“no fucking way,” you say, dropping your bag onto the chair pulled out for you, jaw wide open, “miya osamu?”
the man in front of you hides his own surprise with a smile, holding his hand up to you which you shake hesitantly, “y/n l/n.”
now generally, running into your highschool sweetheart wouldn’t demand such a reaction—it happens, awkward grocery store encounters, new year party mishaps, drunken calls and whatnot. you know, the usual. the only difference this time?
you‘re on a blind date.
and it‘s not helping that osamudoesn’t seem to have gotten any less attractive from back then.
but you always keep your word, as does he, so you swallow your shock and sit down.
“so, how’ve ya been?,” he asks, shifting in his seat as you settle in yours, calling for a waiter. “pretty okay!,” you respond, smiling before you turn to order your food—, “just a second.”
he waits as you speak, and you can feelhis eyes on you. osamu’s always had a rather intense gaze (when he wants to), but for some reason, it doesn’t really feel all that uncomfortable.
your eyes follow the waiters roaming around, clinging to every plate of food that seems to reach everytable but yours. it’s awkward, only slightly, because there’s onething on both of your minds.
“you haven’ changed since highschool,” osamu snatches the words from your mouth, taking in how your eyes widen in the most unnoticeable of ways, tongue swiping over your lips as you nod.
“neither have you,“ you say, because while both of you do look slightly more mature, osamu’s laugh sounds just as it did before, the corner of eyes scrunching up in a smile as they always used to.
Made this awhile back but decided to post it; a Role-Swap AU where Kaycee, Luke, Bone Lord, and Lonely Wizard are Scrybes while the actual Scrybes are a bunch of Challengers.
LUCK-3 (pronounce Lucky) is Luke, the Scrybe of Technology, he has a gambling mechanic since most of his stuff depends on dumb luck- hence why P03 hates him so much.
Kaycee is the Scrybe of Beasts, don’t be fooled! She just looks human. Mechanic is still the sam involving blood sacrifice n such though she tends to throw in new things such as totems, more of an experimental touch to add some sort of flare onto her game. She and Leshy/Lesli get along very well, close friends!
Bone Lord is the Scrybe of the Dead, quite the intimidating figure from his mere appearance. Mechanic is also the same involving bones, not much of a change. He’s terrified of Grimora because she just came out of nowhere, started digging up new Graves on HIS Land of the Dead, and he’s too scared to ask her to leave ever since he saw her bench press a whole coffin.
Lonely Wizard is the Scrybe of Magicks, a funky little guy who is REALLY powerful in means of manipulating its surroundings and just overall being the classic OP funky Wizard who wants to have fun. Mechanic is the same but LW is able to change the game rules whenever it likes, even mixing up card themes as well, it’s entire thing is chaotic. Magnificus still has nightmares due to the amounts of psychic damage LW has caused onto him.
Funny enough, the Scrybes here are really good friends while the Challengers are having a total gamer moment aka trying to kill eachother for the umpteenth time.
I have some designs in mind for the Scrybes underlings, lots of design changes! So I’ll work on that soon :]
throughout the series, bella swan has prophetic dreams. they reveal her future (or present predicament) in cryptic ways. but even tho bella can peek forward in time, her true power lies in the past.
james’ bite catalyzes bella’s gift. before the cullens arrive at the ballet studio, time unzips as james sinks his teeth in.
for a delirious moment, bella bleeds out on a hospital room’s tile floor where her mother is giving birth. to her.
the cullens barge into the studio. bella’s writhing on the ground. they never see the warp. a stunned james is defeated.
bella says nothing at the hospital, chalking it up to a near-death experience. ofc she can’t unravel the fabric of time lol like what?? who does that???
over summer, night terrors haunt her when edward is away.
the “good” dreams give her flashes of the future. wolves. light. cliffs. a stone antechamber. red hair. a casket.
it’s the nightmares she fears the most.
her PTSD-fueled flashbacks feel so real, she unzips time to escape james & wakes up in random places as if sleepwalking.
at first they’re tiny jumps. a few minutes back. then several months before she meets edward. then the day renee leaves charlie with bella in tow.
that night, after her disastrous birthday party, her nightmare dumps her in the back alley of a neon-lit diner.
this isn’t home. not 2006, not 1996, not 1986, even…
disoriented, she stumbles in and sits at the counter. the folded newspaper by the napkin dispenser, the philadelphia herald, reads march 3rd, 1950.
oh god.
when she looks up, a familiar pixie-haired vampire stares back at her with moony gold eyes.
“you’ve kept me waiting a long time,” says alice, pushing a plate of pancakes toward her.
time zips. back in bed. morning. 2006. bella scrambles to school to tell edward about the time skips.
ofc, it’s hard to speak when you’re being sucker-punched in the gut by your first love’s painful breakup monologue.
instead of confessing, bella says goodbye.
october. november. december. january.
as the wolves shift and laurent stops in for a visitsnack, forks gets all gunked up with paranormal vibes. bella warps further back for longer periods. 1935. 1933. 1911. 1863.
luckily, she often crosses paths with the cullens. as humans, she knows, they won’t remember her. it’s enough just to see them. she pulls dangerous stunts to keep traveling.
bella dives off a cliff to chase the visions.
she smacks the water & warps to 1918. human edward immediately falls in love with a drenched & shivering bella swan. over the evening, she falls in love with him. again. ugh.
but was it a time skip, or a near-death experience? she wakes up coughing water, jake breathing life into her on the beach.
alice returns. with a renewed love for edward (ugh), bella jets off to italy to save him & meet the volturi. stress leaves bella a wreck.
back in forks, the vote ignites a fiery rage that she’d buried for months.
how could they do this to her? how could they break her heart & leave her behind when she needed them?? did they even stop to think about laurent??? the wolves?!VICTORIA?!!
just as she lunges for edward to rip his stupid face off, time unzips in front of them & she vanishes.
further back than she’s ever gone.
london. 1640s.
human carlisle tries using a silver cross to defend himself against a starving vampire while bella looks on.
when the vampire’s eyes find hers, the horror of what bella has been doing settles in like a dense fog.
with each time skip, bella seals their fate.
not only is bella the thread that ties the cullens together in time, but bella aligns the stars for every member to become a vampire.
in the 1640s, she is the scent that pulls the starving vampire away from carlisle.
in 1863, maría sees bella’s warp & pursues her until she finds confederate jasper hale on his way to galveston.
in 1911, her time skip startles 16 y.o. esme out of a tree, breaking the girl’s leg.
in 1918, a cold & wet bella gives edward the flu.
in 1933, carlisle spots bella on his way home from the hospital & finds her so eerily familiar he calls out & rushes to catch up. frightened by the commotion, royce & co leave a dying rosalie in the street.
in 1935, warping into a forest pisses off a huge black bear. emmett saves her & subsequently gets mauled.
in 1950, she listens to alice tell the story of her only human memory: prophesizing as a little girl about the “lady in the blue jeans” who comes to visit, to the horror & disgust of her superstitious parents.
now, in 2006, she reappears & falls at the cullens’ feet. her face reflects their looks of shock.
it was her. it was always her.
& all because she ditched alice & jasper to confront james at the ballet studio.
“oh god,” she whispers from the floor in a broken voice. tears blur her vision. bella looks up at the family of vampires looming over her. “i think i’ve made a huge mistake.”
