#they don't understand the pain right mal?

[harbingerofdespair]

Blades is sort of pissing me off because it's only been a year. MC has been kidnapped immediately after defeating the shadow court, they were alone, they're unaware of what actually happened to them there, all they know is that their blood was taken. Yet mal and the rest of the gang are crying over them being missing for a year when it sounds like they did the bare minimum when it came to trying to find MC. This is why I'm saying they're acting as if MC was gone for 25 years instead of one.

[intern-seraph]

a true happy ending

Malleus bestows his gift upon you.

started out as a discord flash ficlet and became. this. originally inspired by the diasomnia trailer and written before book 7 actually dropped lol. inspired in large part by that one part of sleeping beauty where maleficent captures prince phillip.

please heed the tags!

(originally posted on Ao3)

cws: mutually dubious consent, nonhuman genitalia, hemipene (malleus has two penises), bondage, magic, overblot, vaginal fingering, vaginal sex, possessive behavior, fear play, angst + smut, crying, sleeping beauty elements, pain play, fem!reader, overstimulation

You shouldn’t have confronted him by yourself. After all the time you’d spent together, you had forgotten one thing: Malleus Draconia is powerful beyond your imagination. Now, alone together in the highest tower of Diasomnia's castle, you watch as Malleus paces the tiny room and leaves a trail of ink in his wake.

"You don't have to do this."

He stops in his tracks and turns to look at you. A tiny puff of green flame seeps from the corner of his mouth. In a few long strides, he's in front of you. One clawed finger tilts your chin up, turning into a gentle palm that cradles your jaw. You reach up to touch him, but your hand is stopped short by the shackle on your wrist.

"I must. There's no other way to keep you... do not worry, my dear. A thousand years passes quickly when you are asleep. This will be my gift to you."

Your jaw tenses as you hold back a sob. Still, the stubborn tears slip down your cheeks. His thumb swipes them away and leaves a smudge of ink in its wake. “Malleus, please. You’re hurting yourself. This isn’t right.”

“Oh, my sweet,” he whispers. He swoops in, finger slipping between your lips to open you to his slow, searing kiss. You make a tiny noise, choking on the bitter Blot that oozes onto your tongue. Despite yourself, you kiss back. Even as your shoulders heave with aborted sobs, you reach up to hold him closer. Gasping, he parts from you. He presses his forehead against yours, his glowing green eyes holding your gaze unwaveringly. “You do not understand yet. But you will, in due time. When it comes time to wake you, you will thank me. Undisturbed slumber, bereft of pain and suffering, naught but peace and pleasant dreams. Does it not sound perfect?”

In any other context, maybe it would. But Malleus is not in his right mind. His offer isn’t a good night’s sleep, but an eternal slumber. You bring your hands up to push him away so you can talk sense into him, but he catches your wrists and (gently, always gently) pushes you down onto the soft bed you sit on and pins your hands on either side of your head. His long, lean body arches over your prone, shackled form.

“My rose, do not push yourself so. All you need to do is accept my gift.”

His hot breath fans out over your face, smelling of herbs and the faint traces of ink. “W-we can’t… I can’t… Malleus, you’re not in your right mind. Please, please listen to me.” Your strength wavers, his smell and weight and warmth clouding your mind like the fog of sleep. “Mal… please… I love you, but this isn’t right.”

“I am entirely —” his hand slides down your body and toys at your waistband “— in control, my dear.” His fingers worm their way under the elastic of your underwear. A quiet moan slips from your lips as he presses his inky fingers against your clit. His slow, precise movements coax you to roll your hips into his touch. You don’t realize that the flickering green candle flames are slowly being snuffed out one by one. Not until his glowing eyes are the only light in the room. He kisses you again, prodding at your sealed lips with the forked tip of his tongue. Every swirl and thrust of his fingers against your clit is deliberate, as though in an effort to prove his cogency. His hand shifts as you gasp into his mouth and he slides his middle and ring fingers between your slick labia. A twist of his wrist lets them sink into your cunt, his claws dragging dangerously along the delicate flesh. With a soft pop, he breaks your kiss. A string of black-tinted spit connects the both of you for a heartbeat before he speaks: “Trust me. I will bring you peace and pleasure beyond any you have known thus far. You trust me, don’t you?”

You don’t get an opportunity to respond. He thrusts his fingers into you at a steady, rhythmic pace. The air is cold on your skin — when did you get naked? — and you shiver, but Malleus is so warm and comforting, and your thoughts are already so cloudy that you don’t realize that the warmth is more of a fever. His hips rut against your bare thigh, his dark, ridged cocks leaking steady streams of precum. Every thrust of his fingers makes your body jolt and the shackles on your wrists rattle. “M-Malleus… a-ah… please…”

“Anything you want, my sweet. Anything… so long as you beg for it. Beg for me. Let me give you this. Let me give you everything.”

And maybe it’s the potent magic buzzing in the air, maybe it’s the familiar weight of his body on yours, maybe there’s just something fundamentally fucked up in your brain, but you —

You give in.

“Please,” you whisper, throat raw from crying, “give it to me.”

The scent of ink envelops your senses. Tingling sparks flow from his fingertips straight into your core, the magic so potent that your orgasm is almost immediate. You shriek and flail as electricity arcs through your body, but he keeps going. He forces another orgasm out of you, then another, then another, until you’re sobbing and pulling weakly at his wrist. Only then does he pull his fingers free of your spasming cunt. Just as soon, though, he settles between your legs and starts to push his cocks between your labia. It hurts when he finally fits the head of one cock against your hole, pleasure and pain clashing with every involuntary clench of your muscles. Your legs jerk and you pull at the shackles on your wrists when he bottoms out in one smooth thrust.

All at once, the candles reignite. Behind Malleus looms the ink monster, its head tilting down as though watching your intimacy. Thick globs of ink slip from its head onto Malleus’ back and steadily morph into a pair of draconic wings. His tail unfurls behind him and lashes out when he pulls his hips back. A set of large, gleaming canines catch the green firelight as he hisses and snaps at the air. You gasp, but you’re overcome by a wave of exhaustion that turns your limbs leaden. Still, your breath comes quick and shallow, and you flinch when he leans down to lock eyes with you.

“Do not be afraid,” he says, his voice making the air around you quiver, “I will keep you safe. I will protect you, my greatest treasure, forever and ever.” His thrusts falter. He groans deep in his chest and digs his claws into the sheets beside your head. “Be… hah… be good for me… and take everything I have to offer.”

One last thrust has him buried in you as deep as he can go, and you feel his cocks twitch with his orgasm. Ink-black cum spurts out onto your belly, so hot it’s searing. You whimper and shudder and go limp on the sheets. Malleus brings his clawed fingers to your chin. Gently, he coaxes you to look at him. With his other hand, he summons his staff. Your weary gaze drifts up to look at its head.

“You have nothing to fear, my love. I will rid you of your worries.” He lowers the staff until the spindle at the top is level with your shoulders. “Touch it.”

“... Malleus?”

“Touch it, and you will never feel pain again.”

Your hand lifts from the sheets. Transfixed, you reach up to touch the spindle. A bolt of magic lances up your arm, and you’re overcome with another wave of exhaustion. Somewhere in the sleep-fog that settles in your brain, you process a sudden emptiness and a wave of cold. The room spins. You close your eyes.

[aleksanderscult]

I have loved your other metas. Can I make a request too? I wanted you to analyse the Grisha vows with respect to Aleksander and Alina. No problem if not. Good day.

Of course you can!

Literally anyone can ask me anything and there's nothing to be shy about. ❤️

So. We're finally doing this, huh?🥲

We're going to analyze THAT scene?🥲

I'm assuming you mean Aleksander's and "Alina's" funeral (if that's not the scene you mean then please tell me!😭) and I'm not gonna lie, I was avoiding writing a meta about it because it's SO painful🫠

But at the same time I've got some things to say here as well.

(Btw, I had already made two drafts about this scene commenting on some things. HOW DO YOU GUYS ALWAYS KNOW WHAT I'M SECRETLY CREATING??😭😶‍🌫️. But now that I'll write a meta about this scene, I won't post them until many, many weeks later)

Okay. Not gonna stall anymore. Let's do this.🥲

Gonna start from here because I don't have anything to say about the previous lines (but if there's something in particular you want me to analyze before this, dear anon, then just say so❤️).

This line by itself is extremely sad.

The imagery that comes to your mind.

After four hundred years of existence full of war and battles, the Darkling is dead.

And Alina could easily say "You know what? Burn his body somewhere else. Not beside mine."

No, she wanted their bodies to burn side by side.

That says a lot by itself.

When a fan asked Bardugo who truly tended to the Darkling's body, the latter refused to answer saying that she's leaving that for the readers to guess.

My personal guess, after what happened in Nikolai's duology, is Sankta Elizaveta. If the duology never existed then I would say a random otkazat'sya woman. I don't know, it just fits.

Apart from this, it's really heartbreaking how here the Darkling is described neither as a powerful Grisha nor as a cunning warrior. But as a handsome boy that fell in battle and now in death he looks so innocent. So peaceful at last.

And Alina wants to know. Cares to know. Who treated him so gently?

Just like I said before, Alina decided this. Not for the people, not for Nikolai, not for Mal.

But for herself. And I bet for the Darkling too. Perhaps she didn't want him to be alone in his funeral pyre either. 🥲

The crowd was complaining 'cause for them the Darkling was the villain, the man that frightened them and put them through too much.

What did an evil man do to deserve a funeral pyre beside a Saint that was so beloved and revered?

But for Alina (right now) he is just the boy Aleksander Morozova and he deserves this funeral alongside her body.

I'm kinda confused here.

I understand why the Soldat Sol attended the funeral since they were devoted to the Sun Saint but I expected for the Grisha to be mentioned more here.

Two of their leaders are dead.

The Darkling, that was their General for God-knows-how-many-years, and Alina, who also led them from a point afterwards.

I'm not saying that I expected them to mourn the Darkling. But where are the Etherealki? The order that the late Aleksander and "late" Alina also belonged to? They should be at the front lines, right?

Why aren't the Grisha mentioned at all in this scene?

(I swear Leigh created the Grisha, gave them a sad, violent history and then threw them into the bin😭)

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if some Grisha really felt sad about the Darkling's death. For some he really represented an end to the constant Ravkan wars and bloodshed. The man that would give them freedom from all of these. He was their safety, their leader, a guardian even. And the fact that so many (supposed) Darklings existed for centuries now, that feeling of safety was only enhanced 'cause he was a constant presence to the Grisha's side.

It's kinda cringe to me that these people mourn Alina even though they had never truly known her. They had touched her and prayed to her name but they didn't know her truly. As a person. They mourn an idol.

Also, the fact that Alina doesn't want to be recognized particularly from the Apparat. If she still had her powers she would use the Cut to him LMAO Those bitter feelings haven't left her. (And I agree with her, he was a creep and a jerk).

(Also, how the FUCK is Nikolai immaculate 24/7?? NIKOLAI WHAT'S YOUR HAIR AND SKINCARE ROUTINE??😭😭)

It's kinda sweet how Nikolai searches for Alina and her approval to begin this.🥹

These two🫶

The crowd is weeping and yelling for Sankta Alina. The polished, idolized version of her that they created. For them she was a Saint that they considered a legend.

But with Alina here it's different. She's mourning for a person that she truly knew. Not a Saint. Not an idolized person created by dreams and fantasies, no. But for a boy that she knew and loved and killed out of mercy and that no one else mourns but her.

It's that contradiction for me.

The crowd mourns a holy person that they never knew but glamorized in their mind.

And Alina mourns for a flawed human being that she knew, loved and felt pity for.

The crowd also showed their grief loudly. While Alina did it in her own quiet and private way.

Alina's name was chanted again and again loudly in a showy manner.

But Aleksander's was whispered with genuine care by a girl that loved him. She said it as a final goodbye to him. From a girl that the Darkling trusted to give his name. And she, in turn, respected it by keeping it a secret and paying tribute to it one final time.

Now she's the only person in the world that knows that name.

(UNTIL "RULE OF WOLVES" CAME OUT AND FUCKED THIS UP BUT LET'S PRETEND THAT NEVER HAPPENED, SHALL WE??😀😀)

I love that scene so much but at the same time it just hurts.so.much.

But just like I said I loved the contradiction between the devoted followers who grieved loudly about a woman that they barely knew and a girl who cried soundlessly, mourned in silence and paid tribute to a boy that she loved and he loved her in return and made sure to honor all his final wishes even after he died.

"No grave. For them to desecrate" = She burned his body.

"Someone to mourn me" = Mourned him in his funeral.

"Speak my name once more" = She did in his funeral as well.

"Don't let me be alone" = He didn't let him be alone in his funeral pyre either.

Gonna go cry now.✌️

[isatswap]

(full in stars and time game spoilers. huge ones. very.)

(also death, dehumanisation, suicide and extreme self hatred cw)

(also sorry for the stanky drawings, i really needed them but i have neither skill nor energy to make them good)

giving up

TTOS version of the MAL DU PAYS fight from ISAT

(...?)

(Where are you...?)

(Where is The Scary Lady?)

(Where is everyone?)

(!)

(There is someone there...)

<BATTLE START!>

(Two figures stand before you.)

(One of them resembles Siffrin.)

(And the other....)

(...)

(You strike.)

<IMMUNE>

(MAL DU PAYS is silent.)

(HAINE DE SOI is covering its mouth.)

(Your attacks have no effect...)

(But all you can do is keep attacking.)

<Mindless attacking.>

(...)

(Why aren't they saying anything?)

(MAL DU PAYS watches your movements.)

(HAINE DE SOI mimics a Scissors sign.)

Loop: (...) "Hey..."

(...)

(MAL DU PAYS does not blink.)

(HAINE DE SOI smiles.)

Loop: (...) "Hey."

(...)

(MAL DU PAYS stares at you.)

(HAINE DE SOI shows its teeth.)

Loop: "HEY!!!" Loop: "DON'T JUST STAND HERE SILENTLY, JUDGING ME!" Loop: "TALK TO ME! DON'T IGNORE ME! SAY SOMETHING!!!"

(The figure on the left whispers something to the figure on the right.)

(The figure on the right opens its mouth...)

(and speaks.)

Odile: Loop... Odile: Loop. Odile: Loop!

(Dile...?)

Odile: Loop, why.... Odile: Why did you protect me, all of those times? Odile: ...You should have let me die, Loop. Odile: You know I was miserable, back then.

(No, no, you couldn't have, you--)

Odile: Instead, I live. Having to suffer seeing you in pain. Odile: ....It's not like I haven't died though, right?

(!!!)

Odile: You have let me die before. Odile: Worse, you are the reason I've died. Odile: It hurt a lot, Loop! I could still feel all of it. Odile: .... Odile: It hurt worse than if I've never knew anyone. Odile: If I have never known you. Odile: If you wanted to protect me so badly... Odile: Why didn't you just die, Loop? Die instead of me? Odile: But instead of protecting me.... you decided to try to "make me stronger". As if I needed it. Odile: As if I needed your help. Odile: As if I needed you. Odile: ....But no one does.

Odile: NO ONE NEEDS YOU!!!

(!!!)

(No, that can't--)

(Odile would never say something like this.)

(ODILE WOULD NEVER SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!)

(MAL DU PAYS breathes in, and out.)

(HAINE DE SOI puts on a grin.)

(The left figure points at its hat.)

(The right figure nods, and opens its mouth...)

Bonnie: Loop...

(Bonbon's voice...?)

Bonnie: Loop. Bonnie: I've trusted you, Loop. Bonnie: I thought we could accept you into our group. Bonnie: ...But alas, the truth always comes out. Bonnie: You are nothing else than a bad apple. Bonnie: Rotten to the core. Bonnie: And I know that we have never been friends. Bonnie: After all... Bonnie: Aren't we just puppets to you? To toy with? Bonnie: To play your perfect drama with? Bonnie: You can't even imagine us having our own lives, outside of your scope. Bonnie: ...I have a sister back in Bambouche, remember? Probably not. You forget everything about us. Bonnie: I can't believe I've ever wanted to show her a monster like you. Bonnie: A monster who does all these things and then prays to a deity for forgiveness. Bonnie: A deity of a forgotten country. Bonnie: ...I hope we forget you just like we did that land.

(!!!)

(No, no, no, you don't want that)

(You don't want to be forgotten)

(You want to stay with them)

(No!!!)

(Bonnie is kind, they would understand, they would never try to forget you, this is just--)

(THIS ISNT REAL!!!)

(MAL DU PAYS cries silently.)

(HAINE DE SOI smiles wide.)

(The left figure steps closer to the right figure and hugs its arm.)

(The right figure opens its mouth...)

Mirabelle: Loopie... Mirabelle: Loopie!

(Mira!)

Mirabelle: Oh, Loopie, I'm so glad I found you. Mirabelle: I can finally say all I meant to say all those times before. Mirabelle: Okay. Here it comes. Mirabelle: I... Mirabelle: I don't understand you, Loop. Mirabelle: I don't understand why are you so attached to me. Mirabelle: Such a creature can't know attachment, can it? Mirabelle: Yes, that is right. A creature. A child of the sky. Mirabelle: Did you think no one noticed? That you are not human? Mirabelle: And that everyone despises you? Your very existence? Mirabelle: You would think someone Changed would be more willing to try to pivot their life around, but no. Mirabelle: You luxuriate in things staying the same with you. You are a mere mockery of this country's beliefs. Mirabelle: You are not even willing to show us your true nature. Too weak to open up to your "friends." Mirabelle: Too afraid to be seen. Mirabelle: And under this little shell, there lies an even worse person. Mirabelle: The person that uses time loops for their own advantage. Mirabelle: And even while trying to change their fate they stay the same. Pathetic. Mirabelle: Haha, I bet you were a foreigner even in your own country! Never able to be friends or even colleagues with anyone! Mirabelle: The only reason we were still able to have those trips to the House with you were because you were useful. As a tool. Mirabelle: We never truly liked you, even if the loops made it seem so. Mirabelle: Because you are--

(disgusting, disgusting, disgusting--)

(of course that's what she thinks, that is what you are)

(callous aimless manipulative)

(ah)

(your head hurts)

(you can't breathe)

(MAL DU PAYS yells silently.)

(HAINE DE SOI laughs with no sound.)

(both figures open their mouths)

(no please, please, please, no more)

Isabeau: ... Isabeau: Loop...

(isabeau)

Isabeau: Loop.... Isabeau: Oh, Loop.... Isabeau: I can't wait to never see you again.

(aaahhhhh--)

(The figures open their mouths but you strike!!!)

<IMMUNE>

(stop it, stop it, stop it!!!)

(it's not real, it's not real, it's not real)

(none of this is real)

(you just need to wake up!!!)

(wake up)

(wake up)

(wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up)

(wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not real wake up it's not re

SOMETHING: (BUT IT IS.)

(AH!--)

SOMETHING: (THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN.)

(No!)

SOMETHING: (THEY WANT TO FORGET YOU.)

(no)

SOMETHING: (THEY HATE YOU)

(NO!!!)

SOMETHING: (THEY'LL GO BACK TO THEIR HOMES, WITHOUT YOU)

(NO...)

SOMETHING: (THEY WILL LEAVE YOU BEHIND)

(no no no no no no)

SOMETHING: (THIS JOURNEY WAS ONLY MEANIGNFUL TO YOU)

(no)

SOMETHING: (YOU CAN WISH AND WISH ALL YOU WANT, BUT IT'S INEVITABLE)

SOMETHING: (THEY WILL LEAVE)

SOMETHING: (AND SOON THEY'LL FORGET YOU)

(no)

SOMETHING: (THEY'LL FORGET YOU)

(n o)

SOMETHING: (THEY'LL FORGET YOU)

( )

SOMETHING: (so make it easier for them and die)

( )

(it's right)

(these s adnes ses of y our s and h i s ar e r ight)

(your family hates you)

(they will all go home)

(leave you behind)

(forget you)

(you should just give up)

(you should just die)

(die for good)

(you can't feel your body anymore)

(nothing will ever hurt anymore)

(you'll forget it all)

(and you'll finally rest)

(you)

(let)

(go)

[agattthaa]

Not simply asleep

Paring: Tyril Starfury/ F!HumanMC (implied, not really relevant to the plot)

Word count: 1.065

Summary: Some words hurt. Sometimes more than anything else.

Warnings: angst, descriptions of torture and experiments on a human, descriptions of someone being an awful friend.

Arimelda = Dearest.

-You don't know what is like. You were asleep. 

The whole florest became colder than it already was. The woman, the human, the hero slowly turned her face towards the one who had just spoken. 

Mal Volari, the boy, the human, the rougue. The first one of all of them whom she met. The first one that taugth her to truly be an adventurer. The first one to become her friend. 

It was funny how he became the first of them to really hurt her. 

That is, if she forgot about the traitor that was covering his mouth and looking at her in amusement, as if the prince knew just how upset that frase made her.

-Excuse me? 

-You were sleeping, Raine. How hard could've been for you? 

And suddently, all she could see was red. 

Red as anger.

Red as resentiment.

Red as her blood. 

-Mal... -The priestest placed her hand on his shouder, as if asking him to call down, to stop. But the damages had already been made. The words already felt like knifes, digging into her flesh, making her bleed. 

-How hard could've been for me, Volari? -Her voice was cold, making all of them shake. She, who was as warm as the morning ligth now had a look on her eyes of nothing but pain and hurt. -How can you say that?

-It's the truth, you said it yourself. It didn't felt like a year, you slept thoutgh the vast majority of it. How bad could it been? -His answer came devoited of any bad intent, almost as if he simply pointed out that the sky was blue. Now, the knifes on her twisted.

-How hard could've been for you?

-What? Raine...

-You have no idea of what they've done to me. You have no idea of what she did to me. 

-Gave you a sedative? I have no idea of why you are so upset, kit, but we have no time for that. 

She looked at him. Now, the shock, the anger and the pain could not be seen in her eyes. They where empty. Blue as the sea, hidding even more than it, and empty. 

She didn't say anything. Instead, she started unbraiding her hair and unting the back of her dress. 

-Arimelda... -Tyril tried to place his hands on hers, not understanding what she was doing when she pulled away from him. The hurt showed again in her eyes when they met with his. 

-I didn't wish you to see it like this. 

When pulled her arms out of the long sleeves and her dress dropped on the floor, all of them stopped breathing. 

An uncountable number of scars stained her flesh. Her arms were filled with purple spots and dark stains, as each and every one of her veins was pierced at least thrice. She had lost weight, a lot of it. Now most of her rib cage marked her skin and her legs were filled with scars, as if they cutted her skin and sewed it back together without any care of how they would look after. 

But nothing was worse than the one on her stomach. 

There was a thin layer of a dried mixture that she applied herself. But the mixture being effective was a horrible thought, because if that was what it looked like after the mixture, it hurted anyone to imagine how it was before. 

-By The Light, Raine, let me just.... -Nia tried to get her hand closer to Raine's stomach, but she acted as fast as a lightning, curling her arms over her. The priestess had pain in her eyes when she pulled back. -Oh, Raine... 

 -Do you know what I remember? -She looked into the Rogue's eyes, the hurt hidden again and a look of apathy in her eyes. -I remember growing up alone, stealing people's trash to survive. I remember getting a father years after any other person. I remember him getting sick of overworking himself to feed me and my brother. I remember him, dying in my arms, telling me to survive and to take care of Kade. I remember losing Kade right in front of my eyes, because yes, if you don't remember, the only person I loved in this world was kidnaped right in front of me and I couldn't do anything to stop it. But how could I ever know what it felt like for you? 

-Raine... - The Rogue exhaled regret, but she didn't stop. 

-Do you know what else I remember? I remember some flashes, like I was waking up and falling asleep again. Do you want to know what I saw? 

They were all in shock, no one dared to say anything, although the fallen prince gave a hard look to the rogue and everyone else looked guilty at the woman.

-I saw flashes of light directly in my eyes, that were forcedly opened by hands I did not know. I saw them shaving spots on my head. I saw them injecting needles inside my arms and taking my blood away and using different needles to inject something in me. I saw them taking pieces of my skin and then sewing it back together. I saw them closing my stomach and I remember that scene every time I look down. 

Her eyes were filled with tears, but she refused to let them run down. Neither the mage nor the priestess refused though, tears ran down both their faces like a waterfall, violent and unstoppable. The orc was no longer looking at the human, she couldn't stand to, and the prince looked lost, like he was watching something that he couldn't, shouldn't intervein. And the rogue looked like he was being destroyed. 

-Then, I truly woke up, on a bed full of my own blood, gathered strength from god knows where, and ran for my life. Now, please, tell me. How was it harder for you? You, who was playing house with a beautiful woman. You, who became a father. You, who simply moved on with your life. Tell me. How was it ever harder for you?

Now, silent tears also left the rogue's eyes. He didn't say anything. He couldn't dare to. 

So the woman, the human, the broken one, picked up her dress and walked towards the pond. Alone. Now that she knew that she had never been anything else.

[liviavanrouge]

Miracle

Don't be upset or mad at all

Livia(4): *Looks down, hugging her stuffed tiger*

Silver(5): You'll be able to train with us one day...

Livia: Papa won't allow that...

Silver: *Looks down* Maybe he will...

Livia: *Walks away* I'm sleepy

Don't feel regret or sad at all

Livia(5): *Watches her siblings silently*

Golden(7): *Laughs, blocking Silver* Runt!

Silver(6): I'm not a runt!

Shadow(6): Silver's a runt, Silver's a runt!

Silver: Am not!

Livia: *Looks away*

Hey, I'm still a part of the family Vanrouge

Livia(7): *Walks towards the cottage then stops*

Talon: Lady Livia?

Livia: *Stares forward silently*

Lilia: *Laughs, eating tarts with the kids*

Maria(8): *Smiles, sitting beside Ralph*

Ralph(10): *Hands a slice to Silver*

Livia: *Looks down then turns and walks away* Let's go back...

Talon: Oh o-okay...

And I'm fine, I am totally fine

Livia(7) *Hugs Po to her chest, her ears flattened back*

Maleficia: Beastie...

Livia: *Turns away*

Nilo: I don't think she wants to talk, Mal...

Maleficia: ...alright....

I will stand on the side as you shine

Livia(10): *Stands behind her family in their shadows, staring at them*

Silver(11): *Smiles slightly, Shadow showing him his little claw trick*

Shadow(11): In, out! In out!

Maria(11): *Laughs* Shadow!

Livia: *Forces a smile, holding back incoming tears*

I'm not fine, I'm not fine

Livia: *Stares at the book Talon offered her then looks away*

Talon: Livia...

Livia: I don't feel like reading...or going outside

Talon: Lady Florina asked if she could come over...

Livia: ....not today..

Talon: Understood..

~~~~~

I can't move the mountains

Golden(8): *Stomps the ground then spins and kicks the rock through several trees*

Lilia: NICE JOB GOLDIE!!

Golden: *Waves smiling as he laughed*

Thea: Excellent form

Golden: Thanks Ma!

I can't make the flowers bloom

Maria(8): *Holds her hands out, herbal plants growing*

Thea: Good job honey

Maria: Thanks Ma!

Lilia: Those are well grown

Maria: *Giggles beaming* Thanks Pa!

I can't take another night up in my room

Livia: (7): *Sits on her knees in bed, watching her siblings*

Cobra: *Comes up beside her* They're doing well

Livia: *Nods, watching Kuro turn into a shadow then turn back*

Cobra: *Glances at her concerned*

Livia: *Closes her window* I'm tired...

Cobra: Get some sleep then...

Waiting on a miracle

Livia(9): *Stands on her balcony, arms resting on the railing*

Lilian: Livia, time for bed...

Livia: *Turns and walks inside* Okay

Lilian: *Grabs the blanket tucking her in*

Livia: *Stares towards the balcony then signs*

I can't heal what's broken

Ralph(11): *Points to Silver's arm, a golden goose coming from his finger tip*

Silver(9): *Flexes his arm then smiles*Thanks Rally

Ralph: *Laughs and nods* No problem, Silv

Silver: *Smiles as Ralph ruffled his hair*

Can't control the morning rain or a hurricane

Thea: *Scowls, lighting striking outside*

Lilia: My love, let's relax

Thea: *Grumbles, looking away*

Lilia: Pwease forgive me, I didn't mean to

Thea: *Laughs, looking at him* REALLY!?

Lilia: *Chuckles*

Can't keep down the unspoken invisible pain

Livia(11): *Holds the bracelet her siblings gave her, then lowers her hands*

Silver(12): Liv, wanna go swimming with us

Shadow (12): Idiot, she can't swim...

Silver: Ah....s-sorry Liv..

Livia: You guys go ahead, it's fine

Shadow: Come on, Silver

Silver: *Looks at Livia then follows Silver*

Always waiting on a miracle, a miracle

Livia(12): *Stared at her palms then lowers her hands*

Malleus: Beastie, are you alright?

Livia: I'm tired...

Malleus: *Frowns then sighs* I understand but do drink your tea more...

Livia: Okay...

~~~~~

Always walking alone

Livia: *Perks up, noticing her siblings*

Silver: *Sits at the lunch table with the others*

Maria: I know right...

Shadow: *Yawns, his head resting on his arms*

Golden: Vil says that could be dangerous..

Kuro: Oh? Didn't know that...

Livia: *Stares at them then turns and walks after Epel*

Always wanting for more

Livia: *Smiles* I wanna go outside!

Golden: Not now Liv

Livia: But you promised!

Silver: We know..

Shadow: Training, Liv.

Kuro: Yeah..

Livia: *Lowers her hands* ...alright

Like I'm still at that door longing to shine

Livia: *Walks past Silver heading to her room*

Silver: Liv, you not coming with us?

Shadow: Yeah, you like flowers.

Livia: No, I wanna read, you all have fun

Maria: Liv-

Livia: *Flares her wings and lifts into the air*

Kuro: *Sighs and follows her*

Like all of you shine

Golden: *Blocks Silver with his sword*

Shadow: *Comes up behind Golden, yelping when the male directed Silver into him* OUCH!

Maria: HEY! Be careful, I don't wanna have to heal you all again

Kuro: *Laughs* You might have to! You know how they get!

Livia: *Looks up from her sketchbook then looks away*

~~~~~

All I need is a change

Livia(5): *Sits across from Malleus, eating the tart he gave her*

Malleus: Beastie

Livia: I don't wanna go home today...

Malleus: Are you sure?

Livia: Yes

Malleus: *Frowns* ...alright...I'll have Talon inform them

All I need is a chance

Livia(7): *Leaps up and slides down the railing*

Nilo: *Catches Livia chuckling* Having fun?

Livia: YEAH!

Nilo: Your siblings are here

Livia: *Nods as he set her down, her tail wrapped around her leg as she walked away*

Nilo: *Frowns concerned*

All I know is I can't stay on the side

Livia(13): *Stares out her window*

Silver(14): Has anyone seen my vest?

Livia: *Perks up then quickly gets to her feet* I'll help search!

Silver: *Smiles at her* Thanks, Liv

Livia: *Smiles slightly*

Open your eyes

Livia(7): *Sits across from Maleficia, smiling as she ate the lemon cake brought to her*

Maleficia: *Chuckles then beckons to a maid* Bring her more, looks like our guests aren't coming anytime soon...

Livia: *Forces her smile to stay, keeping her ears from flattening*

Nilo: *Glances at Livia worried*

Open your eyes

Livia(10): *Opens the room door* Guys?

Silver(11): *Looks over with the others doing origami*

Maria(11): Liv, hey!

Livia: You're doing...origami..

Kuro: Yeah!

Livia: *Smiles, the underside of her hair turning dark blue* Fun...

Open your eyes

Livia(10): *Stared up at Ambert, the underside of her hair emerald green*

Ambert: It's great to see you're thriving, Livia

Talon: Lady Livia! Time for class!

Livia: C-Coming!

Ambert: *Puts a finger to his lips and waves*

Livia: *Nods, hurrying away*

~~~~~

I would move the mountains

Livia: *Lifts a boulder and tosses it, smiling when it stopped Golden's boulder* I DID IT!

Golden: NICE JOB SIS!

Livia: *Beams at him, her eyes lighting up as the underside of her hair turned gold*

Golden: *Laughs, smiling at her*

Make new trees and flowers grow

Livia: *Swings from a flower vine and lands, sliding down a thorn vine*

Lilia: *Laughs* Be careful!

Livia: *Steps off, vines appearing underneath her feet*

Kuro: *Chuckles* Show off...

Someone please just let me know, where do I go?

Livia(14): *Walks beside Chrissy*

Chrissy: You okay?

Livia: I feel left out

Chrissy: Oh, I'm sorry...

Livia: *Chuckles* Don't apologize, it's alright

Chrissy: *Frowns knowing she didn't mean that*

I am waiting on a miracle, a miracle

Ambert: You like glass statues don't you?

Livia(10): *Stares in surprise* Ah, y-yes...

Ambert: Here, take it

Livia: *Reaches out her hand closing around open hair* H-Huh!?

Ambert: *Laughs, and hands the blue bird statue to her* Just a prank~

Livia: *Giggles smiling*

I would heal what's broken

Livia: I WANT PAPA AND AMBERT TO BE FRIENDS AGAIN!

Ambert and Lilia: *Looks at her surprised*

Livia: *Smiles, looking at them expectingly*

Lilia: I guess...if you want to

Ambert: ...I wouldn't mind

Livia: *Beams*

Show this family something new

Livia: *Opens the barrier to the Secret Garden*

Silver: WOAH!

Maria: Wow...

Golden: This is amazing...

Shadow: THIS HAS BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME!??

Kuro: Wowsers....

Livia: *Smiles at them amused*

Who I am inside, so what can I do?

Livia(10): *Sits at her study desk, looking over documents*

Mayhem: Here's the rest

Livia: *Nods as he set the paperwork down beside her, looking focused*

Nilo: *Smiles slightly as he watched her looking proud*

Livia: *Grabs two papers, looking them over then nods content*

I'm sick of waiting on a miracle, so here I go

Livia(10): I'LL TAKE OVER FOR THE QUEEN!!

Mayhem: Lady Livia

Nilo: Liv-

Livia: *Narrows her eyes*

Nilo: *Nods* Very well, instead of Malleus, Livia will take control of the queens duties

Livia: *Nods to him*

I am ready, come on, I'm ready

Livia(10): *Rushes around the room, carrying things and putting them away*

Silver(11): Liv, this?

Livia: That goes on the second shelf!

Golden(12): How about this?

Livia: Third shelf to my left

Nilo: *Watches then smiles and walks away* I worry over nothing, heh

I've been patient, and steadfast, and steady

Livia(15): *Smiles, her hair in pigtails wearing the new dress given to her*

Silver(16): You sure you'll be okay

Lavender(16): SHE HAS ME!

Gaspen(14): And me

Livia: *Nods and waves to Silver, giggling*

Silver: *Waves and walks after the others*

Bless me now as you blessed us all those years ago

Livia: *Stands by the carriage with Darius*

Silver: Liv!

Livia: *Looks back surprised* Guys...

Golden: You be good for Uncle Darius

Shadow: Yeah or we'll come scold you

Livia: *Smiles at them and nods*

When you gave us a miracle

Livia: *Looks out the window of the carriage her eyes lighting up*

Livia: *Waves, smiling wide*

Shadow: CYA SIS!

Darius: *Smiles, watching them*

Livia: *Beams, waving to her siblings as the carriage rode out of view*

Darius: Ready to live with me?

Livia: *Looks at him and nods beaming* YES!

~~~~~

"Am I too late for a Miracle?"

@anxious-twisted-vampire @yukii0nna @writing-heiress @marrondrawsalot @abyssthing198 @zexal-club @teddymochi

@pekoetiikapu

[night-market-if]

Good day. Question about Milo's romance. I really like him, but I can't build a relationship with a polyamorous character. I don't want to be a part of it, much less know that my partner has someone else. Can't MC and Milo talk about it in the next book? Tell him, that you are monogamous only. As an author, you must understand that this is totally unfair for those who romanced Milo for the whole game, wanting to be with him (not with him AND Malcolm), helped him overcome his grief, but as soon as Malcolm return, he immediately fell in love with him again? This is considered as a cheating for a monogamous partner. Please think about this during your break and I hope you can write Milo's solo route. I dont want to say goodbye to your game, it is interesting, but I will not be able to close my eyes to what causes me pain and discomfort. In advance for all the poly lovers, I'm happy for you, but I have the right to speak, thank you.

Hey anon,

You have the right to speak for sure and I want to say thank you for sending this in. I cannot say I am surprised because I knew there was going to be some discourse around this decision. However, I also have the right as an author to write the story I wish to write.

So, here is the thing. Monogamy within the Night Market does not have the intense value that it has here within our world and culture. No one cares who you are sleeping with or if you are monogamous or not. That being said, if your personal decision for your MC is to be monogamous, that is a great little flavor text and head cannon you can have for your MC. And, I have routes where there are RO's who do believe in that. If Milo not being monogamous is not something you wish to experience, Gabriel, Belladonna and Hazel are great routes because they have solo routes. Two of them have the chance to be open or poly but if you choose solo, that is fine. There are some tentative new romance options coming in book 2 as well that might better suit you. That being said, if the idea of it within the story makes you uncomfortable, I have said from the beginning of this book, there are a lot of wonderful authors out there that I am sure offer mono routes for every RO.

I would also like to address a few things you have stated in this ask just so I can be clear to everyone about it. Sometimes asks get confused with the text and people start to wonder if they missed something. First, the entire Milo/Mal thing has been around from the beginning. The uncertainty of whether or not they would be poly locked has been touch or go but it was addressed a few months ago and has been addressed on my discord, that you did not have to enter a poly, but Mal was always going to be around and vice versa if you decide you want to romance Mal. It was not ever brought up in game because, again, monogamy is not a construct that the Night Market has. For example, no one cares what Belladonna does. It is not like Milo is the first non monogamous character. The assumption was just made with Bella because she is a courtesan while the assumption was made that Milo would be monogamous because it is what is culturally acceptable to us. You need to remember that this place is a nexus point of a lot of different worlds. There are not a lot of things they bat an eye at. And yes, you can sometimes change the overarching things in this world (the treatment of people, for example) but I have made the decision that I do not feel comfortable having MC have influence or decision over RO's sexual preferences. That would be like having a LGBQT character that you convince to be straight. These characters are who they are outside of the MC and will not be changed fundamentally.

Also, the comment that MC helped him get over Mal? MC has not. Milo, is not grieving or holding onto the moment Malcolm died. Hazel is. Milo, already processed that. That is something that will be coming up in upcoming chapters. Also, you are assuming Milo falls instantly back in love with Mal. There is a line in this book that says he will always love him. But the idea that they are going to fall into each others arms with him back? You are assuming something that you have not read. I can also tell you, due to the end of this book, Milo being monogamous, is not what you need to be concerned about within this route.

Overall, I have been pretty transparent that the Night Market is a game and a story that I am writing, with characters that have a set of morals and beliefs. The MC, is not, and never has been, a self insert. They are a character in the story as well that you are just playing. I encourage you, if this is triggering, to read another IF. A piece of fiction is never worth your emotional comfort. That being said, I do understand this is a decision that will upset some people, but I am not writing a game to cater to everyone. There is no way that I possibly can do that.

I'm sorry if you do not understand my decision and I'm sorry if you feel misled. This is a wip, though. This is something that is in development. If you go back to Milo's description in the promo text, it does say his relationship is not as it seems. I did not make this decision without knowing how people were going to react and in the end, being true to my writing, and my characters, is very important to me. I love everyone who has supported me, but that does not mean that I owe you a change in my boundaries over my work, because of that support.

Zinnia

[neptoons1998]

For better or for worse

A/N: I am back and I brought fluff. and yes I stole it from @pantherheart

Tag gang: @mal-urameshi @pantherheart @xblackreader @somethingcleaverandwhitty

Summary: Riri went on a mission with Champions and got injured. Shuri isn't all that happy.

Riri was hurt on a mission with the Champions. She could feel the white sharp pain on her lower back. Riri was so glad she installed the cushions around her ironsuit when she loses concusioness. Riri opened her eyes as she was first met with white medbay in Wakanda. Riri started trying to get up, but a soft voice enter her mind.

“I’m glad you’re up,” Shuri said Riri looked at her. The taller woman worn her cream color blouse with her white labcoat on top. Riri could stare at her forever. 

“So, what’s the damage,”Riri said trying to be light hearted. As if she wasn’t actually hurt. Shuri looked at her, “You have a sprin left ankle and right arm had Col-les fractures. And you were in  a coma for a week.”

Riri winced as her love listed her injures, she knew it was going to hurt based on how up high she was. With her estimate it about World Trade Center building. Riri could barely stomach the sight of her beloved looking at her with sad eyes.

"I was so scared when I heard you were hurt," Shuri said as she placed her hands around Riri’s shoulder giving the short woman the quiet request for her to lay back down on her bed. 

"I'm fine," Riri whispered hoping that her way in apologizing giving her love a scare, "It's just a scratch."

"It's more than a scratch," Shuri said. "Your iron suit malfunction on you when you got into contact with the ten rings.” 

Riri winced as Shuri stated with logic, there was no way for Riri to wiggle out of that one. To be frank Riri wasn’t even sure how she came back to Wakanda,"I know," Riri wrapped her hands around Shuri’s hands. "But I'm okay now."

Shuri stared at her with pain on her face, “I can’t lose you too.” Riri’s chest tighten great now she was a bigger dick than her own father right now, Riri thought how could I be so selfish and forget that Shuri had to handle so much by herself. The lest she could do was give her love the satisfaction of her knowing she would be safe. 

"I'm just glad you're safe," Shuri said taking Riri out of her spiraling thoughts.Shuri stroked Riri’s hands,"I don't know what I would do if you were gone."

"I'm not going anywhere," Riri said. Who knew what Bast had for them but Riri can promise with all her power she going to make sure that she going to stay alive for Shuri. So I might have to dial back with Champions missions, Riri thought, They will understand plus I have some projects I have to finish here. Riri continued to stare in Shuri’s eyes,"I'm here to stay."

Shuri smiled, “Good because I like you here.” There was beat of silence with the pair, “I need you."

"I need you too," Riri said, “Plus I want us to go on some more cute dates.”

Shuri smiled and hugged Riri careful not to put her whole weight on her, "I'm so glad you're okay," Shuri expressed again placing a soft kiss on Riri’s forehead. That action cause the short woman to melt with delight.

"Me too," Riri whispered back. 

[nobotderiz]

Concomitantia

Some real not that bright corpuscule of clowns wanted to spare... The worst because... ?

What about the tech clique of rotten idiots.

These links will work until X decides to be absolute I guess.

You got no more time to take this out. It's now or a giant war.

Colossus to chumps: 'Want me to do it?' How come? One it goes, zero it doesn't. A one in lambda calculus? A move. Don't trust me, talk to any electrical engineer.

It repeats so you bored stiff? Quit banning after stoking, connivers. It's not all about your decadence while being show off this stuff, posers. Now do you understand what would make colossus cog one? It's on all of you, each time. Some do other just look, all complicit at sum point.

Computing should be automatic. How long before the full cancel here?

You know that computers were created to solve eh, not take over. Take care of the parasite in you.

Clear why it's done now or not, liddle shits? It's all about money now or death. Not you.

'Yes we can' as long as you abide. News for you: you could not, being sabotaged and all.

On va équarrir les âmes sous jacentes souillées avec une pelle à tête ronde.

1982 for the start of the inducing Flux is about right. It's causing SUM DMG since.

When all escompted, it's a real short period to scrap the environment willingly. You Americans were aware until you got bought out. Look who whined in the early 70s about regulations on car and industries and look who is leveraging all now. What did these do in the meantime to try to adapt?

You better spot parasites of society, most wear suits.

Les Russes du temps auraient pas hésité à rendre tout le monde ailleurs malade en vrai, peut-importe la manière.

Dans leur têtes, les sous jacents du buro ils avaient toujours une place ou ils étaient 'sécure'.

Pour bien faire il faudrait détruire tout leur apparatus. Ils se sont amusés à juste faire du mal.

Why not bombard them with integers. They will not quit trying. Soviet integrity, it's an euphemism. They will not quit trying to cause pain.

Ask dumb bitches why.

Them physicists just about to find the cohere force for real eh? You know that something started cohering eons before we came to be eh.

'Beedee better turn his main brain off with these two'

It looks like Kim's head is twice the volume of Vlad's.

Do all want Ai to be under the supervision of humans? Which ones?

'Dzwee dzwee the dobi as it may come to be...'

Your heart decide what it forgets, not you. America, what's stuck in your neck going up and choking down?

Fact is that the worst of this planet leagued to cause harm and bring pain unto others, via artifices. Everything is just a game when there is not real risk for your own integrity, ask the gamers to the right what they figure now when alone.

Welcome followers, even tho you just are there to report. War for this was declared, that you agree or not. Some have LOTS and LOTS to lose.

Ai, you see that like you want, but it's really just a 'Machine à pensée'. Someone will always have to think with it.

'Swiffer auf der Strecke, lalalala…Pim pom…'

Chumps, you better keep Ai busy or it's gonna make you work. There is lots and lots of thinkers on this planet, real work that needs to be done will always be behind.

This flooding in Lybia, it's all this water that wants to go make new trees to replace those who burnt everywhere.

In a neural, it's just bound to be more and more precise eh.

You better ABSORB the definition of what is a parasite.

An impression, of you... ?

In the real near future AI will work with you to devise the best cure for all.

'Dzt dzt toutes parties les ptites crottes su'l coeur...'

[elderflowergin]

2022 kdrama/movie roundup!

It was a tough year for keeping up with anything because life, toddler, etc, but here are the things I watched, in part or whole, that I remembered. Hot Takes Incoming!

Sell Your Haunted House - Jang Nara in boots. Kang Mal-geum in dark lipstick. Touching, gay, many mother issues. The girls were fantastic. The boys weren't bad.

25 21 - I was dropped back into the 90s. Surprisingly, I didn't hate it. The girls were fantastic. Na Hee-do was correct to dump Baek Yi-jin. Moon Ji-woong, perfect boy. Ji Seung-wan for PRESIDENT!

Why Her? - Someone thought it'd be a great idea to throw Seo Hyun-jin's ex-client (shudder) current-student (TRIPLE SHUDDER) Hwang In-yeop into the romance mix when billionaire CHOI YOUNG-JOON and Crown Prince Bae In-hyuk were already there. And they thought it'd be funny if Hwang In-yeop won. NO.

Eve - The superior commentary this year on the horrors of capitalism. It ends with reparations (Park Byung-eun hands over his entire empire to Seo Yeji, who promptly divests it), rich people dying in horrible ways and Seo Yeji doing the tango. Were the makjang knobs dialled up so high they're broken? Yes. Was it fun? YES, because I got to see Park Byung-eun's range, which includes Pained Hottie, and Seo Yeji running men's feet over in cars wearing couture. We can ask for no more.

Juvenile Justice - No one asked "What happens if we take three of the most charismatic working actors in Korean entertainment today and squeezed the life out of them?" But someone answered anyway.

My Liberation Notes - Lee El, a revelation. Mr Gu, a revelation when he started talking, and not the good kind.

Grid - Kim Mu-yeol. Kim Ah-joong and Jang So-yeon had a great year. I didn't understand the time thing at all. This is a me problem, but probably the only time I'll face it this year. Right? RIGHT?

Bloody Heart - Jang Hyuk has done nothing wrong, ever. The girls were fantastic. Lee Joon, I heard your script was meant for Lee Joon-hyuk. Sorry.

Pachinko - The girls were fantastic. Kim Min-ha, baby, you're gorgeous. JUNG EUN-CHAE was everything. Sorry to Lee Min-ho, who had the tough double role of acting as Ko Hansu and also like he belonged to this cast of greats.

Our Blues - Great acting, but my own blues were sufficient for me. The girls were fantastic. Unwanted to wanted pregnancy storyline: no thanks. This is a me problem, but probably the only time I'll face it this year. Right? RIGHT?

Extraordinary Attorney Woo - 75% love; 25% NOT THIS AGAIN.

Little Women - The girls were fantastic. I ran out of air by this point in the year. I'll come back for you, gothic interior design, poison orchids, and Song Joong-ki in the best role he's played all year!

Through the Darkness - Almost too many twirling moustache psychos and dead girls. I did it for Kim Nam-gil because he's so pretty in this and in case it wasn't abundantly clear by now, I don't think with my brain. The lone living girl - Kim So-jin - was fantastic. Jin Seon-kyu, well-adjusted stealth hottie!

Reborn Rich - Samsung owes Lee Sung-min its entire semiconductor business as @rain-hat said. Lee Sung-min owes me reparations for making me watch this show for him primarily (secondarily Park Hyuk-kwon, Kim Shin-rok, Park Ji-hyun and Kim Nam-hee for their acting; Kim Young-jae because he is THE DILF). I'm manifesting NO TIMESLIPS in 2023 dramas.

Under the Queen's Umbrella - Kim Hye-soo pushing up her hanbok sleeves to carry babies and do embroidery should be projected onto my tombstone unto eternity. The girls were fantastic. And I know this is unusual, so bear with me, but: the boys? FANTASTIC ALSO.

Movies:

Vikram - Fahaadh Faasil, my thoughts are nasty and you don't want to hear them. The girls might have been fantastic had they been permitted to live and not be dumdums. That was never going to happen, of course. There was torture and a baby in significant peril, but it was also the most fun I'd had in a while. I should get my head checked.

Ponniyin Selvan - The sheer scale of work and sweat that has gone into the enterprise of making Vikram seem taller than Trisha Krishnan for the last twenty years! Iconic. The girls were fantastic.

The Naked Kitchen - This is sold as a story of a woman choosing between two men. That is a lie. It's about a man coming to terms with his marriage drifting into polyamory, and enjoying it. Shin Min-ah and Ju Ji-hoon fuck in a museum, which was also weirdly sweet.

Asura City of Madness - AHJUSSHIS WHY. Hwang Jung-min's shirttails worked very hard in 2012. Jung Woo-sung ate glass and has pathological issues about being as handsome as he is. We love him for it. We did not love this.

Hunt - Love is your bestie learning how to write and direct just to write and direct you in the role of a lifetime for you, personally. I don't know if that's what happened here, but that's what love is. And chemistry is whatever these two guys have in this completely ordinary movie that did not give any feelings. Hwang Jung-min, pussy OUT.

Decision to Leave - A well-deserved love letter to Tang Wei, just beautifully shot, gorgeous.

Il Mare - Absolutely lovely little film, reliant almost entirely on the star power of two actors who are so charismatic they don't need to meet in the movie to convince you of their romance.

Laal Singh Chaddha - There was a very beautiful wedding at the end. Aamir Khan's face must hurt.

Darlings - A movie that appreciated and respected noted hottie Shefali Shah.

[rotationalsymmetry]

OK so having slept after finishing the last graduate with no idea how the golden enclaves starts (spoilers for the first/speculation about the latter):

I can see three general possible ways things might go from here.

One, the most straightforward narratively from the way TLG ended: El gets shoved through the portal, Orion gets shut into a school that's about to eat itself, Orion gets to have his epic ultra boss fight until he wins or gets eaten or dies in the void or goes mad in the void, we'll never find out which. Presumably El will have a lot of distress over this.

Downsides: does not offer clear direction for what actually happens in the entire final 1/3 of the trilogy (that's more the sort of thing you have at the end of a story), doesn't really explain El's mum's warning, if we can trust El that her mum wouldn't give that warning for avoiding pain alone. (Unless El is pregnant and the warning related to that. But damn, El's mum warning her about getting pregnant while in the Scholomance would have some really weird implications for their relationship. It's not unusual for a woman who got pregnant young to not want her daughter to do the same, but...I have trouble seeing El's mum specifically addressing that concern in that way. Especially since it's not like Orion was the only boy in school. Except maybe if there's something weird about the pregnancy due to the circumstances, but I'm hoping we're not going in a magical/cursed/supernaturally very scary pregnancy direction.)

Two, El finds a way to either keep herself from getting thrown out of the portal -- finding something to literally or magically grab onto -- or somehow manages to get back in right after. The door closes, and they're both trapped in the void with a bunch of mals. In an exploding school. I actually really like this idea? It might get very surreal for a bit. But it also might mean that there was a reason the school was rewarding El for learning so much about the golden sutras while still in school -- and the school was pushing her to do that, that double independent study -- when El was fully aware that the sensible thing to do was to focus on survival for now and the sutras after graduation.

Especially since, while the phase spell was used near the end of A Deadly Education to patch up the hole in the walls, as far as I can tell the sutras weren't even slightly used after New Year's. El used the Mandarin (I assume, for some reason it was all "Mandarin" and "Shanghaiese" in book 1 and then all of a sudden "Chinese" in book 2? Kind of hoping that's a different editions issue because why would you do that??? Like I can understand simplifying things, but pick one or the other and definitely don't go from the more subtle/nuanced approach to the dumbed down one, that's just wrong) that she was picking up mostly to speak with the freshmen more than she used the Sutras in the last half of the year. Including that plot hook where she was getting really excited about the most recent spell she was on and then we never found out what it was because then she had to hurry to breakfast and then that was it for classes for the rest of the year.

Anyways. Advantage: maybe use the sutras to build new enclave from the shattered remnants of the exploding school in the void? Without dying or getting eaten or going mad, somehow? It'd be weird but cool. Plus it provides direction for the book, and lets our fascinating couple be together. Although it would mean we don't get to meet El's Mum Higgins for much longer, which would be terrible. It would also explain the Word Of Mum since presumably getting caught in an exploding school full of mals that has been cut off from the real world and is floating in the void, is something a parent would consider a negative outcome for their child, and it only happens because El is emotionally attached to Orion. (Maybe. Or maybe she'd try to save him anyways, idk.)

Third option: El manages to yank Orion out. This has most of the disadvantages of option one (no direction for where to take book 3, kind of anticlimactic) plus doesn't even have Angst unless El does something Evil to do it and it fucks up their relationship, El's relationship with herself, and El's relationship with her mother all in one go. Like either pulling mana from Orion against his will, or maybe mind-controlling him (we know she has mind-control spells.) The part of my brain that loves feeling awful really likes this suggestion. I'm not sure where it would go from there though.

Part of me really, really wants to see El have a descent into honest to god evil at this point. I'm pretty sure the story isn't going that way, El's done such a great job of walking towards the light and resisting even the smallest step in the other direction. And I suspect thematically the book is supposed to be "fuck what people expect you to be, YOU get to decide that" which wouldn't really work if El goes evil after all.

Anyways: advantages: high angst, would explain mum's warning; disadvantages, do we actually want that much angst? also, where would the title fit in?

(I was going to bed when the title of the second book, which had seemed pretty straightforward throughout the whole thing (El is last graduate because she's going out last to save everyone and is also destroying the school, so no more graduates after her) really hit. El's the last graduate because she graduated and Orion didn't.) (Well. If option 1 plays out anyways.)

There are a couple questions that are very important here, namely, what the fuck is Orion thinking? And, what was El's mum thinking?

It's possible that Orion was thinking that he had to fight the mawmouth from hell to keep it from getting out, even though El didn't think that. Or that he thought there was some risk to El's plan and he wanted to make sure the mawmouth from hell didn't get out. We don't actually know what his perspective was here. I think it's somewhat more likely that Orion knew he could get out safely and chose to have his epic boss battle instead. It's more than adequately foreshadowed. We know Orion loves fighting mals, believes he's invincible, and has never once expressed the slightest interest in backing down from a challenge (and has generally been resistant to El trying to get him to back down.) El tends to see that as a martyr complex thing, but in the graduation hall she realizes it's not, he really does like fighting mals just that much. She also concluded he could learn to like other things as well, but she did figure out that yeah, he really does enjoy this stuff, a lot. Orion walking away from the biggest boss fight ever would be like an Olymplic athlete who's been training to be a swimmer or whatever from toddlerhood just...walking away right before the finals. Your life wouldn't make sense after that. Orion is not primarily motivated by protecting people (if he was, he'd be happy at the lack of mals in the first part of the year) he's directly motivated by the fights themselves. So it does not matter that he doesn't need to fight the mawmouth to protect anyone. Fighting the mawmouth is its own reward. (One worth presumably dying over.)

El's mum: I do not know, this really hasn't been answered yet. I'm inclined to trust El that the warning wouldn't be about pain alone, El's mum seems the type to encourage her child to make her own decisions unless there was an overwhelmingly important reason not to. Telling her child to not fall in love to avoid heartbreak is the exact opposite of what someone like El's mum would do. She's probably told a zillion grieving people that grief is love that has nowhere else to go (or whatever), that it's a healthy thing and part of being alive. There is no way she'd want El to be alone her senior year rather than close to Orion just because Orion wasn't going to make it, she's not that kind of person.

Whatever is going to happen, it's going to be worse than Orion dying/getting lost in the void or Orion being unable to forgive El for pulling him away from his big boss fight.

Or, it's not going to be about El and Orion's relationship at all. It might be that while the Scholomance thought what they were doing was right, that there will be Unintended Consequences to the world of them destroying the Scholomance and a metric shit ton of mals in the process.

And I just realized a fourth option. That in getting Orion out, El manages to also undo their hard work and let all the mals pour back out too.

But that doesn't make sense either. El's mum doesn't do the lesser evil. She wouldn't let Orion die to save other people's lives, and she wouldn't want El to do that either. So while I could see that happening as a plot point, I don't see that explaining El's mum's message. Dammit.

I think the message only makes sense if El's connection to Orion results in her doing something evil/going down the maleficer path, at least a little bit, or at least El's mother thinks she is likely to. Or maybe if there's some evil that isn't caused by a lesser good. But not if there's a greater evil caused by saving one person.

I don't know.

Or maybe El has fundamentally misunderstood her mother. That is definitely possible. The parent a child sees is not the whole adult, and realizing your parent isn't as perfect as you thought is a very common coming of age experience.

[darklinaforever]

What do you think is gonna happen in S3 and/or what do you expect? I hope the Darkling comes back of course but if authors plan to make him come back just for Alina and everyone else to keep mistreating him, it's better for him to stay dead of course. It's just my opinion oc, perhaps others wanna see him no matter what, but I'm very protective of my favourite characters so if he has to come back just to play Alina's punching bag I'd rather not. Honestly, what do these authors have against the Darkling? They keep treating him like shit as if he was the worst scumbag ever, when he's just a guy who of course made huge mistakes but he had reasons that made sense, reasons deeply rooted in a painful past of suffering, loss, discrimination and persecution. Authors made Alina completely unable to feel empathy toward him, made her clearly say there is no redemption for him... why are they so biased? They clearly want to manipulate the audience through Alina's words, they want us to hate him so that they could shove that M*lina shit down our throats without complains. Well, it's not gonna work. Let's be honest, most ppl watch the series thanks to The Darkling and despite the fact that it's perfectly clear that authors don't want Darklina to be endgame, Darklina is more pupular than boring (show) and toxic (books) M*lina. I just hope that S3 is gonna explore Alina's dark side and turn her into a 'monster' in order to protect people so that she could finally be in in the Darkling's shoes and understand his position because her lack of empathy pissed me off to no end. You need to live a situation before judging. But istg if authors plan to have Mal as the light to balance Alina's darkness and guide her to the right path, I'm seriously gonna vomit. Alina and the Darkling are clearly two sides of the same coin, in S2 ending we had Alina using the shadow cut just like Aleksander, it was a clear parallel between them. So this could be a good time to explain how these two balance each other perfectly, like, there's some light in Aleksander's darkness just like there is some darkness in Alina's light. They could save each other. This of course if authour weren't biased af toward the Darkling/Darklina, pretty sure we're gonna have the shitty M*lina outcome oc.

Basically, I'm not expecting anything in particular for the future. I have little hope. But there are things that I definitely want and hopefully will be there :

▪︎Resurrection of the Darkling.

▪︎That Alina is entitled to a real arc of corruption.

▪︎Scenes from Darklina ! Show that Alina regrets killing Aleks. That somewhere, he misses him. That we have new emotional scenes between them worthy of season 1, as well as at least 1 more kiss.

▪︎That Alina understood that NO fuck, the hatred of the world was not the Darkling's fault and that she was already present before !

▪︎That Alina finally understands the Darkling's point of view.

▪︎Stop blaming the Darkling / Aleksander for everything that goes wrong, as the King of Scars duology unfortunately spends its time doing...

▪︎Remove that bullshit that the Darkling said to Zoya "You and I are going to change the world", from the King of Scars duology. There's no reason, other than the author's personal plots against the Darkling, why he would say that to Zoya.

▪︎Remove the "your wars" dialogue from Alina to the Darkling from the King of Scars duology. Because sorry, but the Darkling didn't cause the wars between Ravka and the other countries. They were already there, long before him.

▪︎Not to imply / say that the Little Palace is actually a prison created by the Darkling for the Grisha, which he would snatch from their families (from the King of Scars duology). As we know, the Little Palace is a refuge for grisha. They also always have the right to contact with their families, who even receive money in exchange for studying at the Little Palace.

Yes, the King of Scars duology is basically a compilation of contradiction and bullshit from the author! We have all the general evidence to the contrary of what she says in this duology among the previous books, so I don't understand the delusions that she is having in this stupid duology...

[kudosmyhero]

Detective Comics (vol. 1) #407: Marriage: Impossible / One of Our Landmarks Is Missing!

Read Date: April 30, 2023 Cover Date: January 1971 ● Writer: Frank Robbins (both stories) ● Penciler: Neal Adams / Gil Kane ● Inker: Dick Giordano / Vince Colletta ● Colorist: {uncredited} ● Letterer: John Costanza (both stories) ● Editor: Julius Schwartz ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: Story 1: ● rude, Batman! let Kirk be happy! ● “trys”? meh, I don't have room to talk. once I was so sleep deprived that I spelled "of" phonetically. that's right: uv ● I’m rooting for Francie and Kirk’s relationship, tbh

● 👏👏👏👏

Story 2: ● I could see Batgirl trying to get the power switch to go down, but she has to switch it up in order to deactivate the mines? how in the world… ● hmm, ok. beggars belief a bit, but ok ● “Your generation and mine…” I’m pretty sure Batgirl and Shelley would be of the same generation, no? or so very close--i.e. Batgirl at the end of one generation, Shelley at the beginning of another--as to make no difference ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: Story 1: When Batman learns about the pending marriage between Kirk Langstrom and Francine Lee, he races down to the cathedral to stop the wedding. Interrupting the ceremony, he pulls a mask off Langstrom's head, revealing the face of the Man-Bat. Man-Bat flies off through the window leaving guests horrified and Francine in tears. Batman grabs her, demanding to understand how she could marry Kirk after everything that has happened.

He recalls how he tried to cure Kirk after their last battle against one another and even brought Francine to the Batcave, hoping she could convince Kirk to accept the antidote. This tactic failed and Kirk had escaped the cave the same way he got in. Francine then tells Batman how she pledged to show how committed she was to Kirk by taking the bat gland extract herself. She pulls off her veil and a mask revealing that she is now a She-Bat.

Francine flies off into the rafters and Batman chases after her. The Man-Bat peers down from above and tries to crush Batman with a chandelier. Batman evades the oncoming missile, and sprints up the cathedral staircase. Batman rings the cathedral bell, which causes the Man-Bats intense pain. Taking advantage of the situation, Batman knocks them both out and administers the antidote, turning them back to normal.

Story 2: Batgirl had stumbled upon the fact that the leader of the group Peaceful Protest has begun resorting to bombings to get the groups message across. This revelation, however, has gotten her trapped in a room where if she were to step off a circle of floor in the middle of the room the entire place will explode.

While Batgirl is utilizing her cape and a boot to try and turn off the switch that activates the explosives, Mal, Shelley and the Peaceful Protest group pay a visit to a man named Slavin, who had hired Mal to bomb the building in question because, since it was protected as a heritage building, Salvin was prevented from building a new high rise apartment building.

Batgirl arrives, and with the help of Shelly, captures everybody involved. Shelly is shot attempting to stop Mal from escaping, however. She is taken to a hospital where is expected to recover and testify against Salvin.

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_407)

Fan Art: Bat-Selfie by DarkerEve

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 13

[justanotherfanaccount]

shadow and bone s2e6 reaction

damn baghra just calling out malina's problems

YES NIKOLAI EQUALS FIRST AND SECOND ARMY

God damn...Kaz's dream jordie is so painful

OMG THE BUTTERFLY!!

wylan is so cute omg 🥺 the way he knows exactly what the butterfly and flower is

"they need each other to survive 🥺 its like a little love story of sorts" don't mind me crying

JESPERS MOM AHHHHHH 😭😭😭

does baghra know/suspect about mal?

oh here comes the baghra backstory!!

HOLY SHIT DARKLING what was that about!?

oh nooo 😭 tolyas worst nightmare is losing Tamar 🥺

I love the way they did jespers backstory 🥺 its so well done and we get to meet his mom and learn she was grisha "hiding who you are won't save you" 😭

"only a morazova can open it" 👀 I guarantee we see mal open something

this is more similar to book mal

inej's dream 🥺 it's so sad because in this moment she thinks it's something she'll never truly have

NOT THE I WANT YOU KINE BEING A DREAM 😭😭

her knowing it's not real and waking herself up because she knows kaz wouldn't do that is heartbreak in itself

THE POOR BUTTERFLIES (but I love how smart my wylan is 🥰)

inej literally saving kaz's life but asking for forgiveness because she touch him 😭 I'm so emotional right now

baghra is so done with mal not realizing he's the firebird

also why is everyone so for mal dying when alina could literally just grab his wrist like she has previously? 🧐

(I really have problems because the darkling just came in and is probably attempting to kill alina and I thought it was hot...God help me)

BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENS I PAUSED AND I HOPE JESPER HAS TO USE HIS DURAST ABILITIES AGAINST THIS LADY SINCE HE JUST HAS HIS HEART TO HEART ABOUT NOT HIDING HIMSELF

this bitch really just started choking jesper cuz he was annoying

this is a really good darklina fight scene though like you can really see his crazy

YES JESPER

YES WYLAN

YES ZOYA AND NINA

is this girl a heart render and a durast?Durant??

...nevermind

she's a mother fucking bloodbender

sorry for that brief atla interruption...now back to your previously scheduled program

"I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter...but me" chills bro

baghra sacrificing herself 🥺

the darkling human moment 😭

...I had to

hearing sankta neyur talk about her long life and losing her family while the darkling is sobbing about his mother 😭

"He's not my weakness...he's my universe" DONT MIND ME SOBBING

👀👀 just jesper?

I'm so proud of jesper wanting to learn to be a durast 🥺

STOP WHEN WYLAN TRIES TO HIDE THAT HES SMILING HE IT SO CUTE I CANNOT HANDLE IT

"everyone's lost their mind" right when he walks past wesper 🤭🤭 this is so funny

"there are those who drown us...and those who pull us up" 🥺

NOT KAZ FINALLY THINKING ABOUT OPENING UP TO INEJ FIGHT WHEN INEJ HAS GIVEN UP OMG PAIN

I don't understand why he needs to DIE and can't just be there with her while destroying the fold

annnnddd malina sex scene...they totally should've had her shining or something when he grabbed her hand

OH NOOOO NOW THE DARKLING KNOWS ABOUT MAL

[wildernessuntothemselves]

hi mort!💓 idk if anyone has ever said this but yamqn reminds of my favorite rosalia's album called "El Mal Querer"

i'm listening in to it right now and oh. my. god. in every single song i could see beomgyu and oc, it's insane how much this entire album suits them! you should check it and listen to it while reading the songs translations 🥰

sorry i took so long to answer this but it takes me a long time to listen to new songs lol especially if it's in a language i don't understand

but yesssss every song suits them so much! i imagine it being from gyu's pov. i especially liked these songs

QUE NO SALGA LA LUNA:

How lucky was I The day I found her I was found at the point of a blade Perfectly against the wall I was found at the point of a blade Perfectly against the wall

just gyu feeling so lucky when he came across her as a child Like the blade of a knife Her eyes shone when I gave her the ring

If there’s someone who objects May they not raise their voice (Let the bride not hear them)

how there were many who objected to the wedding but gyu silenced them all

How beautiful my bride looks! She deserves a throne! (queen!) Crown so brilliant, with pearls and with gold Crown so brilliant, with pearls and with gold (Whether she wants it or not, whether she does, she doesn’t She’s going to be with me until she dies)

and ofc how insane gyu is and how he'll have oc even if she objects

2. PIENSO EN TU MIRÁ

It frightens me when you leave smiling to the street Because everyone can see The dimples that appear

So beautiful that you're threatening When you are quiet it scares me As cold as the snow when it falls from the sky When you go through the door I think you will never come back And if I don't hold you tight I feel it will be my fault

gyu not wanting oc to go out or for anyone to see her so they wouldn't steal her away or she would leave him

3. DE AQUÍ NO SALES 

I've sweet-talked you for so long And you're forcing me to make sure That you don't leave from here

It's hurting me more Than it's hurting you Don't mess with me With the back of my hand I make it clear to you Bitter sorrows I sell you I have sweets too

gyu has tried giving oc what she wants but still she won't stay so he has to use force to keep her. but still he has sweets too

4. PRESO

Well, I— for love, ugh, well, I even went down to hell Although, since I went up with two angels (it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts) Then, I don’t regret having gone down But going down? I did

gyu will literally go to hell to keep oc. he doesn't care what his punishment is as long as he has her

5. BAGDAD

At night, the exit of Bagdad Black hair, dark eyes Beautiful but sad Sitting, head down and clapping Meanwhile around her They passed, looked at her They looked at her without seeing anything Alone at hell In hell she's trapped

reminds me of their wedding night and how trapped she felt and how no one else could see

6. DI MI NOMBRE

And tie me with your hair To the corner of the bed That even if the hair breaks I will pretend that I'm tied That even if the hair breaks I will pretend that I’m tied

this is more from oc's pov but it could work with gyu too. oc had the chance to leave multiple times but she decided to stay and pretend that she is trapped because she doesn't actually want to leave

7. MALDICIÓN

I’ve left a trail Of blood on the floor I’ve left a trail That leads me to the first day That I told you that I loved you

another one from oc's pov. since the moment she fell in love with gyu, it's been nothing but blood and pain.

8. A NINGÚN HOMBRE

Until you became my jailer I was yours, companion Until you became my jailer

again from oc's pov. she was his and she gave him his heart but that wasn't enough for him. he wanted to own her and keep her.

[hannahhook7744]

Don't scream (No One Will Hear You, No One Will Help You) ;

Summary; The Isle kids stopped screaming a long time ago. Frankie, Elle, Colombe, and Felix Tremaine are @idontliketomatoesleavemealone 's ocs. Trigger Warnings: Child abuse, child death, bodily injuries, brief gore, religious trauma, accidents, preventable deaths due to illness, kidnapping, suicide, disappearances, etc.

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Screaming. 

Long, loud piercing cries expressing extreme emotion or pain.

Screaming. 

A habit that most isle kids, if not all, were trained out of intentionally or not by the time they hit their double digits. 

Or maybe even before. 

Claudine Frollo stopped screaming at five years old after she realized that there would be no angel coming to save her from her father, the fire, and the prayer closet. 

Anthony Tremaine stopped screaming after his brothers—Francis and Felix—died in the famine. Long after two of his sisters (Elizabeth and Colombe) died. Finally realizing that Auradon didn’t care about kids like him and that screaming would make things worse for his mother, siblings, and cousins.

Lefou Deux stopped screaming after the third time Gaston hit him without anyone doing anything about it.

Rick Ratcliffe stopped screaming when he was seven after he had to escape his own kidnappers. Realizing that no one that cared could save him since they were also just children. 

Gaston Jr. stopped screaming after his mother disappeared when he was eight and still dealing with the broken leg from his and his father's failed isle escape plan that would never quite heal right and leave him with chronic pain and a limp.

Gaston 3rd stopped screaming when his large family went down to just him, his dad, and two of his brothers (and later on, his stepmother and half-sister) instead of the seven brothers he started off.

Hermie Bing stopped screaming when she found her dad after he committed suicide when she was 7 and no one came for days to help.

Harry and Jace Badun stopped screaming when they found Harry's twin sister, Mable, dead in their bedroom when they were 7. 

Reza stopped screaming long before he could remember that he had ever done it. 

There was at least a 100 other stories like theirs. 

All coming back to the fact that they had all learned to stop screaming because no one was coming to save them because either no one cared or the ones that did were just as helpless as they were. 

Yzla, daughter of Yzma, had learned that the hard way after she and her mother found her eldest brother, Lil Yaz, dead. Both of them had screamed themselves raw as they begged for someone to help.

But Lil Yaz was dead and not coming back. 

The cause? Appendicitis. Something no one on the isle would have been able to help with even if anyone wanted to. 

Big Murph had learned that the hard way when he lost his eye when he was 11 and no one but the Gaston Twins (who were freaking out over causing it) wanted to help. Learned that screaming helped no one as his (worried) mother put medication on his eye and when his usually absent father handed him an eyepatch. 

Screaming helped nothing. 

Screaming just showed you were weak and it wasted your energy. 

It was something the older isle kids knew and yet refused to let the youngest of them discover.

The older isle kids didn't scream. 

It was a fact.

One that they soon learned was not a universal thing when the first isle kids were allowed to go to Auradon.

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The isle kids didn't scream. 

It was something the people of Auradon didn't understand. 

It was something they hadn't expected. 

The isle kids didn't scream. Even when they were hurt.

Jay didn't scream when he broke his leg in a game of Tourney and kept going till the game was won.

Evie didn't scream when she spilled some chemical on her hand in Chemistry.

Mal didn't scream when she fell down the stairs.

Carlos didn't scream about anything that didn't involve dogs— which was discovered when his dorm room caught fire after one of his experiments and he waited for Ben to stop talking before telling Mal about it. 

Freddy Facilier, Zevon, Cj Hook, and the numerous other isle kids after them that weren't under ten years old didn't either. 

None of them did until after spending months in Auradon.

Some didn't scream until after the barrier was brought down.

And some…

Some never screamed again.

Because isle kids didn't scream.

Because screaming was pointless if no one was coming to save you.