#sfh finale

[madeineden]

LEE DONG WOOK as SEO MOON JO in Strangers From Hell (2019)

[maniacalshen]

Thoughts about US car dependency and driving:

We can't control where our friends and family live, so trips to them will always have a higher chance of requiring a car or a multi-part transit trip.

But if housing was much cheaper and buying/selling it was simpler and cheap, people could easily live close to work through any job changes and either not drive or drive very little for the trip they make 10x a week. And rational zoning (can you imagine?) would put the basic shops and services everyone needs right there.

That setup makes for little-to-no day-to-day driving, plus maybe some driving to socialize or to go out to nature. Maybe a spouse will have to travel farther to work, or a kid will commute to college, but that's still better than everyone driving 40 minutes/day forever.

Instead, housing is ruinously expensive and even moreso the closer you are to major job centers; selling it is so expensive that it's a widely-acknowledged disaster to do it before you've been there five years (can confirm from experience); interest rates are so volatile it further complicates the prior two points; and the only reason a lot of people live close to family is because they can't move out in the first place. While unable to walk to so much as a 7-11.

And renting, which should just let folks trade some control and long-term location security for flexibility, extra services, and cost security, instead systematically gouges people while they lose rungs on the ever-rising house price ladder.

The sprawl is so bad, you can't even make a bus system work right in some places. My own parents couldn't walk the distance it would take to escape their cul-de-sac-riddled suburban labyrinth and get to a stop on the main road.

I don't know what to do about the ease of selling and buying homes, but I wish we would build densely, prioritize transit, provide safe bike lanes, allow retail everywhere, and build a shit-ton of quiet (sound-insulated), single stair, >600sq ft multifamily units and townhomes.

[hwiyoungslesbiangf]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 타인은 지옥이다 | Strangers From Hell (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Seo Moonjo/Yoon Jongwoo Characters: Seo Moonjo, Yoon Jongwoo Additional Tags: Inspired by Hades and Persephone (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), with some liberties and inacurracies because i was not a greek mythology kid, Hades!Seo Moonjo, Persephone!Yoon Jongwoo, Suggestive Themes, jongmoon are the only named characters sorry, Fluff and Angst, Pining, moonjo kinda looks like a pimp and im only realizing that a year after writing this fic, made for user braceletofteeth on tumblr, moonjo kinda looks sick most of the time, Possessive Behavior, Mild Smut, but not rlly tbh its very mild and only lasts a few moments, its mostly soft foreplay, Not Beta Read Summary:

Moonjo looked at his hands while Jongwoo spoke, observing the milky white of his palms. How different they look just a few feet away from Jongwoo’s own hands. “I can show you what happens to those who love. The good and the bad. It may change your mind.”

He went silent, turning to meet a deeper set of eyes. “Really?”

Moonjo paused. Held a breath for a moment, saw those doe eyes and felt his own soul start to slip into the depths.

“Of course.” He grabbed Jongwoo’s hand and dragged him into the darkness below.

- A JongMoon Hades & Persephone AU where Moonjo learns to fight his own destiny.

[amythestfenix]

SFH Kitchen Again

If you downloaded my previous version of Murano’s SFH Kitchen, you should re-download it! (The old download link now goes to the new version too).

@johndublindogs asked if I knew of any recolors for this set because they put it in 5 houses in the neighborhood, which sent me on a search for them. There’s one by mom_of2boyz at TSR and I thought there were no more. But then I found that the awesome @fracturedmoonlight not only did recolors, but had an add-on completer set with a fixed main counter!

Frac has a generous TOU, so I took her main counter and add-ons and tweaked them as I had the Murano ones, made a new standing deco pantry shelf, and made a complete (except for the sink and memory board 2) set of recolors. These match the blue Steffor kitchen posted HERE.

The sink and stove were not recolorable, but I tried. I tried very hard on the stove and finally gave up and cloned it for the blue recolor. If someone more awesome than I wanted to fix them it would be great!

Just take out the entire old folder and replace it with this one!

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[srabaskerville]

I MISSED YOU TOO, BASK!! I was waiting for you to come back but when you did I wasn't here 😭 It's the adult life. The end of the year is so crazy. How you've been?

Adult life sucks, I want to go back to kindergarten!!

But I've been good actually, too many things to do (and if I have access to tumblr I'll be here, so I need to delete the app in this case - no self control at all), I finally put myself first and talked with the coordinator about not doing the extras hours any more - I still can be dismissed, but I will go better. (And damn, the gossip about the other coordinator is so much messy than I thought).

Please, tell me about you, how life has been treating you? Excited for the end of the year, any new shows? Still thinking about sfh 24/7 like me?

[ottokallenhonkai3rd]

⚜ ℳ𝒾𝒽ℴ𝓎ℴ 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃ℊℯ𝒹 𝓉𝒽ℯ ℊ𝒶𝓂ℯ ⚜

Do you remember my “OttoKallen was planned from the beginning”? This is no longer up to date. ~*~ I, the lucky person, have finally found the Chinese Honkai Impact site with the corresponding manga. And I noticed a lot of things. "Escape from Nagazora", "Sakuras Membrance" (known as St. Freya High) and "Crimson Sakura" (known as Dark Sakura Tales) are uploadet 2016-10-26. As well "Azure Waters". Apart from "Crimson Sakura", in which Kallen never showed romantic feelings for Sakura and was also intended for Honkai Gakuen Ex, all the comics were obviously Yuri. For "Divine Key" released 2018-11-17, "The Graditude Arc" released 2017-06-03 and Elan Palatinus (also known as purple Iris) released 2018-02-10 only the excerpts from Dark Sakura Tales were used, but never any from "St. Freya High". In Azure Waters there were excerpts from the author that proved that Kallen and Otto were engaged, but Kallen fell in love with Sakura. However, when the webcomic 2021-04-26 was uploaded translated to the international site, these excerpts were missing. In St. Freya High, "Moon Shadow" uploaded 2016-09-30 and "the great Graditute Arc" Otto comes across as an unempathetic psychopath. Only with Elan Palatinus uploaded 2018-03-10, Secound Erruption uploaded 2019-09-14 and "London Holiday" uploaded 2020-01-04 is Otto portrayed much more sympathetically and humanely, even if he retains his evil characteristics. While Kiana's feelings for Mei are strongly expressed in Escape to Nagazora and St. Freya High, she denies them in "EA Inversion", uploaded 2017-03-23, 27 days later than The Graditude Arc. Especially since I heard that Dark Sakura Tales is a reference to EA Inversion. The Chinese Elan Palatinus description says something like this: In 1470 AD, Tianming, seeking to expand its power, launched a massive eastern expedition. Despite her doubts about the purpose of this war, Kallen Kaslana, Destiny's most powerful Valkyrie, obeyed the Organization's orders. But on the battlefield her conviction was questioned... However, the English description says: In the year of our Lord 1470, Schicksal rallied the Princes of Europe and unleashed a Crusade to conquer the Far East, only to be defeated by an inmortal warrier. Kallen Kaslana, a powerful Valkyrie warrier, must make a choice between love and her oath.

It must have been in 2020 when webcomics were removed. This affected not only the webcomics with Yuri content, but also other webcomics. There are only three chapters left of "St. Freya High", the webcomic that was the only one to show Kallen's feelings for Sakura. However, the chapters with the romance between Kallen and Sakura have disappeared. Now you can blame this on Chinese censorship. But how likely is that? SakuKallen was a couple in HI2, the chapter with the kiss between Bronya and Seeele is still there. Why should China say this to these two of all people? - No. We do not want.

I've already dedicated an entire post to the differences that St. Freya High has from other webcomics and game content. Strangely enough, it's the webcomics that came out later that have a hard time with the content. The three largest are: In SFH, the people protect Kallen when she is about to be executed. In Elan Palatinus and in the video clips it doesn't. Probably because Kallen lost in the war and people hated Schicksal. In SFH, Kallen explicitly says that she no longer sees any meaning in life and Sakura's hair appears in the background. In the game, Kallen doesn't want to die, but prefers death rather than becoming a pawn of Schicksal. In SFH, Otto doesn't care about people and boasts about his plan to release the Honkai beasts. In the game he followed his sister's plan and he saw no other way out to save Kallen. In this case it is probably less about Chinese censorship and more about the fact that these chapters no longer correspond to what is happening in the game. I believe that Otto was intended to be a pure villain who was extremely obsessed with Kallen. His character was supposed to just suck so that Sakura would get a positive boost as Kallen's partner. But Mihoyo decided to give him more depth as a character. In this case the couple may also have changed. It's strange that the pictures that prove Otto's one-sided love never appeared on the international website. It's strange that everything that hinted at Kallen's love for Sakura has disappeared. Apart from any side events that are not part of the story. It's strange that they put the aspect of love on the international Elan Palatinus description. It's strange that in the game Kallen said to Otto "Maybe in another world..." when they were talking about getting married together. It's strange that Kallen is married to Otto in a timeline in GGZ. Not to mention, that in "Secound Key", uploadet 2020-06-20, they are a couple in Su´s memorial bubble Universe. ~*~ SakuKallen may have been a planned ship, but you can see the change that Mihoyo has made. The manga become significantly more de-Yuri-fied over time, but gain more depth. Just like Otto's character. That's why I can well imagine that Kallen (also) has feelings for Otto. No. I'm pretty sure that's the case now.

[dzthenerd490]

Action Report: The Chaos of Fate

This was possibly the worst thing that could happen, The New Church of the Fractured God had found its way into an old ISU vault. They were a well-known modern faction of religion known as Mekhanism though unlike most sects, who want to make Mekhane whole again; they are mostly driven by obtaining power from their deity. Except they weren't alone, they were currently battling against a group from Zealots on Crack. Both wanted to get some ISU tech, and both were incredibly dangerous enemies of the Foundation. Mobile Task Force Athena-1 "Assassin's Creed" obviously wouldn't have been able to handle the Mekhanites overwhelming power nor the chaos of Zealots on Crack. Not that they could offer the extra hands anyways, their forces were spread too thin at the moment due to Abstergo Industries raiding other vaults like crazy in hopes of replenishing their lost pieces of Eden. Instead, a much stronger and equally unpredictable force was going to be needed to fight. Thus, Mobile Task Force Alpha-9 "Last Hope" was deployed. 

***

It was 2017 and Iris was on one of the SFH-2 "Ravens" she was holding a picture of her wife Meri whose stomach was already quite big since she was very pregnant. Iris smiled lovingly at the picture; she still remembered the joy she felt when Meri said she wanted to have a baby and the overwhelming happiness they both had when Dr. Zeek told them the procedure was a success. Then there was Iris's disappointment when she was assigned to today's mission, meaning less time with her wife. Due to the hundreds of other MTF's that existed within the Foundation and the fact that some of them were more powerful than Alpha-9 like Tau-5, Alpha-1, and Hecate-Alpha, she was rarely ever called to action. Though that didn't make the few times she was called to action any less frustrating. 

The O5 Council only saw people like her as a weapon to be used by the Foundation, nothing more. She knew this as when she was first taken in by the Foundation, they immediately put her through harsh military training and taught her stealth and assassination tactics. It was quite bad at first but as time went on the MTF units she worked with became nicer and praised her on her growing strength and increasing number wins in sparring contests. Though there were always researchers that looked at her like a freak and even insulted her to her face for not being "human enough". Most ended up getting fired but it didn't make the pain and humiliation fade, though spending time with her wife and getting counseling from Foundation therapists did help. 

Most thought she was too emotional and maybe sometimes she was but, in the end, she always felt justified in hating the Foundation. Though, she could always count on her closest friends; MTF Captain Xio, one of her mentors who was also a badass Assassin. Daniel who, despite his bad attitude, she could always trust to protect her from the O5 Council. Finally, there was the love of her life Meri which was pretty self-explanatory. Them and many others she had grown to trust over the years, they were all the only reasons she obeyed the O5 Council. If it wasn't for anyone else, she would have at the very least incited a rebellion and killed the Council if she could. Though there was that... other thing she could do, but even now at the age of 34 she still couldn't control it very well, so maybe it was best not to try. 

"You've been staring at that picture for a while now, something nice?" Iris looked up to see Cain sitting on the other side of the chopper from her. 

"It's just my beautiful wife."

"Ah, of course, I should have known from your smile. The love between the two of you is stronger than anything I have ever seen. It even bore life I recently heard, congratulations by the way."

"Ha, thank you Cain. You always say the nicest things."

"I always try to, it's a small part of my repentance but a significant part nonetheless."

"Oh... does that mean you used to be... homophobic?"

"Wha... oh! No! No! No! I meant kindness in general! Dear me Iris, please, I would never sink that low. Besides, believe it or not, back in the age of new, it wasn't uncommon for males to fall in love with other males and the same for females loving other females. The only reason it was looked down on was because no children could be conceived from such love as such it was called a fruitless form of love, but for those not wishing too or at least not yet it was considered trivial at worst."

"Oh, I see."

"Yes, it was popular during both the Greek and Roman era, I think even in the early years of the Medieval period as well... But then there were those kings and queens that had those... what do the young people call it... Harem! Yeah, that's it." Iris almost choked from laughter after hearing that but quickly cleared her throat so she could continue to hear Cain talk. 

"Yes, especially the older men, they hated the idea of women not joining their harem because of their love for the same sex. With Christianity on the rise, they decided to bribe priests and bishops to add some verses and rewrite some quotes within the bible. Suddenly it was seen as weakness for a man to love another man and for a woman to kiss another woman was the same as bedding with the devil himself. The worst part is that most ended up following it to the extremes, calming those that had such love should be burned at the stake. I say, they didn't call it the dark ages for nothing."

"Wow, sorry you had to go through that Cain."

"It's okay, like all of humanity, as we grow, we may woe, but we also develop. We grow bigger, we grow stronger, wiser, and find more ways to cherish the greatest gift of life. Love." Cain winked at her making Iris smile, she then looked at the picture of her beautiful pregnant wife again.

"Sorry to interrupt captain, but we're at the insertion point!" Iris quickly put the photo on a hidden compartment of her armor, then turned on her earphones. 

"Good, take us down nice and steady boys."

"Yes Captain."

***

Once they landed Iris and Cain as well as the four MTF escorts got out of the Raven. At around the same time the other Alpha-9 units and MTF escorts got off their own Ravens and met up in the middle of the choppers. Iris loaded SCP-AEZ and joined the group to see everyone, it must have been quite a serious mission with everyone here. All members of Alpha-9 were here, both from Division "Dagger" and Division "Sword". Division "Dagger" was the one Iris was Captain of; in her unit was Cain (SCP-073), Claudia Raines (SCP-347), and David McGowan (SCP-AZJ) and about three MTF unique Troopers. Her unit was used for stealth missions against powerful Groups of Interest or dangerous Persons of Interest. Then there was Division “Sword” where her good friend and old anomalous mentor Alexi Belitrov was Captain (SCP-2273). In his unit was Rainer Miller (SCP-4051), Leora Lightfoot (SCP-4818), Lucy (SCP-ADY-Alpha) and several MTF Unique Troopers. Because of their abundance of power and destructive capabilities they are mostly entrusted to fight against overwhelming threats. Despite this, Iris was shocked to see Leora here who was currently stretching with a smile on her face, ready to go on the mission. 

"Alexei!" Agent Belitrov looked over to Iris who was walking toward him in anger. He was in his bio suit, so he assumed whatever made her angry, he had nothing to worry about. But then he was reminded the hard way that she knew AIE Martial Arts as she quickly swung her leg upward to kick him in the face. This was normally how she would strike him when she was mad because of how much taller he was. Thanks to his bio suit he wasn't decapitated, but it still hurt; probably the same way a regular person would be hurt by a slap to the face. 

"What the hell is wrong with you?! Why would you bring Leora here?!" Alexei sighed as now he understood why she was so upset. He rubbed the sore part of his bio suit helmet and stood up properly to face Iris. 

"It wasn't me, young Iris, the higher ups requested she come, and she accepted."

"And you just allowed it?"

"No, I did!" Iris then sighed as she turned to her left to face the Commander of Alpha-9 (SCP-AAS). There Charlie was standing there with her own bio suit and armor standing tall with a smile on her face. 

"Seriously Charlie?!"

"That's Commander to you Iris!"

"Don't start! Especially after pulling this crap! For god's sake! She's thirteen."

"Hey! I can fight!" Both looked at Leora who was now standing beside them and pouting in anger at Iris. Iris sighed, walked up to Leora, and kneeled while placing her hand on Leora's shoulder. 

"Leora, I don't doubt that, but you have to understand you're too young, you're not ready yet!"

"I am ready! Charlie even said I'm almost as strong as she was at my age, and she is super strong!" 

"Leora, I know you and most of the younger candidates think we're heroes, but this job is very taxing, and it can really take its toll on you." Leora looked a little shaken by what Iris said but she just smiled and gently placed her hand on Iris's cheek.

"I know Iris, but really I'll be okay! I learned from the best after all!" Leora then walked away to continue to get ready. Iris stood up but sighed again, still being filled with concern for Leora. Then Charlie was the one who placed her hand on Iris's shoulder. 

"Relax Iris, I'm nothing like those faceless assholes. If this really was something she couldn't handle I would have never brought her."

"Charlie, we're facing against a cult of capitalist cyborgs and a group of suicidal anarchists. Do you honestly think she'll be okay?"

"Yes, I actually do Iris. She's strong, sure, but she's also very smart, quick thinking, very brave, and has scored the highest in simulation training. She's practically excelled at everything at this point, the higher ups think she's ready for field work and honestly, I agree with them." Iris shook her head but didn't say anything else, she just let it go and walked away. Charlie then shrugged and walked to the group to address them all, while she did, she passed by David.

"Iris is still mad at you."

"Stay out of her head David. Mine too."

"... Sorry Commander."

"Alright everyone listen up!" All eight members of Alpha-9 and the MTF Unique Troopers gathered up to hear what Charlie had to say. One of them actually walked up to her to give her a Foundation Computer Screen Pad with all the information regarding the mission. 

"Thank you, ahem! Alright, here's the gist of it, we got two hostile groups of interest fighting over control within one of the vaults of the ISU. Unfortunately, they're the worst of the worst, that being Zealots on Crack and the Church of the Fractured Faith or whatever. Now this vault was actually cleared out by MTF Anetha-1 a while back so as far as we can tell there's nothing actually of value here. However, that doesn't deny the possibility that they might have missed something in the past. Our mission is simple: clear out all hostiles, capture as many of them as possible, and check for possible artifacts left behind. There's also some Researchers requesting we don't damage the vault. Apparently this one is quite special in that it contains murals and possible historical archives at least according to the Archeology Division of the Department of Mythology and Folkloristics. So yeah, that's the basics of the mission. Any questions?"

"Uh, yeah why is it just us? Why don't we have Able or that vigilante bozo?" Iris rolled her eyes at Claudia's question; Charlie was also disappointed due to how the answer should have been obvious. 

"Claudia, Able and Cain are to never be in the same room together you know that."

"Then just get rid of Cain!"

"Claudia, for crying out loud, this mission requires we capture all hostiles and preserve the vault! That's not going to happen if Able is a part of this mission. Look, if you just going to keep complaining then just do us all a favor and keep it to yourself." Claudia just sighed and looked away, or at least it seemed that way; she was still invisible, so it was hard to tell. 

"Alright then, any other question? No? Good, let's move."

***

MTF Alpha-9 moved forward to the target location; Division "Sword" took the front with Division "Dagger" hanging back. Charlie was with Division "Dagger" acting as a primary defender of "Dagger" as well as emergency reinforcement for "Sword" should the situation call for it. Both divisions also had Unique MTF Troopers with anomalous abilities to help in her respective division. However, Division “Dagger” has only 3 while Division “Sword” has 10. 

Once they were close enough Division "Dagger" separated from "Sword" and went to one of the cliffs near the entrance of the vault. Not to close but just enough that they could scout the situation without getting caught. Iris had her earphone connected to Charlie so that they would get immediate updates on what was going on and how best to approach. Iris used her glasses to zoom in and see what they were dealing with. 

At the entrance of the vault was a normal looking cave though the main abnormality is that there were Cultists at the front. One was a hooded figure with the symbol of The New Church of the Fractured God on his hood. Besides that, there were steampunk looking robots, random people with advanced looking goggles and laser rifles, a futuristic looking cyborg, and a vicious looking robot with six spider-like legs. Those last two were standing right beside the one with the hood over him.

"Hm, looks like your typical evil Mekhanites. But that's just the entrance. Hey, which one of you is best at reconnaissance?" One of the MTF Unique Troopers came forward upon Iris's request.

"Me, Captain, after an accident involving an experiment, I am able to have my soul leave my body." 

"That's not too dangerous for you?"

"No Ma'am, I mean the time limit before my soul starts to lose its connection is about 5 minutes but when I'm on the astral plane I can travel at a speed of 90 miles an hour comprehending time as one second equating to one minute."

"Dang, alright, scout out as much as you can of the inside but remember! Come back in 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Not a second longer!"

"Understood." The soldier then got on the ground so his body would be comfortable. He suddenly and seemingly breathed his last breath as his soul left his body and zoomed into the Vault. His soul was actually visible so Iris and the others saw it all happen, the Fractured Cultists would have seen it too, but he was moving so fast they just didn't notice and those that did thought it was a bug. Thankfully after about 3 minutes his soul came back, making his body come to life. 

"Are you alright?"

"Ha... Ha... Ahem! Yes Ma'am, sorry it takes me a while."

"It's alright, take your time and make your report when you're ready."

"Ha... Yes ma'am, Ahem! Okay ready to report. The true entrance to the vault is right inside the cave hidden by some large rocks. It's closed right now so getting in will be tricky. Beyond the door is a long hallway. It's quite long and wide too, filled with different structures almost like a city. The higher ups were right about there being murals there too with lots of weird stuff, but the main takeaway is that it's filled with Cultists. Lots of cyborgs, robots, and other Mekhanites with various augmentations."

"What about the Zealots?"

"Unknown, I tried to go farther but there was some kind of barrier at the other end of the large hall. It somehow kept me from moving on, but from what I could see there were lots of bodies belonging to both Groups beyond the barrier. There were also in the long hall as well. It seems they are having quite the bloody fight."

"Geez, how the hell does a small group like Zealots on Crack afford to have such a loss and still go on with life."

"Actually, ma'am I only saw about four bodies belonging to the Zealots, as for the Cultists I saw about forty-three. Or at least I think that's the case it was hard to tell given their... particular dress style."

"... Woah. Only MTF Hestia-3 has ever achieved killing so many evil Mekhanites with so little casualties. Guess those psychos are good for something after all. Anyways, anything else to report?"

"No ma'am."

"Good, let's continue then. Charlie, come in."

"Go ahead Iris. What's up?"

"The guards up front won't be getting reinforcements from within the cave so we don't need to worry about that. Still, I got some good pictures with my glasses so I think I can ambush them and take them out one by one."

"Actually, I'm going to send Leora to take care of them."

"What?! Charlie-!"

"Iris, the best thing you can do against the Mekhanites is snap their necks or shoot them and we need them alive. I am better at burning things than I am at containing them. Leora on the other hand can manifest binds to hold them in place, particularly strong ones might I add. Only I could ever break from her powers and that's just because I can manipulate anything related to energy."

"Charlie-"

"Captain Clef, this is an order from your Commander, stand down and have faith in Agent Lightfoot. Is that understood?" Iris grunted in anger, but she didn't say anything else other than confirming that she understood. 

***

"Good, You're up Loera." Leora smiled and ran up to the front of the Cave. Leora dreamed about being a superhero ever since she was little but then when she was eight her wish came true. She suddenly got the power to create crystal-like light objects anytime she wanted though she was limited on what she could do. Then one day, strange men in black came to her house and told her parents they had a job offer in this place called New Marais. She thought it was boring adult stuff and that it sucked she would have to move but once they did, she was ecstatic over it. 

It was a place full of aliens, elves, vampires, cyborgs, and other superheroes too! She was enrolled into a school there and met some awesome kids that were really nice and became her friends too. Because her powers were strong, she was given the chance to join the Foundation in an MTF called Alpha-9 "Last Hope". She was nervous at first but then she met Charlie whose powers were similar to hers and learned to use her powers in so many different ways. She grew stronger as time went on and eventually, she reached a point that she could proudly call herself a real hero. 

Her parents were obviously nervous but as Leora got stronger, they began to calm down and even started praising her for how far she came. It did take them longer than her to adjust to New Marais but as they did, they came to accept her powers and her new responsibilities as well. She was a young girl, with supportive parents, cool out of this world friends, an amazing fantasy sci-fi place she called home, and awesome teachers and mentors that gave her the confidence and training she needed to become a real hero. What's not to love about her life? 

As such even when she was assigned to this mission a normal 13-year-old should never be assigned too she wasn't nervous but instead really excited. This was her chance to show everyone that all of her training finally paid off. As such even when she saw the future soldier guys, the cyborg warriors, or the hooded cult guy she wasn't scared. She just ran up to them and stopped right in front so they could see her clearly.

"Sup guys?" The Fractured Cultists were all shocked by her sudden appearance, one alerted the other to go into the cave to get reinforcements. Only for the cave to be sealed by her Photon Crystals; Iris, who was watching, was also shocked to see this. Leora was only supposed to be able to create her photonic matter so long as she maintained physical contact with it, yet she just made a wall manifest simply by looking at the cave. 

Leora quickly manifested binds on all the cultists forcing them to fall to the ground before they could even fight. However, for some reason the Photon Crystals didn't form on the hooded one who just started laughing at her. It then threw its hood off to show his heavily modified body. He was coated in black armor covered in Mekhanite Thaumaturgic symbols. He had snake-like wires and technological tubes slithering all around his body. Finally, he had two large black wings also covered in Thaumaturgic symbols and given vicious blade-like feathers. Suddenly the Thaumaturgic symbols on his body started glowing to hypnotize Leora with their Cognito hazardous properties.

"Foolish child! You will return to your Foundation! Find the pieces of Mekhane and bring them to our church!" Leora actually seemed to be under his hypnotism for a moment but then she smiled proudly and made a pair of shades out of her Photon Crystals.

"Nah!" The Fractured cultists yelled in anger which actually made Leora cover her ears in pain. Some of the wires and tubes connected to his arm and it suddenly grew into a giant hammer which he swung down on Leora. She was scared in one second but smiled the next as she manifested a hammer with her Photon Crystals and swung it at him. The collision overpowered him and broke his fist entirely making him yell in agonizing pain. He flew in the air quickly, once high enough he shot down at her some of his blade feathers though after making a Photon Crystals barrier, the feathers broke on impact. He growled in anger but suddenly his wings were getting shot with small but powerful pellets. With the combination of intense speed and strength his wings were quickly breaking down forcing him to fall back to the ground. 

"Rahhh! I haven't lost yet!" Suddenly his armor started falling off showing beneath a smaller body of shinier armor. He zoomed around Leora so fast for her to see him, but she wasn't scared as she knew the idiot made a fatal mistake, he got rid of his Thaumaturgic symbols. She manifested a wall of Photon Crystal in a random direction around her and the cultist immediately slammed face first into it. He was badly hurt but tried to run away from her, but she proved to be faster. She turned the wall into a sphere surrounding him and condensed it as much as she could without crushing him to death. 

"I just want everyone to be aware that I totally taught her that." Leora turned around to see Charlie smiling at her with the others.  Leora ran to Charlie and hugged her to which Charlie ruffled her hair playfully. Leora giggled but then noticed Iris giving orders over the radio saying the entrance to the cave was secure and to send reinforcements at once to get the prisoners. Leora ran to her and hugged her, surprising Iris. 

"I told you I got it! You saw right!" Iris sighed and kneeled down to face Leora directly with a smile. 

"Yeah, you were amazing. Sorry I doubted you; you belong in Alpha-9." Leora blushed and smiled in pride as some other Alpha-9 units cheered her on. 

“But you still have ways to go, don’t get overconfident okay?” Leora was a little confused at first but smiled again and nodded with enthusiasm. 

***

Once a recovery team grabbed all the captured cultists to be processed back at the nearest Foundation base, the mission continued. Alexi tried to move the door, but it was held strong, so Charlie melted the door down by making her fists hotter than the sun. Once an opening was made, she absorbed the heat to allow everyone to follow her as she took the lead. The first part of the entrance was just a long staircase though wide too, so the group wasn't squished as they went down. Though as they made it down there was another door.

"Hm, this one isn't as thick so I can blast through it, but the problem is that once I do, hundreds of those Mekhanites will be ready to ambush us."

"Commander, allow me. I can take their bullet fire."

"Bullets don't worry me Alexi, the Fractured Church and Zealots have much worse things than that. Even with your new upgrades to the suit you won't be able to protect against everything they throw at you."

"Allow me then." Iris then pressed a button on her glasses and two nearly microscopic drones flew out and through the cracks of the door.

"What the hell was that?"

"My glasses' latest upgrade, nanobots that are able to float into the air and take pictures and send them back to my glasses. Allowing me to teleport to places I haven't been to yet."

"... Nice." 

"Right? I'll provide a distraction so come through hard and fast... okay, I'm ready, on your mark?"

"... Now!" Iris then manifested a photo and jumped into it suddenly appearing behind one of the cultists positioned as a sniper. She shot one in the back of the head and quickly disappeared, confusing another sniper before he got shot as well. As bodies of snipers and lookouts started to fall that bellow noticed this and tried alerting others about Iris's attack. However, they were quickly blindsided by the front entrance exploding with Charlie quickly flying up and shooting several cultists with her fireballs and Alexi firing with the laser guns attached to the arms and shoulders of his bio suit. 

"Intruders! Alert Brother Clyde!" One of the cultists nodded and along with a group, tried to go to the other end of the long hall to send the message. However, he and everyone with him was quickly shot down by Iris. While the cultist was going down Rainer manifested a shield made of Plumanium and used it to keep himself, Claudia, and the reserved MTF units safe. Leora made her own shield and was capturing as many of the scriptures as she could. David was also behind Leora's shield and using his anomalous abilities to control any of the cultists who were about to ambush them. He commanded them to attack their fellow cultists instead or just kill themselves. Some tried to form up into a group but Lucy used her meta-arms to jump in the air and towards the center of their group. In a matter of seconds they were all torn up into minced meat. 

Meanwhile an MTF unit that had the ability to fly was in the air using his rifle to shoot down any hiding snipers or cultists that could also fly. There was also an MTF unit with the anomalous ability of never feeling the negative effects of drugs who filled his body with lots of different Foundation enhancement drugs to make himself into a temporary super soldier. He was not only able to withstand the bullets and laser blasts but could easily punch through their metal armor bodies. Another MTF unit with the ability to make a single melee weapon out of an anomalous atomization energy. She could slice through their weapons, armor, and any other forms of defense and quickly burn them all into dust with whatever weapon she made. Then there was one of the MTF units being protected by Rainer's and Leora's shield. She was using her anomalous sight that always showed her the quickest way to her goal which in this case was the weak points of her enemies, allowing her to shoot them down easily. Finally, there was an MTF unit that didn't have any guns at all as his anomalous ability allowed him to puncture a hole in anyone, all he had to do was point with a gun jester and say "bang". 

The cultists however were strong as well, one was with heavy armor covered with memetic symbols forcing anyone who saw it to remember or imagine disgusting and embarrassing images. Then there was one covered in metal like scales all over his body, hiding several guns placed in his body allowing him to shoot anyone from any direction. He nearly got Iris a few times, but she managed to shoot him in the end. There was also a serpentine like cultists that screamed a headache inducing screech and had long laser blade claws. They even encountered a cultist made entirely of metal bug like bots with blades on their shells and each one carrying his consciousness so no matter how many they destroyed he was technically alive through each one. Despite their complexity, the cultists of the Fractured Church continued to fall one by one.

However, the cultists weren't done, the ones closer to the back brought out a large black metal box and opened it. Inside was a strange mechanical sphere that opened up and shifted out six arachnid like legs. Suddenly its armor plating in the front opened and showed several mechanical camera eyes. The machine walked forward and each of its mechanical eyes kept changing color. Suddenly one of the MTF units was frozen in ice and one of Rainer's shields started melting despite not being hot. Another MTF unit near Charlie had his helmet blown off nearly killing him, then he was suddenly hit by an invisible force in the stomach.  She knew that machine was the cause, so she flew up in the air drawing the attention of the machine. She raised her hand and suddenly the camera eyes started going haywire, then powerful lasers blasted from her fingers and tore the machine apart before it could do more damage. With their final weapon destroyed, and ridiculously easy at that, the last of the cultists surrendered and allowed Leora to entrap them all in a proton crystal orb. 

"Alright! Good work everyone! Not a single casualty as well! Alright, Medics! Treat everyone who was hurt and the rest of us let's survey the area and see what we can find." As the medics went to work, one of the MTF units walked up to Charlie with his head down. 

"Sorry Commander. I couldn't get any good rolls with my dice."

"It's alright Lucky, you're still our ace at the end of the day. Don't beat yourself up over it."

Meanwhile Lucy walked over to one of the captured Cultists and used her meta-arm to grab them by the throat. She smirked and glared at him with cold and angry eyes.

“Hey! We’re just supposed to capture them remember!” Everyone was shocked to see Leora standing up to Lucy of all people. Lucy looked back at Leora with the same cold eyes but then her meta-arm suddenly disappeared. She then closed her eyes and smiled at Leora. 

“I was just trying to confirm they were truly captured; you can never be too careful with Mekhanites.” Lucy then walked by Leora and gently patted her gently on the head, making Leora pout in annoyance at being treated like a kid. Charlie made sure to watch and used her energy sense to ensure that Lucy really did get rid of her meta-arms.

“Yeesh, that one still creeps me out.” Charlie then turned to Lucky that was still next to her.

“Yeah, I honestly think the higher ups jumped the gun at making her an Alpha-9 member, but you know the O5, they’d never pass up the opportunity to get just a bit more power.”

"Uh Commander! You're going to want to see this!" Charlie, Iris, and Alexi went over to where the MTF unit calling to them was and saw him pointing at a mural on the wall. It depicted some of the cultists they had just fought as well as ones they haven't seen on one side of the mural. On the other side was clearly Charlie, Iris, Alexi, Loera, and Rainer along with the rest of Alpha-9 on the other side. They were clearly running toward each other for a massive battle. 

"This is... interesting, Trooper, how old is this mural, did the Mekhanites draw it? Did they know we were coming?" The MTF trooper next to them pulled out a Foundation Scanner and after waving it over the mural he read the results. 

"Uh no Commander according to this, the paint of the mural is just as old as everything in here."

"... The ISU knew we were going to fight here?" Iris processed what Charlie said and scoffed while shrugging in annoyance. 

"Well, that's stupid, if they could predict the future why didn't they prevent themselves from dying?"

"Apparently they tried everything, but nothing worked." Iris already knew this, so she just looked at the MTF in disappointment after his explanation. 

"It was a war among the gods, kinda hard to avoid that." Charlie tried to back him up but that just annoyed Iris further. 

"Then why didn't they hide in these vaults? I mean, look at how it's still standing, they should have been safe inside them."

"Maybe they were but then one of the gods made some kind of anomaly that allowed them to wipe the ISU from existence regardless of where they were. Look I don't know and right now I don't care, the research team can figure all that out and we can ask them later. Let's keep looking and if we can't find anything else then let's keep moving." Charlie and the MTF units went to look for other murals and potential anomalous items. Iris sighed as she thought the whole concept of precursor races being stupid, especially since they were more advanced yet were still wiped out. Though her annoyance died out as she looked around, she had never been inside an ISU vault before, so this was really interesting. It really was like some kind of weird city down here so futuristic and alien. 

Right at that moment Iris wished this place was safe so she could have brought Meri and maybe their other friends here to watch. They would have enjoyed the amazing sight, though her gaze turned down and she saw a strange mural. She slowly walked up to it and looked at it in disbelief, Charlie noticed this and walked up to her. 

"Iris? What's wrong, why are... no way..." Charlie looked at the mural as well and saw what had spooked Iris so much. It showed a girl with long black hair, deer horns, and a golden scarf; her hands were clasped together, and she was seemingly praying while hovering over the earth. Around the earth there were strange people in tacky, cool, and mostly colorful clothing and masks seemingly dancing all around it. 

Iris then looked to another Mural next to it, it showed the same girl singing while the people in masks were dancing, seemingly chasing after her as well. However, what really shocked Iris is that on the opposite side was the Scarlet King. He had the scarlet skin, eyes all over his body, and the large horns with the sinister sharp teeth smile on his blank face. There were several of his spawns, some of his cultists, and even the infamous Blade Head was there on his side seemingly chasing after him. It was like the two were only seconds away from fighting. 

"Is... is that Meri?"

"That's impossible, Meri is blonde. She never even told me she wanted to dye her hair black or any other color."

"Huh, maybe it's an ancient god or something. There are lots of ancient gods that have deer horns after all, like that freak deer from Saturn for example."

"No, look at the clothes of the cultists and the dancing people, this isn't the past, it's the present, or future maybe! Is that what these murals are? Are they depicting the future?"

"Hm... Look Iris I really don't know, but it shouldn't have anything to do with you or Meri. maybe the researchers will tell us later, come on it's about time we moved on." Charlie walked off leaving Iris to stand there for a little while longer looking at the Mural. It kinda looked like Meri but also different, Iris knew it wasn't her wife but for some reason something about it gave her an odd feeling. Still Charlie was right, she wasn't going to get answers just staring at it so she shook her head and followed Charlie. 

***

After the recovery team came again and it was confirmed there was nothing to find Alpha-9 continued down the long hall. It took a lot longer than expected or maybe it was the exact amount of time since it did look like a street of a large city. Once they made it to the other side, they found the large barrier that the MTF Trooper who could astral project, mentioned earlier. Iris looked into the barrier and saw that it was being emitted by a device that required a key to lower the barrier.

"Oof it's a locked door, without a key we can't go through."

"Let me try something." Charlie then walked up to the device and placed her hand over where the key would need to be placed. She then closed her eyes and suddenly the device started glowing and then turned off the barrier. 

"Woah, how did you do that?"

"It was simple, I put my own energy into the device and found out where all the energy is sourced and absorbed it." Charlie then walked forward leaving Iris and Alexie standing there in silence.

"I really hate it when she makes impossible things like that sound simple."

"They don't call her goddess for nothing, Iris."

"Her code name is supposed to be JUST 'Fire Goddess'. Ugh, why did the O5 Council make her fight with Sigurrós. Ever since then those two have grown insanely powerful." Iris just sighed as she followed Charlie while Alexie chuckled as he waved everyone at the back to follow them.

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End of Part 1

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Part 2 (Coming... Eventually)

[braceletofteeth]

Hi!!!

How are you doing? It's a very hard night for me, and I just wanted to check if you're doing ok, or maybe wanted to talk?

Tell me, who do you think the characters from sfh would vote in Brazil??? Hahahahs

Hi, chuchu!!

I'm doing well now! We won!!!!!! Half the country against us, even law enforcement was put against us, and we still won!!!!!!!! I couldn't relax till the final result, and I imagine that for you was the same. It's a lot easier to breathe now :')

(Uh, ok, to be totally honest, I also suffered a minor injury on my way to vote today 😬 Nothing to do with politics, though. I was distracted thinking about (you guessed it) a drama, and fell on my hands and knees. Ruined one of my favorite pants. The wounds bled a lot, but I didn't have to wait in line long, so I managed to suck it up and vote anyway ✌ (hurts to walk and still bleeds when I flex my legs, though :/))

Your question udbdbdvdvgdhdgddvdb Ok, I can't talk about all the characters, because I'm not very sure, but there are two I have no doubt:

– Jongwoo would vote 13

– Jaeho would vote 22

(And I just realized that, if you know them, this says everything that needs to be said about today's dispute...)

[ocombatente]

Famílias recebem indenizações por "prédios-caixão"

As famílias de proprietários de apartamentos nos chamados "prédios-caixão", com risco de desabamento, na região metropolitana do Recife, começaram a receber as indenizações de R$ 120 mil pactuadas em acordo. As entregas dos cheques ocorreu em cerimônia, na capital pernambucana, com a presença do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, da governadora do estado, Raquel Lyra, e outras autoridades dos governos federal e estadual. Anunciado no mês passado, o acordo entre a Caixa Econômica Federal, os dois governos e os mutuários está sendo pago com recursos do Fundo de Compensação de Variações Salariais, que é gerido pelo Ministério da Fazenda. O total disponibilizado pelo governo federal para as indenizações é R$ 1,7 bilhão, recurso deve abranger cerca de 13 mil famílias. São 431 prédios em alto risco localizados nas cidades de Paulista, Camaragibe, Jaboatão de Guararapes, Olinda e Recife. Ao longo de três décadas foram registrados 20 desabamentos na região. No ano passado, 20 pessoas morreram em dois desmoronamentos de prédios-caixão. A promessa é que, até o final do ano, 133 empreendimentos que estão em risco iminente de desabamento serão desocupados. Os prédios serão demolidos e os terrenos entregues pela União ao governo do estado que dará uma destinação de interesse social aos locais, prioritariamente moradias populares ou mesmo creches e outras estruturas. De acordo com avaliações técnicas, o solo da região metropolitana do Recife, onde havia manguezais, possui barro predominante e não é considerado propício para os prédios-caixão, uma construção em que as próprias paredes sustentam a estrutura, sem vigas. A modalidade foi muito usada na década de 1970 no âmbito do Sistema Financeiro de Habitação (SFH), que é o programa de financiamento habitacional do governo federal. A articulação para realizar o acordo envolveu a União, o estado de Pernambuco, municípios, Caixa Econômica, ministérios públicos de Pernambuco e Federal, Justiça Federal, Congresso Nacional e seguradoras privadas. Os acordos estão sendo homologados na Justiça e os valores pagos mediante a comprovação formal de propriedade das famílias. Mais de 8 mil ações foram propostas por mutuários de prédios-caixão do SFH. "Uma demonstração simples de que quando o estado está preocupado em ajudar a resolver o problema das pessoas, não existe problema que não seja resolvido. Não precisava o povo ter esperado 30 anos para receber sua indenização", disse Lula durante e entrega do cheque para uma das mutuárias beneficiadas com o acordo. Os apartamentos nos prédios-caixão seguem em grande parte ocupados por famílias sem-teto, por meio de movimentos de luta pela moradia, mas que não são proprietários. O governo do estado, em parceria com o Ministério das Cidades, vai promover a desocupação desses prédios ameaçados e as pessoas vão receber auxílio-moradia pelo governo de Pernambuco, além de prioridade na lista de beneficiários de programas de moradia. O auxílio é R$ 250, mas a governadora Raquel Lyra prometeu enviar projeto à Assembleia Legislativa, no segundo semestre, aumentando o valor para R$ 350. "Todos aqueles que ocupam esses prédios, pelos movimentos de luta pela moradia, vamos dar auxílio moradia e vocês serão colocados como prioridade no Minha Casa, Minha Vida e no Morar Bem Pernambuco ", disse a governadora. "Em vez de buscar culpados, a gente foi buscar solução. Não acredito em coincidência, acredito em destino e boa vontade", destacou em discurso para celebrar os pagamentos. Moradias Durante sua passagem por Pernambuco, Lula acompanhou a cerimônia de entrega de 448 unidades habitacionais do Minha Casa, Minha Vida em Recife. Os imóveis beneficiam cerca de 1,8 mil pessoas que residiam às margens do rio, em palafitas ou em áreas sob linhas de alta tensão. Desde a criação do programa habitacional, em 2009, foram entregues 262 mil moradias em Pernambuco, segundo o governo federal, sendo 9,2 mil na capital. As casas entregues nesta terça-feira fazem parte dos conjuntos Vila Brasil I e II. No Vila Brasil I são 320 unidades, que beneficiam 1.280 pessoas. O ministro das Cidades, Jader Filho, explicou que as famílias que recebem o Bolsa Família ou o Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) estão isentas de qualquer prestação do Minha Casa, Minha Vida. “Essas famílias não vão pagar nada, nenhuma parcela, estão isentas. Meu desejo é que sejam muito felizes. Vocês têm que cuidar da casa para que possam estar sempre bonitos aqui”, disse o ministro. O evento marcou a assinatura do contrato do Programa Periferia Viva: Regularização Fundiária e Melhoria Habitacional. Das 11.750 famílias de todo o país aptas a ações de regularização, 2.674 famílias são de Pernambuco e 680 receberão melhorias habitacionais. O valor investido é R$ 14,7 milhões. O programa atende famílias, preferencialmente de baixa renda, que vivem em loteamentos urbanos sem documentação. O programa combate a inadequação de domicílios e promove a melhoria das casas de famílias com renda de até 2 mil reais. Em outra agenda do dia, o governo federal investirá R$ 508 milhões, por meio do Novo PAC, para a consolidação e expansão de universidades, hospitais universitários e institutos federais pernambucanos. Os repasses contemplam novos hospitais universitários, novos campi de universidades e institutos federais e a consolidação das instituições federais existentes. Após as atividades no Recife, Lula retornou para Brasília. Nesta quarta-feira (3), ele participa dos eventos de lançamento dos Planos Safra da agricultura empresarial e da agricultura familiar, que ocorrem ao longo do dia no Palácio do Planalto. Fonte: EBC Política Nacional Read the full article

[madeineden]

Lee Dong-wook as Seo Moon-Jo in Strangers From Hell ep.10 (2019)

Pt. 23/?

[jagiyadear]

canceled a dinner date this weekend to watch sfh with my bestie cos my love for moon jo is more important than my actual love life

[chhagiya]

Gaslighting …..

Name of episode 10 of SFH

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of Gaslighting is :

psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator

This is a classic gaslighting technique—telling victims that others are crazy and lying, and that the gaslighter is the only source for "true" information. It makes victims question their reality

Episode 10 of SFH is called gaslighting as a common concept is that Moon Jo gaslit Jung Woo to commit murder. So let’s look at the definition.

“Make victim question their own thoughts and reality”, “loss of confidence and self esteem”, “telling victims that they are crazy and lying” , “victim questioning validity of own thoughts, distorted perception of reality”

Basically, gaslighting means convincing someone that something happened, or they did something where the thing actually didn’t happen. Distortion of reality and questioning of oneself……

Now let’s look at Jung Woo and what Moon Jo did to him …..

People say Moon Jo convinced Jung Woo to change his mind, distort his reality and made him to murder. But the series shows something else. Killing and/or beating the crap out of people, these are Jung Woo’s own thought. Jung Woo himself feels that way, even before he met Moon Jo. The story is not like, Jung Woo is a happy go lucky, rainbow filled person and Moon Jo just completely changed him and convinced him to murder. That is simply not the case. Moon Jo has his own ambition and he convinced Jung Woo to accept who he is. This helps him in 2 ways at once. Moon Jo can have a help in fulfilling his ambition and secondly, he would have a partner. But Moon Jo didn’t completely change Jung Woo from scratch. Jung Woo was standing on the very edge, Moon Jo gave him a nudge

“Make victim question their own thoughts and reality” : Jung Woo knew himself that he is controlling his rage. So he precisely said “am I loosing control of myself ? Or am I just like this ?” Jung Woo is well aware of himself but he refused to acknowledge and accept that

loss of confidence and self esteem”: I think we all can agree Moon Jo increased Jung Woo’s confidence and self esteem, didn’t decrease it. In fact, if anyone caused Jung Woo loss of confidence and self esteem, that would be Jae Ho and Ji Eun

“telling victims that they are crazy and lying” : Again, in the entire show, I at least, have never seen Moon Jo calling Jung Woo crazy and accuse him of lying. But someone did that to Jung Woo. Eom Bok Soon and twin constantly did this to Jung Woo

“victim questioning validity of own thoughts, distorted perception of reality” : now this is the tricky part. This happened to Jung Woo. But let’s see then what actually happened. Jung Woo did have a distorted perception of reality. That is true. He told everyone Moon Jo killed everyone and he killed Moon Jo. But the viewer can see clearly that, reality was something else. Now question is, did Moon Jo gaslit Jung Woo to put the blame of killing on Moon Jo ? Moon Jo did a kind of gaslighting where he took the blame for something he didn’t do. Now I have to say, this is a very weird kind of gaslighting

In my opinion, Moon Jo did manipulate. But he didn’t manipulate Jung Woo that much, he broke his shell. The person, who Moon Jo manipulated A LOT is, in my opinion, Eom Bok Soon and the rest of Eden people. Up until the very end, Moon Jo convinced the Edenites that he is on their side. Up until the final blow, no one had any idea of what is happening. So yes, Moon Jo is a master manipulator but Jung Woo was not that much at the receiving end of that. He manipulated people who actually lived with him 24/7

[hwiyoungslesbiangf]

hugs and kisses for user @chhagiya mwuah mwuah mwuah i will finally be rewatching sfh after like a YEAR

[sleeping-on-cracking-ice]

Hi!! Can I request a suggestive Seo Moon Jo imagine? In which his girlfriend demands a massage from him(after a hectic day) and it leads to something else. Thanks!

Sure! This is my first request for SFH so I’ll see how I’ll do ❤

De-Stress | Seo Moonjo

{Strangers From Hell Masterlist}

Summary: You’ve had a bad day at work and wish for nothing more than a comforting night with your boyfriend Moonjo, but things take a turn

Warnings: fluff, fluff, fluff and suggestive themes

Word Count: 3.3k

*reader is female

The scowl painted on your face hadn’t left your features since you had left work at 9:00 pm. It felt like the cold night air was basically freezing it into your expression, as well as bringing the hairs on your arms to stand. The broken zipper on the back of your shirt also didn’t do much to help your already sour mood. You had managed to get it caught on the edge of a curtain and needed to rip it off before your manager noticed, breaking it in the process. Luckily though, your coworker found a spare pin in their desk draw for you to pin your shirt back with. It really wasn’t your best day.

You opened your eyes and saw the bland old ceiling of the train, chipping paint and rusting metal with the echoing voice of the intercom announcing the next stop practically deafening your half-asleep form. With the shake of your head, you decided perhaps napping on the train wasn’t the best idea, especially since it was very quiet and you were a woman travelling home by herself. No one else was around you, besides an elderly man who had rested himself further up the carriage.

A heavy sigh left your lungs and you ran a stressed hand through your hair, scratching your scalp and attempting to rid of the headache developing in your brain. The regret of telling your manager that you had not finished the work that was due today was setting in, as he decided to give you a good grilling about the importance of efficiency in the workplace and all that bullshit. Everything that man said went in one ear and out the other.

The vibration of your phone brought your attention from the train tunnel walls to your bag, causing you to dig around your belongings to find it. The screen lit up with your boyfriend’s name and a text underneath.

“Are you almost home? I bought ice cream for you.”

You smiled at his generosity. He seemed to always think of you where ever he went, never failing to bring something back home for you whenever he went out.

“Yeah. Had to sort something out and catch a later train but I’ll be home around 9:45.”

You pressed send and watched the typing bubbles pop up, becoming a simple “Ok. Don’t talk to anyone.”

Typing back a simple “Ok xxx”, you locked your phone screen and place it in your back pocket. The tiredness in your eyes stung as you rubbed at them, as well as the sharp pain in the top of your shoulders. Maybe lifting so much heavy stuff at work wasn’t the best idea. A few of your coworkers were away for the day, so you had to volunteer to carry the huge boxes of supplies all the way to the office from the delivery lot.

You weren’t too bothered though. Knowing you could go home to a boyfriend like Moonjo who’s willing to take care of you was always reassuring when you hadn’t had the best day.

Your eyes brightened when the name of your station displayed on the small screen near the sliding doors. You stood up from your seat and slung your bag over your shoulders before standing in front of the door, waiting for it to be opened.

When they finally did, you stepped over the small gap between the train and the station before immediately heading up the old stairs towards the ground level. You were eager to get home to Moonjo and just relax with him on the comfy couch and ask him how his day was at the dentist.

**********************

The streets seemed quieter than usual, with only the beep of a car horn and the meow of a stray cat every once in a while. It kept you on edge, holding your phone in your hand tightly and watching wear you stepped. You were almost at your and Moonjo’s apartment block anyway, so you weren’t too worried.

When you finally approached the large brick building, you quickly pushed yourself through the entrance and climbed the stairs to your floor, desperate to finally get some rest and quiet after your shitty day at work.

You unlocked the door to your apartment and clambered inside. Closing the door behind you, you removed the black boots from your feet, being happy to finally walk without pain in your heel. You added them to the growing pile of you and Moonjo’s shoes near the front door and continued walking inside.

“Moonjo!” you called out while placing your work bag on the small dining table. You waited a moment before the pair of footsteps neared the lounge area, making you chuckle slightly at his excitement at your return.

When you saw him round the corner from your shared room, his face expressed his usual sly smirk. He wore his black slacks and a long sleeve black shirt, midnight hair dishevelled. He sauntered towards you and held his long arms out, inviting you in for a loving hug.

“Hi honey,” he said in a sickly sweet tone as you launched yourself towards the tall man’s chest. He held you in a tight embrace, face tucked into the top of your head and pressing you into his torso further, trying to feel your warmth after being separated from you all day.

He pressed his lips against your hair in a small kiss while stroking his hands along your back slowly, earning a calming hum from your exhausted body.

“How was your day sweetheart?” he questioned, pulling away and cupping your face in his warm hands to make you look at him. Your tired eyes and flushed cheeks made his heart ache, giving him the urge to squish them.

You let out a rough sigh, pulling from his hands on your face and rubbing your own along your eyes in annoyance at the mention of the kind of day you had.

Moonjo ran a soft hand through the top of your hair and cupped your cheek once again, bringing his face that held a concerned expression closer to yours. “What’s wrong? Did something happen today?”

You shook your head in annoyance and dropped your head forward so your face was rested against his chest, making him chuckle at your childish behaviour. He weaved his slender fingers through your hair and scratched at your scalp to calm you.

“I had such a shitty day,” you mumbled out against the fabric of his shirt. “I don’t even really want to talk about it. It was just that awful.”

Moonjo sighed heavily and brought you back to face him by pushing on your shoulders. You glanced up at the restful man while pouting your lips in annoyance. He let out a slight giggle at your cute face, leaning down and placing his lips against your pouted ones in a long-awaited kiss. Your hands moved from your side to the back of his neck, linking them around and turning your head to deepen the kiss. But before you could go any further, Moonjo pulled away, causing you to complain.

He smiled at your whining and gave you a loving smooch on your forehead to make up for it. “Do you want me to make you a cup of tea?” he asked.

Your eyes lit up at his suggestion. “Yes please,” you smiled and leant forward to place a gentle kiss against the fabric of his shirt as a thank you. His heart swelled at the small action.

“But before you do,” you stopped him before he pulled away. “Tell me how your day was.”

Moonjo shook his head, causing his black locks to bounce. “Don’t worry about it. I’m going to focus on you since you obviously had a bad day. I want to make it good again by taking care of you.”

With a quick peck to your nose, he slipped from your arms around his neck and removed himself from your shared embrace, moving towards the kitchen to start the kettle.

You followed him into the kitchen and watched him as he strolled about, being entertained just by watching him go about his usual habits. You admired his evening appearance. Hair ungroomed after a day of working in the dentist, his usual doe eyes darkened from tiredness and the comfy clothing hanging off his figure. The mere domestic sight of him brought butterflies to your stomach, and his veiny slim hands wiping the cloth over the bench in front of you to clean it didn’t help your growing neediness for them to be on you.

His face in front of yours caught your attention and he smirked at you being caught staring. “Like what you see?” he asked with a mischievous tone to his voice. You felt yourself become flushed as you nodded. “Maybe I do,” you smirked, looking away and trying to act like his closeness doesn’t affect you.

Even after years of dating, you and Moonjo seemed to always know how to make each other flustered over the smallest things.

“Oh wait!” he suddenly exclaimed while moving to the fridge. “I got you ice cream.”

You watched as he brought out a tub of your favourite flavour of ice cream that he seemed to get a bit too often for it to be healthy for the both of you.

“I’ll grab some for us to share after I make your tea.” Just as he said that the kettle dinged loudly signalling it had finished boiling.

“It’s fine, I’ll do it,” you reassured and moved to grab some bowls from the cupboard. Moonjo smiled and went back to pouring the water into a mug for you.

As you were trying to scoop the ice cream from the small tub, struggling due to how hard the top layer had become, Moonjo finished making your tea and stumbled over to you, wrapping his lanky arms around your torso and enveloping back with his chest.

He let out a slight chuckle in your ear and you felt the warmth of his breath against your skin, making the hairs on the back of your neck stand up at the feeling. “You need some help?” he whispered as he snuggled his face into the crook of your neck, giving the sensitive skin there a small playful nip with his teeth. You swore you almost jumped at the feeling. Why was he being so clingy tonight?

“No it’s fine,” you assured him, trying to continue your task with him basically glued to you. The small tired groans and whines he was letting out weren’t helping your situation as he continued to nuzzle his face into your skin, making your eyes widen and your heart beat faster.

“You smell nice,” he mumbled out as he breathed in your scent. “Have you been using a new body wash?”

You nodded, finally finishing scooping the dessert into the bowl. “I bought a new one the other day and I’ve been using it a lot.”

Moonjo nodded and pressed his lips against the skin just below your ear before resting his chin on the top of your head. “I’ve noticed.”

You let out a slight sigh at his affection and pushed your shoulders back against him to give him the message to move. He removed his hands from your body and gave you space as you made your way to the lounge room with your bowl of desserts in your hand.

You sat down on the couch and placed the bowls on the coffee table in front of you before grabbing a soft blanket from the pile at the end of the couch to cover yourself with.

Moonjo made his way over, face growing soft at the sight of you buried under the blankets and placed your tea in front of you. You thanked him and turned the tv on as he collapsed down next to you. He lifted your blanket to pull himself underneath too but he froze when he saw you were still wearing your work clothes.

“Baby, what are you doing? Get into some comfier clothes,” he said as he fiddled with the hem of your shirt, encouraging you to take it off. You rested your head against the back of the couch and let out a loud groan of annoyance. “I’m too tired to move again!” you whined while bringing the blanket over your face to hide.

Moonjo grinned fondly at your attitude as he shuffled closer to you under the blanket and pinched your sides, causing you to yelp in surprise and flinch away from his hands.

“You’re so cute,” he whispered, pulling the blanket off your face and squishing his nose into your cheek, making you gush as his compliment.

“Fine,” he said after a moment. You watched as he leant back from you and pulled on the back of his shirt to bring it over his head. The sight of his messy black hair and bare chest seemed so ethereal and gorgeous to you, despite the number of times you had seen it before.

You couldn’t help but stare at him, admiring his smooth skin and scars that littered his chest. Every feature on him seemed to bring nothing but more beauty in your eyes.

“Honey, you’re staring again,” he laughed as he threw his black shirt at you in embarrassment. You snapped from your daze and gave him a lazy smile. “You’re just so pretty,” you cooed, running a soft hand through his fluffy locks.

He smirked and gestured towards his shirt that he threw into your lap. “Take your work clothes off and put it on. It’ll be comfier.”

You sat up straight and removed your work shirt and pants whilst giving Moonjo the side-eye for glancing a bit too long at you.

“What?” he laughed when you called him out playfully for it. “Nothing I haven’t seen.” You smacked his shoulder at the suggestive remark, making him grin cheekily.

When you had discarded your work clothes on the carpet next to the couch and pulled Moonjo’s shirt that was way too big for you, you hoisted the blanket back over your bare legs and leant forward to grab your tea, taking a big sip.

“Good?” Moonjo questioned as he watched you drink it. You nodded and smiled at him before putting it back on the table.

Moonjo shuffled closer to you and encouraged you to lay your head against his shoulder by pulling your arm, which you accepted. He rested his head on top of yours and let out a huge yawn, turning towards the tv to watch whatever show was displaying. He kept a tight embrace on your waist and ran a soft hand up and down your arm, pinching the skin slightly.

After a few moments, the pain from earlier on the train began to work up again. Your shoulders began to ache and you groaned in pain, leaning off Moonjo and massaging the muscles of your right shoulder in your hand. Moonjo frowned at your action.

“You okay baby?” he asked in a worried tone, sitting up and placing his palm on your sore collarbones. You nodded. “It’s fine,” you reassured. “I just had to lift a lot of heavy stuff at work and I think I pulled a few muscles in my upper back.”

Moonjo continued to run his hands along the broad of your back, pressing on the skin through the fabric of his shirt. Just as he did, you thought of an idea.

“Baby,” you cooed out in a cute tone, hoping it will convince him further to do what you wanted. “Can you give me a shoulder massage?”

Moonjo’s eyes lit up at your suggestion, being happy that he’s able to take care of you. “Of course,” he said happily. “Sit in front of me so I can do it.”

You waited until he spread his legs further enough for you to fit between then made yourself comfortable, leaning forward slightly so he can easily rub his hands along your shoulder’s without difficulty.

As you watched the classic reality tv show displaying on the tv screen in front of you, Moonjo started to feel along the muscles of your shoulders before pressing his thumb into your skin roughly, causing you to let out a satisfied groan. He froze at the sound you made, but snapped out of it quickly and kept rubbing the tight muscles under your skin.

Simply just seeing how his shirt hung on your torso made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside. For most of the day, he wasn’t able to get you out of his head. At the dentist, there were times he had to snap himself out of thinking of you in a daze.

It hadn’t even been that long since you had slept together. He didn’t want to come across as annoying or needy, especially after you had had a hard day. So he kept it to himself.

But with you sitting in his lap, nothing but underwear and his shirt on, he could feel himself giving away to his desires slightly.

He brought his hand from your shoulder to the hem of his shirt that snugged your skin perfectly and peeked his fingers underneath the fabric slightly, testing the waters. When you didn’t say anything, he kept going and continued to press his warm palm against your lower back. He brought his other hand down to follow the other.

When he heard you hum in content at the feeling of his hands on your bare skin, he leant himself forward and pressed his lips against the nape of your neck, breathing heavily on your skin and wrapping his arms around your middle under his shirt.

“Babe,” you breathed out, turning your head slightly to face him. Moonjo hummed in acknowledgement, keeping his face buried against your back and taking in the smell of your body wash.

“Are you okay?” you asked, turning your torso to look at Moonjo’s face. Only when you did, he chased your lips and brought you into a passionate kiss. He brought one of his hands from your back to your face, stroking his thumb along your cheek.

When you pulled away, Moonjo followed your lips, making you laugh. When he couldn’t reach them, he moved his mouth to your neck and continued to kiss and bite softly along your skin, making you shiver slightly.

“You’ve been needy this evening.” you teased, leaning your head against his lovingly. Moonjo pulled away from your neck and leaned his forehead against yours while smirking slightly. “I’ve just missed you,” he stated, giving you a quick peck on the lips.

You chuckled at his obvious lying. “I’m sure that’s just it,” you teased further.

Moonjo giggled and rubbed his nose against yours playfully. Continuing to rub his hands across your bare back, he tucked his face into your shoulder and groaned.

“What’s wrong?” you questioned, raising your eyebrows and eyeing him. Moonjo lifted his head and gave you a deadpan face, making you laugh at his obvious irritation.

“You know what’s wrong,” he stated as he pulled your back against his chest tighter.

“I thought you were tired,” you asked, raising an eyebrow at him. Moonjo sighed.

“I was, but you have to understand that having you sit on my lap in nothing but my shirt makes me wide awake somehow,” he reasoned in a mischievous voice, making you smack his chest slightly in embarrassment.

Moonjo then picked you up from his lap by your waist suddenly, making you yelp in surprise as he pushed you so you laid down on the couch, not taking even one second to be hovering over you. You looked up at him with a fond smile, bringing a hand up and tracing a large scar that travelled across his chest with a soft finger. He closed his eyes at the sensation and dropped his head so it was leaning against your collarbones and left a few kisses along your skin.

“You’re so pretty,” he whispered, slowly lifting the hem of his shirt from your body. You smiled at his compliment as you ran a hand through his jet-black hair, earning a soft sigh from him. “You too.”

Author’s Note: obviously Moonjo’s quite out of character since this doesn’t involve the whole Eden Studio situation, but in future fics I’ll make sure I’ll make him more true to the real character

[moonjosjongwoo]

this is just a thought that occurred to me and idk where else to share it: i don't remember exactly but a few years ago a friend of mine read a book for class and one of the characters bit another character on the ring finger, which left teeth mark where a wedding ring would be. and now that i'm into sfh i can't help but think that i can totally see jongwoo having so much anger to evacuate that he bites moonjo and wouldn't it be poetic somehow if he bit him on the ring finger and basically gave moonjo a wedding ring like that? i know (i think) moonjo's more into teeth as a whole than biting or whatever but he's also into jongwoo just going apeshit apparently so idk i think it fits?

i was holding onto this bc i was going to make a fic out of it but i don't think i could do it justice. that being said i still absolutely want to hone in on it.

the concept of jongwoo doing this is so...raw and fitting for his character, okay? he's so unhinged and impossible to predict that even moonjo doesn't always know what to expect with him.

for the sake of simplicity i'm picturing something post-canon, murder boyfriends au, they've reunited after jongwoo gets out of the hospital and live a life of crime together, probably traveling all over the place, seeing new sights, etcetera etcetera.

one night, they're spending some much-needed alone time together. it's probably after some sort of intense situation where they nearly got caught or something, so jongwoo is very tense and moonjo is sitting there with him, waiting for him to calm down. they're probably in like an alleyway or abandoned building or something, all sat up against a wall. jongwoo is fidgeting with moonjo's hand, while moonjo talks idly about the next place they should go.

"we could leave the country," moonjo suggests. "see the world together." we all know moonjo is just running his mouth to pull jongwoo back down to ground level. he's content wherever so long as he gets to see how wild jongwoo's eyes get right before a kill.

jongwoo is staring at moonjo's fingers the entire time as he responds with a simple, "you say that like it'd be easy." even now, his tone with moonjo is clipped and sarcastic. he's not fooling anyone, though. "how do you think we're getting through security if you're supposed to be dead?"

moonjo is in the middle of giving that question some genuine thought when he feels sharp pain on his left ring finger. a bit uncharacteristically, he tenses, hisses through his teeth, and reaches up to tap jongwoo upside the head. he asks jongwoo to stop one, two, three times, before he finally takes a fistful of hair and pries jongwoo away from his hand.

in the wake of the attack, moonjo's ring finger glistens with saliva and the reds and purples of tooth-shaped bruises forming in the indents jongwoo has made into his skin. he frowns ever so slightly, glancing over at jongwoo in genuine, albeit calm, confusion. "jagi--"

jongwoo shrugs. "we're off the grid. it's not like we can ever get married or anything. this is as close to a proposal as you're getting from me." he looks as flustered as he does irritated, but moonjo knows by now that in these moments are when jongwoo is most genuine.

even if it's not official, he's not exactly mad about how they went from partners in crime to engaged. jongwoo is full of surprises, and moonjo definitely didn't see it coming. but it's also a reminder of why he loves jongwoo as deeply as he does. he can't help but smile as he seeks out jongwoo's hand and runs his fingers along the other man's ring finger.

"shall i give you my response?" he questions, only half-teasing.

jongwoo wrenches his hand free, glaring wide-eyed daggers up at his lover. "don't you fucking dare, you crazy bastard."

as if he hadn't started this himself.

[sofarraway]

I suddenly want an SFH fic in which the friendzoned Moonjo kisses Jongwoo on the cheek except that his lips are so dangerously close to Jongwoo's to the point that the corner of his mouth almost meets Jongwoo's. It's also important for me that Moonjo has gentle smile and kind eyes on his face the whole this happens while Jongwoo is like

Before the kiss ☺️

The kiss 😐

Post the kiss 🤨

When Moonjo leaves and Jongwoo finally realizes what just happened 😱