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[the-pobble-terrarium]

Bet you bitches never expected me to get back into portal DIDJA

He's gotten so much more scraggly

I feel like I should also specify this is an AU wheatley he wouldn't normally be this fucked up

[folklorik54]

Helping Hand Chapter 7 *Sneak Peek*

So I have finally finished being a teacher for the 2020-21 academic year! I survived and I could write a book about all the ways that school year was my worst (I wasn’t even a student either, wth), but I’d rather update this fic that I have been planning ever since I was younger. So Here it is! (I will probably write a separate post just listing all the crap that happened to me just so I have an outlet for the bullshit. For those of you who have been waiting, thank you for being so patient. 

Even though she had made it through her 'interview' she still had to go to Star-Set. It almost came as a relief to her to meet up with her instructors. After the last couple of days, she could use the structure. On the other hand, ever since getting the job at Night Rabbit (as she's grown to call it) Aoko has been incorporating dancing and aerial silks to her acrobatics. While she was still on rudimentary moves and boring poses (it had only been a couple of days since meeting Haido-san), she could already feel there was something missing. Her body grew stronger everyday but she could feel that initial interest waning. The moves no longer provided her body with a distraction from her constant stream of doubts. She would often find herself circling back to practicing her sleight-of-hand, or flexibility.

'If only I could combine it together somehow.' She thought defeatedly. She was at a stoplight waiting to walk across to the gym when she saw it.

Two girls were playing outside the gym doors. One was jumping rope and the other was hula-hooping. Aoko stared at the girls playing and wondered. 'Can I do something like that?'

Aoko passed the girls and entered the gym, temporarily banning the thought of play from her mind. Right now she needed to focus on building up the muscle. Today she was continuing with her new offensive learning, as well as advancing her free-running lessons to include the stylized acrobatics she had been building up. She needed to concentrate.

Hours later Aoko came skipping out of the gym feeling better than she had since joining. Her lessons were going well and according to Yamada-san her stamina had gotten better. She could now do acrobatics for 45 minutes straight with no rest. She truly had come a long way but it was clear to Aoko that she still had more work to do. Her acrobatics were correct and strong but her confidence was still lacking and this resulted in her landings not having the powerful impact it should. Overall she was not as sore as she had been and was pretty proud of herself. She couldn't wait for her skeleton crew training the following night.

Friday Night: 11:45pm

Aoko stood before the back-side doors of the Night Rabbit waiting for the clock to strike midnight. She wore a pair of simple black jeans, a black t-shirt, a baseball cap and sunglasses. Underneath this outfit she wore shorts and a tank-top for when she had to do dance training with Haido-san. She was thankful that she no longer needed Chikage-san's help to make herself appear older, but despite having applied her make-up there was something comforting about the shades. For the most part Aoko stayed hidden silently cursing herself for arriving so early as she now found herself in the awkward position of wondering if it would be alright to enter.

[folklorik54]

So when I told you my stories are inspired by ACTUAL magic events I wasn't kidding and guys this shit is INTERESTING! where's my Adelaide Herrmann movie? Adeliade Herrmann was a dancer and a performer in her own right before meeting Alexander the Great and marrying him and becoming his assistant. She even cross dressed as a guy in a time where such a thing was unseemly. She has two books about or around her- one of them is a children's book and the other is her memoirs which may be embellished but are still a fascinating read. She loved her husband so much and got in trouble with the law on occasion and FOUGHT. I love these stories. These realities. In this clip they explain the misconception of assistants being seen as powerless but are often skilled in it too. That's the trick. If anyone has any other magician or assistant facts I'm all ears. I love learning these things.

[folklorik54]

So I am writing the first real chapter of the Assistant AU and I am finding it really disheartening that Jii-san doesn't have a lot of information for me to go on. Like, why didn't Kaito recognize him if he was such a close family Assistant to Toichi-san? The more I think about it the more sad I become... Poor Jii-san!

[folklorik54]

So I have a fanfiction account and will be posting this Assistant!AU there as it's so much easier to keep it all in one place. I have a special fondness for Tumblr though since I'm on here like everyday so I am choosing to post sneak peeks of chapters in progress here while posting the full version over there at fanfiction.net.

if you're interested in reading the completed chapter the story is called The Helping Hand and my name is TheCaterpillarCalledLorik.

Some beautiful soul had suggested I tag the stories as Detective Conan so I did-because I love taking advice from kind people- but rest assured it's all about our precious Aoko learning to become the best assistant and overall person she can be. This story will be a character growth and a soul searcher for her as she figures out what she wants to do with her life. Not what OTHERS want or expect from her (like she has been) but what she wants and expects of herself. I will be introducing new characters and you can bet your money that magic will have a HUGE role in this fic. As I said before I love reading mysteries but I love WRITING about magic and performances (and secret societies but come on they go hand and hand with magicians, right?)

Anyway thanks to everyone for reading my silly little story about a girl and her thief best friend. Have a wonderful day!

To thank you all I will be posting the rest of chapter 1 here later today but from here on it'll be progress reports, influences and SNEAK PEEKS for upcoming chapters... Of course we all know what "sneak peeks" means for me right? Dang this chapter was a long one!