The Random moments

“You OK?” asks the man before me.

I realize I’ve been standing frozen, probably looking spooked. “Yes,” I fake what I hope is a convincing smile. I look back at his right shoulder, there’s nothing there, then to his left shoulder where a solid colored devil rests.

As he turns to our table I glance over the restaurant to make sure my powers are still working. There’s a woman one table away with a transparent devil and a translucent angel, she listens to the angel more. The woman across from her has a devil that’s translucent, she listens to it a little more than she should.

I’ve had this power my whole life, to see which side one listens to, but never before have I seen a completely solid devil, never before have I seen the angel completely gone…

Run!

Turning back to him I seen he’s pulled my chair out for me, watching me expectantly.

I could run now but what if he follows? Maybe it’s best I don’t tip him off, assuming I haven’t already, and sneak out while he’s not looking.

“Thank you,” I sit down.

He sits across from me and looks down, pulling on his long sleeves. “Order whatever you want,” he mumbles, “don’t pay attention to the price.”

“Oh, OK thank you.” I can barely pay attention to the menu. I glance over the restaurant, planning an escape route from the restroom.

“It was at 5:50,” he says, picking right up from where our last conversation online left off.

“I watched that video a dozen times and couldn’t see it.”

As we talk he seems just like the shy sweet boy I met online but then I glance at the devil on his shoulder and remember to be scared.

I’m looking at his shoulder so often that he glances back to see what I’m looking at. Worried about it I glance down and gape; on his arm a cut peeks out from under his sleeve.

He sees me seeing it and panics, pulling his sleeves down.

My gaze falls to the table and we sit there in silence.

This whole time I’ve been avoiding the people with the more solid devils because they listen to them more, I never questioned what the devils were saying. His devil isn’t telling him to hurt me, it’s telling him to hurt himself, that he’s worthless and doesn’t deserve me; and me acting scared of him isn’t helping.

“Don’t listen,” slips out before I’ve finished getting my thoughts together. I take in a long breath and speak slowly. “Don’t listen to the voice that tells you you’re useless, that you’ll never make a difference… You’ve made a huge difference to me.”

Thank you so much for doing this prompt @hannahcbrown!

Okay so there’s always been one thing about Spider-man that has always bothered me, and it has nothing to do with the character.

It’s about his room.

In Captain America: Civil War, Peter’s room is not much to look at. It’s got a twin bed, a crappy desk and a computer that Peter had to scrounge out of a dumpster. He’s middle class, and his aunt has to pay New York rent, so it’s understandable.

But look at his room in Homecoming.

Look at all the stuff he has. The twin bed has been replaced by a nice bunk bed, the crappy desk is now new, and his computer went from a relic to top of the line. Not to mention all of the new stuff he has. His room used to just be blank walls, but now it’s a teenager’s dream.

There’s no way in a period of what is only a few months that his family would be able to have enough money to pay for even half of this.

I had always thought this was a continuity error, but then I had a revelation.

Who has enough money to pay for this? What man would buy a whole new room for a kid that he learns has been dumpster diving to get a decent computer?

Tony. Freaking. Stark.

He’s not the most emotional person. Tony’s own father was distant and strict, so Tony has no idea to show any kind of affection in the paternal sense.

But if he knows one thing, it’s money. He’s got it, a lot of it, and he’d be damned before he’d let a kid smart enough to design his own web slingers work on an Apple 2 computer left over from the 1970s.

Mmmmmmm’baku am I right????? (I am the first person to make that joke no one can tell me otherwise)

Had to get in on my late start to @magicmeatmarch with some Black Panther fan art of my second favorite character (Okoye is best) and I am nothing but predictable and consistent.

This is the tree you need to find to trigger Dorian’s dialogue on Cullen in JoH. Never fails to make me smile 😍 also a map to show you the location if you’ve never found it before.