#proof of how single-minded i can be bc if i'm doing one thing with my ocs it's like. i just can't do anything else.

[mattodore]

jerma compilation video set to psycho killer by talking heads you will go down in history

[lizardsfromspace]

Stumbling across that weird fanatically anti-transmasc cult again and this tweet really sums it up better than anything

Trans women are defined entirely by misery and tragedy. Historical trans women all died in asylums. That's why Christine Jorgensen, the first trans woman to get gender-affirming surgery in the US, tragically *squints* spent decades as a in-demand public speaker and headlining entertainer. Because trans women literally can't experience anything other than misery

I have a book from the 70s with an ad for a speaker's agency that lists her alongside Rod Serling and Cicely Tyson. And underneath Erich von Daniken, which is irrelevant to my point but really weird. She was not wasting away in an asylum. Many trans women led tragic lives; but many is not all, and there are historic examples, even really famous ones, of trans women who were happy

Why would they erase that to tell people trans women all suffer tragic fates and must suspect everyone oh yeah bc they're a cult preying on the vulnerable and trying to convince them they need protection (but oddly enough from other trans people more than anyone else?)

The trans man thing is a reference to Victor Barker, who was, indeed, a trans man and a fascist in the 1920s. But I think another key point is, uh, that was one fuckin' guy. Why are they tacking that on, except if they're trying to imply trans men are secretly fascists? But that'd be an absurd thing to belieTHEY BELIEVE THAT. That is a real thing these creeps believe now and are seriously implying on the reg

"You must be suspicious that trans men are fascists" is now part of their ever-evolving litany of apparently endless evil from transmascs who...called a internet famous trans woman an asshole? Made a bad tweet once? Literally anything a trans man ever does (or doesn't do) transforms into a collective action on the part of all trans men in their minds. Trans men aren't just not allies in their mind, but are comically evil Saturday morning cartoon villains

Also, of course, the insistence that trans men had it much easier than trans women. If all trans women's lives weren't misery, all trans men's lives weren't happy, either. This insistence they had it "easy" is giving James Somerton on Radclyffe Hall

This is, again, A Single Guy. You have proved two white trans men are fascists, one in the 1920s and one now. Maybe. Maybe some other factor is at play, some other identity shared, by these two men, and the majority of fascists. "Why do people think I hate trans men?" says a group with a list of trans men they hate they can trot out instantly

I think people are just primed to think evidence of one member of a marginalized group doing a shitty thing is proof they all do it, or to go "that's just one guy?". In another life this jabroni wouldn't be posting about how Mao would be a Baeddel (???), they'd be sharing Fox News stories about crimes to declare we need to deport all Muslims and Mexicans. It's the same psychology, just rotted by internet discourse instead of a more traditional reactionary ideology

Also you may wonder "wait, I'm a trans woman, and trans men calling me a Nazi happens quite rarely, actually". I'm a trans woman on the internet and trans men calling me a Nazi has happened a grand zero times. So you may then wonder why, precisely, this sweet, innocent bean who's never done anything wrong is called a Nazi so regularly they think it's a universal problem.

Anyway they tweeted out the Fourteen Words, but they said gay women instead of white children. Truly, how could anyone ever get the idea they're a Nazi

[actual-changeling]

Welcome back to Alex's unhinged meta corner! I am fuelled up with coffee and my adhd medication, so this is about to be a RIDE.

Apologies in advance, since this post will probably get quite long and also scientific at some point, but I will try to keep it as plain and easy to understand as possible. Combine two of my special interests (Good Omens and chemistry) and you get absolutely insane infodumps; it's a blessing and a curse.

As always, this is simply a theory, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe we'll never find out. But it's an option, and I have canonical proof.

There have been endless theories about why the Gabriel-Hiding-Miracle (which I will shorten to GHM) set off alarm bells in heaven and reached a strength of 25 Lazarii. Are their half-miracles really combined that strong? Does it depend on their relationship or love?

Well, today I am here to tell you that, actually, there is no such thing as "half a miracle".

We are going to have a closer look at miracles themselves, but the first important thing to keep in mind is that most of the time, Crowley and Aziraphale are incredibly unreliable narrators and have barely any inside into how heaven and hell work. Remember, they have been on earth since 4004 BC, they are certainly not used to any of the internal routines and functions.

They can tell us all kinds of things, but that does not make them true.

Now, miracles!

Both angels and demons are capable of performing them, though they only seem to be counted as actual miracles when they happen on earth, seeing as they measured in Lazarii.

One Lazarus equals the miracle power it takes to bring one human being back to life—the consequence is that miracles must be bound to the earthly plane, since that is where their unit originated from. When they are performed in heaven or hell, they are still miracles in a broad sense—celestial beings using their powers—but not in a way that ascribes to the measuring system.

Neil once answered an ask about Lazarus as a unit, and he stated that miracles tend to be measured in Centi- or Millilazarii (mostly the latter), meaning that the GHM was about 1000x as strong as your usual, daily miracle. The labeling also tells us that the scale for Lazarii is the same as the metric one.

If we treat Lazarus as a base unit, we need to find a way of defining it that is unique to this specific unit.

Globally, we have a collection of agreed-upon base units, the SI units (coming from the French Système international d'unités, aka International system of Units). Those seven are second, metre, kilogram, ampere, candela, kelvin, and mole, and every single one has a very specific definition—they are too bloody complex. None of them can be expressed with one of the other SI units, which gives you great definitions such as these:

A little excursion for those that are interested: For a very long time, the kilogram was defined by. well. A cube. The "true kilogram", which is still in a vault somewhere in Paris. However, you can probably imagine why basing a unit on a physical objects isn't a great idea long-term, so back in 2018, the kilogram was redefined, along with three other units.

Now, all SI units are defined by natural constants, not physical objects, making them accurate and (more or less) absolute.

Back to miracles!

The reason I am telling you all this is that we need to find such a basic definition for miracles, too, or at least an approximation.

My proposal is that a miracle itself is the force exerted on matter by a a celestial being. That force is then measured in Lazarii, with one Lazarus being equal to the force required to bring one person back to life. This is where it gets a bit tricky because how do you visualize that kind of force?

Matter cannot be destroyed only created, so all the particles currently making up our bodies will continue to exist long, long after our deaths. Meaning when a person dies, the amount of matter that was them is still there, the consequence of which is that their body can be recreated at will. Now, souls seem to be separate from matter, making them metaphysical and thus irrelevant for this conversation. I am going with the assumption that once a body has been recreated, the soul can be put back into without additional cost in miracle power.

There might be another base unit hidden in the metaphysical, but that's a conversation for another time.

All of this amounts to one fundamental hypothesis:

A miracle is either done, meaning matter gets changed, or it isn't, meaning matter remains unchanged.

There is no in-between stage here, a "half-change" is not possible, either you exert a force on particles or you don't. What kind of change that is might not be tangible for us, but a change is a change.

When Crowley and Aziraphale try to hide Gabriel, they change the way he gets perceived, how others perceive him, aka they change the way his presence is processed.

The closest thing to compare it to, in my opinion, is the superior mirage—the Fata Morgana. At its core, it means that light bends as it passes through air layers with different temperatures; your eyes perceive the bent light rays and your brain processes them accordingly. You see images that aren't actually there.

Celestial beings look at Gabriel but see something that isn't actually there, so the "true" image remains hidden.

If we stick to this metaphor, then Crowley creates a mirage for any ethereal beings, and Aziraphale creates one for occult beings. The creation of that mirage is one miracle—not half a miracle, but ONE singular miracle. Both of them change matter, and both of these miracles can exist independently of each other.

Crowley and Aziraphale could have created their mirages on their own, meaning that two miracles were performed, not two halves of one miracle.

If you listen to the sound of the miracles, you can hear that it's different from the other ones they have performed on their own, with the "combined" miracle having two sound peaks instead of one. Tumblr hates it when I upload audio files, so have it like this.

In order, the miracles are Aziraphale lowering the chandelier and moving the shelves, Crowley removing the paintball stain, and the GHM.

IF they had both performed half a miracle, the end result would have been one miracle, meaning it should have sounded like any other—but it didn't! Two connected sounds, two simultaneous miracles.

There is still one thing left to talk about, which is the power of their miracle. Here is where my previous definition of Lazarus as a unit comes into play again.

Heaven measured a miracle power of 25 Lazarii aka a very high amount of force exerted on matter. You might think Alex, if they both performed their own miracle, how come that the alarm bells rang?

If we keep up the mirage metaphor, we can explain that! Crowley's intention was to make it so that ethereal beings cannot perceive him, so his miracle changed matter in a way that aligns with ethereal perception.

However, Aziraphale intended to change matter so that occult beings cannot perceive Gabriel, meaning his miracle changed matter in a way that is adapted to occult perception.

This is where science comes into play again!!

You see, particles aren't just particles, they are waves too. Wave-particle duality describes exactly that, e.g. an electron being both a particle and a wave at the same time. A connected theory to that is the Uncertainty principle, which describes the inability to measure the exact value of two different properties at the same time.

Or, to put it more plainly, if you try to figure out the exact position of a particle, its momentum becomes blurred, unclear. If you then focus on the momentum of the same particle, you can no longer describe its exact position.

You are probably looking at me now, thinking where the fuck are they going with this and why are there suddenly so many principles of quantum mechanics in a Good Omens meta post???

Crowley changes matter in way A.

Aziraphale changes matter in way B.

Those changes can co-exist, like an electron being a particle and a wave at the same time. However—and this is scientific theory adapted to celestial miracles—when an angel looks at Gabriel, then they are focusing on state A. When demons are looking at Gabriel, they are focusing on state B.

Focus on A and B becomes blurry. Focus on B and A becomes blurry.

Maintaining that double-state requires power though, because compared to wave-particle duality, these states aren't natural, they're inflicted—matter was changed. It's like the matter around Gabriel is flickering between those two states, a light switch trying to find a neutral position when there is only on and off.

How do we measure that power? In Lazarii.

The miracle energy that heaven measured is not that high because they each performed half a miracle and combined it into one, it is that high because they each performed one miracle that stands in opposition to the other; as a result, two different states need to be maintained at the same time, meaning the manipulation is ongoing, meaning it needs a fuckton of power.

If you want to keep balancing your light switch, you need to keep trying, you need to keep up the pressure, otherwise you either click it off or on. Same thing with the hiding miracle.

Twenty-five Lazarii.

The power you need to exert on matter to reshape twenty-five people—or to continuously hide one being from two opposing observers with rapidly-switching state changes.

While I think the whole "it's because of love" theory is fun and cute, scientifically it really doesn't make much sense because their powers have rules similar to our base units, so me must approach and treat them as such.

With that, thank you to everyone who made it this far and managed to survive our little excursion into the field of quantum mechanics.

Questions, thoughts, additions, etc. are very welcome!

[halucynator]

hii love, could you write a mattheo riddle x reader fic based on the song someone will love you better by Johnny Orlando where reader and her bf (maybe Draco? Idk you can choose) fall out of love and reader falls for mattheo instead. Draco realises this and breaks up with them so they can get with Mattheo. thanks!

Someone will love you better

Hope this is to your liking xx

Part 2

Pairing: Mattheo Riddle x fem!reader/draco malfoy x fem!reader? (ish)

Summary: draco and reader fall out of love as draco realises the reader fell in love with mattheo.

A/n: The red italic writing are the lyrics xx the green text is extra stuff I put in because it felt smarter to do that than pile it all up at the top. It's kinda long xx idk the word count bc I have no idea how to figure it out bc I'm an idiot help pls 😭 I'm kinda happy with how this turned out :))

Warning: angst angst angst, kissing, unrequited love, shouting (kinda), mention of periods, not proof read, lmk if I missed any

Reader is Slytherin bc let's be honest draco prolly wouldn't date anyone who wasn't whether it was because of his father or just him. Theo and reader are best friends.

You and your friends were in the Slytherin common room. It was pretty much empty apart from some other students that lingered there. Your head was on Draco's lap. Just like everyday. Except the feelings weren't the same anymore. The spark was gone. The butterflies that you used to feel every single time his skin made contact with yours, even if it was an accidental touch, were gone.

You'd known Draco ever since you were in year 3 and you'd fallen in love with him ever since. So of course when Draco asked you out, you said yes.

It was perfect.

It was the greatest romance that sent a lightning strike to your heart.

(The orange text is an alteration I made in the lyrics to suit the text. )

Your mind that used to be on Draco was now occupied with thoughts of a certain brunette boy.

Where did it go, you asked yourself. We would slow dance, in the headlights in the parking lot, you told yourself, reminiscing the good times you had with Draco.

But as Draco held your waist now, all you could feel was guilt. There was no chance of ever falling apart. But you've noticed, that I'm here but I'm so far. Those were the thoughts that clouded your mind as you stared into the blonde boy's eyes.

You hoped he didn't realise. But sooner or later you'd have to tell him.

"Theo I have to tell Draco! I can't bear lying to him anymore." You told your best friend, Theodore, as you burst into his dorm. He was the only one who knew about your crush on Mattheo and also your best friend. He'd figured it out by himself, but in all fairness, you didn't shut up about Mattheo around him.

"Are you crazy?! Just yesterday Draco was going on about how loyal and perfect you were for him! You should've done it sooner! You can't drop that bombshell on him now! You have to wait!" Theo said, calmly. (im sorry I had to)

"But I've been running from the sun but I've got nowhere left to hide. Every night, I close my eyes and wish I was still in love. Trying to fight at war with my mind, it's gonna kill me to give him up. He's eventually gonna find out!" You reasoned.

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"Hello love." Draco exclaimed as he saw you enter the great hall.

Your heart was heavy. You didn't want to hurt him, but the truth would be better than emotionally cheating on him, and, eventually, physically cheating on him.

Darling this is gonna hurt. No, I won't regret it. 'cause I loved you first, but someone will love you better. You repeated those words inside your head as you looked into his eyes trying to console yourself that you were doing the right thing telling him the truth.

"Have I ever told you how beautiful you are?" Draco asks you, looking at you with lovesick eyes.

You blushed slightly. Draco was known to be mean to people, so, him giving you the special treatment made it hurt even more to tell him the truth.

You share a "I can't do this" look with Theo. As a response, Theo gives you a "I told you so" look which makes you roll your eyes.

You look at Draco and the following words fill your head:

Last time I hold you, just cause you needed heart to console you, when I can't give you reasons.

Draco goes to hold your hand seeing that you looked nervous. His touch makes you tense up. You hope he doesn't notice. But he does. He noticed the time you rejected his kisses which you used to love. He noticed the time you were in a hurry to leave. He noticed everything despite your efforts in hiding them.

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You went to your dorm early as the rest of your group stayed in the Slytherin common room. You weren't, however, aware of the conversation that happened after.

"I think there's something wrong with y/n" Draco says, not realising how passive aggressive that statement sound. Everyone one in the common room stared at him. Only then did he realise how wrong that statement sounded.

"I mean like- like she isn't feeling well." Draco corrects.

"Why's that?" Pansy asks.

"Well, she flinches at my touch and refuses my kisses!" Draco responds.

"I think there might just be something wrong with you." Lorenzo states matter-of-factly.

Pansy smacks his arm.

"ow!" Lorenzo exclaims.

"Anyways, it's clear she's not in love with you anymore." Pansy says.

"OR she's just tired or sick. Or maybe she's- she's on her period!" Theo says trying to make up an excuse to save your ass.

"You're not wrong." Pansy replies. "Us girls do tend to get mood swings on periods."

"You should read her mind. You know since you're a legilimens." Lorenzo suggests.

"That's not a bad idea." Draco says.

"NO- I mean, no. That's idea sucks. You're violating her privacy." Theo replies.

"I guess but you gotta do what you gotta do." Pansy says.

Theo couldn't say anything anymore in the fear of them getting suspicious.

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"Hate that love can be a thing you lose. There's nothing him or I could do. We were fools to fall! And it's nobody's fault, no." You barged into Theo's dorm yet again.

"Good to see you too." Theo said, scared by your entrance and slightly frustrated at the lack of introduction or even permission.

You death stare him annoyed at his priorities.

"Anyways, you should break up with him" Theo says, noticing your death stare and being slightly intimidated.

"Well, yeah! No shit Sherlock! But it's too fucking hard. He's making it too fucking hard!" You exclaim.

"if you're not going to break up with him, you could atleast pretend to be in love with him" Theo says.

"what?" You ask raising an eyebrow.

"he's suspicious. says you refuse his kisses and flinch at his touch."

You stand there silent, not realising how Draco paid extreme attention to detail.

Fuck. This was bad.

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You woke up the next day and entered the Great Hall. You walked over to your friends. That's when you noticed the looks on everyone's faces.

Theodore gave you a worried look. Disappointment plastered Draco, Blaise and Pansy's face. And Mattheo had a... shocked look on his face?

Draco hit you with the classic "we need to talk."

Was he going to break up with you? You felt sad but if he was then you wouldn't have to feel guilty about breaking up with him. You wondered what the reason could be.

Draco and you walked out of the Great Hall and into the barely filled corridor.

"What's wrong?" You asked. Anticipation hung in the atmosphere.

"Why didn't you tell me." Draco said. It sounded like a statement more than a question.

"what?"

"that you like my cousin, Mattheo."

Your breath caught in your throat. He knew. But how? Your mind wandered to a certain chestnut haired boy. No, he wouldn't. Theodore would never.

"how did you-"

"it doesn't matter."

"yes it does! Who told you?" You asked feeling betrayed, but by no one in particular.

"I found out myself. I- I read your mind."

"What?! Do you know how violating that is?" You asked half-shouting.

"Well, I am so sorry that you aren't satisfied with me! I had to find out why you were acting weird!" Draco says, joining in on the shouting.

Guilt clouded your mind.

"Look, Draco i- I've been running from the sun but I've got nowhere left to hide. Every night I close my eyes and wish I was still in love. Trying to fight at war with my mind, it's gonna kill me to give you up!" You begun. "Darling this is gonna hurt. No, I won't regret it. Because I loved you first. But someone will love you better"

It felt good to tell him the truth, but that feeling was replaced by guilt when you say the look on Draco's face.

"I loved you. I can't control who you love but I really did try my best." Draco said, his voice cracking.

"lt wasn't your fault." You replied. "it was mine. I am sorry. I hope we can be friends."

No response. Ouch, that hurt.

"Does Mattheo know?" You asked Draco.

He nodded.

Your cheeks flushed. Mattheo knew. To say you were embarrassed would be an understatement.

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Thanks for reading! I prolly will make a part 2 x lmk if I should xx hope you enjoyed reading it 💞

Also if anyone can tell me how to establish word count, it will be a huge help! I feel stupid lmao.

[bananami]

18+ | mdni

constantly thinking about hawks x reader with a penelope and morgan dynamic from criminal minds bc tell me that’s not exactly how hawks would be

like let’s say you work at his agency as his personal secretary or something and at first everyone is so confused as to whether the two of you are an item or not because you’re constantly flirting but they’ve never seen it go beyond that

and yes, instead of babygirl he calls you things like baby bird (idc if u don’t like it i think it’s kinda cute ok stfu), dove, love bird, etc etc

the first time he met you was when u were first starting out as his new secretary and he just thought u were adorable and was feeling a little flirty and at first it was a joke (not a joke now btw the man has fallen in love with you, how could he not? i mean look at you) but you met his jabs and comments head on and he loved every second of it

so now you call him things like chicken, peacock, big bird, and other very obnoxious and not cute things (although most of your nicknames are not cute your inappropriate and very not HR friendly comments never cease to fluster him)

he’s down so bad, sometimes he’s so happy you’re usually flirting with him over his comms because he’ll turn so red at some of your comments

he’ll be flying up in the air and will call you to have you look up the guy he’s tailing

"hey babybird, I need all the info you can give me on this guy's quirk"

"what do I get in return?"

"careful now, dove, or I might have to punish you"

"oh, I'm so scared"

"be a good girl and help me out here. and maybe I'll bring you back a little treat, huh?"

that treat is kfc, you definitely smacked him after that. but he brought you starbucks the next day to make up for it and you drank that $6 drank and made him get you another after lunch just to be a brat

honestly everyone is so lost and awkward around the two of you. ya'll are an HR nightmare. worst thing that's probably happened was when hawks answered the phone around endeavor and you just

"talk dirty to me"

hawks dumbass just :o *clears throat*

endeavor just stood there like -_- and had to be like "...this is pro hero endeavor...."

yeah you hung up

hawks has never let you live that down

you are nowhere to be found when endeavor visits the agency

ok and yeah the flirty moments are cute and all but the soft moments

bye

thinking about the episode where morgan gets shot but its hawks instead and you're just so worried

"what happened they said you were shot?!"

"i got shot in my bullet proof vest babybird, i'm fine"

"why would they shoot you?!"

"i'm assuming because i'm a hero and they were a villain...but i could be completely off base with that one"

"...next time they better finish the job."

"oh you don't mean that! like you could live without your work husband. who would buy you food and stare at you shamelessly when you wear those pants that make your ass look-"

"this is workplace harassment"

and when you see a large scale hero and villain fight break out on the news on your day off and hawks is nowhere to be seen by the end of it and you keep calling and he won't pick up and you're rushing to the agency to find out what you can worried out of your mind, all of your colleagues confused bc if anyone knew where he was it would be you, if he would call anyone to tell him he was alright you would be the first and they're sure of it

and it's not until you hear the soft little "babybird" behind you that you're spinning around and running into his arms and he's holding you tight, apologizing because he lost his phone in the fight and he stopped at your place first to check on you and let you know he was ok but you had left your place to check on him and!!!

ok but flirty moments seriously

"hey lovebird, don't tell me you've forgotten about me after working a single mission under eraserhead"

"i WISH i was under shota"

"did you just first name eraserhead?"

"DILF"

"he's not even a dad"

"i would offer to make him one so quick"

"that's it, no more lending you out to other agencies, clearly you can't behave yourself"

he gets chicken nuggets for the both of you for lunch one day and you just stare at him until he's like wtf do u want

"is this technically cannibalism for you?"

"why are you like this?"

"i just want to know because you're like a bird eating another bird, you know?"

"i'd eat you given the chance, what does that make me then?"

you choke on your sprite "a whore"

BONUS:

you fall asleep at the agency and he finds you working late too so he picks you up and carries you to his office and lets you sleep on his couch he has for when he's working long hours

sometimes you sleep talk, mumbling things like love and keigo and birdbrain

and he just smiles and kisses you on the forehead

bc he's very much in love with you and very patient in waiting for you to maybe hopefully love him back

[seraphtrevs]

Do you have some favourite analyses about Lalo ? (From you or others)

Do I ever!

Lalo is Gay

And I don't mean "can be interrupted as gay" or "the straights wrote a gay character without realizing it", both of which are fine reasons to say a character is gay.

But I mean actually written on purpose gay. Lalo and Gus are written as foils who are superficially different - calculating/spontaneous, orderly/chaotic, serious/playful.

But if you look a little closer, they have a lot in common. Both have no personal life outside the game. Both are playing 5D chess while everyone else is playing checkers. Both are loners who trust almost no one. Both don't flaunt their wealth. Both are motivated by devotion to a loved one.

They're so alike, in fact, that they can almost read each other's minds - Lalo immediately knows who got him sent to jail and who sent the assassins after him, even though he didn't have proof. Gus never believed for a second Lalo was dead, even though every scrap of evidence pointed to it being the case, including a corpse matching Lalo's dental records. Lalo knows Gus tapped the phone. Gus knew Lalo was headed for the lab.

So - although different at first glance, their essential natures are the same. Gus is gay, ergo...

And there are context clues pointing to his sexuality. He's a confirmed bachelor despite the fact that he should be having kids to carry on the family dynasty. He declines the opportunity to have sex with a woman, even though there were very practical reasons for him to have sex with her. Being invited into her home and poking around once she was asleep would have been easier than breaking in, but he chose to hide in the bushes. Plus, he forces Nacho to elope with him.

Will we ever get confirmation? Probably not. But I'm a legit truther on this

Lalo is Satan

Mira -

It's the same picture.

Lalo tempts Jimmy into selling his soul to him, which he later comes to collect. And as I've talked about probably too much, Nacho is very explicitly a Christ figure. Lalo tries to tempt Nacho with power and wealth, but Nacho is never tempted. They really are Cartel Satan and Cartel Jesus, and I love that that ties them together

Lalo is an anti-protagonist

Which is a term I just made up. He's not an antihero - that would be Jimmy. It's just that he hijacks the narrative whenever he shows up. He has a very protagonist-like story - Gus and Nacho are the ones who are sabotaging him, when all he wants to do is protect his family. Assassins are sent to his home, and he defeats them single-handedly. He is betrayed by someone he trusted - someone who he has always treated well and genuinely liked.

But he's not a protagonist! He's a villain, who does very villainous things! On the Insider Podcast for the Black and Blue episode (I think), one of the writers mentions how much she roots for Lalo when he's away from the lead characters. He's written for you to root for, and then feel weird about rooting for.

He's the embodiment of Chuck's final, terrible advice to Jimmy - if you're going to do bad things, don't bother feeling guilty about it. And he only shows up once Chuck is gone. Does Chuck really want Jimmy to be like Lalo? Is Kim's "ends justify the means" attitude in season 6 warranted? How much does motive matter?

@lalo-tellmeagain - we were talking about his blue shoes - I don't have any production notes on this or anything, so this is just my personal interpretation. But blue is the color of the good guys in BCS. Lalo's blue shoes are ironic.

[bitchfitch]

Stained glass tutorial bc the birds are good for it.

The tldr with more resources and a few video tutorial links is here (link)

this is our target and this is our pattern:

if you're wondering why I'm just handing out the pattern to a piece i plan on selling, the answer is because all stained glass pieces are their own pattern. By posting the image of the piece i already gave you the pattern to it.

What you need:

1 sheet of printer paper,

scissors,

glue stick or a washable marker that works on glass,

grozier pliers,

curved jaw pliers,

glass cutter,

flux and something to apply it with,

60/40 acid free solder,

copper tape,

gloves,

eye protection,

soldering iron with stand and rheostat,

water proof sand paper or waterproof nail file,

black patina or black acrylic paint,

some kind of heat proof surface to work on. I use asphalt coated compressed fiber board because it was cheap and easy to get at the hardware store

a well ventilated area to work in. or a table set up outside, which is the most well ventilated area you probably can access without a key card to a chemistry lab.

finally: 1+ panes of translucent/cathedral glass.

if something is not pictured in the below image it's because getting it meant fighting my cord management or standing up to go get it. The white waffle grid thing is not necessary. It just makes clean up easier so I'm using it and also i was too lazy to move it. a box of nails is pictured, they are also helpful but also not necessary. especially if you are not using something you can easily push them into as a work surface

I'm just using my normal glasses for eye protection, you don't need anything super fancy but you do need something to stop any flying shards.

Anyways. Soldering and finishing is in a reblog of this. i needed more pictures than you can put in a single Tumblr post

Step 1 Pattern Prep

print your pattern out. once if you are just going to use a marker to copy it onto your glass, twice if you are going to glue it down to use that way.

you may notice my pattern is backwards. That's because i printed it out wrong and can't be fucked to go fix it. Anyways.

Number your pieces in the same order on both copies if you are using the glue method, for such a simple pattern it's not uber necessary but it's a good habit to get into. Larger and more complicated pieces rapidly become broken glass jigsaw puzzles if you don't.

Step 2 putting the pattern on the glass

the way you make the glass the right shape is by using a glass cutter, that bronzy thing with all the tape around the barrel to make it easier for me to grip. the way it works is it holds a very thin metal disk that you press into the glass to introduce a fault line the glass will hopefully want to break along. I said hopefully for a reason.

All cuts have to go from one edge of the glass to the other because that's what the crack will do when you break it. Keep that in mind while you lay down your pieces. I've used a marker to show how i plan to cut this pane but unless you're doing a tricky cut order you don't really have to do that

I'm using what i have on hand so how you lay your pieces out will probably be different if you've bought whole panes to work with. This is a much more wasteful way of doing it than i normally would, but the goal with this one was to produce a piece that doesn't require a glass grinder as those are an expensive thing to get when you're just starting out.

Also plan to cut on the Less textured side of the glass, the texture can get in the way. if you would like the texture to be on the front of your finished piece simply glue your pieces upside down onto the smoother side. also know that less textures glass is easier to use

I didn't have any more of that darker grey blue so I'm using a light bluish lavender piece instead. it looks brown because of the the yellow underneath it

step 3 cut the glass

take a piece of preferably translucent glass and practice this step a few times before doing it on your project.

Press the wheel at the end of the stylus firmly against the glass at one edge, the keep pressure as you push or pull your line. you will know if you're using enough force because clear glass makes a very specific noise when it's being scored. I can't describe it but you'll know it when you hear it. you'll also be able to see the score line from some angles, it should look like a very fine crack in the glass. I've also heard it described as "like a white hair has been set on top of the glass". do not stop, lift your cutter, or go backwards over the scorline you have already made. The crack is a Lot more likely to go off course and destroy your piece if you do.

do only one line at a time before using the grozier pliers to break the glass.

there should be a line on the silicone protector things on the edge of you pliers, hold them so that that mark lines up with your score line and apply pressure , start light and slowly increase until it begins to crack. If the crack immediately runs the whole length of the pane then your done, if it doesn't, rotate the pane and do the same thing on the other edge of the glass until it starts cracking from there too. if it Still doesn't meet in the middle help it along by tapping along the uncracked part of the score line with the tip of your pliers handle until the crack finishes the job. If it's a very long straight one you can also use the edge of a table to encourage the crack to form in the right place.

if the crack decides to go off your scorline just finish breaking that score line and then peel off your pattern piece and reposition it to try again. if you used something like an Elmer's glue stick you can reactivate the glue with a Small amount of water dabbed over the pattern piece with your finger.

Once you have most of the glass broken off use your curved jaw pliers to very carefully nip away at any extra bumps. like half a millimeter at a time, don't just bite into a big chunk, itll shatter the piece. The flat side of the jaws is used to leverage the piece against to break it that way. it's helpful to pick an orientation for your pliers and just commit to always holding them like that. with the flat jaw either up or down. It'll help you build the muscle memory and learn to use them faster.

enjoy your pile of broken glass and dream about the grinder that wouldve made this easier.

Step 4 grinding deburing.

use your water proof file or sand paper to to knock any little bits of broken glass off. it is Vitally important that you do this with the file Wet. glass dust likes to float on any little draft and it's Super not good for your eyes lungs throat or nose.

You can also take the time now to refine the shapes and sand off any little nubbins that are in the way.

once you're done use a little dish soap to remove the pattern and any grease or glue left on the piece. if you need to re number the pieces.

Step 5 Foil

foil comes in a handful of sizes, and in silver, black, and copper backed. The sizes determine how thick your leading will be, thinner foil, thinner lines. With art glass or very textured glass you may need to go up a few sizes to make it fit. The color on the back will be visible through clear glass so you might want to pick one that vibes with your colors. I'm using what i had, so i don't actually know the thickness. It is copper backed tho.

take your piece and your roll of foil and place the edge of the piece in the center of the tape so that there's an equal amount of hangover on either side. then carefully roll your piece to wrap the edges in tape. being sure to keep it centered the entire way around. when you get back to where you started let the tape overlap itself by at least a quarter of a centimeter or like 1/8th of an inch. then cut the foil.

use your fingers to smooth the foil down over either side of the glass. and then the handle of your scissors or any hard plastic object to firmly press out any creases in the foil. The smoother you can get it the better. because that will make the solder sit flatter.

use the second/primary copy of your pattern for reference and lay out your pieces on top of it. If you're using nails and and a softer work surface you can press them into it around the edges of your pattern to keep the pieces from shifting. for a piece as simple as this it's not necessary but it still might help.

Soldering is next up but I'm posting from mobile and have an image limit to keep in mind. so that will be posted as a reblog in a bit.

[bauhausdog]

i feel weirdly energetic for some reason, (◕‿◕) so im gonna talk about something in my mind a bit.

basically, i think that "learn the rules before you break then" and both "shape language is real, triangle can indicate danger" and "shape language isn't real, look at all these square characters, they have nothing in common" are kinda flawed and highlights what i think its a deeper problem on how we tackle art theory as a whole. Also, i think appeal is subjective and that, actually ugly or "unappealing" things have value.

skip to the star emoji if you just want to read my main point

I don't like how the drawing fundamentals are treated as a single canon, i personally don't believe in a single canon on, uh... pretty much anything, perception, even though there's quite a lot of objective ideas in it (like how lenses work, ambient occlusion, anatomy, etc.), that doesn't mean the way we make those connections and create theories based on them is objective and silver bullet proof. To make my point a bit clearer, I'm specifically talking when people refer to the "fundamentals" as the rules, to further sharpen my point of view, i rarely, if ever, believe in rules in art. To exemplify of what i mean, let's immerse a bit in the world of... uh.. renaissance era, although it would be delightful to rant about centralizing "art" as "beauty and skill" and those as whatever western society at the time thought it was good, i am not and i dont want to make a comparison of bigoted "beauty" guidelines to "uhmmm, not so objective aesthetics" guidelines, but i do want to use a specific pattern of thought in it.

Ok, so, (at least the art we known) from that era looks kinda the same right, that's because they had a somewhat set of ideas and values of what made "something pretty", and "good art", that is, realism = good. Ok, then let's say you, fellow artist, wake up in bed, and decide to read a hypothetical "art rules" book and decide to compare it to the "good art", you see how you should structure the steps of a drawing, how you should apply anatomy, how you should render shit, and so on. "golly gee, that's a bunch load of rubbish if i ever seen one" You might say, but you take another look at your 1500 deviantart gallery book, all of the popular mainstream artworks seem to have followed these steps, right? But there's something missing,

Here's a question, how do you make something new then? art right now doesnt look like reinassaince that much anymore. You might say "oh break the rules", im gonna get to that part, put that in the back of your head. Ok, so, how do you create something new? how would you create artwork? if you were trained like those famous painters, you would probably just follow their steps and mindset, and create similar artwork, but can you break the pattern while upholding restrict art guidelines? imo you can't

"bauhausdog, what does this have to do with cannons?" shhhhhh... im gonna get to that part.

So, art history taught us that, in a nutshell, people just ducked around and finded out, breaking that rigid art canon piece by piece, although it's worth noting that a lot of it was also ideological, but i want to shine a spotlight on the art part of this phenomenon, "art should have realistic colors" lol no, fauvism, "art represents reality" lol no, surrealism, "art should be realistic" lol no, modernism, "art should not be realistic" lol no, naturalism.

people broke that weird rigid old canon, and people learned that they could make new things bc of this experimentation.

Alright, let's tie evertyhing together so far, in the modern day, we have taken a lot of lessons based on these art movements, we absorved a lot of stuff, we have knowledge of almost everything, our process of drawing, our way of arting, our 'artstlye', is super varied, there is a lot of elements at our disposal, we can be as realistic as we can, as cartoonish as we can, we live in the same timeline as tawog and everything everywhere all at once, shows that mix different methodologies, philoshopies of art in one motion picture.

excuse my "middle-upper class got out of art school trust fund guy" term here, but we do live in a hypermodern reality, this is super, super cheesy, but it is everything, all at once :PPP.

Now, let's wrap the previous question, how do you create new stuff? experimenting, literally thinking outside, inside, and about the box, that box being our conception of art, also, the way we conceptualize art is super importqant, i mean, its literally the way our little heads organize what is a art and how do you art a thing.

"bauhausdog, you said something 30 minutes ago about the back of the head", ok, so, to talk abut how we conceptualize art, let's talk about, well, the thing. Until now, my thesis isn't breaking any new ground, i'm not proposing a solution, or at the very least pinpointing a problem, well, i can kill the rest of the birds with just a single stone, a quote stone.

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"learn the rules before you break them", it seems reasonable at first, let's break down the phrase, "learn the [rules](...)" what is this "rules"?, well, it's the general notion of art fundamentals, "(...) before you "break" them", what breaking means, exactly? well, if we take fauvism, fauvism was about subverting naturalistic rendering as the "correct pretty" standard, fauvism is basically messing with colors, duck around, find out. This distinction is important to make, in my interpretation, "breaking" is equal to that, experimenting outside a strict set of guidelines.

But wait, did you catch it? the weird connection with these two sentences, "learn this general set of rules, then you can experiment and get to your own conception of what art is", this sounds weirdly similar, where i've heard that before....

this is where it all comes together, follow me on this logic for a bit. Based on what I talked about the art movement argument, i said that previous experimentation (eg: modernism) lead to a better conception about art and its elements in general (eg: learning about abstraction and how to incorporate that on an artwork with modernism), the give-away here is that we build upon to a better and more comprehensive understandment. So, the contradiction to me is, if you need to learn and build upon a certain set of guidelines to then be able to do your own thing, there is something wrong with this set of rules.

To me it is just so weird that these rules just ignore that we live in a world of everything, why a "wrong" color palette is wrong? why airbrushed pillow shading is wrong?

and i'm not crucifying this one phrase, in my opinion, this is part of a wider acceptance of just this general "art guidelines" that you need to learn to improve.

What i am criticizing here is a generalized "art conceptualization canon" that fails to consider the subjectivity of aesthetics and caters to a mainstream type of art, and is tunnel visioned and doesn't teach art beyond the bite sized pieces of information.

I don't have a lot of examples to back this up, but what i do know is, there's no agreed upon, universal opinion on whats appealing or not, what works or what doesn't, what's true or what's not. The only example i will bring up is this. perfect perspective is bullshit, like, persperctive is the least broken rule here, perspective should not always be drawing straight lines converging trhough a point, honestly, freehand it, use your knowledge to distort it. "draw straight lines converging to a point" is a bit shallow

In my opinion, art should be taught in a more hollistic way even down to the little details, actually, i think it would be beneficial to teach a hollistic view in art as a whole, as in, the individual elements don't live in a vacuum. And also, there should be an emphasis on different aesthetic values (eg: naturalistic, western comic book, modernistic, eastern) and be mindful of the subjectfullness of aesthetics.

In conclusion, i think we should start refering to the general "fundamentals" as like, "post-modern western society's theory on illustration aesthetics" or in an actual serious manner something like "objective art theory". that's still a janked mess of a broken, but i would much prefer structuring things as like "perceptual color theory", "emotional color theory", "western color theory", instead of plain "color theory"

tldr: "art fundamentals" are a bit reductive, tunnel visioned and puts a single set of aesthetic values on a pedestal

also, a bit of a tangent, but i dont believe in a universal appeal at all, "dont shade with airbrush", "dont pillow shade" there's at least one human being that really, really likes the look of airbrush with a pillow shading look, just follow your art honestly, even if it is ugly, who cares, ugliness should be celebrated, not in the "not conventional" kind of way, i mean graffiti is beautiful, but i hated graffiti, acne looks pretty, but im still trying to unlearn to hate acne.

extra tangents: i think that color theory reflects certain aesthetic values and is not universal (dont have anything to prove but a suspicion), let people do random ugly shit for fun, "bad" art has value.

sorry if it doesnt sound coherent as much as i try to push my brain power my head feels foggy when i try to talk about something

I will add to this more later

[buzzcutmase]

So, I have a few thingssss so say 🙂‍↔️ I have way more but I can’t think straight

Down Bad is so catchy 💆🏼‍♀️

I understand everybody’s obsession with so long, London -hello, the lyrics??- but I would’ve loved it with a different music..? If that makes sense? 🥲 doesn’t slap like it could imho

Also thanK you aIMee - hahah 😂 “I don’t think you’ve changed much” ~ spot on! I think Cassandra also references KimK..?

And why is nobody talking about the alchemy? CUTE & CATCHY 😍

Black dog is about MH? The bridge is chefs kiss tho!

Fortnight has a kinda 80s vibe in terms of the music? 😌 Reminds me of a great 80s version of Adore You by Harry I found years ago on YT, btw!

I hate it here - “I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists. And getting married off for the highest bid. Nostalgia is a mind's trick. If I'd been there, I'd hate it.”

Love how shes romanticising “the good old days” whilst also heavily criticising doing so by pointing out the racism, sexism - ugh. Yes.

OK OK first of all i really love how you came to me with all this, i'm obsessed with it actually soooooo i'll use this as an excuse to give you all my thoughts on the whole album! (bare in mind i've not listened to the second part of the album yet because i've been busy today so i only had the chance to listen to the first part twice to understand the lyrics more!) 😌

fortnight: i completely agree with you on that one! it's such an 80s vibe and i love it, also the lyrics are soooo ugh! "i love you it's ruining my life" give her the grammy NOW!.. i do wish post malone featured more on it though bc i really like him and his music so!

the tortured poets department: LOVE! the chorus is soooo good! when the track titles got released i was actually most excited about this one bc i just couldn't think of how she would include a line like that into a song but obviously she made it work bc she's a mastermind :')

my boy only breaks his favourite toys: so catchy! so matty coded tbh so she ATE with that one!

down bad: SOOOOOOOOO CATCHY! it's such a banger tbh and so relatable like "fuck it if i can't have him i might just die it would make no difference" (makes me think of mase hehehe!)

SO LONG, LONDON: the perfect song to be the special track 5: heartbreaking and earth shattering like the lyrics make me cry ESPECIALLY the 3rd verse!!!! "you swore that you loved me, but where were the clues? i died at the altar waiting for the proof, you sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days and i'm just getting color back to my face. i'm just mad as hell cause i loved this place for so long, london. had a good run, a moment of warm sun but i'm not the one" UGHHHH! and knowing how much this means to her is soooo insane and i can see how you might've liked it with a different music but i actually think it's super fitting because it's the sped up beat like there is going to be a climax in the song somewhere but there isn't and the slow singing of the words kind of counteract it which was what taylor and joe's relationship felt like... like there would be a climax in the relationship with a wedding and babies but it never came and she spent all this time waiting just for it to be over in the end you know? :(

but daddy i love him: I LOVE how she adressed the fact that every single time she dates someone people on the outside who don't know shit about her personal life want to include themselves in it and give their opinion and i love how she wrote the song in a sarcastic fuck you way BUT since it's about matty i feel like most of the opinions on their relationship are justified bc of who he is and the things he said so i feel like most of us were just looking out for her in the way we were against it you know? like there were reasons why people hated them together so much. ALSO SHE NAME DROPPED ME??? EXCUSE ME TAYLOR???

fresh out the slammer: BANGER! the classic "came out of a heartbreak from a long term relationship and need a rebound for some time" LOVE!

florida: not too sold on it yet but i feel like i need to listen to it a few more times before i can really have an opinion on it 😌

guilty as sin?: i love this song so much. the vibe? the lyrics? i'm in love, it's so relatable aswell LIKE

who's afraid of little old me?: FAVOURITE SONG ON THE ALBUM! BY FAR! the way she wrote about the fame ruining her and her mental health and turning her into someone she never wanted to be is so fucking beautiful honestly like it's devastating but so beautifully written. and the first "who's afraid of little old me?" the way she's screaming it. YES YES YES. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

i can fix him (no really i can) : it's so sexy??? like the way she sings it and the lyrics? like she's so sexy like yes queen if anyone could change a man IT'S YOU!

loml: sooooooo heartbreaking and such a masterpiece... how it goes from love of my life to loss of my life... i'm going to CRY. i'm conflicted whether it's about joe or matty though... maybe both? i'm not sure but it's beautiful either way. 💔

i can do it with a broken heart: it feels like bejweled... but in a suicidal "i wanna die" but on crack way! it's so fun though??? like so sad how she had to put on a smile ever single night on tour even if she felt like shit but i'm so proud of her always for making it through and being happy now and i hope we as fans had a good impact on that too!

the smallest man who ever lived: again... conflicted who it's about but it's such a great song and whoever it's about will have to fucking deal with me soon bc HOW DARE YOU HURT HER LIKE THIS.

the alchemy: as you said SO CUTE SO CATCHY! so happy she found happiness with travis and it's all good now and she's healing from all the heartbreak and the hard times she faced the past year :( no one deserves happiness more than her! ❤️‍🩹

clara bow: LOVE LOVE LOVE! it feels like it's the second part of "the lucky one" if you know what i mean... and her singing about herself but not in the way she sang about clara bow and stevie nicks with them being heart capturing icons everyone loves but in a self depricating way... heartbreaking bc she sadly still think of herself as an imposter in all this but so beautifully written again. also taylor swift name dropping taylor swift on a taylor swift album???? INSANE. 🥺

SOOOO basically, i feel like this album was made from the deepest depths of taylor's mind written specifically for the people who get her and have been loving and supporting her for a long time... like there is no proper poppy single or song for the general public on there which is why i think so many people on social media have slammed the album and said she really missed the mark with this one but if you get it and if you understand the situations she sings about bc you've been thorugh them with her it's such a meaningful abum about her heartbreaks, mental struggles, struggles with fame and not feeling like real person but also about her healing journey and seeing the funny side of people having an opinion on your every move you know? i love her. i truly do. mastermind. ❤️‍🩹

WILL CHECK BACK IN AGAIN WHEN I LISTENED TO THE SECOND PART OF THE ALBUM! HEHE!

[golbrocklovely]

I will never understand why colby hangs out with brennen still.. do you think he knows about all the shitty things he’s done? what’s your view on all of it if you don’t mind sharing?

i've talked about this before, but i don't mind doing it again.

this might have some controversial takes in it, so just a heads up.

tw: all the shit brennen has done

so to answer your first question: do i think colby knows all the shit brennen has done? i'm gonna say not really.

he knows some of it, for sure. bc that man is always watching. but that doesn't mean he believes it, which is where the issue lies.

this is how i think colby sees all of the shit brennen has done (this is just my opinion/assumption so take it with a grain of salt): first and foremost, he's not gonna believe the sa allegations. the main reason is bc nothing ever came of the allegations. the girl that accused brennen of sa-ing her has completely disappeared off the internet (is it bc she most likely got hate from the b's fandom… yeah) and she never pressed charges against him. does that mean he didn't do anything? no. god knows the legal system does not favor victims, and conviction for rape is only 5% of the time, if that. so that doesn't mean b is innocent. but realistically, all of that not happening in a way "proved" it wasn't true. not to mention, when brennen finally did address the allegations, he claimed it never happened, he was being extorted, and that he was getting his lawyers involved. that, in itself, made him seem more innocent; bc he was going out of his way to prove he was.

the other stories of fans coming forward telling how b made them feel uncomfortable were all anonymous. that doesn't mean they didn't happen. but when there is no account connected to the story, ppl are gonna jump to the conclusion that whoever wrote it is lying. i mean, i deal with anons all the time. i've had anons come on here and say that their friend fucked colby. do i believe all of them? no. that's just the reality of the situation. ppl lie bc they want attention, so a lot of ppl (colby included possibly) are gonna see the anon claims and think "this is just someone that doesn't like brennen and is lying to get him in trouble."

but tied with this, colby knows brennen. he's not gonna believe random ppl online that tell him that one of his closest friends is doing xyz things. but that's the reality for everyone. if someone you didn't know told you your best friend sa-ed them, you're not gonna believe them at first. you know your best friend better than this random person, why should you believe what they have to say? and when your friends goes out of their way to persue their innocence, you're gonna believe them more.

also, the internet/fandom has BURNED any chance they had at telling colby what to do or who to ignore for his own benefit. for years, colby has been told constantly that every choice he makes is wrong and that he doesn't know what he's doing and he's a dumbass. fans have questioned every single thing colby has done by his own volition for years, and bc of that… he ain't gonna listen to us. we lost our opportunity to tell him how to live his life (not to mention, if he wants to be friends with someone that's "not good", that's his choice to make at the end of the day, even if we don't agree with it).

elijah daniels, someone who knew b, also told fans that b was very good at manipulating, so it's possible that to some degree he told colby "hey man, this is all bs. i've got all the proof. don't worry about me." and that was the end of the conversation.

as for some of the more recent shit b has done (like saying 'fuck biden', becoming more into guns, planning to move to nashville, listening to morgan wallen, becoming a born again christian, and making those comments on bud light)…. imma be real with you, colby does not pay attention to everything b does. we as fans can pay attention and hyperfocus on what he's doing, colby doesn't exactly seem like the type to have a lot of down time. especially now dealing with his cancer and chemo treatment. he's got more important things to worry about.

that being said… idk what b's next move is here. bc all of this feels like he's drifting to the conservative right. now, is it possible that these are all just one off moments and in reality b's not about to become a grifter for the right? sure. b has never been a swell guy. he's always had problematic takes. he constantly queerbaited for years and never apologized, he's constantly made comments about fucking his mom (which like… no one talks about enough), he has said problematic racist shit in the past, every single one of his exes hates him, and he's constantly said disrespectful shit about women and still does. the issue is that he doesn't act like this ALL the time, so these moments can go unnoticed for the most part to some ppl. it's possible he's just a douche, regardless of his political affiliation. the society we live in doesn't teach us to be nice to everyone. ppl have their bias and it's our job as adults to unlearn a lot of the problematic behavior, like racism, misogyny, transphobia/homophobia. and b has never really done that.

however, there have been a lot of influencers that have started to go to the right bc that's where the money lies. and the one thing b has been consistent about is views and making money. so it won't be surprising if he all of sudden becomes a conservative-right wing person.

the thing that i find funny about him doing that, if that's what he plans, is that he's gonna get fucked. he's a brown skin mexican man who for years did fruity shit with his friends and made MONEY off of it. and colby, tho i love him dearly, isn't exactly a manly man. so what's gonna end up happening is brennen will surround himself with ppl who secretly think he's gay (derogatory), who's pretending to be straight (or will never be straight enough), and then on top of that he's not white. not to mention he comes from a single mother household, so he's never had a male figure in his life (even worse, for some reason). and he lived in la for years, doing shit for views, and has never had a real blue-collar job. NO ONE WILL LIKE HIM. but at least he'll be making money, right? probably not. b doesn't exactly have a huge fanbase anymore. sure, there are a decent amount still around. but it ain't like the good ol days. so if he burns this bridge, he's fucked.

to relate all of this new shit back to colby, unless b is doing this shit loudly in front of colby, i don't exactly see him ending the friendship. if b goes full right wing, maybe. i mean, colby and big nik used to be close but once nik started spouting all that hateful shit using god's words, colby slowly iced him out. he still follows him, but they haven't interacted in years. colby at the end of the day is a sentimental person, but if he feels wronged or uncomfortable by you, he'll let you go. slowly, but it will happen eventually.

i don't exactly see colby and brennen's friendship standing the tests of time. b hasn't matured since vine, and colby has. colby is remorseful for the shit he's done wrong, and personally i don't think b even thinks he's done anything wrong. that doesn't mix well. and i just hope one day colby wakes up and realize that a friendship like b's isn't really worth it in the long run.

[theragamuffininitiative]

Sorry for barging in like this but I wanted you to know how happy I am to discover a fellow Adam 12 watcher ( and enjoyer) in the year 2023!!

If you don't mind sharing your thoughts, can I ask you, what made you love the show? Or alternatively, what would you tell someone to convince them to give it a chance..

Hello nonny!

You can barge in any time 😊 ESPECIALLY IF IT IS ABOUT ADAM 12 !!!! I saw this message this morning and have been thinking happily about answering it while I wait for my car to be serviced lol, so thank you for that. XD

This is going to be a ramble, so buckle up. I'll put a tldr at the bottom for anyone potentially interested but with a small attention span, scroll to that. XD

Ok so what initially made me love the show is actually how I was introduced to it by a dear friend who had already seen it and we started watching together as a way to spend time together. 💗 I knew one of the officers was named Pete and I made jokes about always falling in love with the crime-solving Peters (I also love White Collar, Fringe, [parts of] the first season of Body of Proof actually I just love that Peter and nothing else and they did him dirty but I digress, and we can even throw Spidey into the mix). So I figured I would be a goner from the start and I was Correct, nonny.

I had such a good time watching with my friend (we especially loved screaming about how Jim is a dear and Pete is amazing, and also obligatory yelled "hi Mac!" every time he appeared, and how we would go from lol-ing to sobbing in two seconds flat every episode) that when she was unable to continue watching with me (😭) I kept on to finish. While I would have preferred to watch it all with her, I'm so happy she introduced me to this absolute gem of television and storytelling.

Ok, so beyond that: things that made me love the show specifically and that I think others should appreciate and watch it for (MY BELOVED FOLLOWERS GO WATCH ADAM 12, see below for reasons)....

1! The biggest is the two main characters. I LOVE PETE AND JIM SO DANG MUCH. They are the best TV officers, and two of my favorite characters. Especially Pete. But I love Jim's growth (they both have such beautiful arcs through the seriesssssss aaaaa) too. I love how he brings joy back to Pete. I love how Pete grounds Jim. I love how they love one another??? I love how protective they are of each other. One of the best character friendship tropes ever is "they make each other better" and Pete Malloy and Jim Reed are an excellent example of it. My whole heart.

2! If someone reading this was turned off by the fact that it is a show about two police officers, fair, but LISTEN. I love me a good procedural drama (see some of the mentions above), I love me a good buddy cop story. But you know what I hate? I hate how every single cop show has the characters do things cops should never do. These shows have a Problem of having their heroes go in without a warrant bc "it's an emergency, we don't have time for the red tape!" and rough up suspects and they don't hesitate to draw and fire on someone, and they bend or break the rules when it suits them to Get the Job Done. It irks me. For many reasons. AND ADAM 12 ISN'T LIKE THAT.

Pete especially lives by the book. And he teaches Jim to do the same. As a fun example, someone asks them to deliver a Christmas tree in their patrol car and Pete says no bc it's against the rules. But who goes to get the tree when off duty in his personal car??? Pete Malloy, with Jim in tow. Pete also turns in a dirty cop who saved his life and it is Devastating to watch. They do everything the right way and the Very Few times they don't it is clear that they Messed Up and they have to eat the consequences. For Pete, I can think of three times throughout the course of all the episodes that he clearly goes wrong. One time he is distracted, one time he is trying to save a life and endangers his own, and one time is really painful involving a child victim and the perpetrator and it's hard to watch and I can't imagine many people who wouldn't have done what he did there but the show even Addresses This and Pete says anyone who did what he did would have been wrong too and he faces the consequences without argument. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH GUYS. There are a couple dirty cops and cowboy cops shown in different episodes and they are Always shown to be in the wrong, to be jeopardizing everything that they should be holding dear. Even Ed Wells, a regular character, is a guy you love to hate bc he pushes the rules as much as he can get away with and Pete and Jim give him nothing but crap for it. XD Bless them.

3! I love the pacing! The episodes are half your standard episode length, which is great (terrible) for binging through lol. There is zero filler. Sometimes you want just a tiny bit more filler but it's so good, they just go pop pop pop from call to call, with Pete and Jim's relationship always playing out in the middle of whatever mess they are dealing with. Later seasons focus on a single story usually, but most early episodes are glimpses of an average day in the life of an LAPD officer and they are Rollercoasters.

4! It is surprisingly sensitive for a show made in the 60s-70s. There are definitely a few episodes that are a bit cringe to more modern sensibilities, especially dealing with racism. However! The stories featured there are actually done really well for the most part, and the heart is in the right place even if some of the writing is an unfortunate byproduct of the era. Also you have to laugh at the hippie slang that heavily douses some episodes, especially early on. It's a riot lol.

5! The series shows you these cops doing cop things that nobody thinks about: giving notice to a young woman about her husband's death, assisting other emergency departments, acting as peacemakers between various complaints, looking out for misplaced people, manning the front desk and phone calls, trying to keep people safe more often than trying to put bad guys in prison. I adore that. I think if more cop shows focused on that narrative, we would have more cops today who saw that as the true hero work. The show also explains early on how they don't often get the full story. Detectives and hospitals and lawyers and family members come in to clean up whatever mess the boys had to step into, and it sucks sometimes, but the final product is not usually their job, and they just have to take each call as it comes.

I could go on but this is already so long.

TL;DR

If you like procedural dramas (or maybe even if you don't) you should really give Adam 12 a try. Give it the first three episodes at least and see what you think.

It's a story about two officers who really embody "protect and serve" instead of whatever belligerent cowboy nonsense is pushed by most crime shows.

Pete and Jim would die for each other. They would also die for any random person they come across who needs their help, bc it's their job. They would also do mundane acts of service for each other (while griping affectionately about it) and anyone else.

It has so much heart.

IT'S REALLY FUNNY. PETE AND JIM ARE SO SASSY.

Pete has spidey senses. They are brilliant. He might also have a photographic memory. It was mentioned once and then never again lol.

If you like "clean" media, there is very little swearing/innuendo/gore/etc. This does not make it Light viewing, but it isn't problematic.

It will rip your heart out. Especially the episodes where it's one of the boys in jeopardy. 😭 "Hostage" and "The Search" and "The Princess and the Pig" and "Killing Ground" and "Suspended" and "Trouble in the Bank" and "Operation Action" and the finale stories my beloved and beloathed to name a few.

It will restore your faith in humanity, particularly of officers, even while you facepalm about people's stupidity (sometimes including the officers).

It has a good ending! Not the most complete tie-up of loose ends, but [spoiler] you know these guys are gonna be ok, whatever comes next. So you feel the fulfillment in the ending.

Ok I'm done now.

I love Adam 12 so much.

Thank you for asking. 😭😭😭😭

[linabirb]

HELLO LINA!! 6, 7, 12, 21 for the violence ask game please and ty!!

HI HI TARU thank you for sending these! (i'm going to get executed after this)

6. "which ship fans are the most annoying?"

twst: *sighs and gets closer to the mic and whispers* malleyuu.

no listen. fine. okay. i get it. it's like the most popular mc ship. maybe the most popular ship in general. but. can y'all stop acting like it's canon at least for a second. it's one thing when you just go "oh they're cute and i think it's possible for them to become canon!" but it's a completely different thing when you go "THIS SHIP IS OBVIOUSLY CANON AND IT WAS WRITTEN TO BE CANON AND ACTUALLY THIS WHOLE GAME IS ABOUT THEM". and i say that as someone who actually liked this ship when i first got into the game but then i started to realize that i enjoy other ships much more and listen to each their own but i genuinely hate how people make such a big deal out of EVERY SINGLE INTERACTION. yes call me a hypocrite because i act the same when it comes to my ships but at least i do it either with my friends or alone and i'm not actually trying to make other people feel bad about their ships or something. sure, i want to believe that most shippers don't have a "goal" like that, but sometimes.. it really does feel like a lot of those posts are just there to say "btw these two are canon and i won't let you forget it". and like?? so many people like to just make things up to make it seem like it really is the superior ship like remember how we talked about that one bday vignette line and i went through all the bday vignettes to show that mc saying malleus looked good in that outfit wasn't special and it wasn't them being especially nice to him and they complimented other guys too but some people went "SEE THIS IS PROOF THAT THEY'RE CANON". like sure, whatever, do what you want, but idk?? maybe don't claim that mc is giving him "special treatment" or something when it's not the case.

milgram: i don't think this fandom talks that much about ships, but even when some people do, i don't really mind? like idk i haven't really seen any people like that yet so yeah.

7. "what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because of how the fandom acts about them?"

twst: HMMM this one is interesting because uhhh basically i started to hate pretty much all twst characters that i hate not bc of the fandom but simply because i don't like them? like i simply don't like those characters bc i either find them annoying, can't relate to them or i knew/know people like that irl and that makes me want to punch them even more. so yeah i don't think i have one! but if i already mentioned malleyuu. well. *gets closer to the mic again* malleus fans is this guy your uwu pure little soft baby or is this guy a cool powerful prince who doesn't even have to do anything because he's that cool. come on. come on yes i liked him too. yes i found him relatable too. but now i just really wanna say that. idk! maybe him not having any friends is kinda his fault! like this game tries so hard to make you feel bad for him it's embarrassing. it doesn't feel like a funny "haha get it he's based on maleficent" thing anymore. and i say that as someone who has anxiety and finds socializing extremely tiring and who doesn't have any irl friends. like sorry guys this is not your poor little meow meow and i am so tired of this fandom babying him and going "HE'S JUST LIKE ME FR" every time they see him. i'm not saying that finding him relatable is a bad thing bc i found him relatable too, but like. guys. please. again as someone who is also kind of a loner PLEASE. TALK TO PEOPLE. DON'T BE LIKE THIS MAN AND JUST GO "oh no nobody wants to talk to me :(" I KNOW HOW HARD IT CAN BE TRUST ME. i have so much more to say but i'll stop here bc sol's essay exists and it does a better job explaining it.

milgram: no characters here either bc i don't really have any character that i dislike or hate, like the worst thing that i can do is to just. not care about that character sjskslssdks and ngl. there's a lot of characters that i don't really care about

12. "the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them"

twst: *GRABS THE MIC* ONE DAY I WILL WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT WHY ROLLO UNIRONICALLY HAS MORE PERSONALITY THAN SOME "MAIN" CHARACTERS. listen. listen maybe it's just because i'm so tired of nrc characters that i need someone new. maybe. but the masquerade event really felt like a breath of fresh air and i will never shut up about it unless they make an event that is just as interesting. and twst has a lot of good events! ngl i actually kinda enjoy event stories more than the main story! but idk something about the masquerade is just. so. like they really gave us a whole new character (who is also voiced by hiroshi kamiya but also gets like two-three voicelines not counting the battle voicelines.), a whole new school, a whole new city, so much new lore, so much new worldbuilding-related stuff AND THEN JUST MOVED ON. I'M MANIFESTING PART 2 SO HARD. I WILL LITERALLY COME BACK TO WRITING FOR TWST JUST TO WRITE IT MYSELF IF WE DON'T GET ONE. (i'll be kinda ok with it if they make a halloween event that is just as fun but still..) but okay okay let me just. explain why i find this guy so interesting.

yes i also made fun of his design at first but now he's literally one of my fav characters to draw and not even bc i like him as a character. yes his outfit is extremely detailed and hard to draw but something about drawing it is so satisfying! also idk i love how tired and 😐 he looks bc dude same!! (i still don't know if he has dark circles or he wears eyeliner btw. i think he clearly has eyeliner in the trailer but in the actual game it's more like dark circles??)

i'm biased yes but the way he smiles is cute. like idk i think his smile is very soft :)

say what you want. say that he's manipulative because i agree this guy really did lie and really did betray everyone's trust, i'm not here to deny that, but i just want people to understand that this guy is not. like. as evil as they want to think he is. i'm not here to say that he's the kindest and most pure twst character or anything but i just want to say that if we don't count his goal and the way he tried to achieve it, it's clear that he really likes the city of flowers and he cares about it a lot, even if he's manipulative, he's very polite and nice to people, also based on what nbc students have said, he's a good student council president ("but he's just being manipulative-" AND SO WHAT?? BY BEING NICE (even if he's not sincere about it) HE'S ALREADY BETTER THAN MOST DORM LEADERS. RIDDLE (i say that as a huge riddle stan and apologist)?? LEONA?? AZUL (yes azul is also all nice and polite but let's be honest for a sec and admit that he's.. not really good at making it seem like he's not here for his goals or you know *mr.krabs' voice* FOR THE MONEY, basically it's obvious that he's not being honest, meanwhile with rollo, even if it's a lie, he actually makes people feel like he cares)?? NO SERIOUSLY I CAN GO ON JUST LOOK AT ALL THE DORM LEADERS except kalim. live laugh love kalim.

the fact that this guy is doing all the work, like taking care of the belltower, the gargoyles, etc, makes me cry every day. again, he really is doing more than some dorm leaders. and no, don't go "but (character name) did this thing once", like i'm pretty sure rollo does all those things every day.

listen. i'm gonna say it. when he was like "we should get rid of magic", i had that "the villain is kinda right" moment. because i'm sorry but twst is not really doing a great job at making us (or at least me personally) believe that magic can be good. like idk man. of course he should've done it differently, but i kinda think he was onto something. (wait oh no this sounds like a good fic idea-) i usually never agree with villains like that, but in this case.. idk, with all the overblots, people using their magic to do questionable things or to just be mean, etc..

have you seen me talk about T H E S C E N E on the server. wanna see me do that again. okay. AGAIN SAY WHAT YOU WANT. SAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO USE MC FOR SOMETHING. SAY THAT HE JUST HATES MAGIC USERS (which he does but that's not the point rn). BUT THAT ONE SCENE WHEN HE MEETS YUU SHOWS THAT HE'S ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS WHO ACTUALLY WENT "hey isn't that too much work for someone who's magicless" AND THAT'S ALREADY SOMETHING. i can say more but that will sound like i'm being biased (and i already sound like that) so i won't. NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I WANT ROLLO AND MC TO INTERACT AGAIN IN PART 2 SO BADLY. "oh yuu will just hate him" guess what. i've never said that i want their relationship to be all cute and soft. enemies to lovers IS GREAT.

a reminder that malleus himself acknowledged that this guy's magic is really strong and that he's very talented. HE SOMEHOW BROUGHT BACK THE FLOWERS THAT WENT EXTINCT. (again a good fic idea-)

i can say something about the nrc characters too but tbh all of them have a fanbase so i don't think i can say much. i could say something about the rsa characters and i love them but i'm gonna be honest.. they really should give us more rsa content. give me a whole rsa event. do it cowards.

milgram: again, all characters have their fans, so i can't say that anyone there is unpopular, but i still have some things to say. tbh i'm not.. a fan of how, like, some (or even most) people who like amane just like her because "well she's a cute child!! therefore she's pure and innocent and has never done anything wrong!!" yes this is coming from an inno voter and her biggest apologist and at first i really did like her bc she seemed cute, but after i listened to her vd, i ended up liking her even more because it's like.. idk, something about her behavior is so accurate. like, yes, she's a victim. yes, she's a child who was brainwashed and manipulated. but that doesn't mean she will go "oh noooo help me pleaseeeee :(" or anything, no, she will go "no, my god is always right and i've also never done anything wrong so i think you know what to vote me" AND THAT'S SO COOL. I LIKE CHARACTERS LIKE THAT I LIKE CHARACTERS WHO CLEARLY WENT THROUGH A LOT BUT THEY'RE NOT BEING EXACTLY SYMPATHETIC. and it makes me so sad to see some people ignoring those traits and turning her into a completely different character. thankfully i haven't seen that many people do that, but still, i remember watching her vd and seeing some people go "oh no i thought she was all cute but she's actually so annoying". like wow people really will stan any cute child character until they find out that child character has a personality and they're not as perfect as they imagined them to be. and that sucks. but also yeah i wish i could see more content with her! she definitely has her fans, but still..

also i have some things to say about yuno: she's definitely very popular, but i'm not a fan of the fact that some people like.. idk, it seems like some people like her just bc "oh well she confessed that her "crime" is abortion, soooo she's innocent and she's better than most characters there" like SHE'S SUCH A DEEP CHARACTER I CAN TALK ABOUT HER FOR HOURS. I LOVE HER NOT JUST BC OF HER PERSONALITY OR HER PINK AESTHETIC I ACTUALLY RELATE TO HER A LOT AND. I KNOW SHE MOST LIKELY WOULDN'T LIKE TO HEAR ME SAY IT BUT I LOVE HER AND SHE DESERVES TO BE HAPPY AND I'M NOT SAYING IT BECAUSE SHE'S "pure" OR "her crime isn't even a crime". i know she may seem like a "flat character" but i swear she's deeper than that. it may sound like i'm overthinking stuff but hey, overthinking stuff is this project's whole point.

21. "part of canon you think is overhyped"

twst: i'm gonna say it. main story is. kinda boring. like i couldn't care less about the updates or new chapters or anything, again, i'm more interested in the events. i get it, the whole point of the main story is overblots and the overblot gang's backstories, but tbh i got tired of it after like chapter 4. i get it, it's literally the main story, of course people will talk about it, but i just.. can't make myself care about it.

milgram: THIS ONE ACTUALLY MADE ME THINK BECAUSE.. tbh nothing about it feels overhyped to me, at least right now? like i feel like the whole project is almost based on this feeling like "what's gonna happen next" or "what should i do" or "how should i react to this". so yeah again i don't think i have anything to say AGAIN I'M SORRY JDFKSLDLD. i could talk about the novels, but also.. not that many people know about the novels or are interested in them, so yeah, i definitely can't say they're overhyped. i could say how i'm not really that interested in the ninth and tenth mvs and the purge march is the only mv that i'm excited for rn, but that's just, again, me being biased and i definitely wouldn't say those mvs are overhyped. i also really want to see them! i just don't care about those characters as much.

[achoonihaachu]

Hello! May I request the brother's reactions to a younger MC that carries a particular stuffie around with them? They like plushies, sure, but this specific one is sentimental, so it gets carried everywhere. There is not a single moment when I do not have Perry the Platypus with me, and I think it'd be fun to have a full conversation with him in front of the brother's

Waaah sorry if this is too specific. Thank you! (:

Brothers react to a young Mc who carries a Sentimental Plush

a/n: The MC in this prompt will be around the age of 9-13. This story will be PLATONIC and i think it's the cutest thing :(( I'm so sorry if thisn't what you thought of when you initally sent me the ask! </33 Also hello! Happy 2022 to all of us! I haven't posted in a few days because I've been so busy with the holidays </33 I hope this makes up for it?? *fingers crossed*

warnings: nothing honestly, demon brothers acting like good brothers, belphie steals from a child, mc was probably throwing tantrums a few times, not proof read :<< , a bit ooc at times maybe?, PLATONIC FIC!

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Lucifer- Young MC has a pink unicorn plush bc idk,, Satan is his son-brother and bc luci is deffo a manly man who wants to be surrounded by manly things T_T

Lucifer was already a little shocked to see this tiny human being walk into the Devildom. He wasn't expecting a child to show up and that was a mistake on his part.

But that was the best mistake he's made in his entire lifetime.

Him and his brothers were almost strangers living in a house together but when you came along, all doe-eyed and curious— unafraid of anything, they grew closer than they'd ever been.

They chipped in and were raising you together.

You managed to do so much in the short amount of time you'd been alive.

Something Lucifer noticed, however, was how you were always glued to this tiny stuffed plushy of a pink unicorn.

First of all, he's seen unicorns, they aren't as pretty and nice and pink as the shit you see in popular media.

They aren't Satan's familiars for nothing.

But you seemed to adore the fluffy thing so he just leaves you be.

You do your chores with the thing, you go on trips with it in your arms; You never go anywhere without it.

He doesn’t mind as long as it doesn’t get in the way.

One day, though, he comes home after an extremely tiring day at RAD. He felt sluggish and he almost dread going up to his room because he knew that there were only stacks on stacks of paperwork he still had to tend to.

When he made it up the stairs to the hallway of their rooms, however, he sensed that something was a little different about the air.

He treaded lightly towards the door to his room, he felt a presence waiting behind the mahogany wood. He twists the handle slowly and peaks his head in and— he sees you face down on his bed, arms wrapped tightly around his velveteen pillows. Your shoulders shook lightly. He approached you hesitantly and sat down, "Hey there, little one. Would you mind explaining why you're in my room?" He asked, voice unusually soft; then again, he was a lot nicer to you than his brothers. You said something, but he couldn't quite understand since you didn't even try lifting your head to explain to him what was bothering you. He shakes his head and chuckles, "Alright then, come here."

He lifts you up to sit and turns you to look at him and his smile immediately falters. You were crying. "(MC), what's wrong?" He went into full on dad mode.

"M-Mams got Pinky dirty." Oh. Well, guess who's going to get hung by his toes to the ceiling.

"(MC), humor me this... Why do you like that unicorn so much? If Mammon ruined your plushy, we can just buy you another one—"

"NO!" He had not expected you to yell.

You kneeled on the bed and the mattress dipped slightly as you grabbed him by the collar, "Luci, you will never ever suggest something like that again, okay? Pinky is very important to me and you know this."

He blinks at you and inelegantly snorts in disbelief, "More important than me and my brothers?"

You hesitate, your grip on his collar loosening ever so slightly before tightening again,

"I love you all equally… but Pinky is very important."

He doesn't get human children at all.

Mammon- Young MC with a duck plush bc Mammon’s like a clingy duckling :DD

Mammon doesn't really get to use the "Big Brother Mammon" card on his 5 younger siblings.

They do not respect him in the way they should respect someone older and more powerful than them.

But then sweet little MC walks into his life and he will never admit it but he has adored you since the minute he sees you waddle into the Devildom with a sizable duck plush in your arms.

He babies you 25/8, honestly.

You get carried around, bossed around, heck he's tried feeding you—

But if he ever tries to do anything to your ducky—

Falling from the Heavens would only be the second worst thing he's experienced.

He loves walking on this tightrope of destruction when it comes to you and your ducky; he'd try to take it away from you because he gets jealous of how much attention you give it.

Yes, the Great Mammon gets jealous of a duck plush. He’s already competing for the favorite person/thing spot in your heart and now a duck joins the competition.

You were in Mammon's room for the afternoon; he won the daily roulette spin that the brothers do at breakfast before you wake up to see who's the lucky demon who gets to spend time with you.

Seeing you so act relaxed and just having fun like a kid should, made Mammon's heart all warm and fluttery. His brothers would say otherwise and try to deny but deep down in the pits of their hearts, they would all agree that Mammon's the best older brother. Lucifer was great and all that but he's got quite the cold persona to him and though Mammon's almost always broke and trying to steal their stuff to sell off, he's always always there for them. You were hanging out with "Big Brother Mammon" and he had told you to just sit and wait as he bet on an online blackjack tournament. You pouted at first but decided to spend your time playing with your ducky. Mammon started to regret his decision; He was getting increasingly restless as you cuddled the big yellow stuffie, I mean… Why would you do that when there's a perfectly good Mammon in the same room as you—? "Yo, (MC). Put the duck down and c'mere." He huffed. You blink at him once before you turn your back towards him.

He gawks at you in disbelief; this tiny human did not just do that—

He flicks his wrist and using his magic, he plucks the duck from your hands and keeps it levitated in the air just above you, even as you jumped you weren't tall enough to reach it. "(MC), I'll give ya back the duck if ya promise that you'll cuddle me." He proposes. Honestly, you "forced" him into a pact but he's more clingy than you've ever been.

“Why do you like the stupid duck anyways? The Great Mammon is so much better than the fluffy thing.”

Your bottom lip wobbles a bit and you stare at him, “I changed his name to Mams… Because he’s the best and since you’re the best… I…” Your voice was watery. He felt like he was going to implode. He sighs and walks over to you; he doesn’t say a word as he picks you up and brings you to his couch.

He plops you down on top of him as he lies back down, “W-well if he’s just as awesome as me, why do you want to spend more time with him, huh?!” He doesn’t even try to hide the bright blush dusting his cheeks. You giggle and wrap your arms around him, squishing your face against his face,

“You’re the best brother but Mams is number one in my heart.”

Mammon.exe has stopped working.

Leviathan- Young MC has a Perry the Platypus plush bc platypus-es (platypi?) live in water and also original req :DD

He’s an avid collector of figurines and plushies himself. He believes that art can and should be appreciated in all forms and one form of appreciation is through adorable, huggable physical fluffy bodies.

(He really just loves his body pillow and stuffies of all the waifus he has).

He doesn’t really hang out with you in public much to know that you take your little platypus everywhere with you.

When he lets you hang around in his room, he notices that you hold onto it like it was your lifeline.

He really wanted to ask you why, out of all possible plushies you could be obsessed with, it had to be a teal platypus with a tiny little spy hat but… his nerves got to him before he could get the question out.

You would sleep in his bed-tub with your arms tightly wrapped around it.

Before you ask, yes, he has an entire album in his phone of about a hundred photos of you cuddling Perry.

Moe <3

Yes, he sends about a dozen to the super secret brothers chat every time you take a nap in his room.

Yes, the rest of the boys are jealous.

Basically, Levi would be the brother to get the sentimental value of the plush; the other Avatars don’t really get your affinity for a stuffed toy.

Well, he was gaming one particular night when lo and behold, you knock on his door to hang out.

He, of course, lets you in with no questions asked.

Levi scurries back over to his desk and picks up where he left off, “Hey, (MC). I’ll finish this round then I’ll be with ya, alright?” He yells over the loud boss music he was blasting on his speakers. You simply nod and walk over to the bed-tub and almost immediately fall asleep. Levi’s room was just really cold and you felt comfortable in his bed-tub. The room was never silent, the dubstep and the bass drops in Levi’s playlist kept you from falling into deep sleep and for a fraction of a second, you regret going to Levi’s room to nap.

Belphie would force you to sleep even if you weren’t tired… Maybe it isn’t too late to move spots.

Just as you were considering slipping out of the third-born’s room to hang out with the twins, Levi turned off the gamer playlist and left his desktop on the home screen of the game he was playing. “We won!” He cheers as he walks over to you. You smile giddily at him, “Congratulations, Levi! Teach me to play next time!” You say excitedly. Your hold on Perry loosened and he fell out of your arms and onto the bed just as Levi sat down.

Levi’s ass was smothering Perry.

You gasp and start trying to push him off, “Levi! Get up! Perry’s suffocating!” You cry. Levi immediately gets up and checks on your platypus. He totally gets your reaction; if anyone sat on his Ruri-chan body pillow, he would flip shit. He starts apologizing profusely, sorrys leaving his mouth a million miles a minute before you shake your head and shush him, “Levi! Calm down! He’s fine!” You giggle.

“It’s not fine! Remember when Mammon sat on Ruri-chan?!”

“Yeah… You almost threw him out of a window-”

Satan: Young MC with a black cat plush bc… well, do i have to explain myself- ._.

Satan is the brother to have a very strong (secret) soft spot for cute things. You, by yourself, were the cutest thing Satan has laid his eyes on in eons.

Then you pull out a soft plush of a black cat from behind you and Satan… He almost dies.

He’s not as clingy as Mammon by any means but… he’s close.

He loved spending time with you because, yes, you’re adorable but you also have exquisite taste in plushies.

He smiles like a dad when he watches you play with the plush and he feels honored when you let him hold it, even if it’s just for a few moments.

He might not understand the sentiment but he understands your love for it’s cuteness.

Satan is absolutely the type to buy you more plushies so that you and him could play pretend with all the soft plushies you have.

He’ll never admit to his brothers but sometimes, he forces you to play with him.

He’s such a softie for cute things, ergo, he’s a softy for you.

He never actually sits down to ask you why you like it so much. He’s known for his wit and quick-thinking so in a way, he’s formulated a logical explanation as to why you might like the plush so much. Honestly, he’s thought of 4 or 5 different explanations that make sense in his big brain.

One afternoon, you and Satan were having a picnic in the gardens behind the House of Lamentation. The weather was perfect so you two decided to seize the moment. Besides, all his brothers were busy doing their own things and this gave Satan an excuse to hog your time before Mammon whined about it or before Asmo could steal you to take pictures of you.

You sit your cat plushie beside you and prepare a small sandwich for it.

Satan had finished setting the drinks out and he watches you plate a small portion of your sandwich in front of Gato, your cat plushie. He didn’t have the heart to tell you that Gato literally meant Cat- you thought it was some sort of magical word. He smiles to himself and sits cross legged in front of you.

A question lingers on his mind, “Hey, (MC)? I have a question for you.” You stare at him quizzically as you bite into your sandwich, “hm?” You hum.

“Why do you like Gato so much?” He asked, picking up a cup to take a sip of the herbal tea you prepared earlier in the day. You chew slowly, thinking of a proper answer, “mm… M-well, Gato’s cute! And I remember that I got it as a gift back in the human world!” You say after you swallow. He hums, “Well, I got you a bunch of other cat plushies… Do you not like them as much as Gato?”

You shake your head vigorously, “I love them, tan-tan! I love all my kitties equally but… and don’t tell them I told you this…” You move to cover Gato’s ears. Satan watches you in amusement.

“I love you more!”

Satan loves cute things; he loves you. He practically melts when he hears you utter those words. He chuckles quietly to you before he reaches over to pinch your cheek lightly,

"I love you too, kid."

Asmodeus: Young Mc with a bunny plush bc Asmo is the prettiest bunnyboi demon :D

Asmo’s probably more obsessed with cute things than Satan.

And that boy is obsessed.

He loves seeing you walk around at RAD with Lucifer and your arms are clung tightly on a furry white bunny just as cute as you.

He takes so many photos of you and holds a weekly photoshoot to photograph just you, him, and your bunny to post on his Devilgram.

He’s kind of like a momager in a sense that he wants you to pose perfectly for the shot, he does your hair and make up and he’s willing to fight Diavolo himself to get the lighting down to a tee and honestly, bad photos are almost nonexistent! (especially when he’s in the photos).

He never really questioned it except once during family game night when Belphie asked you to choose between them and your bunny and without hesitation, you pick your bunny over the Seven whipped Demon Lords.

He cried.

Out of all the brothers, it’s well known that Asmo’s the drama king. He absolutely is the type to fall on the floor, a weeping mess, if left ignored. In a way, he loves your attention specifically because you look up to him and love him regardless of his looks.

Many people around his age or are adults in general, want him for his beauty and most of the time, they want something more devious and less innocent.

He loves that you just love so innocently. Whether you love him or that bunny, it’s all so innocent and so genuine.

He took you to Madam Screams one afternoon; he had to sneak you out of the house because if Beel found out that you two were heading to his favorite food place, the sixth-born would have probably ran ahead and finished everything.

Asmo tugs you along the busy road, you were practically buzzing with excitement as you thought of all the macarons you were going to eat— you felt a little bad about not bringing Beel along but you decided to get him something before you head home. The light-haired demon smiles at you as you look up at him, one hand interlocked with his while your other hand holds onto your bunny plush tightly, "Careful, (MC). It's really muddy in this area so you need to hold onto your bunny properly!"

Just as he says that, a car whizzes past with a honk and the watery mud on the placement sprays a little onto the sidewalk and—

Your bunny gets dirty.

Your eyes go wide with a gasp, your hands are shaky as you stare down at your furry friend. Asmodeus was speechless but his vacant hand was quick to snap a picture of the model of the car and the color; plate number was a little blurry but he was certain that he'd be able to hunt that demon down. How dare they ruin your precious bunny.

Your eyes grow watery and you choke back a sob, "N-no… A-Asmo, what do I do?!" You cried, your voice was small as you tried your best not to sob.

"We can go home to wash your bunny after our lunch date— it's alright, (MC)! Lucifer can put it with our other laundry—"

"I-I can do it! I can clean my bunny! Let's go home right now." You start tugging him back to the direction of the house.

"Wait! (MC)! Our day out! I can buy you a new plush-” You stop in your tracks and glare at him and Asmodeus has never felt more afraid in his entire life.

“Right! Back home! We’ll wash your bunny!”

Beelzebub: Young MC with a burger plush bc… well, it’s Beel-

Beel doesn’t show a lot of emotions; he’s this big stoic dude that stands over six feet tall with muscles upon muscles and so when you walk into the Devildom for the first time, you kind of cower in fear… (understandable).

Behind this adorable little burger plush.

It even has cheese, lettuce and tomatoes :(

He salivated when he first saw the burger and you peeked your head out from behind your plush and you saw him drooling as he towered above you and…

You were inconsolable for half an hour after that; something about a big strong demon was terrifying for a young person. Go figure..

After though, Beel and you grew inseparable, he was your strong big brother who loved and protected you and everyone you loved from the world.

That would include your burger buddy.

He had a few close calls; he would almost always eat your burger plush at least twice a week.

You would give him the cold shoulder every time he’d almost do it.

He would ask you about your obsession with the plush in the most frank way possible and you’d always shrug and say you just liked it because you’ve had it since you were a baby.

He’d nod ang go back to eating or working out.

You run up to the twins’ room with the goofiest smile on your face.

A gift bag held tightly in your hands.

“Beel? Belphie? Is Beel in there?!” You called out as your fist raps against the hardwood door. You could faintly hear shuffling beyond the door and it swung open, revealing your favorite brother. “(MC)?” Beel stared down at you, a towel in hand. The ginger was obviously sweaty, his black tank top clung to his torso and you could hear what you could only classify as work out music played in their room behind him. You grin widely up at him and push the gift bag you had in your hands towards his free hand, “I got this for you because you always look at my burger!” You explain before you run down the hall and back into your room.

Beel stares at the bag in his hand for a moment before he opens it and inside was… a burger plush exactly like yours.

He cooed as he pulled it out. Humans are so cute and genuine, he thinks. He inspects the plush in his hands and sees his name embroidered on the bottom bun in cursive. He smiles to himself.

You sit in your room, your burger plush in your arms when you hear a faint knock on your door. You skip over and open it and you see Beel stand in the doorway. Before you could say anything, Beel lifts you up in his arms and twirls you around; both your plushies were squished together between your chests. He stands in the middle of the hallway, cuddled up to you and you swore you could hear faint purring rumbling in his chest.

“Thank you, (MC).”

“No need to thank me silly! I wanna thank you for always protecting our family!”

His grin widens on his face, “I’ll always protect our family.”

“Don’t eat your burger plushie though.”

Beel pouts.

Belphegor: Young MC with a cow plush bc can belphie and cows as a combination ever be topped?!

Belphie was always carrying a cow print pillow and his brothers never really batted an eye at him. He just did what he wanted and hoped that everyone else did the same around him.

He sees you walk around with the plush of a cow and he… Well, he steals it for a solid three days.

He genuinely steals from you, the small human under the care of his family. He didn’t feel remorseful or any sort of shame. If anything, if Satan didn’t walk up into the attic during one of Belphie’s afternoon naps, when the youngest brother just so happened to be cuddling into your cow plush, he probably wouldn’t have returned it.

During those three days, you refused to eat, spend time with them, take care of yourself- you were just moping around the halls and in all the different rooms with the saddest put you could muster up and all the brothers were sad and worried about you… except for Belphie.

Well… He felt a little bad. Just a tad bit.

When Satan gave you the cow plush, your smile was literally so big and your joy was through the roof. The could’ve sworn that they were back in the Celestial Realm from the incredibly bright aura you had-

Belpie muttered a half-assed apology and you, with your nice human heart (“or whatever…”, he’d say), you simply hugged him and accepted his apology.

Belphie left it at that and let you be with your plush.

He would always take it from you when you napped with him. Of course he’d only pull it out of your grasp when he was sure you were sleeping soundly.

During one of your many naps, Belphie was lying down, with you on top of him, when he asked a simple question…

“What’s up with you and your cow plush?”

You gave the seventh-born the stink eye and shrugged, “I don’t know, what’s up with you and your pillow?” You retort, your hands stroking the fur patch that was your cow’s makeshift mane. His chest rumbled lightly as he chuckled, “I don’t know… I guess I just like it.” He breathes out. You giggle to yourself, “Well then, I guess I just like my plushie… I mean, I’ve had it for years anyways.”

A small part of Belphie was worried; He thinks he’d rubbed off on you a little too much. Your sass was getting to his levels and well… He worried that he’d only get worse as the years went by.

“What if we exchange for a week?” He suddenly asked. You crane your neck to look at him and from all the wiggling, you fell off of him and land on the soft cushions that surround the pair of you, “You mean you want us to exchange? You’ll get my plush and I’ll get your pillow?” You asked incredulously. He simply nods and you gawk at him.

“No.”

“No? What do you mean—”

“Nope! This is my plush.”

You get a faceful of a soft white pillow being chucked straight at you.

[moemoemammon]

(Two things, 1. This is my first time requesting so I'm sorry if this is not the thing to do it, and 2. Sorry if somethings is misspelled or grammatically incorrect, eng is not my first language:p)

May I request some of the bros, specially Mammon, Luci and Satan, with a MC who's similar to Lucifer in some aspects (like, some of their manners are the same as his and sometimes they're little bit too strict) and after a while they discover that its bc MC is also an older sibling. And (only if you want) meeting their younger sibling, please 🙏

Btw love your works ♡♡♡

Lucifer Number 2~

(Feat. GN!MC and the Demon Bros)

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Lucifer

It doesn't occur to Lucifer how similar the two of you are, but the first thing he realizes is how pleasant conversations with you can be. You both share common interests, your tastes suit his own, and you seem to be the only competent person in this house.

You're the responsible type, and he likes it. He'll sometimes find you scolding his brothers for their behavior too, and as amusing of a sight as that may be, he doesn't want you to be burdened with their idiocy.

AND you're the eldest sibling in your household? Cheers to that. You too know the weight of being the responsible oldest, and the role one must take to ensure their siblings grow up well. You too know that you'd rather your siblings have things easier than you did.

But there's one thing he finds annoying... You can NEVER speak your feelings, and act as if it’d kill you to do so. He can respect secrecy when it's appropriate, but Lucifer would like to know what's on your mind. Not only that, but you can be HORRIBLY headstrong. There's nothing that can stray you away from what you've already decided.

"MC, I request that you take a few days off from school to do as you please. I've already spoken with Diavolo and your professors, and you've been given an excuse. I know you'll study anyway, so I've dropped off your assignments in your room. But... you should rest. It isn't good for you to be pushing yourself so hard. Hm? You're calling me a hypocrite?"

Mammon

As if one Lucifer wasn't enough. Now there's TWO of em?! Why's his luck gotta be so lousy!

Definitely the first to realize how much like Lucifer you are, and was SHOOK. Seriously, what gives?! What horrors exist in the human world that could've made you like THAT..?

Ever since you showed up, it's been impossible to get away with anything! He can't sneak out of the house because you're always there somehow, you tattle on him when you catch him leaving anyone's room, and you won't even let him copy your homework! What gives?!

Avoids you like the plague. You're no fun! There's only rare moments when you're kinda okay, and he likes those the best. The times when you're kinda sensitive and you'll drop the high and mighty act. But then you're back to being a pest!

"For the billionth time, I ain't got time to study! There's money to be made, and a guy like me ain't gonna waste a second lookin' at a dumb book when I could be- H-Huh?! You're gonna call Lucifer?! N-now, there's no need to be so hasty, right? Oi!! I'm sorry, damn it-!"

Levi

What's the deal with Lucifer number two? As comedic of a trope as that may be, Levi doesn't really care for having two nagging types in the house. Especially a human...

When you're in his room, all you do is nitpick about how he should tidy up and open a window! Don't you know that an otaku's room is his pride and joy?! It's a sacred space not to be trampled on by the opinions of a normie!!!

But still... he has to admit that even if you don't get all the stuff he's talking about, you at least try to understand it. And there are even some of his interests that you're genuinely invested in!

You might be a pain in the neck and harass him about annoying things, but he guesses he can deal with it if you'll actually sit through a TSL marathon with him...

"I-I'll lend you this manga, so make sure you read it! And when you're finished with that, I'll lend you the spin-off series by the author's brother! I know you'll like it, since you're interested in gritty stuff. Oh, and- Huh? My laundry? Y-yeah.... I'll do that.."

Satan

You are... surprisingly good company. Satan enjoys talking to you over afternoon tea, and the two of you share stories between one another.

But still, he can't shake the feeling that there's something... unpleasantly familiar about your personality. It isn't until you say something that sounds suspiciously similar to what Lucifer would say that he realizes who you remind him of. And oh, he hates it.

Tries playing pranks on you, but somehow they never go to plan. How that is is beyond him, but you never fall for anything! No matter how sweet his smile, you're always rightfully suspicious. You're annoyingly meticulous about checking your surroundings, and you're so aware of yourself that it's troublesome! Be more gullible!!

The king of petty has decided that its now his life goal to make you fall for at least one of his pranks. He doesn't care how elaborate he has to make it, or how unrewarding the payoff may be. He'll make you pay for seeing his brother in two places at once.

"MC, would you like to join me this afternoon for a book reading? Though, I'd love it if you could read this book in particular. I think you'll find it very-.... Hm? 'Isn't this the cursed book that makes you grow hair all over your body', you ask? Ahaha.... tch."

Asmo

Come now, there can't be TWO killjoys in the house! That's way too depressing!! It was funny at first to see that there's someone who can match the scary Lucifer's energy, but now it's becoming a nuisance!

You won't even go to the countless parties he's invited you to! Hell, you barely even give yourself room to mess around a little? Isn't it boring being so tightly wound? You're in luck, because the adorable Asmo-chan knows the PERFECT way to let loose~

You'll RARELY let him close to you, and that's usually when you're tired of him harassing you. Then he gets the honor of playing with your hair while you've got no energy to fight back! He'll style it wonderfully for you!

Also nags you to take better care of yourself. You're not a demon, so you have to care for your health! These late night study sessions are giving you bags under your eyes! And stop taking on so many extracurricular activities!

"Geez, MC! I didn't think you'd die from overworking, but that's the path you're headed on! You really are like Lucifer, you know? That being said, I'll do my best to make sure you relax! Shall we begin~?"

Beel

Beel may not be too bothered by Lucifer's strictness, but that doesn't mean he's immune to it. To think that even a human can be like that...

It's nice to see that you can take care of yourself, but aren't you working too hard? Your grades are good and you've got many interesting talents, but you also have to properly rest.

Has started bringing you snacks on the regular. And don't even think about skipping meals, because he won't allow it. He'll literally pick you up and bring you to the table if he has to. And if you're staying up late to study? He'll carry you to bed. Don't try to protest.

Beel is your babysitter now and there's nothing you can do about it. It's good to be responsible, but don't think about trying to take care of everyone else if you can't care for yourself. Now eat these twelve meat buns he bought for you.

"MC, let's eat lunch together. I know you were going to skip because I heard you talking to Solomon earlier, and I won't let you. Ah, don't worry about not having money, because I've already bought you some lunch. Let's eat in the courtyard."

Belphie

NO.... IT CAN'T BE... THIS HAS TO BE A NIGHTMARE....HE WANTS TO WAKE UP....

You're such a drag. You harass him to attend student council meetings, but him about his studies, and won't let him avoid a single obligation he has. What are you, his mother?

Has 100% joined forces with Satan to try to make you fall for many, many unsuccessful pranks. Are you curse proof or something? When he tried a '10 hour bed-head' spell on you, it just rebounded right to him! Then he found out that you'd borrowed a spell repelling amulet from Solomon and realized just how prepared you are...

When you aren't bothering his entire soul by trying to make him do things, you're actually nice to talk to. You're knowledgeable, you pay attention to the people around you, and you can always read a room. He likes to ask you for advice sometimes.

"Aren't you tired of being like that all the time? So... attentive, I mean. You should just take a nap some time. Or better yet, take the week off. Maybe I'll teach you how to properly relax? Then you might finally be able to take that stick out of your- ow... What're you hitting me for?"

[tonkatsumeal]

the times i'm with you are ones i treasure most.

ft. zhongli

warning(s): zhongli spoilers i guess?

note(s): gn!reader, touch-starved zhongli bc why not, zhongli pov, not proof-read, kinda short? good for an easy read :)

a/n: fluffy :) i am not playing tricks i swear fr it's a new year why would i do that I HAVE CHANGED

synopsis: within the six millenniums i have been alive, i do not remember a single time that i felt the same numbing sensation you give me when we merely brush shoulders.

Being beside you still feels like a dream to me.

When I wake up and see your sleeping face under the sun's morning stare, I can't help but kiss the eyelashes that flutter with every one of your blinks. The way you breathe softly under my stained forearms makes me wonder how you could put so much trust in a single person so willingly.

Though, I'm not complaining. I like the way you smile when you realize I'm beside you, holding you like no tomorrow. I like the way you look at me with bright eyes, not expecting much from me but still loving me nonetheless. I like the way you like me.

But I do worry from time to time—of our mortality, I mean. When I was an Archon I did not have to worry about such trivial things like 'not having enough time', yet here I am, clinging onto the twenty-four hours in these horrificly short days. You tell me I worry too much, but I can't help it when sunset seems to arrive earlier than it did the day before.

I feel like there are not enough minutes in a day for me to express my true love and adoration for you.

I want to always be around you, I want to hold you tight and I want you to hold me just as close. I often curse the hours of sleep required for the human body due to how much time it takes from us.

Whenever I express my distain, you always hold me more intimately than you usually do. A sweet and reassuring sigh escapes your swollen lips, giggling at how immature I can be. A smile, a warmth just for me. You often laugh and stroke my long hair, an action I never thought could be so comforting.

The first time you ran your fingers through my fringe I didn't know how to react. When I snapped out of it, you were humming a song I had never heard. I thought you'd mistake my image of indifference as dislike, but you just laughed and told me you made that tune on the spot.

I realized then that you loved me more than I loved you, and it made my heart swell. I wanted to do those things for you. I wanted to be the one to comfort you, I wanted to be the one to protect you.

You seemed to know every corner and crevice that made me melt, and all I could do was embrace you. I wanted to do more for you, the one who could simply stroke my cheek and set me ablaze like a fire under cedar wood. I could hear the amber stone in my heart being chipped by you bit by bit, and I didn't mind at all.

When you take your hand in mine and intertwine them, my breath holds still. Out of habit, I give you a small squeeze to make sure you're real and not just a figment of my lonesome imagination. You smile every time, squeezing my hand tighter. My heart just can't seem to shake you off.

Looking at you under the sun's golden hue, under the moon's wistful light, under the sky's reflecting ocean breeze, I can't help but want to kiss you. I just can't seem to get enough of you, a fragment of light directly from the goodness of the sun.

The inconsistency from your bouncy steps to your sluggish slouch, the slight crack in your voice when you talk about something you're interested in, the way you prefer to hum 'yes' instead of directly saying it all pique my interest. Your smile is contagious, and your emotions show well on your face. You can't hide your expressions, which makes you all the more lovable.

Your hair, which you always found to be quite annoying, is my favorite part of your body. Sure, your hips are the perfect size for my hands to grip and your chest is the perfect place for me to rest my head upon, but they just aren't your hair. The hair I can comb with my fingers every day, seeing any tension release itself from the furrow in your eyebrows. The hair that you carelessly flop around yet still manage to make look effortlessly attractive. The hair that spreads all over our shared bed into the pillow sheets (and my mouth somehow).

Sometimes I wake up abruptly, disturbed by the unfamiliar feeling against my tongue. It takes me only a few seconds to recognize that its your flyaway, and that irritated feeling gets replaced with an odd kind of oozing warmth.

Looking down at your sleeping figure under the sheets we bought together, I can't help but smile like a child at the fact that you are my lover. I wonder if it is fate that brought you here to me, or fate that brought me to you.

But you wake up before I could conjure an answer, fluttering your eyes open to shake the sleepy feeling away from them. You smile—the smile just for me—and kiss my shoulder, "Good morning, Zhongli."

[bowandcurtsey]

If you don't mind, can I request a scenario/HC of BC boys (Yami, Nozel and Fuegoleon) where some people ask if reader and them are in a relationship but they intentionally lied out of jealousy (it's up to you if who they're jealous of😅). Then felt guilty afterwards. I'll also leave it to you on how they're going to make amends😅😌💕. Thank you so much in advance 😻💖🤗.

Hi Akira! I'm finally here with your request! sorry for the long ass wait, my schedule has been so hectic, *cries*

Yami | Nozel | Fuegoleon x f! reader

Tw: not proof read. Maybe angst?

Yami Sukehiro

You arrived at the town hall, tired and injured, only to see Charlotte collapse onto your man. Yami lifted her in his arms to find a healer while you stood there, green with jealousy.

"Oi y/n right?" you turned around to see the tall mantis captain, "you're injured. You should get a healer to heal you."

You winced a little at the pain in your legs, but it was still tolerable.

"It's okay, I'm fine Captain Jack."

You were hoisted like you weighed nothing as Jack carried you to find a healer at the first aid tent that was temporarily set up. You saw Yami and Charlotte there as well.

Yami rushed over the moment he saw you.

"you okay?" there was concerned laced in his voice.

"It's fine Captains" referring to the both of them, "don't have to worry over me alright? There are others that need the help more than I do." you snapped.

"Sheeshhhh, y/n." Jack raised his eyebrow at you, "why you so worked up when we're just concerned bout you? You're worried your boyfriend gonna be jealous or sumthin'?"

"I'm single." you looked at Jack straight in the eye. And you saw the look of disappointment in Yami's face.

Yami pursed his lips as his gaze washed upon you, a concoction of worry and sadness. You heart ached as you read his expression and you immediately felt the guilt from your words earlier.

After you were healed, you felt exhausted and decided to just return back to the base.

"Heading home?" you turned around to see Yami. He gave you a tiny smile, "Let's go."

"So.." Yami cleared his throat before speaking, "you don't want people to know of our relationship?"

You remained silent for a moment, thinking what an idiot you were earlier.

"baby?" he looked at you, "there's no one here now, so I can call you that right? It's fine if you don't want us to be public, I get-"

"No Yami." you cut him off, "I'm sorry. I was stupid earlier, I was just jealous."

"Jealous about what baby?" he raised a brow at you.

"I've never-" he stopped himself mid sentence, realising what was going on, "oh.."

"Yeah. I saw you carrying another woman in your arms and I didn't like that very much." you avoided his gaze, feeling ashamed of yourself.

"I'm sorry baby," he gently put his huge hands over your head, gently patting you, "I'll never touch another woman like that unless it's an emergency."

"Is that why you let that bean pole carry you? I didn't like that too." he narrowed his eyes at you.

"I didn't! He just carried me randomly- eek!" You squealed as Yami scooped you up in his arms.

"Now this is much better," he smiled, "you in my arms"

Nozel Silva

You were at a gala for an annual event. You were suddenly approached by Fuegoleon. You both started chit chatting about unimportant things.

Nozel showed up and you gave him the cold shoulder. Nozel has been going to the coral peacocks lately to meet Dorothy to talk about "stuffs" and it made you jealous to no ends. He said he would talk to you about it, but he was just so busy, and it kept you on edge.

"Anyway y/n, who are you here with? Did you come alone without a date?" Fuego asked.

"oh.." you decided to get back a little at your man, "yeah, I don't have a date or anything, so yeah I guess I'm alone?"

You saw Nozel's face instantly soured.

Fuegoleon glanced at Nozel. He knew that Nozel has a liking towards you but he didn't know that you were both already dating. He thought that he would give his bro an opportunity to talk to you, so he excused himself.

You were confused as Fuegoleon made some lousy excuse to leave you alone with Nozel. Did he know that you and Nozel were dating?

"You don't have a date, huh? Why not just tell Fuegoleon that you're single and that you want to date him or something?" Nozel was obviously extremely upset at what you said earlier.

"Maybe I should?" you were not caving in to him this round, "my 'date' obviously has someone else in mind too?"

Nozel's eyes widened at you, "what are you implying y/n? Who has been spouting nonsense to you?"

"you're always with Dorothy aren't you? Do you think I'm dumb? You have so many 'captainly duties' with her?" you argued in a hushed tone, not wanting anyone to know you were arguing.

Nozel blinked at you. He looked like a deer caught in the headlights, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"y/n," he took a deep breath, "can we find somewhere else to talk?"

"fine." you followed him, your heart racing in your chest, thinking that Nozel was finally going to break up with you.

You both took a seat on a bench in the outside garden.

"y/n.. I'm sorry." Nozel looked at you, his eyes filled with remorse, "I've neglected you."

You could only stare at him silently waiting for him to continue.

"I've been going to Dorothy for 'therapy'... When my mom died, I was there and things were a little... complicated." He talked slowly, thinking about the right words to say, "however, when I'm in dorothy's dream world, I can talk about the matter freely."

Oh. The regret you felt in your heart came all of a sudden, as you realised how much you have hurt him earlier.

"Zel, I'm sorry.. why didn't you explain sooner...?" your eyes were clouded with tears now, "I was so miserable!"

Nozel pulled you into a hug, the first display of affection he showed towards to you in public, "which is why I'm sorry. I want to bring you into dream world so I can talk to you about this."

---

After you came out from dream world, you both headed home on Nozel's mercury eagle. You turned around and embraced your man.

"I'm so sorry, love." you pressed a kiss to his cheeks.

Nozel was caught off guard at your sudden display of affections and he fumbled on what to say.

"Just remember.. Don't talk about this matter.." he said with a blush.

He cleared his throat, "I also hope that you don't tell anyone that you don't have a date from now onwards..."

Fuegoleon Vermillion

Fuegoleon is a gentleman through and through. But sometimes, it was really frustrating because he was nice to everyone. At times, too nice.

A lost woman came stumbling into the Vermillion residence, saying that she just migrated to the Clover kingdom, and was from the heart kingdom. Fuegoleon, out of goodwill, decided to offer her a meal and invited her in. They chatted happily before Fue sent her to where she intended to go.

You were furious. Even salamander could feel your raging aura.

During a celebratory party from the invasion of the spade kingdom, Finral from the black bulls waddled up to you.

"Hey pretty y/n," he was probably a little drunk, "are you in a relationship? How about going on a date with me?"

You wanted to politely refuse, just like you did to all your other suitors ever since you were in a relationship with Fue, when you happened to see from the corner of your eyes that Fue coming towards the both of you.

"Oh no, I'm not in a relationship, must be a gossip that is not true."

Fuego froze in his tracks.

"oh hi Captain Vermillion!" Finral greeted your boyfriend but there was a solemn expression on his face.

"Hi Finral, I think your captain is looking for you."

After Finral was gone, Fue grabbed your hand firmly but gently. "Why did you say that darling?"

His eyes were filled with dejection and hurt.

You thought about him talking cheerily to a stranger woman over breakfast the other day and got upset again. You freed your hands from his grip.

"Am I not wrong? Am I your girlfriend?"

"w-.." Fue was confused and in despair, " have I not made myself clear enough? Or do you not feel loved enough? Did I do something wrong, love?"

His sincere purple orbs made you feel bad. You kept silent and avoided his gaze.

"Please, talk to me..." Fue held onto your hand again, like a lost puppy.

"T-the other day.. You invited a random woman into your place, you even had a meal and accompanied her.." You lowered your head, filling your tears about to spill.

Fue tugged at your hand, signalling for you to follow him as he lead you to the balcony outside the room. He pulled you into his embrace.

"I'm very sorry. I didn't know you felt this way about that." His grip around you tightened as he spoke, "she was just lost and not from Clover, which was why I was just trying to help."

"I know you're always so kind and helpful," you mumbled into his chest, "but could you leave that little extra just for me only?"

Fue understood what you meant. There was indeed a lot of ways he could have helped that lady without personally attending to her.

"I'm sorry dear. So are you still in a relationship?" He pulled back to wipe the tears that has fallen from your eyes, "We're not just a gossip are we?"

"I'm sorry about that Fue.." you pouted guiltily, "of course I am in a relationship with you."

The Crimson Lion captain smiled. He held your hand back into the party, and he didn't let go throughout the entire night.

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