#sweet venom ;; kobra kid

[mothers-little-pistols]

Val showing up to the afterlife with the Fabulous Four waiting for him

[ghostinthez0nes]

Kobra Kid Headcanons lets go

Likes tight clothing, makes him feel more secure and safe.

Will teach you karate if you bribe him enough, but it takes a’lot of bribing.

Doesn’t really care about gender or pronouns, but likes xe/xer pronouns because they sound cool.

Touch his hair and he’ll bite your hand.

Motorbike stunts for days.

A short fuse but a master at keeping cool. When he’s really pissed tho someone will get their teeth knocked in.

Doesn’t admit it but relies heavily on Party to keep his head above water.

Prefers driving around at night when it’s quieter and less bright.

Loves sweet and spicy food, bonus points if its both.

Becomes aggressive when overwhelmed and scared.

Loves sunrises. He will sometimes stay up all night just so he can watch the sun come up early in the morning.

Party helped make his helmet, they’re to thank for the paint job.

Keeps a little dino keychain in his pocket at all times.

Has horrible tan lines from wearing his sunglasses too long in the sun.

Flappy hands and stompy feet when excited.

Light sensitive, thus the sunglasses. Wears them indoors and at night too.

The most anxious around injuries, he doesn’t like blood.

Snorts when he laughs.

Loves the desert and the freedom that comes with it.

Has a very keen sense of smell and is very good at figuring out where the smell is coming from.

Knows sign language and uses it instead of speaking to communicate sometimes.

Absolutely HATES powerpup but forces himself to eat it if theres nothing else even if it makes him sick. Party tries really hard to look for other kinds of food when going on supply runs so his poor brother can eat.

Chews on the straps of his leather gloves when anxious.

Really likes bubbles.

Sleeps in his jacket for security.

A troublemaker with Ghoul and always finds ways to pull off stupid shit with him.

Likes Michael Bay movies.

Hardly ever cries, but when he does it’s cathartic. The others need to intervene because he chokes up while he’s heaving.

Prefers comics over books, he likes looking at pictures better.

Only the girl is allowed to doodle on his bike, if the others try he will deck them.

Most terrified of being captured by Bli, he doesn’t ever want to go back to the city.

Can play the harmonica really well.

Loves old and broken technology because he thinks its cool and likes to fix things.

Teaches the others to read, especially Jet and Ghoul. Ghoul can read but has dyslexia, Jet never really learned how to read properly at all.

Will try to pet any reptile he sees, even if its venomous or poisonous.

Can sleep sitting up, the others sometimes need to do a double take and check if he’s awake or not since he always wears sunglasses.

Obsessed with VHS tapes and has a collection of them with god knows what on them.

Freezes when panicking, will stay in shock at something until someone needs to move him.

Likes close range combat so he can show off his karate skills.

Instead of cussing in an argument he’ll just look at someone like they’re stupid.

Makes action figures for the girl out of spare parts, responsible for all of her robot toys.

Takes AGES to do his hair, hence why he wants no one to touch it.

If he’s not in his room at night, he’s on the diner roof watching the stars.

When the girl was a toddler, she would call him Kobi instead of Kobra.

Has a wide vocabulary due to being educated in the city, but refuses to use it.

Lost a tooth after an accident on the crash track, he gave it to Ghoul who turned it into a pendant.

[delta-romance0]

I didn’t know that Kobra Kid and Party Poison were called the Venom siblings and I think that’s really cool and sweet

[your-friendly-neighbourh00d-fag]

as in dead! would NOT play after the end, jet star and the kobra kid would NOT play before party poison, interlude would NOT play before thank you for the venom, etc etc.

[glittergroovy]

Post Directory: My Chemical Romance

album: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002)

Honey, This Mirror / Vampires Will Never Hurt You / Drowning Lessons / Our Lady Of Sorrows / Headfirst For Halos / Skylines And Turnstiles / Early Sunsets Over Monroeville / This Is The Best Day Ever / Cubicles / Demolition Lovers

album: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004)

Helena / Give 'Em Hell, Kid / To The End / Guys Like Us In Prison / I'm Not Okay / The Ghost Of You / The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You / Interlude / Thank You For The Venom / Hang 'Em High / It's Not A Fashion Statement / Cemetery Drive / I Never Told You What I Do For A Living / Bury Me In Black

album: The Black Parade (2006)

The End. / Dead! / This Is How I Disappear / The Sharpest Lives / Welcome To The Black Parade / I Don't Love You / House Of Wolves / Cancer / Mama / Sleep / Teenagers / Disenchanted / Famous Last Words / Blood / Kill All Your Friends / Heaven Help Us / My Way Home Is Through You

album: Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys (2010)

Look Alive, Sunshine / Na Na Na / Bulletproof Heart / Sing / Planetary (GO!) / The Only Hope For Me Is You / Jet-Star And The Kobra Kid - Traffic Report / Party Poison / Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back / SCARECROW / Summertime / DESTROYA / The Kids From Yesterday / Goodnite, Dr. Death / Vampire Money / We Don't Need Another Song About California / Zero Percent

[bunn-iiii]

some killjoy hcs for my like... versions of them? or maybe AU of them? I'm not sure-

FABULOUS FOUR:

Jet Star: she/her, he/him, xae/xaer. Was born inside the city but he and his mom fled to the Zones when he was really little (like 3 or 4). She is definitely a boygirl, girlboy, girlfriendboyfriend, and that boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend that the Killers were talking about. Absolutely has both a mom voice and a dad voice xae can do. Eye patch is star shaped for aesthetic reasons. Only writes letters in glitter gel pens. Father figure goth girl (no you don't get any context). Tired a lot and probably has a sleep disorder but it's not confirmed since she lives out in the Zones. Usually seems stoic or angry to others but the 'joys that know xaer know that's just xaer resting bitch face, though xae can be quite mean at times if need be. Has the most medical experience but can't really help much outside of stitching wounds up, disinfecting, and bandaging. Often looks very disheveled for no particular reason. 19 years old.

Party Poison: they/them ... just a bit of a enbywhore, just a little bit. Hides their feelings a lot since they view themself as the leader, "makes up for it" by being overdramatic to annoy people. Sassy. Has nightmares a lot due to the trauma of making it into the Zones in their early teen years. If you ask them to turn down the music and don't give an actual reason as to why they should (like overstimulated or have a headache) then they'll just respond with "LINE?? SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER HOW SHINEY THIS MUSIC IS!". Found family sucker, made their own out of the Fab 4 (and also sort of the 109 radio crew). Unlabeled. Has definitely kissed a 'crow just to catch them off guard so they could dust them. Or kissed a crow for fun just because they could. Kobra Kid is their brother. Would be the unreliable narrator. They have dyscalculia, which doesn't come into play very often in the zones but is why Jet is the one who handles all money transactions. Supposedly a prophet? their night terrors turn out to be sort of prophetic. 18 years old.

Fun Ghoul: Uses all the pronouns, every neopronoun, every binary pronoun, doesn't really have a preference. Completely Zone kid, born and raised. Feral little guy. Has a bit of a sweet tooth (a nack for explosives). Running away from the consequences of xer actions. Burnt off their fingerprints on one of their experiments. Really smart but acts dumb because it's fun to trick people (they are a little dumb though). Cartoon character energy. Sniffs people??? Nearly goes cage mad every other week due to understimulation (which is why her finger prints are burnt off). Sharp teeth that they shaved to be that way after they got bored of blowing up things one week. Sometimes Jet will take them driving or racing to keep cake entertained. Possibly bisexual?? Bites people as a love language. Somewhat violent and is prone to throwing bombs to let off steam instead of yelling at people. Gets into fights every so often that Party has to break up. Probably has a fair amount of hearing loss due to being dumb and exploding things without ear protection. Around 17 years old (clouds exact age is unknown since xei never kept track and don't really have paperwork due to being born in the Zones).

Kobra Kid: he/him, they/them, ve/ven/vens/venom. Silent violence type. Either non verbal half the time or just doesn't want to talk. Left blood in your Valentino white bag. Has memory problems which is why the Fab 4 often take a lot of photos so ve can remember. Just a little bit crazy, but more so protective. AUTISM. Special interest is snakes currently since he found a book on them. Got the vodka taken away from them after they tried to chug it on a dare from Ghoul. Mood swings, often rages out and joins Ghoul in blowing things up with bombs. Has a hard time crying though, it's really tough to get them to cry which they both love and hate. Cat energy. Owns a katakana cause why not and also ven is super cool so of course. Has Pathological Demand Avoidance (or what some people with it call Pervasive Drive for Autonomy which honestly I like better) and isn't aware of it, Party has found quite a few work arounds from trial and error from living with him as his primary caretaker for a while. 16 years old.

109 RADIO CREW:

Dr Death Defying: he/him, but has grown to not care as much what is used for him. Keeps insisting that he's fucked up from the war and that he's dangerous but really he's like a dad for everyone. Wears silly patterned socks a lot. PINK GUN! Has lived through a lot including multiple assassination attempts. Pan, but is extremely defensive??? Pro-respect women fr "It's okay to murder but it's not okay to disrespect women.". Raised Show Pony and Cherri Cola for the most part, being the two's biological uncle. Way too avid music listener, when he's not running the radio station he's finding new music (and sending Show out to get said music). Hasn't actually lived through a lot, he's died multiple times but he's friends with the Witch, her being an old friend he knew before she became the Witch, so he ends up getting revived. Iron deficiency, which eating the food that they can get out in Zones has not helped in any way, is the main reason he uses a wheelchair (along with joint pain and such). He has a couple different wheelchairs, including one that is all terrain which he can pop a wheelie on but he refuses to go out as much so it doesn't get much use. Taught the 109 radio crew and the Fab 4 sign language and holds classes for 'joys wanting to learn it. Around 36-38.

Show Pony: they/them primarily but uses a few neopronouns (which I've yet to decide on). Weirdly obsessed with water for some reason, any safe (or even not safe) body of water they've probably jumped in. Definitely has danced in the rain like a crazy person. Memory problems and often forgets things they've said more than things they've done. When they were younger they were a fairly shy kid, after a while they had a sort of personality change. Paints their nails a lot, sometimes paints others as well. Feminine in the way a gay guy is feminine but also they're enby. Pushes their heart shaped sunglasses down their nose so they can look over them like an annoyed librarian. Has probably been deficient in a lot of things before and sometimes just lays on the ground when they feel sick because it's the only thing that seems to help. "The power of friends and GUNS!". Likes to tease people, especially cis guys, because they find it funny when they get angry and frustrated. Does the exact same thing to 'crows because seeing a crow lose control and try to kill them while they do barely anything to dust them is entertaining. Also a bit of an enbywhore like Party. They got given their first pair of roller skates by Dr D when they were 10 and now barely take them off. When they aren't wearing their skates they sometimes trip over their own feet because they still have the motor memory of skating. 19 years old.

Cherri Cola: he/him, they/them. They pirated their gender from BL/ind, they call themself illegally male. Mixed emotions kinda of person, looks angry when they're not. Definitely get angry while also appreciative, tough love-ish. Also prone to just… crying for no reason? can also fake cry really well which he uses to confuse 'crows. Pathetic little dude, coughing blood and then asking if he looks good. Kind of a bitch but that's okay. Punched a wall once because he was "full of love". Eating ibuprofen like it's a snack (much to the dismay and concern of Show and Doc who often try to hide ibuprofen bottles so they won't take them as often). Gets mad and slams his fists against a table or punches a wall and doesn't think about how much it would hurt until after he's done it. 17 years old.

[gayarograce]

I Ranked Every* MCR Song (According to My Own Opinion, Of Course)

*Kinda. I excluded live demos and re-releases of songs. Sorry to any diehard Emily or W.T.T.B.P. Steve Aoki Remix fans.

Also, some of these songs could have their places shuffled around slightly and I would probably still agree. It's really hard to form distinct opinions on, by my count, 77 songs.

Also, just because a song is kinda far down, doesn't mean I don't like it. I like the top 45 or so songs, actively dislike the bottom 5-ish, and have no strong opinion on the ones in between.

Finally, actual MCR fans: I'm curious how controversial some of my opinions are. I can see some songs that I think I placed lower than most other people would, but who knows?

The list (from best to worst):

Vampire Money [highest ranked Danger Days song]

House of Wolves [highest ranked Black Parade song]

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

Welcome to the Black Parade

DESTROYA

Famous Last Words

To the End [highest ranked Three Cheers song]

Mama

Dead!

Party Poison

Make Room!!!! [highest ranked Conventional Weapons song]

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

The Sharpest Lives

Black Dragon Fighting Society

Our Lady of Sorrows [highest ranked Bullets song]

Desolation Row

Teenagers

Planetary (GO!)

This Is How I Disappear

The Foundations of Decay

Kiss the Ring

Boy Division

F.T.W.W.W.

Mastas of Ravenkroft

My Way Home Is Through You

Tomorrow's Money

Burn Bright

The End.

Every Snowflake Is Different (Just Like You)

Look Alive, Sunshine

AMBULANCE

Romance

Sleep

Interlude [The Black Parade Is Dead!]

Heaven Help Us

Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back

Kill All Your Friends

Headfirst for Halos

Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us

Bulletproof Heart

Gun.

Under Pressure [w/The Used]

Thank You for the Venom

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

Blood

Hang 'Em High

Surrender the Night

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Helena

The World Is Ugly

Bury Me in Black

Demolition Lovers

Desert Song

Jet-Star and the Kobra Kid / Traffic Report

It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish

Cemetery Drive

SING

The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You

The Only Hope for Me Is You

Fake Your Death

Drowning Lessons

Give 'Em Hell, Kid

I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

Skylines and Turnstiles

The Ghost of You

Cubicles

Summertime

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Cancer

Disenchanted

The Light Behind Your Eyes [lowest ranked Conventional Weapons song]

The Kids from Yesterday

Interlude [Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge] [lowest ranked Three Cheers song]

This Is the Best Day Ever

Goodnite, Dr. Death [lowest ranked Danger Days song]

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville [lowest ranked Bullets song]

I Don't Love You [lowest ranked Black Parade song]

Also, if anyone thinks I forgot one, let me know and I'll think about adding it to the list (or pointing it out if it's already there and you just missed it).

[harleycao]

Harley's Commentary - Young Justice S1E13

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT JOKER DESIGN!? AND IVY?? I HATE IT!! THE JOKER ONE ESPECIALLY!!

Louisiana!! Home, sweet home!

Okay, Batman has to know that Captain Marvel's really a kid!! He's too smart not to have figured it out!!

Oh, shit! Joker venom!

They used Joker venom AND Kobra venom??

This is...yikes!

Ugh! The Joker doesn't even SOUND RIGHT!!!

That's just... Not The Joker. At all. The more he's on screen, the less I can possibly call him The Joker.

Ivy is at least still characterized correctly! So far, at leas. I just don't particularly like her character design.

Alright, Zatara is cool and all, but I want Zatanna already! I know she pops up! I just forget what episode!!

"Mystic arts" made my brain go Constantine. As usual.

Is Swamp Thing about to pop up!? They are in Louisiana dealing with plant l monsters, after alll. Well, people controlling plant monsters. Close enough.

Definitely. Not. The Joker. This is an abomination to his character.

Maybe Plan B involved Swamp Thing??

Ah, The Helmet of Fate.

I still think asking for help from Swamp Thing would've worked.

I don't think The Light has fooled Batman that easily. Honestly, I don't think the Injustice League would ever think of teaming up on their own. B definitely ain't fooled.

Hey, is that Luthor? And Ra's! and Klarion! Damn!

[chaos-in-bright-pink-hair-dye]

would you mind writing something about the venom brothers watching the sunrise together? i'm literally obsessed with this headcanon. thanks bby and good luck with the movie lol.

Mind? I would love to the headcanon is amazing!

Sunrises are all we have left

Alternatively: The rare moments when the Venom brothers don’t want to kick each other in the face

Word count: 1 067

Warning: mention of injury, implied trauma

Party Poison hadn't slept very well in the previous few weeks, the wound on their side still burning against the fabric of their t-shirt and faces of the 'joys that weren't as lucky as them haunting their dreams. Hence the quiet familiar click of Diner's backdoor closing was enough to wake them from their restless sleep ’Kobra? I heard the door, we shoul-’ they whispered reaching next to them to shake their younger brother up but found only an empty sleeping bag instead. ‘Where the fuck did you go...’ murmured Party as they slowly got up trying not to disturb Jet and Ghoul, both of them got their own good share in the last dance party with dracs and even if Party couldn’t get the so needed rest at least they should.

There was no trace of Kobra in front of the building but Party didn't hear him starting 27 so he had to be somewhere around, there was no way they could overhear the loud roar of the metal monster among silent dark dunes with no one but them around. Their bare feet burrowed into the still slightly warm sand as they made their way around the long-abandoned building that they now called their home.

Late at night like this, it seemed as if no one but ghosts lived inside, wind tugging on the foil they’d put into broken windows and the light mint paint, lovingly applied by someone long gone, now covered under layers of graffiti instead, slowly chipping off under their touch, leaving little flakes on the tips of their fingers. They hadn’t lived there for long, they hadn’t been a crew for long either, just few months before it was just them and Kobra, now? The Fabulous Killjoys, to Party it kinda sounded like a joke, when they weren’t fighting for their bare lives with piles of bodies, both white and neon, by their side, they constantly got into each other’s hair, what is so fabulous about that. But if they wanted to survive, they had to keep the façade up and in the end, those two dumbasses peacefully sleeping inside and their currently missing brother was all they had and out in the desert you have to be happy for whatever you have, so if those three are their new family, then be it.

Speaking of their missing brother they still haven’t caught a single sign of him being around but with Kobra being himself there was only one place where he could be. The roof, place where he always went to fight his demons, actually where any of them went when they wanted to be alone with their thoughts or just overwhelmed and needed a little bit of peace. It was an unspoken rule all of them respected and also used maybe a little too often.

‘Couldn’t choose a worse place to brood could ya..’ the killjoy grunted grabbing the lowest bar of the ladder leading to the roof, lowest meaning it was actually a good meter and half above the ground which wasn’t exactly fun to climb with a still fresh wound on your ribs. ‘Kobes? Ya here?’ They finally dragged themselves over the edge, laying on the harsh black asphalt for a while to catch their breath. Climbing with only one hand and holding the gash on their side with the other was way less fun than they’d thought it would be, which wasn’t much to start with.

They didn’t get an answer but they could clearly see their brother’s dark silhouette against the pink sunrise. Big old blanket tightly wrapped around his shoulders to protect him from the cold of desert night. At first glance he seemed like a statue, sitting between two letters of the big neon sign at the front, left behind by people no one remembers, only his short blond hair slightly moving in the morning breeze.

‘Ugh the fuck are ya doin’ up here?’ sighed the older killjoy stepping next to their little brother. ‘Remember how we used to watch sunrises from the balcony of our parent’s apartment?’ Kobra asked quietly without otherwise acknowledging Party’s presence, stoically looking at the clouds on the horizon painted orange and pink by the rising sun. ’Ya know I don’t...’ Party smiled softly, giving the younger ‘joy quick sad glance. ‘Mind lendin’ me some of that blanket it’s freezing out here and I’m wearing only a t-shirt and shorts’ they tried to quickly change the theme so that they wouldn’t have to think about what was on their mind since they’d gotten into the zones. Their past of which neither of them knew more that the few glimpses they caught in their dreams, but from those Party accepted it was maybe better this way.

Kobra finally looked at them, shuffling to the side and lifting the thick bright yellow fabric from their back to make room for Party. ‘Bad dreams again?’ they asked quietly, their voice a little raspy, after they sat next to Kobra pressing their knees to their chest to hide under the blanket as much as possible. ‘Yeah, ya know it, Mr. Snuggles trying to kill me again.’ Kobra laughed shaking his head ‘but seriously you should be sleeping, ya need to rest’ he wouldn’t admit it but one could clearly hear the concerns in his voice. He knew there was something wrong with Party no matter how hard they tried to hide the bags under their eyes with make-up or clean the blood stains on their clothes. His older brother was always there for him, with them he was safe, but now when Party wasn’t truly themselves Kobra wasn’t sure what to do.

‘Hmm maybe you should have been quieter ’Party tried to laugh but ended up yawning instead, making their sentence almost unintelligible ‘Oh shut up’ the younger brother smirked slightly pushing their sibling but got no response. ‘Hm finally run out of wo- Oh, I see...’ he got interrupted by Party’s head lightly falling onto his shoulder. ‘Guess I can stay here with you for a while’ he whispered, gently brushing few strands of bright red hair out of their brother’s face. ‘But if ya drool onto my t-shirt I'm gonna use your drinkin’ water to clean it’ he laughed quietly as if Party could hear him, turning his gaze back to the sunrise. Yeah, he could stay there for a while.

[bitterbloodrose]

we as a community talk alot about prison but I really think the sexiness of venom just goes unsaid,, that song is So Incredibly Sexy,, it’s about the tension, its the speed running of enemies-to-lovers. Just imagine standing off to your arch nemesis who you have way too much sexual tension with and venom starts playing?? That guitar solo starts playing??? We’d have no choice but to start making out it says so in the rule book, this song was made for Sinning

[mothers-little-pistols]

Incorrect Quote Dump (4/?)

Kobra: Here, I'm gonna be you for a sec. Kobra: *stands next to Diamond and but his hands on his hips* Kobra: *leans left slightly* Wah

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Pony: You know the motel has bedbugs, don't you? Ghoul: It does not. Pony: *flicks a dead bedbug at him* Then what's that? Ghoul: *quietly* Motherfucker-

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Kobra: Play that funky music, white boy! Val: I’m surprised you know that refrence. Kobra: What refrence?

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Thrill: What is toothpaste if not bone soap? Dr. Death Defying: ...every time you speak, I age another fifty years...

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Thrill: *to Val* I will add a single grain of sand to your room everyday until you succumb to the desert.

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Pony: Aight, here’s the four-one-one, folks. Say some gangsta is dissin’ ya fly girl, just give 'em one of these. Pony: *starts dancing*

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Jet: *watching Toxin and Val fight* They must be trying to dial security from a place in a different Zone because it's been fourty-five minutes of them just saying 'Security's on their way'. Kobra: I don't know what's going awry there in that procedure, this response time is abominable. They must just be shooting up battery acid in the bathroom or something and forgot because it's just not coming. Ghoul: I'm starting to believe the security at The Nest is like the Tooth Fairy. It just doesn't exist.

[idontknowokayhelp]

(2001-2013) may death never stop you.

[agentcherricola]

Get Me with Kobra and Party (non romantic obviously)?

thank u!! this one’s a little heavy, warnings for alcohol use and some sexual harassment

Kobra was glad that the bar he’d slumped onto was sturdy, because it was basically the only thing keeping him upright. The girl behind the counter leaned one hand on the bar in front of him.

“What can I getcha?” she said, loudly enough to be heard over the music. Kobra squinted his eyes as he thought.

“Nothin’, I’m just uh...catchin’ my breath,” he replied. Truthfully, Kobra had plenty to drink that evening, and he really was just trying to compose himself while upright. He had no idea what time it was or where any of his crew was. While he pondered, staring deeply at the wood grain of the countertop, he felt a hand on the small of his back. When he turned, a handsome killjoy in all neons stood beside him, smiling brightly.

“Hey, cutie. I’m Max A Million, he/him. What about you?” he asked, holding out a hand. Kobra took it and gave a limp handshake.

“M’ Kobra Kid, he/him too.” Max leaned against the bar on one arm, his other hand traveling up Kobra’s arm.

“I saw you dancin’ and thought I had to come and drink with you. What’re you havin’?” Kobra just shook his head.

“I’m not drinkin’...just uh...” he trailed off as a wave of dizziness hit him. Max supported Kobra’s elbow with a little too tight of a grip. He took a step in closer, and Kobra could smell the alcohol on his breath.

“Aw, c’mon, crash kid. Here, it’s on me.” He kept a grip on Kobra and flagged the bartender down. Kobra couldn’t really make out what he was saying but it was only a minute before a cup of something vaguely fruity smelling was shoved into his hands. Kobra set it back down on the bar.

“I don’t wanna drink, I gotta go find-“ But as he tried to take a step away, Max followed, holding him fast. He slipped an arm around Kobra’s waist.

“Yer right, maybe we should go get some air, there’s a door this way,” he said. Kobra tried to wriggle out of his grasp, but he was too drunk and Max was too strong. He felt his feet dragging as he was all but carried towards the main entrance. But he felt them both stop with a lurch, and as soon as his eyes focused, he noticed Party Poison standing in front of them with a big smile that didn’t quite reach their eyes.

“‘Scuse us,” Max said, taking a step to the side. But Poison stepped with them, staying right in front of the pair.

“Hi! I’m Party Poison, they/them. And who the fuck are you?” they asked, voice dripping with mock sweetness. Max stiffened.

“‘Scuse us,” he said again, more firmly this time. Poison held both their hands out. “Look, I saw this kid first, if you wanted ‘im, you shoulda made a move.” Poison’s fake smile didn’t budge.

“Hmm, actually, that’s my brother you’ve got there. Kobra, you wanna go with this guy?” Kobra could only shake his head. Poison stepped in and took him by the wrist, prying him away from Max’s grip. They took a quick look over Kobra to make sure he looked fine, then they turned to Max, who looked affronted.

“Chill, ok, I was just takin’ him outside to get some fresh air.” Poison narrowed their eyes.

“Sure. I’ll take it from here. A little tip for the future though? People are much more fun to ‘talk to’ when they can stand up. And...” with this, Poison reached out and grabbed Max’s shirt, yanking him in close. “If I or my crew ever, and I mean ever, see you so much as look at Kobra again, it’ll be the last thing you ever see. Understand? Now beat it, party’s over.” Max rolled his eyes when Poison let him go roughly.

“Doesn’t seem over to me,” he said, stubbornly. Poison sighed. They shifted Kobra’s weight a little and reached down in side of their knee high platform boot. Kobra barely registered the movement as it happened so quickly, but Poison pulled their butterfly knife from their boot and had it at the side of Max’s throat.

“I said. Party’s over,” Poison growled, all venom. Max just brushed past the two of them and went out the front exit. Poison immediately lead Kobra towards the nearest wall and propped him up. “Hey, are you ok?” they said gently, brushing the hair off Kobra’s sweaty forehead. “Fuck that guy, m’sorry I didn’t see him earlier.” Kobra just closed his eyes and rested his head back against the wall.

“M’fine...he was just so strong...I think I had too much to drink...” Kobra mumbled. Poison took a closer look over their brother, worried. He seemed alright, if not completely wasted.

“Ok, Kid, let’s get out of here.” Kobra nodded and pushed himself off the wall. He leaned heavily on his shorter sibling as the two of them walked towards the door. Outside, it was a pretty straight shot to the Trans-Am, and the cool air felt nice on Kobra’s skin. Poison paused by the door and whispered something to the bouncer out front. Kobra heard “neon” and “fucker” and “brother”, but mostly he just paid attention to the stars. The bouncer nodded, and Poison lead Kobra to the car. They set him up in the passenger seat with the window down and climbed in the front. They drove off in silence back towards the diner. After a moment, Kobra piped up.

“Thanks fr’ the help, Pois’,” he said.

“Hey, of course, bud,” Poison replied gently. They sent a sideways glance and smiled fondly at Kobra. He smiled back before leaning up and messing with the car radio.

“Wanna play somethin’ good.” He finally managed to switch on the old punk CD in the player. Poison rolled down their own window and turned the music up, so they could both sing with the wind in their hair on their way home.

[always-and-forever-a-killjoy]

Chapter 3 is up!

Hey y’all! It’s time for the third and final chapter of let me be the one to save you, aka the chapter I’ve been promising will make up for all the pain! 

Chapter Title: Everything Is Going To Be Okay

Chapter Wordcount: 1588

Chapter Summary: Cherri Cola wakes up, makes some mildly ill-advised choices, and finally gets a fucking hug.

Warnings: Non-graphic descriptions of injury and stitches, hospital setting.

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(Actual fic under the cut)

When Cherri Cola wakes up again, he’s in a room he doesn’t recognize. The walls are whitewashed and plain, and his first thought is that he was captured on the mission to Battery City. Why they didn’t simply slap a drac mask on him is anyone’s guess, but the more pressing question is if the fabulous four made it safely out with the Girl.

Which he has no way of finding out. Great.

After a moment, he notices that the bed he’s lying in creaks, and the paint of the walls is far too chipped to be Battery City. Not to mention the thin layer of dust and sand coating everything, which confirms that this must be the desert. He struggles to sit up, sending shoots of pain through what feels like a hundred small cuts and bruises. Abruptly, he remembers what happened; Poison getting shot, Jet running with Motorbaby, smashing through that glass wall with Ghoul, Dr. Death Defying coming to save them in the van, all of it comes rushing back.

Cherri pushes himself further up, since knowing what happened at the bli building still doesn’t answer the question of exactly where he is, and carefully swings his legs over the side of the bed. His jacket, mask, and ray gun are gone, making him feel strangely vulnerable, but that’s not going to stop him.

What does ultimately stop him is the fact that he gets to his feet and immediately almost passes out. His head is spinning badly enough that he has to sit right back down, making the bedsprings creak even more as he tries to catch his breath. He must have gotten hurt worse than he thought, given his inability to even stand.

After a few moments, footsteps sound in the hall and then a tall, dower-faced person wearing the symbol of a medic walks in. They look Cherri Cola up and down, pursing their lips. “You’re awake already.”

“How long has it been?”

“Only a few hours. Did you try t’ get up?”

“I have to find my friends,” Cherri defends himself.

“Your friends are safe. You’re in the hospital in Zone 2,” They add. “Your friend, DJ Dr. Death Defying, brought you an’ another kid in.”

Cherri blinks, mildly baffled at being grouped in with Fun Ghoul as a ‘kid’. “I’m twenty-eight.”

“Sorry, you an’ a teenager in.”

“Is xe okay? And what about the other members of the fab four?”

“Xe will be fine, xe’s no worse off than you were. Xyr crewmates are all fine as well, although the redhead was in critical condition for a while.” They peel off the bandages on his arm and start examining a long cut he doesn’t remember getting, which is now neatly stitched. “Your friends said your name is Cherri Cola?”

He nods and regrets the movement as his head aches. “That’s me.”

The medic nods in return. “I’m Senior Medic Dowdy, pleased t’ meet you.” Their voice is professional, but they have the rough accent of someone who either grew up in the Zones or has lived here a long while.

Cherri manages to sit quietly as they check on varying slashes, which he assumes are from throwing himself through a glass door. That really was not his smartest idea.

Finally, they’re finished, and he dares open his mouth again. “Can I see my friends?”

“Only the ones who can walk on their own, ‘m not having you up and walking just yet. You lost a lot of blood.” Their voice softens slightly. “I’ll go get them, you stay right here.”

Ten minutes later, Jet Star enters and immediately goes to throw their arms around Cherri. He winces as his varying injuries scream out, but he doesn’t even think about pushing them away. While Jet Star is by far the most open of the Fabulous Four about expressing affection verbally, they’re restrained with physical affection. They’ll return hugs, but rarely initiate them, unless they think one of their crewmates needs one. And they never hug like this, raw and scared with no warning. So even though they’re taller than him by not an insignificant amount, Cherri holds them gently and lets them fall apart for a moment as they cling to him.

“Thank you,” Jet mumbles. “Thank you for coming with us. Thank you for saving Poison. Thank you for getting hurt to save Ghoul. Thank you.”

“Of course. You’re my friends. I’m always going to try to help,” he promises, and that’s a promise he can keep.

They let out a small sniffle. “Love you, Cola.”

“Love you too, Jet.”

It ends up being another day before Poison even wakes up, and another couple after that before Cherri is healed enough to go see them. During those days, he sees the Girl, who gives him sweet, little-kid hugs and whispers “thank you, Cola”, and Newsie, who gives him a ridiculous amount of shit for almost dying but grins fondly and says “I knew you’d make it, you lucky fucker.” Show Pony somehow manages to smuggle a cherry-flavored lollipop into the hospital for him (where ey got it is anyone’s guess), and gives him almost as much shit as Newsie for almost dying. Cherri just smiles, knowing that it’s eir way of saying that ey cares.

Dr. Death Defying also comes to visit, and the first words out of his mouth as he wheels in the door are “Never do that again. You could have died!”

Cherri almost laughs at how on-brand it is for D that the first thing he does after they’re reunited is scold Cherri for nearly dying. “I love you too, you worrier.”

D sighs. “I love you, even if you gave everyone a fright.”

“I did promise I would come back.”

“I didn’t believe you.”

Cherri knows. It wasn’t a promise he was sure he could keep either, but he’s certainly glad he did.

Although everyone else is able to visit, he doesn’t get to see Fun Ghoul, Party Poison, or Kobra Kid until he can walk on his own. While Kobra is mainly uninjured, he refuses to leave Poison’s side, and Cherri understands that.

The day Cherri finally goes to visit Party Poison is also the first time he sees Ghoul since the two of them were buying the rest time to run.

Actually, xe almost runs into him outside of Poison’s hospital room. “Oh! Cola!”

“Hey, Ghoul,” Cherri offers with a smile.

Xe fiddles with xyr hands. “Thanks for. Y’know. Savin’ me and all.”

“You did just as much,” he gently reminds xem.

“Yeah, but you didn’t have t’ throw yourself through a glass door an’ use your body to shield me from the glass.”

There’s no way he can possibly express, not with any words in his vocabulary, how impossible it would have been to stand by and not do something to help xem. Instead, he just gives Ghoul another small smile and hopes that his true meaning comes across. “I was only doing my best to help.”

Ghoul shakes xyr head. “Dr. D would say you don’t give yourself enough credit.”

“D is very kind, but really I was just doing what I could.”

He swears xe rolls xyr eyes at him as he opens the door and finally gets to see the last two members of the Fabulous Four. Poison looks much smaller and much younger than normal, sprawled out on the bed, but their playful grin is firmly set on their face, and most importantly, they’re alive. The rest of the crew is already arrayed around them; Jet Star is standing next to them, Kobra Kid sits on the bed by their other side, and Motorbaby is snuggled up next to them. Dr. Death Defying is sitting next to Jet, and Newsie grins from the corner, where she’s sitting with Pony.

“Cola! Up and walking, I see.”

“Slowly, but yes.”

“So I shouldn’t tackle-hug you.”

“Not unless you want to tear some of these stitches, no.”

She laughs and comes to give him a gentle hug. “I think the venom siblings have something to say to you. Right, Poison, Kobra?”

Kobra huffs a sigh. “Sorry we were assholes to you when you offered to help.”

“Yeah, we were scared for Motorbaby, but you didn’t deserve t’ be treated like a stranger,” Poison contributes.

It’s rare to hear either of them apologize for anything, so he has a feeling that there was some convincing from Newsie and D involved, but it’s an apology nonetheless. “It’s okay. You were scared and separated from someone you love, and I’m not exactly known for being a fighter.”

“’M really glad you were there,” Poison mumbles. “Kobes says you kicked Korse’s ass.”

“Swear jar!” Jet reminds as Cherri winces.

“I don’t know about that, but I did my best.”

“That’s good enough for us,” Ghoul puts in.

Cherri isn’t supposed to stand for too long, so they let him sit on the other side of the bed from Kobra, and Ghoul perches on the foot of the bed alongside Pony as Dr. Death Defying wheels close enough for Cherri Cola to lean a little on him, and NewsAGoGo and Jet Star do their utmost to gather all seven of the rest into a hug. And even though it all still hurts a bit, and even though there’s a long fight ahead of them, for those few minutes, surrounded by the people who have become his family, it feels like everything is going to be okay.

[vampire-himbos-of-santa-perdita]

the only mcr songs i’ve listed to r black parade and na na na na na but u make me wanna listen to them lol do u have any suggestions? what r ur favorite songs of theirs?

Oh boy. Alright. Ok. Everybody sit down, we’re about to have a masterclass in everything MCR.

The thing about My Chemical Romance is they’re a concept album band, which means each of their albums tell a story as a whole. For that reason, I can’t just recommend my personal favourite songs because they’re all part of a big whole. I’ll do my best to break them down in order of personal preference.

TL;DNR: For those of you who don’t have all day to scroll through full album analyses:

My Faves:

(Absolute all time faves are in bold; *** indicate I love these songs too much for my own good and I must be stopped.)

The Black Parade:

***Teenagers***

***Mama***

***Welcome to the Black Parade***

Famous Last Words

Cancer

Disenchanted

The end. / Dead! (you can’t really listen to one without the other)

Kill All Your Friends (TBP B-side)

Heaven Help Us (TBP B-side)

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge:

***Helena***

***I’m Not Ok (I Promise)***

Ghost of You

***Cemetery Drive***

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

Thank You For the Venom

To the End

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You

Hang Em High

I Never Told You What I Did for a Living

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys:

***Planetary [Go!]***

***Na Na Na***

SING

Bulletproof Heart

The Only Hope For Me Is You

Party Poison

Vampire Money

Conventional Weapons:

***Tomorrow’s Money***

Boy Division

AMBULANCE

Kiss the Ring

Make Room!!!

Miscellaneous:

***Desolation Row***

Fake Your Death

Common People (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Pulp cover)

***Hazy Shade of Winter***

Happy Together*

*these last two are just Gerard Way covers, but considering they’re featuring Ray Toro, that’s half the band right there…

The Black Parade

Concept: A man known as The Patient dies and accounts his life and death, dealing with his struggles with war and disease, and his fears about where he’s going to go in the afterlife.

Track Listing:

The end.

Dead!

This is How I Disappear

Sharpest Lives

Welcome to the Black Parade

I Don’t Love You

House of Wolves

Cancer

Mama

Sleep

Teenagers

Disenchanted

Famous Last Words

Blood

The whole album is honestly so good. It’s worth a listen from start to finish at least once. I’ve got absolutely no bad things to say about the songs that aren’t my faves, as they’re equally as explosive as everything else. That said…

Personal Faves:

Mama

Teenagers

Cancer

Famous Last Words

Welcome to the Black Parade

Dead!

Disenchanted

If you want the stuff that’ll psych you up/empower you, go for Welcome to the Black Parade, Teenagers, Famous Last Words, Mama, and Dead. If you want some real sad shit, go for Cancer, Disenchanted, and I Don’t Love You. I have yet to find out how to not weep all the way through WttBP, Famous Last Words, or Cancer, so you have been warned.

Dip your Toe in the Water With…

Welcome to the Black Parade

Teenagers

Famous Last Words

Things to Keep in Mind

Mama’s got an extra special guest appearance by one Liza Minnelli, and oh man, is it absolutely worth checking out. Next to Welcome to the Black Parade, this one might just be the most theatrical song in the entire album??? Bold statement, but I like to call it the Bohemian Rhapsody of MCR. It’s SO. GOOD.

Blood is the hidden track at the end of the album. There’s about 2 minutes of silence in the original album before it starts. If you want the version without the false start, nab the version from The Black Parade is Dead live album.

If you’re madly in love with this album, you can find their Black Parade concert live in Mexico, The Black Parade is Dead for free on their youtube channel. Throw it up on your tv screen and it’s like you’re there in person.

B-Sides

Kill All Your Friends

Heaven Help Us

My Way Home is Through You

All the Black Parade B-sides are great, but Kill All Your Friends is the real standout (and has the biggest connection to Umbrella Academy, if that excites you reference-wise).

Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

Concept: This is a bit of a split narrative, partially a loving tribute following Gerard and Mikey Way’s grandmother’s passing, and partially a revenge plot. The full plot Gee had in mind took a bit of a backseat after they shifted focus on the grief side of things, but the full original concept is worth the price of admission either way. The revenge plot follows a man who makes a deal with the devil to reunite with his lost lover, if he can collect 1,000 evil souls. He sets out on his murder quest and finally reunites with the woman he loves, only to find she never loved him. He vows to take her down with him, but discovers he’s the 1,000th soul.

Track Listing:

Helena

Give ‘Em Hell, Kid

To the End

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

The Ghost of You

The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You

Interlude

Thank You for the Venom

Hang 'Em High

It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Deathwish

Cemetery Drive

I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

This one is loud and dark, and fast as fuck. I use it almost exclusively as workout music because it will make you want to punch everything in the face. You wanna feel like you could take down all your enemies at once? Listen to this album. This one’s a lot easier to break down in terms of listening to songs here and there instead of all at once.

Personal Faves:

Cemetery Drive

You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison

Thank You For the Venom

I’m Not Ok (I Promise)

Helena

Ghost of You

Some Underrated Gems:

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You

To the End

Hang Em High

I Never Told You What I Did for a Living

Dip Your Toe in the Water With…

Helena

I’m Not Ok (I Promise)

Ghost of You

Things to Keep in Mind

Helena is essentially what got the band off the ground. The music video is really something and really set the tone for what early 2000s emo culture would become. If I didn’t love The Black Parade as much as I did, I’d recommend starting with Helena above everything else.

The Ghost of You music video is also a masterpiece. Gerard went to his director and asked for Saving Private Ryan, and that’s what he got! This video also happened to come out around the same time Green Day’s Wake Me Up When September Ends video came out and Gee was worried the anti-war rethorics in both would be too similar, but Billie Joe Armstrong sat him down and gave him a pep talk about how even though their concepts are similar, they’re always going to be coming at it in different ways. 

If you want to get a really solid insight into where the band came from, see the boys goofing off, and see how Gerard’s struggles with mental health and addiction drives so much of what he does, check out Life on the Murder Scene, also free on youtube. It also gives a brief sneaky peek about early days concepts for the Umbrella Academy comics!

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Concept: In a post-apocalyptic California in 2019(!!!), four rebels who call themselves the Killjoys (Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Kobra Kid, and Jet-Star) set out to recover a young girl from the evil corporation, BL/ind. Their progress is narrated by Dr. Death Defy, a radio dj who maintains public morale in an otherwise gloomy new world where electricity is a rare commodity and people worship at the hands of Destroya, a giant dormant robot expected to deliver everyone from evil.

Track Listing:

Look Alive, Sunshine

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

Bulletproof Heart

SING

Planetary (GO!)

The Only Hope For Me Is You

Jet-Star And The Kobra Kid/Traffic Report

Party Poison

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Summertime

DESTROYA

The Kids From Yesterday

Goodnite, Dr. Death

Vampire Money

This album is radically different than the others in that it’s much mellower. The songs are interspersed with narrative interludes by Dr. Death Defy to better explain the storyline. Danger Days came after one scrapped compilation album (which I’ll get to soon enough…) At this point, Gee’s comic career had started to take off with Umbrella Academy, and things had started to naturally wind down with the band. Gee’s mindspace was clearly in comic-mode, and he upcycled a comic book idea he had kicking around with a comic writer friend of his, Shaun Simon for the new album. After the band’s breakup, Gerard took whatever concepts they couldn’t realize through the lyrics and music videos back to Shaun Simon to make a Killjoys comic. Much of the concept backstory explained above is pulled from this.

Personal Faves:

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

Bulletproof Heart

SING

Planetary [GO!]

The Only Hope For Me Is You

Party Poison

Vampire Money

This is the album where I tend to get bored halfway through and switch over to The Black Parade (whoops…) But it is 100% worth listening to it from start to finish, again, at least once, if anything, because Destroya and Vampire Money are something else… Bulletproof Heart, SING, and The Only Hope for Me Is You are, at least in my opinion, the standouts of the more mellow songs. S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, Summertime, and The Kids From Yesterday are also super mellow if you’re into the vibe of the previous three and want more of that. 

Planetary Go! is… possibly one of my favourite MCR songs of all time??? (Considering how much I love The Black Parade, that’s a pretty bold statement). It’s the only dance track they ever made, and is it ever a Bop. This is one of my go-to’s when I just need to take a break from whatever’s stressing me out and have a silly little dance party. 

Dip Your Toe in the Water With:

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

SING

Planetary [Go!]

The Only Hope for me is You

Bulletproof Heart

Things to Keep In Mind:

Danger Days is an incredibly visual album! You really need the music videos to get the whole story. Na Na Na and SING tell the whole story pretty succinctly.

If you’re really feeling that cliffhanger from the end of the SING music video, check out the Killjoys comics. It’s a single volume under the same name as the album, following The Girl a few years after the music videos’ timeline.

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W was inspired by Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds by the Beatles, which really speaks to the overall vibe of the song.

Something I literally just discovered now, looking up the album, there’s an EP of basically fight scene tracks off a special edition of Danger Days called The Mad Gear and Missile Kid. I’ve not listened to them yet, but from the looks of things, it’s got a pure punk rock vibe and they’re apparently what the band imagined the killjoys listened to on the road.

Fun trivia that I personally get a kick out of: Vampire Money was written out of spite after Gerard refused to contribute a song to the New Moon soundtrack for Twilight (Stephenie Meyer was a huge MCR fan and approached them numerous times to get involved in the films). 

Conventional Weapons

Here it is! The scrapped compilation album! These songs were written pre-Danger Days and were presented at a concert in Japan, at which point, Gerard realized it wasn’t the sound they were after and it was promptly nixed. It’s a real shame, because there are some jams up in here, but at least they (or their record label, I can’t remember which at this point) eventually did decide to release the full “album” in 5 two-single EPs at a time.

Number One:

Boy Division

Tomorrow’s Money

Number Two:

AMBULANCE

Gun.

Number Three:

The World is Ugly

The Light Behind Your Eyes

Number Four:

Kiss the Ring

Make Room!!!

Number Five:

Surrender the Night

Burn Bright

Personal Faves:

Tomorrow’s Money

Boy Division

AMBULANCE

Kiss the Ring

Make Room!!!

Things to Keep in Mind:

I often like to give a shout out to AMBULANCE and Kiss the Ring for having opening chords that sound exactly like they’ve come straight off a Queen and Green Day album respectively.

See Tomorrow’s Money for the spectacular way they rhyme “vampire/empire/brush fire/tap wire” all in one verse.

See also Gun. for the far sillier way they rhyme “gun/sun/fun/run”. 

You can tell with some of these songs that there was the stirrings of Danger Days in here. Make Room!!! is the most obvious, with the same mantra of “everybody wants to change the world” from Na Na Na making an appearance toward the end.

I think in some iteration between Conventional Weapons and Danger Days, there were some songs that did make it to the Danger Days album that were called something else. Party Poison, for example, had originally been Death Before Disco.

Covers

My Chemical Romance, in one form or another, have done some spectacular covers over the years. I’m including the Umbrella Academy covers Gerard did with Ray because that’s basically half the band right there.

Desolation Row (Watchmen soundtrack)

Hazy Shade of Winter (Umbrella Academy)

Happy Together (Umbrella Academy)

Common People (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)

Under Pressure (ft. The Used)

Those are the ones I’m aware of. If there are more good-quality covers I’m missing, please, send them my way– I would love that!

I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love

Ok, look, I’m gonna upset some people by having this on the bottom of my list. I’m sorry, I feel bad about it, but the fact of the matter is, I’m only now getting into their earliest stuff. Bullets is a bit of an acquired taste because it’s incredibly raw both sound-wise and in terms of content. They recorded it before they had the resources to really put out a crisp sounding album, and they were still learning about how to construct songs, but there’s still a lot of beauty in that that I know plenty people appreciate far more than I do. MCR wouldn’t have gained an underground following without this album, after all!

I have exactly zero stakes in this album, so I’m sure someone else out there has a better grasp of this one than I do.

Concept: I know very little about what’s going on in this album, aside from the fact that Gerard was driven to create the band after being in New York, watching the Twin Towers fall during 9/11. A bunch of his more end of the world storylines from many of his works (including Umbrella Academy) are inspired by 9/11. This is a prevalent thread throughout the album, though I’m not familiar with the how beyond Skylines and Turnstiles.

Track Listing:

Romance

Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Drowning Lessons

Our Lady of Sorrows

Headfirst for Halos

Skylines and Turnstiles

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville

This Is the Best Day Ever

Cubicles

Demolition Lovers

Personal Faves:

Headfirst for Halos

Honey, This Mirror isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

Our Lady of Sorrows

I’m playing fast and loose with my faves here. I’ve only heard these songs a handful of times, but they’re the ones I’m inclined to at least listen to for the guitar work, which at times, is quite fantastic. I will say though, from what I’ve seen of the lyrics, there’s some stellar stuff in here I hope to properly get into some time soon.

All the guys are still plugging away and releasing music either in their own bands (most recently, Frank Iero andthe Patience and Mikey Way’s band, Electric Century) or solo (in the case of Gerard Way and Ray Toro). I wish I was more well-versed in their goings-ons, but I’ve not been following their musical careers beyond Gerard’s (come back and talk to me if you want to get into his Hesitant Alien solo album and his more recent releases).

And that is your crash course in all things MCR.

[inkcaviness]

all the mcr asks, your emo heart wants it

well tbh......true.......(i edited a couple out where i didnt fully get the questions tbh)

I brought you my bullets, You brought me your love

Romance: Who was your first love?

a mistake

Honey, this mirror isn’t big enough for the two of us: Is there a side of yourself that no one knows about?

not really, im pretty sure im an open book

Vampires will never hurt you: Vampires or angry men?

vampires always

Drowning Lessons: Plan on getting married?

not really

Our Lady of Sorrows: Are you religious?

nope

Headfirst for Halos: Are you hopeful? If so, what for?

lmao right now im hopeful for graduation(and for actually making it and not failing) and what comes afterwards

Skylines and Turnstiles: An important event that changed your life or perspective?

going to america. just deciding to change schools in general i think

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville: What’s your favorite horror movie?

tbh im not big on horror movies

This Is the Best Day Ever: Ever been to the hospital?

yea

Cubicles: Where would you be without My Chem?

i mean? probably generally not much wouldve gone different but they definitely helped me feel better ín a shitty time

Demolition Lovers: Would you die for your current lover?

dont have one

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

Helena: Have you lost a family member or friend?

no

Give ‘Em Hell, Kid: Have you ever considered committing murder?

not....seriously

To The End: Corpse Bride. Yay or nay?

big confession: i havent watched it.....yea i know im a fake emo....

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison: Ever committed a crime?

no

I’m Not Okay (I Promise): Ever felt out of place?

definitely

The Ghost of You: Ever cried while watching a movie?

yes

The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You: Ever been cheated on or have cheated?

no

Interlude: Favorite My Chem song?

hnghhhh difficult, rn probably either F.T.W.W.W. or the sharpest lives....but for nostalgia’s sake also blood so....

Thank You for the Venom: Ever wrote something stupid on a t-shirt?

actually? not i think? 

Hang 'Em High: Ever shot a gun?

yes

It’s Not a Fashion Statement, It’s a Fucking Deathwish: Who’s your best friend?

@colorfulpancake

The Black Parade

The End: Ever thought it’d be the end for you?

kinda

Dead!: Ever wanted to die?

yea

This Is How I Disappear: Ever done something to someone that you can’t forgive yourself for?

i had to think about that one for too long so im gonna go with no bc if there was something id have probably answered yes quicker

The Sharpest Lives: Are you anxious?

YES actually very much today bc i have an important exam tomorrow

Welcome to the Black Parade: What’s your favorite memory?

uhhhh tbh i dont have a specific one

I Don’t Love You: Have you ever stopped loving them?

yes

House of Wolves: What is your favorite era?

i dont even wanna choose one okay i love all

Mama: Ever disappointed your parents?

24/7 (well maybe 20/7)

Sleep: Any bad dreams?

occasionally

Teenagers: Are you scared of people your own age?

BIGGEST YES

Disenchanted: What changed your life for the better?

leaving my old school

Famous Last Words: What changed your mind about things?

i think just? meeting new people and learning more stuff?

Blood: Any hidden secrets no one knows?

maybe a few little ones? but barely anything that absolutely no one knows

Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys

Look Alive, Sunshine: What time do you wake up?

well rn im still used to my school schedule so around 7:30-8am but give me two more weeks and ill turn nocturnal

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na): What gives you strength?

my friends tbh. and looking back and seeing how things have changed

Bulletproof Heart: Do you miss anyone right now?

yes

SING: Who is your idol?

kinda...no one tbh

Planetary (GO!): Biggest accomplishment?

MAN if it was next week already i might be able to say “graduating high school” but i havent actually accomplished that yet.... but tbh just....i know ive already said that like 5 times but pulling myself together and getting myself out of my old school and applying to a new school and actually making it to 18 and being in a far better place than i thought i would be

The Only Hope for Me Is: Do you consider yourself hopeless?

sometimes but not always 

Jet Star and The Kobra Kid/Traffic Report: What’s your favorite go-to outfit?

jeans and like a sweater or a tshirt with a plaid shirt over it

Party Poison: Do you speak different languages?

yes

Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back: What is your biggest wish?

dont really have one. finding my way i guess

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W: Biggest regrets?

too many

Summertime: Who’s got you excited for the summer?

well! im probably gonna go to paris with charlie and maybe see my godmother again and also summer is con season so im gonna see most of my friends!

DESTROYA: If you could save anyone in the world from danger/poverty/war/etc. Who would it be?

i really cant decide on one person

The Kids From Yesterday: What do you wish you could tell your past self?

everything gets better at some point. also please start filling in your eyebrows and just cut your damn hair

Goodnite, Dr. Death: Opinions on standing for the National Anthem?

i dont

Vampire Money: What is your catchphrase irl?

does “mood” count

thank you for asking!!! sorry to everyone who has to scroll past this