#so she kills them to protect him and they're just left with this kid who was an akuma

[keeperofthebees]

not sure if i ever posted my psychoanalysis of Lilo on here but here we go.

Lilo is neurodivergent. She might have autism, she might have OCD, she ABSOLUTELY has PTSD. These all have very many overlapping symptoms, so it's easy to get them mixed up.

Lilo rarely brings up her parents after they die, only to protect stitch. "Dad said ohana means family." She tells stitch about what happened to her parents before he leaves. She doesn't talk about her mom until she's brought up, and compares herself to her.

Lilo feeds Pudge, and that Used to be for fun. When she forgot to feed Pudge, her parents died. She decided therefore that Pudge controls the weather, and creates intricate rituals to make sure she does it Correctly. The harder the ritual, the more effort she has to put into it. If the weather gets bad again, it's easy for her to say she must have messed up the ritual with the wrong bread or the wrong filling. Maybe Pudge doesn't like peanut butter anymore. She's taking control of the only thing she can.

She's also EXTREMELY morbid for a girl her age. I know everyone says she's just like them for real, but there's a difference between playing pretend that you're dying and telling your sister to leave you alone to die. Some kids play dead because it's a concept they can't understand and they use that to figure it out. Lilo KNOWS what death is. She experienced the death of the two most important people in her young life. She's well aware of death. She mentions Picasso's blue period, his time of severe suicidal depression. She says that that's what her painting is. This is worrisome. She knows Picasso's blue period, words like abomination, asks Bubbles if he ever killed anyone and tells Nani to leave her to die. I know some of you think that's relatively normal for a little girl, but it is not, not the way she behaves.

She makes a doll, and claims that she's sad because she only has a few more [enter time period] before she dies. Why would she make this doll have such a tragic story? Well, that's what she knows. People die. It happens. Of course she's sad, but if it's everywhere, she can be less sad about it. Her doll is going to die.

She's also well aware of pain, which is why she's so violent. She doesn't understand that people don't have to forgive you when you're mean and violent, because her sister ALWAYS forgives her, and is sometimes mean in return. This is family. It's not her parents, but this is how it is now. She's mean to Nani, and Nani is mean back, and then they eat dinner. She's mean to her friends, and they're mean to her, but they don't let her play dolls so they need to be punished. Stitch is mean to her, and she desperately tries to prove that he isn't that bad. She knows that she shouldn't be so violent, so mean, but she doesn't know how not to, and she knows that her behavior is part of the reason she might get taken away.

Lilo projects heavily onto Stitch. She likes him because he's a weird little freak, but he's also HER. he's alone. He has one person who wants him, who cares. One person who gives him chance after chance and tries to get him to be good. If she can prove that Stitch can be good, then she can be good. She can get better, and not be such a burden to Nani. If Lilo can keep Stitch, then Nani can keep Lilo.

Lilo wants to stay with Nani, but she can't stop being the way she is. She can't stop screaming, and being violent, and running away and nor doing what she's told. She has very little emotional regulation due to the trauma she's endured, and she sees that in Stitch. She can teach him to control himself. She can be good. She can stay here with her one and only sister, all she has left. She begs Nani to like her more than she would a rabbit. I'm gonna cry

[winters-orbit]

Now that we're at the end of mission impossible (until mcq shows cruise another video and he goes, I can do that, let's make another one), it's quite remarkable that they managed to tie together a cohesive theme from 8 movies, 5 directors, and 30 years.

And the fact that the theme is: fierce, unrelenting hope and trust especially in the face of insurmountable odds? I fear I may be thinking about this series for the rest of my life.

The first 3 ish movies are spent slowly beating ethan down. He starts out as this cocksure kid at the beginning of mi1. And then he's betrayed by his team leader who he trusts more than anything and is forced to watch and listen to every single one of them die, including Claire and Jim by the end.

He watches another imf agent go rogue (which absolutely could have been ethan in a different timeline given everything that had just happened to him) resulting in more people around him getting hurt, Nyah the most.

He tries so hard to get out, and gets a brief glimpse at normal happiness only for that to be ripped away from him as he watches his wife get kidnapped and tortured (3 does insane things for his character).

So we meet him at the beginning of ghost protocol in prison having had everything ripped away from him again and again. And now he's in prison. And yeah, we know Julia is alive, but the cruel irony of knowing your wife is alive but you can never be near her again goes crazy hard.

But the beauty of the series is that it's been slowly planting people in Ethan's life over these three movies to trust. And they're not trustworthy because Ethan already knows them. He essentially picks them randomly. Luther, selected off the list of disavowed agents ,ends up becoming his greatest and most reliable friend, his brother. Benji because he's the only one available and willing to help him in an absolutely insane endeavor to save his wife.

And we get to 4 and Ethan is back in the field with the ghost protocol team (whom I love but man are they team cringe fail). A team made up of the man who lives with the guilt of thinking he got Julia killed, a woman who is a walking time bomb due to the grief of losing someone she loved, and a man who is in the field for essentially the first time.

And Ethan takes a look at all of that baggage, including his own and says fuck it, this is my team and they are going to make it through this. And they do; by the skin of their teeth and a second left on the clock they make it. Ethan choses to trust the first full team since the first movie when all of them were ripped away from him.

Rogue nation gives us Ilsa who everyone distrusts immediately, except for Ethan. Ethan is once again betrayed by his government and so is Ilsa. And Ethan knows what that's like and thus Ilsa is part of the team.

Fallout tests that trust as Ilsa is forced to work against Ethan for half of the movie. But fallout is also one of the first times these themes are explicitly stated with "hope is not a a strategy. You must be new".

Ethan has been betrayed countless times, lost so many people close to him, and had the shit kicked out of him so many times he probably has a little brain damage. And yet he keeps getting up, he trusts and he hopes, because that's the only thing standing between them and the end of the world.

We get to dead reckoning and he constantly tries to work with Grace, to protect her, to get her out. Even though she is absolutely working against him at every turn. Anyone else would not work this hard to protect someone who is being this actively antagonist to their goals. But Ethan is not the same man as the kid who lost his team so long ago. Ilsa is ripped away from him. He keeps losing people and just keeps going, because hope and trust is all he has now.

And it's really all hammered home in final reckoning. He just had to walk away as he watched his oldest and closest friend let himself die to save an entire city and he immediately asks Briggs to, please just work with him, while actively crying because of the friend he just lost. (And no Briggs, he's actually never gotten used to losing people, ever. That's what makes Ethan, Ethan. It's BECAUSE he cares so much). He spends most of this movie really just begging people to trust him, to trust each other, to give him a chance to stop the entity despite the odds being insane. Because he's been shown time and time again, that trusting in those around you, however foolish it may seem is what saves the day in the end.

Over the course of 30 years they managed to beat Ethan down and build him back up as this character built on love and hope and care for the people around him. This doesn't even begin to talk about all the small moments of compassion throughout the series (the one in fallout with the French police woman always sticks out in my head).

The initial draw of these movies may be the stunts and seeing how Cruise pulls those off, but the heart of these stories is Ethan. A man who despite everything, all the betrayal, and loss, and suffering, simply choses to be kind. And damn what a powerful message.

[coldilikeit]

Yandere Batfam x Camp half-blood (Neglected reader)

Dc x Pjo

Part 5

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Diana is seething, she's filled with rage, the lies Bruce fed her?

"I'm very worried for their wellbeing..."

"I miss them very much"

"they're so young, I don't want anything bad to happen to them"

Asshole.

She kicked the door of the justice hall down, startling the kids who had gone back on patrol from trying to find (Name)

"hey what gives?" Flash asks

Superman raised his eyebrow "you left so suddenly, mind telling us where you've been?"

She looks at batman's sidekicks and then at him, while staring him straight in the eyes "the kid is dead" she says

"what?"

A silence washing over the entire room

"the lady who attacked your house, that wasn't an ordinary lady, in the eyes of mortals she may look normal, but in the eyes of divine beings... It's a monster, that monster was an empousa, a poisonous fire breathing monster who feeds on the blood of mortals and divine beings alike" Diana thinks about how she'll explain everything to J'onn later, but figure that he's probably reading her mind right now

Her suspicions are confirmed as J'onn nods at her

"your kid, (Name), they're a demigod, because of that they're a target for monsters, they're gone, eaten, sorry Bruce"

Crap Diana thinks, was she too harsh? She was just too angry

Ignoring the fact Diana just announced Bruce slept with a god, Superman placed his hand on Batman's shoulder "My condolences Bruce"

Everyone was giving their apologies to the bats

She didn't look at the widened eyes of batman's sidekicks, she noticed but chose to ignore the sound of Dick collapsing into a chair, she heard didn't pay attention to the footsteps of Damian who had to run out of the room

Cass stiffened up, she trembled as if resembling a cracking statue, Steph wants to cry, but she knows very well that she doesn't deserve to cry over you, Barbara just- it's like she just stopped working

As much as she feels so cruel right now, she knew it was the only thing that will keep you hidden, if not, they'll keep trying to find you

Green arrow crossed his arms, but it was clear he was disturbed by the death of a 12 year old kid "Diana, please elaborate"

"Bruce here, had intercourse with a god, that led to (Name) being born, monsters attack demigods, people who are half god half human such as myself, without proper protection monsters kill demigods easily, and (Name) suffered that fate, monsters attack demigods while they're young and tasty and leave them alone as they grow older, they don't feed usually on humans, just animals and demigods"

It seemed like Batman or more appropriately for this situation Bruce wasn't even listening, his mind still stuck at the announcement of your death

"If it'd make you feel better, you can take a break for a while... I know what it's like to lose family, we all do, let yourself grieve Batman, you might be a hardcore vigilante but you're still a father" (to everyone but name) Barry suggests

Starfire has been trying to calm Dick down, his breathing has become irregular and unstable, switching between deep and short breaths

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Jon runs after Damian, it looked like any second, the unbeatable demon spawn fell to his knees

"Damian! Are you okay!?" Jon asks

"I-i thought it'd only last a few days... Maybe a week if they're incompetent, or maybe months if we're unlucky" Damian started to cough

He took off his robin mask and took a deep breath "Since there was no body, I was fine, I thought they're okay, maybe a few injuries here and there, but they're alive so it's fine, but- the reason there was no body... Was because she was eaten- by stupid, how'd -" Jon didn't know what to do, between the both of them, Damian was the composed one

Then two of his siblings came, Jason and Tim

"what the fuck? Demon spawn?" Jason was surprised, and immediately glared at Jon, accusingly looking at him for making his brother this way

Jon put his up defensively "I didn't do anything, promise, I'm trying to comfort him!"

Tim knelt down with Damian "what happened?"

"(Name) is dead"

And suddenly it feels like nothing matters anymore

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"okay! And this'll be your bed!" Selina ended the tour of the cabin

Selena Beauregard, Daughter of Aphrodite, she was your sister, Gosh you have a sister! And she was nice! She wasn't like Cass who for some reason, closed her eyes everytime you tried to communicate with her

Barbara pretended to be busy, too busy, what do you mean you have to work? Didn't your workplace get burned down by two-face two days ago?

Steph- at least she was honest, she straight up told you she' didn't want anything to do with you

A guy with blonde hair and blue eyes walked out of the bathroom, a nice change from the black and blue eyes you're used to

"hey! You're our new sister! The one who was flirting with that Hephaestus kid-"

"Aster! (Name) Told me they were just friends and if they were flirting what's wrong with that? Love is love" Selena came to your rescue

Aster tilted his head confused with the way you're shifting "what's wrong?" He asked

"aren't people in Greek mythology who are named after flowers turn into them?" You nervously fiddle with your fingers

With that some of your siblings who are in their respective spaces burst out laughing and Aster is hugging you laughing whilst explaining that in Greek mythology "the people came first, not the flower"

That seemed to calm you down a bit, then another girl, whose name is Drew spoke up "so (Name) who's your mortal parent?"

You freeze up at this question but the other kids seemed normal about it

"don't worry (Name) it's some game we play, cause mom's standards are high, we compare mortal parents" Another one one your brothers said, his name is Castillo, he had a faded hair color of blue to purple that reminded you of Ramona flowers

(this is actually canon in Pjo, lmao)

He continued "my father was a famous k-pop idol" he bragged

A little girl then shouted "My dad was a model for Designer clothing!"

Selena rolled her eyes "So whose your dad (Name)?"

You didn't want to answer that, but at the same time- this is the first sibling playing you've ever been in, you're included here!

"my dad is Bruce Wayne... You can look me up on Google- but he, he really wasn't the best- umm dad"

"THE BRUCE WAYNE?" Someone gasps

"i thought his name was Brucie?"

You hear in the background

"I didn't know he was an asshole" Aster muttered

"come on bro, the guy parties all day and he's with children, how could you ever think that guy's a good father?" Castillo shrugs his shoulders

"that's okay (Name), a lot of mom's lovers are vain, taking it too seriously in their heads that they slept with the goddess of beauty, that's why mom stopped revealing herself, there are rare moments, but they're rare" another sister of yours says

You honestly feel so at home here...

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I'm now realizing that the "Neglected daughter" fandom is literally so small, I just saw like three of my readers in another fic I was reading XD

Let's support each other!!!! :3

Also the characters without description are canon characters, people who are actually in pjo

The one with descriptions are OC's!

So Drew and Selena are canon characters! :3

Callisto and Aster aren't

I hope you enjoy the chapter!

@wpdarlingpan @mountvesuvu @nathaly36 @delias-stuff @vanessa-boo @bat1212 @sadslasher13 @ellaprime7

[omgfangirlland]

I think I just fell in love with 🫀 anon. Wanna be friends with them so bad frfr

-🔱

🫀 anon is very nice! And we just got another anon that I think you'll love adding to the Ben10!Reader (:

Sorry, I got distracted with an itch for Sims 4 due to watching a Sims builder make some nice houses and went down a custom content rabbit hole 🫠🫠

There's a reason Bruce is shaking and pale- but let's go back a bit.

After you left, Martha and Thomas were sure soon enough someone would notice, maybe not Bruce, maybe not even Alfred, but surely a kid would. The kid did- true- but they just thought you moved out, after all, it wasn't like Bruce was out and proud of you- hell, the man didn't even rectify the rumor that you were dead.

And Martha and Thomas started acting out. They're ghosts, flashes of what they were once upon a time, they're holding on out of desperation and anger, and all they felt right now was that. Desperation and anger.

It starts small, things they knew they could do without exhausting themselves, right? Moving that, drawing that with ketchup, flickering the lights. But the more they do that, the more powerful they get. Rattling all the furniture in the bed, letting them hear their cries and words, appearing in reflections for seconds.

Around this time, Martha goes after the man they hired, and Alfred becomes robotic in his duties, disassociating, as he realizes the scream he heard that day wasn't your mother realizing what she was doing, it was Martha. He thinks of how lucky you were that day, but the thought of checking on you doesn't even cross his mind.

And when Thomas appears in Bruce's dreams, bloody and choking as he cries, Bruce breaks. "How could you? She was just a baby!" Bruce wakes up, barely breathing while he stumbles out of his room, the room seemingly spinning and closing in as he trips over his feet towards your room. And then he stops, and so do the walls. He doesn't know where your room is.

Chaos ensues as the man goes to Alfred and then his other kids, asking them for help in finding you- Bruce almost collapsed when half of his kids don't even know who you are- and then he calls John. For an exorcism and a tracking spell.

As your name leaves Bruce's and his mom's lips, it takes a while for John to finally connect the dots. Jaw-dropping, realizing you lied to him about having no ties to Bruce Wayne. He should have know better by the way you had paled and your boytoys straightened.

John immediately refuses, saying that you were in- he choked on his words- good hands, protected by an actual angel, the biblical kind, and friendly with the current king of hell. Thomas Wayne wasn't having it tho'.

Now, your siblings, to various degrees, feel some kind of guilt, while the ones who didn't even know of your existence are furious. By everything they know, your mom is insane, tried to kill you, and then Bruce proceeded to ignore you like you didn't just exit the newborn stage. Damian felt that anger- due to Bruce marrying your mom and not his, due to not actually being the firstborn, due to there not even being a sign of your existence.

And after Constantine gave up fighting, Damian started. Yelling, throwing tantrums, being the emotionally unstable kid he is. Dick and Jason were quick to restrain him and move him away, letting Bruce and John carry on while they did everything in their powers to keep him quiet, and away from a staby incident.

Of course, John passes on every word of disappointment, anger, and even disgust the two dead Waynes have, even throwing in some of his own opinions and simply shrugging at the dead woman's glare. Due to Bruce, he'll have to grovel for a long while to get Sam and Dean to trust him again. If he wants to call Bruce a few choice words, he will.

I don't know how Reader would interact with the siblings, mainly due to me seeing her as someone who'll just teleport to another country at a glimpse of a thought of her "family" after being forced to interact with Bruce and Alfred.

You know what would fuck Bruce up, extra hard? Reader having a baby or toddler, specifically a boy that looks like him. Faints on the spot. (I'm not writing that btw, it's a cute thing to imagine Dean being an anxious dad, but I'm terrified of pregnancy and the idea alone makes me nauseous... But, yk, just throwing out the idea)

Martha and Thomas are just happy to see you again... even tho Martha is judging Dean hard.

[trans-siffrin]

The @askoverkill Director isn't just a Siffrin, they're specifically Loop

(Before starting, I recommend reading starry-voidss's post here, as I will be bringing up much of aer list again. I do not claim ownership of this theory— this post here is basically a compilation of everything I could think, or have heard of.

Obviously, this has art and spoilers from askoverkill and In Stars and Time!)

(Also, this is presented in a bullet list for organisation— hope that's okay!)

1. The Design

If the head shape being the same (-> spiky, white) isn't good enough on its own, there is a couple of things to compare aside from that!

They both have upturned eyes, starry skin/theming, and a star/star shaped symbol in the center of their chest.

(And maybe the fact the ref sheet for the Director says xir mouth "makes no sense", which is understandable considering Loop had none.)

Add to this the resemblance between the Director and Siffrin (eye shape, right eye being [missing/bleeding], and boots with heels).

The Director has red eyes, something Loop also has during their fight during the twohats fight. Her eyes are also described as spirals, which:

Some of the Director's talksprites, namely in this post, have sparkles coming from him.

2. Persona

Same introduction joke. (The same one which made sense for Loop to say because you learn later that they are you/Siffrin.)

The theater themes are also obvious, it's everywhere with the Director; and as we know, it's a huge thing for Siffrin and Loop specifically. But the thing that's especially relevant here is this:

Here, in the first one, Loop refers to Siffrin as a director; but if you've played SASASAP, you'll know that much of these lines are VERY relevant to them also (everything minus the "restarting from the top" still tracks; and well, they are literally using a talksprite literally called "fake1" before getting interrupted).

In the second line, they are directly talking about themself.

Loop basically only refers to the party by their roles (Housemaiden, Fighter, Researcher and Kid) except in specific instances (post-Kingquest end, when they're blaming Siffrin for not protecting Bonnie from the King, and twohats fight, when they're talking about how the party did not recognize them), which is also something that the Director does, as seen for example when they are introducing the cast.

(Also, fun fact: the Director's usage of "the Fighter" vs Isabeau's actual title in ISAT being "the Defender". You know when exactly Isabeau stopped using "the Fighter"?)

(Pictured left: Start Again, pictured right: ISAT)

(You know who else still uses it?)

Also as seen in the cast introduction post, the Director seems very familiar with the party, acting as though she's seen them before (perhaps multiple times), while being surprised at these specific Overkill versions ("I've never seen him so gruff", "You look extra studious today", "you all fit your roles to the T!"). In this post, he appears familiar with the House, recognising the trap and naming the Death Corridor.

Xe absolutely hates Siffrin: skipping them as a party member when introducing the cast, calling him a Tragedy, and stating they aren't even a person. They have repeatedly killed multiple Siffrin, acts hostile towards even Lupus the moment she notices them, and saying they can't wait to kill Dawn as well (namely, by strangling him).

The Director knows about and is connected to Wish Craft, with it being able to modify physical aspects of him.

The Director specifically brings up Siffrin's single Silver Coin when talking about them, implying they at the very least know of its importance to them. (Specifically, when talking about eating him. Close enough, welcome back ISAT cannibalism themes.)

Director states that food tastes rotten or "like nothing" to them, which is as relevant to Siffrin as it is to Loop.

3. Misc.

This spoilered text from the Director's ref sheet very clearly says "a bad wish". You know who else made two (!!) wishes that ended up going badly for them— one that trapped them in a timeloop, and one that took their body away?

The Director uses "blinding" and "stars" as swears.

So have you seen that image of the Director holding Mirabelle's face and telling her she's their favorite actor? I have, and it reminded me of a very specific image—

(Pictured on the right, SASASAP Siffrin, also known as Loop)

The Director is ace. "Just like Siffrin!" Just like Loop too!

The Director is described as having "Flowey vibes". Flowey, a character who 1) lost their body (as Asriel) and soul, 2) was in a timeloop (albeit self caused) for a very long time before someone else with stronger Determination arrived, 3) despises the protagonist until they don't (-> Pacifist ending)… VS Loop, a character which 1) lost their body (as Siffrin) and family, 2) was in a timeloop (unknowingly caused by their own wish) for a very long time before they made their second wish, got turned into Loop and was replaced by another Siffrin, 3) has a kind of hot and cold relationship to Siffrin until they don't

The Director names Overkill as "The Encore of Vaugarde", which seems to imply there was already a play of Vaugarde before this. Now this could simply be that they know the name of the blog/story, but again, they do seem to have already seen (versions of) the party previously...

The Theater Curse is described as "Those who touch a piece of the sky will become a puppet of the Director, playing out an endless play". An endless play, you say?

4. Problems

Loop has been stated to appear. If we have three+ Siffrin (Dawn, Dusk and Lupus and every other one that died in the House), can we have two Loop? Or is the Loop mentioned in that post potentially only a guide in the way they were, while not being Loop themself? Shrug ig

Loop uses they/them and the Director uses every pronoun. (Which is a problem, until you consider that Loop has already changed pronouns in the past, going from he/they as Siffrin to they/them as Loop, so them changing again isn't all that far out the question I don't think...??)

Although Loop fights Siffrin, they are ultimately unable to kill him. What changed here to make the Director not only capable of doing so, but actively doing it multiple times in cruel ways?

Depending on how you interpret this line, the Director potentially knows about the King killing Bonnie; which is something that only happened in ISAT, not SASASAP.

There are also these two lines below, (first one from SASASAP, second is the unused ISAT (Ask...) question), comparing the King to a deity. If Overkill is essentially canon ISAT but stretched to the point of it being "overkill", would these lines imply the King has become a deity...?

(Even if you consider these lines non-canon due to their origins, it is pretty clear that the King at least considers himself a deity— with the whole possesses immense power -> being very tall -> "protecting" Vaugarde by freezing it in time despite everyone's wishes it -> breaking Change God statues, etc...)

(Also, if the Director is indeed Loop, where would the King be?)

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Feel free to tell me if I've forgotten anything 👍

[abbysimsfun]

Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 146 (Rafa Confronts His Sister)

Conrad made his way to Brindleton Prison after work, smiling when he found Rafa waiting in one of the interrogation rooms. "Don't take this the wrong way, but you look great for someone who's spent the last few months in prison."

"Thanks for being here while I face her." Rafa forced a smile. "I know I asked for this meeting, but I've been dreading it. Can't call Mel because we still don't have a phone. Other than you and my lawyer, there's not many people I want to talk to, especially in prison."

"Speaking of Felix, he'll be down soon. Lilith called to say she finally found a copy of Theoretical Electronics by Nikolai Volt, or something. It's about time travel."

"They're really going to do it? Jump through time just like Marco."

"That's their plan, but I don't think their plan includes trying to get themselves killed."

Rafa frowned. "I don't regret what I had to do, but I knew Marco, you know? I never thought I'd end up killing him."

"You didn't get him killed. He was working for Ximena, doing what she wanted him to do."

He nodded slowly. "But we changed things, right? Now she'll be in prison for forty years and won't get out to chase time travellers?"

"Chase who?"

Their stomachs dropped as the door to the interrogation room opened. Ximena had always moved quietly, which helped her get away with so much for so long. Conrad pushed his shoulders back. "No one. It's a joke. You've probably watched the news since you've been in here."

Ximena shrugged. "Why watch what's going on in a world I'm locked away from?"

"You deserve to be in here just as much as I deserve to be behind bars in San Myshuno," said Rafa sternly.

Ximena glanced at the brother she raised from the time he was small, but a coldness burned from her amber eyes unlike any look she'd ever given him. "Aren't you looking for a plea deal?"

Rafa turned to Conrad with a frown. "Could you leave us? I know the room is recording us, but what I want to say, I need to focus on her."

"On me?" Ximena scoffed. "You betrayed me!"

"You betrayed him, Ximena."

With the last word, Conrad left them in the room, greeting Felix next door in the observation room. They watched as Rafa and Ximena took seats across from one another at the small table, listening to the speakers pouring their conversation through the walls.

"Why did you have Jimmy killed?"

"That's not even what I'm in here for. You told them about the BriteU job that got those freshmen killed. And the cartel won't be happy when they learn you gave up half their weapons stockpile in San Myshuno."

"They can get more guns. And what do you know about the cartel these days? They dropped you, Ximena. They left you in here with no one to rescue you this time. Because you killed Jimmy."

"He was no one. He only meant something to me, and I got what I needed before he talked to the cops. He was a liability. I did what the cartel does with liabilities."

"I followed you for years even as you got more and more erratic. I was too young to say no to you and you knew it. You took advantage of me."

"I was protecting you," she insisted. "If you weren't in with the cartel, as close as you were to me? They would have killed you."

"I just wanted to live a normal life and be a normal kid."

Her stare bared no obvious emotion. "We both wanted that, Rafa."

"I'm sorry I kept you in here, but I'm not sorry. I hope you understand that."

Her eyes narrowed into slits and she glared at him with vengeance. "I'll never understand you, Rafa. I'd curse you myself, if I ever believed any of that old witch magic from Selva."

Inside the observation room, Felix and Conrad were growing uncomfortable as the Bonillas confrontation escalated, interrupted when the San Myshuno detective who'd escorted Rafa to Brindleton Prison walked in with his phone out.

"I just got off the phone with the judge," he announced. "She accepted Rafa's plea and he'll be released as soon as next week."

Rafa scoffed in the next room. "Fine. Curse me. But you lost me, Ximena. Remember that."

Ximena jumped up and raised her hands to her face in anger. "I didn't lose you, Rafa. I know exactly where you stand. You chose to stand against your own flesh and blood, who raised you when the world would have let you die, and as long as I live I'll make you regret it."

"I only regret everything I did because you encouraged me."

"I regret saving you from Selva. I should have left you there and run away on my own."

Conrad walked back inside the room followed by Felix, breaking up Ximena and Rafa once and for all. "I think you've both said more than enough."

Guards took Ximena back to her cell, leaving Rafa to cool down with his attorney and Conrad, the man who cared for him like a brother. "Are you alright?"

"I'll be fine." Rafa pushed back his shoulders. "Tell the detective I want to go back now."

"No problem," said Conrad. "But Felix and I want to talk to you first."

"The judge called while Ximena was in here," said Felix. "She accepted your plea. It'll take the paperwork less than a week to be processed because I'm the one who's going to do it, but once the county rubberstamps everything, you'll be a free man!"

"Are you serious?"

"As serious as death from a laughing fit!"

Rafa glanced between them in disbelief as weight lifted from Conrad's shoulders. He looked away, composing himself. Ximena was behind bars and Rafa was a free man; the saga of the Bonillas was supposed to end this way. Ximena was out of his life for decades, at least, but he wouldn't let reconnecting with Rafa go to waste.

"Promise me you and Melissa will move into a real place and get out of the abandoned ship. You don't need to hide anymore."

"Ximena's right that the cartel might still try to find me," admitted Rafa. "But I can take care of myself. Melissa, too."

Felix nodded plainly. "I'm quite sure that's true. But let's hope you'll never get the chance to show how good you are. For their sake."

The attorney sensed Rafa wanted a minute alone with Conrad, excusing himself with a smile. "I think I'll get started on that paperwork now!"

When the men were alone, Rafa looked ominously at Conrad. "Can you turn the mics off?"

Conrad nodded, flipping a switch on the desk lamp as he waited for Rafa to speak.

"I didn't tell you everything Marco told me before he died. I didn't know how to say this in front of everyone, but he told me Ash... In the future, people feared and followed him. He said, 'You don't know what he's capable of.'"

"Ash will barely be twenty in a little over a decade," shot back Conrad. "You met him. He loves homework and his sisters - how dangerous could he be?"

Rafa shrugged. "He didn't say how before we got back to the shack. But we can hope we changed enough that he won't be dangerous now. Right?"

Conrad nodded, refusing to believe anything different about the boy he loved as a son. But he went home that night wondering how to tell Heather, while Rafa was soon released from prison in San Myshuno.

With his newfound freedom, he returned to Melissa in Sulani. Elated and in love they made up for time apart, finally free to build a life together. ->

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WCIF Poses: Ximena and Rafa posed in conversation at the table using @herecirmsims' Desk Conversations. Dimensions not quite right but I'm pretending Ximena sat backwards in her chair because I wanted the positioning and expressions, and Rafa fit! Rafa and Melissa are posed on the beach with @simmerberlin's The Kiss posepack, looking adorably carefree before their waterfall romp!

[daenerys-apolog1st]

It's literally insane how TG and Alicent Stans will see someone criticizing Alicent for things she's done and choices that she's actively made, and then they're only response is just- "she was groomed by Viserys! She was manipulated by her father! How dare you criticize her when she's a victim!" -and like...be so fucking serious.

Yes, in the show, Alicent is groomed by her father and Viserys, and her initial mistrust of Rhaenyra and support of Aegon's eventual usurpation was planted by her father's manipulations. However, that does not excuse the choices that she actively made as an adult and that also doesn't mean that she did not grow up to be an abuser herself and that she is above criticism.

She was an adult when she abused Rhaenyra for 10+ years, terrorized her family to the point where they left their home, spread rumors that she knew full well could get her and her children killed, and took every chance she could to humiliate and hurt her or the ones she loved.

She was an adult when she demanded that Rhaenyra's 5 second old newborn child be separated from their mother and brought to her, knowing full well that 1. Rhaenyra would likely bring the child herself because she would never allow her baby to be taken from her, 2. that Rhaenyra was terrified of childbirth and losing children because she watched her mother literally be killed by it and lost multiple siblings right after childbirth, and 3. that right after birth is a very delicate time for a baby and that demanding them be separated from the mother and paraded around the castle could put them in danger.

She was an adult when she filled her children's heads with the idea that their sister hated them and was going to kill them, separating them from the rest of their family and sowing hatred between them, and placing the idea of usurpation in their heads. Aegon outright says that he doesn't want the throne, that he doesn't want to challenge her, but Alicent forces him onto the throne anyway.

She was an adult when she did everything she could to protect her rapist son, including threatening a girl who he'd just raped and basically throwing her out of the castle, all the while it's heavily implied that he's raped girls before and she's done nothing about it but give him slaps on the wrist.

She was an adult when she betrothed her 13 year old daughter to said rapist son, therefore continuing the cycle of abuse that she once faced herself in her daughter---despite the fact that there were plenty of other perfectly good options for her daughter and she didn't have to do that.

She was an adult when she went after a 5 year old with a knife and tried to maim him over an accident instead of blaming the adults in the situation that were actually at fault for not watching the kids, an accident that---mind you---Aemond told her to stop freaking out over himself because he got a dragon out of it. But she ignored him and then proceeded to make him losing an eye all about herself with her little speech.

She was an adult when she heard that Larys Strong murdered his family, including the Hand of the King, and did absolutely nothing to bring him to justice and never told anyone else that could've done something---before then reaping the benefits of him murdering his family by having her father made Hand once again.

She was an adult when she was fucking the kingsguard that was supposed to be protecting her daughter and grandchildren, leading to no guards being around to protect them (Criston sent them all away), the night that her grandson was murdered. AND THEN worrying more about covering her own ass than her literal grieving daughter afterwards.

She was an adult when she offered up her son's head to Rhaenyra despite the fact that she was the one who forced her son on the throne in the first place, basically willing to sacrifice him to---again---cover her own ass.

And so much more throughout the course of the show.

Yes, Alicent was a victim, but that does not excuse her actions nor put her above criticism---being abused does not mean you cannot be an abuser yourself. At a certain point, the fact that she was a victim becomes obsolete in these conversations because---as an adult---she chose to do the things she did herself, and it's ridiculous to use the abuse she faced as a child as a scapegoat for every bad thing she's ever done.

Like, again, be so fucking serious.

[whereserpentswalk]

You sell items to adventurers for a living. It's relatively easy to get business in a frontier city like the one you live in. You were planning on becoming an adventurer yourself but an injured leg when you were young prevented that. But because you already know how to find items, and how they should be fairly priced, so it's a good living.

Not everyone who thinks of themselves as adventurers actually are adventurers. You sometimes have to sell weapons to naive groups of kids, who have no idea what they're doing. Useally you humor them, they tend to go off into useless places with no gold to be found, an old mineshaft that's been explored a thousand times over has become famous for such things. If they seem like they'll go somewhere way more dangerous than they should, you point them to the mineshaft.

Of course, most of your business is from actual adventurers. They tend to be wanderers, foreigners, a lot of ex merchants or ex millitary, or children of nobility who cant inherent, the type of people who never had the chance to make a safe living. Most of them are nice to you, and if they're not you know how to get them to leave.

You also know how to become a protecter for the adventuring parties who need it. Your shop is basically the center of their community in this part of the city. If a spellcaster is part of an illegal religion, or performing banned practices, you know what symbols to sell them to help them hide themselves. If someone is clearly a runaway slave or serf, or from a race that's considered a monster in this part of the world, you know how the forge the right documents. There was a hobgoblin who frequented your shop for a long time, who you sold weapons to, who you had to testify in front of the city sherif was not a hobgoblin but was infact a member of a rare subrace of elf that you made up to protect him. You may have also recently made an entire fictional category of magic legally real for the sake of protecting some necromancers you know.

There are some people you never sell to. It's not considered good principle to sell to people who would gladly kill your other clients. There was a group of warriors weilding holy magic who talked a lot about punishing sinners, they came back with the heads of goblins and hobgoblins a lot, and vampires, and humans of religions other then theirs. After they started bringing in more of their freinds you cut them off.

There are people who you wished you hadn't sold to for other reasons. There was this human noble girl who you sold a suit of armor to, she had run away from an arranged marriage and joined an adventuring party so she could be as far from her parents as possible. She seemed so excited to be in a big city, to be out in the world, she chatted with you for hours about an epic poem from ages long gone that she liked. When she came back to your shop after her first quest she had turned undead, something happened in her first dungeon that changed her, her skin was pale, and her teeth had turned sharp, you just remember her shivering and trying to cry, and muttering about how cold she was. Her other party members said they were happy she was more durable like this, they didn't seem to care about her outside of that.

And of course, there's the fact that every adventurer you know, useally doesn't come back eventually. When a full party goes you can assume they left town, but when just one or two from a party is missing there tends to be one explanation. Most adventurers don't have long careers, and mortality especially high for rookies. But you don't tend to ask if anyone is dead, it's better to just assume they went home, as implausible as it may be.

[llamaisllama777]

TSAMS FAN THEORY: Who made/left NovaFrost

So, NovaFrost is kind of the newest mystery around right now.

They got mysterious dropped off at Sun and Moon's diner and appear to be (mostly) friendly with all the animatronics. NovaFrost love the kids but hate any person they deem as bad, like abusive or alcoholic parents. Who made them like this? It seems like NovaFrost have more control over their kill code than Moon did. (Heck, this is even if they have a kill code, and it isn't just them doing this.)

They seem to just want to keep kids safe, which is honorable. But I wanna know...

Who made them?

I highly doubt the Sven here did, if there even is one. I think NovaFrost was made by someone else

Like how Sunny and Moonie were made by a nice old guy named Victor Crowley and not Sven Ivanoff.

We know basically nothing about NovaFrost's creator. The only thing we MIGHT have on them is that according to Glam!Chica, they're ugly.

To be fair, she probably sees a lot of things as ugly but still. So, all we know is that NovaFrost's creator dropped them off at the SunShiner diner, gave them a code to protect kids and beat up bad adults, and is ugly. Doesn't really narrow any of that down... well... I have a theory...

THEORY: NOVAFROST'S CREATOR IS A MICHAEL AFTON VARIANT!

More specifically a variant that looks like this

I think this would fit Chica's definition of ugly.

Reasons I think it could be the Michael of this world

1. NovaFrost seem to have the urge to protect kids specifically from bad parents. When you have a childhood like Michael, did you probably want to prevent anyone from going through what you went through.

2. Chica said that the person who dropped off NovaFrost was ugly and no offense to Mike, I think he looks cool, but he does look like a corpse so... yeah.

3. He just mysterious showed up. Mike did get very good at hiding in the shadows. He says it as much in Sister location.

4. Mike has the knowledge to repair animatronics, I think he can figure out how to build his own.

5. The missing kids incident still happened in this universe. Mike would probably want to prevent another MCI from happening at all locations, which is why he sends NovaFrost to prevent those incidents from happening.

Reasons it might not be Mike

1. Timeline is a little screwy

Mike was a teen in 1983. If Fazbear is just staring out now in this universe, then Mike would be in his later teens when the first MCI happened in 85. If Mike were to be NovaFrost's creator, Fazbear WOULD have to have started sooner. According to Moon, Fazbear is only starting now. (If I remember correctly) Plus, if Fazbear didn't exist in 83, there's no Bite of 83, Even/CC/Garret would still be alive along with Elizabeth.

2. Could literally be anyone.

Chica said the person was ugly.

Well, no offense to anyone, but I can think of a few TSAMS characters off the top of my head she'd probably find ugly

I do still believe it is a Mike variant. It just makes too much sense to me. But hey, that's just a theory...

A TSAMS THEORY!

Thanks for reading!

TL;DR The Michael Afton of this world built NovaFrost to protect kids and prevent anything bad from happening to them or to protect them from bad parents like he wished someone did to him.

[lunawolfiefoxy]

Why are they each in the psych ward???

Time- He got a job there and constantly comes home to complain he wants to adopt the kids there to which Malon gently tells him no, but they can be his kids at work.

Warriors- He had maladaptive panic attacks and suicide attempts that interfered with his life. He actually went to court because he was accused of SA Cia, who ended up winning (cause she's a girl) and was court ordered to be there for a year, which grew into a longer time after the panic attacks and thoughts were found. He did go back to court with newfound evidence to get a restraining order against Cia, who was promptly thrown in jail afterwards and later a different ward

Twilight- He got into fights so often, that were so deadly, he was deemed unsafe and had to go into the ward. Sources claim he "fought like a rabid beast". In reality, Twilight just has a hard time keeping his anger in check and tends to act wolfishly when fighting, either because of his temper or because someone he felt needed protecting was being picked on.

Sky- He has severe depression and PTSD and has to be constantly monitored since he has attempted in the facility before. He ends up befriending Legend and feels like he has to stick around long enough to keep Kit safe. He does tend to either be numb all day or a bundle of joy, it really depends on how he feels when he wakes up. His girlfriend regularly visits him, giving him another reason to keep going.

Legend- A lot of anxiety, depression, PTSD, panic episodes, ADHD, schizophrenia, Stendhal syndrome, and he's autistic. Legend has these manic episodes caused by over stimulation that he tends to lash out during. If someone touches him or tries to talk to him during these manic episodes, he'll bite, scratch, and slap them until he's left alone. But that doesn't mean he stops. Legend does harm himself during these episodes (head banging, tugging on his hair, scratching his neck and ears) which was why doctors recommended he'd be placed in one. He did have a plan to attempt, but his roommate Ravio (could be boyfriend, depends on how you want to see it) found it and made sure he wasn't left alone to do it.

Hyrule- He ran away from home because he thought they were abusive and trying to kill him. When found by authorities, it turns out Hyrule is just bipolar. He was placed in because he didn't want to go home, and he's only supposed to be there for a year while they find a treatment plan for him

Wild- He's a pyromaniac to the core. He set fire to his school building and ended up with scarring because of it, but he wants to do it again. He's not allowed within 20 feet of a match anymore. Despite his love for fire, he also has PTSD from it because of his scarring, so some days he'll stare lovingly at the hearth while other days he'll scream and sob and beg someone to put it out. He's with Legend in the "cut my hair and you won't hear the end of it" group. While their hair is supposed to be shorter due to attempt worries, Wild sobs whenever someone comes close with a pair of scissors and Legend screams bloody murder along with him.

Four- He's got DID. One of the alters attempted, another tried to murder someone, a third tries to fight everyone he sees. The only two you are safe from is Red and Green, they tend to be the nicer personalities. Blue is colder and refuses to speak during therapy until you get him to start cleaning, then he's an open book. Vio is just completely silent, and when he does speak you're worried for your life. Shadow is just a psychopath, but he doesn't like fronting all that much, usually letting the others go unless he feels the need to protect the body. When he fronts, which isn't very often, the nurses and doctors need to make sure he's never left alone with another patient. They don't really understand Shadow since they haven't truly met him, but they're trying.

Wind- Schizophrenia and Alice in Wonderland syndrome. He once thought that he was on a ship and got himself hurt after he fell from the playset, but at the time, parents brushed it off as an overactive imagination until he nearly got himself killed because he was trying to climb the flag pole, convinced it was a crow's nest. After that, he was placed inside the ward with his sister and grandma visiting him as well as his friend Tetra, it wasn't until he asked to pass a crayon that was next to his elbow did the Alice in Wonderland syndrome get found.

Thank you for reading this! Sorry, it was a lot!

[valentine-cafe]

🍒 𓂃 𝑶𝑹𝑫𝑬𝑹 𝑼𝑷 : key lime pie !! . . . corrupt god ⊹ afab gn reader .

. ᘛ 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡​​​​​​​𝑢​​​​​​​𝑟​​​​​​​𝑖𝑛​​​​​​​𝑔﹕verse 164 ꮽ  alessio agresta

 𐔌𖹭 ˖ ࣪  who's that ?⠀﹕an all powerful corrupt sorcerer god, with an insatiable desire for souls

ּ  ֗ recepit ℘ ... part fire elemental, part tainted by human blood. a fate that led you on a lonely road ahead, frowned upon by the elementals of your true homeland. hated by humans. sorcerers took you in instead, and so did their god. even if you weren't all that aware of it. ⊹ cw ٬٬ dark content ahead . mentions of sexual assault ( not on reader ) . reader is considered a "doomsperson" of nature . smut . religious themes . destruction of nature by humans . witchcraft accusastions . town burnings . themes of death . smut . dark smut ( reader and alessio literally fuck while the town is burning ) . cunnilingus .

wc: 2.5k

It starts with sparks.

Always the sparks. Then, the soft burn of the glimmering heat against skin. Sometimes the spark might even catch onto something dry. You always stopped it before it became flame. You can't handle another blacksmith causing a full forest fire like the last.

Although your nature calls for the bright orange flame that dances around bonfires and volcanic stone. The man-made forest fires are near untameable to you. Rather your own flame, or the flame of your kin. . .

Though even your kin look at you in disgust. Your blood dubbed tainted by this so called humanity you have inside of you. It was your birth that damned your mother. Banished from her realm.

Never once was she bitter with you. It wasn't your choice to be birthed into this cruel world. It was the gods. She taught you as she gave her soul to you.

You never really met her. Her essence collided with yours before you could speak. And like a flame attatched to a candle at it's end, she died.

Left motherless and fatherless. You only had yourself. A baby, wailing into the night. Taken in by sorcerers of the wild groves. Nursing you to back to life. Kept you until adulthood. Before you had to travel the lands all by yourself to be able to face home once again.

The only god you were raised to believe in was the god of your forest. You've never met him, or seen his face. You've only heard stories.

Some sorcerer kids told you, you were too disgusting for him to set foot in the grove until you were gone.

So you spend your decades wandering as far as possible across the lands. Left to your own devices. Lonely and cut off from civilisation. Little of it wants you anyway.

No matter. The life you breathe is devoted to the world. The nature, the water, wind and your very own element. Fire. You never really cared for gods, nor the worship of them.

The man you had been taught to worship never crossed your mind much either.

You had killed in his name, you had lied and manipulated. In his name. All to protect the nature of the world. Your flame is duller than it has ever been. The whispers of your brethern tell you so. Through the fires you light in your shelter.

Just a few days ago, you had finally crossed civilisation again. The humans in this town were paranoid, shifty. Suspicion rose to through the hay and grass roofs they built upon their cob houses. Some told you stories of witchcraft.

But witches don't exist. They're tell-tale monstrosities, like wizards, and hags. At the end, you didn't care too much about the scared atmosphere. And worried more about the unbalance in nature that surrounded the town. It was a rather large one and instead of letting ecosystems flourish. It ruined them. Poisoned the rivers and slaughtered the animals with no mercy.

When approached on the situation, the civils all blamed it on the witch this, and the witch that.

"He lives in the outskirts. Ruins the waters. I've seen it myself, wayfarer." The old crone before you speaks. Crooked finger pointed at you before it waves towards the hut further down the street. "We only see him in the night. His eyes as green as poison. And hair as black as the endless abyss!" She spits. And frowns in fear as you lean closer to look into her eyes.

"Or maybe a forest god has settled in this town to purify it?" You suggest. But receive nothing but displeasure and dismay. White tufts of hair shaking with the movement of the woman's head.

"No! No. It is a witch, so say the council!"

. . .

You wander through the town again the next day. Passing by smithes, bards singing tales of witches, children crying too scared to step out of their homes. There's no witch. They've cursed themselves.

This investigation is going to lead you to nothing but an "I told you so," as you leave the town. Is it not?

It is rare that you even find any sort of plague or pested bringing creature roaming the streets of these kinds of towns. The reason of the miasma usually lays in the hands of the noblemen. Slaving their people to expand the town for their own pleasure and gain. You feel exhausted just taking a single step further towards the upper districts.

This is where all of the problems are concentrated.

"I've been watching you." A softspoken croon calls for you, it's as if someone is standing right next to you. You turn to look to your left, meeting your own reflection in an empty shop window.

Your lips part, and eyes narrow. It is no ill presence, but it is no good presence. Quite neutral, if you had to describe it. "Might I inquire why you do such?"

"Because it amuses me."

The voice was masculine, you could describe more as you heard him speak more. Crooned, with a rasp and accented in a way you can't quite put your finger on. You haven't heard this accent before. But it is comforting, alluring. Like flame. . .

No— "Don't tempt me." You grunt quietly, flip your cape back over your shoulder and walk off. But the voice persists. Follow you.

"Tempt? I'm only here to observe, caro. But if you wish for me to silence myself. Your wish is my command." The voice chuckles and dissipates as quick as it came. Yet you can't help but shudder as the presence remains.

Seems you will have a voyager with you on your mission.

. . .

The heavy fist of one of the town officials slams against the elaborate maplewood roundtable surface before you. Each higherup circling you as you explain why they must take care of the nature. Before you were so rudely interrupted by the heavy slam.

"Yer sayin' we can't do dis. Den we can't do that. What about food fer the lower city heh?" Of course the stupid oaf sitting across from where you stood would be the one to talk famine and food as if he was a saint. You turn to glance at him patiently, before looking back at the head of the town. "As I was saying."

You sigh and straighten your back. This would be so much easier without the looming presnece of your little guest. "The deforestation will lead you to lack food, due to the ecosystem of the forest being disturbed. There are easier ways to live in this town and care for everyone than deforest and slaughter—"

Other officials break lose all over again you have no time to speak, and the head doesn't seem to stop any of them either. A spoiled brat, that's what he is. Caring only for himself. Typical human behaviour.

"This wayfarer must be on parlay with the witch!"

"Telling us how to care for nature. Who do ya think is overseein' nd protectin' it??"

"Dis one is wit de witch. Cast her to de dam!"

"No twist her neck!"

Typical! First the disrespect towards nature then the direspect to you. Your identity, the disrespect to what is trying to protect this valley. But none of these filthy humans listen—!

CRRCK

One neck after the other of the town officials are wrung and hung up into the ceiling by an unknown force — The guest you brought with you. He's gone. Men scream in fear, pointing at you accusing you of witchcraft, dark magics you do not possess.

Did death visit you? Is that why you feel the heat of tall flame ignite in your chest. Move to the palms of your hands?

As the head of the town scrambles to the exit of the room in frantic panic, exclaiming witch in repetetive notion. You feel your fire so vividly. It's never been this strong. Untamed. Like the forest wildfires you've never been able to quell.

What has come to you? Rage after years of solitude and rejection? Or the rage of being robbed of a different life, where your mother wasn't taken by a sultry and lustful stupid man, and you would've run with flame pure in your blood?

The single glance you cast to the pathetic young lord on the floor is enough to put him to flames. What about a flick of a finger? Or the swing of a hand? What chaos would that cause, if a single glance is enough to burn away the sins of a man with false devotion?

Your tired feet, aflame and burning away at the boots and pants you wore previously, step out of the burning council building. Townsfolk, innocent and guilty scatter the streets in shared panic and instinct. With one goal in their mind. Run from the city with a story to tell, and a lesson to learn.

"The witch not only bares themself sinfully for us but burns us!" A fishmonger screams and dies as you motion your hand in his direction. His life's end is the cause of 20 more. One step after the other. Until that step gains pace, and you run down the town. Bringing forth your parade of spark and flare.

And as you pass that last homestead where the old crone once lived. You see them. The pair of green eyes townspeople spoke of in fear. Calling emeralds poison. What a cruel comment to such beauty. The man stares back at you in something that is quite the contrast to what the dying people look like as they die around you. The flames spreading from building to building.

"What business do you have with no fear in your eyes." You call. Only to receive a chuckle in answer. And the sound of footsteps following. You hadn't noticed he had made his way to you. Getting closer quicker than you could register.

"I've been watching you." The man croons. Voice the same as the little visitor you had earlier. Something carresses you, fingers. That brush the inner parts of your flaming soul.

Another hand drapes across your waist, pulls you closer to dance you back into the town. Even aflame, the man stays unaffected.

"You're the visitor."

"I am your god." He laughs, peering emeralds back at you. To watch your flame engulfed eyes open wide in shock as you breathe in sharp. What words can you say when such beauty lingers above you and holds you so gently? Your own hands join the expanse of his mesh covered back, your head leaning against his shoulder.

He was the one who set your soul ablaze. Reminicent to that of a pure fire. But you had never given him much thought other than your nights of prayer back in the grove? Why was he here? Why did he come for you?

"My lord," you murmur, carefully dipping yourself into him as he leans you over in the middle of your twirl of fire.

"Alessio, is just fine." The response is so simple, yet it shakes you to the core. You've always been taught, that nevermind which god you spoke of. Whether Nadirian or Zenithian, any god of any kind. You never speak their true name. You speak the name they have given to the human realm.

Alessio sees the hesitance and huffs as a smile curls at the corners of his black painted lips. Before he dips his head down to meet yours, the sear of his magic writing itself across your lips, and his name on your tongue.

What else can you do but gasp it like a fire begging for air?

"Alessio—"

"That's better." He groans, his right hand retreating its hold of your internal flame. Instead it joins the part of your waist that itched to feel touch like the other side. The slender and graceful hands lift you up with no problem. His chin grazes against the skin of your stomach, while his lips worship in trails.

"I thought you hated me."

Alessio's lips halt by the border to your lower abdomen. The cold of his breath against your hot skin. "No, No I never hated you dear." He replies while his arms wrap around you to pull you closer and rest his cheek on your stomach.

"I've adored you ever since I discovered your existence."

"When did you discover me."

"After the very first village you burned." He replies with a smile and remains on his knees. How strange it is to have a god on his knees before you. It makes your lungs shrivel like they've been deprived of all privaleges to breathe.

You hand instinctively moves through his hair, combing the soft black tressers, before caressing the long, dark devilish horn. Whispering "That was three decades ago."

The skin on your face burns and flushes red at the blissful groan that emits from his throat. What did you do? Was it the horn? You try your luck again and watch as he bites his lip. "Don't you enjoy torturing me." He teases.

Alessio's hand chases yours, however, when it retreats from his horn almost immediately as his words process in your brain.

"No, put them back. Tug. Feel. Let me be the fuel to your flame." He groans against your skin. Leaving crecent marks on the fat of your thigh. "It's time you come home with me." He continues, tongue slithering between your thighs to worship what hides between.

"Alessio, o-oh god— Ale-Alessio." You cry out, the screams of the town and the crackling of flame suddenly all drowning out in your ears. As if he had cast a veil of silence over the world so you could hear him only.

"You're beautiful." He pants, hungrily lapping away at the essence that pours out of you. The erotic sight of him before he touched you had affected your body more than you realized. You hadn't felt the throb that suddenly greeted the sensitive nerves of your heat. "You've felt this before — hah. . . haven't ya?"

Realisation hits you harder than the blast of fire that crumbles one of the nearby houses. Alessio had always been around you since the heated summerday when the first village fell. He had accompanied the hardest of nights. Pleasured you to relax the nerves that ached after the wandering.

"It's you — Oh f-fuck, my god- it's you." You sob, fisting the black locks in your grasp to pull him closer. Whimpering as he eats you for all you're worth. The little chuckles and groans that rumble from his throat to your entrance vibrates through your sensitive walls and makes you clench around nothing.

"don't worry, I am not done with you."

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[rootspiral]

Agatha All Along deep dive: episode 9 part 3

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the river flowing. mushrooms and lichens growing from a fallen tree. nicky's other mom is always with them.

agatha clearly loves teaching nicky all she knows about magic, because she is a teacher at heart! and he's literally the first person she gets to pass her knowledge on to, she's relishing every minute of it.

meanwhile poor nicky is just hungry. because the fucker makes him live in the woods.

and I guess she finds it easier to be honest when it's about explaining how magic works.

oh no the way they're whispering is so cute??? and she'll keep calling it her purple long after nicky's death.

and this has been pointed out many times, but when nicky smiles you're sure reminded of how they went out of their way to find a kid who looked like aubrey plaza too

another thing that has been pointed out ad nauseam and it will be repeated again, because it's so good: I cannot heal you, like jen would. I cannot protect you, like alice would. and I cannot divine, like lilia would.

could a real coven have healed nicky, protected him, saved him from his fate? did she kill him sooner than necessary by keeping him cold and starving in the woods? agatha will never know, because despite all her love, she put her own fear over his safety. maybe nicky would have died anyway, but it's still cruel and unfair that he had to spend the little time he had on earth in such a lonely way.

agatha, despite all the mind tricks she plays on herself and on others, is simply too smart to not see that what she's doing is selfish, harmful to nicky, and ultimately futile. this is why she'd rather blame rio, and it's why she can't go to nicky in the afterlife: she can't face her own guilt.

(also, she's afraid she'll find a version of him that can now understand what she did and will hate her for it.) (and I imagine that a grown up nicholas would have had a hard time coming to terms with his childhood too.)

and still. and still. this whole mess of a person doing a terrible job at raising her son? she's also the daughter of an abusive mother who is trying to be better, she is trying to give him what she never had - love, support, knowledge. her selfish choices don't negate all the love and joy she gave him too.

and on top of everything else, nicky is about to freaking die! in modern times we'd say he has a terminal illness, she doesn't know how much time she has left with him. that is an impossible lot to navigate, especially for a person alone and carrying with her so much baggage and trauma and unhealthy coping mechanisms. keeping nicky so isolated is the only way she feels like she has an illusion of control over the inevitable.

agatha is not only denying nicky a coven, she's denying herself a community that would have helped her carry this burden, that would have taught and encouraged her to do better, that would have ultimately shared her pain in mourning. isn't that another tragedy within the tragedy? knowing what could have been?

agatha teaches him magic, even though he doesn't have any. maybe he was still too young, maybe he really was just a regular kid. still, she teaches him.

NOT THE DANDELION. i'm about to bite my screen in anguish

sure, sure, the time has come to go. I'm fine, I'm totally fine.

aaaaaand some more scamming!!!

agatha the ham is one of my favorite agathas. but wait, I'll make you sad again now! they're doing this shit because they don't have any money to eat. and nicky is clearly sick, and agatha is still making him do it. because they don't have any money to eat.

meanwhile witches everywhere are getting curious about the Ballad. (doesn't she look a bit like sadie sink?)

for the THIRD TIME a witch notices nicky coughing / how sick he is and offers her coven's help.

nicky looks agatha straight in the eyes and refuses to lure witches to their deaths. he stands up for himself. he disobeys.

and yes, the obvious double meaning: my other mother needs me home.

agatha forgets all her scheming and runs after him in a panic. she is losing control over him. she is losing him.

go to episode 9 part 4

[proheromidoriyashouto]

Rookanis Accidental Baby Acquisition AU

Zara Renata was about to call Illario "amatus", right? Lover? Wouldn't it be fucked up if they had a child. Like in a back room or office or something and Rook's team and Lucanis found them before they left the Ossuary.

Assuming Zara had real feelings for Illario, maybe she felt bad to had "killed" his beloved cousin and was like "Here. Another of your bloodline to love." Which for blood mages is probably of some significance.

And Illario couldn't bring this bastard Dellamorte home to Caterina. There's too much at stake at the moment. He'll come for them after making himself the First Talon and eliminating the threat of the Crows. His regime was going to align with the Venatori anyway so it's just a waiting game. His claim will be stronger when he reveals an heir with Venatori ties, too.

Except maybe Zara locked their child away before fighting Rook's party- for protection- so Illario had to make the call to leave them behind, intending to return after they'd left, only to find that Rook and company have already come to the rescue.

What does he do? He can't accuse Rook and Lucanis of having his secret Venatori bastard in their possession. He doesn't even know that for certain. Another Venatori could have made the rounds and taken them along to another facility.

He's panicking because his cousin he tried to have assassinated is very much alive, furious about it, and his own infant child is out in the world somewhere lost, possibly in the possession of mages who work for the Blighted gods, and the Crows are bound to find out--!

Meanwhile, Rook and company have a baby now. Even if they can't be 100% sure Illario is the father, they can't just leave this kid at any orphanage. Their mother was Zara Renata, infamous Zenatori blood mage, with no shortage of enemies who could possibly do something terrible blood-magic-fucked-up-style to a baby.

Despite Lucanis absolutely denying Illario's possible paternity, the child is obviously Antivan with big dark brown eyes and the thick wavy hair. Lucanis cannot handle the much more at this point. He was just freed from imprisonment after a year of being tortured and fused with a demon, certain someone in the Crows has betrayed him, he does not sleep, he's so tired. He's a man on the brink. He can just agree that the child is better off with his new employer than a blood mage prison or without protection out in the world.

He does not stay up at night thinking about the familiar features of his cousin brother on a small round face just a few rooms away. He has enough on his mind, Spite! And if he thinking about the baby, it's only because he can't comprehend how a monster like Zara Renata had such an innocent creature in her clutches in that gods-forsaken place.

The team is hesitant on how to even start taking care of a baby, but Rook is into it. They're so cute! And sure babies cry and poop and test one's patience, but it there's anyone who is going to understanding about it, it's going to be the optimistic team leader who made the call to take the child with them in the first place. Rook made that choice and they're going to stand by it. Besides, the child needs someone to be a consistent caretaker right?

While the team helps in the day time, nighttime feedings and diaper changes are mostly Rook's responsibility. And the milk station is in the kitchen where Lucanis just so happens to be most nights.

Reluctant baby bonding with Lucanis every night. Talking in soft tones over the sounds of infant suckling at a warm bottle in Rook's arms. Lucanis offering to burp them over his shoulder, nose buried in their soft hair, Spite quiet for once. Rook sitting next to him and telling he's good at this, taking care of others. Something he's never been allowed to do with Caterina all but caging him within the confines of Crow duty and terror as surely as any mage's prison.

Hands touching as the baby is transferred from one another. Rook catching Lucanis' soft, unguarded smile looking down at the babbling baby, little hands reaching for his face. Lucanis scolding the baby in a playful voice when they tug at his beard and hair. That kind of dexterity will be good for handling kitchen knives later.

Maybe he could teach them to bake? They might make a good kitchen assistant if he starts tutoring them now before the team can pass down bad habits. He tells them never to follow Harding's cooking advice or develop Neve's preference for Tevinter coffee. They will be a good little Antivan chef, yes.

Shared glances over late-night coffee and cioccolata calda and an empty milk bottle. Giving unhelpful advice on how to properly change a cloth diaper, knocking shoulders. Exasperated sighs as they take turns bouncing the crying baby trying to soothe some unknown hurt for hours. Spite's wings fascinating the baby, who stops crying to reach for black feathers that disappear as they brush against their skin. A first kiss shared over a sleepy child cuddled to Lucanis' chest.

Even after accepting the truth, Lucanis can't bring them to Caterina. Can't stomach this child going through the same conditional love and training to be a Crow that he went through, and that will inevitably happen if he, or Illario, come forward about it.

So he makes the decision to lock up Illario just so he can approach him in private to imply that the child has been found and is safe in Rook's hands. Because Lucanis still loves Illario, and Illario does care somewhere deep down about his child's life. Lucanis can't afford to lose the family he's finding for himself now, not even for the family he used to have. It's a tenuous balance.

And in the years to come, if that child lives in a Lighthouse in the Fade, and squeals a delighted papà! as soon as they see Lucanis returning from Treviso. Well. That's Veilguard, not Crow, business.

[mikaazune]

Am I the only one drawing wicked parallels between them? And not just the fact that I'm jealous of their hair...

Spoilers for Alien Stage (through Round 5 to Weige)! Seriously, don't read if you haven't watched Weige specifically.

They're both very loyal to their friends and would risk their lives for them (and did in fact risk their lives for them). Baji didn't want Mikey to kill Kazutora over him, hence him stabbing himself. While Hyuna definitely hated or at least really disliked Luka, she wanted to let go of her hate. She was also probably very conflicted because they used to be close friends. Either way, she put herself in the line of fire to protect Luka from being shot.

This could also be aligned with them both being selfless. Hyuna's first action after escaping is literally going back to the Anakt Garden after losing her leg to try to free the other kids. She went back to the place that she'd just escaped from to help others, risking her own freedom and/or life on the process. Baji left Toman because he realized that he couldn't take down Kisaki without causing conflict with him and Mikey. He basically jeopardized his relationship with Mikey and the rest of Toman by joining another gang to find a way to get rid of Kisaki. To everyone else (minus Chifuyu), it looked like he betrayed them.

Additionally, they both have a wilder side and like to cause trouble. Baji is described as liking the thrill of adrenaline and Mikey says that he'll punch people and start fights for no reason, just because he feels like it. The two of them are both described as having smiles on their faces while fighting, even in dangerous situations like Hyuna's often in. She'll be blasting robots and blowing stuff up. Even when she saves Mizi in All-In (notably not Round 5, presumably because of Luka'a presence), she's grinning.

But despite having this wild side, they both care a lot for others, specifically their friends. Hyuna cared for Luka before he killed Hyun Woo, the three of them were really close friends. Hyuna also took in Mizi after saving her with zero hesitation, and she continued to look out for Mizi throughout the events they went through in All-In. In Blink Gone, she didn't want Mizi to go back to save Till because Mizi would be risking everything going right back to Alien Stage and could potentially get killed or get dragged back into the competition. Baji had a lot of faith in Ryusei and Chifuyu and knew he could trust both of them, and he knew he could let loose around them. Baji used Takemichi punching Kisaki as an excuse to leave, yes, but he was also saving Takemichi from a much worse fate because at that point, Takemichi (who iirc wasn't even an official member of the gang yet) had just punched the newly appointed third division captain. Baji mentions several times that he doesn't want to disappoint his mom, hence why he does his best to study. Not to mention that he was sending letters to Kazutora while the latter was locked up in the detention center, even though Kazutora had been the one to convince Baji to sneak into Shin's shop with him and nearly got Baji sent to the detention center too for Shin's murder. The only reason he wasn't was because Mikey testified for him.

They both died for people they cared about. Like I said earlier, Baji stabbed himself so that his death wouldn't be on Kazutora's hands and thus would get him killed by Mikey. Even though Kazutora had stabbed him earlier, Baji was still trying to protect him even though it meant that he'd die in the process. Hyuna, up until the events of Round 7 (at least from what I can tell), had despised Luka, but she was finally ready to let go of that. She took the bullet meant for him because deep down, she still cared for him. Her last words to him were, "I resented you so. I had to keep moving forward in every moment... but you were always my one and only weakness. That's why I resented you so. Luka, live with love. Embrace the pain, the frailty, and the moments so unbearably shameful. Forgive yourself... again and again, endlessly. Because everything... begins from there." She wanted him to lead a better life and used her last words to him to tell him that. They both cared and died for people that were very complicated and had some (putting it politely) issues to work through (let's not forget that Luka killed Hyuna's brother because he wanted her for himself and wasn't willing to "share" her with Hyun Woo).

I'm sure there's way more to analyze between the two of them but yeah, I'll leave it here. I just had to get it all out of my brain so I could take a nap.

[theoriginalkaminari]

Would you ever write what Yandere Aizawa or Present Mic would be like? Also I love your writing!

Thank you so much! I appreciate you!

Also, would you like both?

Because like goddamn, there is no escape from EITHER.

Imagine you're a fellow teacher at U.A hero academy.

You're literally the perfect thing, beautiful, (handsome), kind, innocent and intelligent. Who wouldn't like you?

When you first got a job at U.A, Shota Aizawa was pretty distant towards you. As he is to most people.

"Aizawa, would you like to-"

"No."

"But I didn't even-"

"No."

So yeah, at first Aizawa had no interest in you or what you had to offer. But you were so nice...and every kid in his class looked up to you because of how amazing you were...and Aizawa just couldn't ignore you for long. He would often hear his class talking about you in class.

"Y/N-Sensei looked so cool today!"

"How did they get their quirk to be so strong, ribbit..."

"Man!! They're so manly!"

"Tch. Whatever. Their not that strong."

"Huh? Oh, come on, Kacchan! You know their awesome! Just admit it!"

"Shut it, dunce face, before I toss you out the damn window."

These were just some of the conversations Aizawa heard about you. Most of them talked about how strong you or your quirk was, with the occasional pervy comment left by Mineta.

Aizawa gets more and more interested in you day after day. The way you dress, how you talk, he slowly but surely starts becoming more and more protective and even possessive over you.

He gets closer to you, listens to you ramble about your hyperfixations, or just anything, really.

He stil trys l convinces himself that he doesn't love you, but that ends quickly when you start dating a pro hero.

Aizawa was fucking furious. Why would you waist your time on a person who loves the spotlight more than they love you, when you could be with him?!

The only reason the person isn't dead yet, is because Aizawa doesn't want you to be upset.

So instead he just makes sure that pro hero can't climb up the hero ranks. For your whole relationship with them, that pro hero is stuck at the 30th spot.

But that all changes when you don't come to work one day. Because Aizawa is a good person, he goes to your apartment to make sure you're okay.

You end up spilling your guts out to him, cryong as you say you found out the pro hero you were dating cheated on you with a hotter co-worker.

All laws about murder, prepare to be ignored!

The raven haired man kills him, obviously. Not like a lot of people would be distraught, he wasn't popular at all. Thanks to him, of course. Hardly anyone cared, even you. That asshole treated you like shit, but you still felt bad.

Doing you a favor, Aizawa even made it seem like the girl that pro hero cheated on you with was the one who killed him, and she was sent to the slammer.

But he still didn't have you.

"Heya, Shota!" Hizashi smiles brightly as he takes a seat next to his friend in the teacher's lounge.

Aizawa simply nods at him. Hizashi tilts his head, leaning back on the chair he sits in. Hizashi isn't stupid, he can see that something's bothering his bestfriend. "Somethin' wrong, Shota?" He asks in a quieter tone, which isn't saying much.

Aizawa nods again.

Hizashi looks around the teachers lounge, making sure its empty. He leans in closer, a devilish smirk on his face. "Ya know, Shota." He whispers, wrapping an arm around his shoulder.

"I know what you did." He whispers in his ear, making Aizawa freeze. Aizawa panics inside, but he remains a calm exterior so Hizashi doesn't suspect anything. Maybe he's talking about something else.

"I know you killed that new hero, didn't you?" Hizashi finally whispers again. Aizawa freezes again. No. Hizashi...wouldn't report him to the police...would he? He wouldn't expose him! Would...Aizawa have to kill him too?

Suddenly, Hizashi smirks. "Hey, hey, don't panic." He laughs, pulling off him slightly. "You did it for L/N, right?" He asks in a very quiet tone.

Aizawa glances at him. Now he was confused. What? Why was he asking? "Why does it matter?Don't tell me I'll have to kill you too." Aizawa says in a threatening and quiet tone.

Hizashi smiles and shakes his head. "No, no!" He leans closer again. "In fact," that same devilish grin appears on his face. "I want in." He whispers.

Thats how Eraserhead and Present Mic became partners in becoming incredibly obsessed with you.

Now, Hizashi was a lot different than Aizawa, and 10 times more obsessed. He's a lot more manipulative and controlling, and very very very clingy.

Together, they work together. Aizawa kills, and Hizashi covers it up.

Hizashi puts secret cameras in your office and Aizawa watches the footage. Honestly, you should really lock your doors...

...because they also enjoy watching you sleep in person.

I mean, what?

[saltywinteradult]

“there is no way in hell Alicent is going to abandon her children” why not?

Aegon’s a rapist and Aemond’s a sociopathic kinslayer, why should Alicent be forced to stay loyal to them?

I understand Rhaenyra why loves Jace, Luke and Joffrey because what’s not to love, they’re perfect. But I cannot see Alicent genuinely loving Aegon and Aemond after everything they’ve done.

It would be 100x more radical and feminist for Alicent to choose Rhaenyra, to put herself first, to stop letting men control her.

Goodness me, I hardly know where to start with this.

I don’t know how you think parental love works, nonny dearest, but it sure as hell isn’t "I won't love my children if they're not perfect people". That’s generally not how parenthood works. And Alicent loves her children. She was sold as a child bride and endured years of rape for the sake of producing those children. Raising and protecting them has been the main purpose of Alicent’s life for twenty years. How could she not love them?

In case you need proof, Alicent physically attacked Rhaenyra, arguably the big love of her life, because she was that angry (and rightfully so) about her son being maimed. Alicent went along with usurping Rhaenyra's throne, despite knowing it would lead to war and ruin what little chance she had left of mending things with Rhaenyra, because she loves her children and is desperate to keep them safe, and she believes that Rhaenyra would kill them to secure her claim to the throne. (Whether that is true is a different discussion - what matters here is that Alicent believes it.) Alicent stepped in front of a dragon to protect Aegon, for crying out loud. Aegon being a rapist clearly tarnished him in her eyes, and yet she still stepped in front of that dragon to protect him. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about Alicent's love for her children, I don't know what will. So I don't know that this is a case of Alicent being "forced" to stay loyal to her children, as much as it is Alicent choosing to stay loyal to the people she loves most in the world.

I would also like to point out that Rhaenyra's children are very much not perfect. Jace and Luke both participated in bullying Aemond. In case you forgot, it was Luke who literally mutilated and permanently disabled Aemond. It doesn't matter if Aemond was in the wrong for claiming Vhagar or calling the Strong boys bastards. He wasn't, but even if he was, cutting out someone's eye is not a thing that good people do. So I don't know where you got the idea that Jace and Luke are "perfect", nonny dearest, but it sure as hell wasn't from HotD.

I'm not going to argue over whether Luke maiming Aemond is more or less bad than Aegon raping Dyana or Aemond killing Luke (which is his fault, even if in this version of the story he didn't intend for it to happen). That's not the point. And please note, I am not making a single excuse for Aegon raping Dyana or Aemond killing Luke. I'm simply pointing out that it is extremely hypocritical to claim that Aemond and Aegon are unloveable because of the terrible things they do, but Jace and Luke are loveable when they both do terrible things as well.

And here's the thing. Rhaenyra clearly loves Jace and Luke anyway. Why wouldn't she? They're her kids and she loves them flaws and all. So why is it any less believable that Alicent would love Aegon and Aemond? Why are Jace and Luke loveable despite their terrible deeds, but Aegon and Aemond aren't? And if Alicent choosing Rhaenyra, whom she loves, would be a feminist storytelling choice, why would it be any less feminist for her to choose to stay with her family whom she loves just as much? Why are Alicent's choices only Feminist and Radical when they benefit Rhaenyra?

Even if it were true that Alicent abandoning her family and becoming lifetime president of the Rhaenyra Fan Club would make for a more feminist story - which, to be clear, it isn't - my first priority is not for the story to be The Most Radical And Feminist™. I want the story to be good. And I do not think that making Alicent abandon her family for Rhaenyra would make for a good story. It goes completely against Alicent's characterisation to have her abandon the family we're shown time and time again that she loves more than anything else. Not only would that be a betrayal of her character, it would undermine the narrative as a whole.

For better or worse, these two women and their relationship have been made central to this story. They are foils and they've each been made into the figurehead of their respective teams in every way, down to the marketing of the show. It would simply be bad storytelling to throw off that narrative balance by having them team up. It would completely upend the story being told. The point of making Rhaenyra and Alicent's relationship so central to the show is that despite their love for each other they were still driven apart and forced to become enemies. Having them reconcile would undermine the point that this story is a tragedy.