#while also still being deeply insane about their perception of 'normal relationships' and 'how to communicate'

[wizardnuke]

i know it's popular fanon to think that essek has little to no relationship experience and i do think his bedroom experience is average at best (for a hot young* elf) but i Personally think he's got a long line of heartbreaks behind him. i mean this so slash negative slash derogatory i think he was out there wining and dining and leaving-behining all the time. just for fun and profit. working on his acting chops. showing off. he likes attention dude. i don't think that's directly contradictory to him being very reclusive and quiet about his work i think he was mysterious and sexy and thought flirting was funny. anyway he and caleb "genuinely falls in love with every other person he meets and then is really weird about it, EXCEPT for essek, who he was genuinely honeypotting" widogast, who essek was also genuinely honeypotting for reasons Far beyond boredom (see: i think some of his early weirdness/awkward formality can be explained by the fact that he was trying to mask real homicidal rage towards the m9) are insane together they're ride or die they're perfect for each other they're lifelong "friends" and they're playing mind games the likes of which would level a city park id they broke out of containment. and it's enrichment for them

[theawokenmultiverse]

Recent notes/funfacts!

-Stain used to be deeply in love with null and he was the first to realize something started changing in him and he worried about him very much

-corruptus' /null's goal is to destroy the entire multiverse, if he cant ever be adored then everything should become his perfect nothingness ( he is very much insane)

-Null, peity and stain were in a polyamorous relationship at one point

-when peity died he didn't turn to dust,he faded into echo flowers that grew on his clothes. That spot in the multiverse still exists, its called peity's haven (it is it's own au where certain outcodes/ skeletons who have lost their homes reside. Unlike the order, it only has skeletons and it doesn't have to be sans ,papyrus or gaster, some are skeleton versions of other characters too)

-anomalous has an awful memory and is terried that one day he will forget everything , even who he is ( he has memory issues due to the multiverse messing with his code and blocking off the memories of his past au.)

-peity has been slightly rewritten, he is now a mixture of geno and error, a form that was taken as a middle ground between the two. They found harmony in finally letting go of the past however they had to go half mad to find it

-dismal at first was meant to manipulate arcana into being a servant to corruptus but as he got closer and closer he started to fall in love with arcana and it scared him since he had never truly fallenin love before

-sauriel is able to summon angelic spears and daggers in his normal angelic form

-in his mortal form, sauriel is only able to use earthly materials as weapons, such as blades, swords, and other however he cannot touch guns as they are seen as sinful and will burn him regardless of what form he is in (unless he is in his true archangel form)

-sauriel can use simple bone attacks in his mortal form but they take a lot out of him as the magic he has is very limited without his wings

-celeste took sauriel's wings not only because he broke free from his binding (the blindfold that keeps him "blind" to celeste's actions) but also because if he was able to ascend to his archangel form not only would he outrank him but he could stop him from fullfilling null's wishes

-sauriel is genderfluid <3

-anomalous x dibs is a slow burn -dismal x arcana is a slightly toxic slow burn

This is a very condenced and summarized chunk of ideas on how anomalous' role is in the multiverse. some things may be changed or updated later on.

Anomalous: -brother trying to protect and care for his other brother

-is super into space and aliens and thus builds a machine that he THINKS is a portal into space, hoping to find a way to study black holes ( his brother was granted a special ability alongside him to harness certain space-themed abilities, his own being star creation and stardust manipulation while his brother ess black holds)

-his brother upon using more than his usual power limit causes his body to start collapsing in on itself leading to him losing his hands and legs (he has prosthetics )

-anomalous enters the portal but something goes wrong and he is instead transported through a warm hole created by the portal into a completely new multiverse, his code being completely altered causing him to lose all his memories.

-he is chosen by an ancient God named Stain to be his successor as a guardian and is tasked with helping the multiverse rebuild only for stains Ex and nemesis null to be reawaken alongside him

-anomalous' brother followed him into the portal upon finding he had left him behind, thinking he had finally grown tired of him and abandoned him

-null finds Stellar (anomalous brother) and brainwashes him with the help of another entity named phobia, a being that can alter one's perception of reality by forcing them to be overwhelmed why their fears and insecurities before giving them abilities based on said phobias.

-anomalous is later confronted by Stellar (who renames himself arcana) and after getting in a scuffle with him after Anomalous says he doesn't know who Arcana is

-during the scuffle, anomalous accidentally blows off a chunk of Arcana face leading to Arcana taking his weapon ( a spine-like whip that had a hook at the end of it) and flings him across the ground taking out his eye in the process (an eye for an eye)

-anomalous is found, made fun of, and attacked by a parasite piloting the body of another skeleton, it attempts to possess him but in doing so he is killed

-grim (the reaper of this multiverse) approaches him and guides him to a pocket dimension called the "campfire" , a place where souls retell their life stories to two entities known as Mercury and saturn

-stain intervenes and takes anomalous as he has unfinished business to attend to

-later on anomalous is given a mask to cover said eye

-the council/keepers of the multiverse do not approve of anomalous seeing him as not good enough to fit the role

anomalous works hard to try and gain their approval but his attempts are in vain.

-anomalous is attacked by an angel assisting (saurel) sent to kill him by Celeste ( a higher-up in nulls army who commands an army of angelic beings)

-during the tussle anomalous manages to rip off his blindfold causing Sauriel to retreat (the enchanted blindfold being what Celeste uses to brainwash his army into believing every word he says)

-way later on, anomalous finds Sauriel after he escapes celeste' castle and is told of the atrocities Null and celeste have been doing -Celeste finds them and confronts Anomalous to return Sauriel to him (Celeste before he was corrupted was sauries adoptive father)

-anomalous refuses and instead opts to attempt to fight him- however Celeste during the fight tears off his arm and Anomalous is forced to flee without Sauriel (being saved by captive undivided, one of the guardians of the order)

-he makes it his mission to save Sauriel

celeste belongs to @azulsundertaleblog

oh also! wanted to share a returning character!

The multiverse has multiple other multiverses connected to it. The very first to exist was untoldtale, a multiverse where corrupts inevitably won causing the destruction/implosion of the multiverse. The original anomalous from that multiverse used the last of his magic in order to save the ones he loved, redacted being the one he was focused on saving as they were married.

redacted's code got worse because of this, causing him to not be able to see anyone's names , the way he sees the world is all in text so whenever hearing someone he will see text pop up- however he cannot hear it if it is censored. so whenever someone says a name in reference to someone it will immediately be censored.

(redacted is not romantically involved with the anomalous of the awoken multiverse)

[jinxofthedesert]

Hi there!!! It is the same anon that requested some fic recs ☺ Thank you so much! I may give them a read! They look very interesting! But tbh I'm looking for fics that deal with some more in-depth approach to the twins' psychology and character (I don't mind the romance. In fact, I think it's a really interesting plus to the story when handled well).

(Below this is the rest of the messages, put together. Farther down, below the line, are my responses)  

 I’ve usually seen that the twins are portrayed as soft, loving and caring guys with their partners without real motives for such drastic change of dynamics in their twisted personalities. I mean, the usual Valeska centered fic goes like this: they meet the OC in Arkham or during their childhood in the circus and for some reason they reunite in the present, and then it is just the twins somehow falling for them, changing their whole way of being and only wanting to bang the OC the whole time (without taking into account the lack of the OC's inner conflict about loving such twisted men, because these OCs usually are "sane" and good people that somehow are dragged into the twins' world and for some reason they just fall in love with them without questioning it). But for me the least realistic thing about these fics is that the twins become super nice guys all of a sudden. I mean of course there can be character develoment and growth (up to a certain point), but I haven't really found a story that contains such deep explanation. Let's face it, they're still psychos no matter what, even if they have a partner.  In the last season we get a glimpse of how Jeremiah treats Ecco, someone that he used to appreciate and care for deeply, and she still meant little to him. So it doesn't add up to me when the twins are magically turned into these super sweet caring guys while their twisted, evil and manipulative side is completely ignored. I am not saying they can't love, I am just saying that they surely have their own twisted perception of what love is 🤔 Sorry for my rambling, damn, it took soooooo many comments hahaha!!! OMG, Sorry!😂😂 I had a LOT to say 😂😂😂 But I just find these characters very interesting and I would love to read a story with a more realistic approach to the construction of their personalities (and their twisted way of loving too!). Let me know, please, if you happen to know about some fics/authors 😘 thanks again! 

- - - - - - - - -  Hi again, anon! I’m sorry my list of content in the previous ask wasn’t exactly what you were looking/hoping for. As of right now, besides the ones I sent you that may delve a little bit below the surface, I can’t think of a true ‘character study’ type story that I have read so far. But, again, I usually stay in the area of romance so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are such fics out there under a different genre.

I’ll be quite honest, it’s been a very long time since I’ve read any oc/(input character here), including ones with the twins. Normally, I forget they exist until someone brings it up or I stumble across one on Tumblr accidentally. I do agree, the twins suddenly changing for an OC (or anyone) can be a bit unrealistic but from my years of reading and writing, creating stories with such things is a bit of ‘wish fulfillment’ which, to be honest, isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes a reader just needs content that is kind of good-feeling type fic (though not in a sense of how murderous the twins can be but in them getting some kind of positivity in their lives, whether it be through an OC or another character in the universe). When I wrote Oc’s at the beginning, it was either wish fulfillment for me or simply just wanting these characters I adored to finally have some kind of happy ending which they probably did not deserve, at all. 

A reason you might not find such content is also because, character studies are hard. Especially if you don’t have a complete picture of the character. With the twins, a lot is just coming up with stuff, imaging their past and how it still affects them, even if, on the upper layer we’re shown, doesn’t portray those scars left behind. 

With Oc’s, they can usually be pretty hit or miss. It’s not like you’re taking an already known character with known flaws and putting them in your story. Those characters have a foundation already built. For an Oc, the writer has to literally make someone from the ground up, which is equally as hard without making them seem too whiny, too mary-sue like, or just too problematic. This can leave a lot to be desired which can create something unrealistic as well. That’s why I usually only look for content centered around characters from the show, instead of Oc’s; like with Bruce and the twins because canon-wise there is already something there (depending on how you look at it and write it). 

In regard to Ecco: firstly, I think it’s arguable what type of relationship she even has with Jeremiah when we first are introduced to them. We’re shown some concern on his end when she’s clearly been hypnotized but this can be seen as a boss concerned for an employee, an employee who he’s probably had for awhile now and is one of the very rare few who he trusts to an extent. However, we just don’t know much of anything about their relationship or past together. She might have hardly seen him, only contacting him through phone calls and text messages; she may have only brought him supplies through the maze and never was in his inner personal areas. This treatment is all possible given how Jeremiah is quite literally a paranoid mess before the spray, no matter how well put-together he appears. And, if we’re to compare this to his eventual obsession with Bruce Wayne, we can take a guess that Jeremiah and Ecco probably didn’t get very deep with this connection they had. Mainly because with just a few compliments, Jeremiah is invested in Bruce, something we don’t see with Ecco before or after the spray. So we have Bruce enter the picture (someone who has run into his twin on multiple occasions, a fact Jeremiah must know to some extent with his paranoia probably leading him to constantly check newspapers and the news for info on Jerome) and, if you look at things from Jeremiah’s perspective, besides complimenting him, Bruce looks at him and only sees Jeremiah. And this would be baffling to Jeremiah if he knows the affect Jerome has had on Bruce, for him to look at Jeremiah and not see his twin after everything would be just as big a compliment as anything because it’s differentiating him from his twin. Someone who has probably feared being compared to his brother, for people to look at him and only see Jerome (such as what occurs with Jim and Harvey only hours prior). Because of this, when compared to Ecco, we can deduce that either their conversations never went in such a direction, or she hardly had the extended physical contact to ever bring up Jerome or compare or compliment. If so, it’s possible with how Jeremiah is that something similar could have happened with Ecco. And this eventually leads into the spray where his only true attachment is not Ecco but with Bruce, especially, after his initial spray, Jeremiah’s hatred for Jerome is far worse than it had been before, making Bruce’s assessment of Jeremiah simply being himself and not his brother, far more endearing as well. So, in comparison to Bruce, Ecco means absolutely nothing to him, a means to an end. 

I’ll admit, reading content where the twins are somehow in a relationship (with an oc or canon character) while still being rather insane, are quite interesting. However, for stuff like that to work in a compelling and ‘actual’ way, characters like that have to be bent because these characters logistically working in that kind of environment may never be realistic anyways. This can be worked around of course, but it takes so much time and effort; even now, as I write my stories for Gotham, I’m still trying to work around how to make these ships work for the twins because they’re stubborn and although they have obsessions they, at their cores are not good people and while they may try, seriously try to better themselves, there will always be slip-ups.

I do agree, they can love but it would always be twisted in some way or another (look no further than Jeremiah with Bruce). They’re also a lot of fun to take apart and analyze or try and come up with a type of background that works with all the hints we’ve been given. Background-wise, the twins are really something a writer can make their own which is an interesting concept.

This turned more so into a long ramble of writing and Ocs and lots of Gotham lol but anyways, I wish I could give you a story to fit your needs. I quite hate when I have an itch for certain fics and I either can’t find them or the number of fics is so daunting that I don’t dare even try. I would recommend just going through them, possibly looking for complete content first, or ones with high hits or kudos (depending on the site you’re searching on) because I don’t have any at the moment I can suggest. 

(Honestly the ideas for the twins never stop coming lol, perks of their backgrounds and everything else being so hazy.)

I hope some of this message was at least interesting lol and I do wish you luck in finding good twin content that delves into their character or, maybe you’ll get lucky and someone will publish something like that soon! Either way, I hope you find something 😘

[unwiltingblossom]

But then you are contradicting yourself then; if you say that in Japan the woman gets the man she loved not the other way around then Mai did loved Zuko and so did Katara loved Aang. According to that, it worked fine. And about sasusaku and zutara being similar, their similarities just end at aesthetics only. Don't get me wrong, I ship sasusaku hard and perhaps might have ship zutara if the show was stretched, but Zutara is actually pretty dark. There's just too much rift that needs to be ....

cleared that the 100 year war brought. Then differences in lifestyle like Zuko belonging from the imperial lifestyle while Katara coming from tribal land.  That wouldn’t have fit well. And the bond; Sasuke and Sakura knew each other since childhood. They shared the happier times. That wasn’t the case with Zutara. They started off pretty bad to the point that Zuko ended up nearly killing Aang. The piece you wrote was certainly enlightening and very informative but to compare Sasusaku with Zutara             

Side characters don’t count like that. That said, I did account for Mai, as she is the ‘damaged’ and ‘woman of inferior morals’ that the ‘damaged’ Zuko deserves.  This is similar to if Sasuke had ended up with Karin. Basically, the men need to be ‘good enough’ for the girl, if they’re not the paragon of virtue (the hero), they get a woman who isn’t as ‘good’ as the heroine. This obviously doesn’t really apply in a canon that lacks ‘good guy hero, good girl heroine, bad boy rival/support’ element, but you can see it even in unlikely places, such as X-Men (Scott will always get Jean in the end because he’s the boyscout, while Logan is the bad boy whose love will never measure up to Scott’s, due to his looser morals).

As for Katara loving Aang…  e h h. She falls squarely in the ‘hero earns her love by being a good hero’ square. As Aang hits checkpoints of strength or advances on his hero’s journey, Katara has moments of ‘oh no he’s hot’ or similar. This culminates in him confronting her about his feelings right before the end of the series and her rejecting him on the basis of being ‘confused’. Cue finale, where Aang completes his journey and saves the world. Katara immediately seeks him out and kisses him, resolving her confusion offscreen. Conclusion: her confusion was settled because he completed the prerequisites to unlock her ending.

As for Zutara being darker than Sasusaku…once again… e h h.

I can’t really presume to argue with authority against someone who actually knows the fandom, but I’m going to say what I know of it anyway, and if I’m wrong you or others can correct me.

1- Zuko and Katara are not 100 years old, therefore you cannot project the tensions of the entire war on their relationship and simply say it can’t work under those pretenses. It’s an unfair measurement they appear to overcome in the course of their on-screen relationship anyway.

1b- Sakura is a hardcore village loyalist who is never given any reason to question the Leaf dammit kishimoto and Sasuke views - not completely incorrectly - the village as collectively at fault for the total massacre of his family. While he does change his perspective to ‘the shinobi system as a whole is at fault’, the reason they end up on opposite sides for a while is an extremely personal trauma to Sasuke,  and part of the hatred and oppression of the Uchiha that stretched back to the village’s founding.

2- Zuko being royalty and Katara being tribal doesn’t appear to be a real concern? Do they often butt heads and find themselves incompatible with each other due to this difference of raising? Even if so, would this reasoning not equally apply to Kataang, as Katara comes from a hunting and gathering tribal system, while Aang comes from a peaceful and serene temple monk lifestyle? 

2b- If we consider different raising to be important, then we have to consider the differences between Sasuke and Sakura’s raising. Sasuke is essentially the younger prince of the Uchiha and a genius, with incredible talent that everyone (except his father, at least by his perception) believes means he will OF COURSE end up with some legendary or amazing status…until he’s seven, when his beloved older brother inexplicably goes insane, murders the entire clan including their parents, then forces Sasuke to live through watching those murders repeatedly before abandoning him because he’s ‘not worth killing’. He then lives in his empty home where his parents died, all alone, from that point until joining Team 7. Sakura, on the other hand, has completely normal and unremarkable parents no one knows or cares about. She’s bullied as a child because her forehead is big and she’s timid, until Ino befriends her and teaches her to be tough. For the most part, Sakura doesn’t really have a traumatic childhood like Sasuke does, and she doesn’t truly understand the isolation and pain he suffers until he leaves. When it comes to different backstories, they have quite a rift.

3 - It’s true, they do start out as enemies, but Sasuke and Sakura become enemies, and I don’t know if Zuko and Katara are ever seconds away from outright killing each other and need intervention. I don’t deny that Sasuke and Sakura have a deeper bond to begin with, but there is certainly plenty of angst and hostility between them during the time that they are enemies, despite the fact that both of them love each other and are suppressing it. 

4 - Does Zuko almost kill Aang to the tune of puncturing his lung with his fist and leaving him to bleed out, almost call down a giant lightning storm to kill him, poison him almost to death, or get into such a brutal and long lasting beat down that he blows off Aang’s arm and then nearly kills him through sheer exhaustion and (again) blood loss? I legitimately don’t know the answer to this. However, if the answer is no, I don’t think Zuko ‘almost killed’ Aang as hard as Sasuke ‘almost killed’ Naruto. Therefore, this shouldn’t count as a point against him in a debate over whether Zutara is darker than Sasusaku.

Now, I’m not saying that one is better than the other. I’m not saying they’re identical. My only point here, really, is to show that at least from what I can see…Zutara is not particularly darker than Sasusaku. Yes, Zuko and Katara began as enemies and Sasuke and Sakura didn’t, no Sasuke didn’t ever kidnap her and had to be deeply provoked to try to kill her, but considering how much time is dedicated to moving Katara and Zuko to a point where their relationship has grown beyond that (even as platonic friends, the point still remains the same), I don’t see the reason to hold it against them.

I also said in the post itself that they aren’t identical, merely that they ‘have the same energy’ and that there are some direct parallels between them, so that it’s close enough to make this observation.

Your second ask seems to end abruptly, like there should be a third, but I don’t see one and I have waited a bit to be sure.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on any Zuko and Katara points, but from what I have seen, addressing your specific points, I don’t see the rift between the ships that you do, and would be surprised to find anyone who strongly OTPs Sasusaku and Kataang and NOTPs Narusaku and Zutara.

[irkallanprince]

SPORES (Chapter Two)

Fandom: Power Rangers (2017 movie) Rating: T Warnings: Canon typical violence, discussion of sex, FROG MONSTER! Sexual situations (nothing explicit), mild language Relationships: Billy Cranston/Jason Scott; Kimberly Hart/Trini

Billy and Kimberly are... acting strange.

(read on ao3)

Colt Wallace was a deeply unhappy person. His parents never paid attention to him, his mother was always at work at the diner and his father was always too uh… drunk to really even remember he was alive. It made him angry, deeply and irrationally and often. It was the whole reason why he was always in trouble, why he had detention from now until the end of time. It was why he preyed on the weak. Because if people feared him, they at least noticed him, and he didn’t have the talent or skills to make his name elsewhere.

Up until a couple of months ago, Billy Cranston was his target of choice. It was so easy to pick on him. He was just so… slow. But one day, it seemed like something changed within the boy, and he was literally made out of steel or something. He couldn’t break his arm. He damn near got a concussion trying to headbutt him. Overall, Billy changed, and he just could no longer be a target anymore. That… sucked. But it held the exciting new prospect of choosing a new victim, which he did with glee.

And that’s how Raymond Powers ended up being tormented every day for the last several weeks. Colt usually waited until Jason Scott wasn’t around, because honestly he was intimidated by him, and of course now that he knew Billy was freakishly strong he stayed away from him as well. But once the halls were clear, Raymond was dead meat.

He grabbed him from behind and put him in a chokehold, watching with insane delight as his veins popped from his forehead and his face turned red.

“I just want to know how long it takes for me to put someone to sleep. You’re helping me with research really.” He laughed, squeezing him tighter like a python wrapping up its next meal.

But before he knew it, he was slamming into the lockers behind him. He yelped, in much more pain than he’d like to be. And when he opened his eyes he saw a motley duo looking at him.

“Hey jerk, what’s your problem?” said Kimberly Hart, leaning against the locker across from him. Though she looked… different. Way hot. Not that she wasn’t before. But she was wearing torn up fishnets and a shirt that showed off her midriff with spiky black boots and all dark makeup. She was filing her nails and didn’t seem to be too into him. The one that really spooked him was Billy Cranston, who appeared… well… kind of the same as always. Except for his demeanor. His eyes were colder, more focused. You’d think for someone on the spectrum they couldn’t laser focus on someone so… intently. Violently. But Billy did. He leaned down and fondled the hanging blue safety pins attached to the pocket of Colt’s homemade black torn vest and gave a half smirk.

“I like blue.” He said. And the next thing he knew, Billy was tearing the vest from his body and putting it on himself. He didn’t say another word. Him and Kimberly just sort of… fell into eerie step with each other. It was like one of those old teen horror movies from the 90’s where they had been taken over by something that was not themselves. Raymond looked up at them as they walked past and offered a shaky “T-thank you…” which they smirked and promptly ignored. Did they save him because Colt was being a jerk? Or did… Billy just want to steal his vest?”

* * *

“Hey! Mister sometimes showed up for class!” Trini ribbed Zack as he moved to the seat next to her. He just offered one of his trademark cheeky smiles and gave a knowing shrug.

“Promised my moms I’d do better for her. No big.” He said, sitting down and laying his chin on his crossed arms while he looked back at the little one. Trini picked up her phone and checked her messages again. Still nothing. This was quite unusual. Zack, ever the perceptive one (and mostly since out of the whole gang he had become the closest thing to a brother to her), picked up on her frustration and gave her a quirked eyebrow.

“Everything good, little one?” He asked in sincerity. She popped her tongue and put down her phone.

“Kim hasn’t texted me back since she went to that juice bar downtown last night. Didn’t see her at her locker either. I’m just starting to get uneasy is all.” Trini said. She then picked up her phone again and stared at it as if that would make a new text roll in.

“Don’t fret. She’s probably just… uh… right here.” Zack said, looking up wide eyed as Kim approached.

“Hey girl. You uh… you lookin’ pretty fine today.” Zack smirked, ever the flirt. Trini scowled at him before she turned and got a pretty good look at her girlfriend. Suddenly she couldn’t speak because… well, Kimberly’s tongue was in her mouth. A couple of boys in the room wolf whistled and cat called. Kimberly turned and grinned. She was loving the attention.

“Whoa whoa uh… did you get bitten by Tawny Kitaen or something?” Trini said in reference to old rock and roll music videos as she was want to do, genuinely baffled by her girlfriend’s sudden turn to the dark side. And YET, still excited by it. Kimberly proceeded to eat a piece of bubblegum, blowing a bubble slowly and… can blowing a bubble be sexy? Because it was sexy. Trini was suddenly not so worried anymore. Just excited a little too much.

“KIMBERLY HART!” A voice came from the front of the room. A frumpy older woman had a stern look on her face. Kimberly turned and leaned against the desk like a slinky cat.

“Can I help you, Ms. Appleby?” She grinned, batting her eyelashes. The woman was unamused.

“Kimberly, you’re usually such a model student but you’re breaking several dress code rules right now. Also you’re not even in this class this period!”

“What can I say? Algebra makes me horny.” Kimberly snickered. Ms. Appleby went wide eyed in horror.

“YOU GO TO PRINCIPAL CAPLAN’S OFFICE YOUNG LADY!” She said, visibly flustered by Kimberly’s out of character overt sexuality. Kimberly just blew another bubble and smiled.

“I’ll bite… this time.” She smirked, standing before turning to give Trini a wink.

“I’m taking you out tonight, baby.” She grinned, giving her finger guns, which should be a red flag. Kimberly always thought those were so tacky. As she left amidst a slew of more whistles from horny boys, Trini just stared at her both confused and incredibly excited.

“Dude when did Kimmie get so…” Zack started.

“Hot?” Trini said without a beat.

“Tonight is going to be super fun.”

* * *

Jason was in the locker room changing for P.E. He couldn’t play football anymore because of his antics (and also because like… he’d

demolish

everyone) and he had to continue on pretending he had issues with his leg so nobody would suspect he was a teenaged superhero, but that didn’t mean he didn’t enjoy gym class. He could still run. He could still lift. He’d have to fudge some things here and there to keep up the ruse but he didn’t care. Still he took his time changing and he was generally the last one out of the locker room, so it was no surprise he was alone.

Or so he thought.

He closed his locker and jumped when a face was behind it.

“Fuck! Billy!” He smiled, then chuckled as he tossed his shirt into the locker.

“You scared the shit out of me… Hey, you have one of those ridiculously advanced science classes right now, don’t you? You’re… going to be super late. Doesn’t that like… send you into convulsions?” Jason joked. He knew how Billy liked punctuality. It wasn’t his style to be late, or skip even, yet here they were.

“I have something better in mind.” Billy gave a smile that was devilish and tickled Jason in a way that he wouldn’t say out loud.

Then Billy shoved him against the locker and kissed his neck, his hand gripping his bulge through his gym shorts. Jason groaned for half a second and then stopped, pushing him off.

“Babe I… I mean I like uh… this but you…” Jason was searching for the words to say. He really was denying sex to Billy, wasn’t he?

“You always get shy when we start getting really into things and now you’re trying to do me in the locker room before gym? I love you but… what’s going on?” Jason asked. He was always perceptive, especially when it came to Billy. Billy would never do this normally.

Billy looked at him with those same steely, cold, inhuman eyes that he did Colt earlier. He bared his teeth, then punched the locker next to Jason, a dent forming in the cold metal. He leaned in, lips hovering just over Jason’s. Jason’s breath hitched. He’d never seen this side of Billy, and while it turned him on just a little because it was Billy, he knew something was really wrong now.

“Maybe I just want to live on the edge a little more, J.” He said. And like that, he was gone. He used his ranger speed a little too liberally. Anyone could have seen. Billy was always careful about exposing them. Jason just stared at the door that was left swinging, freaked out by the fact that something had gotten into Billy. Literally.

“I have GOT to warn the others.” He said to himself under his breath. Then he looked down at the stiff tent in his gym shorts and scrunched his nose.

“DAMMIT.” He growled. He’d have to wait to even go to P.E. until this uh… resolved itself.