#just sitting here... thinking about him...

[moldy-flowers]

Sometimes I wonder who Sasuke is. Who he would be if everything that made him himself wasn't erased or sanded down into a blade

[lavb-b]

Patching him up

Edit: Added ID thanks to @anistarrose !!

Edit: Also wanna take this chance to say in the original post, I already realised susie meant she patched tenna in the lightworld, not in the darkworld. Still, I liked envisioning how this would look like anyway :]

[penandinkprincess]

fucking CACKLING after thinking about how seeing ilya made shane's heartrate go down in the hospital because i'm imagining shane being out of it and mildly combative/confused/upset after something like getting his wisdom teeth taken out or something and really ONLY calming down with ilya right next to him, which is very sweet

except for the fact that it's now ilya's turn to be VERY nervous about what shane is going to say in front of his parents in a reversal of shane having about three heart attacks concurrently thinking he was going to have to hear ilya explain the concept of fuckbuddies during the dinner scene

because yes very sweet that shane wasn't listening to ANYONE about rinsing his mouth out until ilya said to do it, but shane's obedience is not limited to heeding medical instructions, and ilya is SWEATING about shane's drugged mind playing connect the dots with how much he likes ilya telling him to do things and deciding to start talking about it

[remcadll]

Jason is anyone going to add salt to that wound Todd

[filijester]

flambae taking robert back to his place for some "fun", and him telling robert to go and lay on the bed. and robert does, and he almost immediately just falls asleep right there because he hasn't slept on a real bed in who knows how long, and the exhaustion just caught up with him. and flambae is like "did he really just fall asleep?" and goes over to him and is like "robert?" with a degree of concern in his voice that he will not admit too. and when robert doesn't respond or stir and just keeps softly breathing as he continues to sleep.

flambae just sighs, but the sound isn't really an annoyed one. and moves to carefully take robert's shoes off and moves him so he can lay more comfortably on the bed. and tucks a warm blanket over him. and he sits down by the bedside. looking at robert. and after a moment, he just reaches out and very gently moves some of robert's hair out of his face. if he runs his thumb over robert's cheek like how one would tenderly caress the face of their lover, no one will know about that except for him. and if robert moves in his sleep to press against the warm palm of his hand. no one except him will know about that either. or how flambae looks at him for a moment, before pulling his hand back and running that hand over his face and just quietly uttering "fuck..." as he thinks that he may be in too deep with all of this and just wondering how he ended up with the man he hated sleeping peacefully in his bed.

[vaguely-concerned]

I love this part so much -- the way this chapter parallels qifrey with coco's mother in multiple ways, including visually here in them both draping fabric over her protectively. the way he doesn't presume to step into her mother's place, but takes on the duty of shielding coco from the cold in her absence. visually we're also placed under the safety of his wing, as it were, to witness coco's most vulnerable state, feeling with her how big and steady and safe he is in her eyes despite as readers having just seen him as a confused hurting child himself for several chapters and knowing all his foibles and missteps well after almost 100 chapters. among all the other things shirahama is a master of, these subtleties of character perspectives is one of the most devastating ones to me.

(for all of the everything going on I think qifrey is actually consistently good at making sure he maintains the role of the adult in this relationship. he recognizes coco's reflexive smile as something akin to his own masking, but he doesn't bleed his own emotions into that, he's there to support her and actually manages to do it. and he apologizes when he slips up, which is probably just as important.)

the sky's kindest, most radiant star strikes again :') again shirahama laying her thematic groundwork perfectly, though; the realization qifrey has at the end of the chapter is set up and shown off perfectly here. he's using the warmth given to him by olruggio and giving it on to someone else (it is, crucially, not a finite resource, it multiplies with the more people it touches on)

I suppose you would know, qifrey :') I also find it very metaphorically interesting that coco's mum is frozen while holding out a lantern, considering the importance of light and warmth in keeping qifrey in this world in the same situation. she carries her own light with her, she's the light for coco, what she's always headed towards. no matter how she goes astray along the way, it's the light she's following. (presumably knowing, however she is capable of knowing right now, that her daughter is out there somewhere makes for a hell of a light to hold on for.) also the fact that the way to coco's home and her mother is guarded by a plant haha looking back at it it's like 'wow wonder where qifrey got that idea from who's to say'

look at the conspicious absence of himself in the supportive lineup lmao. self-esteem of a gnat under there. 'well obviously not me tho I am mostly a Problem'. (still thinking about 'I'm just an empty... mess' thanks for asking.) and then it's thinking about olruggio that makes him sort of wake up to 'wait. I am a person who can have value to other people and meaningfully impact their life posititvely fuck!!!!'. cool and fine and good I'm not sad and touched at all!

also not feeling completely unhinged by how this echoes olly's sentiment way back in the extra chapter that made me cry like a little baby. (presumably he did not actually speak all that aloud, but something clearly resonates between him and qifrey wordlessly here)

shirahama playing the long con always and I am her most gleeful and willing mark

[l4tchk3y]

I love Espio so much. I wish chameleons were real.

[bruciemilf]

Flambert, as a ship, would be 10x funnier if Flambae genuinely thought Mecha Man was JUST a robot