dp x dc prompt #68
Danny’s ice core is very good for enjoying extremely cold temperatures without having to drag around a coat. It even helps cool him down in ghost form, and even in human form when there’s enough ambient ectoplasm.
The problem is that his human form has grown to completely rely on it to keep cool, so when there’s not enough ecto to use and his core has to choose between continuing keeping him semi-alive or continuing cooling him down? That’s when the problems start.
It really was just his luck that he chose to visit Metropolis and one of the more destructive rogues started tearing things apart while he was walking to the college he was scouting. And he really should have expected it when something exploded and suddenly the whole city seemed to be burning.
Clark took too long to get there. It wasn’t as much of a self deprecating thought as a fact. By the time he actually took down the criminal that started all this, three blocks were completely engulfed in flames.
His own heart stuttered when he heard a rapidly fluttering heart that kept stopping and starting erratically in the blaze, but he recovered quickly and swooped down to try and save whoever was unfortunate enough to get caught up in the destruction(he ignored how it seemed like it was already too late, and how he hadn’t seen anyone pull through with a heartbeat like that before.) and landed in the rubble that toppled into the street.
The teenager(oh god, it was a teenager, no older than Connor-) reached out and tangled a hand in his cape as soon as he was lifted off the ground. He kept trying to tug him down so Clark could hear him, and when he finally obliged, the kid took a deep breath and rasped:
“Put me in the freezer.”
…What??
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this is such a random question, but on the subject of theories i was wondering what would have happened if john and the erebos had arrived at the aftermath of canaan house before boe and found the non-lyctor survivors. like would he have just let corona, judith, and camilla go home or get rid of them because they knew too much? is “knowing too much” even a concern for john? for some reason neither option feels totally right to me, but i would love to hear your thoughts!
I honestly think he would let them go home! I think one of John's major flaws is he fundementally both misunderstands and underestimates the people he sees as "his", and I think this does extend into the houses.
I don't think he would see non-Lyctors as any kind of threat, even if he knew that said non-Lyctors had figured out the secret to Lyctorhood. At most I think he would sew their tongues but honestly I think he would take one look at Judith "on life support from catastrophic gut wound" Deuteros, Camilla "catatonic with grief" Hect, Coronabeth "inconsolable because Ianthe age Babs and not her" Tridentarius and be like wow! these kids are having a bad time I should send them home to their parents.
Remember -- if John had arrived at Canaan House before BOE, this is *before* BOE took out 18,000 soldiers with orbital radiation missiles. this is *before* Augustine's betrayal, and Mercymorn's, and *before* the Sixth House defected. The only betrayal John would have felt was Cytherea's, and she failed, and as we see in HtN he mostly pities her.
I do think this could lead to a very interesting AU wherein Camilla is sent home (with the bones in her pocket), Judith is fixed up with proper medical care from the start (and then packed back off to the cohort), and Coronabeth is probably (on request) taken to the Erebos with Ianthe.
I can see this leading to Camilla spending a lot of time trying to free Palamedes' soul while on the Sixth, potentially needing to join the cohort (Alexandrite Cam, anyone?) so she can reconnect with Judith, who despite having several sticks up her ass is the only person Cam feels she can really go to about this (due to them both being the only people left in the Dominicus system who actually know what happened at Canaan House). Maybe Camilla convinces Judith to poke around in the skull bones -- Judith isn't as good as Harrow, but maybe they do bring back some shadow of Palamedes into the bones.
THEN maybe eventually they run into Coronabeth, who perhaps was not allowed all the way to the Mithraeum, but WAS given some sort of very strategic and fancy seat in the cohort so Ianthe can keep tabs on her. A very nepotism hire situation, and despite Ianthe's desire to keep her safe Coronabeth HATES it all because she was once again left behind. When the opportunity to track down Ianthe arises, she takes it.
I see this unfolding over several years post GtN timeline. Perhaps the three of them end up collaborating with other characters along the way that they feel they can trust, some more likely than others -- Mia (Pro's wife) and her children, now grown enough to want more information about their father's death. Ram and Capris Asht, who don't believe that their brother would kill the eighth house heir he had sworn to protect. Kiana can get in here too. maybe the Third house Boy Who Loved Shuttles helps them with a getaway once. Abigail's younger brother, who she named as her heir -- maybe he helps with Palamedes' soul. Jeannemary and Issac's younger siblings. A neo-niner or two -- John renewed the house, and involving a character or three that was ressurected from our modern times would be super interesting and also fill out our merry band. Maybe the neo-niners Remember Things that make Cam connect some dots.
Harrow is still out there, obviously, and in this AU I am imagining Number 7 as NOT speeding up and really taking 5 years to get there, just to even out the time line and allow all that to happen before Number 7 comes and Augustine drowns the Mithraeum.
anyway. events occur, things happen, and intrigue abounds. Alecto awakens, Harrow Remembers, Ianthe doesn't get the girl. Cam is on a warpath. Judith is dragged alongside. Coronabeth isn't going to be left behind again.
what was your question again? this answer has gotten deeply out of hand
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So in my most recent playthrough of The Quarry, I noticed something in the freezer.
Why is there a random ass half-eaten jar of pickles, in the fucking freezer? Like, a fridge makes sense, but a freezer? Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks that's weird.
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Today's dream
So I was for some reason Lister and I decided to play better than life with the crew. Well we joined and nothing special was really happening. Later, I was talking with rimmer and he said he has a date with someone so I was like "omgg no way woow", but here's the thing. That girl (idk how she looked like anymore) just INVITED me to their date. And I actually came. I was waiting for them to come, but only rimmer arrived. He was extremely mad it was really funny XD anyways we were sitting there together and for some reason...we started singing cotton eye Joe😭 Then cat and kryton came and started singing with us, and then I woke up from that dream in that dream and I went on Tumblr and started writing this down, after that I woke up for real and actually started to write this up😍
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im not saying i have all night, but!!!! do tell me all the ways mr. samuel collins would grant darlin the most stomach clenching, jaw dropping, 'make them squirt' orgasms to ever orgasmmmm >:3333
*settles into my chair* WELLLLLLLLL *puts on spicy playlist*
I just think-
Sam sees Darlin walk around his apartment in just the jersey with his number on it and is like "well there goes my plans" as one does. Sam corners them in the kitchen, throws them on the counter and says something heinous like "itadakimasu" and just lifts the jersey and eats them for breakfast.
Like, him groaning at the sight of his Darlin turned on, already messy for him. Taking them into his mouth, moaning at the taste, and sucking them down, stopping to lick up where they're leaking for him, tongue-fucking their hole.... fuck. I should write this.
I just think Sam riding the high of winning a game, cocky and exhilarated, fresh out of the shower and cornering Darlin by his truck and kissing them hard right there, leaving a hand high on their thigh while he drives them home, picking them up in the doorway and slamming them into the door and attacking their neck...
Being so turned on that they can't make it to the bed, he needs them right here, right now on the couch because he can't wait he burns for Darlin and he's so hard he can't stand it and Darlin looks so good wearing his jersey and his varsity jacket and those tight fucking jeans with the rips...
Sam tearing their clothes off their body, tossing them over the couch and kissing every inch of Darlin's body, across their collarbones and their nipples and their chest and down their ribs and between their legs and where they're begging for his touch, fingering them open and making them come once with his fingers, then again with his hands and his mouth, then having them ride him right there on the couch with their head thrown back and shouting while he fucks them just right...
And then, urgency sated, he can move them to the bedroom to fuck them again laid out on the bed with his mouth on the junction of their throat and shoulder and a hand on the center of their back making them arch and have to take it...
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