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When She Loved Me | Love Witch
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cassian x love witch reader | summary: The stars yearn for you to look up at them again.
warnings: angst/longing, mentions of death and losing loved ones
word count: 639
a/n: This piece was inspired by this ask and I just want to say thank you to that sweet anon for inspiring this! It is told by the POV of the Stars and gives a bit more insight into Love Witch's life and will lead into another part.
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In the vast expanse of the night sky, they glitter and gleam like ancient sentinels of the universe. For eons, they have watched over the realms, whispering secrets of the cosmos to those who dare to listen. Among all the souls they’ve guided, was her.
The one born from fated love and cosmic hearts.
From the moment of her conception, they knew she was destined for greatness. Her essence intertwined with the very fabric of the stars. They watched as she grew over the years, loving her as much as she loved them. 
When she was sad they cried with her, twinkling in sympathetic sorrow. When she was lonely, they were there to comfort her and guide her with their light to the path back to brighter days. When she was happy, they’d glitter and streak across the sky, sharing her joy.
Her eyes, so often turned skyward, reflected their light.  And in those moments, the stars felt so complete. Because she was their child, their beloved.
The one who could dance with the constellations and speak the language of the universe.
But darkness, insidious and cruel, crept into Prythian.
It stole away her parents. The ones who held her hand as a child as she gazed at their splendor, the ones who taught her to love them. Grief was a darkness of its own. It wrapped itself around her like a heavy blanket, its icy tendrils seeping into her heart.
She no longer looked up to the stars.
Every night, as the sun dipped below the horizon, the stars would awaken, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. They yearned to offer their comfort and guidance as they always did, especially during these painful times. But the love witch, once so open to their whispers, had drawn her curtains tight, shutting them out. 
She believed the stars had forsaken her.
Abandoned her and damned her with sorrow. Because if they loved her so much, why did they let such a cruel fate fall upon those she cherished most? Why would they allow her to hurt like this?
She did not know that though the stars were ever knowing and ever gleaming, even they had their limits. They could only guide. It was up to the observer to decide, for fate ultimately rests in the hands of those who dare to shape it.
They wanted to tell her this but she even locked away the earrings her parents gifted her on her first century birthday. The ones enchanted with their stardust, who loved to echo their compliments and advice. Their child, their beloved, had shut them out.
 And they, helpless in their distant brilliance, could do nothing but wait and hope.
Oh, how the stars longed to reach her, to tell her that they had not turned away, that they ached to show her the path back to brightness. Each twinkle, each shimmer, was a plea for her to look up, to remember the love and light they shared.
But she remained cloaked in her darkness, unaware of their vigil.
There were nights when her dreams were troubled, and they painted the sky with brilliant constellations, each one a story of hope and resilience. Yet, she never saw them, her curtains a barrier too thick for their light to penetrate.
Time passed, and they watched over her, their sweet love witch, with unwavering devotion. They knew that one day, she might look up again. 
One day, she might remember that they were there, waiting.
And so, they continued to shine, their light unwavering, their love eternal. For they are her guardians, her stars, and they will wait for however long it takes.
One day, the curtains will be drawn. One day, she will see the light and know that she has never been alone.
And when she finally welcomes them back to her life, they’ll make sure she never succumbs to that loneliness again.
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a/n: This was originally going to be attached to Love Witch's reaction/POV from the tarot reading but I liked the idea of it standing alone.
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songsofadelaide · 3 months
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Hello! Recently read a few of your kn8 Soshiro x Reader fics and fell in love with your writing style. It's so lovely, and I really like your portrayal of him! If you're okay with requests, can you maybe write a Soshiro/female!Reader story where the two have a number of memorable chance meetings from childhood to adulthood, until they "officially" meet in the Defense Force? I'm lowkey obsessed with the idea of two people who meet as kids and are repeatedly separated and reunited during different stages of life, before reuniting for good as adults who can be together. Bonus points if the reader is Kafka's silly little sister!
Sorry if this is a lot, and thanks for reading it all!
I love your big brain, anon. The childhood friends trope is really at the top of everything for some reason! But soulmates, too? (Or something like that lol.) These are just a few of my favourite things to write.
Hope you enjoy this!
cw: (F) Reader/OC has a name in this fic, Hibino Mayari, and is six years younger than Kafka and one year younger than Mina. There may be some inaccuracy with the ages. Written with a generic (f) reader in mind. ✧ Mayari is the deity of the moon, night, war, revolution, equality, and strength in the Philippines. Since Kafka had a unique name, I thought I'd give his little sister one, too. Think of it as their mother being some kind of voracious reader and giving her children names they absolutely cannot find in souvenir shops. wc: 3.8k
✧ Stardust - Sakura Fujiwara
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stardust
Lucky stars, a trick of the gods, destiny— you could call your meeting so many different things. Strings so intricately twined that you'd think it to be a single rope, raindrops from the same cloud falling into the same ocean, and shadows coming together as the sun reaches a point in the sky. There wasn't a single part of you that wouldn't recognise the soul that touched yours that fateful day.
What was it like to make a promise to someone? Your older brother promised you many things— sweets after school, a piggyback ride whenever you got tired of running after him, and taking you wherever you wanted. Such were the little sister privileges granted to you by your older brother Kafka.
In the wake of your home's destruction, you remember him making a promise to a girl— your next-door neighbour Mina, and how they both swore to rise above and become the coolest Defense Force Officer the world has ever seen. You wanted in on that promise, too, and Kafka agreed only because you were his younger sister, his only one in this world. And Mina agreed because there was no way she could refuse you and your eagerness.
"I want to be a Defense Force Officer, too!"
"Then let's race! Me, Mina, and Mayari! Let's see who becomes the coolest of them all!" 
Not long after making that promise, you were caught amid a Yoju attack that separated you from Kafka and your mother. You screamed and wailed for your older brother, for anyone at that point, only to be rescued by a lone swordsman who swept through the field with his single blade. Your nameless saviour brought you to the nearest evacuation centre, where you reunited with your family and the rest of your community. 
You only knew swordsmen from legends and anime and not even once in your life did you ever think you'd be rescued by one, but then you were. And you couldn't peel your eyes away from the older man, who was clearly flattered by how you followed him around the evacuation centre with your curious eyes. 
"Is there anything I can do for you, little one?"
"I—! I want to be a swordsman, too!"
He chuckled at your declaration, calling it an admirable intention, but the light in your eyes revealed the depth of your earnestness— a rarity for children like you who have lost nearly everything in your life— mostly due to Kaiju attacks. 
The old man in the familiar Defense Force uniform crouched down and held out his hand for a handshake with you. "Very well. If you wish to devote yourself to the way of the sword, you must be willing to sacrifice your existing way of life."
He scrounged a wrinkled sheet of paper and a pen and wrote down an address that your practised eyes could read. "Ho… shina?"
"That's correct. If you truly wish to learn more about swordsmanship, come to this place, and I will teach you all that our family knows." 
That little scrap of paper became your most treasured possession. After weeks of pestering your older brother to take you to that place, he eventually relented and allowed you a maximum of 30 minutes before he came to pick you up again. 
You were almost turned away from the dojo when the students mistook you for a lost child, but your saviour recognised you— and your eyes filled with hope. When you introduced yourself to him once more and reiterated your intention to learn the way of the sword, he acknowledged you with a deep bow, which you quickly imitated. 
"I have a son your age. He will be the one to teach you the most basic yet valuable lessons when it comes to swordsmanship," he said before gesturing at a boy in the same haori and hakama as him. "Soshiro."
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Rumours about the high schooler Hibino Mayari and her incredible sword arm reached even the ears of her older brother in college. While you remained his adorable little sister for the most part, it was clear to Kafka that you had a gift for the sword you had to continue honing. From his estimation, you won't have any difficulty passing the Defense Force Entrance Exams, but that will depend on your overall combat power and affinity for firearms. 
At 23, he had already failed four times, while you had one more year before you could take it yourself. And while you didn't wish for your brother to lose hope, the way things were going for him did not bode well. 
You were both home for the weekend, Kafka with his can of beer in hand while you practised your swings with your bokken in your backyard. 
"Aniki," you started. "Mina nee-san will take the entrance exams later this year, right?" 
"Yeah. Wish her luck when you can," he told you. "Speaking of which, didn't you say your friend will be taking the exam, too?" 
"Shiro-kun has family in the Defense Force. Though I doubt he'd try to get in the force by family connections alone," you said with a smile. "It's been years since I last saw him, so I wonder if he's really going to take the exam this year like he said before."
As a child, you learned everything you could about swordsmanship under the tutelage of the age-old samurai clan, but after being assessed at the age of 13, the Hoshina patriarch declared you a shodan, an estimation which meant you already had a clear grasp of the basics of swordsmanship. 
"It's a pity they had to let you go just when you were getting good, huh?" Kafka remarked as he drank deep from his can of beer. 
"I know, but Shisho said Shiro-kun and I were quickly becoming big fish in a small pond and training with a single person for a long time would narrow our perspective, so we had to start training with others. At least that's what he told me," you replied to him as you rested your bokken on your stiff shoulder. "I'm glad the schools I went to had Kendo clubs with members of varying levels of strengths and skill, so I was able to make use of my knowledge while learning new things at the same time." 
"Oh, come on. You learned swordsmanship from an elite dojo. We both know you just wanted to show off— ow!" He said with a small snort, to which you replied by lightly kicking his shin. "Mayari!"
"Well, maybe I do want to show off a little," you huffed at your older brother. 
"They even gave you some tacky nickname, right? Crescent blade Mayari! Pfft!"  
You kicked his shin a bit harder this time. "Aniki! I didn't ask for that! My kouhais thought it was cool, so…"
"So you ran with it," Kafka nodded at you before gently kicking you back. You could tell from the way he looked at you that he kind of wanted to cry. "I am proud of you, Mayari."
That can't be helped, you told yourself. Aniki is always so honest with himself, after all. 
"Thank you, aniki. Don't go crying on me now. I'll always be your adorable little sister," you replied to him with a laugh and playfully batted your eyelashes at him. "Speaking of which, this adorable little sister of yours just saw this pretty dress in—"
"H-Hey! Don't get too ahead of yourself, Mayari!" 
"Aniki," you said to him with a smile. "I hope you know I'll always be rooting for you, too, so don't give up, okay? I'm sure Mina nee-san will be waiting for you— and me— when she passes the exam this year."
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"Shiro-kun!" 
It was an endearing nickname that was even more endearing by the sweet way you said it. If he was being honest, Soshiro did not think much of you back then. For him, you were just a little girl his father invited to learn and train swordsmanship. You were different from him in the way flowers grew from the same bush. While they were equally tended to, some will grow larger than others and bloom more brilliantly, too. 
He likened you to a grafted plant— one attached to him by the roots. And brilliantly did you bloom, indeed. A wildflower that thrived from the same water and sunlight as he did. For him, it was only a matter of time until you bloomed in fullness and outgrew him, but that never happened because his father uprooted you to the quick— for growing at a rate he did not expect from someone like you. 
That, and he did not expect his sons to start fighting over you. And though you were one of his most excellent pupils, he didn't deem you worth the trouble his sons would stir if you did not permit them to tame you. 
You parted your place of learning in good faith and had nothing but gratitude for the Hoshina Family, but there were times you thought it was unfair. He will continue learning under the best of the best while you have to carry on by yourself… But you were more disheartened by the fact that you would not see him again. 
Soshiro was truly the best rival you could ever ask for. As you entered middle school and high school and razed through club after club and joined every tournament you could, you soon realised that no one else could ever come close to him— both in skill and in something else you couldn't quite put a finger on. You searched for him in every opponent you came across, only to be disappointed time and again that they were not even at your level. 
In your final year of high school, during your school's long-anticipated cultural festival, the drama club needed someone with your skill, and they made you the centrepiece of their performance by teaching you a sword dance that drew spectators to your graceful form. 
"She's a marvel."
For once in his life, Soshiro was glad to have let his curiosity win him over. He was glad he sighted you in your high school's silly-looking cultural festival poster— for never did he expect to see the most beautiful wildflower in full bloom, adorned with silk and grace that did little to conceal her thorns as she danced to the strong yet tender rhythm of an equally gorgeous piece of music played on a shamisen. 
That was his wildflower. 
When he came to see you after your performance, all you could say was his name. "Shiro-kun!"
And it sounded just as sweet as when he last heard it. 
"Are ya just dancin' now?"
"Of course not! I was just helping the drama club!" You retorted with a smile. "If you wish to challenge me, all you have to do is ask." 
Your wordless duel of wooden swords was akin to dance as well, both of you equally deft, your movements measured and graceful, almost like spinning before a mirror until your dull blades were pressed against each other's necks. 
"I see time has not dulled your skills. That's good."
"It looks like time has been incredibly good to ya, too," he said, a familiar glint of mischief in his wine-dark eyes. "You've gotten prettier, Mayari-chan."
"Hmm. Not exactly the words I was looking for, but good enough, I suppose," you shook your head at him before breaking out into a smile. "It's good to see you again, Shiro-kun."
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Mina's meteoric rise to the rank of Division Captain did not surprise you. Ever since you were children, she had always been more focused on her goals compared to Kafka, who only desired the coolness associated with being a Defense Force officer. She vouched for your potential when you took the entrance exams and passed with the help of her commendation, though she reassured you herself that your own skills brought you there to where she was. 
And though you were subsequently assigned to a different division, she kept in touch with you as you both anticipated your older brother's arrival.
An arrival that never came. 
When you last phoned your home, it was only then you found out that Kafka had moved out and started working as a monster cleaner. It was a noble profession for you, of course, but you couldn't help but think—
—of how lonely your older brother must have been to have received rejection after rejection from something he had wanted to do all his life—
And it pains you to think that behind his smile when he congratulated you for passing the exams and becoming an officer was the sting of dismissal. 
When Kafka stopped calling to check in on you, you figured he might be busy with his job. Behind your stellar performance during missions was a strong sense of duty and a great fear of failure that allowed you to focus on the things you can control. You missed your older brother, but it was his choice to give up. 
However, you sensed a change in the wind after receiving a summon from the Captain of the Third Division out of the blue.
"Captain Ashiro called for you again, Mayari. I know she's always looking forward to seeing you in joint training, but doesn't she realise how stressful it is having to travel to Tokyo so often?" 
The Captain of the Fourth Division, Ogata Jugo, was a relatively relaxed man for the most part, but he was also incredibly insightful. He had no qualms about promoting you to a Platoon Leader despite your inclination to use swords in missions. He believes in allowing officers to use their own weapons of choice and that you would eventually use a gun when the situation calls for it. 
Captain Ogata trusts your skills, but he trusts your critical thinking even more. 
"I don't really mind all the travelling, Captain, sir," you replied to him with your usual cheer. Nagano to Tokyo wasn't a walk in the park but a three-and-a-half-hour car ride.
"Well, I do. You are my Platoon Leader, after all. You must defend this base when the situation arises," your captain said with a sigh. "I'm betting that Ashiro would do just about anything to have you transferred to her division."
"Nonsense, Captain. My place is here," you reassured him. "And while I do enjoy being the apple of her eye, I don't think I'll work well under the Third Division and its Captain."
"Why'd you think that?"
"Because Captain Ashiro would sooner lose herself in the battle than send me out," you said with a small shrug. "Sisterly instincts, I suppose. More importantly, I like working with you and our division, Captain, sir."
"You should tell that to her," your Captain chuckled.
"But for the record, Captain, I enjoy seeing her, too," you replied with an easygoing laugh. "I hope you continue to be lenient with me, sir."
"All right, all right. Go before I change my mind," Ogata stated as he shooed you away with a slow swatting motion. "And don't forget to bring me back some of that stuff you last brought."
You gave him a sharp salute and the same warm smile he enjoyed seeing on your face. "I'll be sure to bring home a bottle or two for you, Captain, sir!"
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Tachikawa Base never failed to amaze you. You found it more of a marvel compared to Headquarters, seeing as it was at the centre of the busiest city in Japan, but it was a constant magnet of Kaiju attacks, too. 
The entrance exams concluded Tachikawa Base's busiest time of the year, and with fresh recruits to fill in the ranks, more joint training sessions would soon be set to foster a warm relationship and camaraderie among the different members of the Defense Force's Eastern Divisions. 
Mina received you at her office as per protocol, the one place where you could simply be friends and not Captain and subordinate. 
"Fourth Division Platoon Leader Hibino Mayari at your service," you stated your name with a sharp salute and dignity tied to your esteemed position. "It's good to see you again, Captain Ashiro, ma'am."
"It's good to see you well, Mayari-chan," the older woman saluted right back before offering you a handshake. "I'll have to thank Captain Ogata for permitting your visit this time again."
"I'll buy his clemency before I head back to Nagano, Mina nee-san," you said with a laugh. "How did the entrance exams go this year, by the way? I only heard from Captain Ogata that something… strange happened."
Mina squeezed your hand and motioned for you to sit next to her. "This year's exams were nothing short of strange, I'll tell you that. But there's something I want to show you, too."
Having the Division Captain herself guide you through the many halls and walls of her base meant you had to return many greetings and salutations from younger officers. Mina was evidently well-loved by her division and adored by the masses for her levelheadedness that calmed whatever panic struck them during Kaiju attacks. After what seemed to be fifteen minutes of walking, you finally arrived at the base training ground, where most of the recruits gathered for their routine drills. 
"One of these days, we'd like for you to visit again when we host the annual goodwill Kendo match," she stated, eyeing the state of her division's recruits from above the area's gate. 
"I'd be glad to take part in…" You answered her, only for her to give you a small smile as she pointed down at one of the Third Division's recruits.
Lagging behind their laps was one older man gasping for breath, while a younger man slowed his pace to keep up with him. 
"Aniki…?!" 
Kafka turned to the direction of that endearment like clockwork, only to find you and Mina curiously peering down at him from the gate while the rest of his cohort eventually outran him. 
"Mayari! And Mina, too!" 
"Another 30 laps for calling your superiors by their names, Officer Hibino," Mina shot back at him, to which he replied with a small groan of protest. "You can catch up with Platoon Leader Hibino once you're done with your drills and punishment."
You managed to laugh off your older brother's misfortune over his excitement at seeing you, but your amusement was swiftly replaced by the same kind of shock that came over Kafka when you saw yet another figure in the same sleek black uniform approach you and Mina.
"Captain Ashiro! I didn't expect to see you here today! I was told you have a guest…"
"Ah!"
"Eh?"
"Sh-Shiro-kun?!"
"Huh. So you're that Shiro-kun, Hoshina? Mayari-chan told us much about you when we were young," Mina mused aloud, though you knew from the small smile on her face that she sewed everything seamlessly. "What a small world we live in. To think that one of my oldest friends knows my Vice Captain." 
"I-I apologise for speaking out of turn, V-Vice Captain Hoshina!" You mustered a nervous salute directed at your childhood rival, now one of the Third Division's most prominent superior officers. "I-It's good to see you again, sir!"
"Fancy meeting you here, Mayari-chan. Or should I say Platoon Leader—"
"Fourth Division Platoon Leader Hibino Mayari at your service, Vice Captain, sir! I'm here at Captain Ashiro's invitation." 
Hibino? He thought to himself. Same as the stand-out candidate from this year's exams— "Wait a second, are you actually Kafka's sister?!"
"I hope my older brother hasn't been causing you any trouble, sir," you let out a nervous little chuckle. "Truth be told, I haven't spoken to him in the last few years and I did not expect to see him here at all. Mina nee-san— I mean, Captain Ashiro only informed me about this today."
"I see. Then you two must have a lot of catching up to do," he replied to you with a warm smile, to which Mina responded by patting him on his shoulder. 
"You two have a lot of catching up to do, too, wouldn't you agree, Hoshina?" 
"Well, I— It's just that Mayari-ch— I mean, I simply thought Platoon Leader Hibino would like to hear about her brother's exploits so far…?" 
"Make good use of your time while you're here, Platoon Leader Hibino. Seeing as Hoshina is here, too, you should discuss the goodwill Kendo match between our divisions as well."
"O-Of course, Captain Ashiro, ma'am!" 
She gave your shoulder a quick squeeze as well, before eventually whispering in your ear, "Kafka-kun and I will be waiting for you, so make sure you two catch up well."
As Mina disappeared back to the base's main building, you were left to watch how Soshiro conducted drills and training exercises with his division's recruits. Nearly everyone cheered for Kafka as he finished the last of his additional 30 laps around the training ground before they all shuffled back to the mess hall, you and their Vice Captain trailing them from behind.
"Anything on yer mind, Mayari-chan?"
"How is Shisho? I hope he's been well." 
"The old man's as stubborn as a fox, I'll tell ya that. I suppose I'll have to let him know that one of his most prized students made it here again."
"Does he still remember me?" 
"'Course he does, even though we only knew you as Mayari-chan. You're one of his most dedicated pupils, after all," Soshiro stated with a grin. "One time he said he regretted letting ya go. But I'm sure he'll change his tune when he finds out how much better you've become, both with a sword and with yer guns…"
"You think I've gotten better with just a glance?" You teasingly asked him. "The last we met, you said I only got prettier."
"Well, pardon me for noticing your face before everythin' else," he shrugged at you. "And I wasn't jokin' about that, either. You did get prettier."
"And now? I can show you how well I've grown. If you wish to challenge me, all you have to do is ask." 
Soshiro chuckled at your instigation, only for him to tell you with the most familiar glint of mischief in his eyes, "I think you're mistaken there, Platoon Leader. You're the challenger here."
"Of course, sir. How could I forget that I'm on your turf?" You said with a hearty laugh. "Shall we put on a show for your lucky recruits? It's not every day they see two blade masters battle it out."
Lucky stars, a trick of the gods, destiny— your meeting could be defined by so many different things. But one thing remained constant in your every coming together and parting…
"I'd like that!"
Rivals, friends, colleagues, lovers. The titles didn't matter much to you. This meeting once more proves you were meant to be part of Hoshina Soshiro's life in one way or another, just as he was meant to be in yours.
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I'm glad you like it!! But now that you think of it... What if moonlight cookie and stardust cookie met the little stars? How do you think they would react??
-⚡ anon
I'd say that they'd be pretty confused! In the CRK universe, I imagine the normal, nameless anons to just be regular star-shaped, sentient Cookies. Named anons (like yourself) would have a build similar to a regular cookie, but with a star for a head and their anon theme.
Moonlight Cookie would probably absolutely adore the little stars, but she'd wonder where they came from. Meanwhile, Stardust Cookie swears he's seen them somewhere on his travels, but he can't remember from where.
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loveydoveylex · 2 years
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Can you tell us about your little sona?
hi anon!! gladly! which one do you mean? i have a ton. but since i've been mostly focused on rayman lately, i'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you mean that one? :) they're not 100% fleshed out yet, but i have some ideas and some background for them that i do wanna expand upon... thank you for giving me a chance to ramble >:)
so... lex. who is lex? well, they're me, but i'm gonna talk about them in third person nevertheless hahaha. okay, let's ask another question: what is lex? well, despite looking similar to members of rayman's limbless species, they're actually an entirely different species (a certified convergent evolution moment)...
the name of their species? i'm... working on it HAHA. my friend suggested stargazers. i like that name. either way, in short, they're aliens.
everything and everyone is made of stardust, but these fellas took that to the next level in that they are quite literally the embodiment of stars.
lex is, in a way, a literal shooting star; they're not initially from the glade of dreams, they have no idea if they were created by polokus or not, and they can barely remember anything about their life prior to showing up in the glade. it's like they blinked and they were just... suddenly there.
all they know is that they look up at the stars at night and feel a sense of homesickness. they can often be seen carrying around a telescope for this reason. you might also often see them with dark circles under their eyes because they stay up all night looking up at the sky.
despite all of this, though, in the end, lex ends up liking life in the glade and feeling at home there. even if their origins may be unknown to themselves. if they were given the chance to leave the glade and return "home", they probably wouldn't take it.
part of what made them feel so at home in the glade was the variety of charming inhabitants they've met throughout their adventures and the friends they've made from that. lex is especially close to murfy and considers him a brother figure, but if you told him that they would probably attack you LOL. they have a very stereotypical sibling rivalry of sorts.
lex is also close to globox, the magician, and betilla. really, with all these kinds of people, it's hard to not wanna be friends with all of them!
and then... of course... there's rayman. i'm sure you know what their feelings towards rayman are hahaha.
the two met during the events of rayman 2 when one of razorbeard's pirate ships blocked the view of lex's stargazing - so they got a little pissed and marched right on up to have a word with whoever was in charge. of course that didn't go well for them and they got captured by the pirates. rayman was the one to free them and the two immediately became friends after he had quite literally saved their life (because had he not been there, chances are the ship would have gone down with lex on it).
of course they, at some point, fall for each other - and the rest is history yadda yadda sappy romance. :)
y'know what? if you read through this entire thing, you get a cookie and also a doodle from the other day:
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darkmatter-nebula · 2 years
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Colli's mind gets damaged and his parents and siblings take an adventure into his mind to fix it.
Good morning! Thanks for the request!
Interesting idea, my dear anon!
One-Shot: Beautiful Mind
It was a quiet afternoon on the Boiling Isles. Even though, it wasn't meant to stay quiet. Mattholomule was spending some time with his favorite celestial boy with otherworldly fluffy lavender hair and a kind heart. Unfortunately, Colli was the target of bounty hunters again!
They ambushed Colli and Mattholomule. The brown haired boy tried to be brave. "Hey! Leave Colli alone!" It was obvious that Mattholomule was just as scared as Colli was. Unfortunately, the bounty hunters attacked Colli all at once and hit his head with a very powerful spell!
The spell was supposed to brainwash him, but it had a different effect. Colli looked at Mattholomule. "Who are you?" The starboy asked innocently. "Oh, no... YOU JERKS HAVE ERASED HIS MEMORIES!" Even though he was scared, Mattholomule was more than livid!
He knew that he wouldn't stand a chance against the bounty hunters. Mattholomule picked the featherlight Colli up and ran as fast as he could to the Owl House. Hooty sensed that something was wrong. "What happend?" The house demon asked, clearly concerned about Colli.
"Some bounty hunters attacked Colli and accidentally erased his memories!" Mattholomule explained just as concerned. "What did you just say?!" Hunter overheard everything. Even though Colli couldn't remember his big brother, he smiled sweetly at the blonde boy.
Hunter cupped tenderly Colli's face and pressed with infinite gentleness their foreheads together. "I will not let you down!" The young Grimwalker said softly, determined to bring his little Sunshine's memories back. To Hunter's delight, Colli wrapped his arms around him for a soft hug.
"I think he is still in there!" Mattholomule chimed in. As soon as the rest of Colli's family heard what happend, they already planned to fix his mind. Eda, Raine, Camila and Darius were furious at the bounty hunters! Same for Hunter, King, Luz, Vee and Hooty! These jerks dared to hurt Colli!
Raine and Darius made a familiar potion, the same that was supposed to bring them into Belos' mind. "Don't worry, Little Star! We're going to save you!" Eda whispered as she gave Colli a sleep potion. Soon, Colli's parents and siblings found themselfs in the celestial boy's mind.
Mattholomule and Hooty stayed behind and decided to wait. It didn't take long for Camila to spot a portrait, that showed her sweet little Moonpie on the Draining Chair. Her precious baby was in terrible agony! "Little Star..." "Little Songbird..." "Stardust..." "Moonpie..." The adults whispered, clearly shocked.
Colli's siblings didn't fail to notice the portrait as well. Hunter was already plotting murder. Vee teared up. "I was already shocked as he told me about it, but that's horrible! As soon as we are back, I'm going to give him the biggest hug ever!" She said. Hunter, Luz and King agreed.
Suddenly, everyone could hear soft whimpering. It sounded like Colli! Apparently, it was his inner self. "Hey, it's ok." Hunter said softly and approached him. "Big brother." The inner Colli whispered. "You recognize me!" Hunter was beyond relieved! "Be careful... it's dangerous..." The inner Colli whispered, clearly scared.
"Little Star, what do mean?" As soon as Eda asked this, everyone was face to face with a shadowy creature, that resembled Belos! "My precious Little Battery!" As it turned out, Colli's strong emotions of fear manifested as the form of the one who had tortured him for fifty years, Belos!
"It's payback time!" Even though the shadow wasn't the real Belos, Hunter was ready to defend his beloved little brother. Shadow!Belos dodged Hunter's attack, but didn't see Camila's baseball bat coming. Same for Luz' glyphs, Eda's harpy form, Darius' Abomination form and Raine's violin.
"You can't defeat me! My grip on his mind is too strong to withstand! He is mine and he will always be mi-" Darius didn't let Shadow!Belos finish his sentence and punched him very hard. "Shut up! Stardust is not yours! He never was! He was your prisoner!" The Abomination Coven Head was furious!
The battle continued and it was so satisfying for the whole family to do the finishing blow. What no one suspected was, that a tiny piece of Shadow!Belos remained. It was still able to give Colli sometimes nightmares. Meanwhile, the family was back out of the starboy's mind.
Colli stirred awake and was immediately pulled into a group hug by his whole family, Hooty and Mattholomule. "Awww! I love you guys too!" Colli said with a bright smile on his adorable face. "Moonpie, do you recognize us?" Camila asked. "Of course I do, mami!" Colli smiled sweetly.
Hunter showered the lavender haired celestial boy's face with kisses. "I'm so glad that you're alright, Colli!" Hunter clinged to his little Sunshine like a lifeline. "Thank you all so much for fixing my mind!" Colli spoke up. "Anything for you, Stardust!" Darius chimed in.
The End
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angelxxreaper · 2 years
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Uh- one of these!
-the crow sets down a cornflower- do you want one?
-star anon
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….. [sniffle.]
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calebdumes · 2 years
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hii!! i loved your “hera finds out kanan is alive fic” is there any chance we can get a follow up 👉👈
I'm sorry this is late and I know that it's short but I've hit a bit of a creative wall as of late. However, I have a feeling y'all might like this one I hope.
Here is the "Hera find out Kanan is alive" fic that might make this little bit make more sense if you haven't read it yet.
Thank you for the prompt and a patience anon! I hope you enjoy!
fandom: star wars rebels
relationship: kanan jarrus/hera syndulla
rating: g
word count: 893
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For the first time in a long time, he was aware. Gone was the nebulous sensation of floating between time and space, where nothing yet everything was real. Gravity weighed on him, it pulled at his body, stirring his mind and soul into existing on a single plane rather than spanning all of them. He could feel the press of something metallic against his mouth, the cold rush of air being forced into his lungs, and the warmth of someone’s hand wrapped around his.
The distorted whispers of the future no longer mingled with the tales from the past. They ceased to brush against his mind in a confusing maze of stardust and matter. Instead he heard soft, gentle breathing and the sound of his own heartbeat echoing loudly in his ears.
He didn’t know how long he had been drifting in the void; days, months, centuries? It stretched out endlessly, his consciousness trapped in a crushing existence just short of returning to life or falling into death. But something had shifted, something had changed and now he could feel.
There was air in his lungs and blood in his veins.
He was more than just aware. He was alive.
He tried to move, a twitch of the finger, a jerk of his foot, anything just to experience movement after being frozen in oblivion for centuries but his limbs were unresponsive. He tried to open his eyes, to see if the Force had let him keep his last gift, to see something other than all consuming darkness but his lids remained firmly shut. He called upon the Force, seeking the warmth of its light, desperate to be whole again but there was no answer. Panic flooded his system, a sour taste pooling in the back of his mouth, choking him. He was aware and he was alive but something was wrong. He was stuck, trapped in the prison of his own body, unable to move, unable to reach the Force.
Fire raced across his mind, the heat all consuming, burning his thoughts until all he knew were the flames of fear. He tried to scream but no sound made it past his lips. Panic became pain as the fire raged on, expanding from his mind and racing through his veins. His awareness began to flicker, the nebulous nothing that had been his home for so long stretching out before him in a giant, empty expanse.
There there was a voice
“Kanan.”
Melodically sweet and as strong as kyber. It repeated the word over and over like a mantra. He latched onto the sound of it, letting the syllables ring through him, vibrating his bones and digging into his soul.
“Kanan!” the voice cried out again, dousing the fire with its fierceness, the flames winking out in a flash of smoke.
He knew that voice. He knew that name.
He struggled, he fought with every ounce of strength his weakened body contained to move. His pain was relentless, the gaping maw of oblivion not yet ready to let him go. But he was done with it, he was tired of drifting between time, only existing as a specter of himself. He was ready to be free and whole.
He was ready to go home.
His eyes snapped open and the universe unfolded before him in a blinding white haze. He blinked to clear the harsh light from his vision, his head turning towards the sound of the voice.
It was her.
There were tears in her eyes, her face a little older than he last remembered but no less beautiful. There was a burden that weighed on her, old pain still stung like a fresh wound. It had dimmed her once radiant light but he could see it starting to grow, blooming out from underneath her green skin.
She reached for his face, the warmth of her skin sending a cascade of sparks along his jaw at the contact. Her lip trembled as she said the name again, her hope and disbelief filling his lungs until he was afraid they would burst.
Around him, the Force moved in a familiar current of golden light.
He wanted to move, to pull her down to him, to kiss her until they were breathless but he could feel his energy flagging. The effort of returning fully to his body stealing the last of his strength. But this time, it wasn’t oblivion that pulled at him. It was the calm, peaceful dark of sleep. A gentle whisper that promised a new day.
His lips formed a smile that she couldn’t see, the heavy metal of a rebreather still sitting snugly against his mouth. But they never had to see each other to know what they were feeling. They were connected in a way that only two beings in love could be, endlessly and eternally.
Her thumbs stroked against his cheek bones, her face greying out as his eyes began to close. She was still saying his name, over and over like a prayer. And even when darkness overtook his vision, he could still see her, still hear her, his beautiful wife, his Hera.
He let her image and the sound of her voice coax him to the blissful silence of sleep, his name still ringing in his mind.
Kanan.
He was aware. He was alive.
Kanan was home.
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exosmutfactory · 3 years
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Double Trouble (21+): ANTI CLIMATIC
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{ Double Trouble: Double STUFFED Snacks Edition }
✯♛❀Mature Drabbles❀♛✯ Come get a mouthful 🔞
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3✓ | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 |
Requests are open! Read the guidelines to make sure they get in 🥰
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networks — @superm-net @/bbh-net @/exowritersnet
pairing — Baek & You
word count — 1.4k
genre — erotica, soulmate!au, werewolf! Baek
category — angst, Sir! Baek
A request? Yes ^-^
Dedicated to: 🍒 Red, cherry, 47 anon 🍒
[ This chapter contains: pure smut and romance. Smut details under the cut 🌹 ]
A/N: Don’t look at me like that, x-nisa wrote this, not me 🙈🙊
When I saw only angst selected, I just knew 💔🔥
⏰✴ Double Trouble Tag List: ☀⏰
@to-all-the-stories-i-love @insta1010 @bellamendoza @weirdoome@geniusloey @pvtbbh @baekyeonoreo @soonvivi @you-n-me-e-e @bigbobohu @bubutaeyongie @maijinki
The smut contains: breeding kink, orgasm denial/edging, degradation, public
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You remember the first time you met, with stardust in your eyes, squinting against the glare of his flashlight in the darkness. Just your luck that you had got lost on a hiking trail during your late-night stroll. Not even the full moon could guide you back home. But there he was, stepping over the dry grass to meet you in the middle of the forest. His mocha brown eyes flashing gold when they met yours.
One, two breaths, and he had you in his arms.
He took you under the view of the stars that night. You’ll never forget the rough caress of his hands and the possessive look gleaming in his dark eyes.
Baek has been the owner* of your body, and, ultimately, your heart, ever since.
A loud crash makes you flinch, spinning around in your chair to find the source, eyes widening. “B-Baek?” you whisper.
The raven graces you with a smirk full of dirty intentions, stepping out of the shadows. “Hey, baby.”
You look him over in a mix of shock and confusion. 1, why is he here? 2, how did he get in? And 3, what the hell happened to your window? How are you going to explain your office’s shattered window to your department manager?
Your breath hitches; your office. Oh shit, you know why he’s here. There’s only so many explanations you can make out of the ravenous look in his dark eyes. Baek never comes here for anything else. “What are you doing here?” you ask, out of courtesy or the quivering of your legs, who knows. Your hands curl tightly around your desk chair as his smirk widens, his tongue swiping over his bottom lip.
“You’re not happy to see me?” he raises a brow, flashing his canines at you with a toothy grin. A draft in the room ruffles his green camouflage shirt, emphasizing the rips and tears scattered across it, but nothing catches your attention like the problem in his cargo pants.
You don’t reply; there’s no need. The knowledge of his presence buzzes under your skin, spreading a warmth of comfort and familiarity over you, and a fire burning deeper within. Covering you from head to toe, like his steady gaze when he steps closer, hovering over you. Your heart skips a skip. Yeah, you’re happy he’s here. You missed him. If anyone in the room knows it better than you, it’s him.
“That’s not what I…” your eyes flutter shut, silenced by his hand resting on your bare thigh.
“You seem tense, babe,” he murmurs, chuckling when you lean into him, lips brushing against his. “Let me,” he murmurs, sliding his hand up your thigh, flickering his fingers at the edge of your thong, “ease you up.”
You slowly open your eyes, looking into his golden ones. He’s barely touched you and you’re already breathless, lost in the feeling of his touch and warmth of his gaze. Just the brush of his fingertips over your inner thigh has electricity zapping through your skin, setting you alight. The feeling only reminds you of the first night you had with him all those months ago, in disbelief of how much your body yearns for him.
“Soulmates,” he had whispered begrudgingly.
If only your human heart was brave enough to reject his advances back then.
You stand from your chair as Baek moves closer. He kicks it to the other side of the room before cupping your face, pulling you into a searing kiss. You gladly let his tongue slip between your lips, exploring your wet carven as his hands map out the contour of your waist. You love it; love how he handles you, lifting you up onto the desk and standing between your legs with ease. Your paperwork crinkles and crumbles under you, but you don’t care. All you’re focused on is pulling him closer, fitting your soft body against his firm one.
You take a deep breath, breathing him into your lungs. Your senses may not match your soulmate’s, but you're for damn sure are just as addicted to his rough caress and sandalwood scent. You look up at Baek in that moment, not able to fight your smile when you lock eyes.
It’s anti-climatic; the way he brushes you off, stepping back to keep bare minimum contact between your bodies to avoid your scent lingering on his clothes. Baek presses his body to yours when you’re both stripped bare, the warmth of his skin and steady heartbeat thumping against yours. His cock rests on your stomach, smearing precum on your skin with every sway of his hips.
“Please,” you pant, tugging onto his hair.
Baek tightens his grip on your hips, nipping your ear in a warning. “Please what?”
You whimper, eyes rolling into the back of your head when he presses his cock to your pussy, rubbing it through your soaked folds.
“Say it.” He growls, shallowly thrusting into you.
“Fuck me with your big cock, sir, please-” you cry out when he slams inside of you.
Baek promptly claps a hand over your mouth. “Shh, you don’t want them to hear, do you?” he whispers into your ear, filling you to the brim. “Hmm? Do you want everyone to know that I’m fucking your tight little cunt in here?”
You’re at a loss for words, wordlessly holding onto his biceps as he thrusts harder inside of you, looking up at him with an open mouth. He looks good like that, hovering over you, giving you reassuring heat from his closeness and fuel to ignite the fire between your legs.
“Perfect little cock sleeve,” Baek chuckles, pausing for a moment to pull your leg around his waist, propping your other foot onto the edge of the desk. “You look good like this.” He mutters between grunts, fucking you faster and harder. The loud squelch of your pussy milking him makes you flush all the way down to your chest. You look up at him as he bites his lip, hungrily watching where both your bodies are joined.
“Your pussy takes me so well.” He groans, pulling out despite your protests. It only earns you a swift smack on your throbbing clit, making your whole body shudder, thighs quivering.
“Look at you,” he murmurs humouredly, running a hand through his messy hair, the damp strands dangling in his lust-filled eyes. He taunts your clenching pussy with the tip of his cock. “So needy, you love my cock, don’t you?”
“Y-yes, sir,” you breathe, gulping at his possessive stare. Your pussy spasms under his teasing, making every pass of his cock over your core louder and wetter. You can’t help but squirm, loving the way he fucks you, the way he makes you putty in his hands.
“Look at you,” Baek groans, slipping back in. “So tight.” He hisses. “This pussy was made for me.” He reaches down to grip his cock, pulling back out only to slam into you again, hitting your gspot. “You like that?” he grunts when you jolt, clenching down on him.
You grip onto his shoulders when his pace turns sloppy, his short, deep thrusts have you digging your nails into his skin, harshly dragging them down his back without remorse. Baek shoves his face into your neck to muffle his howl of pleasure, biting down hard on your shoulder in retaliation. You grip tighter onto him, biting your lips hard enough to bleed under his unmerciful thrusts. The heat between your legs is building up like the crescendo of the desk creaking against the floor, slowly inching closer to the wall.
“Coming already?” Baek muses when you start to shake, trying to pull him impossibly closer. “Greedy little whore.” He chuckles, breathing heavily with every slap of his balls against your ass, filling you to the hilt again and again. “Just begging to be bred.”
Your breath hitches, giving you away. “You’d like that wouldn’t you?” He growls, clenching his jaw. “Gonna let me come inside your pussy? Make you bear my kids?”
The look in his eyes and words falling from his lips is enough to do you in.
You come together; two distant planets finding warmth under the same sun, sparks flying from the brush of your joined fingertips.
“I got to go.” Baek grunts, pulling out of you, his cum flowing out of your pulsing walls. You watch him pull up his pants and collect his torn shirt from the floor, the red marks you left forming zigzag patterns on his back.
You were made for each other, but it’s not enough. It’s never enough.
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3✓ | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 |
*—you can’t own another person! Even if this is fiction; I put that there for “too borny to think straight” value 💖
A/N: Something 'bout Byun, makes me feel like a dangerous woman 🤭🥰😇
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huggybug · 2 years
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"Do you remember when we used to dream?
We'd drift off to sleep and catch dreams of star dust in our tiny hands
We'd dream of chasing rainbows and riding on unicorns
Dreams are magical as a small child because dreams and reality are often the same
Some night I'd stare at the stars and wonder if someone up there was creating my dreams from little pieces of stardust
waiting for me to fall asleep before it could enter my imagination
Dream catching was much more fun as a child
Now, we don't have time to dream
Still, some nights I turn child-like and stare up at the heavens
Waiting for my stardust dreams to enter my imagination once more." ~ Poetry Anon
I HAVE A POETRY ANON ???
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thatsthetriick · 3 years
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Stardust Crusaders getting stuck with Y/n (Request, hcs, slighlty NSFW humour)
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ANON U ARE A GENUIS! I LOVE U FOR REQUESTING THIS! I HOPE YOU LOVE IT! 💕
Summary: Mariah’s stand (Bastet) manage to get you stuck with a stardust crusader, how woudl they act? Disclaimer: All characters are aged up to adults!, expect perverted or weird thoughts from the characters, some very touchy moments with the crusaders and getting into awkward and inappropriate poses, if you’re not comfortable with this please don’t force yourselves!  💖, reader is gn, and an adult! p.s I don’t know how to french sorry. Additional info: It might not follow the exact episode I’m sorry! More headcanons from me: Masterlist/taglist~ Requests/ask box are open: Ask/Request here! Header:  Daytime Shooting Star
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Y/N and Crusaders stuck with each other Headcanons!
Joseph Joestar (Old)
➷ You’ll encounter Mariah’s stand by trying to open the lights to a bathroom (for some reason it’s close) but there were two electric switch boxes and you unfortunately got to touch Mariah’s stand and got a static feeling, you shrug it off and just find the correct switch.
 ➷ Awkwardly some random nails on the floor stabbed your arm as you wash your arms, you found this weird and just clean your wound and looked around, obviously you’ll be more cautious after that weird encounter.
  ➷ You’ll meet Joseph being chased on the hallways with knives and forks and you’ll immediately follow him to help him. You’ll yell for his name yet he runs faster and is unable to hear you
  ➷ Once you reach with him you two are panting and you help him take off the knives and forks from behind, “There’s a stand user that managed to make me attract metal.” He’ll explain as you calmly took off the forks and knives and he grunts, “Ow! Be careful y/n!” he’ll rub his back, “Sorry.” you’ll nervously scratch the back of your head as you chuckle.
 ➷”There she is!” Joseph starts running and following the girl as you follow him but you two slowly start getting closer together, “Look Y/n you’re kind of too close.” he’ll say as his pace slows down and you’ll tell him that he was the one moving towards you.
 ➷ The stand user manage to get away so now you’re stuck with Joseph shoulder to shoulder
 ➷ You two decided that you should probably come up with a plan so you held on to a wooden pillar as Joseph tries to pull away, “God! This stand!” he angrily exclaimed as he agressively kept pulling away from you and hits his shoulder to yours and the side of his waist to your side. “Ouch cut it out Joseph!” You’ll scold him.
 ➷ “Sorry Y/n, it’s just this stand is so annoying!” He’ll say frustrated and kept trying to get off you and you knew that he won’t really get off of you easily.
  ➷ He’s really angry at this stand and would probably say a lot of things and they’re nothing but complaints!
  ➷ Because of his constant movements you manage to slide the wrong way and now it looks like he is spooning you with him facing front and was facing your back now, and you were embarrassed but it seemed like he didn’t even notice the severity of the situation, espcially the citizens walking by were noticing you two and it looked weird out of context.
 ➷ “Y/n! Push as well!”, “Stop saying weird things!” you’ll probably scold him for saying that 
 ➷ Eventually you’ll tell him to stop pushing away because he just ends up grinding on you and once he notices he kind of looks away, embarrassed and apologize as you discuss the plan to him
  ➷ “What if we do it slowly and then you try to hold onto something with your hermit purple? Sounds good?” You’ll suggest, you eventually manage to separate but everyone still looked at your weirdly as you two ran to look for Mariah.
  ➷ Let’s just say you keep remembering that memory, you eventually sit down near the hotel and wait for everyone else to come back and Polnareff will be the one to ask if you two were doing some weird affair and that’s why you two got separated and you’ll just ignore him
Jotaro Kujo
 ➷ You’re probably buying from a shop somewhere and sat on a bench and felt static on your hands and look at the weird switch on the bench and ignore it. But caps of bottled drinks start getting stuck to you and unfortunately went through your ice cream and you had to throw it since there’s random caps on it, but once you go to the trash can all the scrap metal start going out and you start running away.
  ➷ Jotaro was probably just walking outside, he touched the switch by accident as well but he’ll be somewhere around with both hands in his pockets taking a peaceful walk 
  ➷ Unfortunately you two bumped into each other while being chased and sadly the scraps of metal still stabbed your back, you’ll probably groan on his chest because of the sharp pieces that just hit you.
  ➷ “Get off me.” He’ll say in his annoyed voice and you apologize and try to get away from him just to be dragged back to him, “What the hell do you think you’re doing.” he’ll add another comment as you literally struggle to get off him, even using both of your hands to stretch you out from his chest but you really can’t and Jotaro sighs in frustration.
  ➷ He uses both of his hands to hold your shoulder and pull you back just for him to realize that you really  can’t get off of him, his eyes widened and looked around he knows that this was a work of a stand though he doesn’t know the abilities yet of this stand. 
 ➷ “Tch” he’ll mutter as he tries to think of ways to get you two out of the public, he’ll carefully take off his arms from your shoulder and hold your back so it seems like you’re hugging him so it doesn’t seem awkward, he really doesn’t like attention put to you two.
 ➷ He’ll drag you to the alleyway and try to think of a way to separate you two just for you to quickly push off of him, he tries to tell you to stop but once you pull out another time you got dragged back to him and you two fell over, his hat was now on the streets. You two were on the ground with his back on the pavement and you on top of him — still on his chest.
 ➷ “Hey! Can’t you just-” you cut him off but getting up, now you were straddling him, or that’s what it looks like, “We have no time! The stand user could’ve gone away.” you fight back as he let out a groan of annoyance, “Hey! What do you think you’re doing!” he’ll scold you since you were now straddling him, honestly he had a shocked expression because you’re trying to get off of him so much and your just bouncing on him at this point, not only that but this guy likes you! So he was really embarrassed and flustered you can see the mixture of those emotions on his face, though it mostly consist of shock.
➷ Remember his cap on the streets? A bunch of teenagers saw the cap and heard mumbled noises on the alleyway and deduced that it must’ve belonged to the voices, as they check they saw you two in a awkward position.
➷ “Tch look what you’ve done.” Jotaro would complain(still flustered on what you just did) and you would answer back, “I’ll just do it faster then!” it was pretty weird saying that out of context and this guy was really feeling weird and flustered as you so he was trying to really stop you. He kinda likes the feeling though, which he felt guilt for thinking that and shrugged off the thought immediately while his face remained the same slightly shocked face with furrowed eyebrows.
➷ You’ll eventually get tired and just lie back down his chest as he thought of a plan, “Stand up.” he’ll demand and you two tried to stand up even though both of you are facing each other.
➷ He’ll use SP’s speed to punch himself off of you and it worked and you quickly walked away as far as you can from him, “You should get those healed, I’ll take care of this.” He grabs his cap and adjusts it to cover his eyes slightly. He was referring to the wounds you got earlier you were about to speak when he spoke first, “Good Grief, just listen for once.” he’ll say as he didn’t want to get you hurt anymore, honestly he’s a tsundere but a protective one and eventually defeated the stand on his own
Jean-Pierre Polnareff
 ➷ He’ll touch the switch as a curious thing as well but shrug it off and visit you since you two share a room, he’ll playfull knock on the door and wait for you to open it instead of just opening it since it was his room as well.
 ➷You’ll open it and he’ll start the conversation with a praise, “You’re so beautiful/handsome Mademoiselle/Monsieur “ and you’ll just accept it and let him in, but as he gets in for som reason your metal belt was pulled onto him and you were freaking out.
 ➷ He’ll just laugh it off and hug you back, “I didn’t know you felt that way cheri/cherie”, “You could’ve just asked for a hug!” you’ll playfully get angry at him and try to get away and as you did your belt still stayed on his rear pelvis area, “Huh? How did that get stuck.” He’s genuinely confused and held the leather part of the belt and struggle, you even helped him.
 ➷ “I’ll deal with this.” he goes to the downstairs bathroom to take it off there and as you watch him walk to the hallways you follow him and as you take down the stairs you accidentally held a wall with a switch and you’ll just look at the switch then to your palm then just move on waiting for Polnareff outside the bathroom.
 ➷ You’ll hear him angrily mumble something in the bathroom, you were about to open it to check if he was alright when he walked out before you did and then hand back the belt, as you grab your belt your hands was into a fist form and so was his, and at the end of his fist your fist just connected and he was confused with your touchiness today.
 ➷ He chuckles this off and teases you as you genuinely struggle to get your hand off and you tell him you really can’t take it off and he’ll shrug this as an excuse till he tries moving his hands away and realizes that indeed both of your hands were stuck. Eventually you two quickly connected, your front bodies facing each other.
  ➷ He honestly blushes at this and scratches the back of his head and realizes his hand was stuck there too and he slowly takes it off. “It’s a stand!” You’ll exclaim and both of you will get in the bathroom.
 ➷ You two were in a hugging position as you two mumble to yourselves as you two try to guess the stands ability, and the metal scraps from the bathroom was enough to explain it all. You suggest you two should try to pry out but you two kept getting back, everytime you two attempt to pull away you two will just connect with a hard impact that will make Polnareff feel awkward, “C-can we do this slower?!” He’ll exclaim loudly and people outside the bathroom could hear him say that.
 ➷ “Fine! I’ll be gentle!”  you will yell back as you move back till your back hits the marble sink, you then carefully let go of your hand off Polnareff and hold the marble sink even though you’re facing the other way, you hold on tightly to the sink and your chest and his chest disconnects and struggled with the lower parts because Polnareff was freaking out in a flustered way.
 ➷ He’ll be saying comments like, “It this really the only way?” and something similar as you try to disconnect both of your lower parts, as soon as you two disconnect he fell to a stall in a bathroom and you quickly ran out of the bathroom and tell him to hurry up.
 ➷ He’ll stay in the stall for a few minutes covering his eyes with his hands feeling so embarrassed and can’t stop replying the awkward scene. As you walk out of the bathroom another guy came in and looked are you weirdly as you ran away and saw Polnareff in a open stall and looked at him weirdly.
 ➷ You basically defeated the stand user on your own because you and Polnareff splitted up and he doesn’t know where you went and vice versa for you. Let’s just say he never brought it up again but he still thinks of it as night and still gets flustered at the thought of it.
Muhammad Avdol
 ➷ He’ll curiously touch it as well because he’ll find the switch in a weird area and he’s curious on what’s it’s use, after feeling the static he shrugged it off. He’s probably just looking for you, you in the other hand mistouched it as well.
 ➷ When he finally looks at you you’ll accidentally bump into him and he accidentally holds your wrist as you two bump, “Oh my dearest apologize Ms./Mr. L/n”  he try to take off his hand from your wrists but when he realizes he can’t he gulps and starts sweating trying to take it off, “What’s wrong?” You’ll question him since he was talking awhile to take off his hand from your wrists.
 ➷ “It seems like I can’t take it off” he says that as he uses his other hand to pull his hand — that was holding your wrist — nevertheless his hand got stuck to his other one as well. You try to hold his wrist to uncoil it but you also got stuck and you start to sweat and groan as well. As he tries to pull both of his arms out from yours he managed to just drag you to him.
 ➷ Now you two were in a hugging position and it was awkward because you two will probably be flustered just like how Avdol got flustered in the original episode, he’ll also be embarrassed and you will be embarrassed along with him and you two will suffer since everyone is already looking at the both of you being too close to each other.
 ➷ “We shouldn’t move that much, it would look weird.” he would suggest but you would try to move away from him and you two thought it worked as first so you immediately faced the other direction ready to run just for your rear end to be connected to his lower bottom (Just like Joseph & avdol in the orig), he’s honestly really embarrassed right now and this is the part where you’ll probably stop moving now since you were too scared to move.
  ➷ he gulps as he tries to think of ways to get off of you, “There must be another way.” he’ll mumble to himself and to you as you two look around for something to grab on, it seems like you two already though of an idea. Since none of your stands would be helpful in this situation there was no point in bringing them out so you two went to an area to hold objects. 
  ➷ Yeah that didn’t work, you two ended up in a awkward position as you two chase over the girl, but it was somewhat effective, you rode his back like a piggyback ride as he chases her, and with you using your stand to attack the stand user.
  ➷ After you two defeated the user it’s a bit awkward but you try joking it off even though both of you are embarrassed since a lot of people witnessed you two get into a weird position. You awkwardly tell him it will be a funny story to tell in the future as you two walk back to the hotel side by side.
Noriaki Kakyoin 
 ➷ Oh no yours and his would be in public which is embarrassing, the whole group is probably out on breakfast and he went to the bathroom and he washed his hands and dried it and without looking accidentally touched Mariah’s stand. He shrugged it off and went back to the table, and you in the other hand held a random rock that had the switch on it (it was big rock).
 ➷ You two sat besides each other unintentionally and he was showing you the menu and educating you about the taste of each meal and a brief history while Jotaro scoffs and respond with a “Tch” (he was genuinely jealous but his face said otherwise).
  ➷ You would be holding the menu and his hand held yours as he took a peak on the menu as well and continued his interesting facts, but as he tries to take it off he struggled and everyone questioned him if he was alright as Jotaro menacingly stares at Kakyoin’s hands on yours, “What’s wrong?” Joseph would probably ask.
 ➷ You would see Noriaki struggle so you decided to help him get his hand off tours but instead it got stuck and mumbled it out to the group that you couldn’t take it off, Polnareff would stand up, “Huh?” he would say and approach you two and start pulling both of your hands away from each other but Polnareff just groaned in frustration.
 ➷ “Mr Joestar! They’re right, I really can’t take it off!” Polnareff would panick and look at both of your hands in a jumble mess. Kakyoin’s hand behind the palm of your hand and your other hand behind his. Jotaro doesnt’ do anything at first and just watch as the whoel scene plays, but then as Joseph was about to try forks and knives start stabbing the both of you.
➷ Joseph would probably tell everyone to get out of there and would be behind you and Kakyoin as you ran to the other side of the street, Avdol seemd to figure out the stand’s power and stand user and informs everyone just to hide Kakyoin and y/n as they find the stand user. 
➷ The whole group would lead you back to the room and Jotaro insisted on joining Avdol and Joseph to find the stand user and since he knows that the room was secured and all metals are gone, unfortunately Mariah follow you and attacked you from there, you and Kakyoin were forced to jump off a window and you got into a position where he was spooning you, you two eventually fell to an empty alleyway and pried yourself off kakyoin but he was also flustered at what you were doing “Y-y/n perhaps we should try something else?” he would suggest.
 ➷ “Let me try one more time.” you got off as swift as you can and when there was hope it was quickly snatched away because you just got dragged back and you fell on him which caused both of you to fall, “Maybe  we should wait.” You would suggest as you two tried moving to a more comfortable positiong (a shoulder to shoulder position) and wait till Mariah attacks since she only saw you two go to the alley and not know what you were doing.
 ➷ She’ll obviously get suspicious of this and would take this opportunity to end you all, but your stand and HG managed to attack her and knock her outand you two end up normal again.
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Yay! first request tysm anon! I’m still taking requests! I like writing as a procrastination method so please do suggest more! I just don’t accept like really hardcore things(seggs, brutal gore, etc) and I won’t take part 5 requests cuz im still watching it :3, I’m a very picky person and I’m really strict towards myself so I can’t write part 5 till I finished it. To request read the text above to find the request/ask box link and submit your requests there! I always do my best to immediately write down your requests! P.s this is hella long so I’m gonna edit it tomr! 
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jennifersminds · 3 years
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Hey! I was just wondering, do you know of any good and well written fic about Elena? With any ship? I personally think adlyb in ao3 is the best. Especially her Fairytale Ending fic. It's hard to find writers who can write her in character.
omg yes! i agree adlyb is amazing, my personal fav is the stars were brightly shining but that’s cause im kinda a wimp when it comes with like super dark relationship fics- like i feel elena was abused enough in canon i don’t really wanna read ab it ya’know? that’s not to say they’re not great fics, just not for me. anyway some of my fav elena fics are
I have fault lines in my bones by buries
elejah fic- super good, i really think it gets into Elena’s feeling on the sacrifice in a way that hasn’t been explored too much. Elena’s written beautifully a v in character imo. writer is @finnicks and i hope they don’t mind me posting ab this fic again im just totally obsessed tbh. rated E
this fic is a follow up to
i don’t have time to die
and
time is eternity
okay now this one’s a bit out there but works really well to my memory, idk if you ever watched pretty little liars but it’s an elena/alison dilurentus fic and it>> like you’ve always been lonely
basically elena goes on a road trip after the sacrifice and meets alison along the way
begin again by ElijahsElena is also great - elejah
who moves first by mournfulmournful - elejah
blame it on the stardust by allwritenow
eventually elejah but isn’t quite up to that now, amazing character study fic tho. basically elena is born remembering all her prev doppelgängers lives so she’s prepared when the salvatore bros come to town. the benelena in this fic is just 👌🏻
ash by @elena-mikaelson - elejah
i love a sirebond fic, like ones that deal with the intricacies and issues of consent that the show just looked right in the face and refused to recognition. 10/10
okay so there’s definitely more but this was all i could come up with now, if anyone has other suggestions pls feel free to add on. hope you enjoy these fics anon.
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mmvalentine · 3 years
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feysand prompt: first kiss. i didn't really like how their first real kiss was like during/after they'd touched each other. so could you maybe please write a first kiss scene between them in acomaf? maybe like a starfall kiss scene or maybe at the summer court. thanks :)
Okay firstly I am SO SORRY this took so long, I loved this idea but I felt nervous because of course I wanted to do this right. (LORD imagine how Rhys felt lol). As smoking hot as that ‘one bed’ scene was, I agree that it was a shame to rush past their first kiss. And Starfall seemed so perfect. So without further ado...
First Fall
Rhys sidestepped me, veering toward the balcony rail, but not fast enough to avoid the careening star that collided with the side of his face. He leaped back with a curse. I laughed, the sound rasping out of me. Not a chuckle or a snort, but a cackling laugh. And I laughed again, and again, as he lowered he hands from his eyes.
The entire left side of his face had been hit.
Rhys was examining his hands, covered in the dust, and I stepped toward him, peering at the way it glowed and glittered. He went as still as death as I took one of his hands in my own and traced a star shape on the top of his palm, playing with the glimmer and shadows. His fingers tightened on mine, and I looked up. He was smiling at me. And he looked so un-High-Lord with the glowing dust on the side of his face that I grinned back.
I hadn’t even realised what I’d done until his own smile faded, and his mouth parted slightly.
“Smile again,” he whispered.
I hadn’t smiled for him. Ever. Or laughed. Under the Mountain, I had never grinned, never chuckled. And afterward…
And this male before me… my friend… For all that he had done, I had never given him either.
So I smiled at him, broad and without restraint.
“You’re exquisite,” he breathed.
The air was too tight, too close between our bodies, between our hands.
Rhys went to move away, but I reached out to stop him. Didn’t mean to, and I couldn’t tell you why exactly I did it, but Rhys reacted immediately. He pulled me flush against him, put his hands on either side of my face and touched his forehead to mine. The sudden closeness was overwhelming.
“What do you want, Feyre?” he asked, an edge to his voice that, if I didn’t know better, I might have called desperation.
Problem was, with him this close, with this thumbs running over my cheekbones and his breath ghosting my lips, my thoughts swirled and I couldn’t conjure a single coherent thought.
“I…” 
What did I want from him? Everything I could never ask for. After this past week, it all seemed so precarious. Rhys’ eyes squeezed shut for a second. 
 “Okay,” he said. “I’ll make it easy. I’ll tell you what I want.” Despite the glowing splatter that still smudged his face, the laughter and lightness of only moments ago had suddenly vanished.
Rhys’s hands were careful, but he angled his head and slid his nose all the way down mine. “I want as much or as little as you want to give me,” he said hoarsely. He brushed his lips back and forth over my jaw. “That’s all.” He exhaled at my throat. “Me? You can have all of me. You have all of me.” The tip of his nose ran up the column of my neck. “But I think you know that, already.”
Rhys hovered his mouth just over mine. “So what is it you want, Feyre?” he asked again, and the words moved his lips just barely against mine. “Please tell me,” he asked. Begged.
And still, I didn’t know how to find the words. So I just stood up on my tiptoes, and pressed the barely-there touch into a kiss.
Rhys responded with his whole body. He stepped forward as if he could get even closer, one arm dropping to circle my waist. His hand cupping my face pulled me in, and his lips chased after mine.
For a moment, everything held still, like the peak of a pendulum swing. It was like the world held its breath when we did- and we slid apart only to come back together immediately. I remembered to breathe in at the same time as Rhys exhaled, and something like Rhys’ starry darkness filled my lungs and floated through my veins.
Rhys moaned softly, and kissed me again.This was not like when Isaac had kissed me, or Tamlin for that matter. The first kiss with someone had always felt uncertain to me, exciting and green but cautious. Testing each other. This was something else entirely.
Kissing Rhys was at once entirely shocking, and also deeply familiar, as if something was clicking into place that should have been there long ago. I found that the more I kissed him, the more I seemed to feel like I had been missing him for a very long time, and I could have wept with relief now that he was here. Wrapped around me and pouring molten midnight straight down my throat. The sea and citrus taste of him was suddenly a craving that I didn’t know I had, and I felt like I could get drunk off the wine of him.
When Rhys pulled away, with a soft scrape of his teeth on my bottom lip, I felt strangely empty. I opened my eyes to find him staring down at me, violet wonder and pale-green stardust filling my vision.
“I think,” Rhys said slowly. Breathlessly. “I think if I don’t stop now I very well might keep you here all night.” He brought my fingers to his lips. “Not that I would be at all opposed to that, myself. But I can’t let you miss the Starfall.”
“Then dance with me,” I said, entirely unwilling to let him go. “All night, if you wish,” Rhys said, his voice raw and his eyes eternal.
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Thanks anon for this sweet request. I had such a godsawful day today, writing this was food for my soul. I hope you like it, and I hope that I did them justice.
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lovecolibri · 3 years
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SaL anon here friend with a special request!! Since the hiatus is loooong and the holidays are coming up (which my job has interpreted to mean it's time to pile on the assignments which is the reason I've been scarce) it's the perfect time for reading fanfic! I already know my Malex comfort stories/authors (that nonnie_the_individualist is pretty good 😘) but I'm a bit lost in the much more extensive Buddie fic realm. I'd love to hear your recommendations (stories or authors)!! TBC
In return I will of course be revisiting all the best angsty/hopeful SaL songs (good thing we've had practice with another couple who have communication issues and unresolved trauma) and and giving you my episode reviews once I tell my job to fuck off till next year (right now I'm on 3x04 and holy shit there are somethings to talk about at the start of s3). Can't wait to see what you come up with!!
*siiiiiigh* Bestie, I had the highest hopes and best intentions to do this before the holidays but between family, travel, cleaning/reorganizing my disaster pit of a bedroom, and having a brain that's bad (that I'm trying to get back on track but not having much luck with), this sat in my inbox taunting me for....a very long time. I feel awful that I didn't get you some good recs before the holiday break but I hope you still have some time soon to read some of these recs. Also, on the bright side, I found some really good ones between when you sent this and now, so yay? Lets go with yay.
Now, I'm not as deep into the 911 fic like I was with RNM back in season 1 and that first hiatus before I had to start aggressively screening everyone and everything (and now it's been ages since I've been able to find motivation to keep up with even fic writers I love 😭) but I HAVE learned how to use and gotten better at remembering the bookmark button on Ao3, so you can check out some additional recs there. But here are a few of my favorites!
Even the Darkest Night (Can't Outshine the Stars) by letmetellyouaboutmyfeels
Eddie and Christopher Diaz have had a tough year. So when Chris sees a star fall, Eddie promises to fetch it for his ninth birthday. Just one problem: The star is a person, his name is Buck, and everyone in the damn kingdom is after him.
This is a Stardust AU that I just read and it's an absolute delight! Stardust is one of my all time favorite movies so seeing characters we know and love being pretty seamlessly woven into this story was so much fun. Definitely a fun time. Great Buddie, bonus Madney, and a Very Tired Athena who has put up with enough nonsense.
must be some kind of twist, I could get used to this by soyxunxperdedor
This is the Accidental Marriage trope at it's best. The will comes in to play, Buck and Eddie are fully clowning at all times, and it has a soft, sweet ending. Lots of fun, and some good firefam moments too.
I am offering not one, but TWO fake/pretend relationship fics that also have the "going home for Christmas" trope, and some grade A clownery on all sides.
baby, won't you take me home for christmas by wafflesofdoom
eddie didn't think lying to his parents about still dating ana would backfire so badly - but suddenly, it was christmas, and his parents were begging him to bring his girlfriend home. so, eddie did what any logical person would do - he pretended he was dating his best friend, buck. buck, who he might be secretly in love with. buck, who agrees to come to texas for a week and fake a relationship with eddie. what could go wrong, right? (lots, apparently.)
To Build a Home We Deconstruct Our Rituals by letmetellyouaboutmyfeels
After the shooting, Eddie realizes he needs to put some things in place. Like who will get his assets if he dies. Who will speak for him if he ends up in a coma. What might happen if his family contests Buck's guardianship. Luckily, he's got a simple easy-peasy solution that won't result in insanity, catastrophe, or heartbreak: Marry Buck.
somebody come get him by elisela
“Chris, no one on Tik Tok wants to watch me play the cello,” he says—again—tiredly, rubbing a hand over his face. A pile-up near Dodger Stadium kept him over his shift for five hours thanks to some dumbass onlooker flicking a lit cigarette at a gas station, and big surprise, that didn’t end well for anything except Eddie’s bank account. “Dad,” Chris says, dragging out the word to Eddie’s chagrin. “People do a lot on Tik Tok. There’s cooking, too, you should really watch those. They can teach you a lot.” Or: firefighter-and-cellist!Eddie meets violinist!Buck.
This is a very niche AU but it's SO GOOD. Very soft, soothing vibes.
I have a couple of smuttier recs under the cut, but I would be absolutely remiss if I didn't rec some of my favorite more angsty fics (but with happy endings and soft hurt/comfort moments because I absolutely don't have the brain to deal with pure angst.)
Don't Take the Money and Leave the Light On (I'll Be Coming Home) by HMSLusitania (or like literally anything they write. Seriously. You want author recs this is a great place to start)
I know everyone loves Leave the Light On which is a presumed dead Eddie fic where Buck is fighting to keep Christopher. It has all the angst of the will ramifications in the event of Eddie's death, all while knowing he's alive and trying to make it home which makes the angst delicious instead of depressing.
But Don't Take The Money is....whooo boy. It's Groundhog day dialed up to 11. Post lawsuit arc time loop and it is...dark, but it's so, so good!
(Oh! Also, Close My Eyes and Stumble (Right Into Your Love) which is new to LA Dispatcher Eddie and it is *chef's kiss*)
to be found by ZainClaw
This fic man....It's a WIP but is nearly complete and GOD it's SO GOOD. It is a werewolf AU with injured/skittish Buck being taken in by Certified Soft Dad Eddie. The family vibes are impeccable, and we get a bonus of dealing with canon emotional issues like Eddie's repression of self via his werewolf nature he tries to push down, and Buck's feelings of worthlessness via a toxic, cult-like environment he escaped from. Also, werewolf pup Chris! I adore this fic SO MUCH.
Falling Slowly; Sing Your Melody (I’ll Sing It Loud) by Princessfbi
After a traumatizing home invasion, Bobby Nash decides to hire a bodyguard for his lead singer. Musician!Buck Bodyguard!Eddie
This is another fic where the 911 crew seamlessly folds into new roles. This story is beautiful and one of my favorites.
Okay, smut with feelings down below!
Leading with the Left and (Love Is) The Second Oldest Profession by letmetellyouaboutmyfeels
Leading with the Left: When Buck said he was a "bartender" in "South America" what he actually meant was "stripper" in "Mexico." And when Eddie said, "What's your problem?" what he actually meant was, "Is this about the time you gave me a lap dance?" In other words, there's a few things the 118 doesn't know about Buck. Or Eddie. Or Buck and Eddie's relationship.
This is almost 85k of stripper/post-stripper Buck and it is smutty and hot, but it is also so soft? And there is so much love and pining? Seriously, this one is so, so good.
(Love Is) The Second Oldest Profession: When Buck sees Eddie Diaz, new studio recruit, he thinks he's found the answer to his post-breakup slump. When Eddie meets Buck, he thinks he's found the ticket to a job that'll help him take care of his son. Neither of them think about feelings. This ends up being a miscalculation.
Look. This kind of AU has no business having this many feels and soft moments! It's sexy, but also so much fun and seeing the firefam in this kind of setting is hilarious, but also works so well?! A delight. Also, letmetellyouaboutmyfeels is on this list....several times so definitely another author to look out for!
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quietlyimplode · 3 years
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Natasha Romanoff Masterlist of Fic Recs - Version 2.0 - Page 1
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Updated June 2021
This is not an exhaustive list (and in no order whatsoever) of the brilliant fic that is out there. Please let me know of any i have missed or any recs to put in and I will endeavour to add it. I have not included warnings or ratings. Please make sure you look at the tags, judge for yourself and as always take care of yourself first. (17 authors under the cut)
The Irish Mayhem @the-irish-mayhem
White - part of Perfection of Duality Series - the making of Natasha Romanoff. One of my favourite fics in the world. I will love it forever.  -    25/25
Perfection of Duality- part two - Natasha - Natasha in shield - 4/?
Mypedia @sebuttstianstan
anything that bleeds - Natasha - Natasha is a sub. Don’t let that fool you, Natasha’s backstory with bdsm elements. 21/22
Shadesfalcon @shadesfalcon
Like Real People Do - Clint/Nat - ‘Do we have song?’ Iterations of what’s the ties that bind them together.    1/1
Whether you ask it or not - Clint/Nat - Natasha gets poisoned - and has the line ‘“’Night, little dragon. May your fires ever burn hot upon your unsuspecting foes.”    1/1
Sometimes winning means you’re the last one standing - ot6+everyone - don’t play ‘never have I ever’ without some laughs and trauma rearing its head   1/1
I am good - Clint/Nat/Laura - Clint brings Natasha home for the first time.   1/1
Careful She Bites - Clint/Nat - don’t confront Natasha about the handcuffs. Just don’t.  2/2
What happens here stays here - Clint/Nat- Natasha can’t remember Budapest.  1/1
Koren M- cybermathwitch
I’d Make Room for you - Clint/Nat/Laura - perspectives of each other are important. 1/1
Course Corrections - Clint/Nat/Laura - taking care of each other 2/2 snippets into conversations/life Course Corrections (Age of Ultron Fix-It Fic)
As if you have a choice - Clint/Nat - Natasha gets pregnant. They know they can’t keep it. 3/3
The weight of us - series of 11 - my fav is ‘Seeing Red’ and ‘Sharp and Sweet’. Clint/Nat shield days
Red Flag Warning - Natasha - red is a warning colour. Clint should know.   1/1
Edgeofthegalaxy @natasha-romanoff-deserved-better
buried in your bones, i see it in your closed eyes - Natasha dissociates and its a long way back Clint/Nat 1/1
Origins - Young Natasha in the red room, of learning morality and goodness. 1/1
But even the strong can fall - Natasha goes silent on a mission, Clint knows something is very wrong. Clint/Nat 2/2
Just a Kid - sometimes Natasha doesn’t realise how messed up her childhood was. Sometimes she needs to be told. Nat/team 1/1
Collateral Damage - Natasha comes home from a mission; Tony needs to patch her up. Tony & Nat 1/1
Daughter of Rohan @natrasharomanova
Living Louder - Clint/Nat - break my heart. Origin stories.   21/21
Beside you (sequel to living louder) - Clint/Nat - shield falls. Clint and Nat find each other in the aftermath.
It’s still raining - Clint/Nat - everything happens when it’s raining.  1/1
You are a piece of me, I wish I didn’t need. Clint/Nat/Laura/family. Clint brings Nat to the farm for the first time. Healing ensues.   1/1
Impossibilities- Clint/Nat but with Pepper/Maria/Darcy and Jane - Natasha is pregnant?   1/1
Wake my spirit Cold - Clint/Nat - Christmas throughout the years -    1/1
(We could be) infinite - Clint/Nat - ENDGAME FIX IT. The soul stone split in two. No one dies.    1/1
I am not the only traveler who has not repaid his debt - Clint/Nat - ENDGAME FIX IT. Natasha dies but is alive in a multiverse. Clint dies in the alternate. They meet in the middle.     1/1
Sugarfey @sugarfey
Chrysalis - Natasha - this is how it goes and how she came to be.  Ashes series  1/3
A walk on part in the war. Natasha - Drakovs daughter is ‘saved’.  Ashes.  2/3
World on Fire - Clint (/Natasha) Clint has a history and can play the guitar.  Ashes   3/3 - my favourite part.
First Name Basis- Clint/Nat - getting to know you.    1/1
Right where I used to be - Clint/Nat - it’s Natasha’s birthday, Clint uses this to get to know her better.    1/1
Once was lost - Clint/Nat - slow burn, Natasha offers herself to him once.    1/1
Expresso is not an option - Nat/Maria - ‘you could destroy shield in a heartbeat, couldn’t you?’
Thursdays Child - Nat/fury - fury mentors Natasha-from afar.    1/1
Shelter - Clint/Nat/liho/lucky - Lucky puts one big paw on Natasha’s knee and looks at her as though she hung the sky with pizza -   1/1
Almost home - Natasha - find a mooring and settles -    1/1
Long spaces 3/3 - Natasha/Clint - natasha and Clint fit together - all the broken pieces. .  3/3
Inkvoices - @inkvoices
Smile for the living - POST ENDGAME - Natasha is brought back.     1/1
In deed- Clint/Bucky/Nat. In which dogs and deeds are discussed.    1/1
Driver chooses the music. Clint/Nat - get in the car.
On Names - Clint/Nat- she goes by many names -  1/1
AlwaysLera
Fallout Patterns - what happens when your mind is a nuclear bomb? Nat/Clint - sex is not always sex when trauma is as deep as hers -   14/14
Breathe me with your hands - Clint/Nat - navigating sex -  1/2 One Red Thread Series- Nats pov.
Hold you by the edges - 2/2 One Red Thread - Clint’s pov.
Ghosts that we knew - Clint/Nat - aftermath of the avengers. Natasha navigating the world when Clint safewords out. 15/?? Unfinished.
How the day sounds - Clint/Nat - thanksgiving throughout the years -     14/15 (?fluffy)
You were a kindness - Clint/Nat - a perfect look at the trauma of being brought in. Let herself be nothing but a branch. Let herself be nothing but stardust. Stardust could not be hurt. Stardust could not be used. Stardust could not be held.    1/1
Crashing, understanding, blinding, tumbling - Nat/Tony - plane crashes - tony takes care of Natasha whilst blinded -    1/1
Two plus two is five - Clint/Nat - how do you test a concussion? Two plus two is five in large quantities of two.   1/1
Into the dark (song fic) - team after harrowing mission watch Clint and Natasha dance - 1/1
The ocean carry you home - team- pepper is pregnant, Natasha doesn’t cope well with the news. Yellow blue bus.    1/1
Enigma731 @enigma731
Something just like this - Clint/Nat - Clint is depressed. Natasha doesn’t know how to help.    1/1
Going to the Chapel. Clint/Nat - get married in Budapest and have sex.
September - Tony/Nat bonding - Tony makes a memory machine to cure ptsd, Natasha helps.   1/1
Everything Costs - Clint/Nat- Natasha keeps getting hurt on missions, Clint wants to know why.  1/1
That’s way you showed me (I wasn’t quite so alone) - Clint/Nat - 3 christmas’ -    1/1
Prompts (some lovely short 1 shorts) - team assorted -   13/?
It starts with Time - Natasha - Natasha goes looking for her family -   1/1
The war I can’t win - Natasha/Clint - Clint gets injured. Natasha is his support.  1/1 (it mentions Occupational Therapy this is a winner)
We are not shining stars - Natasha/Laura + Clint - Clint dies (fair warning) it’s all Natasha can do to cope.    1/1
Unpack your heart - Clint/Nat - in the beginning they left post it notes -   1/1
Hearts and Bones and Blood - Natasha/Clint - Clint saves Natasha from mental health services when she first comes to shield. Because sometimes she gets lost in her own head.
What Girls are Made of - Nat/team - 5x Natasha has unconventional means of flying.    1/1
Ghost Towns - Clint/Nat - Natasha has memories implanted in her head, shield medical and Clint try to help.   1/1
The glass parade - Steve /Natasha - he watches her become different people.  1/1
Slipsthrufingers
Cleanliness Is Next To… - Nat/Clint- Or Five Memorable Showers Clint Barton and Natasha Have Had, and One Time There Was a Bath Instead. -  1/1
The more you know - Clint/Nat - this is what they learn first (or Natasha is not what is written in her file) -  1/1
Perspectives - Nat/team - perspective and interpretations; what do you see?
OracleGlass
safe as houses - Clint/Nat - what makes them go to a nonshield safehouse?
The clutch of circumstance - Clint/Nat- he helps her start. 1/1
Ranni
Voluntary Procedure - Clint and Natasha agree to be mind wiped. The others are not happy - Clint/Nat/Team 6/6
Stronghold - Natasha and Clint shut down their various safehouse. Clint/Nat (team) 1/1
Spy Vs Spy (recced by Anon) - Clint & Coulson & Natasha - Natasha Romanov was the most beautiful person in the room and nobody asked her to dance. 2/2
Paperairplanesopenwindows @paperairplanesopenwindows
On the first day of Christmas - Clint/Nat/Laura- Laura wants to celebrate, Clint and Nat aren’t so sure - 1/1
A little to the left - Clint/Nat/Laura - she’s Natasha but a little to the left (POST ENDGAME) -   4/4
Family Togetherness Time - Clint/Nat/Laura - Steve gets concerned about Nat and turns to the people he thinks can help. 3/3
Eauline
In every lifetime I choose you - Nat/Steve - Natasha gets captured to get to Steve. 11/11
MillyVeil
Burn baby, burn. Clint/Nat - Clint saves Natasha from heatstroke. 1/1
Teamwork - Clint/Nat - fuck or die, Clint’s not ok but Natasha is. He doesn’t understand. -   2/2
Other people - Clint/Nat- she’s up for some monkey sex until she’s not.    2/2
altheterrible @altheterrible
Shining white in the sun - Natasha - Clint dies, Natasha tries to cope. She doesn’t do it very well. 7/7
tastes - team - different tastes in points in time - 1/1
strix_alba
places to go, people to be- Natasha - Natasha gets to decide who she really is after the fall of shield 1/1
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ggukkiereads · 3 years
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Hi
do you know of any jungkook x reader x jin or maybe even jungkook x reader x taehyung love triangle fics
Thank you 🖤🖤
🌷 Hello, anon! Please check the NAVI for available fic recs. There was an ask for TaeKook love triangle/smut before and I update it every now and then.
I’ve read just a few fics for jin x reader x jk. Here’s what I remember and most are pwps (meaning not a love triangle).
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Jungkook x Reader x Seokjin
Love Triangle (or something similar, I left notes on some fics
Threesome
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MMF Smutty Threesome or Poly
Aperitivo @bangtanbetchfics
one shot | 5k | vacation au, chef au (pastry chefs), smut, pwp
on the heels of a breakup, you fall hopelessly in lust with two pastry chefs on your vacation in venice.
Under Cover @cinnaminsvga
one shot | 5.4k | supernatural au, vampire jungkook, siren seokjin, pwp
the company banquets that your family loves to host are often drearier than you would like them to be. lucky for you, your bodyguards have the perfect solution: why don’t you play a little game with them?
Hittin Her Hard by foreverpark [ao3]
sequel to Hittin Her Hay (read this first)  | 12.2k | pwp
Your boyfriend (and yeehaw extraordinaire), Jeongguk, introduces you to his best friend, Seokjin, all while he proves there are more things to do atop a horse than just ride.
🌷 ggukkienote: so I adore author’s pwp, just sinfully good like douse yourself with holy water kind of filthy which I mentioned here
Lunacy @jincherie
series [2/?] | 15.7k+ | abo dynamics, werewolf au, supernatural au, urban fantasy, poly, smut, angst
Wolves mate for life, and wolves are almost exclusively monogamous. It's rare for a wolf to have a human mate, and even more unheard of for a wolf to have more than one mate. Unfortunately for you, an incident at this party lands you in the middle of every exception there could possibly be.
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Love Triangle
A Lovely Little Mess @justimajin - Seokjin-centric, feat Jungkook
series [10/10] |31.k | Pregnancy AU, Unplanned Pregnancy, Friends to Lovers, Jungkook is reader’s ex, angst, fluff
Break-ups aren’t easy - you knew this way too well, however this was a break-up that was much harder to shake off then a normal one, all because of one little reason…
Home Run @jinned
one shot | 3.5k | action, fluff, crack, baseball player au, stadium staff!reader
as seokjin’s career nears its peak, he comes face to face with his greatest rival yet: the un-strikeable jeon jungkook. seokjin is close to being the first person to strike out this up and comer newbie, until he’s distracted by one of the stadium’s cotton candy selling girls. who will she leave with?
🌷 ggukkienote: the dialogues are just JinKook all throughout but it was so funny how they’re bickering and fighting over YN. So a different kind of love triangle, I guess! This is fun 😉
Lock & Key @farfromsugafanfic - Jungkook-centric
one shot | 6.6k | Bestfriend AU, semi-love triangle (Seokjin likes OC and Jungkook is all sulky), fluff, angst
When Jungkook ditches you on your birthday, your friendship looks like it’s about to crumble. Your friend group becomes tired of your bickering and decides to take the matter into their own hands. Somehow, you and Jungkook find yourselves handcuffed together.
“Say It” drabble @hayjeon - Jungkook-centric
drabble | 1.3k | married to Seokjin, affair with Bodyguard Jungkook, pwp but kind of angsty
🌷 ggukkienote: short drabble but it’s really good. it’s hot but then it’s also angsty. no appearance of seokjin.
Not Just Friends @taecalikook - Jungkook-centric
one shot | 24k | Fuckboy AU, Friends to Lovers, fluff, angst, crack, semi-love triangle
Befriending the fuckboy with devilishly handsome face and emotional capacity of a pea is not exactly your choice, especially when you met him when you were in fifth grade, attracted for the unhealthy vermillion shaded face of the nerd he was that fateful day. So is Jungkook, as he is already putting strictly platonic label on your forehead and calls it a day. But it is only a matter of time before everything changes, and it only takes a frat party, lots of booze and… a certain Kim Seokjin.
🌷 ggukkienote: OC crushes on Jin and bestfriend Jungkook crush-blocks. I remember the roommate  (like OC thought there was something between her roommate and JK)
Of Stardust and Spacetime @thedefinitionofbts
series [8/8] | 31k | Sci-Fi, Star-crossed (like literally different universe) |
On clear nights he looks up at the sky, and he can still see you. He can see the image of you transcending alternate universes tied together by iridescent ribbons, passing through the iron cores of distant stars, and sliding across Orion’s belt to meet him in that magical place between the stratums of space and time.
🌷 ggukkienote: one of my favorite writers whose fics are always beautifully written and I always get so affected by the story. 💕
Raindrops @jiminiethot - Jungkook-centric
one shot | 7.4k | exes AU, camping trip, boyfriend Seokjin is jealous of Jungkook (the ex), smut
🌷 ggukkienote: Seokjin is kind of mean here 😢
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beneaththebrim · 3 years
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anon who asked about the ring here, thank you for such a thorough answer! every bit of lie huo i get to read is such a punch to the gut. I'd love to read a post about relevant lyrics if it would be fun for you to write up? It's always really cool to hear what thoughts are happening when curating a playlist! :)
Okay, here goes (the glosses at the end pretty much turned into throwing in chunks of devastating liehuo quotes ashdflksajdgl;a):
Also, for anyone who's curious, this is the playlist in question: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0g2n2lc0zsh321hl7P3jwk?si=bd4fc27ab7c54b2d
Ulver - For the Love of God
Fucking heaven / To kingdom come
Holy war, slaughtering gods—what precedes jiling’s birth, the moment of their being forged together.
Chelsea Wolfe - Twin Fawn
Were you sleeping on the other side / Into frozen, monstrous light / It killed you, a stillbirth, anonymous loss
You cut me open, you lived inside
Heavenly demon and heavenly demon sword in their youth, leaning on each other.
Ulver - Rolling Stone
Poor little sister / I hope you understand / The babe in the woods / Will be taken by a wolf
For the curtain to fall / To wipe the blood / Off the face of the Earth
Jiling’s brutal youth & Sheng Lingyuan’s promise to Aluojin.
Depeche Mode - Precious
Angels with silver wings / Shouldn't know suffering / I wish I could take the pain for you
More of jiling’s youth, how they both wanted to protect each other.
Ulver - Velvet Sunsets (cover of a song by The Music Emporium)
Arm in arm / Soul in soul / Floating on velvet sunsets of summer days
Sudden rain / Cold and free / Exploring the depth of untold pleasure
Now the winds of autumn suggest breaths of doubt to our hearts / Sealed by the oncoming darkness / Torrents wash away summer's warmth / Leaving us shivering
Those last days in Dongchuan before Sheng Lingyuan went out to his fate. A spring dream, a mild autumn day before the weiqi board.
Arca - Anoche
(in translation from Spanish)
Last night I dreamt of you / Your figure and your arms / Last night I yearned for you / Even though I hadn't met you yet
Alone I healed you / The wounds of the wars you’ve fought / Last night I loved you / And you left me shattered
Last night I dreamt / Of our simultaneous death / Last night I cried / Out of happiness, how strange it made me feel
That the love has rinsed me / That your blood warmed / The tissue of my entrails / Last night I dreamt of you / Regardless of you being real or imaginary
Last night I was smiling / Thinking that you were possible / It’s enough for me to know / It’s enough for me to know
Yearning, foreshadowing, Lingyuan’s dreams for xiao-Ji.
Gregory and The Hawk - Boats & Birds
If you'll be my star, I'll be your sky / You can hide underneath me and come out at night / When I turn jet black and you show off your light / I live to let you shine, I live to let you shine / But you can skyrocket away from me / And never come back if you find another galaxy / Far from here with more room to fly / Just leave me your stardust to remember you by
If you'll be my boat, I'll be your sea / A depth of pure blue just to probe curiosity / Ebbing and flowing and pushed by a breeze / I live to make you free, I live to make you free / But you can set sail to the west if you want to / And past the horizon, 'til I can't even see you / Far from here where the beaches are wide / Just leave me your wake to remember you by
Lingyuan’s dreams for xiao-Ji, when he thought xiao-Ji would surely outlive him and their love was impossible.
(recc’d by chuck)
SOHN - Artifice
Is it over? / Did it end while I was gone? / 'Cause my shoulders / Couldn't hold that weight for long / And it all just feels the same
Somebody better let me know my name / Before I give myself away / Somebody better show me how I feel / 'Cause I know I'm not at the wheel
The fall of Dongchuan.
Chromatics - Twist the Knife
It’s alright / Twist the knife / It’s alright / Twist the knife
Sheng Lingyuan struggling to shore up power and scheme against Danli.
(I had trouble with this one—I wanted to put it later, when Sheng Lingyuan is being cruel to Xuan Ji, but I also like it as a song about Sheng Lingyuan becoming steadily more ruthless.)
Ulver - Let the Children Go
We hold each other / In the dead of night
When xiao-Ji is all Sheng Lingyuan has left.
Chelsea Wolfe - Offering
Skeletal sand as a lesson that became an offering
The final march against Jiuxun, both Lingyuan and xiao-Ji being overwhelmed by Heavenly Law’s will.
Baths - Broadback
Don't want you to, don't want you to, don't want you to die
Public opinion turns against the heavenly demon sword. Lingyuan realizes all too late that he’s losing xiao-Ji.
Karmina - All the King’s Horses
All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put me back together again
Xiao-Ji has been shattered; Sheng Lingyuan is broken.
(recc’d by shy)
Bob Moses - The Only Thing We Know
If you won't leave me, then I won't go / And if you can't see me, guess I'm a shadow / If I say sorry, would you let go? / It's the only thing we know
Xiao-Ji looks on invisibly as Sheng Lingyuan goes mad trying to reforge the sword over and over again, begs him to let him go, unheard.
Chelsea Wolfe - Crazy Love
Crazy love, it's not you I fear / You let the devil in, you hold him near
Crazy love, where is our home? / Look at the place we're in, the hell we left it in
Xiao-Ji continues watching Sheng Lingyuan destroy himself, powerless to stop him. He watches Sheng Lingyuan gouging out his own heart, and rushes to catch it and protect it within himself.
Soulsavers - In the Morning
Was there a message / That I’m not getting? / Do you think that I am lost or am I found / Just after midnight / When I woke up sweating / I was dreaming you were right here with me now
Lingyuan’s Trepidation-laced dreams.
The Cure - 39
And the fire is almost out / Almost out, almost out / Almost out, almost out / And there's nothing left to burn
Sheng Lingyuan approaches the last years of his life, the seal on Chiyuan causing his own fire to burn ever lower.
Baths - Earth Death
My men cannot get out of being pulled into the earth / I've been done here, only time keeps me from the demiurge
Sheng Lingyuan ends himself.
Soulsavers - Shadows Fall
I see circles of gold in spite of my eyes / When darkness falls from above / Stay under me, my love / I see circles of gold fading to black / Until the heavens have died / You'll be the thorn in my side
Still I am loathe to gather / All of these bones together
I see circles of gold burned off the sun / When shadows fall from above / Stay close to me, my love
Xiao-Ji gathers Lingyuan’s bones and prepares to pass the aeons in solitude, guarding Chiyuan and nourishing Lingyuan's corpse.
Zola Jesus - Veka
When the words become you / When the story builds you in / Who will find you there?
Who will find you / When all you are, all you are is dust? / Who will find you / In centuries?
Centuries pass, and Sheng Lingyuan’s reputation is cemented in history.
Wax Idols - Lonely You
It was a sorry gilded cage / That bound our hearts together / Now I just want to push the weight / Of you away forever
Xiao-Ji tries and fails to forget Sheng Lingyuan, over and over again.
Moonface - Walk the Circle in the Other Direction
The thought is eating at you / Like a rat that eats the whole heart / And the room you thought was haunted / Is just the room you're always in / Walk the circle in the other direction then / Walk the circle in the other direction
Through countless iterations of the Nirvana Stone, 35 bones broken, xiao-Ji circles himself again and again. At last, he becomes Xuan Ji.
Zola Jesus - Exhumed
In the static you are reborn
Sheng Lingyuan's Tongxincao puppet is summoned back into the mortal world by the Somber Sacrifice.
Susanne Sundfør - Accelerate
Wars erupting like volcanoes / Blood streaming down the walls / It's out of our hands, so baby let go
Sheng Lingyuan & Xuan Ji’s first clashes in the mortal world after three thousand years.
Boy Harsher - Pain
I am gonna follow you tonight / All the way, all the way home / I am gonna find you in the night / All the way, all the way home / You see me you see a stranger / I see you I see danger
Sheng Lingyuan reverts to his original remains after being struck by the Somber Sacrifice’s backlash.
Bel Canto - Summer
The place they were stranded / The traces that they made / All got washed away / The people before us / The fires that they burned / Somehow all want out
Do we all believe in endless summers / Do we all believe in summer?
Revisiting Dongchuan.
TR/ST - Iris
Night holds hope to see each light
Sheng Lingyuan sees the human megacity, a future he never could have imagined.
ACTORS - Crystal
Into the night out in the cold / Yours is the hand no one can hold
Xuan Ji confronts his conflicted feelings toward Sheng Lingyuan, wanting the what he knows is foolish to want.
Salem - Starfall
I've seen that senseless look in your eyes / And I know we've only just met / But I don't want to see you cry
Xuan Ji can’t help but feel soft for Sheng Lingyuan when the latter is vulnerable.
Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away
Said I'm strong now I know that I'm a leaver / I love the sound of you walking away
And I am cold, yes, I'm cold / But not as cold as you are
Xuan Ji watches Sheng Lingyuan dissolve into the crowd.
Soulsavers - Just Try
It gave me more than I deserve / It gave me peace / It gave me everything I love in this world / And now I have to sleep
In Yuyang, on his own terms, Sheng Lingyuan memorializes xiao-Ji with his every action.
Chelsea Wolfe - The Abyss
Watch your thoughts in the dark / They’ll drag you down to the deep blue sea / Stare it down, the abyss / Run away, run away from it
It hurts to love when I remember / We were born unto chaos
Under the waves and into the tomb, Xuan Ji begins to remember his past.
Mitski - I Don’t Smoke
If you need to be mean / Be mean to me / I can take it and put it inside of me
“But him, he’s just a knife.” (62)
TR/ST - Destroyer
I’m the destroyer, of everyone
Sheng Lingyuan twists the knife.
London Grammar - Who Am I
Who am I, who am I to want you now you're leaving? / Who am I, who am I, who am I to judge you now you're leaving?
Xuan Ji’s identity crisis, trying to fight against the deluge of memories that formed him and the yearning along with them.
Bob Moses - Talk
We won't talk about / All the things we need to most / And every time, we're coming close / You pass it off and look the other way / So we won't talk about it
Jiling don’t talk about it.
Depeche Mode - A Pain That I’m Used To
All this running around, well, it's getting me down / Just give me a pain that I'm used to / I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive / You just need to achieve something that rings true
Xuan Ji plays along with Sheng Lingyuan’s 'bone seal spirit' theory and restrains the memories of the heavenly demon sword spirit.
Purity Ring - Stranger Than Earth
There is no lesson in magic / There were untimely dreams / Where I knew / Woken in a fog, don't sweat it / And reckon none of it / Had come from you
Again, again, again, I wasn't thinkin' 'bout you / I wasn't, I wasn't
More repression, on the verge of bursting.
The Soft Moon - Dead Love
I want to breathe you / Inhale your soul / Touch your body / Feel your bones
Don't leave me all alone / Don′t leave me all alone / Don′t leave me all alone / Don't leave me all alone
In and out of helicopters across the country, into an illusion realm, Xuan Ji chases Sheng Lingyuan.
Sharon Van Etten - Your Love is Killing Me
Break my legs so I won't walk to you / Cut my tongue so I can't talk to you / Burn my skin so I can't feel you / Stab my eyes so I can't see
In the heavenly demon illusion realm, Xuan Ji witnesses Sheng Lingyuan’s self-destruction anew.
Chelsea Wolfe - Color of Blood
A hunger never satisfied / I can't keep you off my mind / Dancing, moving, passing time / Lost worlds and endless nights
I held you at a distance then / So I could keep you sacred now / I watched the veins under my skin / Moving, changing from blue to red/ Those colors battle to repent / Fighting some kind of punishment / For loving you
Xuan Ji sinks into his heart demon.
M83 - Don’t Save Us From the Flames
Bleeding all around / Liquid metal through my veins / The radio's burning / A ghost is screaming your name
The heart demon miasma spreads, covering everything. At last, Sheng Lingyuan realizes who Xuan Ji is.
Team Ghost - Broken Devices
I can hear your device / Feed me, with your lies / I look at that sequence / I don’t care about nothing, anymore / Each standing in the other’s lies / Memories are burning / Split screams are dying / What did we do wrong? / What did we do wrong?
A meeting, once again, after millennia.
Giles Corey - Blackest Bile
I open up my heart / And let it all in / And it kills all my love / And hope for everyone
And it hasn't been easy on you / I know that more than most / I am born to be alone / I am just some lonely ghost
Sheng Lingyuan continues to hold Xuan Ji at a distance, knowing he is not long for this world.
(recc’d by chuck)
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - All of This and Nothing
I'm all of this and nothing / I'm the dirt beneath your feet / I'm the sun that rises while you're sleeping / I'm all you need
Sheng Lingyuan vows to see Xuan Ji off before he goes.
Future Islands - I Knew You
And it was so good to hear / After so many years / Not for the pain / But to hear you say anything real
Well I've been working nights / In and out of fights and flights / Kites in storms / Forgot this war
When I had to run / We didn't leave it all said and done / But will it be tonight? / Something in the cold of your eyes says, "Tonight."
I knew you / I knew you as you were, not as you are / You knew me too / But I'm not the same, it's not the way / The way, you're used to
They talk, but the distance doesn’t disperse.
Glass Animals - Cocoa Hooves
Come on you hermit / You never fight back / Why don’t you play with bows and arrows? / Why don’t you dance like / You’re sick in your mind? / Why don’t you set your wings on fire?
Xuan Ji cracks under the pressure; he dares to break down Sheng Lingyuan’s boundaries.
Future Islands - Ran
And what's a song without you? / When every song I write is about you / When I can't hold myself without you / And I can't change the day I found you
How we lose control, on these roads
Days pass and Xuan Ji keeps trying.
Soulsavers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
Will you miss me when I burn / And will you eye me with a longing / It is longing that I feel / To be missed or to be real
When you have no one / No one can hurt you
Will you miss me when I burn / And will you close the others' eyes / It would be such a favor / If you would blind them
Sheng Lingyuan tries to maintain the distance.
The Soft Moon - The Pain
How can you love someone like me / How can you touch / Make myself bleed
The pain won't pass away / I take the way I feel to put you down
Sheng Lingyuan tries to break it off, saying the cruelest things he can think of to Xuan Ji.
Franz Ferdinand - Outsiders
I've seen some years, but you're still my Caesar / With everything I feel, I feel you've already been here / Oh, oh / Love'll die and lovers fade, but you still remain here / Squeezing in your fingers what it means for me to be, yeah / Oh, oh / The only difference is what might be / Is now
Sheng Lingyuan is betrayed by jiaoren song and Xuan Ji confronts him.
Chromatics - White Light
White Light / Run Away From Me / I Want To Hold You In My Hand / White Light / Sing Your Love To Me / I Am A Stranger In Your World
Xuan Ji witnesses what Sheng Lingyuan would have done if he could do it all over again.
Ulver - All the Love
The past / The future
The promises
The folly / Of those who died
For nothing
The Heavenly White Jade Palace collapses.
Chelsea Wolfe - Iron Moon
My heart is a tomb / My heart is an empty room / I've given it away / I never want to see it again
And all your words could save me / But keep your love away from me / In all the worlds decaying / Is there place that's safe for us?
After attempting to run away, Sheng Lingyuan agrees to a New Year’s meal with Xuan Ji, and tries to explain soberly why their love is doomed.
Nightmare Fortress - A Life Worth Leaving
What you needed / Was an ending / To a life worth leaving
He pressed both his hands down on the armrests of Sheng Lingyuan’s chair, trapping him on it: “I didn’t say it had to last long.” (108)
Moonface and Siinai - Quickfire, I Tried
And quickfire, I tried to not go crazy / But the winter got inside me anyway
Sheng Lingyuan succumbs to his desires.
Salem - Old Gods
Give me one more chance to set you free / If I want you, I'll wait, I'll wait forever / I'm going, I want you here with me / Give me just one night to make you love me / I met god and asked him what he wants / And silence was the answer til I've gone / Heaven is a place out here with me / So burn those wings and let us all be free
“Ah,” Xuan Ji thought, “His Majesty has pardoned the realm.” (108)
Zola Jesus - Siphon
'Cause we'd rather clean the blood of a living man / We'd rather lean over, hold your warm, warm hand / We'd love to clean the blood of a living man / We'd hate to see you give into those cold, dark nights inside your head, inside your head, inside your head
Won't let you bleed out, can't let you bleed out / Won't let you bleed out, can't let you bleed out
Xuan Ji tricks Sheng Lingyuan and returns his heart. Using jiaoren esoteric speech, he ties his own survival to Sheng Lingyuan's.
King Woman - Hierophant
You're always on my mind / I want you all the time / The pain of tenderness is / A wound of love
“What are you looking at? You take your hollow heart for a storage closet. Before, you loaded it with dozens of jin of broken iron, and now you use it to carry around a lousy wooden carving sold by a ten yuan shop. Your Majesty, why is all this junk worthy of entry, but not me?” (109)
ACTORS - Like Suicide
Oh, it's in your eyes / I can see you now / Cold as ice / You say you're mine / Like suicide / No way out / No way out
“If you are harmed in the future, I will bear the same pain. If you are buried in Chiyuan, we will be buried together.” He lifted up his nonexistent tail in triumph, “You’re mine now.” (109)
Purity Ring - Repetition
Watching me is like watching a fire take your eyes from you / Hope it isn't repetition / Though that's the only thing that keeps and takes you
Xuan Ji gloats and Sheng Lingyuan grits his teeth as they fight side by side at bureau headquarters.
Deep Sea Diver - Thunderbolts
Lightning bolts / they struck us both / In the middle of the day / for a second I was totally blind / I laughed the pain away
Caught up in a vision / we were both giving up / I could not believe it / thought it was another dream / but now I see
Never want to be alone again / never want to be alone / never want to be alone again / our hearts ignite when they beat together / when they beat beat beat together
At last cohesion, fighting together against the green-clad man.
ACTORS - Strangers
I would lie to you / To buy more time / I would die for you / To change your mind
When the night begins to fall / We're strangers after all
…Until Sheng Lingyuan finds out the jiaoren esoteric speech was only one-sided, that xiao-Ji could still die without taking him with.
Frank Ocean - Ivy
I thought that I was dreamin' when you said you love me / The start of nothin' / Had no chance to prepare, couldn't see you comin' / And we started from nothin' / Ooh, I could hate you now / It's alright to hate me now
“I didn’t ask you for an explanation, it’s already all in the past. I’m just saying all this to tell you, stop doing things ‘for my own good’. For a person who can’t even control his own heart, where do you big characters get off always haughtily acting like you can toy around with other people’s feelings!? Do you think I don’t want to get rid of you? I’ve tried fucking everything…” (120)
Violence - Things Fall Apart
You and I are the same / A system bound by the light you emanate / I just wanna break free from the chains. You sent him to bring back my love, but it′s too late
Things fall apart
I give and I give, you take and I- Break / I live and I give, but it′s too late... I fell in love with a- Snake
Things fall apart
Sheng Lingyuan ransacks Xuan Ji’s mind to break the jiaoren esoteric speech, then reverts to uprooting his heart once again.
Zola Jesus - Remains
Do ruins give power / Or do they give proof / That something meant more, something meant more / Than what we, what we lived through?
What remains of us? / What remains of us? / What remains of us? / What remains of us?
Whoever’s heart was returned to whom, whoever’s blood was taken away by whom, the connection between the pair of them that had lasted for millennia like a lover’s goodbye, was now completely severed. Each one was left all alone. (121)
MorMor - Don’t Cry
Eyes covered, took your word / The light dies each time I lose sight / Couldn't take the shame each night / Eyes covered, took your word / The light dies each time I lose sight / Couldn't take the pain each night
You just line me up / What was left unsaid / Quiet's all you had / The future's unfair / If we listen close / We're running out of time / You don't seem to mind / The future sounds fun / The future sounds fun
Don't you cry / Don't you cry / Don’t you cry
Xuan Ji couldn’t help but lose his breath. He had the sudden vague feeling that when he made a scene just then, he’d accidentally cracked open a clam that had been tight-lipped for millennia. If he missed this chance, he’d never again have the opportunity to explore these inner feelings.
In that split second, he decided to milk it, and blurted out: “Lingyuan-gege.”
“Wait for you to grow up, and even if I hadn’t died of old age, I’d probably still have a beard to stroke and graying temples, right?” Sheng Lingyuan seemed to let out a chuckle, “After a while, such beautiful thoughts no longer affected me, and by then they naturally dissolved away, just a spring dream, that’s it, nothing more.”
He had once also had expectations for the future.
His wish was very small… just that, before he died of old age, he might see the blossoming of flowers he’d spent his life exhausting all his heart’s blood to water.
That was it.
“But it’s ominous to think too deeply.” Sheng Lingyuan’s voice was so light it was inaudible, “I wouldn’t dare.” (121)
Zola Jesus - Lawless
In these lawless times / I’ve got nothing left to hide / Give it up for good / You either run or take it / And I know I won’t lose the will to make it out alive
Remember those unbilled days when I bought all / And nobody could tell me I was wrong no / And in my own desire I’d be owed to no one other than myself / We gotta get used to it now
And in those old days oh I get so lonely / And in those old days all I could fit could hold me
But / This land is nobody's / When you fall apart / And I’ll be there / Waiting to claim it up
“The feudal monarchy’s all been buried in the dirt, Your Majesty, so when the hell will you let yourself abdicate?'' The previous night, Xuan Ji had been walking through the ruins of the Anomaly Control Bureau, and the soles of his shoes were dirty. He hadn’t had time to change, so after kicking him, a clear shoe print was left on Sheng Lingyuan’s leg, “I have to just take whatever you give me, and after enduring it, I have to kneel three times and kowtow nine in deep gratitude. Well fuck you, asshole!”
Sheng Lingyuan: “…”
“Chiyuan’s a tinderbox that hasn’t gone dead in ten thousand years and it could go up any second now. The Vermilion Bird clan’s been extinct since the beginning of the great war. It’s only me, this half-person exerting myself to keep it down and guard Chiyuan in the place of an entire clan! Am I not worthy of His Majesty the Human Sovereign? I have no need for you to feed me food and water, and I do not need your validation or pity. Mr. Loner, troubling you to look away from your high and mighty perch over all living things, and take a look at me instead! I am not some housepet or palace concubine, I am your man!”
Those last few sentences didn’t really sound like human words, and Sheng Lingyuan finally came back to his senses and kicked him back.
Xuan Ji took it, feeling neither pain nor itch: “I’ll be impudent! I won’t get out!”
His Majesty’s cursing vocabulary was limited to these two phrases, both of which were utterly thwarted by Xuan Ji. His pitiful skills were all depleted. (122)
Salem - Fires in Heaven
Fires in the sky / Fire fire fire / Fire in the sky / Fire fire fire
Apocalypse descends.
Sharon Van Etten - You Know Me Well
All the skies are fallin' and the sun is movin' up and down / Even when you're in a dark way / Some decisions shield you from the positivity until / You reach out to me / You say why you hate it as you pry your way in / I need another investigative mind / Tell me that you're injured, yourself, and you've been healing / And I will see this through
You know me well / You show me hell when I'm looking / And here you are / Looking
Jiling set off, finally having come to an accord.
London Grammar - Hell to the Liars
Hell to the Liars / Here’s to you and me
Here's to the things you love / Here's to those you fight enough / Hell to the rest of us / Here's to the things you love / Here's to the things you love
Sheng Lingyuan allows himself to grieve his one and only home.
Ulver - Christmas
(lyrics from the poem of the same title by Fernando Pessoa)
A god is born and others die. What is / Has neither come nor gone, but error moves / Today we have exchanged eternities / And what is past no novelty improves
Blind knowledge is working at useless ground / And crazy faith is living the dream of its liturgy / A new god is a word - or the mere sound / Don't seek and don't trust, for all is mystery
The masterminds reveal themselves. A new god is born.
ACTORS - We Don’t Have to Dance
We don’t have to dance / We don't have to talk / We'll just fade into each other / Till we’re gone
Sheng Lingyuan treats Xuan Ji to an illusion realm to rewrite those three thousand years alone.
Chromatics - City Beds
Trapped in wrinkled heads / Caged in city beds
Keep it alive / Keep it alive / Keep it alive / Keep it aLIVE / KEEP IT ALIVE / KEEP IT ALIVE
The illusion breaks, and Xuan Ji finds Sheng Lingyuan with only a fragment of a breath left in him.
Zola Jesus - It’s Not Over
It's not over tonight / It's not over tonight / It goes away now, away now / But it's not over tonight
But a breath is a breath; they both made it through, and humanity forges a path forward.
TORRES - Thirstier
You want someone to worship you / I see you lovin' to watch me risk it all / You think you’re always right, but you love watchin' me try / Provin' you’re wrong
Baby, keep me in your fantasies / Baby, keep your hands all over me / The more you look, the more you'll see / As long as I'm around, I'll be lookin' for a nerve to hit / The more of you I drink, the thirstier I get / Baby, baby
I know I wear you out, I'm never sleepy / I'm sorry for all the times I made you feel / Guilty for sleeping easy / But you get hot when I show you how devout I am / I walk the walk and I show off just how proud I am
Baby, keep me in your fantasies / Baby, even though you live with me / The more I look, the more I see / As long as I'm around, I'll be lookin' for a nerve to hit / The more of you I drink, the thirstier I get
The person accompanying him in the illusion realm was like sweet nectar. When he finished drinking, he felt utterly hydrated and fresh within, and his heart was very tranquil. At the time, Xuan Ji had the feeling that even if his life were to end right then and there, he’d have no regrets—perhaps because the one who made up this beautiful dream was a ‘retired old cadre’ who was only licentious on the outside, but whose passions were relatively limited.
But as it turned out, seeing it was totally different from touching the real thing. The real Sheng Lingyuan was like water with salt mixed in. The more he drank, the thirstier he got. The sounds and tactile sensations all lingered on around the corners of the ceiling and seeped into the cracks of his bones like a curse, refusing to leave. (138)
Future Islands - Glada
New canopies arise / From the crumbling framework / The remnants of fire
And you came as you are / And they said / “Heaven’s a mystery, unless you’re a star.” / “Unless you’ve a crown.”
But they’re wrong / And you can walk this head around and gone / Or we can fly
Who am I? / Do I deserve to see you again? / The slow lapping waves / Bathing my face in light
In the night / Long after summer winds / In the last, diving in / Finding love and a friend / In the dawn
The end, as ever a new beginning.
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