you, he should have been more attentive to you and reminded you of how great you were because now you wouldn’t even believe it because of him. And he felt so horrible he spent most of the night in his room, brooding and trying hard not to cry about how he’s made you feel like that.

While Bakugo was clenching his fists the more he thought about how he’s treated you over the past years. All the name-calling, the rejection, the way he embarrassed you in front of those losers he called friends in middle school, every shitty thing he did to you, made you feel the way he saw you tonight. You were great, Bakugo’s come to realize how great you were, but it was his fault now that you didn’t believe it and wouldn’t believe it because of him. And he felt so fucking horrible about it he wished he could undo all of it as he cursed at himself and refused to get all emotional about this even though he wanted to.

Izuku should have gone after you. Bakugo should have gone after you. Yet neither of them found it in them too, because they both knew that you didn’t want to see them right now. And they had to respect that, no matter how much it was hurting to just let you go in misery.

And you sighed as you were leaving the place to just go to class already, and to your surprise you saw Shinsou walking down the same hall but he was heading in the direction of the commons. He slowed down to see you, concern instantly flashing in his eyes once he saw you. He prepared to open his mouth, but closed it quick into a sympathetic frown as you sighed and put your hoodie back on and walked past him.

LATER ON…

You barely paid attention to anything, and even though Iida politely requested that you put your hoodie down you couldn’t find it in you to do that. And because Iida felt too bad for you, he decided for once to leave it alone especially when he stopped this group of people from laughing at you.

It wasn’t just him, almost all of your classmates stopped to glare and flip off anyone else that wanted to make fun of you. More so than usual that is.

“Hey! Fuck off will ya?!” Kirishima even yelled at this group of snickering guys who were snorting at you when they saw you in your hoodie and carrying your lunch that you planned to go eat someplace everyone from literally everyone. Your friend tried to follow you but you walked a lot quicker than him, as if you were trying to get away, and those guys had the gal to point and snort even louder at you.

“I’m serious! I’ll kick your asses if you keep that up!” But when they saw the redhead glaring at them and raising a fist they DID back away while some others were either concerned or apathetic when they saw you walk even faster out of the hallway.

“Tormenting someone about their bodies? You people are a disgrace! Go on! Go!” Monoma, of all people seemed to express disapproval when he saw you leave after those jack-offs made fun of you and even urged them to go, and in annoyance they did walk away, much to the great shock of Kaminari and Kirishima.

“Eh? Did you just… do something decent?”

Kaminari was the one who asked that because he was REALLY shocked that this guy of all people seemed sympathetic for your plight.

This still offended the other blonde though, who scoffed, “What kind of animal do you take me for?! I’m not the kind of person who would bully someone over their appearance!” But Monoma had his standards, for all his trash talking and hating on 1-A, he wouldn’t bully someone like that, but especially when they looked as miserable as you did.

“Wow… that’s actually pretty manly.” Kirishima actually gave the guy a smile and a thumbs-up but Monoma rolled his eyes, “Well don’t get used to it! You’re lucky that (L/N) is the least annoying one in your class! Because I still hate you both!” But then he quickly gave them that shit-eating smile as he walked away laughing.

“Of course…” Kaminari should have seen that coming but Kirishima shrugged his shoulders, “At least he helped…”

You were going to need it, and you sighed heavily when you took your lunch and headed up to the roof so you could hide away and ignore everybody. Especially from the ones who kept calling you ‘pig’ and treating you like you were.

And you had no idea that the rest of your classmates were more or less threatening some people who kept laughing and fanning the flames of the video to the rest of the less-than-friendly students. Bakugo outright used the threat of violence against more than 20 different guys today.

“Still watching that video?! Still laughing?!

“N-No I swear! I-I wasn’t laughing!”

“I heard you! I heard you laughing and snorting you piece of shit!”

“I-I’m sorry! I’m sorry! NOOOOOO!!”

It all ended the same for all 20 of them, with a vicious and hard punch to the face that resulted in 15 black eyes and blood from the mouth as Bakugo left, flicking his wrist after he started to feel his knuckles sting from all the punching. He had to do it though, he wasn’t going to just let these assholes keep making fun of you.

Izuku could see Bakugo growling as he came back to the cafeteria and back to his group and was almost tempted to the do the same. However, he didn’t dare let anyone else laugh at you as he heard another pair of students snickering at the video and all it took was a furious glare from the normally sweet boy to silence them all.

No, they weren’t going to let this go on. Of course they both knew that they couldn’t just punch and glare at everyone to make them stop, but for now it was all they could do to protect you until you felt okay enough to face school again and hopefully not wear that hoodie to hide yourself.

They just wanted you to be okay again, but they knew you weren’t okay. Even when you went back to class with them you looked so miserable in your seat, just barely looking at your work with your hoodie still covering your face and your body.

The rest of the class could see it, and even Aizawa could see it. He was going to have to talk to Nezu about this, because he wasn’t going to put up with other little shits bothering his students, even if it meant having to block several of the cites on the Wi-Fi. Your teacher wasn’t going to tolerate this kind of bullying.

Except you were too miserable to really pay attention to anyone, even as you got up to lazily get out of class you couldn’t hear Hagakure or the girls trying to call out to you. “(L/N)!” “Please wait!” “Let’s walk to the dorms together!”

You pretended like you couldn’t hear them, not out of bitterness but because you didn’t want them to be seen with you. Why embarrass them too? And why risk other girls calling you their ‘pet pig’? You thought as you walked on ahead, but only then did you stop when you heard a teacher’s voice.

“(L/N) (Y/N)!”

It was Midnight and you perked up with a small gasp as you stopped in your tracks and looked over at her nervously, were you in trouble or something? Usually the only teachers you really talked with were Aizawa and Mr. Yamada, so it was kind of odd and a little intimidating to have another teacher call on you.

“Y-Yes Ms. Midnight?” Still you answered her politely as she gave you a smirk, “I need you to come into my classroom right away.” Her voice sounded like it usually did, calm, oddly sweet with just a hint of that seduction as you assumed it just became like second nature to her.

Although you were nervous as hell that you were in trouble or something you followed her into her classroom as you made your way in and she came in closely afterwards. “So… I’ve been hearing all these rumors about this rather nasty video of you. At first I didn’t think it was true but then I actually saw the video for myself…”

You sighed heavily, groaning as you blushed heavily in embarrassment and looked away, “It’s true… I think it’s the most popular video at the moment.” Why was she asking you about that? You were certain she didn’t do it to taunt you, teachers wouldn’t do that… right?

“Heh, at the moment. Eventually something else will come up and take it’s place. Frankly this video is in poor taste if you ask me.” The woman stated her opinion, and you had no idea what she was playing at or what she even wanted, but you remained polite.

“I dunno… people think it’s hilarious. I guess that’s cuz I got the less than conventionally attractive body to use for comedy.” You attempted to sound light-hearted about it, but really you just ended up making yourself feel like crap all over again when you put yourself down like that. And it made your teacher really sad as she looked at you with a frown.

“I see.” She said calmly before she gave you a little smile, “Funny how you say that, even though I’ve noticed all the things you’ve been doing to spread the messages of body positivity and self-love during your time here.” Midnight noted fondly as you almost perked up, because you had been trying to do that. On Instagram and on twitter you would tweet about the importance of body positivity, self-love and letting people choose what they want to wear.

You must have sounded like a real hypocrite to her, since you couldn’t find anything positive about your body or love yourself right now.

“Did you know that people made videos about me too? And still DO make videos about me? Kinda like that one?” Midnight then asked and looked over at you, still smiling as you gasped lightly and finally you found it in you to look at her.

“Ma’am?” You immediately sounded sympathetic, even though you weren’t surprised since pro-heroes were like celebrities, of course people were going to find ways to mock them too.

“Yeah, when I first started out, people would make ‘funny videos’ about me too, and emphasize on my outfit, my body and all. Say that I was dressed like a ‘slut’ or that I had too much extra fat on my chest and legs. But I had to do a lot of work to get this body, I had to be fit so I could perform and do the hero work. However…I also knew that there are certain standards for heroines to fulfill, and a lot of emphasis is put on a how a heroine looks unfortunately.” She admitted rather casually as if she was used to it, and you were shocked to hear that. Then again, the beauty standards in Japan were different, still, just the same the standards were unfair to women as all beauty standards in every country was.

“I have to admit, I AM comfortable in my body and my skin, but it doesn’t stop other women from trying to make me feel bad for the body I have. Same goes for men, I might like to have a little fun every now and then, but… some guys are just plain creeps about it.” She said with a little eye-roll and your eyes went wide because that was exactly what you dealt with yesterday as you nodded vigorously in agreement. But also felt bad for your teacher and how she had to put up with all of that, from both men and women alike…

“Lemme tell you this (L/N), the world is very hard. I’d say it’s hard for everyone, but it’s especially hard for women, all kinds of women of different shapes, sizes, race, identity, everything. And there are some pretty cruel people out there. They like to put not just women down, but people in general down and belittle them, make them feel like they’re below people, like they’re not good enough to be with others. They like to categorize them in these little groups so they can deliberately exclude them and make people feel like they could never be in someone’s league or on their level. It’s… well that’s the real villain of everything don’t you think?” Midnight asked you as you paid your full attention to the woman and you found yourself nodding in full agreement.

Your (E/C) eyes started to tear up when she said everything that you knew was true, because deep down you always felt like it had to just be cruel people who liked putting others down that was at fault for everything. That there wasn’t anything wrong with you, and what was wrong was the ones who tried to MAKE you feel like something was wrong with you.

“Y-Yes…! T-That’s why I… it’s why I… get so angry sometimes… and just… try to shout it out, whether it’s on Instagram, twitter or even… out in public.” You stuttered a little bit, but you agreed with her and thought about all the times you’d angrily tweet or even call out people when they were being problematic, hating on others or trying to make other people feel like crap about themselves.

“Good! That’s good (L/N), it’s good to get angry about that, because you know that it’s wrong, what they try to do to people is wrong. But you know what’s not wrong? You. You’re not wrong, and there’s nothing wrong with you. What those people did is wrong.” She said to you a little more firmly, her expression a tad bit sterner.

“They tried to convince you that there’s something ‘wrong’ with you, and pointed it out because they only THINK those things about you are wrong. They tried to let you think that there’s something wrong with your body, and that there’s something wrong with what you believe in. But there is NOTHING wrong with your body or what you believe in. Do you understand?” She asked you as you looked at her with slight shock, but felt all the determination slowly coming back to you as you put your hoodie down so she could see that you DID understand.

“Yes ma’am!”

Midnight could see the fire starting to return to your eyes and her smile slowly turned into a proud grin, “I want you to be proud (L/N). I want you to be proud and confident about the person you are. You’re a heroine, and heroines are all imperfectly perfect, their bodies are all imperfectly perfect, and you know it because you’ve said it yourself. I know… it’s sad when other women are awful to other women, but you are not one of those women. And I’m not either. I’m proud that you are not one of those women, it’s up to you to keep spreading that message, and it’s especially important for you to remember that yourself, to remember that there’s nothing wrong with you, and I want you to refuse to let ANYONE make you feel like there’s something wrong with you because is not.”

You clenched your fists determinedly as you wiped your tears away when her words touched your heart and gave her a confident smile. “You’re right Ms. Midnight… there’s nothing wrong with me. And… I’m tired of letting people make me think so… tired of feeling like there is something wrong with me…” You admitted as your teacher’s smile softened.

“I know you are dear. And that’s okay… it’s okay to feel tired too. It’s exhausting…” She chuckled as you couldn’t help but giggle along with her, “But it’s only gonna get more exhausting when you go out on that dancefloor!” She went from calm to excited quick as you perked up and started to blush again…

“Oh the dance…” Could you really go to the dance? You told yourself you weren’t but… if you didn’t go, would that mean they would win?

“Yeah! You’re going to the dance aren’t ya? I think it’d be great if you did! I mean you can dance girl!” Midnight sounded a little more informal and playful, but when she saw the look on your face she paused a bit, “But only if you want, you don’t have to go…”

And that was enough to think, no, you were definitely going to the dance. You asked out Izuku, and you were going to dance with him. You WANTED to dance with him, you WANTED him to see you when you show up in a dress.

You WANTED to go to the dance with your friend and feel beautiful.

“I’m going! I’m definitely going! I got a dress! And I’m going to be extra beautiful.” You said with a little bit more pride as Midnight grinned at you. “That-a girl! You’re going to be so beautiful I know it, because you are beautiful!” She pointed at you with a big smile as you teared up again, letting out a soft little sob as you wiped away your tears when you got a little more emotional upon hearing such validation.

You couldn’t help but throw your arms around the woman in a big hug, and Midnight was more than happy to engulf you in a warm, almost motherly hug. “Thank you Ms. Midnight…”

“You’re welcome hon…” She said to you softly as she hugged you. “Ya know (L/N)… I heard that the theme is ‘Winter is Here’.” She then smirked as your eyes lit up just hearing it, so that means your theme won!!  And you quietly squealed as you pulled away and threw your hands to your mouth as you jumped up and down.

“And that means you need to get your Daenerys Targaryen on, rise up from the ashes naked with three dragons on your beautiful body!” She exclaimed and you flinched and blushed quite madly at the thought, “Hehe… maybe the first part… three dragons…? I wish I had three dragons…”

You shyly chuckled, and she put her hand on your shoulder, “You do…” Midnight’s smirk widened and you didn’t entirely get what she meant, as she was talking about three classmates you had gotten close to over the past couple of days.

“Now you gotta go to this place, get your hair all washed, your toes and fingernails painted and tomorrow I’ll help style your hair cool girl~!” She advised to you very enthusiastically as you couldn’t stop yourself from smiling when she gave you a card to go visit after school.

“Yes ma’am! Thank you ma’am!” You thanked her once again as you smiled and looked a little more sure than you had been all day as she chuckled and decided to let you go, “All righty pretty girl, go on, take that hoodie off and think about how you want that dance to go tomorrow so you can live out your wildest fantasies~!!” That came out a BIT more lewd than she intended but you saw the intention and you smiled nervously with a giggle, “I-I will…”

You gave her a thumbs-up as she waved at you and you waved back before you finally exited the school, but the first thing you did was take off that damn hoodie to free your pit stains to let them breath. “Oh sheesh…” You looked at the stains on the pits of your uniform but that’s what happens when you sweat right?

You shrugged your shoulders as you went back to the dorms, ignoring all the jeering from some other students and instead just waved at them. Might as well walk around with pride instead of shame, and you smirked when you arrived back at the dorms and entered the commons once again, still sweaty and messy but no longer hiding.

“(Y/N)! Your hoodie’s off!” Hagakure chirped as soon as she saw you looking a little more like yourself and you cheerfully waved with your arm up, “Yup. That thing was hot as hell…”

Your remark made several of your classmates, particularly the Bakusquad laugh, only their leader was missing. “(L/N) your… your um…” Iida wasn’t the first person to notice that you were sweating really badly, but he had to point it out so he could save you some embarrassment even though he was embarrassed just pointing it out.

“Oh yeah these? Well, girls sweat too, a LOT, it’s more of a sheen than a sparkle too… but it’s natural.” But you weren’t embarrassed about it, not right now at least. “Anyhoo… I’m sorry for ignoring all of you guys… I got upset… but I regret ignoring you guys when you were all trying to help me. And I can’t thank you guys enough for doing that for me. You’re all… brilliant.” And you made sure to thank all of your classmates with a warm smile, and the ones there all perked up as they looked at you, feeling quite touched by your gratitude as they got up to go over to you.

“Awww of course (L/N)!”

“You’re our friend!”

“We’d do anything for you!”

“And help you with anything!”

You could hear all of them reassuring you and saying how much they cared about you and what they’d do for you. God you were so touched you wanted to cry, and at the same time you were relieved that Izuku and Bakugo weren’t there. You owed them some apologies too but… maybe that could wait a little while longer as you smiled and hugged all of your friends before you went back to your room.

Meanwhile…

Izuku was still worried about you, and so was Bakugo for that matter as he walked past the boy without even blowing at him. But Izuku didn’t even notice as he just walked back into his dorm and both the boys were oblivious to the fact that you returned.

However, the second Izuku went back into his room his phone went off and it was a message from Uraraka and Iida saying that you were doing better and even came back to the commons in a better mood. Oh how he wanted to talk to you but he distanced himself because he still thought that maybe you didn’t want to see him after everything and based on what you said the other day.

He chuckled wryly at the thought because he always thought he was the loser and that you were the one out of his league. Of course Bakugo probably made you feel like you were the loser, but that wasn’t true. He could say all he wanted, but Izuku always knew that if anyone was brilliant and out of anyone’s league, it was you.

He just wished that he could get you to see that, and he wished that you could believe that…

RING!

Before Izuku could brood anymore, he jumped when he got a message on his phone and it was from you! He was quick to read it with rather wide green eyes.

‘Hey. I know I acted like a gloomy doofus yesterday, but I still do wanna go to the dance with you. So… we’ll meet here? At the front of the school building?’

Izuku gasped sharply and loudly, hand coming to his mouth to cover any scream that wanted to leave him, and he called himself an idiot before texting back ‘Yes! Yes! We’ll meet here! Can’t wait!’ That came off a bit more excited than he hoped but he couldn’t help it, you still wanted to go to the dance?! He was so happy! Oh my God he was still going to the dance with you, he almost forgot about that…

Oh my God he almost forgot about that and now he had to learn how to dance! And fast!!

And unbeknownst to him, you were thinking the exact same thing as you stood in your room and put on several Youtube videos to learn all these cool dances. You were clumsy doing it but you kept at it so you could actually try to do something like dancing for tomorrow night…

Afterwards you made sure to shave everything, well, legs and pits at least. You’d let the forest reclaim the lands AFTER the dance, but for today and tomorrow, your legs and pits would have to be bare and maybe a little shiny.

You were going to this dance and you were going to be as fierce as a dragon queen.

TO BE CONTINUED...

[putmeonandsaidiwasyourfavourite]

folklore first listen impressions

The 1 - P I A N O this is one of the ones that she said was about a love triangle perspective. Spotify crashed mid song lmao. Love the production, lyrics are so *chefs kisses* “in my defence I have none” “it would’ve been sweet if it could’ve been me” I ADORE

Cardigan - music video was perfection like she LOOKED SO PRETTY AND THE VISUALS?? Perfect. More Piano. “Chase two girls lose the 1” her vocals are so good I can’t handle this. So beautiful such a chilling vibe “you drew stars around my scars” I’m actually gonna cry this is so good. The visuals in the lyrics alone is fantastic “I knew you’d miss me once this thrill expired”

The Last Great American Dynasty - holy shit this started and wow already loving it. “It must’ve been her fault his heart gave out” “there goes the maddest women this town has ever seen” B O Y S “she had a marvellous time ruining everything” oh my god TAYLOR BOUGHT THE HOLIDAY HOUSE “I HAD A MARVELLOUS TIME RUINING EVERYTHING”

Exile (ft Bon Iver) - ooo his voice is so deep. Lots of references to films in the lyrics. More Piano I love piano “those eyes add insult to injury” “I think I’ve seen this film before and I didn’t like the ending” their voices contrast so beautifully, the way the piano builds slowly but doesn’t really change is stunning “you’re not my homeland anymore so what am I defending”

My Tears ricochet - oooooooooooooooo she wrote this alone omg “if I’m dead to you why are you at the wake” THE 👏 VISUALS👏 “you turned into your worst fears” good old Jack Antonoff production doing EVERYTHING

Mirrorball - getting 90s early 2000s teen coming of age movie vibes. This is so cute “I’ve never been a natural all I do is try try try” “I still try everything to keep you looking at me” lying in bed listening to this is creating a whole movie around me and it has no right to my life is not interesting so I swear if this isn’t used in a film I will sue “I can change everything about me to fit in” mood

seven - her voice sounds so desperate “I think your house is haunted” this is so cute, seven year old imagery is the shit “passed down like folk songs our love last so long” “loved you to the moon and Saturn” another Aaron Dessner, does he not like producing songs with people?? Cause she produced the ones with Jack

August - oh wow what a great start “August slipped away like a bottle of wine cause you were never mine” “I remember thinking I had you” “wanting was enough for me it was enough” SO IT GOES REFERENCE OH MY GOD August better get the attention so it goes deserved this a do over chance. Such a beautiful song

This is me trying - I’m so stoked for this one. “I got wasted like all my potential” this hits so deep and wow never been in anything near to this situation and it’s just resonating wow

Illicit affairs - G U I T A R omg sneaking around this might be my favourite so far, “a drug that only worked the first few hundred times” from die to lie??? Amazing “look at this godforsaken mess that you’ve made me” right this reminds me of Red white and royal blue but with a sad ending

Invisible string - plucking pluck pluck pluck. BAD BLOOD reference. Lmao “she said I looked like an American singer” this is the only one I’m sure is about Joe and ITS SO CUTE ITS LIKE WE WERE FATE GOOOOLLLDDDDD OH MY GOD THE AXE TO GRIND AND BABIES AAAHHH HELL WAS THE JOURNEY BUT IT BROUGHT ME HEAVEN scratch everything this is my favourite

mad woman - holy fuck NEW FAVOURITE it’s been 30 seconds wow TAYLOR SAID FUCK SHE SAID FUCK oh my god go off gal “a woman can only overreact” vibes “women like hunting witches too” “it’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together” tea. Absolutely stunning wow

Epiphany - strong start synthy another film vibe oh my god it’s about soldiers and med school what this is straight up sadness wow “with you I serve with you I fall down” haunting but in a sad ending to a film vibe

Betty - um excuse me what the fuck was that is that an accordion? “The worst thing that I ever did was what I did to you” oh my heart this is wow I’m gonna cry who’s James????? Who’s Betty??? “The only thing I want to do is make it up to you” SHOWED UP AT THE PARTY AND WHAT HAPPENED holy shit CARDIGAN REFERENCE new fav alert did I just hear a tape

peace - wow all of this songs have such strong starts and they back it up amazingly “I talk shit with my friends it’s like I’m wasting your honour” the production is woooo CHILD CHILD CHILD BROTHER AS MT BROTHER “the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me” “I would die for you in secret” it’s like a soft ...rfi not covered by the obnoxious personality she put on for rep

hoax - “no other sadness in the world will do” “your faithless love is the only hoax I believe in” false god lyrics vibe the amazing lyrics in this song wow it’s so S A D

[futuresmashmemes]

In complete curiosity, can you tell me what your favorite Smash reveal trailer of all time was?

Like, actually, real shit, stuff that’s already happened in this timeline?

Nothing will ever top Smash 4’s reveal for me. I was really into Brawl as a kid, and after Brawl came out a lot of people spread the idea online that it would be the last smash game (hilarious in hindsight, I know). Me, being the dumb kid I was, took that at face value. I also wasn’t really into following leaks at the time. I was also 12, almost 13 when 4 was revealed, keep in mind. I just sort of accepted that smash was done.

I vividly remember when I first saw that reveal trailer. We were in the middle of bumfuck nowhere for my sister’s soccer game. I was sweaty, hungry, and my phone was running out of battery. I managed to convince my mom to let me stay in the car for the rest of the game, where I promptly began charging my phone and went onto YouTube to pull up some music to listen to (knowing me at the time, it probably would’ve been an Evanescence song). And there, at the top of my recommended feed, was that trailer.

It almost didn’t feel real. I was so convinced that Smash was over, I almost thought that the video would’ve been a fake. Some shitty mod or whatever. But I clicked on it anyways, because, y’know, Smash Bros! Boy am I glad I did. Instantly, I was enthralled by the idea of Smash on the go. I didn’t have a 3DS at the time, but I played on my DS like I was getting paid for every second the screen was on. Having a portable smash game was a dream come true! And when they got to the Wii U part of the trailer, I was drawn in by the visual upgrade compared to Brawl. I was a dumb kid who didn’t know anything about graphics watching this trailer in 480p on a shitty Windows phone, and even I could tell how much of a graphics upgrade it was compared to Brawl. I didn’t have a Wii U at the time either, but I was still excited.

The new characters announced were just the icing on the cake. I love Animal Crossing, but I never expected an Animal Crossing rep in smash because I read that Sakurai had previously said that Animal Crossing characters were unsuited for battle. So when that trailer opened up on a shot of the Villager opening the now iconic envelope, my hype levels instantly shot through the roof of the car. Really, I should consider myself lucky that I was watching this trailer in the middle of an empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere and not, say, on the bus ride home from school, because after that point, I was visibly freaking out throughout. I would’ve been perfectly satisfied with just Villager, but then the trailer continued. The videos online right now show these two as separate videos, but I definitely remember watching them as one big trailer.

NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING!

Oh boy, who could it be? The gang looked up at a cliff to see a boy with distinct spiky hair.

“No. There’s no way it could be him. There’s just no way! I read online that he couldn’t get in, so it’s not him.”

Blip!

“OH MY GOD IT IS HIM HOLY SHIT IT’S MEGA MAN FUCKING MEGA MAN HOLY S H I T!”

It didn’t feel real. It felt like a dream. But I was loving every second of it. And even better, the next video in my recommended feed was the trailer for Wii Fit Trainer. What? Why? Who asked for this? I was dumbfounded, but all for it.

I think that those three characters made for the perfect holy trinity of character reveals. The anticipated first party/character Sakurai previously said no to, the third party, and the character that nobody saw coming. Smash 4’s initial reveal had it all. I probably rewatched that trailer for the rest of the soccer game. I texted all my friends about it, and they were all nearly as excited as I was. I would’ve told my mom and sister all about it when they got back in the car, but I wasn’t supposed to be using data at the time, so if they knew that I had used it to watch a silly reveal trailer over and over again, mom probably would’ve had a heart attack (this was before unlimited data was more standard). But you better believe that I exploded on about it as soon as I figured it was safe to.

Even after all these years (and all of the timelines I’ve looked into), no Smash trailer...no, more like no trailer period has ever gotten close to capturing the pure excitement that I felt when I first saw the Smash 4 trailer, and I doubt that there ever will be one. I’m a jaded adult now, and everything is more exciting through the rose-tinted glass of adolescence. The “Everyone is Here!” trailer for Ultimate came close, though. Smash 4’s development was also something of a turning point for me when I became more active in following the development of new games online. I think it was for a lot of people, I think that a lot of that can be attributed to Brawl’s success (and the Wii as a whole) at capturing a wider demographic of gamers compared to Melee and 64. Smash 4 feels almost laughable to go back and play now, but I can’t deny the impact it had on me.

As far as other individual reveal trailers go, here are my favorites:

Little Mac and Palutena-both for the same reason: THAT ART STYLE. Their trailers also convinced me to play their respective games. Uprising was one of my first 3DS games and Punch Out is the last game I remember renting from Blockbuster.

Greninja-As laughable as this sounds now, getting a new Pokémon rep was really hype for me back then. I was beginning to get into competitive, so seeing the ninja frog that had taken over the competitive scene at the time get into smash was cool, even if I was Team Fennekin. Confirmation that at least Charizard had survived the cut was also really cool.

Robin and Lucina-I didn’t know anything about Fire Emblem at the time, but Robin looked cool and I was digging the 3D anime artstyle from Awakening that the trailer was rendered in. Another trailer that convinced me to buy the game that they were from, and good god now I’m an insufferable Fire Emblem fan good lord I was so innocent back then. “Girl Marth” jokes were rampant amongst my friends. Also, CAPTAIN FALCON!!!

Lucas-Funny story, my sister absolutely despises video games with a burning, visceral passion now, but back when we played Brawl together, her mains were Lucas and Snake. You can imagine the pain and agony she felt when Smash 4 initially came out. Lucas’ DLC came out around my birthday, so her gift to me that year was a $10 eShop card. She just told me: “you know what to spend it on.”

Cloud-“Hey guys, you know what would’ve been awesome? In Brawl, if, like, they put in Cloud from Final Fantasy 7?”

Corrin-At this point I was a big Fire Emblem fan riding hot on the hype train for Fates, so I was very excited for Corrin. The dragon-inspired moveset also seemed really cool. Funny how times have changed, and when Byleth was added in I was very lukewarm compared to when my reaction to Corrin.

Inkling-Similar story to the Smash 4 reveal trailer, I was absolutely not expecting a Smash announcement that day and I saw the video was in my YouTube recommended feed while I was at my internship of all places. Unfortunately, none of the other people there were gamers (let alone Smash fans), so they couldn’t share in my hype.

Everyone is Here/Ridley-I can’t properly give this one the justice it deserves in a short amount of words and this post is already getting really long, so I’ll save this one for a later day if you guys are interested. To keep it short, let’s just say that I was very much a part of the Ridley gang and I was very happy to see him in.

Belmonts and K. Rool-I got up at 7 in the morning to watch that trailer and loved every second of it. Keep in mind that I am not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination. The only thing that sort of spoiled it for me was that the Smash teams themselves leaked it the night before by releasing a track titled Bloody Tears/Monster Dance

Ken and Incineroar-Nothing against these two, but at the time I was crushed when I realized the Grinch leak was fake. Now I can look back on it and laugh at Little Mac getting yeeted through the billboard and Villager’s stance at the end of the trailer.

Sans Mii Costume-Pretty sure I’ve already mentioned this, but when I first saw that trailer I legit fell out of my chair laughing. I’m not even an Undertale fan, but seeing funny skeleton man on my screen just broke me. The fact that Toby went to Sakurai’s house and beat him in Smash made it even better.

Banjo-I’ve never actually played a Banjo Kazooie game before, but I’ve seen enough videos about them over the years that I almost feel like I have. They’re ingrained in my childhood due to that in a weird way. Plus, it felt so good to have a victory over the Steve fans. I felt the weight of that Jiggy that bounced on the floor.

And that’s about it! If you guys want to hear my thoughts on the Everyone is Here trailer, please let me know and I’ll do another post like this.

...Upon rereading this post for spelling errors, I realized that you probably were more asking about my favorite reveal trailers throughout multiple timelines. Oops. Let me know if that’s what you wanted and I’ll answer with my thoughts on my favorite future reveal trailers.

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Shows I watched in 2020

ranked and reviewed!

8. Avatar the Last Airbender

Yeah, yeah, finally got around to watching this show (although we do still have to watch the finale) with some friends, and I can’t give my final verdict until I finish the finale, so I’ll just say that while I enjoyed some parts of it, it was overall pretty underwhelming, and i was kind of surprised that it’s so massively acclaimed by everyone. It was good, just overrated in my opinion. I could also talk about the racism and ableism but I won’t.

7. Marvel’s Runaways 

Technically we’ve only seen the first season, but I’m putting it on here bc I was surprised by how much I liked this show so far! This was also the latest show we watched in 2020. The storyline absolutely drew me in, and I also felt like while there was some annoyances, the characters were really interesting, and I appreciated the diversity of the cast! I kept forgetting it was Marvel bc I liked it so much asodifhasdoifhsdoih

6. Killing Eve

Again, only watched the first season so far, so I almost didn’t put it on the list, but I’m super excited to continue, and this show just. Really has it all. The Silence Agenda vibes were what made me start watching, but I love enemies to lovers, and it kind of has all my favorite tropes. I just like hot assassin characters, what can I say? Also Sandra Oh is incredible.

5. The Babysitter’s Club 

Gotta preface this by saying I never read the OG books, but the show was super fun! I thought the young actors did incredible jobs, (and man I appreciate having actors play the ages they’re supposed to be), it was funny and heartfelt and the casual queer and disabled rep was 100000/10, particularly the main diabetic character which we pretty much never see positive rep of.

4. The Owl House

Okay, as a longtime fan of Gravity Falls, I can’t say I was surprised that I freaking loved this show, and I’m so excited to watch it in the future! The characters are amazing, the world is incredible, it was funny, had wlw characters, and Alex Hirsch like what’s not to like. I can’t even pick a favorite character, I love them all.

3. Julie and the Phantoms

The only reason this show isn’t higher on the list is because the other two are just SO GOOD, but holy shit this was hands down one of my favorite shows of 2020. It was such an unexpected gem, that I almost didn’t even watch but I’m so glad I did. I still listen to the soundtrack on a daily basis (literally it’s been on my spotify repeat since I watched the show), the music is incredible, there’s queer rep, there’s diversity, actual teenagers playing teenagers, heartwarming and emotional but also hilarious, the humor is perfect, I just can’t sing this show’s praises enough, if you haven’t seen it, please please please watch it!!

2. Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Y’all know I’m obsessed with this show, but I gotta plug it one more time because the fact is that tumblr is sleeping on it and that’s just ridiculous. The animation is vibrant and incredible, the MUSIC is absolutely boppin (I also listen to its soundtrack a lot), and pretty much everything about this show is almost perfect, from the characters to the humor, to the mlm rep which makes me cry, to the voice acting, to the music, to the worldbuilding, to the heart of it. I only have one complaint but that’s a spoiler so I’ll just leave it to say that enemies to awkward siblings is my new favorite thing. Anyway please watch this show if you haven’t on Netflix, it will change your life.

1. The Haunting of Bly Manor/The Haunting of Hill House

And it’s no one’s surprise that this show is my top show of 2020, mainly because it was the first major hyperfixation I’ve had on a piece of media in a LONNG time. I’ll try not to talk about it too much, but this show literally changed me, it’s the perfect blend of a bit of scariness with EMOTIONS and the characters and writing and filmmaking are just absolutely superb. Honestly, all I really need to talk about is the long take in episode 6 of Hill House because that alone is enough to put this show on the top of this list.

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Massachusetts Primary Results and Lessons

Massachusetts had its congressional primaries yesterday. I put down some predictions, and I'm decently pleased with my performance. I nailed Markey/Kennedy (I said Markey would win by around 10 points, and he won by a 55/45 margin). I got the winners right in the MA-01 and -08 races, but I thought both might be closer than they were. Rep. Richard Neal beat Alex Morse by a 59-41 margin (essentially the same spread as Ilhan Omar over Antoine Melton-Meaux a few weeks ago), and Rep. Stephen Lynch beat challenger Robbie Goldstein 67-33. So what did we learn? Begin with the Senate race. From what I saw, Markey overperformed in college-educated, relatively affluent and disproportionately White suburban centers while Kennedy's base was in working class and minority areas of the state. That actually isn't that surprising, given how progressive politics has been playing out over the past few years, but it does clash with some of the self-image of the progressive left which very much sees itself as being the voice of the most down-trodden. Take from that what you will. Likewise, I'm beginning to see at least a few progressive activists say that their support of Ed Markey is proof that they're not purity-obsessed compromise-averse zealots, since, after all, Markey had his share of heresies in his history (the Iraq War vote being a major one). But he was improving, and he courted their support, and it was important that this sort of behavior be rewarded even if wasn't perfect. And I agree! That's a great lesson and one I hope the left internalizes! But for now, it still seems to be a lesson that is at best inconsistently applied. There's an alternative universe, after all, where Ed Markey -- forty year congressional veteran, backed by Chuck Schumer, Mike Bloomberg, and the DSCC, Iraq War supporoter -- is very much viewed as the quintessential "establishment" candidate who leveraged his insider advantages against the youthful upstart promising to shake things up and harken back to old school Great Society liberalism. Indeed, at the very start of the race that was the narrative Joe Kennedy was very much trying to push. It is to Markey's credit as a campaigner that he managed to turn this story on its head. But the fact is that Kennedy and Markey really don't have that different voting records from one another; and there are countless examples where "voting history akin to Ed Markey's" + "support from Michael Bloomberg" = "irrefutable proof of being part of the Deep Establishment". There's more than a bit of arbitrariness that Markey managed to avoid that label. Perhaps the best thing Markey had going for him was that, orthodox Democratic voting record notwithstanding, he was warm and welcoming of the progressive wing of the party. There's a good lesson there too: being nice works! People like it when you're nice to them. That may seem banal, but there's a branch of progressive political activism that is very committed to the view that the only way to gain and wield political power is via incessant attacks and ruthless "shoot the hostage" bargaining ("the corrupt neoliberal Democratic Party won't listen to us unless we stop voting for them"). In reality, another good way to curry influence is to build good relationships with those you want to influence; and a good way to lose influence is to be openly antipathic to your nominal targets. This is why the Sanders strategy of "running against the Democratic Party in a Democratic primary" was doomed to fail. Markey, by contrast, built positive relationships both with the Green New Deal and "Squad" types, as well as plenty of more "establishment" oriented politicians. That paid off, big time. But once again, the lesson isn't being internalized -- check out the replies to Elizabeth Warren (who endorsed Markey) uttering some generic boilerplate niceties to Joe Kennedy after his defeat. One would think "having already won, there's no reason to actively antagonize a perfectly decent politician who just got 45% in her own state's primary" wouldn't be controversial. But you'd be wrong. Finally, with respect to Kennedy himself, I stand by my initial assessment that his challenge was needless fratricide. Kennedy isn't a bad guy, and his record as a congressperson is perfectly solid. But there wasn't any clear reason for his campaign other than "I want to be a bigger deal than I am now", and that's not a good basis for a primary challenge. Once again, there should be a very strong presumption that Democratic Party energies are better spent fighting Republicans than other Democrats. Kennedy violated that presumption and so I'm glad he lost. Over on the House side, I said that I thought Morse's "scandal" probably helped him more than it hurt him, but that this prediction wasn't really falsifiable. That remains true, but I think his wider-than-anticipated defeat does emphasize that the progressive-insurgent model really is struggling to gain traction outside dense urban districts. There's a good case that Stephen Lynch -- who's probably more conservative than Richard Neal and represents a far more urbanized district -- would make for a better target of progressive energies. The fact that Lynch didn't do that much better than Neal (taking 67% versus 59%) despite facing a far lower-profile candidate suggests there might be more room to run in the former district. Lastly, there was one race, the 4th district primary (to replace Joe Kennedy) where I didn't venture a prediction because the field was a giant 9-way cluster**** and I didn't have time to even try to figure out what's going on. Election day verified that impulse -- the race hasn't been called, five candidates are in double-digits, and at the moment less than 1,500 votes separate first place (Jake Auchincloss, 22.4%) from second place (Jesse Mermell, 21.4%). Still, while the race hasn't been officially called, most observers seem to think Auchincloss -- who ran as a moderate and used to work for Republican Governor Charlie Baker -- will hold onto his lead and become the Democratic nominee. Of course, a race this close immediately raises questions about what will happen come 2022. On the one hand, next cycle Auchincloss almost certainly won't benefit from a wildly fractured field splitting the progressive vote. On the other hand, he will benefit from being an incumbent. As Rashida Tlaib just showed, the entrenching effect of the latter can easily wipe away apparent vulnerability implied by the former even after a single election cycle. I suspect that once in Congress Auchincloss will work to lock down his progressive bona fides and will be able to hold onto his seat for awhile. But it is well within the realm of possibility that Joe Kennedy's ill-fated Senate run meant that a safe Democratic seat just got a much more conservative representative. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/3lIeZxJ