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recently discovered i am in a minority which is that reeve tuesti is genuinely one of my favorite final fantasy characters. why doesn't anyone like reeve 😭 where is my reeve content 😭
catfish k. kozume
in which kenma finally meets his online best friend and crush , whom his friend , kuroo , is convinced is a catfish , only to realize they're so much better in person
kenma sat at a table in his favorite cafe, secretly excited to finally meet the person he had been chatting with for so long.
his friend, kuroo, had insisted to come along, the rooster haired boy badly disguised at a nearby table, trying to remain secretive, though his act just made him stand out more.
the blonde boy huffed out a sigh at his friend's obvious spying, slouching down in his seat, pulling his nintendo 3ds further over his face as he attempted to distract himself.
only a few moments later he heard a familiar voice clear their throat, looking up to see the person he had been texting and calling for months standing in front of him.
"hey," he shyly mumbles at the beaming smile in front of him, setting down his gaming console.
"it's nice to finally see you in person!" they replied eagerly, sitting down across from him.
"yeah," he quietly replied, shooting off a quick text to his friend.
told you they were real.
I LOVE ATSUSHI MY LIL GUY
I know I make his hair like extra big but shhh
That was so cute. I love him.
No longer in the Godzilla fandom >:3
Hi I haven’t posted in a while. Anywho.
played homicipher with the full dictionary ..loving that mr crawling said you looked pretty in a wedding dress
he's so cute when he's goofy
steal your brother’s clothes
lowkey always liked Jay’s movie design/redesign better than his og. Jay with freckles is just perfection.
I started watching season 8 the other night- (I was really hype but i only watched a couple Minutes of episode 1 cause i got really focused on some art i was making and wanted to give season 8 my full attention later).
I don't remember/know much about this season (or the oni trilogy as a whole) outside of the stuff with garmadon and harumi so I'm hoping there's a lot of other cool stuff to see Too. I might post live reactions of little notes I take through each ep but idk. The oni trilogy awaits me, and in honor of that here's this poll!
Idk what the general Fandom reaction was to these redesigns when they first came out but like-
Also no spoilers please!!
Steven Grant x FReader.
Tags - Warnings: Sad baby Steven. Angst but not that bad, lol. Mentions of violence. Mentions of Marc and Jake. Word count: 1477. Summary: The feeling of being trapped goes beyond the ankle bracelet that keeps him tied to the bed. It’s the emptiness of waking up every day without knowing what happened the night before, the memories of a relationship he didn’t experience firsthand, or perhaps the empty sockets of a deranged god looming over him every minute of the day.
First he hears the alarm, then he feels the pain of his entire body throbbing because Marc did who-knows-what with it. Or maybe it was Jake. Does it even matter? The point is that someone didn’t have the courtesy to keep the suit on for a few more seconds the previous night so that Steven could wake up without feeling like a truck had run him over.
Fortunately, this time he remembered to remove the ankle restraint before getting up to avoid a doubly painful fall. It didn’t take much effort for him to stand up; he was never one of those people who liked to stay in bed after the alarm went off, although, of course, that was also Marc’s fault.
If he could avoid being in bed as much as possible, it was better for him.
He swallowed the lump in his throat when he noticed the absence of one of the two goldfish that had been living in his fish tank for the past few months. He didn’t even want to ask, although the mess in his apartment was explanation enough that some kind of fight had taken place there.
When he looked at his reflection in the spoon he used to mix his coffee, he hoped that one of them would apologize. Marc did it occasionally, Jake would silently fix the mess and hope that would be enough to solve his mistake.
Nothing.
Silence, not even a glance.
That’s how it was for a few seconds until his phone rang, notifying him of a message.
✉ → Lovey. ♡
✉ ; Good morning, Steven!
✉ ; Do you want a donut? I’m about to buy some for breakfast.
✉ ; Goodnight! Love you. <3
✉ ; Hey there! Look at this picture of a kitten I found. It looks just like you, don’t you think?
✉ ; Goodnight. :)
Finally, amidst six unanswered messages from you, Steven finds one of his own.
✉ ; I kove tou.
He rolls his eyes to himself. Did he really send that without even checking if it was properly written? Well, it was to be expected, it was the last thing he did before falling asleep.
Another problem caused by Jake and Marc. They checked text messages the second they arrived, so when Steven wanted to communicate with you, he found himself with at least ten of your messages unanswered, just opened, waiting for a response.
Frustration made him close his eyes and take a deep breath. Couldn’t they do that one simple thing for him? Just let him know he had to reply to something. It was simple.
“Jake? Marc?” He called out as he turned his head towards his open bathroom. He could see his reflection from there without any problem.
There was no response.
“She matters to me.” It was the only thing he said as his knuckles pounded on the table, a self-soothing action. “She’s all I have. Do you know that?”
Marc wants to object but stays silent so Steven can continue.
"She’s all I have.” This time his voice breaks, and his hand continues with the pounding. “My apartment is no longer mine. I no longer have my job. I no longer have my body. I no longer have my life.” The pounding grows stronger as tears fill his eyes.
Steven has never had a problem with his sensitivity. When he feels the need to cry, he does, and that’s it.
“She matters to me.” He repeats. “And you can’t do one simple thing for me, which is to support me.” He slams his phone with the opposite hand against the table. “I’m going to lose her because you can’t even notify me that I have a message to respond to. You’re suffocating me, both of you.”
There were a few seconds of silence before he continued speaking. “I’m trapped.” It was the last thing that came out of his lips.
As if God himself had heard his words, the poor phone starts ringing. It’s a call, and Steven can do nothing but take a deep breath and clear his throat so that his voice doesn’t sound as fractured as it feels.
It’s you. And you don’t wait a second after the ringtone ends, not even waiting a greeting from his side.
“This city is trying to kill me.” You say quickly, taking advantage of the fact that for the first time in a long time Steven managed to answer the call in time. “Do you want to go to the beach?”
Steven laughs. Well, more like exhales through his nose, doubting whether you’re serious or not.
“I’m 5 minutes away from your apartment.” You speak again to confirm that you’re not joking. “Do you want to go? Are you free?” He can hear your smile in your voice.
“I’m free.” His gaze wanders over the mess in his apartment; he’s definitely not free. Besides, he already knows that on Wednesday afternoons Jake… Whatever it is he does those days, he never wanted to answer him.
“Steven.” The voice finally makes itself heard in the mirror. “Not today. You know that I…”
“Please, let’s go.” The English accent is stronger when he’s annoyed, you’ve noticed that even though seeing him annoyed is like seeing Halley’s Comet. “I can’t take it anymore. Please, take me.”
“Do you think we should pursue architecture?” You hit the plastic bucket with your small plastic shovel until your instinct tells you that you can lift it without risking the sand getting stuck.
You form the piece number 8 in your huge sandcastle while Steven is trying to figure out how to create a fake tiny lake without the sand swallowing the water.
It’s fascinating to see him in a completely different environment from the one you always find yourselves in. In the city, there’s always noise, people are always busy, always rushing from one place to another, and you feel your lungs hurt from breathing in the pollution around you.
You prepared enough activities to keep yourselves occupied the whole day, and you were still on the first one, spending a good twenty minutes concentrating on building the sandcastle. Of course, the first ten were a struggle to avoid fixating on Steven’s tanned skin, the way a small belly formed in his body from sitting upright, or even the muscles in his arms flexing as he dug with his own tiny shovel.
When you noticed his focus on the game, you wondered if Steven ever had the chance to do something like this as a child.
You knew his situation inside out; it had become an explanation for the days he disappeared without a trace, the bruises on his body, or the unanswered messages. So, it was impossible for you not to feel warmth in your chest when you saw him smile, attempting a very poor imitation of the Giza Pyramid with wet sand.
“I brought some residents.” A couple of Calico Critters figurines were in your hands, a handful that you offered to the guy beside you.
His eyes lit up.
“Did you collect these? They’re definitely your kind of trinket.” You nodded in response to his question, smiling with flushed cheeks. “Alright, this one will be the pharaoh.” He was so delicate when he took one of the teddy bears in your hands that a sigh escaped your lungs.
“These will be his servants.” You stacked the figurines around the construction, which seemed to have no particular sense. You even placed one in Steven’s makeshift water lake, which had somehow worked already. “Steven?”
“Huh?” The smile on his lips dazzled you as he looked up. His curls were more pronounced with the moisture from the beach, his cheeks flushed from the heat, and you had never seen someone whose eyes were complemented so well by the golden hour.
Those huge brown eyes that made your heart race, they usually stood out because of the dark circles underneath them, but today they seemed to shine like stars, even in the full light of day.
“Did you like the beach when you were a child?”
“I don’t know.” He was honest; his childhood was something very blurry for him. It wasn’t like that before, but Marc’s appearance had complicated something in his brain. Now he doubted which parts were true and which were not, so the most accurate thing to do was to admit that he didn’t know. “I had a dream about Layla a while ago, I know she went to the beach one day with Marc or something like that. Maybe I’ll ask him later if he used to like it, if he bothers to respond.”
“What do you mean?” Your fingers arranged another Calico Critter at the fake entrance of your sandcastle.
“They disappear when I ask questions. Both of them.” Steven began to fill his own bucket again, compacting the sand inside it every now and then with his small shovel. He had chosen the yellow one. “This morning they decided to ignore me.”
You simply nodded, already familiar with the tone of “I’m going to talk until I’m tired” in his voice.
“Can you believe it?” His hands flattened the sand where he planned to place the bucket. “I woke up feeling like I got beaten up, and I don’t doubt that it happened. It’s the second time this week, not to mention the mess in my apartment. That must be the mess number 118 since we apparently cleared things up.”
He wishes that he was dramatizing, but he has lost count of how many books he has lost in those messes and how many goldfish they try to replace as if Steven was a child who wouldn’t notice.
“I thought there would be no more lies between us, I thought we were working as a team.” He avoids your gaze as his chest tightens and his breathing becomes erratic; here comes the crying again. “But I’m not included anymore, I’ve realized that.”
Silently, you decide to lean your cheek against his shoulder. His skin feels as warm as it looks, and it’s pleasant, the warmth of both of you colliding comfortably.
“I feel like I’m walking blind. I don’t know at what point in my life I am, I don’t know what we have planned for the future, or if this is all I’ll have for the rest of my days.” His cheek rests against your hair, a way to let you know that he happily receives your touch. “I feel like I’m…”
“Trapped?” You complete with a sigh. Even his words come out as if someone is strangling him, choked, painful.
“Trapped.” He nods slowly, comforting himself by focusing on how his index finger draws fake windows on the sandcastle. “And you.”
“And me.”
“How can I ask you to be with me if I can’t even send you a coherent text message?” The pain in his chest is stronger than the shyness he would feel at any other time admitting his interest in you.
But the truth is, it’s already too obvious.
What Steven and you have is not easy to label. In fact, it’s impossible, but it would be foolish to pretend that there isn’t something you’ve both known for a long time.
You love each other. And you’re trying to do what’s best for each other.
That has always been enough for you.
“We are together, Steven.” Your head remains on his shoulder as you lean back slightly, enough to look at him with a faint smile. It would be stupid to pretend that you’re not worried about him and everything he just said, but it’s more important for you to clarify that your relationship doesn’t have to be part of all that emotional burden weighing on his shoulders for so long.
“Eh? B-But I…”
Your lips silence him, a very short and small kiss. Chaste and innocent, just like Steven himself, or like the feelings you share.
“We are together.” You confirm once again before going in for another kiss.
The rest of the day at the beach is as peaceful as the beginning. Together, you eat the pile of snacks you packed and even toast with two juice boxes, one apple and one orange.
You step on the sand mounds that used to form a castle together and, almost at the end, you sit on the shore to let the water tickle your feet. You also filled your little bucket with water several times to pour it on Steven, but that’s another story.
You saved the best part for last.
“Did you know that Dr. Seuss was a terrible person?”
“Steven, I didn’t bring it up so you could ruin a childhood experience for me.” You bite your lower lip to keep from laughing as you make room on the beach lounger that both of you claimed as your own as soon as you saw it.
You had to lie on your side so that both of you could fit without being cramped, even raising your leg over his and resting an arm on his chest.
You close your eyes, enjoying the feeling of his breath rising and falling against your arm slowly.
“One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.” He says amidst a small laugh. This must be a trap of yours to hear him stumble over his own words in that adorable English accent that always makes you smile.
“A classic.” Your fingers wander over his abdomen, tickling him.
“Okay, okay. I’ll read it, leave me alone.” He finally gives in before clearing his throat.
The discussion was longer than the time it took for you to fall asleep. With your head resting on Steven’s chest and one of his arms around your shoulders as he held the book in front of both of your faces.
As soon as your breathing became heavier, he decided it was time to stop the torture of reading a rhyming book as someone who spoke so fast. So, he placed the book on his stomach and focused on holding you, feeling the beating of your heart against his body.
The sun began to set, and for the first time, Steven had time for himself and his thoughts.
He didn’t hate Marc. He didn’t hate Jake. How could he? They were two vital parts of him, and like him, they had a thousand things to carry. Maybe next time he would ask both of them how they feel or if they’re doing okay.
Sometimes he forgot that he could have these moments. Feeling light, carefree. He could take a break and forget about the rest of the world in your arms. Could they do that too?
With a sigh, he let go of all the heaviness he had been carrying in his body since he woke up that day. And he looked down.
The way you assured him you two were together was the next thing that crossed his mind. Was being trapped really that bad? The truth was, no. He liked his life, at least the part that belonged solely to him.
He liked being trapped in his small apartment with the things he loved the most. He liked being trapped in the noisy city that had embraced him since he arrived. He liked being trapped in his body with Marc and Jake, not being alone. He liked being trapped in your arms.
He just had to take the time to appreciate it more often.