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in conjunction with my childhood friends adaine and fabian i also want to propose childhood besties kristen and riz. sklonda is panicking, looking for somewhere to keep riz for the day because she works and penny can’t watch him and so she stumbles upon a summer camp. and she’s exhausted and doesn’t read it twice and sends riz to a helioic summer camp. and then this small 10-and-change goblin shows up, backpack and button up and khaki shorts. and he has dozens of eyes on him and there are men in masks and he’s very, very scared.

and then recently chosen kristen applebees walks up and extends a hand. because yeah, he might look scary, but helio loves everyone and this is a person! and his eyes are large and gold like the sun or big ears of corn and so he obviously has to be blessed by helio. and suddenly riz and kristen are best friends. inseparable. riz eats her brussel sprouts and keeps her from tripping over her feet and kristen is his second best friend. riz shows her the world and helps her realize that her religion isn’t what she thought it was. riz who holds her hands when she starts to have sinful thoughts. riz, who kristen kissed at 11, just to see what it was like. riz, who kristen kissed at 18, because she needed to see if there was something wrong with her (and there wasn’t--kristen was just very much a lesbian in denial). 

kristen, who would sit up on the phone to talk riz out of his spirals. who drove him around because the gukgaks could’t afford another car and her mini van was way too big for one. riz, who fit into bricker and cork’s old t-ball shirts. riz, who bandages kristen’s fingers when she bites her nails too close to the quick. riz, who lets kristen tie his ties even though he knows she’s going to do it poorly because kristen looks like she was offered the sun when he lets her do it. riz helping kristen with the children at sunday school and guiding a new generation of helioic followers who have had at least one positive interaction with a goblin. coffee ice cream and milkshakes and evening drives. riz getting breakfast at church after not sleeping for days and barely eating. kristen conning the sweet old ladies into giving her extras so riz can take some home to his mom. 

riz holding her hand in the pew, sitting next to the applebees family and squeezing her hand whenever the pastor says something that makes him flinch. kristen aruging that if ragh was allowed to come, to be around dayne and coach daybreak, then riz was allowed to be her friend. kristen fighting and arguing until she’s hoarse. drying tears and messy braids and pinkie promises.

 riz and kristen who were the only couple of different races at their prom. kristen and riz who are fiercely protective over one another because they are the only two who love each other unconditionally. kristen, who is running and running and running; riz, who is digging deeper and deeper and deeper until his hands are bleeding because he will put in the work to make sure that kristen is safe. kristen is happy. because she saved his life at 10 years old and he will make sure that returns the favor.

alright besties time for childhood friends fig and gorgug.(this one is kinda long so read under the cut) (i forgot you could do that for the other ones wh o o p s)

 they met later than some of the other pairs. fig is freshly fourteen, three months into protruding horns and hands that no longer burn when she places them on still-hot stove tops or sticks her finger into the wax melts gilear had bought before things between him and her mom went south. she’s angry, and bitter, and so young, and sandra lynn is at her wits end. she’s trying, gods is she trying, because she sees every warning sign in fig that she neglected to see in herself. so, sandra lynn sends fig to an anger management camp and hopes for the best.

gorgug is fourteen and change, kicked out of three elementary schools and one middle school for the crime of being himself. taller than all his peers, his parents, too big for every space he’s ever been in. not a single friend to his name. a heart that was too big locked in his chest because no matter how hard he tried, it got shattered in the process. his parents told him that sometimes things break, and that when you fix it, it’s all the stronger for it. but how many times can a heart break before it’s unfixable? and now he’s having feelings he can’t explain--anger and something darker, more primal. something his gnomish parents cry about when they think he can’t hear. but it’s a small tree. and gorgug just wants to be good, wants to make these feelings go away, so when his parents talk about an anger management camp, he agrees without even considering what it means. he isn’t angry--he doesn’t think so, anyway. 

so gorgug sits in a camp full of all sorts of people. he’s in the boy’s section, led by a man who looks like he was made from the earth itself. Porter, he thinks is the name. he isn’t sure. there aren’t any other half-orcs, there. and most of the kids look older than he is. so he tries to be smaller, arms wrapped around his middle to protect everything vulnerable inside. because people are talking about wanting to hit things until they break. violent and anger and frustration that he doesn’t understand. yeah, sometimes his insides feel like they’re boiling, but that’s not--he’s not angry at anything. his body is just. he’s just.

and then there’s someone next to him. a body warmer than his hoodie, pressed against him. “Shh,” they--she whispers. “The girl’s camp sucked. i wanna see what this is about. don’t tell.” 

gorgug nods, mumbles a promise, and he spends the whole time not listening to porter, but making sure the shape behind his back is hidden from view. when the meeting ends, he turns to the sound, “Miss Faethe, there you are.” “It’s Fig!” The girl at his back hisses. She’s pretty, he thinks. Horns just starting to come through reminding him of his tusks, painful and small and intrusive. her hair is clearly done by her own unsteady hand. she looks angry in a way he understands. messy, artistic. he stands up beside her (too tall, too lanky, especially when he straightens his shoulders to take up the space just a bit more). “I asked Fig to come see me.” The lie comes out awkwardly, but it’s the first thing he’s said barring his name. The girls instructor looks at him, narrows her eyes. she’s elvish, he thinks, and he can see why Fig might have been upset about learning about anger from her. 

“Yeah. Porter knows way more about rage than you do, bitch.”

fig and gorgug being opposites of the same whole. fig is sharp, cutting; gorgug is soft, mending. they compliment each other perfectly. fig encourages gorgug to stand tall, to take these feelings he doesn’t understand and create with them. gorgug balances fig, gives her something to lean on when her whole life seems to be falling apart. doing each others nails and eyeliner before anger management meetings. fig dying gorgug’s hair for the first time. gorgug gives her a new hoodie every week.

fig asks him to start a band with her, because they’re both full of feelings that other people can relate to. she wants to create, wants to rebel, and all the greats did so through art, through music. she presses drumsticks into his hands and the first time he lets himself go wild, he understands what she means. he’s drunk on it, the feeling that comes from not caring, just feeling. hitting and hitting and never breaking, because that’s not what he wants to do with his feelings. 

fig finding out they’re going to the same high school and loosing her shit. fig making him hold her hand whenever he’s nervous. gorgug getting his first earned detention for punching a dude in the face for trying to take photos of underneath fig’s skirt. texts every hour when fig goes out to parties and gorgug stays home. midnight drives to taco bell and laughing until their ribs ache in the back of the thistlespring van. sleepovers. so many sleepovers.  affirmations and imposter syndrome and validating each other and their experiences. “we’re real people. we’re allowed to feel. i am successful and my successes are because of my own merit.” fig engaging in drugs and alcohol safely under the roof of the thistlespring tree, because gorgug isn’t curious but knows that his parents won’t mind as long as they’re being safe. fig finding ways to rebel that don’t endanger herself or others. 

just gorgug and fig finding their other half and learning to grow and create and having healthy relationships with their feelings. 

i hope beyond hope that they kidnap this princeps and they become the chef of the wurst. that’s all i want. please teach this sheltered royalty all about dogs and the fast and furious franchise and have french toast in the mornings.

brennan: “shit has gone sideways” brennan. brennan when hasn’t it gone sideways this fucking season. when. please, please tell me.

okay am i just?? loosing it? or did we get any art of the princeps in this episode/the previous one? i cannot remember and it’s blowing my mind. i wanna draw them i think and i just. can’t remember if we’ve seen art.

ive only had princeps zortch for 1 day and i will kill/die for them (if i see anyone misgender them in the tags its on sight 🔫)

✨ kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous ✨

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kristen Applebees & Riz Gukgak Characters: Kristen Applebees, Riz Gukgak Additional Tags: Character Study, Sort of? - Freeform, Religion, Pre-Canon, Bible Quotes (Abrahamic Religions), Minor Injuries, Vomiting, Original Character(s), I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, No Beta We Die Like Gilear, I'm Bad At Titles Summary:

They had met once before, long before the Bad Kids had formed and perhaps before adventuring was at the forefront of their minds. They were far away from Saint Kristen Applebees and Riz Gukgak, Licensed Investigator. They were just Kristen Applebees, follower of Helio and Riz Gukgak, aka Briefcase Kid. 11 years old, freckled and sunburnt in the middle of August, standing on either side of the street. A human who felt a calling deep within her chest and a goblin who held all the answers to Kristen's questions.

finally watching the new starstruck episode and i just gotta say,,,zortch x skip fic when?

okay so you know how like? golden retrievers will hold an egg in their mouth so gently? and that tumblr post about the person who put the egg in their mouth and immediately bit down on it? kristen (or fabian. fabian might) proposes that they try it (they are probably very drunk). adaine refuses to do it, but sets up an egg next to boggy and there’s a few tears shed over the two good round bois. fig does it and intentionally breaks the egg. kristen goes full monkey brain and also breaks it. fabian refuses to do it at first but gets peer pressured. he pulls out a quail egg and suddenly it’s a competition to see how many of those he can fit in his mouth. riz struggles to fit the egg and after a valiant attempt, cracks that bad boy open and nurses it like a fine liquor. gorgug is a golden retriever. he holds it so gently in his hands and he is so paranoid that he’s going to break it that he drops the first one. the second, though. fig takes a video and titles it “golden retriever himbo” and it gets a million views. gilear somehow gets roped into doing it and gets salmonella. kristen laughs so hard she pulls a muscle. twice. before she heals him. kristen was going to ask ayda, but riz wails about cannibalism and they devolve into a squabbling mess that ends in them just straight up throwing eggs at each other. eggs are now banned in mordred manor if there isn’t an adult there to supervise them.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Riz Gukgak/Fabian Aramais Seacaster, Riz Gukgak & Fabian Aramais Seacaster, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Fabian Aramais Seacaster, Riz Gukgak Additional Tags: Pining, Drabble and a Half, Short One Shot, Part of a larger fic that i'll finish someday, Love Languages, Aged-Up Character(s), Just a little they're like? College-age here, Alternate Universe - College/University, Again just slightly, It's a mess with no context i'm sorry, Food, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Oranges specifically, Oranges, love that that's a tag, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary:

Fabian Seacaster, oranges, and Riz Gukgak.

[This is an excerpt from a fic that I plan to write but it's been sitting forever and I wanted to post THIS at least lol]

do you think sam saw penelope’s body? like. they got there a little after kalvaxus died. the police were there, yeah, but there’s seven teenage girls set on revenge, six kids and some of their guardians who just saved the world, and the elmville police are just known to be incompetent. Arthur Aguefort was busy resurrecting a dragon to ensure he didn’t become a victim to the seven’s wrath. and sam walks in, a storm at her fingertips, and suddenly everything dies down because penelope is dead on the ground in the prom dress they shopped together for. her best friend, the person she loved more than anyone else in the world, the person who betrayed her, is dead. do you think she tried to resurrect her? did she spend those precious few moments before kalvaxus was brought back begging and screaming for ostentatia, for yelle, to bring her back. did sam spend rounds of combat shooting spells at Aguefort, demanding that he use “the most powerful magic in the world” to bring penelope back. because she had so many things to ask her. there’s so much anger and love and regret hanging between those two and i just wonder what sam felt, seeing her world dead just for a shitty prom queen crown.

okay we know that like. k was kind of a weeb. like. they were on the internet for a long time. now please imagine k listening to the vocaloid song magnet and pining over sam. 

The Bad Kids (ft. Ragh) as songs from TWICE’s album “Feel Special”

Feel Special: Fabian. The title track. He’s the Bad Kid’s leader, and he sets the tone. This song in particular was written for one of the members, Mina, who took leave due to her anxiety. This song and album was her return to the group and group activities. It is a love letter from TWICE to her. In that vein, this is the Bad Kids’ love letter to Fabian. He’s not just their leader, not just some rich kid they hang out with, not just the son of Bill Seacaster. He’s their friend, Fabian. “One moment I feel like I’m nothing at all/ Like no one would notice if I were gone/ But then when I hear you calling me/ I feel loved, I feel so special.”

Rainbow:  Gorgug. He’s struggled a lot with his rage and I feel like he has a lot of self-esteem issues. But we’ve seen how kind, considerate, and amazing he is! He’s the real opposite of what we expect a barbarian to be. But he’s started to grow into himself and started becoming who he wants to be, and not what people want of him. Drumming in Fig’s band, becoming an artificer, I don’t think Gorgug saw himself doing those things. But now that he’s allowing himself to be who he wants to be and just go for it, he’s showing all his colors.  “Open up a new road behind the clouds/ Walk in the wide skies where your path will unfold/ You can go anywhere, wherever you want/ You can go anywhere, wherever you want/ It’s not too late, you can get to the purple line” 

Get Loud: Adaine. When pushed, she’ll push back just as hard. There’s a lot of rage building up inside her. Overlooked; treated as the second; inferior to her sister and unsuitable in her parents’ eyes. Carving her own path, not being afraid to bare her teeth and raise a fist (or ladle) at anyone who dares cross on her on this path of her own making. Willing to defend her friends at any cost, supporting them and twisting fate in order to ensure their success. She’s been silent for long enough; you’re going to listen to her, or face her wrath. “I’ll pass the line in front of me at my feet (Get Loud)/ Stop with the dangerous jokes, or there’s going to be trouble/ In my eyes, it’s right at the edge/ If you take one step (Get Down)?/ It’s a very close call, this is really big trouble (Might Get-Get-Get Loud)”

Trick It: Fig. Honestly this song just gives me Fig vibes! I feel like this is a reflection of Fig before she starts dating Ayda and really starts to be herself. The idea that she has to “trick” Ayda into loving her, because the Real Fig is someone no one can love without there being some trickery involved. The way she first starts bonding and connecting with Ayda being disguise self induced shenanigans. Preparing to be misunderstood but hoping that Ayda will understand her regardless. “Good misunderstanding, bad misunderstanding/ I secretly prepared it/ My behavior is weird/ But I need you to understand it”

Love Foolish: Kristen. This song is about a toxic relationship--being in love with someone you shouldn’t be. The more Kristen learns about her God, the more she realizes that He isn’t who she thought she was. But, she still has that desire to serve a deity, to find divine answers to all the questions she has. The more she searches, the more doubt she has, but she still believes that Something, Someone, out there has the answers. And even if it's foolish, she’s going to try and find them. “Yeah, it’s true/The sweet ones were dangerous/I know I was a fool…I don’t know what’s going on, I can’t explain it/I’m trapped in a labyrinth of strange feelings”

21:29: Ragh. This is Twice’s love letter to their fans, and it’s Ragh’s to the Bad Kids. His whole life changed because of them! Ragh finished his schooling with them, graduated because of them, and is going on a soul searching journey with Tracker because of them. He was able to come out and accept himself because of their influence! I definitely think that Ragh and the Bad Kids are going to be friends for their entire lives, but even if they aren’t, they changed him. They made a profound impact on his life, and that’s not something you can forget or take back. “Even if it’s a dream, I like it/ Tomorrow, I’ll be there (This is for you)/ Even if you’re not/ That’s okay, I’ll remember you (You’re my dream)/ Little by little/ Our memories piled up/ I will always keep them/ As they were (This is for you)” 

Breakthrough: Riz. Breakthroughs are when you hit that pivotal moment, find the one clue that brings the entire case together. A lot of Riz’s adventuring has been spent trying to reach this point. Going to Aguefort with the sole intent to locate Penny. Making friends to look for clues. Searching and searching until his hands are bleeding. He has to reach that point, or it’s meaningless. But then he starts to really trust the Bad Kids, starts to go on his own personal journey and find the clues for himself. And he’s reaching his own breakthrough, killing not only Kalvaxus but Kalina as well, avenging his father, solving the case, and becoming his own person. “Everybody break, break, breakthrough/ Cast aside all the doubts and grow up/ My heart links now to the future/ The beat is heating up, movin’ on, movin’ on/ Fight the weakness, gain strength from your heart/ Break the limit, baby/ Breakthrough let go”

hi i don’t know how any logistics would work but i think that penny luckstone and cathilda the black should absolutely interact

me making the most complicated and wild euphoria-esque au of the bad kids: these terrible children can fit so many complex relationships built on trauma :)

one (1) person asked me to elaborate so here we go

so it’s a college au! it starts just before they move into their dorm for the freshman year

it’s also fantasy races but no magic! because i don’t want to deal with that sldkhgslkdgh

it is fabian and riz centric with fabriz being the ultimate end goal

the bad kids do NOT know each other to start! our primary friend groups include riz and kristen, as well as fabian, gorgug, adaine, and fig

everyone has so much trauma. thank god Aguefort college has free therapy :)

riz immediately gets hate crimed by ragh, dayne blayde, and fabian

fabian was a bully most of his life but this really stuck with him. he KNOWS he should of stopped something, but he’s afraid of his reputation in the Owlbears, the football fraternity, and less apparent at the start, his fear of being outed as gay

he and adaine are dating (and have been dating for almost three years) because of this 

he and fig both struggle with accepting themselves and are very self-destructive; they end up leaning on each other to vent steam, resulting in a friends with benefit sort of situation

fig, in general, is in that rebellious teenage phase, but falling fast and hard. she’s struggling with addiction of various forms, as well as an eating disorder. she’ll go through periods of “recovery” but will relapse. fabian is afraid that if he brings it up, she’ll cut him off and get more and more reckless without any support system to help her. 

gorgug will also help his friends; he is, out of all of them, the most stable and is a grounding force for a lot of them (but oh boy, even a rock will weather with time :DDDDD )

riz hates fabian’s guts immediately. he reads right through his façade and loathes everything he is and stands for.

riz meets gorgug and fig after getting dunked in a trashcan at lunch and gorgug walks in on him freaking out in the bathroom trying to get a stain out. he offers riz a tidestick he keeps in his pocket for emergencies and leaves before riz can give it back. riz vows to find him and return the favor somehow (hint hint--he does!)

fabian overhears riz and kristen talking and riz talks about being stressed about finances, because while his school is covered he only has a little for food and other expenses, and he also worries about his mom and their bills. fabian decides that this is the PERFECT opportunity to apologize to riz and corners him, essentially threatening him into being his tutor 

riz only accepts because fabian offers him a frankly RIDICULOUS amount of gold

and after the first meeting fabian realizes that riz is not what he thought he was at all. and he starts to fall for riz hard. 

so, he does what anyone would do in the situation--use all his resources to spoil riz. except is it really spoiling if riz actually needs these things? fabian doesn’t think so

and then ya know the conflict about riz believing that fabian only sees him as a charity case to soothe his own ego and fabian worries that riz only hangs around him for the money. 

that’s basically it alskdhklghsd! we explore all the fun dynamics between the friends, people start to get help and learn how to be functional human beings, and fabian gets his kisses in! eventually! 

some fun things just to put them down: everyone gets piercings together, ragh redemption arc, zelda and gorgug are both poly, fabian is a business major (even he isn’t stoked about it)

me making the most complicated and wild euphoria-esque au of the bad kids: these terrible children can fit so many complex relationships built on trauma :)

hey i’m back on my thinking about adaine and fabian bullshit. the amount of rituals they construct to communicate silently with one another. adaine’s fork is tilted at a 45 degree angle and her soup spoon is slightly touching the salad fork, so she obviously wants him to grab a roll and apply marmalade and butter and set it on her plate first before grabbing one for himself. fabian has barely touched his lembas and he’s eating his roasted vegetables with salt and not pepper, which means he’s feeling way out of his depth and would like her to place a hand on his thigh underneath the table. 

sunday mornings are family dinners between the Abernants and the Seacasters, but it is only Hallariel and Fabian are invited. The afternoon is there’s while the adults discuss going-ons in Fallinel and Adaine will read pilfered romance novels and battle-magic texts Fabian brings for her as he goes through his fencing routines. Except his routines are always beginner level, gone through slow and meticulous so Adaine’s calculating eye can pick up the movements. In return, once he’s sweat-slick and there’s an ache in his muscles she’ll teach him the magics she’s learned from the books he’s brought. Hands pressing to his shoulders, his arms, finding the hand wrapped around the hilt of his blade and weaving intricate, ancient enchantments for true strikes and heroic transformations. 

adaine texting in the middle of the night and the ache of not being able to come to her rescue. there’s a trellis attached to her window, for heaven’s sake! it’s like the abernants want him to scale the ivy and flimsy wood to comfort their daughter like they never would. instead, he puts her on speaker and sets his phone in the kitchen, talking through the process of pickling or brining or cookie making with cathilda until he hears the soft, “Goodnight,” in his head, not through the speaker of his crystal.

fabian who lets adaine control every point of contact. who asks permission before he so much as brushes against her with a look or a whisper because he never wants to frighten her. adaine pushing herself into his arms after her first day at aguefort and sobbing into his chest. fabian wiping blood away with his thumb and grabbing her clean clothes and guiding her shaking arms through the sleeves of his letterman jacket. fabian letting her trace spells into his skin and nearly coming over to challenge her father to combat because of how he treated her when he picked her up from school. 

once they’ve settled into aguefort and become more comfortable in their respective classes they start to fight like they were made to be together. adaine’s eyes will flash blue and fabian will feel the tingle of ancient magic in his fingers, his chest, and his blade will strike when it would have missed otherwise. adaine pressed to his back, dangerously close to the front for a wizard. adaine, forcing her spells to disobey normal rules of magic to protect her childhood friend, casting shields with an outstretched hand and calling forth waves and seafoam instead of rigid arcane force. 

and when fabian begins to do magic, begins to tap into the elvish part of him he only truly indulged around adaine, he finds parts of her bleeding into it. those stories she whispered on sunday mornings become the inspiration he presses to her temple; it’s his hand around hers, now, guiding her fingers to wrap around her sword and guiding her through the motions to ensure she’s as smooth as seawater. reverently kissing each knuckle before battle to keep their romantic charade going and tasting the blood and static on his lips when her fury becomes known to whoever steps into her path. 

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Margaret Encino/Princeps Zortch Characters: Margaret Encino, Princeps Zortch Additional Tags: First off: I'm sorry, Bulges and Nooks (Homestuck), (i'm sorry: again), Xenobiology, Tentacles, Interspecies Relationship(s), Interspecies Sex, Masturbation, authority kink, Praise Kink, Daddy Kink, Bad BDSM Etiquette, BDSM, Light BDSM, Dom/sub, Light Dom/sub, speedrunning into sex except its two parts now, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags May Change, Face Slapping, Nonbinary Character, Canon Non-Binary Character, title may change, Summary may change, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Spanking, nook slapping, Riding, bulge riding, Hair-pulling, Crying, Bodily Fluids, degradation kink, light bratting, Consent, Communication, Listen they're doing bad bdsm etiquette but at least they communicate through it, Biting, Nook Fingering (Homestuck), Painplay, Multiple Orgasms, Sexual Roleplay, Explicit Sexual Content, Aftercare, just a little, Top Drop, AGAIN just a little Summary:

Zortch is, understandably, very attracted to Margaret Encino. Their boss, for all intents and purposes. And there's another title, too, that the crew has whispered amongst themselves that makes their blood run hot. Daddy. And, if they're reading Margaret right, then they're not the only one feeling something. An encounter ensues.

Chapters: 11/? Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan Kelmp/Dream, Evan Kelmp/Whitney Jammer, Evan Kelmp/Sam Black, Sam Black/Whitney Jammer, Sam Black/Dream, Dream/Whitney Jammer, Evan Kelmp/Dream/Whitney Jammer/Sam Black, The Pilot Program Characters: Evan Kelmp, Dream (Dimension 20), Whitney Jammer, Sam Black Additional Tags: Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Eventual Romance, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Poly Magical Misfits, Hair Braiding, self-care, taking care of each other, Holding Hands, Hugs, Touch-Starved, Panic Attacks, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Scars, Developing Relationship, Threatening violence, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Friends to Lovers, Drabble Collection, some might be longer than others tho, Magic, listen. listen i don't care what aabria says they have BATHROOMS OKAY, Showers, POV Multiple, POV Alternating, POV Third Person, McDonald's, Can it be a magic and misfits fic without mentioning mcdonalds ya'll, Some Plot, Swearing, Sweet, Implied/Referenced Suicide attempt, Evan's backstory is not kind and neither am I, Sharing Clothes, Evan-centric, But will bounce around to everyone don't fret, Honestly Friends to Lovers Speedrun Edition, summaries are so hard, Summary may change, Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, Texting, Makeup, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Blood and Injury, Blood, Dissociation, Gender Issues, Gender Identity, Hair, No Beta We Die Like Gilear, Not Beta Read, Emotions, Libraries, minor OCs - Freeform Summary:

A poly retelling of Misfits and Magic following the four American students at Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts learn about magic, mysteries, friendship, and each other.

Outta Pocket

"As you guys leave town, you see a woman in what appears to be red silks with various blades strapped to different parts of her body, holding a man above the River of Souls. A river, which you all know, is famous for killing whoever is dropped into it." Brennan describes the scene.

"I would like to roll an Insight check." Siobhan/Maiko the Kitsune Rogue spoke, holding up her d20 die.

"Ok. Go ahead and make an Insight check for me," Brennan says.

A clattering of die on table is softly heard through the dome and Siobhan's cringe is seen. "A 3?"

"Yep. Everything seems normal. This is fine. But this is the River of Souls, and scary lady is wearing a bunch of very sharp knives, so you begin to question whether this guy is okay."

"Okay. I want to slowly approach and kind of listen in."

"Alright, make a Stealth check for me."

"A 16."

"You are hidden in trees and can only be seen if someone really tries to find you. You could hear the Kings messenger on the way out of town, of course, so he is louder than before, and you can kind of hear what the stranger is saying." Brennan narrates what conditions Maiko is in.

"'PUH-PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! THE KING OF REGALIA ONLY MEAN TO SEND YOU A MESSAGE!' The messenger is going to make another charisma-saving throw..." Brennan rolls a d20 die behind his curtain, "'You know the saying: 'Don't kill the messenger!' And he begins to relax as he is then set upon solid ground by the stranger in red."

"I turn to leave and tell everyone what is going on." Siobhan as Maiko narrates what she does now.

"Great! Now, what happens next?" Brennan looks at you.

"I want to give him this false sense of security and just brush at his shoulders, kind of like superheroes do when they dangle someone over a roof and bring them back up just to do that and then dip out, but I want to say... 'I do believe in killing the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message.' And then push him into the River of Souls." And a small pause ensues where everyone is looking at you in shock.

"Whoa..." Emily/Anabella the Human Bard says, looking at you, then Brennan, then back at you.

"THAT IS THE HARDEST SHIT I HAVE EVER HEARD." Lou/Oswaldo the Half-Elf Cleric slaps the table while everyone just looks at you in amazement.

"Okay! Hey, Y/N! Wanna introduce your character to the party?"

"Hey guys. I'm Ivy. I am a Blood Hunter Tiefling. I was originally a mercenary for hire but now I am a wandering traveler just trying to right the wrongs of society. In the most violent way possible." You introduce yourself to the group.

What a fun beginning to a DnD campaign.

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No because why have I thought to start a campaign and use this as my opening line? Any-who, I have a LOT of drafts and a load of writers' block to get over, so I may be posting quite a few times. Have a great night! Bye!