Welcome to Maribat Calendar Events December event.
December is dedicated to the magic users and JL Dark members in the DCU. Who does this include? Any JL Dark member or magic user within the DCU shipped with your favourite MLB characters. Any relationship style is welcome for this.
Do one prompt! Do them all! Any participation is great! They just serve as ways to encourage that creativity. No Pressure.
Make sure you tag us so others can more easily see your work:
What's your favourite part of constigami when writing your fics?
Thank you so much for the ask!
Hmm... I think my absolute favourite part is the sass and sarcasm that they have somewhere hidden even in the most serious fics, but Constagami is also such a versatile ship. I can easily make them do pretty much anything, and I think that always makes me happy.
On that note, I should probably go rewrite that one 140k Constagami fic I've got in progress with @persephonescat. Surprisingly (you can thank her), it's nowhere near being angsty, and the cute dumbasses actually get their shit together always pretty easily.
And here we are for the @maribat-secret-santa-2020 ! Did not expect to participate, did expect even less who my giftee was tbh... @ethelphantom this is for you! Merry Christmas, fren š§”š§”š§”š§”š§”š§”š§”
Truth be told Constagami is not my fav, but Eth, you love it and I thought it would be the perfect gift, also bc you're the main fanart creator and it would be nice to not have fanart made by you :))) I really do hope you like it!!!!!
And since it's Constagami, I can't not tag @persephonescat :) Hi fren, thankies for walking with me through this madness :)
I'll just slide in and request a snippet from the second Uh. CC:
Also, Kagami's love letter to John is beautiful and I want to give you a chance to post from it, so that, too. It's incredibly pretty. And cheesy. And cute. And they're dumb. *sigh*
My goodness. I know I told you you could request that but I still wonder why the hell we're friends sometimes.
So!
Have a snippet of the thing I haven't touched since December (and yet it's far from the worst thing I've written since.)
How did they get here again?
Oh, yes, indeed.
John had wanted her attention and Kagami hadnāt given it to him because she was working on psychology assignments for extra credit.
And seriously, what did she need extra credit for anyway, she was already ace-ing all of her classes. It didnāt really make sense. (Well, John, there is this thing called wanting to learn as much of this as humanly possible, which you should understand.)
So, as it was, Kagami was sitting on the bed with her laptop on her crossed legs, the only light in the room coming from the screen in front of her. It didnāt really matter anyway as she wasnāt doing anything outside of her screen, so it was alright. She wasnāt certain how long it had been since she had eaten, either, but she was almost done with this one! After that, she could perfectly well go eatā¦ right?
Alright, fine, Kagami knew she was not going to do that.
She only barely noted the door opening behind her and a stream of light coming from the hallway into the bedroom.
āPrincess, what are you doing?ā
No answer.
āKagami. You havenāt eaten since lunch and itās nearly midnight.ā
Still no answer.
āFine, if you are ignoring me, I guess you canāt blame me for what happens next,ā came the exasperated words, and then the weight on the bed increased and the bed dipped. Kagami still ignored it because now really wasnāt time to start paying attention to him.
Ethelās Christmas Calendar (that is hopefully going to last until the 31st of December)
So! Iām not joining Daminette December this year (I might have sort of fallen out of the ship at some point, still obviously respect all the people who do like it, and Iām just as much a Maribat fan still!) but I am writing Constagami/DamiGami December with @pl-panda. He wants to counter my angst with DamiGami fluff so letās see whatās going to happen.
...Yes, I have actual fluff coming up too. I promise. Iām not a complete monster.
Anyhow! Here I will keep updating the prompts filled every day, so look forward to them! You can always open stories only up to that day, but no worries, theyāll all end up here. You can also find them in my Ao3, so thatās another place to look!
Without further ado, here are the days:
1. Burning
2. ā-Iām not sorry.āĀ ā-Then by the gates of Hell I shall make you so.ā
3.Ā āUnconditional love is a terrifying thing.ā
4. Choice
5. Breaking Point
6.Ā āI always win.ā
7. Make You Cry
8.Ā āDo you ever get tired of being the voice of reason around here?ā
9. Our Song
10.Ā ā-Youāre lying. Youāre blushing.āĀ ā-Shut up, no Iām not.ā
11. Gifts
12.Ā ā-Iām your lock screen?āĀ ā-...You werenāt supposed to see that.ā
13. Freedom
14. Long Time No See
15. Deity AU
16. College AU
17. Pirate AU
18. Secretary AU
19. Fake Dating AU
20. Obligatory Coffee Shop AU
21. Soulmates AU Because We Need One
22.Ā āWhen youāve been alive for centuries, things like this stop surprising you.ā
23. Time Travel
24. Golden Lies with Silver Lining
25.Ā āI liked it better when you didnāt know how to be sarcastic with me.ā
26.Ā āStop spreading chaos, I canāt keep up with it anymore.ā
I. I decided to post my Constagami bullshit over here, too. Please enjoy this beautiful thing with me.
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Ao3
This work is (technically) Maribat: If you donāt like, donāt read.
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He has been doing it now for quite some time and she knows it.
Every time Kagami retires a rapier and says anything about it to anyone in any possible way, it disappears within the next 48 hours and is never returned to her.
At first, Kagami is baffled, creeped out that someone is stalking her and taking her rapiers because a rapier does not simply disappear like that, but at some point, she decides to stay with the rapier to find out what is going on. As it turns out, it is just her boyfriend taking them. Stealing them, really, but at this point, she is not sure she minds too much.
The reason, as it turns out, was because he is turning them into wands. Not that he really uses them, but he keeps turning them into wands anyway because they remind him of her.
Kagami canāt help but laugh.
āYouā Beanpole, do you miss me quite so much you must turn my rapiers into something you are able to carry around with you?ā she asks, holding back a smirk and cocks her hips. Kagami probably sounds far too smug about it, but then again, it is not often she gets a chance to tease John even if she knows his answer would be to flirt back.
After all, one simply does not fluster John Constantine. That is a fact of life.
John grins ear to ear, without even trying to hide it and quirks a brow. āOh Luv, you know it. Much better to have you around all the time and not just when the schedule allows it,ā he says, giving her a smirk, and Kagami rolls her eyes fondly. Let him break and enter once, and he would break and enter forever. Of course.
āYou could also simply take me with you some time, could you not?ā she tells him in return, folding her legs underneath her as she sits on her bed. āOr, at the very least, you could ask for my rapiers instead of stealing them. Breaking and entering isnāt as widely accepted method of expressing love as you may think it is.ā
There is a gasp and then John puts a hand over his heart and feigns dramatic shock. āBut Iām just following your example, Luv! Are you telling me not to do something like that when youāre the one who stole my heart and still has yet to return it to māā He is interrupted by a palm over his mouth and Kagamiās groaning.
āOh goodness, no. Donāt. Do not start. Just take the rapier and go, you idiot,ā she tells him, shaking her head exasperatedly despite how much she cares about the man in front of her, all trenchcoat and arrogance.
John laughs, not long and not loud, but itās still a laugh. And itās nice. Itās not too often she gets to hear it. It makes her smile as well.
āTake care of yourself, will you?ā Kagami says, taking his hands in hers. She has to look up to be able to look into his eyes, heās rather tall compared to her, but she doesnāt complain about itā¦ most of the time anyway.
Her hands are given a small squeeze and John leans forwards to kiss her on the lips. āCanāt promise anything, but Iāll try for you,ā he tells her, whispers the words against her lips, and really, itās still better than it could be. Being told that he will at least try is a bit more reassuring than only knowing that he cannot promise heāll stay safe or that heāll take care of himself. Surely Kagami can trust in him. Sheās always been able to.
And just like each time when he steps out of the door, Kagami can feel her smile fall away and her heart break just a little bit more because she knows that each time he does so, it might end with his death and that thereās always a very good chance one day someone will come to her door to tell her John Constantine is dead ā that, or he simply never comes back home, and Kagami is certain John wouldnāt just come home again if nothing bad had happened. He has come to her every time and she trusts he will continue doing so.
Year after year, the cycle continues; John leaves to fight beings she has never seen to protect and help people, and each time he comes back more or less injured. But he comes back, and sheās happy.
It isnāt until she asks to come with him that things start going awry.
John doesnāt want Kagami to come because it would be dangerous and she doesn't have magic or any special abilities to protect her if he isnāt able to save her in time, and Kagami is just as stubborn as John is.
He leaves, slamming the door behind him.
He doesnāt promise to even try to take care of himself.
Kagami goes after him, follows him to Arizona, just like she knows she would follow him to the ends of the Earth. This is nothing.
āDonāt you dare!ā Those are the last three words John tells Kagami. That sentence should have, in reality, been āDonāt you dare die on me, I love you,ā but that isnāt what John says, and he regrets it for the rest of his life.
āI love you.ā These three are the very last words Kagami says in her life, and they are directed at one John Constantine who watches yet another person he cares about die in front of his eyes.
The light blinds him as the magic hits her. The next thing he knows is that there is blood on the ground, on him, and everything is burning. John curses and exorcises the demon, knowing he could not have done that if not for Kagamiās sacrifice.
There is no corpse to bury.
Nothing left of her that he could lay to rest.
It is hardly surprising ā everyone he considers a friend, everyone he cares about, all their lives end up stolen sooner or later. It was stupid of him to ever think Kagami would be an exception. They both always knew he would outlive her, but neither had expected it to be quite like this. They had merely thought heād live longer than she would, but that she would still get to die a natural death.
There is nothing natural about demons murdering humans.
John has never really liked the gods anyway, theyāre all assholes and dicks, and heās hardly afraid of pissing all of them off, but this time he curses them to kingdom come because they let the only good thing in his life die. Sure, John was never worth living, and sure, John never deserved to get a happy life, but Kagami, Kagami was worth every second of her life and should have gotten to see more of it.
So, truly, he has been doing it for quite some time and she knew it. Has been doing it since before she dies; for multiple years, really.
As John steps into the remains of her house burnt to the ground, he can see her rapier in what used to be their ā no, her, he walked out on her and told her he wasnāt coming back because maybe it would discourage her from following and she would not die ā room, in a better condition than he had been expecting.
This one is going to be the last one.
John takes it with him and puts it on display, taking care of it and making sure it would not be ruined at any point.
There is no other rapier left, and it is the one John has been keeping safe since she died, hoping that maybe she would come back and he could return it to her. He knows it is nothing but wishful thinking, but she had brought the Sun back into his life, had brought him more happiness, shown him how to hope once more, and he is certain he owes her that much, owes her to have faith in her to come back. At least for a little while.
And so John forges Kagamiās favourite ā and last ā rapier into a wand, knowing he will never use it in his life, and it is all because he wants to keep the last piece of her heās got near and safe.
After all, it is one of the only things she left behind, one of the only things he can keep remembering her by.
John Constantine lives on.
Tsurugi Kagami stays dead, butā¦
...the memory of her ultimate sacrifice will never disappear from the mind of him who bore witness to those sorrowful events.
Do you want to be tagged to my future works? Just send me an ask or comment! Also, for your information, if you enjoyed this, Iāll be doing Constagami/DamiGami December with @pl-panda, so if you wish to get tagged to the works Iāll create that month, remember to tell me!Ā
Yeapp, you're right, your favourite Ethel turns 17 today!
Thus, I'm here to tell you of my new favourite ship: Constagami. John Constantine and Kagami Tsurugi. I do not know how it happened I totally do. I also enjoy Brostagami, which is the platonic version of them. Here is some art to convince you to ship this chaotic duo as well, whether platonic or romantic. Both are beautiful.
I also tried new art styles while I was at it. Needed a simpler art style.
