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sunnysidewrites · 6 months

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Demon prince!Seungcheol

Inspired by this prompt: “I’m a demon, not a hot water bottle. Stop cuddling me.” “But you’re so warm.” “Like hell. Fire, brimstone, eternal burning.” It had absolutely no effect whatsoever, and the demon sighed, wrapping one arm around the other. This is my re-debut (although not sure if this counts as a re-debut or if it's just a one-time thing) after nearly a 6-year hiatus and needless to say I am extremely nervous and excited!!! (talking in idol terms luv that) I am hoping that also means my writing quality has matured as well (I think??? or not but guess we will find out)! This is for everyone who knew me back then and is still around to see this play out! sorry if it's not the best i am EXTREMELY rusty but hope you enjoy lovelies <3333

wow omg it’s great to dive into writing after so long im getting emotional

you know the drill folks let’s get to it!!

Humans and demons have lived in co-existence for centuries and it’s more or less a chaotic neutral environment given the unique circumstances of these 2 different… races?

It can be difficult to distinguish the demons with the humans since they try to blend in seamlessly for their own sense of peace and security

Despite a big chunk of demons integrating with humans, there are still parts around the world, albeit small, where they have their own territory to control

They usually operate in more traditional political systems, such as still maintaining kings and queens

Humans can live there as well, but it is predominantly demons who are seen as the norm and the former as commoners/lower class

You happen to be one of the lowly commoners who have been working as a maid in the castle since you were young

you and Seungcheol, the Crown Prince, were actually kinda close as kids!!

you could tell all he wanted to do was let loose and have fun but was forced to follow the rules and take everything seriously 24/7

even as a 5 y/o you could see how much he yearned to be a regular kid but duty calls :”((

there were many times you hung out together in secrecy since you as a lowly maid could not be caught DEAD associating yourself with someone of such a high status

and add being human on top of that!! <3

But Seungcheol didn’t care you were literally his first and only friend at the time

Any time a guard looked for him, he and you would duck somewhere to hide together, stifling your smol little giggles im dead

As he grew up and more burdens were placed on his shoulders, you could no longer keep the same innocent, playful friendship between the two of you

Your interactions with him went from running around in the garden to stealing quick looks at each other when you passed by him in the hallways

He went from a happy lil child to a very assertive, stoic man who always picked his kingdom over anything

Despite his new persona, he would occasionally still show you very rare displays of fondness??

You would sometimes randomly find gifts on your bed with a note and well it doesn’t take a genius to know who it’s from

“I swiped the last cookie for you before Penny stole it and I know you would become a demon yourself if someone took your sweets”

“I noticed your uniform was ragged and a little ripped so here’s a new set. be more careful or our next encounter won’t be as pleasant”

“Here’s an extra blanket loser don’t freeze to death on me”

Your heart feels warm knowing that he still shows you his softer side to you while he’s practically a statue to everyone else

Now you were both in your mid-twenties and he’s been busier than ever with political meetings and social gatherings

You were his main maid since out of all of the staff, you were the only one who could really put up with his absurd requests and got along with him in a manner no other maid could, even the older ladies

There were times he summoned you to his headquarters for the sole reason of wanting some company

He would bring up some dumb question and you would be like no offense but this is kinda useless

But little did you know he would do that intentionally to see you crack a little smile, maybe even a laugh in there since he’s been seeing you look more despondent lately

“Even though we can’t run around the palace like how we did as kids, I’m still here. I’m the same Seungcheol – well, actually not really but I still look out for your wellbeing”

“Thanks, not-the-same-Seungcheol”

It’s rumored that the Crown Prince is coming of age to take over the throne soon, but before doing so he needs to find a bride yes it’s one of those tropes ok deal with it

You’re cleaning the hallways one day with some other maids and you can’t help but overhear their gossip

“Did you hear Prince Seungcheol is now engaged??? I think it was just last week”

Your ears perk up and your scrubbing slows down slightly so you can focus on their conversation

“Yeah, I heard the woman is a princess from some neighboring kingdom… It’s really hitting soon that he’ll be the new king”

“I don’t know how long she is going to last… he’s so cold and doesn’t seem to care about anyone. but what can you expect from a demon?”

They both giggle and move to another room to continue cleaning and you can’t help but feel fired up from the way they were talking about him as if they knew anything about him

Sure, he was not really the friendliest and was very brutally honest with his curt words but it didn’t make him a bad person

Your heart aches after hearing the news and you recall a past talk you had with Seungcheol when you were younger

“Do you believe in love?” you asked him, the both of you lying down on the grass while looking up at the vibrantly blue sky

“Pshh, not really. Father always said marriage is for the people, not for love”

“But shouldn’t you love someone in order to marry them? you will be spending the rest of your life with them”

“I don’t think that is what he wants from me. I would be letting him down”

“Is that what you really want, though? to be stuck with someone you have no feelings for?”

he sighs deeply and looks down. “Well, I guess not… I do care a lot for someone”

your heart dropped. guess he already has his eyes set on someone else. “o-oh, well that wouldn’t be fair to you or to them right?”

he shakes his head, quickly glancing at you before looking away. “but it wouldn’t work out anyway. I wouldn’t want to drag them into the mess of my world. I want them to be free of what I go through. I just hope they know I’ll always care for them from afar.”

You shake your head out of a daze, painfully reminded of how raw that moment still feels

I wonder if he still cares for that person he mentioned, you think to yourself as you continue scrubbing the tiles. But what does it matter now that his future is sealed with someone else?

Shortly after that day, it was formally announced to the kingdom that the Crown Prince and the soon-to-be Crown Princess will be holding a wedding ceremony in just a short few weeks

On the outside, you smile politely and clap your hands but it takes every fiber of your being to not want to fling the door to your cramped bedroom and collapse on your bed and spill the tears you were desperately attempting to hold in

As you stared at him and his fiancee out the balcony waving to everyone, you swear you thought you saw him give you a forlorn look that lasted for a millisecond before he returned to his usual expressionless state

From that moment on, you barely saw Seungcheol at all

This man was constantly getting pulled in all different directions, especially with the royal wedding around the corner

The night before his big day, he summons you to his room again and your mind is buzzing with loads of thoughts of what he could possibly want to talk to you about

You cautiously enter and close the door slowly before turning back towards him

He looks more disheveled than usual, his hair tousled, his usual prince attire crinkled and slightly unbuttoned

“You look stressed, what's wrong??”

He closes his eyes and sighs for a moment before slowly opening them again and says while still not making eye contact with you, “I… I feel like I’ll have so many regrets once tomorrow comes”

You’re like why is that??

“Do you remember me mentioning I cared a lot about someone back then?”

Your heart drops to your stomach. “Yes… why?” thanks for the reminder

“I keep thinking about them… and all of these what-ifs. I know I can’t do anything about it, but–”

“Of course you can do something about it! I know you’re a stickler for the rules, but if the cost is your happiness, is it really well worth it?”

He shakes his head, looking even more troubled than before. “I can’t risk putting them in that position. Yet I… I want to,” he articulates slowly, as if it’s only dawning on him now that he’s finally learned what he truly feels

You feel as if the waves of heartache and anguish are drowning you but you try to be strong for him and present a smile if not for him, then for yourself

“I think you know what you need to do, Seungcheol”

And with those words, you quietly bow out and make your way to your room

The next morning, you wake up with puffy eyes from crying all night and begrudgingly get out of bed to get ready for the busy day ahead

After a hectic morning and afternoon, the ceremony finally begins

The moment we’re all waiting for is “Speak now or forever hold your peace”

And the most baffling thing happens because it’s not you who speaks up, not some secret lover, not some random citizen in the audience

but it’s Seungcheol himself

“Wait – I don’t think I can go through with this”

SCANDALOUSSSS

That’s right, he causes a whole uproar and everyone is like what tf is he talking about?!?!?

You are unfazed to a certain degree due to the conversation you had with him last night but you’re still confused on where this is going to go

Never in a million years would you have imagined for him to say his next words

“I’m in love with someone else: Y/N”

And all the maids around you gasp like WHAT. IS. HE. TALKING. ABOUT.

You aren’t sure whether to feel mortified or happy but whatever it is, all eyes are now on you

The current King is like MISTER?? WITH A H U M A N????

“I know it’s never been done before, having a demon and a human marry each other. but I’m tired of always having to do the right thing and for once, I want to do something that is right but for myself”

You’re looking at him in complete bewilderment and disbelief like you were talking about me this whole time??!!

“If we can prove that humans and demons can come together, it’ll be a huge stepping stone politically for everyone involved. I can’t change how I feel about her but I can change our worlds with her by my side”

He makes his way towards you and grabs your hand and this time he does not break eye contact even once

“I want to be with y/n, and no one else”

You’re melting like putty in his arms it’s honestly really sweet!!!

The King eventually caves in although he’s obviously not happy with all of their efforts wasted but he’s cool enough to welcome in this new change

Everyone’s reactions are pretty mixed understandably but they don’t seem like they hate it which is probably the best reaction you’re gonna get

“You’re not asking for my hand in marriage are you?? bc that’s a little too quick on a first date”

He shrugs and nonchalantly says, “Not until you’re ready” JESUSLFSJDS

The rest of the day is a whirlwind of crazy events that you get caught up in as the Crown Prince’s new lover now

By the time it’s time for bed, he summons you for the last time as you being a maid and not as a Girlfriend

Well turns out he’s actually a big baby and the whole time he tried to conceal his feelings for you all he wanted was for you to be by his side pshh lame amiright

“You sure move fast with wanting me to be in your bed already and we haven’t even gone on an actual date yet”

“Shut up and just lay beside me”

After you turn off the lights and get under the covers, you can’t help but notice he’s extremely hot (literally and physically) and considering it’s 20 degrees you’re taking all of that warmth

Of course, Seungcheol tries to make it a big deal and get you off of him even tho he secretly enjoys it

“I’m a demon, not a hot water bottle. Stop cuddling me.”

“But you’re so warm.”

“Like hell. Fire, brimstone, eternal burning”

Like that was gonna stop you who does he think he is for putting you through all of this and at the very least not giving you some cuddles???

He sighs and wraps one arm around the other after he notices your breathing slowing down

“I don’t have to care about you from afar anymore,” he murmurs, brushing your hair out of your face before also slowly losing consciousness

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thrashkink-coven · 1 year

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Let’s talk about Angels!

Hello all,

I am an eclectic witch and I have been working (seriously) with a few angels, mostly Jophiel, Haniel, and Raziel, and a couple others, for about 4 or so years.

Many folks on seem very interested in summoning and contacting angels. I wanted to share some of my insight with you guys as someone who works primarily with angels. I’d love to hear your guys’ perspectives on them as well.

Something to keep in mind: My experiences and perspectives on these infinitely complex and impossible to understand entities are not the one true most valid ones. My experiences will be different from yours and that is okay and to be expected. While we can always converse and theorize together we must always respect and understand that we really truly don’t know shit 🖤🖤

So you wanna contact an angel. What does that mean?

One of the most important things we humans have to consider when working with angels is that our matter of perspective is super important to how we classify entities.

What are considered angels to some, are gods and demons to others. We consider angels to be angelic because of their nature and attitudes, but it is incredibly important to remember that just because one entity may be called “angel” and the other “demon” does not mean that the angel is this happy go lucky chummy fellow, and the demon is some evil bringer of chaos. Both of these entities are capable of being kind, loving and helpful, and both will quickly put you in your place if pushed to. Both will be willing to work with you regardless of your faith and what gods you follow. The difference between these two entities is more political than physiological.

I have consistently observed with many angels that you do not necessarily have to be religious to work with them. They are very subordinate to the idea of God, whichever God that may be for you, but it is not mandatory. They may ask you to consult “God”, but I have come to realize that they mean something totally different than we do when they use the word “God.” (That is super super important imo)

When I first started working with Jophiel, I only “worshipped” the mother goddess. With him we dabbled with YHVH and some others before becoming comfortable where we are now. With every God I’ve worked with, my angels have adjusted accordingly. Some may speak occasionally about “The one true God”, but again, I don’t think that’s something that we have the best understanding of as a species yet.

Invoking angels “in the name of ______” increases their strength and likelihood of manifesting in my experience as, angels naturally serve and aid God. God means many things. For example, an angel I work with who is very close to Father Lucifer will manifest far better when invoked in the name of Lucifer. My saint Haniel manifests with greater ease when invoked in the name of The Mother Moon or Lady Venus. I’ve played around with this a lot and it seems that angels just like to be aided in their energy when we call on them by a “greater” power. Some food for thought!

Believing in the angel themselves definitely is required as this is a demonstration of faith, but angels are not as concerned with religion as you may think. Some may insist that you are some kind of believer, some are very closed to YHVH, others are less so. Some will want you to be some kind of monotheist, others won’t have an opinion on that whatsoever.

Different angels have different natures, classes, and orders. It’s a good idea to have a very great understanding of angelic hierarchy before doing any kind of work with them. A seraphim for example may present themselves far differently than a Cherub, an archangel, or a lesser angel. Fallen angels may act differently as well. Each angel will have their own energy, opinions on things, and correspondences. Some angels are very fond of humanity and are very willing to be of assistance in magical operations. Some angels are very indifferent towards humanity and might not want anything to do with you. If you’re repeatedly being told no, do yourself a favour and leave them alone.

Don’t make this mistake of underestimating them because they are classified as a “lesser” angel or are not considered a “Great Saint” like Micheal or Raphael. The order of the hierarchy does not necessarily speak to importance or power, just their distance away from us on Earth.

Some angels are more accustomed to modern humans, crack jokes, and are in the know about pop culture , others may speak in very broken english and lots of things may seem to go over their heads. Some angels are very physical and will want to touch or caress you, some will keep their distance. Some angels enjoy sex and others don’t have any ability to experience it. All angels have a completely different set of morals than we do. They may seem aloof or ornery at times. Don’t assume they’re evil just because they don’t come off as enthusiastic.

No two angels are the same. Don’t contact Raphael and expect the experience to be anything like contacting Raziel. Make sure you know exactly who you’re contacting and that you have a good reason. Know what they are all about and what they represent. Don’t assume that what worked for one guy is gonna work for someone else. Likewise I suggest not talking badly on any other entities while in an angels presence, even demons or beings you think are “bad”. Many of these angels are related in ways we might not know. Don’t make the assumption that Micheal “hates all demons”. Talking bad on Asmodeus isn’t gonna gain you points with Raphael.

Avoid testing them by asking them questions like what happens after you die. Some may humour you but it’s generally considered rude and they are not here to spill the beans on all of the great secrets of life. Some might, but always ask these questions with reverence and accept “none of your business kid” as a valid answer.

Angels are quite proud of their names and will usually announce them upon arrival. Likewise they will likely correct you if you have them confused for someone else. Always be willing and ready to interrogate your angel in a safe and respectful way. It is important that you are knowledgeable on tricksters.

When you’re working with angels, be sure not to underestimate them. They are not your pets and they do not exist to make you feel good about yourself. They do not exist to simply tell you good things. They are brutally honest.

Higher angels, like Archangels, are *intense* and burn *very bright*. I’ve seen many people share the idea that unlike working with a demon, there are no prices to be paid when working with an angel. This is only half true. Angels usually don’t accept offerings, they don’t make traditional deals like other spirits may. But, they are an incredibly holy and intense thing to witness. Their presence can be mind altering. You really really need to mentally and physically prepare yourself for such an encounter. They will never make any attempts to harm you on purpose (unless you’re extremely out of line), but it can happen on accident if you aren’t being careful. It is in many ways like looking directly into the sun. This will likely exhaust you. Take breaks and don’t go too hard too fast. Some angels are more considerate than others.

Many higher angels don’t fuck around. These guys are not really beginner friendly. An angel like Michael is a holy warrior and is going to expect that you are committed and disciplined. He is a gargantuan energy and the ultimate protector. Do not flagrantly call upon his energy. Not to say that Michael is not incredibly kind and considerate, but that his energy is so INTENSE that his presence should only be invoked with intention.

The angel I work most often with sometimes appears in a form that is so huge I cannot see the top of him, like a mountain. He can appear truly terrible like an Erdrich horror. Other times they can appear so bright that it feels like my eyes might fry out of my skull. Sometimes they can be extremely loud, like cracking thunder. Other times they can seem extremely quiet, like they’ve muted the whole world. They can appear in human or animal form. Male, female, or something in between. Sometimes they just appear as rays of light or waves of energy. We must be not afraid even when they are being weird as fuck lol.

There are many methods. I like to use sigils and scrying mirrors as well as their names as a mantra for meditation. Whatever works for you is valid. 🖤🖤

#witchcraft #magick #occultism #witch community #paganism #witch aesthetic #demonology #grimoire #pagan #witchblr #angels #angelology #archangel #biblically accurate angel #seraphim #cherubim

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waitmyturtles · 1 year

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Okay, I’ll try to be quick about this. I’ll do it in list form to set some ground rules and get my analysis going.

(I am arguably very frustrated overall about what I’m about to write, because of how excellent The Eighth Sense was, and watching this was just a bit of a downer, man.)

1) I will own that at this point, I might be the only The Promise apologist on this site. I might have led friends astray at this show. For that, I offer a 90-degree wai of apology. I gotta check the tag, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

(Senpai @respectthepetty...I’ll watch The Shipper as self-punishment.)

2) Yes, Phu DEFINITELY sucks. BUT, there’s a but that I’ll get to in a sec.

3) For the first time in this show, I am actually frustrated by the pace.

4) Party definitely rules, Mr. Sassy.

Alright, all that out of the way, get ready to hear why, once more, even I surprise myself by saying, I STILL like this show, but we’re on shakier ground. The Promise, episode 7, here we go:

We’ve now established two social rules by which Nan and Phu operate:

a) Phu is afraid of loss, 100%. He’s scarred by his father’s death, and doesn’t want to lose anymore people in his life, especially his best friend.

(HOW that equated to him RUNNING AWAY for 10 YEARS is STILL unclear to me, but I SUPPOSE that if Nan can STILL wait for an answer, then WE, as the audience, are expected to wait, TOO, which I THINK, dear director Khom Kongkiat/Uncle Tong, is ASKING a little MUCH of US, BUT ANYWAY)

b) Nan has said this shit in the past and present about how he wants FRIENDS, and separates that from LOVERS. And Phu is all up in his confusion about that.

I mean, I think I can get that those are legitimate reasons why Phu continues to hold back from revealing his truth to Nan.

But, fuckin’ GO PARTY. Party is like.... what the fuck, dude? Just come out and say it!

AND: Party put himself out there! He put himself out on the line! He revealed himself to Nan! Nan rejected him. But guess what? They’re still gonna be friends! PHU SAW ALL THAT!

Will Phu NOT be satisfied IF Nan rejects him? I mean, Phu will be sad, but... can’t they be like Party and Nan, and still be friends? NO?

On the one hand, I say: WHAT THE FUCK? Phu -- you are REALLY hyping this up! Why should everything be 100% with you?

On the other hand, I say: My socio-emotional read is that because Phu experienced the death of a loved one at an early age, things might HAVE to be 100% with him.

I just don’t know if Uncle Tong is weaving this complicated and emotional story as well as he could be at this point. I don’t know how efficient each episode is at selling the skincare. I absolutely loved the focus on the coffee farm and the process of the beans and everything. I love, love those slices of village life. It very much harkens to P’Khom’s actual role in Bad Buddy, and obviously goes to show how much he wants to profile these slices of Thai village life. I love those parts.

But at this point, as I said last week, we’ve waited too long. We need clarity. I get we have three episodes at an hour each, but the pace has now started to drag. I love what this show gives by way of a respect of the rural life these guys come from, but the imbalance is there among Devonte commercials/life in Chiang Mai/Granny and how she’s there to explain who Phu really is/Nan’s patience.

It’s not quite working anymore. I’m gonna stick out this show, because who knows if Uncle Tong can give us a huge and surprise ending, and there are only three episodes left, anyway.

But seriously, Nan is getting fuckin’ seriously played, and like, I think Phu is not as dumb as he’s being written. Maybe Phu’s read is that he thinks Nan is a lot stronger than Nan actually is. I don’t know. I just don’t know why Phu would play his homey like this for SO LONG. WHY DID PHU COME BACK, ONLY TO ATTEMPT TO RUN AWAY AGAIN.

Yes, you’re held back by your demons, but -- maybe it would have been best if Phu had just permanently stayed away.

Come on, Uncle Tong. PLEASE clean up this mess. I HAVE HOPE.

#the promise #the promise meta #nan x phu #phu x nan #i think i'm sticking with this show in part because the leads have EXCELLENT chemistry #i like both of them as actors very much #and i really love the chiang mai parts #very ATOTS of the show #but seriously #phu doesn't not realize what a fuckboi he is #it's ENOUGH #ENOUGH ALREADY #GIVE US SOME TRUTH UNCLE TONG #you were all about truth in BBS #just #COME ON ALREADY

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ask-the-sano-brothers · 7 months

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"Hey there, my name is Arashi Sano!"

"A-And I'm Daisuke Sano..."

When you send a roleplay or ask, specify who its for, otherwise I'll probably respond with both Arashi and Daisuke, unless that's what you want

Og blog: @rion-isnot-an-ai

Rules:

-No 18+ or NSFW content

-Flirting is fine, but don’t be creepy. Try to avoid flirting with Daisuke, since he's young, thank you!

-Be respectful please

-And the brothers are good demons, so try not to murder them 🙏

Info about Arashi:

Name: Arashi Sano

Age: 17

Personality: Arashi is playful, witty and easygoing. He doesn't take many things seriously and loves to mess around. He doesn't eat humans and is usually peaceful, but won't back down or ignore an opportunity to fight. He only gets serious when he needs to protect his brother or someone he cares about

His abilities (aside from normal demon traits) include venom delivered through his tail or claws, and he can transform his forearms into pincers like a scorpion.

Arashi is very strong despite his thin build

Info about Daisuke:

Name: Daisuke Sano

Age: 11

Daisuke is very shy and jumpy. He often stays close to his brother and doesn't like to leave his side. Daisuke, unlike his brother, hates fighting and gets scared whenever one breaks out.

So far (besides his moth-like features), Daisuke doesn't seem to have any other special abilities or blood demon art.

Other info:

They operate sort of like Gyutaro and Daki, where you need to cut off both their heads at the same time to kill them.

During roleplays or when I'm answers an ask, Arashi is red and Daisuke is blue

Their story:

Arashi had a large family, consisting of his 9 siblings, and 10 cousins. Plus his and their parents. But they were all slaughtered by an upper rank demon, save him and one of his younger brothers. They both were turned into demons.

Arashi and Daisuke were able to break from Muzan’s curse after seeing their massacred family. Arashi ran with his brother from the village and into the forest. The two developed their more obvious demon features a few days later. They traveled aimlessly for several weeks before running into the flower hashira, Miyu Makina. Arashi showed Miyu they weren’t a threat, and she happily befriended the two. Miyu was very excited to meet more friendly demons. They now reside with her in the flower estate, and Arashi assists on missions.

Dividers by @\samspenandsword

#intro post #introduction #side blog #roleplay blog #arashi Sano #daisuke sano

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bekoobove · 1 year

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Fazbear Fears #10: Remnants

...Dealing with personal loss and a struggling paranormal investigation business, Zee gets a scoop that may be just what she’s been looking for…

“For the last time, Mrs Calloway, my tools picked up no spectral activity. I’m quite certain your canary’s spirit has moved on to the beyond. Goodbye, and if you have other paranormal problems, I hope you’ll choose Zee & Micah Ghost Hunters.”

Zee slammed the phone back onto its base. “Crazy old lady…” she muttered, rubbing her temples. She’d taken the canary job several times, mainly because she was desperate for cash. Still, she had standards. She was a legitimate paranormal investigator, and was ready for some serious cases.

“Let’s see.” she said to herself, checking her messages. Nothing.

Zee sighed. “I knew this whole business was a bad idea. We needed a way to make real money, and we chose to chase ghosts?”

Still, she thought to herself, it had seemed like a much better idea when Micah was still around. He had been so passionate about it, ever since they had first met in high school. Some kids may have been put off by their classmate talking about ghosts, demons, and the undead in general. Zee, on the other hand, ate it all up. Her parents had told her many spooky stories from Hispanic culture- La Llorona, el Cuco, the Duende- so she was already into this stuff, and she loved what Micah was saying. While she loved ghost stories, she also enjoyed science, and felt like the two were at odds. But Micah had changed that. As he taught her, the dead created electricity that could be measured, and heat that could be detected.

Honestly, Zee had never been sure how seriously either of them had taken it. But being able to tell people you’d gone ghost hunting last night was certainly a conversation starter, and it was incredibly fun. They’d started doing it after Micah got Zee an EMF meter for her birthday. While the rest of their students were at the Prom, the pair were searching for paranormal activity at the nearby graveyard- and having their first kiss in front of some old mayor’s mausoleum. From then on, they were a couple- and they dreamed of being together forever, of hunting ghosts until they had passed themselves.

“Well, best-laid plans.” Zee said bitterly.

Suddenly, her phone rang. Zee picked it up, and angrily said into the mouthpiece, “Mrs Calloway, I swear to Christ…”

“Uh, I don’t know who Mrs Calloway is, ma’am. I’m just calling because I’ve got a job for you.” responded an unfamiliar voice.

Zee blushed. “Ay dios mio, I’m so sorry. I’ll take any job you’ve got, as long as it doesn’t involve canaries or-”

“Or Fazbear Entertainment?”

Zee froze, then answered with venom in her voice. “So you know I have no interest in those places. Look, whatever you saw in there was probably paranormal activity. It's an established fact in the ghost hunter community that those pizzerias are haunted. I have no interest in beating that dead horse. If that’s all…” she moved to hang up.

“Well, you see ma’am, the place I’m talking about isn’t exactly a pizzeria. And it’s never been investigated before, far as I know.”

Zee paused, then hesitantly returned the receiver to her ear. “I’m listening…”

“There’s this place, underground, where they used to have these really advanced animatronics. Apparently they were rented out for parties.”

“Underground?” Zee laughed. “Is this some sort of prank?”

“No, it’s real. It was called Circus Baby’s Entertainment and Rentals.”

Zee pondered this. “Any relation to that short-lived restaurant? I investigated there a while ago, and to be honest it’s one of the less haunted locations.”

“Yeah. After that gas leak that closed it down they took those things down to that fancy basement where they were stored and repaired.”

“So what happened to it? Why isn’t it operating now?”

There was some hesitation, the man clearly doubtful if she’d believe him. Finally, he answered. “The animatronics disappeared.”

“Wait, what?” Zee said incredulously. “From what I heard about the restaurant, those animatronics were huge, even assuming someone could steal normal sized ones without getting caught.”

The man sighed. “Listen, I honestly don’t care too much about missing robots. I want that place investigated because my friends died there.”

“Oh, um… my condolences. Do you believe them to be the ones haunting the place?”

“No. Something there killed them. Something unnatural.”

“How do you know?”

“They were hanged.”

Zee’s blood ran cold. “Wh-what do you mean, hanged?”

“In the rooms the animatronics were kept in. They were hung from wires. Both on the stages the animatronics used to perform at. That can’t be a coincidence.”

“...No, probably not. When did this happen?”

“Couple of months ago. I would have contacted someone like you sooner, but I just kept trying to deny it. Figured I’d sound crazy, even by your line of work’s standards.”

Zee tried to get a little more upbeat. “At Zee & Micah’s Ghost Hunters, no one’s crazy.”

“So, you’ll take the job?”

Zee stopped. She’d gotten so invested in his story, she’d forgotten- she never wanted to investigate Freddy Fazbear locations again.

Then again, she needed notoriety. While several people had died in the restaurants, the company refused to admit that paranormal activity was to blame. They blamed ordinary glitches in the animatronics, when they acknowledged the deaths at all. But if what this guy was saying was true, even Fazbear Entertainment couldn’t cover up something like this if it was brought to the light. She’d be famous for blowing this mystery wide open.

“Fine.” Zee answered. She slammed the phone down. “Let’s roll.”

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Her new car was nice.

It was red- her favorite color. Not exactly a brand new model, but only a couple of years old. Definitely a lot nicer than the Dead Car Rolling, as Micah had called their old ride. That name hurt now.

It was about four months ago when it happened. Micah and Zee had been driving along an old country road, towards an abandoned Freddy Fazbear location. It was late at night, and raining. Still, together they felt warm.

Zee had seen the decrepit building up ahead and eagerly pointed to it. Micah smiled and prepared to pull into the parking lot.

From the left, lights suddenly flashed at them. A moment later, the truck hit.

The car had flown off the road, careening into the lot. It hit a long-lifeless lamppost standing on a curb stop.

Zee had hit her head, and began to lose consciousness. Before she did, she noticed two things.

First, Micah. His head was on the dash, and was basically cracked open. Blood poured from the gash. His eyes were lifeless, and he wasn’t breathing.

Zee, horrified, tried to look away. She turned, and saw one other thing- the Freddy Fabear’s Pizza sign on the roof of the establishment. The cartoon bear smirked at her from it, as if this was the most entertaining thing he’d seen in a while.

Then everything went black.

The truck driver had been found guilty of drunk driving and manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years behind bars. Still, no sentence would bring Micah back.

Zee had returned, several times, to the sight of the crash. She’d tried out every one of her tools, searching desperately for evidence of Micah’s presence, but came up empty over and over again. And every time that bear sign mocked her, reminding her she was all alone in the world. After that, she’d never wanted to see a Freddy Fazbear’s again.

And yet, here she was, driving to one. Sure, it was called Circus Baby’s Pizza World, but she’d been. It was barely different- basically a reskin of the original restaurant.

Finally, she pulled into the lot. She walked around to the side, where she’d entered last time.

It was like Zee remembered- abandoned and lifeless, everything from the tables and arcade machines removed (well, there was one machine left in the room over, but Zee had investigated it last time- didn’t work). And of course, the stages, barren of animatronics.

Zee ventured deeper into the restaurant. She made a quick pit stop in Party Room E, which was the place she’d picked up the most paranormal activity last time. She scanned the room, but didn’t find any differences. The only thing that made it stand out were all the Circus Baby posters- she suspected it was designated for birthday parties with her.

Zee came to the back room entrance, on which a sign read !EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATRONICS SHARP PARTS AND LIVE WIRES- CAUTION! Last time, Micah had advised against checking it out, promising they’d return more prepared.

Well, she’d returned. And with all she’d been through, what could be behind that door that she wasn’t prepared for?

She pushed it open, and poked her head inside.

The backroom had also been cleared of everything- no robotic parts, no tools, no workbenches, nothing. Only one thing remained- an elevator shaft in the center of the room.

Zee smiled. She’d hoped what the man said was true, but until now she hadn’t fully believed it. The elevator was cylindrical in shape, about twelve feet wide and eight feet tall. A window wrapped around the entire structure, and pipes formed a network between the inside and out.

Hesitantly, she pushed the button beside the entrance. With a rusty creak, the doors slid open.

She prodded her EMF meter into the elevator to test for paranormal prescenses. If these spirits were willing to kill, she wouldn’t want to meet them in a tightly enclosed box above a deep shaft.

Some small wavelengths, but nothing significant. Zee shrugged, and entered the elevator. A red, obvious button caught her eye. She pressed it, the doors closed, and she began to descend.

As the vent fan in the elevator above her spun, it cast shadows which blocked out the eerie blue light illuminating the shaft. The posters on the elevator’s wall flapped with the breeze sneaking through the vent. Other than that, it was completely silent and still.

Zee examined the elevator itself. For all the exposed pipes and wiring, it looked advanced. It was 2003, not 2023. And yet everything was sleek, smooth, and worked well despite barely being used.

A jingle suddenly burst out of a wall mounted speaker. Zee jumped, startled, before groaning at being so easily scared.

The jingle was kind of creepy, though. It was like upbeat circus music, just a little too energetic for her liking.

“Well, whatever.” Zee muttered. “Ghosts or no, this fancy basement will be a lot worse than some weird music.”

Soon enough, the elevator hit bottom. The doors didn’t open automatically, but all she had to do was press the red button. Stepping back out, she found herself staring down a long hallway.

“Jesucristo, how big is this place?” Zee groaned.

Luckily, there was a motorized cart. It had only two front seats, with the back converted into a large bin, probably for transporting animatronics. As of now, it was empty except for a few screws and nuts. The key was still in the ignition.

Within a minute, Zee was cruising down the hallway in style.

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And within ten minutes...she was still driving.

Zee was completely baffled. Judging from her starting point and the direction she was going, the tunnel was going under the forest north of Circus Baby’s. Why the heck would it lead there?

Finally, she saw a light at the end of the tunnel- or, more accurately, a door. She also noticed another cart outside it- one whose owners had never driven it back.

In the cart’s bin there were some more little mechanical components, as well as a full animatronic hand. The thing was creepy- pale white with fat, jointed fingers, and wires spilling out of it. It definitely gave truth to the claims of the animatronics’ enormity.

One other thing was a small sketch, sort of like a floor map. There was a long, thin strip, with an arrow pointing off the paper that was labeled Elevator.

“So that’s this hall…”

The rooms beyond the door were arranged in a cross-shape that she was at the top of. The room she was entering was labeled Circus Gallery.

Zee tested out the doorknob. To her pleasant surprise, it opened. She pocketed the drawing, knowing it’d be useful.

Eagerly she stepped inside. “Hello, murderous robots?” she joked. “Mind if I snap some pictures?”

The room was laid out weirdly. There was a stage of sorts- really it was more like a platform- in front of some windows. Through them, Zee could see more of that advanced tech aesthetic, as well as some weird looking dolls hanging from a control panel.

“Guess this was Circus Baby’s old hand.” Zee took out her ghost box and turned the dials, hoping to pick something up. There was about twenty seconds of crunchy radio static. Zee sighed, and moved to turn it off. However, at the last second, some audio came through.

“Daddy, why won’t you let me play with Her?”

Zee gasped. The voice was like a little girl, definitely not one of the mechanics. Was she the original ghost? And who was Her? The way ghosts work, that line had to be significant, probably related to the girl’s death.

“I should head deeper.” Zee grinned. “I knew it was worth coming here, this might be the biggest find of my life!”

There was a hallway to the left. Zee excitedly ran down it. There was a ninety degree turn halfway down it. She pulled out the sketch again, to see she was heading into the Funtime Auditorium.

Entering the auditorium, she noticed there were four doors. One, to her right, was locked, with a scanner on the side indicating she would need a keycard. “Probably not getting in there…” Zee said, then winced. “Ugh, what’s that smell?!”

A scent like rotting meat and sickly sweet fruit drifted along the air. Zee looked over at the stage, suddenly realizing with horror the man had never said if his friends’ bodies had been removed. But nope- the stages were empty, save for some suspicious stains. Trying to trace the smell, she quickly realized it was from a door- one of two, right next to each other- across the wall. She looked down at the map, which identified the one on her left as Scooper Room and the one on her right as Scooper Controls. The smell was coming from the Room, so she nervously walked across the Auditorium and opened the door.

An automated message blared over a small speaker, spoken by a calm, flat voice: Warning: You’ve entered a highly dangerous area. You’ve entered from Maintenance Entrance 1B, reserved for cleaning and repair of The Scooper! Entering this side of the room is strictly prohibited by unauthorized personnel. Assuming you are authorized personnel, remember to proceed with caut-caut-caut-”

The voice cut out, and lights flicked on loudly from the previously darkened room.

Zee’s eyes took a moment to adjust, but they quickly located one thing- a corpse.

Zee screamed and stumbled backwards. Sure, she’d been told two guys were dead down here, but their bodies had been removed. What, had they just forgotten about the third one?

It was an ugly thing, and strange. It had no skin- nothing but exposed muscles and bone. There were only stubs for arms and legs, the body mainly consisting of a rotting torso and a gaping, bloodied skull. All in all, it looked less like the skin had been removed from the body, and more like the body had been removed from the skin.

After Zee vomited (look, what do you think you’d do?), she looked around in fear, trying to find something or someone that could have done this.

She found her answer quickly- sort of. There was a gaping hole in the wall that was shared with the control room. Unattached wires jutted out of the cracks.

“There was some kind of machinery…” Zee guessed, wiping some vomit off her chin. “But who’d make a machine capable of ripping people apart?”

There were small animatronic pieces on the floor in front of the machine- a finger, a few sharp teeth, and a tiny red bowtie, for example. There wasn’t any machinery in them like the hand she’d found; rather, they looked more like hollow shells.

“Almost like all the animatronic parts were torn out of them.” Zee deduced.

Shuddering, she decided that was enough for today. Already this place’s death count had been raised to three, and it didn’t seem like they were even the ones haunting the place.

Zee stumbled back through the door, preparing to leave. However, from the last door- against the leftmost wall- a banging noise echoed. Something was hitting from the other side.

Zee should have ran. She should have ran down the hall, back to her cart, and left this place in the dust. But, like so many before, one part morbid curiosity and another part misplaced confidence convinced her to stay.

The door gave, crashing down onto the cold, tiled floors. And an abomination pulled itself out.

It was the machine- it had to be. It was an enormous mechanical limb ending in a scoop. But this thing wasn’t for ice cream: it was closer to construction equipment, with an angular shape and bladed edges. But that wasn’t all.

A metallic, silvery fluid leaked out of it, like oil. But the liquid was strange- it moved and pooled with the Scooping Machine, towards Zee. And aiding it in its crawling were dozens of those plastic shells- bulky arms, a pinkish torso with a speaker embedded in it, a robotic woman’s head with hair pulled into a tight blue bun, legs that ended in curly red shoes. All of them had the fluid pouring out the seams, taking the place of their mechanical parts, helping to form a nightmarish body that dragged itself along the ground.

Zee stared, horrified. The main rumor about Fazbear animatronics had always been that they were possessed, but this was on a whole different level. And she took a moment to ponder: if this thing’s animatronic innards were gone, had they escaped? Were they out there, hiding in dark corners, waiting to claim more innocent victims?

Shaking, Zee held out her ghost box. “What- what do you want? Please, tell me!”

The thing stopped for a moment, thinking. The box began to hum with what sounded like a symphony of voices, all in incredible pain. Finally, from the gibberish a few words emerged.

“T̸̠̗͛͆͗O̴̩̊̅̃ ̷̧̥͐̑͆H̵̡̻͌̋͋U̷̢̝̹͝R̸͔̫͈͌̑T̴̳̾͂ O̵͉͠T̶̫̂H̶̋ͅE̸̝͌Ŕ̷̯S….L̷̡̲̍I̵̗͎͕͛͌̉K̸͕̄̆Ḛ̸̆͆̕ ̸͙̍̓W̷̲̋͂͠Ę̴̓̈́’̶̱̿̆̄V̸̝͚͐̏Ẹ̶̩̩̑̒ ̵̘̥͕̿͌̇B̸̢̛̻̠͛̆E̷͍̔̃͘É̸̲̭̊̂N̴̖̩̞̐̒ ̸̛͖̈H̷͙͂̑Ư̷̡̢̬̆͗R̷̥̰̜͆̾̍T̴̨̡̙̍̓.”

A beeping noise came from the scooping machine. There was a pause, and then it activated. Zee barely dodged the mechanical scoop as it flew at her. It slammed into the wall, and peeled out a chunk of concrete. The limb retracted, ready to try again.

Panicked, she looked around. All of the exits were behind the Scooping Machine, and it was moving closer. She threw the ghost box at it, but the metallic fluid stretched up and plucked it out of the air, absorbing it.

Zee was backed up against the wall, no way out. She turned her head away, disgusted by the metallic monster. Her eye caught something on the wall behind her, though- a vent, level with the floor, big enough for someone to crawl through.

Relieved, she kneeled down and crawled through the opening. The echoey metal tube was tighter than it looked, but still passable.

As she crawled, she looked at her map again. She was headed towards a room labeled Primary Control Module. One vent, on the wall to her right, would lead her to the Circus Module, the room behind the window in Circus Gallery. But there was no vent leading into the gallery; she’d be cornered.

From behind her, she could hear metal scraping and machinery beeping, as the Scooping Machine creeped towards her, dragging itself along the metal walls.

“Stupid thing, how can you even fit?” Zee yelled, as if an insult might slow it down.

Finally, she stumbled out into the relative openness of the Module. Zee frantically scanned the map, desperate for another way out. She found one, but not one she expected.

There was a vent on the wall to her left. At the end of it, there was a round chamber labeled Elevator.

“Another one?” Zee said incredulously. “Where does this thing even go up to?”

But as the metal monster emerged from the vent, she realized she didn’t have much choice. So she turned, and began crawling once again.

As she did, she began to think about what the Machine had said, all that stuff about getting hurt and hurting others. She felt kind of sorry for it, but on the other hand, why attack random people? If she had been the one who’d killed whatever souls resided within it, sure, but that wasn’t why it was attacking. It just wanted to cause pain. Why couldn’t it just let go?

Though, ultimately, wasn’t that what ghosts were? Shadows of their living selves that stubbornly persisted, all for the sake of the long-dead, long-abandoned, and long-forgotten. Zee didn’t want to end up like that.

But she couldn’t help but begin to think she was.

She missed Micah so much, which- y’know- made sense, of course. But only now did she realize how much it was consuming her. There had been times where she’d considered just ending it all to be with him again. She had tried to let go, to move on, but it was just so...impossible.

“Why am I worried about this now?” Zee cursed. She pulled herself out of the vent. To her pleasant surprise, the sketch hadn’t lied. There was an Elevator there, almost identical to the one she’d first come down in. Eagerly she ran inside and hit the red button. She began to ascend just as the Machine emerged from the vent, but the rising floor quickly cut off her view of it.

“Yes!” Zee cheered. “So long, you robotic freak!”

Her excitement was dampered when, from below the elevator’s floor, there came sounds of scraping metal and shifting parts. It was climbing up after her.

The elevator wasn’t particularly fast, so within a few seconds it was scratching against the floor, and grabbing onto the mechanism. To Zee’s horror, she could feel the floor shift, beginning to give.

After far too long, as the floor began to peel open, the elevator reached the top of the shaft. Well, almost. It stopped a few feet below the floor’s surface, but the space was big enough to crawl through.

Zee climbed, and stumbled a little, but managed to pull herself out of the chamber. She looked back inside the elevator, worried the Machine was going to follow.

It didn’t seem likely. The Machine had left most of its plastic shell parts behind in the vents, having only a teeth-filled snout, a skinny clawed arm, and some bearish looking legs. It was struggling to pull itself up, and the elevator looked like it was about to fall.

But Zee noticed something else- her EMF reader, lying on the elevator floor.

“It must have fallen when I was climbing out!” Zee realized. “I- I have to get it.”

Desperately she reached back in, her fingers scraping against the small device, but not quite gripping it.

“Please…” Zee said to no one in particular. “It’s all I have left of him…”

But then she realized that maybe it was time to let go- literally.

So she retracted her arm, pulling it out of the gap. Not a moment later something in the shaft snapped, and the elevator plummeted.

The creature screamed as it fell, an ear-bursting, shrill, metallic sound. But screaming did it little good, because from below there was an enormous CRASH! A fiery orange light reflected off the shaft walls, and a wave of heat burst upwards- but before any of the real explosion hit, the elevator door slid shut.

It was odd- when it had fully closed it blended right with the wall. In fact, looking around, this whole place was weird- a sort of storage basement, but not filled with Circus Baby animatronics and props. There was normal stuff- an old, cobwebby fake Christmas tree, boxes full of knick knacks, and a treadmill with a couple of old work shirts slung over it.

Zee cautiously moved to the stairs, and climbed. Sure enough, she emerged not in some kind of robotics facility, but a house. It looked pretty normal by abandoned house standards- dusty furniture, burnt out lights, and a strange emptiness. The only thing that looked amiss were the stains all over the floors and walls- some sort of oil and rusty red substance.

“Well, that’s enough for today.” Zee muttered. She quickly found the front door and left the house. Like she’d suspected earlier, it was situated in the middle of nowhere, in the forest.

An old road led out of the clearing, probably back to town. Zee followed it.

As she did she thought of Micah- his smile that lit up her life, his curly black hair, the happiness with which he did everything. He wouldn’t want to hold her back like this, would he?

“No.” Zee confirmed to herself. It wouldn’t be easy moving on, but she really had to.

The forest was peaceful and serene. The trees waved gently in the cool breeze, and birdsongs echoed quietly.

Zee smiled.

What a beautiful day.

#fnaf #anthology #fazbear frights #five nights at freddy's #horror #cw: gore #fnaf sister location

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Van Ink Za Tatsu No Harem pt. 6 || How To Settle This!

This is part 6 of the drabble series Van Ink Za Tatsu No Harem. My lovely rper partner @the-silver-peahen-residence wrote 5 part so please check a look. So far this is part 6.

----- Parts ----

Part 1

Part 2 - New Challenger

Part 3 - Planning Operation Party B̶a̶c̶h̶e̶l̶o̶r̶e̶t̶t̶e̶

Part 4- Party Time Descending Into Chaos

Part 5 - Party Rumble

---Actors for this drabble-----

Demon mun’s guests

(The DBT)

(The fractions : Elite Demon Anthem, Upstander Campaign, The Lupins, Knights of darkness)

Peahen-mun: guests.

( The main character Yuuka and her fraction, Dark Eclipse Nightshades. Her OC fractions: The Shallow Butterflies, The Season demon warriors, Cursed Vixens )

((Canon OG guests: Deku and Bakugo from BHA with some of the A-1 class, Rin Okumura from Ao No Exorcist, Atsushi from BSD, Ren aka Joker from Persona 5 and Denji from Chainsaw man.

(( Note: I also struggle with grammar but the biggest part, is the fun of this drabble.

------------ Brief Summary ----------

The tension has now broken in the part with Denji’s proclamation and Bakugo’s outburst which makes everything heated. A lot of fighting is heard and the one who stop it is Ink. Ink has a few words to say and how would the DBT deal with this mess??!

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At first, Ink didn’t know what to say when she heard Denji’s response.

If I marry Ink, then I can kiss her all I want if you’re married right?”‘

Ink blinked. Eh? There is silence in the room. Isn’t that the right? Was there something wrong with that? Ink had a somewhat grasp of marriage where people who fell in love get married after knowing each other. If people get married, they kiss all the time?

Of course, Ink had no idea how Bakugo responded.

“THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY!?”

Ink is startled by Bakugo’s outburst. She didn’t see him get that angry. Although...Bakugo is angry all the time, he just means business or doesn’t bs about things. But he looks pissed off at what Denji.

“Look Extra, their is no way that you would get that chance. You don’t even look like her type!”

My type? Ink blinked. Uhhh...but she listened to what Denji said.

“And you think your her type? Last time I recall, you don’t seem like proper dating material since you tend to be violent, you insult everyone that you see as ‘extras’ you always seem to love insulting Yuuka for being one, and if I heard this right, you scared the living shit out of that girl over there. Uhh Ashley right?”

Wait....dating material???! Ink blinked dumbfounded. What is Denji talking about?!

“Hold on, you two shouldn’t fight. Besides, Ink might not want things to get out of hand.”

Rin is right. They shouldn’t fight. Besides...isn’t this a game?! It’s not that serious! But Bakugo said something weird along the lines.

“And don’t give me that shit! I bet you were lying when playing the game! If you were honest, I bet you would have tried to at least get a chance to marry Ink or date her!”

Huh?! Wait....what is Rin and Ren lying about?!

“G..guys guys please! Were at a party to have fun. Please lets not make this some battle arena! Please!”

Atusshi is right. This is party, not a battle arena! Although....it would be good idea but that isn’t the point! Ink shakes her head but before she says anything. Bakugo said something weird again.

“Fuck off! I bet you were thinking the same with Ink too, and you too Midoriya!”

“That’s not true!!!”

“I bet it is!”

Wait? What are they thinking about me?!

“I know you since your always nervous around her but your just trying to hide it!”

Eh?! Wait...is Midoriya nervous around me?! And he’s trying to hide it? But why? Did I do something wrong? Ink thought as she looks seriously confused. The fighting got even worse making Ink upset. And then Ashely raised her voice.

“WILL YOU GUYS JUST STOP PLEASE!!!!”

Ink became startled, looking at Ashely who looks seriously upset. And last thing that anyone wants is Ashely being upset. Ink doesn’t want her friends to be upset.

“Look, no one asked for your opinion! This is between me and these idiots who things they know what’s best for Ink! We all are friends right!? Why that would be fine, if this idiot didn’t say anything!”

What’s best for me? Ink thought. But everything became a mess. Bakugo saying hurtful things and what’s worse, he exploded cake which the icing and cream is ,Ashley, Melinda, some of the boys even on the floor. Ink is in shock. “B-bakugo?” But before she says anything. Denji was tackled by Bakugo for saying something. The boys were fighting and Ashely left for the bathroom crying. This isn’t what Ink wanted.

“I think Ink will be happy with me! Your not dating material!” Denji said holding Bakugo down.

“SHE DON’T EVEN SEE YOU AS THAT! SHE WOULD BE MISERABLE!” Bakguo shouted.

“YOU DON’T KNOW THAT!!! SO FUCK YOU!!” Denji yelled.

“NO FUCK YOU!!”

“FUCK YOU!!”

“Guys please, your not making this better and Ink wouldn’t be happy seeing this so stop please!” Midoriya yelled.

“SHUT UP DEKU!!”

“Guys stop!!”

Ink wonders. Is this because of me? I-I don’t want this. I want everyone to be happy. Ink trembles before she growls. Navarro widen his eyes at this.

“ENOUGH!!” Ink roared demonically. She brought out her demonic visage making everyone stopped in their tracks. She growls breathing smoke. Navarro and Shdwkyz takes a step back. Not good.

“You guys....Denji and Bakugo. You....guys are fighting over a game. A game! I thought you two are better than this! This isn’t fun! Ashely...is in the bathroom. Bakugo....you... You can’t say hurtful things to each other. This...I.....I can’t be worth fighting for here! I shouldn’t be the reason for you guys be fighting like this!” Ink yelled.

“Well Ink.....you heard what these two think about you. If you have to marry one of them?” Kali said.

------ Navarro --------

He didn’t expect this. He thought it would be funny and stupid....but of course, he didn’t take in account for Kali’s rule added to the damn stupid game, Denji’s answer over the game and Bakugo’s outburst. Well...of course, he can expect that but he didn’t had to say that kind of shit to Ashely like jesus, he took Denji’s answer too personal. Of course, Navarro would too but- then the short teen looks over to Ink who looks horrified. But when she shouted to get everyone back to their senses as she speaks.

This...I.....I can’t be worth fighting here for! I shouldn’t be the reason for you guys be fighting like this!”

She’s right. Navarro thought.

It now dawns on him, Navarro has finally realized that this is bad idea to begin with. This is way worse than the Bronx Zoo idea. Oh my fucking god...what have I done? Navarro covers his mouth. Deep down, Navarro has no one to blame but himself. He had to look over Kali whose freaking eating popcorn like it’s damn TV show! Ugh! I shouldn’t let her be charge of the games!!!

However...Kali wasn’t done. She had to ask a dumbass question. “Wait...what?” Ink said.

“I mean Ink.....you heard what these two think. Who do you want to pick after seeing this?” Kali said. Ink looks to be dumbfounded as she now looks conflicted.

What the actual fuck-that’s not something Ink needs to hear right now, Kali! Navarro thought as he grits his teeth.

Rin grits his teeth hearing this and says, “Ink....you don’t have to answer that...” Rin said. Atsushi nods, “Yeah...you don’t have to answer, Ink.”

“Ink...” Ren sees her expression changed.

Ink looks seriously conflicted as Denji and Bakugo were looking at Ink as they waited for her answer. Ink’s eyes widen as she begins to shift her eyes between Bakugo and Denji, back and forth.

“Like uh...I can’t....uh..I’m sorry....um...gotta use the restroom!” Ink said before she leaves for the balocny whereas the restroom is the other direction. “I’ll be right back!” Ink then flies using her wings.

“INK!” Midoriya said as he runs after her.

“Midoriya! I will go get her! Stay in the party and calm Bakugo down, okay?” Shdwkyz told the pro-hero. Deku nods as he stays as he and Navarro were at balcony watching Ink flying away from here.

-------- Balcony --------

“INK!” Navarro calls out for her. “Shdwkyz...we need to.�� But Shdwkyz grabs his arm and drags him out away from ears, making him face forward at him.

“I will go find her.” Shdwkyz said firmly then jabs his finger at his chest, “You. Need to fix this. Now.” He said as his yellow eyes are glowing. “The last thing Ink needs is listening to you! Now I’m going to go find her and you need to convince Kali to stop this nonsense. Understand?”

Navarro winces a little but nods. “Right. I will do that.”

“Good. Just...ugh....make sure this whole thing does n’t get any worse. Although it did.” Shdwkyz sighs before phases as a shadow and goes after Ink leaving Navarro behind. Navarro cursed as he grips on the railing. “Shit....I need to fix this.”

------- First floor - Party Game room --------

Everyone is quiet after hearing Ink’s outburst and well...Kali’s dumb question. Ink runs off not answering that.

“Kali...what the heck was that for?!” Maggie yelled while Oblivion didn’t say anything.

“if I know anything about Ink, I highly doubt she would love those two idiots after what was being said!” Kali said, stopping eating her popcorn. Denji and Bakugo looks upset but didn’t say anything. They felt angry and also ashamed of their actions. “But I also know that Ink won’t go for anyone who won’t be honest or be too coward about their feelings!” Kali looks over to Ren, Rin, Atsushi and Midoriya.

“What is that supposed to mean?”” Atsushi yelled.

“But that’s okay!” Kali said, waving Atsushi off as she has an idea on how to solve this “We can resolve this in a fight.”

“A fight?! A fight just happened now, Kali!” Guam yelled.

“You can’t be serious....” Rex said as he looks ready to pummel Bakugo for saying hurtful things to his sister.

“I am. I highly doubt the party will go on with people getting angry and mop around. So if you two want to duke it out before you apologize to Ink, Ashely and everyone here, this is the best time to do it and let your feelings out.” Kali said. “So Denji and Bakugo, you are two going to use yours fists and fight.”

Rin scoffs as he is crossing his arms, “Yeah right! As if that’s going to work, they will knock each other out!”

Denji got ticked off hearing that, “Ha?! You think you can beat me? Who the hell do you think you are?”

“Yeah! What the hell, ya damn rat! No yeah you and your rat tail ass will beat me.” Bakugo growled as both blond glared at Rin.

“Who the hell are you calling a rat! You the two idiots talking about dating material and don’t consider Ink’s feelings.” Rin retorts.

“And you are?” Denji asked.

Rin growls, “I’m way better than both of you two! You!” He glares at Bakugo as he points at him, “Who cares about being number 1 hero but you’re a compete freaking jackass and you’re the one who doesn’t know what’s best for Ink! You hurt everyone around you just like you did to Ashely! You don’t know what a friend means to you!!!” Rin points at Bakugo angrily. “And you! I don’t know who the hell you are, Denji! But you’re way far off from being dating material! How long have you know Ink?! Who the hell says that in a dumbass game?! If we’re talking about type, Ink would want someone to care about her and don’t do this kind of shit!!”

“Rin!” Yukio said in shock, wondering where this is coming from! Don’t tell me- Yukio thought. Oblivion drinks her soda, knowing Rin is right.

“Tch....says the guy who answers the same thing as everyone else.” Denji clicked his tongue. “You’re not much better than anyone here. You were lying like he said!” He points at Bakugo. “Watch when you pointing damnit!” Bakugo yelled at Denji.

“The hell do you say?” Rin glowered.

“Ya heard me!” Denji growled.

“Hmph....” The three looks over to Ren who pushes his glasses up shaking his head. Atsushi and Midoriya were worried now and looking at each other. Rin narrows his eyes at Ren, “Got something to say?”

Maggie wonders....how the hell did this situation got to here. Yuuka came back with a sigh. Oblivion looks over to Yuuka, “How is she?”

“Melinda is comforting her and Ashely is still crying...” Yuuka sighed and hears the conversation. “Wait...they’re still fighting?” She asked.

“Well...more like Rin and Ren are now joining the fight now.” Oblivion said making Yuuka groan as she listens.

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“I disagree.” Ren said.

“On what?!” Bakugo demanded.

“Well for one if I recall. You didn’t raise your hand up when Kali says if anyone has a crush in ‘Would you rather?. So you don’t have a crush on Ink, do you?” Ren points out making Bakugo froze making Denji snicker and Rin crosses his arms smugly. “THAT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING!” Bakugo yelled.

“It sure does...” Rin responded.

“Also....I don’t think you’re better than these two, Rin.” Ren added.

“Hah?!” Rin blinked. Denji laughs.

“And Denji, you’re not dating material. How long have you known Ink? This is your first party." Ren asked. Denji grits his teeth.

“Ink won't date any of you for acting like this." Ren said firmly.

Rin growls. “You-!”

“Now guys! Let’s not start another fight or-” Atsushi begins.

“Or what?! You going to do something too?” Denji asked. “You don’t even like Ink! What is it to you?!”

But the one of the Lupins, Pierce blinked at this. “What the hell are you talking? Atsushi brought Ink cupcakes, of course he likes her!” Amhed had to whack Pierce upside the head comedically.

“I-uh....” Atsushi looks around as Midoriya looks at him. “I was paying her back for helping me back, okay?!”

“I heard that from someone that the sprinkles on top were heart-shaped.” Kali said, drinking a soda.

“Oh yeah, that too.” Pierce said making Fin sighed. Yuuka wished she hadn’t told Kali about the cupcakes. Because all eyes are on Atsushi making her feel guilty when Atsushi's cheeks became pink. “I-I uh.....” Atsushi said. “I can explain!”

“What the fuck?! You sneaky bastard!” Bakugo said. “You opt out of the game because you don’t want to say it but you have the balls to give Ink cupcakes?! WITH HEART-SHAPED SPRINKLES?! The hell ya trying to pull, ya damn cat?!”

“Ink likes them, she likes chocolate!” Atsushi argued. “I mean they look good, okay?! " Atsushi sighed.

"You're obviously lying..." Ren sighed.

“Don’t use Ink as an excuse!” Rin pointed with a scowl.

“For someone who can transforms into a tiger, you’re being a pussycat for backing out and doing that kind of shit!’ Denji said as Ren shakes his head. Atsushi flushed red as he hates being called that.

“Now you’re all being ridiculous!” Atsushi yelled, having enough of this, “What did you guys got her, huh? All you talked about is her type, this and that! This is why I opt out of the game! You're taking this game too seriously.”

Atsushi's reply is sound and valid but of course, the boys didn't take his question well.

“You didn’t have any problems saying who you marry, kill and kiss in the other rounds.” Bakugo said.

“BECAUSE IT’S JUST A GAME!” Atsushi cried. “Kali added the F-word into the last one so that's why I opt out. I can't say things like that...”

Atsushi wasn’t wrong about that. But it does sound suspicious.

Rin shrugs, "Why not? It's just a game and besides....you should be upfront about it, Atsushi. No offense." Rin said. "Also I got her plushie." Rin coughed.

"A plushie?!" Bakugo said. "The fuck does Ink need one?! She ain't a damn kid!"

"And what did you got her?!" Rin yelled where his brother Yukio tries to calm him down.

"And a new freaking jacket and she js wearing it!" Bakugo said proudly. Rin and Denji glares.

Ryuji huff, "Are you kidding?? Ren got Ink flowers! Those are way better what you got her!"

Fuutba nods, "Yeah, I think it's a classic. These flowers were red and blue!"

Oh great. Now the peanut gallery is getting into this, riling this up. Yuuka stared in disbelief while everyone wat h this spectable. A handful wants to stop this from progress but most are amused by this. Navarro arrived, "What did I miss? Wait...are all of them fighting?!"Navarro sounded shocked to which Yuuka rolls her eyes, "What did you think?"

"We need to stop this..." Navarro said. "And I don't know how..."

Denji snorts, "Flowers are lame."

Fuutba yells, "Who says!!"

Ann sighs, "You two...don't add fuel into the fire." Bonking them on the heads.

"I know I didn't get her a gift!" Denji admitted, "Because I'm trying to know her but she did help me out so I'm going to get the best gift. Way better than you guys gave her beacuse..."

Navarro stares. The boys narrow his eyes at him except Midoriya

"If it weren't for her blood, I would be a goner."

"Wait...her blood? What do you mean?" Navarro repeated.

Yuuka blinked stupidly. Wait what?!

Of course, the boys especially Atsushi, Baukgo, and Rin didn't take that very well. Yuuka wonders why Denji is saying the darnest things. Denji doesn't look he's lying about it either. Navarro is godsmacked. Does he want to rile them up and get beat up. It's like Denji is against everyone.

"I drank her blood when I was hurt very bad and it heal me a lot." Denji explained as it it's normal.

Fosh spits out soda again and is choking on it again making Mouse slaps his back hard. Someone get this poor boy some water. Everyone is in shock as almost everyone trip themselves hearing that. Denji did what now?!

"Her blood?!" Atsushi said in shock. Rin stares wide-eyed as her fellow thieves, Ryuji and Fuutba were in shock.

"Damn dude....and I thought I was crazy." Rust said to which Jaron nods.

"Well...goddamnit...I need a drink." Guam said to which Lela gave him one.

"What the hell are you, a damn vampire?!" Rin looks ready to unsheathe his sword at this point. Yukio had to pull him back. "Brother, don't!" Yukio yelled.

"Besides...that doesn't mean shit!!" Rin said.

"QUIET!" Kali silencing the crowd. "Now it looks like all of you care about Ink like a lot! So to settle this. How about we do a love jeopardy??"

"You wanna die?!" Bakugo growled at Denji while Midoriya is holding him back. "Kacchan, don't!"

Navarro didn't thought this through....nope at all.

"A what?! Fuck no! Why?!" Navarro said. This is going too far and to point of stupidity. "We don't need to do this. Look let's all cool off and-"

"So Ink returns to a party where everything is awkward? I don't think so! The party has just begun! So if you guys know Ink better than anyone else like me of course since I am rival. Who knows! It would be fun getting to know her." Kali said, crossing her arms.

Midoriya voices his objection, "I don't know, Kali. Navarro is right, let's all cool off."

"Damn it Deku, stop being a pansy! I'm in!" Bakugo said.

"But here's a twist. The girls will score based on your answer." Kali said, surprising the girls in the room.

"Huh?!" Yuuka stared. Kali explains, "After all we girls have to score how romantic it is. As for the boys, they will score you on how right you are and gutsy it is!" Kali said the rules. The boys who don't share feelings for Ink looks conflicted but they need to get the party going.

"Sounds good?"

“Sounds good to me.” Denji said, nodding at the rules.

The girls are worried if this turns into a fight but they have to settle this so they nod. Navarro sweatdropped, you gotta be kidding me. Navarro I'd slowly regretting his life choices.

"I'm in. Knowing Ink, she wouldn't want the party to stop." Rin said. Yukio slump his shoulders and sighs.

Fin ushers, "C'mon, Atsushi! You can’t let those guys talk shit about you like that!” Said Fin much to his friend, Ahmed who sighs.

“Dude, you gotta enter man.” Ryuji told Ren while Futaba nods her head, “You gotta show those guys that Ink is the one for you! None of these guys!” Futaba said. Ren enters.

“You guys can’t be serious....” Yuuka stares.

“You guys...” Midoriya can’t believe that everyone is going along with this. Ochaco pats on his shoulder, “Midoriya...I know you don’t want to but...don’t you want to tell Ink how you really feel?”

“Eh?!” Even Ochaco noticed too?!

“Well looks like everyone is there!” Kali grins, happy that everyone is joining so let’s get this jeopardy on the road. Kali got the questions and the six cagertories.

-------- Love Jepoardy begins --------

Here are the five categories and on the game board. There are 100 to 500 points on the game board. She grins as she has buzzers for the boys each. Navarro wondered how prepared that Kali is right now for this shit.

“Now let’s begin!”

#rp #ic #thesilverpeahenresidence #if you want...we can discuss the six cagetories! XD #Van Ink Za Tatsu No Harem|| Drabble #Van Ink Za Tatsu No Harem || How To Settle This!

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The Ultimate Gamma Squad Fic Rec List

From Angst to Fluff to Reveals, fanfiction will make you cry :D

Adrinette

Double Blind Date - Alya knows Ladybug and Chat Noir's identities, and now that they're finally in the same city at the same time, she is determined to get them to meet.

The Bravery of Adrien Agreste - adrien ends up living on the streets for a while, it's extremely well written and has also adrien marrying marinette to emancipate from his father. There's also a sequel, the Bravery of Marinette Dupain-Cheng, which the author is currently writing.

Lovelace - Convinced that he's unlovable, Adrien is quickly thrown for a loop when Marinette confesses her love for him out of the blue. An akumatization and reveal later, he changes his mind about being unlovable.

The Bravery of Marinette Dupain-Cheng - After the defeat of Hawkmoth, Adrien and Marinette are strangers to each other, but somehow… married? - Sequel to The Bravery of Adrien Agreste

Soulmate Survey - A brand new dating app hits the scene, giving you a percentage of how well you match with someone else. And it is taking the world, and certain teenagers, by storm.

Cats are Colorblind! - Reverse Crush AU - Ladynoir/Adrinette - Adrien is blind but he can... feel Marinette’s features? Which happen to be the same ones as Ladybugs (Reveal)

have the stars blotted out in a brilliant morse code - Fluffy Adrinette moments and reveal? beautiful

Strength - Crack/Fluff oneshot with a reveal

Marry That Girl - Adrien finds Marinette’s plans for their wedding and just falls

League of Losers - Slightly Different Superhero AU with crack angst and fluff

You, Me & A Little Bit of the Future - future ladynoir asks adrinette to babysit and everythings cute

Practice Makes Purr-fect - Adrinette/Ladynoir + Reveal and kisses (all you need in life <3)

wish you were here - demon au, adrien is just really confused

The Moving Statue - AKDJSSD - Adrinette + Reveal

Operation Mega-Sleepover - Adrinette Sleepover Shenanigans

Butt Dial - Marinette butt dials Adrien and all his plans for a normal afternoon jumped out the window (Reveal)

The Wedding Plans of Marinette Dupain-Cheng - Adrien finds Marinette’s wedding guest list for their future wedding and he’s like ‘WHERE AM I?’ (boy you’re the groom)

Plagg Meets Marinette

i hope that fate will forgive us (for tempting the sea) - mermaid royalty au and arranged marriages - Felix x Bridgette and Adrinette - also the author is v nice <33

The Player and the Princess - Childhood friends turned enemies turned lovers <3

take me back- By marvelousmsmol

By Design - By marvelousmsmol (Still going!)

Graine de toi - By komorebirei (Still going? I’m not sure)

Smoulder - By midnightstarlightwrites (this is adorable and full of ships! Also, finished 36/36).

Lucky Us - By PrincessKitty1 (Sigh, it’s too cute! Finished 30/30).

Facades - AU with dark!Adrien. Has even a short sequel (lovesquare but mainly centered around the two main ships)

Kiss shy - By emsylcatac (This is a great one-shot!)

i don't have a latte but give me a shot - By marvelousmsmol (The one-shot, i wish was a series).

Under Lock and Key - By EdenDaphne, Maerynn (the antics! Finish 10/10)

The Woman With Blue Eyes - By ghostgirl19 (One-shot!)

Friends By Day, Enemies By Night - By Dristi5683 (This is 49/49, there’s also marichat and angst ladynoir)

A Bride for the Prince - by ChocoluckChipz (Totally_lucky) and TheNovelArtist

Penumbra - Adrienette hurt comfort, rated M for serious topics like implied noncon as a minor

keep me in your thoughts - adrienette soulmate au

Passionfruit- Adrienette soulmate au series with 3 parts

a chat in disneyland - pretty self explanatory, chat noir antics and slightly traumatized workers, everythings great

Finding Diamonds in the Rough - A prince escaping the confines of his castle. A girl who saves a naive visitor. The connection built between these two of different worlds. Welcome to another Arabian night.

Out of Your Hair - Adrien wants to support Kitty Section during their first large concert in the park, but dad says no. So of course there’s only one way this can go

Infatuation - Adrinette childhood enemies to ‘I hate you but i seriously want to kiss you’

Blindsided - Adrinette/Ladynoir - Ladybug gets hit by an akuma and goes blind but hey! Adrien/Chat Noir is literally the most amazing person ever and that helps (Reveal)

Just a Friendly Game Night - The four teenagers arrange a game night at Marinette’s house. What could go wrong

Just Best Friends - The sequel to ‘Just a Friendly Game Night’ where the teenagers deal with what went wrong

We’ve Got It Covered - Marinette needs to create a concept album cover design for Jagged Stone, but when she can’t get anything, the stress builds…

Le Prix du Silence - this is in French, by Etoile-lead-Sama, but it's so worth google translating! Especially her inverted umbrella scene where Marinette gives the umbrella back to Adrien because she wants to rid her feelings for him and in that moment he realises that he's in love with her… *heartbreak* but it's all wonderful and her slow burn is exceptional

Shop, Bake, Eat... - Crack, mature humor and content

Having a Ball - Adrien and Marinette attend a Victorian ball without recognizing each other.

In Which Adrien Agreste Butt Dials Ladybug - Based on NY Special, what if Adrien kept the remote to the cat toy in his back pocket?

The Jacket - Marinette gives a black jacket to Adrien and he thinks she's figured him out.

Stuck In A Bakery (With You) - during the pandemic, Adrien gets stuck in the bakery with Marinette and family.

MariChat:

Chat Got Your Back - Lila I don’t like you and neither does Chat

Burgundy and Blush - Marinette needs a date for the dance, and Chat Noir is happy to help. But can the two teens in denial make it through the night without catching feelings?

The Trouble With Kissing Boys - When an akuma handcuffs Chat Noir and Marinette together, true feelings are revealed… but only to get the cuffs off. Really

double jeu - An injured Chat Noir leads to a frantic Marinette and frequent midnight visits neither of them had expected to get used to.

Lace or Leather - Sequel to Burgundy and Blush

Stand-In Journalist - MariChat being besties

spark - marichat dating app shenanigans

Forget-Me-Not - Marinette looses her memories a little bit (unfinished)

Jealousy - Onesided reveal and then it turns into a love confession and a reveal

When Duty and Desire Meet - By EdenDaphne, midnightstarlightwrites. (Still going! Its so romantic, the yellow rose hits me the most)

Selfless - By ghostgirl19 ( I wish this fic was still going but it’s not! It’s discontinued!! T~T)

The Cat, the Bell, and the Wardrobe (Malfunction) - ChocoluckChipz (Totally_lucky), Eizabet, KryallaOrchid, Maerynn, midnightstarlightwrites. (I know the embracement... It’s also a one-shot!)

The Wingman Visits - By NiuNiu. (This is completed with 16/16 and rated mature!).

I Won’t Hold You Back - THE BEST PROM FIC YOU’LL EVER READ. Adrien invites Mari to prom. In which Adrien Awkward Awkward Awkward Athanase Agreste makes an appearance.

A Gamer’s Pride - No miraculous but they’re video game partners and they hate each other but they like each other and HHHHHHHH

Diamonds never leave you... men do! - Marinette the cop and Chat Noir the criminal (they’re dating <3)

Kiss and Dash - It starts of when Marinette kisses Adrien on a dare and runs off but it really spirals out of control when Chat Noir takes revenge with his own kiss and dash. Do all people kiss the same way? Adrienette/Marichat/Ladynoir/Ladrien. - I THINK I ASCENDED WHILE READING THE FIRST CHAPTER

No Longer Running From - After an Akuma attack, Marinette runs off in order to avoid Chat Noir, but she didn’t count on him being so willing to come after her.

Chat Blanc - Chat Blanc fights with reveals and Adrien being a good person even when akumatized

Worries - Chat is very concerned for the well-being of Marinette who he has noticed, decides to run into akuma battles in a very much not safe way

Rooftop Tears and Gentle Hugs [Vent] - Marinette goes mute for a week, and everybody is worried. It seems only a concerned Chat is the one to finally reach her.

Tendencies - (series) lots of good writing starting out as marichat and then a reveal

Just Chatting - Chat crashes onto Marinette's balcony and continues to visit. Marinette finds herself impulsively getting closer to him, and then everything goes to shit.

Reves de Noir et Blanc - LISTEN. MARICHAT HURT/COMFORT AFTER A NIGHTMARE MAKES ME FEEL CERTAIN THINGS

Physical Touch - Chat Noir, my amazing child, is touch starved. Marinette is happy to help with some cuddles

It’s Okay to Cry - THE SUMMARY ALONE GOT ME FEELING SOME STUFF LET MARINETTE SHOW EMOTION - Marinette feels the burden of not letting her negative emotions show, since Ladybug cannot let herself be akumatized, no matter what. A cat is there to let her vent.

heartstrings - HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - they frggin kiss and its dramatic and teenage drama and romace

Crushed - Stuck under a collapsed building together, Chat Noir and Marinette have a heart to heart. (Reveal)

Every Heartbeat: A Marichat May 2021 Story: - Reeling from a brutally difficult day, Marinette finds her life becomes amazingly complicated after impulsively inviting Chat Noir to spend the evening with her. But when the suave feline begins to weave his way into her heart, she realizes rather quickly just how conflicted her feelings for her partner truly are.

A Roll of the Dice - AVERT YOUR EYES INNOCENT CHILDREN - mature (obviously) Alya gives Marinette an adult dice set and at night time, Chat Noir dares her to use it.

tell me something i don’t know - the infamous marichat soulmate au by the beloved carpisuns

Trading (Momentary) Burdens - UM. YOU HAD ON RIGHT?? I AM SAD??- Ladybug gets hurt mid-fight and Chat has to turn into Misterbug to save her

Miraculous Dupont - Marinette finds herself attacked by Chat Blanc, an akuma at the orders of Hawkmoth. But before the akuma can do any damage, she's saved by Chat Noir, a superhero who is fighting the akumas. Chat Noir senses something in her and takes her to the magical school he attends, Miraculous Dupont, where Master Fu, the head teacher, agrees that she has potential to be a Miraculous holder. So Marinette is thrown into a world of hidden identities, akuma fights and mysteries and ends up by discovering that this whole world wasn't that unknown to her to start with, that the boy behind the mask, of whom she desperately falls in love, wasn't a stranger from her too, and it's all connected to two lucky charms, a seal and a mysterious magical potion she (and her friends) should never have been exposed to...

Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright - chat noir gives the tiger miraculous to marinette. I love her concept of the tiger miraculous, so cool!

Terror on La Seine - Villains weren't supposed to help when there are others in need. But can Hawk Moth truly stand aside and do nothing? Especially when a young woman he knows personally is in danger? TW: implied trafficking

Madness Within - If you want slowburn, feral Chat Noir and dark themes this is a great place to start and I’m super excited for what’s to come. Very highly recommend

you came to me with gold and i mended the pieces - Adrien gets into a really ugly argument with his father, and as a result the poor boy gets a slap right across the face. In a daze, he runs away from home, transforms, and decides to seek comfort in a really close friend of his.

I’ll Be Your (Wing)Man - When Chat Noir finds Marinette sighing over her failed love life, he decides to help her get the boy of her dreams. Nothing can go wrong here. Absolutely nothing.

The Tendencies Series - HIGHLY RECOMMEND and will sure to keep you busy for a while

LadyNoir:

A Summer Treat - LadyNoir Icecream date in Shanghai and lovestruck adrien

TKO - LadyNoir workouts and they KISS

Doctor, Doctor, Give me The News (Your Lips Is The Only Cure I Could Use) - Plagg’s sick, Adrien’s in love, Shit Happens™

Of Yellows, Pinks and Blues - New York Special LadyNoir but with ROSES

Long Live - LadyNoir based on the song <3

Letters of Lovers - LadyNoir writing down all their feelings on letters BUT THEN AT THE END THEY READ IT + Reveal

A Bad Dream - Ladybug tells Chat about a ‘dream’ where he was Chat Blanc (spoiler alert: it wasn’t a dream)

The Bug and Cat Show - ADKLJSASD READ THIS

You’re My Sight - Adrien is blind but with the miraculous, he can see and this is very much a wonderful thing to happen to him. One day he tells Ladybug.

United - OMFG - ladynoir established relationship (+Reveal)

a nine-year-old - i havent met anyone that hasn’t read this fic but still (im still sorry emsy, i believed you were 9 with my entire heart 😭)

Death By Ladybug - Flirty Ladybug and Flustered Chat Noir

Chat Noir’s White French Man Hitlist For Feminist Purposes - (THIS HAS A PODFIC NOW)

Liquid Luck - LadyNoir Banter + Reveal

Symphony - Adrinette/LadyNoir + Reveal (with the best ending ever omg)

The Miraculous Tweets of @luckylady and @chatnoir - Internet Shenanigans

Problems - ladynoir fluff

Only a beat a cat can hear - Ladybug tells Chat when he finds out about her blindness that she scared about him leaving her. He’s having none of this self deprecating stuff and reassures her that he loves her a lot and nothing changes that.

M’Lady - THEIR LAST DAYS AS SUPERHEROES :’’’’))) (Reveal)

It was just a cheek kiss! - Ladybug slowly falling for Chat and them finally getting together (my friends thought I was getting murdered when I readthis. So many screams)

Discordant Sonata - EdenDaphne (Still going!)

like poles of a magnet - By maketea (8/8! It's finished!)

From the Ashes - By MiniMinou (Finish! Btw this is angst and mature rated)

Ladybug and Chat Noir's Guide to the Rooftops of Paris - PipTheMagnificent (One-shot!)

in the dead of night, your eyes so green - this ones by miraculouslycool so you know its good

Day 7: Interview - Chat Noir being cute with kids

Misunderstanding - LadyNoir Identity Shenanigans <3

Not Kitten Around, Badylug - the road to reveal, integrating parts of S4, all in mobile texts. Sweet, funny. The kind of pick-me up you need after an angsty ep.

Two Seconds - perfect for a light morning read.

i think it’s time i told you (im a fan of your universe) - LadyNoir (AND THEY GET MARRIED)

It’s Not PDA If You’re Just Friends - They’re just friends! Friends can kiss each others shoulders and spin each other around, right?

I Guess That Makes Us Even - Chat Noir dying = REALLY SAD LADYBUG AND COMFORT - its by buggchat so you already know its simply superior

Red Strings and Markers - Soulmate AU my beloved

little kitty on the rood, wearing his lady’s boxers - Adrien in Ladybug boxers, Marinette in the pool with her pjamas, Adrien uses his one braincell and realizes some pretty shocking things (Reveal)

dont let me die alone - okay so you may get a lil sad but you know

Return to Base - LadyNoir laser tag baby, Adrienette laser tag with LadyNoir dynamic, reveal

The Ladyblog Comment Section - they like to annoy alya in the comments. and flirt. but they dont realize the last part yet

Irreplaceable - Adrien is insecure. Marinette doesn't let anyone talk bad about her partner.

Where are you Chat Noir? - As the final battle unfolds to their defeat, Hawkmoth and Mayura use plan b and withdraw in a 'Sentiworld', a parallel reality created with an Amok. What's worse, they drag Chat Noir with them. What's even worse, Ladybug can't say goodbye, or I love you. Guilty and desperate, what will she be ready to sacrifice to get her partner back? (Rated R for mature content)

Kitty Chat Kisses - Give Chat more kisses please, this was so sweet and cute and sad and just...someone give Chat some hugs and kisses and tell him he did a good job

i’ll marry you - Chat Noir talks to his sleepy girlfriend about their future.

Upon the Eiffel Tower, They Reveal it All. - Chat Noir spots Ladybug heading towards the Eiffel tower without telling him, and when he checks on her, finds out more than he thought he would.

Two Hundred and Fifty Four - aspik angst :’)

Ladrien:

bang bang - KISSES

whose woods these are (I think I know) - FIRST OF ALL, its a cinderella au and its MAGNIFICENT - Four years after his future turns to cinders, Adrien is a servant in the house he was meant to inherit. Disowned by his father and abused by his stepmother, his days are filled with drudgery until he meets a masked huntress in the forest behind his father's chateau.As his friendship with Ladybug turns to first love, he dreams of a future spent at her side.Then, on the eve of the Princess's masquerade, he meets his guardian—and is granted a wish.

The Tell-Tale Kiss - Adrien gets discouraged when Ladybug turns down Paris’ favorite cat every time. But what if Paris’ favorite model asks her?

The Cat and His Daffodils - I adore Hanahaki AU’s and this was one was really good and wonderfully angsty.

Post/One Sided Reveal:

Serendipitous Fate - With Hawkmoth growing stronger, Chat Noir and Ladybug need to practice. And get teammates. And grow stronger together. Which means learning each other’s identity, no matter the risks. Unfinished, but worth it. Also, there is some smut near the end, but the author warns the reader on the exact chapter and it is very skippable

switch it up - Adrien uses the Ladybug miraculous and everyone simps even harder

Remember That Time When... - Marinette is ready to enjoy her wedding anniversary with her wondrful husband. Except when she wakes up, she’s not going to be able to celebrate her anniversary. In fact, she’s seventeen again.

Divide By Infinity - Post-Reveal Adrinette being adorable and looking at LadyNoir moments

Bad Day - Adrien finds out Marinette’s Ladybug on the toilet and everything just does downhill from there

Get Agrekt - Post Reveal + Drunk Adrien my beloved

Under The Stars - PROPOSAL

Do You Hear That, Love? - Post-Reveal angst and babies

Side Effects of Paw-esome Merch: Model Chokes on Air - Post Reveal Marinette making my poor boy adrien consciously try not to die by wearing Chat Noir merch

Serotonin Boosts - ADRIEN LOVES HIS GIRLFRIEND OKAY?

When the Wedding Bells Toll - Post Reveal Adrinette pretend to date to get free food at a wedding (ha ha guess who fell in love againnnn)

All You Had to Do Was Stay - first of all, OOF - Marinette and Adrien reveal their identities and he panics and Marinette, three years later, sees him again for Alya’s wedding with the urge to both kiss him and punch him in the face

Adrinette April Day 23: Sunset - CUTE FLUFFY PEOPLE (its by sketchy-panda)

Forget-Me-Not - written way before oblivio but basically, oblivio

The Wall Between Us - Lukanette, Adrigami, Alya finding out, lovesquare reveal, Adrien finding out Gabe is Hawkmoth, then theres Adrinette being in love and MarcNath walking in them making out. Its a whole vibe. Two Seconds was written in response to this :D

Mari Me - CHRISTMAS PROPOSALS AND CHILDREN ARE BEAUTIFUL OKAY?

Trolling Alya - After Adrien and Marinette reveal their identities to each other, instead of going right into dating, they agree to just be friends and take their time. Alya is not having it.

The Biological Imperative - excellent explicit story with an interesting concept about tikki being able to freeze the power of all miraculouses in her box in case of marinette's pregnancy. Adrienette of course.

The Closest Thing to Love - god i love a good fake dating story - post reveal Aged Up - adrien decides that the best way to gain independence from his dad was to get married. To who you ask? Of course its his lady, Marinette Dupain Cheng. Nothing could go wrong! They’re just friends after all.

Not A Ship But Hella good Stories

Papa Bear - In which Tom is the one to figure out Adrien’s home life is putting him in danger and helps Adrien escape.

Nooroo Uses a Swear Word - He really, really does. But he has a very good reason, so... let's hear him out, shall we? Crackfic, one-shot.

Move to Safety - Sort of a longer take on the ‘ Adrien runs away and seeks shelter with the Dupain-Chengs’. Involves the final battle and Adrien knowing Gabe is Hawkmoth.

I Know, Kid - Plagg has a very important conversation with his holder when they return home after defeating Guiltrip.

Chat Noir is My Science Teacher - When Mattheu Magan witnesses his chemistry teacher, Adrien Dupain-Cheng, transform into his favorite superhero Chat Noir, he becomes the Monkey Miraculous holder Monkid, going on adventures and learning what it means to be a hero alongside under his new meow-ntor. (OC, Adventure, Aged-up - Yall ive only known Mattheu for like, a month BUT I LOVE HIM WITH ALL MY HEART)

Won’t Tell a Soul - Nino finds out that Marinette is Ladybug and keeps the secret. Kind of.

Motherfucking Superheroes - Directly following the events of the season 3 finale, Alya Cesaire decides to create a groupchat with all the known Miraculous holders, which sets off an investigation into Ladybug’s identity. (Crack, Groupchat/Text fic)

My Boy - Gabriel creates a sentimonster copy of himself to free himself from unimportant matters, but he didn’t expect it to become more human than himself. (Angst, Mentions of torture)

The Malicious Pavilin - Evil gay Emilie is a whole ass mood

Never Sing At Home - Based on that ‘hey, bad news and good news. Bad news, Hawkmoth knows my identity, good news, I know his!’ prompt on tumblr

Bite off more than you can chew and you’ll choke - Lila gets exposed fics my beloved

ouef, ouch, owie - Chat and Rena plan some Aspik-related shenanigans to cover up Chat’s secret identity when Ladybug decides to have all the Miraculous heroes train together. (Crack)

What the Cat Dragged In - MCU Crossover

the last day on earth - Chat Blanc angst is top-tier

Air Miraculous - Miraculous but with Basketball and Shoes

how the strings intertwine - MDC Fic - UNFINISHED BUT AMAZING

Nine Lives - Hurt/Comfort, Adrien Centric

In Good Hands - in which Ladybug tells Chat Noir about her new confidant and Chat chooses his own.

How Nino Waged War with Gabriel Agreste - By ChocolateXMyMouth (Still going!)

The Inappropriate Touching Talk - this is another pure crack. Gabriel finds out that Adrien "touches inappropriately" Marinette and decides to have "the talk" (or rather have someone else have the talk with him)

Broken - Cop AU with lots of angst :D

Informant - miracuclass group chat au with identity shenanigans

Lucky Fox Paradox - Marinette gives succeeds in giving Alya the ladybug miraculous. And regrets it. Enter, the fox miraculous.

“I have plan” - based on the ‘Ladybug joins the fight as multimous and she and rena rouge won’t let adrien leave to transform and its just crack’

Sting - Chat Noir mysteriously vanished, and as much as Ladybug hates it, she can’t do her job alone. Which is why she decides to give Adrien to bee miraculous until her partner returns!

Accidental Dates - The four friends make a group chat to plan game nights. Some people tend to take it further

Leave for Mendeleiev - Marinette is in Mendeleiev’s class instead of Bustier’s, meaning new friends and different relationships

Ridiculous, Utterly Ridiculous - rejected one time too many, Chat Noir ends in tears on someone's balcony. No, not Marinette's. Chloé's. And no, it doesn't end with an adrikloe (or how it's called). Chloé actually ends up being a good friend (*insert ohhhh of surprise*)

I’ll Handle This - Adrien accepts a deal with Plagg for the black kwami to resolve his problems. And Plagg succeeds.

let’s get covered in flames and play some games with the smoke - 1920s enemies to lovers soulmates au that makes me want to jump off a building in a good way

Ruffled - Harry Potter AU

Passionfruit - Adrienette soulmate au series with 3 parts

Repetition - One day adrien stumbles upon hawkmoth’s lair. In response, Gabe wipes his memory and is done with it. until it happens again, and again, and again…

Bite Me. - Vampire!Alya one-shot. Really good world-building in this one chapter alone!

“I have a plan.” - Really funny one-shot where Marinette’s idea of going in as Multimouse doesn’t exactly pan out how she wanted it to.

Back to Us - After a reveal so shocking it rocks the core of Paris itself, the villain Hawk Moth is finally defeated...at a great personal cost to heroes Ladybug and Chat Noir. With the city safe, they go their separate ways, returning to the lives they were forced to put on hold since receiving their Miraculous.

Free Falling - Fantastic story with amazing and well written themes that I really just adored reading. Beautifully written and wonderful plot/story

Other Ships (outside of Love Square):

The Worst and Best Thing - GabeNath, drama and angst with a happy ending

Operation Lovebirds - DJWifi - Alya and Nino try and get Adrien and Marinette together, and get more than they thought they would

Phase Eight - Sequel to Operaton Lovebirds - Three years after the failure of Operation Lovebirds, Alya and Nino’s relationship is tested when Alya comes across a startling secret.

Cola Date - DJWifi - When Alya finds herself on a date with the wrong guy she searches for unconventional help to get her out of this. Luckily, the cute waiter doesn't mind to help her out with a favor.

Soundless - Lukadrien - Luka has the Ladybug Miraculous and can pretty much tell who’s Chat Noir

Hotdogs and Icecream - Lukagami - Luka and Kagami hanging out while Adrinette are being in love during the NY Special

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am-i-obsessed---maybe · 3 years

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Jason Todd x Magic!Reader Imagine

Just a short sweet scenario I thought of. Both of my other WIPs are turning out way longer than I thought (as in about 9,000 words longer) so enjoy this while I work on those

Jason Todd x GN!Reader... It's exactly what it sounds like so enjoy!

You and Jason met when he was with the outlaws. You were investigating a series of magical murders and he was there taking out some mob boss. He told you but you didn’t listen much

You met a few times after that and hit it off. Both of you had a very grey moral code. Neither was above killing those who deserve it but while Jason used guns you kept teasing him about using a “coward's weapon”

You were a magic user, a jack of all trades of sorts. Instead of focusing and mastering one type of magic you knew enough about each kind to deal with almost anything. You worked a lot with John Constantine, he was your mentor as a kid learning to use magic and now your base of operations in the house of mysteries

The first time you took Jason to the house of mysteries to discuss a case you were working on you were surprised how calm he was. Turns out he’s had his fair share of crazy.

You began working together once you realized that both of you just kind of set up camp wherever your job takes you so you might as well team up right?

Occasionally someone from the batfamily or John would join you for a case and you and Jason loved annoying them by being overly flirtatious. You weren’t an item (yet) but you loved seeing John roll his eyes or Tim pretend to gag. It was the hilarious

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you see it) Joke flirting became real. After all, what's that seeing about fake it till you make it? And eventually you and Jason grew feelings for each other

You both kept it on the down low, continuing to flirt “Jokingly” while you worked.

Eventually this would come back to bite you in the ass when you came back to the safehouse and Jason had been staying in while you were in Salem, Massachusetts. You were the murders of some witches and came back to find the apartment empty and a note saying if you wanted your “boyfriend” back to be at Gallows hill at midnight

You walked through the park in which the witches of Salem were hung during the famous trials. Salem was known for being a hub for magic even now and you knew that whoever took Jason had something to do with the murders you were there to investigate

When you got to the middle of the park you saw Jason, smiling with a rope around his neck on a gallow. He didn’t seem to mind the fact that his life was at stake but then again when was it not

You took down the man who was trying to once again purge Salem of it’s “demonic witches” and when you freed Jason from the gallow he smirked.

“That guy thought we were dating, can you believe it?” Jason joked and you rolled your eyes, pulling Jason by his shirt into a kiss.

After that the two of you stayed basically the same, you already cuddled, you slept in the same bed because it's cheaper and you jokingly flirt all the time so the only thing that changed is that you were officially together. Both of your families and friends teased you a lot for that

You didn’t think it was that big of a difference, you could now kiss Jason without worrying about his reaction and he could call you whatever sappy nickname came to mind

“Y/N, love, magic babe, I really need you to not keep 20,000 sigils everywhere. Seriously, you gotta take some time to go through all of these!”

Because there almost no changes in behavior whenever one of Jason’s brothers came around they were more than a bit confused.

“Jason, love, You need to get your bloody suit out of the washer! It’s been beeping for five minutes and I can’t focus!”

“Hey! Don’t go all British on me! Just because John’s allowed in here doesn’t mean you can start talking like him” He said from the kitchen of your shared apartment and Tim (who awkwardly sat next to you on a couch) looked between the two of you in confusion

“Jason, when in my hell of an existence I call a life , have I used bloody the British way?!” You yelled at him and within seconds he ran past you and to the washer

“My fucking suit! thanks love” He said and you went back to your book. Tim looked at your floating figure with a seemingly blank book hovering in front of you and asked “How the hell did that get that response?” He asked and you smirked. “Magic” You teased

“I swear you two are a match made in heaven” Tim grumbled

“Hell actually!” Both you and Jason corrected at the same time

#dc x reader #jason todd x gender neutral reader #gender neutral reader #reader insert #dc reader insert #gn!reader #batfamily x reader #jason todd x gn reader #dc imagines #jason todd imagine #magic user reader #gn reader

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haikyuu fic recs #2

a compilation of all the fics i recced from 17-27 june. you can find part one here. this mainly includes iwaoi, kagehina, kuroken, a couple of bokuaka and satuatsu, and a few extra others. enjoy!!

(note: the ‘others’ section of this rec list will include gen fics, fics that feature multiple ships, and any ships that have less than 1k works solely dedicated to it on ao3. matsuhana is included in this because i’ve only recced like 1 this week and it’d be weird if i gave them a section of their own lmao

also: the rec is rather long, so majority of the fics will be included after the cut.)

Spending all, spending all my time (loving you) by Hyeyu

Completed | G | 3.5k

The fastest speed ever recorded for a volleyball serve is 82 mph by the Bulgarian professional Matey Kaziyski. Bokuto’s own serve is around 75 mph on a good day.

The stranger in the empty concrete lot behind Bokuto’s apartment building receives 72.4 mph of volleyball with the side of his head.

In which Bokuto Koutarou plays volleyball at university, and Akaashi Keiji is a dimension traveller.

Operation BokuAka by kazzydolyn

Completed | T | 5.9k

After spending two whole years watching Bokuto and Akaashi pine for one another, the rest of the Fukuroudani Volleyball Club has had enough. When everyone meets up for a reunion dinner, the team decides to play matchmaker and finally get the two of them together.

Unfortunately, their plan starts to fall apart when they discover that Akaashi is already dating someone. And apparently so is Bokuto. What a strange coincidence.

OR: the fic where the Fukuroudani team tries to play matchmaker because they don’t know that Bokuto and Akaashi are already secretly together.

I'll give a bouquet to these unending days by sparksandsalt

Completed | G | 6.5k

Even so, there is a compartment of his heart where he stashes away the memories he cannot bear to inspect for too long, for fear that his mind, as always, will calculate the very worst outcome. On one shelf: the gray hair he found at his temple a few days ago. In a deeper alcove: the startled look on his grandmother’s face when she had forgotten his name for a moment too long when he last visited her. In a hidden room, maybe even a full annex shut away from the rest of his heart: Keiji’s entire sixteenth year, when a boy with incandescent eyes told him that they were the protagonists of the world, and Keiji had believed it.

Akaashi attends the MSBY Black Jackals - Schweiden Adlers game without informing anyone (other than his long-suffering invitee Tenma Udai)

bitter by silvercistern

Completed | G | 14.0k

He accepted his classmate’s chocolates gracefully, then declared his lack of interest with as much dignity as he could muster. She deserved the courtesy. At least she’d acknowledged that Valentine’s Day was all about her, and not about him in the slightest.

Because if any of these girls had taken the time to actually get to know him, they’d quickly realize something even more important than his lack of interest in girls.

And that was that Akaashi hated sweets.

Winner Takes it All by pancake_surprise

Completed | T | 3.9k

BOB: Are they both on one knee? And yet still wrestling each other somehow?

DICK: Just WHAT is going on between Argentina’s setter and Japan’s athletic trainer?

MIYA ATSUMU: Seriously, guys, is anyone going to tell me what’s going on?

BOKUTO: Shhh, it’s just getting good!

IWAIZUMI: Tooru- Shittykawa I just started! You can’t cry already!

dream a little dream of me by desdemona (starblessed)

Completed | T | 9.8k

“so i accidentally summoned an incubus and you show up with your engine running, but see the problem is i’m actually asexual and this is just sort of awkward for both of us.”

Iwaizumi’s life is hard enough. Accidentally getting contracted to a perpetually horny sex demon who doesn’t know the meaning of sleep and thinks milk bread is humanity’s greatest creation is the worst possible thing that could happen to him. Falling in love with him? Alright – maybe that’s the worst thing.

Puzzleball by carriecmoney

Completed | T | 10.7k

Set in the tiered roof of an Upper Ring family home, framed by forest-green tiles and gutter gilt, is a wide ricepaper window that is never closed.

Avatar!AU set during the 100 Years’ War. Dai Li!Iwaizumi/Earth Kingdom peerage!Oikawa.

Terrarium by sausaged

Completed | T | 11.4k

He’s practically a professional at being proactive (lies, lies, and lies when it comes to Iwaizumi).

At this point, is he really happy with just staying best friends forever? Will he be writing journals and collecting rocks forever (he will, he knows, but that is aside from the point)?

Can he really tag his Instagram photos with #YOLO if he doesn’t actually put that phrase into practice?

A story about Oikawa Tooru, Iwaizumi Hajime, plants, and rocks.

how to let your planets align by tether (tothemoon)

Completed | T | 15.9k

It is the last day on earth, December 2nd, 1985, when you realize you’re in love with him.

They Say it Rains Diamonds on Jupiter by exsao

Completed | T | 35.2k

“You’re in love with him.”

Hajime considers denying it. He considers deliberately choking on his drink to express surprise, to create a distraction by spitting onto the man in front of him’s pristine white shirt and causing a commotion. Instead, he swallows his mouthful of soda and heaves a small sigh once his mouth is free.

“Yeah,” he says instead.

He’s never been good at lying, anyway.

Build A Temple In Me by Authoress

Completed | T | 39.8k

Up the mossy mountain steps, past the komainu guardians and the faded red gate, and beyond the boundaries of the green shrine—that’s where the forest and the spirit world within it lies. That’s were Hajime met him, and where their story began.

But intertwining of destinies can be ugly business, Hajime finds, when their first meeting begins with blood and the too-human eyes of a beast.

[STANDALONE]

the way our horizons meet by skiecas

Completed | T | 43.8k

When Hajime is nineteen, he arrives in California near the trail end of summer, a little bit lost, eager to chase his dreams, and unaware he’s in love with his best friend.

Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life by todxrxki

Completed | T | 3.2k

Kuroo Tetsurou runs a private Twitter account where he's constantly tweeting about how desperately in love he is with Kozume Kenma. Little does he know that Kenma sees all the tweets and keeps referencing the account in an attempt to get Kuroo to confess to him. / Or, five times Kuroo didn't notice Kenma hinting about his private Twitter account, and one time he finally did.

Richer than milk, sweeter than honey by redroseinsanity

Completed | T | 3.6k

Everyone always tells you not to give your name to a faerie, but nobody ever told Tetsurou not to give his heart.

Alternatively: How to bargain with a faerie and accidentally fall in love

the things that get caught in the valves of his heart by ghostpot

Completed | T | 4.0k

Emotional competency is not exactly Kuroo’s strong suit. Kenma finds it quite amusing.

even if you’re ahead for a bit, i will catch up by ghostpot

Completed | G | 4.7k

Kuroo first confesses when they’re sticky-fingered, wide-eyed kids, and subsequently every day after that. Kenma takes a while to come around.

Accidentally In Love by todxrxki

Completed | T | 5.1k

Kuroo frowns, but then slowly, the corners of his mouth lift up into a smirk. “Well, if it’s so unbelievable, why don’t we give it a try?” Kenma glances up at him curiously. “What do you mean?” “Let’s do the 36 questions to fall in love,” Kuroo says, still smirking stupidly. “If we don’t fall in love, then you’re right, it’s bullshit. But if we do somehow…” Kuroo waggles his eyebrows. “Then I win.” / Kuroo decides he and Kenma should do the 36 questions to fall in love as a joke, but they both start to realize they might actually be in love already.

top 10 worst pet names by Eskarina

Completed | T | 9.0k

Kuroo has the decency to look confused, but Yaku seems to have made up his mind. “Tell me you two aren’t actually dating.”

Stunned silence fills the room. Finally, Kenma thinks, he can actually get a word in and clear up the situation. He opens his mouth to speak when he catches Kuroo’s sleazy grin in the corner of his eye, and his blood runs cold.

Alternatively: What if your team was too stupid to tell the difference between a wasp sting and a hickey and your best friend thought that was the perfect prank opportunity?

Show A Little Faith by minijhi

Completed | G | 13.9k

“Why are you sending me a singing Valentine telegram?“ Kenma asks, mouth flattened. "It’s six months until Valentine’s Day.”

“I bought a dwarf over the summer to use as cupid.” Kuroo says. “I figured he could use some practice.”

Presenting Kenma as the Boy-Who-Lived, whose living becomes a lot more interesting when Ravenclaw Prince Kuroo Tetsurou starts sending him singing telegrams about defeating the Dark Lord.

you’re the brake lines failing (as my car swerves off the freeway) by ghostpot

Completed | T | 15.0k

Kenma thinks that Kuroo looks ugly with his head bent against the arm of the couch like that. Then Kenma thinks that he wants to marry him, and is promptly thrown into the 5 stages of grief.

komorebi by moonseul

Completed | G | 16.8k

Against better judgement Kuroo follows Oikawa’s suggestion of getting a summer job and they end up working in a large multistory electronic goods store in bustling Ikebukuro. Oikawa is, not surprisingly, placed in the women’s beauty section, while Kuroo has been relegated to the video game department. So, he spends the rest of his summer trying to convince himself that things will get better. (Spoiler: It does.)

teach me the way home by icespyders

Completed | T | 22.1k

Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Kuroo and Kenma grow up in transit.

they don’t know you like i do by murakamism

Completed | T | 3.8k

Team Japan’s oddball duo as seen by the rest of the world

(Or: Kageyama Tobio is bad at interviews, Oikawa’s still out to get him, Hinata is great with fans, and loves jumping onto Kageyama on live TV after winning games. Not that Kageyama minds)

now it seems as though we speak a completely different language (but you’ll always be as beautiful as the moment that we met) by jublis

Completed | NR | 7.7k

It’s hard to find something that belongs only to yourself when you’re a kid. You scrape all your edges to fit into something else’s corners, and then turns out it wasn’t even what you were looking for in the first place. Being a person is such hard, hard work. No one knows that better than children who are too much.

(When a boy is left alone for too long, he hungers.

That’s Shouyou’s first answer.)

Or, Hinata Shouyou learns how to stand on his own two legs. Featuring one too many complicated emotions, Kageyama Tobio, and hunger.

love to lay here lazy by rinpanna

Completed | M | 8.8k

“So, apparently Twitter has a thing called ‘Kagehina Day’ where a bunch of our fans share writing and art and whatever of us, and it’s today,” Shouyou says, scrolling down the tag’s feed. He finds a particular thread that caught his eye earlier, holding his phone up for Tobio to see. “Stuff like this.”

Tobio squints at the screen, brows furrowing. “‘Every time Kageyama and Hinata Smiled At Each Other During the Schedwein Adlers vs MSBY Black Jackals Match, November 2018’,” Tobio reads aloud, face contorting into that endearing constipated look he often wears when he’s confused. Fingers wrapping around Shouyou’s wrist, he brings the phone closer to his face. “These are real?”

Shouyou breaks into a smile. “I don’t know, they could be fake. Hard to believe you smiled this much, Scowly-yama.”

Meta AU where Shouyou and Tobio are together on Kagehina Day when Shouyou finds the Twitter tag. Shouyou gets a fandom-curated time capsule. Tobio gets a lesson in internet culture. #itsverysilly #theyreveryinlove

said you’re coming back home, boy, don’t feel so alone by jublis

Completed | T | 9.0k

The ball rolls gently on the ground, all the way to Tobio’s feet. He bends down to pick it up, and something in his blood sizzles like lightning. He looks at the leathery surface, then at his sister’s wild smile and neat hair; looks back at the court and the net, where the boys are running a spiking practice. Everyone else seems focused on the attackers, but Tobio’s eyes are zeroed on the one tossing. Set, connect, spike. Bang-bang-bang.

No one wins without the setter.

Tobio tosses the ball to Miwa and says, “Again.”

Or, Kageyama Tobio grows up, older, and not that much wiser at all. Featuring brothers and sisters, anger, connection, and that moment when someone finally catches up with you.

jellyfish by mysterytwin

Completed | G | 31.0k

At the beginning of his last year at Karasuno High School, Hinata Shouyou starts a list and calls it THINGS TO DO BEFORE GRADUATION, all with high hopes that he’ll be able to complete it before his time runs out.

Chaotic Neutral by akaraka (orphan_account)

Completed | T | 33.7k

Who’s this Kageyama person on twitter and is he gay? 1: Anonymous see title 2: Anonymous curry king 3: Anonymous >> 1 It’s the curry king, obviously. Have you been using his memes this whole time without knowing who he was? 4: Anonymous 1) Hinata Shouyou’s boyfriend 2) See above

Nocturnal Creature by MONANIK

WIP | M | 41.5k

“There, on the ground by his feet, covered by the thick bushes, lay the biggest werewolf Shoyou had ever seen in his entire life. It was massive, stretched out to a baffling five or so meters in length and at least three to four in height. The werewolf was laying stretched out on its side, mouth agape, panting heavily. Six arrows poked out of its abdomen and Shoyou could tell by the blood and bruises on his gums that someone had tried to yank or break off one of his huge, sharp fangs. He wasn’t sure whether human blood was involved in the mixture or not but froze up all the same; could do nothing but stare at the wounded creature splayed out before him.

Six arrows and this thing was nowhere near dead. Six poisonous arrows.”

Hinata is a young apprentice to an old nightchaser, Ukai, out one night on his first mission to hunt down a werewolf that’s been terrorizing the village for quite some time. However, when he stumbles upon a tattered, beaten and dying werewolf he is immediately swept up by the humanity he finds in its eyes and decides then and there to defy the first and foremost rule of being a nightchaser: never let a werewolf walk free.

Vren by Icandigelvis

Completed | M | 100.3k

It was the boots that caught Shoyo's attention. They looked new and expensive sticking up from the tall grass, visible from the small trail he was walking on. He cautiously trudged closer, almost against his will. What Shoyo didn't notice, however, was the creature watching him; blue eyes following the oblivious human.

3 Miyas on the Court (+1 at the Onigiri Stand) by pancake_surprise

Completed | G | 6.1k

BOB: It’s the Black Jackals taking home the win tonight! What a game, Dick, what a game!

DICK: It looks like we aren’t the only ones who think so. What’s that going on down on the sidelines?

BOB: Now Dick, correct me if I’m wrong but is that a fourth Miya?

DICK: If you’re talking about the man who just slam-dunked an onigiri into the floor, then yes, that is indeed another Miya.

BOB: Wow, three Miyas on the court and a fourth at the onigiri stand!? Never seen this before!

love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways by myhopeisjhope

Completed | NR | 21.3k

"Huh?" is Atsumu's response, and it's seemingly the only thing the man could think of after the minute-long silence that stretched between them.

"We should break up," Kiyoomi repeats, more clearly now. He doesn't let any emotion seep into his voice, keeping it neutral and detached, as if breaking up with Atsumu was the easiest thing ever, while in fact it's the complete opposite.

The Story of Us by thesweetestnerd

Completed | M | 98.2k

Atsumu has spent the last year falling in love with Sakusa Kiyoomi, but it’s a secret they’ve never told anybody else.

When a car accident snatches Omi’s memories from the past two years away, Atsumu is left as the only one in the world who ever knew their relationship existed.

Gen || Number One by dgalerab

Completed | G | 1.5k

Kuroo gets rated as the number one most attractive high school volleyball player. Oikawa doesn’t handle it well.

Gen || Enigma (A love letter to Bokuto Koutarou) by Mari_Writes

Completed | T | 2.5k

Fans of Udai Tenma and his manga discover Bokuto and collectively lose their minds.

Meanwhile, Bokuto's friends show their appreciation in different ways.

This is my love letter to Bokuto Koutarou 🖤

Gen || kageyama tobio’s accidental first year harem by onceandforall

Completed | T | 8.6k

“Just spend more time with them at practice,” Yamaguchi says. “The first years probably want to know you too.”

Kageyama frowns. It’s not as if Kageyama doesn’t know them at all. On the court, he knows what type of ball they prefer hitting. He knows roughly how high they are able to jump. He knows their numbers. He knows all the important things.

But the more Kageyama thinks about, he doesn’t really know them, does he?

three times the new karasuno first years are intimidated by vice captain kageyama and one time they all want to get to know him

IwaOi & UshiTen || Tending to a Wounded Heart by Minnievet

WIP | T | 56.3k

“Now, Iwaizumi-san, while I am flattered by your interest and must admit you’re very attractive, I must inform you my heart belongs to another, and I’m not sure your dear captain Oikaw-” Satori wasn’t even able to finish his jest, as a fuming Iwaizumi interrupted him. A blush blooming from his hairline down to his neck.

“I’M NOT HITTING ON YOU, DUMBASS!”

…

After being discovered in the midst of breakdown in the bathroom of Seijoh, Tendou Satori strikes up an unusual friendship with Iwaizumi who seems keen on helping Tendou navigate his own unrequited feelings, despite ignoring his own.

All the while Tendou’s teammates are becoming more and more concerned with their blocker’s new behavior and mysterious texting buddy.

AranKita || First and Last Love by ghermez

Completed | M | 6.9k

“What changed?”

“Nothing. Everything. I woke up one day, alone as usual, ate my food, went into the field, stood there, and, like every morning before it, I thought of you.”

MatsuHana || that’s what you get (for waking up in vegas) by skittidyne

Completed | T | 4.2k

“There was an Elvis?” Hajime asks.

“He was the officiator. It’s the cliché, right?”

“…Officiator of what?” Tooru asks with a look down at Takahiro’s hand.

“You can borrow my phone to pull pictures from for our wedding album.” Issei reaches over and grasps the hand with the ring on it. Everyone is staring at their clasped hands like a three-headed lobster just crawled onto the table. “You were both the best men and I was very, deeply touched by how affected you both were at the ceremony,” he says in a perfect deadpan.

(( or: iwaizumi does not want to be the responsible one, and thus they suffer the consequences, or, perhaps, ‘suffer’ is a bit too strong of a word ))

YakuLev || Among Giants by SportsAnimeRuinedMyLife (KnightOfRage)

Completed | T | 11.7k

Morisuke is surrounded by tall people.

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annasmc · 3 years

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Hi, I hope your having a good day/night! I wanted to request obey me headcannons with an MC who is really good with kids and Luke reminds them of a younger sibling or cousin and how the brothers and previously undatables (or however many characters you want to do) and how they react to MC defending and dotting on Luke

Brothers + (now datable) Undatables React to MC Doting on Luke

Part 1 ~ Mammon, Beel, Diavolo, Barbs, Simeon and Solomon

Okay I am so sorry this took an embarrassingly long time to do. Like dude I think this is requested in like later December 2020 or early January so that’s how late we are taking. ANYWAYS here is part one 😬 (couldn’t even do them all but I’ll finish it I promise)

PLEASE THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING

Warnings: some swearing??

Mammon

He thought he was baby

Poor mams doesn’t understand why you would pay so much attention to a chihuahua >:(

He was shocked when you glared at him after his daily teasing Luke session.

You scolded him for a couple hours after that.

He always sees the both of you and can’t help but get jealous.

He gets sad sometimes and will try to cuddle up to you for attention

But Luke deserves the world so sorry Mams

Anyways Mammon is not happy obviously so he takes it upon him self to start “Operation Get MC’s Attention” which in other words is “Hide Luke From MC”

It goes well for a while

Mammon will run up to you and put an arm around you and lead you away from Luke

He will also actively PUSH Luke away from you without your knowledge.

Luke was just walking down the hall completely oblivious to the fact you were around the corner when suddenly Mammon comes and SHOVES him into an empty classroom.

Ok so Luke started crying (he’s only 10 omg Mammon)

Simeon had to take him home

Um Lucifer hung Mammon for a week

Beel

He doesn’t quite understand why you’re babying him, but he has no problem

You’re both parents now 🥺

Awwww

He gets free food from Luke

You kinda both adopt him.

It’s Beels job to protect Luke from everyone else and your job for offer emotional support.

You two work in a duo.

Ofc everyone else doesnt fully understand.

Belphie was the first (and only ) one to experience first hand the wrath of teasing Luke

Beel was on him like that. *angry Beel noises*, and you were there in an instant coddling Luke and hyping him back up.

“Don’t listen to those mean demons, oh poor Luke are you okay. Here let’s go inside” cue you and Luke leaving together, you hand on his back and looking back at the opposer with a glare.

Diavolo

Well it’s no doubt he was happy.

After all this was the point of the student exchange thing

He did find it quite nice to see you act to loving and be almost a parental figure for Luke.

Even Diavolo had to acknowledge that Luke is very much a child

He’s really proud of you actually.

I mean you don’t have to go out of your way to defend a little angel.

It’s refreshing to see such positive behaviour even if you do beat up everyone else is they dare insult Luke

He’s always hanging around and has his signature grin on his face whoever he witnesses the two of you together.

Will definitely back you guys up

Barbatos

We all know Barbs has a soft spot for Luke

He’s like Simeon and is so grateful that you are taking care of Luke

Luke seems to be much happier now that nobody is teasing him as often as before

Thank to you and your never ending threats to those brave enough to insult Luke

He once walked in on you teaching Luke how to draw and paint.

His non-existent heart swelled.

He very curious to see how you interact with Luke and how Luke acts since Barbatos was never a child

He is impressed by your caregiver skills

As a butler to a man-child (demon-child), he thinks it’s rather amusing to see you tend to someone else for a change.

I said that you and Beel were parents but really I mean you and Barbatos are the the real parents of Luke

Get ready to co-parent with Barbs ❤️

Simeon

He’s overjoyed like he’s happy

“Thank you for taking care of Luke, he really needs it”

I mean this poor little angel is being bullied left to right,

He thinks you’re an angel, seriously he does

He’s not oblivious, he knows that Luke is hurt by the comments the demons make about him (although he can’t help but add on to the teasing sometimes)

He’s happy to see Luke make such good friends, you and Barbatos, and even Beel.

He’s also quite pleased with your ability to interact with children, not that Luke is immature but he definitely is young for an angel/immortal being,

He knows it’s been tough for Luke to go from literal HEAVEN to HELL but now that you’re here, it’s not as bad.

Solomon

Okay this shithead is definitely not going to take it easy on any of you,

He’s going to tease you left and right, why? No one knows

It’s because he’s a lil shit but let’s ignore that

Anyways, because you baby Luke so much, he imprints on you. He won’t let ANYONE insult MC

So when Solomon starts his daily rounds, he’s actually met by a furious Luke.

It’s kinda cute ngl

You are protecting Luke, in return Solomon teases you for protecting Luke, then Luke gets mad at Solomon for teasing you whole unbeknownst to you all, Solomon won’t STAND for MC and Luke slander

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battybatzgirl · 3 years

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Hey Mr. Sandman, You Missed a Spot

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Summary:

It's not that Hunter doesn't ever sleep, Eda's come to realize. It was that he falls asleep sporadically, most of the time in really weird places.

Or: 5 times Eda catches Hunter taking a nap

Part 1 of the Finders Keepers Series

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Here’s the thing about Eda: she loves naps. Eda likes to be cozy, so usually, that equated to curling up under a blanket, lazing around, and falling asleep. The Owl Beast shared that sentiment, the creature that lived within her constantly wanting to nest. Those animalistic instincts were weird, but when you lived in a house with a demon who also liked to bury himself under a pile of stuffed animals, you kind of got used to it.

Here’s the thing about Hunter: he doesn’t sleep.

The kid has been living with them for only about two weeks, officially replacing Eda as Public Enemy Numero Uno in the eyes of the Emperor. When he’d showed up on Hooty’s doorstep, all bloody and barely conscious, Eda thought it was some kind of cosmic trick. The Powers That Be had to be pulling her leg because this was the second time the leader of the Emperor’s Coven had shown up to the Owl House with nowhere else to go.

Luz had been ecstatic to welcome him in, apparently excited to finally fulfill her dreams of becoming a middle child in their weird little found family. King was less thrilled, but eventually warmed up to the idea of Hunter staying with them as long as he taught King his secrets on how to command an army.

Hunter himself even seemed unnerved at the thought of living with them. He tried to leave a few times when he was still wounded, but his little bird palisman (Rascal, she’s heard him say) effectively herded him back into the house by continuously dive-bombing him and nipping at his ears. And after Belos put out a wanted poster for the kid, making him the Isles’ number one most wanted traitor, leaving wasn’t really an option. Not if he wanted to stay alive.

So eventually, Hunter begrudgingly accepted that yeah, he lived in the Owl House now.

And alright, Eda isn’t heartless. The kid was lost, wounded, and an enemy of the Emperor. She can work with that.

Getting to know him has been a challenge, though. Hunter has a lot of weird quirks. He holds himself so seriously that Eda has a hard time remembering that he’s a teenager and not a fully grown middle-aged man. He hardly ever smiles. He’s jumpy, practically jolting out of his skin every time you walk into the same room. He’s clearly Going Through Some Shit, as Eda so eloquently calls it, remembering how Lily went through the same thing when she slowly broke free of Belos’s freaky subjugation.

But still. The kid doesn’t sleep.

Eda first notices it around day four of his residence. She’s up early to go to the market, stepping into the living room and nearly transforming into her Harpy Form out of pure shock when she sees a figure messing with her bookshelf in the back of the room. Wide maroon eyes lock on hers from across the room and she feels the feathers that sprung to her skin recede.

“Titan, kid,” she breaths, “You nearly killed me. What are you doing up? It’s Saturday, you should be sleeping in.”

“Um…I did sleep in,” Hunter responds, as if it’s obvious.

Eda feels a frown tug at her lips, “The sun isn’t even up yet.”

The kid just shrugs a little lamely, and Eda feels a twinge of concern in her chest. (And ugh, feeling concerned for a guy who dangled you over the Boiling Sea is certainly weird.) If this was sleeping in for him, he couldn’t have rested more than five hours.

She steps closer, taking a second look at what he’s doing. Half the books are spread out on the floor, the other half stacked neatly back on the shelves in some kind of order.

He notices her looking, “I, uh, took the liberty of reorganizing your bookshelf. Or organizing it, since it didn’t really seem to have a system.” The kid ducks his head, the tips of his ears flushing pink. “I- I can put it back the way it was if you want, or organize them in a different way.”

That’s another thing about Hunter: he always has to be doing something. Being useful. Without direction, he crumples. It was always, What do you want me to do now, Miss Clawthorne this and I completed this task, Miss Clawthorne, what’s next that. His brain operated on a transactional level—I do this thing for you, you do this thing for me. And since Eda was housing him, he felt like he had to constantly be doing things for her. Constantly proving himself worthy to be here, repaying her. Hunter couldn’t seem to wrap his head around that she didn’t want him to do anything except stay comfortable.

Eda has thought up a hundred different little tasks for him to do in just his first four days. She’s running out of odd jobs to give him, and if she has to keep telling him what to do she’s going to start pulling out her hair.

“You’re fine, kid,” she says. “Keep doin’ what you’re doin’ if it makes ya happy. But you shouldn’t be up this early. You should at least take a nap later.”

Hunter tilts his head. “But that wouldn’t be accomplishing anything.”

“You don’t hafta be working all the time,” Eda stresses. “It’s okay to sit around and just exist once and a while. Actually, I think that should be your priority. Take a nap, relax, go cloud watching, take a walk—any or all of the above.”

“That sounds like doing nothing.”

“That’s because it is doing nothing.”

His face hardens, taking on that soldier-like seriousness that encompasses his entire demeanor. “Being lazy can’t be a priority.”

“Don’t think of it like that, then,” Eda almost snaps, wishing for a nice hot mug of apple blood. It was too damn early to deal with the repercussions of Belos’s all-work-no-play mindset. “Think of it as acting your age. Did you ever get to take naps as a kid in the Emperor’s Coven? Is relaxing just a foreign concept to you?”

He doesn’t answer, staring at her with those bagged eyes and guarded expression, and Eda throws up her hands in defeat.

She leaves then, her patience running too thin to continue arguing with him. She doubts he’ll actually go back to sleep. He probably goes back to doing whatever he was doing with that bookshelf. Eda makes a mental note to tell King to knock all the books off, just so Hunter can reorganize it later. Just for something for him to keep him occupied.

Eda doesn’t even notice the first time it happens. It was one of Luz’s friends, Gus, who pointed it out.

The kids were gathered at her home after school, spread out on the floor of the living room along with various pillows and blankets. Luz found some card game she knew buried somewhere in the piles of human trash Eda has laying around, and the girl has been spending the better part of an hour trying to explain how it works.

“So the Wild Card doesn’t make you turn into a wild animal?” Willow questions, holding up a black card with looks like a colorful pie chart on it.

“Nope!” Luz says cheerfully. “It just becomes any color you want it to be to go with the rest of your hand.”

“But the card doesn’t actually change color?” Amity asks.

“No, it only represents the color,” Luz clarifies, and Eda has to admit, her girl has a ton of patience. She’s been quietly watching from her place on the couch, half-listening to their conversation, half-reading the Isles’ latest edition of You Gossipy Witch, a tabloid where a writer is speculating about her true form. Apparently, some people think she was raised by feral, wild owls on some far away barrier island, and has come to reside in Bonesborough just because she ran out of mutant rats to eat.

Weird.

But entertaining!

Gus holds up one of his cards, “So are blank cards bad, or—"

King jumps over his shoulder, landing on the deck of cards in the middle of their little circle and making them fly everywhere. “I have taken dominion over ALL YOUR CARDS. All of you must grovel for a taste of my wealth!”

“Actually, the point of the game is to get rid of all your cards,” Luz reminds him gently. “That way, when you get down to one card, you shout Uno! And you win! If no one else makes you draw anymore, that is.”

King deflates a little, apparently put off by the idea of less is more. “Oh.” Luz smiles and pats him on the head, and he brightens up. “Okay, let’s play, because I wanna make all of you draw as many cards as possible! You'll drown in your cards! Choke on them, even!”

As they start gathering up the cards that King threw everywhere, Gus lets out a little gasp. “You guys—is Hunter asleep?”

That immediately draws Eda’s attention away from the magazine. Her eyes flicker to the blond witch, laying on his stomach just on the edge of their group. He was still having a hard time socializing, especially with Amity, but Luz was determined to include him in all friendship activities. She said wanted to teach him how to be a kid, and hell, if anyone could knock some seriousness out of that boy it would be Luz.

Hunter is indeed asleep—his face is mushed into the forearms pillowed under his head, and his red palisman has weaseled its way to nestle in between the crook of his elbow. His breath comes out in soft little sighs, and Eda feels something in her melt.

“Awwww, he looks so peaceful,” Luz croons, mushing her palms against her cheeks. Amity’s already scooched past her, snapping photos on her scroll. Eda can’t blame her. She knows a good blackmail opportunity when she sees one.

Eda’s off the couch and catches King mid-pounce. “Whoa there, none of that buddy.”

“But Edaaaa,” the demon whines, his little arms and legs flailing in mid-air. “I have to conquer him when he least expects it!”

“Ehhh, let the kid sleep. Save your conquests for when he’s awake and can put up a fight.” Eda sets him down in his place in the circle, and the kids all glance at each other before turning back to the cards.

She notices that they’re more mindful to keep their tones softer, probably to not disturb the sleeping boy. And when Hunter wakes himself up about half an hour later, they don’t mention it, seamlessly integrating him back into their game.

The second time it happens, Raine is walking Eda home. It’s early in the evening, and the pair just got done with a fabulous date—a picnic with apple blood and sweet (and stolen) baked goods? Titan, take Eda now, she’s found her perfect match.

She’s still riding that high, not noticing Raine stopping until they tug on their clasped hands. “Hey, who’s that? Is he okay?”

Eda follows where they’re pointing their finger. It’s Hunter, slumped against the base of an oak tree, fast asleep. His chin is tipped forward and a book open on his chest, and even more strangely, there’s a small pile of leaves on his lap.

“Oh, that’s just my—” Eda stops herself, the word catching in her throat. Hunter was a child in her care, yes, but he wasn’t quite her kid. Not like Luz or King. The blond witch was still too jumpy, baring his teeth and snarling at anything that tried to get close to him.

He calls her Miss Clawthorne, for Titan’s sake.

“—Hunter,” Eda finishes lamely.

Raine raises an eyebrow. “Your Hunter?”

“He’s uhhh, one of Luz’s friends who just so happens to be living with us. Not a big thing.”

Raine shoots her a deadpan look but strides forward anyway, kneeling next to the sleeping blond. They keep their voice to a low murmur, “Should we wake him? That can’t be comfortable for his neck. He’ll probably be sore later.”

“Eh, let him rest. This is more sleep than he usually gets.” Eda steps closer, kneeling down on his other side. It’s the side that has his scar, the slightly raised red tissue standing out even more so than usual now that he wasn’t constantly moving. She’s almost asked him how he got it, but he’s clearly sensitive about the subject. She’s seen the similar marks on his arms, and something tells her there are a whole lot more scars that he’s hiding.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who gave them to him.

Still, it’s hard to ignore just how young he looks. When he’s stripped of all of his snappy comebacks, quick defenses, and that guarded demeanor Belos forced onto him, he’s reduced to exactly what he should be:

A kid.

“Oh!” Raine startles in surprise. Eda looks up to see the cardinal palisman fluttering down from above them, carrying a few leaves in its beak. It hops down onto Hunter’s lap and deposits the leaves in the little growing pile on his leg.

A smile worms its way onto Eda’s face. She runs a finger across the little bird’s head, “Trying to keep him warm, huh?” The bird lets out a trilling note of confirmation. She lets the bird be, turning back to Raine, “I think Rascal’s got this covered. If he hasn’t come in before nightfall I’ll come out and get ‘em.”

The bard casts one last glance down at the sleeping boy before they stand. “Y’know, he kind of reminds me of someone.”

“Oh yeah?” Eda weaves her arm through Raine’s as the pair reassumes their walk.

“Yeah,” Raine hums. “He kind of has the same build as someone I met when I was held hostage in the Emperor’s palace. The Golden Guard. Did you hear that he ran away from the palace? There've been rumors that the Emperor himself is tearing apart the Right Arm looking for him.”

“Uh, about that...”

Raine stops, turning to look at her square in the face. Eda gives them a sheepish, toothy grin.

“Oh my god,” Raine says. “You adopted the Golden Guard?”

“Hey now, adopted is a very strong word—”

The bard cuts her off with a delighted laugh. “How am I not surprised?” Eda feels heat rise to her face, but can’t help but return Raine’s infectious smile. “Only you, Eda. Only you.”

The third time it happens, Eda’s passing through the upstairs hallway, intent on curling up into her nest for an afternoon nap of her own. She hears a shuffling noise as she passes by the glorified storage closet that they gave Hunter as a room, and can’t resist a peek inside.

What she finds is definitely…not what she was expecting. Hunter is laying flat on his back on the floor, his feet elevated on the little cot they’d given him. Yeesh, that couldn’t be comfortable. Soft snores woosh past his open lips, his face turned toward a crystal ball that’s playing some cartoon he must have been watching before he fell asleep.

His body is nearly covered in stuffed animals.

“King,” Eda hisses. The horned perpetrator is in the middle of dumping his entire army onto the blond witch’s chest, pinning down his arms with plushies. “What did I tell you about burying people alive?”

The demon pauses from where he’s been slowly arranging his army over Hunter’s sleeping form. “He’s got plenty of room to breathe! I didn’t cover his face,” King protests. “Can’t subjugate someone who’s dead.”

“No subjugating—” your brother, she almost says, “—Hunter.”

King squints at her, but then grumbles and starts slowly taking the stuffed animals off the boy’s body. Crisis averted, Eda slips back out into the hall, mind swirling. That was the second time she’d almost referred to Hunter as hers in passing. The feeling is too raw to speak out loud yet, but there’s a growing warmth in her as she watches Hunter acclimate to his surroundings in the Owl House. With every day that goes by, he’s more comfortable around her, around Luz and King and Hooty, and he’s starting to come out of his shell. He’s growing softer, less quick to snarl, becoming more Hunter and less Golden Guard.

Unconsciously, Eda’s started viewing him as part of their little family. Two weeks ago, that thought would have made her uncomfortable. Now, she welcomes it with open arms.

Ugh, she’s getting so soft.

The fourth time it happens is when Eda’s flying home from visiting Lilith. She’s only been gone for the day, and is hoping that leaving Luz in charge hasn’t led to any freak fires, the resurrection of the dead, or other various natural disasters. Unfortunately, even her most responsible kid is pretty reckless, so Eda’s expectations are set pretty low.

It’s probably sometime around 2 a.m. when she makes it home sweet home. She swoops in close, intent on landing on the front door but stilling mid-air when she sees something on the roof of the tower. Even from up here, it’s not hard to distinguish the form of a looming body.

Eda’s heart leaps into her throat and she takes Owlbert down into a dive. Her body is tense when she lands, her staff already aimed toward the person lurking by the edge of the roof. “Alright listen bucko, you better step back or—wait.” She sees what looks like a lump of feathers sitting on top of the person’s head, and Eda squints in the darkness. She quickly pulls out a light glyph, sending the tiny ball of sun forward.

“Hunter?!” Eda’s tense posture relaxes. The kid doesn’t answer, and it takes her a beat to figure out why. He’s dead asleep, slumped precariously over the telescope they use for stargazing. Eda has no idea how he’s even standing at all. Kid probably had a ton of practice of falling asleep on his feet during long, boring meetings with the Emperor.

“Wakey, wakey.” She places her hand on his shoulder, gently, but he wakes up with a full-body jerk, startling the palisman on top of his head. The cardinal chirps once in irritation, fluttering to rest on Eda’s shoulder instead.

Hunter’s eyes are wild for a moment until he seems to register where he is and who he’s with. He relaxes then, letting out a yawn so huge it would put any lion to shame. “…Eda?”

“The one and only,” Eda says, ignoring how her heart squeezes at the kid finally calling her by her name. “Wanna tell me why you’re up here in the middle of the night?”

“Waitin’ for you,” he mumbles, voice rough with sleep. His eyelids drop and he sways dangerously on his feet. “Wanted to… t’make sure y’got home safe.”

The warmth in her chest expands and eclipses her entire body in that fuzzy feeling she gets whenever one of her kids does something particularly adorable. Thank Titan it’s dark and Hunter is too out of it to notice the smile that spreads across her face. If he was fully awake, Eda gets the feeling that A) he probably never would have admitted that he was worried about her, and B) would have snapped at her for smiling at him like that. “Well, I’m home now, so let’s get you to bed before you topple over.”

Eda wraps her arm around his waist and nudges him along, practically carrying him back downstairs, their palismen following close behind. She doesn’t mind. Someone had to make sure he didn’t fall off the roof.

“Night, kid,” she says, tucking him under the blankets on his cot. Hunter doesn’t respond, already having slipped back into unconsciousness. And if she brushes his bangs tenderly out of his face, no one ever has to be the wiser.

The fifth time it happens, Eda’s gotten used to it. It's not that Hunter doesn’t sleep, she’s come to realize. He just falls asleep in weird places. Why, she has no idea, but honestly, the kid looked so tired all the time, she wasn’t going to question it. They had bigger things to worry about.

The Day of Unity is just around the corner, and Belos has become more irritating than ever.

Eda hadn’t even thought that was possible for him, but apparently, it was. The scouts around Bonesborough have tripled, their captains leading more and more raids, butting into shops to check everyone’s papers, and invading random districts.

Oddly, Belos’s priorities seem to have shifted. He’s still sending out grunts to round up any wild witches, but the guards have been playing a weird sort of hide-and-seek, going beyond just patrolling the marketplaces to actually tearing into people’s homes. From what she’s heard, the guards never take anything, just searching the place top-to-bottom before leaving empty-handed and moving on to the next house.

Belos was looking for something.

And unfortunately, Eda’s got a pretty good idea of what he’s after.

Said thing just so happens to be slumped across from her at the kitchen table, dead to the world. It’s late into the night, and most of the kids have already gone to sleep. Too on edge to lie down, Eda’s been keeping herself busy by concocting more potions while the late-night news plays on her crystal ball in the background.

Hunter, striving to be helpful, volunteered to stay up and help.

It wasn’t long before the kid slowly started to nod off, face supported by his palm as his eyelids started to droop. He’d been in the middle of mixing two ingredients—highly flammable ingredients, mind you—and Eda plucked the vials out of his lax grip just in time. Honestly, it was a miracle the kid never killed himself in the Emperor’s Coven with how randomly he falls asleep.

He probably never got the chance to sleep at all, a voice reminds her. She remembers how dead-exhausted Lily was during her first few days at the Owl House. It was probably safe to assume that the Emperor had a habit of running the head of his Coven into the ground.

Hunter has been picking up on Belos’s tightening grip, too. He’s been getting quieter, more reserved. He’s come to the same conclusion that Eda has: the Emperor was tearing apart the whole of the Isles to get him back.

Why, though, is anyone’s guess. Hunter has long since explained that his uncle always said that the Titan had big plans for him, and it probably has something to do with the Day of Unity, but beyond that, the Emperor had always kept him in the dark. Luz has a crazy theory involving clones and blood magic, but that sounds like it’s a plot point straight out of one of her Azura books. King thinks Belos wants his artificial staff back, and Hooty predicts the Emperor is just sad because all his Coven leaders are leaving him to join Hooty’s superior best friends club.

Whatever the reason, Eda’s made it pretty clear that she’s not gonna bend to Belos’s intimidation tactics and turn him over. That smarmy gold jerk could set the whole Isles on fire and Eda still wouldn’t hand him over. Hunter’s part of the Bad Girl’s Coven now, and Belos can just suck it. And she’s not afraid to say that to his stupid face, either.

So when the cauldron at the end of the table that holds the scrying potion suddenly begins bubbling on its own, Eda may very well get her chance.

She’s up on her feet in an instant, dashing to the other end of the table just as the steam rising off the potion begins to warp into a familiar figure.

“Edalyn,” Belos greets, his voice sharp like a dagger. “I do hope I’m not interrupting your evening, but I needed a word with you.”

Ugh, scrying potions weren’t supposed to work both ways! Belos was too damn powerful. He could probably peer into their lives as much as they could peer into his.

“Sorry, but now’s a bad time,” Eda shoots back. “Why don’t you hang up and call back literally never?”

“It’s come to my attention that you have something of mine,” the masked man continues smoothly as if she hadn’t spoken. “I’d ever so appreciate it if you gave it back.”

Eda’s lip curls back, feeling the itch of feathers poking out of her joints. She wants to shift into her harpy form and leap through the potion to claw out his eyes. “Sorry, Belos,” she says, dripping smug bravado, “We wild witches operate solely under the laws of finders keepers. Your kid? Mine now.”

Eda expects that the Emperor would very much like to vaporize her. “Make your threats wisely, Owl Lady. You have no idea what you’re up against. Everything will be easier for you and your little friends if you just hand the boy back over to me.”

“Fat chance.” Eda throws back her shoulders and shoots him a sharp grin. “Sounds to me like you’re threatening one of my kids, and we weirdos stick together. Going after one of us is basically asking for all of us to bring you down. Remember how well that went last time? How my human cracked your mask and publicly humiliated you during your big let’s-turn-Eda-to-stone ceremony?”

The Emperor looks as though he has some choice words to say, but Eda doesn’t care. Hunter is her kid now. She glowers at him through that mist, voice lowering in with deadly promise. “You’ll have to drag him back to your Coven over my dead body.”

“That can be arranged,” sneers Belos.

“Try me, antler boy.” Then Eda whacks the cauldron and sends it tipping over the edge of the table. The connection is immediately severed as the potion goes splattering over the hardwood, and the resounding CLANG of the bowl makes Hunter shoot violently out of sleep.

“Huh?! Whassit—Eda? What happened? Are you alright?”

“Fine, kid,” she says, swallowing down the rage that’s still bubbling hot in her throat. “’S alright, just got a little clumsy and knocked over a cauldron. Sorry for waking you.”

“Sorry for falling asleep,” Hunter responds. He grabs a towel and hurries to clean up the oozing purple goo.

Eda waves him off, “Eh, I don’t mind. You kids need your rest. Growing bodies and all that.”

Hunter still hesitates, looking at her for a beat too long as if double-checking to make sure she wasn’t really upset. Eda holds back a sigh, a twinge of pity flickering through her that he’d even have to look at her like that in the first place. All the damage from Belos couldn’t be wrapped up in a month, she supposed.

She snatches up the cauldron, still dripping with the ruined potion. Peachy. She’ll have to call Lilith to get her scrying potion recipe. Though maybe not having this in the house was a good idea. Eda doesn’t want to risk His Royal Highness dropping in on any more unexpected house calls.

“Eda?”

She looks up at Hunter. The kid chewing on his bottom lip, wringing the half-soiled towel between scarred hands.

“I just…I wanted to say thank you,” Hunter says shyly. “I know having me here hasn’t exactly been easy—not only because of the fugitive thing, but because I’m…” He flounders for a moment, and Eda can only pretend to know what’s going through his mind right now. “…me,” he finishes finally. “You’ve been so kind and patient with me, it’s so much more than I deserve, and no matter what happens next—”

“Hey, no.” Eda cuts him off with a swift and gentle beratement. She sets the cauldron on the table and crowds closer to him, curling one hand around his cheek. The kid automatically leans into the touch, and Eda can’t help but wonder how Belos could have ever hurt a child who was as sweet as this one.

“You may be one bratty little shit, but you’re my bratty little shit. And Mama says you deserve all the smothering that comes with being a child of the Owl Lady.”

Then, to prove her point, she swoops down and quickly places feather-light kisses on the tip of his nose, forehead, and his scar, until Hunter squawks and shoves her away. He’s practically glowing, flushed all the way to the tips of his ears.

“Gross,” he snaps, rubbing furiously at his face. “I’m never helping you with your potions ever again.”

“I’ll accept your terms. Now get upstairs, it’s way past your bedtime.”

“I don’t have a bedtime, I’m not a baby.” Hunter sticks out his tongue but obeys, slipping out of the kitchen and disappearing into the rest of the house. Eda shakes her head as she watches him go.

Kids. What could ya do with ‘em?

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Can you do Negatus for the character ask ?

I'm so sorry it took me so long to answer this! Life has been crazy these past two weeks but thank you so much for your ask! 💙

One aspect about them I love:

This is completely random but I love that he doesn’t know how to spell his own name. Him wondering whether or not there’s an R in Negatus always cracks me up and it’s just one of many things that make him so likeable as a villain.

One aspect I wish more people understood about them:

The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Negatus is that he’s an idiot. But then I remember how many people he has actually managed to kill (like the Evil Overlord recruits but also the parents of the teamwork trainer or Admiral Anous) and I have to remind myself that he’s surprisingly good at his job for someone who’s so incompetent.

One (or more) headcanon(s) I have about this character:

At some point, Negatus gets a dog. It’s actually Debbie’s idea (watch out for May 4th’s Whump Wednesday fic if you want to know the story behind it). She accompanies him to the shelter to pick one but there’s so many that in the end Negatus simply tells the person who runs the place, “Give me the one no one wants.”

He ends up with a three-legged and half-blind Yorkshire Terrier. At least that’s what Debbie says it looks like. Yonderland doesn’t really differentiate between dogs. He names her Menace and she’s the sweetest thing in all the realms (except when she thinks she needs to protect Negatus from something - then she get more feral than Jeff).

One character I love seeing them interact with:

The demons. One of my favourite things about Yonderland is that Negatus and the demons share one braincell and sometimes Negatus has it and sometimes the demons share it (though lets be honest – Rita’s the true brains of the operation).

One character I wish they would interact with/interact with more:

Admiral Anous. I’m sorry but I just love Anous with my whole heart and I wish they’d kept him around longer. The dynamic between him and Negatus is just so good because on one hand you get one really creepy villain who is more or less just a pencil pusher and on the other hand you have Negatus who’s not really good at being a villain but surprisingly good at killing other villains, including Anous.

One (or more) headcanon(s) I have that involve them and one other character:

When I answered these for Debbie I mentioned the idea of her asking Negatus to play Santa again, so lets elaborate on that. Negatus pretends he doesn’t want to do it but he’s secretly delighted to go back to Debbie's world and do something nice for her kids again. The demons don’t mind either – Jeff is just happy he gets to put on the red light again – but they insist on the children getting to know their real names. Debbie is fine with that.

So on Christmas Eve, Negatus (now wearing a fake beard and costume provided by Debbie) and the demons go to Debbie’s house and make a whole show of giving the twins their presents. It’s the most fun any of them has had in years. Negatus loves watching Ben and Hayley’s faces light up with every new present he pulls from the bag – most of them are from Debbie, of course, but he’s sneaked in one or two of his own as well. When the bag is finally empty and he turns to go the twins surprise him with presents of their own, for both him and the demons.

“Santa should have presents too,” Ben says. Hayley nods very seriously.

The presents turn out to be drawings and Negatus and the demons put them on the fridge the moment they get home.

Already answered: Nigel, Thomas, Robin, Pat, Kitty, Julian, Vex, Choop, Ho-Tan, Debbie, Flowers and Pressley.

Ask game can be found here.

#negatus #yonderland #ask #ask game #mp yonderland #yonderland headcanon

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I seriously love the way you write for all your characters!! Soooo I’m in dire need of Yami x fem!reader angst where like she gets knocked out pretty bad trying to protect him (she’s on his level tho like w power and mana) and when she wakes up he’s obviously glad she’s alive but he’s angry bc she didn’t stay back and got hurt bc of him and he thought he was gonna lose her, so then she gets pissed bc she’s fiery and defensive which leads to an argument where he says something hurtful and I’ll leave the end to u!!!🤍

Ahhhhh Anony~ my heart already broke a little reading your request 🥺 hope this one lives up to your expectations!

Yami x reader

Warnings: slight Angst

“Seems like this one’s a stubborn one y/n, be careful alright, don’t do anything reckless.” Yami and you were side to side facing a devil demon.

Yami dashed forward, swinging his katana and throwing his dark spells towards the enemy. You backed him up, sprinting right behind him, throwing your spells at the enemy and covering for your boyfriend.

You both were given the title of the strongest couple of the clover kingdom, both your mana and power seemed limitless and when you two fought alongside each other, you were undefeatable.

You both managed to triumph over the devil, slicing it in half but it took a great amount of power and beating.

Out of nowhere, with it’s last breath, the devil shot out spears of magic in it’s last attempts to bring Yami down with it. Your limbs moved faster than your brains could and you stood between Yami and the devil, causing the magic to pierce right through you.

“Y/N!!!!!!!!” You heard Yami’s voice ring through your ears as your vision begun to turn blurry. You felt your boyfriend’s warm and strong arms holding you before you drifted off in a deep slumber.

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Yami could feel the warmth of your blood on his body as yours turned cold in his arms. He held you tightly, sensing your weak ki as you slipped into unconsciousness.

“Don’t leave me just like that y/n.” He whispered to you, but you didn’t respond.

As you went into the operation theatre, Yami slumped onto the floor. The thought of losing you made his heart clench and his chest tighten. Memories of the two of you raced through his mind, how your hair smelt like roses every night, your e/c eyes always smiling at him, your small frame in his every time you hugged him.

A single tear fell from the corner of his eye unknowingly as his put his head in his hands. The black bulls captain sat there until William and Julius had to come to persuade him to leave and clean up himself. --------------------------------------------------

You awoke, your body muscles feeling limp and sore, like you have been sleeping for a very long time.

“Y/N PAISEN!” Asta’s loud and ecstatic voice boomed through the entire room, “YOU’RE AWAKE OMG I NEED TO REPORT TO YAMI DANJOU NOW”

The boy ran off without you even able to speak a single word to him. Doctors and nurses probably heard Asta’s shouting and came in to check on you after he ran out the room.

“Miss L/n, it’s kind of a miracle you’re alive, your body and organs were punctured, thankfully you were brought in quickly and we stitched you up before you died from blood lost.” The doctor put the stethoscope around your body, “Your vitals seems okay as well, but your wound was really deep.. I mean it made a hole in you so.. it will probably take longer than this for you to recover..” he paused as he scribbled some things on his clipboard. “We didn’t even know if you would even wake up Miss L/n.. Your brain and body was unresponsive.. I guess you have to be thankful for your vast amount of mana and magic power in you.. It’s really a miracle.” The doctor repeated. “Anyway we’ll monitor you for a couple of days and we’ll discharge you if you’re good, but you’ll have to be resting. A lot. ”

“erm.. how long have I been asleep?” you asked the nurse as the doctor left.

“oh.. It’s been about almost two months miss y/n.. The black bulls members were here every day though, it seemed they took turns to watch over you, and Mr Yami practically lived here for the last two month..” The nurse replied, “If there’s anything you need, just ring me up with that button over there.” She left with a smile.

-------------------------------------------------- A familiar figure towered at your door a few minutes later. His black hair was long and in a mess, his facial hair longer that it usually was, heavy eye bags hung under his eyes and he looked more like Julius’ age, but it was no doubt your Yami.

His face lit up a little when he saw you, and he heaved a sigh of relief. You gave him a weak smile, “hey,” you tried sitting up but a sharp pain sucked out the breath from your lungs as your abdomen felt like it was about to be ripped open again.

He was by your side in a flash and he helped you sit up. “Don’t ever. Do that. Again.” Yami looked at you with a cold steel glare.

“Do what?” You asked.

“I told you not to do anything reckless. Just stay back next time, you hear me?” He said flatly as he sat down beside your bed.

“that’s it? Excuse me, I saved your life, it should have been ‘thank you’?” It was your turn to glare at him this time, “Don’t give me that attitude, Yami.”

“Attitude?” He hissed, “Thank you for stupidly standing in front of an attack like that? If you didn’t know, I saved your life as well by rushing you here, Miss.”

“Stupidly?” You started at him, you were enveloped in rage and at a loss for words.

“Do you know how much fucking trouble you caused for everyone?!” Yami bellowed, anger consuming him as well.

“Trouble, huh? Fine. I won’t trouble you any longer and you can leave at this moment!” You shouted at him, gritting your teeth at the pain you were feeling, unsure of whether it was from your heart or your wounds.

Finral and Asta burst into the room upon hearing both of you shouting.

“Y-yami san..” Finral and Asta pulled him, “Y/n san just woke up, don’t aggravate her wounds..”

Both of them were flung towards the wall with a swift swing from Yami’s arms.

“GET THE FUCK OUT.” Your mana filled the room as the room shook a little and the windows started to crack.

You felt something warm at your stomach. You looked down and there was blood. You must have ripped your stitches in fury.

Yami’s eyes followed your gaze and saw the blood as well; his heart broke at that moment as all his anger dissipated instantly. His hands reached out to you but you used your power to throw him a few steps back. “Get out.” you said weakly and quietly, tears threatened to spill from the frame of your eyes.

His fist clenched at the pain surging in his chest, he took in a deep breath before he spoke with sorrow in his voice, “Finral let’s go..”

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The next day, Yami brought a huge basket of all your favourite food to visit you as an apology for yesterday. As he walked into the room, his heart raced in panic. You weren’t there.

“Yami san...” The nurse came in behind him with a sad look on her face, “y/n san requested for a discharge against the doctors orders early this morning..”

“Where’d she go?” The black haired man further probed. “She’s still injured..”

“We persuaded her not to go.. Her wounds need tending to.. She didn’t say where she was going, but she left a message with me for you..” she paused and continue when Yami didn’t respond to her, “Sorry for the trouble caused. Don’t worry for me anymore.”

-end-

#black clover #black clover imagine #black clover x reader #black clover headcanons #yami sukehiro x reader #yami sukehiro #captain yami #yami black clover

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Remnant’s Top Ten Anime of 2020

2020 Was certainly a ride wasn’t it? To those that managed to make to make it through in one piece, or any piece, good job. Hopefully 2021 is better to us all.

Despite the world mostly being on fire, I’d hazard to say that a lot of good shows came out in 2020 (despite a number of them being delayed to either later in the year or this year altogether). I meant to release this list much earlier, but I kept changing it around.

Anyway, here are the ones I thought were the best.

Honorable Mentions:

Dorohedoro

Synopsis: The plot centers on a man named Caiman and his search for his real identity after a transformation by a sorcerer left him with a reptile's head and no memory of his former life.

Along with his friend Nikaido, he violently assaults sorcerers in the Hole, with the aim of taking their heads into his mouth, where a strange face will appear and confirm whether the sorcerer he has bitten onto was the one responsible for his transformation or not.

As the residents of the Hole, the En family and the Cross-Eyes gang, along with many others, collide with one another, the mystery of Caiman's identity begins to unravel, reigniting ancient grudges and threatening to forever change both the Hole and the sorcerers' world.

Thoughts: This is the only Netflix anime I watched this year (I missed out on Great Pretender before the year ended), and I can honestly say I had fun with this one. It’s animation was good, the story was engaging enough, and the characters were all unique (Noi best girl). The one problem I would say with the show is that it can come off as unfocused at times, meandering from one plaot point to another with no real connective tissue.

Still a fun series though.

ID: Invaded

Synopsis: The anime follows the investigations of Narihisago, a renowned detective now in prison, who is tasked with diving into the id wells of various serial killers.

Two years prior to the current events, Narihisago's daughter Muku was brutally murdered by a serial killer, leading Narihisago's wife to commit suicide. These deaths prompted him to hunt down and murder the killer, earning him his prison sentence. He is still depressed and haunted by his wife and daughter's deaths, but also uses this as motivation to take his work seriously and help stop serial killers.

Thoughts: One of a handful of original series that came out this year. This show gave me heavy Inception/Minority Report vibes from both its premise and presentation. It wobbles under the weight of its own concepts towards the end, but it still a fun ride nonetheless.

Gleipnir

Synopsis: The story centers on Shuichi Kagaya, a high school student with an unusual secret. He has the ability to transform into a monster resembling a giant dog mascot costume with a zipper down his back and a large cartoonish smile. After rescuing a strange girl, Claire Aoki, from a warehouse fire, they join each other to search for Claire's older sister, who is assumed to be responsible for the death of their parents.

Thoughts: When the initial rollout for this show began I admit I wasn’t really a fan. I thought it was just going to be a hyper violent, fanservice show. Now in some ways it is that, but if you really look Gleipnir tells a very interesting tale of identity and what it truly means to have a wish granted. The music was pretty good as well, and that’s really something from me as a person who doesn’t pay attention to soundtracks.

Hope this show gets a season 2, but if not I’ll more than likely start the manga.

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Synopsis: Fascinated by the stories of Niké, a witch who traveled around the world, Elaina aspires to take the same course. Her determination of studying books and magic leads to her becoming the youngest apprentice witch to pass the sorcery exam.

However, when Elaina attempts to receive training in order to become a full-fledged witch, she is rejected due to her extraordinary talents until she finds Fran, the "Stardust Witch," whom accepts her. After earning her title, the "Ashen Witch," Elaina begins her exploration around the world, visiting and facing all kinds of people and places.

Thoughts: As a fan of the Light Novels, I was pretty excited when it was announced it was getting an anime. For the most part it didn’t disappoint. Though it skipped most of the stories in the novels, the show still told a few good stories that made for some amazingly animated tv.

Talentless Nana

Synposis: In the near future, mysterious monsters known as the "Enemies of Humanity" begin to appear, and with it so do children with supernatural powers called the "Talented". To prepare them for the upcoming battle against these Enemies, all the Talented are sent to a school located on a deserted island, where they have all their daily needs provided for until they graduate and communication with the outside world is forbidden.

One day, a new student named Nana Hiiragi arrives at the school. Her friendly and cheerful personality lets her quickly make friends with the class. However, with Nana comes a whole litany of mysterious occurrences on the island.

Thoughts: I can’t say too much about Nana without spoiling it’s first episode twist, but I will say that its a pretty interesting show with a fairly compelling game of cat and mouse being played.

Now on the the actual list:

10. The Misfit of Demon King Academy

Synopsis: After 2,000 years of countless wars and strife, the demon king Anos Voldigoad made a deal with the human hero, Kanon, to sacrifice his own life to ensure peace could flourish. Reincarnating 2,000 years later, Anos finds that royal demons now harshly rule over lower class hybrid demons in a society that values Anos's pureblood descendants over the demons who interbred with other species, such as humans and spirits.

Finding that magic as a whole has begun to decline and his descendants weaker as a result of the peace he created, Anos, now technically a hybrid himself, decides to reclaim his former title of Demon King, but first, he must graduate from the Demon King Academy where he is labeled a total misfit.

Thoughts: Originally I was going to put Nana in this spot, but its lack of a real ending pushed it out of the list. If only slightly. Misft at Demon Academy is just a fun ride from start to finish. There’s always something about shows with ridiculous OP protagonists (Overlord, One Punch Man, etc.) that gets the blood pumping.

It’s like junk food. Great for the right moment, but not needed all the time.

9. Ikebukuro West Gate Park

Synopsis: A charismatic troubleshooter tries to keep the peace between warring factions while protecting his loved ones in Ikebukuro West Gate Park.

Thoughts: I honestly had no idea what to make of this show when I first saw the synopsis, but I gave it a try on a whim. I’m glad I did because this was easily the dark horse of the Fall season. I really liked the mostly self contained story format the series had, and there were a few very good episodes here. Check it out.

8. My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Synopsis: Catarina Claes, the young daughter of a noble family, one day bumps her head and regains memories of her past life as an otaku. It is then that she realizes she has been reborn into the world of the otome game Fortune Lover, reincarnated as the game's villainess who, regardless of what route the player took in the original game, is doomed to be either killed or exiled.

In order to avoid these routes that lead to doom, Catarina begins taking countermeasures to try and avoid things going the same way as the game. This, however, ends up having unexpected consequences on her relations with the other characters of the game's world.

Thoughts: Normally I’m not a fan of Reverse/Otome harem series, but somehow Bakarina managed to pull me in, to a good result. This show was easily one of the best comedies I watched this year with a good cast and a likable protagonist.

7. Deca-Dence

Synopsis: In the fortress city of Deca-dence, the lowly Tanker girl, Natsume, dreams of becoming a Gear warrior following her father's death during a Gadoll attack. She is assigned to a maintenance team led by Kaburagi whom she discovers is more than he appears. Kaburagi has a secret role in eliminating "bugs", humans who threaten Solid Quake's operations.

When Kaburagi discovers that Natsume is listed as dead in the company database, he decides to keep her under observation and offers to train her to fight.

Thoughts: Giant monsters and giant robots. What more do you need? Watch it.

6. A Certain Scientific Railgun T

Synposis: The Daihasei Festival has begun, and that of course means that Tokiwadai Middle School—a prestigious all-girls' middle school—is competing too. Despite the participation of the "Ace of Tokiwadai," Mikoto Misaka, the other students who are participating are still putting their utmost effort into winning, no matter how impossible the feat may seem against her might. However, not all is fun and games. Due to the the festival, Academy City opens to the outside world, and various factions have begun plotting ways to infiltrate the city. Misaka appears to be on their radar, and as the festival proceeds, people lurking from the shadows begin to emerge...

Thoughts: Not really much to say here. It’s the third season of Railgun, but good thing here is that each season of Railgun is better than the last. Truly the best of the To Aru universe.

5. BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

Synposis: Urged on by her friend, Kaede Honjō begins playing the VRMMORPG NewWorld Online under the name Maple. Not wanting to get hurt, Maple opts to be a shield user with maxed out defense stats, and continues putting every status point she earns in the game into increasing only her defense level.

As a result, she is left with slow foot speed and no magic, but her high defense allows her to endure most hits without taking any damage. This, along with her basic-level creative thinking, allows for her to make unexpected accomplishments in the game, its quests and events. By doing this, she ends up earning all kinds of equally unexpected skills and becomes one of the strongest players in the game. Thoughts: Bofuri is another OP power fantasy like Demon King Academy, but with the twist of being fused with CGDCT. The cast is extremely likable (especially Maple) and when Silver Link wants to they can make the battles REALLY dynamic. A nice comfortable watch, which was sorely needed in 2020.

4. Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

Synposis: The story follows Princess Syalis, a young princess who was kidnapped by the demon king, and her quest to sleep well while imprisoned.

Thoughts: A simple premise for a not so simple story. Sleepy Princess for me was easily the best comedy of the year, with plenty of heart and action thrown in as well. I was wary of the series at first, thinking that the premise wouldnt be entertaining for more than a few episodes, but boy was I wrong. Each episode was funnier than the last and Doga Kobo pulled out all the stops to make it look as gorgeous as possible.

3. Jujutsu Kaisen

Synopsis: Idly indulging in baseless paranormal activities with the Occult Club, high schooler Yuuji Itadori spends his days at either the clubroom or the hospital, where he visits his bedridden grandfather. However, this leisurely lifestyle soon takes a turn for the strange when he unknowingly encounters a cursed item. Triggering a chain of supernatural occurrences, Yuuji finds himself suddenly thrust into the world of Curses—dreadful beings formed from human malice and negativity—after swallowing the said item, revealed to be a finger belonging to the demon Sukuna Ryoumen, the "King of Curses." Yuuji experiences first-hand the threat these Curses pose to society as he discovers his own newfound powers. Introduced to the Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical High School, he begins to walk down a path from which he cannot return—the path of a Jujutsu sorcerer.

Thoughts: Originally I wasn’t going to put this on the list, because the season doesnt conclude this year, but I decided to make an exception since the show started so strong. Many people were hyping this up as the next big shonen, and they were right. Mappa really went balls to the wall with this show and I’m pretty hype for what happens this cour.

2. Akudama Drive

Synopsis: The bustling metropolis of Kansai, where cybernetic screens litter the neon landscape, may seem like a technological utopia at first glance. But in the dark alleys around the brightly-lit buildings, an unforgiving criminal underbelly still exists in the form of fugitives known as "Akudama." No stranger to these individuals, Kansai police begin the countdown to the public execution of an infamous Akudama "Cutthroat," guilty of killing 999 people. However, a mysterious message is sent to several elite Akudama, enlisting them to free Cutthroat for a substantial amount of money. An invisible hand seeks to gather these dangerous personas in one place, ensuring that the execution is well underway to becoming a full-blown bloodbath.

Thoughts: Want to know what it would be like if Quentin Tarantino made an anime? Well here you go. An adrenaline filled rollercoaster ride from start to finish with a crazy cast of characters and even crazier visuals. There’s even a bit of social commentary in there if you squint.

1. Oregairu Climax

Synopsis: Resolved to become a more independent person, Yukino Yukinoshita decides to smoothen things out with her parents, and the first step toward achieving that goal is to prove herself. As graduation draws closer for the third-year students, Iroha Isshiki—the president of the student council—requests a graduation prom in collaboration with the Volunteer Service Club. Yukino accepts this request of her own volition, hoping to use it as a chance to demonstrate her self-reliance, but what lies ahead of her may prove to be a hard hurdle to cross.

At the same time, a chance for the Volunteer Service Club members to better understand each other presents itself. And thus, Hachiman Hikigaya's hectic and bittersweet high school life begins to draw to a close.

Thoughts: The gif says it all really. I could just leave that there and end this list on a somewhat high note, but I’ll explain it.

Now objectively, there were better shows than this one (off the top of my head JJK comes to mind) but when you combine all three seasons there is no contest in my mind that Oregairu had one of the most perfect endings to a series I have ever seen.

It was an ending 7 years in the making. The first season in 2013 was good, the second season two years later was even better, but Climax was Oregairu at is absolute best and that goes beyond the story and characters. A lot of praise also has to go to Studio feel., who took over animation duties from Brain’s Base in season 2. While BB’s animation was much more accurate to the LN, feel’s more realistic designs fit the more mature direction the story was starting to go, giving the anime some of its best moments.

Watching Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui grow and change from naive teenagers to somewhat understood young adults was amazing and sometimes heartbreaking to watch. Hachiman’s search to find something “genuine”, Yukino’s desire to be independent, and Yui struggling with her feelings of love and friendship all clash and compliment in very interesting ways that makes these three characters even more relatable than they were before.

Lots of long running series don’t stick to landing, but in my eyes Oregairu stuck it perfectly. That’s why its my favorite anime of 2020.

Here’s to 2021.

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goffilolo · 3 years

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Revival of Midoriya Izuku: Chapter 4 "My depression may be chronic, but my ass is iconic"

I bet you didn't think you were ever gonna see an update. well neither did I. What can I say? writing with a broken hand is a struggle.

Link to the fic on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16929483/chapters/81090403

Izuku’s first day of high school was interesting, to say the least, or it would’ve been if he actually went to school instead of spreading mayhem amongst UA’s first years. Shinjuku Metropolitan has been rather lenient in regards to his attendance or lack of thereof, thanks to whatever bullshit Shin wrote to the school on his behalf to ensure that the faculty would accommodate his ‘condition’. Which is just fancy wording for ‘I got a get out of school card’. Truth be told, this is probably the best thing that the doctor has ever done for him since Izuku was nowhere near ready to return to mainstream education, not after everything that has happened in middle school. The last thing he needed were looks of pity and guilt-induced niceties from people who otherwise had no problem laughing at his misfortune.

So instead Izuku has decided to spend his time productively - if you could count tormenting your ex-childhood friend and having an accidental family reunion as such.

Uncle Shouta always had a bit of a mean streak to him, although it never really felt as such when Izuku himself interacted with him. From what little of his childhood he could remember that didn’t involve trauma and discrimination, his uncle was a somewhat kind, but grumpy man. He believed in a brand of tough love - that somehow did not correspond with the way his mother raised him in the slightest and went above and beyond for things and people he held close to his heart. Sure they haven’t seen each other since Izuku was 4, but if his uncle’s empty threats from today’s Quirk Apprehension Test are anything to go by, not much has changed.

Which brings him back to now; sitting in an empty classroom that he does not belong to - a school that he does not belong to, writing down his ever-so-detailed notes about the quirks he will only be able to admire from afar. Not much has changed , indeed.

It almost feels like a betrayal. Almost , being the operative word, because he has no reason to cling onto the things that he no longer cares about - should no longer care about, for they had died along with him that day on the roof, and were properly buried within the four walls that Izuku called his own during his stay in the hospital.

But well...looks like today Izuku is in a mood to dig up old corpses.

Metaphorically, that is.

“God, you’re still here!”

“Kacchan we’ve talked about this” he replied, rather dramatically “God is dead and all that’s left is me”

Kacchan clearly did not appreciate his superior sense of humour, if the lack of response is anything to go by. “No seriously, why are you still here?”

“I could ask you the same”

“I actually study here you fuckwit!” the blond exclaimed in his ever explosive fashion “Besides I had to come back and get my change of clothes since that demonic pet of yours was sitting on them when we were all leaving for the test”

“Huh, that actually reminds me...where’s Bandit?”

“Oi, don’t change the subject you shitty Deku” replied Bakugou, as he kicked one of the chairs over towards the desk that was currently occupied by Izuku and slumped down in it in a way that would perhaps appear as non-caring to absolutely no one “I didn’t know your uncle was a pro-hero.”

Ah, so that’s what he was bothered about.

“That makes the two of us”

“Wait, really?!”

“Honestly Kacchan! Did you really think that IF I knew my uncle was a pro-hero that I would be able to ever shut up about it?”

“No way in hell!”

“Exactly!”

Well, now that the topic of his uncle has been cleared up, there wasn’t much else to talk about, at least not much that wouldn’t result in collateral damage or a Bakugou shitshow 2.0. Both of the boys were well aware of it of course, but let it never be said that either of them could be stopped by things like common sense, especially when it came to avoiding conversational land mines.

“So...what are you scribbling over here?” asked Bakugou in a rather poor and possibly the most awkward attempt at establishing small talk that has ever been known to man and sheep kind alike.

“Ok, no! That is not happening” snapped Izuku, who very much saw where this was going and was having none of it “We are NOT having a civil conversation!”

“Why the fuck not?!” replied the blond, his anger as booming and apparent as his quirk.

“Because that is not something we DO Kacchan!” shouted the teen, banging his hands against the desk, his notebook long forgotten.

“Well, maybe we should?!” exclaimed Bakugou, who was quick to anger, yet quicker to notice his ex-friend’s unusual mood as he tried to make an effort to de-escalate the situation.

“Oh? Should we really? !” sneered Izuku, feeling the kind of anger and disdain he hasn’t felt in a long time, not since that fateful day in the ward.

“That’s rich coming from you” he continued as he stood up form the chair, unable to keep still in his fury as he circled the classroom “All you ever did was shout at me, insult me and throw baseless accusations at me left and right for god knows how long, but suddenly YOU want to have a conversation with me? Isn’t it enough that we kinda talked about our feelings that one time when I was still stuck in the psych ward?!”

Honestly, what do you expect Kacchan?” asked Izuku, feeling raw and hysteric and all kinds of wrong, spilling his metaphorical guts to his ex-bully/friend “That we will just start having normal conversations like nothing ever happened, act like we’re friends or some shit? Because let’s be honest, we haven’t been friends for a very long time, that ship has sunk long before I even attempted suicide! ”

“Don’t you think I know that?!” screamed Bakugou, feeling equally angry, but mostly out of his depth in the situation. He expected Deku to possibly mock him for his awkward attempts at small talk. What the blond didn’t expect was for him to snap, in a way that was somewhat familiar but not quite, as even the few times they’ve spoken back when Izuku was in the hospital or when he got released, his tempter felt controlled in a way it was not at the moment. Katsuki wasn’t sure what exactly triggered such a strong response, but he was not looking forward to having another fight, at least not one initiated by him.

“I’m not trying to pretend it didn’t happen” he explained “I just want to move forward. I’m not the same asshole I was last year and neither are you, so I don’t want to be stuck on how things used to be ! It makes me feel like I’m going nowhere.”

“Ok! Fine! You wanna talk?! Then let me fuckin TELL you something! You asked me what I was ‘scribbling’ over here?” exclaims Izuku, as he stomps his way back towards the desk and snatches his notebook, waving it aggressively in front of Bakugou “IT’S THE SAME STUFF I’VE BEEN SCRIBBLING THE ENTIRE GODDAMN TIME!” he screamed “Those quirk analysis notebooks you used to mock me for? It’s another one of those because as it turns out I still AM the same asshole I was last year! Now then, can YOU tell ME how many of those I’ve had?”

“Thirteen…” mutters Bakugou, feeling like he’s walking into a proverbial trap.

“Good boy, you can count! Now, can you tell me what number does it say on this one?” sneers Izuku sarcastically as he points once again at the notebook in question.

“Is this a trick question? There’s fuckin nothing on it”

“EXACTLY! And you want to know why?” screamed the distressed teen, no longer feeling angry, but tired and vulnerable, unable to stop himself from having a conversation he didn’t even want to be a part of “Because these notes used to serve a purpose, a purpose I no longer have. Hero Analysis for the Future , to be exact. But guess what Kacchan…” he whispered, no longer looking at the red eyes that used to bring him so much pain “...I no longer have a future…”

The blond hung his head in shame as he listened to his childhood friend break down in tears while hiding his face behind the very notebook that started their argument, all the while Trash Bandit who woke up due to their screaming was trying to get his owner’s attention with pathetically quiet ‘baaah’s.

“You have the right to be angry with me, after all this shit I put you through” stated Bakugou after what felt like an endless silence broken only by Izuku’s stuttering sobs. He never thought of himself as a coward, but at this moment he could not find enough bravery to sit face to face with the crying teen.

“I KNOW that you shithead-” replied Izuku as he shakily tried to take a breath in between the sobs “-but what good is that gonna do?! You’ve actually admitted that the way you treated me was wrong, hell you even voluntarily went to therapy! You’re basically going through a whole-ass redemption arc and what do I do? * sob * I’m still stuck in the past and I can’t let go of my grudges, which isn’t doing me or you any favours. I’ve told you to get your shit together, and this is exactly what you’re trying to do and instead of being h-* hic *- happy for you I’m mad-”

His rant broke off as he took another breath with tears still rolling down the freckled cheeks despite the boy’s best efforts. Izuku slumped down in his seat and with shaking hands he took out a cigarette and lighter from his backpack that was still hanging by the hook on the side of the desk. And although putting the cigarette in his mouth was relatively easy, lighting it was another matter. As Izuku grew more frustrated with the quiver in his hands, so did Bakugou. The blond became impatient as he grumbled “give it here damn it” much more quietly and gently than he normally would’ve done as he leaned forward, all the while grabbing the other teen by his shoulder with one hand, as he used to the other to quickly light the cigarette with a small explosion. Izuku’s flinch at the sudden but familiar noise and heat did not go unnoticed.

To say that Izuku was shocked by his ex-friend’s action would’ve been an understatement, but he was pleased nonetheless. If anything it proved his point that Kacchan was trying to be nicer to him, even if the attempts were somewhat awkward. The freckled teen, feeling only marginally better, leaned back in his chair facing the ceiling as he continued to blow circles of smoke up into the air, trying to regain his original train of thought.

“You’d think they would have a fire alarm in here or something” mused Bakugou as he stared at the disappearing circles.

“Hmm” replied Izuku, absentmindedly “You’d think”

The silence has once again stretched between the 2 boys, although this time it felt less oppressive in its need to be filled. Bakugou was happy to wait for Deku to finish what he started, it was the least the blond could do seeing as he was at fault for the current state of things between them.

“I’m so fuckin angry...” stated Izuku as he crashed the burnt out cigarette against the desk, which Bakugou conviniently ignored seeing as the desk was his. “I’m so fuckin angry-” he repeated despite his tone and words not matching at all “-because this proves that you could’ve gotten your shit together this whole time” he continues while gesturing vaguely between the two of them.

“You could’ve stopped this bullshit and apologised to me!” exclaims Izuku in a tone that is half resigned and half accusing “You could’ve spared me the misery, and yet you didn’t. I feel like I’ve suffered for nothing-”

“You did!” interrupted the blond.

“What?”

“You’ve suffered for nothing” clarified Bakugou “There’s literally NO good reason for you to have gone through even half the shit you did”

“I dunno about that Kacchan” teased Izuku “I’m pretty sure the reason is sitting right in front of me”

“I said no good reason damn it, don’t go around twisting my words you fuckin Deku!”

And Izuku couldn’t help but break out in laughter, because he was pretty sure that this was the first time ever that Bakugou had made a joke at his own expense and this moment was going to live in his brain rent free from now on.

“Oh God, Kacchan-” he wheezed, trying to stop himself from laughing “You were right, you really aren't the same asshole that you were last year!”

“I sure fuckin hope not” replied Bakgou who was just as close to laughing “Otherwise I would’ve had to demand refund for all of those shitty therapy sessions”

“Look at us Kacchan” said Izuku, his laugh now subdued “We’re still a fuckin mess”

“I guess we are” agreed the blond as he stared down at his friend’s notebook in a thoughtful expression.

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After the truthfully embarrassing heart-to-heart with Kacchan, Izuku wanted to do nothing more than sink into the void for the next eternity, or at least until he gets his reminder text that he’s running late for yet another therapy session. Unfortunately neither of these options were viable seeing as he was on a self-appointed mission to catch up to his uncle. The boy hoped that uncle Shouta would still be somewhere on the premises seeing as his ugly-ass sleeping bag was still in the classroom. Izuku used that to his advantage as he gave the sleeping bag to Bandit who promptly sniffed it and began to follow the scent of a premature-midlife-crisis. Who knew that sheep could make such good hounds?

Bandit had dutifully led their owner through an ever inconvenient maze of corridors, which eventually ended with the two entering the teacher’s lounge like they had every right to be there (which they kinda did, shoutout to Nedzu!). As expected, Izuku’s uncle was in the lounge, surrounded by fellow members of staff as they tried (unsuccessfully, at least by Izuku’s standards) to get any information out of him regarding his class this year. Uncle Shouta for the most part looked like he’d rather be doing anything else and so Izuku has made an executive decision to insert himself obnoxiously into the situation.

“In my humble opinion-” he said, as he sat down next to his uncle, while Bandit jumped up on his lap “that Mineta kid should’ve been expelled. Like, we get it uncle, he has potential ” continued Izuku, as he spat the word distastefully “But how far is that potential gonna get him when all he does is harass the entire female population, like every other mediocre straight guy with self awareness of a sea cucumber?”

“A sea cucumber? Really?” asked uncle Shouta, sounding like the unimpressed bitch that he is.

“I mean don’t get me wrong” he continues, completely ignoring the unnecessary commentary “Straight people are already embarrassing as they are, but this guy is on another level, the kinda level that usually leads to a straight jacket, am I right?! Hah- I just made a pun!”

“The little listener does have a point, Shouta” replied Present Mic.

“Also, did he just say uncle ? Shouta, is there anything you’d like to tell us?” asked Midnight, you know, like a traitor.

“No”

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It wasn’t until they walked past the gates of the school that his uncle finally stopped in his tracks to voice at least a portion of the questions that have been bubbling in his mind since the impromptu family reunion with his nephew.

“Izuku” says Shouta, with as much concern as an uncle-who-you-haven’t-seen-in-almost-a-decade is allowed to voice “What the fuck?”

“Look, I heard that question far too often in my lifetime, mostly from my therapist, so you’re gonna have to be a bit more specific” replies Izuku sounding like the unimpressed bitch that he hopes to evolve into through the sheer power of genetics and generational trauma.

“Look kid-” says the hobo looking man that has the privilege of being related to Izuku as he puts his hands together, takes a deep breath and prays to whichever God he believes is not yet dead for some guidance on how to handle this “-as much as I’d love to elaborate on the sheer amount of confusion I am experiencing right now due to your questionable way of life, I do actually have to go on a patrol so this conversation is gonna have to be postponed. In the meanwhile give your mother my regards, and I’ll hopefully see you in the near future when you decide once again to wreak havoc in my classroom.”

“No” replies the freckled teen in a total disregard for other people’s prior engagements, thus truly earning his title of a problem child.

“What do you mean no ? Izuku, I have a job to do!”

Instead of replying, Izuku has decided to simply pull a pro-gamer move, by quickly taking out a familiar pair of handcuffs from the side pocket of his backpack, cuffing one side to his uncle’s hand and the other to his own. That on its own is probably not particularly impressive, however it is the speed of the action that has earned it the title of a pro-gamer move, which Izuku is quite proud of. His uncle on the other hand is definitely less so, looking at his cuffed wrist like it has somewhat betrayed him.

“Please tell me you did not just do that”

“I did not just do that”

After wasting about 10 minutes of his life on fruitless struggle of trying to get the handcuffs off like an untrained dog trying to chew off its own leash, Aizawa Shouta; the underground hero Eraserhead, the infamous Erasure Hero has slumped in defeat, internally swearing to himself to one day get revenge on his unruly nephew.

“God, I am so going to have a talk with my sister about this” he says, as if a threat of authority had any meaning to the green headed teen.

“Yeah, no shit, that’s the whole point, we’re going to my house now” replies the teen, completely disregarding any attempt at ‘ an adult asserting their authority ’ over him.

“I still have to go on a patrol tonight” repeats Shouta, as if it was somewhat relevant.

“That sounds like a you problem”

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