This is a little snippet from an au where Johanna, Dream, Calliope and Hob have been friends since childhood. For now titled Rome wasn’t build in a day (idk yet if it will stick)
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setting: Dream & Calliope’s wedding
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Calliope taps Hob’s shoulder.
“May I have my husband back?”
The tone is just right for the request to come off innocuos, but there is an edge, a warning in her eyes as Hob stops the dance, his hands falling off of Dream.
“Ah, of course,” he says, stepping away.
The smile he gives to the both of them is forced, and Dream’s forehead creases, but then Calliope cups his cheek (her husband’s cheek, they are husband and wife now), turning Dream’s head to face her, and they smile at each other. She pulls Dream into a kiss, and when they part he only has eyes for her.
As he should.
….
After that, Hob leaves the party.
There’s nothing left for him to do or say.
He walks out into the street, taking off his suit and loosening his tie in the warm evening.
He takes a deep breath, stopping in front of the venue, looking up at the sky to stop the tears from falling.
He laughs at himself.
A man in his thirties. Crying over a lost love that was never really his. Beautiful and always out of reach, just like the stars.
Fuck.
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Tagging @omgcinnamoncakes , @dsudis , @issylra , @zigzag-wanderer and @zencetera
MARIONMORSE, DROP ANOTHER HELMETPARTY SCENARIO AND MY LIFE IS YOUUURSS 🙏🙏🙏🙏
do u think... Do you think sometimes when the team has a movie night, when they watch those 60's action war movies like "Von Ryan's Express" and "Battle of the Bulge" or spaghetti westerns like "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" and "Death Rides on a Horse," Soldier pauses during or right after fight scenes or duels or whatever to obsessively overanalyze them. Like, he'll try and turn them into strategies to use on the job, takes, uhm, 'notes', (tactical doodles,) sets up nerdy models using a whiteboard map and improvised figurines, uses these examples when he does those psyche-up pre-battle speeches or during strategy meetings.
'Cause I bet he does, I bet he does that, and it completely kills the momentum of the movie to the point where the rest of the team gets disinterested and slowly leaves him behind to do their own thing.
I genuinely bet Engie wouldn't though, nah, I bet he's enough of a patient kind of gentle kind of man willing to stick through these pauses 'cause he's just that into the movie. And maybe he's just a teeny bit into Soldier's dissections of actiony chaos. Maybe gleans a bit of an understanding of Soldier's thinking that way. Admires the guy's passion about his 'research,' how thoughtfully he gathers details in an effort to help the team. Starts mixing in tapes for these sorts of movies more regularly to their movie night pool maybe subconsciously, maybe on purpose. The rest of the team doing their own movie night. losers.
So was anybody going to tell me that the Japanese Destiny 2 trailer was a giant dance party, or was I supposed to just wait 7 years for the algorithm to suggest it to me
I know we’ll be the best of friends
So there’s no need to run
The sooner you get dead the sooner you can join the fun!
No need to fear for I am here!
Your mortal form will disappear!
Now should we use this rusty knife
Or acid water gun? Oohoohoohahahahaha!
i think one of the most disappointing things is to see that your childhood friends have grown up to represent the kind of people you're disappointed in
This will be a 64-participant bracket of a bunch of horror game protagonists! Tournament will start tomorrow. Below I have a list of participants and a view of the bracket. Please let me know if there's any big ones I missed!