Summary: Louis Tomlinson is the captain of The Dagger, a pirate ship so wicked his reputation as the Spectre precedes him into every quay, dock, and tavern. When a mysterious package arrives for him seemingly giving him the last pieces of the puzzle to find the treasure of the mythical Nymphaea Islands, he sets the ship on a course to find riches that amount to more than the grains of sand on every beach. The men discover a stowaway on the ship, and to Louis' utter shock the man is Lord Styles, the man who broke Louis' heart years earlier and drove him out to sea in the first place. Loyalties are tested as the past comes back to haunt Louis in a way he couldn't imagine.
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My entry to the 2nd Round of the Astro Fic Fest - written for Pluto
The room is dimly lit, decorated in a deep shade of purple. A velvet cloth is draped over the table, beneath the crystal ball that resembles a lava lamp with its obscure shapes all in various shades of purple.
Zayn presses a finger to his lips, signalling for the audience he's accumulated to fall silent. He clears his throat, eyes firmly closed. Across the table, the blonde haired archangel is scanning over Zayn's demeanour with piercing blue eyes.
'OK,' Zayn airs, bluntly. A few bystanders become startled.
Louis isn't sure where to look, eyes darting between the crowd that he's now become sandwiched between, Zayn's concentrated posture or the worrisome looking archangel. He opts for Zayn, pressing his bottom lip together in anticipation. Louis' heart races.
Zayn hums, wiggling his fingers that are an inch apart from the sphere. He's sporting a ring on every finger, one more obscure than the last. His golden ring that harbours a blood red stone, contrasts against the purple splodges that are climbing up the inside of the glass. It's as though it's following Zayn's energy, mixing and morphing together. A lilac coloured sparks from inside the ball, like a lightning bolt.
'It's no good,' Zayn sighs. He opens his eyes, letting his hands fall limply around the crystal ball.
'What, what do you mean?' He stutters in reply. An Irish twang is present and it takes Louis by surprise.
'You're not focused enough. Your trust in my ability and belief is slim to none,' Zayn scolds.
The archangel's face falls, with parted lips. Louis transfers his gaze between the pair, watching them converse.
Summary: When Moon Bin enters the flower shop for the first time, he isn’t expecting to see something much prettier than the flowers all around him.
Moon Bin entered the flower shop with hesitation. His mom’s birthday was coming up and he honestly didn’t know what to get her. She deserved the world, but he was a poor college student who could hardly afford food half the time.
He hoped that flowers would convey how much he loved her, while still making sure he would not starve to death in his dorm room. He walked through the rows of flowers, trying to think of what she would like.
He honestly had no clue about flowers, and he realized he was probably screwed. He was giving up officially, he was going to grab the closest flower and get out of here and-
“Excuse me, do you need any help?”
He was greeted by the prettiest thing he had ever seen in his entire life. The boy was tall, with dark hair and fair skin. He had a small nose and was giving him such a sweet smile. He almost couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Uh, um, uh...” he almost couldn’t speak this boy was so pretty. “It’s my mom’s birthday. I don’t know what to get her.”
The boy nodded and looked at the flower in his hands. “Well, this one means love at first sight, so I hope that’s not what you meant to give your mom.”
The boy laughed as he paled and shoved the pretty flower back onto the shelf. “No, no definitely not.”
“I think you’re going to want something more like this,” the boy turned and grabbed another flower, this one light pink and pretty, “it means ‘appreciation’, a lot of people get this for their mothers.”
Moon Bin grabbed the bouquet thankfully, blushing as his fingers brushed along the others. “Thank you for the help!”
“I’m glad I could help! Sanha up at the register will check you out if you’re ready.”
“Yes, yes thank you.” Moon Bin practically sped away from the pretty boy. It was getting hard to breathe and he wasn’t sure he would be able to be so calm around him for very much longer.
The boy at the register was tall and cute in his overalls, but his demeanor was that of a cute kid, not nearly as handsome as the angel he had met in the aisles. He checked out quickly and was about to make his escape when he realized he had accidentally bought an extra flower.
The angel had returned and was holding the door open for him. He walked towards the door, but hesitated as he was about to walk through. He quickly grabbed his extra flower and shoved it into the hands of the angel of the flower shop.
He rushed out blushing, having told someone he had just met, that he had fallen in love at first sight. Oh, what would his mother say.
All of Us Are Dead: Your Actions Have Consequences
As someone who is Saturn ruled, this is not the first time that I ended up being drawn to a series that had karma and morality be a heavy theme written into a series (throwback to my small character analysis for Girl From Nowhere). This will be another astrology driven analysis of the series and it's characters. If you want to see my actual opinions on the series, it can be found here on my main blog. So let's combine my two favorite things and get into it.
As I said in my personal review of it, I'm not sure if they did this on purpose or were just going for a semi-realistic approach to an apocalypse, but I noticed that it had a very....Capricorn like feeling to it. There's this notion that people who have a Saturn influence feel more restricted because the feeling of Karma is much heavier and more present in their lives (in their eyes) as opposed to others. Imagine you have a Saturn person and a Moon person decide to slack off on their homework that's due the next day. The Moon person will not suffer that much in the direct/literal sense, whereas the Saturn person might experience the teacher being deeply disappointed in them and then this reaches the parent and then they get scolded and handed a punishment--all from one piece of homework. It's not that the Moon person is not being affected by this, it's just playing out differently. For the Saturn person, these lessons start off young and they don't necessarily stop unless they can reframe their mind. It makes the person believe that they always have to be operating from a perfect or morally 'right' point or they will be delivered some type of punishment. And that's exactly what happens in this series.
A scientist's son is harassed and bullied until he can't stand it anymore > The Scientist decides to make a virus that will cause his son to fight back, causing this whole apocalypse
Jae-ik, despite being on a mission, continuously stopped to help those in need > was rewarded with a more efficient means for transportation and when nearly killed by the military, was transported to a 'safer' quarantine zone that was more stable than the danger zone
Ji-min begins to harbor rage against zombies after discovering her dead parents and holds the adults in the country accountable for not coming to rescue them > Ji-min & Hyo-ryeong pair up and when Hyo-ryeong slips, Ji-min abandons her as a zombie is catching up to them > Ji-min is Immediately surrounded and killed
and there are millions of other examples, large and small, of 'karma'. There really is no right way of judging what is a good or bad move, especially in the apocalypse, but you get the general idea. They even cover the sense where the Saturn person starts to operate from the stance where they believe they have to always be in the right, or the bigger person--maturing from an early age. In the gymnasium, after the fight, Joon-yeong states that if anything goes wrong, he'll take responsibility, and what does he do after he gets bit because of his plan?
Well. He took responsibility.
They also use this aspect when we pull back into the perspectives of the politicians and adults, obviously. We'll see multiple times that they have to sacrifice those that they love for the greater good, or you can feel the tension and insinuate as much:
There are a lot of other topics I want to touch on that I feel also relate to Saturn in terms of stepping up, adulthood, and other gritty things, but considering this pulls from real life, I personally feel uncomfortable using them as my cool neato astrology post so if you like astrology and you were also paying attention, then let me know!
A.K.A. I just assign random natal placements and aspects to these people
Cheong-san
Okay this one is a little difficult but there are some possibilities. Without a doubt I'm sticking him with a Libra sun or Moon, and Definitely a Taurus or Scorpio Venus. I think I want to lean more towards a Libra Sun because he is very contained but also Not Really??? I'm not here to figure out his entire chart though honestly. I want to give him a Libra Sun though because I realized through viewing that a lot of characters, and even me as a viewer, project onto him at times? It's not fully projection, but it's a mix of sometimes he's just Quiet and I can't tell if that's the writing or who he just is as a character. However if it's people that he's close to and cares about, then he's very active, passionate, protective, and it's giving me Taurus-Scorpio axis. He also tends to offer himself for solo missions a lot before people even suggest it and that's cardinal energy to me, because 1. a Fixed sign would think that's stupid, and 2. a Mutable sign wouldn't have a one-way thought process and end it there. So then to narrow it down he's not a Capricorn because just like the fixed sign point, they would also say his ideas are pointless and risking his life and Aries is too high energy for him. Cancer would be the Second shot after Libra, because everyone in the group gravitates towards him in a way. For the Taurus-Scorpio axis-- look. I have both of those influences, and a bunch of Scorpio influenced relatives/friends. There is no getting around some of the claims that when we love someone, we love them and it's a little intense, but in different ways. I think I want to give him a Taurus Venus, because he's very quiet in the way he moves, and it's more of about knowing On-jo and having a Very Special spot in her heart that no one else does. He only gets sour when that status is threatened and not whenever she's generally close to other people. Depending on other mixtures, it can make him more clingy for attention, so I think he has some air and earth, but he's definitely snarky and cheeky when dealing with hurt feelings because remember in Episode 1 when she was asking for help and he was answering but Not Really. When you know someone with Taurus/Scorpio Placements, you can tell when they're holding back because they will want the best for you but if they're being sore about something they Cannot help it. I think he definitely have 4th house placements though because of, you know.
On-jo
Pisces. This girl is a PISCES. I don't know where so maybe she's just influenced by Neptune but the amount of times she stressed that she just wants her friends to be here and for everything to be okay and she just wants things to go back to normal--it's a normal response but even when everything was Fine, she was very like....airy? At the end she's the one who always remembered to visit the grave for her friends (as far as I know, maybe others did too, I would have to imagine?), and then made sure to get Su-hyeok because she assumed who it was that lit the campfire and even remembered that conversation throughout the mess they were in. She's a very sentimental person, but also very sensitive. She might have double water somewhere in her big three, I don't want to say she's a water sun water moon, because she was able to pull the survival information out, so either her sun would be placed somewhere stable or aspected well like in the 9th house because that would strengthen her Pisces sun? Anyway all I have for her is Pisces <3
Dae-su
Cancer with Sagittarius Moon I Said What I Said.
Nam-ra
Harsh Moon-Saturn aspect to hell and back. Or a Saturn in 1st. She was so fun to watch because all I was doing was analyzing her and I am such a softie for kids with bad families because me too bitch. I already confirmed it the second she said her mom basically paid for her position in episode 1, but then when they were around the campfire and she said that she never hated them and then they all awkwardly said they kinda did like yeah......yeah that's the Saturn huh. I Could also go with a Moon-Asc aspect but I'm not sure if that fits her too much, because she's more about containing herself, not so much she feels uncomfortable expressing herself in the same way she comes off. Saturn in the 1st is all about not feeling like you're doing enough in the eyes of those that matter to you sometimes, and you end up presenting yourself in a restricted manner, however they want you to (which is usually, perfect). The way she described her interactions with her mom was horrible, but it fit both of these perfectly. She could also have a Mars that's intercepted if we're using placidus, or just a Mars that's in Fall or Detriment, because every single time she needed to fight she was very contained, and she couldn't really bring her full power out, which we know is Much stronger than what she showed when looking at Gwi-nam and Eun-ji. Then with how she looked at the end of the series, she probably was able to master control over herself, so that's what makes sense when it comes to that placement. I want to stress that it's not like she's naturally emotionally void, but she just Learned to be this way. I think her chart would probably look pretty normal and besides her mars, probably very chill but she was just taught to be somebody for someone else, because she also noted that no one cared to get to know her multiple times which is why she was paired with Su-hyeok, because he eventually kept trying.
Ha-ri
Definitely Node or Chiron in 4th. I wasn't thinking too much about Moon-Saturn with her because she's very vocal and not afraid of being herself, it's more-so she's afraid of being someone her family is disappointed in. So I want to lean more towards the node with this one, because we didn't really get any childhood wounds, but she also Did say that she always wanted to do archery and doesn't want to give it up, and she's worried she might have to if her parents were to find out so I'm torn on which one it is. Yes Node in the 4th is about wanting to have a family etcetc, but what Type of family life do you want to have. It doesn't have to Literally mean a family. It's just what type of values do you want to take with you when you grow, Yes you are leaving the lessons of the 10th house, but also be wary of any warts that are to be healed before you pass them on too. For Chiron, I think it was just the idea that she was the oldest and it's also tough on the eldest. They're expected to be the ideal child so when that falls short it's a lot of pressure.
That's all! Thank you for reading if you've made it this far! If you have any extra thoughts, please feel free to comment and share them! If you're wondering what my thoughts are on some characters, I might've not been paying attention to them/// so feel free to drop it in my inbox
There were two beautiful examples of dynamics in the same episode. The first one being an air and earth one:
It was so beautiful I paused it and had to sit there and take it in lmao. It shows exactly how people can communicate their care but it hits a block because it's not how the receiving person deals with stuff. In return, the caring person might feel a bit upset because even though the other person will feel a bit better because they can tell the person is trying to make them feel better, it won't ultimately help them the way they want, but they might not fully get that in the moment. So that's what causes the friction until they start to understand how they both operate. I'm showing my earth influence because I also don't know how to spell this dudes name hold on--Orangibberish- I hate that- Orangibberish is looking at it from a standpoint of if they're socially shamed then they can't show their face again and that's what they deserved because they just deserted someone with a good heart who helped them! It's beneficial in their world because that's where they operate, and in the long run because it will consistently happen, you can't recover from social shaming. On the other hand, Jae-ik understands that this will Literally do nothing for them right now. Comments are not getting them out of being stranded on a rooftop and they need to fix that and also get to a safe spot, and then Also complete his mission, so that's just being stupid and not helpful, even if the sentiment is very nice. Honestly air and earth dynamics are really funny.
Fire and Water
From personal experience, this is exactly what every feel good speech is like with a fire sign lmao. Water signs tend to get too in their heads and emotions about a lot of things, dramatize situations, blow things out of proportions, and get crippled with anxiety over it. Whereas Fire Signs, while they're not immune to it, will approach things like these screencaps. They are not dismissing their emotions, but they know how deep those waters are, and they know if they don't drag the person out then it'll only get worse, so their go to is a distraction until they can either talk about it or the person feel better. Some Fire signs will know what to say, and some are just better at distractions, but they just want their loved ones to feel happy. What they're best at is being blunt, and honestly sometimes it helps. They will either abruptly end the conversation with a joke, move on, or just make a lot of jokes and funny faces to lighten the mood. It's not a dismissal, if anything it's a large sign that they deeply care about you
