#nova morales

[nolanhollogay]

MARATINES '25 DAY SIX: web weaving

novakie relationship evolution

poison poison - renee rapp/wildflower - billie eilish/lacy - olivia rodrigo/gemini moon - renee rapp/overkill - holly humberstone/everyone's in love with you - david byrne/vulnerability/sailor song - gigi perez

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[nolanhollogay]

HALF DOOMED, SEMI SWEET (an obx band au)

Pogues 4 Life - a band consisting of singer Edgar Ramirez, bassist JJ Maybank, guitarist John B Routledge, and drummer Pope Heyward - have just dropped their sophomore album to unprecedented success. After three years of blood, sweat and tears, (and JJ going viral on Tik Tok) they're finally becoming the band they've always known they could be.

Of course, the next step is to go on tour.

There's just one problem: their opening act, an all female band called, Not Your Princess.

The girls themselves are kind enough, if a little confusing with their nonstop relationship drama - though their lead singer, Kie, seemingly wants JJ's head on a spike - but their fans hate P4L and all that they stand for, whatever that means. There's no way for this tour to work without the crowds getting into fist fights at best, and killing each other at worst.

So the bands' teams hatch a plan: JJ and Kie will pretend to date, at least until everyone learns how to behave.

It would be a great plan, if JJ didn't hate everything about Kie, and if he wasn't hopelessly in love with Edgar.

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[nolanhollogay]

qocc oc challenge [day six: the tie that binds]

aka P4L baby!!

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[nolanhollogay]

❛ you shouldn’t be out here by yourself. ❜ 

novaedgar bonding post jjedgar break up?? nova feeling guilt for her irrational dislike of edgar and how that lead to jj breaking up with him??? whouda thunk!!!! (also sadly we are on poguelandia)

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Nova knew Edgar was stubborn but she didn't know he was this stubborn. He'd refused to eat with them, even though they'd managed their best catch of fish yet. He wasn't talking to any of them — and when he was it was only in Spanish because apparently he was petty as well.

On top of that, he was sitting alone, refusing to sleep with the group.

"He's being ridiculous," she grumbled as they all watched him. He was sitting on the sand, letting his legs get soaked by the ocean. "Putting himself in danger because he got dumped."

Sarah scoffed. "Could you have some empathy for once in your life?"

"It's not my fault that he's being a crybaby," she argued.

"If it's bothering you so much, go talk to him," John B said.

She knew a challenge when she heard one. "Fine. I will."

Getting to her feet, she stomped over to him. As she walked over to him, she heard Pope mutter, "Great work, John B. Now she's going to make him feel worse."

"Come lay down, Church Boy," she commanded, kicking sand at his back.

He completely ignored her, not even bothering to turn around to face her.

She groaned, throwing her head back in annoyance. Why did he have to be so difficult? She sat next to him, glaring at the side of his head. "You shouldn't be out here by yourself."

He turned to her, and the sadness in his eyes made her chest physically ache.

"Why not?" He sounded exhausted, weighed down by tiredness.

She scoffed. "Cause it's dangerous."

"I don't care," he replied.

Now she was starting to worry that he was going to walk into the ocean when they all fell asleep. "Please don't pull an Awakening," she said. She figured he'd appreciate the literary reference.

His eyes lit up, twinkling with recognition, but he didn't respond.

"What the fuck is your problem?" she said, and she distantly heard Pope groan. "So you got dumped? Who cares?"

"Nova!" Pope said at the same time Sarah exclaimed, "Leave him alone!"

She rolled her eyes, ignoring them. She knew what she was doing. "It's not a big deal. People get dumped all the time."

Edgar blinked at her, eyes sparkling because they always sparkled like he was a goddamn Disney princess. It was one of his more annoying traits. "He told me he loved me two days ago."

The switch to Spanish was jarring and made something in her chest hurt. He didn't want the others to know what they were saying. "I don't–"

"I know you can understand me. I heard you and mom arguing outside of the church last month. And your dad talks to me in Spanish," he said. If he was anyone else, it would've felt malicious, like he was calling her out on her lie. Instead he was looking at her like he got it, like he understood.

"Okay, fine, I can understand you," she relented, the words falling clunkily from her mouth. She couldn't remember the last time she spoke Spanish. "What do you mean he told you he loves you?"

He sighed, rubbing a hand over his face. "The other day, two days ago, he.. I feel weird telling you this. It feels like I'm giving away something private." Running his hands through his hair, he huffed, forcing himself to keep talking. "Everyone else was off doing stuff, and we were just hanging out, and he started looking at me weird, and when I asked him what was up, he told me that he loved me."

There was a wistfulness in his voice that she'd never heard before. Not that she went out of his way to listen to the tones and emotions in his voice, but still. She'd never thought of Edgar as someone who yearned. How could he want more when he had everything?

"And he meant it," he continued, "I know he did. I told him not to say it if he didn't mean it, and he wouldn't lie to me."

She snorted. "Lying is a core part of his personality."

He rolled his eyes. "He's never lied to me. And I know for certain that he wouldn't lie to me about his feelings."

"How do you know that?"

He brought his knees to his chest, resting his chin on them. "Because I love him. Even though it's a stupid thing to do."

Nova's heart cracked in her chest. She'd never had that much faith in anyone. Why read between the lines when you could listen to what people were actually saying to you?

Another sigh stole her attention. God, Edgar being sad was terrible. It was like watching a steamroller run over a corgi. "Did he.. Did he say something when he broke up with you? Did he give you a reason?"

"Yeah," he groaned, apparently frustrated at the memory, "It was stupid. Stuff that he'd never had a problem with before. He said we were too different. That he was a bad influence."

Guilt struck Nova like a baseball bat to the skull. In rapid succession, her brain showed her a compilation of all of the times she'd dunked on their relationship and how they were such different people. She'd assumed JJ was ignoring her.

"You're right," she agreed, "That is stupid."

He huffed out a laugh, but his eyes still shone with sadness.

"Don't worry about it," she continued, "He's probably just freaking out from saying the l word. He'll come to his senses in a day or two, and he'll be begging you to take him back."

He didn't look convinced, gnawing on the inside of his cheek, but he didn't argue. She'd take the little victory.

"C'mon Church Boy, come lay down," she said, reverting back to English, and getting to her feet. She reached out for his hand. "I'll be your big spoon."

He exhaled, and she couldn't figure out what the expression on his face meant.

"Nova?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks."

Warmth bloomed under her skin and she rolled her eyes at his emotions. She was over the sentiments. "Yeah, yeah. Come to bed."

He took her hand, letting her yank him over to the group.

[nolanhollogay]

🪡 + nova!!!!

there's this genre? of fashion called "key west kitten" and it's literally exactly how i imagine nova dressing so here's some examples from pinterest

just very summery and fun and a little tacky <3

[nolanhollogay]

i am very out of date on all of your obx ocs bc i have not been crazy interactive on here lately, but i would love to hear- literally whatever thoughts you want to share about any of them.

yesss getting to talk about my favorite thing <3

ok this will be long bcuz i have So Much going on but for context my obxverse, dog days of summer, is canon divergent bcuz i know better than the pates 😌

starting with our main character my favorite special little guy, edgar ramirez

he's deeply tragic (family trauma up to his eyeballs) but he's just a little lover boy!! his family owns a church in the cut, saint lucia's, and he gets wrapped up in the plot bcuz he has huuuge crush on jj, and then ends up in a secret relationship with him <3

in the later seasons, things get very complicated for him romantically (it's a whole thing, rafe is involved) and his faith is tested and he's just overall not having a good time </3

but he survives bcuz his heart is full of love

next we have nova morales!

edgar's complete opposite fgdgf she's the biggest hater girl in the obx!

her plot revolves around her issues with her family – her mother left her and her father about a year before s1 to start a new family on the figure 8 with a kook guy – and how that bleeds into her relationships with everyone around her

she's possessive and loyal but hates change and people trying to worm their way into her found family

she's a kie love interest and their very much enemies to lovers they cannot stand each other!!

next we have mikey caswell

his main plot is that he has no personality or interests of his own and just has no idea who he is <\3 bcuz of that he gets into a situationship with rafe (in his eyes they're dating, in rafes eyes they're just hooking up And he's using him to get close to edgar, it's a whole thing)

prior to s1, he was adopted by a kook family and the pogues feel like he abandoned them, and he honestly kinda did, so he's also trying to get back on their good sides!

also he's a john b love interest

next (again) is mags báez

mags is Also a pogue turned kook, but she moved when she was wayyy younger than mikey, around five years old, bcuz her dad got rich through computer shit

she's edgar's best friend, though they don't see each other much, and novas step sister thru marriage (it was her dad that novas mom left them for – im sure you can imagine how this might strain their relationship)

she's dating kelce in s1 and her story is about her coming to terms with her lesbianism and also trying to shed her people pleaser tendencies

she's a sarah love interest and she and her and kie are involved in a homoerotic girl best friend to enemies love triangle though none of them will call it that

we're almost done i promise!!

next is manny espinoza!

they moved to kildare at the beginning of the summer with their family and are trying to get accustomed to kook life which is hard when everyone around u is insane

he accidentally becomes friendly with rafe, topper and kelce, which is bad for a variety of reasons but mostly bcuz they bully them All The Time and basically haze them, it's a mess

they're a pope love interest and are just a little smitten kitten with him

last but not least! stella feng & lennon yang

they're minor characters but i love them!!

stella is a pogue, lennon is a kook, can i make it anymore obvious?

they have a star crossed lovers plot in the background!

also stella is a drug dealer & lennon is rafes only female friend! they're very normal and sane!

[nolanhollogay]

👀 + nova!

+ she gave edgar the nickname church boy 😐

+ she has two younger half siblings, from her mom's new marriage

+ she was the one to ask john b out bcuz he was too scared

+ the johnbnova break up is the reason the "no pogue on pogue macking" rule was created fhfhg

[nolanhollogay]

michael caswell in “alls well that ends well”:

Starting a secret relationship with Rafe Cameron wasn't exactly on Mikey's itinerary for the summer. But neither was finishing a treasure hunt started by John B's dead dad, so his life was just one big surprise after another.

Keeping the relationship a secret from his pogues, and keeping the gold a secret from everyone else proves to be more than difficult, but if Mikey’s learned one thing about himself it’s that he’s smarter than people may think, and stronger than they give him credit for.

Now he just has to survive the summer for it all to be worthwhile. 

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