ORG.EST. 4/2025 || Private + Selective || Triggering topics present and tagged + Multiverse friendly || AS ADORED ETERNALLY BY KOSM. 25+ / does not follow first*
. sins of the mother, identity crisis, bad boy, he's trying his hardest, what is a heart, what was i made for, what is love
mains. tba.
blogroll. @deathleads
Etiquette
I don't do starter calls! [ send me memes or plot with me! ] many times my starters have been ignored or gone nowhere. This is easier for me!
Headcanon Based! As there's not a lot about Tommy to go on unfortunately, he is nearly entirely headcanon based and my own personal interpretations of him. I've actually written a speedster before, Bart Allen of DC! if you remember me, come say hi!!
following/interacting! Marvel, DC, any other kinds of comics or series, if I'm vaguely aware of it, I'm sure we can figure something out!
shipping is for friends only. Every ship is in its own verse unless otherwise stated. I'd love to have a main-ship (and a main Maximoff family), but I'd prefer it all to happen organically! I also do not ask to ship, so if you would like to, please let me know!
tentatively dupe friendly - if I sense that my hcs are being taken, I will approach you about it and/or block.
NO DRAMA!! Unless someone I'm interacting with is a dangerous person, with receipts, do not approach me about drama
low activity -- I am currently writing a novel
I have autism, please be patient with me and my quiet periods. Sometimes I take weeks or months to get back to people, my social battery is always very very low. I also do not take 'hints'. Please be blunt with me and I will be blunt with you!
If I'm not here, I'll be on my oc @deathleads
*will sometimes follow marvel blogs first, after no follow back within a week of active posting, I usually hard block so I don't keep trying to follow you. i'm quite forgetful, sorry in advance!
she doesn't know what came over her. one moment she was somewhat listening to tommy's many ramblings, and the next her gaze couldn't tear away from his mouth ... and the very next she was kissing him. not that she was complaining -- he was warm, soft, not too gentle and had a pleasing scent surrounding him; whatever that scent was, she wanted to memorize it and bury herself in it.
one of her arms crawls up his spine and settles at the nape of his neck, a slender hand tangling in his messy hair while the other rests on his shoulder. ( hands scarred from murder, once drenched in blood … but soft. she’s always had soft hands ).
she doesn't mind him touching her -- in fact, she enjoys it. every touch sends a spark throughout her body and to her brain. electricity. something. she's not very good with words, but it feels natural and safe. it's a weird, but a scary feeling all at once. laura was so guarded, so rough, she hardly liked being touched even if she liked the person. she liked @speedleads enough to let him touch her and be this close to her — she’s not sure why he couldn't settle on one place to put his hands, she liked that too.
they pull away, and she realizes how loud his heart is beating. ( kissing = senses shut off? could be useful in the future ). his heart is always beating fast and loud, but this time felt like maybe she was part of it.
“ do you want me to? “ she questions, her voice soft, gentle, and breathless.
“Yeah. Uhm. Yeah.” catching feelings was a ‘no-go’ for the growing man; far too intimidated by the openness of his heart and soul to another person, and frightened that if should feel any harder that she would vanish from his life forever. Just as everyone else had. Just as everyone else would. In the end, he had chosen to pursue a life of sex without attachment — how could he face disappointment if he locked his heart and love away? He could be safe and secure without the drama.
when was there ever no drama when it came to the hero business? Avoidant or not, it always found a way to rear its complicated head and ruin what a good thing he had. The yearning for companionship was bad enough! He didn't need to be feeling so damn soft and sweet from just a kiss. It was only a KISS. Next came the removal of clothes and the locked doors, followed by the ‘forgetting it ever happened at all’.
It wasn't like every other time, when his heart strained for more than could be given. This time, he just wanted to be left breathless by her every move. To finally know what it felt like to be wanted by someone for something aside from his body, and Laura? Laura wasn't like anyone else who stood beside him.
He hardly knows her, and yet she's all that runs through his mind. When she pulls away, he feels the intensity of his hands reaching forward to grasp hers. The electricity flows through his blood and makes him weaker and weaker, until he slumps forward to hide his face from her view — gently pressed into her shoulder, he breathes out, and breathes in. her scent fills his nostrils, and he realizes he doesn't want to forget it so soon. He wanted it to settle over him like a soft cloud on a hot day.
“ I know we're not ever gonna be in a normal kind of relationship but, I do want more than just, being physical, okay? I really like you, Laura. ”
❛ ----------- fun to be around ? soft ? are we talking about the same person ? laura's a GUTTER GREMLIN when she's in her own elements. you're just heads over heels for her. ❜
"Oh sure, Gambit brings home buckets of crawdads and it's seafood boil time, I bring home a bucket of frogs and everybody loses their damn minds. Double standards, I tell ya."
" They ARE pretty good in gumbo and certain dishes in good ol' Paris, but most people where we are just aren't into them! BUT, if you freeze-dry 'em you can feed 'em to the dogs for a nice healthy coat. You know? "
indie Kurt Wagner / NIGHTCRAWLER written and beloved by Kos +25 religious themes present, does not adhere strictly to canon, highly comic-based. low activity. rarely follows first
A Theory of Relativity / Tommy Shepherd and Billy Kaplan (Young Avengers) / by Aud Koch
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Illustration of this meta idea: that Billy’s powers are the manipulation of energy & matter and Tommy’s powers are the manipulation of time & space. I’m gonna start calling these two the quantum physics bros!
indie Kurt Wagner / NIGHTCRAWLER written and beloved by Kos +25 religious themes present, does not adhere strictly to canon, highly comic-based. low activity. rarely follows first
laura kisses tommy mid-speech, cutting him off from rambling on. (she had been thinking about kissing him for the past ten minutes but didn’t want to interrupt him).
unprompted.
a taste often yearned becomes a taste he can remember, and any irritation at being interrupted melted fast by her lips — just a peck breaks down a wall that kept back the most quiet, private thoughts bred when all by his lonesome. Just a peck, and his hands start to fly. Her hands, her face, her neck. Such softness from someone so very rough around the edges. But there is no holding back with him as he passes along his feelings through an open mouth and attentive tongue, brushing nose to nose and clicking teeth, like his first time all over again, committing her sweetness to memory in case she never touched him again.
heart hammering, he fought to pull away from her, shifting his lips against the crook of her neck before a deep sigh rolled past trembling lips.
“ So . . . If I keep running my mouth, are you gonna kiss me again? ”
“ Well Jonathans' been eying me like he's gonna swallow me whole. ” Tommy is a good boy and would never take food from a wolverine! Not a Logan, not a Gabbie, definitely not a Laura — “ Gaaaaabs, y'think maybe you could tell him I'm friendly? ”
There's something eerie about the way the girl looks at people; even through violet-tinted glasses shaped like stars, she has an unnervingly even gaze for a thirteen-year-old girl, and that's when the blue corneas aren't obscured by the whitish glow that exudes from them when she uses her power... But that look is fleeting, and, as if realizing she is definitely offputting sometimes, she puts on a soft smile, hands folding rather daintily at her front. "Good afternoon, Thomas. Aunt Wanda has told me about you... though I admit you are taller than I expected you to be. I suppose that should make sense, Grandfather is certainly quite tall."
— “ Nice t'meet ya, you little cutie! Just Tommy is totally fine, no need for the formalities though, okay? We're family! ” Not the greeting he'd expected, but one he would take in stride — for Uncle Pietro's daughter, she was much more well-mannered than he would have thought. Now his voice softens ever so subtly while his hands make busy with ruffling up her hair at high speed. “ Luna. It's Luna, right? Is all this ‘ sudden new family members ’ thing bugging you out too? ”
Tommy is a good kid with a good heart, but he's more of a neutral good bordering on chaotic. fighting bullies in school, protesting, retaliation against anti-mutant persons, etc etc. Every instance he went to juvie is because he could not stop himself from reacting with his heart. Even the first instance where he wrapped his principals house was triggered by the unfair suspension of a mutant classmate of his, he's always been like this and he's not about to stop just because he's wearing a costume now.
Working on his carrd and an actual detailed backstory for him, then I can work on some replies! If not tomorrow then definitely Monday - holiday and whatnot, cooking for the family and working and ugh you know?
" no ? it is a chemical pheromone released in sweat ... ? it's just body odor. " with laura's extremely keen senses, she thought it was logical and plainly obvious that she could smell so much more than baseline scents. a lot went into smells -- what you ate prior, where you were, who you were with, your feelings, etc. laura could pick up anything just from her nose. " if you consider sweat manly, then, sure ? " then a pause that went on for a bit too long. " -- why would you want to smell like dirt and metal ? "
— “ D'you always take things so literally? ” nothing steeped in incivility, even a sweet soft laugh comes bustling from a smiling face. Her seriousness was cute — he'd tell her so, if he didn't think she'd punch him in response, even if he's gotten good at rolling with those punches. “ A trait like that must get annoying when you get into the city, huh Laura. Y'ever wish to just get into the countryside where nobody can shove their loud smells in your face? ”