Mika: After the whole demobat thing, Mika does sometimes need mobility aids. She will either use crutches or a cane depending on if it's her ankle or knee that's bothering her.
Stelle: Between her anxiety, adhd, and autism, she does get sensory overload a lot, so she always carries her sound canceling headphones. She also keeps super dark sunglasses with her in case her photosensitivity gets too bad. And a pen and notepad for if she goes nonverbal.
Bradey: She has really thick glasses, even when she was a toddler. After the whole Nogitsune thing and playing Lacrosse so hard in high school, (and all the injuries that came with both) Bradey can have a hard time staying upright and walking. So when she's having a bad day, she uses a wheelchair to get around. She also sometimes has to rely on Google translate when she forgets how to speak English (which is only when she's exhausted)
Celeste: Her hearing was damaged in The Battle of New York, and she's used hearing aids ever since. They were damaged when she fell to Sakaar, and that's when she learned that Loki knew sign too.
Fae: Is mostly deaf in one ear and needs a hearing aid.
Evan: Goes non-verbal, and relies on text to speech.
Lucinda: She's been in in enough Jaeger accidents that it's not surprising she would need mobility aids. But she also has a mechanical arm and robotic ocular replacement.
Séamus: Wears a knee brace most of the time, but will use a cane at home/in camp.
Of both Irish and Scottish descent, Séamus is a born adventurer whose life's work is to find the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. She's spent decades discovering ancient cities, hidden temples, and exploring the jungles of Mexico and South America. Her main focus is in the Aztecs, but she has also found her share of secrets, and curses, hidden deep in the Amazonian jungle.
Was friends with Rick and Izzy in her youth, and the three would get into some wild adventures. She and Rick once fould an ancient map to El Dorado, written all in code. A code it would take her nearly 2 decades, 4 trips around the globe, a handful of dead colleagues to decode.
Her cat Xolotl, is possibly immortal because he's obscenely old for a cat, over 25 years old and still as spry as a kitten. He's been with her through many a discovery so he could very well be cursed.
During her years of adventure, Shéa has seen a curse and resurrection or two. She once had to slay Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld after one of her research assistants opened an ancient tomb that had been used to seal him away when he decided that humanity no longer deserved life. She's told Rick this story many times but he never believed her.
Then, a few years after Rick and Evie's kerfuffle at hamunaptra (an adventure she had yet to learn about) she recieved a letter from Rick, who five years prior had stolen her money along with a well aged bottle of whiskey, asking her to come to his home in London to celebrate the new year. So she packed a bag and her lucky machete and boarded a steamer to England.
On her trip there, the ship ran into some trouble on the high seas. A monstrous sea serpent, straight off a pirate map attacked the ship. A beast she helped slay while getting bit in the process, leaving one of its teeth embedded in her leg. A week later, mostly healed, with trophy in hand, she makes her way from the docks to the O'Connell house, where she meets for the first time, Johnathan, Evie, baby Alex, and their friend, Ardeth Bay, who had somehow allowed himself to get talked I to spending the holidays with them. She regaled the group with tales of her many adventures and it wasn't long before he was smitten.
After that, it seemed to get easier and easier for the O'Connells to talk the man into coming over, as long as he was aware she would be there.
So that's how they spent the holiday season for the next three years, all of them gathered in the spacious living room of Rick and Evie's beautiful house. Possible shenanigans may occur to hopefully get the two together, including but not limited to mistletoe, drinking games, and 'accidentally' knocking them into each other's space.
Then came the whole bracelet business and Ardeth saw her fight for the first time, when decapitate the undead corpse about to dismember him on the bus, strands of bright ginger already falling from her hair tie and into her eyes, he knew he was in love. And the way she cupped his cheeks before she began to examine his wounds, had he not been so out of breath and in pain, he would have kissed her right then. God knows he desperately wanted to.
During the first night of their pursuit of Alex in Izzy's dirigible, he could hardly keep his eyes off her. With her hair down, whipping around her face, and her large cotton sleeves billowing in the wind as she looked out over the desert, he could hardly hear what Jonathan was blabbering about.
There was no real privacy on their journey, but during one of the quiet moments he pulled her to the side, determined to at least kiss her in case they happened to fail their mission or something happened to either of them, but their moment was interrupted by Evie nearly going over the side.
When the balloon went down in the tsunami sent by Imhotep, his first instinct was to wrap his arms around her and hold her close, trying to protect her from any pain she might suffer from the fall. Then she went with him and Rick to retrieve Alex and tbe two fough off cultists and pygmies until the rest of them made it to the pyramid.
She then helped ardeth and his warriors hold back the Anubis warriors. When the second wave of them turned back in to sand, one of the first things he did was turn around and kiss her, hard. A sweaty, sandy, passionate kiss.
She spent the next two months with him in Egypt before going back to Mexico. Her original intent when going to London was to ask Rick for assistance in cracking a part of the infamous code that would lead El Dorado. During their search for his son he helped her out, and only a few months later she was getting antsy, ready for the next step in her lifelong journey.
Leaving was hard for her, but their regular correspondence eased the pain a fair amount, until she stops responding all together. After eight months of worrying, fearing the worst, and nearly boarding a boat to Mexico himself to find her, Ardeth is shocked by the sudden appearance of Séamus in the local market one day.
Self ship tag: Curse Bound
Shéa's playlist is a careful accumulation of soundtracks and celtic punk, and is totally worth a listen!
What happens next is a story for another day in my (hopefully) upcoming Mummy spinoff series/Mummy 3 rewrite- Mummy: Curse of the Jungle
And if all goes well with that I have another story planned for them- The Mummy: Sea of Mystery (or something like that)
38- What are they like in the bedroom? Any kinks/fetishes/turn-ons? Anything they won’t do?
Sex with Ardeth is very intimate and passionate. Lots of soft touches that turn into rough pulls and tight holds.
His biggest turn ons are seeing Séamus in his clothes. The way the fabric loosely hangs off her shoulders and falls to either side of her legs, showing off so much of her skin. He's sure it would drive anyone mad with lust. And her wandering hands. She somehow knows exactly where to touch and caress without being incredibly lewd, and it will have him turning on her like an animal.
Séamus will fall apart when he looks at her like that. With those warm, brown eyes staring so intensely at her. His voice, she could listen to that man talk all day. And lastly his hands. His hands are always so big and hot against her skin, and he always holds her so lovingly. She just preens under his attention.
As for kinks, I would say having his hair pulled and, I don't know if this counts as a kink, but he basically worships her body. He will take time to kiss and caress every little scar and freckle on her skin.
Shéa is a little more kinky, she likes to be tied up 👀. Not like hardcore bondage but she's very touchy during sex and having her arms tied up makes things a little more intense.
Hard No's for him is anything that would hurt her, physically or otherwise. Sure a few 'slut's and 'whore's get thrown around, but nothing super degrading. Her biggest no is choking. She nearly had her windpipe crushed by a bandit when she was a teen and it just brings up traumatic memories for her.
In regards to this, while I am aware Skull Island takes place in the 70s and is not a sequel to Peter Jackson's film, I would love to make a mix of the two. Maybe a nice combo of monkey mash-up and history fuckening.
Whatever the fuck I end up calling my Kong adventure (Curse of Kong?) Is gonna take place years after Sea of Mystery, a long time into Séamus and Ardeth's marriage.
Kinda like Rick and Evie in Tomb of the dragon emperor, they've somewhat given up on the world ending/saving adventures. But when Randa and Brooks show up offering Shéa the opportunity to explore a completely uncharted jungle island, how could she possibly say no?
Denham and his crew are with them to capture video of the island, Weaver being one of his best photographers and camera people. Baxter, Hayes, Jimmy, and Driscoll are their own hired guns.
Darrow is a zoologist they hired to study the island and whatever is on it with Lin.
Conrad and McGannon are hired as guides. Ardeth also tags along, just in case.
The troops and other scientists are there too, of course.
