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[fanfic-chan]

Caught in the Crossfire

(Ler!Merold/Lee!Arupek)

Author's Note: OOoooOoo y'all wanna watch Fragaria Memories so bad OOOooOOOoooo... All jokes aside, I wrote this cute little drabble for my good friend @anzynai, whom first introduced me to the series! Make sure to go wish her a happy birthday! I hope you have a wonderful time on your special day, and enjoy the fic! 💖

Summary: Arupek and Sanah have a waterfight and Merold gets caught in the crossfire. Arupek pays the ultimate price for this.

Wordcount: 1.3k

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Arupek was a lot of things; Kind, funny, outgoing, determined... Yet, for all his good qualities, foresight had unfortunately never been one of them...

He hadn't meant to soak Merold with his trusty water gun, Big Dreamer. Not at all, in fact, he'd actually been aiming for Sanah.

The two of them had gotten bored while waiting around for a meeting between all three of the bouquets to start, and after a while they had decided to pass the time by goofing around outside for a while.

It was midsummer and it was pretty hot out, so one thing had led to another and a waterfight had broken out between them.

It had been going well up until now, and even with Sanah weaponizing a spray nozzled water hose he'd found in My Melody's courtyard, Arupek had been holding his own quite well. After all, he wouldn't be Pekkle's Fragaria if he couldn't hold his own in a water based activity!

Arupek had been pursuing Sanah after his water hose had gotten a kink in it, preparing to take the final shot to secure his victory, when disaster struck.

Only a few precious steps behind Sanah, he rounded a corner of the castle and opened fire with a victorious shout, hitting his target dead center and soaking him entirely!

The only problem? His victim didn't end up being Sanah.

It was Merold.

Oh. Oh no...

Both Sanah and Arupek stared at him, frozen in horror. Merold remained dreadfully silent for a moment, before finally speaking with a deceptively friendly smile.

"Sanah. Given that this entire incident is partially your fault, I'd suggest that you go ahead and get a decent head start while I see to Arupek here." He spoke sweetly, but his eyes were telling an entirely different story as he fixed his gaze onto the blue haired knight.

"Sorry man, good luck!" Sanah wasted no time at all in deserting him to his fate, and Arupek was soon left all alone with a very soggy and very ticked off Merold.

"Run." Was the only warning he got before Merold was on him, and Arupek just barely managed to dodge as he moved to grab him. He let out a small squeak of fear before taking off, blazing through the courtyard like a madman, with Merold right on his heels.

Arupek seriously doubted that Merold would do anything to actually hurt him, but still... He wasn't too keen on finding out what happened to those who managed to tick the so called 'greatest knight' off...

"Eek! Merold I'm sooorrryyyy!!" He wailed as he fled, just barely managing to stay out of the pink haired male's reach, but he could already tell he was outmatched by a longshot. It wasn't a matter of if he would catch him, but when...

The answer to that question ended up being revealed about fourteen seconds later, when Merold put on a sudden burst of speed and tackled the younger knight to the ground, wasting no time at all in enacting his revenge upon his poor junior.

"A-Ah- Uuuuwahahahaa?! No! No nohohot thahahaat!! Anything but thahahaaat!!" Arupek squealed in alarm, bursting into bright, bubbly giggles when he felt Merold's fingers immediately digging into his sides with zero warning whatsoever. Tickling?! Of all things, why did it have to be tickling?!!

"Oh dear~, looks like someone's a little ticklish, hm?..." Merold commented teasingly as he hovered over the younger knight, a smug smirk taking over his features at the sound of Arupek's hysterical laughter. It was remarkably happy and carefree despite the circumstances.

He didn't try to hold it in like Kurode, nor did he turn bashful like Hallritt. Instead, Arupek seemed the type that let it out freely and without hesitation, not seeming to care who heard him. Either he was bold, or he simply didn't think about such details. Either way, it was undeniably adorable.

As for Arupek, he didn't seem to take notice of Merold's silent musings over his behavior, being far too absorbed in his own mirth to care at the moment.

"Ahaha!! Ahahahehehe Merohohohold! Aahahahaahehe!!" He laughed, twisting and turning from one side of his back to the other in a poor attempt to alleviate the tingling sensations, but each time he nearly succeeded in turning onto a side, Merold would simply pinch the other side and start the whole process over again! It was totally unfair!

"Hmm~? Is something the matter?" Merold responded innocently, acting as if he were doing nothing wrong at all. So meannn!!

"Y'know Arupek, a knight really ought to not be so sensitive... Besides, you were the one who drenched me, a totally innocent bystander, because of your recklessness. Don't you think you deserve this even a little~? A Fragaria really ought to show a bit more grace and humility in suffering the consequences of their actions~.."

Arupek was now beginning to understand how the SEEDS must feel when facing Merold... He was really scary when he was angry, and his teasing was somehow even worse than Hangyon! His cheeks felt hot with embarrassment and breathlessness, and a bundle of desperate apologies tumbled from his lips as he shrieked and laughed under him.

He was just beginning to wonder if Merold would ever decide to have mercy, when his salvation came in the form of a certain gentle natured brunette, who had come looking for them.

"Merold, as much fun as you seem to be having teasing our poor junior, you'd best wrap it up." He suggested, coming to gently settle a warm palm on his friend's shoulder, "The meeting will start soon. You both need to change into some dry clothes, and I'm sure Arupek-kun would appreciate an opportunity to catch his breath and compose himself beforehand.."

And just like that, he was released. Arupek went totally limp as he tried to catch his breath, residual giggles still spilling out of him. And when Romarriche reached a hand down to help him up, he took it gratefully.

"Uwaaah..." He whined in exaggerated exhaustion, "I'm so sorry Merold! I really didn't mean to soak you!!" He apologized, rubbing the back of his head a little with an exhausted laugh. What a way to make an impression. He could only hope that he wasn't still too angry with him... What would Lord Pekkle say?!

Thankfully though, Merold didn't seem to hold any true ill will. If anything, he looked more amused than anything as he smiled smugly at him.

"You're forgiven. Perhaps next time you'll be a little more careful where you're aiming though, hm? It was fine this time, but you wouldn't want to risk making the same mistake with your real magic someday." He replied with an easygoing cadence in his tone, but he made a good point.

Arupek was still learning to use his magic properly, and there was a lot he didn't know yet since he hadn't gone to a proper knight school. He would need to work hard in the future to insure that he was serving his lord to the best of his abilities...

Alrighty then~," his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of Merold clapping his hands together lightly.

"If that's all, we should be going now. It wouldn't be proper if we were late to the roundtable at such a crucial time." He stated before turning to head inside, with both Romarriche and Arupek following close behind him.

Arupek was far from where he wanted to be, and there was much more that he would need to learn and experience if he were to face the SEEDS head on alongside the others, but one thing he was sure of. As long as he stuck by his fellow Fragaria, and as long as he had Lord Pekkle cheering him on, he was sure to never fail!

[patchyegg87]

[CLICK ON THE IMAGES FOR BETTER QUALITY.]

Ace and Riddle’s dynamic in a nutshell.

(Art Masterlist)

[anhniedraw]

My rendition of that scene because i wanna draw more intense expressions

[katenepveu]

acrobatic squirrel

This squirrel attempted to jump a full six feet (yes, I measured) from a nearby bush to the bird feeder. Its first two misses were spectacular, so much so that when it made it on the third try, I let it hang out and eat as many peanuts as it wanted.

(I'm sorry I didn't manage to get the leaps to sync up, but I've already spent quite a lot of time turning the video into gifs that'll upload here, so.)

[lolita-wardrobe]

A well-rounded scholarly warrior young master

◆ Outfit: https://lolitawardrobe.com/snake-flying-through-flowers-new-chinese-style-ouji-lolita-jacket-blouse-and-trousers_p8611.html

[habken]

cat !!

[sunshine-sansan]

The touch. Part 3.

How the plot would be filled with tender good moments if it showed how Yu really deserves the trust of Grimm. How they take care of each other away from judging eyes. How they open up to each other and comfort each other in difficult moments. The author's grumbling. "two minutes would have been enough."

And Grimm would not have been so angry and would not have received so much hatred from the players for his lack of "character development"

[magical-regical]

I saw Sylvernoct's video on which Genshin vision each of the twst boys would have and she mentioned smthn abt Azul wielding a catalyst and it got me thinking what other weapons the boys would use if they were Genshin characters.

(I'm sorry if this has been done before but I want to yap)

Heartslabyul

Riddle - polearm → his housewarden staff is already kind of a polearm.

Ace - sword

Deuce - catalyst → but in the same way heizou and wriothesley are catalyst users. He doesn't use the catalyst itself he just punches people (or beats them over the head with it lol).

Trey - sword → it's a 'normal' weapon.

Cater - bow

Savanaclaw

Leona - polearm → I reallly wanted to give him claymore but I think a polearm does suit him best. It's a more versatile weapon.

Ruggie - dual wields swords.

Jack - claymore

Octavinelle

Azul - catalyst → we've seen how bad he is at physical sports. He's sitting his ass down and waving his hands.

Floyd - claymore → wields it like it weighs nothing. His normal attacks are fast.

Jade - bow

Scarabia

Kalim - polearm → can dance w/ it like yunjin does

Jamil - polearm → taught Kalim how to use his polearm.

Pomefiore

Vil - catalyst → he literally has a book in canon instead of a housewarden staff.

Rook - bow

Epel - sword → reaallly wanted to wield a claymore but alas.

Ignihyde

Idia - catalyst → his skull thing is already kind of a catalyst.

Ortho - catalyst → but in the same way Ifa's a catalyst user. Gun.

Diasomnia

Malleus - catalyst → is he even wielding a weapon? Most of the time it just looks like his attacks just come out of his hands. I guess it can be like Wanderer's attacks.

Lilia - bow → but can switch to a claymore. He just tosses the bow aside and summons his magearm lol.

Silver - sword

Sebek - claymore → but it's actually an axe like Baur's magearm.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Did you know? Tumblr DOES have a post length limit. Strangely, though, it's based on how many blocks of text you have. Supposedly this implies that you can have any length post so long as it's one block of text? Very strange, will have to investigate further.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Two limits! You can have a maximum of 4,096,000 characters in 1 [one] tumblr post. I would work out how many combinations this is, but 26^6,000 is already considered to be "Infinity" by most calculators, and a program I wrote threw an error code.

26^95,000 is already over 134,000 characters long - which would take 33 different text blocks to convey via tumblr. Whenever somebody says we're running out of posts, don't forget that tumblr is needlessly designed for MASSIVE amounts of information [no matter how detrimental it may be for mobile phones].

There are SOME works of fanfiction which are lengthy enough that you couldn't fit the whole thing into one tumblr post, but this is enough to fit Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy in it about 14 times over.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Don't hide that in the tags

[thewolfofthestars]

The Lord of the Rings is generally my go-to measuring stick for "long-ass pieces of text", so I must additionally point out that, if written out optimally, about 2 full Lord of the Ringses would fit into one Tumblr post, apparently.

Though I'm not certain if that character count includes spaces, unfortunately, as I got that figure by googling "how many letters are in lord of the rings" and came upon a TikTok that counted the number of letter characters in LotR in order to figure out how many Spaghettios cans would be needed to re-write the entire thing, if one were to cut and paste each individual letter from the cans blackmail-letter style.

For those curious, the numbers are 2,261,081 letters in LotR, which calculates out to 8,795 cans of Spaghettios needed, which would cost about $12,225.

What a way to start my day. The internet truly is a beautiful place.

[jv]

Hey! Guy who programmed most of the core pieces of the editor here!

So, those are the theoretical limits, yeah. But in practice, the editor is not even close to be optimized to handle these kinds of huge posts: there is a point, far far away from the size of the lord of the rings, that your browser would just crash.

So if you are planning to post long fanfiction, or anything, you better work on something that's optimized for long form (locally, or some alternative to Google docs) and then post in chunks.

So no, Tumblr is not designed to support these massive posts. It's theoretically possible, but that never was a real scenario we were trying to support

[sztupy]

Editor crashes? No problem, I'm sure you can do that through the API though

[jv]

I'm honestly very curious of what it would happen if someone tries something like using the API to post the entire Lord Of The Rings. I would assume the request would timeout, but it would be a cool test to run. Anyway, if it works, anyone trying to reblog that post would just insta-kill their browser :D

[sztupy]

IT WORKED!

Post by @full-lotr-test

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · J. R. R. Tolkien — The Lord Of The Rings. (1/4) ----------------------------------------------- THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.

(okay this is just the first book, let me see if I can do all three)

[jv]

oh yeah, almost a million characters, 365 text blocks, and the editor is handling it pretty well

Honestly, it works way better than I expected! I guess being plain text and not having to render any fancy formatting is enough for a modern browser to handle it well. Reblogging it took a few more seconds than usual, but went through too. Good job tumblr!

[sztupy]

Here's the entire one, all 3 books + appendices:

Post by @full-lotr-test

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · J. R. R. Tolkien — The Lord Of The Rings. (1/4) ----------------------------------------------- THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.

The API did return a 500 when trying to upload BUT it actually did upload

[willcodehtmlforfood]

.

[yapping-migrant]

opening @full-lotr-test makes the app crash, I need to check on PC 👀

[jv]

I just tested on my Android phone and it froze the app for about 30 seconds, but when I thought it was going to finally crash, it actually loaded the blog and started working normally

[jv]

Btw, @sztupy, have you tried to edit the post? Does it work??

[sztupy]

Yes, someone asked me to add a tag so they can filter it out, and I tried that over from the web interface.

For the first post (first book only) there was no issue. Edit loaded, I could add the tag, press Save and done. Note: this was on a PC using Chrome

For the second post (all three books) it worked the same way as the API. I could load up the page and edit it, but when pressing save I'd get an error message. However the edit did go through actually and the tag is now there.

Haven't tried to edit the text itself, but don't think it would make a difference - if your browser can load it'd just work.

(On mobile on a low/mid-range Android the App could open up the post without problems, but haven't tried editing. Using a mobile browser - Firefox in my case - the page could load but it was super slow, and buggy, and it also did crash once)

Also as a public service announcement: if you want to filter the post out from your dash the tag is #full-lotr-test

Also if anyone is interested I loaded up the entire LOTR trilogy in TXT file, then wrote a code that split it out into NPF (Neue Post Format, you know the new PDF or whatever) blocks of at most 4000 characters, then simply called the Create Post API with the resulting NPF block. I believe there's around 900 blocks in the second post above, each block containing somewhere between 3000-4000 characters, so close to the theoretical limit

[jdebbiel]

a tutorial about a way i think in color

[anhniedraw]

While drawing doctor riddle, i had a thought about what if deuce got injured while working as a magic enforcer and ace had to bring him to a hospital and they accidentally met riddle again. Cue riddle’s disapproving stare.

Ogs know i made adult designs for adeuce last year but shhhh consider this an alternative timeline where ace works as a magic analyst and he’s partnered with deuce. That’s why their hairstyles are different lol.

[si1v3rtr33s]

azul ashengrotto has a sleeper build. i will die on this hill.

first of all, octopi are like all muscle. their entire body is just muscle, especially their tentacles to make up for the lack of bones. they're pure skin and muscle.

second of all, azul probably worked out a lot to help drop his weight, and probably still works out (to a lesser degree and not the same way, because underwater vs on land) to maintain his weight.

third of all, we know that he can wrestle with the tweels like nobody's business. those three can't be separated in a multitude of ways, and that includes "the last thing you want is to get between them when any two of them are throwing hands."

this doesn't cancel out his also canonically shit stamina, nor the popular headcanon (that i also very strongly believe) that he needs mobility aids. he can be disabled and very fit at the same time.

[randomgreekfandomspals]

Hermes: Please, Apollo. After everything we've been through together, you can't do this.

Apollo: I'm sorry, Hermes

Hermes: I'm begging you. Don't do it.

Apollo: It has to be done

Hermes:

Apollo:

Hermes:

Apollo: *places card down* Uno

[randomgreekfandomspals]

Hermes: Don't listen to him. He's trying to lead you down the path of righteousness.

Hermes: I'm gonna lead you down the path that rocks

Apollo: Oh come off it

Hermes: You come off it!

Apollo: You

Hermes: You

Apollo: You

Hermes: You infinity

Apollo: >:(

Hermes: Listen up, Ody. I've got a couple reasons why you should listen to me instead of him.

Hermes: Number 1. Look at him. He's got that sissy, stringy, music thing.

Apollo: We've been through this. It's a lyre and you know it.

Hermes: Right. That's a lyre and that's a dress.

Apollo: Robe! And at least I'm wearing something.

Hermes: Reason number 2. Look what I can do *does a handstand*

Odysseus: But...what does that have to do with-?

Apollo: No no. He's got a point.

[papayafromtv]

Damian: yeah i like to take videos of animals i see in the wild. i don't see as much in Gotham as i did back in the league, but there's some cool squirrels around sometimes. Tim: oh you have videos of squirrels? show me, i like squirrels. Dick: yeah let us see! Damian: *gets out phone, brings up video* Tim and Dick: *watching over Damian's shoulder* *distant screams of pain in the back of the video* Tim: Tim: dude where the fuck was this? Damian, absently: this one? i think this was outside Titan's Tower. Tim: Dick: *more screams, crashes and bangs* Dick, casually: hey those screams kinda sound like Tim. Tim: Tim: iS THIS FROM WHEN JASON TRIED TO KILL ME?!? Damian: hm? oh, yeah, probably. Tim: YOU WERE THERE??? Damian: not IN the tower; Jason cracked the window of his car and left me to wait outside with a Kindle. Tim: Dick: Damian: i was reading 'Crime and Punishment'. Tim: WHY THE FUCK WERE YOU THERE?! Damian: i dunno, he just told me he had to run a few errands before he could drop me off at my father's. i didn't know one of the errands was beating up you. Dick: and you heard the screams and just didn't check or worry? Damian: did you see how fat that squirrel was? i was distracted. Tim: oh my god-

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.