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More s3 hints from interviews (day 2 & Josha!)

@markantonys linked me to a masterthread of More Interviews (twitter.com/GradeKangusBeef/status/1736788980006330448), which I have scoured for more s3 hints, lol. The twitter thread is being updated as they appear, so I definitely recommend the thread as a whole.

From a screenrant interview with Zoë:

Are there any future events or character moments from the books that you know about that you’re excited to get into?

Zoë Robins: Yes, definitely. I’m going to have to tread very carefully, but there’s a moment in season three that I think Wheel of Time book readers will be very, very happy about. It was incredibly exciting to shoot. I think that’s all I can say.

Guessing this will be the Nynaeve-Moghedien confrontation! The word 'exciting' makes me lean that way -- though we may get other key scenes from the books like Lan giving her his ring, not sure that would count as 'incredibly exciting to shoot' and would more likely be described as tender or sweet.

From one with Daniel:

One thing that is less present in the show so far compared to the books is Lan being kind of a mentor figure for Rand. Is there a chance we’ll get a little more of that as the show progresses?

Daniel Henney: I would say that I personally would not bet against it. I'm being shipped off in two months to a place very far away to shoot some really incredible stuff where I have to be in very good shape. I'm eating tree leaves and protein shakes, and I'm in a double training schedule right now, which could include some of the stuff you're talking about.

Another hint that we'll be getting Lan training Rand next season.

From a Dónal one from screenrant; this isn't about s3 but it's sweet:

Dónal Finn: It's great. I love the character very much for that reason. It’s a very human experience that when you're watching, you can go, “I can identify with that, because that person is trying to use levity and humor and lightness to make ease of someone else's difficult situation.” Even though it often can feel like he's kind of punching up or trying to jeer at Rand or something, he knows that it comes from a place of, like, “God, there's so much hard stuff going on for Rand in every day of his life that he needs somebody to do that.” Otherwise, when we meet him in Cairhien, if he doesn't have that—if he doesn't have Mat at that place—he may not laugh, and that's just really crap for your best friend.

I love this point here. I don't think I even realized how miserable as a baseline Rand was this season until we got that contrast of his reunion with Mat. We may be getting that dynamic continuing into s3.

Kate Fleetwood with dragonmount:

KF: Lots of things happen in Season Three... yeah… they sat me down and were like, “This is what we are planning for you in Season Three.” I was, whoaa! Ok…

Very vague, but interesting! I wonder if Liandrin will be a tug-of-rope between Moghedien and Lanfear next season, because Lanfear snagged her from Ishamael but Moggy might snag her from Lanfear.

The tiniest of s3 hints from Ayoola:

AS: A combination of things, I think like, it’s the writers and it is Naomi, my dialect coach, and I kind of spoke about that, it is that humor that the Aiel have that's kind of, can catch you off guard and isn't necessarily funny to everyone but they find it amusing… just where that hits I think and just kind of the situations and we're able to play with that and bring that in.  Also, Aviendha is kind of a little bit more cheeky than some of the other Aiel that we will encounter and kind of her humor is very much part of who she is. Just kind of playing around with that, and it just, it just came out and felt right.

We're gonna meet some serious Aiel in s3. Not a surprise, but good to hear!

Madeleine talked to decider.com:

So far what we know about next season is it’s going to be hugely inspired by The Shadow Rising. We’re going to see Rhuidean and Tel’aran’rhiod. Egwene is now coming out of being a damane. You know, is there anything about her experience with the Seanchan that might influence how she handles, say, another hard, foreign culture like the Aiel? Absolutely. Look, I think even from Season 1, we see that Egwene’s truly been a novice of the world and is fascinated with what is out there and what other people can teach her and what other cultures can teach her. I think she’s sort of taken little bits of the Two Rivers, the White Tower, the Seanchan… And, you know, she goes on this journey to the Aiel Waste and ultimately will, no doubt, learn a lot there as well. So I think she’s just like a big sponge for the world and wants to learn. 

Confirmation that Egwene is going to the Aiel Waste, which makes sense, given that's her TSR plotline. Also, Egwene as a big sponge for the world and constantly learning is just... absolute 100% Egwene.

Josha talked to looper.com:

For Rand, Season 2 was about finding himself and realizing that he can't run away from it. He needs to do it with the people he loves. Season 3 is finally time for facing what he has to face. He's owning that prophecy more, and we see glimpses of why Rand is the Dragon Reborn and why he'll end up where he needs to end up. As that evolution's taking place, what do you do to get into character as this character is evolving? I'm very lucky that I have 14 books, which I have read, and that has given me a lot. I really understand Rand, and it's a lot of things. It's the conversations I have with Rafe [Judkins], the directors, and the writers. It's playing with all these amazing actors. It's the sets. Everything feels so real, and at the end of Season 3, we go to South Africa for two months, and being in that environment, all those things added up together, that helps you to get into the character.

Very exciting! We know that South Africa is Rhuidean, I believe, so very exciting to hear.

Also, Season 3, that keeps on going, and that is a very interesting area to explore because Lanfear is the Devil, and you can't love the Devil. It feels at times that Lanfear is the only one that really understands Rand, and because Rand is often very lonely in what he feels and sees, it seems like, at times, he can't express it to anyone else, and she's exactly what he needs — but she's the devil. That was very interesting for us to explore, and I secretly hope that Rand and Lanfear marry, but I don't think that will happen.

lol @ Josha. Anyway, yes, they're going to be exploring Lanfear trying to tempt/manipulate Rand more in s3, sounds like, so she isn't going to pay attention to Moghedien's warning for too long.

Again, without spoilers, what's next for Rand and the Emond's Field Five heading into Season 3? What can we expect? That's a good question. What can you expect for Season 3 without getting into spoilers? Well, they're together again. There is way more togetherness than in Season 2. That's exciting. It is fun to follow all of you guys, but there's a lot more momentum when you're all together. That's also quite hard for them, because these main characters all need to become something eventually. Because they are so close, it also creates some inner conflict. Rand, for example — if someone has been to your first birthday parties, it is very hard to become the most powerful channeler in the world and also the most dangerous man in the world, because they know your parents and they know who you were. That is one of the struggles they're facing now that they're together at the start of Season 3.

I would like to paste that last sentence from his first answer directly into the brains of everyone at reddit who believes that s3 is going to start with everyone all split up into separate plotlines and we're not going to get any group interactions.

Great answers from Josha in this one!

Screenrant also talked to him:

How do you interpret Rand’s relationship with Egwene in season 2? It’s romantic in the first season; do you feel like there’s a thread of that still there?

Josha Stradowski: I think a thread of that romantic relationship is definitely still there, because it gives this feeling of home for the both of them. They have been to each other's birthday parties. I think that is, on a human level, very [much] what they both need. But I think it also might transition to something else; more like a brother/sister kind of love. But that’s season three, maybe.

I'm really glad they asked him about Egwene!

Rand only reunites with his friends from the Two Rivers at the end of the season, and we haven’t seen how they are around him [after] knowing that he’s the Dragon yet. Can you say anything about what that dynamic is for season 3? Are they afraid of him?

Josha Stradowski: I think for all the main characters, they get what they need, and that is each other, but for all of them comes the internal conflict that they also feel like they need to become something else. It's like this growing pain, and I think Rand has that quite a lot. I feel like he wants to be there for his friends, he knows that he needs to be there for them to protect them, and the other way around as well, but he also needs to become the most dangerous men alive. How can you do that with someone that knows your dad, or the girl who kissed you for the first time? I don't know if that's Egwene, but in my head it is. So, I feel like they all struggle with this growing pain, but you see why they are friends, and you see why they are together; why they are the main characters of this story.

More that implies that we're going to be seeing EF5 interactions before they split up.

Collider also talked to him:

I've been reading the books, as well, and I think that's one of the sadder parts of Rand's journey, as you see how he's viewed through other characters, and the sadness of them reconciling their memories of him with the person that he now is kind of forced to become. Speaking of love relationships, though, I talked to Ceara and Rafe about Rand and Elayne's first meeting. What was important to capture in hinting at what this relationship is going to be, as well as the surprise of that connection? It feels like these are two people looking at each other for the first time and thinking, “You're going to be someone special.” STRADOWSKI: Yes. And that's what I take away, quite often, from the books as well. I have that with Selene, for example. There are a lot of moments where Rand can't get a word out of his mouth because he's so in shock at the beauty of this woman in front of him — and we didn't really have that with Selene, not like that in the TV show, but we did have it for Elayne. It's, like you said, a hint of what it could be, but I feel like it's subtle. It's a gradual thing which needs to be organic, and we might have some of that in Season 3, but I can't spoil that.

He talks a lot more openly about Selene/Lanfear in general -- which makes sense, because that's the relationship that was on the screen in front of us, while the Elayne relationship is gonna have a lot more spoilers involved -- but we get this hint here and I like hearing that the plan for Rand & Elayne is to be gradual and organic (which will be a big contrast to how the Rand/'Selene' relationship was introduced).

I will point out that Josha seems pretty careful overall about spoilers, mostly talking about things pretty vaguely and with ambiguity, so it feels like part of why he's talking about Lanfear so much is because she's one of the few things he's allowed to openly talk about at this point.

Lan training Rand is something that I think fans are excited to see, so I'll ask you the same question that I asked Daniel: can we look forward to that in Season 3? STRADOWSKI: What did Daniel say? He said he's back on the Warder diet, but then he also referenced your recent Instagram post and said that he needs to trim up to stand next to you. STRADOWSKI: Well, you can tell him I'm on the Dragon diet. Like you said, I'm also very excited to finally see some Lan/Rand swordfighting. I think it's time.

It cracks me up that Josha feels out how much Daniel might have spoiled before he says anything.

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i hope yk you’re literally one of my favorite writers on here<3 i hope you don’t mind im requesting again😭✋

i was thinking kf miguel’s past, especially in the comic runs and i feel like many people sort of skirt past the fact that he literally has ex girlfriends and i feel like that could be grounds for some jealous!reader👀

i don’t know how to articulate my thoughts on this but i was wondering what your hcs would be in such a situation where the reader is jealous asf 😃😃

BFJDJD TBANK YOU AO MUCH YOURE LITERALLY THE BEST

jealous! reader IS SOOOO ME LMFAO

miguel o’hara x jealous! s/o reader hcs

you feel the need to be very assertive if someone is crossing miguel’s boundaries or trying to hit on him, YOU LITERALLY PUT THEM IN THEIR PLACE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE YOU DO NOT CARE IF IT CAUSES A SCENE OR NOT. so miguel has to stop you and carry you away (literally) poor miguel he’s kinda embarrassing but still puts up with you 😭

you protective nature can come off as possessive sometimes so miguel tells you to take it down a notch and you do, you apologize to him and he accepts your apology always…definitely reassures you that you have nothing to worry about <3

he says he has eyes for you and only you but you usually be like “do you really? like actually?” and he’ll be “yes i’m serious,” and if you still don’t “believe” him…he’ll spoil you and show you in different love languages that he does love you and only you

you may give sharp glares, cross your arms, or create physical distance between miguel and whoever has caught your attention 💀

you express your jealousy verbally!! you aren't afraid to speak up and let miguel know when you're feeling insecure or uneasy.

you regularly remind miguel how much he means to you and how lucky he is to have you. you express your love and affection in heartfelt words, reaffirming the strength of your bond. your jealousy doesn't stem from insecurity but rather from your deep investment in the relationship.

spending quality time with miguel is extremely important to you so every time he’s done playing spider-man, he’ll come by and swoop you up for a date or just to be with you :3

suggestive you may leave love bites or hickies as a subtle way of marking him as your own. it’s your way of stating to the world that he belongs to you and you alone.

he’ll pepper your face with tender kisses, whispering sweet words to assure you that he only has eyes for you.

jealousy can stem from little things, like someone looking at him for too long or a seemingly innocent conversation with another person. you may not always show it openly, but your eyes darken with a touch of jealousy that can be both intriguing and intimidating.

tags 🏷️!! @kairiscorner @meeom @astro1bloom @obi-mom-kenobi @emiemiemiii @sabcandoit

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School of Style – Purple Polish: 3 Fast Facts

(source: © pinterest.com)

“Confidence in your teeth makes you smile more.” –Dr. Uchenna Okoye

1. Top Teeth – Ladies, allow me to begin this article, by discussing the model’s stunning smile. I think it’s safe to say, that having immaculate oral hygiene works wonders for your well-being, health and appearance. My words can be backed by brilliant beautician, Susie Galvez, who, in her book, Hello Beautiful: 365 Ways to Be Even More Beautiful smartly suggested, “Schedule a teeth-whitening session with your dentist. It is one of the most effective and affordable ways to brighten your face.” Ladies, I’d like to kindly add, that, should you wish to get your teeth whitened professionally, please remember to book an appointment with your helpful hygienist, for a ‘deep clean’ to remove stubborn stains (if any), to enhance the effectiveness of your teeth whitening treatment, for best results. As well ladies, I must also advise, that many years ago, (I think I was a teenager! I am now 36. Wow, how time flies) I read in a magazine, that the shade of white that you decide to choose for your teeth, should ideally be the same shade as the whites of your eyeballs.

2. Sophisticated Shirt – In next place ladies, I’d like to dedicate this paragraph, to the model’s stylish shirt. As you may have noticed ladies, the shirt completely complements her complexion, and makes her (fake) tan pop. Furthermore, ladies, I absolutely appreciate the fact that The White Shirt can be dressed up, as above, or dressed down with say, denim, making it a very versatile garment. In her book, Dress to Impress: How to Look Good and Feel Your Best Everyday, amazing author Brigitte Nioche, rightly reminded me that, “There is no cleaner, fresher feeling than putting on a nicely pressed pure cotton blouse or shirt.” Ladies, based on my fashion work experience, and based on my extensive reading, I don’t think I’ve seen or heard the words, “White shirts are out of style,” which makes them a sound investment, as I firmly believe that The Classic White Shirt will forever be in fashion.

3. Lower Look – Ladies, the final point that I’d like to share with you, is about the lower-half of the model’s overall outfit, i.e. The Stunning Skirt. As you may have noticed ladies, the model is not wearing a lot jewellery (with the exception of a couple of rings). No bangle, no bracelet, no necklace, no anklet, no fuss. Why? Well, if you ask me, I’d say it’s probably because her Sequinned Statement Skirt, is the main focal point of the outfit. And we wouldn’t want any accessories to be in competition with the model’s Statement Skirt. Because I’m sure you know by now, that “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance,” in the wise words of Coco Chanel.

Love, KF X                                                                                            

Happy to help: karensworldofstyle@live.co.uk or karens_style on X (Twitter)

This article was researched, written, edited, produced & published by Karen, on 20th September 2024

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Canary Cry

Robin/Nightwing (Dick Grayson) x OFC!

Description: Her violence was silent. Until it wasn't.

"I'm fine."

"Fine is just another word for drowning."

Rating T-M (mentions of blood, child abuse, mental health, cannon situations of violence and the like. Loss of parents, hard of hearing/deaf character, poorly written fight scenes lol)

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HAPPY HARBOR

August 8, 21:59 EDT

Kate was positioned on the south side of the building, crouching on the edge of the roof. Working perimeter with Miss Martian and Superboy. Which was almost preferable than being in a room with everyone else after the display her, Roy, and Dinah put on. She could feel their questions on the transport over here.

The last thing she wanted or needed was Kaldur pulling her aside before they had left and asking if she was okay after Roy showing up like that but he did and it was almost sweet.

She'd honestly rather just ignore that it had ever happened and block it out from her memory. Which, according to Dinah, wasn't exactly a healthy coping mechanism and Kate would definitely be going home to a talk with the woman about what happened and how it made her feel.

"Link established. Everyone online?" Kate winced at the pressure filling her head, she still wasn't used to the feeling of other people entering her mind.

"This is so weird." Artemis thought? Kate decided it wasn't worth thinking too hard about. Just accepting the fact that she now had voices in her head that weren't hers.

"And distracting. Coding a distributive algorithm on a kitty computer with less ram than a wrist watch is hard enough. Now I have to hear teen-think in my skull?" Dr. Roquette complained and Kate couldn't help but scoff.

"Lady, do you always complain when someone is trying to help you?" Kid Flash's voice entered Kate's head.

"Pot Kettle have you met?" Artemis's words made Kate chuckle, the girl catching herself and fixing her posture on the ledge. Subtly looking around to make sure no one had heard.

"Hey, hey, I do not need attitude from the girl who drove Red Arrow off the team." Kate almost wished she was in that room, if only to see this go down in person.

"That is so not on me!"

"Red Arrow was never on the team KF, him abandoning his friends and family isn't on her." Goldfinch snapped, her mood souring at the mention of the red archer, Kate not there to see the reactions of everyone. Thankfully.

"Fate of the world at stake!" Doc, in the room, waved her arms around to emphasize her frustration with the group of teens.

"She started it!" KF childishly pointed the finger at Artemis, who decided removing herself from the room would be for the best.

"How about I just help Miss Martian, Superboy, and Goldfinch patrol the perimeter?"

"Good idea. Trade places with Goldfinch." Aqualad agreed as the archer walked out of the room, quietly closing the door behind her.

"Where do I go then?" Goldfinch asked.

"Inside." Kaldur answered and Kate sighed but left her perch and headed towards the roof access door.

"You might want to cut her some slack; it was her arrow that saved your butt against Amazo." Robin said to his best friend. The speedster's reaction almost comical if Goldfinch had been in a better mood.

"What no! That was Speedy's- Red Arrow's.... Arrow. Right?"

"No. It wasn't." Goldfinch said monotonously, looking straight ahead with a frown as she lifelessly bounced down the stairwell. One floor closer to the computer lab.

"Well, still not giving her the satisfaction." Goldfinch rolled her eyes and chuckled without any humor. Wondering if this is how Dinah felt with her sometimes, but closing that off from the group chat in her mind.

"I'll make a sweep of the floor, and then report to the computer lab." Goldfinch stated before anyone could protest, Artemis and KF going back at it giving her cover.

She kept her eyes peeled as she made her way through the hallways.

"The virus won't be of much use if we cannot find the weapon. Can you track it?" Aqualad asked.

"My utility fog is not a weapon, it's science. Brilliant science. And of course, I can track it-" Goldfinch cut off the doctor.

"But she'll have to go online. Might as well rent a billboard with this address and an open invite to come kill her painted in neon."

"Goldfinch." Aqualad scolded her.

"What? I'm just stating facts here." The blonde glared at the tile floor under her feet as she walked.

"We will protect you." Goldfinch sighed and stopped in her tracks, looking up to the ceiling and internally groaning.

"What he said Doc."

"Tracking fog now." Goldfinch cleared the last hallway on the floor and started to make her way to the computer lab. Her short period of solitude coming to a bitter end.

"Mmm, that boy." Goldfinch stopped right outside the computer lab and choked down any laughter fighting its way to the surface.

"He can hear you, we can all hear you." Miss M chastised. Someone's a little territorial, Goldfinch made sure to keep her thoughts out of the mental link.

"Oh, I know." The songbird was slowly starting to like Artemis, like actually like her, not just saying she was cool with her just showing up. She was funny, only a little bit, and Goldfinch could relate to having a rough childhood. They were two sides of the same coin really, and that's what scared the bird. Letting someone else in, someone that knew Kate and Goldfinch. Caring for them and then them just... leaving.

"Miss Martian, Doctor Roquette has located the Fog. Reconfigure the Bioship so that Robin and Superboy can pursue." The aforementioned teen boys passed Kate on her way back inside the computer lab.

"Good luck." The blonde smiled slightly at Robin.

"Stay whelmed." Kate rolled her eyes, but the smile on her face growing larger gave her away, "Admit it, it's growing on you."

"In your dreams, Bird Boy." Robin only smirked at the blonde and turned on his heel, running to catch up with Superboy.

"You got that right Goldie." KF muttered as Kate, in a visibly better mood, hopped up onto the counter that ringed the room.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kate looked at the speedster confused, the red-head only shook his head with a look in his eye that screamed, "I know something you don't." And it was slowly starting to piss her off again.

"Nothing, never mind." Kate only pursed her lips and leaned back against the wall behind her while crossing her arms over her stomach.

After some time in relative silence, KF decides to stand outside the door, like a bouncer to a club and Artemis and Miss M start talking again.

"You embarrassed Superboy." Miss M accused, annoyed.

"Didn't hear him say that." Artemis fired back.

"Must you challenge everyone?"

"Where I come from, that's how you survive." Kate tensed slightly in front of the Doctors desk, Aqualad noticed but didn't say anything. That was another thing Kate could relate to with Artemis.

Kate could feel it in her gut that something bad was going to happen, and low and behold not even five minutes later, Aqualad is jumping in front of a projectile aimed for the Doctors head.

"Get down Doc!" Kate ordered, standing in front of the older blonde as a woman with dark hair and a creepy mask on her face ran into the room. An assassin sent by the Shadows.

Aqualad jumped in front of the two blondes as two more throwing stars were launched at them and imbedded themselves into his arm. "Mm, that had to hurt."

"Atlantean skin is quite dense." The assassin attacked Aqualad, who uses his waterbearers to block her twin sais.

"And my shuriken are quite poisonous." The assassin replied, Kate cursing under her breath and letting her annoyance of Aqualad treating her like she was fragile and couldn't take a hit fade. Now only worried for her leader and friend.

"M'gann, Kid, Artemis, we are under attack in the computer lab!"

Kate pulled out her batons and started to attack the assassin with Aqualad, hearing the confirmation from Artemis that back up was coming, but not able to respond as the assassin landed a kick to Kate's side and knocking her down before jumping at Aqualad and wrapping her legs around his neck and twisting to take him down. Throwing one of her blades with deadly precision, Aqualad knocking it off course just enough with a water whip to make it miss it's mark by a fraction.

Kate was up quickly and back in front of the doctor.

"Almost, poison slowing you down?" The assassin and Aqualad struggled for the upper hand, Kate prepping a scream as a last resort, knowing it would probably take out this part of the building as well as the assassin. Her powers had been stressed as a "break glass" option only to her by Aqualad for this mission.

"Jelly fish toxin, I'm largely immune." The assassin headbutted Aqualad and knocked him down.

"largely?" She raised her blade and Kate was about to lunge at the creepy mask lady when the sais was knocked out of her hand by an arrow. Artemis's arrow.

"Don't. Move." The archer ordered, distracting the assassin just long enough for Aqualad to get back up and to have Kate move to his side, fists up and ready to throw a killer right hook.

"This gigs' getting interesting." The assassin chuckled and whipped out a foldable sword. Artemis started firing arrow after arrow, only to have them all cut in half or sliced mid-air as KF and Miss M finally showed up. And helped Kate and Aqualad form a barrier around the Doctor.

"Maybe a little too interesting." She threw down a smoke bomb and disappeared.

"She's getting away! You're letting her get away!" Doctor Roquette yelled at Aqualad and Kate.

"This is all your fault! You were on perimeter, how'd that Shadow get in?!" Kid Flash yelled at Artemis, Kate pinching the bridge of her nose in annoyance at everything that had just gone down and is continuing to blow up right in front of her.

They had just gotten into a good place, where they really felt like a team, but now with a new member throwing things into chaos.... It was way too much to be dealing with on such an intense mission.

"Wasn't just her that missed things." Kate referenced herself, once again coming to Artemis's defense.

"Yeah, that's not really fair, I was outside too." Miss M added to Kate's statement. It was all very "sister solidarity".

"Outside... being distracted by her!" KF found an avenue to bring it back around on the blonde archer making Kate glare at the speedster. "Besides, I can't be mad at you."

"You gave me mouth to mouth." KF wasn't as good as keeping his own thoughts out of the mind link as Kate and the others were.

"We heard that." The team chorused making Kid groan and walk away.

"I didn't do half as well on my first battle, and I know you can't have been Green Arrow's sidekick for very long." Miss M tried to comfort the archer, in true M'gann fashion.

"Focus everyone, the shadows will be back." Aqualad ordered, getting the teams attention and pulling them back on mission.

"Robin to Aqualad, we're over Philadelphia. We've located the Shadows target, we're too late." Robin's voice came over the comms, Kate cursing internally at the news. "It's destroyed, totally destroyed. The Fog decimated it."

"This is bad," Kate muttered, gaining the attention of the room, "STAR Labs is cutting edge tech and science. And now-"

"And now their secrets are in the hands of the enemy." Robin interrupted, sounding just as pissed off as Kate. "What's our next move?"

Aqualad looked to the Doc, "Re-scan for that Fog, find it. We're moving the Doctor."

~~*~~

"You sure it's a good idea leaving the old married couple to watch her?" Kate asked the Atlantean beside her.

"Maybe not, but your powers are not meant for indoor use." Aqualad had a point, underground or close quarters were historically not smart places to use a sonic scream, which is why Canary trained her as hard as she did. Because not every fight is going to be out in the open or primarily long-range attack centered. "You are better utilized in this leg of the plan."

Aqualad paused and looked to the kind of community center building from his and Kate's positions across the street.

"Stop it both of you." He ordered, sounding fed up with their childish bullshit.

"What?" Artemis and Wally replied offended. Kate huffed and rolled her eyes.

"We can hear you glaring." Aqualad jerked his head to the side, telling her silently it was time to play their part. The two took off into the forested area behind them, and crouching behind a tree for cover.

"Miss Martian, stay in camouflage mode and make a wide perimeter sweep." Kate had to fight back the cringe at how loud Aqualad had said that, but she kept on guard, knowing it was all part of the plan.

A rustle was heard a fraction of a second before Kate and Aqualad were yanked up into the tree by sticky webs. The two fighting against the Shadow and were thrown out of the foliage, Aqualad grabbing Kate and taking the force of being thrown into a van parked on the side of street and falling to the sidewalk.

"Thanks." Kate said breathlessly as they both stood up quickly. The blonde spotting the purple clad assassin fly through the air and land in front of them, Aqualad getting knocked down by an attack from behind while the web guy tried to get Kate.

She let herself get tied up and fell, hitting her head, and "Passing out".

"The Martian could return any second, and I'm not keen on evening the odds. We end Roquette. Now." The assassins left and Aqualad and Kate got up, looking at each other with matching smirks before getting up and going to the place where they had actually stashed to doctor.

~~*~~

Aqualad paced slowly by the windows and Kate stood next to Roquette.

"I've almost got it!" Kate took a deep breath, adrenaline coursing through her veins like her own personal drug. Which only heightened when a loud thump came from the ceiling.

"We've got company!" Aqualad told the Doc, looking to the ceiling just like Kate had done.

"Any day now Doc." The blonde muttered, pulling out her batons and prepping for a fight.

"Uploading now, and you said you'd protect me. You both did." Kate really wanted to smack the doctor. Like a lot. Before she could ask herself if that made her a bad hero a metal ball rolled into the room.

"Oh shi-" it released a cloud of smoke and Kate got into a defensive stance, Aqualad pulling out his waterbearers and turning them into swords.

"No matter what, protect the doctor." Aqualad ordered before turning around quickly and taking three darts to the chest, Kate pushed Roquette behind her and backed up as the creepy mask assassin jumped down from a square in the ceiling.

"Let's test the immunity of your jelly fish immunity, shall we?" The assassin glanced over to Kate, "And maybe see how much the birdie can take. That should be interesting."

Aqualad blinked hard and shook his head to regain his bearings and rushed at the assassin. Kate following orders as much as she hated standing back and letting Kaldur do all the heavy lifting for the moment.

Kate gripped her batons tighter when the assassin took down Kaldur with only a couple hits, the toxin obviously weakening the Atlantean.

"There, limit tested, now..." The dark-haired woman turned to the two blondes. Blink and you'd miss the assassin throwing darts at the teen, Kate's reflexes really saving her ass and the doctor. Pushing Roquette out of the way and hitting the darts out of the air without really knowing how she did that.

"Holy-" Kate almost laughed but the assassin was on her once they realized her darts hadn't hit their target. "Fu-" Kate reacted, throwing up her batons, crossed over the other like an x. Blocking the shuriken and their poison.

Kate didn't wait to react again, needing to put the battle on her terms, needing to get the assassin away from the doctor and outside. Where Kate could hopefully light her up with a sonic blast. Kate's boot met the woman's stomach and knocked her to the ground. The woman caught herself though. Rolling back and into a three point stance.

Kat acted in the split second that the assassin threw more assumedly poisoned projectiles, rolling to the ground and throwing one of her batons in response. The woman standing slowly, Kate matching her pace. The woman laughed.

"Your aim could use some work."

Kate just smirked and held out her hand in an open position. Her baton came back, called by the magnets in her gloves, but not without pegging the woman in the back of the head. It was then that Kate started to feel whoosy. Bringing up a heavy hand to her exposed cheek her fingers came a way with red coating them.

Kate's world started to tip, and she went with it.

"That's disappointing, I thought you'd be able to handle more, anyway...It's time for my appointment doctor." The assassin said darkly, turning her sights to the big fish she came for.

The blonde teen seeing blurry figures, one pushing the other to the floor, a glint of something, labored breathing, muffled words. Nothing solid, like she was underwater, it was constantly shifting. Kate wasn't someone to give in though, pushing herself up shakily and stumbling after the blurry green shape she could barely register as the assassin.

Being forced back into the wall of the building when a small explosion and smoke filled the air. The shock bringing the world back into minimal focus, recognizing Artemis standing on the other side of the assassin with her bow drawn.

"Don't move a muscle."

"Wow, I am completely at your mercy." The assassin taunted, her mask on the ground, but her back to Kate so the only person who could see her face was the archer.

"You." Artemis gasped quietly.

"I suppose now is when you bring me to Justice? Let your new friends interrogate me? I don't think the bird is gonna make it much longer though, not with the stuff I shot her with. Quite disappointing really, I didn't even get to hear her scream." Artemis shot a cautious yet worried look to Kate, who was barely on her feet. "I do wonder though, if your position is secure enough to survive them learning everything I know."

Kate, in the back of her poison fogged mind could put the puzzle pieces together that this was Artemis's sister, the League of Shadows assassin, she had been told about. But she couldn't remember her name for the life of her. Her brain refusing to work like it should as things started to get fuzzy again, her knees giving out.

Smoke filled her senses and she started to cough just as Doctor Roquette and Aqualad came out of the café.

"Artemis, where is the assassin?" His eyes fell to a basically passed out Kate leaned against the building, holding back a sigh of exasperation. The blonde was most likely injured. Again. Why this kept happening was a mystery to everyone on the team.

"She uh, she got away." The blonde teen archer spoke dejectedly.

"Oh! From you? Big surprise!" KF zoomed up beside her as she walked away. "Notice, we got ours." Miss Martian hovered mid-air behind him telekinetically holding Black spider and Hookman above the ground.

The speedster looks to the ground and saw the other assassin's mask by Kate's feet, rushing to the blonde's side and picking up the mask. "Cool, souvenir! Hey GF, come on sleeping beauty, time to wake up."

"Her mask? Did- did you see her face?" Aqualad asked as he took out the darts imbedded in his chest, KF still trying to wake up Kate and getting increasingly more worried about her. Robin would kill him if she got seriously injured again while he was around.

"It was dark." Artemis said defensively, her back facing the team.

"It is fine, Robin and Superboy were able to neutralize the fog, and Dr. Roquette is safe, Thanks in no small part to you," Artemis turned to look at the group assembled in front of the internet café, "Welcome to the team."

KF hung back with Kate as Kaldur and Miss M went up to the conscious blonde. The Atlantean shaking her hand and the Martian laying a green hand on her shoulder.

"I've always wanted a sister. Here on earth, I mean, I have twelve back on mars. But trust me, it's not the same. Now I have two."

"I wouldn't know but, thanks."

KF let Doctor Roquette have a look at Kate as he walked up to Artemis. Miss Martian elbowing him in the side when he didn't say anything, Doctor Roquette helping the younger blonde up to her feet behind them.

"Yeah, welcome," he muttered unenthusiastically, about to bring up Goldfinch needing medical attention when Doctor Roquette did it for him.

"Uh, excuse me, she needs help." The four team members looked to the struggling pair of blondes and Aqualad instantly went on high alert when he saw the blood trickling down Kate's cheek. Rushing up to her and holding her head in his hands. Neck doing nothing to hold up its weight on its own, earning a low groan from the fourteen year old, sweeping her limp body up into his arms and turning to the team.

"We need to get back to the cave now."

~~*~~

"How are you feeling?" Aqualad asked the blonde laying on the scratchy bed in the medical bay.

"Fine," Kate smirked a little at Aqualad unamused face. "Really I'm alright." The blonde reassured, letting her smirk drop into a neutral look of exhaustion.

"I'm glad to hear that. I hate to ask this so soon after you've woken up but-"

"You wanna know if I saw the assassin's face," Kate sighed quietly, rolling her head to the side and lazily looking at the Atlantean, "What did Artemis say?"

Unbeknownst to either of the teens in the med bay a certain blonde archer stood just outside with her ear pressed to the door.

"She said it was too dark." Aqualad answered carefully, slightly suspicious of why Kate would want to know what Artemis had said.

"There's your answer, I could barely see my own hand in front of my face, it was all just a big blob." Aqualad nodded neutrally before giving the blonde a small smile, placing a hand on her arm.

"I am happy you are okay; the other's will be as well. Robin was almost panicked when we told him and Superboy of your condition." The Atlantean smirked at how flushed Kate's face got.

~~*~~

Artemis, after a long night with an even longer wait at the cave to see if Kate was going to be okay, finally Zeta's home. The bright light fading as she exits the phony broken phone booth, feeling eyes on her and knocking an arrow, pulling back and aiming it at the person creeping up on her.

"Step into the Light. Now." The teen archer ordered.

It was Red Arrow.

"Nice move." Roy patronized as he walked closer, making it clear he didn't see her as any kind of threat. "Almost made me believe you are Green Arrow's niece, but we both know you're not," Artemis narrowed her eyes at the correct accusation, "Still, I'm sure GA, Bats, Canary, and Goldfinch have a reason for lying. Though how they got Goldfinch to trust you at all is a complete mystery to me, so... your cover's safe. But I warn you, do not hurt my friends."

With that he walked away.

~~*~~

[royaleofury]

Hiii welcome back!! ~ are you still accepting questions? I'm KF, moon in Cancer. And the question I'd like to ask is:

What my current relationship is here to teach me and my partner? (I ask because somehow we got together, however there isn't much love going on, I can guess for now that it will end, but I don't know how etc. I doubt a lot about the whole situation)

-- You have my permission to read for me

Thank you thank you thank you !!! 🩵🩶🧡🩷

Hi! Thank you for participating

I got : 4 of swords, magician(rv) and page of wands(rv)

Right away the cards fell off , more like flew off. It seems the relationship has been getting the best of you. I am sorry because with the 4 of swords, you need mental rest and peace. You just want your inner turmoil to go away and give you the rest you deserve. There is fear of losing what you once called yours, anxiety, some sleepless nights? I am so sorry but if you are in a relationship like that, then please let it go. It's not the best one for you.

With the magician reversed, I see you are confused with the relationship. You are not sure if you want to keep going or just let it go and have your peace of mind back. There is a lack of communication in the relationship. It seems like you have been holding onto it, thinking things will change for good but they aren't. There has been manipulation going on and one of you feel like they have been taken advantage of. You don't know how the relationship will take it's shape in the near future. Someone is really playing word games and the other can't take it anymore.

Page of wands in reversed, tells me that the relationship has become boredom and you two don't feel the spark anymore. Neither you or your partner take actions to ignite the passion and it's not going anywhere.

What does the relationship want you to learn.?

With knight of swords reversed, i feel that the relationship was sent to let you know your worth. You let people cross your boundaries and say nothing, you think you don't deserve certain things, but let me tell you , you are deserving of everything you have and everything you desire. Your guides want you to learn that take the opportunities that are infront of you and dont act passive but be more action oriented and shape the future you want. Do you have an inferiority complex or maybe you developed it during your relationship? Then let it go, don't it hold you back from getting what you want.

With 9 of swords, the relationship is here to let your emotions flow out. You may have the kind of person who didn't let their emotions show to others. But the relationship is here to teach you that it's ok to show anger, to show sadness, to show your tears,etc. No one is gonna hate you for that. That's totally human like. It will make you feel that you have emotions too and you need to channel it well. Don't hold back yourself just because it will hurt others. How many times do others think before actually lashing out on you? Why do you have to think about them when they don't? Why do you have to act like you gotta be the good one? Don't! Only be good to those who actually deserve it.

With ace of cups in reverse, tells me the same thing about letting your emotions flow. Don't overthink, just do it. Also, self love is a main theme of this card. Love yourself before you love another person because if you don't , you will end up disappointing the person you love the most. This is not for your romantic interests but I believe you do have platonic love that you need to put to your focus towards. You may have ignoring your friends and family or just not talking to them enough. Have a good talk and chat with them, it will help you a lot.

[sabo-has-my-heart]

Hello~

I saw your emergency requests are open? I never asked for one, so I also have no idea if I truly should ask or not, so feel free to ignore it!

It's just my life is somehow crumbling apart? I don't know, everything feels so heavy, also I barely get myself through university and think of changing my directions. Maybe even dropping out, but the problem is what will my parents and family think? I don't want to disappoint them, even tho I feel like one whole disappointment already. Also I have an ED and depression and it gets worse again, I am kind of scared

So I wanted to ask maybe something fluff/comforting with Sabo who helps the reader through the change from university to maybe an internship or work? I don't know or just maybe some cuddling? I really don't know

So yeah! Thank you for reading! You can truly ignore this kf it makes you feel uncomfortable or you don't know what to write or whatever reason! I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable!

Please don't forget to drink so water and eat, also take some rest 🌻

Warnings: insecurities, vague mentions of mental and physical health problems, uncertainties

Word Count: 1020

Hi, yes, my emergency requests are open and so long as I’m not the one in need of one, they will likely stay open indefinitely. Don’t worry about asking for one, I’m happy to attempt to help. I’m sorry you’re going through this right now and I hope that either you have someone who can help you through it, can see a professional who can help you through it, or otherwise have some way to pull through, my heart is with you. Don’t worry about making me uncomfortable, it takes a lot more than this to make me uncomfortable and don’t worry, I’m eating and drinking just fine, gotta make sure to take good care of myself so I can take good care of my fans ❤.

Sitting on the couch, Sabo held you close, things hadn’t been going well lately. He’d made sure that, physically, you were taking care of yourself, but there wasn’t much he could do about your mental health. 

“It’s gonna be alright.” Sabo whispered, his hand running up and down your back. You didn’t want to be so worried over this, but what if you made the wrong choice? What if your family hated you for this? What if Sabo hated you for this? Part of you knew that he’d never hate you for something like this, he’d been supportive of all your decisions, good or bad, he’d been there for you through all of your anxieties and hardships and had worked with you through even the toughest of what he called ‘setbacks’. They aren’t failures, disasters, or fuck-ups, they were set-backs and obstacles, things that he would help you overcome. At first you’d hated how he called them ‘obstacles’. ‘Obstacles that make you stronger’, ‘this will just help you grow’. You’d heard it all. Sabo had just given you a sympathetic look and held you close like he always did. They weren’t there to help you grow, they weren’t put there to make you stronger, but they were there and he’d help you around it, together. 

“I just… I’ve put so much money into this.” you said, clinging to his shirt.

“Money that can be made back, money that was spent on figuring out what you truly want to do with your life, the path you want to take.” Sabo said, placing a gentle kiss to the top of your head.

“My parents, my family, they… they’ll be so disappointed.” you said, your eyes meeting his. The worry and fear in your gaze was so obvious even Luffy and Ace would be able to see it from a mile away.

“Your family loves you, they’ll understand in the long run. I can’t guarantee that they’ll be happy with your decision at first, but give them time, they’ll come to see that it’s for the best, that this is what makes you happy, that this is what you want, not what people think you should do.” he comforted, caressing your cheek.

“How would I even go about doing that? I don’t even know where to begin.” you asked, trying to think of how you would make the change.

“We start by asking around. We look into what kind of work you want to do, we decide what makes you happiest. Then we look into what you need for that. There are trade schools, internships, apprenticeships, so many options. Then we go from there.” Sabo explained.

“Go where? How? I-” Sabo placed a finger against your lips.

“We’ll figure that out as we go. It’s good to have a plan, but you can’t plan too much. So we’ll start with asking around and figuring out what you want to do, what you feel like you can do. We’ll start with taking one step at a time.” he said, placing another kiss on your forehead, “And no matter what happens, I’ll always be here for you. If you want to stay where you are, that’s fine, if you want to change majors, you know I’ll support you, if you want to work as a barista for the rest of your life? I expect you to start making my coffee for me in the morning.” Sabo joked, making you smile, “What matters most to me is that you’re happy, and I know it matters to the other people who care about you as well. If they love you, they’ll find contentment in your joy, even if it isn’t what the plan was. It might not be immediate, they might be upset at first, but they’ll come around in time.” Sabo reassured. You smiled and nodded, snuggling against his chest, his arms still wrapped tightly around you.

“You’ll always be here for me too, right?” you asked softly, the words muffled slightly against his chest.

“You couldn’t get rid of me even if you paid me or tried to drag me kicking and screaming. I’d fight through a thousand armies to stay here with you.” Sabo whispered, making you smile again. He was always so sweet, always knew exactly what to say when you felt so disheartened. Taking deep breaths, you let yourself relax ever so slightly, arms wrapped around him, his hold tightening around you, careful not to squeeze the life out of you but tight enough that you weren’t going anywhere. 

“No matter what happens, no matter your decision, no matter what hard times might try to tear you down, I’ll be here for you. Not even death itself will stop me.” Sabo breathed, making you smile.

“And how are you going to overcome death just to be here for me?” you asked. You loved hearing his silly answers, loved how he made you laugh, loved how willing he was to go to extraordinary lengths for you.

“There are a few ways. One is that I beat the shit out of death and make him bring me back to life. The second is to haunt you as a ghost and constantly cheer you on. You’ll come out of the shower and instead of the mirror saying ‘get out’ it’ll say ‘you can do it’. I hear that you can also challenge death to a game for a second chance at life. I could do that as well. No matter what, though, I’ll do whatever it takes.” he said, smiling as you laughed at his answer. To be fair, a ghost writing inspirational things like ‘hang in there’ and ‘I believe in you’ in red paint on the walls was a fairly funny thought. You took a deep breath, finally calming down as you lay on the couch with your boyfriend, a sense of peace settling over you. Come what may, everything would work out in the end, Sabo believed in you, would always believe in you and cheer you on, so you’d do your best, work hard, and things would be alright. 

[shadowsndaisies]

codename: nightingale - fireworks

Reference: Young Justice Season 1 Episode 2

WC: 3.7k

synopsis: we’ve got a bunch of injured and angsty teenagers who just wanna be recognized tbh

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CADMUS LABS, WASHINGTON D.C. July 4, 00:01 EDT

“Time runs short. You must awaken. You must awaken now!” you heard a voice in your head, and suddenly your eyes snapped open.

“What? What do you want? Quit staring!” KF wailed. “You're creeping me out,” he groaned as you blinked a couple of times, trying to shake off the sleepy feeling. 

“Uh, KF, how about we not tick off the guy who can fry us with a look?” you offer, your voice raspy, due to the pain and remaining grogginess.

“We only sought to help you,” Aqualad told the clone, sagely.

“Yeah! We free you, and you turn on us. How's that for great-” KF continued.

“Kid, please, be quiet now,” Aqualad objected. “I do not believe our new friend is in full control of his actions.”

“What...what if I… What if I wasn’t?” the clone asked, and your gaze softened. 

“He can talk!” KF exclaimed, and you couldn’t help but roll your eyes.

“Yes! He can!” Superboy shot back, fists clenching. 

As Aqualad and KF talk to the super clone, you try to access your lock pick. You let out another quiet groan when you realize you couldn’t, due to the position of your arms. Looking over to Robin, you notice he seems to be having more luck, as he slowly worked the lock pick on his cuffs. He raises his eyebrow at you questioningly, but you shook your head discreetly.

“Not like I said, it,” Wally muttered, catching the small glares we sent him. 

“The Genomorphs, they taught you?” Aqualad asked. 

“They taught me much,” he admitted. “I can read, write, and I know the names of things,” Superboy’s words were encouraging, but his tone held an air of desperation to it.

“But have you seen them?” you interrupted, pulling the clone’s eyes to you. “Have they ever actually let you see the sky? Or the sun?” you shifted slightly in your restraints, wincing as you took in the state of your body. There were little cuts scattered all over the glass, and you could feel where bruises would be forming over the next few days.

“Images are implanted in my mind, but no. I have not seen them," Superboy admits.

“Do you know what you are? Who you are?” Kaldur questions.

“I am the Superboy, a genomorph, a clone made from DNA of the Superman. Created to replace him should he perish, or to destroy him should he turn from the light," Superboy explains.

“To be like Superman is a worthy aspiration, but like Superman, you deserve a life of your own beyond that solar suit, beyond your pod, beyond Cadmus," Aqualad tries to reason.

“I live because of Cadmus! It is my home!” Superboy yells angrily.

“Your home is a test tube," Robin explains.

“We can show you the sun," you add, doing your best to keep your voice as gentle as possible. 

“Uh, pretty sure it's after midnight, NG, but we can show you the moon," Wally chimed.

“We can show you, introduce you, to Superman," Aqualad coaxed, and for a moment, it looked like it was working.

“No, they can't. They'll be otherwise occupied. Activate the cloning process," a man in a lab coat and glasses ordered while walking into the room.

“Pass. I’m one of a kind, I’d like to remain that way," you mused with faux humor, and the best smile you could manage, it was the same one you wore at all the fancy events Oliver forced you to attend. 

“Same, Batcave is crowded enough," Robin agreed, matching your tone.

“And get the weapon back in its pod!” the man shouted, clearly frustrated while referring to Superboy, rudely.

“Hey! How come he gets to call Supey an ‘it’?” Wally mocked, and your eyes widened when Guardian walked up to Superboy, pulling him towards the exit. 

“Help us," you pleaded, and his blue eyes stayed on yours. 

Superboy pushed Guardian’s hand off of him, standing firm.

“Don't start thinking now,” Lab Coat sneered, and the genomorph on his shoulder jumped to Superboy’s, its horns glowing red. “See, you're not a real boy. You're a weapon, and you belong to me! Well, to Cadmus. Same thing. Now get back to your pod!” the scientist commands, and superboy, who now seemed to be in a trance.

The man hit a button, and suddenly sets of needles appeared in front of you all. Your eyes were wide as you shook your head, you could deal with any ice freak in the world, but as Dinah could attest, you were not a fan of needles. 

“I hate needles," the comment was through gritted teeth as the needles were plunged into you. They started crackling with electricity, grunts of pain could be heard along with your scream as they drained some of your blood. Your arm jerked roughly against the cuffs, and the small cut on your arm that had scabbed over earlier split open once more.

“Superboy, you live," you gasped, hoping that he could hear you between your screams. “That gives you the right to follow your path. A weapon or a person, the choice is yours, but ask yourself, what would Superman do?" 

Suddenly the door was ripped off its hinges, and the needles stopped.

“Are you here to help us or fry us?” KF questioned as the boy of steel walked up to the redhead’s pod. 

Superboy stopped for a second, squinting at KF, “Huh. I don't seem to have heat vision, so I suppose helping is my only option." 

You couldn’t help but let out a small but pained laugh, but that quickly turned into another painful groan.

“Ahh," Robin exclaimed as he finally was able to pick his lock. “Finally! Lucky Batman isn't here. He'd have my head for taking so long," you raised your eyebrow at him tiredly, and he shrugged.

“Seriously, that's what you're worried about? The whole League will have our heads after tonight," KF responded.

“Free Nightingale and Aqualad. I'll get kid mouth," Robin instructs.

“Don't you give me orders either," Superboy grumbled before leaping up to break the door to the pod, letting Aqualad free. Once Aqualad was down, Superboy came to your pod, breaking your shackles and catching you. He let you down carefully before helping you stand, as strong as he was, his handling had become gentle. “Thank you," you whispered in appreciation meeting his eyes, he gave you a small nod as he helped you stabilize. Your body felt like it was still buzzing from the electric shock and plunging of needles.

“You….you'll never get out of here! I'll have you back in pods before morning," the man in the lab coat shrieked.

“That guy is not whelmed,” you note, now standing on your own, though the pain had yet to subside.

“Not whelmed at all,” Robin affirmed before throwing an exploding Batarang at the four containers with your blood.

“What is it with you two and this whelmed thing?” KF asked rhetorically as you all ran out; all you could offer your speedster friend was a shrug of your shoulders. 

“We are still 42 levels below ground,” Aqualad stated, leading you all forwards, “but if we can make the elevator..."

The loud growl that cut him off was enough to keep your heart pounding, “or not,” you add, as you spotted the genomorphs that were appearing in front of you. 

Turning back, you noticed that the same large genomorphs were now blockading your path.  The five of you skidded to a stop as more and more genomorphs began to appear. 

The minute one went to attack, you all took evasive maneuvers, well, almost all. Superboy decided to attack them instead. He began wrestling with the genomorphs that were three times your size as the rest of you stood back. While he seemed to be making an impact, he was beginning to bring the house down with him, literally.

“Superboy, the goal is to escape, not to bury ourselves here!" Aqualad shouted.

“You want to escape? Aah!” the super clone let out a yell, clearing a path through his rage.

Using the given space, you all make a break for the elevators. Aqualad pried them open before letting us all through. Wally jumps to the side and uses his super-speed to quickly jump from floor to floor, using the metal ledges like stairs. Robin grabbed you by the waist once more before using his grappling gun to pull us up. Looking up, you noticed Superboy and Kaldur. The clone had jumped, probably intending to fly, but you saw as their faces faltered. 

“I- I’m falling,” Superboy’s voice came as a distracted mutter, but you wasted no time. 

Grabbing one of Robin's batarangs, you threw it upwards, creating a handhold for Aqualad to hold onto. The Atlantian had a sturdy grip, catching onto the handhold and keeping both of them from falling back down. 

“Superman can fly. Why can't I fly?” Superboy questioned as they found their footing on the metal ledges.

“Don't know, but it looks like you can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Still cool," KF points out, helping them. 

“Thank you," you heard the clone mutter to Aqualad, who then sent you an appreciative look; you nodded, black lips in a thin line.

“Guys, this will have to be our exit," Robin shouts, pulling everyone’s attention to the elevator that was beginning to approach us.

Together Superboy and Aqualad kicked the elevator doors open, and you broke into a sprint. As you run, the aftershocks of the electric pulses start to wear you down while the short burst of adrenaline fades. You become painstakingly aware of the pulling in your ankle. Taking a glance as you turn left (per Superboys request), you notice the swelling. You also see that you’re lagging behind the boys now too. You take a right and come face to face with a wall. 

“Great direction, Supey! You trying to get us re-podded?” KF shot off, turning to the clone. 

“No, I- I don’t understand,” superboy backtracked. 

The first thing you noticed was the vent. Nudging the Boy Wonder beside you, you weakly nod to it. Allowing your stiff neck to add to the parts of your body currently in pain. 

“Don't apologize. This is perfect!” Rob exclaims. “Birdy, you first,” he says, nudging you forward.

The boys hoist you up, allowing you to pull the vent cover off. You let it fall to the floor, before pulling yourself entirely through the vent. As you begin to crawl, Kaldur comes up next, behind you, then Wally, Superboy, and finally, Robin brings up the rear. 

“At this rate, we'll never get out," KF groans.

“Anyone ever tell you, you’re a pessimistic person, KF?” you shoot back with an eye roll. 

“Shh. Listen," Superboy shushed.

You could vaguely hear a crackling sound, and when a shriek followed, your eyes blew wide. You all sped to the next exit. Once out, Robin started to do something on his wrist computer.

“I hacked the motion sensors,” he bragged.

“Sweet," Wally cheered as you took a moment to inspect your ankle further. 

“Still plenty of them between us and out," you mumbled, attempting to roll your ankle in a circle, checking it’s mobility. You had to stop the action when you winced from the sharp pain it was causing. 

“But I've finally got room to move," KF smirked, pulling his goggles over his eyes and zooming off through the stairwell.

You started following him as he knocked all the genomorphs in his way down.

“More behind us," Robin alerts us.

Looking back, you nodded, “I got this,” you assure the rest. 

You turned around full and hit the button on your choker. You took in a deep breath before screaming, “AHHH!” 

It was your canary cry. The force of the sonic waves pushed the genomorphs back allowing Superboy to kick the staircase down. The power behind his kick was enough to create a giant gap between you and them. You click the button on your choker once more, turning off the sonic device before spinning around and continuing up the stairs. 

Dinah had given you the choker the day she finally let you patrol on your own. It was also the day you got my codename, Nightingale or NG for short. Before people used to call you Birdy, some still do.

When you stop at the top of the stairs, you find one last set of heavy doors, “We're cut off from the street," Superboy digresses as he and Aqualad move to pry the doors open with little luck.

“Thanks. My head hadn’t noticed," Wally stated sarcastically from the ground; he had fallen when he slammed into the door, not expecting it to stay shut.

“Can't hack this fast enough," Robin muttered, typing at his wrist computer. He looked up for a second, searching for another option. “This way!” he decided, grabbing your arm and pulling you through a side door, only to lead you into a circle of genomorphs and Guardian. Everything quickly became black as you collapsed to the ground.

When you woke up once more, your vision cleared, and you saw Robin offering you his hand to pull you up. You noticed Superboy facing one fo the Genormorphs, “I choose freedom,” he decided, and the genomorph nodded.

Guardian let out a groan, rubbing his head, as you roll your shoulders, scanning the room the best you could, “Feels like a fog lifting,” he admitted. 

“Guardian?” you called to the hero, gently. 

“Go. I’ll deal with Desmond,” Guardian nodded. 

“I think not!” Dr. Desmond interrupted. . “Project Blockbuster will give me the power to restore order to Cadmus!" he uncapped a test tube and began chugging a neon blue liquid. 

Your eyes darted around trying to find a way out, suddenly, he was transforming into something else, and it was a bit frightening. You took a step back in a mix of surprise and horror. 

“Everyone back!” Guardian yelled out, charging the beast, only to be knocked aside. 

Next was Superboy; the two of them went at it, before going through the ceiling.

“Ok. That's one way to bust through the ceiling," Robin commentated, grabbing your waist and his grappling gun. 

“Do you think Lab Coat planned that?” Wally asked, and Robin aimed the gun. 

“I doubt he is planning anything anymore,” Kaldur countered, and Robin shot the hook, grappling you both up.

You all seemed to shift into fight mode, charging the thing. KF tripped it; Rob threw some bombs at it; you screamed, pushing it to turn toward Superboy, who once again began to fight it. Aqualad attempted to intervene but was pulled to the ground. When KF tried to help, he got pushed into the wall instead. Wincing, you began looking around frantically, trying to find a solution.

You watched as the structure began to shake with the blockbuster monster threw Kaldur into the pillars, and you had an epiphany. “Rob! The pillars,” you shouted over the commotion.

Robin’s eyes spotted the same thing I had before a look of surprise took his features, “Of course! KF, get over here!” he yelled, catching my drift.

Robin pulled up a schematic on his hologlove and showed it to both you and the speedster, “Got it?” he asked. 

“Got it," KF and you affirm simultaneously.

“Go!” Rob commences.

KF went to distract the creature as the rest of you began to bring down the building’s support pillars. You ran into the middle of the room and marked a large ‘X’ on the ground as everything else fell into place. More of the pillars were brought down, and water was sprayed over the X. Wally led blockbuster to the water allowing Aqualad to electrocute the beast. With blockbuster distracted, Robin hit a button on his glove before meeting your gaze.

“Move!” he yelled as his exploding batarangs began to go off, causing the building to collapse. The building was crashing down on all of you, but Superboy was able to move some debris away as everything settled.

“We did it," Aqualad panted.

“Was there… ever any doubt?” you smiled weekly from the ground. 

Robin and Wally high fived as you attempted to get up, tried, being the keyword. You would’ve fallen back down if the two boys hadn’t caught and stabilized you. Looking down, you knew it was a mix of your ankle and the exhaustion.

“See?” you swallowed, despite the pain. “The moon," you mused. By now, KF and Robin were supporting your weight. You had an arm around each of their necks while your bad foot stayed off the ground. 

“Oh, and Superman. Do we keep our promises or what?” Wally jokes as the big man himself landed in front of us, other league members trailing behind him. Including all of your mentors. 

Superboy was the first to step forward, showing off the symbol on his suit, startling not only Superman but the rest of the League as well. 

“Oh, boy,” you muttered under your breath. 

“Is that what I think it is?” Batman inquired, staring at Superboy.

“He doesn't like being called it," Wally hints.

“I'm Superman's clone," Superboy admits, and the shock is evident on all the leaguer’s faces. 

“Start talking," Batman glowered.

As we retell our adventure of the day, many of the Leaguers stay and listen. And when they concluded, most left, allowing the core members to remain. The ‘adults’ talked leaving us in a small circle of our own.

When Superman walks over, all of you are paying the red cape your full attention. 

“We’ll figure something out for you,” he sighed, staring at your new friend. “The league will, I mean. For now, I better make sure they get that blockbuster creature squared away.”

Superman seemed nervous and detached, and when he flew off again, you quirked a brow, “man of steel or man of ice,” you whispered to Wally, who shared a look with you.

Before he could respond, Batman approached you once more, “Cadmus will be investigated, all 52 levels,” he assures you, “but let's make one thing clear-”

“You should have called," Flash complained, interrupting the Dark Knight.

“End results aside, we are not happy. You hacked Justice League systems, disobeyed direct orders, and endangered lives. You will not be doing this again," Batman continued, and your nose twitched. 

“I am sorry, but we will," you spoke up, struggling as you let go of Wally and Robin and painfully stepped forward, in front of the four boys.

“Nightingale, stand down," Canary warned. 

“I’m sorry, Canary, but no," you negate. “We did good work here tonight, the work you all trained us to do," you remind her, eyes darting from one League member to the next.

“Together on our own, we forged something powerful, important," Kaldur added stepping up to stand in line beside you.

“If this is about your treatment at the hall, the four of you-” Flash tried to intervene, but he got cut off.

“The five of us, and it's not," KF interjected, moving to your left, supporting some of your weight.

“Batman, we're ready to use what you taught us, or...why teach us at all?” Robin continues stepping to your right and helping you stand once more.

“Why let them tell us what to do?” Superboy scoffed. “It's simple. Get on board or get out of the way," he concluded, stepping forward and joining you. 

Together the five of you made the team, and nobody, not even the league, would change that.

MOUNT JUSTICE July 8, 08:04 EDT

A few days past before you saw each other again. You had been put on crutches for a few weeks so that your ankle would heal quickly. It had been sprained, badly, on your expedition into Cadmus. Three days later, you all met at Mount Justice, dressed in your civilian attire around eight am. 

“This cave was the original secret sanctuary of the Justice League. We're calling it into service again. Since you five are determined to stay together and fight the good fight, you'll do it on League terms. Red Tornado volunteered to live here and be your supervisor. Black Canary's in charge of training. I will deploy you on missions," Batman explained; you were standing with the boys, leaning against your crutches.

“Real missions?” Robin questioned.

“Yes, but convert," the Bat affirmed.

“The League will still handle the obvious stuff. There's a reason we have these big targets on our chests," The Flash points out to us. 

“But Cadmus proves the bad guys are getting smarter. Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly," Aquaman adds.

“The six of you will be that team," Batman continues.

“Cool! Wait, six?” Robin asked. Suddenly Martian Manhunter appears through the Zeta, he types something in and a girl appears behind him, only she’s green too.

“This is the Martian Manhunter's niece, Miss Martian," The bat completes.

“Hi," The girl says shyly.

“Liking this gig more every minute," Wally smirked, you rolled your eyes and elbowed him in the stomach, “umph," he groaned, shooting you a look as he turned toward Miss Martian.

“Welcome aboard,” he greeted, with a flirty smile. “I'm Kid Flash, that's Nightingale, Robin, Aqualad. It's cool if you forget their names," Wally explains, pointing to us respectively, smirk still on his lips.

“I'm honored to be included," Miss Martian says politely. 

“I like her,” you decide, as you all step forward to talk to the Martian girl. Turning back, you notice that one of the boys hadn’t moved. “Hey, Superboy. Come meet Miss M," you smile at the clone, as he walks over to us.

“I like your t-shirt," she compliments shyly, changing her shirt to look like Superboy’s, and you smirk knowingly. Looking around at the people surrounding you, you realize that this is exactly where you’re supposed to be. 

“Today is the day," Kaldur decides, and you can’t help but agree.

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[dragynkeep]

Holy shit I still can't believe I've seen more people believe that KF thread accusing Sheena of killing Monty with their cat than people who believe the letter. I also hate how RWBY fans let the letter get co-opted by Vic stans so now if you bring it up they assume you're part of them. Also since you brought up how Monty and his brother weren't that close, there is some stuff to back up that monty wasn't that close with his family. In a post he wrote on his personal website (which has now been archived) there's a post where it talks about his mother's funeral and he mentions how he's been described as off the grid and that he's family was expecting little response from him. ( the whole post is a great if sad read here's the link)

https://web.archive.org/web/20180928220018/http://montyoum.net/archives/602

The other thing is how when Shane's letter came out, Chivy, one of Monty's brothers made a response and said that he didn't even know Monty was in a relationship until he met Sheena at the funeral so Monty didn't even tell his family about Sheena.

Another thing is how in the special thanks for V1 and V2 for RWBY while people put their family in the special thanks, Sheena was there and Monty's family wasn't. Come after his death for V3 and Sheena is gone than from V4 onward The Oum Family is there.

it's all an incredibly uncomfortable, distressing & ugly situation & one that has obviously been taken advantage of by certain pockets of fans to their own ends. i honestly don't know how people still deign to believe sources like kiwifarms when it's barely a step up from the likes of 4chan & has only ever served to cause more issues than they "claim to solve."

reading that archived post of monty's was very sad, especially because i never had this nostalgia for him or his work as i came into the fandom long after his death & really can view this without that colouring my perspective. the way he talks about needing to work because of his parents immigration to the us & how his siblings would accuse him of not making time just feels really sad in retrospect. because like i said in the other ask, this overworking & this need to drive himself beyond the limit was more likely the pressing factor contributing to his death than he & his wife wanting a pet & him getting allergy shots for it. the death itself was wholly a freak accident & yet sheena is perpetually, still, cast as this conniving, gold digging villain who murdered her husband & it's so heartbreaking.

i think a lot of rwby fans buy into the fact of crwby "doing their best in monty's honour" despite the company ousting his wife & deriding his best friend's mental health because of the narrative formed by the kiwifarms posts; as well as the inherent idea that your blood family knows you best. neath being in the cast is seen as a sign of good faith that what they did in the aftermath of monty's death was right, even though by neath & monty's own words they weren't close. there was nothing more than a slight familiarity there only due to blood, monty had his family & it wasn't his siblings. it was his wife, it was his best friend.

it's just very uncomfortable to see this brought into because this is what happens to so many people, our blood family speaks over the family we chose by virtue of that blood relation & nothing else; & like i said, i don't know how i would handle that if it were my best friend, or my husband's family speaking over me when i knew i loved them most. the rwby & by extension rooster teeth fandom really needs to remove the blinders they have because of this cult like adoration for rwby & see what was being said years ago in a new light. especially since shane's claims were validated by rooster teeth themselves in the exposure of the crunch & yet so few in the fandom thought to actually follow through & question if the rest of his claims were true.

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

can you maybe do sdra2 cast reacting to their S/O revealing that they’re apart of void? (minus the other void members,of course-)👉👈

Oop I’ve been kinda losing motivation for this one, so I left out Yuri, Shobai, Yoruko, and Sora. Apologies! ^^;

..........

Yuki

“You’re with THEM?!!!”

“Y-Yuki, calm down-”

“No! I..I-I can’t believe it..” The orange-haired male stood up, his hands shaking as he stared down at you. Tears filled up his eyes. “Why tell me this? Why now? Are you planning to kill me? D-Did..Did you only fall in love with me just to-?!”

“No, no! I would never do that to you!” You stood up as well and took his hands, praying that he stayed and listened to you. “I’m not gonna kill anyone.”

“....you’re only saying that because you saw Hajime die.”

“Not even that. I..I’m sorry I didn’t say it before. I just..figured it was best to tell you now while we’re alone. I never wanted any part of Void's plans. I'm not gonna turn into a killer. I swear it, Yu.”

Yuki was conflicted on whether to forgive you or not. On one hand, learning this information hurt him deeply. But on the other, kf you were willing to betray Mikado by telling him this then...you must truly loved him.

He looked up at you, blinking back the tears. “You promise?”

“I swear it.” By bringing him into a tight hug, you secured that promise.

...........

Kokoro

“You wanted to tell me you were in Void.”

“.....yeah, you truly are psychic.” You sighed, rubbing your head as you nervously anticipated your girlfriend’s response.

Though she was calm and briefly looked up from her tablet, gazing into your eyes. “And you don’t want to be associated with them anymore. You wanna be on our side, even if it means certain death for you.”

You simply nodded. “Hitting all the nails on the head, I see."

"I understand why you joined them, but I'm not mad or disappointed as you might expect me to be." She stated. "You don't want to kill so I see no reason to be cautious around you at all."

Even though you knew her talent was just that powerful, you were still surprised by her words. But you smiled a little in relief.

"Thanks, Koko. I appreciate your understanding." 

You kissed her cheek, which made her blush slightly as she raised her tablet to hide her face.

"I-It's just natural for me to observe my partner..that's all."

..........

Hibiki

“Y-You...YOU TRAITOR! YOU’RE THE WORST!! GET AWAY FROM ME FILTHY VOID!!”

“W-Wait, Hibiki-!!!” You were shoved back by the small vocalist. By the time you regained your balance, she was out of sight. “Shit..”

With a sigh, you began heading in the direction that she went. Of course you knew she wouldn’t take the news well, but it hurt to be insulted before you even had the chance to explain yourself.

You asked around, and eventually found Hibiki at the beach. She sat alone in the sand, crying into her knees. As you sat beside her, you cautiously put a hand on her shaking back, and she looked up at you with a tear-stained face. "P-Please don't hurt me.."

"I wouldn't dream of it, sweetheart." You reassured, before you began explaining the reason you were in Void and how you hated the idea of killing, hoping she would understand.

Once you were done, you just waited anxiously for what Hibiki would say or do next, thinking she'll still hate you anyways.

But she just began crying again as she hugged you tightly.

"I-I'm sorry for pushing y-you away...I just...you've helped me so much and..I-I don't wanna leave you.." She sniffled into your chest, feeling your comforting arms wrap around her.

"I don't wanna leave you either, Biki. I promise I won't." You told her.

There was no guarantee you could keep that promise, but for now...you gave her what she needed to hear.

..........

Teruya

It wasn’t easy to confess, but you decided to tell Teruya about your affiliation with Void. 

And...as expected, he didn’t take it well.

He had his hands on your shoulders, begging for an explanation as to how and why you were with them.

But after you told him your motivations and how you don’t want to kill anyone, the regret only grew as he slowly took his hands off you. His expression was bleak, which made your stomach sink with despair.  

Shit. He’s fully convinced that you betrayed him now. 

“Teruya..I-”

You tried to say something to defend yourself. But his face spoke louder than words.

He must’ve thought you were a coward and a traitor...and now you’ve possibly ruined this relationship-

“C’mon.” He suddenly grabbed your hand, while drawing out a gun in his other. “From here on out, you’re under my surveillance. You will not talk to anyone else about your affiliation with Void except me.”

“H-Huh..?” You were bewildered by his actions. “I thought..you were gonna leave me..”

Teruya looked back at you with sadness in his eyes, their emerald color seeming darker than usual. “No. Not after what you told me. Look, I still love you, [y/n]. I’m only doing this for your protection. So please..don’t resist, and let me be useful for once.”

.............

Shinji

“Shinji? Did you mean it when you said you wanted the Voids to be our friends?”

“I meant every word, [y/n].”

“....what if they were your lover, though?”

“Then I’d still---wait...” The firefighter turned around fast, confused. “What did you say?”

“I’m with Void. B-But I swear on my life I don’t plan to kill anyone or-!” Frantic words began tumbling from your mouth.

“Hey, hey..take deep breaths.” He placed his hands on your shoulders ever so gently, giving you a calming smile. “I’m not mad. I...w-was just surprised, that’s all. I’m glad you decided to tell me.”

For a few moments you stared at him, baffled that he didn’t get angry or feel hurt by your confession. Though your initial panic subsided as you smiled back at him. 

“Thanks, Shin..for not freaking out.” You then looked around. “Y-You won’t tell anyone else, right?”

“Only if you wanna. I trust that you don’t want to take that bastard’s side anymore, so..you tell ‘em when you ready.”

Nodding, you hugged him tightly, the action causing him to blush. But he held you in return, promising to protect you with every inch of his life.

..........

Kanade

“Oh...I knew it all along.”

“You did?” Blinking in surprise, you stared at Kanade, wondering how she could’ve known you were with Void.

But the guitarist just giggled as she took your hands, absentmindedly swinging them and never taking her eyes off of you. “Yeah, but I didn’t really care about them or what you do. That’s why I never said anything. Though..I know you wouldn’t leave me for them, would you?”

“..no.” You sighed, feeling unnerved as to how she figured that out. At the same time you were relieved she didn’t get angry at you. “I promise I’m not gonna kill anyone or hurt anyone..especially not you.”

There was a long pause, which made you nervous once more, though Kanade simply kissed your cheek and let go of your hands. “Don’t worry, I know you could never be capable of something like that. I’ll be sure to carry this secret to our graves~”

She gave you one last innocent smile before walking away, leaving you to ponder over her grim promise.

[anothertimdrakestan]

Absolute Cheeseball  -  Wally West x Reader

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Requested? Yes! From the lovely @officiallydarkgeek!

“Ohhh #28 "are you flirting with me?" "Thank god you finally noticed" with Wally, not because he is subtle but because she thought he flirted with everyone (which he didn't). (Alright I'm gonna stop now thanks and I love you)”

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HELLO AGAIN ANGEL CAN I SAY HOW MUCH ILY! These requests are everythingggg. I love Wally ;) I love you ;) what a good day ;) I went for Young Justice Wally because he’s h o t and we can just pretend Dick and Artemis aren’t love interests but good friends... Hope you enjoy!

Wallace Rudolph West. What a confusing kid (flash). You’d successfully moved into Mt. Justice with the team and he’d been a big help making the adjustment. But that didn’t make your feelings for him less confusing. You’d caught him staring at you multiple times not to mention the quick quips about your eyes and how gorgeous they were. But he was a flirt, with everyone. He called everyone babe, though you realized you were the only one whose heart fluttered from it. Not to mention he was affectionate as hell. Constantly slinging an arm around people's shoulders Conner had commented multiple times on how your heart rate sped up when Wally was around. 

But you knew you weren’t special to him. Sure he spent time with you but it was because you were new, and the team was slow to warm up to new people. And he toyed with everyone’s hair; and commented on everyone’s suit. You had to reign in your superhero ego knowing that in this instance you weren’t special. Besides, Robin was totally cute too, and even though he had advanced emotion controlling training he was easy to read, and he wasn’t looking for anything more than a flirt. You assumed it was because of someone back in Gotham. So you each had people you were pining to be with.

If nothing else it was fun flirting with Robin, especially on slow days. He was watching some medical drama with Wally and you plopped down on the couch right next to Robin, a little closer than is normal. “Hm, why do all the doctors sleep with each other? Do they even take care of patients?” Wally interrupted Robin, “because babe it’s fake ya know - made up?” he winked at you, and you stuck out your tongue, ignoring the butterflies twirling around your gut. Focussing more on Robin you rested your head on his shoulder, “so Robin do you have a secret identity or did Bats erase it. It can’t be as dumb as Wallace so you’re in good company!” Robin snorted and Wally sat up in his chair. “Yeah bird brain tell her your not-so-stupid name” he looked intrigued. “Well it’s a secret” Robin huffed. You didn’t want to upset him so you moved on, grabbing his hand by his wrist, holding it up to yours. “You have way bigger hands than me look!” you flattened your palm against his, grinning into Robin’s shoulder.

What you didn’t notice was Wally literally vibrating with jealousy. I mean what was Robin giving you that he wasn’t? He helped you move in, used all his famous moves on you, and tried telling you about all the things he liked about you, and yet emotionally stunted bird brain was getting the girl? Letting a little jealousy take over he zipped next to you, pulling your hand on to his.

“Ha look mine’s bigger” you barely registered Wally crossing the living room and nestling next to you. He hand was larger, he could bend his fingertips over your hand when you were palm to palm. “Congratulations Wallace you have the bigger hand but the dumber name” you teased Wally and noticed him lightly shaking, you’d clearly hit an insecurity or something. “Yeah really? Cuz his name’s Dick!” Wally blurted out. Dick jumped up angrily “what the hell dude? Secret identity much?” he glared at Wally who looked sheepish. “Sorry sorry, can I talk to you for a minute man?” before you could ask what was happening Wally zoomed off with Dick - it is a pretty lame name.

“Dude Wallster what is going on with you?” Dick narrowed his eyes at his best friend who was awkwardly rubbing his neck. “Erm, I kinda like Y/N and she’s all over you and I got kinda upset” Wally shrugged his shoulders and Dick tried to hold in a laugh. “Dude what are you on, I’m with Babs and Y/N totally doesn’t like me she’s into you dude” Wally looked up hopefully, and the two moved towards Dick’s room to plan.

A day later you and M'gann were baking when Wally and Dick came to join. More like watch. They sat at the counter make fun of you while you questioned your ability to cook. Wally couldn’t stop laughing “Y/N, babe, you’ve gotten more flour on you than in the bowl!” and you scrunched your nose at him, blowing some flour on his face. Eventually, after making fun of you, Dick and Wally got up and began to help. The first batch of cookies were being decorated by Dick and M'gann while you and Wally worked on the second batch.

“See this is why I watch the medical dramas, surgery and cooking are like the same thing! And I’m an expert!” Wally puffed out his chest while you giggled. To say you were close was an understatement. Wally would stand on one side of you then press against you to reach something from a cupboard or lean to grab the sugar with his face just inches from yours. You were intoxicated by his cologne, trying not to melt into his embrace. At one point you complained about being tired from stirring when Wally reached around either side of you, essentially trapping you in his arms and took the whisk from you. His breath was tickling the skin between your neck and shoulder, making you inhale quick breaths, trying to focus on the cookie dough. 

M'gann mind linked you should we leave? You and Wally are doing more than cooking over there! And you mind-yelled back No! We’re just baking I wouldn’t be surprised to see you and Robin doing the same thing! You heard M'gann laugh lightly No Y/N he’s definitely flirting with you. And you got a little flustered, forgetting about the mind link. “No! he flirts with everyone not just me!” and you saw Wally’s gaze snap up from the cookies to you. Dick grabbed M'gann saying “oh wow hear that? Someone needs our help better go!” and the two of them basically ran out of the kitchen. 

You stepped back, bracing yourself on the cabinets. “You aren’t flirting with me are you?” asking for confirmation. And Wally blushed “Uh, yeah I am. Are you just now noticing?” and your heart basically stopped. “No you aren’t you act this way with everyone! Right?” and again Wally shook his head “nope! Only got eyes for you Y/N!” you tried to let the words absorb into your love-shocked brain. “Only me?” you whispered, slowly leaning towards Wally who was closing the distance between the two of you. “Only you babe” he answered before bringing his lips down on to yours. 

Pulling apart he didn’t let you out of his embrace. “You do like me right? Cuz you were all over Rob yesterday and it kinda sucked” he admitted. “You jealous KF? You haven’t even asked me out yet!” you teased and he blushed. “Oh! Yea. Maybe tonight I can run you somewhere cool! You ever wanted to see Star City stars?” and you couldn’t help but grin “sounds perfect Wally”. Both a grinning mess Wally’s hand fell to your chin, tilting your head up so he could capture your lips in another kiss. 

“I bet I kiss better than Dick!” Wally winked at you. “Hm should I go find out?” you pretended to walk out of the kitchen when he grabbed your wrist and pulled you back into his chest. “Mhm nope. You’re gonna have to trust me on that one” and you laughed at how jealous he really was. You played with the fabric of his shirt. “So you really couldn’t tell I’ve been flirting with you for weeks?” he still looked shocked, “I thought my game was good!” and you rolled your eyes, “I thought you were using your ‘game’ on everyone! Didn’t think I was that special” you admitted as he toyed with strands of your hair. “Funny cuz I think you’re the most unique, special girl in the world” at that you couldn’t help but blush. “Save it for our date cheeseball” you poked his chest. “Well if you couldn’t tell I was flirting then I’ve gotta up the frequency and quality!” he grinned as you rolled your eyes. “Fine fine, now can we please go watch the sunset or something cheesy?” and he kissed you on the cheek before saying “Okay! I’ll be ready in a flash!” and you closed your eyes, trying to remove the horrible one-liner from your memory. “Gonna be a lot more of those huh” you whispered to yourself with a full heart for your flirt. 

[jksmoongf]

Baby’s Breath [pt.8]

Pairing: (idol!dad!) Jungkook x reader  Genre: angst / fluff /smut  Wordcount: 8.1k Plot:  Sometimes one reckless night is all it takes to completely turn your life upside down. But what if you can’t even trust your best friends to keep your secret? Warning pt.8: drama, awkward!jk ( a hard fave), just some baby fluff if you squint.  A/N: so it’s been a long time since I last updated BB (I’m kinda nervous tbh) but now that KF is finished, I’m finally getting back to it. I hope someone still reads this but probably not lol.  As always, feedback would be nice, my loves! 💕 I wanna thank @struggleofarmy​ for always helping me :( D. you are angel, without you I’d probably never write anything and ily 💕

The car came to a halt; she watched as Jungkook hastily unbuckled his seatbelt and stumbled out of the car. He felt the need to run - to run as far away from his life as he possibly could but his legs gave out when his feet sank into the sand, falling to his knees. He didn’t even try to get up, cowering down as he hid his face in his hands.

How was he supposed to feel okay again? His whole life took a complete 180; the universe had pulled the carpet from underneath his feet as he had tried to make things right for his little family. Not for one second did he have any bad intentions, he just wanted everyone to be happy but it all backfired.  

All this hurt inside his chest really sucked the energy out of him; from day one the other members had looked after him, comforted him when he needed them, he had learned everything he knew from them and for them to betray him like this, was too much for him to handle. His heart was crumbling to pieces, bits floating in his body - and he knew they would never find their way back to repair the cracks.

Why did they have to betray him like that? He always tried his best to make them proud, and although he knew he wasn’t perfect, he was there for them to comfort them, to cheer them on, to listen to their worries. Was it all his fault that they went behind his back? Did they only care about themselves and their career and not at all about his happiness? His right hand balled into a fist, repeatedly hitting the sand.

His stomach churned, when his mind wandered off to the headlines when people eventually found out about him leaving the group, bile forced its way up into his mouth. He didn’t want the fans to hate him for leaving but for the first time in a long time, he had to put himself first. He wanted to see his little girl grow up, he wanted to be there on her first day of kindergarten and school; he wanted to go dance recitals and pick her up from school. He wanted to sing her to sleep and comfort her when she was upset. He wanted to help her blow out her birthday candles and see her eyes light up when unwrapping presents. He just wanted to be there for every important moment in her life; even the small ones that people always tend to forget but he seemed to remember those the most. 

The thought of being a father had scared him to death when y/n had confessed to him that she was pregnant but now he would’ve given everything to turn back time, just so he could be there for her; holding her hand through all of it - he had been too weak, too selfish back then. But maybe it wasn’t too late to make things right, he would be there for her, for his daughter, no matter what; even if it meant to give up his dream. He would be okay as long as he could be with them.

“Kookie…” Y/n said softly, her hand rubbing circles on his back. “Baby…hey.” She managed to pull him up, his eyes were puffy and red from crying, lips quivering, she brushed his hair from his face. “It’s cold, we need to get you somewhere warm, okay?”

But Jungkook didn’t feel the ice-cold breeze that was seeping through his clothes, everything inside him was numbed to protect the last bits of his heart from breaking. “No..” He yelped, his voice too weak for any real protest but to his surprise, she sat down next to him. “Okay.” Carefully she wrapped her arm around his torso. “We can just stay here for a bit.”

Shakily he exhaled, as his eyes closed more tears seeped from them without his consent. Her fingers intertwined with his, his head was resting on her shoulder as he listened to the calming ocean waves hitting the shoreline.

At that moment he knew that everything would be okay again; they could start over and be happy together- they would fight all the odds that were against them. No one was going to keep them apart; not his company and not his brothers - he so desperately tried to push them to very back of his mind. If he just stopped thinking about them, they wouldn’t be able to hurt him any further.

With his sleeve, he wiped the tears from his cheeks, eyes still fixated on the ocean. “I-I’m sorry I dragged you out here…” He whispered after a little while. “But we had to go, we couldn’t stay in Seoul. They were going to separate us again.” “Who?” “The others told the boss about you and me and he told me I wasn’t allowed to talk to you ever again because it would ruin my career…” Deeply he sucked in a salty breath of air to stop the hiccuped sobs that were piling up in his chest. “He threatened to stop giving you money if I broke the rules and I just snapped…” He trailed off, trying to find the right words to describe what had happened a few hours ago. “I yelled at them…I pushed Jimin, I didn’t care that I hurt him…I just wanted to know which one of them rammed a knife in my back and wanted to take you away from me again…” Closing his eyes to stop the tears from escaping again, he tightened his fingers around her hand. “I-I just can’t believe they would do this to me, they are my family.” “You know they love you, Kookie. They just wanted to protect you, don’t be too hard on them.”

He pulled away, shaking his head. “No, they don’t deserve it. They wanted me to be miserable again, they wanted me to go through all this pain of losing you again.”

“I don’t think that was their intention, they worry about you and they only want what’s best for you.” She tried again to make him see that others were just looking out for him but he ferociously shook his head once more. “Then why can’t they accept that you’re what’s best for me?”

She didn’t say anything, only taking her bottom lip in between her teeth; not wanting to make him feel pressured when he was so upset, knowing him well enough to be sure that he would come around sooner rather than later. He had to forgive them, after all, they were a big part of his life, one screw up surely wouldn’t ruin the bond between them.

For a little while longer she let him rest, just listening to the ocean, hoping that it would wash away his sorrows. “Kookie…” She mumbled, shifting in her spot trying to suppress the shivers that were about to riddle her body. “Can we go back to the car? We need to check on Soo-Yun…” “Oh, yes. Yes, of course.” Within seconds he had gotten up and also pulled her to her feet. “Let’s go.” She smiled, holding her hand out for him to take. Carefully he intertwined his fingers with hers, following her to the silver SUV.

“Why did you leave her in the car?” The question was burning on the tip of his tongue. “I- it’s too cold for her and she was sleeping, so I didn’t want to wake her up. But I-I also wanted to give you some time alone…before I went to check on you…” She rambled, not looking at him.

Without giving it any thought, he stopped in his tracks, pulling her back to face him. His shaking hands cupped her face, thumbs gently caressing her cheeks before he crashed his lips onto hers; the tingling sensation of her warmth making his heart flutter. He knew it would be too soon to say those three words that held so much meaning but he needed her to know that he was still in love with her - hoping she would feel the desperation that had been caged up in his chest. She pulled away, cherishing the warmth his hands provided on her cold skin. “What was that for?” “I’m just happy to have you back in my life. I really missed you.” He knew, he’d be able to blame the cold air for tinting his cheeks and ears red in embarrassment.

Clutching his sweater, she got on her toes to peck his lips once more. “You’ll have such a hard time getting rid off me now…” He puffed up his cheeks, letting out a grunt. “Can’t believe you’re making me say those things…” “What things?” “Cheesy things…” He tilted his head. “You know I’m not good at that.” “It’s okay, you can always just text them to me if that’s easier for you.” She winked, before turning around to open the car door. “She’s still asleep, thank goodness.”

Jungkook peeked over her shoulder; Soo-Yun was still sound asleep, the tiniest snores he had ever heard, leaving her mouth. “Can you believe we made her?” He said in awe, still having a hard time wrapping his mind around the fact that he took part in creating the most beautiful little girl he had ever laid his eyes on.

“Well, yeah she was inside my stomach for 9 months and gave me a really hard time sleeping. She was a night owl just like you…” His hands subconsciously wandered to her shoulders, gently applying pressure. “I should’ve been there for you, I’m sorry.” “You’re here now, that’s all that matters.” Her hand closed around his on her shoulder. “Kookie, please stop feeling guilty, you didn’t know.” “If I- I should’ve reacted differently and none of this would’ve happened.”

She turned around, now cupping his face. “Listen, I’m not mad at you and I’ll never hold it against you so please stop apologizing. You’re going to be a part of her life and that’s all I ever wanted for her.” He nodded, feeling tears brimming in his eyes - hoping that eventually, the overwhelming feeling of guilt would subside.

*

“Okay, the tank is filled up.” Jungkook shivered as he got back into the driver’s seat, rubbing his hands together for warmth. “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know, I was thinking we could go to my place in Jeonju but…” She trailed off, tracing the rim of the window to her right. “We shouldn’t. I’m sure that’s where they’re going to look for us first.” “I mean, my parents’ house is not too far from here…” He muttered, finally revealing to her what he had wanted to do ever since he had left the dorm. “It’s only a little over an hour to Busan…” “Don’t you think they’ll come looking for you there too?” “Probably yeah but do you have a better idea? At least my parents can help us and it would be easier to take care of Soo-Yun there instead of hotel rooms and they could meet you…finally”

She scrunched up her nose. “Okay, yeah…let’s go to Busan.” Not able to bring herself to crush his newfound sense of positivity, she agreed. Jungkook leaned over the middle console to kiss her cheek. “I’m just going to let my brother know that we’re coming.”

Forcing a smile onto her face, she nodded. It didn’t feel good; she didn’t want to burden his family with her presence and surprise them with a grandchild they didn’t know about. It made her stomach feel queasy as her leg bobbed up and down nervously. She knew his parents had known about their relationship but they had never met and she wasn’t sure if she wanted to meet them under these circumstances.

“Ah, I hope my mom has some food for us, I’m so hungry.” He beamed as he started the car up again - it was almost like he had forgotten all his troubles at the prospect of seeing his family and she couldn’t help but softly smile at his excitement.

Every now and again her eyes drifted off to Naver Maps on Jungkook’s phone on the dashboard, focusing in on the small timestamp that disclosed their time of arrival at his parents’ house; the nauseous feeling still swimming in her stomach, was slowly rising up in her throat.

“Is everything okay? You’re awfully quiet…” He muttered, not averting his gaze from the road. She wanted to lie and tell him that she was fine but her mouth betrayed her before she could bite her tongue. “I’m nervous.” “Why?” Judging by the tone of his voice, it didn’t occur to him that it was a weird situation and that everything that had happened on that day felt simply overwhelming. “I’ve never met your family…and under these circumstances - it’s just making me nervous.”

“Ah, they’ll love you, my parents are really cool. You don’t have to worry about anything. They will be so happy to finally meet you and Soo-Yun and Junghyun is really excited that we’re coming.” For a brief second, he smiled at her, his right hand leaving the steering wheel to give hers an encouraging squeeze.

“Okay…” She mumbled, forcing a smile onto her face. Maybe Jungkook wasn’t aware of the implications of him bringing her and their daughter to meet his parents; maybe he was in over his head and he couldn’t think straight. “I’m being serious! Please don’t be worried, I know my parents will be over the moon when they meet you.” “Sure yeah…” But before Jungkook could try to calm her down, even more, Soo-Yun started whining in her car seat. She turned around, simultaneously sending a prayer up to the gods for the distraction. “I think she’s hungry.” “How do you know?” “I can just tell from the way she cries…” Shrugging her shoulders, she fished the small box of crackers from her bag that Jungkook had bought at the gas station. “Really? Do you think I’ll be able to do that too?” He wondered, watching his daughter munch on one of the wheat crackers in her hands in the rearview-mirror. “Probably, yes.” Turning back around, she offered the box to Jungkook. “Do you want one?” He nodded his head, and she held one up to his mouth so he wouldn’t get distracted from driving. “I’ll have to feed her when we get there…” Jungkook handed her his phone without warning. “Text my brother that we’ll be there in 15 minutes and let him know that we’re hungry.”

She gulped down the lump in her throat when she quickly read the Kakao chat, even in writing he sounded really excited to go home and although he only mentioned a surprise to his older brother, he seemed just as happy that his little brother was coming home for a little while.

*

Jimin let out a disgruntled noise when he sat up in bed, his back was still sore from when Jungkook had pushed him. His hand automatically flew to apply pressure to the bruise that decorated his skin next to his spine.

“Jungkookie…” He mumbled to himself, as he got up, his face scrunched up in pain and he slowly waddled down the hallway to the youngest room. He had locked himself in and wouldn’t come out or make any noise, even after Jin had told him that there were leftovers in the fridge for him if he wanted something to eat, Jungkook had stayed quiet. Jimin knew he was hurt; someone had stabbed him in the back but he couldn’t help it - his heart felt heavy for his little brother. He just wanted him to be happy and so did the other members but to Jimin’s dismay, Jungkook’s behavior had left a sour taste in their mouths. He had stayed up until the early hours of the morning in hopes of catching Jungkook sneaking into the kitchen which would have given him the perfect chance to talk to him and maybe straighten things out, but it never happened. His feelings must have been seriously hurt if he shut them all out completely.

Carefully Jimin knocked on the door. “Hey Jungkook-ah, are you awake? Can we talk?” He asked his voice piping up in hopes that some sleep would’ve helped to calm things down and make the youngest act more rationally and maybe he would be willing to listen. But he got no response, so instead, he pressed his ear to the wooden door, trying to hear if he was awake yet.

“Screw it…” His hand slowly pushed down the door handle and to his surprise, it actually swung open. “Jungkook-ah?” He asked again, taking a few steps into the room, his eyes looking for the raven-haired boy but his bed was still made and he was nowhere to be found. The first thought that popped into his head was that Jungkook might have gone to the gym to release his anger lifting weights but his gym shoes were still lying on the floor next to the black backpack he always carried around.

“Something’s not right…” Jimin crossed the room, inspecting the wide-open closet. A few hangers were sticking out, others were scattered on the floor. It was very unlike Jungkook to make a mess of his closet, yes his room was always a little messy but he kept his closet remarkably tidy, even color-coding his shirts.

“Jimin-ah, what are you doing?” Hoseok’s voice made him spin around, only to see his roommate standing right behind him, a coffee mug in hand. “Where’s Jungkookie?”

“I don’t know, I wanted to check on him but he wasn’t in here…”

“Maybe he went to the gym?” Hoseok suggested, shrugging his shoulders.

“That’s what I thought too but something is very off…” Jimin let his eyes wander around the room. “You see all the hangers?” He mumbled absentmindedly when his eyes fell on the small collection of backpacks in the corner. “His army backpack is gone…”

“What? How do you know?” Hoseok peeked over his shoulder.

“He always keeps his bags there and it’s the only one missing…” Jimin’s mind was racing, making his heart rate speed up. “I think…hyung...I think he left…”

“Maybe he just needed to get out for a bit to clear his head? I’m sure he will be back soon.”

Jimin nodded, not wanting to worry the older boy but a bad feeling was stirring up in the pit of his stomach. No matter how bad their fights had been in the past, Jungkook had never left, not like this at least - making him feel sick.

*

“Look, that’s where my friend Kangdae from school lives. We used to go to Taekwondo together.” Jungkook pointed at a house as they drove past it in the dark. “And that’s where I fell because I was wearing Junghyun’s skates and they were too big and I scraped my knee pretty badly.”

She couldn’t help but chuckle at how happy he was to be back home and to share a part of his life with her that she had only ever heard him mention a handful of times. He always said that he didn’t have a lot of memories from home and that his life as a trainee was more memorable to him but it was heartwarming to hear his little recollections of his childhood in Busan. Fondly she ran her fingers through his hair. “You’re so cute…maybe you can show me around and tell me more stories…” She suggested, earning an enthusiastic nod from him. “I’d love to, we can take Soo-Yun with us…you know so she knows where I grew up.” “Oh! I-we didn’t take the stroller with us.” She gasped, wanting to slap herself for forgetting one of the most important things. “Don’t worry, we’ll just buy one.” Even in the dark car, his eyes twinkled like stars in the night sky and everything seemed okay for just one moment.

Jungkook turned the engine off. “That’s my house…” He proudly announced, gesturing to the modest house on the right side. “Oh, I gotta text my brother…” Quickly he grabbed his phone when the door opened.

In a daze, she watched Jungkook getting out of the car as fast as he could and running up to his brother.  After unbuckling her seatbelt, she slowly got out of the car but hesitantly stayed still next to it, wanting to give him and his family a moment of happiness before she had a chance to ruin it. “Mom! Dad! Come here!” His brother called over his shoulder before ruffling Jungkook’s hair. “I haven’t told them you’re coming.”

Moments later his parents appeared in the doorway and his mother let out a squeal, pulling her son into a bone-crushing hug. “You look so thin.” She scolded him lovingly, cupping his cheeks in her hands before her eyes narrowed and she could feel goosebumps travel down her skin when their eyes met for the first time.

“Ah, right. I-…” Jungkook paused, rushing to her side. “Come on, they won’t bite you.” He mumbled, only holding her hand a second before he let go. “I want you to meet y/n.” He grinned, gently nudging her to take a step forward to properly meet his family but he immediately left her side again.

“It’s very nice to meet you.” Forcing the corners of her mouth upwards before she bowed, her legs wanting to run in the opposite direction. “Y/n…” The resenting tone of his mother’s voice was petrifying - she knew that she had broken her son’s heart into a million pieces over a year ago. “Nice to finally meet you.” Junghyun smiled, the all too familiar crinkles around his eyes forming but before he could say anything else, his mother stood in front of her, hands on her hips, a stern look on her face.  “I don’t want a dirty girl like you around my son. Leave.”

Y/n’s eyes darted from Junghyun to Jungkook’s father who was silently pressing his lips together,  perhaps he didn’t want to argue with his wife or maybe, he wanted her to leave as well - it was posing more than difficult to read his facial expressions. She felt awful, her heart falling from her chest down to her stomach; she knew that coming here was a bad idea - why did Jungkook think that his family would welcome her, the girl that hurt him so badly, with open arms? “Mom, I think it’s a little too late for that…” Her older son chuckled when footsteps were heard right behind them.

“I’m assuming you don’t want to meet your granddaughter then…” Jungkook slowly walked up to them, Soo-Yun propped upon his arm, the other tightly wrapped around her as she held onto his neck. Her big eyes wearily evaluating the tense situation. “We can go somewhere else, all three of us need to be welcome, mom.”

“Gr-granddaughter?” His father repeated in disbelief, staring at the small child in his youngest son’s arms. “Yes, this is your granddaughter.” “Aw, she’s so cute.” Junghyun made grabby hands at his niece, waiting for his brother to let him hold her. “She surely gets her beauty from her uncle!” He made cooing noises at her. “Yes, you do. Ah, she’s so cute, my heart.” Soo-Yun giggled, as he held her closer to his face to get a good look at her and her hand grabbed a chunk of his hair.  “You are the prettiest little girl.”

His mother cleared her throat, trying to regain her composure; still not fully able to wrap her head around what was happening. “Are you even sure she’s yours?” She addressed Jungkook while side-eying the baby, who was happily babbling along to the cooing and kissy-faces.

“Mom, just look at her. She looks just like Jungkookie!” Junghyun held his niece up to his mother’s face and her expression softened immediately. Although she was hellbent on disliking the girl that broke her son’s heart, she couldn’t deny the fact that this little girl looked so much like him when he was a baby - from the little button nose down to the big brown eyes that she had always adored on her son.

“I know, I hurt Jungkook when I broke up with him and I understand that you don’t like me but…”

“Y/n, don’t.” Jungkook interrupted her. “Mom, she’s mine and if you can’t accept y/n or Soo-Yun then we’ll leave. I thought you’d be more understanding but I guess, I was wrong.” Without waiting for an answer, he took his daughter from his brother before turning around to go back to the car. “Let’s go.”

“Mom!” Junghyun’s tone was pressing, fearing that once Jungkook left, he would never come back. “Wait!” His mother called out. “You can stay here.” “Are you sure?” He raised an eyebrow, trying to figure out if his mother was being sincere or not. “Because if you’re not then we’ll…” “I am. You’re all welcome to stay.” She cut him off, an ounce of panic straining her hoarse voice.

Almost immediately, Junghyun took his niece back into his arms before disappearing in the house. “You know, you should forget about those uncles back in Seoul. I’m your real uncle…” “Thank you.” Jungkook mumbled, pecking his mother’s cheek before his dad wrapped his arm around his shoulders and led him inside. Hesitantly she followed them, making eye contact with his mother in passing - she still didn’t look happy but she forced a smile onto her face.

It was awkward to be at his parents’ house, she just didn’t feel like she belonged; she had anticipated his mother’s reaction but seeing his brother and father playing with her daughter on the couch made her feel a little less on edge. Maybe his mother would eventually warm up to her; she could only try to imagine how shocked and overwhelmed she felt. 

“Can she talk?” “No, not yet, still waiting for her first word.” “Soo-Yun can you say Halbi…Hal-bi…” Jungkook’s dad tried to encourage her to call him grandpa but the little girl just eyed him curiously before he started tickling her and her cute giggles echoed from the walls.

“Come on, I’ll show you around.” Jungkook whispered, taking her hand as he pulled her out into the hallway and up the stairs. “I’ll start making dinner for you.” His mother called from the kitchen, where the rattling of pots and pans could be heard. “If you need help, let me know.”

But she didn’t respond and as they reached the top of the stairs he came to a halt. “This is my parents’ bedroom…” He pointed to the left. “Next to it, is the bathroom and that’s Junghyun’s room, which leaves us with my room..” He opened the door last door on the right that had a few paint chips missing.

“Cute…” She commented, trying to suppress a giggle as she walked around the room. It still very much looked like a kids room, posters on the wall, ribbons from sporting competitions and comic books filled the two small shelves on the left wall. “I’m never really here, so they just left it like this. Last time I was here, I wanted to change it but I never got around to it…” He sat down on the bed that was clearly only fit for one person. “Plus if I changed it, it just wouldn’t feel like my room, you know?” “I get it.” She sat down next to him. “Are you okay?” Feeling his eyes on her, she turned her head. “Yeah, it’s just a little much but I can handle it, don’t worry.” “I know but we’re safe here and my mom will come around. She’s just…she knows I had a really hard time after we broke up, she’s worried.” “I understand, if I were in her shoes I’d probably react the same way.”

He nodded, pinching his bottom lip between his index finger and thumb. “I’ll talk to her, I want you to feel comfortable here.” “Thank you.” She smiled weakly and out of the blue he pressed her down into the pillows, innocently planting little kisses to her lips that she wished would last a little longer each time. His hand softly traveled up and down her waist, slowly disappearing underneath her shirt when his lips left hers to trail down her neck, the tip of his nose brushing against her skin. “Kookie it tickles…” She whined, kicking her legs lightly but he didn’t care, covering every inch in butterfly kisses. Someone coughed, making them pull away from each other.

“Hyung.” Jungkook felt his ears heat up; he let himself get carried away - it wasn’t easy to stop when he felt like he had to make up for all those months they were apart. “Mom says dinner will be ready in half an hour or so but I can just tell her you’re busy…” He winked, making his brother jump to his feet. “No, hyung! No, don’t tell her, please.” “Calm down.” He patted his shoulder. “But - I never thought I’d see you with a girl in here, dreams do come true.” He wiped away a fake tear, earning a slap to his arm from Jungkook. “Stop teasing me.” He pouted, stomping his foot just like he would when they were kids.

“Where’s Soo-Yun?” She interrupted their bickering after checking her watch. “Downstairs with dad, he’s playing peek-a-boo with her.” She nodded. “Would it be okay if I took a shower?” “Of course, I’ll go get our stuff from the car and Soo-Yun.” “Thanks.” Smiling at both of them, she excused herself to the bathroom.

Junghyun followed his little brother downstairs to the car. “Is everything okay? The other day you told me that you were really busy with practice and now you’re here…” He trailed off while lifting the suitcase from the trunk.

Jungkook wanted to lie and pretend like everything was fine and that his heart wasn’t painfully contracting in his chest every time he thought about his other brothers back in Seoul but he couldn’t. “Not really, hyung. Something happened, something really bad happened…” “What’s going on?” He wanted to tell him that they betrayed him, that he yelled at them and that he hurt Jimin but the words got caught in his throat; he wouldn’t believe him anyway. “I-I don’t want to talk about it right now…”

Junghyun watched him as he got the purple plush puppy and the car seat from the backseat; he knew his baby brother was deeply hurt, his eyes drooping in sadness but he didn’t want to press the issue. Jungkook would talk when he was ready. “Let’s go free your baby from dad’s grasp.” “Is it that bad?” His eyes widened. “No, it’s actually really cute how he plays with her.” “To be honest, I thought mom would be the one to…” “Give her some time, she’ll get used to it. You know, when we heard how upset you were from Jin…” He paused when he noticed the tortured expression on Jungkook’s face at the mention of his member’s name. “Mom was really upset as well, she wanted to go to Seoul to take care of you, you’re still her baby and now you have a baby, I think she just needs to process everything.”

He nodded, pressing the button on the car key to lock it. “I hope so, I really want mom to like y/n and Soo-Yun…” “I’m sure she will, don’t worry. When did you find out anyway? You haven’t been with her in over a year.” “A couple of days ago…” Jungkook’s voice was really quiet, almost inaudible when he followed him back inside. Slowly but surely the sinking feeling in his stomach told him that what had happened back in Seoul must have been a result of Y/n being back in his life.

She wrapped the dark blue towel around her body before she took a closer look into the mirror - she was a tired mess, even a steaming hot shower wasn’t able to hide the bags under her eyes. Faintly she heard Jungkook’s voice coming from his room when she walked back, it was a higher pitch than usual when he sweetly talked to Soo-Yun. “Are you sleepy? Oh right, your mommy said you were hungry earlier. I’ll get the crackers, wait.” She watched how he clumsily reached for her bag and rummaged through it to find the small carton.

“It’s okay, I’ll feed her now. It’s almost time for her to go to bed anyway.” She announced herself, crossing the short distance from the door to the bed. “Ah, perfect. Would it be okay if I jumped in the shower real quick? I feel like I have stand stuck everywhere from earlier.” “Sure.” Pressing his lips to her forehead, before he grabbed clean clothes and disappeared in the bathroom.

“Are you hungry?” She sat down, picking her daughter up to place her on her lap. “You’ve been such a good girl today but it’s almost bedtime, princess.” Soo-Yun usually demanded to always be fed on time, she just loved to eat and snack all day, although she was a bit fussy when it came to vegetables, cucumber being her favorite by far but before bed and once during the night, she still wanted milk. Naturally, her chubby little hands reached for the towel that was standing in the way of her dinner, once she had cradled her in arms like she usually would.

“I can’t wait for you to only eat solids.” She cooed, gently pushing her daughter’s hair from her forehead when the familiar sucking noises started.

For a moment she watched her drink, the little eyelashes fluttering shut before she busied herself on her phone. Three messages from Jihoon and two missed calls were amongst the messages from her sister and brother in law wondering where she was. Quickly she replied to the latter, not wanting them to worry but Jihoon was a different story. They weren’t dating- they had kissed a handful of times but only ever after she had cried to him about her struggles with Soo-Yun and to her they were just good friends; maybe she was trying to fill the void in her heart that Jungkook left but to him, they were clearly more than friends. Before she could type out a reply to yet another ‘I miss you’ message, she heard a gasp.

Looking up from her phone, she saw Jungkook standing in the doorway, staring at her with his mouth open, only in his underwear and a t-shirt. “I’m so sorry, I’ll go…” He covered his eyes quickly, wanting to give her some privacy but his body had turned to stone. There were too many thoughts rushing through his head to sort through them. To say that he was embarrassed was an understatement, he could feel himself starting to sweat profusely, his cheeks burning up in a crimson red.

“You don’t have to go, you can stay…I don’t mind.” “No, no…I’ll go…” He wanted to turn around. “Kook, are you embarrassed?” She raised her eyebrows, not fully able to banish the amused tone from her voice. “I-I…” He stuttered, still not looking at her, just wanting to hide somewhere until she was done. “You don’t have to be, it’s normal. Babies have to eat too.” “I know that…” He mumbled, dragging his feet over to the chair by the small desk. “I just thought…she was eating food and you didn’t have to…" Ungracefully he gestured towards her, not wanting to say the word breastfeeding out-loud. “For the most part, she eats regular food, yes, but she still likes her milk in the evening and at night…just like you, you love milk, so that’s something you have in common.”

Jungkook scrunched up his nose, his ears were on fire and he still couldn’t bring himself to look at her. “If you have questions, just ask…” He didn't even have to think twice, there was one question predominantly pushing its way forward in his brain. “Uhm, you know…the other day when we, you know…I did that too and nothing came out…” She burst out laughing, earning a disgruntled noise the baby in her arms. “I guess, you were just lucky. I should’ve warned you, I’m sorry.”

Throwing his head back, he let out a whiny cry. “Yes, you should have. That would’ve been weird.” Suddenly his head snapped back and he was directly looking at her, a mischievous smirk playing on his lips. “You know, I was wondering why your boobs were a little lopsided” “Just like your balls.” She shrugged, shifting her focus back to her daughter. “What? Are you serious? Is one really bigger than the other?” He leaned forward, trying to inspect his lower region through the black fabric of his briefs. “You’re an idiot.” Rolling her eyes, she reached for a pillow, aiming it directly at his head.

*

“You did what?” Hoseok whispered yelled, although it was just him, Yoongi, Namjoon and Jin who were at the dorm, while the two youngest were out looking for the maknae. Jin nervously hid his hands inside his pink sweater when he ever so lightly nodded. “I can’t believe you two were the ones that told on Jungkookie.” Hobi’s face was pulled into a grimace of contempt. “So he was right. Unbelievable…” “Well, it was mainly Namjoon who did the talking, I didn’t say much….I couldn’t….” Jin tried to defend himself, still feeling the heavyweight of guilt resting on his shoulders. “Doesn’t matter, you were his accomplice!” “I thought, I was doing the right thing.” Namjoon covered his face with his hands. “He was so happy but I knew that if management found out later, it would be a lot worse for him, them…all of us.” “That was not your decision to make. You did stab him in the back.”

“Hoseok-ah, he just wanted to help and it won’t do any good or change anything if you keep scolding him now.” Yoongi crossed his arms. “I don’t condone what you did but I get it. We all worked too hard to have this potentially ruin everything. You had good intentions but it blew up in your face.” “You should’ve talked to Jungkook first, I’m sure, he would’ve understood what’s at stake here.” Hoseok lowered his gaze. “I-I really only wanted to do what’s right. I didn’t think he would listen to me and I thought, he would understand if the boss told him that he’s making a mistake.” “But he always listens to you, you should’ve been the one to knock some sense into him.”

Namjoon let out a heart-wrenching sigh. “I know that now…” They fell silent for a moment, where they all succumbed to their thoughts. It was the first time that a fight between the members had gotten so out of hand that one of them ran away and didn’t come home. “We have to make sure Jimin and Taehyung don’t find out what you two did, they will take it to heart.” Yoongi muttered, his thumb pressed against his bottom lip before he sunk his teeth into the already tortured skin - if things didn’t start to look up again soon, he’d never be able to break this terrible habit.

*

Dinner had been awkward, to say the least; not once had Jungkook felt this strange and out of place in his parents’ house, even the light-hearted conversations his brother had tried so hard to hold, faded into silence very quickly.

Y/n was sitting on the floor in his room, watching as Soo-Yun peacefully let out little snores in the car seat. “Do you think she’ll be comfortable enough in this thing the whole night?” He wondered, carefully eyeing his daughter, feeling bad that it was too late to get a proper bed for her to sleep in. “Maybe we should have stayed at a hotel for the night…” “It’s not ideal but it should be okay for one night, don’t worry too much.” She turned around, now kneeling in front of him. “How’s your hand?” She inspected his knuckles, that had slowly started to bruise. “It’s a little sore.” “What did you do anyway?” “I might have punched a wall…” He trailed off, watching her mouth open in shock. “Jungkook, what? Are you serious?” “I was angry, they were still lying to me. I-I just needed to do something and it was better than hitting one of them.” “You know there’s pillows or punching bags for that so you don’t end up with a bloody hand.”

Letting out an airy chuckle, he cupped her face and moved in closer. “Thank you, what would I do without you?” She smiled against his lips before they connected sweetly when suddenly the door opened. Quickly they pulled away from each other, his mother scrunched up her nose, holding extra bedding in her arms.

Crudely she walked over to the bed. “Here, help me put this on. Your father is bringing the air mattress in a few minutes.” “Air mattress?” He repeated with a dumbfounded look on his face. “But we don’t need it, we can just sleep in my bed.” She let out a sardonic chuckle through her pursed lips. “You two are not sharing a bed. Evidently nothing good comes from that.”

“Mom!” He protested, feeling a sting in his heart from the snide remark aimed to hurt his and y/n’s feelings. “Jungkook-ah, I don’t want to hear another word.” Silently he nodded his head as he started helping his mother with the bedding. “Is there anything I can do to help?” Y/n offered, when his father walked in, carrying the old air mattress. “No, I think you’ve done enough already.” Quickly Jungkook looked at her, mouthing ‘sorry’ before stuffing a pillow into its designated pillowcase. “Honey, where do you want me to put it?” “Hm, over there, in front of the bookshelf.” His mother instructed her husband after making sure there would be enough space between the mattress and the bed. “Here’s a fitted sheet for you.” Coldly she handed it to y/n, shooing her husband to the door. “Don’t stay up too late.” “We won’t. Goodnight.” Jungkook wanted to close the door behind her but instantly his mother pushed it back open. “The door stays open!” “But mom.” He whaled, feeling like a little kid again that was being treated unfairly. “If you insist on closing it, you can sleep in your brother’s room, then y/n can have your room all to herself and close the door if she pleases.” She smiled sweetly, her eyes drilling into her son’s, letting him know that she didn’t appreciate his behavior. “Fine.” He mumbled, just pushing the door a little so it wasn’t fully open. “Is that okay?” “No.” “But mom, y/n has to feed the baby later, please…” “Just for tonight.” She caved, turning to leave. Impatiently Jungkook waited for his parents’ bedroom door to close before he sat down on his bed again.

“That’s unbelievable. I’m not a kid anymore.” “It’s okay, at least you don’t have to sleep in Junghyun’s room.” After finishing putting the fitted sheet on the air mattress, she sat down on it. “But still, we’re not teenagers anymore. We’ve already done it, there’s no need to keep us apart.” Groaning, he let himself fall back, hitting his head on the wall. “Ouch, I forgot how small his bed is.” “See, maybe it’s good that I’m sleeping over here.” “You’re not sleeping on that old thing. You can have my bed and I’ll sleep on the floor.” “I don’t mind, you can really sleep in your bed.”

But Jungkook wouldn’t budge, he got up and grabbed the end of the air mattress, dragging it over, right next to his bed before he lifted her up with ease to make her sit on the bed. “Ah, much better.” He smiled, sitting down cross-legged. “You know, your mom will be mad if she sees this.” “I don’t care, I want you to be comfortable and I can sleep pretty much anywhere.” He pulled the duvet over his legs. “Do you need me to set an alarm for when you have to feed her?”  “No, my body now wakes up by itself at 2:30 am…fun, right?”  “That’s usually my bedtime.” Jungkook watched her, as she tried to get comfortable in his bed, pulling the blanket up to her chin.  “We can stay up if you want.” She yawned, her eyes already hooded with sleep. 

He simply shook his head, reaching for the light switch of his desk lamp. “No, it was a long day. I’m glad when it’s finally over.” Rolling onto his side, he closed his eyes. Maybe tomorrow would be different, maybe tomorrow would be a better day where he didn’t have to think about his brothers at all; his priorities had shifted so fast that maybe he would be able to forget about them just as quickly. “Kookie?” “Hm?” He hummed drowsily, wanting to open his eyes when she didn’t reply but then he felt her hand underneath his duvet, searching for his; their fingers intertwined. His body relaxed instantly into the mattress, and although he couldn’t sleep in the same bed, it was more than enough to know that she was there, holding onto his hand - and heart like she always did. *

Namjoon was pacing up and down in front of the sofa; his hands were clammy so he repeatedly wiped them on his sweat pants. “Can you please sit down? You’re making us all nervous.” Hoseok’s eyes were glued to the clock on the wall, his pupils moving rapidly as they kept up with the seconds that passed. “Sorry, I’m just…” The leader was cut off when the two youngest members hurried into the room. “Did you find him?”

Taehyung shook his head. “He’s not at the gym, nor is he with any of his friends…” “They could be lying and are covering for him.” “I doubt it, hyung, most of them said that they haven’t heard from him in a while.”

Jimin slumped down on the floor. “He’s not responding to messages and when I try calling him, it goes straight to voicemail. Have any of you tried calling him?” All of them pulled their phones out but every call ended with a disappointed sigh. “Voicemail.” Jin mumbled, dropping his phone to massage his temples.

“He’s just mad and needs to clear his head, he’s probably with y/n.”  Yoongi tried to reassure his members but even he couldn’t entirely ignore the uneasy feeling inside of him.

“I tried calling her too earlier but the same thing happened.” “Well then we know that he told her what happened, that’s something.” “It’s not, we still don’t know where he is and if he’s okay.” Taehyung sat down next to his best friend. “I’m sure he’s fine and will be home soon.” Yoongi tried his best to sound hopeful, only to earn a sad look from both boys on the floor.”

“Maybe we should call the police. It’s been over 24 hours…” “But Jungkookie is not missing…” “Yes, he is! We don’t know where he is and that makes him a missing person!” Jimin protested, determined to find the youngest. Namjoon cleared his throat. “We can’t call the police, but we can tell one of the managers what’s going on. They have to know.” “And what are they gonna do about it? If we can’t find him, they won’t either.” Jimin threw his hands up in despair. If only Jungkook would have talked to him; he was sure that he would’ve been able to calm him down and make him stay.  Was this just part of a plan to make them all feel bad or had the youngest been so heartbroken, so upset that he couldn’t stand living with them anymore?  They would never turn their backs on him but Jungkook had just walked out of their lives. 

[barryallenis]

How long is Jess's igtv interview and what were some of your major takeaways from it? I am bit skeptical to watch, so I thought if I got an inkling of what you thought of it, maybe I will watch. I guess after 707, I have mixed feelings about her and Eric now. I know she cowrote it with a writer who wrote for Sleepy Hollow, which was a very problematic show behind the scenes, but I am still curious about the thought process into this. I've seen two different takes about them regarding the KF/police story arc. Tptb don't want to lose their white audience and forced them to center this story around KF to seem more like an anti meta arc despite the actress who plays her or since the tptb give showrunners like the All American one (a black woman) creative freedom, this is just Eric's own creative freedom that he mistakenly thought wouldn't be so tone deaf.

Hi there! Sorry, I only just got the chance to watch it myself actually! It’s ~30min.

To preface, I’m really not all that familiar with the individual writers and their specific work as I know others in the fandom are. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that but, kind of as you said, I think it’s hard to make the distinctions between what story/narrative/creative decisions were made by whom. Of course writers hold responsibility, as does the showrunner ... but so do department heads, producers, executive producers, network executives, and the general environment of the entertainment industry. We as viewers don’t get a peak enough behind the curtain, in my opinion, to point super specific blame. And sometimes I think trying to pinpoint that person to blame gets us stuck in the weeds. Personally, I think it’s more powerful to push back on the problematic things we see than it is to try to find out who’s specific idea it was. Because, for one, it’s usually not on one person. And if it is, or if that one person keeps presenting ideas that we as viewers on a large scale say we dislike, it kind of becomes in the shows best interest to internally do something about it. Not saying it always happens, but I don’t see how trying to pinpoint a person to blame is any more helpful ya know? We just don’t, and likely wont ever know enough to make those assessments. All we can do it comment on the content we see, and listen to people like Jess talk about their personal experience and take from that what we can!    

I know some may disagree with me on this, and I totally respect their perspective, because I’m absolutely sure there are writers that tend to play more into problematic tropes or narratives than others. And I want those people out too. I think we just sometimes have to be careful with how much we presume to know about decisions being made all the time, is all.

All that being said, I would definitely say it’s worth the watch! Though I’m a total geek for the writing process and writing rooms, so I’m a sucker for these kinds of interviews in general. She doesn’t go into anything specific about show content though; nothing much about specific storylines or episodes. She mentioned 7x07 briefly but I think(?) this was filmed before it aired so, again, in a very vague way. So if that’s more what you’re looking for, just FYI, that’s not really touched upon.

However, I think she gives good insight around the general mindset of writers rooms, in general, and specifically on The Flash. I also think hearing it from her perspective as a black female writer and the first black female writer the show had (which again, truly astounding it took them 6 years to reach that feat) was really invaluable. She talks about her trajectory to in the industry and how she ultimately got hired. And she also gave her perspectives around diversity and its place within money driven Hollywood and how she personally tries to keep things in perspective working within the fucked up hell hole that is the entertainment industry (my words not hers lol). She mentioned a quote she refers too and I really liked and stuck with me, “change is a dial and not a light switch”. And I dunno (another preface: I say this as a white women) I found her mindset encouragingly optimistic. She know’s they’re not pleasing everyone at each episode, and she knows they’re still executing problematic stuff within the show, behind, and in front of the camera. But she mentions how they, and specifically Eric, are aware of these things, and are actively working to change things for the better ... but that they also couldn’t just rewrite and reproduce a 6 year old show, nor could they totally remove themselves from the Hollywood industry that fed all the worst parts of it.

I’m getting on a tangent here, a lot of this was my own interpretation, so I encourage you to watch the interview, if you get the chance, to take your own points from it!

[cheryls-blossomed]

so I saw this sb post on IG I really wish I didn't but it did make me think. barry was able to tell caitlin was off when she was dealing with killer frost stuff and immediately get her to turn from kf back to cait, yet couldnt figure out it wasn't iris for 5 weeks. idk how to even be okay with that in my head now. does he even know her at all? like that's such terrible storytelling and im really frustrated. "crisis" is a trash excuse for the show to use after 20 years of being best friends

Okay, I’ve seen these posts from SBs before, and they’re blatantly ignoring context. Could season 6B have been a lot better written? Absolutely. But these are blatantly false comparisons, not least because these posts are very disingenuous about what actually happened during 3x07.

Barry didn’t know Caitlin was dealing with Killer Frost stuff. Cisco was the first person to know something was up, and then Caitlin reveals to him about what’s going on first, and for an episode, it was just Cisco and Caitlin dealing with it, after Caitlin came back from her mother’s. Caitlin told Iris, Joe, and Barry later on that she had cryokinetic powers at the end of 3x06. When she started to go full Killer Frost in 3x07, everybody knew that she wasn’t herself, because she was literally openly icing cameras in the precinct and kidnapping people. If they didn’t know something was up, then that would be really alarming, lol. This was not some personal Eureka moment for Barry. Every one of them knew she wasn’t herself in that episode, and Barry had literally had to be told that she had cryokinetic powers along with Iris and Joe in the previous episode. Cisco had already vibed that he and Killer Frost were going to fight a whole episode ago. Like this is an absolute false comparison. Yes, he talked Caitlin down and got her to turn back to Caitlin. Guess who also did that? Iris, a whole season later, when she talked Killer Frost down from killing Amunet. And Julian talked Caitlin down in 3x12, when all Barry could think about was Iris. So, this isn’t some unique thing to Barry that he was able to do. Cisco is the only person who was able to effectively bring Killer Frost back after she’d gone full-on villain, though. And he didn’t have to say a word to her. His life was threatened; Savitar was about to kill him; Killer Frost saved him and that was the moment she turned against Savitar.

Season 6B is a completely different set of facts. Iris is trapped in the Mirrorverse, and she is switched out with an imposter. Mirror Iris could make great pancakes and could manage to crack a whole wine bottle on a man’s head, all of which as we know do make Barry very suspicious, but other than that, Mirror Iris is very, very careful about what she does and says in order to keep up the charade of being Iris. When he later confronts Mirror Iris, she is able to put up a plausible enough argument to throw him off her trail, and Joe, in the precinct later, while completely well-meaning, ends up accidentally and unintentionally gas-lighting Barry. We are not given many glimpses into Barry’s headspace between 6x12 and the end of 6x16, and I do think this was to build up suspense, but I understand that this was very frustrating. We can see, though, that there’s clear distance between Barry and Mirror Iris and that he feels it very viscerally. I stand by the fact that there was too much filler nonsense and that’s why the Mirror story-line was so slow-moving, with the biggest problem being of course that there was not enough focus on our Iris and her investigations in the mirror. However, what I do think was genuinely poor writing was the fact that Mirror Iris’s speech to Barry at the end of 6x14 was not the so-called Eureka moment for Barry. This speech was so far removed from anything that Iris would say, and quite frankly, it would have been a much more compelling character study for that to have been the moment Barry realized what was going on and not the final scene in 6x16, which was quite frankly just contrived drama so that Barry would realize what was up. Mirror Iris becoming so reckless so fast, after she’d been so meticulous, in 6x16 never made an ounce of sense to me.  

However, Barry did have a personal Eureka moment, when Mirror Iris threw him out of the loft, and as he’s walking down the corridor, his fist clenches, his watch is turning red (and stays at red), and he has an expression of suspicion and anger more than heartbreak. That’s the moment. And he’s clearly been piecing together his suspicions for weeks; we just did not see it onscreen until 6x17. But when he shows his board to Cecile, we see how he’s amassed all of his suspicions and he’s been working in overdrive, formulating different theories, and eventually this leads him to ping the GPS on Iris’s phone on the day she went to McCulloch Tech. Thus, he realizes something happened to her that night. Think about it: that’s a lot of work and lot of pinpointing, and the vast majority of people would not have been able to figure that out. He is right on the dot. He was able to do this, because he knows Iris like she is his soul, like she is his heart. So, while I agree that Crisis is a poor excuse and while I agree that the writing in season 6B could have been a lot better, I disagree with the notion that Barry doesn’t know Iris, based on this arc, because this is absolutely untrue. 6x17 demonstrated that fact very clearly.

[love-karens-style]

School of Style – Comfortable Clothing: 3 Fast Facts

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“Wear the damn sunscreen.” –Dr. Shereene Idriss

1. Sunscreen Say – Gentlemen, why don’t we begin by discussing the importance of sunscreen, especially as the model appears to be tanned. Hopefully, it is a fake tan (the only ‘safe’ tan, as skincare experts would advise). Now gentlemen, I accept that the topic of sunscreen is a highly contentious and debatable topic. And as my amazing aesthetician recently told me, “Karen, there is so much skincare misinformation online.” The bottom line is gentlemen, I wear sunscreen for ‘insurance’ purposes. Why? Because, arguably, sunscreen is the best anti-ageing product on the market. According to London-based devoted dermatologist, Dr. Anjali Mahto (whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, twice! Sorry, I just love authors, and you know that I’m a bibliophile, so I think that it’s so cool when I get to meet authors so I can thank them for sharing their wisdom), in her book, The Skincare Bible: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Great Skin, “Fine lines, wrinkling, uneven skin tone, pigmentation and textural changes occur because of damage from sunlight.” Gentlemen, that is the reason I wear my sunscreen daily, and I hope you do too. Because as they say, “Prevention is better than a cure.”

2. Groomed Guy – Next up gentlemen, shall we move on, and talk a little about the model’s pink pullover, before we go on to discuss his ‘perfect’ presentation? I absolutely appreciate the fact that the hoodie isn’t too fitted, but rather on the large and slightly loose side. A word about the model’s great grooming gentlemen, if it is your day off, and you do decide to ‘dress down,’ please aim to have impeccable grooming. Being impeccably groomed, will work wonders for your confidence, and as Kamal Jahid said in his book, Style and Masculine Elegance: How to Dress Like a Real Gentleman, “If you don’t dress up, look neat.” It’s the least you can do, so that you feel good about yourself, even if it’s your day off. I like the quote, “When you feel good, you look even better,” and believe that it is absolutely accurate.

3. Absent Accessories – To close and conclude gentlemen, based on my experience, in the world of fashion, ‘sports style’ outfits, do not usually require you to wear any jewellery, except maybe a watch, as jewellery and sportswear tend to look out of place. I’m therefore grateful that, the model’s stylist refrained from adding a necklace to his look, which could have obstructed the logo on his pink pullover, if he had decided to leave it untucked. What a classy and careful finish! Because, remember what Coco Chanel once said? If not, here’s a polite reminder, “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

Love, KF X                                                                                            

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This article was researched, written, edited, produced & published by Karen, on 15th September 2024

[viviansuggestions]

This may be weird but could you do some “Being the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey and dating Viv Vision” head canons plz?

Hm... this is a tough one... a lot of it would be things that anybody dating Viv could expect:

Cheesey date ideas easily googled but with a slight Viv twist to them, like if you go ice skating she'll phase you two through other people if you don't have much control of where you're going yet and kinda just slide around on the ice wherevee the breeze takes you.

If you're into science, she'll find ways to hide an "I love you" message in whatever scientific thing you're best at. If you're into microbiology you'll find it on a slide one day while you're using your microscope, if you're into computer programming you'll find it in the code you've been working on but out of the way and easy to remove.

If you go into the superhero line of work she'll make sure to help you with any aches and pains at the end of the day.

If you go into spy work, she'll hack into anything to keep you safe.

If you two end up working together you can expect her to take all possible hits she can for you, as she insists she is more durable even if you have powers that directly contradict that statement.

She will always have pain killers, heating pads, chocolate, and other such supplies ready for that dreaded time of the month for you and if you find it odd since she herself doesn't experience it she'll point out there is more than one other girl on her team unlike on her father's team, and they have Loki, who changes between male and female and sometimes has to go through that time of month too, basically using her team as a scapegoat for this even though the only one that isn't prepared themselves for it is Loki.

If she wants to surprise you her team is again used as a scapegoat and usually Loki is the first to jump in and help because of their silver tongue.

If you're into videogames she'll mod them for you even if you're not supposed to be able to mod them on that console.

You will never get hurt black friday shopping with her.

She will always help you with homework if you need it but she knows when you're actually struggling and when you're just being lazy.

She knows all your favorite things and has a word document saved listing them, you will never get a flower that is not your favorite if you date her.

If you are trans and trying to transition she will make sure you have what you need for that and whatever wigs/clothes/tucking or waist training things you may want.

You will get dresses with pockets even if you don't like dresses because sometimes they are necessary (mun only recently learned that my school has a rule that if you're a girl you have to wear a dress for graduation so things like this are what I'm thinking of)

If she can't afford something and you know she can't afford it, expect a call from Tony Stark later in the day asking if your precious robot gf has recently aquired the thing she can't afford: chances are, she used his credit card without asking again and will reimburse him when she can.

You gotta remind her to update her antivirus software and sometimes even argue with her about the timing of it because it takes a whole day and she always feels icky after, just like a vaccine can do to someone, but it's important just like vaccines.

If a reporter asks a stupid question about your relationship, she's retort with one they have to google words to understand or "visit sapho and friends on Reddit" before turning away.

She will occasionally change her hair style or add streaks of pink, which will last a couple days before going back to the long, straight, green it was before. Experimenting doesn't last long for her.

If you're smaller than her, she'll make sure all her sweaters are soft and a little big and warm.

If you are bigger than her, she will steal your sweaters.

If you two are the same size, expect to trade sweaters a lot. It is no longer "yours" or "hers", it is now a shared sweater collection and you cannot tell her otherwise.

If someone is flirting with you, she will get jealous and float behind you and wrap her arms around your shoulders, claring daggers at the other person until they get the hint that she's not going anywhere and while she trusts you entirely she still doesn't want them flirting with you because it's not just the bro code, it's thw life code, don't flirt with someone you know is in a relationship.

She will overheat if you flirt with her and it is adorable.

She will play with your hair even if you're busy.

She will do your makeup if you ask her and she will do it perfectly on the first try. Unbeknownst to you, she's practiced everything she can find on the internet on Loki already just for this possible occasion.

The occasional tereible pun followed by a very proud grin.

Vision and Wanda making terrible (in the adorable kinda way like when a parent or child makes a pun they think is clever and can't atop laughing at it) lesbian jokes. Most of these jokes will be along the lines of "I was asked by a reporter how I view lesbian relationships today, apparently "on your channel when my daughter and her girlfriend kick villain ass together" was not the answer they were looking for", these jokes also get changed to gay jokes for Teddy and Billy so it's not like Wanda and Vision are just picking on you two either, they're just proud parents who like to try and embarrass their kids with humor.

Her uncle is even more embarrassing because he'll actually crack up at his own jokes.

Gotta watch out for Grampa Eric, he's overprotective even though he didn't want his daughter to get with Viz in the first place, so if Viv is upset and he finds out and suspects you, expect an attack on the school.

Every time the school is attacked by Magneto, the new like kf questioning is now "was Viv crying again" instead of "what the hell is wrong with you" when he's finally brought down.

Spoiler: usually she's crying because of something stupid and adorable, like snakes not actually being able to taste anything, and Eric just assumed you upset her in some way because he's a dumbass.

You have no clue why he always assumes you did something but you figure it has something to do with the multiverse.

Things to expect as a child of Jean and Scott:

Viv looks up horrible puns to share with you father.

Viv helps your mom cook dinner when she visits.

Your parents will most certainly blame you if you two ever break up, mostly jokingly, but also kinda wondering what happened.

Suddenly the curtains are varying shades of pink when you start dating, even if you haven't told your parents yet.

Jean read your mind and made the mistake of telling Scott, who then could not control his impulse to display his pride for his daughter by trying (and failing) to subtly incorporate the lesbian flag colors into everything in the house.

Viv's family isn't much better.

You two can never escape the embarrassment of your parents but honestly, would you even want to?

You don't actually have to tell either of your moms anything, you just have to think about it really loud and they'll both know.

Arguments are not left to fester if either mom has anything to say about it.

Vision makes sure you two are always safe, even when it's embarrassing, because he doesn't care how embarrassing it may be, he doesn't want anybody getting hurt.

[zuffer-weird-girl]

overhaul asks his s/o to bake alot of desserts for a event that will take place (a meet up of alot of different yasukas ) his s/o agrees but before they can leave overhaul requests desserts for him and only him, his s/o is done a presents him with his desserts and he trys them, he melts in delightfullness and bliss and trys to hide the fact hes in bliss because of a dessert ,when the meetup starts he brings in the desserts and brags about how his so is so amazing at baking but s/o is listening

😻💜💙

"You're actually serious?" You asked with mouth agape at Chisaki whose only seemed irritated at your question.

"I will not repeat the same thing more than twice... Honestly, you aren't deaf so you did understand me on the firt time." He sighed while crossing his arms and closing his eyes to contain his annoyance quieted down.

You smiled widely before throwing your hands up in the air in extremely happiness while shouting a small 'yay!' While you twirled around, not noticing the smile that had grow on your face stoic boyfriend.

What? You were cute, let him be...

You knew how important were the meetings and gatherings where involved the yakusa in general, and the ones whose were invited; or forced if they didn't comperate; were considered extremely lucky on the underground.

As much as you wasn't from there, you knew how important the yakusa was to your Chisaki, so imagine how were you feeling at the moment?

Him. Chisaki Kai. Overhaul himself. Asked, aka demanded, you to make some of your sweets for the event that was soon coming.

"Wait-!" You paused on your glee and immediately went to worry "Kai oh my god, what if something bad happens? What if they don't like it and you only get embarrassed by it? Or even if Pops-"

"Shut it." He said sternly making you lower your head while muttering 'okay, sorry'.

He sighed out loud while pinching his nose, soon looking at you with serious eyes.

"If I even mentioned this with you is because you're aren't a conplete lost cause in my eyes so just ignore it my demand or accept it."

That was a compliment... in his language... so it was already enough to ease your nerves while you breath out in relief.

"Thank you. Don't worry I will do it." You smiled sweetly at him, receiving only a nod.

"Good. This way we don't expend much money at least."

"Hey. Who said it was going to be for free? Those things take quite a work to do, you know? Not even speaking on the ingredients..." you crossed your arms and looked at him seriously in the eyes.

He looked at you, surprised for a moment, before his face turned into one of deep thought while he uncrossed his arms and tapped a finger of his in his chin.

Suddently he murmured a small 'oh' before he lowered his mask down his chin while with the other hand he picked one of yours and placed a kiss on your palm gently.

You widened your eyes in surprise while he lifted his gaze up at you again, still holding your hand in his much bigger and gloved one.

"Does this count?"

"Will I get more of those?" You tried to ignore the furious blush in your face while you still remained your tone of voice neutral.

"Probably."

"Then that's enough of payment. Shower of kisses here I come baby!" You said happily making your way to the kitchen while your boyfriend chuckled dryly as he shooked his head hopeless.

"To get the ingredients is only write on a paper and give it to Chrono, understood?"

"Poor Kurono... honestly, he deserves a break." You giggled while you were preparing your territory to start to make your creations.

"He doesn't." Chisaki growled before he made his way slowly to you, putting his mask back as he walked, while he was trying to form the right words to this... stupid request of his...

"Kai? Something wrong?" You asked, noticing the way he was looking at... nowhere, in deep in thought.

He took a big breath before looking you dead in the eye and just dropped the words without a care.

"There are some... sweets that I would be interested on, how can I say, taste... exclusively. If its not a problem angel. Just to make sure they are plausible."

You wanted to laugh so badly at that one but you still remained strong and nodded with a trembling smile before he left the room... leaving you to giggle and laugh as you wanted.

You always knew Chisaki had a sweet tooth but ever since the 'event' with your cake you discovered that he was slightly... obsessed and had a weak spot for sweets.

No wonder he asked for those to his meeting, but asking for EXCLUSIVE ones for only him to taste was knew.

He was so cute and he didn't even know it!

~

"I see you quite work fast... I'm impressed." Chisaki said in pure amusement as he saw already a bunch of sweets ready to the gathering tommorow... you had woken up in the morning to start all of this.

He cursed how his mouth had watered in mere seconds...

"Your meeting is tommorow so I have to be fast! Especially when there are some... specific requests." You smirked as you placed carefully one cherry at the top of one of many decorated pieces of white fancy chocolate.

You picked one carefully between your fingers and asked for Chisaki to come closer.

"These are one of the many you say it it would be on your preference handsome." You offered to him the little sweet which Kai eyed in curiosity.

"Simple yet plausible for many eyes. Congrats." He lowered his mask to his chin as he grabbed and rook a tentative bite of it.

Curse you... those things were delicious dear god, how?

He sighed in bliss subsconciously before he noticed your pleased smile, he immediately regain his compusture and regained his tone of voice back.

"It's... decent for the event. Rather interesting if I dare say so myself." You lift your fist up on the air and brought close to your face while murmuring a 'yes!' In victory as Chisaki took your distraction as a opportunity to enjoy this little piece of heaven in peace as he placed the rest on his mouth.

Ah shit. He wanted more.

"This one I'm a bit aprehensive though... stuffed chocolate pots with a bit of strawberry... do you think is too much nauseous?"

"Well, I do know some of them who are a bit... obsessed with chocolate. It depends really, they aren't ridiculous childs who will stuff their faces like pigs angel." He said already picking one, admiring the little details that you putted in each one.

"Ah! I almost forgot!" You said sudden before you went to the fridge and took off one piece of a tiny cherry cake... seing that your stubborn boyfriend was already munching on one of the pots.

"Seriously?" You asked giggling while offering the tiny plate to him, receiving a scowl of his.

"Can't exactly blame me when they are surprisingly good... what is this?"

"Decided to spoil a bit since you're always doing the same with me, so~" you poijted at the little piece "Here's one of your favorites! I knew you like cherry!"

He widened his eyes for a little in genuine surprise before returning them to his normal boredom.

"I see. Thank you my angel." He placed it down, making you confused a bit before he picked your hand and kissed gently your palm again.

"Payment." He murmured, the vibration kf his voice in your palm sending shivers to your whole body.

"The best I ever had and ever will in my whole life so far..." you whispered to yourself and immediately regret it whem Chisaki lifted his jead up staring you dead in the eye... smirking.

This man was going to kill you someday with his beauty... you could bet already.

"You need assistance? I can call-"

"Let Chrono rest." You giggled nervously "Come on Kai he also is going to that meeting tomorrow Isn't he? Let him have his break."

Yeah... of course... he was having a break, surely. Definitely not working.

"Right then." He went to leave before he suddenly stoped on his steps, returned to the kitchen balcon and grabbed his plate with a nod and left.

Dear god Chisaki...

~

"I must say mister Overhaul, those these sweet snacks are definitely awesome." Kai had to contain the urge of smirking at that while many others guests agreed.

"My boy, from which one you ordered those? Never saw then at least in the area that at least accept making rhose things for the yakusa." Pops asked curiously while he wiped his hand on a napkin.

"My partner made it. I simply asked if it was a interested of them on working for such a important event and they accepted, saying it was a honor." He talked while he pointed at the already famous table in the center.

"Ah sure, (Y/N)." Pops chuckled behind his glass of champagne.

He wouldn't embarrass Chisaki today... not today at least.

"Hum, is really impressive, do they owj a bakery or something if I may ask master?"

"No. They don't even need a shop to show their glorious talent. It's like they were born woth it or somethings related."

Everyone on that place who knew Chisaki for years could catch the glint of shiny in his golden eyes whenever he mentiomed your name or talents.

"Although I haven't see him trying nothing until now." Mimic muttred to Chrono whose was munching on something.

"(Y/N) said he eat what he had to yesterday..." mimic snickered at the explanation.