#shieldborn

omg great question. you simply have to ask!

in 3x05, the girls draw cards to determine who will be coach scott's executioner after they find him guilty during a makeshift trial session to determine if he burned down the cabin. taissa draws the king of heart which van calls "the suicide king". this is a name given to the king of heart because in the modern standard card deck the king looks like he's sticking his sword in his head.

here's what all the kings look like and all of them are holding weapons. i was curious if any of the other kings had other names or if the cards generally had meanings to them.

immediately i did think of the four most vocal characters we have -- or at least the ones constantly in the middle of the power and leading disputes which are taissa, shauna, natalie, and lottie.

"i don't." her reply comes curt, barely glancing up from her phone. when her head does come up, it's to squint her eyes at him and then make a clarifying point, "believe you, or really tolerate you." there's a small grimace, and buttercup can hear bubbles' voice bouncing off the walls inside her mind. she's being mean, too mean, and it's not like buttercup actually entirely means what she's saying.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐗

@shieldborn​ asked : “Life is hard. Those of us who can help, should.”

➲ 𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗  𝗔𝗡𝗗  𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗙𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚  𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘  !  〢  @shieldborn​​ . ❛   abrupt .   kiss  my  muse  out  of  the  blue .

THEY’RE  NOT  DEAD.     as  far  as  clint’s  concerned,    that  counts  as  a  win  for  the  good  guys.    everyone  made  it  on  and  off  of  the  quinjet  under  their  own  power,    and  they’ve  all  dispersed  to  their  respective  quarters  to  decompress  after  the  mission.    okay,    yeah,    so  clint  might’ve  been  moving  a  little  slower  than  the  others        (        getting  too  old  for  superhero  landings,    barton,        ).        it  just  means  he’s  only  managed  to  run  a  rag  over  his  face  before  JARVIS’S  VOICE  fills  the  room  announcing  a  visitor.

❛        steve  rogers  is  at  your  door        ❜        not  so  long  ago,    those  words  might  have  earned  an  eye  roll  or  a  groan.    not  so  long  ago,    it  would’ve  meant  steve  was  waiting  at  his  door  with  some  kind  of  post  -  game  report.    now,    though  ?

lecture’s  still  on  the  table,    but  there’s  enough  promise  of  something  else  that  there’s  a  bit  more  pep  in  clint’s  step  as  he  pads  to  the  door.    it  opens  with  a  mechanical    WHOOSH    that  the  archer  is  still  getting  used  to.         ❝        oh  captain,    my  captain  ?        ❞        there’s  the  tail  end  of  a  cheeky  comment  on  his  tongue  that  never  quite  makes  it  to  open  air,    because  in  the  span  of  a  breath,    a  smiling        ―        and  no  -  longer  uniformed        ―        steve  has  closed  the  distance  between  them  and  silenced  the  archer  with  a  kiss.    something  else,    it  is,    then.

( @shieldborn​ ) « con’t

               HE WAS TOO fucking tall now. That was the first thought. The second? It’d been too long.