#the sun and the moon. never touching but always seen together even if they're never by each other's side irl

[mcflymemes]

QUOTES TO A LOVER *  updated version

i saw that you were perfect, and so i loved you. then i saw that you were not perfect and i loved you even more.

i can't help falling in love with you.

kiss me like we die tonight.

when you put your arms around me, you let me know there's nothing in this world i can't do.

my heart is holding on to you.

there is no one who compares with you.

when will i hold you again?

you're my sun, my moon, my guiding star.

i was looking for someone to complete me. not anymore.

you're nothing short of my everything.

you are, and always have been, my dream.

take me to your heart, for it's there that i belong.

i love you more than i have ever found a way to say to you.

i love you, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

it's always better when we're together.

come near now, and kiss me.

why shouldn't we fall in love?

won't you kiss me once, baby?

you complete me.

i want to spend my life with you.

i see so many ways that i can love you.

i need your love.

we might have been meant for each other.

when you smile, the whole world stops and stares.

everything i do, i do it for you.

we kiss like we invented it.

tell me that you love me.

i love your lips when they're wet with wine.

thank god you're mine.

i've hungered for your touch.

when will our eyes meet? when can i touch you?

love is being stupid together.

i will touch you with my mind.

i'd give up forever to touch you.

there is no remedy for love but to love more.

you should be kissed often, and by someone who knows how.

if you remember me, then i don't care if everyone else forgets.

you're the closest to heaven that i'll ever be.

you are the one i am lit for.

if i had a flower for every time i thought of you... i could walk through my garden forever.

for my heart, your chest is enough.

we loved with a love that was more than love.

when i look into your eyes, i know i have found the mirror of my soul.

i've never been seen so completely, loved so passionately, and protected so fiercely.

i won't belong to anyone else, just you. until my bones turn to ashes and my heart stops beating.

thirst for you haunts me during the hungry nights.

the water shines only by the sun, and it is you who are my sun.

true love is putting someone else before yourself.

i wasn't expecting you. i didn't think that we would end up together.

the moon lives under your skin.

i think i'd miss you even if we never met.

you are the best thing that's ever been mine.

when i saw you i fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

you are every reason, every hope, and every dream i've ever had.

i need you like a heart needs a beat.

in one kiss, you'll know all i haven't said.

i love you in this way because i don't know any other way of loving.

in all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.

i will never stop trying. because when you find the one... you never give up.

i never want to stop making memories with you.

your wide eyes are the only light i know from extinquished constellations.

the single most extraordinary thing i've ever done with my life is fall in love with you.

i am who i am because of you.

[thatfuckinjester]

Nobody care about your stupid headcanons and oneshots.

oh nooooooo what will i dooooo

anyway here's a raindrop oneshot (they're camping next to the ocean because why fucking not)

it got really fluffy even tho i was trying to write angst- i hope it's okay lmao

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It was still dark out when Dew opened the zipper of the tent, flinching slightly as the sound of it was louder than he expected. The air night was hot but since they were so close to the sea and the humidity was high. The sea was pretty silent at night and the stars were so beautiful, almost like he was.

The two of them decided to go on this trip after a long time of not, they just needed a small break and to be together, so after a lot of asking, and threatening from Dew's side, they got the okay and had a two days vacation, it's not much but it is something.

His bare feet touched the cold sand and he tuened around to zip the tent shut again, there's no way he's letting any bugs disturb Rain's sleep.

He sat down next to the now extinguished fire pit they started earlier and he took a deep breath, looking at the burnt out wood that he lot earlier for them and sighed happily.

He looked at the waves with a sad smile, they used to be a part of him. They used to call for him, they used to be made of him.

And how one day they just weren't.

How the water turned against him, how they were chocking him, how he almost drowned from what used to be made of him.

And then how Rain was summoned. How Rain took his place. And how much he hated him for it, it wasn't like he actually wanted to hate Rain for it, but Dew felt like he lost it all, and then they summoned a better water ghoul.

But Rain.. He forgave Dew for hating him when he found Dew crying one night, when the fire that wasn't rightfully his has started to burn his water cool water.

When Rain has held him all night long, just holding and soothing him, just a soft touch. When for the first time since he became a fire ghoul he felt intimacy that wasn't just pure sexual.

And from there they just learned how to trust each other, and how Rain would look at him like he was responsible for the waves in the sea.

Dew will never forget that one time when Rain murmured sleepily to his hair how Dew felt like the moon and he himself was just the ocean, trying to always get closer.

And how Rain kissed him, how he took his breath away.

How they just started to share a room that one random night. How Dew hasn't seen Rain the whole day until in the middle of the night two cold hands wrapped around him and he could feel Rain kissing his face before he fell asleep again. How Rain was "Just cold, Dew." and kept coming back every night.

How much he's completely in love with him, even after everything, his love for Rain will shine longer than his fire will.

"Hey, fire lilly." Dew smiled as he felt hands hugging around him from behind, "Why are you awake?" Rain's voice was quite like it always was when he woke up, like he was scared to use it before drinking some water. Whatever, Dew always love the way Rain's voice sounds.

"I'm thinking." He whispered to him as Rain coaxed him to lean on his chest, running his fingers through Dew's soft hair.

"What are you thinking about?"

"You."

He saw his smile upside down as Rain looked at him, kissing his forehead before looking at the sea again, his eyes seeking the point where it looks like the sky and sea become one.

They sat in silence, Rain playing with his hair while Dew was looking at him and admiring him.

"Oh look," Rain whispered to him after a long period of time, "It's the sunrise."

Dew's eyes followed his towards the sea, the sun wasn't out just yet, only a few orange and yellow sun rays, their reflection catching on the small waves.

Oh. He didn't think they were awake for that long, but oh well.

He was laying in the hands of his mate, while they were slowly watching the sun rise and it's reflection on the sea.

There aren't many other places on this entire universe that he would prefer to be. And even if there were, it would still have to have Rain right beside him.

[witchthewriter]

𝐎𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬/𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞

⤷ gender neutral, ambiguous race, and any size reader. Requests are open, thank you for reading!  

Warnings: violence, nsfw section, mentions of blood and battles

a/n: okay so i did a bit of research and in this time, it's only monks who were not allowed to marry and i think remain celebate? nsfw included...it will all be explained

ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ | ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ ᴵᴵ

ISFP

Hufflepuff

Lawful Good turned Neutral Good

Pisces Sun, Libra Moon, Cancer Rising

𝑺𝑭𝑾🌿

・When Osferth first met you, he was incredibly frightened of you...but did his best to hide it.

・Well, even Uhtred was wary of you at first. You had come off the battlefield, covered in blood, a sword in both hands, and a fucking grin on your face

・Out of three of the four men were practically having heart palpatations when you looked their way and your smile grew.

"Oh fuck-" Finan said, practically frozen.

"Shit shit shit, in coming, Uhtred-" Osferth was by his Lord's side, not ... hiding behind him, only merely standing beside him.

・It wasn't until Sihtric stood up, opening his arms wide that the men let out a joint sigh.

・Even though both of you were covered in blood and had considerate wounds (although none too serious), you hugged each other as hard as you could.

"Um, not to ... break up this beautiful picture," Finan started, "but who exactly is this Sihtric?"

"This is my cousin!"

・Osferth's attention never left you. His eyes constantly seeking you, he needed to know where you were at all times.

・His crush on you, which took a few weeks for him to realise, made him obsessed with you.

・Osferth yearned for you.

・But little did he know, you felt the exact same way.

・You travelled with Uhtred and his crew for months, and you fought in many battles (saving the lives of each men around twice; but whose counting?)

・Finan was the easiest to talk to - with Uhtred always galloping off to do Lord things, Sihtric usually spying for him, which left Finan, Osferth and yourself.

・The monk took a while to speak to you, and the first few times he stuttered.

・The black khol around your eyes, Viking markings and tattoos were enough to make any Saxon quiver.

・But he'd seen you in battle, and his heart fluttered every time.

・So Finan was the only person to talk to. And talk he did.

・You listened to the Irishman, but your eyes often wandered to the monk, whose gaze would quickly avert from your own

・Everytime he did this, you smiled. And of course, Finan caught on.

・So one night he decided to meddle.

"Argh! I've hurt me ankle - Osferth and y/n, can ye get the firewood for me. God this hurts!" He near shouted as the two of you walked off together.

・Was Finan an idiot at times? Yes. But a brilliant idiot. Because the asshole actually got Osferth to talk to you. And once you got talking, you both opened up. As if you had known each other all your lives.

・When Uhtred and Sihtric returned, they were stunned to see the two of you so close. Emotionally as well as physically.

・Sihtric especially, since he felt rather protective of you. Even if you could beat him in a fight.

・Osferth had never known love, not romantic love, and he knew he would never feel it to this extent again.

・He has your eye colour memorised, as well as your smile, the way you like to do your hair, your favourite colour etc.

・He's tentative and sweet, emotionally mature - although he can be a bit naive at times.

・Osferth never thought someone like you; someone as intimidating and strong and fierce as you, could ever look twice at him. Let alone love him.

・And he swore to himself that he would do everything he could to make you happy.

𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔

Sun (Osferth) x Moon (You)

Love language is physical touch (You) x Is touch starved (Osferth)

 Confident & Flirty (You) x Has Never Been Flirted With Before, Thinks They're Just Being Nice (Osferth)

𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆

Opposites Attract

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈

A New Beginning by Alexandre Desplat

𝑁𝑆𝐹𝑊 🔞 No one under the age of 18 past this point.

・We know that Osferth isn't a virgin, as he had two GROWN WOMEN physically fighting over him!

・He has the same dedication to his partner's pleasure as he has faith in God

・The first few weeks of your relationship, Osferth was always shocked that you kissed him.

・Often you asked him if he was okay, if he wanted to stop and then this fire would overtake him

・The kisses turned heated, passionate, almost overwhelming

・His large hands like to wander from your face, to your back, then down to your backside.

・There never goes a day when Osferth hasn't squeezed your ass, or at least pinched it

・You can get Osferth to agree to anything if you suck and nibble on his nipples. They're very sensitive, (and a lot of men do like this).

・There was a growing guilt whenever you two fucked, (no I am not using their word for it. I will not use 'hump' - I cringe every time.) He felt as if he was going against god somehow.

・But you had had enough of it after 4 months of being together.

"If this is causing you anguish, then we will stop."

"It's complicated love, I - what I want and what's expected of me is two different things."

"Then you will have to choose."

・Osferth told you a needed a week to make up his mind. Because if he chose you, then he would no longer be a monk.

・You agreed.

・And when those 7 days were over, he came into your tent, fell to his knees and begged for your forgiveness.

"I believe in God. And you believe in your gods. It is difficult, but I have made up my mind."

・When his eyes met your own, your breath was taken. Almost stolen from you.

"I am yours y/n. I cannot see God, nor touch him. But when I am with you... it feels like I am in the presence of the Divine."

・And that night he fucked you like he never had before.

・Orgasm after orgasm, he made love to you until the sun came up.

・He loves leaving love bites and teeth marks on your thighs and chest. There's something so primal about that action. As if he's marking his territory. Although he knows no one could be your master.

[hearthandheathenry]

so I’m not sure if this is a sort of ask you’d be able to help with.

I’m very much a believer in mundane before magic. Things like do I have a headache from the lights or is the energy bad in a room? yknow

Anyway- in my head I know it’s silly, and that it’s just my hormones from being on my period- but a part of me thinks that’s it a bit of an interesting coincidence that the peak of my period was on the solar eclipse. This month I’m a few weeks off than regular and it sucked wayyy worse than usual. I was running hot all day and the eclipse was awesome but at night I had a bad fever. I was feeling my emotions worse than normal.

And- again here’s the part that I doubt the most/ think it’s probably just my brain making it up- I cannot for the life of me stop dreaming and daydreaming and thinking about this person I’ve not seen before. Now I’m no stranger to dabbling in more casual manifestation and attraction of friends and good opportunities. I’ve prayed to different gods or left offerings while asking for a friend or someone who could be a partner. The god I’ve been recently making offerings for and researching is a lesser known one from antiquity. Very much fertility and weather- I wonder if now my periods will just be worse since starting my worship lol.

In the back of my head I sorta wanted to do something on the eclipse anyway. It’s not a specific person, but I can’t stop thinking about this gorgeous person. It started when my period started but it’s continued after it. Again this is where I doubt the most since duh I just keep thinking about my ideal guy etc, but, I also had some weird dreams, a lot of imagery of Set from kemetism and birds and this person all jumbled together. Plus while out and about I saw a lot more Egyptian imagery and birds and romantic symbols and shit. It’s just in the very back of my head that I’m thinking maybe my past manifesting/spell work efforts are gonna pay off. Or maybe even someone is doing something and attracting an energy and I happen to be more sensitive to it. Idk just weird coincidences that have been irking me.

Sorry if this ended up being a weird ramble but I really wanted to write out how I was feeling and thought fuck it might as well send in an ask since I never really have much to say.

feel free to not respond if u don’t wanna 👍

also props to ur blog it’s very informative much luv :)

I didn't realize I received an ask, so sorry for the delay and thank you for your patience! I'm always happy to chat or give my 2 cents about anything!

First, I absolutely believe the eclipse can affect your period, so no worries there and it's not crazy or anything. Our menstrual cycles are based on the lunar calendar, every 28 days or so (some are just slightly longer or shorter, but the average is 28 days) and if the moon can affect the tides so completely, it absolutely can affect us humans who are 1 made up of a bunch of water ourselves and 2 are also energetic beings that can be sensitive to magnetic changes like any other being. There's some really cool research videos from NASA showing the magnetic fields around earth moving with the eclipse, feel free to check them out! Everything around us, especially large things with massive energy like the sun or moon, can absolutely affect our bodies! I'm not sure if you were in the path of the eclipse at all, but I'm in northern Illinois and we were at about 93% totality by me and even with that, you could absolutely feel it whether you were inside or not. My husband, child, and I all got huge bursts of energy and it was very overwhelming. My husband described it as an anxious feeling as he's not yet super in touch with his bodily feelings and energy and didn't enjoy the experience, but I could tell for me it felt very neutral but overwhelming, so I leaned into it and used to get excited and get things done. It was again though, very overwhelming, which is why a lot of people don't enjoy eclipses or claim they're chaotic energy. A huge burst of energy will always feel weird! Everyone around us and anyone who we spoke to absolutely felt the same. SO, in conclusion, absolutely could your menstrual cycle be affected.

Now, in regards to the imagery you've been experiencing and you looking into kemetism, I did a little digging myself since I'm not super familiar with kemetism and I found some pretty interesting things! I started off researching the God Set(Seth) since you mentioned him, and noticed the egyptianmuseum.org had mentionrd him being associated with eclipses, not just storms and such, but even more than that he had a long-standing tiff with the God Horus the Younger who ultimately bested him and took over his late-fathers throne. Horus the Younger was represented by a falcon and associated with healing, protection, the sun, and the sky. I'm not sure if this is the God you were making offerings to, but perhaps he is the one answering your calling and you are getting glimpses into a little about him and his journey to steer you towards recognizing who is answering you. They do say that if we focus on something we want, we begin to see it everywhere, even if we don't want to, but also many spiritual people who reach out to their Gods and Goddesses report seeing representstions and messages from them before they realize who is trying to communicate with them. So, perhaps Horus the Younger is the one trying to make contact with you. Or, if you've been manifesting a good partner for yourself, perhaps the man you've been seeing is closely tied with Horus or perhaps follows him spiritually. Or maybe he even just embodies the good characteristics of the God and your brain is choosing to represent him in this imagery. There's a lot of "what ifs" from an outside perspective, and only you will know what rings true to you and your situation. Hopefully some of my ideas and such will spark some clarity on your situation and you will figure out what messages you're receiving from the universe to continue on the path you want to lead. I definitely implore you to open your heart to the messages and synchronicities that appear to you in your life, as our guides are always walking along side us in our journey and the universe whole heartedly supports you in every decision you make. Not everything is a sign, but if it feels like it is, then it probably is. Learn to trust your gut and lead with instinct and be open to the energy around you, and just use your brain to keep you in check from becoming too far gone so that you can still be safe within your reality, instead of held back by anxiety or worry about simply being weird.

On another side note, just with the period and everything, I personally implore you to also maybe use this as a sign to learn more about your menstrual cycle if you've been working with fertility gods and your cycle was suddenly changed by the eclipse! There is so much us women aren't taught and we usually find out ourselves as adults doing research. Understanding the phases of our cycle, what's going on in our body and with our hormones, etc are all things that can lead us to better health, better periods, and a better understanding of ourselves biologically AND spiritually (you'd be amazed at how much power a woman holds thanks to her cycle). There's also so many cool unexplainable things that happen in regards to a woman's body and our ability to create! Did you know at the moment of conception when a sperm meets an egg that there's a flash of light scientists can't explain? Did you know that breastmilk is so complex and tailored to each baby and feeding that we can't reproduce it in a lab? Did you know that your energy levels directly follow your menstrual cycle and affect everything you do from weightlifting or exercise to needing to eat more or less to needing more or less sleep? Theres so much knowledge we've lost that women are now reclaiming and teaching and I love every part of it. I think every woman (and man tbh) should go on a journey of learning about their own fertility cycles and such.

Hopefully this was at least a little bit helpful for you! Best of luck on your journey!

[daughterofzagreus]

The Astrological Signs of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" characters

Part 1 - Team Avatar

♎ Aang - Libra

Libra is an air sign and Aang is an airbender. More than that, though, Libra (represented by the scales) is the sign of harmony and balance. As the Avatar, restoring and maintaining balance is Aang's primary duty. Aside from all that symbolism though, Aang's personality is a lot like a Libra.

Libra is the opposite compliment to Aries, a war sign. Libra don't really like discord (at least, they don't like to be IN the discord and chaos). They're lovers, not fighters, so they tend to be peacekeepers. This is Aang to a T. Aang is not only one of the youngest characters in the show (and therefore, the most likely to be uncomfortable with violence), but he is also a monk, raised by other peaceful monks.

He values peace and all life. Even his fighting styles are evasive and are more about using an opponent's strength against them, rather than attacking. It's something that is brought up in the Book 2 episode "Bitter Work", when Aang has trouble learning earthbending from Toph. Libras (depending on the rest of their chart, of course) often tend to respond to conflict in a similar manner, by being avoidant.

You see the pacifist in Aang anytime he needs to mediate a conflict. Examples include "The Great Divide" in Book 1, where Aang has to mediate between the two tribes (as well as Sokka and Katara). He does so by telling them that "Harsh words won't solve anything. Action will". Of course, when that doesn't work, he just lies and makes up the alternative story of WeiJin and JinWei. I don't think Aang is a big fan of lies, but it was for the sake of peace, a means to an end. Very Libra.

Another thing that makes Aang a Libra is the fact that 1) Libra is ruled by Venus and 2) Libra rules the 7th house, which is essentially relationships. Aang's relationships (platonic and romantic) mean EVERYTHING to him, and there's a reason why putting one of his loved ones in danger is initially the only way to activate the Avatar state. He's a very friendly, charming and loving kid (like most Libras) and he's the first one from team Avatar who believes they can make it through the secret tunnel, because of how strongly he believes in his love for Katara. The final point is Aang's reluctance (or sometimes downright refusal) to cause harm to others unless absolutely necessary. While others use violence, Aang is more likely to want to befriend his enemies, and that's actually a good thing. It's Libra's superpower.

♋ Katara - Cancer

Cancer is a water sign that is ruled by the moon, and Katara is a (very powerful) waterbender who draws her powers from the moon. In astrology, water signs are known for being on the emotional side. And with Cancer's ruling planet being the moon (the planet of emotions and also the celestial body that pushes and pulls the tides), Cancers are known to be so emotional, that they're often just archetyped by it. Katara is similarly emotional (see the Book 3 episode "Ember Island Players"). However, Katara being so in touch with her emotions also makes her extremely emotionally intelligent. Like Cancers and most other water signs, her heightened sensitivity allows her to almost psychically sense how others are feeling, and to know how exactly to respond to and comfort them. There's a reason why Katara has such great chemistry (when it comes to her one-on-one conversations) with so many people (Aang, Haru, Jet, Zuko, Toph). Her emotional intelligence also makes her very mature for her age and allow her to see things clearer than others, or to foresee things that others don't.

Cancers are often either family oriented, or they love and value their home (this can either be their childhood home, current home, or the city, country or culture that they came from). This applies with Katara. As a waterbender, being from the water tribes is a big part of who she is, and she has a deep love for her culture. We see how being the only waterbender in the South Pole and having no one to show her the ways of waterbending saddens her, and how happy she is to hear that Hama is willing to teach her (the only other waterbender from the Southern water tribes that Katara has ever met).

With regards to Katara being mature for her age, she's also very motherly. The Book 3 episode "The Runaway" (as well as most of her interactions with Toph) demonstrates this. The moon (which rules Cancer) is The Mother in astrology, and so most Cancers have a significant relationship with motherhood. Katara was very close to her late mother and her death still affects her.

Following the death of her mother, Katara has basically had to become everyone else's mother and hold things together. You see this as well (in a more positive light) in the Book 2 episode "The Desert". In this episode, Appa is missing, Aang is too upset to think or act clearly, Toph can't see properly because of the sand and Sokka is high off cactus juice. Katara is the one that is keeping everything together in this episode.

On the downside, Katara's mothering can turn to nagging sometimes, but I don't blame her. She's a child that's had to grow up way too fast. She has a lot of pressure on her. With water, that pressure can build up, until it bursts like a dam wall (which it's likely to do). It's the combination of this, as well as Katara's strong and fearless sense of right and wrong that lead to those cataclysmic outbursts that both Katara and water signs are sometimes known for.

♋♐Sokka - Cancer sun, but with a lot of Sagittarius aspects in the birth chart

Okay, let's start with the Sagittarius side of things. There are a lot of elements of the Sag personality in Sokka. For one thing, luck. Not only does he manage to survive (and thrive) in the entire series WITHOUT any bending powers, but that boomerang ALWAYS comes back! That's some Jupiter-luck energy if I've ever seen it.

Sokka was originally going to be a more serious character, but the voice actor decided to improvise and add some of his own humor to the role, which created the Sokka that we know and love now. I mention this because the voice actor (Jack De Sena) is a Sagittarius. Sokka has the kind of personality that provides humor in difficult times and can lighten up the sometimes very heavy atmosphere in the group. He doesn't just make people laugh, he likes to laugh as well (at his own jokes and even at his enemy's jokes). In the book 3 episode "The Ember Island Players", heeven goes to the effort of getting Suki to sneak him backstage, so he could give the actor playing himself some tips and extra jokes (and low and behold, the crowd actually laughs at them). In his words, he's "just a guy who loves comedy". In fact, I think he's one of the only ones there who just decides to kick his feet up and enjoy the show (by basically turning the situation into a date night for him and Suki). Sagittarians love to laugh and make people laugh. They're optimists who like to have a good time, and are likely to be the make-lemonade-out-of-lemons type.

He's also one of the smartest and most competent characters on the show. He has excellent problem solving skills, and isn't afraid to look at things through a different angle and try new things to expand his worldview and knowledge. This is relevant, as Sag rules the 9th house which includes, amoung other things, higher learning, truth and knowledge. He can be a bit tactless and insensitive...a little slick at the mouth, but it's largely ignored by others, as he is likeable and funny enough for others to let it go. That's quite a Sag trait.

The Cancerian part of Sokka's personality is less pronounced, but it's there. He's VERY protective of his loved ones, even before the situation with Princess Yue. He is family oriented in that he admires his dad and the traditions and customs of the water tribes. He loves and is just as proud of his culture and home life as Katara is, but just in a different way. He also always looks out for the other members of team Avatar. He can tell when a member of the team needs support and immediately jumps to action (for example, the way he immediately grabs Toph's hand to guide her in "The Serpent's Pass", in "The Desert" and on the air ships during the final battle in the series finale). He's also very loving and protective of his sister, despite how often they fight. Also, quiet as it's kept, Cancers are one of the funniest signs in the zodiac.

♉♈Toph - Taurus sun, but with a lot of Aries aspects in the birth chart

Let's start with the Taurus aspects. Taurus is not just an earth sign, it's FIXED earth. It embodies the firm stance and hardheadness of not just Toph, but earthbenders in general. Tauruses are very stubborn and like to do things their own way at their own pace. Combine that with the independence and confrontational nature of an Aries, and you've got Toph.

Aries value their independence, sometimes to the point of being selfish, which is what we get with Toph in the Book 2 episode "The Chase". In this episode, it's Toph's first time riding with the group, but it's also her first taste of freedom. Like an Aries, she hates the idea of seeming weak or helpless, and has to learn that freedom doesn't mean that she has to do everything alone.

As Toph shows us, there is, however, power and strength in valuing independence, so long as you're not insecure about independence or projecting. Toph is a wealthy, sheltered child who is blind, which, in most cases, would make her vulnerable. But it's not the case. Toph ran away once before when she was little, and that's where she learned earthbending from the giant blind moles. She learned earthbending not just as a martial art, but as an extension of herself and her senses, and as a way to see. She would have never been able to master doing that (nor would shehave gone on to do even greater things like train the avatar and discover metal bending), if she didn't have the will, bravery and self assurance to run away in the first place. That little pilgrimage (her life changing adventure, if you will...but still not with Zuko, I'm afraid😔) showed the value of independence. Of going out on your own journey of self-discovery. Much like how Zuko needed to be be alone for a while during Book 2 for his own journey of self-discovery.

Oh, speaking of "Zuko Alone"...

♈Zuko - Aries

Zuko's arc in the show shows us the transition from a dark-sided, low vibrational Aries, to a high-vibrational Aries at it's best: passionate, brave, protective, strong, innovative, a good leader, driven, energetic and independent. Zuko embodies many Aries (and general fire sign) traits, both good and bad. He can be impulsive, and doesn't always think things all the way through. Aries is cardinal fire, so it's about getting up and going, just DOING something. Zuko is known for never giving up. These are things that that Iroh, Sokka and Ursa have mentioned. Zuko is an impatient person and is very fiery, hot headed and reactionary even for a firebender.

His reactionary nature makes him prone to a bit of melodrama (and I imagine that's why it's so fun for Azula or even Iroh to get a rise out of him). This is definitely the case with Aries. They're not the only sign with a temper, but they are the most likey to cause a scene and storm off in a huff about it. Or challenge you to a fight. Zuko can't refuse a fight for the life of him. At least not until he evolves and figures out his ✨true destiny✨.

One the other hand, he also keeps that same fiery energy when it comes to defending those who can't defend themselves and fighting for what he believes is right. In these cases, he refuses to back down. Even if his chances of winning are low, he'll still keep pushing forward. That's the will, energy and drive of cardinal fire. Zuko just needs to chanel all that power into something useful and constructive, like creating change for the greater good, and not distraction. Like with fire in general, Aries (and Zuko) is useful and powerful, but requires direction, guidance and purpose, so as to not risk letting the fire run wild to cause destruction and devastation.

[rpmemesbyarat]

RP meme from Tori Amos quotes

- Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

- I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

- I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

- Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

- I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

- The violence between women is unbelievable.

- I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

- If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.

- If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

- I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

- I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.

- Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much.

- Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

- On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

- Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

- The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

- When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

- I think you have to know who you are.

- Get to know the monster that lives in your soul.

- Dive deep into your soul and explore it.

- I don’t want to renounce my dark side.

- The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.

- Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

- This is very simple in the world of chicks; some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be.

- We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.

- Music is about all of your senses, not just hearing.

- Again, we go back to the power of words and how they can make you feel. They bring liberation or stagnation, they're chains.

- You don't have to apologize for growing and learning and changing your mind.

- Music has an alchemical quality.

- Certain relationships can just wear you down.

- Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development.

- It's a good thing I'm curious, because sometimes I just research how a soccer player kicks a ball and the impact it has on his foot. I haven't used this yet, but I might.

- But over the years you can cultivate hate for the art you love.

- I don’t believe anyone’s story is boring. Every story has value because it belongs only to you.

- Sometimes I fantasize backstage about how people do their laundry. Woolite? Mixed-color loads? Do they fold? Do they press? Do they Shout it out? And the thing that kills me—do their whites come out dingy?

- Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change.

- We like our pain. And we’re packaging it, and we’re selling it.

- Festivals or radio shows can be the heavyweight championships of arrogantly detached clusterfucks.

- People who are addicted to power can live on the same street or attend the same school as us or even play on the world stage.

- None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa.

- I don't think that many performers necessarily want to see their audience empowered. I think a lot of performers, no different from priests, need the hierarchy.

- Modern, celebrity-driven entertainment turns the stage into an altar, and so many celebrities refuse to be removed from those altars once they manage to ascend.

- All storytellers, all troubadours worth their salt knew their myths.

- The Sídh's historical myth is the source of the bastardized concept of a fairy—as if anyone gives a rat's ass.

- The problem with Christianity is, they think everything is about outside forces, good and evil. There's not a lot of inner work encouraged.

- Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

- I'm the queen of the nerds.

- Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

- Sometimes listening to music can motivate you.

- I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

- An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

- Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

- Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

- I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness.

- Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

- We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

- That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.

- If I saw someone destroy a piano I'd fuckin' kill 'em. Wouldn't think twice.

- I experiment with things that are usually an internal experience, because that's just what excites me. And yes, it does sometimes give me visions.

- Some of those trips were eighteen hours long and I'll never forget, once I ended up sitting by the bush trying to ask the flowers why they didn't like me. It's like, Why can't I be your friend?

- You might not like my story because I'm not gonna tell you how it ends yet, and you need to travel it with me.

- I just imagined a huge juicy vagina coming out of the sky, raining blood over all those racist, misogynist fuckers.

- You can't control your popularity

- If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music.

- I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it.

-I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit

- I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks.

- I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

- For the most part, pianos are female to me.

- Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

- In our minds, love and lust are really separated.

- I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs

- When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

- Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

- Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people.

- It's as if the horses have come to take us back, to descend, to find the dark side. By dark I mean what's hidden, not necessarily satanic.

- There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

- Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

- You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

- I'm not a habit, I'm a lifestyle.

- There are a lot of hidden nerds.

- People who become the front runners often used to be outcasts or loners.

- Um, don't get me wrong because I love boys, it's just that sometimes we don't need you.

- There are only ten ideas under the sun. What makes the difference is how you spice them.

- So I'm in Virginia, and I had crabs--I keep saying that! I had crab sickness, I had eaten bad crabs in Maryland!

- I'm a winter girl; I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.

- You can only be you. A lot of times it's never enough for people.

- I've never played the guitar, except throwing it against the wall cause it was pissed off I couldn't play it.

- Truly, I was a sweetheart when I was little, like the Honeysuckle Faery. Sweet-pea. But sweet-peas are not popular after second grade. Sweet-peas become nerds really fast.

- I really enjoy having a giggle with a friend, but then someone crosses my line, then I don't really take it lightly.

- I sometimes forget I'm not 7'2" and a Viking.

- A boundary was crossed. And maybe I drew a boundary, consciously.

- It was a bit violent, a bit sexual.

- When nothing makes sense, music seems to come and bring me a margarita and sit down with me.

- You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

- There is a level of the vampire in me, which is OK.

- It hurts me when a woman doesn't come through for me, more than a man.

- I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

- What is an angel but a ghost in drag?

- I'm beginning to accept and love the parts of me, of women that I was trained to hate all my life.

- People can be so vicious toward the imaginary world and it saddens me. You kill a lot of little people's dreams that way.

- Even if you don't read history or you aren't interested in anything that happened before the '60s, there are reasons why we think the way we do.

- That's how the story goes but I don't believe the story.

- I would find myself either the lovey-doveyest-woviest sweet pea, or a mad-woman.

- I believe in eating.

- You can't change what happened. And nobody's asking you to forgive.

- Why be afraid of these cuddly, soft, adorable things?

- I have good days. Like if I get really good coffee ice cream with just the right amount of chocolate syrup.

- A lot of people see themselves as victims, even when you have to stand in line for ice cream.

- It's so difficult to be critical of children because they need to discover themselves. We're always telling them, "No, the tree has green leaves!"

- I'm tired of being a rebel. Now I just want to be me.

- When things get really empty for me, empty in my outer life, in my inner life, the music world, the songs come across galaxies to find me.

- Do you know what it's like to be a girl and have blood running down your legs and think that you're dying, just because no one's told you that's what happens? It's horrible.

- An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

- Mess with me and you will not survive.

- I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck.

- I'm not into this dieting thing.

- The cross has been used as a weapon, as it has been used against all women throughout the ages. And that's the greatest evil of all.

- I think you've got to find a giggle somewhere in stuff that would scare the poop outta ya.

- A cornflake girl is Wonderbread whereas a raisin girl is whole wheat bread.

- I would like to think I'm a raisin girl, because in my mind they're more open minded. Cornflake girls are totally self centered, don't care about anything or anybody.

- I like butter and the people who like butter."

- I'm known as that girl who has tea with the Devil.

- I'm not afraid of sadness.

- Everybody has creativity and each person has it in a different way. Some people aren't musical, some musicians can't even think about painting or gardening. There's so many different ways to be creative.

- I wanna be burned, definitely burned, like the witches.

- Give the kids tools, so they can go build their own houses; not the blueprint of what the houses should be.

- Look at me now. I'm breast feeding pigs.

- I wish I had more of a sense of humor.

- I can be so hard on people.

- If somebody's being a jerk, I would like to go wee on their head. And then I do that, mentally.

- The people on the internet know more about what I am doing than I do. Like, they will say that I am going to be in this mall on this day, and sure enough, I am there!

- I'm like a lioness who kills her own prey and no one else has to kill for her. But if some other lioness comes to me and says "I just got a good prey, do you want a piece?" I can say "of course" - and the other way around.

- There are things that I would disagree with Jesus about, and I feel really good about that.

- History has recorded some pretty nasty things that have happened to people. I think we remember. I think it's in our cells and I think it can still hurt sometimes."

- I don't believe in the saying that it all happens for the best, it's just not appropriate.

- Of course I believe in past lives, I mean, three quarters of the human race believes this, it's not like a great new thought here.

- I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

- I do like to talk about things no one wants to hear at the dinner table.

- I'm not interested in being a really nice person; I want to be a creative, responsible person that's balanced.

- Boys are cute but food is cuter

- Do any of you dream about crocodiles?

-I know I dream about crocodiles. I'm obsessed with them.

- If people can't see things from the other side that's not my problem, it's theirs.

- I think I give equal time in my hatred, right?

- Sometimes I'm mad at some guy, sometimes I'm mad at some girl, and sometimes I'm totally loving some guy, so and sometimes I'm loving some girl.

_ Well, Pele is the volcano goddess and I thought of like, um, sacrificing some of the boys in my life to her but then I decided that that wasn't really a very good idea.

- Anger originates from envy and outrage, not being seen, not being heard.

- We don't know where souls go when they die. We don't know a lot of things. We didn't create the planets. We didn't do this all by ourselves. So, therefore, why wouldn't there be a creative force if it can create humans and planets?

- I've been hanging out with some of the Hell's Angels in England. They're some of the sweetest people I've ever met.

- Real friends have to be understanding of each other, and their faults.

- I think I'm really hard to get to know on a personal level.

- Thailand is calling me.

- People I see laughing all the time, check for razor blades in their anal-force underwear, because it's just a little lie.

- I'm not interested in taking drugs. I do hallucinogens once in a while for journey experiences.

- I hear the wine. It's like a structure. I see it as a piece. I hear it before I taste it. It's calling me. And then I start to hear it when I'm tasting it.

- Not that I use crystal suppositories, I'm not New Age.

- A peach tree says, 'Some of me will be juicy and some of me will be dry I'm not growing for you; I grow because that's what I do.' You always hear some person complain about how dry their peach is and the peach says, 'It's not our fault you have no understanding on the proper use for dry peaches.'

- My theory is that women were the Mona Lisas for a long time and now men are Mona Lisas with little goatees. They are our muses.

- If you're gonna tell a story, you have to grow into the head of the rapist as well as the raped.

- He was a lite sneeze, and not the flu. Most boys would like to think they're the flu, wouldn't they? But they're really just a achoo.

- If you call me an airy-fairy new age hippy waif, I will cut your penis off.

- It's a double-edged sword and if you pretend you don't want it you're a liar and that is going to rip your soul to pieces.

- I'm always dreaming that these bulls are chasing me. Half the time I don't get away - I almost get over the fence, and then they gore me.

- I believe in energy, everything is energy. And therefore sometimes magic can be created if somebody is open to letting energy do what it does, instead of being so cynical, that you miss magic happening.

- I feel like a work really has many sides to it when people have such extreme reactions. When a work is greeted with just, 'Oh, you know, it's nice', then it's not affecting people. So love it or hate it, that's okay.

- I am a real believer in looking at pain and taking it out shopping.

- The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.

- I just try to strip myself, peel myself like an onion. At different layers I discover stuff.

- Why is the world where it is? It's so deep-rooted, if we really start looking, and we might not like what we find. But I think we have to, we have to ask the questions.

- I'm beyond the fury of youth.

- I love young women who are angry. They're wild mustangs.

- I didn't want her looking and hearing me and thinking, "Oh my God, that's a scary lady!"

- They felt that it was detrimental material for their children and that it was blasphemous.

- They've decided they kinda' have you figured out.

- My nightmares are so bad, that I mostly reject it when my friends want to take me to a cinema to watch a horror movie. Then I say, "No, thank you. I will dream in a few hours."

- I don't know of anybody who's gonna be fulfilled if they get hit by a bus. You have to surrender to that eternal need to be fulfilled.

- How do you know I'm not having a margarita with Jesus tonight at 10 o'clock?

- Let's be honest, religion has not supported women and men exploring all sorts of their sides, their unconscious. It has not been supportive of, you know, go into the places without shame, without blame, without judgment, and just let yourself really see what's cooking in there.

- I think human beings are so much more capable of what they told us we're capable of.

- Anyone can attend yoga, kabbalah classes, church, lectures by the 'Dalai Lama', yada, yada, yada - but can you be present for your life, and live with the way you treat other people?

- Only a few people should have a "greatest hits". I'm not one of those people.

- I feel like our leaders have hijacked America's personality, and taken her to personality plastic surgery school. And they decided this is who she is.

- The playground is the biggest war-zone in the world.

- You have to read visionaries to have visions.

- They squash the baby bird because their bird got squashed.

- I love reading. I'll read the first sentence and if it makes sense to me I pick it up.

- It's ridiculous saying there's only one true faith, it's like saying there's only one map to get you up the mountain. I want to see those other maps, man.

- I kinda have all the aspects of my personality round one table for spaghetti.

- If it's too loud, turn it up.

- I was doing drugs with a South American shaman, and I really did visit the devil and, well, I had a journey.

- There is no passion without broken crockery.

- You have to ask, how could a nation nearly vote in somebody who isn't qualified for the job?

- We're living in a frightening time and I wish people would wake up and realise they're surrendering their civil liberties.

- Who wouldn't want to shag a queen?

[sebastianshaw]

RP Meme from The Lost Boys

I told you to stay off the boardwalk.

Hey, I liked that song.

I don't see any boogeymen or nasty guys.

Wait. That's from my era!

That's the ocean air.

Smells like someone died.

Looks like he's dead. No, he's just a deep sleeper.

If he's dead, can we go back to [PLACE]?

What's wrong with this picture? There's no TV. Have you seen a TV? I haven't seen a TV.

You're the only woman I ever knew who didn't improve her situation by getting divorced.

A big legal war wasn't going to improve anybody's situation.

Ouch. My hair.

Talk about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

We've got some rules around here. Second shelf is

mine. That's where I keep my root beers and my double-thick Oreo cookies. Nobody touches the second shelf but me.

There's another rule around here, and I want you to pay

close attention. Don't touch anything. Everything is exactly where I want it.

There are some bad elements around here.

You're telling me we've moved to the murder capital of the world?

If all the corpses buried around here were to stand up all at once we'd have one hell of a population problem.

I just like to read the TV Guide. Read the TV Guide, you don't need a TV.

I was so worried. Don't run off like that.

We were that age, too, once. Only they dress better.

You have a generous nature. I like that in a person.

So how may I help you this evening? We have it all.

I look that needy, huh?

You're chasing that girl, aren't you?

I'm at the mercy of your sex glands.

Don't you have something better to do than follow me around all night?

Just scoping your civilian wardrobe.

Listen buddy, if you're looking for the diet frozen-yogurt bar, it went out of business last summer.

That's a very serious book, man.

Only five in existence.

Where the hell are you from? Krypton?

Nobody drives this baby but me.

We have to let it warm up a little. Hear that sound? Just like a baby pussycat.

That's as close to town as I like to get.

It's a pretty cool place. If you're a Martian. Or a vampire.

Are you guys sniffing old newsprint or something?

You think you really know what's happening here, don't you? Well, I'll tell you something. You don't know shit buddy.

This is just our cover. We are dedicated to a higher

purpose. We're fighters for Truth Justice, and the American

way.

Think of it more as a survival manual.

There's our number on the back and pray you never need to call us.

I'll pray I never need to call you.

If you want your ear pierced, I'll do it.

I came this close to being called Moon Beam or Moon Child Or something like that.

I can't beat your bike.

You don't have to beat me, [NAME]. You just have to try

and keep up.

Just you! Come on! Just you!

That's what I love about this place. You ask, and then you get.

I can never sleep with the closet door open, either. Not even a crack.

Don't sneak up on people like that!

What, you don't like rice? Tell me [NAME], how could a

billion Chinese people be wrong? Come on!

You're eating maggots. How do they taste?

Sorry about that. No hard feelings, huh?

Drink some of this, [NAME]. Be one of us.

Give me those sunglasses.

You need sunglasses to talk on the phone?

Are you freebasing? Inquiring minds want to know.

Anything in here that might pass for after-shave?

Have a big date tonight, [NAME]?

Lose the earring, [NAME]. It's not you. It's definitely

not you.

All you do is give attitude lately.

Go take your bath.

What did you do to my dog, asshole?

I didn't hurt him. He bit me. This is my blood.

Why did he bite you, huh? What did you do to him?

He was protecting you.

Look at your reflection in the mirror. You're a creature of

the night, [NAME]. Just like out of a comic book.

My own brother/sister/friend/etc, a goddam shit-sucking vampire.

You wait 'til[NAME] finds out!

Just let me talk. Wait a minute! [NAME]!

You did the right thing by calling us.

Does the sunlight freak him out?

He wears sunglasses in the house.

He always had bad breath, though.

He's a vampire all right. Here's what you do.

I can't do that! He's my brother/sister/mother/friend/etc!

You better get yourself a garlic T-shirt, buddy. Or it's

your funeral.

I think we have to have a real long talk about something.

[NAME] help! He's coming to get me!

[NAME], help me! Open up! Help me! [NAME], open the window!

So what are you, the flying nun?

We're gonna work this out. We*re gonna work this out. Trust

me, okay?

I thought I saw something on my window, but I guess I got carried away.

I would like to have a personal life too.

Can I sleep in here with you tonight?

You smell like garlic.

What's happening to me, [NAME]?

I don't know how to help you.

Aren't we friends anymore?

Then let's act like friends. Let's talk.

We could talk about anything you want to talk about.

I have more serious things on my mind than girls and school. Things I'm dealing with.

Looks like I wasn't the only one who got lucky last night.

The dog chased my mom like the Hounds of Hell from Vampires

Everywhere.

We've been aware of some very serious vampire activity in

town for a long time.

[PLACE] has become a haven for the undead.

As a matter of fact, we're almost certain that ghouls and

werewolves occupy high position at City Hall.

Kill your brother/sister/boyfriend/aunt/best friend/etc, you'll feel better!

Look, it says here that if you kill the head vampire all half-vampires will return to normal.

Does he know who the head vampire is?

You'll have to kill him. And if you don't, we will.

Vampire require a daytime protector, a guardian to watch

over them as they sleep. Fierce dogs, the Hounds of Hell,

are often employed for this purpose.

Truth, Justice, The American way triumphs.

Smells good. When do we eat?

Are we gonna have company again?

Well, you are the man of the house and I'm not coming in until you invite me.

He promises to behave if you come back.

I didn't know you were having guests.

Our batting average isn't terrific, is it? Zero for two.

You're so sweet to him.

I don't know what got in to him. He's not like that.

If you ever want to see [NAME] again, you better come with

us now.

Initiation's over, [NAME]. Time to join the club.

Don't kill me, [NAME]. I'm basically a good kid, so just

don't kill me.

Just work with me and I can help you. You'll be okay.

Is she one of them?

You shut the window and lock your door.

She's one of them! And don't tell me it doesn't make her a

bad person, [NAME]!

Yes, and it's my fault. You would've not met me, if I

hadn't liked you. I tried to warn you.

You drank someone's blood? Are you crazy?

We're not them.

Why didn't you kill me last night?

You're supposed to be my first.

What are you doing here? What do you want from me?

Don't kill anybody until we get back to you!

I got connections.

The night crawler. The bloodsucker. El Vampiro.

I don't want you going down there.

Look, this isn't a comic book, [NAME]. These guys are

brutal killers.

Who'd you rather go down in with you? Them or me?

If something happens down there, I won't have the strength

to protect you.

This time I'll protect you.

Even though you're a vampire, you're still my brother/sister/friend/etc

If you try to stop us, or vamp out in any way, I'll stake

you without even thinking twice about it!

Where did you say you met these guys?

Don't you touch her. Stay away from her.

Flies and the undead go together like bullets and guns.

There must be coffins here someplace.

I thought they'd be in coffins.

That's what this cave is. It's one giant coffin.

Right now they're at their most vulnerable. Easy pickings.

Remember. You just have to kill the leader.

We don't know which one he is.

I guess we'll just have to kill them all.

What's that, a little vampire humor? It wasn't funny.

Good night, bloodsucker.

We blew it, man! We lost it!

We unraveled in the face of the enemy!

They pulled a mind-scramble on us!

We don't ride with vampires.

"Burn rubber" does not mean warp speed!

Your dog knows a flesh-eater when he smells one.

The sun goes down. They'll be looking for us.

[PLACE] is crawling with vampires

They're coming to the house as soon as it gets dark!

I'm gonna see [NAME] tonight, and you're trying to ruin it for me.

I don't know what you don't want me to see.

I'm not talking about [NAME]! To hell with [NAME]!

Good. That's just the way we like it.

We've got a date tonight?

They'll be coming for all of us.

It's just old memories coming back.

Why are you so jumpy tonight?

He seemed so sincere, but it's insane.

Tell me. I promise not to laugh. Honest.

I think I should warn you all when a vampire dies, it's never a pretty sight.

Some yell and scream. Some go quietly. Some explode. Some implode. But all will try to take you with them.

Don't go out there! Stop him!

I say we terminate them right now.

You're mine. You killed [NAME]

Try the holy water, dead breath!

I nailed one of them downstairs with a bow and arrow.

We trashed the one that looked like Twisted Sister.

We totally annihilated his night stalkin' ass!

Death to all vampires!

We are awesome monster bashers!

Holy shit! The attack of Eddie Monster!

Stop! Get away from him! Just stay away from him! He's just

a little boy.

You're afraid to face me, [NAME]?

I tried to make you immortal.

You tried to make me a killer!

Stop fighting me, [NAME]. I don't want to kill you. Join us.

It is too late, my blood is in your veins.

Don't let them see me like this.

What happened to your face?

I knew it. You are the head vampire.

You're the secret [NAME] was protecting.

Don't ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly boy/girl/etc.

It renders you powerless.

Has everyone gone crazy? What's the matter with all of you?

It was you I was after, all along, [NAME]

It was all going to be so perfect, [NAME]

Just like one big happy family.

Great. The bloodsucking Brady Bunch.

I still want you, [NAME]. I haven't changed my mind about that.

I didn't invite you this time, [NAME]

Don't you touch my mother/father/son/dog/etc

Don't fight, [NAME]. It's so much better if you don't fight.

How much do you think we should charge them for this?

One thing about living in [PLACE] I never could

stomach--all the damn vampires.

[rightnowyoucanttell]

Malibu, Next To You

Title: Malibu, Next To You 

Summary: Is it supposed to this hot all summer long? Or is it just him? A very fluffy date with some minor molehills between Veronica and Grayson on a Malibu beach. Just because the sun is down, the night is still young, and so are they. But which way does it go...

Warnings: Fluff, implied smut (I don’t write smut, sorry guys), talks of anxiety 

A/N: When this idea came to mind, i say that because i have a roughly planned full series timeline in my head it started with just the first part as a blurb but then I was like hey let's make a series, it was originally to be a reader insert (Y/N, Y/L/N, ect.) but i always have problems doing that as they feel too weird to write so I came up with Veronica and added it to the plot/timeline whatever you'd call it. so you can do that or appreciate it for the beauty it is with Veronica and Grayson. 

Tags: @dzoint ​ @graysavant @blindedbythelightt ​ @tadadolan @heartofalionxo ​ @beatement-l ​  @grayswhore ​@saggitariusagirl @tattoogray @onlyangels-world @dxlxnbby

Part one 

Series Masterlist

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“You know..” Ronnie drifted as she walked kicking the sand beneath her feet forward in a rhythmic pattern,” I’ve never enjoyed going to the beach..” Veronica glanced up from the sand and over to Grayson who gazed down to the ground before making eye contact.

The smell of saltwater brushed their noses, seagulls cawed in the distance as the water crashed closer and closer and then pulled itself back out. The pair, Ronnie and Gray watched the sunset as they walked barefoot as the tide came in and set back out, like both of their hearts, coming to a calm stop and then flooding back in a rampage of fluttering butterflies, beating in there chest.

He explained the currents and she just gawked in a secretive manner, so he didn’t notice, the dumbfounded look his body gave her. 

    “Really? You don’t say, I mean I figured that much, for someone who has a fear of seagulls and drowning…” he pondered the thought as his feet stopped the wallow in the incoming tide that was just far enough from Ronnie who was in the dry portion of sand.

She giggled shaking her head continuing down the shore all while facing Grayson,”..are you saying you’re not enjoying yourself?” he shouted over the crashing waves that he ran from to catch up to her. 

“You remembered…,” Ronnie’s heart fluttered. Grayson knew about her anxiety.  Ronnie explained to Grayson that night in Starbucks, her fears, in return for him doing the same.  There was a semi prolix list. Seagulls, birds, circus clowns, large crowds, heights, and significantly Drowning.

She shook herself from the bliss and continued, “but, no. No no, no.. of course not. You brought me here!” she exclaimed twirling with open arms, the wind catching her grey wool shawl that covered her white strapless sundress with bright red roses.

Her damp dark brown hair caught in the breeze flew gently, her eyelids covered her vibrant green eyes. Grayson’s eyes followed Veronica in awe as she twirled in the sand and breeze all the way as she ran back to him and nearly ran into him. 

   The two laughed and turned around to walk back to the there picnic blanket, both inaudible deciding it was time to eat,” Your something else, you know that?” he offered up to the conversation. His hand brushed against gently against Ronnie’s. 

   Ronnie just smiled letting silence sit between then,”..Something good I hope…” the entirety of the walk back to the picnic blanket and the food was silence, blissful and incentive for Grayson, but nervous and nerve wracking for Veronica. She hastily wondered if she had said the wrong thing, or turned him off or away and that’s why he hadn’t said anything, but she tried telling herself it was just the anxiety and the nerves this Italian boy from New Jersey stirred up. 

  Veronica Chandler likely always would be anxiety-ridden. After all, Fears my life, Ronnie had the words tattooed on and wrapping around her wrist. The black ink still had water droplets from when she had been swimming and wading in the water with Grayson. Veronica left the fishing on her stepfather’s, Darren,  boat to him and her older brother Noah, even all the while, an excelling science student, she never got how they were floating.  

    However, if tonight, if Grayson asked her, Ronnie probably would step foot on a boat.  She never willing went to the beach, even though living in Miami with private beach access growing up at her home, and certainly did not stand by the ocean. But on this evening, Grayson brought her there, and she was happy that he did.

So here they were. 

  The sunset warmed Veronica the pinks and blues entangling themselves, like the hopes of how Veronica undeniably wanted to be entangled with Grayson later that night. Something in Grayson hoped it too.

On a picnic blankets, following a stroll along with the tide on the now rather deserted from the public eye, on a beach in Malibu. Munching on what Ronnie’s mom would call “Rabbit Food”. 

  “This is one of the best wraps I’ve ever tasted,” Ronnie added as she quietly finished chewing her toes in the sand below and surrounding the blanket. 

"Its from.." Grayson paused to chew," this stand in downtown LA, Marty's I think, they're delicious." They made eye contact, Ronnie smiled with her eyes, covering her mouth as she was chewing.

"We should go together sometime,"Ronnie offered nervously.

 "Defiently...,"Grayson brushed his hands above the wrap on a clear piece of plastic wrap beefy ass salad chickpea wrap sat on, in between final swallows of his bites of food he started, "so... care to explain why you ignored me for a week, 'ronica?"

   That's when the evening went south.

What Grayson didn't know, that the week Veronica avoided him..one week desperate Gray was left with no sign she was alive, no text, calls, and no DM’S except the confirmation seen from the first night. 

 That week the week she ignored him, the week he was referring too, Veronica,  was in Miami visiting her mother. Veronica had deep-rooted feelings for Grayson.. but, again, like a record used, the last had left a few scratches, and overtime... they scarred.

But it was nothing, Gianna, Mama Chandler couldn't fix...

   Ronnie sighed heavily,"Why does everyone I love settle for someone so low of them?" She pondered the thought in silence as she finished her rant of the night she met Grayson.

 “..well, he sounds like a keeper..and handsome....,” her mother drifted. Ronnie wasn’t paying attention fondling with the small strands that belonged to the blue and white polka-dotted beach towel her mother and herself were tanning on. Within seconds her attention was grabbed by an incoming frisbee, that landed...perfectly in one of the white polka dots. Ronnies eyes widened when she caught its sight, she gazed curiously and then picked it up examine it, before tossing it to the wind aimlessly,”-Veronica! You could have hit someone!” Gianna gently smacked the four-arm of her daughter’s right hand with the back of her hand. 

    “Mom!? What the fuck? Did you not see that it landed in the circle, that’s not a coincidence...that’s a fucking conspiracy. Like how a cartoon predicted 9/11 and then moon landing was faked...," Ronnie slumped back so her back rested against the beach chair set up behind her. 

"It was an accidental coincidence..dear," her mother licked the tip of her finger pulling the pages apart. Her sun hat covers her sunglasses covered eyes, and held her brown hair in place around her shoulders, she was paler than Ronnie, she and noah got there skin from her absentee father, he was the Brazilian in her jeans.

"Yeah well, accidents don't just happen, accidentally, mother," Veronica huffed and crossed her arms leaning back farther and closing her eyes, enjoying momental peace before the woman started up again.

"When you head back to Los Angeles, you better text that boy, I'll be damned if you pass up a chance with someone like that. He's a good one that Grayson, I can tell. You cant let your life wither away to nothing and give up on love because of one bad drinker and a beater bad apple.. theres good people out there.. you just gotta look in front of you."

The memory on the beach faded, she hadn't realized she had been gazing into Grayson's hazel eyes the entire time the flashback played out in her head like a scene from a movie,"do you, uh. Really want to know? Is it fundamentally necessary.." she drifted off leaving a tenacious gap of silence. Just the wind and the waves to be heard.

Grayson scoffed a chuckle,"..well, no, but, I'd like to know."

Ronnie thought for a few moments, if she didnt tell him, he'd be suspicious, if she told him he might doubt the feelings she had if they were legitament,"I was in Miami. With my mom, i needed advice. A break. I was worried you were..a player. And now I know, I know that your not. Your kind, cute, hot, sexyyy, and-"Veronica's ramble was cut off by Graysons hands wrapping and cupping her head into his hands and pressing his lips to hers.

Internal fire works went off, if it were a movie they would be exploding over the water between there heads just visable to camera shot. Both hearts beat against there respective rib cages, not knowingly they both had been wating for this moment the entirety of the night.

Ronnie's hand came to touch Grays chest shortly before she came up to breath in the salty air,"that.." she panted,"was hot. But, I dont know.. if this'll work. I'm lonely and broken.. and can barely take care of myself, just, Grayson-"

"I like that your broken, and lonely" he grasped her face one hand still behind her head his thumb caressing her cheek,"not like in a kinky sort of way," they both laughed for a few seconds, Ronnie looked down. He placed his pointer fingern underneath her chin, tilting it up,"I could be lonely with you.."

"My place or yours?" She smirked. Hoping that night of entanglement would happen after all.

"Mine, definetly mine." He breathed there chins pressed together.

Ronnie had never run faster than she didn that night, all the way back to the porsche.

[edengarden]

Hiii!!! I'm here for that regular bnha matchup👉🏿👈🏿 I really love the hq one u did omg!! It's *chef's kiss* kekdjdjdkdhd!!!! Here's the info:

Appearance: I'm fem, black, 5'1, slightly athletic & curvy-ish figure (lol), short? (mid-neck) hair, straight, dark brown eyes, size 9 shoe size (I still dk if it's relevant but oh well lmao)

Personality stuff: infp-t, Hufflepuff, Taurus sun, scorpio moon, sanguine, chaotic good, ambivert, a BuzzFeed quiz told me I'm a Pinto bean and a pumpkin spice mocha (do what you will with that info jdskdj)

Positive traits/qualities:

I'm super enthusiastic!! I love hyping people up and being energetic in general! I'm always down to try new things and have fun! If anyone is not feeling appreciated I'm ready to make sure they know that they're a queen/king and they're amazing!!!

I'm optimistic! I like to look at the brighter side of things and I always try my best to find a silver lining in any situation! Positive thinking helps me get through tough spots in my life because there's always hope for something better in the future!!

I'm observant!! I usually like to sit quietly and observe my surroundings. Especially in a new environment. Irl I like to read people's body language to asses their mood so ik how to approach them lol. I also do little things like remembering what they (friends/family) like to order at restaurants or something they pointed out at random that they liked. (Idk if I'm making sense lol)

Negative traits/flaws:

I'm annoying. Sometimes I just like being a little shit and cause mischief (being the youngest child does that to a person) but I think sometimes I'm too enthusiastic/energetic that it can be seen as obnoxious/annoying so I usually try and tone it down so I don't bother people...

I'm argumentative. When I have something to say I have to speak up. I try not to step on any toes but I can't help but argue with someone when our views on something clash. I like hearing different sides of debates though so I always give others a chance to talk. I don't go picking fights but if I feel like my opinion is being disregarded/not heard I will argue until it's known!!

I'm forgetful. Sure I'll remember random stuff like 'what my friend said in that one coffee shop last year' but important things like appointments? Birthdays? Assignment due dates? Idk her 😭 I try my best to write anything important down cause my memory is a selective sieve and it'll keep the most useless/random shit.

Hobbies: I love: Reading, writing, listening to music, learning languages, playing saxophone (I'm still learning tho lol), swimming, watching anime and cooking!

Music taste: any type of rock (punk rock, grunge, j-rock, metal), pop, kpop, RnB, jazz, dubstep, lofi hip hop, rap, bangers from: Elvis, the beach boys, Khalid, Ateez, Kendrick Lamar, p!atd, mcr, fallout boy, Nirvana, BTS, mxmtoon, Marianas trench, twenty one pilots, stray kids, Jay Park, crush, Dreamcatcher, Skrillex, MJ, troye sivan etc

Traits I look for: idk kind, funny/fun, loving/lovable, loyal (idk I ain't picky)

Traits I don't like: (nobody's perfect, just don't be a racist, xenophobic, sexist asshole lol)

More fun facts:

My love language is touch! I live for hand holding, cuddling, hugging, tickle fights and more!! 🥺

I love learning new stuff and rn I'm learning how to draw, paint, play music on sax, a new language and new recipes! :3

I love traveling!! It doesn't even have to be too far, as long as I don't know where I am it's an adventure! I usually end up getting lost whenever I travel (rip) but it's fun finding your way around and makes the trip more exciting!!

My current aesthetic: Sunflowers, striped turtle necks, warm blankets, rainbows that come out after storms, friendship bracelets, watching movies cuddled up w/someone, the joy of being alive. <3

It's mostly the same lol I just added a little something at the end :D Can't wait to see who I'll get! Don't forget to stay healthy & drink lots of water!! Take care 💙✨

I’m matching you up with Tokage! (You didn’t specify your gender preferences I hope this is alright ;-;)

You guys. I can’t even decide where to begin. The ENERGY- oh my god, you’re so enthusiastic, she’s so enthusiastic?? And you also recharge each other’s batteries so it’s a never ending stream of optimism and cheers!! People can’t believe the two of you are together but then again they watch you two go and they wonder how you two COULDN’T be a couple.

And her?? Thinking YOURE annoying? Fucking never. She’s the same as you to an extent and we KNOW she wouldn’t doubt your affection for her, but for the love of god if it does bother you, talk to her. She’ll have you thinking differently in NO TIME. this girl uses her words and she uses them well. And the two of you ARGUE. but it’s mostly fun arguing, Tokage isn’t the type to be so cocky as to not admit when she’s wrong; she’ll fight for her point if she knows it’s valid. Otherwise, if YOUR point becomes the only valid one, she’s giving it to you. She wouldn’t want to lose you over some stupid pride thing.

Oh my god, she’s 100% the type of person who’ll go “hey remember like two years ago when...” and theN MENTION SOMETHING STUPID OR EMBARRASSING YOU DID THAT YOU COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT

Tokage loves physical affection, both giving and receiving. She’s just so proud to call you hers?? Let her hold your hand and watch her always call dibs on you during training (Vlad never lets the class choose their partners anymore because of you two lol). She’ll tone down the PDA if you’re uncomfortable or if others warn her that they don’t like it, but otherwise?? She’s always by your side unless you need some space.

My god the two of you just have SUCH a fun relationship!! It’s never dull or boring, trust me.

Songs!!!

- my boy, Billie Eilish

- Feel It Still, Portugal. The Man

- butterfly addiction, Cö shu Nie

- Let’s Spend the Night Together, David Bowie

[reallygrosssvsssthoughts]

ABO Verse 1/12 Liu Qingge is a omega, known for his temper and overall disinterest in finding a alpha, beta, or other omega to become mated with. He takes his heat suppresant when he's supposed to and hasn't had a heat for years, with heat suppresants typically not failing unless the omega has been on them too long or if they're with somebody that they're heavily attracted to. One day, he's sent on a mission alone with Shen Qingqiu a few months after Luo Binghe was shoved into the Abyss.

ABO verse 2/12 LQG tries to ignore the attraction he has to SQQ (with SQQ being a omega as well) but his heat suppressant starts to fail part-way through the mission when they're unable to head back to Cang Qiong. SQQ realizes the signifigance of the heat suppressant failing and offers to help LQG through his heat, uncertain on his own feelings towards his shidi but not willing to leave him to suffer. LQG accepts, flushed and embarrassed but the need of having SQQ inside of him winning out.            

ABO verse 3/12 SQQ starts gently undressing LQG, with LQG being a mess at being touched by SQQ, his heart racing in feeling the gentle, strong hands strip off his clothes. SQQ fucks him, whispering soothing praises while LQG sobs and moans, his heat luring him into wantonly fucking himself on SQQ's thick, warm cock. After the heat ends, the two resume the mission, both of them afraid to enter a relationship. Only to discover that despite LQG using a contraceptive, LQG was pregnant.           

ABO verse 4/12 SQQ and LQG admit what happened to YGY and MQF, both of the other peak lords stunned but accepting it even if SQQ and LQG still didn't enter into a relationship. LQG has their child safely, a adorable girl with SQQ's face and LQG's eyes. The other peak lords dote on her, YQY spoiling her while LQG and SQQ co-parent, the girl spending most of her time on Qing Jing peak. SQQ fusses over his daughter lovingly, LQG being a bit stiffer but loving her dearly.            

ABO verse 5/12 The three years pass rapidly, SQQ still making the preparations with the Sun and Moon Dew Flower seed, guilty at the thought of leaving LQG to raise their daughter by himself but feeling like it was safer for her. The mess in the city with the sowers happens as it did before, LBH realizing that SQQ was a omega but unable to do anything before SQQ self-destructed, LQG left shaken up even if he and SQQ had never exchanged mating bites.     

  ABO verse 6/12 He fought for SQQ's body desperately, trying to comfort their daughter but always losing to LBH. One day, LQG had taken his daughter out to a festival, LBH happening to be there and going to taunt LQG only to see the peak lord with a tender, gentle look he'd never seen before. And noticing the little girl before him had SQQ's face, LBH storming over in knowing that SQQ hadn't had a mating mark but also unaware that he had a child, angry at LQG raising his shizun's child.            

ABO verse 7/12 LQG stiffens up when LBH comes, the girl greeting LBH with a cute smile, LBH freezing in seeing LQG's eyes looking at him from SQQ's child. LBH leaves afterwards, waiting until the next time LQG comes for SQQ's corpse to ask, LQG snapping out the story angrily, LBH ripping off LQG's robes to check his neck, startled at LQG being a omega. The pair argue, LQG demanding SQQ's body while LBH snarls that he only had SQQ's body because he was going to revive SQQ with the Holy Mausoleum.             

ABO verse 8/12 LQG freezes, stunned by the admission. He hesitates before offering his help, wanting SQQ back even if he had to work with LBH. LBH could tell that LQG was in love with SQQ, but since they never married despite their daughter he decides to work with LQG. They spent over a year, LQG trying to help stealthily. When SQH is outed, LQG helps him get to the Huan Hua Palace, still unhappy with him but not holding it against him given what he was doing.

ABO verse 9/12 Over time, he and LBH become close, LQG allowing LBH to interact with his child. One day, while they were working together LQG's heat suppressant failed, much to LQG's shock. He warns LBH about it, LBH surprised but drags LQG to a safe place. LQG winds up begging LBH to help him through his heat, LBH hesitating before agreeing. LBH and LQG spend the heat together, LQG realizing that getting to know LBH had developed his feelings towards LBH almost as strong as the ones for SQQ.

ABO verse 10/12 LQG admits it to LBH, conflicted but LBH accepts it, still loving SQQ but caring for LQG. LQG discovers he's pregnant a short time later, refusing to talk about it with the other peak lords but going to LBH to tell him, LBH accepting it. LQG has their child, a son with LQG's face but LBH's eyes and stubborn hair. Several more years pass, LQG often sneaking both of his children out to visit LBH, LBH doting on both of them and cooking LQG meals. The two are basically dating by then            

ABO verse 11/12 SQQ comes back, causing mass panic and havoc. He's stunned to discover that LBH and LQG are in a relationship and have a child together. LQG and LBH explain the plans to him, both of them furious with SQH for not telling them. SQQ finds out that LBH was in love with him, LQG helping facilitate things. TLJ and ZZL still steal his body and revives him, LQG and LBH both going to save SQQ while leaving their children with MBJ and SQH. They get SQQ back, TLJ still stealing Xin Mo.     

  ABO verse 12/12 The situation ends with Xin Mo still possessing LBH, while the scenario pusher triggering both a cave-in and SQQ's heat, LBH and SQQ having sex. LQG still fishes them out but isn't angry with LBH, taking them both back for medical attention, TLJ and ZZL both alive. In the end, LBH, SQQ, and LQG wind up in a poly relationship, SQQ having fallen pregnant due to the cave papapa and having his and LBH's child, another cute boy with LBH's face and SQQ's eyes.   

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Damn, anon! Thank you for the delicious food! I sure do love me some bingliushen, ABO, and kidfic! And when they’re combined justt

[fictional-scenarios]

can i get a really angsty fic where kirishima and fem!reader finally get together and he tells her that once they're done training with the pussycats he'll take her on their first date, but then he finds out she is hospitalized and in coma after the league of villains attack?? and he's just really messed up over it bc he was inside that whole time AND he lost bakugou??

wake up

pairing: kirishima / reader

a/n: this is so depressing i love it.. i just hope i got his character right HFDHFDJS writing a normally >:D character as :,( is surprisingly hard

warnings: mild language, mentions of death (?)

Kirishima feels like he can’t breathe.

There isn’t enough space in the hospital room despite there being only one person at the very center of it. The bed takes up much of the space, but the machines take up even more, menacing metal contraptions beeping with wires attached to the motionless figure laying on the white sheets.

With his heart in his throat, Kirishima watches, as if something would change if he stared hard enough. He can’t will himself to step into the room, to see it firsthand. He doesn’t want to believe it’s real. He doesn’t want to approach that bed, look down at the expressionless face, with shut eyes that may never open again.

All his life, he’s been an optimist. Not unrealistically so, but he’s spent so long living life thinking the glass was half full. However, in that moment, he can’t will himself to think positively. He can’t look down at you and think you’re beautiful despite the gashes and wounds heavily bandaged on your body. He can’t see your heart rate on the monitor and just be thankful that it means you’re still living.

The doctors wouldn’t tell him a damn thing. It’s confidential, they said, holding their clipboards tight to their chests. Kirishima had to hear it from your parents of all people. Through your mothers tears she managed a smile. She said she was happy to finally meet ‘Kirishima’, a name that had been floating around your household since you had met him. Your father had placed a hand on his shoulder, lowered his eyes, and thanked him for treating you so well.

They spoke about you as if it was over. Finally, when he got the nerve to ask what happened, he almost instantly regretted it.

“When she came in she’d already lost so much blood, and she was so horrible injured,” your mother said as she tried to wipe her eyes. “She isn’t dead, but they’re saying not to get our hopes up.”

Kirishima, in his anger, in his disbelief, asked why.

“She’s is a comatose state, not responding to anything. She…” Your mother choked up once more and had to take a minute, before she broke his heart. “They’re saying anything can happen, but… They don’t believe she’ll be waking up.”

It felt like the world had been yanked out from under him. First Bakugou, his best friend, lay in the clutches of horrendous villains. Those very same villains that wiped the future out of one of their trainers, those very same villains that trampled the mountainside and lit the wildlife up in blue flames.

Those very same villains that perhaps, have ended your life.

Kirishima’s hands turn into tight fists when he forces himself past the door frame. There’s a hauntingly empty chair next to the bedside, and a mini garbage can nearly filled to the brim with used tissues. The closer he comes to you, the tighter the room gets. It weighs on his chest until finally, he looks down at you, and it’s almost like there’s no air. His lungs stop working, his tears fill with eyes.

He sits down, and he wants to reach out and touch your hand, but he can’t stand the thought of you being cold, almost lifeless. Try as he might to blink away the tears in the corners of his eyes, the sight of your heartbeat on the monitor makes it all the more harder. You’re alive, you are, but you’re not there. Not yet.

The bandages look even thicker up close, and he wonders just how gruesome they had been when you were rushed in following the attack. His teeth grit.

He was safe inside during the whole thing. The only thing he witnessed was Dabi, a villain, beaten into what almost appeared to be mud underneath his teachers boot. That was it. No wounds, no adrenaline. Just lockdown.

All the while, you, and his friends, were trapped outside, some of you beaten to blood or nothing. He can remember the events leading up to it so clearly, heading to the class-like room to make up for the failures, trading banter with Monoma, hearing the teacher talk. If not for the fact that he was over the moon, he would have been nervous.

But, he was happy. Glowing, even. The both of you were- a sight that did not go unnoticed the moment you got onto the bus. Kirishima was much louder than you, all grins and nervous glances when Kaminari asked him why he was extra chipper.

Sitting at your bedside, Kirishima hates that he’s remembering it now.

It was a beautiful day out, you and Kirishima sat on a shared bench, ice cream in hand. Saturdays were always so peaceful, especially when the sun was setting just right, cascading over the mountains and painting the sky in orange. Within days the class would be leaving for a field trip to some sort of mountain, gone for a few nights to train.

It was a confession for the ages, one he had been building up for so long, unsure how to play it out. It happened quickly, much faster than he had anticipated in his mind. All you had done was absently remark how the date of your dreams would be visiting an aquarium, and Kirishima had taken the opportunity without even thinking twice.

“Y’know,” he’d began, eyes downcast despite his forward nature. “I could take you to one when we get back here. It’s only a few days away…”

You’d looked like you’d seen a ghost. Before he could backtrack, afraid of the rejection, you stopped him. “I’d love that.”

“You mean it?!” He’d flushed almost as red as his hair, his toothy grin wide.

You nodded, laughing as you rubbed the back of your head. “Of course, I was actually hoping you’d ask.”

“Then it’s settled,” he feels his heart flutter. “When we get back, I’m taking you the aquarium.”

You paused. “It’s… A date, right?”

It was, yes, but he still felt his throat tighten. What if you didn’t want it to be a date, more like a friendly outing…? He swallowed and jumped off the deep end.

“I-If you want to,” he looks down at his ice cream tensely. “I’d like it to be a date.”

You giggle, and it’s the best sound he’d ever heard in his entire life. So much sweeter than the ice cream.

“I’d like that, too.”

The sun set on the city, both of you going to bed that night feeling like everything in the world had finally fallen into its place.

Even now, he could hear your voice, cheery in his ears. He was going to take you to an aquarium, and he was going to hold your hand, damn it. He was going to buy you a shark plushie and let you point out types of fish that he knew nothing about. He was going to buy you gross fair food but enjoy every bite because it was with you.

The palms of his hands press hard against his eyes.

“I should have been there,” he says, despite no ears listening. “I should have helped you.”

He feels useless, he’s lost two of some of the most important people in his life so far. In a moment of pain, he lets a sob pass his lips, only to choke it off by biting down on his tongue. He’s never been ashamed of his crying- not once in his life. The ability to express emotions is as manly as it gets but this is something else. These aren’t just tears, this is pain. This deep, gut wrenching, brain wracking pain that he can feel with every fiber of his being.

His best friend is gone and the girl he fell in love with at ‘hello’ wasn’t expected to wake.

And he was just fine.

Kirishima’s shaking hands reach out and tentatively touch your wounded knuckles. He’s unsure if it breaks rules, but he couldn’t care less. He holds your hand and hangs his head, tears pattering onto his legs.

“If you make it through this,” he says through grit teeth, as if you can hear him. “If you make it through this I promise I will give you anything you want. I’ll make sure you’re happy every single day of your life, I’ll do anything for you, just please,” he swallows hard, forces back another sob. “Please live.”

It’s too much to hold it back now. Kirishima’s eyes squeeze shut, and he can’t stop himself from crying. His heart hurts, he wants you to wake up and tell him you’re okay, that you’ll be okay, that everything can go back to how it was. He wants to take you on that damn date and he wants to see your smile, hear your laugh, hold your hand.

But you don’t wake up. You lay there motionless.

Between Kirishima’s cries and the repetitive beeping of the countless machines keeping you alive, there is no other sound.

Other than his pain, there is just silence.

[dfroza]

A memory of pacific waves on April 22 of ‘12 accompanied by a string of poetic memories that begins in ‘09 up until ‘11

13.

[free]

it’s time to put on our eagle wings and fly

to be truly free this time

with no more fear locked inside

just freedom that finds

the path to healing from all that binds

so let’s soar together

and hear the lion roar

we’re gonna dance our way through the air

never to be caged again

behind bars that suffocate and bleed

dressed in ways appearing full

but desperately in need

and we’re not going back now

it’s full steam ahead

why look back now

when all that is seen is empty and dead?

can you feel the wind blowing

through your hair and into your skin?

this is what we’ve been waiting for

we’ll never be lost again

(april 22, '09)

26.

[perfect in each other]

butterflies in my stomach

yeah, in my head too

somehow just the thought of you

and they're off racing

chasing love to every corner of the earth

wondering what they'll find

when two hearts collide

so they fly

i believe the reason for this is deeper

than the oceans can hold

if we try to grasp it all

we'll collapse under the weight

pondering the thought of it for eternity

but tell me, have you tried reaching out

to take hold of the sun?

it's much bigger than you realize

glorious in its sunrise

perfect in its setting

always faithful to return

the spinning moon as a promise

of new life every morning

like spring when green blades cut through

icy feelings of broken love that froze our hearts

thinking maybe the ice age was here to stay

like being lost in a hurricane of a recurring nightmare

but then fear got afraid

when we dared again to dream

that love can be true, even meant-to-be

bonding imperfect hearts in perfection

with promises of never leaving each other alone

naked out in the cold

no matter what

we'll keep each other warm

wrapped in a blanket

snuggled in our tree

while the world around is shaking ground

we'll be safe, high above every broken promise

perfect in each other's eyes

(april 22, ‘10)

27.

[welcoming the entrance]

i spoke the words

that you heard

once upon a dream

i filled a thousand balloons

just for you

tied to strings

i let them go

into your airspace

finding their place

in the center of

your universe, spinning

around the corner of your brightest star

floating, beyond the reach of

your fingertips, and also mine

i think it was meant to be like this, for a time

but all time ends, someday

when brushing shoulders with eternity

we go on, with no end in sight

but not this day, nor tonight

our lives are yet to be lived, here

even in this moment, they're about to begin, together

in each other's eyes

our fingertips will reach, without having to stretch

the nearness of your touch, will be welcomed with a kiss

(april 22, ‘10)

28.

[earthday]

we'll have to cut down a few trees

to build this dream into a house

and a few more

to make our stringed instruments come to life

i guess it just needs to be that way, sometimes

without it no music will be heard

in silent chaos, we'd slowly die

and have no place to call a home

so be thankful for the trees that live

and the ones that make the art we give

just don't forget to respect the life

for without it, we'd all breathe our last and die

(april 22, ‘10)

29.

[the beach of our photographic memories]

i want to run in circles

around you for a minute

chasing butterflies

and then fall down in a dizzy stare

on the beach of our photographic memories

watching the waves together

as they swallow the last few drops of sun

closing the day, you and i

forever this way

it's time to feel the warmth of your hand

the softness of your skin

to see the breeze blow your hair

in my direction

i'm lost in the flames of it

dancing through the air

(april 22, ‘10)

I.

[peace & goodwill, side-by-side]

peace betrothed the galaxies, dancing like children in your eyes

joined graciously, both intertwined and written side-by-side

in unfathomable wisdom

as unsilent lips of grandeur design

spoke freely of mysteries, and earth listened

while absorbing its timeline

(april 22, ‘11)

dfroza

[radiantseraphina]

*clears throat* garlude and galaxia, but they're lesbians. galaxia is a magic golden lady that garlude met in her dreams and was like "oh no she's hot" and since garlude knew she was doomed, galaxia trying everything in her power to make it not so but ALAS

Here’s to hoping Tumblr doesn’t kill my formatting! EDIT: So…that looks horrifying. Here’s the AO3 link until I work out the kinks. Yikes.

It has to be me, SirArthur.

Jecra’s blond hair was matted, caked with mud, and stuck upin every direction. Dried blood cracked along the side of his face, and hisclothes were torn so badly that it was a miracle they were even still holdingtogether. It was his first knightly quest, one that was supposed to be a simple find-missing-children-and-save-them-from-the-demonbeast.Unfortunately, it had turned into a village-elders-are-trafficking-the-children-of-poor-people-and-scapegoating-this-outcast-in-the-woodssort of mission.

“Garlude!” Jecra exclaimed, absolutely beaming. “Look! Ifound a new Star Warrior! This is Meta Knight!”

Jecra enthusiastically pushed forward a dark blue puffball,who looked as bad—if not worse—than Jecra did. And although the puffballshivered from exhaustion and anxiety, Garlude saw only his eyes. They were thebrightest possible gold, holding the radiance of the sun and the calmness ofthe moon and the fire and sacredness and warmth and light of the Golden Lady’sown sacred forge.

“We don’t know if I’m a Star Warrior,” the puffball repliedawkwardly.

He didn’t feel right. Garlude, herself, wasn’t a StarWarrior, but she knew what Star Warriors felt like. This puffball wasn’t enough of some indescribable, namelessthing that Garlude had felt dozens of times. He was a tangle of stardust anddark magic, two forces that should have torn one another asunder, but somehow,they had found balance in this—

This boy, really. This puffball was no older than Jecra, whowas barely at the cusp of adulthood.

“Sure, you are!” Jecra replied, winking. “No need to be somodest, pretty knight!”

And Jecra must’ve felt it. He must’ve known that Meta Knightfelt wrong, and yet Jecra laughed andsmiled and flirted so easily.

When Meta Knight looked directly at her, Garlude saw all herdoubts reflected in his face. Even if Jecra didn’tknow Meta Knight was wrong or broken or torn apart and stitched togetherlike some sort of perverse ragdoll of light and darkness, starlight andshadows, Meta Knight knew it.

And Garlude knew at the moment that she had found the GoldenLady’s champion.

I know Meta Knight isto be her wielder, but I was one of Galaxia’s priestesses.

 Garlude’s life was one of light and goodness. She lived in theGolden Lady’s temple, promising her chastity, her life, and her loyalty, to theGolden Lady. While some maidens struggled with this choice, Garlude never had.She had never desired a man, and the only woman she desired was an unreachable,celestial being.

Garlude was never entirely sure when her devotion to theGolden Lady became love to the Golden Lady, but Garlude nevertheless replicatedall the courting rituals that she would have performed for anyone else. Shewrote poetry in hackneyed meter and softly sang her words at the foot of theGolden Lady’s pedestal, where her blade rested and always caught the light ofthe sun and stars.

And one day, Garlude approached the pedestal, and lightburst into the room like a diamond shattering. The Golden Lady stood beforeher. She looked like a member of Garlude’s own race and had draped herself incloth of gold. Her eyes were soft and kind and the color of rubies, deep andradiant.

Hello, the Ladywhispered.

Garlude tried to swallow past the lump in her throat, andwhen she failed to speak, the Golden Lady laughed.

My dear, I love you,too, the Lady said. Doesn’t it seemright that we should finally meet?

 And warmth burst into Garlude’s chest. She nodded hastily,so happy that she scarcely understood how she could hold the strength of suchfeelings within her. Never had she imagined that the Golden Lady would look so luminous, so beautiful, so utterly human. So perfect.

 I have a duty toprotect her as she protected me.

 Garlude was a young woman when the Golden Lady’s sacredsword was stolen and her priestesses all slain, save for Garlude who had—by chance—beenaway. With tears branding her cheeks, Garlude watched her home blaze, embersrising into the sky. Her gaze was drawn to a glimpse of gold, the Lady watching.Garlude struggled for words. She wanted to scream and cry and hurt the Lady fornot doing more, for not saving everyone, but the Lady’s face gave Garludepause.

Never before had Garlude seen such despair in the face ofanother living being. The Golden Lady was hurt, too.

The Lady walked to Garlude’s side. She offered soft smilesand gentle caresses, which Garlude accepted with hitching breaths and freshtears.

I am so sorry, mybeloved, the Golden Lady whispered. Hadthis been in my power to prevent, I promise I would have. The best I could do was send you away and hope that you survived. I may twist the strands of fate, but I may not weave them. I may delay the inevitable for a season or two but nothing more.

 Of course, she would have prevented it if she could have.Garlude knew it, and she wept harder with the admission. The Golden Lady wassacred, but she was not all-powerful, and without her wielder, she wasincapable to striking down the dark forces as she had in centuries before.

“I love you,” Garlude whispered reverently.

And I, you, the GoldenLady replied. My dearest Garlude.

 For a long time, Garlude stood and sobbed and let the GoldenLady hold her. Eventually, Garlude knew she would have to leave, but in thatmoment, she just wanted to be held by the one she loved most of all. And later, Garlude would realize what the Golden Lady had meant by delay the inevitable, and Garlude would realize with dawning dread that she was meant to be dead and that Death would come. And the noble Golden Lady would be able to thwart Death’s cold touch as she once had.

 I know that I willlikely die on this quest. I have seen it in my dreams.

 The Golden Lady’s face was sad, her red irises carrying adepth of pain the Garlude would have thought impossible. Garlude had seen thispain only once before, when the Lady’s sacred abbey burned. They didn’t need to exchange any words; Garlude could sense what was coming. She had escaped death before because of the Lady’s gracious hand, but the Lady could not thwart Death forever.

My dearest, I shallsee you once your time is done, the Lady said. You will join your kin in the stars, and I shall always delight in your warmth and light.

 Garlude drew in a deep, steadying breath as her Lady’s handcaressed her hair so tenderly. “Does it have to be him?” Garlude asked.

Why can’t it be me?

 Yes, the Lady murmured, her beautiful face pinching in sorrow. “Destiny has woven a web abouthim, and even I have no power over such things. If Meta Knight has no companion, he will die. I know I ask a high price of you, my dear heart.

Sometimes, it seemed incomprehensible that the sacred GoldenLady would be incapable of anything, but Garlude understood the gravity of the Lady’s words. The Lady would never lie. 

 But I love Meta Knight,and I love Galaxia.

Sometimes, Garlude watched Meta Knight and Jecra, who wasforever around. They grew closer over the years. Jecra’s touches grew lessfriendly and became more intimate, more communicative. Jecra learned to speakentire sentences with the way his thumb brushed against Meta Knight’s armor orflesh. And Garlude watched as Jecra slowly coaxed Meta Knight out of hiscoldness and shyness, chipping away at his ice until Meta Knight blossomed likean iris after the last frost of winter.

 And maybe Garlude began to love him, too. Some nights, Garludewould find him staring at the stars; Meta Knight never seemed to tire of them.

“How are you, Meta?” Garlude asked one night, as Meta Knight’sgaze remained fixed on the winter sky.

“I’m well,” he replied. “Just thinking. Do you ever feellike the stars are calling for you?”

“I think all Star Warriors feel that.”

Meta Knight shook his head. “No,” he said. “Literally calling for you. Actualvoices.”

Garlude grew very still. Meta Knight’s bluntness had snappedsomething deep inside her. Noting her silence, Meta Knight’s gaze met hers. “Inever said anything,” he said carefully. “Not to Father, not to Jecra. But I havealways heard her.”

“Her?” Garlude whispered.

And although Garlude knew the name before he spoke it, MetaKnight’s answer still shattered her world.

“Galaxia,” Meta Knight said, gently and reverently. “Butthat doesn’t make sense. That’s just galaxyin another language.”

Galaxy and so much more.

Therefore, Sir Arthur,allow me to join Meta Knight in retrieving the sacred sword Galaxia, so that Imay serve my beloved, golden lady one last time.

[teangeri]

shin soukoku week 2019 — unfamiliar, unknown, new.

day one, tickle a dragon's tail. [ also in ao3 ]

Today, the sun waved good bye to Ryuunosuke as the moon replaced it moments after.

Tonight, it greeted him like a familiar. Tonight, the stars were cowards. Tonight the sky was clear save for the moon, and Yokohama's city lights faded in the background as he felt the wind kiss his cheeks. Tonight, the noises in the background sounded quiet and just. Tonight, his muscles ached from fighting yet another fight he won. Tonight, the exhaustion was minimal compared to the calmness engulfing him.

This was all familiar.

"You know, you could have just told me that you just liked me instead of fighting me for this spot."

That was not familiar. The weretiger leaned over the railings as the seawater gushed against the port walls, a gentle smile lapping at the corners of his lips. Heterochromatic eyes so kaleidoscopic it was as if they swirled against each other as Ryuunosuke stared into them more. His voice was quiet and reserved, it wasn't like when they stood against each other, ability to ability—claws to cloth. Right now, it was silently directed to his person, not his deed. Right now, staring into his eyes was not something he dreaded anymore.

Ryuunosuke leaned his back on the railings, facing the opposite side as Atsushi who fancied staring at the sea and the part of the city that laid just across. Boats littered the other side of the port as the cargo men exchanged banter. Their talk didn't reach them, though. It was when he was with Atsushi that he felt barriers around him, trapping both of hem in one space, not letting anybody else inside. Before, he had acknowledged it as suffocating. Or maybe it was only because he couldn't handle the foreign glimpse of affection slowly blooming inside his chest. Now, he knew it was overwhelming. Like anticipation. Like hope.

"You would've laughed at me." And so, Atsushi did.

"It would only be because of endearment." He scooted closer to Ryuunosuke, leaning into the crook of his neck, resting his chin on his shoulder, only to pull back and look at him with something other than kaleidoscopes in his eyes. What was it? He wouldn't have known even when the answer came out of Atsushi's lips.

This was not familiar. When Atsushi looked at him before, it was malice and disbelief, as if he couldn't register Ryuunosuke at all. When Atsushi looked at him now, he was the one who couldn't register anything from the look. 

"Stop looking at me like that."

"Like what?" Like centuries. Like planets. Like forming names out of constellations. Like battered up converse shoes in the middle of a hike. Like that one moment time stops and you just stare at an empty space, waiting for time to move inside your ribs again. Like desired damnation.

"Like you're starving and I'm your last meal." 

Atsushi only stared at him. Then that stupidly mesmerizing smile of his slowly touch his lips. "Are you even edible?"

Ryuunosuke scoffed, Atsushi just giggles. "Quit laughing, jinko, it's not cute."

When Atsushi moved his chin up to meet Ryuunosuke's eyes, he knew he was damned.

When Atsushi slowly shifted so he'd stand on his tip toes, he knew he wouldn't do anything to stop it.

When Atsushi's lips made home at his own, Ryuunosuke didn't know anything else but that lingering sensation.

Today, Ryuunosuke was bored. And he was familiar with boredom.

There wasn't anything he could do after finishing up his job for today. It could've been better if he could've just killed two or three people, but that was not gonna happen. Not when he exchange kisses with the weretiger every night and his morals suddenly become Ryuunosuke's rehabilitation. Not when he made him want this gnawing sense of justification.

Walking along the alleys to the Armed Detective Agency had never been so familiar, but it was now. He clutched his phone to his ear as Atsushi rambled about his work today and that he may need some help—Ryuunosuke's help, to be exact. For some reason, working together is something they did best albeit not standing each other for how long. And Ryuunosuke admits, he still can't stand the weretiger's naivety when it comes to tactical missions—after all, he was not accustomed to this. As Ryuunosuke was not accustomed to the figure running up to meet him, with his cheery smile and him waving as if Ryuunosuke had any trouble with spotting him along a crowd.

As if.

“I thought you'd be busy.”

A smile.

“I finished early.”

A scoff.

“So you can help me out?” Atsushi grinned. “For the whole day?”

Another scoff.

“Let's get moving before I change my mind.”

And so he let Atsushi lead the way.

“Kunikida-san told me I should do some research on the target's workplace, so now we're gonna do that.” Ryuunosuke hummed in response. “And then we're going grocery shopping because I ran out of food at home.”

“That's not part of the job.” Ryuunosuke whined, already dreading the fact that he wants to go with him anyway.

“It isn't.” Atsushi folded the papers he was reading a while ago and motioned his chin up to meet Ryuunosuke's eyes. This again. “But we're doing it anyway!”

Yep, they're doing it anyway. Maybe he could get used to this, being together with Atsushi, shopping with him, kissing him. But that wasn't easy, and so was walking the streets out on the broad daylight with stares of people directed at him—their eyes keen on observing, they knew what danger looked like. And as dangerous as he was seen, the only true danger for Ryuunosuke was this: The unfamiliar. The unknown. The new.

Atsushi.

Ryuunosuke always saw the unfamiliar as dangerous. He knew how much foreign things hinder him from controlling the outcomes. He knew how risky these feelings are, and he knew what was at risk. Everything could go wrong—he could be eaten up by these emotions, much less them take over his logical thinking; he could be destroyed by them in the most unexpected way—and yet here he was, witnessing every bit of his restraint diminish into nothingness. It was these instances when he knew he shouldn't have, but still refused to hold back.

And who knows, maybe he'll get used to these foreign feelings someday.

The ache in his wounds had always been familiar. He always attained them in the slums way before he attained them in the mafia. Pain was no mystery for someone who lived off bleeding out his own breakfast—stealth, revenge, darkness,  silence, chaos, silent chaos.

Now it was this: Atsushi in his weretiger form moving like light against darkness—fast and relentless, as if his weaknesses were at his mercy. It was at these instances when Ryuunosuke admired him the most. It was when he was beside him in battle that he felt strong—without anybody else's approval. It was when the tiger's claws were his claws, and rashoumon's jaws became Atsushi's jaws—it was when they were one that he felt as if the unknown was fun instead of dangerous.

But today was dangerous.

Today, they were against something far more powerful—it was different from when they fought against each other for the first time, and it was different from when they fought alongside each other the first time.

Today, they might actually lose.

He wasn't wounded that much, but his body was wearing out. He was exhausted and every move he made made his body scream—everything around him was going mute, he was giving up.

“If you lose like this, I won't forgive you.” The look in Atsushi's eyes burned hotter than any hell fire. “I'm borrowing your words, since you seem to have forgotten them.”

Just like that, Atsushi took over his mind again. His voice reverberating against his ears, cleansing every dark thought into hope.

And he hated it so much.

He wasn't supposed to live in the light—it was too bright, and blinding. It hurted and costed a lot. He wasn't supposed to be engulfed by hope, because hope promised failure. It hurted and costed a lot. He wasn't supposed to let the feelings in, because loving Atsushi promised losing him. It hurted and costed a lot. He wasn't supposed to his answer, and yet every question in his head demanded the same solution.

God, he hated it so much.

And yet here he was, smirking at Atsushi—ignoring the faint wounds on his face that will soon heal—giving him the comfort of hope.

“We won't lose.”

Maybe he could get used to this.

Winning was familiar too. He wouldn't say he always experienced it—but he knew the feeling. He always saw it as a scenery, not a prize.

Sometimes, it was his enemies' bodies' blood coating the floors, their pained screams echoing in his ears as the time of killing them passed and he was done for today's work.

Sometimes, it was the tea Gin prepared when he got home from work—it was time with his only family. It was Gin's giggles when she told him about what happened at work today, or when she needed new daggers. It was comfortable.

Sometimes, it was seeing Yokohama safe. Albeit possessing no kind of actual attachment to the city, he still valued it as his own. This was his ground—this was where he stood at, and this is what he'll fight for.

Sometimes, it was the weretiger's smile directed at him when their enemy is sustained to defeat. It was his stupid face and his stupidity and his stupid, stupid smile. It was him caving in and feeling his body tremble with excitement as the fight mode subsided. It was his arms around his waist and his hair tickling the tip of his nose—unfamiliar, unknown, new.

Atsushi.

It was all of that.

It was now: Them at the port at night when the sun had set and the city's lights echoed at the distance, the fishermen's clattering with their catches as they moved and moved like the busy bodies they were, the wind kissed his cheeks as the stars freckled the sky.

This was all familiar.

And then there was him.

“Are you fully recovered yet?” Atsushi said as he leaned against the railing, the sound of the sea splashing against the port's wall made him feel calm.

Ryuunosuke sighed, facing Atsushi, pulling him into his chest as he took his fair share of how good his hair smelled like. The weretiger relaxed in his embrace, letting Ryuunosuke take all the contact he needed before he pulls away again. He knew he wasn't used to him, and all this time, he'd been waiting. Ryuunosuke had always been hungry for affection, but Atsushi had been starved for longer than he thought.

Loving him was ruination. It was as if he had doused the whole house in kerosene and he held a lit match in the middle of the carnage—threatening to burn and eat at his flesh. It felt like the roar of static in your ears when you've screamed too much. It felt like the fall of the mighty. It wasn't supposed to be, in any way possible. It was unfamiliar. Unknown. New. And yet he had not been used to the dark until he had learned to wear it. He had not been used to the city's skies until he had stared at it for years. He had not been used to danger until he had learned to look at it straight in the eyes—who knew danger had heterochromatic eyes?

“Don't ask.” He said once he pulled away, staring back at Yokohama's busy night life. Atsushi leaned into his shoulder.

He gave him a laugh. “Not planning to.”

“Don't laugh, too.” He groaned when Atsushi continued laughing anyway. “We already discussed this.” He gestured to both of them.

“This,” Atsushi mirrored his gesture. “isn't why I'm laughing.”

Ryuunosuke looked at him and his mind screamed for him to land just one light punch. But he decided against it. “I wasn't thinking about punching you.”

“You're always thinking about punching me.”

“Touché.”

“Hey Ryuu,” Atsushi's eyes met his again. This time he made sure to keep them locked at each other. “I love you.”

He didn't respond immediately. His mind refurbished it's clogs and he did all he could to not make an embarrassing sound as he processed those words over and over. He could deal with the kisses, and the other show of affection that involved physical contact. Those were things he was slowly getting used to, slowly familiarizing with. Those three words were far too foreign. Out of this world.

They were dangerous.

He couldn't verbally respond, but the fact that he couldn't stop his hands from cupping Atsushi's cheeks and pressing his lips to his was enough of an answer for now—this felt like home. This will be its home now. He could get used to this, he was willing to gamble, willing to risk, willing to win, willing to lose. If it was him—unknown,unfamiliar, new—he would always be willing.

After all, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke had always lived a dangerous life.