(TW For Medical Images/gore Further Down)

The sword of the day is the Kriegsmesser.

The Kriegsmesser was a variety of German Messer sword, and an absolutely massive one at that. A two-handed weapon with a blade anywhere between 2’6” to 3’3”, calling this thing a knife feels ridiculous. And yet, like other Messers, the hilt construction is such that the Holy Roman Empire classified it as such. The name literally translates to “war knife;” appropriate, as this weapon was a dedicated battlefield tool. No one would have kept something like this on them for self-defense. It is a tremendously effective chopping weapon, able to inflict severe cuts and slashes with its lightly curved, single-edged blade.

I'm really wondering how does Lena react when she realizes that Kara is smarter than she pretends to be

“Ow! Lena, jeez, stop—”

Lena does not stop.

Kara’s yelped ow is essentially a reflex at this point, more of a dramatic declaration than anything resembling a real indicator of pain. Usually, it’s enough to incite a ceasefire. Not today.

“Quantum what, you said!” Lena is advancing on her with a rolled-up magazine in her hand and fire in her eyes. The furious set of her features wrests Kara backwards, her hands up in surrender. The backs of her knees hit the couch and she floats herself over it on autopilot, still eyeing Lena’s makeshift weapon warily.

The new barrier doesn’t even give the younger woman pause; Lena clambers straight over the back of the couch as she corrals Kara toward the kitchen island.

“You sat there,” Lena growls, eyebrow arched to a lethal height, “and you batted your eyelashes and smiled your innocent, pretty little smile and you said quantum what? As if you haven’t been studying classical mechanics since before you were in diapers!”

“We didn’t have diapers on Krypton— ow! Okay, okay—” She ducks before Lena’s magazine baton can make contact again, darting around to the far side of the kitchen island. If she has to face Lena’s wrath, she’d rather do it with half a tonne of Calacatta marble that would be very expensive to replace as a makeshift buffer.

“I asked you about polyatomic anions and you stared at me like I’d started speaking Japanese!” Lena accuses, eyes narrowing as she brushes a rogue strand of hair back from her flushed face.

“I, uh. I actually speak Japanese.” Kara grimaces, face screwed up as she braces for the inevitable backlash. “Mōshiwakearimasen?”

The sound that breaks free from Lena’s throat is almost a snarl. She advances quicker than humans should be able to, crowding Kara against the stainless steel fridge as she swats at her none too gently with the magazine.

Kara cowers against the cool metal, arms up to shield her face. The blows are about as painful as a gentle breeze on her skin. She knows she could stop this in a heartbeat, knows Lena knows it too, but that’s not the point.

“I’m sorry I lied,” she tries from behind her forearms, one eye cracked open.

She watches Lena pout through the gap created by her crossed wrists. “Do you have any idea how much we could have accomplished if you’d told me the truth?” she admonishes, magazine dropping to hang limply at her side. “How many projects I got stuck on with no sounding board? How much of a difference we could have made if we’d pooled our resources and our intellect? God.”

Lena sighs as the fight seems to drain from her body, leaning her weight heavily into Kara’s. “God,” she huffs again. “You made me explain the EPR Paradox to you like you were a first-grader.”

Kara lets her arms drop from in front of her face, fitting her hands to the soft curve of Lena’s waist instead. Just to steady her, of course. It’s good physics, after all. “Yeah, but can you blame me? You’re so cute when you talk science.”

Lena swats at her again, weaponless this time. It’s light as a caress and her hand stays on Kara’s chest afterwards, fingers curling against her collarbone. “You’re impossible.”

Kara sees exactly how Lena’s softening to her, redoubles her efforts in response. “But I’m right. You get so excited when you explain things, so passionate. It’s beautiful.”

Lena, predictably, flushes a delicious shade of pink. She presses bashful hands to the warmth of her cheeks, ducking her head. Kara chuckles. Gives her waist a gentle squeeze, tracing the outline of her hipbones with her thumbnails.

“And I know you liked it too,” she hums, dropping her own chin to catch Lena’s gaze and hold. “You just admitted it. You thought my smile was pretty.”

“You are pretty,” Lena says softly. Her hands drop from her own face to the base of Kara’s neck, skating up her throat to the hinge of her jaw. Kara’s breath catches in her chest just as Lena’s hands jump up, squishing her cheeks together. “Pretty infuriating.”

“Is that what’s really bothering you?” Kara manages, words misshapen and mumbled between Lena’s squeezing hands. She stretches her jaw when Lena releases her, licking her dry lips. Green eyes track the movement with a tangible hunger.

Kara smirks, nails digging just the slightest bit against Lena’s hips. “Or,” she hums, low and smooth as the richest scotch, “are you just resisting the knowledge that you’re no longer the smartest woman in the room?”

Lena’s mouth drops open. “You really think you’re smarter than me?” she asks, words reverberating through their bodies where they’re pressed together. She leans in close, drags her thumb slow and deliberate over the damp heat of Kara’s bottom lip before she taps her cheek sharply with two fingers, cool and confident and utterly charming. “Oh, sweetheart. Game on.”

Peter Pan 2003, dir. P.J. Hogan

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Characters that aren’t done enough:

A scary looking guy with a good sense of humour and a protectiveness for the vulnerable

A curvy girl who loves the way she looks and others love it too

A drug addict who has their life ‘together’

A male love interest who is openly emotional

A stereotypically attractive character who doesn’t know it

A character who has an unrequited love for another character despite being physically and spiritually beautiful in every way

A main character with parents

A 30+ year old main character who isn’t reflecting on life as they whither away and die

A strong female character who is compassionate and emotional and not just rude and sarcastic

A main character who has fears and is reluctant at times because they are scared

A wise character who is not book smart

A supposedly dumb character that is wise

A best friend character who plays an important role in the story

A main character who becomes the villain

The main character who has mental health issues

A character who takes medication

An Asian character who is funny but not arrogant

A male love interest who is shorter and less muscular

A main character with a chronic illness whose story isn’t centred around them being ill

A pregnant main character

An older female character who protects and fights on everyone’s behalf

A shy and socially awkward main character

A gay main character

A character who has PTSD but no one knows why until the end

A black love interest

A disabled love interest

A bald main character whose baldness is not a running joke

Plus sized characters

A character with an eating disorder

A funny character who has a lot of trauma and inner pain

A seductive character who is actually really insecure

A tall female character

A fantasy character who can’t fight very well

A character who has stretch marks

A main character with kids and a job

A main character who worries about normal things like course work and bills too

A happily single character

A character with corn row braids

A multilingual character whose main trait isn’t being multilingual

An intelligent, feminist jock character

A male love interest who has soft interests like baking or knitting

A main character who works in a supermarket

A male character who feels uncomfortable about physical contact

A main character who is not the most powerful

The popular girl who is actually really nice

A wise character who is black and listens to Tupac

A black character who is gentle and soft and loves to garden

A villain who has a crush on the protagonist

A terrifying mythical creature who just wanted to be pet and given treats

An 80 year old main character who goes on an adventure with the mail man, her nurse and her grandson

A villain who became rich but was born in poverty

A main character who loves to eat

A character who drives a really average or kinda crappy car

A character with a phobia of animals who still loves and protects them

An Indian seductress

A character who just wants to pass their finals

A main character who is Muslim

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