Sometimes Its Hard, But Sooner Or Later Every Man Shows Himself.

Sometimes it’s hard, but sooner or later every man shows himself.

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)

Comic Portrait of Cody Christian for Bello Mag, Summer 2017.

Steo The Witcher AU.

Thank you, nonnie!

I have only watched the first three episodes of the show, and I don’t know shit about the games because I found them boring af when I tried them way back when. (I’m inclined to give them a second chance though, because I kinda really enjoy the show. But I’ll do that after I don’t have 7 other games glaring at me from my shelf)

But, I have a few ideas anyway. 

1) Theo is a witcher. Charming, irresistible, kind of a dick but highly skilled and with fair prices, so he’s treated okay(ish). 

2) Stiles is a sorcerer who ran away from wherever he was trained because he didn’t like that they were basically sold to some horny old man or woman. 

3) They meet at a bar where Stiles worked at to get more money for his travels. Theo is the first witcher he’s ever met. He grabs his savings and pays Theo to get him as far away (probably out of the country). 

4) Little does he know, Theo was also paid to bring Stiles back to the academy. He doesn’t realise it at first because Stiles doesn’t exactly act like a dangerous sorcerer who’s not in control yet - that is until Stiles wakes up from a nightmare and accidentally sets a forest on fire. 

5) Theo doesn’t keep it a secret, and he doesn’t even consider bringing Stiles back to the academy and pretends it’s because Stiles paid him more money (the academy paid him four times the sum Stiles gave to him). They are bickering constantly, shove each other around but when someone threatens them, they are a unit (because they are totally in love but too stubborn to say it out loud). 

Then why did he put the Devil in me? Why do I feel it in my heart and my soul, clawing to be let out, if that’s not all part of God’s plan? xx

Theo and Stiles as Soulmates

Our universe grants every soul a twin, a reflection of themselves, the kindred spirit. And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other; even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love — Julie Dillon.

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Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway? – Julie Johnson (Theo)

I want to be your soulmate, even if I don’t believe in them —Colleen Hoover (Theo)

I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star. – Emery Allen (Theo)

I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine — Jamie McGuire (Stiles)

We were just two broken souls trying to fix one another…Somehow I ended up with a piece of you and you, me. – Evy Michaels (Stiles)

Soulmates aren’t the ones who make you happiest, no. They’re instead the ones who make you feel the most. Burning edges and scars and stars. Old pangs, captivation, and beauty. Strain and shadows and worry and yearning. Sweetness and madness and dreamlike surrender. They hurl you into the abyss. They taste like hope. ― Victoria Erickson.

It's amazing how many people I've know that have started playing horror games after visiting their cousin, lol.

Resident Evil can be a great setting for a Steo AU story, I love it!

And yeah, the Nivanfield hate is awful. I already saw some people with the "Chris is too old to be Piers's boyfriend, that's gross!" argument, wich is terrible, but mostly I see people arguing that Chris "can't be gay", because he "clearly loves Jill" and is "a womanizer".

I honestly have no idea why people would think Chris is a womanizer, I mean we have never seen Chris going after women in canon. We've seen women hitting on him, like Jessica, but that's about it. Once I saw an argument that the letter we see Chris sent the STARS in RE2 Remake is proof he goes after women, but I'm pretty sure that was not the case. Claire even says "This does not sound like Chris", wich actually implies Chris, at the very least, isn't a womanizer (and dosen't objectify women). So I think it's safe to say Chris didn't really sent that letter, or wrote it in a way the STARS members would know is not like him and that he's in trouble. So not a confirmation from the devs that he's straight and a "major player".

It also seems like a fair amount of Valenfield shippers also dislike (or even hate) Nivanfield, because if Chris was LGBT+ and didn't end up with Jill it would "leave old school fans with blue balls" (that is legit a sentence that I once saw posted by a Valenfield shipper). Some of them also point to the letter in RE2 Remake as a confirmation that Chris is straight, so Jill + Chris = Love confirmed, but if Chris really was fine in Europe and in love with Jill, why would he write a letter saying he's meeting lots of girls? Their answer is that Chris was trying to make Jill jealous, wich is a huge reach if I've ever seen one.

And every other interaction Chris and Jill ever had in canon is not really romantic, at least not intrinsically, specially when some producers at Capcom said that Valenfield wasn't going to happen. I don't hate Valenfield, I just don't like when people say it's totally canon they're in love just because they're breathing in the same room and then shame anyone who has a different interpretation.

Ship wars are stupid.

Steo Resident Evil AU! Maybe they're STARS members? Or maybe Stiles is an FBI agent that gets caught in a outbreak, and Theo is a Umbrella scientist that wants out or stole company data and is now being hunted, and runs into Stiles during the crisis! Or maybe Theo is an Umbrella experiment that didn't turn into a mindless monster, or wasn't experimented with yet but was being kept in captivity as a future test subject, and escaped during the chaos! I would love your thoughts on this AU!

ooooooooooooooooooooh, Resident Evil. Yass. Great thinking, nonnie! 

My mind instantly jumps to Resident Evil 6 because of Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans. Can you imagine??? Theo is totally Chris who went MIA after a mission gone wrong, and Stiles is Piers constantly kicking Theo’s ass to get him back in line. In the end, Stiles sacrifices himself so Theo gets a chance to get free and a shot at a better life. Instead, Theo falls in a hole, much deeper than before. Stiles miraculously survives but not without consequences. Theo hears about it and instantly comes back. Stiles is mad that Theo tried drowning his problems again but is also glad that he came back for him.

But I also love the FBI!Stiles and Umbrella Scientist!Theo idea. Maybe they hooked up? Oooh, or maybe Stiles is some kind of undercover agent, and they fell in love. Theo promises to help him bring Umbrella down but something goes wrong and they are caught in the middle of an outbreak at one of the laboratories. 

And the ‘Theo is an Umbrella experiment “gone wrong”’ one? *chef’s kiss* Perfect. Theo has been experimented on but he was a failure. It didn’t really work out the way the scientists intended. He still has some perks (strength, healing). But he’s broken and tortured and fucking angry. He breaks out, takes a wrong turn and finds a boy in another cell. It’s Stiles. He hasn’t been experimented on yet, and Theo won’t let them. He lets him out (and all the others). They flee during the chaos.