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Ok Iām trying to find this fic I read on here. It was a Rotxo x metkayina!reader fic and the reader was also part ometikayan. I also distinctly remember her getting shot instead of neteyam and surviving, then going to the forest with them to learn about it. Does anyone know what Iām talking about? Her grandfather was from the ometikaya and arrived at the metkayina clan during a war.
Swans suck
I mean.... just look at it
Also they have the creepiest teeth ever
THEIR TOUNGS HAVE TEETH ITS JUST WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS
what was your last holiday like?
Bit by a swan
What a difference a year makes (the new one was made today in my genocide class)
But, I need some help
Iām struggling with names
- Aquila Corvus Black
- Aquila Vulpecula Black
- Lyra Corvus Black
- Scorpia Aquila Black
- Europa Corvus Black
And many other name order variations
If anyone has any recommendations for a name for a Black Family OC PLEASE HELP ME. Iām mainly going for stars or constellations.
I need help with finding a faceclaim for a character of mine cause I am struggling. Sheās a hunger games oc with short, curly, black hair and blue eyes (variable). I have like one drawing of her for reference but I just canāt find any actress or movie character that fits right.
I have some ideas but Iām not really all that into them and I wanna find a better one. Iām even willing to change the character up a bit to get a good fit. For context sheās 15 in the 68th games and 22 in the 75th games.
Some of my ideas were
Ruby Cruz (68th games)
Florence Pugh (75th games)
And Camren Bicondova
If anyone has suggestions PLEASE tell me. Also if anyone might have suggestions for a younger faceclaim too I would love to hear it.
Have a fanfic idea Iāve been conjuring up for a while
A house of the dragon and Harry Potter crossover with the main character being the adopted daughter of Rhaenyra and the twin sister of Harry Potter. It would also have two other OCs of mine, Rhaenyraās younger sister, and an older sister of Baela and Rhaena. Story of the Targaryens would also be altered a bit, much more happy than the original.
If you have any questions or are interested let me know. Iād love to answer them!
All scenes with Stephen Lang from the Avatar Crew Film: The Volume (2010)
HAHA JOKES ON YOU I THINK OARFISH ARE PRETTY SOā¦
Hey I heard youāre giving out anxiety, can I have 1 anxiety please?
yes, here is a baby oarfishĀ
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Let me first say thank you for all the kind reception part one received. It was ⦠a surprise, and a welcome one.
Also, a massive thank you to @sunnie-angel for beta reading. If you havenāt read their work⦠Do yourself a favor and check out their masterlist!
This Chapter takes place over a few days in two mini stories., and I would appreciate being told if at any point this causes confusion. Currently how Iāve done it is as tilted segments. Content warning: this chapter has themes of sexual harassment in the workplace up to the point of groping (from an OC), and corruption. Proceed with caution. Be safe.
The morning after. You are going to murder your partner, Grayson. Perhaps with a gun. Maybe your own two hands. Or maybe you just need coffee.
It's probably the coffee thing. Coffee, then youāll decide if you're going to kill him and how. As you sit at your table, surrounded by notes youād made at 4am, the urge to throttle Grayson slowly subsides. You hadnāt slept a wink. Youād had a weird night. But if you were going to do this, help him find this killer⦠youād need a plan for if it all goes to hell. A diversion. A plan so that if youāre made, maybe the killer will think youāre on the wrong track. A dummy investigation. But simultaneously one that you wonāt overthink, so that you can devote your time and brainpower to the truth. Luckily for you, you have the perfect person to pretend to accuse. After all, your partner, Grayson, is an incredibly weird guy. 8:55 am finds you walking into the station sipping your third coffee of the morning, only to find Grayson sat at his desk. Shirt pressed, tie perfect, hair shampoo commercial glamourous yet slightly messy. The urge to murder your partner returns, just a little. How dare he be so⦠normal? So unaffected? How dare this man fight crime by night, and be smiling at you as he is now, chipper and bright and perfect, before 9am? The nerve. Maybe you could hit him with a patrol car and claim it was an accident. āMorning detective⦠Long night?ā
Oh.. This fucker. Your partner, Grayson, is the most annoying man alive. You hate how badly you have to fight the urge to grin at the sheer audacity.
She looks exhausted, the poor thing. Dick remembered the feeling, but at some point heād adapted to running on less sleep than was by any means reasonable. He hoped she wouldnāt need to. That this would be over in a few weeks and sheād be back to getting a full eight hours. āMorning Detective⦠Long night?ā She glares at him like heās caused personal offence. He raises an eyebrow at her to prompt a response. Inside though, he panics. Had he done something wrong? Could she suspect? No. no of course not. But whatever she said next would surely be important. It was a test of sorts. What would she say sheād spent the night doing? Would she betray his alter ego? Could she sell the lie if she didnāt? āJust had a night in, had a little too much to drink,ā she shrugs, opening her bag and removing a notebook. Casual, calm, partially true and nearly impossible to disprove short of a blood test or breathalyser, and even then there was deniability. Dick nods, and looks back down to his computer to hide the grin that splits his face in half. He knows he canāt dwell on it, knows he canāt act on it, but itās completely unfair that she was that smooth. That helpful. Sheād agreed to help him - as Nightwing - instantly. Her words about how Blud owed him a debt had played in his mind on loop for the rest of his patrol. He knew what it felt like to fly. To flip through the air at dizzying heights, gravity a mere afterthought. It was cruel, frankly, that heād found someone who made him feel even better than that, only for her to be someone he couldnāt be with out of principle and professionalism. It wasnāt that he objected to her as a partner - short of his family, she was possibly the best heād ever met. Frankly, if she was transferred to Gotham, the bat signal would be turned on far less frequently. And he didnāt object to rules about dating fellow officers, especially oneās partner. Objectively it made sense. But it didnāt change the fact that her smile was the best part of his day. That on the rare times she laughed he could swear he heard an angel just straight up quit its position in the heavenly chorus out of pure envy. That when sheād said sheād help heād wanted nothing more than to grab her face and kiss her till she was breathless. But he canāt. Or at least Dick Grayson canāt. A new voice breaks him from his spiralling thoughts. āDetective Grayson.ā The man standing behind his partner's desk has a hand on the back of her seat, preventing her from swivelling around.Ā
āWe havenāt met yet, Iām Sergeant James McElroy. Seems you spent most of my first day back stuck on a stakeout.ā āPleasure.ā he responds, with all the charm heās learnt to use at galas and parties, forcing down the venom incurred by the way his partner had seemed to lose a gallon of blood at the sound of his voice, and the way she had seemed not to breath since the name was spoken.
He's not touching you. Of course not. He knows better than to do anything so blatant. It's how heād gotten away with it for so long last time. He doesnāt touch you, or say the things he was so clearly thinking. He would masterfully walk the line between making you feel unsafe, alone, and naked, while never crossing over into anything actionable. Till one day he had. It had been in a crowded lift where heād used the crush as an excuse to grab and to feel, whispering something vile in your ear.Ā
Heād figured heād gotten away with it when you tried to tell your captain and heād asked if you had a witness. Youād thought heād gotten away with it too. Till a uniformed officer, Janet Rodwell, had stepped up to have your back. You should have known, really. For the second time in 24 hours you feel like a fool. But while the first time it had been accompanied with a dizzying realisation of love, this time the realisation is dark and chilling to your core. Youād thought youād won, that it was over. But heās back and heās not touching you, but you feel the ghost of his hands all over. You canāt win. Heād been sent away and you thought you were safe again, but heās back and heās a sergeant now. Because Bludhaven, as it is, rewards men like him. You canāt bring yourself to look over your shoulder at him, so you look straight ahead, across your desk and to your partnerās adjoining one.
It's not Dick Graysonās eyes you meet though. They arenāt cheerful, carefree and beautiful. Well, they are beautiful. But they are angry, intelligent, and fierce. You meet Nightwings gaze, and you feel the claws around your lungs relax, even if they do not recede.Ā
His partner did not rattle easily. Did not panic unnecessarily.Ā
Pinned down by the Penguinās smugglers, heād thought their goose had been cooked unless he could work at his true capacity, so he had shot out the lights and gotten to work. Heād taken out nine, but been unable to find the tenth, until heād heard the struggle.Ā
Sheād taken him down blind, without drawing her gun. When heād asked her why she hadnāt, sheād told him sheād lost sight of him in the chaos, and was unwilling to risk it. He wished he hadnāt shot the light out so he could have seen it.Ā
Still, he had been oblivious. It had hit him like a batarang to the face last night, in that moment where she agreed without hesitation to help him find a serial killer. Heād known she was beautiful, and brilliant. That he had a crush.Ā
Heād realised last night he was in far, far deeper trouble than that. So, if she was frightened and upset by the presence of this man, then Dick would take his looming over her as a serious threat. He trusted her gut. āYou havenāt introduced yourself to my partner, Detectiveā-ā Heās cut off with a dismissive wave that boils his blood. āOh weāve met. In fact, she was my partner first. Until the misunderstanding.ā There are many ways to snap someone out of a panic. Heās seen sheer rage do it many times. As it does now. āThere was no misunderstanding,ā she says, her voice firm, her teeth gritted. āWell. I want you to know-ā he moves from directly behind her, to her side, leaning down over her, invading her space. Dick wanted to hit him. āI understand that what I did could have been seen as invasive, and you may have felt that I overstepped. I have completed a course, as demanded by HR, and will attempt not to cause you to feel that I have been inappropriate again.ā
She takes a deep breath. He can practically hear her count in his head. He stands, moving around the desk to stand beside her, not quite a barrier but a comforting presence, or at least he hoped. āWell. Whatever occurred, we have work to be getting on with, if you donāt mind.ā It takes a great deal of the restraint his training has given not to add the words āyou bastardā, or something far more creative. āBut of course. Detective. Detective.āĀ Ā
Your hands shake as you sit back down in your seat. Your partner, Grayson, returns to his own, his gaze - Richardās gaze, never leaving your face, crumpled in concern. āI donāt want to overstep⦠but are you alright? What ⦠did he do?ā āIā¦ā you want to tell him, in part. Or maybe you donāt, and you want him to know without having to go through the ordeal of rehashing it all. Maybe by consulting whatever āoracleā he used as nightwing. But you canāt right now. So you donāt. āI⦠need some air.ā Your partner just gives you a comforting smile, a nod, and lets you leave without question. Wingding in the windowĀ
It's five days later, on his patrol, when he notices it. The wingding left in her window. He stops on the roof of the building adjacent to her. As far as city roofs go, this oneās relatively nice. Someoneās placed some potted plants around, in an eclectic attempt at a rooftop garden. Some of these pots contain small pebbles as cover for the soil from the wind. Grinning to himself, he takes a handful.Ā
Was this a good idea? No.Ā
Was it deceptive? Well, no more than anything else he did as Nightwing⦠well, maybe a little more.Ā
But it hurt, holding her at arm's length, when a part of his soul he tried to ignore yearned to be as close as she would allow. He knows itās not good. He knows itās a violation of the utter trust she seems to hold in Nightwing. Really, it would only make things even more messy for his chances as Dick. But he wants to make her smile. Blush, even. He knows she finds him attractive, and in both contexts, but he wants more than that. Over the last week heās realised just how much he wants to have with her, and it terrifies him.Ā
If it was simple lust he could deal with it.Ā But it wasnāt, and so here he was, about to attempt the cheesiest move known to hallmark films, just to see if it would make her laugh at him again.Ā
Heād managed to be professional while surrounded by highly capable, badass women in skintight clothes for most of his life. Heād had crushes before and gotten over them. He wanted everything with her. And that was not something he knew how to handle, given the mess of their situation. Dick shakes his head, snapping himself out of his doom spiral. He had a detective to meet, and a serial killer to find.
Bap. Bap. Bap. You look up from your book. Youād been getting ready for sleep, wearing your cosy pyjamas, curled up in bed with a book and a hot chocolate. You go still, listening. Bap. Bap. A pause. Then, the rap of knuckles on glass. āI ran out of rocksā
You know that voice. āWith you in a moment.ā You pull on a dressing gown, and take a moment to curse the fact that your slippers are rabbits before pulling the curtains aside. Nightwing is crouched on your windowsill. You lift it, stepping back as he enters through the window with all the grace of a cat. You know that you shouldnāt be embarrassed to be in your pyjamas, it's late, you had no means of knowing when heād arrive. But he looked divine in that suit. An adonis. And you're in your old bathrobe and bunny slippers. Truely, you must have done terrible things in a past life. āNice footwear.ā Nightwing says with a smirk. Curse him. Curse his cheekbones and the way his lips look so damn inviting. āYou picked up what, five rocks?ā you sass right back. Nightwing makes a noise you suspect was supposed to be a scoff, but is more of a squeak. āDo you see a lot of pocket space on this?āĀ
āFair.ā you say, leading him out of your bedroom and into your living room. He sits on your couch, one leg spread wide, the otherās ankle resting on its thigh, as you open a drawer on your coffee table and produce your masterpiece. Nearly five metres of red string. Names, photos, dates, all studded with pins so pressed so tightly in they havenāt a prayer of accidental removal. You prop it up on the coffee table.Ā
Maybe your friends were right. Maybe you did need to touch grass. A line of thought for later. You look at Nightwing, whoās no longer relaxed and laying back on your sofa like he owned the place.Ā
Its years of maintaining a poker face in interrogations and more recently, dealing with his shenanigans that prevents you from grinning.Ā
He's as pale as youāve ever managed to see him, and leaning forward now, elbow on knee and chin in hand. āWell, this is⦠impressive.ā He sounded like heād inhaled helium. āShall we start with Sergeant McElroy?ā you offer, smiling your best āthereās nothing wrongā smile, enjoying making him squirm. āYou seem to have ⦠a significant amount of evidence against Detective Richard Grerson?ā You fight the urge to roll your eyes as you take a ruler, poking your picture of him between the eyes. You hadnāt planned to do him first, youād hoped to discuss evidence that would actually lead somewhere.Ā
This was still going to be fun though. You take a deep breath, and pause for a suitable level of dramatic effect, and begin your game.Ā
āDetective Richard Grayson. Heās my partner. Heās an excellent detective, and a good man. You might have heard of the charity he founded.ā Nightwing makes a noncommittal humming noise. āBut is it all too good to be true?ā you ask, moving to your first notecard. āExhibit one. He asked about the file. On its own, innocuous. But then, exhibits two through four. Heās prone to frequent disappearances on cases. He often knows a little too much about the criminal underside of Blud. Things that I have triple checked are not in any police database.ā
You run a hand through your hair. āHeās a highly trained combatant. I once saw him take down nine men armed with guns, in the dark. They donāt teach that at the police academy.ā āNo? No.ā Nightwing says, clearing his throat. āI mean yes. That is⦠suspicious.ā āIncredibly. Which brings me to exhibit five. Now Iām no behavioural analyst or shrink. But I know my basics. Childhood trauma and instability can have⦠lingering impacts. I⦠donāt feel the need to dredge up his past, but I did look into it⦠and itās grim. He was then taken in by Bruce Wayne. His relationship to his father, whatever it is, is something heās even tighter lipped about then⦠everything else honestly. Itās not on the board because itās circumstantial at best⦠but he has this skill of being able to hold long conversations and yet you come away not having learnt anything deeper about him.āĀ
He was pretty sure heād been nodding for a good thirty seconds at this point.Ā Ā
It would be funny if it didnāt hurt so much.Ā
The worst part was that it was all well reasoned. Practical. He had done everything she accused him of. She had just drawn a far more down to earth conclusion, that he was a corrupt cop, rather than Nightwing.Ā
It made sense. Too much sense. How could he shut this down without seeming invested in his own innocence?Ā
That isnāt what causes his lungs to burn though. No. The root of that was that even if heād forced himself to maintain a professional - if friendly - distance from her, he would have hoped that she trusted him.Ā
But in this moment, looking at the evidence, looking at her holding that ruler to his photoās face like a judge's gavel ready to condemn⦠he knows. He knows that she will never look at Dick the way she does as Nightwing, happy to see him, believing in his mission, ready to help as soon as heād asked. Even if he clears himself of this crime, she would surely suspect him of others.Ā
Heād known it, at least on one level, ever since heād first met her. He knows it now all the deeper, and he wants to scream. Dick Grayson will never get to tell her how truly wonderful she is.
How highly he regards her.Ā
How she is one of the reasons he keeps fighting for Bludhaven.Ā
Dick Grayson will never get to tell her that he loves her.Ā
But⦠perhaps Nightwing could have something. Because if she was his north star, then the way heād felt when she agreed to help him had been like being engulfed by a supernova.Ā
If she was water, then seeing her cosy and ready for bed and smiling as she let him in through the window had been an oasis in the Sahara.Ā
If music was the food of love, her attempts not to laugh and stifled giggles over his peeps popcorn had been a symphony orchestra.Ā
But heād never have her as himself. Not at all. Nightwing though? She at least found him attractive. Aligned with his ideology. No, heād never feel that warmth of 10,000 stars directed at the real him.Ā
No, heād never be able to be quenched by her life saving presence.Ā
No, heād never feel her laughter shaking his bones as if in a musical crescendo.
But even the dimmest and most distant star gave off some light.
Even the last drop in an empty water skin was better than nothing.
Even the memory of a melody could be sweet. True, he would only ever have scraps of her affection. True, he could flirt, and perhaps go even further⦠but heād never truly be with her.Ā
But who was a starving man to deny scraps of sustenance? Heād take what he could have and try to ignore the lingering hunger.Ā
āPerhaps we should discuss⦠another suspect?ā he prompts, realising how long heās been silent. How long she had been too, watching him with a strange, concerned look.
She nods, and moves on to their Captain.
Dick is almost relieved when some ten minutes later Oracle calls in a robbery downtown. āWell - sorry Sherlock.ā He takes a picture of her board for further study. āIāll be around next week to continue this discussion, and look over this in my own time till then. Duty calls.ā āBe safe,ā She says softly, as heās halfway through the window He looks over his shoulder. āAs you wish.ā
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