#silencedrage

@silencedrage ┊ BIOTANICAL HEADCANONS – always accepting!!

In any of Zane's verses ( so far ), the most consistent thing is getting his family's TCM herbal shop back under his name and control ( or, in Peaky Blinders verse, being able to open his own in Chinatown ). It's ofc also, in modern verses, getting the degrees he needs to run it and have the credentials to practice TCM. In less modern verses ( like Peaky Blinders ), he doesn't need to be certified to practice. Modern verses, he wants to return to San Francisco, as it was and always will be his home and he misses it dearly.

In order to do that, he needs to defeat Xiao Dan in some capacity — bc he's sure af not going to make any deals with the man who orchestrated his father’s death ( and tried to kill him, too ). He has also grown to love the clan he's in and, despite his initial ambition of just wanting to take it over to gain power and influence, it becomes a lot more personal than that. Zane is a natural leader and he connects with the people in his clan.

And of course, he wants to help Matt gain his freedom to make his own choices, live his life the way he wants. He wants them both to have another chance to love one another without fear — but, as long as he can have his best friend in his life again, as long as he's safe ( as safe as one can be, running a criminal empire lmao ) and happy, Zane will be content with that.

In the main verse with Matt as his canon love interest, he would be an absolute liar if he said he didn't daydream about them living together in a cozy place with their pets ( Matt’s dog Bao and Zane's snake Mochi ) and Zane's plants, maybe with a garden and / or a green house. Curled up together on their living room couch, sipping on tea Zane made for them while they do their separate things together, eating good food ........ but yk lmao.

With other love interests in other verses, ofc he wants someone to love, to annoy ( affectionately ), someone to be by his side. Bonus points if they can kick ass together ofc. Someone who accepts and loves all that he is and who allows him to do the same in return. Zane is just so passionate, playful and loving and he wants to be wanted / needed, he wants to be loved. Happiness looks a bit different, depending on what verse he's in and who he connects with, but ... he wants to love and be loved freely, to have Matt in his life again in some way, to lead his clan ( or in PB verse, lead alongside Tommy ofc ) and to have room to enjoy his hobbies too, he wants to run his shop and help those who need it. Yeah ❤️

              The answer to Moiraine’s thinly veiled question is simple: control. An unrelenting grip on her magic. On a good day, it’s a pressure at the back of her skull, a buzzing in her bones, constant but manageable – on a bad one, it’s akin to wrangling a hurricane with her bare hands.

              This is certainly a bad day.

              Her lack of prior contact with the Aes Sedai was hardly an accident. But now Moiraine is in her path, with considerable power of her own and a curiosity that feels like a threat, the man beside her a mercenary at best, her Warder at worst. Freya has heard the gleeman tales of the danger such pair can pose. She wants to back off, to leave, but that would reek of fear. Of weakness.

The school's empty because everybody else is at the football field out back. Julie doesn't really get how she ended up in here. She just knows that Susie was upset and that meant she was upset too, and this dumb girl wouldn't stop talkin' about her douchebag cop dad, wouldn't shut up about how she was gonna ruin Susie's life.

@silencedrage (vamp!tai) gets a supernatural huntress au starter.

THE MANY TURMOILS AND CONFLICTS THAT CAME with Nat's overall relationship with her father seemed to cease in that single moment, the second she walked in to see him bleeding and dying on the floor. He was white as a sheet, all blood drained or currently draining, leaving him almost catatonic while staring up at the ceiling. ❝ Dad—...? ❞ word spits past parting lips as she rushes towards him and kneels, picking up his head and letting it rest in her lap. He was clutching onto his chest as if he was having a heart attack and she suddenly does the same, grabbing a tight hold upon his hand.

❝ No, no... what do I do? What do I do?! Daddy... ❞ she can feel his entire body shaking in her arms, watching as the life inside of him dwindled. He doesn't say a word but instead, stares at her, watching every tear that fell down her cheeks. There's a moment where it seems like he wants to reach up and touch her face but doesn't have enough strength within himself to do so. Her long hair is sticking, but she takes hold of his hand still and brings it to her moistened cheek just the same, allowing him this one final moment of touch before his entire body relaxes and dies. She never expected to get this emotional when the moment finally came to watch her father die, nor did she ever expect to beg that he'd stay strong and keep going.

Part of her always thought his death would be a blessing in some fucked up way, but reality hit differently and she finds herself in immediate mourning while holding onto his limp body, rocking slowly back and forth, crying out in grief. His face close to her chest as she held him, brushing fingers through his hair. It doesn't take long for her to feel the eyes lingering behind her though she does take her time in shifting attention and meeting the other's gaze, glancing over her shoulder at the woman standing in the shadows: her father's killer.

@silencedrage {shauna} is back in Wiskayok, not expecting to bump into Jackie Taylor...

One of the mantras she'd been trying out was 'someone else's emergency doesn't have to become yours'. Which was all well and good, but whoever first said that clearly didn't have children.

So here was Jackie, halfway out to the grocery store when she got a call from her daughter using the middle school office's phone. Juno resented that she wasn't allowed to have a phone until she turned 13, but at least both of her parents could agree that kids could survive without that kind of technology, at least until headed to high school. Anyhow -- apparently Junie had forgotten her math homework in her mother's backseat and, lo and behold, it was on the floor behind the front passenger seat.

And the problem wasn't Juno being irresponsible -- far from it, the girl was brilliant and organized, most of the time. But her teacher was a stickler for work being turned in on time and even a kid with as good a record as the littlest Sadecki was going to get dinged at least half a letter grade for each day the work packet was late. And Jackie thought it might be an opportunity for a tough love approach to making mistakes, but some little buzzing in the back of her mind recalled how her parents practically dropped everything whenever their princess called. So, Jackie wouldn't bail her daughter out if this became a habit, but Juno's report card didn't deserve to suffer because of one unzipped bag, one time.

"Yeah, Junie, I got the papers here," she said to the Bluetooth speaker. "I'm turning around, I can get there in twenty minutes -- is that enough time before Ms. Tumpak's class? Okay, well, I'm doing my best, sweetie --"

She had one hand on the steering wheel, another fishing back on the car floor. Papers in hand, Jackie turned her head for a moment, just a moment, before--

--CRAKK--

"Shit. Sorry, sorry -- Juno, I have to go now, ok? I'll see you in a bit. Son of a--"

Jackie threw her car into park and hopped out to assess the damage. This was honestly the last thing she needed. What was that about other people's emergencies, again? Focused on her own front bumper, the woman turned her head and exhaled through gritted teeth. It looked like her car -- the family car -- took the most damage. Indignant attitude bubbled up as she snapped at the offending party.