#monster roberto

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God, Johan was so young. Sometimes, Roberto forgot. There were moments when he looked at the boy's clock-hand-thin frame and saw nothing but the absence of time, or the long-awaited end of it. A force of nature he had no choice but choose to obey. Then came other moments, like that one right there, Johan finally turning to face him—a pale boy only half his age. Less than that. And not looking much like a boy either, with that softly falling hair of his and the mock-modest skirt.

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Another Johan Liebert post (yes I know I’m obsessed)!

I was quite surprised to find myself feeling sorry for the 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 that was Roberto when as he’s dying Johan completely pulls the rug out from under him and this is after he’s used Roberto's own trauma to manipulate him (oh Johan, same old, same old) but looking back on it, I think I kind of understand what actually happened. Roberto wanted to see what Johan called "the end of the world" and due to being cuckoo for cocoa puffs, he failed to realise that Johan wasn’t going to just pull that out of his sleeve like a magician. More than that though I can’t help but think that when Johan told him that he wasn’t going to see "the end" what he meant was essentially - if you can’t see it by now you were never going to. What Johan calls "the end" is that barren field where he and Anna had been found by Helmut Wolf as children and Tenma himself briefly sees it, but the problem with Johan is that scene is where his mind is constantly. He’s kind of in this really dark and desolate bubble (for lack of a better word) and even when he’s with other people; they’re just talking to him from the outside and can’t see his reality. That’s why his bond with Nina is so strong besides them being twins and why he develops a fondness for Karl and Tenma because on some level they’re all in that mental space but unlike him they’re trying to get away from it. Johan sees it as useless to escape from it so in his mind he’s trying to drag as many people as possible to that place where he’s stuck possibly so he doesn’t have to be there alone. It was never the end for Johan because that place was where he had always been. When he told Roberto about it, I think Roberto took it a bit too literally…

P.S it’s beginning to worry me how often I’ve been able to understand Johan’s actions… I think I might need help!😬

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Genuinely can't believe I wrote 3000+ words in three days. Usually I'm happy if I can write 200-300 words in a day, I'm so painfully slow. Clearly there's some sort of magic at work here, and it's called ✨ Roberto ✨

Chapter 2 of "Hungry Work" will be up once I've forced myself to edit 😮‍💨

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3k words into my dedicated smut chapter and my blorbos are still sitting there drinking wine like there's no tomorrow with all of their clothes on, how dare

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Finally managed to start the next chapter of Hungry Work, le squeal

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My favourite Johan/Tenma dynamic: boy brings nuclear bomb to a fight where the other guy is hanging upside down from a tree branch with his hands tied behind his back, staring out of big brown eyes like a deer in the headlights.

My favourite Roberto/Johan dynamic: executioner-cum-court-jester employed to manage the prince's whims, servant and handler in one, only, he also wants to fuck the prince, the masks and scaffolds keep changing shape and everyone is insane.