#seb x todd

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[leclerc-s]

let him be a trophy husband!

series masterlist

isabella perez they've put it together.

logan sargeant no. they think it's reputation (daphne's version) not a new album.

isabella perez whatever logan. anyways. how are the grammys?

max jones-verstappen I'M BORED!

zoya torres i suspect he'll end up drunk by the end of the night. mae jones-verstappen to be fair, he was life this at the fia prize giving ceremony. daniel jones-ricciardo he always gets drunk at things like this.

pierre gasly why are you people on your phones? you are at the grammys put them away!

mae jones-verstappen commercial breaks exist you french fuck!

rowan todd forgive him, he's never been to one.

pierre gasly because you've never taken me with you. I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO GO TO THE EMMYS! BUT CHARLES DID?

charles leclerc that's because i know how to behave in public.

carlos sainz why are people on twitter acting like i got fired midseason?

isabella perez they're dramatic like that. you guys thought i was bad, the twitter girlies are worse.

oscar piastri to be fair, you cried over dropping a churro one time.

lando norris i don't like it here anymore.

bailey winters SOMEONE JUST ASKED HIM HOW MANY RACES HE WON!! HE WALKED AWAY EMBARRASSED! LOGAN'S LAUGHING AT HIM!

isabella perez watching lando get made fun of on live tv by trevor noah is hilarious.

lando norris this shit isn't funny isa!

arthur leclerc "here we have 3x world champion max jones-verstappen, 8x grand prix winner daniel jones-ricciardo, and teammate to rookie of the year, lando norris."

oscar piastri can i laugh?

lando norris I'M ENTERING MY REPUTATION ERA!

charles leclerc maybe win a race first

daphne jones-ricciardo can you people behave?

lewis hamilton don't bother daphne, there is no controlling them.

freya vettel lando no wins can't even escape being made fun of at the grammys

lando norris oh fuck off vettel

mick schumacher don't forget no rizz. it's a miracle bailey took him back

bailey winters it took a lot of convincing.

penelope trevino ZOYA! YOU LOOKED BEAUTIFUL ON THAT STAGE!

logan sargeant I AGREE! THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND! zoya torres aww thank you. nat helped pick out the dress. natalia ruiz THAT'S MY DAUGHTER!

lance stroll hey, does this mean charle is officially a grammy winner?

charles leclerc in my mind i have been since folklore lando norris first driver to win a grammy before a drivers championship charles leclerc at least i've won a race esteban ocon gagged him!

fernando alonso none of you know what the word decorum means.

daniel jones-ricciardo and you do? mr. i'm going to sniff flowers mid-interview

fernando alonso at least i can say that i've never commited crimes like seb. multi-21 anyone?

lance stroll THEY LITERALLY CALL YOU WAR CRIMINAL! sebastian vettel SPYGATE ANYONE? rhys jones HE'S A WAR CRIMINAL LIKE ME!!

rhys jones so, what'd i miss?

ollie bearman the hamilton x hamilton edits on tiktok isabella perez I LOVE THOSE!! logan sargeant HOW DO YOU NON=AMERICANS KNOW ABOUT HAMILTON? isabella perez i love musicals!

fernando alonso hamilton x hamilton? are they putting lewis on a boat with himself

lance stroll he means are they shipping lewis with himself? rhys jones NO! THE MUSICAL BY LIN MANUEL MIRANDA! fernando alonso who? lance stroll now he's just trolling.

rhys jones anyways, new album?

mae jones-verstappen yes, the dead poets society daphne jones-ricciardo THE TORTURED POETS SOCIETY! mae jones-verstappen YOU SHOULD'VE NAMED IT SOMETHING ELSE! rhys jones I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BUT WHAT THE HECK DAPHNE! THE PEOPLE WILL BE CONFUSED!

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daphnejonesricciardo all's fair in love and poetry...new album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. OUT APRIL 19 🤍

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isabellaperez mother ate with this one y'all!

landonorris i am ready to cry to this one.

baileywinters THE PEOPLE AREN'T READY!

redbullracing just in time for the chinese grand prix!!

danieljonesricciardo hey! i'm responsible for the cover art! i did that!

↳ daphnejonesricciardo yeah you did!

rhysjones geez daph, put some clothes on! as your little brother i don't need to see that!

rhysjones I'M KIDDING PLEASE DON'T CANCEL ME! I LOVE MY SISTER! I'M JUST A BABY!

↳ georgerussell so now you're a baby but when it comes to teasing lando you aren't a baby?

↳ rhysjones I CAN PICK MY BATTLES RUSSELL! THE DAPHNE GIRLS ARE WILD!

maejonesverstappen oh the people aren't ready for this.

charles_leclerc i definitely need a good cry album. this will help

↳ carlossainz55 i'll join you buddy!

maxjonesverstappen1 WOO! GO DAPHNE!

nataliaruiz WE WILL BE STREAMING!

lewishamilton it's going to be amazing daphne!

visacashapprb we will be streaming mrs. jones-ricciardo!

yukitsunoda0511 LET'S GO!! WOO!! GO DAPHNE!!

↳ daphnejonesricciardo thank you yuki! hope you like the new album!

↳ yukitsunoda0511 are you kidding me? i will adore it!

fernandoalo_oficial how many songs are about our whirlwind romance daphne? 🤣

↳ daphnejonesricciardo i plead the fifth! 😅

↳ danieljonesricciardo BACK OFF FROM MY WIFE FERNANDO!

↳ fernadoalo_oficial it's not my fault! blame the internet!

lilymhe YAY! I GET TO ANNOY ALEX WITH MORE SCREAM SINGING!

↳ alex_albon you could never annoy me

↳ lilymhe and we will be having a conversation about keeping this a secret from me mr.albon!

↳ alex_albon I WAS SWORN TO SECRECY!

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Hot Dj Charts – Picks 14 New Tracks 2023-06-08

- DATA CREATED: 08/06/2023 - QUALITY: MP3/320 kbps Tracklist Acidbro, El Sabat - Tothem (Alex Panchenco Remix).mp3 Aerofeel5 & Vakabular - Life Is Easy (Extended Mix).mp3 AFFKT - Gaman (Original Mix).mp3 Akari System - Slippery Slope (Original Mix).mp3 Alain Fanegas - Ghotam (Original Mix).mp3 Angel Heredia - Amisex (Extended Mix).mp3 Angel Heredia - Oh la La (Extended Mix).mp3 Anjei & Ego - A Guy Called Ra (Erdi Irmak Remix Version 1).mp3 Anjei & Ego - A Guy Called Ra (Greenage Remix).mp3 Anspect - Downer (Original Mix).mp3 Asher Swissa x Zvika Brand & Lusil - Blackout.mp3 Avenue One - Vega (L.GU. Remix).mp3 Aytac Kart - Addicted (Original Mix).mp3 Ben Pierre - Forest of the Cuckoo (Original Mix).mp3 Betoko, Darksidevinyl - Forever.mp3 Blac J - Ni Sa (Original Mix).mp3 Bra Yen, Vandeme - Pixel (Original Mix).mp3 Braynod - Reincarnation (Original Mix).mp3 BRIAN DE SANTIS - Sara (Lila Rose (UY) Remix).mp3 Cafe De Anatolia Seb Todd FAMÜ - Del Mar (Original Mix). Read the full article

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Hot Dj Charts – Picks 14 New Tracks 2023-06-08

- DATA CREATED: 08/06/2023 - QUALITY: MP3/320 kbps Tracklist Acidbro, El Sabat - Tothem (Alex Panchenco Remix).mp3 Aerofeel5 & Vakabular - Life Is Easy (Extended Mix).mp3 AFFKT - Gaman (Original Mix).mp3 Akari System - Slippery Slope (Original Mix).mp3 Alain Fanegas - Ghotam (Original Mix).mp3 Angel Heredia - Amisex (Extended Mix).mp3 Angel Heredia - Oh la La (Extended Mix).mp3 Anjei & Ego - A Guy Called Ra (Erdi Irmak Remix Version 1).mp3 Anjei & Ego - A Guy Called Ra (Greenage Remix).mp3 Anspect - Downer (Original Mix).mp3 Asher Swissa x Zvika Brand & Lusil - Blackout.mp3 Avenue One - Vega (L.GU. Remix).mp3 Aytac Kart - Addicted (Original Mix).mp3 Ben Pierre - Forest of the Cuckoo (Original Mix).mp3 Betoko, Darksidevinyl - Forever.mp3 Blac J - Ni Sa (Original Mix).mp3 Bra Yen, Vandeme - Pixel (Original Mix).mp3 Braynod - Reincarnation (Original Mix).mp3 BRIAN DE SANTIS - Sara (Lila Rose (UY) Remix).mp3 Cafe De Anatolia Seb Todd FAMÜ - Del Mar (Original Mix). Read the full article

[fixchick]

Okay look I get that rini fans are happy but like that finale was sad as shit

This is not my opinion as any particular shipper but rather as someone tracking the character storylines for the season and storyline conclusion wise there were so many sad endings.

Ricky is deluding himself into thinking he can get his parents back together

Nini has to make a decision between a boy she thinks she loves and a top notch school for her dreams

Mazarra and Jenn are in deep shit

Ricky's mom is still gaslighting her son and being an over all shit person.

EJ still hasn't really been accepted by the crew or made any friends outside of ashlyn and hopefully Gina.

Carlos and seb basically got erased from the show.

Poor Rico aint even got to say one line.

They basically insinuated that this entire season red would have liked to actually been tapping in the musical but he didnt get the opportunity.

Kourtney who? Oh you you mean ninis assistant?

The only positives storyline conclusion for the season was redlyn and Gina potentially moving back to slc.

I loved the ep and the show and this is in no way hate on the show because sad doesnt equal bad. The episode was actually a great conclusion to season one but I just find it weird that so many people are happy about the season finale and no one is really talking about all the sad storyline conclusions this season left for season 2

[fieldsofdaisies]

Ayo, Good Morning Beautiful People

Welcome to my blog :D

Current Read: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

My name is Olivia, and I've been on Tumblr for over a year but I've just now started to get more into actually writing and interacting. My pronouns are she/her.

I honestly stan a lot of different people depending of what I'm feeling/what they're doing. I absolutely love One Direction and am a no stunts Larrie. Some of my fave actors are Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert Sean Leonard, Gale Hansen, Dove Cameron, and Liz Gillies, and some of my fave musicians are Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, and Taylor Swift. Someday I want to be an author.

Favorite movies/shows: Dead Poets Society, Dynasty, Victorious, Clueless, Schmigadoon!, The Great Gatsby, Titanic, the Twilight saga and Romeo and Juliet.

Favorite ships: Jade x Beck (Victorious), Jack x Rose (Titanic), Nick x Gatsby (The Great Gatsby), Bella x Edward / Bella x Alice / Alice x Jasper (Twilight), Betsy x Danny (Schmigadoon!), Neil x Todd / Charlie x Knox (Dead Poets Society).

Favorite books: The Secret History - Donna Tartt, We Were Villians - M.L. Rio, Dead Poets Society - N.H. Kleinbaum, Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare and The Great Gatsby - F. Scott. Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald.

Becasue I absolutely love writing, most of my posts are going to be pretty long and just kinda a collab of a bunch of my ideas, so I apologize in advance haha.

Currently, I am going to be blogging a shit ton about hsmtmts. I've been watching the episodes since they first came out but have just now actually joined the fandom for portwell. I love Matt Cornett and Ej is my fave character. Aside from Ej x Gina I also adore Seb x Carlos.

Fun facts about me: I love collecting CDs and have a CD collection; I have an unhealthy obsession with constantly paining my nails tons of different colors; I love reading, my fave genre is dark academia; my fave bookstores are the Strand Book Store in NYC and the Harvard Book Store in Massachusetts.

Anyways, I am super super friendly so if you ever want to talk/interact, please do. xoxo

Gina: I thought I'd packed a granola bar. I did not.

Ej: I brought you a granola bar incase you were hungry.

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Hi! Wanted to ask a question. I'm assuming u have watched Ep4 if not, SPOILERS and don't reply to this? I have seen a lot of ppl comparing John W's action with Steve's in CW and ppl furiously debating about it. This isn't about whether it is the same thing or not. More like ... Is it cuz of cultural difference or what, but when I see ppl so casually talking about whether "X" 'killed' a friend or not and how it is justifiable .. I find it so ... jarring. I know these are fictional characters in a superhero setting but isn't it odd? Love your blog, btw. For a few years now. It's cuz of your and a few other SPN blogs (think you may be friends with them?) I started caring about the CA movies. Mostly, just for Bucky & Seb. and of recent, Anthony too. But it still feels like a whiplash when I see Fatws content on here from either of the blogs 😂 Then I have to remind myself I got the Stucky from the Destiel😂😂😂 Hope you're having a nice day. Idk if I explained my question well. How is there no word limit on this Ask?

Hey!

I’m kinda assuming your saying not to respond if I haven’t seen the ep?  But okay to publish?  I get confused, DM me if you want this taken down.

Assuming it goes up.  Asks are being weird.

I haven't seen people argue about whether killing is justifiable, though I'd be amazed if people aren't furiously writing meta about that scene because...what a goldmine.

Yeah, it's kinda weird to see people debating about whether that sort of thing is justifiable, but it always seems to be a hot topic in the 'superhero' and comics community.

There are characters who do kill and/or do morally grey things. Like Deadpool or Jason Todd, but for the most part they aren't doing it for the same reasons. With John it was all about power. Which isn't the same as doing a bad thing for the greater good, or the killing feeling quite impersonal. Sorry to hear it's jarring for you. Hope I didn't set that off again? I tried to tip toe a little around the subject.

I'm so glad you're one of the SPN blogs that has moved to Marvel, I'm so glad so many of us have moved. There was already a lot of crossover between fandoms.

Wait how is there no word limit on the ask, you're right. Wtf?

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STRICTLY BASS... MAY 2020 UPDATE

Tracklisting

Alien X – Badklaat

All Night Long – Slushii, Holly

Bahebe – Dirty Audio, Leotrix

Bakken tool – Alex Index

BARRICADE – REAPER

Blood Thirsty – Chee

Bongo Dub – Wetman

Born To Die – Besomorph, Coopex, EthanUno

Break Em – Gawm, Runnit

Brother to Save – K.L.O., Kursa, Lone Drum, Osmetic

BS6 – Hyroglifics, Sinistarr

Bubble – DJ Zinc, Alicai Harley

Bull Run – Project Paradis, Mr. Carmack, Promnite

Bust It Out – FWLR

Cheesecake – Kill Feed

Chemicals – The Glitch Mob

Chunky – Kompany, Effin

Coffee Black – Feed Me

Coming Down - Dux n Bass Remix – Sikdope, Duke & Jones, Dux n Bass

Crusade – Marshmello, SVDDEN DEATH

Dark Artifact – G Jones

Data Transfer – Hekler

Deadsong – graves, 93FEETOFSMOKE

DEATHMATCH – SVDDEN DEATH, Snails

Delirium – The Brig, Rob Gasser

Earthquake – Borgore, KULTIVATE, BLUPILL

Epoch – Snavs

Everybodied – Holy Goof, Massappeals

Family - Dirty Audio Remix – The Chainsmokers, Kygo, Dirty Audio

Fidget Dub – Imanzi, Kontent

Frequencies – Black Tiger Sex Machine, ATLiens

Get No Better – ReauBeau, Eskei83, Dani Senior

Ghost In The Bottle – Kayzo, Ray Volpe

Glass Planet – Aweminus

Good News – Apashe

Got Dat – Jantsen, TVBOO

Gully Mode – Gentlemens Club, Watson

Gunning For You (feat. Nevve) – QUIX, Nevve

Haters – Albzzy, Coleman

(Having A Sick Time) In The Mansions Of Bliss – Kahn, Neek

Hijack – Skepsis, Zero

Inside - Ekcle Edition – Culprate, Ekcle

In The Dance – Jantsen, Conrank

Into The Abyss – Zeds Dead, Rezz

James Woods – Deft

Keep Raving – Wax Motif

KILLZONE – Black Tiger Sex Machine

Leviathan – Savant

Me and You – Champagne Drip, Lucii

Migraine – Oddprophet

Moments – Gentlemens Club

Neck Crack Flashback – Chee

Never Alone – Gentlemens Club

No Poetry – Paranorman

Norman's Bait – Badger

Obstacles – Von D

Only Solutions – Infected Mushroom

Party All the Time – Darkzy, Kay

Potions - Au5 Remix – SLANDER, Said the Sky, JT Roach, Au5

POWERMOVE – PEEKABOO, ISOxo

Radiate – Fytch

Ratatata – Borgore, ETC!ETC!, SNC

Ravana – Alix Perez

Rave – Sikdope

RAVEPUNK – REAPER

Reality - Le Lion Remix – Xakra, Klippee, Le Lion

Redo – Crankdat

Rhythmic Pulse – BVSSIC

Run – Kai Wachi, Dylan Matthew

Saviour - CRaymak VIP Remix – Flux Pavilion, CRaymak, Tasha Baxter, Kaleidoscope Orchestra

Sea Anomaly – Earthnut

Senses – Snavs, Todd Helder

Set Me Free – Protohype, Charmae

Shinobi – Defiant

Shlappy - Secret Recipe Remix – Mr. Bill, Au5, Secret Recipe

Show Dem – Truth

Sike – KDYN

Sleep on Me – Axel Boy

Smoking Blunts - Pushloop Remix – Abstrakt Sonance, Substance, Pushloop

Space Swamp – Figure

Starcrossing – NastyNasty

Stay – Franky Nuts, Katie Sky

STFU – Akeos

Stogned – Aweminus

Stop Lights – Watch the Ride, Prima, Emz, DJ Randall, DJ Die, Dismantle

Suffocate – Kayzo, Bad Omens

Sunshine – Truth

Supernoize – Yellow Claw, Juyen Sebulba, RayRay

Systematic Error – Sleeper, Youngsta

Team Takedown – Krimer, Spag Heddy

Tell Me – Fransis Derelle, Josh Rubin

Tomahawk – Mystic State

UKG G – Seb Zito

Walls Cave In – Soltan, NAZAAR

Wholesome Degenerate – Klutch, James Seville

Wish You Would – Slushii

World Builder – 12th Planet

WYN – Gl0bal

Yella - Keith MacKenzie VIP – Smookie Illson, CLB, Keith Mackenzie

Ymir – BEATSMASH

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pairing: sebastian stan x reader [?]

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a/n: hello. 

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“So, what’s your story?” You asked him when you guys were sitting on the couch, the television providing you both with the background noise

“Oh, business, which is why sometimes I go away for a long period of time.”

“You mean like an executive secretary or something?” He smiled and muttered ‘Something like that.’ Then he turned the question around and asked about you. Not wanting to reveal what you really do in life to a stranger, but you didn’t want to lie either so you said you were a writer. “I write.”

“Like books?” You smiled at him and said yes, you weren’t lying. The lyrics that you write were on those little booklets that’s usually included in a CD. “Was that why you travel around? For inspiration?”

“Not really. The last time I traveled was just to visit my family.” He looked at you with his eyebrows raised, “I was raised here by my grandparents. They took me because my parents wanted them to. We didn’t have much growing up.”

You noticed his sad eyes, as if he knew how that felt. Maybe he did.  That’s when it really dawned on you that you don’t know anything about this man in front of you.  But even then, you trusted him. It was stupid. “Oh, same for me. I was from Romania, then we moved to Austria then here in New York.“  

You were about to ask him about his family but your phone rang. Ryan. “Sorry. My boss. I’m gonna have to take this call.” You excused yourself and went straight to your room. You didn’t want him to hear about the call, it was personal. And regarding your work.

“Hey, so are you back in New York? Because I have some demo I would want you to hear.”

“Hey, yeah. Ryan. Of course. I’m gonna swing by the studio at around 11 am. Just gonna take a shower and head over there alright?”

“Alright, that’s good because we really need to work on this right now.”

“I know, I know. I have some stuff here too. I’ve been writing back home and I want you to look over them see if its any good to be included in the album.”

“Alright. See you.”

You peeked out of your door to see if Sebastian was still sitting on the couch but he wasn’t. He probably left to go to his room. Gathering your clothes and a towel your went to the bathroom. Over the years of rush hours, you managed to figure out the fastest way to take a shower. Wet your whole body. Shampoo, let it sit. Soap (really quickly), brush your teeth and rinse. Your 10 minute shower routine has helped you get the most of your daylight hours.

“You leaving?” Sebastian asked when you stepped out of the bathroom. You nodded at him as you comb your hair, and made sure that a hair tie was on your wrist so that you can tie it up later when it dries.

“Yeah, need to leave for work. I’ll be getting groceries afterwards. I’ll see you later.” He nodded and wished you a safe trip.

The last thing you see before you went out the door was him looking at you, and you can’t help but think that if that’s the face that’ll be waiting for you every single day you’d be singing praises the rest of your damn life.

You thanked the taxi driver but he just glared at you in return. You shook your head, you really haven’t grasped the way people do things here. The bright neon lights welcomed you as soon as you entered the building. “Morning Todd!” You greeted at the security guard. He smiled back and reminded you to check in later since the IDs are gonna be delivered today. They decided to amp up the security around the building because of the incident involving a fan, a fake moustache and a trolley.  Just thinking about that day makes you laugh. It was really one of the best things that ever happened here in this building.

The whole day was spent with the four of you just bouncing ideas back and forth. You’ve always liked writing, ever since you were a little kid you’ve always written things your mother would always read it and tell you good job. From then on you’ve always thought you’d be a writer. But you were introduced to music in your high school years and that’s when your goals in life changed.

“So, we’ll start the recordings probably next week we’re gonna work on these songs, you should too. I’ll send you the recordings and you can send me yours.”

You nodded, “Sure. Well, I’ll see you guys tomorrow then?” They waved good bye you were on the way to the elevator when you decided to go back to ask them where the nearest supermarket was. You remembered saying that you’ll do groceries since there’s really nothing that you can cook in the apartment.

Turns out there was a supermarket near the apartment, so you told the taxi driver to take you there. Some people actually recognized you which made your heart flutter. Being recognized means people are hearing about your music and that in itself is a wonderful thing.

But  a voice inside your head was warning you that these people might follow you back home because you had that happen to you in your hometown. Your mother had asked you for a grocery store run since you are still her kid and she is still your mother and you had to do everything she asks you to. You thought you were in the clear until someone screamed when they saw you leaving the mall. They demanded to take a picture with you, which of course you were more than happy to do. But they decided to follow you, which really sucked because then you had to go to a hotel and pretend that you were staying there just so you can keep your family’s address a secret.

Not wanting to burden your new “roommate/landlord” you decided to take the taxi and you specifically asked him to circle around the city to make sure no one was following you. Only when you were on the third step on the stairs of the fourth floor did you remember that Sebastian never gave you a key, or his number for you to contact. “Jesus Christ, I fucking hope he’s here.” You muttered under your breath. But luck just wasn’t at your side this week, because after knocking 5 times and you made sure that it was loud enough to be heard by someone inside. No one opened the door. So there you were, stuck outside with the grocery bags. You decided to place it all on the floor and sat down on the same spot where Sebastian slammed a door on you. There was nothing else you could do so you decided to pull out your notebook and write some lyrics, it really didn’t matter if you’re going to sing it or some other artist. All you wanted was to create music, and hearing it come to life? It was the best feeling ever.

You were in the middle of recording a melody when you hear Sebastian go “Oh fuck. I’m so sorry, shit-- Look…” He was going to apologize but you cut him off. “Sebastian, it’s okay. I’m good. It’s my fault, I didn’t tell you what time I was going to come back. And I’m a freeloader here, I really don’t expect you to wait up for me everytime.” He sighed and apologized as he helped you stand up. “How long have you been waiting?” You decided to lie and say you waited for a few minutes when in truth you’ve been there for almost two hours now. “I bought groceries after work. I hope that’s okay.”

Sebastian smiled and handed you the key to the door. You fumbled to get it into the keyhole because you were holding your bag and your notebook so Sebastian took it from you and decided to put it inside your bag. You were about to pick up the grocery bags when you saw that Sebastian was already carrying them with your bagpack on his back. You can’t help but laugh at the sight of him. You’ve only known this man for a day and he makes you laugh like no one ever did. It’s kinda weird how life does that.

“I could’ve helped you. You know.” You told him as he set the bags on the counter in the kitchen. You closed the door and placed his keys on the key bowl near the door. “I can’t let you do that. Go rest up or change clothes. I’ll fix these stuff in the kitchen.” You nodded and took your bag that he placed on the stool. “I’ll be right back.”

While he was busy with fixing the pantry, you decided to change clothes. Then you took your face towel and some facial wash to get the make up off of your face. You never did like the idea of walking around the house with make up on. And even though technically this wasn’t your house, your opinion didn’t change. Sebastian laughed when he saw you running to the bathroom. Even though he has absolutely no idea why you were running.

“What do you want for dinner Seb?” You asked when you got out of the bathroom. Seb was putting the trash bags into one plastic bag. “I’ll leave that to your very capable hands, Y/N.” You stood infront of the fridge for a minute trying to decide whether to cook chicken parmesan or a tortellini skillet. But since you were getting kinda hungry, you decided to go for the former.

“Damn this is amazing.” Sebastian complimented as soon as he took a bite of the food. You laughed because he was a sloppy eater. Sauce was all over his mouth, the man in front of you was so different from the man you saw earlier. This one wasn’t wearing any mask, this was Sebastian.

“Did you go to work earlier?” you asked, deciding to make a small talk as you handed him some tissue. “Here, you made a mess. Easy there with your food.” He took the tissue and muttered an apology “It’s so good! I can’t help it. But no, I just went out to meet with, uh, my boss and to get a key duplicate.” He then proceeded to fish the key out of his pocket and carefully handed it to you.

“Thank you Seb. It really means alot to me that you haven’t killed me yet.” he laughed and continued to eat. After the both of you finished eating he helped in washing the dishes, he continued to compliment your cooking which gave you an idea.  “Hey, if you want I can cook you lunch. Oh, but then it’ll get cold by the time you eat it at work.” But he quickly dismissed that idea and said that there was a microwave at work. “Please, I am so tired of the food on set. I would want some of your homemade meals.”

“Really?” He either really liked your cooking or it was the only time in a long year that someone had cooked a meal for him. “What time do you leave for work tomorrow?”

“I leave at 11. Need to be there early.”

“By the way, if you have a diet or something just tell me so I can cook accordingly. And I should probably save your number, you know. Just in case.”

“Funny. I was about to ask you the same thing.”

The both of you exchanged numbers that night and talked while you sat on the couch watching a t.v series, well more on using the t.v as a background noise while the both of you talked. All the stress from earlier suddenly went away, talking with Sebastian felt like that. You both talked about how shitty work was, his favorite things, and the memories from your childhood. He asked about you country and how it felt like growing up there.

That night the both of you felt free in that apartment. That night you talked about topics you wouldn’t dare talk about with someone else. There was something so beautiful about talking to a stranger without any facade. Without pretense. Without the lies. Except for one.

Four days have passed and you’re still staying at Sebastian’s. It’s 7 in the morning so you decided to cook breakfast, as well as lunch for him. That had been your routine for the past few days. You had to leave early today so you left Sebastian’s food on the table and left a note that his lunch in in the fridge. Today is the release day of your album and everyone is so hyped about this. You have been trending in Twitter for the last 24 hours. You’ve never been happier. This is your 2nd album and you know that you’ve put your heart and soul into this. You just hope that your fans will not be disappointed with the album that you’re gonna be putting out.

The moment you arrived at the studio, everyone that helped make the album possible was there. Waiting for you to click the release button that will make you album instantly available to the world. “You ready kid?” Ryan asked. You smiled and nodded at him, “Let’s do this.” In one click you were live on Spotify and Apple music and the digital album is being downloaded over a thousand times.

In the midst of celebrating, Ryan gave you an envelope. It was an official invitation for a music award show and they wanted you to present an award. “When is this? I’ve been so out of the loop in social media right now you don’t even know--”

“It’s tonight! Surprise! The team is on the way here and you’re gonna get ready and you’ll do great.”

And there goes your evening plans.

The dress you wore was a black long sleeved dress from Dior, that had a slit which showed your legs. After the photo for the press it was the interview next. “Hey, Y/N how does it feel to be back in the spotlight after taking a break?” You smiled and said hi, “It was great. It feels so surreal, and to be able to present an award is jsut so exciting. I’m actually quite nervous thinking about it.”

“So how was the break? Where did you go? DId you meet any you know, anyone?”

“It was really great. I went home to my parents. You know, and went some time off on social media, but no I did not meet anyone.” You laughed but then your mind suddenly went to the apartment you share with a particular blue eyed man who has a goofy smile.

“Maybe because they’re scared that you might not like them.” You shook your head to get rid of that thought and focused on the interview. ‘I’m sorry what was that?”

“I said, maybe guys are scared because they don’t know your type. What do you look for in a guy?”

You shrugged, “I don’t know. I guess I like someone with pretty eyes? And someone tall because I’m a sucker for forehead kisses. But you know, major thing is I really like someone who likes me.”

The reporter laughed and said “But your fans loves you. Do they have a chance?”

You looked at the camera with a smile, “Yes, every single one of you’s got a chance.”

You thanked the interviewer and then the staff showed you to your table. As soon as you sat down, you felt your phone buzz. It was a text from Sebastian, and you couldn’t help but smile.

>> “It’s kinda sad getting a take out. U got me hooked on your cooking. I hate you.”

<< “I’m sorry. Twas a sudden thing. :((

>> “Its okay. Where are you?

<< Some party we had to attend. What did you order for dinner? Also, I’ll be home late.

>> I got some pizza.  Do you have your keys? Or you want me to wait for you?

<< Pizza is not good enough. And yes, I have my keys. You don’t have to stay up late at night. Just gonna go for the after party drink and go home.

>>How will you get home? I don’t remember seeing you with a car.

<< I can take an Uber. Or a cab. Or I can get one of my friends to bring me home.

>> Do you want me to fetch you or something?

<< No Sebby, you don’t have to. Thank you for the offer tho. But really, I’ll be fine.

>>alright, just message me if you change your mind.

The night passed by and you weren’t going to lie. It was really fun. It was so nice to be in a room full of talented people and of them to acknowledge that you are one of them. It was also great to hear about their opinions on your music since they played it during the break. You learned alot of things, and you’re sure to apply those to your life and the way you write your music.

Of course you had to attend the after party, but you didn’t stay long. After a few drinks that made your cheeks flush, you decided it was time for you to go home. Back home, you were greeted by a Sebastian who was sitting on the couch watching TV.

“Hey. You okay? You said you’d be home late?”  He asked as he made his way to you.

You looked at him confused, “It’s 11PM.Its late.”

He laughed and you just stared at him, “It not late. Late is 3 AM.” You were about to say something but he cut you off. “You look amazing by the way.”

Despite hearing it the whole night, it felt different when Sebastian said it. It felt real and genuine. Or maybe its because his opinion was the only one that mattered for you. “Thank you.”

He smiled and offered you some pizza, it was the same routine, the both of you on that couch. Talking about nothing and everything. He asked about the party, you tried to give away as little as possible. He also told you stories about his day and his life.

“Have you found an apartment?” he asked out of nowhere. You looked down and scratched you head. “I haven’t yet. It’s kinda hard. But if you want me to move out I will. I can stay wit--”

“I want you to stay.” You stopped your ramblings and looked at him. “I mean, you can stay. You can pay me the rent or something or we can just continue our arrangement of you cooking food.”

“But why?”

“I mean, you’re a nice person. And you’re already here, why don’t you just stay?”

“Are you sure?”

“Of course. It’ll be fun”

But it wasn’t fun. It was full of heartbreaks. False promises. And pining for someone you can’t have.

Next Chapter

[scarlett-ice]

Hey, for the prompt thing: weird meet-cutes "I broke your nose at a moshpit" "You broke into my apartment, drunk, thinking it was your friends house" "I hit you with my car and was the only one to visit you in hospital" -- any (or all if you're feeling cheeky) of these for brotzly please x

Thank you for theprompts!  I might get around to fillingthe other 2 at some point but for now, have some drunk breaking and entering!  (And I apologise that it’s not exactly brotzlybut pre-brotzly)

Itwas the loud thud that woke Todd up, the crash that made him grab whatever was closesttoo him as a weapon and the high pitched ‘whoopsie!’ that made him wonder whatthe fuck was going on.

“OhSebastian, Seb-…you’re not Sebastian.”

Why was it always him?  

Toddknew he wasn’t the best person around but he’d been dealt shitty luck all hislife.  Surely, he didn’t deserve this, tohave a drunk, British guy breaking into his home, wearing the brightest bluejacket Todd had ever seen and looking far too relaxed about the lamp Todd wasbrandishing in his direction.  

“Whothe fuck are you?  You need to get out ofmy flat right now.  Or I’m calling thecops.”  It was an empty threat, the onlycops who bothered with this side of town were the ones who shouldn’t havejoined the force in the first place, but this guy was clearly new and wouldn’tknow that.  

“Thecops?”  The guy blinked.  “Oh, you mean the police.  You don’t have to dothat.  I’m a good guy!  A detective. A holistic detective.  Name’s Dirk Gently, I’m quite famous youknow.  I’m sure I do a better job thanyour coppers at least!”

Nowit was Todd’s turn to stare blankly.  Whatwere the chances this was all just an insane nightmare?

“Doyou happen to have any food?  I’m starving and it’s never good to drink onan empty stomach.  Though I suppose I’vealready drunken, drinken.”  The guy’s, Dirk’s, forehead creased and he learnt forward,hand by his mouth.  “I’ve had a lot todrink,” he whispered.

“Noshit.  And I’m not giving you food.  Look, you’ve clearly…broke into the wrongplace.  Go find the person you werelooking for…Sebastian or something.”

Dirk’seyes brightened.  “Yes!  Sebastian. He’s a good friend of mine.  Well,he’s a client but he’s very nice…the case!” Todd jumped at Dirk’s yell and the man began to rock on the balls of hisfeet.  “I solved the case!  That’s why I was drinking!  I’m celebrating!  Turns out it was the cashier, Seb’s mother hadhad twins but she only kept Seb.”

Jesus,how much had this guy had to drink?  “Listen…Dirk.  You’re drunk. You’ve just broken into my flat. I’m gonna give you the count of three to get out of here.”

“Getout of here?  Why would I want to dothat?!  The universe has put me here fora reason.  It always does.  This is just part of a wider plan, a…oh, I know!”  Dirk grasped Todd by the shoulders and it wasonly shock that stopped him punching the man. “You must be my new side-kick! Not had one of those in a while and you look like you’ll fit the billnicely, even if your lacking a bit of muscle.”

“The-you’reone to talk!”  Todd argued, smacking Dirk’shands away.

“Yes,”Dirk said patiently, as if Todd werethe stupid one, “But I’m the one who solves the crime.  I can’t be expected to do all the work.  Please, this isn’t going to work if you’renot willing to do your bit.”

“Thereis no this!  You are just some crazy guywho broken into my house and smashed my vase!” That vase may have been a gift from his parents that he didn’t actuallylike but…that was beside the point.  

“Ahyou say that but look, see, you’ve put down the lamp.  That shows your soul can sense what’s goingon, even if your brain hasn’t quite caught up yet,” Dirk pointed out and…shit,he was right.  Dirk then suddenly slumped.  “That’s been a lot of talking.  I’m very drunk you know, hard to keepcoherent conversation.  Have you got somebacon?  Bacon should…should…”

Dirkspun around, walking on legs reminiscent of a baby deer.  He staggered towards the sofa and, beforeTodd could stop him, fell face first onto it. Todd stood there dumbstruck until he realised Dirk was calling hisname.  He wasn’t sure why he wasencouraging this but even so, he crouched beside the other man who opened one eyeto stare at Todd.

“You’rean important man Todd Brotzly,” Dirk said, his voice muffled.   “I can feel it.  You’re special and together, we’re going tobe utterly amazing.”

BeforeTodd could even begin to question, well, everything that had just left hismouth, Dirk’s eyes promptly snapped shut and soft snores sounded.  Todd spent a few seconds frozen, watching, beforehe decided to return to his own bed.

Itwas future Todd’s problem to figure out how Dirk knew his name.  

[asflowersfade]

So, Todd Slavkin said: 

Alec has to make so many difficult choices ahead, and there's collateral damage to these decisions, that it might be for the greater good—but that doesn't mean that everybody wins. (x)

What if the #parabataichills finale mentioned by Todd means that Alec has to make a decision between saving Jace and saving everybody else. And he, as the leader, makes the right decision for the greater good - he saves everybody else - but Jace becomes the collateral damage and that’s how he ends up with Seb?

[keyandcrown-blog]

about Jim~

Name: James Moriarty

Nicknames: Jimmy & Jim

FC: Andrew Scott

Younger FC: Asa Butterfield

Age: 32

DOB: October 21

Male: He, Him, His

Jim is Bi - With the preference of men.

Roman Catholic

Hight: 1.73m

Eyes: Black

Hair: Brown

Allergies: Tomatoes

Occupation: Consulting Criminal, London’s most dangerous man.

First murder is at 15 years old

Irish (born in Dublin)

Accent gets thicker when angry

Jim is always wearing a mask.

Build: Slim with muscle

Tattoos: tiger on his left shoulder blade and a little black bird on his right wrist while a tiger paw print on his left (these stop him from hurting himself.)

Piercings: Right ear lobe

Clothing Style: Business suite most of the time (unless he’s at home then its casual t-shirts and jeans)

Usual Expression: Bored, manic, smirking, angry, blank (only Sebastian - his siblings will see him truly smile)

Distinguishing Characteristics: his dark eyes that look like the pits of hell and how he can freeze your soul with one glance, his high pitch voice that he puts on when he’s with a client

Is actually insecure

has a weak immune system.

He takes so many pills, and has so many problems that the only way for him to feel in control is that mask.

Has bipolar / mania and depression. Anger problems, frequent insomnia, stays up late when working, has nightmares so sometimes avoids sleep

Emotional Stability: 3 can break down, lacks emotion, cant express himself well, has Depression.

Sociability: Requires alone time, hates being around ‘normal’ people, will only spend his social time with his sniper, if you are interesting enough or he can see that you are not an idiot (to him that is) then he will probably spends time with you.

Label: Napoleon of Crime

Positive Traits: Protective of his family and loved ones.

Negative Traits: Loves killing, is a killer, doesn’t care who he is killing

Goals/Desires: to retire after building and passing on a successful criminal empire.

Fears: loosing the only thing he loves, for his empire/all his hard work to fall apart. 

Hobbies: plays the violin

Habits: carrying a gun in his pocket

Alcohol Use: Loves whisky, borbon and other fine alcohol money can buy.

H I S - S I B L N G S

Jim is the Oldest Twin.

He is the most protective and will make sure that NO ONE touches or hurts them.

Name: Richard (Moriarty) Brook

Same age as his brother.

Will sacrifice everything for his brother.

They both love to swap places now and then

Has a crush on Sebastians brother Severin

Is working as an actor.

Knows his brother better than anyone else.

Jim changed Richards surname to protect him.

Written by: me: Keyandcrown - (v:TwinActor)

(v:TwinSister)

Jillian Moriarty

Middle Child of the Triplets.

Joined at the hip with Jim

Partner in crime

Touch her - you wont see the next morning.

Written by: jillianmoriarty

O t h e r Q u e s t i o n s

2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?

(FC: Monica Bellucci)

There are 3 version off what happened to his mother and 2 end up with her leaving James and his younger siblings when he is 6 years old.

1st- is that their mother tried to protect her children from their father, who is a drunk abusive man, and ended up killing her when he pushed her hard and she smashed her head on the ground. (In this one James loves his mother and killed his father out of revenge.)

2nd- their mother is also an alcoholic, all siblings hate their parents, the youngest is sent by James to live with their Grandparents. In the end James kills both of them, because he despised them and makes it look like they drank themselves to death… Getting away with it.

3rd- their mother abandoned them when the twins were only 2, again father is abusive and James kills the Father in order to protect his younger Twin brother.

22. Who are their friends? Lovers? ‘Type’ or ‘ideal’ partner?

-Jims friends are very few, he has his siblings, Sebastian and Alfred his godfather- (who is his Doctor, (housekeeper and kinda butler…)But mainly his Doctor)- (FC: Ian McKellen)

-lovers? Sebastian Also Molly/Matty when they dated.- -type? Well Jim doesn’t have a type, really… Yet maybe he does… -


23. What do they want from a partner? What do they think and feel of sex? 


-His partner needs to have similar interest… Classical music, perhaps opera, Shakespeare, reading… His partner needs to be able to look past his career choice, accept him for who he is. As for sex… he is insecure, he hasn’t had enough love in life... but really he doesn’t see the appeal in it.

He wants to be looked after, loved, shown that someone does want him, no matter what his life choices are.

31. Does your character have children? How do they feel about their parental role? About the children? How do the children relate?

-yes, Jim has children. In one verse (v:Legacy), Jim and Sebastian, got a surrogate mother who took both their seed and she birthed James Jr (Asa butterfield).

Then there is Todd (FC:Peter Evens) (v:Betrayal) who was adopted when his parents betrayed Jim and got him kidnapped, the boy is 5 years old and if Rp'ed together with James(Jr) he is 3 years older than him.

In another version Sebella (Seb!fem) birthed a little girl, Jane Moriarty.- (FC:Emily Browning)

-Jim adores his children, his main goal was at first To build an criminal empire to then pass on… But now, he just wants, first and foremost to see his children grow up happy, and if they do take over the empire, then he will be overjoyed.-

T o d a y

Jim is a billionaire and has an empire worthy of a king.

He keeps accepting Clients but he never leaves evidence to him - no he makes sure that all evidence will point to his client, meaning that even if they had fully done the job, he would not be the one to go to jail but the one who was responsible.

E X T R A

Zodiac Sign: Libra (September 23rd – October 23rd)

MBTI: ENTJ, or, INTJ

Enneagram: 5 or 1

Temperament: Choleric

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Moral Alignment: Evil

Primary Vice: Pride?

Primary Virtue: look here

Element: Air

Weather: Winter (causes chaos on the roads)

Colour: Red

Music: classical, violin, piano

Movies: horror, sci-fi

Sport: cricket (tv), badminton (outside)

Beverage: Whisky, Borbon

Food: Chocolate, spaghetti

Animal: Cat, Magpie, Tiger

[amorremanet]

Further adventures in this OC character and relationship playlist-making silliness.

After sleeping on it, I decided to just include Todd’s personal playlist, since it might be more painfully questionable than the fact that Annie has “Down With The Sickness” on hers, but it’s still not worse than the time that I shoe-horned Soft Cell’s “Sex Dwarf” onto an otherwise completely serious and angsty mix just because, “If I can’t use it for Tyrion Lannister, then who else CAN I use it for?” (not an exact quote, but that was the sentiment)

—and somewhat more immediately, I did put a cover of “Skinny Love” on a platonic playlist, so I think I can suck it up and admit that Todd’s musical aesthetic is just very questionable

[amorremanet]

OC asks/questions: 8, 15, 21, 25, 32? Also if that's not already too much: finish the sentence meme for Lucy?

Okay, I did intend to do the finish the sentence meme, but as it stands, it’s almost 4AM and I’ve been binge-watching old Outside X-Box list videos to stay awake, so…… I’ll get back to that one

8: What’s the most common physical characteristic of your OCs? What about personality trait?

Physically, a lot of my OCs are ridiculously tall. I blame having my concept of average human heights skewed when I was a child, due to having several ridiculously tall relatives, and then having my ideas further skewed in my adolescence by a mix of shoujo and magical girl anime/manga (where the hottest characters, like Tenou Haruka, or designated love interest characters, like Chiba Mamoru and Kashino Rei, the “troubled but cute” pretty boy from MARS, are tall), and the Vampire Chronicles (where most of the vampires are tall, beautiful, and incredibly gay or bisexual)

Personality-wise, “troubled but cute” is probably my most overused character type. Even more specifically, “troubled, but cute, and they have a good heart, they’re trying their best, but they’re still troubled and sometimes (often) make incredibly bad decisions because I felt like it would be a fun time to make them do so”

15: Do you have any AUs? — Short answer: yes. Longer answer: yes, and some of them are going to be canon, because I have the self-restraint of a magpie, and figured that…… eh, whatever, screw it, I’m nixing several of the other more credulity-straining and ridiculous elements of the by-its-very-nature ridiculous and credulity-straining superhero genre, so I can have a canon multiverse if I please. Which I do, because it’s fun. For me. Anyway, some of the canon AUs are:

The AU where most of the major points are still the same, but also, Silent Hill. Not that it will actually be called, “Silent Hill” because of blah blah copyright, but I primarily got the idea of, “horrible demonic monsters conjured out of people’s guilt and psychological issues” from the Silent Hill series, and I’m not going to pretend I didn’t.

Also, unlike Silent Hill proper, the nasty pieces of work in this universe do not have the decency to just stay confined to one small town in Middle of Nowhere, Maine. They’re everywhere.

Anyway, some of the characters from this AU get dragged into the prime timeline (tentatively) in book three, as part of a Totally Brilliant (not really) scheme by a handful of the fascist supervillain douchebags to distract that annoying ragtag band of misfit anti-fascist heroes from the actual evil plan going on. Nobody is happy about this.

Especially not when some of the monsters decide to join in on the universe-hopping fun-times. Whoops.

The AU where a lot of the major points are more or less the same, but human technology is more advanced and, in keeping with some of the more idealistic mid-20th century sci-fi concepts, while our cast in the prime timeline are dealing with neo-fascism and shit, humans in this AU are getting welcomed into It’s Not The Federation From Star Trek Because I Don’t Want to Get Sued, But It Is Basically The Same Idea, and dating aliens.

Pete’s AU counterpart got into what is basically an alien university’s MFA program in theatre. He’s the first Terran to do so, period. He has an alien boyfriend, he has never been to rehab (though, uh. He’s still an addict. And still using. So, there’s that), and his prime-timeline counterpart is going to initially think he’s pretty awesome, and progressively get super sick of basically everything about him.

The AU where Seb, Pete, Stephen, Josie, and Todd are essentially a boy band. Because of reasons. Anyone who gets dragged into the prime timeline from this AU is going to be really confused by literally everything else, because this AU is probably the closest one to how our own universe works, so like…… Imagine that you abruptly get yanked into [pick a superhero comic book universe], after a lifetime of believing that it’s all, “just stories.” It would be confusing and more than a bit alienating.

Which is not to say that this AU is all rainbows and kittens or whatever, but the problems facing the main cast are things like, “Everyone in the band has to be closeted because there’s still homophobia and transphobia,”

“Pete and Josie have probably never gotten treatment for their respective eating disorders, and Stephen may well have developed one from the fact that, boy bands are generally not allowed to have fat members, which would also mean that he’s ridiculously unhealthy since his body’s happy, healthy place? Just so happens to be fat,”

“On one hand, Todd and maybe Pete have probably never had substance abuse problems. But on the other hand, Seb still has and it’s probably very seriously exacerbated by several factors,” and so on.

Which isn’t to say that those things aren’t important and complicated problems, or that the prime timeline characters DON’T have to deal with similar things just because they’re in a superhero world (since…… they DO have to deal with those things or at least very similar ones)

But there’s a pretty significant difference between things like, “trying to stay clean” and, “trying to prevent a bunch of neo-fascist supervillain douchebags from staging a bullshit fake attack at a debate between potential Republican nominees for the US presidency, which will probably end up killing a bunch of people if it’s allowed to go on, and is part of a longer-running, slow-burn scheme to essentially make this dickbag senator from Virginia the President-in-All-But-Name”

And the boy band AU characters are super-unprepared to deal with the latter sort of problem

The AU where it’s a vaguely cyberpunk dystopia because I felt like it, that’s why.

The AU where instead of superpowers, everyone has magic

Which is going to frustrate Lucy to no end, when she has to meet her AU self from this universe, because sure, this AU has different systems and rules for how the magic works, but no one can tell her what the Hell makes it go aside from, “idk, it’s magic” and that’s not an acceptable explanation to her

—But, as she’s going to hear from someone, this isn’t actually any different from how superpowers work in the main timeline, like? They know that the superpowers are caused by genetic mutations. They can figure out different ways of handling said superpowers and systems of how to approach and understand them……

But if we look at Josie’s telepathy/empathy, Lucy’s hemokinesis, Sara Grace’s super-speed and neato super-voice tricks, Seb’s “they don’t call it lycanthropy but only because that’s already a thing; it’s essentially lycanthropy with a shot of therianthropy, animal empathy, and a healing factor that would make Deadpool jealous,” Yael’s ferrokinesis and magnetism powers, All-Star Doctor Delphi’s status as the resident flying brick with heat vision, Elizabeth’s telepathy/telekinesis, Conrad’s telepathy/mental manipulation, Julian’s empathic abilities and emotional manipulation that can be a super-effective Jedi Mind Trick and then some when used effectively, Sylvia and Vince’s essentially omni-shapeshifting, the fact that Annie can turn her own tears, saliva, and blood into all kinds of fun chemicals (from toxins and acids, to myriad medicines), ET CETERA?

……Yeah, uh. In the end, the best explanation that anyone has for why any of that works, in-universe, is essentially, “Because it just does.”

So… essentially the same explanation as, “A wizard did it,” but it’s pretending to be scientific.

Lucy does not like being confronted with this hypocrisy, but she’s just gonna need to put on her big girl shoes and deal with it.

The AU where I don’t actually have most of the details about it worked out, but in the prime timeline’s December 2007, it abruptly became the new home of All-Stars member Penumbra (nee Victoria Brandt) and supervillains Dr. Neutron and Necrotara. They all got dumped in it when Penumbra stopped them from unleashing a super-plague on New York City… by opening up a rift in space-time, throwing them into it, and plunging after them because that was the only way she knew to seal it before it ate New York.

This AU will also get dragged into the prime timeline, though: 1. that’s more of an accident because Titus, Dezi, Eddie, and Tamsin have no goddamn idea what they’re doing and are meddling with forces they can’t control (especially not Dezi and Eddie, who have no powers to speak of and are miserably inept at pretty much everything);

and 2. It’s a bigger deal to the All-Stars than to the main cast, especially to Ruby Marvel (Penumbra’s on-off girlfriend), Zephyr Haze (who really looked up to Penumbra, and she was one of the few team members who believed that he was ready to be anything more than Doctor Delphi’s sidekick), and Slingshot (her on-off boyfriend, who has totally failed to move on from what happened, and if not for Captain Firebrand and Platinum Man revoking his ability to get into R&D without a babysitter, he likely would’ve broken space-time to get Penumbra back years ago)

Like, I’m not saying, “He has handled this like Silver Age Spiderman trying to kill the Green Goblin as vengeance for Norman Osborne murdering Gwen Stacy.”

I’m saying, “Slingshot has handled Penumbra’s effective death like that thing I just said magnified by a power of ten because, as far as he knows, getting her back into the prime timeline could potentially be cataclysmic, and he does not care. He has also spectacularly failed to listen to any and all attempts at getting him to respect her choice here, and the only reason he hasn’t gone full grimdark like a mid-90’s to mid-2000’s Dark Age drama-bomb of toxic masculinity and manpain? Is that he isn’t allowed into R&D at All-Stars Tower without a babysitter.”

However this AU works, Adelaide’s AU counterpart is going to be kind of a mess at getting dragged into the prime timeline, on one hand because her prime timeline self doesn’t have powers but decided to affiliate herself with a bunch of heroes anyway (while dumpster fire AU!Adelaide has superpowers and has been a hero and it’s gone Other Than Well for her), and on the other because her prime timeline brothers are alive and haven’t gotten killed by her supervillain nemeses

Dumpster fire AU!Adelaide is going to be more of a mess over a lot of things like, “On one hand, her little brother lived past 20 and swears he’s got a good life and his boyfriend is nice (yay!), but on the other, he’s a mentally ill recovering addict and also a superhero and for some reason, her prime timeline self is, as far as dumpster fire AU!Adelaide can tell, just okay with this”

And, “Her prime timeline self has a niece who actually knows what it’s like to have a father in her life, because dumpster fire AU!Adelaide’s Max got killed off while Linda was pregnant and Linda is probably a great single mom, but dumpster fire AU!Adelaide wouldn’t know because after Seb and Ambrose had both gotten killed (albeit by different villains), the common theme that emerged was the boys getting killed by supervillains and having a superhero sister, and okay, Linda did not explicitly blame Adelaide (Linda’s feelings about all of this are conflicted and messy)

“—but dumpster fire!Adelaide decided that the best thing to do was to basically cut herself off from friends, family, and loved ones, barring her AU’s Pete, who has become her co-hero, and a dog, because like her baby brother, Adelaide loves dogs and sometimes uses them as a substitute for interpersonal contact and connections”

Prime timeline Addie is seriously weirded out by her AU self’s complete lack of chill. Which says a lot, because Addie-prime actively repels anything that even vaguely resembles chill.

The AU where Margot and Seb didn’t get to be friends in undergrad, and her parents never disowned her, and she wound up filthy rich in her own right and having far fewer near brushes with death…… but also wound up: closeted and basically leading a double-life to keep from getting outed; very lonely; more miserable than she would like to think; and taking more than a few cues from Adrian “Ozymandias” Veidt of Watchmen

—Which is to say that, while she still doesn’t have any literal superpowers, she is deeply closeted and convinced that the only way to save humanity from itself might just need to involve doing something extreme that successfully makes humanity put aside their differences and unite against a perceived larger threat (and also distracts them so that Margot and her loosely affiliated AU associates can, “solve the underlying problems” unimpeded)

As prime timeline Margot will definitely point out: ideas like that literally only work on paper or in theory. In practice, humans are chaotic and messy and impossible to predict with any real accuracy, so there is no possible way to guarantee that killing a bunch of people and blaming it on aliens or whatever will make everyone decide to get along and sing songs underneath of a rainbow like some vintage Coca-Cola commercial.

Oh, and if Ozymandias AU!Margot actually thinks that nobody will notice if she and her cohorts, what, like…… use the world banks to redistribute the world’s wealth and make sure that the 1% can’t get it back (which would include AU!Margot herself and her cohorts, even though most of them don’t know she’s planning to do that), change a bunch of laws and policies they don’t agree with, and institute some kind of secret shadow government over the entire world?

Here’s a hint, Ozymandias AU!Margot: people will definitely notice that, and a lot of them won’t be too keen on letting you get away with it.

Furthermore, not only will people definitely notice that, but it won’t actually fix things as much as you want it to do. It would have some benefits, sure, and some of the ideas you’re trying to put into practice here are not inherently bad — like redistributing the wealth and putting hella restrictions on the same patterns of capitalist exploitation that made you rich in the first place — but one of the underlying flaws in AU!Margot’s approach is that, again, she’s ignoring the human element of everything

In other words: sure, redistributing the wealth is a nice idea and it would definitely have some positive benefits, but you cannot magic away the scars of aforementioned capitalist exploitation by throwing money at them, nor should you expect people who have been exploited, dehumanized, murdered, etc. under said patterns to not be upset about their suffering just because they now have money.

More generally, expecting people to always react in predictable ways is a bad idea. Expecting people to be okay with things that you erroneously think you would totally be okay with, if you were in their position is a bad idea. Behaving like a supervillain, even if you think you’re doing it for the right reasons and even if there might be some temporary short-term benefits? Is a BAD IDEA (especially when your plans have some major, egregious oversights).

Also, ew, Ozymandias AU!self, but out of all the ladies with whom you could be having a secret affair, why the fuck are you having it with your AU’s Melanie Drake (the firstborn daughter of the guy who the prime timeline Biggest Bad wants to put in power as his puppet, who is, herself, an active and enthusiastic participant in fascist supervillain hijinks).

In Ozymandias AU!Margot’s defense, her universe’s Melanie still has the conviction that everything she’s doing is for the Greater Good, but although she hasn’t gotten away from her nuclear reactor meltdown of an abusive shit-show family, she did come to believe in a different vision of, “the Greater Good.”

I mean. The nicest thing that can be said about it is that her vision of, “the Greater Good” isn’t a fascistic one and is, much like Ozymandias AU!Margot’s entire scheme, largely born out of good or at least okay-ish intentions, but really fucked up wrt the execution. But it’s not like Ozymandias AU!Margot is having a secret sexy affair with a neo-fascist supervillain.

She’s…… uh. Having a secret sexy affair with someone else who, in their AU, considers herself to be, “one of the heroes that this world needs but won’t accept,” and both of them are pretty fucked up, morally and ethically speaking, though not so much so that they wouldn’t be horrified by the Melanie of the prime timeline (who is, in fairness, pretty horrific. She’s also engaged to Titus, who is equally horrible but for some different reasons)

Anyway, the point is that Margot-prime super doesn’t expect any Melanie to be the secret girlfriend for any of her AU selves, and she’s really not happy about it, but also biased due to shit like, “Melanie-prime is an actual facts fascist supervillain”

And shit like, “Melanie-prime has hurt Margot-prime’s friends, and no, she doesn’t care that it was always in a superhero vs. supervillain fight, or that Seb has a healing factor, or that Pete accidentally made shit get violent on at least one occasion by running his mouth when he knew that he should have shut up, or that Lucy has run headlong into situations where a little bit of chill could’ve gone a long way and then people started throwing punches, la la la, go away context, Margot can’t hear you, Melanie has hurt her friends And That’s Terrible”

The mundane AU where, in addition to not being superheroes, Seb and Stephen met each other about ten years earlier and were a lot less gun-shy about being super into each other, not least because neither of them had been burned too badly in romance before (even given that they’d both had some negative experiences with it), and while both of them still had some big deal underlying issues with self-esteem, neither of them played any weird little head-games with himself to the tune of, “Oh, I shouldn’t voice my interest because he’s probably not interested in me because reasons, he’s probably just being nice”

On one hand, this AU wound up sparing both of them certain shitty experiences that their prime-timeline counterparts dealt with in their 20’s (not all of them, granted, and like — this AU’s Seb is still a recovering addict, and this AU’s Stephen has still dealt with a ton of bullshit about body image and fatphobia).

But on the other, they broke up and it’s…… amicable? Mostly? But still kind of emotionally tense for several reasons, not least of which is how instead of playing any, “he’s probably not really interested” head-games with themselves at the outset of their relationship and working through it, they were together for a long time, and danced around the idea of getting married…

…but neither of them told the other about wanting to get married because each of them thought that the other would never be into that idea because Reasons. Presumptions were made, miscommunication ensued, they eventually split up, each of them took it as a definite sign of, “I was right, he never would’ve been into getting married,” and they’ve mostly moved on and repaired the non-romantic friendship parts here.

Until they get dragged into the prime timeline and find that their counterparts are significantly more messed up as individuals but actually making a relationship work, but also at a point of, “They’ve been having some issues that have nothing to do with the superhero thing, and each of them is kind of seriously thinking about proposing but keeps getting cold feet about it”

Watching your alternate universe selves get engaged in the middle of a drag show on one of their birthdays is…… special.

Doing so after telling one or the other of them why you ever broke up is…… uh. Let’s just call it, “double special” and move on.

Also, powerless AU!Seb…… will be really conflicted about his prime timeline self being a superhero, partly out of concern (since this hero business seems to be working out okay, but it all sounds stressful and dangerous, and yes, Seb-prime literally can’t get intoxicated anymore — at least, not on any of the, “normal stuff,” i.e., “psychoactive substances that were not created by other mutants” — but…… how is being a superhero NOT a relapse trigger waiting to happen. To paraphrase Joan Watson, how is being a superhero NOT a giant gun filled with drugs and alcohol, pointed right at Seb-prime)

…partly out admiration (because the superhero stuff actually is working out decently, and powerless AU!Seb has to respect his prime timeline counterpart’s hijinks and dedication to helping people)

……and partly out of jealousy and getting kicked in the, “you’re kind of a worthless fuck-up, aren’t you?” feelings

because yes, powerless!Seb has found his own bliss in academia, and he is more or less at peace with it, most of the time……

but he’s torn because he wants to be helping people, and he largely went down the academic track to help himself

—which, in this case, means, “to something to work on and do with himself that wouldn’t feel like a complete waste of time, even if it didn’t exactly make him feel fulfilled, because he needed something to do other than, ‘try to find peace and sobriety by isolating himself from as much of life as possible,’” so it’s not like he is being selfish in a way that actively screws over anyone else; he is being selfish in a way that displays self-preservation—

—and okay, powerless!Seb has a list of things that he tries to tell himself about how this life-choice isn’t antithetical to the idea of helping people because he mentors students, and his research helps in X or Y or Z convoluted fashion, and he uses his access to academic databases to get around paywalls for other people who don’t have that access and to then hook them up with what they need……

But that’s still not the kind of helping people that he wanted to get into and it doesn’t really feel like he’s helping anyone, and it’s a pretty big kick in the stomach for him to get yanked into the prime timeline and see Seb-prime… actively helping other people as a superhero and ostensibly doing better at staying sober because of the superhero thing, rather than in spite of it, and what the fuck, how is this FAIR, how come he can do that and powerless!Seb CAN’T)

Even without the part where Seb-prime literally can’t get intoxicated on, “the normal stuff” anymore, the situation is a lot more complicated than powerless!Seb thinks it is, but in fairness to him, he’s probably only been stuck in this unfamiliar timeline for two weeks, max, when he has this little jealousy-induced meltdown

He probably ends up getting helped to chill out by Stephen-prime, which is its own messy and confusing kettle of monkeys for both parties because of intricate, complicated ontological questions like, “Is it cheating if I don’t actually do anything with my (ex-)boyfriend’s alternate universe counterpart, but feel attracted to him and definitely THINK about doing things with him?”

……The sad part is that all four of these losers WOULD actually make that complicated question, but it would be less because of the actual thorny issues about being and the nature of existence, and more because all of them would have a mental double-standard like, “Well, if I did it, then it would definitely be wrong, but it wouldn’t be wrong if my boyfriend did it because of reasons”

Seb and Stephen-prime may not need to deal with that specific question but the whole underlying, “Things that other people are allowed to do are wrong when I do them because of reasons” business is something they have to suck it up and work on, as individuals and in the context of their relationship

The AU where Josie actually got to go into fashion design, because they didn’t have their entire career ruined before it began by a mix of a douchebag ex-boyfriend whose parents were in good with Anna Wintour, and an abrupt, stress-triggered anorexic relapse that led to an even more stressful superpower awakening

Keeping with the, “mirror mirror on the wall, it’s fuck with my characters o’clock, let’s go…… all” theme among a lot of these AUs and the different respective versions of the characters, fashionista AU!Josie has a lot of things that Josie-prime wants and a lot of aspects of their life make Josie-prime jealous, but they are actually a huge mess in their own right

I’m still working out how, exactly, they are a huge mess, and so far, all I’ve really thought of is that it would amuse me if they were dating their AU’s Todd, but I’m not sure where I want to go with that and it’s also not actually going to be an issue for a while yet, so the idea has time to percolate

and the canonical coffee-shop AU.

The canonical coffee-shop AU is a horrifying dystopia where the bad guys won before most of the main cast were even ten years old — like, that AU’s Lucy and Sara Grace literally have no conscious memories of life ever being any different, they were that young when everything went to Hell — and that AU’s version of Senator Huntington (R-Virginia), the aforementioned Biggest Bad, took a lot of cues from Brave New World about how to run his dystopia

Like, there are several things that he would nix

e.g., the ostensible sex-positivity and alleged sexual equality of Aldous Huxley’s dystopia that is, in its own way, just another way of creating sex/gender-based INequality and blah blah blah

That would go right out the window because as far as dystopias go, wrt sex and the (im)morality thereof? Huntington thinks that Margaret Atwood’s Republic of Gideon from The Handmaid’s Tale had more or less the right idea, though he would also acquiesce that, if you want it to work, you’d need to build up to that, rather than dumping it on everyone all at once

He would also nix some of the more scientific aspects of the BNW dystopia, because he realizes that they’re not actually as likely to work out decently as Huxley seems to have thought in the novel

Like, Huntington would definitely still want there to be several strata of social inequalities that all serve to support a big pyramid that he can be on top of

……but he wouldn’t want to have those things artificially created in a lab because he thinks that sex is the best way to control a lot of the people under his power because even the ones who aren’t “perverts” — which, to him, means basically everyone who isn’t a heterosexual who only ever wants to have sex in the missionary position for the express purpose of procreation — are still “weakened” by their dependence on human connections (read: any desire to have meaningful human connections), and all of them inevitably want those connections to be expressed through sex because they’re all idiots in the end

For the record: Huntington’s attitude about sex is derived from the attitudes of real-world right-wing Christians in the States who love to play the game of shaming anyone who has any sexual desires, ever, because even though they also say that said desires come from God because they’re expressions of love and whatnot, they could just as easily come from Satan if the preacher in question doesn’t approve of them, personally.

The religious aspect only seems pasted-on whenever Huntington talks about any of this because…… Well, for him? It is. He doesn’t actually believe in God, or Jesus, or much of anything beyond his own power and his own right to have whatever he wants because he showed up and decided he deserves it.

Any time he talks about God or religion, he’s merely catering to his constituents by playing a version of himself who DOES believe in God because he’s reasonably certain he would never hold any elected office if he didn’t project the image of being a righteous, God-fearing man who is filled with the love of Jesus. But I digress.

So, yeah. Brave New!Huntington wouldn’t want to have all of his social inequalities baked into the population due to how people are grown in laboratories, but the general idea of, “keep the populace medicated into submission, throw them some bread and circuses and maybe a bit of pasted-on happiness, don’t let them think for themselves but give them the illusion of thinking for themselves, etc.”? Huntington is all about that.

Another reason why he vetoes the, “let’s grow all humans in laboratory test tubes lmao” idea is that he figures he can better play into the idea of all people being essentially equal, which helps keep the populace docile as long as they believe in it, if he lets them handle their own relationships and procreation. Like, regulate it in certain ways, and only give The Gay Agenda (i.e., everyone who isn’t straight) as much wiggle room as will keep them from noticing that equality is a lie, but don’t interfere too much because getting hung up on all that interpersonal drama keeps them from noticing the actual problems

Either way, the canonical coffee-shop AU is a horrid, dystopian hellscape and the main cast’s counterparts in that AU are okay with their lots in life — where, for example, Conrad actually is just a wacky eccentric uncle and not using that façade to try and teach Marie a kiddie version of Why Fascism Is Totally Cool, just in case she ends up being a mutant too, and Julian is a provocateur in that he argues with anyone who tries to sit in His Spot at the coffee-shop, rather than because he uses his platform and charisma to pick at prejudices and stir the pot in ways that incite violence — because they’re all drugged, they’re all being lied to, some of them don’t remember life ever being anything else, and when some of them get yanked into the prime timeline, uh.

Well.

That will be interesting to me, personally, because there’s going to be a lot of disagreement among all involved parties about all of this and what it all means

But ngl, this canonical AU literally started because I was reading coffee-shop AU superhero fics, looking at my own ragtag bunch of superheroic misfits, and going, “God, what WOULD it take for them to actually exist in a coffee-shop AU? Because the conventional coffee-shop AU set-up wouldn’t even allow for any of them to be recovering addicts or abuse survivors, much less actively upset about any injustices in the world (beyond maybe being a Soapbox Sadie type for a scene or two before getting swept up in the inevitable romance that will dominate literally everything about the fic) or affected by shit like homophobia, racism, ableism, sexism, etc. (because if we dealt with those issues, it might not be sexy or romantic, or at the very least, it would seriously distract from the OTP and their amazing love story). The most anyone is ever allowed to be in a coffee-shop AU is pleasantly eccentric or Troubled But Cute With The Emphasis On Cute”

Which is all a long-form way of saying that I came up with an entire canonical dystopian coffee-shop AU in a thought exercise that came out of being tolerant of coffee-shop AUs but also really bored with them and low-key frustrated about their dominance of fanfiction things for the past few years because while I understand the appeal of the escapism that’s inherent in most of them (and there are some that I even enjoy), I find it kind of depressing that so many of them end up being such that you could probably find and replace the names of one fandom’s characters with another fandom’s characters and it would essentially be the same story, and all of the things that drew people to the original stories will be gone while almost none of the problems of the original stories will actually be fixed (—and at that, the most likely, “fixing” is probably going to be, “a white cis M/M otp is injected into things where, in their respective canon, they are Just Dudes Bein’ Bros”)

……Which is a long-form way of saying that I did the thing out of frustration with coffee-shop AUs (and probably a bit because rereading all the classic dystopian lit pieces at once isn’t really the best idea ever, whoops)

21: Describe each of your OCs as shittily as possible.

okay, I did these all out of order, and after going in so hard on the AUs and polyships questions, it’s 3:15 in the morning and I’m just going to phone this in

Sebastian: yes, he’s a human disaster and a serious mess, but at least he’s trying, okay

Pete: local man delivers scathing verbal smackdown and makes you say, “thanks” for the honor

Margot: the mean chain-smoking lesbian with a heart of gold that your parents didn’t warn you about but should have, probably

Josie: local goth makes everyone else look under-dressed, feels bad about things

Todd: hipster garbage who isn’t nearly as underground as he thinks

Lucy: okay but have you guys considered how superpowers could be used to address public health crises

Stephen: the human embodiment of that moment when you get so excited about the punchline of the joke you’re telling that you laugh at it preemptively and can’t finish the joke but hey, at least everyone is smiling now, right

Sara Grace: local ballerina princess will probably never get over her physical inability to cuddle every cat on the planet

Conrad: “hey why are you getting upset i’m just trying to deny your right to be considered fully human unless you fit my specific ideas about what that is lmao”

Julian: sinnamon roll that you bought at a backwoods gas station at three in the morning, then lost on the floor of your car for two years, and now it’s all grody and probably a biohazard

Annie: perpetually screaming, just at life in general

Adelaide: she’s not telling you what to do, she’s just saying that her way is probably better even when it likely isn’t

Yael: is probably your favorite Jewish lesbian grandma, unless you think that she should chill, in which case not so much

Max: had his younger sister be his best man when he got married, out of his depth with most things, *glinting glasses of intimidation*

25: What sorts of symbols/items/~aesthetics~/colours represent each OC?

and it is now 3:30 and I’ve got absolutely nothing for this one beyond the fact that Margot, Josie, and Pete all wear a lot of black

Josie because they’re still something of a teenage goth queen at heart despite being a responsible adult

Margot because it’s both professional and somewhat intimidating, which she likes because she’s compensating for only being 4’11”

and Pete says it’s because he works in the theatre, which isn’t wrong, but even if he didn’t, he’d still wear a lot of black because he thinks it looks good on him (which is fair enough because it does)

Conrad and Max are associated with gray (though Conrad is also associated with white and “that annoying shade of blonde that is very nearly white but not exactly; the Draco Malfoy or Any Given Member Of House Targaryen shade of blonde”)

Sebastian gets a lot of dog associations (partly because he has six of them and partly because he is, as mentioned, essentially a werewolf though that does slightly depend on your definition of, “werewolf”)

and Stephen loves hot pink and eye-searing acid green, sometimes simultaneously

32: Do you have any polyam ships with your OCs?

Well, I already sort of went there in the AUs question, but personally, I would love Seb-prime/powerless!Seb/powerless!Stephen/Stephen-prime — but in general, I always love any and all ships that involve selfcest, whether they’re polyships or not, so I don’t really think this one counts

The polyship that I’ve probably given the most thought to so far is Seb/Stephen/Todd, and ngl, I’ve given it said thought largely due to the fact that……… well.

I wouldn’t call them a love triangle, exactly, but let’s be real: SMeyer and SCollins didn’t want to call Bella/Edward/Jacob and Gale/Katniss/Peeta, “love triangles” either, and while I’d agree that the latter case is a bit more complicated due to how Katniss spends the majority of the series having no interest in either one of the boys involved, the Twilight example is definitely a love triangle, and anyway, my point is that I’m no better than SMeyer and SCollins about going, “Oh, it’s not a love triangle!” because I fear the messy associations that come with accusations of writing love triangles even when I am blatantly doing so

And in general, I do believe in the sentiment of, “Less love triangles, more functional polyamory” — but the, “functional” part of that is a big reason why Seb/Stephen/Todd is not going to canonically go in the polyamory direction. It could, and given the canonical multiverse, there are definitely a few universes where it does

But in the prime timeline, a polyamorous relationship with those three would probably be a disaster — and frankly, a lot of it would be on Todd because Seb and Stephen both also have issues with communicating, self-esteem, honesty (with Stephen’s issue being more that he encourages everyone else to be honest while also trying to at least partially censor his own feelings in the interests of keeping the peace, while Seb’s issue is that he constantly lies to himself to try and convince himself that everything is fine because he feels like he’d just muck up everything for everyone by ever being Not Fine), and a laundry list of other things

But they’re also trying to work on those things.

Stephen is at a better place, wrt self-awareness and working on things, than Seb is, but he’s also been working on it longer and, for all the missteps he’s admittedly had in it because that’s just a part of this process for everyone, he didn’t have to deal with things like, “the aftermath of being kidnapped and shot by ecoterrorist ex-boyfriend who was not happy about getting dumped by a junky”

Or things like, “help, my brother’s unctuous brother-in-law keeps trying to befriend me after I drunkenly sucked his dick at my brother’s wedding reception and unwittingly broke up the marriage that I didn’t know the brother-in-law had, he keeps trying to befriend me despite my vocal lack of interest in being friends with him, also he’s been telepathically fucking with me for about eleven years”

Todd, on the other hand, has the self-awareness of a toothbrush, and that is a massive insult to toothbrushes.

He has worked on SOME things about himself, but usually only to the extent that he needs to work on them in order to feel like he’s doing an okay job on his own sobriety (which, in fairness, he is, but acting like sobriety is his only problem ever is disingenuous as Hell), and he isn’t working on most of his non-sobriety-related problems because, bless his heart, he doesn’t realize that they are problems.

I mean, this is a guy who is going to crash Seb and Stephen’s first morning after by showing up on Seb’s doorstep on a Sunday morning with a bunch of junk from his apartment, going, “Hey, so, I don’t mean to be a buzzkill when you look weirdly happy for once because it’s good that you look happy, I support you being happy, but also I might be getting kicked out of my place tomorrow and may also have been lying to you for several months about whether or not I needed money because I was totally sure that I could get everything figured out and then I didn’t but I didn’t want you to worry or try to pay for everything like a sugar daddy just because you CAN pay for it, and anyway, is one of your spare rooms open and…… oh. Hi, Stephen. ……He’s pretty shirtless for coming over for breakfast, isn’t he. Why are you wearing a shirt and he’s not.”

“Because he wasn’t cooking bacon and I was?”

“…………*slowly puts two and two together and realizes what he’s crashing* Ohhhh. Um. ……I can go bug Pete or Margot—”

“They don’t have room for you at their places—”

“So, can I stay?”

“Yes, obviously, but can we also talk about this? Like, maybe not right now, but in general, there are a lot of things that I’d like to talk about here???”

“………Why? Do you want to, like, charge rent or something?”

“No, god, why would I want to do that to you, but????”

So, yeah.

In fairness, Todd has a lot of good points. But he is also really bad at a lot of the things that you NEED if you don’t want a polyamorous relationship to completely implode — like communication, honesty, self-awareness, etc. — and he’s only going to start working on any of this when he finally realizes that…… oh. He’s jealous of Stephen and has been jealous of all of Seb’s previous boyfriends too, but in most of those cases, he also had some other reason to dislike them

For example: Harry was cheating on Seb with a Julliard violinist (who knew that Harry was also sleeping with Seb, but Seb had no idea that Harry’s violinist friend was his “real boyfriend”);

Francis was an ecoterrorist and admitted as much on their first date (though, as Seb has pointed out to several people, what kind of ecoterrorist actually admits to being one on a first date, so he feels he was justified in not believing Francis here), then shot Seb in the back, after kidnapping him and holding him for ransom in a basement in Ossining, all because Francis didn’t appreciate being dumped, especially not by a junky;

Josh didn’t really see the difference between rough sex and domestic violence, and was inadvertently responsible for Seb being the first family member to show up for the birth of his niece…… because he took Seb to the ER after giving him a concussion that made him seem to lose consciousness during sex (not that Josh stopped fucking him during), and then left him there “because he had something big to handle for work” (i.e., because he didn’t want to be there in case anyone called the cops), and while Seb was going to leave, he happened to see Max and Linda checking in and decided to just stay;

Rémy liked erotic asphyxiation but did not like asking for consent, and also had a thing for giving his partners rohypnol (again, without their consent), and he got away with it with Seb because, by the time they dated, Seb was no stranger to having intoxication-induced blackouts, and it was easy to tell him that he must’ve had too much to drink (and because of the way his half-latent healing factor and toxin filtering handled rohypnol, it was basically impossible for him to tell the difference between that and any of his more usual mixes of intoxicants);

Byron was a supervillain henchman-for-hire and also had a stunning lack of boundaries;

and Julian was mostly just annoying when he and Seb dated, and the worst part, at the time, was that they both tried to be helpful and supportive for each other but actually wound up exacerbating a lot of their respective issues, and now, he’s one of the less-bad exes but only because, “sends drunk texts to a recovering addict and unsolicited dick pics” is clearly on a very different level from, “gave Seb a concussion and ditched him at the ER” and, “literally shot him in the back”

(and then, when his involvement with the baddies comes out, he sort of skyrockets up the list of bad idea exes, but in fairness to Seb here, Julian didn’t get recruited by said baddies until after the second time that they broke up).

So, yeah, Todd has not been short on legitimate reasons to hate a lot of Seb’s boyfriends, and said legitimate reasons have allowed him to avoid dealing with his own jealousy for a while.

The fact that he and Seb have full-on dated before also helped for a while, as did the standing friends with benefits/“it’s complicated” that they’re in at the start of the story…… but see, Todd has always kind of been hoping that this would turn back into romance at some point

See, for all he isn’t self-aware about most things, he’s done enough work on himself to know that he is still in love with Seb (who does reciprocate but has an easier time reading Latin, or Proust in the original French, than he does of knowing what his feelings are doing and being able to verbalize it effectively)

So, Todd’s been leaving their relationship open-ended so he won’t have to feel like he’s tying Seb down to something Seb might not want. The idea that Seb might actually want it does occur to Todd, but he also dismisses the idea as completely ridiculous and silly, all out of some ridiculous idea that of course Seb wouldn’t want to be with him again for real, not until he perfectly self-actualizes in some completely unattainable way (which he doesn’t realize is completely unattainable because, bless his heart, Todd doesn’t get that he will never be satisfied with his ridiculous and ill-defined goalposts on the path to becoming his idea of what Seb’s perfect version of him is)

This is made all the worse by the fact that all Seb wants Todd to be, and all that he has ever wanted Todd to be, is himself.

He has said so practically since their first ever conversation, and the romantic subtext was there for him from the start of it all because when he went up to the cute bespectacled chubby guy in the Pink Flamingos t-shirt after the freshman orientation week meeting of the campus LGBTQ student union, Seb totally meant to ask Todd out.

Unfortunately, he got nervous, excited, an odd and potent mix of tongue-tied and rambling, and overwhelmed by how starved he was to make more friends (seeing as his only friend, at that time, was Pete, who was about an hour or so north, once you factor in getting to Grand Central, taking the Metro North to the right stop, and then either meeting him at the station or getting to his campus)

So, the romantic intentions got rather garbled and turned into a platonic-sounding coffee invitation, and as much as Seb had wanted to ask Todd out, he was okay with this at the time because he was en eighteen-year-old extrovert who’d spent his last two years of high school with only one real friend, who wasn’t even at his school because Pete was already in college, and in a school environment that was so emotionally shitty that his parents saw facilitating his trips down to see Pete and all their weird misadventures in the City not as a special treat but as what they needed to do for the sake of their son’s wellbeing

Either way, Todd misses the, “be yourself, that’s it, that’s all he has ever wanted, you colossal tool” point by a long-shot

So, by the time the story starts, Todd is working (he thinks) on his amazing and totally foolproof plan to become exactly what Seb deserves even if (he maintains) Seb doesn’t realize that he deserves it, Seb feels like there’s no way that Todd is still into him and feels like Todd is probably only hooking up with him until someone better comes along and is a hopeless romantic who’s pessimistic about love but also about most things in general, and their lack of talking about things is a Problem

It’s a Problem that Pete calls Seb out on, though in fairness, he brings that up less as a dig at the relationship and more because it’s part of Seb’s larger problems

But then, as part of his, “I am totally going to get my shit together, yeah!” “““plan””” (read: half-baked notion that he is at least really committed to), Seb decides to ask Stephen out (because Pete was just going down a list of things Seb could work on and one of them was, “Figure out your shit with Todd and either work things out with him or move the fuck on instead of mooning over him like you’re fucking twelve,” and Seb did the impulsive thing to go, “Oooh, look, not mooning over Todd now, am I”)

Seb doesn’t expect it to go anywhere because he doesn’t think Stephen could actually be interested in him literally ever, so he’s trying not to get his hopes up or end up feeling anything — except he does both of those things AND, due to how the events play out leading up to things, Seb’s just realized that he does still have feelings for Todd, and now, he’s not sure what to do and has to figure out his shit

The final nail in the coffin is that Todd, after several weeks of blowing off Seb’s attempts to talk about things (because you don’t need to talk about things if you just pretend they’re fine and stay the course, right?), gives him what is essentially an, “It’s not you, it’s me” line, and because, “It’s not you, it’s me” is so often used to break up with someone gently (including by Seb in different previous relationships), Seb takes it as them being done romantically and decides that they should stop having sex, too, so he can get serious with Stephen.

So, Todd has to live with the fact that he’s the one who opened the door to let Seb get serious with Stephen, and deal with his jealousy, which he can’t get out of at least recognizing because he can’t find a single thing about Stephen that indicates that he isn’t as kind and good as he seems. It’ll be good for him. He gets to grow as a person thanks to fucking this up for himself and unwittingly getting one of his best friends to commit to an actual decent relationship.

Then there’s the issue of Todd and Stephen’s leg of the relationship, but once Todd sorts his shit out about being a jealous little turd, they will actually get along just fine

They will probably end up having a bonding moment where they get laughing about weird or mildly irksome but not troublesome things that Sebastian does, because I love scenes like that

But, still. As a poly ship, I don’t actually see them working out in the prime timeline.

[amorremanet]

[A] scratchy voice cut in with an accent that wanted to badly to be Australian, but mostly sounded like a pirate from an animated kids’ movie:

“Ooooh, crikey. Here we find a specimen of the mighty Sebastianus flagrándus, an’ he looks like a biggun, too. Now, this breed is known for both their mutually beneficial relationships with lesser beasts, like that little Canis familiaris right there and for their ability to fall asleep in strange places. Oy, he may not look like much righ’ now, kids—”

“But he’s six-foot-three, can floor a Hell’s Angel one-on-one, and might not be asleep?”

Seb rolled his eyes before lifting his head and arching an eyebrow across the table at Todd Burroughs. Or, more accurately, at Todd and the video camera he’d mounted on a small tripod in front of him. About halfway between them sat a black plastic box that Seb recognized as the portable digital audio recorder he’d gotten Todd for his birthday, back in January. Fussing with something or other on the camera, Todd said nothing and didn’t look up from the flip-out screen.…

Under most circumstances, Todd would’ve distracted Seb from how heavy his shoulders felt and the dry, sticky feeling on the roof of his mouth. Tonight, however, he slouched over, propped himself up on his elbows, and couldn’t find the wherewithal to smile… Not if Todd was going to play around with his camera instead of talking. Wrinkling his nose, Seb waited in vain for Todd to acknowledge him.

“You should’ve said, ‘flagrāns,’ by the way. If you were trying to call me, ‘flaming’?” Seb gave Todd a moment of silence, then added, “You used the gerundive of flagrō, flagrā́re. Your scientific name for me means, like, ‘Sebastian, who must be incinerated.’ You want the present active participle.”

Todd nodded, but said nothing. Pressing button after button, he frowned, but still said nothing. At the very least, he could’ve told Seb not to correct his grammar in Latin, and yet? He said nothing.

Seb sighed. “Strictly speaking, though, flagrā́re is for when something is literally on fire,” he said, dropping his cheek into his hand. “But there’s no good Latin for what you’re saying, because of the Romans’ cultural ideas about sex and gender? Cinaedus is usually read, ‘he who bottoms,’ but for every time Ganymede gets called, ‘Jupiter’s cinaedus,’ you’ve got five references to womanizing cinaedi. Pathicus always refers to guys who bottom, but can be complicated? Morbōsus technically means, ‘diseased,’ or, ‘pathological,’ but also referred to cinaedi who wanted to get fucked. Because you could be a cinaedus and want to top some other pretty boy into the klínen. You’d still be effeminate, but you wouldn’t get called, ‘sick.’ Galbinatus works for flamboyant effeminacy, but doesn’t have any sexuality-related connotations. Ēnervā́tum is good? It’s a perfect passive participle, so—”

“Hey, Pretty Boy?” Todd kept his eyes on the camera. “Can you sit up straight for me? Without any, ‘How dare you, I can’t do anything straight.’ I just need to get this shot right.”

in which my losers are bad at communicating, and i am bad at keeping my own pet interests out of things

[amorremanet]

Well, today, I slapped together several playlists about my loser nerd OC’s and some of their relationships, and was reminded in stereo of just how painfully questionable my taste in music sometimes is. ………Yay?