When Frustrated Or Extremely Angry, These Listeners Do The Following:

When Frustrated Or Extremely Angry, These Listeners Do The Following:

Goes for a run: Sweetheart, Warden, Anton's Listener

Starts hitting things: Darlin, Cutie, Smartass,

Starts hitting people: Honey, Lovely

Aggressively paints on their body and every surface in their home that should not be painted: Baabe, Starlight, Sunshine, Asset, Lasko's Water Elemental

Starts chugging either ungodly amounts of soda or furiously crunching on breath mints: Angel, Bestie, Seer Obscura, Mentor, James' Listener

All of the above in that order: Freelancer, Bright Eyes

Cries afterward: Anton's Listener, Cutie, Smartass, Lovely, Sunshine, Angel, Seer Obscura, Freelancer

Made a new Darlin playlist just so I could finally draw them!

[In case you can't read my handwriting:

-Lydia "named themself after their favorite song"

-She/They

-30 years old (33. I did math wrong >-<")

-"Angel's friendship bracelet"

-"Sam's favorite tanktop"

-"Stabbed themself 19 times while sewing this"

-"Got stuck climbing a fence"]

More things about them if you care:

-Didn't come out to anyone until after they got top surgery.

->Except for Quinn.

-22 year old they heard Highly Suspect's Lydia and went "It's giving gender," then proceeded to have a (gender) identity crisis.

-Their hair is soo fluffy.

-Can't sew worth a damn but they still do it on occasion anyway.

-Spray paints at abandoned buildings as a hobby.

->Only got caught twice and one of those times was at Wonderworld when they were a teen in 2009. Vincent just sent them home because he did not feel like beating up a sixteen-year-old.

->Their next visit to Wonderworld went unnoticed until Vincent found a cartoon-style painting of him on a wall.

-Calls Sam's things vintage even though they're the one who refuses to give up their cd or vhs tape collections.

-Almost exclusively listens to rock music.

->Vocaloid songs are the only exception.

-They have freckles all over their body.

-They also have Quinn-related scars all over their body which is why they always wear a jacket.

->A lot of them are his name/degrading stuff he liked to call them.

-Knows how to cook and is actually pretty good at it.

-They collect CDs like other people collect Pokémon cards.

I finally understand why people say you should write what you know.

Because lately I've written about 5k words of angst with ease and now I am struggling to write Sam and Darlin Hurt/Comfort with happy and fluffy feelings.

*Deep breath in

*Dramatic pause

Darlin punches people professionally.

Because - hear me out - Dahlia (and other cornerstone cities) 100% have some weird underground not-really-legal fighting rings for empowered people. And when Darlin first came back to Dahlia, how do you think they made their money? They sure as hell didn't get a normal job because David would definitely know they were back in town the moment they applied for any empowered job.

So, being the reckless and incredibly strong idiot they are, Darlin signed up for those underground fighting competitions where the payout is shit and a healer will only heal you if you pay up or are on the brink of death. At first, they were this total underdog (no pun intended) but quickly became a crowd favorite.

As their story went on and they got closer to Sam, it became a recurring thing that Sam would find them walking home from "work" while he was driving around at night and he'd drive them home and patch them up (because we all know that Darlin would never pay for a healer. They do not have that kind of money to throw around) and the two would get closer as a result. At first, Darlin was very hesitant about letting Sam heal them because "I can't repay you" and "Save yourself the headache, Mister." but Sam would have none of it - which is also why they put up so little of a fight when Sam insisted on coming over and healing them after they got into a fight with the two vamps. They were just used to it at that point.

And Darlin was down very badly for the handsome southern vamp that healed them every other night with no expectations of repayment. So bad, in fact, that when they accepted to fight a literal demon one night and somehow won, they called Sam for the first time and asked him to pick them up. When he arrived at the sketchy venue and saw how beat up Darlin was, he had all sorts of questions and concerns, but Darlin just hands him half their payout with the brightest grin he's ever seen on their face and thanks him for everything before explaining everything and inviting Sam out for a midnight lunch/dinner kind of thing. It was their first "date" (which is in quotation marks because neither of them called it a date at the time, but later on in their relationship they could agree that it technically was).

So yea here are my fluffy thoughts for the day. Hope you enjoyed ^^

Hey

Hey fan-fiction people with more motivation than me

Listen

AU where - and don't hate me, I'm just a sucker for good angst - Darlin stayed with Quinn. In which they helped him kill Fred and Bright at Wonderworld and helped him escape afterward and years later while they're on the run, Darlin and Quinn come back to hide in Dahlia, and Darlin and Sam fall for each other in a slow-burn romance but Quinn gets bitchy and jealous so he confronts Sam, leading to him finding out that the wolf he's been hanging out with is compliant in the murder of his progeny.

I am sure we're all familiar with the empowered Honey headcanon. And although I personally am not the greatest fan of it, I recently thought of putting my own twist on that headcanon for (angsty and depressing) funsies.

So, while yes, Honey 100% gives werewolf/shifter in general vibes, I now propose to you: Demon Honey. Specifically, incubus/succubus/concubine Honey, who has been around for quite a while.

Honey has had a partner before Guy who was an empowered individual and they died after years and years of being together. Honey was heartbroken after their partner's passing and drowned themself in work and their interest in human culture, which ultimately led them to attend schools for unempowered humans until they eventually met Guy and fell in love again.

Knowing that Guy is unempowered, Honey made a vow to themself to never tell Guy about magic in order to spare him the pain of knowing that he will leave them behind when he ultimately dies one day - which is the thing their first partner admitted to being the worst part about dying for them.

So yea, I didn't think about this any further than that but here's that, hope you enjoyed my depressingly funny thoughts.