HFW: The Mummy
The Elysium discord (invite link here) made an executive decision to be freaking amazing. Building hype for The Mummy my lads.
Just thinkin about our favorite marshal
Underneath (Pt 2/2) [Horizon: Forbidden West]
The ultimately weird part is, I have no idea why this took me 2 months to write. It was supposed to be cute and fun and the brain wasn't working. Anyway, I'm calling this done.
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When Aloy kissed him the first time, Kotallo thought it was an accident.
When she kissed him the second time, he was just in shock. Disbelieving. But he pulled her back in.
It was the third time that his primal instincts kicked in and he was on top of her, pressing his body down hard against hers so she’d be trapped writhing underneath him as he tasted her lips, her tongue, her neck. She hooked a leg over his hip and a hand raked over his back, the other hand pressing his head harder into herself as she loosed the moans he conjured with his mouth.
Mere minutes before that she had just woken up from a nightmare.
Half a day before that: last night after supper she had fallen asleep against him with his arm around her. He had idly wished he had pulled her in closer to him and kept her safe from the world. He had wished that her mind would let go of the burdens for a little time, while he was holding her. He had wished that she would let him protect her.
He had given what was left of his life to her.
Kotallo honestly wished she’d use his gift.
But he wouldn’t be in love with her if she hadn’t been Aloy.
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Some sweet and spicy Kotaloy commissioned by one of my dear friends over at the Kotaloy Discord server. I still can’t get over these two. <3
Perfect 😍😭😍
Luka and Bach
Happy belated birthday @quickspinner!! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
Here's a smug asshole for your enjoyment
(Edit) ugh I hatelove drawing this smug asshole so much
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Six Sentence Sunday: 2022.03.20 (Horizons!)
So this isn’t Miraculous related at all, so feel free to skip.
I love love love the Horizon series and now I can’t get this Kotallo fucker out of my head and you know what? I’m okay with this. Give me all the soft boys.
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“By the Ten,” he breathed out. Kotallo grabbed onto Aloy’s proffered arm and hauled himself behind her on the Sunwing with her assistance. “You sure this… machine won’t attempt to shake us off when we are in flight?”
She snorted. “You’ve got nothing to worry about, Marshal. I’ve got it. I thought you trusted me?”
“With my life. It is why I’m on here,” he said, his voice low.
“Good. Hold onto me. The takeoff is a bit rough but that’s the price we pay for air travel. Chief Hekarro!” Aloy called out, performing a tiny salute to the Tenakth chieftain atop her Sunwing. “I’ll have to borrow your best Marshal again, sorry!”
“He is no longer mine to lend, Aloy,” Hekarro said back in his deep dulcet voice, smiling up at them. “I borrow him from you, Champion.”
“What is he talking about?” Aloy asked Kotallo under her breath. It was easy to whisper when Kotallo was right behind her.
“Hmm,” Kotallo answered in his usual way, non-committal. It almost sounded embarrassed, as if the grumbly Marshal behind her knew anything of embarrassment.
Underneath (Pt. 1 / 2?)
Okay so just to clarify I'm pinning Kotallo's age down at 27 and yes I know Aloy is 20 but she carries the weight of the entire world on her shoulders and acts as if she's twice her age a lot of the time so she's a Cougar in spirit in this fic. Girl can get it from her local sassy beefcake sweetheart yanno what I'm sayin'
Quick shoutout to my beta @vanorablogs 🧡
This is largely the same snippet as before but there's more text underneath I swear
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"By the Ten," he breathed out. Kotallo grabbed onto Aloy's proffered arm and hauled himself behind her on the Sunwing with her assistance. "You sure this... machine won't attempt to shake us off when we are in flight?"
She snorted. "You've got nothing to worry about, Marshal. I've got it. I thought you trusted me?"
"With my life. It is why I'm on here," he said, his voice low.
"Good. Hold onto me. The takeoff is a bit rough but that's the price we pay for air travel. Chief Hekarro!" Aloy called out, performing a tiny salute to the Tenakth chieftain atop her Sunwing. "I'll have to borrow your best Marshal again, sorry!"
"He is no longer mine to lend, Aloy," Hekarro said back in his deep dulcet voice, smiling up at them. "I borrow him from you, Champion."
Six Sentence Sunday: 2022.03.20 (Horizons!)
So this isn't Miraculous related at all, so feel free to skip.
I love love love the Horizon series and now I can't get this Kotallo fucker out of my head and you know what? I'm okay with this. Give me all the soft boys.
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"By the Ten," he breathed out. Kotallo grabbed onto Aloy's proffered arm and hauled himself behind her on the Sunwing with her assistance. "You sure this... machine won't attempt to shake us off when we are in flight?"
She snorted. "You've got nothing to worry about, Marshal. I've got it. I thought you trusted me?"
"With my life. It is why I'm on here," he said, his voice low.
"Good. Hold onto me. The takeoff is a bit rough but that's the price we pay for air travel. Chief Hekarro!" Aloy called out, performing a tiny salute to the Tenakth chieftain atop her Sunwing. "I'll have to borrow your best Marshal again, sorry!"
"He is no longer mine to lend, Aloy," Hekarro said back in his deep dulcet voice, smiling up at them. "I borrow him from you, Champion."
"What is he talking about?" Aloy asked Kotallo under her breath. It was easy to whisper when Kotallo was right behind her.
"Hmm," Kotallo answered in his usual way, non-committal. It almost sounded embarrassed, as if the grumbly Marshal behind her knew anything of embarrassment.
Just Be: Honest (Part 4)
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Marinette was cordial when they met for dinner. Luka was polite. They got a table, had their wine poured into their glasses, and a bottle of still water was left behind at her request. They'd placed their orders and the waitstaff left them alone. She might as well launch straight into it now. "Tell me why you didn't admit we'd met before last night," she asked him, hoping she put enough daggers in her glare.
Luka's wine glass was halfway to his lips and stopped there for a solid 5 seconds. He put his wine glass back down. "Alya told me you forgot things. I didn't want to push it."
Spectacular. Marinette folded her arms. "Do you think I'm Ladybug? Is that why you wanted me to talk with you? Is that the only reason you all care about me? You and Alya and Adrien." There was a lot of spite in that sentence and Marinette felt her blood boil.
Luka shook his head and said "No."
"No to what?"
"All of it." He leaned against his arm on the table. "When we were younger you were one of my best friends. I looked forward to every time we got to hang out. Things got complicated when we got older and we stopped talking 2 years ago." He looked down at the table for a second, then back up at Marinette. "You don't remember me." It was a simple statement. No inflection. No real emotion behind it at all. Marinette felt chills down her spine.
"No. I don't," she admitted. "Should I?" How could she forget a best friend? The way he said it maybe she was more important to him than he was to her. Something felt deeply wrong about that though.
His lopsided smile was bittersweet. "No. It doesn't matter."
Marinette furrowed her eyebrows. "It doesn't matter? Why doesn't it matter?"
"If I can be honest," he sighed. "You had wanted to forget me. And... it happened."
She shook her head. "And why exactly do you say that? I wanted to forget you?"
"The last thing you said to me 2 years ago was 'I wish I never met you.'"
Just Be: Patient (Part 3)
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Marinette had half a breakthrough with Jagged's stage costume for his upcoming tour. It was something she knew seemed important and revelatory but it was also sort of an easy cop-out? Regardless, it was a step forward and Marinette put her tired hands to work typing up the notes.
Jagged's costume would actually be a few different ones put together. A costume with stages! One that'd flow from one stage to the next and hopefully have some awesome flashy transitions to mesmerize his audience with. Maybe if she'd incorporated the songs he'd be playing into each stage? That would be amazing! Okay, great, this idea was starting to build some steam.
Not that it solved just what the costumes would be exactly, but sometimes giving the abstract idea some attention and TLC would lead her to discover the right answer. She looked through her sketches, trying to imagine in her head what kind of elements would work best for a staged reveal. And she had to think of Jagged's mobility and comfort too: no point putting him inside of a bulky suit if he wasn't able to sing and play his instruments.
She opened up another workbook of designs and flipped through the pages rapidly, trying to get a sense of animation and seeing how one design might flow into the next. It'd have to get simpler with each stage reveal, not more complicated... hmm...
Photo Op
For @spikartxx and @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers! Happy very late Valentine’s day. Apologies for the lateness, the mods and I weren’t sure if we were going to get a late entry or not. I did a pinch-hit since I loved one of your prompts :)
Also it's Thirsty Thursday ;)
Original Prompts:
A Lady Noir / Luka kind of dynamic? Where Marinette gets to be the one flustering Luka instead of the other way? Delicious Idk just kind of hungry for a playful flirting between them (maybe with a brave Marinette at the end being as flirty with Luka in her civil form and them together lol I JUST WANT A HAPPY ENDING WITH THEM)
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Luka was desperately pedaling his bike as fast as he could toward danger. This was happening more and more often in his rather short career as a human being (that he seriously hoped he didn't just make shorter). But he had to do something to try and alert Ladybug and/or Chat Noir when there was a new akuma. Two new akumas. Luka was pretty sure he could legitimately help the superheroes with these two akumas because they were his Ma and his sister before Shadowmoth got a hold of them.
Juleka had become Reflekta (again...). His mom became a sentient flying pirate ship called The Nanarchy after merging with the Liberty. They ganged up and the duo was wreaking havoc on Paris as akuma were wont to do, shooting Reflekta-cloning beams at every person and firing speaker-cannons at every building. All because Jagged wouldn't stop being Jagged.
Just Be: You (Part 2)
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(A little more than a week ago)
Alix held out the silver pocket watch to Ladybug as the heroine landed on her apartment roof. "Thanks for making it easy, Alix," Ladybug said, taking the pocket watch. "But I guess you knew this was happening."
"Hey, I already lived 300 lifetimes in the In Between. I did my job and I'm done," Alix shrugged. "And yeah, I saw this coming. For what it's worth, I'm proud of you for finally getting your act together, Marinette. The others will come around soon enough."
Ladybug chuckled bitterly. "You shouldn't spoil the future for me, Alix. That's not very professional of you."
"You're not even gonna remember this, Dumbbug," Alix grinned.
Ladybug stood still for a minute in contemplation. "Th-Then you can tell me this 'cause I need to know… How do you not go crazy, Alix? You had the worst job out of any of us. How did you keep it together?"
"Pfft, that's easy. You gotta live in the moment, Bug. Once your duty's done you gotta live for yourself. When I'm not Bunnix I'm just Alix, and Alix fuckin' kicks ass."
"Can you tell me about me and… Adrien? Will this work?"
Alix shrugged. "You knowing doesn't change what you're gonna do. It doesn't matter what I say."
"Can I hear it anyway?" Ladybug huffed.
Alix rolled her eyes. "Fiiiiine, fine. It works. You both are much, much happier."
"Oh thank God," Ladybug sighed.
"Just… not together."
Ladybug froze. The corners of her eyes glistened with tears. "I knew it," she said under her breath.
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(Now)
Surprisingly, or maybe not surprisingly, Marinette didn't find herself too bothered with the fact that her past might or might not have been lived by someone else. What was she going to do with that information anyway? Whoever "she" was now, she was here, she was making the decisions, she was going to live for herself.
Just Be: Done with it (Part 1)
Happy Valentine's Day, @milahidee and @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers! Hope you enjoy, I focused on the "drama" and "suspense" lol
Original Prompts:
where marinette loses her memory and luka helps her and falls in love again, It can also be something like fantasy where luka is a snake king and marinette knows him because it helps juleka (etc.) some drama, suspense
Something where it contains Suspense and a lot of drama between luka and marinette, where they separate and later meet again and fall in love again Where everyone is against them but doesn't care about luka and marinette*
Rating: T+ (I know you asked for nsfw but I think you're 17 so I toned it down :sweats:)
Part 1 out of 3-4 or something iunno. There's no Lukanette just yet. Consider this the preface :)
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Marinette opened her eyes and… just was. She imagined she was floating in an ocean of white, drifting along in a subtle current. It was blissfully silent. It wasn't frightening or oppressive or blinding at all. It was just something she found herself in. She checked herself over as she started realizing that maybe she was in a dream? But no, she moved her hand to her chest and she felt fabric against her skin. She felt her heart beating steadily.
She was Marinette Dupain-Cheng, age 24, unhurt and feeling okay. Well, feeling slightly better than okay. She couldn't explain where it came from but there was a huge sense of relief that something heavy and incredibly taxing was taken off of her shoulders.
There was a pleasant scent of jasmine green tea in the air. The universe started resolving itself around her, the white slowly getting less and less… opaque? What used to be vague shapes started getting outlined, then slowly the colors came in, and then she recognized things like lanterns and chairs and tables and tea sets and a person sitting at the table drinking tea by lanternlight. It was sometime in the evening, Marinette guessed. The tea-drinker person - no, she sort of remembered from somewhere that he was a Grandmaster - he was… Su-Han? His bushy gray eyebrows rose fractionally as he looked over at her.
"How are you feeling?"
How was she feeling? Why'd he ask that? She… she was fine. Felt pretty good, actually. Marinette wasn't quite sure what was going on. Maybe she'd missed something important? "I… think I'm fine, Grandmaster Su-Han."
His eyebrows rose further. "You remember me. How… unusual. Do you remember how you got here?"
Okay, now was the time to panic. How… she got here? Where is here? Okay, wait wait wait. She was Marinette Dupain-Cheng, age 24, from Paris, France and an aspiring designer and clothier. Here… Here was… she was in Tibet? She was in Tibet. Because she'd specifically sought out Grandmaster Su-Han. To return… a box. An important box of heirloom jewelry. Right. She must have passed out for some reason or another though. That was concerning.
WIP Wednesday (uh hi edition): 2021.11.10
"Dearest M. Couffaine,
With the unfortunate circumstance of our previous night's dinner having been so rudely abandoned, I have come to the understanding that you are not the man I imagined you to be. It would do us both well to conclude this courtship and save ourselves the mortifying indignity of calling upon each other's company.
I enjoyed what days we did have together, but I do not wish to ever be humiliated again. I will discard any further missives from you and your estate.
I wish you well in your future endeavors.
Mlle. Dupain-Cheng"
That letter - word for word, letter for flowing script letter seared into his memory - was the first thing that popped into mind when Luka looked at the lady who bumped into his shopping cart when he was getting his cereal from the top shelf. It'd been a pretty normal day overall, a normal week, a normal month, a normal year. He'd just been on his grocery run stocking up on his staples. The aisles had reshuffled again, but he'd gotten used to it.
His mouth dropped open and so did the lady's. She went pale. So did he.
"Ma-ma-ma-ma-Marinette?" he stuttered.
"It's you!" she hissed back.
It was Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the lovely girl he'd so very unintentionally stood up meeting for dinner, the dinner where he was to discuss with her parents if they might move forward in their relationship. The very same girl. Lady. Woman. HER.
Only thing was that dinner was oh, 300 some odd years ago. And she hadn't aged a day.
Neither had he, really.
It explained why they were both so surprised to see each other.
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Lengthy diatribe under the cut, all skippable of course <3
Six Sentence Sunday: 2021.09.05
I... might be participating in the spirit of Smutember...
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[Marinette] pushed on [Luka's] shoulder and he pulled back to ask if things were still okay, but apparently she just wanted his shirt off by her insistent tugging. He hesitated for a second before straightening up and taking off the shirt. The guitar pick pendant fell back onto his chest and she touched it lightly as he balled up the shirt to toss it aside. "I didn't know you were wearing this," she said softly, a tiny part of her in disbelief.
"I wear this nearly every day," he admitted. The days when he didn't were some of his darkest days, thoughts spiraling toward questioning what purpose he served or why he even existed. It didn't feel right to not wear it, but those days didn't feel right at all so it made a certain kind of sense.
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This or That (Fanfic Edition)
Tagged by @zacekova, thanks!
Some of these choices were ‘mmmngh if I have to choose one’ and some were ‘not even a second of hesitation’. XD
(AU vs Fix-It for example of the former … Soulmates vs Unrequited for the latter. >.>)
Overall I feel like this is probably not terribly surprising for anyone who knows/follows me? X’D
(Template)
Tagging: @emilx311, @animetrashmuffin, @kitsunekage88, @vulcan-highblood, @magnustesla, @oneinist, anyone else who wants to play, consider yourself tagged by me~
Thank you for the tag @kalira, I had MINIMAL difficulty with this, pretty much just straight through with “Yep, nope, yep yep yep NOPE”
Tagging @stupidbadgers, @aeshiiteiru, @atereal, @sweetysamaa, and @iruka-simp! BUT IF YOU SEE THIS AND WANNA PLAY DO IT.
Thank you for the tag @animetrashmuffin !
fejnrnfjhrb I know I cheated but… well I just couldn’t choose between fluff and angst? I LOVE both okay? I love both so much :’)
Tagging @zaffre-amethyst @mytsukkishine @mandapandabug20 @kiayla @dunloth @ennajones but if anyone else wanna play please DO IT.
Fun! Thanks for the tag! But how can you pick between angst and fluff?!?! Totally agreed @sweetysamaa . Haha
Also do I know more people to tag?!? Hahaha see above for the link to the template frands! @kakairu-shrine @melanatedravenclaw @kelkage @aratribow
Ok, I also couldn’t chose like @mandapandabug20 but mine is enemies to lovers and childhood friends. Can’t chose. Also, I love to have my heart torn out so lots of angst, pining, break ups, trying to get together. Don’t get me wrong, I like fluff I just like hurt to come first 😂.
Also sure that everyone I know has been tagged. Maybe not (*reviews AO3 author subscriptions*) @cyhyr @hkandiu @hazelbeka-blog @oneinist
Coffee Shop? Flower Shop? Blech. Neither.
Also, Proposals, but NOT Weddings.
Everything else was fairly easy 😅
I’ll tag @jhatakeumino and @lycorogue, but anyone can join in if course, no tag needed 💛
Oh, goodness! @cyhyr! This is hard! What did you do to me?
In all honesty, I’ll gladly devour anything that has ANY of the tropes listed. My only hesitation is on Fix-it stories because, especially in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom, they tend to also be just mountains of salt. If I trust the author, though, I’ll happily read a Fix-it fic.
The hardest selection was between “Oblivious Pining” and “Domestic Fluff” because I need me more domestic fluff always. However, I’m also a Love Square fan, and it doesn’t get more “oblivious pining” than that soooooo 🤷♀️ Same deal with “established relationship” vs “get together”. Too many shows/books/media end with the “get together” and ignore the actual relationship bits, so I’ll always eat those up. However, I’m such a major pining fan that getting that end result of them FINALLY being on the same page is just *chef kiss* (Which is why Remember That Time When… by @mostlovedgirl-writes is just the best of both worlds! 💖)
To be quite frank, if the story is compelling, and the characters are recognizable to me (the author didn’t rework them too much), I’m pretty much game.
The only way I was able to choose was by pretending I had two fics in front of me by authors I didn’t know, and picked which trope I would read first. I have so many fond memories of stories using the non-selected tropes, though (such as the semi-flower shop AU story Negotiations also by @mostlovedgirl-writes).
And, I know, I know. Those who know me are probably wondering why the Angst Queen prefers fluff…. I don’t MEAN to put so much angst in my stories, though! I AIM to make them fluff pieces, because I ADORE fluff. The angst just… kinda… happens????
Okay, enough rambling to try to avoid making these choices. XD Without further ado:
No obligation to any of you whom I’m tagging, but, should you wish to play along, I’m gonna call out @thetauruspixie, @livrever, @chanceuseladynoire, @zenmisery, @rikareena, and @21tlos. Everyone who wants to, though, please play along! 😀
You can find the template here (or scroll back to the top).
Thanks @lycorogue
While I’m not a huge fan of soulmates… unrequited is worse… otherwise those were pretty definite picks! (Although I’ll read pretty much anything!)
Throwing this out to anyone who wants to do it, but @verfound @feminaexlux @quickspinner @airi-p4 @epcot97 @keentrigger-writes @nerdypanda3126
Is this surprising? I honestly don't know...
Tagging @chrwrites and @fenheart87 and @bloody-no-kissu whoop