#rocking the SAD otp right there

[negrowhat]

For the character ask, Zhou Shu Yi WBL

Hi Shan!!!!!!!!!

Zhou Shu Yi from We Best Love.

How I feel about this character

Shu Yi is such a fun character to me. He is so painfully honest and blunt. He tries to be aloof and cool but his face is like a 4K TV displaying every emotion he has as he feels them. He is driven by emotional impulses, he for sure never truly thinks about things before he does them. When he's mad he lashes out and when he's sad he cries. He definitely thinks about things more in retrospect. It's part of the reason why Shi De was able to manipulate his way into his life. I do love that Shu Yi says what he's thinking and he doesn't stifle himself and that makes him reliable and trustworthy to me. I appreciate that he calls people out on their BS no matter who they are, people like to treat him like he's stupid or a child and I'm glad he doesn't allow it. I love him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Only Gao Shi De...and sometimes not even Shi De.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

I loved Shu Yi's friendship with Zhe Yu. I love that Zhe Yu encouraged all of Shu Yi's wrongdoings. I love that he was so ready to fight his former crush Shi De for trying to weasel his way back into Shu Yi's life without explaining himself. They just give off the energy of petty popular girls when they're together.

My unpopular opinion about this character

Personally...I think Shu Yi forgave his father and Shi De too fucking fast. Shi De let that man talk him into GHOSTING Shu Yi for FIVE YEARS and it took almost no fucking effort on his part. Shu Yi was right that Shi De didn't believe in his love for him and Shu Yi's father had NO business interfering. And he gave such an ass-backwards reason behind it. Shi De is exactly where Otou-san was once upon a time and it's not like Shi De was a bad guy he was smart and talented and destined for great things. I think Shu Yi should've let Shi De grovel a lot longer and highkey he should've told his dad to kick rocks until he was ready to accept Shi De. As much as I love Shu Yi's reconciliation with Shi De, sometimes I feel like Shi De didn't deserve it at that time. But Shu Yi was ready to forgive him long before he did.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Wish we had gotten a wedding and I really did want to see Shu Yi SOAR with his new company.

GIVE ME A CHARACTER and I’ll break their ass down

[xomakara]

get to know your mutuals | tag game

thanks for tagging me @aaagustd & @beomcoups 💚

what's the origin of your blog title? ↠ It's part of my name. I'm not telling you what it is lol.

favorite fandoms: ↠ First a Beauty (Beast) and forever a Light (Highlight). NCTzen (NCT), Atiny (Ateez), Melody (BTOB) and many more lol.

OTP(s)/shipname: ↠ Johnny x Me | Jaehyun x Me | Yunho x Me | Gikwang x Me | Hyunsik x Me | the list goes on and on (Linda being forever delusional)

favorite color: ↠ all shades of green. occasionally reds and pinks lolol

favorite game: ↠ At the moment Coral Island and Love and Deepspace (please talk to me about Xavier). My forever favorites are the Final Fantasy series and the Suikoden series (impatiently waiting for Suiko 1 & 2 remaster).

song stuck in your head: ↠ No One Like You by Scorpions. I got my taste in 80's rock from my momma.

weirdest habit/trait? ↠ IDK to be honest. I think everything I do is weird LOL

hobbies: ↠ reading, writing, gaming, fishing/camping, watching true crime and commentaries, listening to music, I'm also a coverist (look at my pinned post for my cover yt channel lolol)

if you work, what's your profession? ↠ I'm a purchasing agent for a steel distribution company

if you could have any job you wish, what would it be? ↠ A lazy fart. Jokes aside, I wanted to be a software engineer/game developer when I was younger but idk when that changed. Somewhere along the line, I just thought Business was a good idea and look at me now, working a corporate job lol

something you're good at: ↠ I talk to much so I'm a good yapper. But i'm an equally good listener too! I'm also a go-to for advice and comfort.

something you're bad at: ↠ math and now look at me working with numbers everyday at work.

something you love: ↠ writing, my family (majority of the time), MY DOGGOS, the amazing friends I made as a writer, kpop, anime, asian dramas, being a lazy fart.

something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: ↠ Where my paranormal and true crime girlies at?

something you hate: ↠ the cold, shitty people in general, laundry, sometimes my family (mainly my younger sisters), sometimes my job

something you collect: ↠ wigs (I suffer from hair loss sooooooo), makeup, kpop albums, random electronics for some odd reason, purses, manga

something you forget: ↠ I'm old. I forget a lot of things. What's my name again?

what's your love language? ↠ words of reassurance and acts of affirmation

favorite movie/show: ↠ Too many to count. BUTTTTTTT Supernatural all the way.

favorite food: ↠ No favorite. I just love food LOL

favorite animal: ↠ MY DOGGOS, cats, fish, bunnies

are you musical? ↠ I was in choir back in middle school and high school. I still (occasionally) cover kpop songs when I have the time. I'm a decent singer (I think so) lol

what were you like as a child? ↠ I'm the oldest of 5 (1 brother, 3 sisters) and was expected to be the responsible eldest sister and help take care of the siblings. I rebelled during high school lolol

favorite subject at school? ↠ history, art, english

least favorite subject? ↠ MATH

what's your best character trait? ↠ I guess I'm a good listener. I'm told that I'm like a mother-hen lol

what's your worst character trait? ↠ not slowing down. I rush into things (mostly work projects) and tend to not think about the future impacts.

if you could change any detail of your day right now what would it be? ↠ get more sleep lololol

if you could travel in time who would you like to meet? ↠ I would say during the Khmer Rouge regime because of the stories of my grandma being a hero to the villagers. But then again, I don't want to live through that sad time and every day, i tell my parents that I love them and don't take them for granted.

recommend one of your favorite fanfics (spread the love): ↠ you in my arms (series) by @sluttyten, your gentle hands by @yourlocaljonghoe, and many other fics that I can't name off the top of my head

tagging: @wooahaeproductions @shadowkoo @lovetaroandtaemin @heechwe @unholywriters @yourlocaljonghoe @acupoftaewithsomesuga @rems-writing @itsnotmydejavu @sweetinsaniiity @yoonguurt @kwanisms @desirehorizon and whoever wants to do it 💚

[largemandrill]

d twins and rogier 🫵

Thank you I have many thoughts about them.

Rogier

Favorite thing: His mental illness, obviously. There’s so many things wrong with him that are also things that are wrong with me. He’s just like me fr (bad thing)

Least favorite: I’m gonna be so vulnerable right now but his outfit is so fugly. Like, he rocks it, but it is HELL to draw and I personally rank characters in my head by how fun they are to draw. I love him enough to try though.

Favorite line: I like it when he full on admits that the Tarnished terrifies him. We are very scary and he’s just a little guy. He knows the only thing keeping the Tarnished from murder is that they have a little crush on him lol.

brOTP: Rogier doesn’t have real friends, He only knows how to abandon people after he’s convinced himself that they hate him. However, I do see the relationship with the player Tarnished as the only platonic thing he’s got going on. They are buddies and he’s not used to that. He can’t leave this one behind because he physically cannot move, and that’s probably for the best tbh.

OTP: you know who I am.

nOTP: Honestly I don’t really have nOTPs. Rogier is slutty enough that you can throw him at anyone and it can work. I guess I’m not too privy on when people portray him and Fia with anything close to a healthy relationship, but that’s not the ship itself’s fault.

Random Headcanon: He’s so transgender you could never understand.

Unpopular opinion: Not unpopular within our particular circle, but with the community as a whole. He’s a pathetic little weasel of a man with sad eyes and undiagnosed mental disorders. I love him but therapy can’t fix him.

Songs I associate: Should be noted that I can make any song about him if I try hard enough. The main ones that remind me of him are We are not friends by S, Bag of Bones by Silversun Pickups, Wine and Wheat by Madds Buckley, and Liar by Arcadian Wild.

Pic: This tiny guy from the manga

Darian

Favorite thing: His strong arms that can carry me into the sunset. And probably also his reflexive need to care for others to the point where he would probably die for a complete stranger.

Least favorite: Not his fault but again with that fucking OUTFIT. I love it aesthetically but my wrist hurts even thinking about drawing it.

Favorite Line: I love how much a jokester he is once you join Gurranq. Like when he tells you to not let him starve to death is so funny to me. He trusts you enough to joke and that makes me emotional tbh.

brOTP: In my mind, he and Nepheli are actually really good buddies. They’re both adopted by not great dads and they value other’s lives above all else. Also they probably drink together.

OTP: I’m not going into him and Rogier rn because that would take a full hour to write down. I’m just a man.

nOTP: I can’t see him with a woman, I’m so sorry self-shippers. It doesn’t gross me out, but it doesn’t register as realistic in my mind. He’s gay, that’s a golden order mandate.

Random Headcanon: He wouldn’t be a great dad, but he would be one of the best dads out of the male cast of this game. Really a tallest dwarf situation.

Unpopular opinion: He’s never been wrong about anything that wasn’t related to the Golden Order tbh. The skeletons are an issue and he’s one of the only people equipped to properly deal with them.

Songs I associate: If a song is about Catholic guilt it’s immediately about him. Take me to Church is legally his theme song.

Fav pic: my profile picture/phone background, obviously.

Devin

Favorite thing: His rabies

Least favorite: I wish he had more screen time. I know that’s so his speech is more impactful, but I still wanna see him more.

Favorite Line: His iconic slutshaming moment. Good for him tbh.

brOTP: Him and me in real life. We’d be chill.

OTP: I physically cannot imagine Devin having any romantic interests for some reason. He’s not really a person in his head so maybe he believes that he’s incapable of love or something. I have many Devin thoughts.

nOTP: see above

Random Headcanon: I genuinely believe he could be a pretty good musician if he pushed himself. He looks like Kurt Cobain I had to make that joke somewhere.

Unpopular opinion: I know I say he’s a freak, but he’s actually just a grieving little guy. His mouth is foaming and his eyes are filled with tears.

Song I associate: Moon Waltz by Cojim Dip. I dunno the vibe is just correct.

Favorite image: All fan art of him is great. I don’t have a specific pic for him lol.

[hikari-kaitou]

before i answer yours, bvz for the ask meme?

Favorite thing about him: I was gonna say something thoughtful like "the way he can admit when he's wrong," but lbr, that's not what makes him hot. It's his emotional constipation that makes him hot 😂

Least favorite thing about him: since he moved past his racism already, I'm going to say "the fact that we never got to see him smile in-game". I get why it didn't happen, but I'm still sad 😭

Favorite line: "The man has no idea. To believe in yourself and work your fingers to the bone to realise your dreams... That's laudable, not laughable. No one has the right to deride another for such choices." I just love seeing him support his bff ok? It was so sweet

Brotp: does Barok+Iris count as a Brotp?

Otp: Baroryuu

Notp: Baroaso, it just does nothing for me and I'm not the biggest fan of Asougi

Random headcanon: Look at his stance and flexibility and tell me that man doesn't have significant ballet training.

Unpopular opinion: idk, if you ask some fans (mostly Western ones for some reason), the fact that I think he's one of the best characters in the series is an unpopular opinion

Song I associate with him: Renegades by ONE OK ROCK and Anata ga Iru koto de by Uru (this one is specifically a Baroryuu song to me)

Favorite picture of him:

[corameiwrites]

get to know your mutuals!

thank you for the tag @harbours-lighthouse (and sorry for the late response)!! All of their fics are so beautifully written, you should go check them out!!!

✮ what’s the origin of your blog title? online i've always gone by "coramei" or "cora", and i made this blog specifically for me to start writing more, so corameiwrites is pretty self explanatory :)

✮ favorite fandoms: Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon, DC (more specifically Batfam), Marvel, Spiderverse, Star Wars, Hunger Games, Criminal Minds, TLOU among many others...

✮ OTP(s)/shipname: theonsa (GoT), superbat (DC), bagginshield (The Hobbit), probably others that I cannot think of rn

✮ favorite color: garnet or mahogany red

✮ favorite game: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, it was the first game I ever played on my switch and it's become one of my comfort games!

✮ song stuck in your head: Out Like a Light by The Honeysticks <3

✮ hobbies: reading, writing, drawing, painting, listening to music, watching movies/series

✮ if you work, what’s your profession? currently working at a coffee shop (much like the one in my Jason Todd fic) to fund college :(

✮ if you could have any job you wish what would it be? that's a really intimidating question.....but probably something that revolves around creativity.

✮ something you’re good at: sticking to a routine, waking up at the same time every day, procrastinating, and remembering small details

✮ something you’re bad at: SENDING EMAILS!!! they are far too stressful for no reason

✮ something you love: blueberries are so yummy I love them. I also love the coffee shop I work at (despite unhinged customers) and how aesthetic it is

✮ something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: the Russian sleep experiment. it's insane.

✮ something you hate: having the motivation to create something but not knowing what </3

✮ something you collect: ROCKS! also flannels although I never seek them out, many people just give them to me as gifts

✮ something you forget: Dates and times...I am not a numbers person whatsoever

✮ what’s your love language? physical touch and quality time!

✮ favorite movie/show: fav movie has to be pride & prejudice (2005) because come on. fav series is either the walking dead or game of thrones

✮ favorite food: seafood!!!

✮ favorite animal: squirrels!!! they're so cute

✮ are you musical? No but I do chronically listen to music

✮ favorite subject at school? english or classes for my major

✮ least favorite subject? science. chemistry and physics in high school was absolute HELL. Bio was fine

✮ what’s your best character trait? probably being the listener and person people come to when they need a good laugh

✮ what’s your worst character trait? I tend to shrink away from people and go inside my shell during school breaks/weekends

✮ if you could change any detail of your day right now what would it be? I wish I had done my schoolwork earlier in the day and not procrastinated </3

✮ if you could travel in time who would you like to meet? Hamilton just to tell him that history has its eyes on him

✮ recommend one of your favorite fanfics (spread the love!): Oh my god there's too many. Off the top of my head, I would have to say Sansûkh by determanfidd on ao3. the writing is phenomenal, and it's made me cry multiple times. so sad and so good! the research behind it is admirable too, and if you like bagginshield or gimleaf you should definitely read!!!!

[jessicas-pi]

AHSOKA SPOILERS!!!!!!

i'm crying.

genuinely, truly in actual tears.

the ship...has sunk.

in episode one.

it feels like my stomach is full of rocks. this is my otp, THE most important ship to me. I have so many AUs and WIPs. And I had so much hope for the ahsoka show.

And then, in episode one... "you're like a sister to me."

Maybe I can get hyped again soon. but right now... it feels like I don't even want to touch my WIPs. My fics. My favorites. Cause they're all about sabezra.

I don't even want to watch more of the show. I know it's silly and petty but I don't wanna consume something that's gonna rub in my face that my OTP is never gonna be canon. And that the (hateful) team-space-sibling people are gonna be awful about it.

I just...

This ship was THE big thing to me.

I'm sick to my stomach out of sheer sadness.

And I just worry that this community is gonna fall apart. that all my sabezra buddies on here are gonna leave or are gonna get bullied off or whatever. And, I'm sorry if I fade out for a while, too. IDK what I'm gonna be doing. Just floating in a puddle of misery. I promise, I'll come back. I'll try to.

I've never felt this crushed.

anywaaay sorry about the sad ramble, byeeeee :')

[justme-and-myobsession]

Word find tag (door, dead, deep and dark)

@winterandwords tagged me to search for door, dead, deep and dark. Late reply (life got in the way and so did Baldur's Gate 3 :D )

These are from the year of the otp 2023 - to be published on ao3 in september. The worktitle is currently Boarding school.

Door

He followed the headmaster outside, where the cold icy wind took away his breath, and they walked across an open field, and as the pavement stopped, Aleksi was forced to carry his trolley, the wheels not rolling on the dirt, he stumbled and almost fell over his own feet. At the edge of the field, the vegetation changes from nice freshly cut grass to wilder and higher vegetation gradually changing to the beginning of a forest. How long had he been walking? At least five to ten minutes, he glanced over his shoulder and saw the main building in the far distance. The headmaster opened a rusting iron door to something that looked like an old industrial ruin, overgrown by plants, making it hard to see the building itself,tucked away, hidden out of sight.

Dead

If Joel’s eyes could have killed him he would be dead.

Deep

Aleksi sat there, crying, rocking himself back and forth to calm down. The feeling of failure, anger and sadness slowly ebbed away, replaced by a feeling of acceptance, hugging him like a blanket. His breathing calmed down, he wiped his tears. He was a failure, and they were right and he would be best off as a lone wolf. He was awkward enough for it.

Aleksi leaned his head against the tree, took a deep calming breath and scented the omega’s. “There’s no need in hiding, I can smell you guys.” Joel was the first to come out and immediately apologised: “Sorry, I didn’t mean to..” “You guys spoke your mind, your truth and yes, it hurts like hell. But you guys are not wrong.”

Dark

He followed the trail and stumbled upon an omega, tied up, spreaded out like a starfish, barely conscious. “Poor thing” Aleksi said softly as he tucked a string of long dark hair, covered with mud and dirt, behind the man’s ear. The man was skinny, you could count his ribs, there was not a single skin coloured inch left on his body, bruises, burning wounds, cuts. Aleksi didn’t need to sniff to smell dirt, mud , blood, pee and semen, amongst other things.

Tagging @helahyma @there-is-just-me-myself-and-i @lnights @another-sun @darkerthanblack-666

@ #any writer who wants to participate but isn't tagged ;-)

if you'd like to do it, with an open tag for anyone else who wants to join in. The words to search your story (WIP or completed) for are rain, window, walk and book 💜

[luna-melon]

For the ask game lol

Peter

Nebula

Mantis

Phos

Toko

Aoi

Sakura

Papyrus

Sans

Ayyyy thanks for the ask. Been a while since I've filled out one of these memes <3

Answers below.

Peter OTP: Peter/Nebula, of course. If the 100k+ words of fanfiction I've written about them is anything to go by, they are my OTP of all time. <3 I want Peter to move on and find happiness with someone new after vol. 3 and the movie planted the seeds for these two ending up together in the future really well I think. BrOTP: This was the hardest to decide because I love Peter's friendships with all the other Guardians. Gonna go with Mantis here though because I love how she looks out for her bro and tries to steer him in the right direction. Wish we'd gotten to see more of them being siblings after the holiday special 'cause the confirmation that she was Peter's sister made me so happy! TuT OT3: Shipping Peter with Nebula and Gamora at the same time would be really weird so instead I'm gonna go with Nebula/Peter/Thor in like, a V shaped polycule where Peter is dating them both but Nebula and Thor aren't into each other. NOTP: Ro/quill. I don't think I need to explain myself with this one, but shipping the raccoon with the humanoid characters is weird and gross to me.

Nebula OTP: Same as above, I think her implied feelings for Peter in vol. 3 make all the sense in the world. I mean, why wouldn't Nebula fall for the same person as Gamora? That's just how her life is. I think these two being together would fit their arcs well. Nebula learns to accept that she doesn't have to always be competing with Gamora in order to be worthy of love, and Peter gets his shit together enough to see how Nebula stuck by and cared for him and how Gamora was right about how the person he fell for "sounds more like her." BrOTP: I love her friendship with Rocket so much! Two sad cyborgs goin' on adventures together for five years, I'd kill to see more of that. OT3: Same as above as well I guess, but I don't see Nebula being poly. NOTP: I'm fine with all the big Nebula ships really even if I don't consume their content.

Mantis OTP: I used to ship Mantis/Nebula back in the day and I think that's still my fave Mantis ship even if I no longer go there. I also like the idea of her having a crush on Gamora. BrOTP: Mantis and Drax are my favorite duo ever. Just a couple of strange goofballs pranking each other and causing chaos. OT3: Can't think of anything for this one. NOTP: I don't hate Mantis and Drax as a romantic pairing but them just being weird best friends means so much to me. We need more platonic M/F relationships like them.

Phos OTP: I like all the Phos ships but can't deny that Phos/Cinnabar is my favorite. I know you haven't read the manga yet but I reread this one part of it earlier in the week that makes me wanna throw Phos in the trash because we could have had it all!! xD BrOTP: I really enjoyed Phos and Cairngorm's dynamic. OT3: Phos/Cinnabar/Antarc. Idk how it'd work out but all I know is that I want all three of these rocks to be happy. NOTP: I'm not picky with HNK ships but I'm sure some people ship Phos with Aechmea so no thanks to that.

Toko OTP: Toko/Komaru! These two mean the world to me. Seeing Toko end up with an amazing girlfriend who supports and loves her after everything she's been through and the development she underwent in Ultra Despair Girls damn made me cry. BrOTP: I love the interactions between her and Makoto in her Free Time events. The Naegis are the only ones who can tame this girl. OT3: I like the Toko/Sayaka ship so I can imagine an AU where she survives and throuples up with Tokomaru. NOTP: Byakuya. These two are the worst for each other and no one can change my mind.

Aoi OTP: I very much enjoy her and Sakura together. BrOTP: Yuta Asahina deserved better and in my personal headcanon, he survives UDG and gets to see his sis again. OT3: I think Sakura had a boyfriend so sandwich Hina in between them. NOTP: Got no strong negative feelings for any Hina ships.

Sakura OTP: Same as above. Love me a big buff sporty girlfriend and her smol buff sporty girlfriend. BroTP: I really enjoyed her Free Times with Makoto, too. OT3: Same as above. NOTP: Also same as above. It's hard to go wrong with Sakura ships.

Papyrus OTP: I don't ship Papyrus with anyone but I remember liking Papyrus/Mettaton when I was younger. BrOTP: I fucking LOVE his friendship with Undyne. Anyone who doesn't call Papyrus and Undyne in every room in the game to see what weird shit they say is missing out. OT3: I got nothin'. NOTP: Font/cest. Don't understand why this is such a big thing.

Sans OTP: These days I like the idea of Sans being aroace but I remember having a very brief phase of shipping Sans/Asgore xD BrOTP: Him and Papyrus ofc, but I also like him seeing Frisk as a little sibling, too. OT3: Sans/Fries/Ketchup NOTP: Fr/ans. That is a child...

[jaerockyaoi]

Andy Bogard for the ask game!

favorite thing about them

i really like playing andy at times... he has a really cool kit he was gonna be one of my mains but then iori ruined my life forever... he may look ugly at times but he is cute! mai is right he's kinda cute also love the fact he is scared of dogs when his brother is called the hungry wolf and has a friend who has a dog.. he's funny

least favorite thing about them

his like title or whatever sucks... whole body weapon.. the human weapon... it's cool but it doesn't fit him so it sucks.. sad! also they should write him more niceys to mai.. mai deserves to be with a real man!!! (me)

favorite line

love when he said this women. ya gotta love 'em!

also i one time i was playing kof xiii arcade mode and the dialogue of mai vs terry and then mai vs andy to king vs andy was hilarious... your brother got beaten up and you punched your gf 😭 it was hilarious

brOTP

andy and terry ofc... the bogard brothers yay yay also him and rock.. i love it when family 👍 also i'd like to know more of how andy got hokutomaru as a student actually... heem heem

OTP

mai and andy ofc even if i think mai should be with me sometimes... they are super cute and if andy gets written properly their relationship is super sweet and awesome yaaaaay i hate the fatal fury movies with a passion but andy and mai were so cute in some of it i remember ^_^ like andy comes off as dismissed or whatever but i think he's just overwhelmed with the amount of love he gets from mai bc of the whole dead father thing or something

nOTP

andy and terry. if you ship them i'll kill you!!!! idk much ships in fatal fury/kof so i wouldn't know much but ya. that.

random headcanon

i think he takes care of rock during vacation or something... taking him to a trip to japan and stuff uncle and nephew bondiiiing 👍

unpopular opinion

i think he should keep his little ponytail from ff3 and rbff it was really cute! idk if that's unpopular but i don't form enough thoughts of andy so ya...

song i associate with them

pasta specifically the kof xiv remix... mmm hmm i don't think of songs for characters most of the time so i can't think songs that aren't one of his themes..

favorite picture of them

these images are my fav of him... you know he was shitting his pants at the dog one...

[lavender-twilight23]

Get to know your mutuals: tag game

IDK who to tag so I shall tag @amethystgoldenwind

Thank you @alien--cookie for tagging me! It took me sooooo long to respond lollll but that was because there were so many questions and I immediately got super overwhelmed 🤣 BUT HERE I AM!!! And it’s funny because some of your answers matched mine and I was like omg twinninggggg 😝

What's the origin of your blog title?

My childhood nickname was/is Lavender Twilight! That came about when me and my cousin/best friend would play outdoor roleplaying games and we didn’t want to be named ourselves when we played as characters, so we made up our own names and mine was originally Ruby Scarletsun, but after a few years, I changed it to Lavender Twilight, and that has been my nickname ever since! And 23 is a number that I just have taken and put in a lot of username stuff over the years :P 

OTP(s) + Shipname:

CHERIK! CHERIK CHERIK CHERIK CHERIK (CharlesxErik, X-Men)

And Fitzsimmons (Fitz and Simmons, Agents of SHIELD) in the back of my mind, but I’m into X-Men right now 🤣

Favorite colour:

RAINBOW! Even as a kid, I could never pick, so I always said all of them, rainbow. Ironically, I am both ace and bi and found that out last christmas/fall soooooo 🤣🏳️‍🌈

Favorite game:

Game??? Liiiike what, video game? Board game?

Okay, uhhh, I like Taboo, Heads Up, Scattergories, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Oh, and lots of old Mario games like Mario 64, Mario Kart Wii, and New Super Mario Bros Wii because NOSTALGIA

Song stuck in your head:

Two:

BYE BYE BYE

and

Chopin Waltz Op. 69 No. 2 🤣 (banger)

Hobbies:

Lots of things! Mainly writing, watching movies, hanging out with my friends, and slowly making my way through the multiple books I’m in the middle of 🤣

If you work, what's your profession?

I’m unemployed lolllll but I’m in college for film and I want to get an on-campus job when I’m off spring break, and then also find a job over the summer because college tuition is makin my bank account look real sad right about now 😅

Something you're good at:

I like to think I’m decent at writing! 😅

Something you're bad at:

Self-love, sometimes 🤣 When my anxiety gets in the way of shit, I’m immediately like ‘yeah anxiety, you’re right’ 😅

Something you love:

SO MANY THINGS!!!! Movies and writing mainly, I mean there’s a reason why I want to be a director/screenwriter! Most music (except rap and rock, sorry), and fun clothes!

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff:

Why the How To Train Your Dragon live action remake is a horrible mistake that makes me want to flip a table. 😅

Oh, and why Charles and Erik from X-Men are completely in love and NOT platonic.

Something you hate:

Disloyalty and being ignored.

Something you collect:

I collect bookmarks! Not as much anymore, but I used to love going to libraries for the simple fact of getting a few free bookmarks!

Something you forget:

Math stuff. As soon as numbers start getting involved, my brain just checks out, and I never remember anything.

What's your love language?

Physical touch all the way! I’m a big hug person 😁

Favorite movie/show:

Right now? Probably X-Men: Days of Future Past! But HTTYD also is up there too :)

I also love Agents of SHIELD and the Heartstopper show!

Favorite food:

Chicken parmesan!! I’m an Italian girl 😋

Favorite animal:

WOLVES ALL THE WAY. I did my senior pictures with ambassador wolves (yes real wolves) and it was an amazing experience!

And yes, that's me 🫡

And dragons as a fav too, if they count.

What were you like as a child?

A CHATTERBOX. Way too friendly for my own good, my parents were worried that I would get kidnapped because I would just talk to EVERYBODY.

Favorite subject at school?

English!

Least favorite subject:

MATH OH MY GOD

What's your best character trait?

Maybe my empathy and my ability to be compassionate toward people? I’m an empath so I can to some extent take on other people’s emotions, which sometimes can be really hard on me since sometimes I get emotionally overstimulated and then have breakdowns from feeling others’ emotions, but when I can manage it, it allows me to be a really good listener and give good advice or just sit with someone if they need it.

What's your worst character trait?

Probably my habit of being WAY too hard on myself 😅

If you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be?

I would want to NOT be as hard on myself lol

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet?

J.R.R. Tolkien, probably! I love love love Lord of the Rings! Although I’m more of a fan of the movies than the books for obvious reasons (aspiring filmmaker lol), I would still love to meet him! Fun fact, out of all the LOTR cast, Christopher Lee (Saruman) was the only member of the entire cast and crew to have actually met Tolkien!

Thanks again for the tag, and sorry it took me so long, haha! 😂

[flouncysinatra]

The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson), book 3

Peisistratus mentioned! (Wilson calls him Pisistratus which I don't prefer ;_; I will probably be using an inconsistent mix of Latin and Greek spellings throughout this series of posts, so prepare for that) I love that he's the one to welcome them and give a toast, nailing the social role of the hero's son. Athena is literally proud of his good manners!! Telemachus is really about to have a "do I want him, or want to be him?" crisis huh

"If you stayed here five years and kept on asking [about the suffering of the Trojan War], you would get bored and go home before the story was finished" says Nestor - this made me laugh so much. Like dude, that's a whole other epic poem (and that poem only covers a few weeks of it!)

I didn't remember this thing that Nestor says: Menelaus and Agamemnon fought over when to leave for home (the conflict apparently spurred on by an angry Athene, who incidentally is watching Nestor recount this, in the guise of Mentor)

Nestor of course mentions the avenging of Agamemnon by Orestes, and encourages Telemachus to be a brave son like him. Telemachus quickly complains that "I wish the gods would grant me that much power". Nestor then talks about how Odysseus may yet return and take revenge himself, with Athene's blessing, and reminisces about how much Athene always favoured Odysseus. Again, Athene is sitting right next to them in disguise! She finally speaks up and is like, "Oh I dunno, I reckon the gods could do some pretty cool stuff if they wanted to... They could probably still save Odysseus and bring him home... WINK"

Nestor expands on Menelaus's journey home. Some things befell him that we'll see Odysseus suffer too: crew members dying and needing a delay to bury them, storms scattering his fleet of ships apart, and ships being wrecked on the rocks.

Hilarious sleeping-arrangement shenanigans are required to get rid of Athene because I guess the immortal virgin goddess couldn't exactly lie down to sleep in Nestor's house (where she and Telemachus are invited) like a human being (do the Greek gods even sleep? I think so but idk), so she has to invent a cover story of why "Mentor" needs to go away early the next morning... And then she ruins it all by transforming into an ossifrage (!) and flying away. So they all see she was a goddess and have to do yet more sacrifices to honour her!

"And so Nestor went to sleep beside his wife, and Telemachus went to sleep beside... Peisistratus, the only one of Nestor's sons who wasn't married" I AM ONLY SLIGHTLY REPHRASING HERE OTP OTP 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

The next morning, all Nestor's sons get involved in the sacrifice of a bull (whose horns have been gilded), which again feels like a pointed Being the Son of a Noble Warrior-King 101 class for Telemachus.

Interestingly Nestor's daughter Polycaste washes, oils and dresses Telemachus (and that scene doesn't have HALF the sexual tension of what's between Telemachus and Peisistratus lol is this getting tired yet)

Sorry to the Read Another Book crew (I do agree honestly, but hey, I literally am right now) - this reminds me of Harry Potter in a funny way? Like Telemachus is this neglected sad boy who has lived a sad existence under the stairs without his dad, and now suddenly he's being shown around this whole world and finding there are benefactors and mentors and friends, an inheritance of power that he's owed, and a kind of heroic person that he can be. I guess what I'm saying is that Telemachus is a Chosen One, a la Harry Potter, Buffy or Luke Skywalker? Something to think about anyway!

Next up: book 4 and we arrive at Sparta to speak to Menelaus. I wonder how much thicker we can lay on the Agamemnon/Aegisthus/Orestes comparisons...

[jessicatredes]

— FIVE SONGS + OTPS

i was tagged by @denerims​ (thanks!!!) and i tag @courierrose @chuckhansen @dishoenored and anyone else who wants to!

baby by bishop briggs - shaundi x aiden (saints row)

And I like the way that we walk the train tracks Foggin' the, windows up, on the way back Ride or die every night every day

without you by oh wonder - deacon x reagan (fallout 4)

Step out into the sun Skies above they radiate me Lift up carry the love Do you know That I've been out of my mind This slow life I'm waiting for you To swing me all of your light

we’ll meet again by vera lynn - abel x briar rose (d&d)

We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away

to love you by the family crest - abel x biar rose

And so, I was born to love this woman And the hands outstretched about these ageing nights And so, I was born to love this woman From the dawning spark my love has held this heart of mine

my friends by oh wonder - shiloh x mason (far cry 5)

And I can’t forget it All of the love All of the love As we stood tall together All of the love All of the love   

[mokutone]

Hm…. Yamato is too easy, so…. Sakura? 👀

ah. an anon after my own heart. yes i love her lets talk abt her!!!

answers under the cut!

favorite thing about them — i kind of like that like. as a kid she's just a huge asshole. like due to her own insecurities. she put ino on a pedestal. and then got MAD at ino for being on a pedestal that SHE put ino on. she's constantly a jackass to naruto. shes rude to even sasuke. SHES RUDE TO KAKASHI TOO. like as a kid she was just kind of a writhing mass of frustration and insecurities and i love that abt her :)

least favorite thing about them — how did kishimoto get worse about writing women as he moved on. how do you lose skills like that? i was watching like episode 160 or something like that where pain attacks and sakura was like "oh no! who would be so awful as to attack the leaf village...!" like. kishimoto. what the fuck was that. shes a warrior in war town. if somebody destroyed konoha they'd destroy 90% of the land of fire's military force. like. puts chin on hand. like yeah this is sakuras home and there are civilians here but also she is literally warrior medic of war town. thats such a dumb line and u know they gave it to her just bc shes a girl. hate it here. anyway.

favorite line

this is rlly funny. lee said like one nice thing to her and now she's ride or die. sakura im so obsessed with u, u are soooo funny

brOTP — naruto :) theyre friends + they worked hard to be able to get along with each other. i wish we got to see more interactions that werent just the like. manzai comedy routine. had enough of her hitting him on the head come on. lets see them fight at each others backs already!!!!

OTP — bleh bleh bleh i'm not very shippy but i think ino + sakura have good chemistry, and i think rock lee + sakura could be cute.

nOTP — sakura and sasuke just make me really sad

random headcanon — she hasn't read any fiction books since she was like 13 and they stress her out at this point. you want her to get invested in some fictional fucking characters that she doesnt even know whats going to happen to? no thank you. sounds unpleasant. she's got a perfectly good medical text that tsunade is going to need her to have read by thursday anyway so really the fiction is a waste of time. she is like Yamato in this way.

unpopular opinion — i think she also has adhd. idk if i need to elaborate on this but like, when she does her kind of internal/external split in early naruto, it's clear that she relates to naruto a lot but is like way too ashamed of herself to act as honestly to her feelings as he does, and she clearly takes this out on him, instead of working thru her own issues about repressing her behavior. again not healthy behavior for a child but i do love that abt her. fucking nightmare tho

song i associate with them — some nights by fun. i don't know what to tell u, i have abysmal music taste and i have to own it so this is it? I sold my soul for this? Washed my hands of that for this? I miss my mom and dad for this? No, when I see stars, when I see– When I see stars, that's all they are

favorite picture of them

LOOK SHES SOOOOO SMUG. look at her little smile. look at the huge ahem. she got it right shes the smartest in the class and shes like. now give me the praise and the gold star i fuckin earned it. obsessed with her shes so wonderful and so obnoxious. absolute daughter. kakashis here for context but this isnt abt him.

[uchihashisui-kun]

Obito for the character ask game?

Favorite thing about them

Everything. He's traumatized. He traumatizes others. He's evil. He's babygirl. He's a bastard. He's manipulated. He's smart. He's a dumbass. He hates Kakashi. He wants to give Kakashi a world where he'll be happy. He doesn't feel pain anymore. He's so clearly in deep pain and sadness all the time. I want him, I crave for him in more ways than one

Least favorite thing about them

That he died. He deserved to survive and bend Kakashi over any available surface and let go of every pent up emotion he had u.u

Favorite line

THIS THIS THIS I'M OBSESSED WITH IT I KNOW IT WORD BY WORD!!!

BrOTP

Obito and Kabuto, they're the type of friends who constantly threat each other but also would help each other hide a body

OTP

MadaObi, HashiObi, KakaObi and ObiIta

NOTP

ObiSaku

Random headcanon

He has hearing problems in his right ear from the fact that that side was the one crushed under the rock. Also he's Shisui's older brother.

Unpopular opinion

I have many opinions about him but I don't think any of them can be considered unpopular

Song I associate with them

End of me by Ashes remain and Honeythief by Halou, which gives me strong Obito absolutely obsessed with Kakashi vibes

Favorite picture of them.

Pretty boy with pretty eyes and pretty eyelashes

[spacedimentio]

Huh wow ok @pempeeeperem. I prefer sitting on my fics until I'm done with them and only yelling about them to a few people, but I'll drop some crumbs today.

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

In order of oldest to most recent

100 Little Somethings - 100 theme challenge that I'll pick back up again someday (maybe). I still count it as a WIP even though it hasn't been updated since 2017.

Where We Belong - sequel to Chase the Nightmares Away

Fractures: Side Cracks - got too ambitious with the ideas and killed my motivation, whoops.

Idiot Rock Collection - aka Steven Universe-themed OCtober 2019 I never finished

Roulette - Professor Venomous character analysis fic that never really got off the ground. RIP OK KO Let's Be Heroes, I miss you.

Several NSFW things you don't get to know about, I had a phase lol

Monster & Prince AU - aka Prince Peasley x Super Dimentio but Super Dimentio is a giant cursed (and fluffy!) dragon, dog, cat, chimera and Peasley is sad because of an arranged marriage. Tfw you get kidnapped by a monster but you want to be cause you don't wanna get married and the monster is your best friend :> It was @snugglebunnies's idea originally and they let me roll with it. (Hope you write your own version someday <3)

Hold Dear - slightly depressing Luisley oneshot that I wrote in a fit of hyperfixation one morning and that I really need to rewrite sometime cause it doesn't work right

Mario: A Midsummer Night's Dream - silly little cracky crossover between my favorite Shakespeare play and the Mario RPGs :> Honestly this has been a WIP for like 12 years but it was just the cast list and I actually wrote a bit of it now

Heart of Spades - inspired by a round of frantic fanfic where Dimentio just shows up at the Comet Observatory to pester Rosalina and I had way too many thoughts about that in conjunction with the obscure theory that Rosalina is Blumiere and Timpani's son, and the fact that these two characters have never interacted in any piece of fan media ever as far as I can tell

Small Moments - Luisley-themed 100-word drabble challenge! Very cute, nothing but fluff

Prime Directive Three - this is what I've currently been working on every day for the last month straight, like I seriously haven't written this much this consistently since I did Fractures. It is not one but a series of three 2001: A Space Odyssey fics, talk about completely unexpected fandoms out of left field, how did I even get here. There is Halman of course, that sort of OTP is my absolute jam, and there just might be a fourth fic, if I dare to get spicy ;) HAL lives (he did not want to do a murder, he did not, alas the government did an oopsy and RIP those other four), Dave does not become baby, instead they get to go home and they have to deal with the consequences of the fact that the actions that HAL tried to take in order to stop himself from killing everyone are written in his error log, which will inevitably be investigated and looks suspicious as he did not behave like a computer. That's right, I'm putting him on the stand at the hearing, and now the world gets to deal with the reveal of a fully sentient AI not long after dealing with the alien monoliths. Includes social media sections. It's been very fun, I'm having a blast :D

Send in an ask with a number or question and I'll post a lil snippet.

tagging @snugglebunnies, @lizadale, @thewoollyviking, @nereamerayo, @mysinfulhand, @cowsaresushi, @spmcomic, @shootysturs, @foreteller-ava, @kathrinesnow, @puppyluver256, @captainshyguy. Optional of course.

I got called out to unveil my wip folder. The post chain starts here as far as I can tell

@murder-at-the-bingo-hall I can't believe you did this to me. How dare you assume that I'm dying to talk about my fics and being too shy to even post about them without tags. So... thanks.

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Here are some wips that I am working on / thinking about:

Hearty Grains, Pop Pods, Crunchy Salt and Sand Radishes

Pokemon Alola Story

Colress Story Pt. 4

They're all Pokémon fics.

I'll be tagging... @spacedimentio and @spmcomic sorry guys :')

[solomonish]

selfless (to a fault?) [demon brothers]

CW: allusions to past toxic relationships. minor description of injury in beel’s. belphie’s is a bit sad (happy ending! just melancholic vibes) and alludes to chapter 16.

no problem nonnie! i hope this is to your liking <3

nowdateables: here!

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Lucifer

Honestly, he'd be a tough one to get to allow you to do anything for him. You know, the whole avatar of pride thing….and he also just generally has a habit of holding the weight of the world on his shoulders. He thinks - no, he knows he can handle everything on his own

If he's letting you in enough to help him - not only trusting you enough to think the tasks he delegates to you will be done to his liking, but allowing you to help and opening up the possibility that he might be risking his image of perfection - he can only expect you'll let him do the same for you. It's like your own special love language, right?

He does NOT like how jumpy you are about the subject. At first, he's miffed. Do you not think he can do the task to your liking? Has he given off the false impression that he cannot take any more work than he already has? Was your offer to help not based on affection, but pity??? It really ruffles his feathers.

He's the type to confront you head-on. At first, his voice is harsh because he's talked himself into thinking you've offended him, but when you start backing away and trying to dodge the conversation, apologies falling from your mouth about how the last thing you wanted to do was upset him, he softens. He doesn’t understand yet, but something is upsetting you and he intends to get to the bottom of it.

Not one who would pester you about opening up to him, but the sooner you do, the more of a show of good faith it is. He’ll trust your word entirely regardless, but it does a lot to soothe the upset of his own creation if you come back to explain sooner rather than later. After all, being vulnerable is perhaps Lucifer’s greatest show of love - it does not go unnoticed when you do the same.

Doing his best to talk through a solution is act of kindness #1 - and it helps you adjust a little since you worked with him rather than completely handed him the reins. He starts off his own plan to help you out by bringing in things he was already going to do for himself - offering you coffee when he gets his own, for example. He uses the fact that you’d feel bad for refusing against you for a little bit, but he means well!

You might notice him going softer on you for just a little bit - don’t say anything about it. He’s worried that he gave off the impression of using things against you because of how much of a disciplinarian he is. Besides, the two of you normally don’t get into arguments (he doesn’t have the time to let things simmer - if he’s that upset about something, he’ll try to address it immediately), so he doesn’t really know how else to change his behavior. He just hopes that allowing you the opportunity to open up to him again, should you need it, will alleviate the feeling that he’d ever use your kindness against you.

Mammon

The first time you stiffened up after he tried to help you, he thought you were crazy. Lucifer had just given you a punishment for one of his schemes that you took the fall for (and he still isn’t sure why Lucifer let you take the fall when it was obviously Not You), and you insisted that you could do it by yourself! He wasn’t too keen on cleaning every window in the House of Lamentation himself, so he left soon after placing the offer, but his time was spent mindlessly wondering about you.

The next time was shortly after, when you came into his room and crashed on his bed. He offered you a hand massage, although he did it in a very muttered voice with dark cheeks - and you said no again! Forget being offended that the romantic hand-holding idea he totally didn’t get from a magazine he was reading waiting for you (that would’ve somehow ended in disaster anyway) wouldn’t play out - he was getting worried.

He doesn’t bring anything up immediately, but he worries about you and watches you intently. Sometimes you’ll catch him staring at you, and he flips out when you ask him what’s up. The only clue Mammon gathers is that you don’t seem to be angry with him, so what’s up? He’s used to his backwards advances working against him, but he’s making a genuine effort here!

He finally gets pent up in his frustration and asks you head-on. Mammon isn’t known for his tact - “Oi, why won’t you just let me take over once in a while? Cut yerself a break, MC!” - but there’s a certain...desperate tinge to his voice that makes you realize he really does care (and is driving himself crazy trying to figure things out on his own). When you DO finally tell him, he sort of deflates and his voice goes to that softer, more genuine tone.

“H-hey, I would never do that kind of thing to ya…” He starts shuffling in place, kicking at rocks (if there are any) and you realize he kinda looks like a kid. “You do so much for everyone, and it makes me feel real good inside. I just wanna make you feel that, too. Besides, we don’t need TWO cranky workaholics in the house. Lucifer is plenty.”

He knows one moment of honesty isn’t going to fix your entire way of thinking, but he goes right back to his blatant offers after that. Maybe if he desensitizes you to it, you’ll feel less weird about accepting his help! It doesn’t work, so he shifts to little things. Catch him running across classrooms as soon as you’re dismissed so he can grab your textbooks to carry for you off the desk before you can. 

Once he realizes you’re more receptive to him helping you, he’s ready to breathe a sigh of relief and be annoying about it again. Generosity doesn’t come easy to him, okay? Besides, he’s The Great Mammon! You should’ve known he’d be better than any other guy you’ve been with!

Leviathan

Of COURSE you wouldn’t want someone like him to help you out. He’d probably mess it up, anyway…

Seriously, Leviathan is very sensitive to rejection, so the moment you politely decline any offers to help he backs up about a thousand miles and sulks when you’re not around. It’s hard for him to get out of his own head, and he’s so ready for you to just tell him what everybody else is thinking and how much he sucks…

It dawns on him, though, that you never gave up on him when he pushed you away. It’s totally not poggers sucky of him to just give up on you like that. You’re his henry! You’re his s/o! He’s totally ready to fight any boss for you!! …..after he levels up a little more.

Levi spends a TON of time looking up ways to talk to you, one-on-one. He isn’t good with emotions like this but he is capable of them and having deep, serious talks. It shouldn’t MATTER that his research material is a bunch of feel-good romance anime scenes that he based his most recent Top 10 OTPs of the season post on! 

Surprisingly enough, he brings it up relatively smoothly one night when you’re chilling in his room and he’s playing some relaxing simulator. You’re complaining about the things you have to do in the morning, and when there’s a lull in your conversation Leviathan turns and tentatively asks, “Hey...why don’t you try letting me help you out?” He can feel your refusal before it comes so he hurriedly adds “Please! I just- you stress yourself out so much and what good am I if I can’t even help you at all?”

Is it his impassioned plea for you to let him in? Is it his willingness to obviously step out of his comfort zone? Have your walls just conveniently crumbled at this moment? Whatever it is, you don’t have it in you to reject him when he’s so open about wanting to help you (and the pain it’s caused him not to). Either way, you sigh and give him a few, small tasks that you think you both could manage him having and he swears to do them well!!

Truly opening up to him about the reason why you were so hesitant on letting him help takes a while, and he doesn’t exactly pick up on it himself. Once you do tell him, though, in your journey to help yourself let him in, he holds you a little tighter and mumbles that he’ll never do that to you. Levi knows better than anyone that words can only mean so much, but he’s grateful for the chance to prove it to you. He won’t let his Henry down!

Satan

Satan is perceptive, and he knows how to talk about emotions. He might even have suspicious about the root cause before you even think about letting him know what’s up. He’s already started doing a few things for you - carrying each other’s books, for example. Small acts of kindness to get the both of you through the day.

However, one thing Satan isn’t good with…..is dealing with emotions head-on.

He spends so much time keeping his own under lock and key! After doing his best to keep the most calm, analytical front he can, Satan tends to uh….forget about the emotional part of emotions.

So. When he asks why you won’t let him reciprocate in the relationship, attempting to display that he just wants the two of you to be on equal ground and he is worried about you, he sort of comes off...as cold. And like he’s accusing you of feeling a certain way. He definitely presents it as “I’ve noticed you feel x and i think y would be helpful for us to fix it” rather than “how are you feeling? What is causing you trouble? How can i offer assistance in a way that translates well to you?” And if that doesn’t bring back some memories…

He feels awful, and at the end of it all you’re crying (or presenting your stress and bad memories however you normally do) and he still doesn’t know how to fix things. Counterintuitively, he looks through his books for an answer, and it takes him a few days to realize that’s what got him into this mess.

So he goes to you directly and, albeit a little clumsily, apologizes and asks what he can do to help you through this. You say that’s just the problem - you don’t want his help - and he sits next to you and just asks why? The two of you wind up talking for hours, sitting next to each other and just...really talking. You aren’t the only one feeling vulnerable - Satan is talking about his emotions full-on rather than through a scientific lens and it makes him just as nervous as you are.

Satan doesn’t get into arguments with you. He runs from the possibility because he’s worried about what his wrath could do to you. But he promises you that he could never hold anything against you, especially something like asking him for help. It’s an honor that you let him this close, and he can only return the favor in kind. He hopes you have enough faith to believe in him until he has the opportunity to prove it beyond a doubt.

Asmodeus

Asmo does things for people without asking. He gives unsolicited makeup and relationship advice, he offers to touch-up any products you may have on, he lends you clothes just because he felt like he should…

The thing is, Asmo will start before you even have a chance to ask him to stop. He’ll start before you’re even wondering if you like him. And at first, you’re ok with it. Well, you’re not, but you can decide he’s just testing the waters or that this is some weird demon way to earn your friendship or tell you he considers you a friendly presence, like cats. But it still rubs you the wrong way.

However, Asmo always notices that you...aren’t receiving it the way he wants you to. He invites you out and leaves you an outfit on your bed, and you come out wearing something entirely different. He leaves you a bouquet of flowers, and suddenly the dining room has a new bouquet in the center of it. (and you always avoid his gaze during those dinners, which is totally weird.) It’s almost like you’ve recognized the face he makes when he’s about to touch up your makeup, because you pull out a pocket mirror and check yourself over before he even has a chance to!

Are you leading him on? He doesn’t think so, but you are quite literally the only person he can’t literally charm the pants off of, and he isn’t quite sure how to navigate the signals you’re giving him. You seem fine with the relationship - it felt pretty genuine to him, and you looked thrilled when he made the romantic moves on you - so what was going on?

He finally caves and asks when he’s going through your wardrobe, sifting through it with you on the bed to make room for a shopping spree the two of you had been planning, and sees all the outfits he’d bought you hanging, still in their outfit bags. Some of the bags even had DUST on them!

He turns around and puts on a gentle voice. Though Asmo doesn’t know what’s happening, he can feel the air in the room shift and he knows he’s encroaching on some sensitive territory. “Hey, do you not like when I give you gifts? I haven’t been able to understand what’s been bothering you, but I don’t want to make you uncomfortable…”

He does NOT like the way you turn your face away from him, but he sits a respectable distance away and keeps his hands in his lap. Asmo is as good at genuine advice as he is at gossip, so it isn’t hard for him to get you comfortable enough to open up to him. You don’t have to tell him everything at once - he’ll listen to whatever you’re willing to tell him, letting you lean against him when you’re ready.

Asmo is known for being petty, but you bring out sides of him nobody knew were there. He’ll swear up and down that he’d never turn your good heart against you - after all, it’s one of the many things he loves about you - but he does understand where you’d get that impression. If you’ll let him prove it to you, he will - and he’ll start by only pestering you to let him buy one outfit for you on that shopping spree!

Beelzebub

Listen. Beel is a generous soul (for a demon) ((to those he really loves)). He just doesn’t ever really find himself in possession of anything worth sharing. Really, the only thing he is ever in the possession of is food. When he isn’t at his sports practice, working out or studying, he’s eating, and he’ll gladly share his food with you.

Oh? You don’t want it? He gives you a confused look - he’d ask if you were feeling well if he hadn’t eaten lunch with you just an hour before - but shrugs, his growling stomach winning over his concern. It’s not like you’re skipping meals, anyway. It isn’t until you get hurt helping him work out and refuse to let him pick you up to carry you to medical attention that he gets VERY concerned.

He feels awful enough as is. It was his fault you were even there - he just wanted to add more weight to his workout. (And, he won’t admit it, the idea of using a bench you were sitting on to lift over his head may have been a bit overkill. But he saw that little spark that said ‘that isn’t possible but man i wish it was’ when you saw it happen in that show and mmmmmmaybe he wanted to impress you. How was he supposed to know Mammon had broken it and left it there?) He could practically feel the pain in your ankle from the sound it made, and you were clutching desperately to your shin, wanting to press on the wound but knowing it was a bad idea. MC, there’s no way you can walk on that, why aren’t you letting him help?

The guilty puppy face he’s giving you is making the whole situation worse. It’s taking everything you can not to snap on, from the overwhelming pain in your ankle to the negative thoughts racing in your head to the knowledge that you’ll have to give in eventually. Finally, you face him head on and decide to just rip the band-aid off. “I don’t have the best experience with letting people do things for me. If you’re expecting to use this against me, I’m going to be out of commission for a while, so remember that.”

He is. So confused. Are you really mad at him? What are you talking about? It’s not that he’s stupid - because really, he isn’t - this just kinda came at him from left field and he does not know what to do about.

“What? I’m worried about you, MC, and there’s no way you can walk on your ankle. Come on, please let me take you to get help. I won’t mention it ever again if that’s what will make you happy.”

So maybe it takes a while to get to the nearest infirmary, and maybe he’s going extra slow so as not to jostle our injury, and maybe in the meantime he’s being so contemplative and quiet that you have a heart-to-heart. Beel’s too genuine not to trust him when he swears he’d NEVER use your kindness against you, but he understands it’ll take a while to show you.

Belphegor

So. Um. This is awkward.

Belphie is a smartass, and he’s the youngest and used to getting his way. He’s definitely the type to dig his heels in and fight dirty in an argument, just because he’s used to winning. He’s also sadistic and has plotted with you to use his brothers’ weaknesses against them for fun. So he gets it. He totally gets why you would think he’d do it. Honestly, that’s basically what he did to free himself from the attic, only with more violence involved. He gets it.

Since Belphegor hasn’t exactly been the nicest to you in the past, he isn’t about to make you pity him with words like “yeah, of course you wouldn’t trust me after what I did to you…” First of all, on the off chance that it’s completely unrelated, he doesn’t want to put that idea in your head and give you a resentment you never had, but also he’s getting a hang of this redemption thing. Yes, on an average day he’s still a bratty, selfish little shit, but he does show you how sorry he is for using you and hurting you. It shows in the way he checks up on you in situations he knows you’re uncomfortable in, in the way he cares for you in that gentle way that’s so subtle you wonder if he’s even actively doing anything. (He is - offering you the best spot in a blanket nest, suggesting your favorite meals when the brother on dinner duty needs ideas, little things - and you both know it.) But how does he repent for something he doesn’t even know if he’s doing?

The way you stop cold when you peek in the kitchen and see him (and Beel) cooking the dinner you just complained about wanting hurts. The two of you have a stare-off for a moment, and Beel gets the message to slide out of the room. Belphegor clears his throat.

“What do you want?” You ask with narrowed eyes. Ouch, way to be a Lucifer. He instead says, “Nothing. I just wanted to do something nice for you.” “And you don’t want anything in return?” “Have I given off the impression that I would?”

You sigh and step into the kitchen to wash your hands, asking if he needs help since Beel left. He grabs your wrist. “You’re welcome to keep me company, but I want to do this for you.”

He doesn’t like you looking at him distrustfully, but is relieved you sit at the counter instead of leaving. He wants to ask you what’s up, but something is stopping him - he ignores that what’s stopping him is fear that you’ll have another thing to add onto the list of the unforgivable sins he’s committed. If you feel like telling him, he’ll listen - but until then, he’ll go back to quietly trying to prove his worth to you, hoping one day you’ll see that it’s genuine and let him give you all the good things you deserve.