#marsab

[roguescum]

marsab forcefem crime au

[authenticaussie]

Heyyyy. Love how you write Marco and Sabo in HoC 🥰🥰. When does Marco find out he has feelings for Sabo ?

!!! HoC ask!! House of Cards ask!!! 🥺🥺🥺❤️

Hi!! Hello!! Thank you 🥺 HoC did a lot of development work for how I personally view/write marsab content so it's so endearing to me that you like it....<333

I think I half mention it in the HoC masterpost but I then realised that, although I was sure I'd written it, Marco's pov is entirely missing from the actual Realisation?? le ze gasp 🤭 making this hard on myself, wtf. Under the cut bc this got pretty rambly!!!

Anyway from what I remember, I think the way I had pinned it together is, although Sabo realises he has feelings for Marco during the two/three-year time skip, his actual behaviour does not actually change that much? So while Marco does...vaguely presume they are Eventually friends, and adjusts to Sabo's behaviour, Sabo is harsh, and gets even more so as time goes on. The Whitebeards do a lot to make up for the whole...debacle, but, in their defence too, it's not even just the Ace thing. They're also pretty fucked up about the fact that these guys have very obviously been wildly abused, if the response to affection is....(yikes.com)

So while Sabo slowly adjusts upon realisation that Marco is a Good Man, I think a lot of Marco is...a) tied up in the fact that his break up with Ace was probably the most brutal thing ever, for all he tried to let Ace go with grace, and, b) does see Sabo a bit as...connected to Ace? As Ace's? So recognition of his feelings there is bad. He doesn't see Sabo as a viable romantic partner because he's messed up about Ace, and then, also, because, well, it's Sabo! Sabo is an adjacent thing to Ace, the way that like...siblings of your partner are People but also not?

Marco's feelings potentially come part way through the time skip - when Sabo starts eventually doing things for himself and working with Dragon - but I don't think he's willing to recognise them. Sorta along the vague....feelings (<-fic link) ?? of this drabble that wasn't technically HoC but could fit for the vibes aha. (Though if this was HoC canon I would put it after the timeskip, for the fact that Marco now protects Sabo's secrets, and is close enough to Sabo to have that loyalty...)

I think what tips Marco into realisation of his own feelings for Sabo is when Ace comes back. He's used to Sabo being closed off, but he had seen how Sabo and Ace were so...co-dependant. Even if Sabo won't take physical affection, he'd always lean into and on Ace. And it just doesn't happen anymore.

From Sabo's POV there's a lot of closing himself off so he doesn't fuck up again, of self-harm adjacent behaviours - not wrapping his hands before a fight, not sleeping properly, that stuff - and Marco...notices.

"Hey," he says, and takes Sabo's hand, feels cold fingertips against his palm, and that's more than enough time for him to see that the scabs aren't healing properly before Sabo yanks his hand away and glares. "D'you need someone to help-" "Not you," Sabo spits, and Marco raises his hands. "Not me, just someone."

So even though Sabo won't go to Ace, at this point Marco at least recognises them as friends, well enough to bully Sabo into getting help. It's a mirror of the first part of the fic, where Ace goes to Marco for help, basically by accident, and this...Sabo going on purpose (or, being cajoled lmao) and allowing Marco to help him. Even though he says not you, Marco's gotten good at translation and...finally figures out that Sabo's sorta in the same boat as him, with Ace. It's different and yet...still so much the same. The betrayal, the leaving, the love...

You have to forgive me, it's been-

(momentary tv glitch as I clutch my head and realise it's been seven years. SEVEN YEARS ??)

A while since I actually thought about HoC/went over the fic notes, and I actually can't find what I did have planned for the marsab get together. I actually think the sabo/ace manage to fix up (and/or at the same time ?????) marco/ace get together first, and then marsab manage to get their shit together and figure themselves out. Probably with Ace's help, considering how much better he's gotten with his mental health 🤭 and with refusing to allow others to ignore their own health etc. Ace getting Sabo's feelings out of him and knowing Marco well enough to force him into also telling the truth.

Also, wait, I remembered/found some notes!

So pre-Laffitte, Ace specifically comes home and thinks marsab are dating - because he knows Sabo well enough to be like oh, Sabo likes this guy, and he knows Marco, too, and why would they be so close if not...this? And Sabo doesn't have any of the tells Ace used to. Low-key he's...yes, it is sad, because as he spends time with Marco again he does remember what he did like about Marco, that he did like Marco, near the end (even if he wasn't sure of it being love), and thinks Marco's just private because of how everything ended with, well, him. So when he teases them and Sabo snaps, he doesn't know how he got it wrong...but he's certainly thinking about it.

And I'll presume at this point you've read the masterpost - after the Laffitte-Ace-injured!Thatch situation, Thatch is in recovery and ends up spending time with Sabo and realising that Sabo has feelings for Marco, mostly by accident. To Thatch, well, Sabo's a jerk but he's at least blunt. He's sharp and (seemingly) straight-forward and, at the very least, with them, he doesn't...let them get away with stuff? So even with all his misdirects and lying bs Thatch is still aware that Sabo wouldn't end up...doing the same to Marco as Ace. He doesn't blame Ace, necessarily, but fuck, his brother's just not the same.

Marco's a romantic at heart. Having the realisation that he hurt someone he loved, and in such a way that his love was the problem? Fuck, he'd never be the same. One of the major things that gets through to him is the fact that Sabo...recognises that. When Marco is trying to make it up to Sabo and Luffy, trying to get a life for them, Sabo puts together that Marco is Fucked Up about that. When he tells Marco about Ace...that Ace was actually having feelings for him, and that was one of the reasons Sabo lashed out - jealousy, fear - Marco knowing how much that costs him is when he sees Sabo less as "Ace's" and more as his own person.

So it's like...first half of the first year of the time skip -> Marco's depression era

Second quarter -> depression era^2 where Marco tries to make up for Fucking Up with Ace + Sabo has the conversation about Ace liking him/respecting him. Sabo doesn't say the same, but...it's implied

Third quarter -> Sabo working with Dragon, Marco + Sabo being friends

Fourth quarter -> Marco jealousy era when Sabo is working with the Revo more closely and has someone interested in him

Tbf if Ace hadn't come back I think after maybe another few years, Marsab would've gotten together (I have a scene about that! About when Ace thinks they're together and knows Sabo likes Marco and says, "I can help!" and Sabo says, "The only way you can help is by leaving." because Ace being back is the problem....)

Then Laffitte and Ace/Marco getting together and Marco realising, as Sabo pulls away from him: oh shit. The jealousy from before....it's worse when he has Sabo pulling away. When before, Sabo was still around, still spending time with him, and now? He even realises that Sabo spending time with his Revo partner was jealousy, and, now, realising that he cares about Sabo, to the point that Sabo not being around...he hates it.

He has Ace...but why does it not feel satisfying?

(And how dare he say as such to Ace when he really, truly, does love Ace? How could he-)

Then we say thanks again to Ace's mental health era and the fact he refuses to allow Sabo to be taken away from him, or, even, for the people he loves to be unhappy...👏 He picks up on Sabo not being around and on Marco being a mess about something and goes oh :) no, there was a reason I thought they were dating. And makes Marco properly confront his feelings (which, well, Marco was doing that anyway) and then happy ending <3

[xamaxenta]

Thanks for coming to the magma session it was rad as always!!!

[tamrian]

it's wip wednesday so pls accept this horny marsab monster au

“If you’re shit at fucking, I might just stay silent for the whole time,” Sabo says between two kiss.

His boss narrows his eyes, mirth dancing in his eyes. “You shouldn’t talk to me like that.”

“Why? Are you going to spank me for talking back?” Sabo grins, enjoying the possessive hands on his neck and waist.

[leafyxthiefy]

hey, I'm curious; do you have any things in particular that you like to read? Like, au vs canon, favourite tropes/cliches, favourite character povs? (also lol, I'm bored tbh, so, as well, any fic recommendations to stave that off?)

To whichever anon sent this, I hope you know that I’m squinting so hard at this… because no one sends me asks XD but anywho thank you for the interest!~

First of let me tell you that I haven’t read fanfics in like over a year. I know I am a sad little shit, and I should be reading more things but like I just haven’t gotten around to it or found motivation for it. Kill me pls. But anyway this isn’t what you’re asking so onto the actual ask!

I like to read mostly shippy material, platonic is cool and all but like I need my romance because I am that piece of trash. I love fantasy stories, prefer AU over canon any day, like I can worship and praise everyone who is able to do Canonverse to hell, but I prefer AU’s over canonverse. Angst will forever be my love in any story but hurt/comfort is a close second as well as fluff. Tropes, aaaah there’s so many to choose from, let’s see, pining friends who are completely clueless, strangers meeting at a store, misunderstandings this one is a great one lol, umm rivals turned friends and lovers, shit anything you can find in a Spanish novella, I can go on forever on this I s w e a r . so I’ll leave this for now. 

Favorite character POV I would say Ace, followed by Sabo, Marco, Law, Izo, Thatch. Since I mostly ship MarcoxAcexSabo, MarAce, SabAce, MarSab, SabLaw, IzoxThatch yeah, as long as it isn’t Luffy please I have developed a no-Luffy pls mentality >>;And I’m so sorry you’re bored!!! Like I said I barely read stuff, but I know tons of people who write, >> Also i can shamelessly promote my own shit even though I barely write right? 

@shishiswordsman does amazing Lawlu and she has an AceSab I’ve been meaning to read, as well as some Voltron, find her here on Ao3

@authenticaussie is pretty much the founder and reigning queen of MAS and you can find her various things here on Ao3

If you’re looking for your fill of MAS, please look at the @marcoacesabo blog @rboooks does an amazing job at running it ^^

@paox is also amazing though I have yet to read their stuff, I should at some point, but you can find it here

Oh! Anjelle does some great SabLaw you can find her account here they also have a collab fic which is amazing!! 

@emygrl99 is also a great LawLu, SabAce and Voltron writer you can find her here she and I even wrote the collab of the SaboAce year Red Moon can be found on our joint account here, I’m telling ya, shameless self promotion.

@dontaskmewhyi has some great work here

@midnightluck is also amazing read her stuff here

Ummmmm I know more people but without knowing your ship/main character preferences I donno who else to tag lol so if you want certain ships I could compile a list that better fits that, hope this helps and sorry it got so long whoops~

[roguescum]

marcosabo yeeheh

[roguescum]

marcosabo bird stepping

[xamaxenta]

Sabo flirting with the attitude of a man who has nothing to lose but also knows he is winning anyway getting all shy and flustered in private when Marco says something sweet to him