Kid, there's only so many times you can call your father a stupid sandgator before you figure out just how unpleasant Crocodile can get if he's angry. He won't even care about making holes in your clothing.
(Only a doodle because I can't figure out how to make this pose work properly *lol*)
hungry ghost lili au. How would Lili react to Luffy?
“Lili.”
Nothing. Not even a flicker of light and shadow. It seems mu’s love is being stubborn today.
“Lili.” Imu taps mu’s fingers on the arm of mu’s chair. A warning and a signal. Enough to finally draw her out from underneath that same chair. Her shadows are more solid, more snakelike, as she wiggles out. Snapping and crackling like breaking glass in the process.
“Thou knowst not to eat mu’s offspring, let alone the offspring of mu and Beloved.”
Red eyes, much like Imu’s yet also not, far more brilliant they are, gemstones, scrunch at mu angrily. More upset at being stopped in the process of devouring the babe than ashamed at the act of doing so, if Imu knows mu’s love.
“Then why. Explain thyself.”
No words. Only a quiet hissing, enough to almost be mistaken for the rain that Lili did love so on her skin when she dwelt in it. Shadowy claws rake against chair legs in nowhere near silent fit, even as the majority of her form fits into Imu’s grip ever so nicely.
Oh, Love is more beast today than not? Unable to answer? That’s fine, Imu does enjoy a good session of taming. Haki crackles at mu’s fingertips, ready to used-
“Imu. What was that.”
An interruption. Now, those, Imu hates most immensely, but for it to come from Beloved of all individuals...that makes it different. Beloved never comes to Imu, for him to mu in this, well, a reward is much better than punishment to encourage this further.
“Yes, my Beloved?” In mu’s hands, there’s an alarmed wiggle. Fingers tighten so Lili does not escape.
“Don’t call me that! Not after what almost happened to Luffy, how he was almost eaten alive under your watch!”
Ah, such anger. Such rage. Directed at Lili this instead of Imu interestingly enough, though Imu has no doubt in Beloved’s ability to be rageful at mu at the same time. So vibrant Beloved is, when not pretending to be stone.
Next, there is a hoarse whisper of, “You said if I... he’s meant to be safe.”
Oh, that doubt cannot be had. Not from Beloved.
“Our love’s actions... it will not happen again.”
Honestly, Lili’s actions are not completely unexpected though Imu had been assured that enough variables had been changed that such would not occur again. Not after she has devoured every successful iteration of offspring between the life strands of Imu and Lili’s physical body.
Imu remains uncertain as to Love's exact reasoning (or lack of behind) behind such feasting. Perhaps a perception of competition? That would explain this attempt.
“Don’t bullshit me, what does she have to say for herself?”
Mu shakes mu’s head, veil trailing about. “Words will not work, Beloved. Not in the state she’s in. Only one thing will.”
Mu holds mu’s hands, the coils of Lili clear to be seen. How she churns, mindlessly.
Beloved’s hands are fists now.
Imu smiles. Mu can see the desire in Beloved, oh so very strong for this. So much like his father in this way, wanting to break those who break his lines with his fists. Useful, if directed correctly.
In love is being stupid together, does Clark worry about what Lex is teaching Kon? Lex is teaching that kid it’s ok to ignore people and he can take whatever he wants and Lex will let him and replace it. He’s going to be an awful teen if Lex keeps that up.
Currently, naw, because he is high on baby-brain and also Konnox is only like six weeks/four "years" old, so “don’t let the six week/four year-old draw with Lex’s office supplies and fancy pens”/“don’t let the six week/four year-old steal Lex’s breakfast” is probably not really a concern that would occur to Clark anyway. Ma Kent has installed "food is a love language" in this man from the ground up, and I doubt she and Jonathan were ever the type of parents to complain about their miracle space baby having nondestructive little-kid hobbies.
Like if Lex was drowning the kid in tablet-time and excessively expensive gifts while ignoring/neglecting him emotionally or if Konnox was acting out by destroying things and then expecting/demanding immediate replacements for them and acting out worse if he didn’t get said replacements, those are things that would tweak as definite concerns to Clark even past the baby-brain, but from his current perspective Lex has been spending a TON of time bonding with and doting on the baby, and the baby is just a quiet, chill kid who likes to do quiet, chill things but doesn't really have any social skills yet.
( also lbr, translated through Lex-ese, Lex HAS been bonding with/doting on the kiddo, and Clark knows Lex well enough to know that, hah. )
I mean Lex IS going to be doing his damnedest to raise the clonebaby to just Take What He Deserves, which in Lex's opinion is "literally the entire planet if you actually feel like dealing with that nonsense", don't get me wrong, hahaha, but all the things Clark has seen Konnox annex are things that either belong to specifically Lex ( who is one of Konnox's parents and therefore SHOULD be providing things like food and toys and art supplies for Konnox, in Clark's opinion ), or that clearly came out of an office supply closet ( which, you know, traditionally is full of communal property meant to be taken as needed anyway ).
Also baby is a baby; baby can only be expected to have developed so many manners in six weeks, lol.
I've seen people play with Dragon being part Shandian and people theorize Imu is a Lunarian. Imagine a My Love Au where both were true. Also imagine gear 5 Luffy with big white wings.
oh fun!!! what an EXCELLENT image to have.....gear 5 with big stretchy fabulous wings.....
He does, but purely because it's purple. That inner child of his went 'oooohhhh pretty colour!' and that's why he uses it.
Genesis has been trying to tell him that the reason purple shampoo exists is to help remove yellow tones from the hair so that those who dye their hair can get the dye colour they really want. Meanwhile Sephiroth is just clutching the bottle going 'IT'S PURPLE'.
He had a sorely repressed childhood let him have the cool coloured shampoo god damn it.
Genesis does eventually relent and say 'fine, have the purple shampoo'. Not long after he's buying Sephiroth more of the cool coloured shampoos. But Sephiroth likes the purple one. Purple shampoo good.
Did you turn 30 today too?! Cool same birthday!Hope you have a happy birthday!
OH I see the confusion especially since I apparently never updated my bio all through last year, I am in fact 💥32💥 this year 😨 But we can still be birthday buddies yaaaay