#p&p ch22

[firawren]

Pride and Prejudice Chapter 22: Charlotte accepts Mr. Collins's proposal

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[silvertsundere]

Silver Talks AniManga (27/08/23)

no zom this week cause the ep got delayed a day, and also speaking of, it's production has p much crumbled, having a compilation episode between 7 and 8 and eps 10 to 12 having no planned air date at the moment, unfortunate thing to happen for a studio's first work but I was worried this would happen after ep1 like I said back then

Anime

Pokemon Horizons Ep19

not a bad ep, basically just mudrock's backstory but p eventful otherwise (and nowhere near as good as last week's)

Atelier Ryza Ep9

yknow, last week I said I didn't think they'd be able to wrap up the story in just the 4 eps that are left but after this episode I'm thinking they could be going the original route? I checked the original game to see what happens after this but I'll have to see next episode to know for sure, but it does feel like it's diverging from the game

Manga

Jiangshi X Ch22

sure didn't expect them to just introduce stands in this but sure go off I guess, also they did the timeskip but didn't show the designs for the protags, just some new guys, so guess we'll have to wait for next time to see that

Witch Watch Ch122

to be honest I completely forgot that keigo was still fighting but it's very cool for nemu to get to do something too and finally reveal her secret at least to keigo

Martial Master Asumi Ch10

good chap, was really cool seeing nao fighting seriously and putting that other girl in her place, looks like we're getting a lil training arc for nito next so that should be fun

[dirtyoldmanhole]

ch21 pops off briefly in some cool ways!

first you get this sick ass Temple Of Doom vibe. Castle Gyges, where all the shit goes down.

god i wish i could tell you some fic spoilers, this is the exact screenshot for one cool scene.

anyway, then check out this sick cinematography as the ominous foreshadowing starts up~~~

looming dark ominousness both with the building structures and the sky notably going darker, separating the screen in a diagonal sense for the further unease; bunch of purple and green which are traditionally "villain colors".

corrin off to the side of that second shot to further her isolation from the royal group.

anyway right after that second shot anthony is the obvious traitor as he leads corrin to the back enterence all alone. there's a really deliciously nasty dead dove fic that lives rent free in my mind re: anthony about this part lol

thankfully, corrin has at least one brain cell and knows there's a high chance she's walking into a trap, and she's left a message with everyone in case if she didn't return.

anthony goes yandere.

points for effort of that slasher smile, anthony, though I know somebody who wears it better.... :P

SPEAKING OF....

Gunter arrives in the second wave of 'oh it WAS a trap after all' reinforcements, behind Takumi and Leo aka the Thank God You Have Common Sense Royals(tm)

(+Xander who was the 'pls consider it's a trap' guy)

THAT IS RICH COMING FROM YOU, WANKER

(this whole scene is simultaneously really funny and REALLY PAINFUL when you know. uh. his deal.)

anankos decides he's totally capital-D-done with anthony and straight up turns him into a faceless in front of you for his failure. the transformation sounds nightmarish, ngl.

afterwards corrin gets one of those chats with the whole gang of them saying 'yeah you have a major weakness of trusting people but that's also what got you to herd all of us psychos together so, you win for once?

speaking of -

.... you know what, that's saccharine, but that's actually cute, sheesh. he of all people's seen her from start to finish, so i feel like that actually does mean something as a very subtle nod to all of her work during the middle third of rev, all the way back when nobody believed her and azura.

anyhoo, chapter 22 was up next.

ch22 really could be welded together with 23, as it's basically "azura faces her possessed mother part 1" versus 23 being the "actually finally kills her for good". basically a whole lot of nothing happens here, but i did find it interesting how everyone/corrin/azura really was leaning on the 'she's not your mother anymore' angle as an easier way to accept the fact she's brutally fighting/killing her only surviving family member.

hold onto that thought ~~~~

anyway ch23 is when it actually starts popping off again re: gunter >:) almost there to the fun bits.

[lemonluvgirl]

hey, finished blazing free 💔 and started a few chapters of golden cages, but i was wondering if you will be finishing golden cages because i think my heart might not be able to handle it if i get to ch22 and k & p are in a tough place and it ends there. no pressure, thank you for sharing your work, just wondering

Hello, thank you for reading Blazing Free and a little bit of Golden Cages! I am still in the process of writing Golden Cages, and recently I've been dealing with writer's block and just very low inspiration problems. But I have not abandoned the story at all. I'm just trying to get back into my groove and hopefully, I'll be able to post another chapter for GC soon!

Although if cliffhangers freak you out, I would suggest subscribing to the story on AO3 and maybe waiting until it's completed. As of this moment, I am still in the middle of finishing that story and many of the main plot-driving issues have not been resolved. K and P are still in a tough place and probably will be until the end of the story, as Golden Cages is a reimagining of Mockingjay, except with Katniss being taken to the Capitol instead of Peeta.

sorry about it not being finished yet!

and again, sorry for the whump! But Golden Cages is like 90% pain and angst and 10% sexual tension. If you wanna read something nice though, I recommend some of my other fics, like The Holiday Stand In, Some Loves Bloom Like Flowers, and The Both of Us. Those three stories are complete with happy endings for K&P and all their friends :)

[green-aeggs-and-spam]

no fic update tomorrow so i thought i’d stick a progress report here for those who are interested. ch22 is complete but needs editing, it’s 6k words long and i’m p busy so it’s gonna be a few days until it’s ready. tentative post date is friday. ch23 is currently at 3k words and should be done by 4k, but i’ve gotta rewrite a whole lot of shitty dialogue. ch24 is also sitting at just under 3k words but finished length is easily gonna be double that or more, so i’ve got plenty more writing to do.

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[pollyaunt]

Break My Heart- chapter 21

Fandom: From Blood & Ash | ch22

TW: ANGSTY AF

Summary: What happens when the star quarterback of Atlantia High School grows an interest towards the shy, adorable but smart girl in his grade? Come and join Hawke and Poppy on this rollercoaster of emotions.

a/n: don't hate me pls :p

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The party was in full swing. I had to give credit to the host, the dude had a really enormous house.

Everywhere we went, people congratulated Hawke for playing so good even though we weren't able to win and.

I was surprised to see that the rival school was also invited and even more surprised when everyone were bonding so well with each other.

I was currently standing with Hawke while he talked to his teammates. I kind of felt like an outcast because all they were conversing about was football and I knew nothing about it. But thankfully, their discussion ended soon and we entered the kitchen.

"Are you tired yet?"

I let myself get lost in his honey eyes which I had come to love overtime and memorized it.

"A little." I confessed.

He kissed my forehead, tangling our fingers, "Then we'll leave in half an hour,"

I nodded and my phone started ringing suddenly.

I gestured my mobile towards Hawke, "I'll be back in a minute."

He nodded and I left.

Mom was calling me and I picked up when I reached the backyard.

"Where are you, Poppy?"

Crap, crap, crap. I had momentarily forgotten to tell her that I was going to the after party.

"Shit! So sorry mom, I forgot to tell you I was going to the after party with Cas."

She huffed at the other end, "This is no way, Poppy. We were so worried. Don't do anything like this next time and tell us beforehand about your whereabouts."

I winced, "I promise I will. And I'll be back before the curfew."

"Okay, be safe and how was the game? Who won?"

"It was a tie. Both the teams were really damn good,"

"That's okay. Nonetheless, congratulate Casteel from us."

I swear my heart melted at that.

"I will."

"Okay, bye."

We quickly did our goodbyes and I went inside the house-mansion- again but to only see this time that Hawke wasn't in the kitchen anymore.

I frowned and started searching for him.

I couldn't find him after ten minutes of searching and my phone was also dead.

"Where are you?" I muttered to myself and saw Venotta standing in a corner, drinking a beer.

I didn't want to talk to her but she was my only option and so I went towards her.

"Have you seen Hawke?"

She looked towards me and a lazy smirk took on her face.

"Oh, wouldn't you like to know? Follow me."

I scowled towards her, "Are you drunk?"

She bared her teeth at me, "No, this is my first drink and I don't know how that's any of your business. Now follow me or stay here."

And despite her rudeness, I followed her.

When we reached near the bottom of the staircase, her gaze followed throughout the room and stopped.

I followed where her eyes landed and was surprised to see that the person was Gianna.

She called out her name and Gianna came towards us.

"What's going on?"

I shook my head, "I don't know." And we both looked towards Venotta.

But her smirk just got bigger and made us follow her upstairs.

When we reached the end of the hallway, I was surprised again for the fiftieth time that night when I saw Malik and Hawke in an heated argument.

"Either you tell her or I'll do it myself. I am sick of your bullshit now!"

Hawke's jaw was clenched and I could practically hear his teeth gritting together, "You won't dare to. If you tell Poppy, you won't see another-"

"Tell me what?" I interrupted him before he could complete his sentence.

Hawke never looked this nervous, not even before his matches and it made my heart run fast.

I took two step towards him and asked both of them this time, "Tell me what?"

Malik opened his mouth to speak but Hawke spoke faster, "Do not!"

My gaze flicked towards him and at Malik again.

But Malik just gave Hawke a hard glare, "Oh fuck off!"

He moved towards me and Hawke rubbed the back of his neck, an action he did whenever he was anxious and it just made my heartbeat pound faster.

"Poppy, he's been lying to you since the start. He's been pretending all this time to be with you," he motioned towards Hawke and my heart stopped beating completely.

I walked slowly towards Hawke and my eyes silently asked, pleaded, begged to say it was all a lie but his silence was answer enough.

My eyes filled with ushered tears and my lower lip trembled, "Why?"

But he still remained silent.

"Revenge."

My gaze went back towards Malik when he said that and I saw from the corner of my eye that Gianna had paled completely. On the other hand, Venotta just leaned across the wall and enjoyed the drama.

"What?" My voice wavered and my eyes flicked between Hawke and Malik again.

"You heard right, everything he did was for revenge. Shall I continue the whole story?" His seething eyes returned towards Hawke and so did mine.

He never made eye contact with me and took a sharp breath, "Remember when I said Gianna kissed another guy? The guy was none other than Malik.

It felt like someone had shot me directly in my heart. But he continued talking.

"While you two were still dating, Malik kissed Gianna and I caught them. We had a huge fight with a few punches in between and that day I swore I would break him just like he did to me."

Even though tears streamed freely along my cheeks, I still asked Malik, "But why? Did I do something? Was I not enough? Why?!"

But this time Gianna answered, "I'll tell you. As you know Hawke and I started having conflicts, I wanted to talk to someone. And one day, Malik and I met at a cafe. That's from where we became friends and I eventually started telling him my problems. Overtime, I realized I had fallen out of love from Hawke and instead fell for Malik. And that day I kissed him."

And finally Hawke gave a reaction.

He frowned towards Gianna, "You kissed him? But you said that day Malik kissed you!"

Gianna lowered her gaze, "I said that so that you won't break up with me."

Hawke's eyes widened and he motioned towards her, "Are you insane?!"

Gianna just shrank as much as possible.

"I did not kiss her first. I told you that but would you believe me? No, instead you decided to take revenge on me by breaking the person I genuinely like and care about!"

But I heard nothing after that.

A deafening roar of silence took over my brain. My tears wouldn't stop falling and I fell on my knees, pressing my hand over my mouth to quieten my sobs but it did nothing to help.

Hawke's arms came around me but I harshly removed them and turned towards Venotta.

"And what's your role in all of this?"

She pointed towards herself, "Me? Oh, yeah. Just a night before all this fighting shit happened, I went to Malik's house and kissed him. And out of guilt he broke up with you. And that's the initial reason I wasn't letting you talk to him because I feared he would tell you but you made things so much easier when we fought and our so called 'friendship' came to an end."

Anyone can betray anyone.

I couldn't tell how much real that statement sounded until that moment. And all I could do was cry, cry, cry.

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sooooo there's the whole story! YEAH HAWKE'S A BITCH SURPRISE SHAWTYYYY

tag list: @the-introverted-reader

[afterthelastreset]

Rules Of One’s Soul Ch22 The Duke’s Return P2

(Mak belongs to @wasted-church)

The arrival of the jester was one a few would still flinch at. After all they couldn't forget the time over a hundred years ago when the man went made and tried to murder the King of Spades. But after his iron fisted ruling and the ways he treated his subjects, some were more forgiving than others and have at least tolerated his presence with the encouragement of the remaining grown kings and child giving him and all the other hundreds of prisoners full pardons of whatever their crimes were. But some if not most were still on edge over his being there. So when he popped into the throne room, doing a small pose in mid air and having confetti burst out of no where to go along with his appearance, he was greeted which a mix of happy and slightly worried faces of the kings. Lancer bounced happily in the duke's hold and clapped at his entrance...which was a far cry to the scowl that the duke was giving him. A small piece of confetti landed on his shoulder and he gave an angry huff to blow it off.

"My, my. And here I thought you all would be working hard, working hard." He changed his position to a cross-legged sitting position and settle his head in his clawed hands. Giving a hum and smile to the strained face of the duke. "And what can I do for the royals, royals today?"

"Lesser Dad wants you to help him." Lancer turned that innocent smile up to Rouxls and the worm's face did a complete 180 and a forced grin replaced his scowl immediately. "Right, Dad?"

The duke gave an emotionless chuckled. "But of course! I amst certain that thine fool-" His eyes narrowed back to him. "-willst helpest explain a few things easily.." Despite it all, Jevil never lost that giant grin, even when Rouxls gently placed the small boy down with a grunt and sat on his hunches to be near eye level to the child for a moment. "Thou be good now alright? Today's kingly meeting shouldst not best too long. I shall have thine cook preparest thou a snack once thee finishes."

"Ok, Lesser Dad."

The Duke stood back up, took a deep inhale to calm him, and let it before turning to the smiling menace giving him a professional forced smile. With a finger he motioned for the fool to follow him and he briskly walked past him, the wringing his hands were doing was rolling up the long piece of paper into a scroll in his hands. Though he didn't look behind him, he could feel the presence of the floating fool right behind him as they stepped their way over to the doors and a blue hand reached out and grabbed the doorknob.

"Duke Kaard!" He turned back around and raised a brow to the giant Hathy who gave him a nervous smile from across the throne room. "D-Do go easy on yourself..a-and him."

...."But of course, Mine Majesty." He gave a half bow while pushing the door open. "I wouldn't have it any other way. Come Fool!"

As soon as the door closed behind them, the scowl returned and Rouxls silently lead the floating menace down the hallways towards his office. Of course they got a few stares as suspected and a few were looking at them with happy loving eyes, like they were witnessing an old couple waltzing through the halls. Only they weren't and they were definitely anything but a happy couple, right now he didn't even look to the jester who kept leaning past and poking his head out next to him with a smile, but all Jevil got in response was the cold shoulder. It seemed like an eternity but they finally came to the famous office of the duke, and Rouxls opened the door before motioning to Jevil to go in. Jevil happily did so with a giggle, probably seeing this as some romantic gesture. He looked around the drab looking room before he turned around just as Rouxls slammed the door closed with a loud bang and looked at him with a twitching eye.

The scroll was pointed at him. "WHAT IN THINE HELL WERE THOUST THINKING?!" He exploded at him. But Jevil still kept that unwavering smile.

"What ever are you talking, talking about?" He asked in genuine confusion raising a brow, "Is the decoration's not to your liking, liking?"

Rouxls's hands gripped the shiny hair on his head and growled between gritted teeth. "No! You imbecile!" He threw both arms at him. "Were thou going around and spreading rumors about us being in a relationship!?"

Jevil's smile vanished and he blinked. Bringing a hand to his chest in surprise. "Me? Lie and spread rumors, rumors like some bully? I would never sink so, so low as to use public pressure to cheat in the game." He waved a hand and laid on his back, simaltaniously moving backwards in mid air towards the desk. "I simply stated that you and me were soulmates, soulmates. Nothing more or less than the truth. What's wrong with that?"

Rouxls groaned and reached his hands up to run down his face. The slimey skin stretched with it before snapping back into place when he released. "Don't thou realize what this ridiculous soulmate nonsense haseth been adding too?!"

Jevil merely gave a confused look as he leaned over the desk and a moment later picked up the lopsided heart card. Opening it too see Lancer's handy work with a smile. "It's not nonsense, nonsense It's actually quite easy to understand."

Rouxls groaned again and marched up to the desk, walking around it and snatching the card from Jevil's hands before sitting down. "Giveth me that!" The scroll was plopped onto the desk top and Rouxls stuffed the card into one of the side draws. "That tis not for thou!" The draw shut with a minor slam and he pointed up at the unamused jester. "If thou keepest this u-up thine thou can kisseth mine good graces good byeth!!"

Still confused Jevil shrugged. "But everyone would've found out evetually, eventually. Why would it be wrong to say it now?"

"Maybe thou would've taken into consideration that mineself was nay ready for a p-public relationship? O-Or if I waseth even ready for so many people knowing?!" There was a small pause as the two looked at each other and Rouxls went to put his face in his hands with a sigh. "....I thought we hadst a-an understanding of mine personal boundaries."

Jevil flinched ...and his long ears drooped slightly. "W-Was...that a part of your boundaries?"

...Rouxls waved him off and looked up from his hands at him. "It's n-nay matters now. What I need is your help with this"

He gestured to the scroll on the desk. Jevil blinked but with a flick of the wrist, it flew up into the air and the bottem unfuraled with a crinkle paper sound. The bottom hit the table and proceeded to run across the length and side of his desk, stopping two feet on the floor from them. But unlike Rouxls, Jevil didn't even seem fazed by it's enormous size as he lifted it higher with the flick of a wrist until it picked itself off the floor completely and was standing straight up in midair so he could read it all with a raised brow and a hum. ....And smiled. This is what he needed help with? Oh, he could laugh at such a teeny set of easy tasks, but he wouldn't as too not upset the duke more than he accidentally did.

With a giggle he looked down to the semi scowling duke and motioned to it. "This, this is what you're so gloomy over? This is child's play, child's play. Lancer has asked for more difficult tricks than this-"

"Can you helpest mineself with it or nay?" He was starting to get irritated again and this was supposed to be after a 'relaxing break.'

"...Will it make you happy, happy?"

He rolled his eyes."Poitively mad with glee-"

"Good! I shall finish these all within ...two days. A day, day and a half if I hurry, hurry."

Rouxls stared gobsmacked at the floating menace..and rose a brow..Did he hear right? Did he just expect him to shovel all the work onto him first chance he got? "What art thou spewing now? Thoust cannot simply just doth all mine tasks on thine own." He reached for the floating list but it moved with a flict of that risk.

"Tsk, tsk. Silly duke.~" Those eyes and cheshire grin smiled down at him like the first time they had met, but they didn't scare him anymore. Far from it, those teasing yellow eyes mocking him and inabilities compared to the magical power this Kaard mix beheld and he hated it,...but something was intruiging about this silent challenge that beckoned his curiousity to come and witness the power this man held. Jevil giggled and shifted himself once again in that crosslegged position. "I made a mistake, mistake. I would like you to allow me to make it up to you like my last mistake."

The worm's scowl meant it wasn't going to be a busy thing to settle. "Nay! I refuseth to sit on mine arse while work needst to be done!" He stood up and pointed at him and with an authoritive voice demanded, "As thou's suporier I demand thou giveths mineself that list at ounce! I refuseth to let you do all that work alone!!"

That worked as well as you'd think. "Im flattered you think of me that way, that way. But what I can do in half the time you can seems like a better option don't you think?" Rouxls answered with a questioning look and he sighed. "I mean with what work load you have suddenly, suddenly been handed it would be almost impossible for you to get done within, within the date provided. But on the other hand I can handle all this with ease. Think, think about it. Cut your loses.~"

The gear turning blank look ROuxls gave next made him chuckle. ".....And what wouldst I do in the meantime?"

"Your normal boring, boring duties," he waved a hand, "I'll even let you set up the banquient, banquient if it makes you feel better. I could not stand the bland taste, taste of most noble food anyhow."

He still didn't look all convinced but at the same time his scowl had disbanded. ".....And in return you wouldst getteth what exactly?"

"The satisfaction of knowing I helped, helped you. Now, do you want me, me to help?" Rouxls sighed and justed stared at him, before nodding his head yes reluctantly at him, and Jevil happily smiled. "Wonderful, wonderful!! Let us get started!!"

A ripping sound befell their ears and when those mitchmatched eyes looked up in confusion, he yelped at the sight of the long list splitting off in four places. What was this fool doing?! He looked back to give him a peice of his mind, but gave a squeal of shock when more than one pair of yellow and Black eyes peered back at him. "W-WHAT THINE FUCKETH!?" The three Jevil's laughed at him, it was so disturbing hearing three pairs of the same laughter from three....NO. His frightened eyes could see that the other two Jevil's were still semi attatched to the main one and the other two were...s-see through? L-Like he was staring at a pair of ghosts trying to posesses one person that looked exactly like them! Eventually the other two Jevils detatched themselves from the main Jevil who didn't even bat an eyelash but instead stretched his back out with a pop and groan.

"It's been so long, so long since I did a copy spell, spell. Takes a lot of energy, energy." The terrified duke could only stare in shock from behind the desk chair he hid behind before a peice of paper flew in front of his face. He flinched and had to blink a couple times for his brain to finally register that it was a chunk of the old list. The top part to be exact, with everything crossed out exept for one at the very bottem which said: Banquient Food. Meanwhile the other three papers flew into the claws of the two ghost Jevil's and the normal one. All exactly copying each other to the T with grabbing the paper, and turning there head with a hum. "Hmm. All of this is easy, easy. Three hundred invitations with these rules, rules should be easy.~" "Organizing staff, staff and cleaning should be easy.~" "All these minor, minor chores should be easy, easy.~" It was so disturbing how the three of them said different things but ended with the same words but he flinched when they all looked back to him. "Don't be frightened, frightened. I assure you this is perfectly safe, safe."

"...W-What didst thou do?"

"A simple copy, copy spell!" They all said back to him at the same time as they gestured to one another. "Don't worry, don't worry. My ghostly selves have no mind of their own and they never will, will. I just simply temporraily split two small peices of my soul two expand, expand my senses. I can hear and see out of them-" They...He?? pointed at their faces. "But I assure you I control the whole thing.~ Not a lot of others can perform this spell since it takes a lot, a lot of energy and concentration. So it's a rare, rare spell to see. I only used to use it, use it for my bigger performances."

.....He blinked and shook his head. Was there anything he should really doubt he could do anymore? "O-Oh, I see. T-That maketh sense....I think."

The three of them giggled and waved to him, "I beleive, beleive the man who could help you would be a Mr. Topchef. His bakery, bakery is a little ways from Seam's home."

A full round of giggles escaped from the three of them and with a three pairs of snaps from their fingers, they disappeared in a small poof of smoke and confetti. He blinked and watched as the small peices of colorful paper fell to the ground before slowly turning back to the still floating peice of paper.....and shakily reached up a hand to grab it......And sighed. And just when he thought things would be back to normal.

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The first thing he did once he gathered his sense was try to head to the Kings....Key word try as it was very difficult to maniver around the sudden flock of cleaning suppiles being moved around by themselves. He found that out when a feather duster dusting the wall accidentally got in his face once the door opened. He coughed and wacked the dusty thing away, and stared in shock at all the other staff ducking out of the cleaning suppiles way or watching them with a confused face. Rouxls sighed and rubbed his head in shame. Oh he was gonna get in big trouble wasn't he?.....Well, he was once again surprised when he was proven wrong after dodging all the flying scrub rags and sweeping brooms until he made it to the throne room. Opening the doors and freezing in horror at the absolute scene before him. King Diamod was cursing and trying to swat away a relentless duster trying to get to his crown and all five heads of the King Clubs was laughing at the scene. Lancer was giggling and running around chasing after a literal dust bunny hopping around the floor, which only got bigger the more dust it picked up...On second thought. He had scene those literal dust clouds shaped like rabbits hopping about the halls. In his hast he thought they were all just rabbicks, but now he realized the things hopping around were rabbits made of clouds of dust getting bigger with all the dust that magically flew off all corners of the castle and joined their already filthy bodies. The worm was half tempted to scream at Lancer to stop playing around and don't chase the filthy animal around...but thought better of it, since it looked like he was enjoying himself.

"Duke Kaard!" He jumped and looked up to his majesty King Heart who was 'looking', nevermind since he didn't have eyes, at a floating bucket of water and a small rag that dunk itself back into the bucket, wrung itself out and then proceeded to continue washing one of the giant window...He he turned his worried expression to the blue man. "W-What in light is going on here?!"

That nervous smile came back to his face and he could already feel the slimey sweat starting to fall down his face when he stood in the doorway and stuttered. "W-Well, I-I-I may or may not perhaps...haveth asked for help? Ahehe..heh."

The giant Hathy looked at him and went to say something but jumped and turned back around when a muffled scream and coughing came from the equally giant Rudinn. King Diamonds face was being attacked by the duster before finally grabbing the stupid thing and throwing it across the room. Making Rouxls yelp and duck as it grazed the top of his head. The King Clubs laughing still echoing at the spitting and groaning of their fellow ruler. And Heart sighed, head folling Lancer as he attempted and failed to jump and catch the dust bunny running around.

"...W-Well that explains this unusual event, now doesn't it?" He gave a sigh as Diammond growled at Clubs and went to wipe his face. "Well m-maybe you should perhaps tell him to ease up on the entire thing, and perhaps give a warning for what you two are about to do next time? Everything suddenly came to life and I could've sworn there was a bunch of ghosts involved."

Rouxls chuckled nervously and made his way in. Careful to dodge the still working mods and brooms, and flying rugs floating out the open windows. Was one small entity like Jevil really doing all of this by himself? He couldn't help even in his nervous state to admire and admit the absolute amazement of the power of someone like him. Guess his 'I can do anything' attitude really did apply to a lot of things. "D-Duely noted, M-Mine Majesties. B-But if we could please discusseth thine delicacies for thine b-banquet, it wouldst beth a big help!"

"Oh, well of course! Anything to help you dear Duke." He smiled down at him as the nervous man finally stopped in front of him. Sighing and turning the peice of torn off list around to the blank side, pulling a feathered pen out of no where and giving a tired smile up to the giant hathy. Out of all the kings- minus Lancer- Rouxls enjoyed talking to the hathy the most. He enjoyed how down to earth and passionate about his job he was. Said king lifted a tentacle to rub at his chin and hummed in thought..."Something sweet. I'd love a giant punch display!"

"CAKE!!" Rouxls jumped and looked down to the small child wagging his tail excitedly and grabbing his pants leg. "A GIANT CHOCOLATE CAKE AND ICE CREAM!! AND MAC AND CHEESE AND A GIANT BOWL OF DARK CANDY AND ANOTHER GIANT BOWL OF SALSA!!"

Rouxls blinked and gave a chuckle. "Um..L-Lancer. Doth thou think all that wouldst be a little too much for thou's subjects' taste?"

"Who's the King, Lesser Dad?"

"*sigh* Thou are." He groaned and jotted down what Lancer had asked for, but made sure to write down 'small' by the bowl of salsa and candy. "Anything else?"

"I want a roast!" He ounce again jumped when one of King Clubs heads poked over his shoulder and stared down at him quickly followed by the other four. "A roast sounds n-nice." "MAKE IT BIG AND NOT BURNT!!" "Maybe a saled would be better." "I want two roasts, please!!"

"S-Slow down p-please, Your majesty. I-I cannot keepest up with all of thou. *sigh*" More writing was jotted down and he paused to pull Lancer to the side to avoid an in coming broom fly by before continuing. "Shall there best anythinge else thine majesties wishes?"

"Just make sure everything tastes good!!" "B-But shouldn't we ask Clover what she wants?" "Good idea!"

He sighed again. This would take a while-...

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Whelp! He wasn't wrong. It did take quite a while whith the five heads of one king and the other two trying to get more requests in while Lancer pulled on his pants trying to get his attention was anything but easy. But somehow with all the chaos going on he made a list he was partially satisfied with. So much for everyone bringing food with the short notice, this called for extreme measures as soon as possible. Which meant skipping walking and just teleporting to the closest pinpoint he could teleport to Seam's Sheap. His own store. And that's where his new journey began it seemed. Trudging his way from one store to another. Seam didn't seem all that surprised when the flap to his Sheap opened and the white haired worm came in a second later. But he did give a curious look from the back when he did hear it open.

"Sorry, Friend. But I'm mighty closed for the moment." He calmly smiled from the comfy couch he was sitting on, needle in one hand and what looked like an old shirt in the other...Was he sewing? "If you're looking for Jevil, he left around two hours ago for the castle at your request."

"I knowest that!!...*ahem*" He straightened his flushed posture and took a deep breath before releasing it and looking back to Seam in a much calmer manner. "I simply needed directions fromest thee."

Seam hummed again. "And just might where you need directions to? Perhaps I can help, or maybe not. These old patches aren't what they used to be. Hehe."

Rouxls groaned and walked on into the back. Not bothering to ask if he could, and plopped down onto the couch next to him. Head tilted back into the soft cushion, groaning, and one hand reaching up to rub his face. "...Some person byest thine name of Topchef. Jevil toldeth mineself that his establishment was nearest thou."

Seam smiled. "Oh of course. He sometimes stops by and buys all my dark candy stock up if he needs extra or doesn't feel like getting more. Funny man always so dizzy. But why would you want to see him?" Instead of answering. Rouxls's other hand came up and showed him the back of the once long list. Seam had to lean down and tilt his head so his good eye could read the words scribbled down by the duke. Most were random expensive sounding food except for one near the bottem that said 'tennis ball fillet'. ...At least there wasn't any worms or insects written down on here. "Oh. I see." He leaned back into the seat and calmly looked back down to his lap. Resuming the action of sewing the large shiny black coat in his paws. " Am I to assume this is for that fancy get together?"

Another groan. "Yes. Tis thee only thinge I can do since the imbecile tookest over mine entire life...again. And is now running amuke in thine castle causing massive amounts of magical chaos of it!" His hand finally removed itself from his face and he gave Seam a slightly panicked look. "Thine kings couldst d-demotest mineself to thy newest jester if he nay stops his shennanigans!!"

Seam to Rouxls's annoyance chuckled like he had just told him a joke and took a moment to peer over at him. "Well his magic is at it's peak for the moment. It doesn't surprise me he's able to do a lot to help you right now."

"..What art thou spewing now?"

The sewing motions stopped and Seam tilted his head more at him. "You haven't figured it out yet?" Rouxls's scowl answered that question, and he sighed before resuming his work. "Im surprised you haven't noticed it before, but i'll explain. Jevil's magic is based on the emotions he feels and how powerful said emotion is. His eyes changes if also strong enough." The cloak was shifted in his paws and he smiled at him. "The more powerful the emotion the more powerful the magical range."

"...I..see." He blinked. "But how is he doinge so much now? If he canst teleprt why wouldst he not escape sooner?"

He chuckled. "Because he probably never had enough motivation to leave. He made it clear he felt guilt over what had happened, and was sad when you blew his feelings off in the dungeon." Rouxls winced remembering the sorrowful screech Jevil had let off and all the hearts launched everywhere. "Things like sadness, guilt, fear, and worry are the emotions he's least powerful, those can reflect in his eyes as blues, purples, or whites. Now things like happiness and anger are the real ones that fuel the fire.'' Speaking of sire. Said fire crackled in the fireplace infront of them as the Duke stared at the cat. After a few silent moments he continued. "Do you remeber went he went crazy over a hundred years ago before he was subdued?"

He hummed. "V-Vaguely. I was nerely but a silly squire then and evactuated the castle. I nay saw the actual battle.''

"The giant mess he left behind was the result of his anger-"

"It tookest us nearly twenty years to rearrange and furnish the damage."

Rouxls's wide worried eyes made Seam chuckle. "Don't worry too much about making him angry. It's actually almost impossible to make him angry. Sadness is the emotion he usually goes to when upset. So realitivly he's quite harmless. "

"...S-Sureth." He mumbled not looking very convinced.

"But that does beg the question of how powerful he is when love is introduced." Rouxls blinked and stared at him and he chuckled. "Anger manifests as red eyes. Happiness and calm are always a bright sunshine yellow. But never have I seen his eyes turn any shade of pink until he met you. Love is a powerful enotion." The paws went back to sewing the cloak. "And Jevil seems to be at his full power when he's feeling loved. Which makes any competition hard to compete with him. But what he lacks in power and what skills he has, I make up for in patience." His eye crinkled up in a giant smile. "We'll just have to wait and see which one of our talents comes out on top...Oh. And the bakery you seek is just across the Feild of Hopes and Dreams and located by the Rudinn town's entrance."

Rouxls just stared blankly at him and blinked, opening his mouth to speak. Until a small yell made him jump and Seam look up, from the front a purple and grey blur came sliding in before striking a pose and looking at them! .....Seam chuckled and clapped a little and Rouxls just stared at the small bat child. were they wearing-?

"....Tis that J-Jevil's suit?"

"Yes. I wished to help him so I sewed up all the holes I could find in it. But it smelt of old moss, so into the wash it went....Unfortunately-" He gestured to the posing child. "It shrank slightly...So I let them have it since they wanted it so badly."

"...L-Let's hope Jevil nay minds."

[gizkasparadise]

ch22 is p much: connington #3: cryptic statement about king robert’s death as they’re all out on a hunt gendry: there’s so many gd bugs out here can we just go back

[three-musqueerteers]

What's the timeline for all of Ratana's manga? LL2 comes sometime while LL is going on? And Pulse is around the same time as LL? Maybe Magnet during LL2 as well depending on where in Nadia's life it takes place.

Hmmmmm…..It’s hard to say because most of them have some common points in time.

First we will have Bridesmaid This is for sure.

Then Lily Love. 

Lily Love 2 takes place in LL time skip (so when Mew went to Australia and didn’t come back yet (LL ch31 first half)).

Pulse is for sure after Bridesmaid (because we see that couple in Pulse ch22 12 years after Bridesmaid finale). Also at extra picture that Ratana drew we can see Mel and Lynn in the same Cafe as Ploy and Ice.

I think but I need to check this with Ratana :v they went to Bangkok after marriage (because in Pulse we never said in which city action takes place directly, but that it’s “random city in random country”). It might be honeymoon trip OR they moved there. 

IF they moved there It can’t be that far from original destination because Mel said Crystal that she’s “living the city” not the country :D and that she can visit her.

BUT there is also Mew and Donut comeo in Pulse finale (wedding) episode :D from picture we can assume it takes place AFTER Donut’s graduation PLUS some extra time - because Mew has long hair there. They MIGHT probably go to the trip to “unknown” Pulse country where gay marriage is legal :P 

ORRRR It’s just Thailand in Alternative Universe where LGBT+ marriage is legal too xD

Mentality obviously takes place in the same time as Pulse ;) (extension of Pulse ch01) 

As for Magnet… Well it’s only assumption but I think that LL2 is Nadia’s introduction. For now we can think that Magnet will take place between LL2 ch23 (first time seeing Nadia) and Pulse ch18 (first time seeing Crystal). We will know for sure when Ratana will release that title - and it won’t be quick :P

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Like I said at the start - it’s hard to make a timeline for Ratanaversum xD

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[chronicfangirling]

Your Most Beautiful Moment in Life pt.2: Ch22 (Non-idol!AU) It's summer when you and Jungkook meet. The same summer that he falls for you as well... but realizes it too late.

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You put Jungkook on mute in your phone and since you're aware that he's looking for you, you volunteer to go with Hyuk in the city to distribute festival posters and flyers in the university, even though you hated being there and seeing all the people around your age actually doing something with their lives.

But sometime in the course of the afternoon, Hyuk exclaims: "Hey, isn't that Jungkook?"

You glance over your shoulder and see Jungkook across the flame-tree-lined road. He knits his brows and something akin to jealousy sparks in his eyes at the sight of you and Hyuk--but of course that's just a remnant of your silly wishful thinking. Your breath catches when you see him look both ways and start to cross the road.

"Over here!" Oblivious, Hyuk waves him over.

"Oppa!" you yell, seizing Hyuk's arm. "Don't dawdle, we need to put up more posters--over there!" You point at a crowded junction of the university road where a street bazaar has been set up and stomp towards it, weaving through and disappearing in the crowd.

"But Jungkook's--what's with this inhuman grip?" Hyuk complains. "Y/N!"

Dragging Hyuk despite his protests, you reach a bus stop. You glance around and realize that Jungkook hasn't been able to follow; your stomach sinks in disappointment, though you had purposefully lost him. You release Hyuk and start tacking posters on the empty spaces on the bulletin board.

"What's up with you lovebirds? You're really fighting now, aren't you?" Hyuk's tone is teasing as he leans over you, arms crossed over his chest. "What did your boyfriend do? Come on, tell oppa, I'll punish him for you."

"He's not really my boyfriend..." you say as you continue tacking posters on the board, unable to meet Hyuk's eyes.

"Ehh?" He cocks his head to one side.

"I said he's not really my boyfriend," you repeat, louder. "We were never a real couple, and Jungkook never liked me that way. I just... started believing one-sidedly... that it could be real..." Your vision becomes blurry with the now-familiar sting of tears, and you don't bother to bow your head as you cry.

"What the??" Hyuk yelps, backing away in a panic, dropping the posters as he holds up his hands. "Y/N, Y/N, Y/N--hey, there are so many people here, so calm down--" he glances around, still panicking though no one in the bus stop seems to be paying you two much mind. "Okay, um, I'll get the car, so wait--"

All but cringing, Hyuk taps your head gingerly, and you cry harder, remembering Jungkook patting your head in comfort, a sunny smile on his face. Hyuk lets out a strangled squeak and scampers away.