#//In some cases like with other people; he will highly Doubt it's truly so; and be On edge the entire time

[theflagscene]

Even though Bison is absolutely being tricked and used by Kant, he’s not blameless in the way his brother is being used either. I’ve seen a lot of hate—not here, Tumblr is less insane, shocking I know—but on Twitter and Reddit for Kant and Style. Which okay, you don’t have to like what they’re doing, but you’re not supposed to! Are we watching the same series here?

The only one that’s supposed to be without any real blame is in fact Fadel (The Shrew/Kat) they are character that is betrayed not only by their own blood, but their friends and lover over and over again. The Shrew is your window into the world, the one you’re supposed to feel for. So yeah, Kant and Style are supposed to be complete self serving assholes for the first half. But so is Bison, he has as much of a horse in this race as the other two do, he’s equally as selfish. Not only is he putting his and Fadel’s safety and livelihood at risk just because of some good dick, he’s also completely breaking Fadel’s trust in a horrible way.

Bison might not know the whole story about his older brother’s past relationship, but he is aware that the man goes to a weekly grief support group. Perhaps he thinks it’s how Fadel deals with their job, carrying the burden of so much blood on his hands. But even if that’s the case and he doesn’t know about Fadel’s ex—which I highly doubt he does—he’s still telling Kant that information to help Style stalk Fadel. You wanna send him to the same gym and clubs, fine! But that right there was such a breach of trust, that I truly think Fadel might knock Bison out for it once he realizes how Style found him.

That is a place of support for grief and loss, for people unable to heal from their emotional and mental wounds. And Bison just sends Style there by giving that information over to Kant, only for Style to make a complete mockery of it. And why did Bison do that? Because he wants a boyfriend! 🥺

I wanna bitch slap all three of them tbh.

The fact that I dislike those three so much means that the series is doing its job, the actors are doing fantastic in their roles. Because you’re not supposed to like them, they’re unlikable characters. Just like they have to earn one another’s trust, they have to also earn ours as the viewers. That’s the whole point of the story, that feelings and ideas of people can and will change. That situations and experiences force change and make people better (or worse) depending on the outcome.

[evilminji]

Guess what color the Metorite Vandal Savage cuddled with, was?

Did you guess Ectoplasm Green?

Because it waaaaaaaas~ And! Thanks to a Certain Episode That Shall Not Be Named, we know that meteors and other space rocks CAN be Ecto-ranium!

Which!! Suggests OTHER Ecto-Elements may be floating about in space! Not in large amounts, but! Absurdly rare does NOT mean they never land on earth! Consider the various kryptonites! Rare! Still land on earth. Not all are immediately harmful to Kryptonians.

So? What other Ecto-Elements could land on earth? Perhaps one that... unlike Ecto-Ranium... that hurts Ghosts and Limnals? CREATES them?

Imagine if you with? You are Savage. Tired. Sore. Cold. The glowing rock... is WARM.

FEELS warm... deeper even then your skin. Like... like a blessing. Like the Sky Gods have sent you warmth and safety. Chosen you. You are so tired. The rock calls to you. The night is cold. Your body heavy. The light... so... so soft and pretty...

You wake up... Different.

Stronger. Smarter. More AWARE.

As though power has been poured into your veins. You no longer age. Are the ONLY of your kind. Wouldn't it be easy to make assumptions? For Obsession to twist your mind and time to alienate you from humanity? They are infants compared to you.

Isolation HAS been PROVEN to drive humans insane. And in so many ways? He is Isolated. Trapped without access to the Zone, the Realms Infinite. He is the only Man in a sea of violent, gibbering, ever repeating zygote. Thoughtless repetition of history's mistakes, played out before him, like Humanity itself is smashing it's head against a wall again and again and AGAIN.

Nothing new under the sun. Alone, decade after decade after century after millenia. Hungry for the presence of other people, their EMOTIONS and LIFE, but equally unable to bear them. Starving slowly.

Every war, each battle, a feast of SOMETHING that fills his stomach for years. The extreme emotions and sudden ends of Death releasing SOMETHING into the air he can not explain. Can not name. It fills him.

He is Chosen.

He is insane. An inherently social creature driven mad by social isolation. A ghost trapped in flesh, slowly warped by the filters of human perception and prolonged starvation. But... not alone... not forever...

A little town.

In that country built on mass Graves, that thinks so very highly of itself. Founded by witches. A town of CHILDREN. Stumbling and new. Like HIM.

Some stronger then others, as tends to be the case, some clever and sure footed. So many will not stand the tests of Time. They are too weak. But... BUT! Oh~ LOOK At Them! A Tribe of Children.

They will live FOREVER.

They must be protected. As he walks amongst them, he can see them struggle to understand themselves. To hide their greatness from the reactionary masses. Already the children have drawn the attention of some governmental branch of this or that. Were too inexperienced and without leadership.

No Father to guide them. No patriarch.

The best they have is a floating child. "Phantom". Children guiding children, truly it is madness.

As he stands on the steps of the halls of their little town's government hall. Do you think Vandal Savage smiles? Pats the head of a passing child, after he catches her, to keep her from stumbling? Is he the very picture of a pleasant, gregarious man?

How trustworthy.

Vladimir Masters must look up from his work, at his overly ornate desk, and meet the eyes of something far, FAR worse then himself. Know in that instant, as like recognizes like, that a monster has stepped foot into his office. What choice does he make, I wonder?

When his instincts scream this... this is likely it. You have no escape. This thing will go through you, continue on, consume and control until it has it's fill. You are an obstacle it seeks to... Remove.

What does he do then?

In that moment... does he think of the Family his Obsession cradles so dear? The woman he loves, unknowing of this danger? The children, the SON, no doubt first to be targeted after he falls?

I imagine he does.

He cares little for Jack Fenton. But Vladimir Masters, in his own twisted way, does love Jack's family dearly. He sits at his desk, brought from home, bought with stolen wealth, and smiles a businessman's polite smile. Let's his hand brush the decorative bobblehead of to the side. Slips his finger, intangible, just beneath the surface of the plastic...

..to the emergency switch below.

Flick.

Messages Sent.

Three phones light up, dispite having blocked his number. The screen fills with simple messages, repeated and bold.

RUN. GO NOW. I'M ALREADY DEAD.

RUN. RUN. RUN.

PLEASE.

RUN.

@stealingyourbones @hdgnj @ailithnight

[aunttheta]

Something that has always felt like an interesting choice to me when reading the island comes back fics is the way it seems like the island coming back fixes all of Siffrin's memory problems, like it's not a bad choice or anything and honestly most of my my favorite isat fics are the ones where the island come back because of just how well written they are. I just honestly believe his memory problems are permanent now

I mean I highly doubt getting brain blasted by the universe everytime you remember something that vaguely reminds you of home would be healthy for your brain, it kinda feels like a scooper yknow like it goes in to get the specific memories but a scooper isn't exactly the most coordinated tool so other things get scraped out along with the target, and causes alot of damage as a result that can't really be fixed.

Now I do fully believe that the island coming back would make it easier for Sif to remember more basic words and things like that since they would have access to his native language again since that is absolutely apart of the problem and he might even have more childhood memories too

But generally speaking I think their memory would still be pretty bad, exhibit (A) being that one event you can get where they forget the names of the party who are all unrelated to the island and shouldn't be getting their names blasted out of Sif's memory, I honestly believe this is a pretty good example of how good Siffrin's general memory unrelated to the island wish craft blasting is actually doing, well I say unrelated more like he's been blasted so many times that it's affecting his actual general memory, which isn't something I think can be fixed by the island coming back.

And I honestly believe this to likely be the case for most of the islanders and anyone else that had a strong connection to it, I don't have much evidence for this specific thought since the only islanders we meet in the game are Sif and the king, and then the daydreaming one outside of them having a strong connection to it, but I believe how often someone gets memory wiped likely plays a pretty significant role to how much it effects their memory.

All that is to say I think it would be super interesting to explore the possibility of Siffrin's memory not getting fixed or really improving in any significant way outside of unlocking a few childhood memories and finally being able to think in their own language again, because imagine the pain of realizing a decent amount of your population has been permanently affected by a bad wish and it can't be undone, the damage happened and they WILL have to live with it for the rest of their lives, will it get any worse now that the island is back? No probably not but the island has been gone for so long that the damage done to these peoples memory likely ranges from moderate to severe and it can't be fixed, it's apart of them now, a lasting affect from the tragedy of losing their home they way they did and for how long it was gone too.

Now applying all of the former to Siffrin and think about how that could be explored as apart of the restoration of the island, how that could affect families finally getting to reunite with their loved ones, Sif's bad memory is one of his biggest insecurities in the game because of how paralyzing the thought of forgetting his loved ones is to them, and I think it would be so interesting to explore in a scenario where the island comes back, they get to relearn the constellations but their memory is still pretty bad and he forgets it all about a month later, that kinda of thing, I just think it'd be a hard hitting point in the lasting effects of what happened, kinda like how the loops will stick with him

And not just him but probably other islanders too.

Jeeezzzz this was a long rant lol, okay I'm done I just really love thinking about Siffrin's memory, and I honestly don't think enough people truly explore it in a more in depth way, because his bad memory is so important for some of his behavior, like their coin, the desperation to be close to the party, the desperation in not wanting to forget but knowing you're going to and how horrifying that can be when it's about people you love. Just thinking about it alot is all.

[pompomchihuahua]

Orphans in the Demon Slayer Universe

So we know that the majority of the characters in KNY are orphaned due to demons, but for characters like Tanjirou we know exactly what happened to him following his parents' deaths.

Then we have characters like Genya, who, after his mother was killed and his brother abandoned him, it's left a complete mystery as to what happened to him in the years between that and him joining the Demon slayer corps.

HOWEVER, based on some research I did (which I will link some of the websites I used at the bottom) I can make some guesses at what kind of life Genya likely had between then and now.

Orphans, known as Koji (孤児) were regarded in a very negative light. Orphanages were often crowded and overfull at the time and there was very little interest in building more, meaning there were quite a few children that "fell through the cracks" so to speak. We don't know of any other relatives Genya could have gone to stay with, though it is certainly a possibility, it's one I highly doubt.

So, more than likely, Genya was living forgotten on the streets, something I'd like to explore more in one of my fics.

Many times, orphans left on the streets were rounded up by police and thrown into prison just to get them off the street. Meaning it's highly likely Genya has been in and out of prison and other shelters for a majority of his life. It's even possible he was rounded up and sold for labor purposes at some point only to escape. Many Koji were regarded as furoji, or juvenile vagrants/delinquents, which, fits Genya's overall appearance as the stereotypical "delinquent" type.

The first time we see Genya he's filthy even before starting final selection and his temper is extremely short. In one winged butterfly we get this from Genya: "Genya knew only too well those eyes filled with hatred, impatience, annoyance, and an unfathomable anger and sadness. They had once been his own eyes."

We can only make assumptions about where Genya was and what he was doing before Final Selection but historical context and in show context all serve to paint a truly heartbreaking picture.

Which brings me to the Tokito twins and this question that plagues me: what alternative life did they have ahead of them?

From what I could tell, the Tokito twins were actually doing pretty well for themselves. They were continuing their father's profession and making enough money off that to feed themselves, they had a house and a nearby water source. Were it not for that demon, they may have had a decent life ahead of them given their tragic circumstances.

I will say, I used all this research for fandom purposes, but these were the real experiences of real people and it's truly horrifying to see what the people of the past and, in some cases, today have to live through. I've linked some of the sources I used so if you want to learn more about it you can. Here. Here. Here. And here.

[mrmeowski]

˚✧𝐘𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐏𝐭. 𝟐/𝟐✧˚

Synopsis: You thought it was all going to be fine being around these majestic beings that only your kind could dream to meet however, you did not expect such an outcome when they started falling for a lowly human such as yourself. They say it is for your own safety as you are just a mere mortal, but you fear that they may be the danger.

CW: Emotional manipulation, unhealthy relationship, abusive, controlling, toxic behaviors, stalking

Word Count: 4.3k

Characters: 🧡༻✧ Lucifer [617] 💜༻✧ Mammon [578] 🧡༻✧ Leviathan [754] 💜༻✧ Satan [580] 🧡༻✧ Asmodeus [721] 💜༻✧ Beelzebub [474] 🧡༻✧ Belphegor [622] Yandere Lovers Pt. 1/2»

⋇⊰LUCIFER⊱⋇

This much sinister side of the Avatar of Pride stems from an intense desire to keep you to himself. He's extremely possessive and sees you as his most precious possession. He'll go to great lengths to protect you from any threats, real or imagined.

His desires had taken an extreme measure to isolate you from others. He'd discourage your interactions with other demons even his own brothers and anyone else who might threaten his claim on you. He believes he's your only owner and ensures you are always by his side.

Lucifer's natural authoritarian personality becomes much more pronounced and that includes his punishments if you or others would disobey. He'll set strict rules for you, he'll monitor your actions and interactions, expecting absolute obedience. His overbearing presence strained your relationships with your friends. Even if you think you're alone, he'll be there in the shadows. You thought he was busy with paperwork? He can always find time for you, after all, someone could do that instead and he deserves a little break, does he not?

You are well aware of how highly intelligent the demon of pride could be but you haven't yet scratched the surface of his intellectual capacity. Mixing his smarts with people's initial fear of him, he could tug everyone's strings like a puppeteer. In your case, he will use such abilities to keep you under his control. Gaslighting is another way to doubt your judgment and rely solely on him. The demon enjoys employing schemes and deceit to eliminate potential threats to your relationship with him. With the power and weight that his name holds in Devildom, he shan't worry for some lowly beings dare hurt you unless they're truly idiots.

While he may not intentionally hurt you his actions to keep you to himself have led you to emotional and psychological harm. His constant surveillance and manipulation take a toll on your overall well-being. He rationalizes to you multiple times that his actions are necessary for your safety and happiness.

If you have the guts to stand against him, he'll take it as a personal affront. Of course, he still would be hurt—at first, he simply was doing all he could for your future and this is how you treat him? Disappointment turns into anger. Depending on the severity of your disobedience, he could resort to various punishments to remind you of your place. Meanwhile, if you dare run away from him, his wrath will be unleashed. He will do whatever it takes to break your mind and make you completely dependent on him. He won't be sorry after that, if you treat him like this he will do the same until you learn to love and appreciate his actions for you.

In his eyes, he is doing what is good for you. He only wanted the best for you since you deserved it after all you've done for him even if you didn't need to do so. This is his way of paying you back so why are you refusing him? And you're just but a mere mortal, the weakest out of the four beings, demons like he won't waste a dime ripping you limb to limb. You already have close encounters with him and his brothers but at least those were controlled, however, outside there with those rats... It is far too dangerous, so why don't you stay with him? Stay with him and he'll treat you like a deity. Stay with him if you don't want him to force you. He doesn't want to hurt you but if you keep disappointing him then he has no choice. He just needs you to learn who you belong to.

⋇⊰MAMMON⊱⋇

Mammon gets picked fun by everyone, demons; witches; and even his own family. He expected that it would never change in the near future but little did he know, there would be a lone soul treating him with kindness, a human nonetheless. All those times he treated you so lowly, you exchanged it with kindness and comfort. From that moment he was smitten and everything that came after began to fall apart.

If you were glued to the firstborn's side at all times, this time the greedy gremlin is glued to yours. At first, you found it quite adorable for he is letting down his tsundere act and actually being with you without excuses but over time, it had become overbearing as well. He was given the role of your protector although he may not have taken it seriously back then, tides had changed and he has put this job close to his heart.

He becomes extremely protective, often trying to shield you away from any perceived threats or danger, even if they are minor or even nonexistent. Your closest friends aren't safe either, it seemed like he was simply barking at everyone. His actions are driven by his possessiveness and fear of losing you. He'd do anything to keep you constantly safe, even if it meant isolating you from everyone you ever loved and cared about. As this goes deeper, he might as well hide you from the eyes of the Demon Prince and his right-hand hand for they will send you home.

Besides his over-protectiveness tendencies, he experiences an overwhelming jealousy from time to time and it can be consuming. He might obsessively monitor your interactions with others. He'd obsessively look for any sign of affection or attention from yours being directed away from him and if he did, he'll take action. He might even hide your D.D.D. to prevent you from chatting with his brother or those pesky angels and the other human.

He doesn't like to harm you, he could never lift a finger on you unlike most of his brothers, and instead would threaten to harm himself or emotionally blackmail you in order to keep you at bay. These are acts of love, can you not see? Be at least a little thankful that he isn't as cruel as the prideful brother! Unlike him, he would be sorry at the end of the day.

He's the embodiment of greed, all he has ever done in his life ever since The Fall was to be selfish. It is in his blood now, it is his nature. Before he would beat himself up because of how low his sin was and that it caused trouble to his brothers. Yet now, he is thankful to whoever is in charge of giving him this sin, since it always brings him joy ever since your arrival. The man being greedy for you brings him immense happiness that money can never buy, he cannot imagine a life without you. He is not delusional, he knows your time is limited so that's why he wasn't to be with you every second! Wouldn't you like that? Don't you feel special that you're more important than his Goldie?

Come on now, he already struggles with words—you should be aware of that! And you're going to ditch him like that? After all he had done for you... and nothing comes for it. Maybe he is just on the unfair side of fate...

⋇⊰LEVIATHAN⊱⋇

Levi being the Avatar of Envy meant that he would be a pain if it were to be multiplied by the thousands. Not only does his jealousy worsen but also his obsession, at first it was the well-loved anime series called 'The Magical Ruri Hana: Demon Girl.' However, that changed when you came barging into his quiet and isolated life. As his obsession deepens, he starts to live in a fantasy world where only you and he exist through his dreams. He believes that you two are meant to be together and nothing else matters in the world.

His tendencies are all-consuming and borderline unhealthy. He'd spend hours obsessing and drooling over your pictures, belongings he stole from your room, things you've touched in his room, and any other connections to you. He had even hidden away his personal collections of you, most are unwashed clothes and he loves it whenever he overhears your complaints about missing clothes. Your social media is definitely never safe, scrolling back to your previous conversation with him as well as stalking other social accounts belonging to you. You are his new Ruri-chan, one that he can actually be with and be inside of.

This goes the same way with his clinginess, like why is there a need to talk to his other brothers if you have him there waiting for you? It's not fair, none of it is! The way his heart aches wherever he sees you enjoying and laughing with someone else fills him up with envy. How surprising. If you continue to ignore him, he might as well be a little forceful with you, sabotaging your relationships with his brothers. He wants to be with you constantly and separation causes him significant distress. He'll follow you around Devildom, the only few times he does go outside his room besides from events.

The serpent knows no bounds when it comes to his jealousy, he cannot stand the idea of you getting close to anyone else that is not him. He'll throw tantrums, act out like a child, or become extremely upset when he perceives any potential threat to your relationship. He'd use his silver tongue, make you feel guilty and bad causing you to comfort in the end. Eradicating the threat would be his last option as not only is it messy but he would eat up the time that he could instead spend with you. He could simply slowly drag you away from them.

If you were the threat, he would go back to his ways, wooing you to his fingertips. If you truly love him, then why do you keep leaving him? Clearly, it's an act a dirty act and he was a fool for believing it. Oh, it's not? Then prove it. Prove your love for him by spending all your time with him and only him. You could spend your short life binge-watching anime with him! You could also switch to online classes like him and even share a room It would mean that both of you can do anything you like without any distractions... especially when the camera's off.

Exactly like Mammon, everyone has low expectations for him. Over the years he created an image of a shut-in otaku, who rarely steps out of his room unless there is a special convention or a major event that he's simply required to attend. Many seemed to forget that he's the third strongest of the seven brothers as well as being the Grand Admiral of Hell's Navy and he also has Lotan on standby, waiting for his call. They can't imagine in this position of power so when he breaks out of the mentality of an otaku, he is unstoppable.

When he gets desperate and can't have you no matter what he does, he has no choice but to resort to more extreme measures, such as kidnapping you. This is an act of love and there's no escaping it. Don't you want his love? Don't you want to be with him forever? Then stay and if you don't, he'll make you and teach you to love him as he loves and admires you. He knows it's bad yet it can't be helped, this feeling... it's too good to let go. He isn't certain when he'll be able to experience such a thing again... in the millennia he's been living only now did he feel this alive, it was like his Celestial years. Will you take away the little happiness he has been yearning for?

⋇⊰SATAN⊱⋇

Another one that would only bring danger to you rather than protection. Over time, the Avatar of Wrath had gotten better at handling his emotions yet at times everything would go out of hand and he would blow up. These outbursts can be triggered by a perceived threat or someone daringly and openly flirting with you, it would be worse if they did it in front of him... but no one has the guts, right? Especially when he starts glaring them down... he's like a wolf guarding its territory and that so happened to be you. When these rare moments happen, he might or will completely lose control, exhibiting the all too familiar Satan and it will only go downhill from there on. Staying by his side will prevent you from ever seeing his wrathful version—unless you enjoy seeing others suffer.

Not only will his wrath be dangerous but his intelligence as well, spending most of his time reading can be quite helpful especially when it comes to spells and curses. He'll use his vast knowledge and cunningness to control your decisions and make you dependent on him subtly. Exploding into a violent rage would be his last resort, he knew he was cunning, and some or a lot are fooled by the mask he always wears. His manipulation skills are also against you, he'll exploit your weaknesses, your desires, and your fears to keep you close. The demon will subtly twist situations and words to make you believe that you're the irrational one. 

If he sees someone as a great threat to you and his relationship or worse, your well-being, he might engineer situations that lead to 'accidents' befalling those foolish individuals. He'll make it look like it was purely their fault or something else, leaving no evidence of his involvement. Perhaps the only idea they could have done such a thing is all of those who befallen had an interaction with you or were against you. Oh look at that, the demon who was hovering all over you yesterday was found outside, its body shredded into pieces, they said it may have been a wild monster. How nice of that creature! Now nobody will ever bother your time with him.

His jealousy is intense almost like the wrath that dances in his heart, waiting for its moment to shine bright and paint the walls with a dark crimson shade. He may become resentful if he sees you spending time with other demons, even if it's for mundane reasons. You'll never know if he wants to rip the daring soul limb to limb as he carefully masks these feelings.

He struggles with his emotions but what he is certain of is his love and undying loyalty for you. In return, he expects the same treatment, after all, both lovers should assert equal effort in the relationship. Disobeying him or even considering other connections will trigger his wrath, at that point, he isn't sure what he can do to you.

There goes a saying, "If he can't have you, no one can." Don't blame him for being like this, born in literal wrath yet still being able to experience and love is addicting. He's well aware of his unstableness but with you being a drug to him, won't you do the same if you were in his shoes? You're the only one who can calm the raging beast inside his body, so for everyone's sake, don't go leaving him.

⋇⊰ASMODEUS⊱⋇

Making the Avatar of Lust genuinely in love is a fast that no one knew could be achieved at all. At first, it seemed to be a blessing from the skies as you were showered with endless praises and kisses but then again, you can't just get rid of his old habits. Back then he loved the attention driven to him, he was always the star of the show in any situation, and the people announcing publicly their undying love for him were music to his ears. Then you came sneaking into his life and everything seemed to have flipped upside down. The praises that come out of your mouth give off a different feeling than the ones he would always get. He can't pinpoint why but he loves it.

It would be to no one's surprise that he will want your attention only driven to him and your pretty little eyes dare wander on someone else's figure then he finds a way to put it back to his. He is easily prone to jealousy and seeing you even slightly interested in someone else drives him to madness. He'll resort to various means to keep you away from others, such as spreading rumors or making them look bad in your eyes.

If he sees any of your relationships with his brothers developing into something meaningful or a threat to his control over you, he'll try to sabotage them. This includes manipulation and his favorite, lying. Anything to keep you by his side and your attention as well as love for him. His other admirer's confession is not enough anymore, he needs it, and he thrives in it.

Asmo would see himself as the most deserving of your love and attention and would go to great lengths to ensure you paper him and him alone. You're at fault here, you, a mere human had somehow found your way in his heart. He's no stranger with flings and one stands. Yet all of those past 'relationships' are just that, one-night pleasure. It was never out of love, even if he convinced himself it was, the feeling never lasted. Now when he has fallen heads over hills to you, you're running away? You're no longer giving him the attention he deserves? You were the first to ever make him feel that he is something more than his beauty and you'll break his heart? How cruel can you be?

Well of course, he won't let you go so easily. You're precious not just to him but his brothers as well but who cares about them, it should be only him. So expect him to be a little forceful if you keep acting up. His jealousy and obsession lead to intense mood swings, anything might snap him off. One moment he's in his usual charming and seductive persona, and before you know it, he'd become a delusional mess and struggling to keep himself up. He'll try anything to keep you looking at him even if he does the most diabolic things that could embarrass or make fun of.

He could also expose secrets and sensitive information of others so you'll distance yourself from them. He knows a lot of things thanks to his multiple social groups. Don't worry though, he won't tell any of yours—he takes pride in being the sole person to whom you are so open that you've been ranting out to him about everything be your struggles here in Devildom and even the mortal realm. A fact he had been boasting to his brothers, much to their dismay.

Despite that promise though, he simply can't stop himself from threatening to spread this sweet bit of information. It's your fault if you had given all your love and desires like he deserves, then it would not have reached this point. It's so simple yet you can't do it? For a mortal being, weakest among all things, you have done many big feats that not most can achieve yet a smile praise can't be done? That hurts more than you could ever imagine! Here he thought he would experience what love is like but it was just like all the others... However, if you want to redeem yourself, show him that you aren't those wretched creatures, then give him your all, mind and soul.

⋇⊰BEELZEBUB⊱⋇

Albeit Beel may haps be the sweetest and least dangerous of the seven brothers, that doesn't mean he can't be overbearing at times. He was always hovering over you a lot more and other beings started to scurry off, his mere presence can make anyone freeze on sight out of fear. The man won't exactly stalk you, but he has a tendency to somehow know exactly where you are. He too doesn't understand how he finds you but that fragrant you've been wearing is none other he has smelled before.

Poor guy is just so afraid of losing you so he wanted to make sure you're safe all the time. He'll even insist on accompanying you to classes or anywhere you go, claiming it's for your safety and not because he wants to be around you. He'll even go so far as trying to share a room with you and his twin brother. Thinking of that sounds like a dream to him—a place where two of his favorite people are together.

If someone is bold enough to harm you, he won't hesitate to eliminate the issue or more accurately, eat the issue—leaving no wasted morsel or drop of blood. He's your second guardian if Mammon is busy losing in a casino or finding other ways to gain Grimm. Sometimes he kind of wishes he was the one originally assigned to be your protector but knowing him, he might've unfortunately eaten you before the two of you even developed into this.

Speaking about his gluttonous nature, he ensures that you only consume what he deems healthy or appetizing, however, you would always remind him that you're not a demon and you can't finish off a large amount of food. He'd also prepare meals for you, insisting on watching you eat and on rare occasions, hand-feeding you.

His over-protectiveness stems from his initial loss of his little sister, Lilith, the one he had failed to protect and he still beats himself. He even has nightmares about it intensifying his desires. He'd be paranoid about you spending time with other demons even his brothers. He knew the times they almost hurt you, one such occasion was his twin right after you freed him.

Over time, Belphie slowly gains the trust of his brother and soon Beel will freely share with him especially if it means your protection. He knows his twin harbors the same feelings as he does. They do still occasionally compete for your attention and affection, causing tension between them. Fortunately, at the end of the day, they settle on an agreement. He is awfully aware that the Avatar of Sloth loves to be messy but he begs him to keep calm because even if he does want to rip that demon apart, he also doesn't want you to see them in action.

⋇⊰BELPHEGOR⊱⋇

Your relationship with the youngest of the brothers may have been rocky from the start as he pretty much played you like a fool and then almost killed you. Despite it all, after all he has done to your poor human soul, you still found forgiveness in his horrible actions. Back then he would've laughed at your face for your foolish decision but when your relationship blossomed into something more that he didn't expect, he found how important this act was. He can't imagine getting a second chance when he almost killed you, he never expected you to be so at ease with him around, it was like it never occurred at all. Now he sees why his brothers were falling for a human such as yourself.

Being the Avatar of Sloth doesn't mean he wouldn't try his very hardest actually to have a functioning connection with you. However, when he meant creating a connection, it was by consuming all of your time so you wouldn't have some left for his other brothers or anyone else. Constantly whining about your time together, that it's time for some cuddles, or him literally throwing himself at you so you wouldn't have no other choice but to accept him.

If this doesn't work then he has something more up his sleeve. He is the master of manipulation and he isn't afraid to use it on you as well as guilt-tripping as a means to keep you close. He'd shower you with attention and love, creating an illusion of a perfect and loving relationship with no strings being pulled behind the scenes. And if the man wants to, he can manipulate your dreams and confuse you with what is real and not. Don't forget lewd dreams! He loves it when you squirm and moan out his name, he simply can't get enough of your adorable aroused look. 

Beel may have been a little open about sharing you with but this time, it won't exactly be like that. A rivalry between them quickly brews and it intensifies in the following days. It reached the point where he'll find ways to prevent his older brother from getting close to you. Although a few times, he does let his selfishness down just for a bit and let Beel be with you, halting the tug-of-war between his twin.

He made a promise to himself, that he will never make a mistake in his life especially when it comes to you. Sometimes he gets nightmares during the time he had his tail wrapped around your small fragile neck then what his life would've been if you didn't free him from his prison. He will probably be still stuck there for a lot more years to come and he won't be able to see his twin so soon. So to prove he has changed, he'll no longer be the demon who harmed you instead he will protect you even at the cost of his life.

Speaking of his prison life... why do you still hang around the very people who imprisoned and lied to his own family just to keep his youngest brother away? But of course, you're stubborn—the reason he's even here is that you don't listen to warnings. You know what they did to him, that his very own oldest brother did to save their faces! Yet you continue to be with those cruel people. he wouldn't like this if it were for them... It makes him sad whenever you're with him and not him but you could simply turn his drown into a smile by simply giving him all the cuddles and kisses. Not much just that, one you can easily give to him without breaking a sweat!

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[epickiya722]

Okay, to jump off this post!

I seen some people going around saying that Jin is still the reincarnation of Sukuna's twin and Wasuke isn't, but he's the reincarnation of Sukuna, but honestly?

I still don't think that's even the case.

To be honest, I don't think Jin really is the twin's reincarnation at all.

I say that because in JJK, twins... identical twins share a soul, they are two halves of the same whole. Sukuna states that he ate his own twin and that their souls are the same. In one translation, he even says it's likely that Kenjaku had a baby with said reincarnation.

Likely means possible, but there is a chance of not being the case. Even if there is a small one.

Folks, Sukuna is allowed to be wrong.

With the extra of saying "to be precise, it wasn't Jin, it was Wasuke that shared the same soul" I would say it means that yes, Wasuke was the twin Sukuna consumed.

Again, identical twins share the same soul. They're two halves of the same whole. Wasuke just so happen to have been the other half.

It makes sense though!

Sukuna ate his twin to survive. He dies. Much later in life, Wasuke is born. When he dies, what happened? Sukuna is awaken.

It's exactly what happened with Maki and Mai. When Mai died, Maki becomes fully at her peak. It's because they were two halves of that same whole.

In a way, Wasuke is the reincarnation of Sukuna because he shared that same soul. Not a completely different one, just a half of that same soul.

Heck, bringing back up Mai and Maki, they act similar. Both the Zenin twins were snarky, rough around the edges, however, Mai was the more "mean girl" of the two compared to Maki who showed tough love in a caring way.

Wasuke and Sukuna were also similar in behavior. They're both were grumpy, a bit proud (Wasuke just less so) that it's hard for them to admit how they may truly feel (or in Sukuna's case, his refusal to be human). However, Sukuna is the "mean" one while Wasuke is the one who means well for the people he cares about.

There's also the "bad omen" thing with twins in JJK.

Sukuna was seen as a calamity. Wasuke, himself had some bad luck in life. His son was possibly killed by Kenjaku who he tried to warn him about. He didn't have many friends himself and believed that he died alone.

Both somehow repelled people. The only people to not leave their side was Uraume and Yuji, both who conveniently are associated with snow.

In the case of Jin, I really do think he was just some guy.

"But what about Kenjaku---" I highly doubt Kenjaku really targeted Jin for the possibility of him being a reincarnation. How would they even know? Jin did not look that similar to Sukuna. However, what I can see is Kenjaku figuring it out that Wasuke was the reincarnation along the way and figured the next best thing was to hook up with his son to have a baby. To be honest, I don't think it would have mattered to Kenjaku because regardless they still had intentions of making Yuji's vessel/cage. Whether it be Wasuke or Jin, Sukuna's soul would have still been mixed in there.

EDIT: Also, wouldn't that just makes things that much more complicated? I know JJK has some complicated concepts, but I don't think Gege intends to make things that complicated. Jin being Sukuna's "reincarnated twin" and Wasuke being Sukuna's reincarnation... wouldn't that mean that Jin is both Sukuna's nephew and brother by soul? Then make Wasuke his brother while also being his father? Yuji is Sukuna's grandson and nephew? See?

Again, I don't think Jin really is a reincarnated twin at all, especially with the whole "twins are two halves of the same soul thing". And didn't the translation stated that it isn't Jin sharing the soul but Wasuke? So why are some people even sticking to "Jin is the twin"?

[stnaf-vn]

Hello! I just played the stnaf demo last night and I absolutely adored it!! Friend is such a sweetheart (lol) and I wanna cuddle him so bad 😭💞 I have some questions about him too if that’s okay! I’m sorry if any of these have been asked before, I’m slowly working through all of the lore, but I’m definitely not quite caught up yet lmaoo - feel free to ignore any of the questions for any reason! :)

Question 1; Would friend still love SH/be a yandere if SH never came back to him? Would he give up on them or just never realize his feelings in the first place?

Question 2; I was a pretty ornery/bossy kid without many friends, partially because I didn’t reach out to others first (unless they were new in school [in which case I wanted to get to know a potential new friend and make them feel welcome] or if they were crying [I liked making others feel better/helping people and hated when people were upset]) and partially because I just didn’t take shit very well (I did NOT fw people who were rude to me and did not respond well to any perceived slight lol💀). Given that friend was fairly aloof with SH as a kid, and that SH obviously reached out first, I highly doubt that him and I would have gotten along. In the case that a SH was more like me, and he truly didn’t have anybody, what would he be like? Would he have found someone else to obsess over?

Question 2.5; Could friend become obsessed with SH as an adult? Or is the foundation of his obsession that SH was there for him as a child? So, if he didn’t receive any support/have a SH as a child, would he be truly alone?

Question 3; If SH had a lot of experience with clinical psychology/was a clinical psychologist/learned what they needed to know to help Friend, could they give him therapy to help him improve? What would it take to get him to understand what he’s doing is fucked up? How well would he respond to treatment if it’s from SH? If it’s from someone else?

Question 4; what are some things he’s bad at? Is there anything that, no matter how hard he tried, he just wouldn’t seem to be able to learn?

Question 5; how much would he be willing to change his dressing style for SH? Would he be willing to dress more masculine or feminine for them? More casual/formal clothes? Is there anything he’s completely unwilling to wear? All of this without removing his berets, ofc!

Again, I’m sorry if any of these questions have been asked before and I’m sorry if any of them were overly detailed/too much in any way akdjdjs — this is definitely a lot, so feel free to just ignore the ask entirely if you’d like! Take care of yourself and please only do what you’re comfortable with. Have a lovely day :)

Oh wow! Hello! Thank you for playing!! 1. I like to think he would! 2. Feel free to make your own stories and headcanons about how you and Friend met!/gen 2.5 That also would be interesting to see! His life would have been drastically different without you. 3. He'd decline it and say he was fine. 4. He is a very smart person and can pick up a lot of things easily. Although I'd say something he is bad at is trusting other people (other than you of course.) He's also bad at video games and isn't too technologically smart. 5. He would literally wear anything for you. No matter what it is. Except khaki shorts. And crocs.

[plusvanity]

In one of your ask answers from September you wrote: ''I am a bit reluctant to say what I really think of Faust''. I skimmed over other answers as well but you never really spoke on this matter or about him (concerning this) again. Perhaps it's going to be an empty ask because you're still not comfortable elaboring your views on this - which I accept naturally - but I'm just way too curious to not shoot my shot: what do you REALLY think about Faust?

I personally do not have much going on opinion wise when it comes to him, he seems loyal to Øystein's memory (visiting his grave often, speaking highly of him always, keeping his legacy alive and over all being full of admiration for him, which is understandable since Ø could count as his role model, in a way) which is nice considering how people from the BM scene try to paint Ø, stuffing their mouths with his name just for views and/or turning their backs on him after his death ; but I am also aware of the crime he commited and as far as I recall, he never really spoke about it? Which is also why many people despise him (which is normal, absolutely not trying to imply that 'talking about it' would solve the problem!) the double amount, for example you can see it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rabm/comments/mz7s97/the_lgbt_heavy_metal_podcast_24_emperor/. Anyway, I'm more interested right now if your opinion, if you'd like to share. Thanks!

There are many reasons why I'm reticent in saying what I truly believe about Faust, but I will try to express it in the gentlest way possible. My opinion is not something colossal as there isn't much information available on the subject, but it's definitely a radical one.

I see lately that more and more people have a tendency to make opinions about certain problematic black metal individuals that are 'Øystein approved or disapproved'. In this case, I can easily include Faust. I see people willing to downplay the gruesome and intentional murder that he committed for the simple fact that he was one of Øystein's loyal 'students', so to speak. So, my question for those is:

Does the simple fact that Faust spoke honorably about his mentor make him less of a bad person for taking the life of a man? The most rational answer is no.

I see many people believing blindly that Faust is truly remorseful and that he learned his lesson in prison, and my question about this is: How can you be so sure? Just because he is out now, talking about how he messed up because he was a kid and how much he changed since then doesn't mean that he means his words. Anyone can say anything. You don't know if it's real unless you know that person personally, and even so, he went to prison for first degree murder. I don't think it's far-fetched to doubt his words. Once you're some kind of celebrity, you need to keep your PR good. And if you don't think that everything in this world is business, then you don't really know how the world works, and I apologize for sounding rude.

No one can prove or disprove that his mentality (not action) changed.

It is very expectantly for him to try to clean his image and redirect the attention to other subjects like talking positively about Øystein. I don't say he is not respectful and he doesn't carry on Øystein's legacy, but I'm saying that it's wise to be aware who says what and what might be the reason behind it. There are other people that I'm more inclined to believe their feelings towards Øystein and loyalty are more authentic, like Mortiis for example. This is just my opinion, I encourage everyone to think for themselves.

Maybe I'm too harsh on him and I don't give him many chances, but he is a criminal after all, and I don't minimize this aspect. He didn't kill in self defense, he talked in interviews about 'stomping' on the victim's head, and this is cruelty. Do people think this cruelty somehow goes away over time? It never does. You're either born with it or you learned it. That's not PlusVanity being bitter about what can be changed in people. That's a well-known psychological fact. He is in the ASPD spectrum towards the high end, that's no speculation.

The time spent in prison is the equivalent of a joke because of the Norwegian system. You're basically living like in a hotel there, painting and doing crafts, playing basketball with the guards, living a long vacation. There is little to nothing that a troubled individual can learn and self-reflect in such conditions. I'm not saying that more violent habits are the answer for behavioral change as I strongly believe that violence is primitive and unnecessary, but the only way in which someone can get an insight on themselves is by feeling the equivalent consequences of what they've done.

People question if he killed a man because his victim was homosexual or he if simply killed just to feel how it is like. Both options make Faust just as much of an asshole because he took somebody's life intentionally. When asked about his opinion on homosexuals, he answered: 'Basically I don't care about them (as long as they keep it to their own people), but... what can I say... they are nice to put knives into..' In another interview he describes luring that man to the spot in which he committed the crime. There's always the element of shock-value in the black metal scene, but I tend to believe his words back then were a bit more genuine than what he insists on now because, to be fair, who wouldn't want to clean his image after something like this? Especially because he is still relevant in the scene.

Of course that his peers accepted right back like 'hey, bro! nice to see you again' and many people forgot his dark past because he's famous (to a certain degree). Is he a perfectly good guy now just because he says he is? When talking about antisocial behavior, somebody who did this can always do it again. They have it in them.

To sum it up, from a moral perspective, I don't like Faust and I'm not easily impressed by his post-prison statements because of the gravity of his act. Should he be forgiven or cancelled is not something I will comment about. There is no way to verify what's in his head and talking more about it is simply rambling.

From a musical perspective, he's a good drummer.

That's all I can say.

[rookedcrow]

"Solas? Terrible fashion sense, the occasional rather cruel sarcastic commentary aimed at yours truly that was, of course, entirely uncalled for. And ah yes, a little too hung up on the Fade — if I didn't know any better, I'd say he had a special little friend hidden away in there — otherwise? Harmless. Well, that is until he decided to have a picnic with his... former little special friends. Alright, you may have a point, maybe not as harmless as I once thought." (from Dorian again!)

rook had made a point of asking about va.rric’s time with the inquisition as much as possible in their search for so.las  ---- her requests equal parts general curiosity ( and a good way to pass the time on their travels ) and wanting to get a better feel for possibly the most unique contract she’d ever been charged with.  more often than not, those requests were honored --- var.ric loved few things more than telling a good story, and she certainly loved hearing one, or two, or three — on any topic she could think of; the people, the places — all of it. ( skyh.old, of all things, had always been one of the more difficult things to wrap her head around back then, being that high up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere; her fear of heights assuming something like that would no doubt be her worst case scenario ... of course, that was long before she’d ever heard of the lighthouse. now, that image almost seemed quaint. and grounded. )

va.rric’s take on so.las had always felt ... measured somehow. it wasn’t so much as making excuses for his old friend’s poor behavior ( ro.ok wasn’t sure there were enough words out there to even get a start on that ) as it was reflecting on old times with slightly tinted lenses. maybe there was some guilt there; not knowing then what he knew now; knowing that there were ulterior motives to the help that was being provided. hard.ing had said she hadn’t known s.olas all that well save for polite conversation in passing, so that wasn’t anything really to go on, other than the fact s.olas sometimes knew how to hold his tongue. ( a trait rook didn’t seem to be keen on reciprocating, if her handful of little talks with him were any indication. she was going to run out of fingers soon counting how many times she’d more or less called him an asshole. )

so she had va.rric’s tapestry of recollections, and harding’s impressions from the outside looking in … which of course meant one of the first things she’d wanted to ask do.rian about after his dressing down of the first warden was what had he thought of his former companion. ( va.rric had always spoken highly about the mage from te.vinter; in both his prowess as a mage, and his snark. now how was she supposed to pass up a chance to see one of those two skillsets in action for herself without needing a swarm of vena.tori? )

and just as var.ric would have insisted, dorian certainly exceeded her expectations.  from the critique of his fashion sense ( or more accurately, a lack thereof ) to the series of events that lead up to the situation she currently found herself at the head of in relief of var.ric, there was a keen eye and keener words behind the lot of it. it’s funny, though ------- that va.rric never mentioned seeking out dor.ian outright while they were in minrath.ous.

“so should i pass along some well wishes from you to him the next time i speak with him?” ( or is this just another excuse to call him an ass to his face? who knows. ) “or perhaps some other choice words? i don’t mind, and i’ve got a pretty solid memory when it comes to giving regards.” the jokes a little cheesier than the food and drink laid out on the table, but for a moment it nice to not have to worry about being overly formal.

“i’m sure sola.s would love to hear from you.”

[chaifootsteps]

I always thought the excuse of Vivziepop's screenshot "being faked to make her look bad" are funny and ver made sense, because i think that if that if that were the case, there would be WORSE things about her in those "edits".

Because, usually, when you fake things with the intentions of ruining the reputation of an internet e-celebrity, you would put really horrible shit that would make everyone want to support them inmediately, it needs to be something that everyone agrees is a bad things and that they think that everyone who does it is human scum.

The last case i remember of things being faked to ruin a youtuber was the kwite case... and he was being acused of rape. It is always those things, when someone is being falsely acused of something is always sexual violence, grooming, stealing for others, really bad stuff like that.

Obviously, things like transphobia are really bad things, but not bad enough to destroy someone's career, you get me?

The sad truth is that trabsphobia is still really normalized and seen as ok by many people. There are a lot of celebrities that are openly transphobic yet they are still respected because the general public sees as "just their opinion" and if you dare to say thats bad you get attacked. So, if someone was truly faking shit to make someone look bad i highly doubt they would make them transphobic.

And with all the other stuff we see in those screenshot (underpaying her workers, talking shit about other proyects, etc) it isnt something that makes people wants to stop supporting her. Even some of the fans that belive in those screenshots defends them saying that those things arent "that bad" and that they are a "nothing burger".

So everytime a Vivzie stan says "The screenshots are clearly fake! Is really easy to fake Discord screenshots! To make her look bad!" I just think, dude, i think that if someone was faking documents to make her look bad they would be about her grooming a made up minor or saying that Hitler was misunderstud.

Besides, the way that Vivzie never addressed said screenshots, and only vage tweeted about the "antis" and "hatedom" while liking tweets of fans "debunking" (actually just saying "nuh-huh!" To all the shit revealed) her allegations, it makes me suspicious. Crazy idea, maybe the grown ass woman who has a story of being a bad person is simply a bad person on discord too? Crazy, i know.

That's another thing. If I or anyone else was going to go out of their way to fake Discord screenshots -- because it does take some time, and it does have limitations, especially when you have pages and pages of them like you do with Vivzie -- wouldn't it make more sense to just go all the way and say something that would ruin her on the spot?

Also, you need to have actually spoken to someone on Discord to do inspect element on their chats. I've never been in Vivzie's server or anywhere near her.

[kin-the-muffin]

i currently have a half-baked theory about alastor…

ok so in the finale, he said that he wants freedom, meaning he has been restricted in some way. but as far as we’ve seen and can tell, he is basically free to do as he wishes. and of course there’s the theory with lilith being the one owning his soul, which he might have traded away to gain such insane amounts of power. but what has he ever done that didn’t seem to be in his best interest?

charlie.

yea, yea, i hear you and your sassy clips of him saying he’s helping the hotel simply for boredom’s sake and that he enjoys watching people try to do something meaningful but then fail in the process but! that would imply that he’d done so before, but we have never, not once, ever heard that he even dabbled in such a thing. (and don’t you dare try to tell me that he actually cares about charlie, the man is the most manipulative, sadistic little mf i’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something because i’ve seen miraculous ladybug and hate liela rossi as much as anyone else.) the only things we know about his past is that he appeared in hell very suddenly with lots of power, he toppled countless overlords overnight, and his radio podcast killed tons of demons. nothing of this has to do with other beings in hell trying to make it better (as i highly doubt any of those overlords had good intentions since they were, well, overlords). but he doesn’t seem the type to do things meaninglessly, he always has ulterior motives.

but then if his excuses of entertainment are as flimsy as i’m making them out to be then why would he ever help charlie? well, i think that brings us back to lilith. it’s far from a rarely-noticed detail that the length of alastor and her’s disappearances were for the same amount of time and while we know that lilith spent that time in heaven (if that even is lilith, but idk enough about that theory so i’m just gonna assume that it’s her and that she’s been in heaven the whole time), we don’t have a smack-dab CLUE as to what alastor was up to during his vacay. then he just shows up out of nowhere, at the idealistic princess of hell’s doorstep of all places.

well, i’ve had a sneaking suspicion for a while that lilith’s deal (at least part of it), in exchange for his power, was to help charlie in some way. i’m thinking that’s why he seemed so torn-up about how he almost ‘died for his friends’. he doesn’t care for any of them (except maybe nifty but i think that’s just bonding over shared mania (i think rosie (and maybe zestial) is the only one he truly, honestly cares about, but i get the feeling that even that relationship is pretty business-based)).

we have no idea what lilith is like, we have absolutely zero characterization of her except for what charlie explains about her in episode 1, that she’s passionate and hardworking and stubborn and independent—qualities that charlie mostly has in abundance. so i would say that she’s cared about charlie this whole time but due to whatever is keeping her in heaven, she can’t help her, except that lilith seems a little too malevolent to care about charlie’s hotel. why would she? she fell in love with a dreamer who shared her rebellious heart and for this, she was the first human soul cast into hell. she has never had any kind of reason as to why she would ever want to go to heaven, or anyone else for that matter (as she did work to make hell into the semi-civil place it is now). and we have no idea how close she and charlie were before she left (i suspect we’ll learn more about that in season 2), so we can’t assume that she’ll just support charlie, whatever her aspirations may be. so i honestly have no idea as to why lilith would enlist alastor to help charlie, but i am fairly convinced that this is the case of what’s happened.

thoughts?

[daybreakrising]

BLADE HEADCANONS - Y.INGXING & THE HIGH CLOUD QUINTET

before i begin, just a reminder that this is my personal headcanon and i don't expect anyone else to agree with me. regardless, this is how i will approach blade's history with the high cloud quintet, so it needs to be its own meta.

and whilst i am firmly on the hill that the high cloud quintet were a nice little polycule, i won't force that on anyone. blade's feelings towards the other four will remain the same, but i leave it to the writers of those muses if they want to go down the polycule route or not. i'm good with either.

also if you want a beautiful animated short that revolves around their story, then i direct you to this video. i've watched it at least a dozen times since i found it and i am now drowning in hcq emotions ;_;

A HIGHLY PASSIONATE INDIVIDUAL

i've talked before in this meta about how for someone to hate as fiercely as blade does, one must also have the same capacity to love - and that this is the remnants of y.ingxing that linger within him. y.ingxing as a man was proud, confident to the point of arrogance, but also incredibly passionate about the things that mattered to him. and i mention all of these things specifically because it is at the root of why i see him having deep feelings for every member of the HCQ.

it's a cliché, of course, to say "there's enough of him to go around", but it's also true. y.ingxing has such capacity to love that it cannot be restricted only to one person. now, that's not to say he cannot do monogamy - he can, absolutely - but i do feel like he thrived most under the affections of (and in giving affection to) many.

but lauri, i hear you say, why can't it just be platonic affection? why does it have to be romantic? well, it doesn't have to be, and in fact, in every case regarding the HCQ, that's how it started for y.ingxing: these are people he admired, respected, cared for deeply. they were his friends. none of these dynamics started out with romantic intentions & whilst there would definitely be degrees of initial attraction involved with some of them, he certainly didn't seek their company for that reason.

for the majority of those connections, that deep platonic love for them didn't develop into something more until he was well into adulthood, having spent many years alongside them. and, of course, each relationship was different.

FORGING BONDS FOR LIFE

j.ing y.uan

there was also the boy who kept bickering with him.

it was j.ing y.uan who first sparked something beyond friendship in y.ingxing's heart, though it wasn't acknowledged until well after the fact. they had a good-natured rivalry right from the start, being similar in age (at least in emotional maturity if not actual age, given one is a long-life species and the other a short-life), and though they bickered constantly, it was always in good spirits. the banter, the sparring, the fond little jabs at each other - this kindled the first flames of an affection that went beyond platonic.

y.ingxing treasured that rivalry from its beginning to its end. he found in jy not only a true friend but someone he felt he could rely upon no matter what. for all their bickering, there was no one more loyal than jy. and that meant everything to him. it still does.

b.aiheng

what difference does it make to your achievements, whether you're a long-life or a short-life species? just focus on what you want to do, and let fate take its course.

things progressed somewhat differently with b.aiheng than with jy. she was the first of the hcq that y.ingxing truly trusted - she had known him when he was still that shy, insecure apprentice, and her words of encouragement had pushed him to find the confidence in himself that he would later become known for. she was the first person he opened up to, allowed himself to be vulnerable with, and he adored her. her endless optimism, her vibrant nature, was always enough to chase away any lingering doubts or worries he had about himself and his skill. he attributes a great part of his success as a craftsman to her for this reason. without her continued encouragement, he might never have had the confidence and inspiration to achieve great things.

that adoration didn't blossom into something more until he was invited into the hcq officially, and started spending even more time in their company. it was so easy to see why b.aiheng was the most loved amongst the five - what else could they do but love her? her spirit was something to be greatly admired, and admire it y.ingxing did with his entire soul. he would have done anything if it earned him one of her smiles.

dan f.eng

out of all of us, you were the closest to him. it was strange, really — to see someone so arrogant get along with someone so proud.

there is no denying that the bond between y.ingxing and dan f.eng ran deep - deeper than any other bond y.ingxing had within the hcq. but, as with the others, it was its own unique bond: y.ingxing loved j.ing y.uan for his loyalty and friendship, b.aiheng for her spirit and belief in him - and dan f.eng for the kinship he felt with him from the start. of all the hcq members, he felt instantly drawn to dan f.eng for no reason he could name. there was simply a natural comfort to be found in his presence, one he didn't question, and one he came to value highly.

of all the hcq members, the path from admiration to adoration was much shorter in the case of dan f.eng than the others. perhaps this is in part due to the timing of their meeting: as an adult already aware of his growing affections for his fellows, y.ingxing was more in tune with his emotions, more comfortable in following his heart's desires, less afraid to chase what he wanted and certainly not lacking in the confidence to approach it head on. whatever the reason, y.ingxing cherished the moments spent in dan f.eng's company, even those - especially those - spent in companionable silence.

j.ingliu

at first, i wasn't too fond of his defiant nature...

as with the others, his relationship with j.ingliu was very different - and remained the most complex of them all until the end (and has since become even more complicated-). initially, y.ingxing sought only to earn her respect and admiration, caring little for anything beyond her acknowledgement of him. that she had inspired his respect and admiration goes without saying - he was in awe of her skill and strength, though he may not have outwardly shown that for the longest time, choosing instead to relay a more subdued acknowledgement of her prowess, largely as a matter of pride.

the sword he crafted for her was the ultimate test, in his eyes: only the sword champion of the luofu cloud knights can tap into the full potential of this sword i have crafted. and seeing her wield it, this blade forged specifically for her hand - that was the moment y.ingxing knew there was more to this bond than simple respect or a desire for acknowledgement. and of course there was: what else was that blade forged with but love?

LITERALLY, FOR LIFE

y.ingxing held onto these bonds so tightly, treasured them so fiercely, that they linger still somewhere within blade, though often clouded by mara and painful memories. of those relationships, the one that brings him the least pain overall is that of j.ing y.uan - his friend, his rival, the first one to win his heart but certainly not the last.

but blade is not y.ingxing; and whilst he still carries these bonds in his heart, things will never be the same. such bonds may have to be forged anew from the ashes that remain.

REGARDING INTERACTIONS WITH HCQ MEMBERS

as said at the beginning, this is how i approach blade's history with the rest of the quintet. however, i am in no way suggesting that any of these feelings were reciprocated - or if they were, that they were acted upon. if i'm writing with any of these characters, i leave that decision up to them, and we can discuss how the dynamic would play out both in the past and in the present. regardless, y.ingxing loved them all and i will die on this hill.

tldr; y.ingxing was in love with every member of the high cloud quintet, each in their own unique way.

[gaemms-chamois]

random unorganized darknights trio + paprika musings bc sometimes i'm hit with like a pang of Brief Worry that i'm completely misinterpreted blabla that usually doesn't last too long bc i then go back to my state of I'm Just Vibing but ig at some point i just gotta let it out publicly once and be done with it lol

this is messily written Please Understand this isn't meant to be a grand thought piece

fuuuck ok well this is like very specifically abt the w, ines & paprika part now

like don't get me wrong on this. i joke abt wines moms and stuff but i dont genuinely mean it in the way of wahh wow littol family for reals kinda deal?

less on wines 'adopting' paprika, moreso paprika imprinting on them like a duckling after she was saved by them. paprika adopted them lmao. i cannot possibly interpret either w or ines as Maternal in such a way.

it's moreso that i think it's nice that this little sarkaz merc became part of the story, a girl who all her life since she was infected at a young age, was presented with becoming a mercenary being basically the only option for her.

and then, as annoying as w can be, being shown that she does have different options.

i just think it's sweet that paprika, judging by her voicelines, clearly looks up to w and ines. which is just amplified by the fact that w and ines are notoriously not the most popular people on rhodes lol. and she calls w annoying but still keeps knitting stuff and wanting to gift food to her. like if she often seeks out w and ines to tell them how well she did on something, when they are on the ship, etc. that'd at least indicate that those two humor her.

ALSO IT'S UNOFFICIAL BUT SHOUTOUT TO THAT LITTLE CHUZENJI ART WITH PAPRIKA AND W, INES & TOTTER WEARING KNITTED HATS SO CUTE

OKAY WOO DARKNIGHTS MERCENARY TRIO AND STUFF

cool yeah obviously i fucking love them. i'm not very good at words though and i tend to keep my more elaborate thoughts to just discussions between friends who know how i tick djsfhdfs

just the other day i was smiling to myself during a walk bc holy shit all three are actually playable now and that's not just wishful thinking anymore. anyway chapter 13 also happened and more stuff with the trio happened and Cool Lots of things Happening and my brain is full

they're so found family to me, like in an utterly unconventional way. i mean c'mon with how they act sometimes like- ykno. but like have y'all seen the new furniture set and descriptions that came with hoederer's release it made me go insanse.

but i think especially in ines' case it just kinda highlights that best. considering ines' arts can figure people out (putting that in rather vague terms), it truly means something when someone with her capabilities and temperament has people she chooses to stick by and actually trust. even if she pretends she doesn't by verbally denying it.

like waugh Okay they have a lot to unpack and shit but with them being reunited (take that, W file that said W needs companionship but her friends aren't around anymore) and having a COMPARATIVELY more ""relaxed"" life than before (that one Hoederer file where he just has rather regular days on rhodes), it's just nice to imagine they can finally have something better and figure stuff out. as complicated as the three of them are.

with that said i think it's a given that i despise a nuclear family treatment of the three (aka mom ines, dad hoederer, daughter w).

for one with me being highly doubtful w was a kid/teen at the start of darknights (young? sure, but not that young), which just seems like such a...widespread belief that i really do not get? arknights always put a LOT of emphasis on when a character's story was about them being a kid, 0 of that with w. like something about her expression and big cloak just gave people some different impression, even though she literally keeps looking the same aside from a change of clothes. only instance of w being called a kid during that time i can think of is that one boiler worker in her files but that seems way more like any typical old guy calling anyone on the younger side a kid. hell, even hoederer was called young in darknights, like in a sarkaz's lifespan i can believe that.

and also...hoederer had somewhat of a mentor-like role for w, but if anyone tries to tell me ines ever acted maternal towards w i will chew through your walls. read through darknights memoir and actually pay attention to ines, both w AND ines were pettyass women and they made that so very clear. cannot fathom how anyone can see ines as having been motherly towards w

seriously just feels like a case of Well there is man and there is woman....and this other character so clearly these are mom, dad and kid.

that's not even me being biased towards w/ines, just how i objectively see it. hell, i even ENJOY ines/hoederer, but my enjoyment of it is limited bc for some reason ppl like to make it weird by shoving w in as some daughter. i promise it's completely possible to like ines/hoederer without trying to fit in w as a kid figure

anyways yeah like cool i like these characters I Guess. Look at them

[yallemagne]

Whenever I see people on the hate train against Jonathan -- it doesn't seem as common nowadays, but they're apparently still alive and roaring in their circles jiogep -- it's soooo funny how they use Mina as a scapegoat for their anti-Jonathan rhetoric but can't think of a solution to Mina being "overshadowed" other than... erasing Jonathan from the narrative and/or replacing him with a new guy. They don't share this attitude toward Van Helsing though, which I find curious. I mean, perhaps they have some bitterness towards the guy, but never have I seen them speak on that... nope, it's just vitriol for Jonathan.

This is a rant.

A lot of people like Jonathan. Sure, sue us. And there is generally a problem with female characters being less prioritized in fandoms than their male counterparts. But the cultural impact of a few tumblr users calling Jonathan Harker their blorbo will never stand a chance against the wider interpretation of Van Helsing.

All of Mina's accomplishments and ideas are attributed to VH in many adaptations and readings, and she gets pushed to the side and downgraded into a screaming damsel who, in the worst cases, is depicted as encouraging Dracula's sexual crimes. Mina isn't the only victim of this flanderization, all the protagonists in Dracula are often dumped for the sake of raising up Sexy Tortured Hunky Helsing, but it's especially offensive to see this highly intelligent and resourceful female character have all her intellectualism stripped and given to an older male character. In fact, the very older male character who endangered her life because he doubted her mind and infantilized her!! The irony hurts!!

Now, I am pissed that the vast majority of people will always see VH as the ultimate champion against Dracula and view Mina as nothing more than a wayward virgin in the devil's clutches, but I don't direct that anger toward Van Helsing and get pissy any time I see him. But people who are still furious that love for Jonathan Harker exists do precisely that to Jonathan. And when I try to figure out why VH is not attacked with such venom but Jonathan is... it doesn't look good, chief.

In general, an older, accomplished man with a lot of say in group decisions against a younger, inexperienced man with little say in group decisions. An enforcer of gender roles against a challenger of gender roles. A man who said to Mina's face that he doubted her intelligence against a man who eagerly kissed her when she displayed her skills in deduction... Who is the evil gigachad? Truly neither of them, but I hope this illustrates my point. VH's authority and sexist beliefs are already a bit of an obstacle for Mina (one she thankfully overcomes) and yet her supportive husband is seen as the problem. Not because he's not supportive enough, but he's just too charismatic.

You don't need to write Jonathan out of the story to put more focus on Mina. Bram didn't feel the need to do that when he summarized his entire novel as being about Mina's gallant bravery, so why would you? Unless maybe... it isn't wanting more focus on Mina as a female character but rather a call for less focus on Jonathan as a male survivor of assault.

It's incredibly telling when they go beyond erasing Jonathan and actually replace Jonathan with a new man that their problem isn't that Mina's supposedly being overshadowed by her male love interest, it's that Mina's male love interest is not an overbearing hypermasculine figure. Mina, who had an equal partnership from the beginning, is told "nonono, you have to get with an awful man... and transform him into an okay husband". I don't know about you, but that does not sound like putting Mina at the forefront whether that new man is an OC, a character from another novel, or Dracula himself. That sounds more like twisting her into being the catalyst for an awful man's character growth. WHICH WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH OF IN FICTION.

And hey, lissen, you can read and write as many reimaginings of Beauty and the Beast AU Dracula as you want, but stop lying and claiming it's for Mina's sake, like fuck dude, your taste in men is not Mina's, she much prefers her gothic heroine of a husband over your saviour complex nonsense.

[wrongcaitlyn]

Okok now I’m curious how WOULD have Will’s and Apollo’s relationship changed if Naomi was still alive? Would he still eventually be ok but it’d take him longer to get there?? Would Apollo and Nico be as close??

skdjflsdjf I LOVE THIS QUESTION AHHSDFH the what if's of dear reader verse keep me up at night

i feel like this could go either way - the bad ending, the good but different ending, or the highly improbable but good because it's necessary by fate to be good ending.

the bad ending (probably the most realistic, unfortunately) - no, will and apollo wouldn't have a relationship. by the time naomi died, it's been three years since everything went to shit, and apollo was still spiraling. will was really the catalyst for his self growth journey and, though it's not healthy to recover for one single person, that was definitely what apollo needed in this case - most other people had stopped reaching out to him at this point. so the bad ending, though really tragic, is that (TW) - apollo would die, probably either from alcohol poisoning or doing something reckless like driving drunk or leaving a stove on or something like that. i don't think he was suicidal, but if he lived to the point where he found out his mom died, then that might be a cause of worry as well. nico would be,,, struggling. a lot. we know that he attempted once in freshman year, and without any friends to pull him out of it/anyone who really cared,,, i do think he may have eventually made some friends outside of will and leo. maybe he would just be friends with leo, even if will was largely the person to have brought them together in the first place. i think there's a possibility nico could have either run away and made a life for himself as a high school dropout somewhere away from la, and maybe eventually reunite with leo working minimum wage jobs and whatnot, or he would have attempted again and it might have worked. either way, very dark place for him. will would have continued touring with his mom, kayla living with darren as he works on coaching, probably both of them would be homeschooled. i still think that will would have eventually asked his mom to go to a normal high school and he'd probably see a therapist too, and he'd eventually go to college and become a doctor like planned. kayla would still end up going to the olympics for sure. it's likely that jason and piper would have still met leo and become friends with him, which means that plotline would still be going, and depending on whether nico is there with them at that point in time or not, it might have helped him out a lot more. either way, i highly doubt that without will living at apollo's in la and apollo becoming a father figure for him, nico would ever get into the music industry on his own

the good ending - one of apollo's old friends pulls him out of the trenches and things start looking up for him. i doubt it would be darren or naomi, but it could possibly be latricia or emmie - either way, i think it would take a long time for darren or naomi to eventually reach out. darren wouldn't be as comfortable with apollo not having raised will first, and naomi is busy as hell already. the tough part here is that i do think that if naomi showed back up in apollo's life and darren didn't, and they truly tried the co-parenting thing, i could see a naomi/apollo flame relit. she's kind of a big what-if for apollo already, becuase they were very brief in the first place, but then again - will. so. who truly knows! i think it's once again possible that leo becomes friends with nico, and he realizes what's going on in nico's home life. cps is called. obviously leo knows what a shitty process the foster system is, but he feels that it'd still be better than nico's home life - so begins nico's journey away from the high school i made up and probably just into a different part of la. because this is the *good* but different ending, he ends up getting diagnosed with adhd and dyslexia and is given accomodations for that, plus his love for music is fostered and supported. i still don't think tyt nico would ever be a college student, but if this was changed earlier on and his new family intervened in his education,,, who knows? i think he'd be willing to try his hand at a music major. maybe he'd eventually be an indie artist. i don't think he'd ever actually become famous, and he'd probably mainly perform covers at parks and diners and stuff, but it's a step up. will's story would remain largely the same, except he would eventually have a relationship with his dad, and who knows? maybe his parents end up together. rip pollen </3

the warped-by-fate ending - starts the same as the good ending except for some reason, after reaching out to naomi and latricia again and being somewhat present in his sons' lives, he decides to become a foster parent. enter leo. adopted by apollo. enter nico. friends with leo. enter will, who wants to go to a normal high school instead of touring and naomi trusts apollo enough to let him take care of will. the trio is reunited. nico (probably a bit later than in tyt canon, maybe when he's just getting out of hs) starts his music career. they're all friends with jason and piper again. kayla eventually gets invited to christmas and pollen becomes a thing. solangelo starts dating because ofc they do. and for some reason the hazel plotline remains the exact same. they all live happily ever after <3

thank you for this ask!!!

[ala-baguette]

Ask few people to know their opinion Do you have any headcanons about lily Evans unnamed friends during hogwarts? It’s so frustrating that they’re mentioned but not even given names

I do, in fact, have some thoughts on this! Thanks for asking, Anon. I find the fact that Lily's friends remain unnamed quite telling, actually. I headcanon that Lily was quite popular among her peers-- we have enough evidence to show that she was pretty, smart, talented, brave, kind, and did not seem shy in the snatches we see of her-- those people tend to do well socially. And, of course, we see her with a collection of girl friends during Snape's Worst Memory. But I suspect that coming into Hogwarts with a pre-established relationship to Snape rather stunted her ability to make super close connections in the way the Marauders did. We might even compare her to Ginny with Tom Riddle's diary in that way.

It is not at all uncommon for a kid thrust into a new environment to take the easy route and hang out with the person she already knew rather than to expend energy into making new friends. This could actually put her a step behind compared to those who arrived at Hogwarts without knowing anybody when it comes to making deeper friendships. Of course, with Lily and Snape in separate houses, both would naturally make new friends in their respective dormitories. But it seems her two social circles didn't mix. We know from Snape's memories in DH that Lily's other friends "can't understand why I even talk to you." So if Lily was budgeting time for Snape, that was at the expense of her time with her girl friends. Hagrid says he writes to the Potter's friends (pleural, so not just Remus) to ask for photographs to give to Harry, so it would seem that there were people who loved her enough to keep photos of her. But they were not so close that they felt a need to ever introduce themselves to Harry. So I headcanon Lily to have had a lot of friends, but few truly close *best* friends. I see a lot of names from canon taken and assigned to be Lily's close friends in fic. Anyone who knows my writing, knows that I am allll about giving life to random character names provided in canon. But I actually disagree with a lot of the ones people tend to pick. Not to disparage anyone else's headcanons; mostly these are just vibes and my stubborn refusal to expel my own previously established thoughts on these characters. So rather than tell you who I think Lily's friends were, here's who I am inclined to think they were not:

Alice Longbottom-- I highly doubt the Longbottoms were in the same year at school as Lily and James. I see them as at least a few years older. They were already well known and respected Aurors by the time they died, but if they went to school with Lily and James, that would have been just a few short years out of Hogwarts-- I just don't see that they would have had the time to establish that reputation. Especially for Alice as part of that time would have been while she was pregnant with Neville and likely on maternity leave. Lily and James were also very young when they had Harry, and I don't know that I care to think of this as the norm. So I don't love thinking that all their classmates were also popping out babies right out of Hogwarts.

Marlene McKinnon-- I headcanon the McKinnons to be older and Marlene to be more of a OotP mentor figure to Lily rather than a school friend. Yes, Lily was cut up over her death in the letter to Sirius. But Moody states "They got her whole family." The verbiage implies a sizable number of people were killed. So if she was the same age as Lily, are we really saying she already had a husband and multiple children? In which case, again, why is everyone having kids so young? Plus McKinnon would likely be a married name in that case. Or could we be talking parents and siblings? Bit old be to still be living at home.

Dorcas Meadows-- Honestly, this one is mostly vibes, but I imagine her to be older as well. It's just such an old-fashioned name, and if Voldemort killed her personally, i would presume she had spent ample time pissing him off enough to compel him to do so. I don't see Voldemort wasting his time with a twenty-year-old without a very good reason (such as a prophesy about his downfall).

Mary Macdonald-- Yes. I know, it's super odd for me to include Mary on this list, given that her friendship to Lily is one of the major plot points in Knowing Where to Look. I'll say I support Mary more than any of the above because we know for sure from canon that she was a Gryffindor at the time Lily was in school. This is why I chose her for KWTL. But my one reservation in her being a close friend to Lily is that Lily refers to her by her full name when talking to Snape. This isn't 100% to say they weren't friends, but it just seems to me that if they were super close, Lily wouldn't have had to clarify which Mary she was talking about when talking to Snape.

So in conclusion, I tend to just let her friends stay unnamed as they just never proved relevant to Harry's story. I'm not one to try to force every person from the Marauders era into the Order of the Phoenix or into the war with Voldemort. My inclination is to say that Lily likely had many friends in school, but very few with whom she was close enough to keep up with after leaving Hogwarts. This is not an uncommon story. Dunno about you, but I, for one, didn't maintain a great many friends from childhood after going off to uni.