Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Last of Us Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Joel (The Last of Us)/Reader Characters: Joel (The Last of Us), Tess (The Last of Us), Original Male Character(s), Reader Additional Tags: Fluff, Fluff and Angst, male!reader, Pre-Canon, Guns, Gun Violence, Male Slash, Gay Male Character, I made Joel Bi, For the purposes of the story Summary:
When surviving in the zombie apocalypse, sometimes humans are more deadly than the zombies themselves…
Set approximately two months before the events of the game, the reader is a part of Joel and Tess’ little gang. Set up in quarantine zone five, built in one of the outer townships of Boston Massachusetts, The reader has to juggle work and play, without getting caught, or caught up, in everything…
So I wanted to write something for male readers, because we are really underappreciated in famdoms like this. There’s so much xfem!reader stuff out there, but what about the guys? What about the guy guys these straight girls seem so enamoured with? I want to give Mom and wlw readers more than what they got, even if I have to do it one story at a time. So if you are an xreader writer, include some xmale!reader stuff in your portfolios. <3
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he gotchu there
It would be hilarious if villains loved Nightwing and were terrified of Officer Dick Grayson.
Dick Grayson- who is used to open spaces and adrenaline- being stuck in a boring bleak office, surviving on shots of coffee and red bull with caffeine that would make Tim concerned.
The thugs soon realised that unlike most of the other cops - Dick was from Gotham.
No one fucks with Gothamites.
Villain *shooting at Dick with machine guns*
Dick *appearing from the shadows behind him*: Boo.
Villain: THIS IS A FIVE STOREY BUILDING HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE
Or
Thief *throwing a counting down bomb at Dick*
Dick: *catching and tossing the bomb at a safe distance before turning round and shooting it so it explodes mid air while running after thief*
Thief: .. what the actual fuck
Dick: Gee look at all that time you had! Shame you threw it away :D
Thief:
Dick: I’m from Gotham
Thief *realising they fucked up* : Please don’t steal my bones
OR
Shooter: *sets elaborate booby traps throughout the houses in an active hostage situation*
Dick *using his training as robin and inhuman flexibility to surpass them with ease*: Ah been a while since I got to have a nice stretch thank you.
Shooter:
Dick:
Shooter:
Dick: .. Hi :)
Shooter: Are you Satan?
AND
In interrogation room
Murderer: I think I’ll take your eyes and add them to my collection
Dick *running on spite and caffeine that could give Superman a sugar rush* : Funny.. I was going to say the same thing to you
Murderer: .. what
Dick: I wouldn’t take your eyes though.. they look like the inspiration behind the whole Medusa’s “look at it and you turn to stone” thing-
Murderer: Hey! Take that back before I gut you
Dick *smile stretching wider without blinking* : oh? Or what? I know everything about you. Who says I can’t kill you and walk out with everyone being none the wiser? I know how to kill someone too..you aren’t special.
Murderer:
Murderer: I’m scared for my safety.
Because the thing is, Nightwing is who Dick really is. It’s who he can be free as, be himself as without red tapes and regulations. Where he can give as good as he gets, and he’s kind and empathetic. He gets to help the downtrodden and goes easy on most of them if they give up right away, not to mention the fact that he never causes permanent damage.
But officer Dick Grayson is a different story. He runs on sleepless nights and no self preservation. Seeing an officer with an uncanny skill set they’re scarily good at, not to mention the cheery attitude he always has scares the shit out of criminals. Cuz no way in hell is a smiling Gothamite not a deranged one. He chases crimes like a bloodhound, and isn’t afraid to make good on threats he makes to ensure they never hurt anyone again.
Bonus if the batfam doesn’t know about this.
Red hood: Shit I can’t believe we ended up in Bludhaven
Red Robin *tying up the corrupt politican* : Since this is a sensitive case, we need someone we can trust to make sure it is seen through.
Red hood: .. So we paying a visit to Officer Grayson?
Politician *screeching* : NO NO NO NO! PLEASE NOT HIM!! JUST KILL ME INSTEAD AND TAKE ALL MY MONEY I CANT DEAL WITH HIM!
Red hood: .. is he fucking serious?
Henchmen: Sir he is. And we agree. Please take our bones and kill us but don’t take us to Officer Grayson.
Red Robin: Wait what did he do?
Henchman 1: He asked boss if the hat was sentient.. and said that if it was would it make that hat the top and boss the bottom.
Henchman 2: Last time we met I tried to shoot him but suddenly my gun was blank and he raised his hand and let the ammo drop
Red Hood: Well even I could do that-
Henchman 2: They were my bullets. I had selected the colour personally.
Red robin *growing concerned*
Henchman 3: He sang a lullaby to a child when we were holding the station hostage, and replaced the people with my family members. He even sang their social security numbers!
Henchman 4: He’s the most dangerous of them all. I ain’t shitting ya when I say he’s as scary as the bat from Gotham.
*all nodding in agreement*
Red hood:
Red Robin:
Red hood: Nah that doesn’t sound like Dick
Red Robin: Agreed. Let’s go there Hood.
*villains’ sobbing intensifies*
My man is just a petty ass king who likes to piss people off, and we love that for him. I think the only reason why we like Neil to start with is because we see it all from his POV and how he thinks in his messed up little way.
Like imagine this kid comes onto your team, throws everything upside down and doesn’t know how to read a room properly, (well he can he just doesn’t have a filter coming from his brain to his mouth).
Either way we love him and his snarky comments so so much.
people are like ‘why would the freshman hate Neil??’ u guys need to remember. neil is an asshole. like god bless him but let’s not forget
"Who's that dad?"
"Son there's nobody there"
Who could he be running from ?
No cause I can imagine this going so so hard, the edits that people would make from it too- I can picture it now-
tkm teaser with a bunch of quick cuts and snippets of people in the show (news anchors, the foxes, other teams, etc etc) all saying neil’s name so it’s just repeated, neil josten neil josten neil josten, then abrupt cut and black screen and then we flash to the scene where after nathan is murdered and nathaniel is laughing, borderline hysterical and saying to the police: “my name is nathaniel wesninski”.
might write some fic about nowhere boys and the family dynamics in it, or else i'll make like,,, five other tumblr posts, cause it's really interesting to me
i understand it's a kids show, and those generally either choose family or romance to focus on, but these dynamics are SO intriguing
there's felix who loves his brother more than anything on this earth, to the point he'd literally rather cancel himself out of existence than let anything bad happen to his brother again, meanwhile his mum doesn't like him and he thinks his dad is a loser, and he can't even fathom them wanting him to stay for dinner, he is convinced he is making his family's life so so so much worse with every second he spends with them and he still can't tear himself away from them, probably because he needs to SEE them doing well without him to believe it, this is a kids show by the way
jake has a single mother who was married and divorced, with a no good ex who doesn't pay his child support, and yet jake tries to extend endless grace to loser-dad even when it's clear he won't really change, that one little scene in season one where he pulls out the picture and says "this is the only proof i have that they were happy together", yeah that haunts me. and then in season two his TEACHER starts hooking up with his mum? and even though it's a background plot it's so interesting and does so much for his character because he's still so devoted to her to the point he'll stomach this drama because it makes her happy, and she still sacrafices parts of this relationship for jake
sam's relationship with his family is the MOST interesting to me and i can't really put it into words, he is clearly a golden child, he has loving parents and a playfighty but good relationship with his brothers, he learned art from his mother and sports from his father, he clearly has a wonderful homelife and it did not necessarily do him favours, and then he's thrown into the deep end of alternate universes and he realises that they have replaced him, and THIS is so interesting to me because (as people have pointed out before) he is literally the only planned kid and that's fascinating, but also it twists his world view upside down and makes him less full of himself, and also makes him value his relationship with his family that much more, because they love and care for him so much and they wanted him and that's so beautiful
and andy !! andy's family dynamics make me go insane !!! first of all i always find it interesting to see chinese families portrayed in media because there is so much to unpack in the sheer expectations of immigrant parents in another country, he's the only one with a grandma and she is literally the only one of literally every single relative (except of course for oscar) that immediately believes him and actively helps and supports him in the alternate universe even though she comes off as horrible, the thing that reminds him of his mother is a picture of his grandfather, the way they specifically are all so interconnected i'm OBSESSED, he's under so much pressure from his genius sister and his genius father and when he goes missing that second time you can see the shift in all of them when they realise how valuable andy is just for being him, he wants to prove he's worthy of being loved by being the smartest but he just had to be there and that really gets hammered in when viv is the one to greet him at the end of season two
this is a KIDS SHOW by the way, and all of this shit is technically background plot, it's never lingered on that much, and when they do linger on it !!! i go crazy !!! the mums episode and the dads getting them back at the end of season one,,, ,a auooohhgghghgh
anyway-
Yandere Stu n Bill with a killer! Reader —?
ONE, TWO,THREE NOT ONLY YOU AND ME ...
Oh dear, what a wonderful thing you are. Stu is hugging so hard, spinning you around and overall enjoying the news
Billy, more quiet than his companion and lover, took the news with more composure, but he was elated the same, and he told you so by making short compliments
They would accompany you to your murder spree whenever you went out, but after seeing your absolute brutal side, oh darling, you're going to become part of the team
It doesn't matter if you want or not, you will don the mask of ghost face, and please do kill Sidney with them, please darling
The two of them as yandere may balance each other out. Stu is more the adoring and worshipping type, while Billy is the possessive one.
You can reason with one of them at least, who in turn may reason with the other. Anyway, you will be granted a little bit of space. Just a little
Because they're packed with cash, you will be spoiled with the best weapons you may want: knives, guns, batons, bats. Ask and you shall receive
Please don't get hurt, cause you will have two lovers who will fret about and probably panic. One visibly,the other internally
You will have a strange way of giving gift to each other... Severed limbs, a heart, the eyes of someone who gazed at you far too long....
But, hey the night is young. Let's have some fun, shall we?
i’m a simple girl. i see a picture of norman reedus smoking or his hands and i pass out.
It’s all “AFTG is bad” this and “AFTG is terribly-written” that but never “Nora was literally just writing whatever the fuck she wants and she managed to gather thousands of readers all over the world to forever obsess over 1029 pages of a stick-ball obsessed redhead running away from the mafia and his strange and morally-fraudulent found-family teaching him the core values of love and friendship and family—"
Idk what I’m doing other than chilling, I like book and I love racing cars 🏎️
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