lmaoooo sorry I got so caught up in the intimacy of sharing a bed I forgot about the concept of sex

No matter where Izzy ends up after their evening, uh, enjoyments, Izzy always crawls over to the far side, closest to the door, to settle down to sleep.

After the first few times, where Izzy pulled that shit, only to leave once he was sure the captains were asleep, Ed and Stede aren't pleased, to say the least, when it continues well after they convince Izzy they want him to stay.

Maybe it's Ed, still struggling through his abandonment issues, that brings it up. Maybe it's Stede, still trying to build something stronger, more durable, between himself and Izzy.

Either way, it comes up. "Why does it feel like you're always trying to leave?"

Izzy tenses. Hates having to talk about these things, the things that make him feel like an idiot, all twisted and weak inside. But Ed's looking at him expectantly, and no matter what, he hates disappointing his captain.

So he tells them. Tells them that if he's closest to the door, he's standing between them and any danger that might come crashing through their cabin. Tells them that if someone wanted to hurt them, that fuckwit would have to go through Izzy first. And he tells them, looking away because he can't fucking bear it, that if he dies protecting them, maybe then it would be worth it.

They don't say anything to that. Not really. What on earth is there to say?

But the next night, when they're settling into bed to sleep, Izzy finds himself manhandled by two determined captains and deposited right next to the window. He looks to Ed, who only raises an eyebrow, daring Izzy to fight him on this. He looks to Stede, who's trying to mirror the same look.

Ed keeps doing it until a very red and very flustered Izzy starts dragging him back into the captain's cabin, and then he just moves his face to Izzy's crotch as Izzy is trying to stagger faster and faster without tripping and falling on his face.

He loves it though, Ed used to lay his head in his lap when they were younger, before Blackbeard, before they fell apart, but he's not going to show that kind of vulnerability in front of these imbeciles (who can't even tie knots he couldn't have gotten out of, had they tossed him over - they did it on purpose, it was a fuckery, Lucius will tell him later)

Oh! What a good question.

I think VLD and The Witcher would be a fun crossover, what with the common elements of swords + terrible magic, and I would ADORE putting my Witcher lovelies into space and giving them a quest out there in the reaches of the galaxy.

I don't think I'd ever write this because I can already sense it sprawling out into some monster of a thing and I'm already many thousands of words deep into various other projects.

OOF okok disclaimer i dont think ive watched this since like. 2020. maybe. i had to google some of the plot so please take this w a grain of salt ~

spoiler warning!

ahh i'm so glad you asked!

you know how i love involving religion in my wips... well i'm actually staunchly anti-religion and an atheistic satanist, which is to say i don't believe in hell, so i'm opposed to the idea of it. at first glance it could be inferred that i'm on the "good" side of the religious war of good and evil because i'm "anti-hell" but it's actually because the idea of hell itself has been used as a device to scare people into being "good" when they wouldn't necessarily choose to be otherwise.

Lily, she/her

conversation halts of course, and there's an awkward pause. then stede says, "I think you've had enough for tonight" and izzy says, "you're faded, boss"

ed laughs it off. "you're prob'ly right," he admits easily. "super didn't mean to say that out loud." then he grins, all besotted like, and says, "you're so cute when you agree."

stede says, "you're cute."

izzy doesn't say anything, out loud, but he's the one ed is looking at when he grins even harder, all besotted like at them agreeing.