#started looking up stuff about him specifically and BAM. instantaneous

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:bangs hands on the table: JIUJIU JIUJIU JIUJIU. Teeny waist, dressed to kill, whip in one hand nephew in the other, happy birthday you beautiful disaster man you’ve ruined my whole life

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Dreams Can Come True: Chapter 1 Encounter

Introduction-Chapter 2

Today started off like any other day. Wake up at 7:00, take a shower, get dressed, go downstairs, have coffee and eat breakfast, and go to work. Y/n L/n had a fairly normal life. She didn’t cause trouble, she followed the rules like any ordinary human, she had a fairly good paying job and she worked hard. As she stepped out of the door she could feel the chill in the air. It was only September, but it was already starting to get colder outside.

She walked to the daycare, seeing as it was only about 15 minutes away, and despite the chilly weather it was still a beautiful day. She wore her usual attire, white button up tucked neatly into some midrise blue jeans with a few buttons undone for comfort, a black suede coat, and black ankle boots. Y/n walked into the daycare center, set her stuff down, took off her coat and got to work. “Ms. Y/n!!” Her kids ran up to her, some giving her hugs, while others just smiled and said their good mornings. “*giggle* Good morning kids! Did everyone have a nice weekend?” There was a whole bunch of ‘yeah!’, ‘uh-huh’ ‘How about you Ms. Y/n?’ “Okay then, how about we all sit on the mat and take turns telling everyone about our weekends?”

 ~Meanwhile in the Shie Hassaikai~

 “You called for me boss?” Chrono stated as he entered his boss’ office. “This is unofficial business Kurono, no need to be so formal.” Kurono internally sighed in bliss. Being the Second in command of the Shie Hassaikai had its perks, no doubt about that, but having to serve directly under you best friend? Yeah that was rough. Kurono took off his mask, Overhaul had known him long enough, he didn’t mind as long as they were alone and he wasn’t sick. “So what did you need Kai?” Kai stood up, walking over to the couches and waving Chrono over as well. The two sat down and continued to speak. “Its about Eri, I want you to find a care taker for her.” (This is where I change things up. In this world, Eri isn’t being experimented on *at least not yet* so Pops will be in this *yay!*. But, Kai was still tasked with taking care of her, but Kai doesn’t really know what THE HECK to do with a kid, so Chrono takes care of her most of the time. I’m also making it so that Eri calls chrono dad, because I think its FREAKING ADORABLE and I can) Chrono seemed surprised at this. Since they had been taking care of Eri, Kai had always just pushed her onto Chrono. “What do you mean?” “I mean she needs a female caretaker as well as you as her male one, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s not exactly a strong female presence in the Hassaikai. And if we want her to grow up as normal as she can, she should have at least one female caretaker to look up to.” Chrono seemed to think about it. I mean, it made since. Sure, he took care of her, treated her like his own even, but especially after what she had been through with her mother, she needed a loving maternal figure to help her (*cough cough* help him). Having a female around would also make the *ahem* teen years easier…Fewer uncomfortable discussions for him! “Seems fair enough…But uh..Kai?” “Yes Kurono?” There was a moment of silence. “How exactly are we going to get a caretaker? We can’t exactly post an ad on craigslist.” Overhaul seemed deep in thought for two whole seconds, until “Simple, take one.” “…What?” “Do I really have to repeat myself? We’ll take Eri to the park, find a suitable candidate and we’ll bring her back here.” “Seems reasonable, and if she refuses to come?” “I guess we’ll just have to be convincing. Strike up an average conversation, entice her here. I don’t care, just get her here.” Chrono simply nodded, stood up, and started to leave. “Alrighty boss, you got it. You ready to head out now?” “Yes, let’s get this done…I hate the park.” With that Chrono left Kai’s office and made his way to Eri’s room. It was around 8:30, so she should be up, and if she isn’t, she needs to be. Chrono walked into Eri’s room. “Eri, it’s time to get up” He softly said as he made his way over to her bed and softly sat down on the edge. Eri made some sleepy noises, sat up, stretched and yawned, sleepily looking around. “Good morning” He said as he ruffled her bed headed hair. “*yawn* Good morning daddy…” She trailed off, trying to rub the sleepiness out of her eyes. “Lets get you dressed and fed, today we’re going to the park.” Any sleep left in the young girl seemingly disappeared as she heard ‘fed’ and ‘park’. Chrono chuckled, and stood up making his way to the door. “Um..daddy?” “Hm?” He smiled at being called ‘daddy’ when she was little she couldn’t exactly pronounce ‘Kurono’ and he didn’t even try with ‘Chronostasis’ so Kai said for her to just call him ‘dad’, one less responsibility for him, and it provided good cover. “Could you help me pick out what to wear..? And help me with my hair?” She timidly asked, looking at the floor. Eri didn’t exactly have the greatest start in life, after accidentally rewinding her father and being abandoned by her mother, she was practically thrown into the arms of the Shie Hassaikai. Specifically into the arms of Chrono. Don’t get me wrong! He tried his best he really did! But being abandoned by his own parents and a gangster, he didn’t exactly know HOW to be a ‘dad’. He smiled. Despite the extra work it entailed, he truly didn’t mind taking care of her, he was just still learning. “Well, I can’t promise much for the hair…but the outfit I can do.” All in all, he enjoyed being her caretaker. It provided him an escape from the Yakuza. Being able to drop the cold façade and get to be his natural goofball self felt good. “Alright, what’ll it be today kiddo?” Eri looked into her closet, seemingly deep in thought. “Uh…uhm…that!” She pointed to a light blue jumper with a pink sweater to wear underneath. “You got it.” After getting Eri dressed, he sat her down on the bed to attempt to do her hair. He brushed out her long blue-white locks, pulled back a couple strand with a bow and bam, a hairstyle a six year old will at least tolerate. “Ready for breakfast?” Eri speedily nodded her head. Chrono chuckled. “Alright then, lets get you some food.” Chrono and Eri headed to the kitchen, Eri sat down at the table and Chrono headed to the fridge. ‘So, what’ll it be?” Eri thought for a minute. “Apples.” “Again? But you had apples yesterday?” “I know…but I really want apples.” He just smiled, “Whatever you say crackhead.” She simply pouted at the nickname and crossed her small arms. Chrono cut up the apple into slices, and gave the plate to Eri, the little girl’s ‘tough’ demeanor instantaneously dropping as she saw the red fruit. Eri ate breakfast, and Chrono, Overhaul, Nemoto and Eri made their way to the park. So as not to arise suspicion the three Yakuza members were dressed in casual clothes. Chrono wore a white hoodie with blue jeans and white sneakers, Overhaul wore a black button up with black slacks and white sneakers along with a black winter coat, and Nemoto wore a white dress shirt with black slacks, a gray coat and dress shoes. When they got to the park, Nemoto and Overhaul made their way to a café while Chrono and Eri went to the park. All was going well until *somehow* Eri got separated from Chrono.

 ~Back to the daycare which is now playing in the park~

 “Okay guys, have fun, be safe and stay together! Also, don’t talk to strangers!” Y/n yelled to the kids as they ran off to play. Y/n walked towards a bench to sit down and read, when she noticed an unfamiliar little girl nervously walking around, she looked lost. Y/n put on her softest, sweetest smile and calmly approached the girl. “Hi there sweety! My names Y/n, are you lost sweetheart?” At the woman’s kindness the girl seemed to calm down a little bit, but not much. “..Y-yes…I don’t know what happened..I came here with my d-daddy..but now I can’t find hi-im…” The poor girl looked like she was about to cry. “Its okay honey! Do you know his name? I can help you find him.” Eri stopped her sniffles and looked at the kind young woman who was offering to help her. “O-okay..His name is-“ Before the young girl could finish, she was interrupted by loud footsteps and a disheveled looking Chrono. “ERI!? ERI!!” He ran over to the young girl, crouching down and hugging her tightly in his arms. “Eri you have to stay close to me!! I almost didn’t find you!!” The young girl clung tightly to Chrono and started to cry. “I-I know daddy, I’m sorry!” “It’s okay, just…try not to do it again? You almost gave me a heart attack!” “I’m sorry daddy…but.. this really nice lady helped me.” Eri pointed towards Y/n. Chrono then looked up to see a fairly short, young woman with h/l h/c hair, she was beautiful, he had to admit. He stood up and she held out her hand. “Thank you for helping my daughter, I don’t know what I would’ve done if I didn’t find her.” “Its no problem! Really! I work at a daycare, so scared little kids is the least of my worries!” She let out a light hearted laugh and smiled at Chrono. “Y/n L/n, you are…?” “Hari Kurono. It’s nice to meet you Ms. L/n.” “Oh, please, call me Y/n! I’m only twenty and hearing ‘Ms.’ makes me feel old!” Chrono just chuckled. “Alright then Y/n, well that’s my daughter, Eri, I’m kinda surprised she even talked to you, she tends to hide behind me most of the time.” They both looked over at Eri who was now playing with the other kids. “That’s not unusual, I’ve got at least five kids who didn’t talk to me for the first two weeks! Is her mother shy?” “Oh, uh actually she doesn’t have a mother…actually..I’m not even her biological dad.” Y/n seemed shocked at this, not only that he wasn’t her dad (You look at the two and HONESTLY tell me they don’t look AT LEAST similar?!?!) and even more shocked he was single. I mean, look at him, the mans attractive. Chrono seemed to have sensed her confusion, “She’s my boss’ granddaughter, but seeing as he’s older, he gave her to me and my friend to take care of, but he’s not exactly the settle-down-have a family type, so I did what I could and next thing I knew I was her ‘dad’. Not gonna lie though, its been hard. She had a…rough start. Her dad died and her mom abandoned her.” “That’s very admirable of you, taking in a child like that. I don’t have any of my own, but even just babysitting these kids for a few hours is hard enough! I was orphaned, so I can sympathize with Eri in a way, my aunt had to take me in after my parents were killed by heroes.” “I’m sorry to hear that, so I take it you’re not too fond of them?” “Well, I guess not. I don’t hate heroes entirely, but I’m not exactly a fan.” Chrono began to think about why exactly he was here, and she seemed to be checking all the boxes. She was kind, caring, great with kids, young, Eri didn’t run from her, so far she seemed like the perfect candidate. And even better, she didn’t seem to be too fond of heroes. “Hey, um if you’re not busy later, would you mind meeting with me and my boss? You see, I came here looking for another caretaker for Eri.” The young woman seemed intrigued at what Chrono had to say. “Where we work, there aren’t exactly many women around…In fact..there aren’t any women around. And seeing as Eri was left to us, we want her to have a chance at a normal childhood, so she kinda needs a mother figure, and I think you’d be right for the job.” Y/n seemed surprised, she was also curious what kind of job wouldn’t have even one female around. This made Y/n even more curious about the young man. “Okay, I’ll meet with you and your boss, but it’ll have to be after my shift it over, so I won’t be off until five.” “That’s fine, give me your phone number, I’ll text you the details after I talk with my boss.” They exchanged phone numbers, “Alright then, well I should probably be leaving now.” “Yeah, me too, I need to get the kids back to the daycare, hopefully their energy is drained at least a little!” Chrono chuckled he knew exactly what that felt like. “Good luck, and I’ll see you later.” “I’m going to need it. Bye Kurono!” “Bye Y/n.” And with that, the two went their separate ways.

 ~Back at the Shie Hassaikai Base in Overhaul’s office~

 “Well? How did it go?” “Good, really good, actually. I think I found our new caretaker.” Overhaul waved his hand, signaling Chrono to continue. “She’s twenty years old, kind, good with kids, and she doesn’t seem to be too fond of heroes.” Overhaul seemed intrigued. “Tell her to meet us at Dixon Café at 5:30, we will discuss the details there.” “Yessir”. Chrono then left Overhaul’s office. Making his way to Eri’s room, he decided to go ahead and text Y/n the details.

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Kurono

Hey Y/n, this is Hari Kurono from the park? I talked with my boss, he said to meet Dixon Café at 5:30 today.

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He set down his phone and continued walking. About two minutes later he felt his phone buzz.

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Y/n

Okay! Perfect, I’ll be there.

Kurono

Alright, see you then.

Y/n

See you then!

Chrono then put away his phone, the slightest hint of a smile on his face as he made his way to Eri’s room. Yeah, this was gonna be interesting to say the least.

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My Friend Saw Ragnarok

Here’s her opinion on it. Warning: she’s a writer. She only has a “casual” interest in Marvel; ie she’s not a fan of Loki, is mildly interested in the MCU as a whole, and only talks about it cause it’s all I talk about outside of our writing. (We’re both writers.) Here you have it, an outside opinion of Ragnarok: 

(second warning: this is unedited except for some things I think would be hard for people to understand, which I revised to be understandable.)

LOL YES ugh. It was just bad. Okay, to compare, GotG was like that. I almost didn't like those movies the first time around because they're one of those movies where nothing is really explained, you just sort of have to go into it blindly accepting all of these random alien life forms we've never seen before and their powers and planets and scientific laws and such. It was hard for me as someone who likes a lot of reasons and lore for things, to just jump in and be swept into the current. But then they started to grow on me because once you watch them again, the nonsense of it makes sense. That's the point, that you're just suddenly joining this world that you've never seen before and just have to jump in feet first and go with it. Sakaar was like that in a bad way. The aesthetics were terrible, like I said. Literally Star Wars meets Teletubbies meets the Exodar (from World of Warcraft).

(there’s Exodar so you have a visual)

Oh and throw in some... I dunno, 70s space themes or something??? It was just BAD.

And the Exodar was BEAUTIFUL and I looove the Star Wars themes, Teletubbies, not so much LOL But mash all 3 of those together and it's terrible. Just terrible. None of those things belong together. It's like trying to put two magnets together, end to end. It's just a freakin mess and you just sit there, your muscles all locked up, trying to get it to work but it's just not happening.

And WHAT was that wretched prison/holding cell thing where the fighters were kept? That was just weird, and why did you only ever see TWO freakin gladiators?? And the rock guy was kind of cool, like you really wanted to like him but the rock appearance with his weird high pitched voice just wasn't doing it for me, and then that other alien guy who I couldn't even describe to you visually because we never saw him long enough to know what his features were. And obviously Hulk was living in the champion's bedroom, so that was that; but whyyyy did they put Thor in there with him?? It was such a bad plot point because it was just way too convenient. Like "This guy lost because we zapped him at the last second because [who knows why]. Let's throw him in the same room as our champion instead of tossing him back in the pen with the other 2 low-lifes."

There were so many other fighters outside the colosseum getting ready to fight; where WERE those guys?? We never saw them. This whole movie was like convenience to convenience. It was like reading an indie novel. Nothing extra is ever shown,only exactly what you'd expect and exactly what was needed for each scene. You might, if you're lucky, see a rare moment where a really neat plot point or worldbuilding things was implemented, but those moments were more like flukes than anything else.

The plot overall was "okay". I wasn't floored, but it had good substance underneath all that crap.

 Odin dying, Loki and Thor having to work together to defeat Hela, Asgard being taken over while Thor is stuck in some other planet as a lowly gladiator. It had good potential, but I dunno. It was one of those movies where you felt like you were always waiting for something that never came. And in the end you're not even sure what that one thing was that you were waiting for, but you finish the movie just feeling like you never got to see "it", whatever it was.

It's hard for me to judge or compare specifically because I never did see The Dark World and it's been yearrrs since I saw the original Thor.

I really liked that Hulk/Banner had a ton of screen time. I feel like he's sort of in the background of a lot of the Avengers movies, and he never did get his own movie, so it was neat to really see a lot of him. On the other side of that though, his arc was totally flat. There was nothing to it, there was nothing that made him grow or change. He was just Hulk, and then he wasn't, and then he went Hulk again in a little sacrificial moment and just stayed that way. His arc was like a really flat line with a tiny little blip in the middle where he saw Black Widow on the screen and changed back and was all confused and had that emotional moment. Then maybe another blip where he decided to go Hulk to save the Asgardians on the bridge.

Valkyrie (idr her real name) was okay. She had the potential to have a really cool arc too, getting defeated by Hela forever ago and just sinking into that abyss of being a random collector for the GM and drinking her memories away. But I felt like she stayed flat for a long time too, until finally her arc shot upwards at a 90 degree angle when she decided to help Thor after all. And after what? After Loki showed her her memories? That was it? Like she already KNEW all that, that shouldn't have been her major changing point. Also the fact that Thor just HAPPENED to find her armor on the orgy ship just FRIED me to pieces. It's those little things, guys, those little things. You can't just pull that stuff out of thin air. It's bad planning and makes the plot cheap.

Hela was another one that was just "okay." I kind of kept waiting for some real substance from her, but she just didn't have any. Once again, it was just sheer convenience that they find Odin, spend like 36 seconds with him, he tells them he's dying, Hela is coming, there's nothign they can do, he dies, she appears instantaneously and BAM. Everything is wrecked in one moment. And I felt like there was no arc for her either. I never really remember hearing about her previous to this movie, so suddenly Odin just comes out with the fact that he has a daughter that he locked away, etc etc. And we never got to see any backstory or anything on her. She just "was" and then at the end, she just "wasn't" anymore. Like she just blinked in and out. I know her story is part of the real mythology, but it felt like they were just like "Okay we have no threads left to play with from the previous movies, what else can we do?" and just pulled her out of the lore and plopped her in there. The only thing we saw of her story was when she went in the hall and broke the tiles off the ceiling and we saw the "ONE" picture of her and Odin side by side, and are basically left to imagine the rest in our heads. FLAT.

And the Odin thing felt weird to me too. It felt rushed and strange and so disappointing. I never saw TDW like I said, so I dunno what led up to that, but why was he in that "rest home" apparently? Sent there by Loki or something? And then they get there and the building is torn down? That made no sense to me. Maybe it would have if I had seen TDW. But then they find him out in Norway or whatever (I did really love the Dr Strange part) and there he sits in his terrible fashion, almost on the verge of going insane because he's so near death, but he didn't really look sick or weak, just hella old. And he's all "My time has come" and with no more warning or reason than that, he just disintegrates into nothing. Like I always expected that when Odin died, it would be this HUGE thing. Like I would expect some great moment with good music where everyone around him is all tearfully saying goodbye and then all of Asgard is mourning him. Not him going broken-glowstick on a cliff in Norway wearing horrible clothes with only Thor and Loki to see. And they didn't even seem that broken. Thor was more broken by Loki's death in IW (who he only likes about 50% of the time) than he was over his father's death who he loved dearly from what I remember.

And last but not least, Thor's arc itself was.... I dunno even. His was a weird one. His was kind of up and down. Like he lost him hammer, and I would expect some HUGE moment from him after that. Like tearing up or being angry or defeated or something but then they just shot him off to that trash planet and he was so caught up in all that weirdness there, that we never got a good moment from him. It just went like 70s hookah party so fast, that we never got any real emotion from him. And then he never had a moment of weakness. Never that "this is too hard, I'm giving this all up" like all characters have to have. He literally never lost his drive to fight, which would have been cool if there was some epic force behind that, driving him to keep pushing forward, but they really lacked on showing us why he wanted to rescue Asgard so badly. I mean he's Thor, he shouldn't need a reason, but they never let us see the emotion behind that, or let us see some tender moment where he's sitting there telling some story of Asgard and his father or Loki or his mother or anything, and talking about why it means so much to him. The only time he wanted to give up was when he went to fight Hela, and all she did was barely knock him around (less than what Banner did to him, might I add) and then suddenly it was "Poor me, I can't do this. This is too hard." They had it so backwards. He was all amped up and driven to fight her, and all cocky about it, and she smacks him around for a few minutes and suddenly he's like "I can't do this." It was just really weird placement for me.

Literally the ONLY person in the entire movie who had a good arc, was the Executioner. (idr his real name either lol) He shows up, sort of this irresponsible guy , just using his position to get girls and get "things", and then Hela comes and he has no real morales and is kind of a coward who doesn't want to stand up to her so he becomes her second hand guy. First you see him following her around like a puppy, and then he goes from that to actually carrying out her orders. (GROWTH. Even though it was in a negative direction.) Then there's that moment when Hela pulls that girl out of the crowd and tells him to kill her, and he actually hesitates for half a moment, which was SO GOOD because it made him deep. It made you realize he had regrets about it, deep inside. But then he pushes those thoughts away and goes to kill her anyway. So now you know he's totally sold out to the villain's side of things. Then towards the end, when Hela starts to lose, he goes coward, and hides away on the ship with the other Asgardians. (More change and growth, even though again, it was for the negative.) Then at the last minute, when their ship is being overrun, he makes that final decision to forget what Hela wants him to do, to forget his fears, and do what he knows in his heart is right, which was to save his people. And he does, and he dies for it. It was really brilliant. It was such a beautiful, full circle of a character.

Also he was the only one that had GOOD armor. I loved his costume and armor. Everyone else's was crap, but his was good.

I still didn't really like him that much, cause he was kind of cliche, but he was literally the best arc out of all of them, if that tells you anything.

Last but not least, they just tried waaay too hard to be funny. It was like watching some kids’ show, like Frozen or something, where all the sudden things get really meaningful or deep, and you start to feel that moving feeling in your chest like "Okay, I like where this is going." and then some random character pops their head in with some stupid comic relief and ruins the whole thing. The whole movie felt like comic relief to me. There were moments that felt natural and funny, like a few of the moments between Loki and THor, or Banner and Thor, that felt so original to the Avengers movies and I loved that. Avengers is supposed to be funny, because that's how they've always written it, but it's never just PURE humor like Ragnarok. Even Iron Man is more serious than that, and he's like the most humorous out of all of them. So I hated that they kept ruining these good moments with stupid quips or weird things.

You know what it felt like? It felt like if they let the Grandmaster actually write and direct the plot himself. "Hmm you know, I woke up this morning feeling like a public execution." And then he just does it, and what we're left with is Ragnarok.

Overall, it had such good potential but it just fell so flat.