#shuttup

meet the Journey Onwards AU! (Name might change…)

An AU set in the past (though no specific time period, bc I can’t be arsed to do more research…), where when MK’s powers come in and they go on a little journey to figure out what’s happening with it!

here’s all my concept sketches:

But also, she wanted him to let down his guard and she wants him to trust her, and she wants him to underestimate her and think of her as sweet and naive and maybe just slightly stupid, and it works.  And like with Isharnai, Jester’s goal here isn’t friendship for the sake of friendship - it’s because, as she said, she still feels like there’s something she can do to bring Molly out from the depths of Lucien’s subconscious and she’s hoping he’ll let himself be vulnerable enough around her, mentally and emotionally, to try it.

But, again - she’s not lying when she says she wants to be friends!  She’s not lying when she says “it’s harmless, i’m just going to show you something cool, i promise.”  and if it works?  or, really, if it works to make lucien be her friend somehow but doesn’t actually unlock mollymauk - then she’ll have another scary evil bff, who she will treat EXACTLY the way she treats her normal, not scary friends!

jester sends isharnai the cupcakes she promised her even after they’ve gotten what they wanted out of her!  jester knows 100% that she manipulated and bespelled this hag, but, ALSO: they are friends.  “and if it does work, and it does stick, then i’ve got a really cool, powerful friend!”  

friends, apparently, are friends, whether you got them by mind-whammying them with magic or not!  and you can continue to treat them as friends while also manipulating the hell out of them to get what you want!  

(She may being doing this, long-game-style, with the Gentleman - using her more overt pushiness abt him contacting Marion to cover the subtler manipulation she’s actually after.  If anyone could manage to parent-trap them, it would be her.)

Yeah, this reads like chisaki.

of kissing

seemed too awkward

too much body

much too close

too... complicated

not worth the effort

but. but. but.

god sometimes i get it

sometimes i see your face and i think

about puzzle pieces

fitting together

and i remember

all the books i’ve read

sweeping romances

that talk about the taste of

love on someone else’s lips

soft and sweet and gentle

hands in hair

hands on hips

lips on lips on-

on me?

do i want that

i never have before

i dont know if i ever will