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Loved No Rest for the Wicked! I was wondering if Emilia does something to help her knight through his bad dreams? If it weren't for Otto or Beatrice she would still be unaware that Subaru was in pain while sleeping! She can't have that now.
Initially Emilia would try to take matters into her own hands! Literally. The first few nights she just goes to his room and holds his right hand while Beatrice holds the other. She can get some studying done in the meantime, so it's no biggie.
Emilia quickly finds out she can't stay for too long though, one time... well, she might have gotten a bit too cozy. Subaru woke up to the sight of the most beautiful angel lying right next to him, looking into his eyes and searching for any signs of discomfort. "Are you oh-kie Subaru?" Subaru just closed his eyes and accepted that he had permanently died. Not bothering to think about or listen to anything anymore. Surely this was it, heaven. It took Roswaal whispering in his ear an hour later for Subaru to realize that this was still the hell he had grown so used to.
They needed a more permanent solution, Emilia-sama could not spend so much time just reading next to Subaru. Emilia pouts as her "I could" went ignored. And so, the whole camp starts bringing him things that would help him relax during his sleep: The best blankets and pillows money could buy, a nice collection of relaxing incenses, they ask Roswaal to cast a noise cancelling spell on his room, Petra even comes up with a new clothing concept! Very soft and loose clothes whose only purpose was relaxing on a bed, she would name them- "Hey are those pajamas?!" ...Ok well, they are pajamas now. She also made a cloth that would go on top of his eyes, blocking out any annoying light when Subaru tried to sleep, she would name it- "And is that a sleep mask?!" ... I guess she won't be naming anything then...
The next morning Subaru came out of his room looking reeeeally well rested, it worked! "I slept like a baby yesterday -" That's good, babies with Subaru's illness probably don't sleep TOO long, it should be about the quality of sleep, not the quantity. "- 12 whole hours! That's gotta be a new record".
That night Subaru walked into his room only to find a single blanket on the cold hardwood floor.
(Pay no mind to the not so sneakily added EmiSuba fluff, also ignore the fact that I went back to give it a reread and he apparently already has pajamas, frick)
"—A bedtime story?" Emilia tilts her head, amethyst eyes wide with curiosity. "What's that, and how does it help someone fall asleep?"
The moment the words leave her lips, she straightens her back, resolve sparking in her chest. Whatever it is—she's going to do it! Subaru has done so much for her, for everyone in the camp. If something as simple as a story can ease his sleep, then she’ll give it her all. Pajama parties, extra blankets, fluffier pillows, holding his hand until morning—nothing is too much if it's for her one and only knight.
But then Subaru hesitates before answering and her heart clenches.
He always insists that Otto and she take his comments out of context, but Emilia knows better. If anything, Subaru himself doesn’t realize just how much he’s suffering.
So now he chooses his words carefully, with the continued length of his deliberation making her uneasy.
"...Ah, so that's why you asked," Subaru smiles in understanding after a few seconds before crossing his arms. "A bedtime story is a story read to a child before bed to help them fall asleep. They aren't really for adults so it wouldn't help me, but I really appreciate the sentiment, Emilia-tan."
"... Did you get those when you were younger?"
Subaru nods. "Mom would read me the same dusty book about japa— ah uhm, about folklore from my hometown all the time," he snorts before sighing. "It was such a bore, but I guess that was the point. Sleeping was funnier than listening to the story of Kaguya for the tenth time in a row."
Emilia's lips turn downwards. "And children don't like falling asleep alone because they don't know what they will dream about, correct?"
The word dream tastes bad in her mouth. According to her dictionary, dreams are things you crave—a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal. To Subaru though, the word is more tangible, and could be used pejoratively. Nightmares are bad dreams, and as they have recently discovered, Subaru has lots of those.
Subaru narrows his eyes. "Yeah but it's nothing that serious, Emilia-tan! Children are afraid of their own shadow. I'm waaaaay past that age."
"Mhm. Your kin's children don't know who can enter their room while they are sleeping. Their fears are reasonable."
"I can't help but fear Emilia-tan is overthinking it—and as I already told Rem, no one is allowed to watch me sleep." Subaru scowls, and his gaze sharpens. “I don’t know what kind of bizarre conclusion you’ve jumped to, but I can guarantee it’s completely wro—”
"It's okay," Emilia forces a smile—a mask of cheerfulness that she now knows Subaru wears quite often too, when he finds himself unable to rest. "When we met, I thought I didn't need to know anything about your culture. You were weird, but nice. Why you were like that was none of my business. I just wanted to enjoy it."
Subaru narrows his eyes. Experience tells her that he is waiting for a metaphorical bomb to explode. Sometimes, even literal.
"—But I guess I'm greedier than I thought I was. Because I want to know everything there is to know about you. Because I want to help you better. Because that's my dream, too."
"Emilia-tan...you…" Subaru’s eyes widen, his breath catching in his throat, as his cheeks also start to redden.
So, even he could be caught off guard. Emilia’s lips turn upwards. "A hundred years is barely a blink of an eye in the eyes of an elf, therefore—I'm barely a child myself!"
And Subaru's delighted smile drops. "That's not... That's not what a man wants to hear his crush say at all!"
But she hasn't finished talking, yet. "—so, will you read me a bedtime story?" She claps her hands together.
Subaru’s lips part, and slowly, they also shift into a smile.
“As usual, I can't just refuse Emilia-tan…”
After that day, a new tradition began at the Mathers Manor. Each night, when the sun dipped below the horizon and darkness settled in, Emilia would sit in Subaru’s room, listening intently as he read her old myths from his homeland—or at least, the ones he remembered.
Then, Beatrice joined. And the next night, Garfiel did too.
And by the end of the week, the entire camp gathered for the reading, though Subaru insisted Ram only did it because she wanted to slack off from work.
If Frederica sees her yell victory in the garden after Subaru goes one entire week without nightmares, she doesn't mention it.
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beta read by @daemonerik
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AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok
how do you use these?
Put these on the top layer above everything, set layer to 'overlay' then adjust opacity. You can put it on whatever opacity you want but usually 30%+ is most effective.
The point is to obstruct the picture so AI can't read your image because AI counts every single pixel in your art
By this post alone, in less than 5 hours.
I need you all to calm the fuck down
NEEDED AND NO WE WONT THIS IS BRILLIANT
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I originally created a site skin based on this aesthetic about 2.5 years ago, but it was frankly pretty broken in a lot of ways. As I was looking through my list of site skins, I remembered this one and decided to revive it and make it a little more usable.
If you like it or want to try it out, you can find the CSS code over here on github, along with instructions for how to copy/paste it into a skin for your own AO3 profile.
(as always when I attempt a site skin, if you find stuff that's broken, you can let me know and I'll try to un-break it)
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Arc 4 of the Crusch IF begins when Subaru does something very, very stupid: he runs away.
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On it boss...... I see .... Yeap ... That sure... Ah... Clears things up yup
That is incredibly strange: it doesn’t do that at all from my end…
Maybe try clicking on the version of the [crusch if] tag that is attacked to the Masterpost pinned at the top of my blog?
Well I think you should click on it from the masterpost it works for me
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Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they're just both very true.
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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this
when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor
Bbs
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Yukio yelling in the distance live "NII-SAN!"
He's so stupid I love him
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Some stupid, stupid scenario that I love atm is if Subaru was summoned before the story starts. Before 3 years to be exact, why you ask? Because he'd be summoned in the Elior Forest
GAH I can't stop thinking about it
- Like for instance, Roswaal. This guy. What Will he do to my boy? The entirety of Elsa situation in arc 1 was his fault
- Will Subaru be able to meet Fourier?
- How will his and Emilia's relationship change now that these two are gonna be stuck together? (Emilia never really talk to anyone besides puck and let's be fr Subaru won't leave her despite her protists)
Honestly this idea is really interesting hfyn
The problem is that I have to read some side stories to make canon accurate but I didn't even read the novel yet so I'm hesitant-
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ch3 of me and @thecolourpurple123 ‘s fic otter swain’s debt hustling log is out!!! there is now THREE PURPLE HAIRED PEOPLE in the anastasia camp-otto crossover fic !!! WOOOO!! 💚💜
So this section right here is easily the most headache-inducing Otto yapping in the entire 20k chapter where three quarters of that wordcount is Otto being Otto (derogatory).
It reaks so bad, in fact, that when I wrote it with rue on vc, we had to stop writing for a minute to figure out what in the world Otto was even saying. It took like twenty minutes across two conversations to understand the depth of this evil twink's mental illness without our brains sputtering smoke.
So, basically, put yourself in the shoes of Otto (nightmare, I know). You took out a massive loan, spent it all on a risky investment, and you're hauling that investment to the one place where it'll pay off, only for the border to close in front of you. Your investment is made worthless by this factor outside of your control.
What does a normal person think about this situation? Well, many people would accept that they don't control the politics of states so much larger than them. There was no way to know this would happen, and thus it's not their fault. You may be one of these people, deciding to do the best with the hand you're given and try to pay back the loan with the shitty merchandise you've saddled yourself with one way or another, no matter how much of an uphill battle it is.
Alternatively, other people with a bit more humility or less self esteem may accept that it was their own decision to take a risk that put them in such a terrible spot. Why gamble not only everything you have, but also the entirety of a massive loan on something so volatile? Why take a make-or-break risk for not only your entire career, but your entire life? You may be one of these people, and most likely in such a situation, you would fall into despair at the impossibly deep hole you've dug for yourself. You'd rightfully put the blame for your misfortune at your own two feet.
There are other permutations of responses to such an occurrence, but these are the primary ones. With two courses of action resulting from them. As Otto puts it, "giving into despair [or] accepting the fault in his own decision-making by trying harder." "Giving up" or "naive optimism about the terrible circumstances he found himself in."
As we all well know by now, Otto Suwen is anything but a normal person, so he decides himself above an unavoidable binary, all the while claiming himself to be average and insignificant but that's a whole other discussion.
Otto acknowledges that "his debt was caused by factors outside of Otto's control" but not in the same way as the first option while also not blaming himself like the second option. Otto decides to lay responsibility for the failure of his plan at the feet of his own ego, his own merchant's pride. Which... is somehow not him.
Because Otto also acknowledges that "no one, much less himself, is clean enough to go through life without a single lie." Which he uses to rationalize his conclusion that his ego is the reason outside of his control that this has happened. In his terms, "It's not a pure lie, though. It's just a half-truth."
Which doesn't make any damn sense because that's still a lie. Otto accepts that he, like anyone else, must lie to themselves to keep going, and by lying to himself he tells himself that he's not lying to himself about the fact that it's not his fault that he screwed up with the oil plan. He lies to himself about lying to himself so that he feels better about his mistakes, all while condescendingly looking down upon any mindset outside of the one he has selected.
And it only works because that initial acceptance of everyone telling a lie gives him one free lie and that free lie isn't actually a lie it's just a half-truth. Which is still a goddamn lie but Otto is mentally ill and obfuscated the reality in enough layers of rationalization that he doesn't have to confront that.
It's tangled knot of inconsistent logic to justify his hypocrisy in ideals compared to actions.
“by lying to himself he tells himself he’s not lying to himself” this, “he lies to himself about lying to himself” that, i need otter swain fucking dead bro
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I missed my chance last year. Not gonna let it happen again
MY DAD'S BIRTHDAY
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I am Karim from Gaza, I am 22 years old, a student in the College of Nursing.
I have two brothers, Aboud, who is 10 years old, and Hala, who is almost 12 years old.
My parents are elderly. We are living a tragedy in the October War.
My little brother suffers from malnutrition. My mother lost my brother a few years ago due to the 2014 war.
His name is Aboud as well. She gave birth again and named him Aboud after my brother who died due to the wars on Gaza.
We do not want to lose my second brother. You are our hope. We need your help in order to escape death and live in safety and peace.
We do not want more than to feel safe. I am working to raise money for my family.
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I need you. My family and I need you.
Every donation saves a family.
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I am Karim from Gaza, I am 22 years old, a student in the College of Nursing.
I have two brothers, Aboud, who is 10 years old, and Hala, who is almost 12 years old.
My parents are elderly. We are living a tragedy in the October War.
My little brother suffers from malnutrition. My mother lost my brother a few years ago due to the 2014 war.
His name is Aboud as well. She gave birth again and named him Aboud after my brother who died due to the wars on Gaza.
We do not want to lose my second brother. You are our hope. We need your help in order to escape death and live in safety and peace.
We do not want more than to feel safe. I am working to raise money for my family.
I need money to save them from death. We are here in certain death every minute.
Please help us. Hope will be spent on food and the largest part will be spent on passing through the crossing to exit Gaza and part on providing temporary housing.
I need you. My family and I need you.
Every donation saves a family.
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