This oneās lowkey fucked up and I canāt outwardly get mad about it so!!!! Read at your own risk
Iām genuinely suffering from my mental health. I hate to say it but itās seriously a constant struggle to find reasons to stay.
Iām recovering from sh and back when I used to do it consistently when I was a young teenager, my mom found out three separate times and she handled it in absolutely all the worst ways. Every single really bad approach you could think of, she used. It fucked me up. It actively does still fuck me up.
She also for some reason ties it to me being an attention whore because she found a pic I took of myself FOR myself when I was like 13 of me crying in my photo album and decided Iām a drama queen who needs other peopleās validation when Iām sad. Lmao okay?? It gets me going so bad because she pulls out this same bullshit every time she assumes Iām crying in my room or in a bad mood, or even if I just want to be alone. Apparently itās a crime to want alone time. Sheās sick in the head for it and Iām expected to open up to her but not ever be emotional about anything?? Unbelievable.
I also have a habit of picking at/biting my cuticles which Iām not proud of but itās pretty hard to stop. She saw it a minute ago and automatically assumed Iām ācopying people onlineā by relapsing with sh and āseeking attentionā again. Over cuticles, mind you. CUTICLES
Every time she acts like this I can feel myself getting closer to losing my mind, and the issue is thereās absolutely no way I can get away from her any sooner than four to six years from now which Iām absolutely not ready to spend with her. Iām tired. Honestly I donāt think thereās much to do or say but I just need a break from her.
ā ššššššš ~ ex situationship!ellie x painter!reader
ā šššššššš ~ you've finally secured a spot in the art world and made a name for yourself in seattle, leaving college behind for good. but the past is about to knock again on your door when a very particular commission comes through, bringing up some deeds you had left undone with ellie.
ā ššššššš šššššššš ~ swearing, purely introductory, MEET THE CAST, just me having fun basically lol, text fic, social media au, afab!reader. cis men and minors dni.
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current obsession : the last of us always but thatās a given, so Iām gonna say movies generally bc this year I have a goal of watching as many movies as I can + going to the cinema as often as possible
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Quick confession I used to be a diehard Genshin fan and I just remembered that I read the most soul crushing kaeya & diluc fanfic and it was so sad I genuinely cried but I think the ending was good either way I wish I could find it and read it again bc wow
Quick confession I used to be a diehard Genshin fan and I just remembered that I read the most soul crushing kaeya & diluc fanfic and it was so sad I genuinely cried but I think the ending was good either way I wish I could find it and read it again bc wow
the way Ellie opens her mouth and pushes forward during her second kiss with Dina makes my stomach flip every single time no matter how many times I watch it. my girl was HUNGRY
fuck. i rewatch this scene every day i adore her. she was soo needy for that kiss !! she wanted dina SO BAD. ellie baby cmere i needa be kissed like that
š· content warning ~ vague flashback, fight scene, memory loss, mentions of grief, profanity, no use of y/n, not proofread
š· SYNOPSIS ~ Happy thinks a little too much, and Ellie finally meets her best friends again, along with you. Itās her first class, and she just so happens to be put in a group with you. What could go wrong?
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Happy hasnāt been able to sleep well. Not since Tess passed. Melatonin wonāt help, either. He just canāt stop thinking all the time. His brain never gives him a rest. Sometimes he remembers someone at her funeral. Who was it? He has no clue. He just knows they are important. Maybe a relative.
It only took him a day after the interview to accept Ellieās application. A week has passed, and sheās already an excellent asset to Stark Industries. She almost seems familiar with some of the older provided equipment, and her programming skills are unmatched for people her age. Every time she looks at him, though, she almost looks⦠wistful. And he canāt hold a conversation with her for more than two minutes. Itās like sheās deliberately avoiding him.
He doesnāt get it.
Something about her is so weird, but he canāt put his finger on it. Williams has this unnerving energy to her, it feels like heās missing something bigger than the both of them. Come to think of it, every time he does manage to talk to her, he gets all lightheaded and his head hurts. Sometimes, it even happens when he simply thinks about her too much. Like right now. His head is killing him.
After tossing and turning beneath the dim lighting of his too-large bedroom, Happy gets out of bed, groggy and a little unbalanced, and steps out to get a glass of water from the kitchen. Tylenol will do the trick.
He pads down the stairs and finds himself at the cabinet, grabbing the nearest cup. Twisting the tap, Happy watches as the clear cylinder fills.
Ellie⦠What about you feels so profound�
āDamnāā Happy gasps and his eyes shut tightly, seemingly unprompted. His cup drops with a loud shatter as the shards and water litter the floor. Paying no mind to that, his hands fly to his forehead, yelling out in pain and slamming his back against the countertop. Itās like an imaginary anvil just banged itself right against the back of his head.
The world spins. Flashes of color blind him. The throbbing pain wonāt stop. His feet feel unsteady on the marble floor. Is the floor still even there? It feels like heās traveling to a different dimension. Itās hard to differentiate between what is real and what isnāt.
Before he knows it, heās collapsed on the ground, knees now aching from the force of his fall.Ā
In one moment, Happy goes from facing paroxysmal, searing pain, to nothing at all, no trace to prove he even felt it in the first place. Even his headache that brought him down here is completely gone.
His first reaction is to look around, turning his head back and forth because he doesnāt know what to do other than look for the source of the pain that terrorized him merely a second ago.
Obviously, he doesnāt find anything. Taking a deep, slow breath to recollect his thoughts, Happy starts to piece things together.
Ellie⦠Ellie Williams⦠Oh, Ellieā¦
Ellie is Spider-Woman. She was the one at Tessā funeral. She was the old intern. She was Starkās apprentice. The kid from Queens. She stole Capās shield that one time!
Hold on⦠How the fuck did Happy manage to forget all that? Is that why she seemed so sad whenever she looked at him? Does she know something he doesnāt? If she does, why wouldnāt she say anything?
Quickly, he moves from confusion, to recognition, to sadness, to anger.
None of this makes sense to him. How did he just omit Ellie as a whole? Did he get amnesia? No⦠When youāre involved with the Avengers, itās never ājustā a medical condition.
He doesnāt get it just yet, but he knows something happened. And he knows Ellie fucking knows.
Between the libraryās nonfiction and science isles resides a certain redhead on the couch, skimming through the third academic textbook she found related to quantum physics. Sheās been secretly trying to enhance her makeshift web fluid now that she finally has access to old Stark tech. Ellieās been on a spree, trying her hardest to find optimal conditions for the web fluid to have that elastic sweet spot but still be durable enough to stop an accelerating military aircraft
Itās late at night, only the occasional flipping of pages or deep sighs being heard by late night crammers. The atmosphere feels still, frozen in one moment. If Ellie were to look at the clock, she wouldnāt be surprised if she saw the hands frozen in their spots.
Beside the textbooks, Ellie keeps her notebook flipped to the last couple of pages, filled with all the notes she gathered that she thinks could help. Itās hidden in plain sight. Nobody would expect her to keep a web fluid recipe on the back of her statistics notebook.
She does check the time for real now. It catches her off guard to see that the clock reads midnight. Has she really been here that long?
She grabs the last textbook she found and approaches the librarian to rent it. She returns to the other two afterwards to return them to their shelves, because sheās just helpful like that.
Tomorrowās her first class in Statistics and Data Analysis. Itās a general requirement in ESU for students who are still in their foundation year. Astrophysics has a little bit of everything, so she isnāt surprised that she canāt drop this subject. Also, she doesnāt want to risk skipping classes unnecessarily. Attendance actually matters in college, and lessons start to pile up way too quickly.
Ellieās eyes dart around the massive hall as the people rush through it. She can barely hear her own thoughts over the noise of fellow students passing by to reach their first classes of the day. ESU is notorious for its large and gifted community, thereās no doubt.
Adjusting her grip on her busted up backpackās strap, she squeezes between other students in her trek to Dr. Frazierās class: Statistics and Data Analysis. It takes her a second to find it, but she gets there.
She didnāt know what to expect when she walked in, but she sure as shit didnāt expect this.
You, Jesse, and Dina. All three of her friends-turned-strangers.
Nope, she thinks. Not today.
After the hell sheās been through lately, especially with Happy so close to her all the time in her internship, Ellie doesnāt have enough willpower left in her to face you and her old friends. She pivots in her place and walks straight back to the large oak door. However, the moment she reaches for the doorknob, she gets pushed back by the entrance of another. Itās Dr. Frazier, standing tall and confident in that tired-and-wise-old-man way. Ellie takes a half-step back, nearly stumbling as she tries to make room for her professor to fully enter.
With a casual air, Dr. Frazier smiles without teeth as he looks down at the girl in front of him. āHi. Youāre in my class, I assume?ā
A small nod is an adequate answer in Ellieās book, so she uses that to spare herself the embarrassment of spewing incoherent bullshit in a flustered flurry. She scurries off to a seat at the back, far away from you and the others while hopefully remaining unnoticed by Frazier.
The first half of the class passes smoothly. Dr. Frazier introduces himself and expands on what he has planned for the syllabus this semester. The course doesnāt seem tedious, but it seems like this guyās a fan of group work. He decides to separate the class into groups of four, but since Ellie's a bit farther from others, and Frazier had previously noticed you, Dina, and Jesse being a close trio, he decides to move Ellie from the other side of the class.
You recognize her from the coffee shop. She came in that one time, acted all weird, and never visited again.
The walk feels like some kind of humiliation parade to Ellie. She can feel three pairs of eyes tracking each step she makes towards your table. She almost forgets to swing her hands while walking in fear of looking like a dork trying to act cool.
To her, the most ideal seat is the one next to Jesse, where Dina is parallel to her and you are the farthest. She doesnāt lift her gaze, doesnāt even say āhiā or nod in acknowledgement.
Even then, Dina is still Dina. She taps the edge of Ellieās table, offering one of her signature bright smiles. āHey, there. Iām Dina.ā
All Ellie can do to reply is kiss her teeth and nod once. She loves nodding. She manages to mutter a quick āEllie,ā just so she doesnāt sound too cold.
Now, Dina may be outgoing, but she isnāt clueless. She senses the lack of enthusiasm from Ellieās end and leans back in her chair to pay attention to the instructions for the group activity.
Jesse exchanges a look with you, very subtly tilting his head towards Ellie from behind her. Sheās weirdly tense, and you three donāt even know her yet. You shrug, wanting to give the new girl the benefit of the doubt.
Dr. Frazier, thankfully, isnāt evil. He chooses a pretty forgiving ice breaker, which is to simply tell your group about yourself. Each group can build conversations based on that, or simply stay quiet after a brief preface. Sharing with him and other groups is also encouraged.
Ellie starts first, wanting to get this over with before sheās forced to say much more.
āUhm, like I said, my nameās Ellie, and Iām originally from Wyoming,ā she mutters, briefly allowing her eyes to dance over the three of you.
You tell her your name and where youāre from as well, matching Ellieās sentence structure.
āDina, Jesse, and I met in high school, but itās great to see a new face,ā you chirp, hands on your knees as you hardly lean forward, trying to make Ellie engage a little more. She doesnāt give any of you much to work with, merely nodding for the millionth time today in curt return.
Jesse sparks a conversation between the three of you, leaving Ellie out since sheās clearly uninterested. He brings up how Flash somehow got into ESU as well.
Hearing that, Ellie gives a little smirk at the thought. Flash? In ESU? Maybe sheāll cross paths with him. Itād be a funny encounter. Heād probably still try to start shit with her, so sheās not too sad about him not remembering.
You steer the topic into each of your careers, talking about what youāre all most excited about and stuff like that. You made a pact to make this year as fun as humanly possible without getting anything below a 4.0 GPA. Ambitious, but achievable with the right mindset.
Ellie surmises that you and Dina are both in pre-med, while Jesse is in his preparatory year for electrical engineering. You always talked about wanting to be a doctor, and so did Jesse with engineering. Dina was being super indecisive when applications came around, so it seems like she chose to go along with you.
Slowly, Ellie starts to pluck up the courage to chat as well. She gathers what she can from the talk you three are having and gradually thinks of things to add. Such a technical approach sounds silly, but winging it sounds like the most terrifying thing in the world to her at this moment.
Just as Ellie opens her mouth to say something, numerous phones buzz and ding. She tries to pay no mind, but you beat her to it.
āShitāthe central bankās being robbed,ā you speak, eyebrows furrowed as you check the breaking news report.
Ellieās muscles lock up, but her instincts donāt let her stall for long. Sheās on her feet before she realizes it, grabbing her bag and practically sprinting out of the door with an inaudible request to use the bathroom.
Dr. Frazier doesnāt even try to say she can go. A dust trail is already in her place.
Dina blinks once when she turns back towards where Ellie should be, processing too late that sheās already gone. She grumbles, mildly annoyed by Ellieās entire demeanor. āUh⦠okay?ā
All of you go silent for a minute. You break it, looking down and appearing a little disappointed. āMaybe she had an emergency..ā
Jesse shrugs, nudging your elbow. āDonāt think too much about it. Sheāll probably warm up sooner or later. Seems like the shy type.ā
You lift your head once again and accept Jesseās words, even though a part of you feels more hurt about this than you likely should be.
Leaning against her usual alleywayās wall, Ellie yanks her suit up repeatedly in a rush to get her leg through it, a string of expletives leaving her lips as she wonders why she chose to use spandex.
āācotton wouldāve doneājust fine!ā She chokes out, finally pulling her suit on all the way. She slides her mask down her face and shoots a web upwards, swinging to the source of commotion.
A group of thugs guard the bankās entrance, ensuring that nobody enters or exits.
Cute.
Ellie doesnāt even need to reveal herself, she latches onto the top of the building theyāre standing in front of, smoothly immobilizing them one by one without alerting others. Soon enough, theyāre all dangling in each of their own infamous web cocoons.
After that, she waltzes into the bank through the main entrance. One of the thugs immediately spots her, promptly aiming a machine gun at her head. She puts her hands up, still taking a couple steps closer.
āHey, you guys know where the bank teller is? I got a deposit I wanna make.ā She explains with a masked smirk.
āYou think youāre funny?ā Another thug approaches, eyes narrowed beneath his balaclava as he speaks in a thick, unfamiliar accent. A black crewneck covers his torso, a sliver of ink peaking out of his sleeves on both hands. His face seems big, and one eye has a milky, almost pearlescent film over the iris in pupil. He lifts his own gun to aim at Spider-Woman.
āYeah,ā she answers with a soft chuckle, lowering her hands as she feigns letting her guard down. Before any of the people in front of her make a move, she shoots a web at the guy who just spoke. He seems like the leader, so it might be best to finish him off first.
It takes a lot of back and forth before Spider-Woman finally manages to corner this guy. Heās large and bulky, veins bulging out even from under the fabric heās wearing. Itās unsettling, to say the least, how artificially strong he seems. She hasnāt seen anything like it since the Avengers were still around.
He is admittedly pretty strong, capable of roughing her up with the slightly older equipment she has access to now. She also gets whiplash from catapulting herself with a web a little too aggressively. If she had the tech before the mass amnesia spell, she wouldāve been finished with this ages ago.
She leaps onto his abnormally wide back and wraps her arms around his neck in a headlock. His muscly arms flail around as he tries ramming the spider into a wall, and she almost loses her grip.
Mouth turning blue, his resistance decreases, and his movements lose momentum. Spidey uses that window to yank him backwards with the force of her body.
She swerves just in time to slam the manās ribcage into one of the teller stations, earning a choked gasp from him as she shoves him away, pushing him against the station once again.
Webhead brawls the rest of them singlehandedly, nearly overexerting herself since the police still havenāt shown up.
Everything passes. Most of the criminals are out cold on the marble floors. Ellie walks through the rubble, examining the scene when the cops finally arrive, cuffing and taking the thugs into custody. She comes across the ringleaderās body, still laying on the ground. His breathing is shallow.
Upon closer inspection, she notices an odd tattoo on his neck. It was an ornate crown, embellished with gems and sparkles. Under it was a set of roman numerals she didnāt pay much attention to. Before she can think too much about it, a policeman approaches her to discuss the technicalities and details of the incident.
This is Ellieās least favorite part. Who would want to listen to an old guy droning on about laws? Then she has to deal with naming the offenses? Sheās a superhero, not a judge.
She eventually sneaks past them and slips away, heading back to her favorite alleyway.
Ellie lands on the rugged and littered concrete of the backstreet with a soft grunt, stretching her arms and wiggling her fingers. She almost pulls her mask off when she senses the presence of another.
Ellie whirls around, arms up, ready to hit.
She doesnāt expect to take a blow regardless.
You stand in front of her, rooted to your spot, watching as Spider-Woman aims her webshooters at you. Ellie feels like she canāt move either.
She almost fails to remember that you donāt know her secret identity anymore. Instinctively, her hand still comes up to take her mask off, but she stops halfway.
ā¦
āAre⦠are you good?ā You ask, cutting through the tension with the knife that is your question.
Ellie stares a little longer, the lenses of her mask are comically wide.
She forces herself to loosen up, rolling her shoulders and letting out a breathy chuckle before youāre able to notice her terror. āāCourse Iām good. Nothing a power nap canāt fix.āĀ
Her brushing past you in slow, casual steps prompts you to turn and face her again. You take a step closer without much thought.
You examine the tears on her suit, some revealing wounds on the skin underneath. There are a few that look a bit too deep to be left alone.
A beat passes before you hesitantly open your bag and rummage through it. After a moment, you pull out a hand sanitizer and⦠Powerpuff Girl bandages? Holding them, you extend your hand to offer to Spider-Woman, smiling sheepishly.
āItās all I gotā¦ā You murmur.
Ellie looks at the box and bottle in your hand, then down at the gashes across her suit and body. A smirk makes its way onto her face.
āI think theyāre a little small⦠but Iāll take āem. Thanks,ā the vigilante muses. She doesnāt really need them. When that spider bit her, some of the perks included were accelerated healing and durability.
You let her take the sanitizer and bandages from your grasp, but her fingers graze yours in the process.
Suddenly, youāre taken back to your old bedroom at your parentsā house.
Kneeling in front of your bed, someone sits at the edge of it. Youāre between their legs, tending to numerous cuts of varying sizes. Specifically, you have an ointment on your hand, rubbing it into a particular injury on the figureās knee. You look up, and the face is completely blurred. It feels like the face is lost or missing. If you had to put it into words, it probably wouldnāt be possible.
Youāre brought back to the present after your vision, if thatās what you can even call it. It has you dizzy and disoriented, with a faint throbbing behind your eyes. A quiet gasp leaves you, and you stumble backwards. Spidey vaguely jerks forward, ready to catch you if need be.
For a flash of a moment, Ellie almost catches a glimpse of knowing in your expression. Her heart sinks, but she chooses to play dumb.
āCarefulā¦ā
You hum absentmindedly in response, steadying yourself without her help. Youāre still a bit thrown by whatever it was that just happened.
āWell⦠I should definitely get going,ā Ellie speaks. āSee you around. Maybe.ā
She shoots a web upwards and disappears in front of you before you manage to get another word in.
You stay in the cramped alley for a while, trying to make sense of what you saw.
a/n: okay i am SO sorry for this disgustingly late update... ill do better when i actually have time on my hands. thank you so much for bearing with me and reading, your interactions mean everything to me. love you all sm!!!