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Ignoring the past: Balboa!daughterxViktor Drago

In which the daughter of famous heavy weight champ Rocky Balboa begins a tumultuous relationship with the son of an old enemy who brings up too many painful memories.

Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5??

B R I A N O' C O N N E R

On the road: Latina OFC x Brian O'Conner (NEW WIP!)

In which a beautiful Latina and a handsome ex cop meet on the road and fall in love, only to discover they both are keeping secrets.

Meet the Characters //

J O E B U R R O W

IN PROGRESS:

They say shooters shoot: Joe Burrow x Becky G (SMAU,Imagine)

Part 1: The dance begins

In which Joe shoots his shot through instagram with a Latina singer

My Island Princess :

Joe burrow x Aurora Iosivas (oc,face claim:Ana Brenda Contreras)

In which Joe can't seem to get Andrei's sister out of his head

Part 1-The First meeting

Part 2- The chance encounter

Part 3- The second date

Meet Aurora Iosivas + Her Moodboard: Here

With Care:

Joe Burrow x Leilani Anela Sanchez (oc,face claim:Cierra Ramirez)

In which Joe Burrow falls for the Bengals new team nurse

Part 1-Meeting the Bengals new nurse

Part 2-The guys help Leilani move in to her new house

Stand Alones-

Somethings wrong with Leilani

Joe and Leilani work out together

Joe Burrow's appendicitis

Joe hurts his wrist

You are walking in Russia and Viktor notices you, he's waiting for his dad.

"Hey y/n" he said

"Oh, hi Viktor" you said

*Viktor's phone is ringing*

"Hi dad, yes i'm here and also y/n. She was walking here"

"Y/n? I wanna see her" Ivan said

"Y/n, my dad wants to see you"

"Me too, i want to see Ivan" you said

You didn't see eachother for months, you missed him because you were at Philadelphia, you had to be there for a reason. So you decided to go back to Russia (I know they are in Ukraine in the movie, but i want them in Russia) you listened to your heart and went back to Russia. Because of Ivan.

And your eyes were like...it was like you longing for him. Viktor saw it.

"Are you okay y/n?" he asked

"Oh yes" you said

Then Ivan appears.

He looks at you...you both feel that feeling like months ago, before you left Russia.

He was so happy.

"Y/n"

"Ivan..." you said then you ran in his arms

Viktor surprised

"I missed you Ivan"

He touches your face

"I missed you too" he said

At his home

You, Viktor and Ivan sitting on the couch, he tells Viktor about your and his relationship. He didn't know that you and his dad love eachother.

"Oh...i am glad that you make my dad happy"

"Thank you Viktor"

"I'm glad that you are back" Ivan said

And you hug him.

Later at night

You are sleeping in another room and you have a bad dream,you scream then wake up. Ivan hears it then wakes up to see what happened. He came in your room then sits on your bed.

"What happened y/n?"

"Just a bad dream"

Ivan came closer to you, you cuddle to him.

Viktor hears you and his dad.

"Is everything fine?" he asked

Ivan nods his head, Viktor goes back. Now only you and Ivan.

"Don't worry y/n i'm here" he kiss your cheek

"Stay with me at the night" you say

"Okay i will, as you want" he said

You kissed him, he kissed you back.

❤️

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While most of the movies in the franchise are good, Creed II fascinates me since it’s actually different in how it approaches the main conflict. Most of the movies follow the same formula of underdog boxer must triumph over superior opponent, while Creed II feels more focused on the behind-the-scenes drama and history.

This movie could’ve easily just been a revenge story. Adonis wants to avenge his dad, so he beats up the son of his dad’s killer. However, it feels like the writers of the movie wanted to dig deeper into this. While the revenge story would be simpler and more theatrical, Creed II instead asks the audience how this would be realistically.

And the answer is…really sad, actually.

You’d think that Adonis would be at Kill Bill-levels of vengeful, but he’s not. Instead, he’s more frustrated by how he’s expected to want to avenge his father. He just became world champion and yet the media is only talking about him fighting Viktor Drago. Even Donnie admits you can’t talk about the Creeds without talking about the Dragos. Sure, he does resent Ivan, of course he would. But he doesn’t have a beef with Viktor, and it shows.

Viktor wasn’t doing any better. Although he was trash talking Donnie, you can tell how frustrated he was with how he was being used to “restore” Ivan’s honor. He hated how the Russian leaders, especially his mother, were only treating him and his father well after he started winning in the ring. None of it felt genuine, it’s like he was just a racehorse to them.

When you look at Donnie and Viktor’s arcs as a whole, it’s fascinating just how the arcs work as an overall discussion on legacy. Legacy ends up being the true villain of the movie:

1) Donnie can’t establish his own legacy since he’s chained to his father’s legacy. Even though he has the belt, no one cared. They just wanted the spiritual successor to Apollo vs. Ivan.

2) Viktor was literally raised in hardship because of what happened to his father in the 1980s. Then, he realized he was being used as a way to restore his father’s legacy, which disgusted him.

3) For both Adonis and Viktor, neither of them harbored any actual hate to each other. Any feelings of resentment came solely from their fathers’ actions.

4) Rocky wouldn’t even put up pictures of his fight with Ivan, which makes sense since there wasn’t anything uplifting about that match. Sure, he ended the Cold War (lol) but it doesn’t change the fact that the fight was about vengeance.

5) Ivan was so traumatized by his defeat that he felt like he deserved his exiling. Exiled…for losing a damn boxing match. It took nearly losing his son in the ring for him to realize that reclaiming his lost glory was not worth it.

The end fight is, in my opinion, the most interesting showdown in the franchise. Instead of feeling like a battle between a hero and a villain, it felt more…therapeutic? It’s like Donnie and Viktor knew that they couldn’t move forward with their lives until they got this fight over with, so that’s what they do. You can tell there’s a feeling of relief on both ends once the fight finishes since Donnie got the win over Viktor (thus ending the media’s obsession over a Creed-Drago revenge match) and Ivan affirmed to Viktor that he’ll always have his father’s love.

I should note that there’s a deleted scene (it shouldn’t have been!) where Donnie, Viktor, and Ivan all make peace with each other. I feel like that was the point of making this sequel. It’s not a revenge story like what most people thought, it’s a story of healing, past trauma, generational conflict, and moving on from the past. That’s also why Creed III is a brilliant follow-up since, for the first time in the Creed series, it’s a movie that’s about Donnie’s legacy, not Apollo or Rocky’s.

Basically, Creed II treated the fight between the sons of Apollo and Ivan as an obligation that needed to be fulfilled. It’s funny since that actually works as meta commentary on the audience since that was what a lot of people wanted to see when the first Creed movie was announced. Once that obligation was finished, Donnie and Viktor were able to move on with their lives and establish their own legacies, as seen in Creed III.

“That’s a balanced breakfast over there.”

Also, the nerve to say all his son knows is fighting. Did you entertain any of his other interests? We all see that Viktor only fights with hate because his dad made him hate the world. He might've become a biologist, or a horse trainer, or an artist, if Ivan had actually raised him with a positive attitude instead of harping on about what they lost and how it's his job to restore their glory.