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mcltiples · 5 months ago
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@evilmcg sent; "Piss off old man. If I wanted a rick annoying the hell outta me I have my guard rick for that." evilmcg for v-79 rick (post getting back together with emorty)
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Blinking a little, Rick didn't take that insult lightly. If it was any other situation, he would take her by the throat and gut her insides out, leaving her a hollowed out corpse. However, this was Morty's girlfriend. And he was trying to make things right between him and his grandson. So doing that would go against everything.
"Morty said I-I have to follow you because he has no use for me right now," He spoke matter-of-factly, standing tall and looking down at her. "H-He wants us to get friendly with each other,"
Platonic relationships were an unknown thing to him. Yet, he was still willing to try. He would be her friend if it meant that it could get him into Morty's good graces.
As he knelt down on one knee, seeing her eye to eye, he spoke. "I-I'm not thrilled about following you either, I-I don't know you and I-I don't know why Morty chose you as his one, but I-I'll do whatever he says. So let's be friends."
If it were up to him, he would've forbade Morty from dating anyone until the teen was an adult. And even then, he would want to choose the partner. Yet, for now, that would all be wistful thinking.
So he stuck his hand out, palm open to give a handshake. As if he were offering her a deal of sorts.
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melkyt · 2 months ago
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LawLu roommates
Law who inherited a large mansion from when his family passed away. He is a small town doctor who has been there for a year. It is to big for him to afford the upkeep, but he doesnt want to sell it as its his families legacy. So he puts out a flyer that he is giving a room to anyone who can look after and tend to the lands, and find tenants for the smaller houses on the property.
Yet nobody takes it as there are rumors that it is haunted, that Law, who has not made an effort to be anything but abrasive in his grief. He doesnt care about people which only fuels rumors, so everyone in the town avoids it
Luffy, new to town, as it is close to his trade school/apprenticeship has no money to his name and sees the flyer. Free lodging and all he has to do is garden? Plus he can bring his friends who do have money but not much, and the rent Law mentions is cheap enough for them.
Luffy doesnt care about the rumors, and neither do the majority of his friends. Nami and Usopp are the only ones that balk at the idea of ghosts, but go anyway since it is a good deal, the house is right by the ocean and some tlc will make it a great place to live. It has all the ammenities a mansion would have, its just run down. Nami immediately sets to making a plan how they would fix it.
Law deals with her at first, signing the lease, giving keys and the like while Luffy runs through the mansion, exploring it top to bottom, calling dibs on a room
Law tries to put his side of the house off limits but Luffy is not listening. He asks a million questions as he walks from an empty room to Law's large room that is mostly unused, he spends most of his time st the clinic in town. Luffy touching every little thing and saying how cool it is, though dusty. He pulls the curtains aside, which makes Law flinch at the bright lights.
Luffy coughing as he opens a window. "Wow, a pool"
Law rubs at his temples as Luffy chatters, but is somewhat glad that the house is alive. It has been quiet for so long but now there is an air of happiness that Luffy brings with his smile.
There is music playing in the halls as Luffy and his friends get to business opening and airing out all the rooms.
Though Nami having the contract does tell everyone to not touch the two rooms that belonged to Law's family, and even Luffy despite his intent to explore every little corner, listens. He isnt going to disturb anything thats truly important.
Law is suprised, despite their ages and chaos that they brought into his home, they do respect his space and move around in a way that is not as much a disruption as he thought.
Luffy at most pops in now and again to drag Law out of his room if they are having a bonfire, or a party. Tells him to relax all the time.
Law who finds himself sitting down in the old gazebo that has been cleaned up, next to Luffy. As the night wears on, he finds himself in the younger man's lap.
They don't really talk about getting close but everyone notices. Luffy treats it as though they were always together and slowly with his presence, the rumours change and people start trusting this new odd doctor, that has such a sunshine boyfriend xd
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hello-vampire-kitty · 1 year ago
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Servamp chapter 136 spoilers
I only read the chapter once so I haven't understood some parts because I haven't looked up the meaning of some words, that's what I'll do when I get to properly translate the chapter, but in the meantime, I'm just going over a few pages so you can get an idea of what's going on.
Oh my God, this chapter reveled so much!
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I haven't talked about this, because I still have a few chapters to work on, but the previous one ended with Lily saying that everything was done in order to make the revived Count become the 9th Servamp with Mikuni as his Eve.
If that's the plan, could it mean that Mikuni will break his contract with Jeje or will it be possible to also keep him too?
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Lily reveals to Misono that initially he wanted to put Kuro in Mikuni's path, but that would have been a great risk if Tsubaki went after Kuro, so instead he chose Mahiru.
"As someone from a family of magicians that could be easily monitored and who didn't posses the combat skills of a magician...And most of all, he was the son of a certain man"
Lily tells Misono about Touma being Mahiru's father, who was a hindrance because Touma was close to the realization of the Count's reincarnation. Lily thought that if Tsubaki would target Mahiru, Touma would be dealt with if he tried protecting Mahiru.
Lily didn't think that Touma would try shooting his son, but he was wrong.
"Love is the most difficult to read."
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Lily tells Misono about his mother and what we knew about her was a lie. To start off her name was Tatsunami Hokaze which is so weird and perhaps it was a mistake because it happened before that some character's name were misspelled, like it happened with Pisca (it was even brought up by Tanaka on Twitter) and I recall one time where Tsurugi's name was written Rurugi xD
So, I looked up Hokaze (歩風) and it seems to be a boy's name and I have found the readings Ayuka or Honoka for girl names, so maybe one of those is actually her name?
Well, if it won't be mentioned by Tanaka if it was a misspelling, for now she will be called Hokaze.
Moving on, I noticed that in the first panel on the left, if you look closely at the book she's holding, it most likely "Jane Eyre" written on the cover, so we have a literary work that's associated with her.
Alright, so she was one of the orphans Lily brought to the Alicein house, like Dodo and Mitsuki.
Lily described her as ambitious woman and he encouraged her to get into Mikado's good graces. If she became his mistress, she could control him from the shadows.
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The letters from his mother that Misono read were censored by Mikuni and crafted a beautiful story. In Japanese it specifically says検閲 which means censorship, so that seems to imply that he didn't fabricate the letters entirely, some things that were written in them might have been left unchanged.
Poor Misono :((
Man, the drama of this family...
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So, we get to see Lily's past and I'm assuming (because it doesn't say) that he was selling his body? That's the impression I get from that image with the old guy who's giving him money...
Alright, moving on to Kuro's fight against Tsubaki!
It's awesome how Kuro made the candlestick into a sword! It looks cool!
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Tsubaki says that demon Kuro was apparently sensei's "something", that he called things such as friend or brother and the demon was sort of like a familiar.
Kuro wants to hear from Tsubaki why is he obsessed with the Count, but Tsubaki isn't reluctant to tell him.
Kuro uses "Elpsis" to try looking into his memories and it's so cool that he can use Mahiru's ability, like he even changed the sword into a staff like Mahiru's!
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Tsubaki had a little sister :(
So, apparently the reason he wanted to revive sensei isn't because he cared about him. He wants the ritual to be fulfilled because he awaits what comes after. Tsubaki made a promise with sensei, the latter telling him that he would make his little sister happy.
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What could that mean? If she's dead, could it mean that he will bring her to life? It doesn't mention what happened to her...
Oh boy, so, I feel sorry for Misono because of how much he was deceived and we also find out that Tsubaki wasn't actually looking forward to be reunited with sensei because they had a deep bond or something, he even admits in this chapter that he's probably just a means to sensei's objective to be united with Kuro, because sensei was only interested in him.
So yeah, that's about it. I want to end the post by saying that I thank you for the patience with the scanlations, I still have three more chapters to finish until I start working on this one.
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tizeline · 8 months ago
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Happy pride month and all!
I figured now was a good time to ask, but do you have any thoughts about the sexuality of the characters in your Sep AU?
Sorry if you’ve been asked already, and the answer can definitely be no, I’m just curious :)
Happy pride!! ✨
Here's the thing about headcanons about queer identities, I personally prefer to not get too stuck on specific labels. While there are exceptions, I generally try to remain flexible if that makes sense? As in I like having multiple different interpritation about characters' identities so deciding on One Particular Label can feel limiting to me.
I mentioned it before, but I do plan on making Capril an established relationship in the AU sooner or later, so April and Casey are definitely sapphic. But more specific than that? Are they lesbian or bi or pan or whatever?? I dunno!! It's not really relevant to the story so I might as well leave that up to interpretation.
My approach to creating stories is that I'll usually only decide on specific labels if it is plot relevant, Schrödingers Identity if you will, lol, it can be anything if you don't decide on it beforehand. Again, there are exceptions, Leo is gay 100% like duh I can't interpret him any other way XD. Splinter is a Bi-Icon and I will STAND BY THAT!
Raph, Donnie and Mikey? Man who knows, canon Donnie seems to be into girls at least so it's the same in the AU, but more specific than that I dunno, I'm not planning on the story really focusing on romance (aside from a little capril because every story needs sapphics that's like the law)
Actually, you know what I find fun? World building! I honestly tend to be more interested in how queer identities are viewed and treated in a story's world as a whole as opposed to induvidual character's identities. Human society in rottmnt seems to be mostly the same as our IRL society, but what about Yōkai society!? With how diverse yōkai are I think it'd be fun if people in The Hidden City just... didn't care about who you loved or what you identified as. As a result of that, I don't think yōkai would care that much about terminology and labels, you just kinda loved whoever you loved.
It'd be honestly be kinda interesting if Donnie and April used terminology that related to queer stuff and Raph, Leo and Mikey are just really confused. Like for example, April is complaining about one of her classmates who's homophobic and the The Drax Bros are just like "Home-phobic??? They're afraid of homes??" cuz the concept of discriminating against someone based on which gender they're attracted to is completely foreign to them. Actually, Leo might be more knowledgable about human queer culture considering he's interested in human cultures in general. He calls himself gay at one point and Draxum is all like "you're happy? good for you?" and he'd just be wondering why Leo is using such an old-timey word considering Leo doesn't exactly have the most advanced vocabulary.
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midlandslady · 6 months ago
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Today I have 2 things to discuss and it's all about Daemyra:
On the "Daemon groomed Rhaenyra." I can see where it comes from but it is such a lie. I cannot even hear these words anymore. Why did he groom her? Because he gave her a necklace when she was 14 and there was sexual tension in the scene? First, it's Matt Smith, he can have sexual tension with a rock. Second, the same could be said for Milly Alcock. Third. They are Targaryens! Daemon always wished that his grandmother had found a wife for him like Rhaenyra, a true Targaryen bride. And Rhaenyra grew up admiring his rebellious spirit, which was very similar to hers. In a way, it was like how Daenerys always expected to marry Viserys one day. This is their tradition: to find a pure Targaryen match. But nothing happened when she was 14 and I don't believe he thought of her in a sexual way back then at all! Rhaenyra, on the other hand, already had a crush on him by then. Then he returns from the Stepstones, she was 18-19 years old and about to be married to someone she didn't care for. She was a woman then and of course he desired her, she was everything he liked mixed with the fondness he always had for her. Was it that bad for him to have taken her to a brothel to clarify all the mysteries of lovemaking that she had no clue about? I think it was progressive of him, and very feminist to be honest. Did he plan to ruin her reputation so that he could marry her? Maybe yes, maybe not. Perhaps he just wanted to marry her. Or he simply wished to show her that there was nothing to be afraid of and that pleasure could exist within the marriage or out of it. Or maybe both things. But in my vision, he didn't plan it that far, he wasn't even aware of the intensity of his feelings for her until that moment in the brothel. And it scared him in a way that all plans flew his mind. The role of uncle and lover so twisted in his mind that he had to get away from her. The entire story would have been different if he hadn't but I wouldn't have had the same love for their romance. And then how can you say that he groomed her when she always had the upper hand when it came to him? He had the entire realm fooled by his lies of marrying Mysaria and having a child with her, he was ready to die facing Otto on that bridge and then she comes, she calls him out on his lies, and immediately his farse is gone, he surrenders the egg and leaves. She had such an influence over him that one might say he was the one being groomed XD Being older does not mean anything. And Rhaenyra was always stronger than him, more decisive, more sure of herself, and she always saw him exactly for what he was, with all his flaws. She was not naive or molded by him. To say so is very diminishing of her character and I hate it. And unlike the books, Daemon and Rhaenyra only got sexually involved when she was much older, already with 3 kids and lovers, and very experienced in the act of love. And again, it was her choice, he didn't pursue her, she did!
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On the "Poor Rhaenyra, she was in love with an evil man her entire life and he doesn't care for her as much." Another huge lie. Daemon loves Rhaenyra so much more than she loves him and that is very evident. He needs her more than she needs him. Him wanting to admit that or not is another story but it is the truth. During their 10 years apart, Rhaenyra was miserable because she kept being humiliated by Alicent, she had "bastard" children and a husband who didn't support her as she wished. I can see why she was not happy. But Daemon? Daemon had a fantastic wife, who believed in him, loved him, and was fierce as him. She had all the qualities he loved. They had two legitimate daughters, they traveled the world together. Then why was he so defeated? As Laena said "He didn't eat, he didn't sleep, he spent his days in a library reading books about the Targaryen ancestry". And now people may say that he was sad because he didn't have the throne. Wrong. He had already lost the throne from the moment Viserys had other children, it didn't matter anymore. Or people will say that it is because he missed his brother. Also wrong, he had been away from his brother many times over, but it never stopped him from returning as he pleased. At Rhaenyra's wedding, he didn't even fight with Viserys, so he was not exiled. No, he stayed away for so long because he didn't trust himself if he saw Rhaenyra again. He was heartbroken because she was not in his life and appeared to be faring well without him, with 3 children and a stable relationship with Harwin. From the moment Viserys died, Rhaenyra distrusted him. Outside of their happy bubble, she doubted he would accept her as queen and would try to rule over her. She believes he was not there with her at the birth of Visenya because he was already mad planning his war. But was he? Or was he making sure that the people around them were loyal and would not stab them in their backs? At the funeral of Visenya, she was partially blaming him, she wouldn't even look at him and he was just there wanting to be part of her grief, their grief, but she wouldn't let him. At the war council table, he was proud of calling her his queen, his grace, he thought they would "rule together" and yet all the proposals he makes at that table are refuted coldly by her. And he is confused. In his mind he doesn't understand why she is pushing him away, why she is so explicitly ruling out everything he says. And then Luke dies and she disappears and he is angry at everyone. But mostly he is worried because she went alone and she is exposed to Vhagar and Aemond so he wants to take down Vhagar and the threat that she represents. Finally, when Rhaenyra returns he is so relieved and, despite his harsh words before that she was straying in her duties as queen, he doesn't say any of the sort. He simply asks if she found what she needed. This is such a nice touch. At the end, he just wants to console her but doesn't know how and she doesn't let him near. And being Daemon he reacts to this feeling of being pushed away and rejected with violence as the only way he knows how to deal with his emotions. When she says "I want Aemond" he immediately goes into action because if this is the only thing he can do for her, to comfort her, then he will. And it goes terribly wrong. Overall what I mean to say is: that before Daemon started calling himself king, before he started to feel that he was better suited to rule, Rhaenyra was already blaming him and distrusting him for what he hadn't thought of doing yet. Hence, despite all of his mistakes, and he makes a lot of them, loving Rhaenyra less has never been one of them.
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a-dauntless-daffodil · 8 months ago
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the idea of a "not zombie plague" at the hotel.... what an effing comedy it could be...
thanks @sunsetcougar and @insert-funny-name-here69 for making me picture it XD
Vaggie comes back from Cannibal Town snuffling, no big deal, maybe it's all those feathered hats and fur stoles (sUSaN) or nice flowers or whatever. Vaggie goes to bed like normal, wakes up the next day GROANING, stiff and grumpy and shuffling around the hotel
Oh no!- Charlie the protective gf cries- what if there's some hellborn illness angels are weak towards??? It's time to physically carry Vaggie back to bed for rest (and keep doing that a few times until it sticks and she puts Razzle on guard at the door) (also print out and past their room's windows with pics of her own pleading pout so Vaggie won't try flying to freedom again) (and crashing again)
well this is kinda a weird and kinda funny for the rest of the hotel... until the Symptoms start to spread
sneezing is the first stage, the infection fun, a sign you've already got it, but everyone wants to blame Susan and Susan's specific perfectly matching (aka hostile harsh and annoying) choice of perfume lingering around the hotel, so they all (not vaggie) (vaggie thinks susan is The Coolest) just walk around sneezing and yelling "FUCK YOU SUSAN" afterwards instead of "bless you" or whatever
loss of appetite isn't that big a deal at first- between the guy with the drug addiction, his friend also with a drug addiction, an alcoholic, a tiny woman who can fill up on a single ritz cracker, a guy who eats rotting dear corpses, a pig who regularly gets his appetite spoiled with treats, an egg boi who doesn't know what he eats without his boss around to tell him, a goat demon stuffie hell bent on only consuming doughnuts, a demon princess too busy singing and scheming happiness plans to do things like SLEEp never mind EAT, her girlfriend who will care about stuff like hunger once everything else is taken care of and not a second before, an the KING of hell who hasn't even had an appetite for LIFE in ages.... no one notices the lack of eating going on at first, until it's Too Late
stiffness and aching of the joints has everyone complaining when it hits tho. Angel Dust is pissed it got in the way of his performance. Husk feels old again and gets grumpy when he gets called old man which makes him even MORE grumpy. Niffty enjoys it for 4 minutes until it throws off her rat kill rate. Alastor pretends to feel nothing but every time he moves there's a horrible CRACK from any and all bending joints and Cherri finds him stiffly stuck in a chair a least once. Cherri is the best off bc she mainly just feels like she got blown up and is used to it. Vaggie is having flash backs to the pain and weakness right after losing her first wings- Charlie wants to help but is hunched over so far she regularly rests her chin on Vaggie's head and doesn't have the energy to drag her back to bed. Lucifer is ACTUALLY hobbling around using his cane, snapping to false casualness whenever someone looks his way, secretly using a rubber duck as a stress ball. They grudgingly agree they can't blame this one on Susan (actually...) and migrate to the lobby as a group, trying to figure out what KIND of hell bug they've somehow caught.
Now is where the loss of appetite finally gets notices. Vaggie dragged out some food for the war council and NO ONE can stand even LOOKING at it. there are, however, at lot of OTHER looks going around....
Husk edges away from Angel, who's eying him even more hungrily than usual but without any of the sultriness. Niffty scuttling past gets his attention and makes his tail do the little pre-pound wiggle as he sinks his claws into the sofa to keep from FOR REAL pouncing. Cherri is staring at her bestie Angel Dust and gritting her many sharp teeth at the hallucination that he's limbs are actually full of drugs. Alastor's eye is twitching, the hotel gusts all having taken on the shape of deer carcasses from his point of view. Lucifer is fine until he looks over at Vaggie- he looks away instantly and shoves his ducky in his mouth to BITE, panics, yanks it free again, and when he looks down it's morphed into a stylized duck version of Vaggie with bite marks. Vaggie has gone dead quiet and is staring at her future father in law, clutching her spear, mentally roasting him over hellfire on a spit in her mind's eye.
Charlie sees all this happening like what is going ON guys, why are you all acting so... sooooo............Hm. Charlie wonders aloud if Razzle, Dazzle, and the Egg Boi have always had such a close resemblance to juicy little roast chickens?
Then Niffty bites Husk's tail and the hotel is overrun from the inside
it's not a ZOMBIE plague- it's CANNIBAL FLU- and now sinners are chasing sinners down the halls with knives and forks, Charlie is trying NOT to eat the little hellborn as they try and fail to nibble on her lanky limbs, and Vaggie and Lucifer-
there is a new hole in the hotel where Vaggie tackled her future dad in law through the roof and now anyone looking the hotel has great view of them both snarling, circling each other in the air, spitting out mouthfulls of feathers from successfully blocking each other's bites while failing to to grab any FLESH with their own
Thankfully Rosie had finally gotten wind of Vaggie leaving with a 'slight head cold' last time and waltzes over just in time to toss some of her best stock into the hotel, a fine selection of sinner, hellborn, and even some leftover angel steaks from the battle, smartly distracting the hotel crew from hunting and tearing into each other instead
One very upsetting but ENERGETIC meal later, the blankly traumatized (and blood spattered) hotel crew huddle in groups back in the over turned lobby, listening as Rosie assures them the worst is over and they should be good as gore by tomorrow morning!
Alastor politely informs Roise that the mention of gore at just that moment might not have been the BEST choice of words
right on cue, Husk starts making hairball noises, and everyone else looks suddenly sick
Vaggie sighs, patting her gf on the back as Charlie tearfully hugs Razzle after having had her jaw unhinged in preparation of swallowing him whole when Rosie made her timely arrival (Razzle forgives her, he was planning to try devouring her from the inside out or die trying) (meanwhile Charlie had put both Fatty Nuggets and the Egg Boi on a frying pan and was preparing to have a nice cozy ghibli-style family meal- of friendship. literally. of friends)
-alright, Vaggie gives in, fine. Just one time I'll say it too.... Who do we blame for all this?
SUSAN everyone growls
this reminds Rosie to pass out the "shove your groaning up your asses" cards Susan made for all of them, which are, of course, scented
Vaggie sneezes at the scent and there's a stampede as everyone not wildly in love with her tries to run and save themselves
cannibal flu. it puts the "i" in cannibal as in that's what it makes YOU
cannibals are immune to this party bc they would barely even notice if they had it, for them, it's just suddenly turning into picky eater for a few days until the craving is satisfied :3 sometimes with your next door neighbor but really, isn't that what neighbors are for~?
(charlie falls into bed that night, exhausted, only to look around at a strange chewing noise)
(it's vaggie. on the window seat, hunched over with wings huddled around herself, looking up frozen in the act of gnawing on lute's torn off and left behind arm)
Vaggie: ".... Susan sent it over for me, special."
Charlie: "Uh huh."
Vaggie: "I'm not sick anymore! I just, was kinda curious..."
Charlie: "Vaggie, I support you biting the arm of the woman who tore out your eye. And you look great smeared with angelic blood." (pouting) "....but can you be cannibal curious in the morning and snuggle with me now?"
Vaggie: (tossing lute's arm into the bathroom) "Always, sweetie."
Charlie: "Mmm gooood. Now kisses!"
Vaggie: "Shit wait, I should wash my mouth-"
Charlie: "Or not?"
Vaggie: "..not?"
Charlie: "I'm kinda curious too~"
and thus was Susan's cannibal propaganda successfully spread, by the power of gay love, and how hot the demon princess of hell thinks it is when her angel girlfriend is spattered with someone else's blood
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dramaticallytotal · 7 days ago
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Noah's International Bookclub (Harem)
This may be my crack-iest idea yet folks! For real XD
Almost everywhere they go for a challenge, they end up staying for a couple of days so they don't waste fuel and to plan the course even if it was planned beforehand. Sometimes, they need to adjust. While this is going on, they get to explore in a set area (they aren't allowed to go too far, and the interns and camera crew make sure of it). Somehow, every time they go out to explore, Noah runs into a cute boy while he's trying to read.
These boys see a cute guy reading and wonder how to get his attention, and all of them have the same thought. Ask about the book he's reading, or if they've read it, ask for his thoughts and make sure to mention they've read it to keep the conversation going since the cute boy looks like he doesn't like when his reading is interrupted. They are happy when he takes the bait, and Noah is just happy to blab about books. At the end of each conversation, the boys that are interested in Noah ask for his number so they can further discuss the book and other literature. Of course, they are saying this as an obvious excuse to keep in touch and continue talking. Noah may be a genius, but he's also an idiot when it comes to recognizing when someone is into him, so he takes it at face value and is just happy to further discuss things.
He does explain he's in a game show, and when the boys seem interested, he rants about the challenges and the people, and the fact the contestants aren't allowed their phones, so he gives them his number and they write their's down for him to use later. He doesn't know that the boys are so into him that they start watching the show to root for the cute boy they met. Mind you, none of these interactions have been filmed since it's between downtime. They don't know there are others also interested in Noah.
Now he doesn't meet a boy in each location but oh my god does he meet a lot.
There's Chigaru from Egypt, Daichi from Japan, Oliver from New York, Benoît from Paris, Theo from Newfoundland, Ezra from England, and you would think it ends at England because Noah gets eliminated right?
Wrong!
In this au, he doesn't get eliminated in London because Izzy made a comment about the challenge, reminding her of the horror movie challenge in season one. Yes, Izzy, she wasn't taken by the military or anything like that. Her and Owen were hurt but not badly, thank goodness. Any who, after that comment, Noah suspects they are being watched. Still, though in the torture room, he still makes the joke of Alejandro making him do it because he's the shortest. Owen still asks why he doesn't like Alejandro, but Noah plays it off by saying he was just joking. He was making a joke because of the lazers in Paris. Owen thinks nothing of it, but Izzy figures out he's not saying everything, but that's fine! She'll interrogate him later.
It's when they reach the plane that Noah actually meets Ezra. Ezra and a bunch of other people from the concert Duncan was playing at had chased Courtney and Gwen when they saw them kidnap Duncan. No, none of them called the cops. They are a bunch of kids and some who have been drinking. Someone yelled to follow the girls, and they just did. When the group finds out it's for a show, they don't really know how to act, but Chris is all for drama except when it involves him. He's trying to explain to this group of punk kids why Duncan has to come with them, and Noah gets bored, so he pulls out his new book to read.
Ezra sees him and finds him intriguing, so he strikes up a conversation. Noah is happy to add another person to what he has taken to calling his International Bookclub in his head. It does end with Ezra giving him his number and getting Noah's number in turn in front of everyone. When the punks leave and Duncan is made to stay, Chris can't help but tease Noah about his new boyfriend.
Noah is confused and is just like, "What are you talking about, Old Man? Do you need to get your eyes and ears checked? We were just discussing my book, and Ezra wants to talk about it more later. That's all."
Chris is stunned by his obliviousness. So is everyone else. Izzy makes it worse by pointing out that this is the 6th boy to give Noah his number, and now everyone is just flabbergasted. Noah? Noah!??? The guy with no game???
Chris laughs and tells Noah point blank that those boys are into him and calls him a stud/player and asks if he is going to talk to them all. Noah panics on camera. He didn't think they were into him! He thought they wanted to discuss books! How could he talk to any of them now???? He really wanted to continue their conversations, but not if it meant everyone saw him as some kind of player!! He's not that kind of person!
It takes Courtney, Eva, Cody, and Heather to calm him down and talk some sense into him. He knows they say he is allowed to message all the boys and see who he gets along with more, but Noah isn't too sure. Sierra squeals something about a harem, but Noah ignores her. He doesn't want a harem!
Everyone starts to call the boys Noah's International Harem. The boys absolutely find each other and make a discord. At first, they wanted to hate each other, but they actually became weird group of friends who all like the same boy. They rant about how cute Noah is and catch up when a new episode airs. They feel bad that Noah panicked about being a player and leading them on, but they just found it incredibly endearing.
Alejandro is so not amused by this situation. Why didn't he know Noah met all these boys!? Why did it irritate him? Why did he feel like Noah didn't fully trust him? Well, that one was from the London challenge, and he had been prepared to confront Noah about it, but seeing how he misinterpreted the 6 boy's intentions, maybe Noah misinterpreted something he had said or done. So Alejandro makes it his mission to get closer to Noah and make him trust him. Alejandro's idea of getting closer is flirting, and Noah is so flustered and confused.
The discord the boys made is actually called Noah's International Bookclub completely by coincidence (once Noah finds out about it, he flips), and they all absolutely hate Alejandro. They roast him on a channel created specifically for that reason.
Noah makes it all the way to the Australian challenge and ends up meeting Sebastian. Sebastian approached him like all the others, and Noah freaked out and thought he saw the show and was making fun of him. When he realizes the guy is genuine, he feels bad. He sheepishly explained the whole situation, which makes Sebastian blunt. He straight up tells Noah he thinks he's cute, and yeah, he mentioned the book to get his attention, but he was actually interested in his thoughts on it. Sebastian gives him his number and tells him he's not bothered if Noah also messages the other boys as he is confident in his seducing skills.
Noah is so flustered, and unfortunately for him this time, it was filmed. Well, only the end part where Sebastian kissed Noah's cheek. Alejandro sees this and is pissed. In his mind, he's like, "I swear this boy will be the last!!! I'll stick by Noah and make sure no one approaches from now on!"
Sebastian is tracked down and added to the discord.
If you're wondering how they all found each other, it's like a weird cinderella situation. XD Noah showed all of them his International To-Read List. They all find each other by asking what the first three books are on the list or how many books they can remember.
Alejandro doesn't know he's been included in the harem by the viewers.
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It's Alenoah, but with a ton of male ocs because I just think the idea of Noah pulling all these cute guys without actually trying is really funny. Plus, having everyone else be absolutely baffled is also hilarious to me.
Funfact, the Theo from Newfoundland is Chris's freaking nephew, and when he figures that out, he is shooketh.
He definitely calls him to yell at him, "Who has you flirting with my assistant!?" (He definitely doesn't mean son. And his family definitely doesn't know that Chris basically adopted Noah. Nope. Not at all.)
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rainbowolfe · 1 month ago
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Could ya do shamura with someone who makes poisons and potions
Title: An Olive Branch So Fragile
Warnings: None
Notes: Anon, I. I lost the plot on this one XD Enjoy disgruntled, freshly-introduced Bishops with a cameo of potion seller.
Shamura sighs for the umpteenth time. They gaze up at the moon peeking through the trees, and it gazes back down at them with pity. They’ve been wandering aimlessly for almost an hour. It's cold and they don't particularly wish to be outside, but it was the only way for them to get a break from the stressors within the walls of “their” kingdom.
The worm with a maw of fangs he can’t seem to keep to himself. He who claims to be this group’s founder despite being the youngest of the four—so young he has yet to even complete his metamorphosis. Leshy. At least, that's what the frog keeps calling him.
The frog that verbally rips them to shreds if Shamura dares to even raise their voice at either of her dear companions. She who has deemed herself judge, jury, and executioner on all matters. They're fairly certain the only thing keeping her from tearing them apart physically is their ability to keep her and her two parasites fed. Her appetite would be impressive if it weren't so insatiable. Heket. A name taken, not given.
The squid with a reputation that precedes him. He who acts as if he’s too pretty to do anything that requires any amount of effort. He does not cook nor hunt nor clean, and he looks upon Shamura with quite a bit of disdain if they ever ask him to do those things. They don't speak to him much, but he talks at them at all hours of the day. Kallamar. A name he seems to begrudge despite answering to it.
The spider. Not themselves, but the spider before them. Allocor. The name was still fresh in the Crown’s memories. They who carried the torch of the Old Faith after a bloody fallout, and hoped to reignite the hearth with what was left: two traitors and a child.
Perhaps it was less that that abomination fell into their web, and more that it jumped into it on purpose to escape this train wreck. Shamura noticed early on that any thoughts of abandoning this project were met with splitting headaches and fevers from the wrath of an unknown entity. Whatever deal that'd been struck was bound to this Crown, thus Shamura inherited it when they chose to be its bearer.
Their pedipalps tuck closer to their face when they sense smoke. Following it to its source, they come across a little shop built into the bones of a long dead monster. They raise their hand to flick a bell hanging in the doorway as they enter.
“Is this establishment manned?” They idle just inside the doorway.
There’s a long pause followed by the scrape of a chair against wood. “Shut the door. Cold as the tundra out there.”
Shamura is happy to oblige. Lit candles line each aisle of the little shop, working in tandem with the roaring fire to provide sufficient lighting. They listen for the breaths of another who may be hiding in the shadows; feel for the vibrations of a Beast trying to creep unseen.
But there’s no one else in this morbid domicile. No one but Shamura and an anteater that towered over them as well as the shelves and carousels housing their products. Potions. Potions, poisons, balms, and salves; crowding every available surface.
They can feel her heavy steps and hear her tail dragging against the floor as she moves through the aisle next to them. She’s making no effort to hide her movements, nor is she moving with any haste, so Shamura remains at ease.
For now.
“Working late on such a lovely evening? Or perhaps your day is just beginning.” They address her as she enters their line of sight.
“The evening? Lovely?” She chuckles slightly. “You Beasts of the night are funny things. Just like the serpents that slide on their bellies with pride, you have no idea that you’re being punished.”
“The hours of darkness hold as much wonder and beauty as the daytime. Such sights are not accessible to the cowardly, however.” Their eyebrows quirk upward as the woman brings down a slat of wood in front of the door, it’s end fitting neatly on a metal shelf opposite of it. “Is there a problem?”
“I don’t feel like babysitting, Crown Bearer.” She gives the apparatus a firm pat. “Gives me a chance to catch up to you if you decide you’re too holy to engage in commerce.”
Shamura simply hums in response and returns to wandering the aisles of the shop. They’ve already spotted another exit they can use if the need arises. They have no intention of stealing or purchasing anything, they came in here to reap the benefits of the fire.
The shopkeep returns to her work station on the far end of the modified remains. In it’s skull is a kitchen of sorts, multiple pots boiling over an open fire. Some give off arcane energy. Some give off unpleasant smells. Others give off both.
Shamura catches a glimpse of this work station when they work their way down the aisle closest to it. Their curiosity quickly takes hold of them. They complete one more aimless lap around the store before approaching the shopkeep once more, as casual as one could be.
They remain a respectful distance away while they watch her work, taking in the many on-going projects and assortments of oddities. From organs and bones, to cloth and flowers. They can identify tails, hands, and eyes from various beasts as well as they can identify the bundles of dried flora. They manage a glimpse into a cabinet filled with dozens of small, pear-shaped flasks full of unknown liquid when she pulls out one that is particularly viscous with a color that seems to perpetually shift.
“Ah, you are not a merchant. You are an alchemist.” They comment. Explains the excess.
“Mm. Beasts usually call me a witch and leave it at that,” She responds. “Full marks for you, silk-spinner.”
Shamura bristles at the ‘nickname’ and returns to watching in silence. For as chaotic as it is, it soothes their nerves. The steady drip of a retort flask into a beaker. The delicate preparation of each ingredient before it is added to the appropriate mix. Some cut into even slices, others ground into an unrecognizable form in a mortar. The occasional sound of pages turning when she references her worn, yet ornate book. She’s as enamored with her work as they are.
She soon forgets they’re even there, at least until she turns around to pull a potion off the shelf. She freezes, a swathe of emotions crossing her features. She seems inclined to tell them to leave, so they interject with more small talk to distract her from the idea.
"How quaint," Shamura scratches the back of their leg with the opposite foot. "A colleague of mine dabbles in potions—poisons, primarily... Solely."
They tap their finger in their elbow a few times. That wasn't a necessary detail to share, was it? It's not as if this alchemist would know.
They shake their head to clear away their inner monologue, "His methods are far more occult, however. He draws venom from the heart. Shapes intent. Not always his own. Makes, ah… How did he put it?"
"Makes real what was once intangible?"
"Yes, that’s right."
There's a pause, Shamura expecting her to continue. When they realize she doesn't intend to, they're inclined to fill the silence themselves before it went on too long.
"You are familiar with such methods?"
"Indeed, I am," She turns back around to add the potion into a bowl to be mixed. "Will you be purchasing something this eve?"
"I'm considering it." They lie.
She grunts at them.
“Why stick to such traditional methods if you know of better ones? Cuts down the clutter, the costs, the labor… He cannot make more than poison but… he says it is possible to produce other substances.”
“Curious. I would think a venomous creature such as yourself would appreciate a more natural method.”
“That is the reason, then? Fear of what is considered unnatural?” They roll their eyes. “How… boring.”  
She scoffs. She moves the four pots towards the edge of the fire to simmer, then turns around in her chair to face her ‘customer’. They had her full attention now, though she was starting to lose theirs.
“Perhaps it’s a bit different for you blessed types, but normal beasts of science such as myself must ere on the side of caution when it comes to curses and spirits. It is a volatile craft that bites back as it pleases.”
“Tell me more.”
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Shamura spends almost an hour chatting with the Alchemist, maybe more. Once they found a topic that got her riled up, it was easy to keep her going. They learn of all her very strong opinions regarding the haphazard mixing of alchemy and magic that's been happening as of late. They intended to drag this out for as long as possible, as once she kicks them out, all that is left to do is to return to the Old Faith’s compound.
But alas, a timer set for one of her brews reminds her of the time of night and the tasks she needs to complete.
“By the light of the Sun, have we truly been talking for so long?” She tsks. “No offense, night dweller, but you'll have to make your leave. Ahh, so much time lost…” she stands and begins to get back in the rhythm of things. “Last chance to purchase something.”
“Right…” Shamura figures they could buy something small in exchange for taking up her evening. “What will five coins get me?”
“Coin? I have no need for coin.”
“Then what?”
“Resources.” She leans over and reaches into a drawer whose contents clatter noisily when she opens it. She holds out an empty, pear-shaped flask to them. Its opening is covered with thin cloth rubber-banded onto it.  
A sigh. “Of course. Resources.”
“I have need of venom. As little or as much as you’d like, and you may take one potion of your choosing.”
Shamura rolls their eyes then grabs the flask. “First my silk, now my venom. What next? My urine? The bile from my stomach?”
“Tempting, if offered by a different creature.” She titters. “Though I am in the market for eggs, if you happen to lay those. Or know someone who does…”
“By the 'Crates, you people are feral.” Their message is only slightly muddled by the flask in their mouth, pushed up against one of their venom-producing fangs.
A slow drip of venom fills the flask. It's mostly clear with a yellowish tint.
“You cannot re’phoke your offer but, do know ‘ish nothing lethal.”
“Worry not. I can make plenty of deadly things on my own.”
“Then why?”
“What seems worthless to one is gold to another.”
“Vhery profound.”
The alchemist rolls her eyes and decides to throw them a bone. “I know your kind by your tail. Not many of you left, at least not around here… but your venom is very mild. Diluted properly and administered in small amounts, it becomes a very effective pain reliever. One I prefer over poppies and the like.”
Shamura figures they've produced enough venom by now. They pull the half-filled flask off their fang, offering it back to her,
“I never thought venom could be used in such a way… though it does make sense. I wonder…”
“The blade that ends lives is the same blade that slices bread.”
They pause, putting their thought on hold to process what she had said. The corner of their mouth twitches with a smirk. “That one wasn't as good.”
“Mm. I'll workshop that one.” She swirls the liquid in the flask a few times, holding it up to the light. She gives a slight nod, satisfied.
She gestures. “Take your pick. Any three.”
“Oh, I get three now,” They chuckle under their breath. “Seems I overpaid.”
For as many laps as they had done around the little shop under the guise of browsing, they never really took in what was being offered. Even so, its difficult to tell what’s being displayed at a glance. The only potions with consistent coloring are the ones of health and recovery. The pigment of blood is a difficult one to recolor.
Every bottle is plugged with a cork and sealed with a covering of wax, the alchemist’s personal emblem embossed into the lid. They’re categorized by colored ribbons tied around the necks, and further sub-categorized by the symbols painted onto their labels.
They stop in front of a carousel of seemingly like-objects, slowly spinning the display as they call out to the Alchemist.
“These growth potions, are they…? Define growth, exactly.”
Her response is a bit hard to hear from her workstation, “The mark of the thorn are those potions suited for combat, while the mark of the torch will relate to expansion of the mind. Joy marks the potions intended for more… indulgent matters. Matters of the heart, some would call it.”
“Ah. I can only imagine what goes into a potion such as that.”
“Not what you would expect.”
They hum to themselves and continue on. Being that the only potions they have awareness of are those of healing, poison, and strength, they’re quite overwhelmed with the selection at their disposal. Three potions? They hardly have need of one. And it felt a waste to take anything just to throw it away or lose it in a trunk. They… suppose they could give them to their new colleagues.
A peace-offering of sorts. They narrow down their options, make a selection, and confirm it with the Alchemist. She packs them into a simple, wooden carrier that could hold up to four. She covers it with a white cloth, tying a bow at the top that also functions as a handle.
An off-white potion of growth for Kallamar—a boon that not only increases one’s size, but one’s strength as well. For as passive and lazy as he acts, it is just that. Acting. He’s the warrior of their trio. Shamura’s seen as much.
A powder blue potion of flutter for Heket—a boon that challenges Nature and allows previously flightless creatures to hover off the ground. She’s rather stationary for a frog—at least, Shamura thought so. Between Kallamar’s willingness to fetch things for her and Leshy’s inclination not to make her chase him (both concessions not offered to Shamura), they suspect her inertia is due to some sort of limitation rather than personal preference.
And finally, a dark purple potion of energy for Leshy—sweetened and bubbling with constant motion. Not that the kid needed extra energy, but it was one of the few things in here mild enough for a child. Shamura’s fairly certain he won’t be interested in any of the perfumes or cosmetics.  
It’s just as dark and cold outside as it was when they entered the woman’s shop, but it certainly feels colder to Shamura. They hear the heavy chunk of the latch closing behind them. The Alchemist probably wishes she’d done that in the first place.
They flick the side of their Crown with their middle finger, causing it’s crescent-shaped eye to brighten and illuminate their surroundings with a purple-pink glow. There’s nowhere left to go now but home. Well, not ‘home’ home. But it’s their home now.
They hope everyone’s in a better mood than when they left. Or, better yet, they hope that everyone’s retired to their rooms for the evening. They could just leave the gifts at their doors or in the common room.
Unfortunately for Shamura, hope is not a currency Fortune accepts.
Shamura finds their colleagues gathered in the gazebo, as the trio did every evening for dinner. They find it odd that they're still out. Perhaps the conversation was particularly good this evening.
“Good eve, Heket. Leshy, Kallamar.” They nod their head.
They do not receive a response. Leshy goes to, but suddenly thinks better of it. Heket crosses her arms as she turns to face the arachnid, gripping the sides of her arms fiercely.
“How kind of you to finally join us. How was your time in the forest?” She sneers, baring her unnaturally sharp teeth.
“…it was as one would expect. How was dinner?”
“Just grand! As one would expect.”
“I bro—”
“The meal would’ve been better hot, but we wound up eating it warm trying to wait for you. But, at least you enjoyed yourself tonight. Right?”
Shamura clenches their jaw, a click sounding from their teeth slotting into place. They pry them apart again so they can respond.
“You do not typically wait for me, why would I believe tonight would be any different?” Shamura responds flatly. “I cannot read your mind. You won't allow me.”
Heket tenses, fists clenched. Her throat bulges for a second, but she forces the building croak down. “If you cannot read a simple letter, what good is it to let you into my mind?”
“What letter?”
“The letter. I attached. To your door.” By the last sentence she’s speaking through her teeth. “Bright red envelope. Hard to miss.”
Shamura considers going back out into the woods. Maybe they didn't mind trading their bodily fluids with an anteater over whatever was unfolding right now. The neutral mask fails as they suck their teeth in annoyance.
“There was nothing on my door this morning. Perhaps it fell. Or it was—…” They trail off, a memory from this morning suddenly striking them. Something that didn't seem noteworthy at the time. “Leshy.”
“What?” She snaps, cutting them off.
They pretend not to notice. “He was in the hall this morning, shredding red paper. Or eating it, maybe. Which was it?”
“I was just tasting it, I’m not a savage.” Leshy scoffs, with enough offense it almost made Shamura laugh.
“And… what did it taste like?” Heket interjects.
“Paper,”
Shamura cannot hold back the snort of laughter this time. They turn and pretend to be focused on Leshy to avoid her ire.
“But it smelled like breakfast! Isn’t it weird how things smell one way, but then taste like another?”
Shamura blinks once. Twice. “Sure.”
“It was a really good breakfast, but you missed that too.”
“Was I invited to breakfast as well?”
Shamura’s question remains unanswered, Leshy talking over them. “Usually I try to save some to eat before lunch, so I can enjoy it for even longer, but it was too good to save. So when I smelled it, I thought it was my second chance!”
A pause. Leshy stares intently through Shamura, as if he’d forgotten why they were talking about this. His eyes focus on them properly when he remembers.
“But I didn’t get it off the floor. Kallamar gave it to me. And it didn't smell like Shamura, it smelled like breakfast. So there’s no way that was their letter.”
Two pairs of eyes shift their gaze and land on a squid that's been uncharcteriscslley quiet. Then a third. Kallamar keeps his eyes fixed on his nails, which he’d been carefully painting this whole time. Too carefully.
“Yes, I believe I did give him a few documents to entertain himself with this morning. I do so regularly. It's good practice to destroy sensitive paperwork,” Kallamar responds nonchalantly. With a tone that makes one wonder if they’re overreacting.
When he's satisfied with the coat of paint on his middle finger, he slips the brush back into the bottle and looks up to meet eyes with Shamura. “If you misplaced it, just say so. You don't have to make a whole thing out of it.”
Kallamar maintains eye contact for a few more seconds before returning to his activity. He flashes a grin at Leshy as he pulls the brush from the bottle once more to apply a second coat.
“Leshy, while you’re here, why don’t I paint your claws too? With so much space to work with, I could do some lovely designs.”
“Blegh. Keep that stuff away from me!”
“What? Afraid of a little color?” He chuckles. “You’ll come crawling back to me come Winter, begging me to beautify you.”
“In your dreams. I’d never do something like that.” Leshy crouches down to get on all fours, a sort of defensive stance in case Kallamar tried something. “It’s unbecoming of a leader to paint himself like a maiden. Hint, hint.”
“Is that so?” Kallamar leans back in a theatric display of offense. “Well, it is a good thing I’m not our leader then, yes?”
The two erupt with laughter.
Meanwhile, Shamura’s been… thinking. Their first instinct was to push the issue and call Kallamar’s bluff. How is it that they are the one being put at fault here? Their second instinct was to outright pressure him and strongarm him into confessing. A bit of pain is plenty incentive for the average beast.
But they know Heket won’t allow either of those things to play out. It would only devolve into an argument with her, as it always did. It doesn’t ever seem to matter what Kallamar did, or what Leshy did. Only how Shamura responds. Even if their criticism is valid or their annoyance is justified.
Even now, when surely even Heket could see what Kallamar had done. Shamura cannot even comment on it or else—
They stop themselves.
This time it was obvious what Kallamar had done.
wcalm down. As much as it pains them to let it slide, it’s their best option. They clench and unclench their fist to release a bit of tension.
And though the mane covering their neck remained puffed up, and their claws periodically twitched, they manage to go against their combative nature. They roll their shoulders and finally turn their gaze to address Heket.
“He’s right. My sincerest apologies, Heket.” Another twitch, barely perceptible to the naked eye. “I must have… misplaced your letter before I got the chance to read it. I truly did not mean to snub your invitation and keep you all waiting.”
That last part was true, at least.
And just like that, the sparks of conflict are snuffed out. Heket seems lost on how to proceed, having spent the last hour stewing in her anger, preparing to unleash it in full on Shamura. Kallamar becomes so focused on their exchange that he fails to hold Leshy’s interest, and the worm goes to make his leave.
He does an odd little wiggle to settle himself into the dirt, then dives down as smoothly as if he had dove into water.
“Ah, Leshy. Before you go, I have a gift for you.” Shamura calls in his direction.
It makes Shamura wonder how many arguments, how many misunderstandings, how many headaches were facilitated by this slippery bastard. The conflicts with no clear catalyst, where the initial confusion is consumed entirely by their and Heket’s mutual anger with each other.
Heket and Kallamar both give them a confused look. Leshy’s tail disappears into his hole, but the shifting bulge in the earth below makes it clear he’s coming closer.
“I have gifts for all of you, in fact. I ran into an alchemist during my evening stroll.” Shamura trails off, second-guessing if they should explain any further.
 They unwrap the unassuming carrier that has gone unnoticed by the three of them and set the potions on the table for them to access. Kallamar props his head on his hand, feigning disinterest, though he’s really scanning the bottles to deduce their origins. He waits for Heket to say something, but she steps away to the pile of dishes, ingredients, and pots she’ll have to take back inside when she’s done here.
“Mm. Cute,” Kallamar shrugs. “Very thoughtful. But, you know, you shouldn’t buy potions from just any random alchemist.”
“Is that so?” Shamura can’t help but to roll their eyes this time. “What makes one alchemist any less ‘random’ than another?”
“Connections. Quality,” He lazily picks up the rounded flask, swishing around the off-white liquid like a fine wine. “I’ve never seen this seal before and… it seems rather thick for a potion.”
Leshy pulls himself out of the ground and climbs back onto the bench with a level of grace one wouldn’t expect from such a chaotic creature. His tail sways side to side while he works out the meanings of the labels and ‘weird shapes’ on the containers he can reach. Kallamar sets down the flask, then grabs the pear-shaped one to do the same.
“This one is not as bad…”
Shamura narrows their eyes. “Do not feel you have to accept it simply because it is a gift. If you do not like it, I would gladly—”
“Tomorrow, then. Be early.” Heket grunts awkwardly, setting a lidded bowl on the table near Shamura. “And don’t eat past midday.”
Shamura takes a moment to process being interrupted and what she actually said. She prepared a bowl just for them? “…understood.”
With an excited chitter, Leshy lays claim to the potion of growth. Though the powder blue potion glitters in a way that draws his eye, increasing his size (even if only temporarily) wasn’t an opportunity he would dare to skip out on.
“Thanks, Shamura!” Leshy chirps, snatching the bottle and tucking it into the safety of his foliage.
“Leshy.” Kallamar quickly glances at Shamura, then Heket, now urging her to say something.
Shamura addresses Heket with a nod and a quiet thanks before they take the surprisingly warm bowl to retire to their room before they ran out of patience. Their pedipalp twitches with curiosity as they hear the clunk of heavy glass hitting wood, but they resist the urge to turn around. They continue on.
Heket catches the pear-shaped container before it can roll off the table. It survived the force with which Kallamar threw it onto the table, but she didn’t want to test its limits any further.  
“Leshy, hold on—!” Kallamar lets out an exasperated sigh as the worm bounds away. He stands.
“You stay, we need to talk.” Heket grabs his arm as he tries to leave anyways.
“Can we talk after I retrieve whatever concoction that stupid bug just gave our brother?” Kallamar attempts to snatch away, but Heket tightens her grip on his arm.
“Kallamar.”
“You intend to just let him drink tha—”
“Kallamar,”
“What?!”
“Look at me,” She lowers her voice to a deep rumble. She feels him flinch and releases him. “…please.”
Shamura wonders if he’ll do so as they turn a corner and exit listening range.
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sketchy-owl · 2 years ago
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RECORD OF RAGNAROK no sense 😊
Episode 22
~Happy Fathers day!~
Child Y/N: Daddy!!Daddy look!!*holding a drawing*
Adam:What a beautiful drawing you did Y/N.*smiles* Is that me?
Child Y/N:*smiles* Yes!!
Adam:Oh,you sure made your dad look awesome! I'm not that good looking!
Child Y/N:*puff her cheeks* Daddy is the most attractive man in the world!! When I grow up I wanna marry him!!
Adam:*chuckles* "So cute"
~Present~
Adam:"Haaaa those were good times"
Eve:Y/N will be here soon with her partner please...be gentle with them.
Adam:Eve you don't have to worry. I will welcome them regardless who they are. "I cannot say they will be safe if they are a man"*dark smile*
Cain/Abel:"Is written on your face that you will kill them if they are a male"
*The bell rings*
Eve:Y/N is here!*happy and goes to open the door*
Y/N:Hi mom!! *smiles and hugs her*
Eve:Oh welcome back Y/N!! My sweet child! Oh and you must Y/N's part-...
Odin:I'm...Odin....pleased to meet you.
The whole family had the same thought:"HE IS SO OLD THAT HE COULD BE HER FATHER/ME"
Y/N:I brought an apple pie for you Dad! Happy Father's Day!!
Adam:....T-thank you darling*force a smile*
~During dinner~
Y/N:*smiles and eats* Huginn, Munnin are you enjoying the food.
Huginn:It's good
Munnin:*eating everything *
Abel:...."Everything seems fine??..."*sweating*
Cain:"Dad seems calm....I wonder why"*scared as fuck*
Eve:*looks at her husband*
Adam*thinking about 1000 ways to kill Odin* "Why did she choose him!? My precious little girl!"
Y/N:Oh...daddy can you pass me the salt?
Adam/Odin:*both reach for the salt *
Abel/Cain/Huginn/Munnin: "Oh shit"
Eve: "Oh sweet heaven"
Adam:Odin.....I think you need a check up on your hearing...she said Daddy...*ready to jump on Odin"
Y/N:*embarrassed looks at Odin* "Please do not say something to provocate him"
Odin:Your daughter calls me daddy too.
Adam:.....*jumps on Odin and punches him*
Y/N:DAD NO!
[Owlie note: thank @luxthestrange they chose Odin for this xD]
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theyanderespecialist · 3 months ago
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Runaway Fiance~ 1 (Mini-Series) Yandere Ra Al Ghul X Marie (DC)
My Co Author For This: (Who Marie Is inspired after) @mamamaries
(No one's pov)
Marie slowly opened her eyes, not moving at all at first. She was waiting to hear footsteps. And she did.
She tried to visualize what she was hearing. She's only have so much time. Only such a brief window. She could probably lie if anyone saw her.. but she'd rather not deal with it at all.
When she'd first met Ra's- he seemed..like a dream come true. Courteous, polite, well-spoken, well-educated. Maybe a little too educated because..god he was much smarter than her- but he seemed like a dream.
She never expected him to show interest in her, she never expected they'd be together.
He seemed so old school. But she didn't mind, he didn't push her for intimacy. Something she often appreciated. She was too scared to kiss and it just..it had to be the right moment. They hadn't gotten too far- aside from that one time in the hot tub- that got...quite intense.
He always talked about how he loved this planet, like she did. How people had to be better for each other and for the world.
That was true- but he lied to her about what he did to achieve that- what his league did to achieve that.
How do you go about telling your girlfriend, now fiancée that you just so happen to not only be suspiciously loaded but..oh, I don't know..run an entire league of assassins and call yourself the demon head of it- trying to murder whole cities worth of people, blackmail, weapon smuggling- how do you even try?
Well, she could tell you. You don't. She found out by mistake when she got a little too curious.
Which is why she was leaving. She swore to him when he proposed that he'd be her family now, that she'd be a part of his world and he'd be a part of hers- but she didn't want that.
She didn't even bother taking anything but enough money to just- grab a ride and go. Go somewhere. She didn't care. Maybe she'd die of frostbite out in the snowy tundra but she didn't care.
All she cared about was running. And run she did. Through the snow, through the harsh wind. Her legs- she couldn't even feel them anymore. She finally reached a village and managed to get someone to take her on their plane after begging enough. Wherever it was going. That's where she'd live. She couldn't ever go back home. That's the first place they'd look. It took weeks to finally get somewhere she felt was safe, and even now, she always was worried they'd find her...and they'd kill her. No doubt.
She was settled down, working in a small shop and being helpful in any way she could. She even flirted with one of her coworkers. He was not Ra, but he was sweet and a very good man. John was a simple man who came here to help out his grandfather, the owner. She was happy to work with him. But she never let anyone take her photo, as the risk of it getting online. She lived her life the best she could but she also now lived in fear.
"Morning Mar!" John says as Marie walks into the shop. "I am so glad you came in, we will be busy today, the festivals start tonight! I-I was wondering if you wanted to go with me to the first night! You know l-like a date!"
John was nervous but he wanted to ask Marie out to have a date with her.
(John I am sorry but you will die XD)
(John is done for he's cooked) 
(XD Yes he has sealed his fate XD) 
She hadn't dated since Ra's. Her first and only relationship- it was.. not ideal. She didn't trust anyone.
"A..date? I... I don't.." she stopped. "I haven't..dated in a long time. I'd..I'd like that." She didn't know if she actually would.
She would not even admit it to herself, but she was still attached to Ra. Her deep connection still had her attracted to him, that is what made finding out about him hurt all the more. She was the first man she was ever fully attracted to and wanted to be with in real life. So when she found out the type of man he was it was like a stab to her heart, but she still loved him on some level, and that made it hurt the most.
However, if she does not learn to move on and learn her heart come to terms she cannot be with Ra... Then she will never heal.
"That is great!" John grins so happy he was over the moon, he really liked Marie and could not wait. 'I will close the shop tonight, so you can have time to get ready!"
Marie nodded John was so different like a puppy dog almost wanting to do everything to make Marie happy.
She gave him a sort of tense smile. She never told John the truth, only half of it. She had a dangerous Ex, one who could never know where she was. That's all he needed to know.
"Thanks, John." She said.
They continued to work in the shop and had a great time. The day was busy and John made sure Marie took plenty of breaks so she did not get overwhelmed
She had some pretty serious social anxiety. No one could come behind her or from the side- he had no idea what her ex did, but it had to be bad.
"Well, that's it for the night, you go, I'll stay behind and lock up," John said as Marie slowly waved and began her journey back to her shitty little apartment.
She was unaware that one of Ra's assassins was in town for a job, and he saw Marie crossing the street.
"I be damned." He says and pulls out his cell phone on the third Call Ra Answer.
"What is it, I am busy in this meeting." He says as he pulls the victim's eye out of his skull.
"I just caught sight of your fiance, Marie." He says and Ra's froze, it had been a year... a year without her and she was found.
"Where are you?" He demands stabbing the victim in the head and ending his meeting. 
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whinlatter · 11 months ago
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something tells me you don't really like tonks, just a hunch xD
For the relationship ask if you're still doing it: harry and remus, molly and remus, teddy and adromeda. I would love to see what do you think <3
noooo i love tonks! i had a ball writing her and think that @evesaintyves’ rendering of her is one of fandom’s greatest gifts 😭 i just find it very funny that harry thinks she should low key get a grip. and as a clumsy young woman who should myself get a grip, i say: get off her case, hjp.
ok the remus + tonks/black extended family universe... hyped for this one. delicious choices, thank you anon. (i have a few more in the inbox i'm going to take a stab at but am trying to avoid spoilery ones or ones where i risk boring you all again by repeating old talking points, so if i don't get to one pls forgive me...)
right — to business. we begin with everybody looking at remus lupin waiting for him to put his crippling self loathing aside to write (1) singular letter to his dead friend's son:
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i jest (to an extent). but i do think the entirety of harry and remus' dynamic is best encapsulated in one singular scene in PoA:
“When they get near me — ” Harry stared at Lupin’s desk, his throat tight. “I can hear Voldemort murdering my mum.” Lupin made a sudden motion with his arm as though to grip Harry’s shoulder, but thought better of it.
i know there's a very understandable move in AUs to imagine what would have happened if remus had raised harry - or, more often, if remus had been 'allowed' to raise harry by dumbledore. but looking past the whole plot-requiring-harry-to-be-at-the-dursleys thing, the truth is, canon remus lupin would never have put himself forward to raise harry, because of his own (not unfounded!) concerns about the precarity of his existence and the dangerousness of his condition. remus' sense of self - more specifically his fear of himself, and his very low self worth - consistently lead him to hold harry at arm's length from the moment he's introduced in the series until its bitter end. i don't think remus at all approves of the way harry is treated at the dursleys. but i can very much imagine that remus thinks it would still be better than the life he could have given harry if he ever had been called upon to serve as his primary caregiver. one of the most interesting implicit dynamics in the series is that harry notices this and does, to some extent, resent it (obviously the fact that he only ever calls him 'lupin' in his narration, though uses remus to his face, and also: 'Harry had received no mail since the start of term; his only regular correspondent was now dead and although he had hoped that Lupin might write occasionally, he had so far been disappointed.') while the harry & remus fight in DH is about harry's view of what remus ought to do re tonks and the baby, it’s also harry coming as close as saying to remus: you're letting your own child down like you let me down. ('I’m pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you aren’t sticking with your own kid, actually... He had it coming to him,” said Harry. Broken images were racing each other through his mind: Sirius falling through the veil; Dumbledore suspended, broken, in midair; a flash of green light and his mother’s voice, begging for mercy… ‘Parents,’ said Harry, 'shouldn’t leave their kids unless—unless they’ve got to.')
molly and remus: i think this is a very, very underrated relationship! i know there’s a lot of molly-bashing around these days, especially if you’re a marauders and/or sirius and/or wolfstar stan. but i think it is very very overlooked that the person who looks after adult remus the most from 1995 onwards, and who shows him some of the deepest trust and roots for his happiness, is molly. for a man who has plainly known a huge amount of financial/food/housing insecurity, and who is so villainised in wider wizarding society, it is no small gesture for molly to not only provide for remus materially but also to trust him in a house with all of her children and encourage him in a romantic relationship he struggles to feel entitled to and worthy of. (i love sirius, but he is in no fit state to ‘look after’ remus in the last year of his life, and fandom’s continued unwillingness to recognise the importance of domestic/caregiving labour as a vital contribution to the resistance will never not be problematic af). remus clearly values and admires molly in return - the only time he actually ever entertains a parent/guardianship role is when molly is weeping over her boggart, crying onto remus’ shoulder (‘what must you think of me?’) and he assures her that if anything were to happen to her and arthur, he would be a part of the team making sure her children are taken date of (‘what do you think we’d do, let them starve?’) remus’ relationship with molly is often the more mild-mannered translator of her viewpoint to others (especially others with hot tempers), and mediator trying to find middle ground between molly’s protective instincts and the battle/ready instincts of others. (more grist to my sirius & ginny parallels mill — in DH, when a fuming ginny is desperately trying to sneak off to fight in the battle, it’s remus who appeals to molly and ginny to find the compromise of ginny staying in the room of requirement to know what’s going on but not actively fight, a mirror image of his role mediating the dispute between sirius and molly over harry’s right to know what’s going on at grimmauld in ootp…) molly accepts this compromise, a sign that she trusts remus implicitly (she never frets that a werewolf is living among her children in ootp onwards, and invites him to christmas readily even after months undercover with the pack) and also feels able to call him out (‘i’ve always said you’re taking a ridiculous line on this, remus’.) this is too long but basically — justice for molly and remus, unlikely buds!
teddy and andromeda: i weirdly think a lot about teddy lupin these days. i tend to imagine teddy as a very mild-mannered, affable, calm child, like who remus might have been had he not been bitten, with tonks' heart and sociability but also with something of remus' more philosophical disposition. i think he'd slip very naturally into a big brother role because, in part, he does see himself as having a responsibility to take care of people, and i think this would shine through in his relationship with andromeda. we know teddy was raised by his gran, and i imagine she feels enormously protective of him, perhaps bordering on strict in her desire to keep him safe from the harm that came to all the rest of her family. but i like to imagine teddy didn't act out against this too much, in part because he understands where it comes from and in turn feels very protective of andromeda. growing up in the aftermath of the war would make teddy as a child particularly aware of the grief and pain and the silences among the adults around him, and i think teddy would take any compensatory protective strictness on andromeda's part with good grace, and humour her for it. i like to think teenage/young adult teddy serves as the translator for any of his gran's more prickly edges, and that they have a very close relationship that both of them really treasure.
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alice-after-dark · 7 months ago
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back at it again with my shitty fandom hottakes — if you’re still accepting asks about the whole “canon v. fanon” thing, that is — because i have ✨ opinions ✨ that have been ruminating in my head for a while now and i kind of wanted to throw them out into the void (i DO humbly apologise for the length — i have more than one talking point and am not known for my brevity lol)
(1) Alastor being sex-repulsed, or just sex negative in general.
yeah, we’re getting the controversial one out of the way first: probably should clarify that i personally AM a sex-repulsed aroace and therefore, i can See why people, including our fellow aces, naturally come to this conclusion — really, it’s only when people tote this statement as fact *specifically* to deter shipping that annoys the hell out of me. Alastor is a mysterious character: we REALLY don’t know much of anything about him in the grand scheme of things beyond what he *chooses* to reveal and that includes the matter of his sexuality — and frankly, he doesn’t reveal much of anything on that front, man doesn’t even know what an “asexual” *is*, XD. Most evidence I’ve seen citing his so-called sex repulsion that *isn’t* just dubiously canon at best supplemental material such as the Hunnicast or simply headcanon being repackaged as fact are the two scenes where Alastor turns down Angel Dust — a character who, especially at that point in the narrative, is VERY forward in his hypersexuality. The thing that i just don’t see a lot of people acknowledge, however, is: (1) Alastor turns him down, yes, but not in any way that would characterize him as being *particularly* sex negative (“Ha! *No.*”/“Haha! Never going to happen!”), he’s just bluntly rejecting Angel Specifically; and (2) Husk *also* rejected Angel and far more overtly before the two started to genuinely bond + is much more open about his discomfort with Niffty’s kinks, and yet he isn’t treated as sex-repulsed by the much of fandom — quite the opposite, in fact. Frankly, while i can *see* the reasoning behind portraying Alastor as sex-repulsed, the idea of him being this sex negative person who lashes out or faints at the notion of literally *anything* that can be perceived as sexual to be laughable when you consider his long-lived friendship with Mimzy — a *flapper* — and that he grew up in a period of great sex revolution in the United States: just because the 1920s is considered “prudish” by today’s standards doesn’t negate that fact; i can easily see Alastor as being repressed as a consequence of the time period and his unwillingness to adapt, but not to the extent that he’ll keel over seeing a fucking ankle getting flashed or while getting hit on — he *is* an adult, after all, and has had plenty of time to adjust to Hell’s general hedonism while not partaking in it himself.
(2) the infantilization of Charlie, Niffty, and Velvette. pretty self explanatory, i think: fandom in *general* has a pretty glaring issue of treating happy-go-lucky or just...short characters, especially women or neurodivergent characters, like children and it’s not *just* limited to hazbin fandom — it just makes me sad.
Charlie gets it slightly less *severely* compared to the other two, i believe, but i still see it crop of in some sects: yes, she’s clearly sheltered, and yes, she wears her heart on her sleeve to her detriment, but she’s also a grown ass woman (Faustisse — who i don’t personally consider a reliable source for most things relating to the current day show by virtue to them having left the project in 2020 — has stated that she is around 200 years old, so i’m going with the general assumption she’s older than MOST sinners here) and she *is* trying to run a business beyond feel good therapy exercises, however messily because, frankly, she isn’t particularly *good* at doing business: still, i see certain sects of the fandom treat and portray her as having the naivety of a child, reducing her to an “uwu smol bean” blindly trusting even the shadiest of fuckers like Alastor without any hesitation or critical thinking whatsoever under the notion of “well, EVERYONE can be redeemed” and relegating characters like Vaggie to be glorified babysitters at *best*: in canon, yes her ideas of redemption aren’t particularly well-rounded *yet* and it’s clear there’s a disconnect between her and other sinners due to her upbringing, but she *isn’t* an idiot — she’s well aware Alastor is shifty as fuck and doesn’t have her best interests at heart no matter how much she hopes he secretly *does* care, that’s *why* she held off on making any deals with him until she was driven into a corner, and she has no problem calling people out on their shittiness or showing her teeth just because she leans more towards pacifism compared to the rest of the cast.
Niffty, frankly, isn’t treated *much* better in canon compared to fandom, but that’s honestly a rant for a *different* day: it’s obvious she likely has SOME kind of disorder to explain much of her more eccentric behaviour, frankly we can speculate but we simply won’t know for sure until we know more about her in general, which *may* come in s2 considering where things left off with her. Oftentimes in fanon, she’s pigeonholed into simply being “Alastor’s hypomanic daughter” rather than her own individual character, which is a shame — it’s obvious the two have an amicable relationship despite her being his thrall, but it doesn’t read as particularly familial to me personally beyond him finding her antics amusing (and in a, frankly, patronizing way typical of Alastor) — and she’s regularly coddled, not allowed to have relationships with other characters *beyond* a parental dynamic with deerboi or husk: despite the actual show pointing to her having, at the very least, a friendly relationship with Mimzy and the rest of the hotel’s guests, and her being a former housewife who’s explicitly into hardcore kink/BDSM.
Velvette getting this treatment is the most egregious to me, tbh: i’ve frequently seen her be boiled down to being staticmoth’s glorified wingwoman/their daughter rather than their *equal* and business partner — frankly, i think people hear that she was the “youngest Overlord” and took that in the most literal way possible to portray her as a glorified teenager, her being a social media influencer not helping matters in that regard because people tend to subconsciously associate social media primarily with teenage girls due to bias. i can’t speak on *some* aspects of her infantilization in fandom that gives me a particular case of the “ick”, but I can’t help but be bothered by it showing up even in work I *enjoy*. Food for thought, all that jazz.
(3) Vox being portrayed as this overly flirtatious and horny 24/7 voyeur creep guy, *especially* around Alastor. this may just be my bisexuality speaking, but it just...*doesn’t* sit well with me when so far the only *confirmed* bisexual male character in the show is written with this sleazy behaviour he doesn’t exhibit in the show proper — yes, he’s suave and charismatic, and clearly not a prude considering his frenching with Val and...well, Val: “[which whore] could i be talking about?!” Vox: [points to self], and yes, he runs surveillance literally *everywhere*, but...[sighs] He Would Not Fucking Say That, guys — where at *best*, he’s a horndog, and at worst, an outright rapist, who’s *solely* driven by his obsession with Alastor and fuck the rest of his character, i guess. It just...makes me uncomfortable. but hey, that’s just me.
(christ on a stick this is a lot, i am so, so sorry :skull:)
Oh, MK, this was delicious. Do not apologize for the length, I am absolutely delighted. I am always interested in hearing peoples’ hot takes!
(1) Alastor being sex-repulsed, or just sex negative in general.
I totally get you on this one and honestly, I never thought about the Husk angle but you’re absolutely right. Husk rejects Angel way more often that Alastor and yet I have never seen Husk labeled as sex-repulsed, yet Alastor is labeled as that for…doing the exact same thing? What? I’m asexual and possibly aromantic myself, and this just rubs me the wrong way with people just assuming because he’s asexual that he doesn’t like sex full-stop. Not how it works.
I also really like how you point out the historical context of it. The 1920s were a time, man. This fic explores some of the crazy things that went down in the 1920s and it’s wild. But yeah, the idea that he would freak out over any little sexual thing (which…we actively see him not do?) is frustrating and kind of makes him out to be this delicate flower whose innocence must be protected.
Now, if people want to make him sex repulsed for various reasons, then go right ahead, but I definitely agree that it irks me when I see people trying to use it as an argument against literally any ship with Alastor.
(2) the infantilization of Charlie, Niffty, and Velvette.
Yeah, I definitely see this. Charlie is naive, but it gets ramped up a lot. People forget she is literally now an official war veteran and has actually led an army into battle. She is an overwhelmingly positive character, yes, but she’s not an infant. We even saw in the pilot that she was cautious and hesitant to even speak to Alastor, let alone make a deal with him (she slammed the door in his face twice). She is kind and emotional and optimistic, but she’s not stupid. She wants to see the best in everyone. This doesn’t make her a child. And like you said, we see her demon side come out when she’s angry. She’s not above getting pissed and letting it show when she really wants to.
I think people honestly forget that Niffty is not a child. She looks like one, but yeah no she’s an adult. Like you pointed out, this is done pretty frequently in canon and fanon. I honestly like her and Alastor more as friends than as a parental relationship, someone who entertains him and he genuinely enjoys the company of. I do hope we get to see a little bit more of her being an actual character in season 2 because I do love her and want to see better for her.
Velvette is complicated for me as the Instagram kind of did set her up as their daughter, so I think a lot of people got used to that concept. But honestly? I prefer them as equals. I can see Vox taking on more of a mentor role with her when they first started out while Valentino was more her creative BFF, but ultimately she is shown to be a capable character who can stand on her own two feet. I do think the whole social media thing and her being the youngest plays into her infantilization alongside her previous incarnation, but I definitely prefer her as an equal player in the game.
(3) Vox being portrayed as this overly flirtatious and horny 24/7 voyeur creep guy, especially around Alastor.
Fucking THIS. Okay, gonna just jump forward a bit here, but people calling him a creepy horny voyeur because of the cameras bothers me so much. HE. IS. A. CONTROL. FREAK. Those cameras aren’t for him to jack off to! They’re literally to siphon information and blackmail and anything else useful. He is a connoisseur of information. Literally every instance where we see him using his camera, HE IS INFO GATHERING. The one exception is when he is watching Alastor’s fight with Adam and that is clearly outside his norm. That being said, I think people take that scene and run with it, especially his comment about being “so hard right now,” which I think is ridiculous. He’s exaggerating, he’s having fun and joking around because the guy he hates is getting his ass handed to him. And the idea that his obsession with Alastor rules his brain 24/7 is a hard pass for me. The man is the CEO of a media and technological empire. He does not have the time to devote his every waking moment to obsessing over Alastor. In the scene where Pentious calls him, it’s pretty clear that Vox was busy doing other things both times he was called. He wasn’t sitting around with bated breath waiting for Sir Pentious to report in. He was just going about his day and getting his shit done.
Also hard agree as a fellow bisexual that it’s troubling that the only confirmed male bisexual character gets so hypersexualized in a way that he…doesn’t demonstrate at all? Literally the one time we see him get sexual is the fight with Adam. That’s it and yet suddenly it’s his entire personality. The flirtiest we ever see him act is during his part with Valentino in the finale and even that isn’t focused on sex or romance. It’s more them talking about being in power.
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thehobbem · 2 years ago
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Jane Eyre
(Um. SPOILERS for Jane Eyre, I guess.)
So. I put off reading Jane Eyre for many years, bc
1) I read a chapter at college and didn't like the style (so I chose to read Great Expectations for that class, instead), and
2) pop culture spoiled the story for me long, long ago, so it killed any sense of urgency. Like, Rochester having his wife in the attic (technically, "secluded room in the abandoned 3rd floor") is the "Darth Vader is Luke's father" of English literature -- it should come as a shock, but at this point, everyone who cares already knows.
But I finally picked it up last week, and reader, I'm having a blast. And I realize now that no one had told me the actual two main attractions of this particular show: that Jane is absolutely hilarious, and that Rochester is WILD. I expected him to be wild, bc, well, he's got his wife locked in the attic, but he's entirely RIDICULOUS?????
So far, these exchanges have happened:
Mr. Brocklehurst: "What should you do to avoid hell?" Jane: "Not die" (GIRL XDD)
Rochester: goes on and on about temptation and redemption and regret, in the most abstract of manners Jane, getting up: "I'm not following anymore, so I'm gonna go. (This man??? Met this 18-year-old girl who has seen nothing of the outside world and???? decided to just???? tell her his entire life story???? including his sob story about a French mistress???? Didn't tell her about the wife in the attic, ofc.)
Rochester, who's way too cool about having been almost roasted alive in his own bed like a suckling pig: "Thank you, Jane, now go." Jane: starts to leave Rochester: pikachu_face.jpg "Are you leaving???" Jane: "You told me to??" Rochester: holds her hand, thanks her profusely for saving his life, calls her his 'cherished preserver', Jane: "No problem! Night." Rochester: "Are you really going?!" Jane: "I'm cold, sir." LSAJFLASKDF
Servants: talk in code about the wife in the attic Me: EVERYONE KNOWS, EXCEPT JANE???? HE'S NOT EVEN KEEPING IT A SECRET????
Rochester DRESSED UP AS A FORTUNE TELLER???? TO TEST JANE???? I GUESS???? He implies she's about to be super happy in life, but also that he's gonna marry Miss Ingram, and then???? Jane realizes it's him??? Jane: "Take this costume off, sir" Rochester: "...I can't, the string is knotted" SKJDJLDAKVK
Rochester keeps telling her he's gonna marry Miss Ingram, and that he'll send Jane away???? And then proposes to Jane???? Saying he TESTED MISS INGRAM, AND SHE FAILED???? So... So what, had Miss Ingram proved to be a nice person who cares about him and not his money, would he then... have married her instead???? WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE
And all the while I'm like "Sir, stop playing dress up and stop proposing to other women, YOU HAVE A WIFE LOCKED IN YOUR ATTIC" (same intonation of "a horse loose in a hospital"). Can't wait for the next fire, is all I'm gonna say.
Rochester is preposterous. He makes Fitzwilliam "You're beneath me, your family is ridiculous, I don't know why I like you but I do, you have fine eyes. Marry me?" Darcy seem like the MOST sensible man in the world. Hell, he makes Frank Churchill seem sensible.
Meanwhile, she has an uncle in Madeira (me, reading it: "oh she has an uncle in my country, how exciting!" XD) who has money and wants to adopt her???? GIRL, RUN TO YOUR UNCLE, BE ADOPTED, ENJOY THE COMFORTS YOU'VE NEVER HAD ACCESS TO
I'm loving every second of this. Reading this knowing about the wife in the attic is great.
Part II, because why not
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chiharuhashibira · 1 year ago
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Can i make another request? About headcanons of kaigaku,genya and yorichi with a so that has the personality and background of yui komori from diabolik lovers,in case you don't know about the franchise let me explain it to you
Yui is a girl with a very happy and optimistic personality, she is shy, sensitive, kind, usually dense, noble and easy to put into submission. She tries to understand everything that happens around her and adapt to it, but she does not succeed easily since she is often unconscious of various things but she is very sincere and apparently very compassionate towards others.
She has especial blood that is very adictive and give more strenght to the ones who drink from her,i imagine that reader has been through a kidnapping situation(like yui) from demons because of her especial blood and role as "sacrificial bride" to some demons, i think reader would have many bite scars of those years of abuse and mistreatment from the demons before being rescued for her father(a demon slayer).
I hope this is not so much for you and youre Free to decline this,sorry for making many requests!
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THANK YOU FOR THESE WONDERFUL PROMPTS @ultravioletqueen 💓
Here is your most awaited HC! So sorry that these took so long, I know you have been so excited for this. I'll close your other request (the screenshot) as I will just merge em here.
But yep, here it is!
For this, I will lean more on your second request which is about the "sacrificial bride" for the demons. Also, I won't be focusing on the sacrifice part, I'll be focusing on the moments that happened after X Character rescued her.
Also, a bit of disclaimer, this is the first time that I will write for Mui and Yori sooooo, please understand if they'll be a bit OC XD Also, I will age up Genya and Mui here to at least 18.
Little backstory: Y/N has a Marechi blood, and because of it, the townspeople started believing that sacrificing her would be the end of the demons' plague in their town. But then, X Character comes just in time before the demons could devour Y/N. She's full of blood and wounds. X Character manages to kill the demons. And with that, he took Y/N and his father away from that town, telling the people that what they did was wrong.
Years later while living together, both fall for each other but Y/N still suffers from the trauma. She lost her father and that added to the reason why she also lost her laughter and her jolly attitude. But with X Character, she manages to bring it all back again.
(So this is an AU where Genya and Muichiro are older but the war with Muzan still hasn't happened)
𝓜𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓽
𝑫𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐓𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐢, 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐰𝐚, 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐨, 𝐊𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐤𝐮, & 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝
Content Warnings: Not NSFW but has Curse Words/Blood/Abuse/Trauma/Angst/Possible Suggestive Scenes
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🌸𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐓𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐢𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐢🌸
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❥ You've been living with Yoriichi for years, and both of you have grown close. In fact, this relationship you have with him is too close to be called friends.
❥ Yoriichi notices every single detail about you. So you can't hide anything from him, as even the littlest of your motions, he sees it all.
❥ The swordsman isn't the funny type, but whenever you're sad, he makes sure to go comfort you. Eventually, you'll end up opening up about what bothers you. You've told him almost a thousand times how you miss your father and how angry you are with yourself for letting the townspeople in your old town almost kill you just because of your Marechi blood.
❥ Yoriichi won't ever be tired of listening to your litanies of pain, anger, and fear. At the end of it, the man will pull you into his arms and caress the scars on your body, trying his best to calm you down.
❥ There are times when he needs to leave you for his Demon Slayer priorities, but of course, knowing how strong he is and his history, you trust that he'll come back for you.
❥ Whenever he comes back, all he does is kiss you passionately. Surprisingly, Yoriichi is sweet. The man will take you on midnight strides, holding hands while bathing under the moon's rays. "I love you so much. You're my sun, Y/N."
❥ Sometimes, the man would even bathe you, showing you how special you are to him. You will feel bad because of your scars, but Yoriichi will make sure to erase those insecurities as he whispers how beautiful you still are while kissing all those scars on your body.
❥ Whenever you wake up from nightmares of your past, Yoriichi will make sure to comfort you. He will run his hands on your hair, which you liked the most. His calloused fingers against your skin feel so good, as this makes you feel secure.
❥ Yoriichi makes sure that you'll know how much he loves and cares for you. With his gentle words, physical connections, and emotional support You've lost your smile, but now it's back. Yoriichi is like the sun. No, he is your sun, and he guides you out of your dark past, making sure that no hint of darkness will hurt you again.
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🌸𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐰𝐚🌸
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❥ You lived under Gyomei's care after Genya saved you from being the sacrificial bride to a demon who had been plaguing your hometown. With those years together, you decided to be a Demon Slayer, partnering with your saviour. And yes, both of you developed strong feelings for each other.
❥ You may be tough from the outside, but in reality, you are shy and have lots of insecurities and fear because of your dark past. Thankfully, you share that same feeling with Genya. Despite being so stubborn, the guy always makes sure that he is there for you.
❥ Genya takes care of you, and sometimes you think it is because you remind him of his dead siblings and his big brother, who shares the same blood type as yours. But no, he cares about you because you are you and he loves you. But sometimes, it'll be hard for him to admit it, as he always tries to hide his feelings. Of course, the times he is sweet aren't the determiner of his love. Genya just has a different way of showing it.
❥ He always listens to you, but of course, he refuses to share about himself. It's just that he wants to comfort you with his surprise embraces. Whenever you cry on his shoulders, he will rub your back in circles. You have a scar there, so you'll feel tingling sensations. But then, Genya will tell you that he'll never let anything bad happen to you now.
❥ His Demon Slayer priorities aren't an obstacle, as both of you work for the Corps. It's just that Genya is too stubborn; he loves tagging along with you on your missions. As much as he wants you to tag with him on his, he prefers you staying with his master, Gyomei, to train more. He's very protective, but not to the point that he oversteps you.
❥ Whenever he comes back from his missions, Genya's tsundere part is gone. The individual will immediately entice you to a more private area so he can gently caress your lips. Genya loves to caress the scar on your back, saying that it doesn't look bad. Actually, he adores you for who you are so much.
❥ The sweetest thing you can get from your lover is whenever he sleeps beside you and pulls you to cuddle with him. Sometimes, the painful memories will come, but Genya will tell you that those memories are just a small part of what's ahead of you. And you are more than the things that hurt you. Yes, he cusses a lot. "Fuck those villagers! They're bird brains for thinking sacrificing you will stop that fucking demon!" But eventually, he will stop doing that and will just tell you that he'll massage your back, and sometimes things will escalate from that massage.
❥ You don't know if Genya ever sleeps. He's the one who wakes you up whenever you have nightmares about your past. He will make sure to tell you that your captors will never come back for you. He won't let them. You trust Genya with all your heart, so his words never fail to soothe you.
❥ Despite both of your dark pasts, Genya is the light that keeps you on track. He had brought back the part that you had lost a long time ago, and you are happy because of that. You're one of his priorities. Even if he'll never share his feelings that easily, he will make sure to act on his best around you.
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🌸𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐨🌸
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❥ With Muichiro's state, it's quite hard sometimes. But life is definitely better with him than with the townspeople who tried to kill you. Muichiro saved you, but sometimes you feel like you were just a bother. He didn't agree with you coming with him at first; he just kind of saved you because it's his job. But then things changed when you decided to stick with him, whether he liked it or not. You've lived with Muichiro for years now, and you've grown quite comfortable with him.
❥ Conversations? I doubt it. "You want to come with me, right? Bear with it." He'll tell you whenever you ask him why he won't talk to you. But it all changed when he came back from his mission in Swordsmith Village. He was just 14 back then, and that was the first time that you saw his eyes shine bright.
❥ Yes, that change was the reason why you're wrapped with him now on the bed. He is now 19. Five years later, that change happened, but it felt like yesterday. From the Muichiro who ignored your cries and never comforted you for all the pain you've felt since he rescued you. The guy changed into the sweetest being.
❥ He had seen all your scars, and the new scintillate in his eyes shows that they never bothered him. "Just imagine them as maps on your body. Without these, I wouldn't have found you." He'll tell you the first time you told him how insecure you were with those trails of the past that are painted on your body. What he meant was that without you in that moment, he wouldn't have met you. So those scars are nothing to him. You're still the most beautiful woman for him.
❥ Muichiro is serious about his job as a Hashira. But that didn't stop him from showering you with his newfound passion. He's surprisingly sweet. He'll bring home flowers or food from his missions. One time, he was even on a crutch when he went home, but your lover made sure to still bring you the most beautiful kimono that you have ever seen.
❥ Dates are never a problem. Muichiro loves taking strides, especially when it is with you. You'll always find yourself holding hands with him while walking around the estate where you both live. And yes, on those walks, expect that he'll kiss you.
❥ Muichiro learned how to comfort you. When you think of your father, who perished as a result of the demon that was wreaking havoc in your community, he would tightly embrace you and reassure you that it wasn't your fault. Muichiro doesn't like it when you think badly of yourself. So he will do anything to stop you from doing so.
❥ Muichiro will shush you whenever you're crying from your nightmares. He'll assure you that he's there with you. Caressing your face and looking into your eyes, the man will soothe your nerves.
❥ Muichiro is your newfound reason to continue living. Without him, you would have been gone. Your lover taught you that having Marechi blood isn't a curse. It's just that the people around you before were ignorant. He'll always tell you how special you are. And yes, he never fails to make you feel that way.
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🌸𝐊𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐤𝐮🌸
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❥ Kaigaku was your childhood friend until he disappeared. But then he came back into your life when he saved you from the demon who would kill you after the townspeople sacrificed you because of your Marechi blood.
❥ Kaigaku sees the littlest change in you. Yes, he fell in love with you after seeing you again after all those years. Despite the flaws that the demon had given you, Kaigaku still made sure that you'd never feel any different.
❥ Kaigaku is hotheaded. He almost punched the mayor of the town after knowing their idiotic reason for sacrificing you. Now that you had lived with him for so long, he had gotten a bit better at managing his anger issues. And yes, you've gotten your smile back again.
❥ Kaigaku definitely loves baby-ing you. Holding hands, kissing your scars—name it. He'll surely do it for you.
❥ Whenever he needs to leave for his Demon Slayer responsibilities, he makes sure that you are alright. He'll assure you that your captors before aren't coming back because... "If they will, I'll kill them."
❥ After those missions, Kaigaku will eventually shower you with his love. Your nights and days will be filled with happiness once again. He makes you feel secure, and that's what you love about him.
❥ He's your childhood friend, so there are times that you'll both remember things. Like the way you played with him on the meadows and how he is nicer with you than other kids. But yeah, he disappeared. Whenever that sad thought comes, Kaigaku will assure you that he won't leave you now.
❥ Nightmares are a common thing after a traumatic past. With those, Kaigaku will make sure to help you go back to sleep once again after he comforted you. He knows you miss your dad, but he'll say that you're in good hands now and your father is proud of you.
❥ Kaigaku isn't an open book, but he's ready to write new chapters of his life with you. He isn't perfect, but with his love, your smile and strength are back. You just love the man so much, as much as he loves you back.
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fareehaandspaniards · 6 months ago
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Ultimative Rom post
I was going to post my headcanons, but this turned out to be basically a chronological sequence of facts about her life, almost a biography (as always, I am sorry ).
Thank you, @pyro-madder for the opportunity to finally talk about Rom! I hope you will enjoy that!
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Rom's father was a physician and biologist who researched the fauna of the Yharnam counties. He was one of the "old school" doctors - a graduate of Byrgenwerth, a conservative.
So how about the family drama? Here we go. At first he had an affair with a poor woman named Aglaya, Micolash's mother. But after learning of her pregnancy, he disappeared from her life and began a new affair, from which Rom was born. Rom spent a few years of happy childhood with her parents, and then both died in a fire. That's how Rom ended up in an orphanage.
Rom has been very curious since childhood. She was often scolded by her mother for eating grass and flowers xd And one time she even ate a bug… No evil intentions, it was just her way of exploring the world!
She has one single photo left from her parents, capturing her in a cute dress and her mom and dad. She got her red curls from her dad.
Rom's orphanage had strict discipline and focus on the old Yharnam religion (I don't want to openly call this religion Catholicism because it's not :0 But the vibes are generic. Reminds me of the movie adaptation of the novel Jane Eyre, where little Jane gets to go to school). But her extraordinary intelligence helped her stay afloat amidst cruelty and other people's malice, and then her relatives showed up - an uncle and aunt close to her dead father.
They helped Rom to enroll in Byrgenwerth, as the girl showed talent and curiosity for science and medicine. After spending a short time with her relatives, she studied the entire home library, and also at family evenings talked about her observations of the flora and fauna around their estate.
In Byrgenwerth, Rom was quiet at first. She endured ridicule for her red curls and overweight figure. A few generations ago, though, such a figure had been valued more than any other in Yharnam - it showed a healthy body and the ability to bear children.
Almost immediately Rom had a friend, Yurie, a girl who wore a male uniform. They studied at different faculties - Yurie aspired to become a chemist. And it was Yurie who had started this friendship, too. Rom didn't know, but despite her cold temperament, Yurie fell in love with her almost at first sight and was eager to protect her. And she was good at it! But she couldn't express her feelings. Therefore, she was often silent, rebuking Rom or resentful.
At first, Rom became friends with another young man. It seemed to her that she was making friends. The son of a wealthy family, an ambitious historian and future doctor, Laurence, with whom they had once teamed up to pass an exam. But Laurence quickly saw her as a competitor, and also experienced unwanted sympathy, and became her biggest bully. And created for her very many unpleasant situations, shameful and ugly. Her skirt fell off in front of everyone, her chair got dirty, rumors started, and many, many other things that silly children like to do (even if they are adults) :0
But the insults from Laurence allowed her to meet another victim of his taunts. A young man confined to a wheelchair, pale and seemingly almost dead - Caryll. Frustrated and genuinely hating Laurence, Caryll felt sympathy for Rom. So did she for him. This allowed the two to grow close. Gradually, an affection grew between her and Caryll. Rom even felt in love. One night the two of them spent together, secretly, on a Byrgenwerth balcony. They tried to kiss and tried to become a couple. But such feelings are not for Caryll, he loves differently. During that night they shared almost everything - life story, troubles, resentments, joys, secrets, and Caryll even told her about his dreams, how he often has nightmares related to multi-armed monsters (*wink wink*). They became best friends, and in fact, almost family.
Rom and Caryll also found a friend in the main comforter of all students, the librarian Damian. According to my headcanons, Damian is a former graduate of Byrgenwerth and a failed doctor. He was unable to start work as a doctor, and so he asked Master Willem to set him up at his alma mater. Willem valued him as an apprentice, so sometimes Damian got essays of Willem's written works, and those related to the research of the catacombs of Pthumeru once fell into Micolash's hands carelessly… But that's another story xd In the library Damian could do what he loved most - sorting, record keeping and, most importantly, guardianship and supervision. And there was always tea and his cookies available in his library.
There was also another man who had studied at Byrgenwerth. Unfashionable and strange to everyone, but too independent, proud and cunning to be an object of ridicule (In fact, Lawrence was very interested in him). Micolash. He and Rom talked, saw each other, though they were in different faculties, but sometimes found themselves in classes together. They were good together, comfortable. They were both drawn to each other's intellect. And… Romantic feelings were born in Micolash's heart. (Sorry, I really love love and everything related to it, in my stories crushes and feelings are VERY IMPORTANT xD It's my way of exploring characters). But her red curls kept reminding him of something he couldn't guess himself. He began to search for the cause of his embarrassment. Started looking for Rom's papers, found her last name. He found her parents' names on the paperwork. And the name of her father awakened a memory in his mind! Micolash found out about their kinship by breaking into Rom's dorm room while she was away and searching all her things. One picture in her things was enough for him to realize everything. He was hurt and offended because the only person who had attracted his mind and heart turned out to be not just a relative, but the daughter of the man who had once abandoned his mother, leaving her and little Micolash to live in terrible conditions, and also making the woman suffer for him for the rest of her life.
(Forgive me for the Santa Barbara xD)
Over the course of their studying, the relationship between them all only grew stronger. Caryll and Rom had become literally inseparable! Yurie was still wooing Rom, but from afar, without talking to Caryll. She wanted to look strong and tough in Rom's eyes, but she didn't realize that she didn't realize it. Rom had gotten prettier over the years, and that was helped a lot by Caryll supporting her and forcing her to eat food so she wouldn't get physically exhausted, bailing her out of her depression. By this point Caryll had already suffered a small clinical death, and Willem had injected him with a portion of the Great Ones' blood as an experiment. He had already started dreaming about the Runes, hearing voices, and had gotten quite a bit of insight! He even changed his wheelchair to a cane - his legs could move, but only weakly! And only worked when injected with a dose of blood. Rom became more independent and began to engage in debates with Laurence during lectures and outside of school. And even managed to shame him once (piquing his interest even more). Rom was gradually transforming into a grown woman - her body was transforming, as was her mindset. She became one of Willem's favorite students - demonstrating theories on the effects of flowers and plants on perception, as well as (without knowing it herself), revealing the unusual nature of Lumenflowers. Also during this time Damian and Micolash became a couple, and Damian couldn't devote much time to the students besides him. But he and Rom still kept exchanging things and stuff - like scented soap, cloth, and other household trifles.
Laurence had changed, too, and so had Rom. And he had gotten away from the "spoiled boy" image with what Gehrman had helped him by becoming somewhat of a father figure to him. Laurence looked forward to the future, communicated with Willem and promoted the theory of the Blood, studying it with Willem himself. Thanks to Laurence also, one day Willem took the students on a field trip to the catacombs, where Laurence was able to collect even more samples. At this time, Willem also starts working with a rebellious knight from Cainhurst, who actively helps with the exploration of the catacombs in exchange for shelter and organizes his own little order, which he named after the warrior-soldiers in Cainhurst and one of his old mentors (Logarius! I'll write about him later for sure! In another huge as Bayle post of headcanons).
There goes a visit to Fishing Hamlet! Which had already been destroyed by the hunters, Maria and Gehrman were already here, as well as Willem and Logarius. The students visited what was left. But were able to see the corpse of the Great One. And it affected each of them in its own way! But it was Kos's parasites that interested Rom. She spent a long time rummaging among the snails and worms, examining and studying. She even found the corpse of a female snail in a pile of rot. And something was keeping her in suspense. Everyone around her was grieving, and she couldn't do it. She just couldn't feel the bitterness and fear and remained calm. She felt interest and excitement. She felt not the pain of Kos, but the remnants of her spirit and desire to live that were leading her to the sea!
Laurence contemplates a future marriage, the first project of treatment with purified blood appears, and the study of sea water. And… He has a weakness for Rom, who absolutely does not care about him! He saw in her, finally, not a rival, but a beautiful young woman with a brilliant mind and extraordinary character. He even offered her an engagement, it would be beneficial to both of them. But Rom refused (and Caryll showed him a middle finger lol).
Rom hates direct eye contact. She also has a hard time understanding irony and sarcasm - she takes everything literally. Rom is great with facts and direct arguments! She's also a perfectionist. Sometimes she felt like she was forcing herself to express emotions and doing it "too" artistic? She really wanted to let others know how she felt because she was considered "ice cold" at the shelter. (Yes, she is autistic. And I haven't yet consulted with my friends who have autism about how Rom might feel. And I've only used what I've read myself (or seen) to create it. But if you disagree with my view of her as autistic person, please text me and tell me what's wrong, I need corrections)
Rom met Gehrman at Willem's request (much to Laurence's delight). And she also met the huntress Maria, originally from Cainhurst. The four spent one evening in his workshop, and Rom enjoyed listening to stories of his life. Actually, she and Maria found common ground too - with the help of blood gems. However, Maria always felt uncomfortable around Rom. Under Rom's gaze, it was hard for her to say anything, she felt guilty and ashamed of what she was doing. Rom didn't understand her feelings, but she realized that something was wrong with her.
Opening of the Research Hall. Rom was supposed to work there as a doctor. But positions and jobs don't interest her much, she cares about research. She works with parasites and injects seawater into herself. Rom researches growing eyes on people, and here she is helped by Caryll, keeping an eye on her health. Rom gradually becomes a patient of her own free will, and lives on the upper levels of the Research Hall, in a laboratory, alone, visited only by her doctor.
Rom's hair is almost impossible to put together in a neat bundle - it will always stick out in different directions. Despite the fact that she and Micolash are complete opposites, they have a lot of similarities - those protruding locks of hair, the frown, the passion for unethical research lol
Laurence, already a vicar, Willem's assistant, begins now to care for her openly. His work takes up all his time, but he carves out hours to check on Rom and ask the doctors what is happening to her. He sends her small gifts and food and tries to visit her. And… She reciprocates. I can't count how many shitpost sketches I have in my head about this. Because Caryll was horrified when he found out that Rom had forgiven Laurence for all his wrongdoings and become his lady of the heart!
The Tomb Prospectors under the command of Ludwig, a knight from the southern lands, are hard at work for the Church. Olek, Gremia and Damian are among his charges. Tomb Prospectors discover the first Augur of Ebrietas, and Laurence, as a gift (giving her food for thought, so to say) gives him to Rom to examine. Augur lives in Rom's terrarium and crawls on her hands. She discovers that it gives off vibrations similar to those she heard in the Fishing Hamlet. And she discovers that Augur has the ability to leave burns on her skin. These burns are treated by Caryll and kissed by Laurence.
Yurie also works at the Research Hall. But Rom won't let her near her. And the girl's broken heart is healed by another lady doctor of the Research Hall named Madlene (And in the future it will be Imposter Iosefka)! Also, Yurie picks up her little nephew named Edgar from the orphanage :^)
Micolash ignores his sister. He is solely researching Saint Adeline and making her his own test subject (At her own will). From the moment he found out about their sibling bond, Micolash and Rom have been distant from each other and even feuding. He now considers Rom "unhinged" and "stupid" because of her research methods. He believes that trying everything on her body is barbaric and a waste of resource.
Tomb Prospectors dubbed Rom a "hottie" when they saw her with Damian! :D
Also Rom is incredibly tall among all other women! (Except for Maria maybe who is also tall) Rom is 6′ 0″, and while Laurence 5' 5" lol... They are quite a funny couple. But Laurence never complains. Actually he has the best view when he talks to her.
Rom is the first to bandage her eyes to discover her new vision. And is the first to start seeing "more". Caryll helps her settle into life with the insight lol. Her bandaged eyes will become the basis for the Choir hat.
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Rom and Laurence go on dates when she manages to get out of her research center and he manages to get out of the Church. But Rom is more interested in discussing augurs than romance, and Laurence has to temper his own passionate feelings for her each time. Still, the two gradually come to bodily intimacy. Laurence also becomes very caring. He feels like a child with her, and suddenly begins to show guardianship and attentiveness.
Rom studies the Augurs and hears their call. She learns from their singing about the "daughter of the stars". And builds a theory about the sacredness of the mother-child bond.
She and St. Adeline had seen each other several times. And they saw each other as rivals - both aspiring to the Great Ones in their own measure. Adeline wished to have a child, she heard voices in her head assuring her that Kos was blessing mothers and families, and that would set Rom on a future idea >>>
Rom makes a plan for her own pregnancy. She wouldn't admit it, but she sees Laurence as her instrument. Her research takes her head over heels, and takes her very much away from the people closest to her. In an attempt to learn more about the Great Ones, she even rummages into Caryll's papers, waiting until he falls asleep to check what he has in his researches. Rom realizes Kos's mother nature, and tries to make contact, again using only herself for the experiment. And this idea she shares with Willem, who is proud of Romina and supportive, helping to plan for all future consequences. He becomes her new "family". And now she gets secrets from her two favorite people, Laurence and Caryll.
She does become pregnant after a night with Laurence. She hears much, much more. And one night a call comes to her, a real crying cry for help. She hears Ebrietas. (Laurence is the last to learn of this news. But he is still happy and hopes that they can become a family)
Ebrietas, discovered by Tomb Prospectors in the catacombs of Isz, is frightened and confused. She screams into the void, and Rom takes her signal as a beacon. Several Tomb Prospectors die in the battle with Ebrietas, and the survivors experience their first doubts about what they are doing. The monster that tore and trampled their companions is elevated to "Holy" by the Church, and no one mentions the dead so as not to taint the image of the new icon. Damian renounces here the teachings of the Church. But despite his resentment towards Rom, because she doesn't seem to care about his grief, he maintains a friendship with her, albeit a weak one.
Speaking of how Ebrietas ended up in the Church, or rather, in a large cave under the Upper Cathedral Ward. I think it was simply that there were ancient ruins under the Cathedral District that Ibraitas managed to "summon" to. Honestly, I have no idea how else she could have been transported xd Crawling through the catacombs and the city? Nuh uh. Teleport? Maybe. Or summoning with ritual and stuff in a certain place where the voices and whispers are particularly strong.
Rom is known as "weird" in the Healing Church, and it is known to quite a few that she is the vicar's sweetheart. Logarius is very judgmental of the vicar for allowing a woman taking up his precious time. But Laurence is a good enough leader to not let him talk about it much xd
Around this point, Micolash already has intentions of leaving the Church and establishing his own line of study of the Great Ones. Damian is absolutely on his side, for his encounter with Ebraitas has left a wound on his soul, as well as a deep aversion to the Church's perception of the Great Ones. They both choose Kos as their beacon, separating her from the rest of the Great Ones. Damian and Rom are forced to cut off their friendship for good.
The Choir was founded! And Rom becomes its idol and prophet (My version of Rom in the transparent blue dress is already relevant here. This dress was created for her by Laurence, or rather, designed for her by him). He decorated it with stars. Rom didn't do any more research. She only broadcast Ebrietas' will and communicated with her. Her body starts changing - a plate of chitin appears on her cheek, one eye darkens, and the pupil in it multiplies by eight. She begins to grow flowers that will cover her entire body in the future.
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Caryll leaves the church to pursue the study of runes at the Mensis School, and… Rom, to his surprise, feels nothing. Moreover, because of her prolonged contact with Ibraitas, she begins to forget her old life and the people she loves.
Rom's child is never born - she loses the child. But that child will return to her, becoming a multitude of spiders that appear with her during the battle. Laurence has been heartbroken - his girlfriend, his love, the one he chose to marry - has isolated herself and given herself over to an insight. He wanted to be a father. And all their shared dreams of a family went down the drain. But he doesn't complain - his feelings are less important, than coming fall of Healing Church and Yharnam that Laurence can feel. He never knew that he was part of her plan. Though Rom did love him. But curiosity was paramount.
Yurie went from the Research Hall to the Choir, following Rom. But Rom hardly noticed her attempts to protect and be near her. And this annoyed Madlene (Imposter Iosefka), who despised not only Rom's working methods but also her impulsive nature.
Rom and Ebrietas find each other as two halves. A daughter finds future mother. An orphan meets a similar orphan. They resonate with each other in the strongest possible way, and Rom learns to understand her by transmitting the Great One's speech. Rom spends all her time with Ebrietas. And will exist next to Ebrietas without reacting to anyone around her. Everyone will think she's lost her mind, but Caryll will know it's still the same Rom, just on different levels and planes.
Rom will exist already as a spider and she will be visited by Laurence, Caryll, Yurie and then Damian will come to her when his life's work proves to be a failure. Willem never came to her - he had stopped contacting anyone. But really, Rom and he didn't need to - Willem knew his apprentice had ascended.
And then she'll shelter Yahar'gul at the cost of herself. And Micolash will be annoyed - such potential, and wasted. Rom achieved what he couldn't - Contact. And wasted it, in his opinion. That's why he calls her an "idiot."
I can say that Rom has always been a loner, and even being surrounded by people - she remained lonely. Only Caryll could understand her and was practically her soulmate, but gradually they started to keep secrets from each other - secret knowledge creates jealousy and fear. She experimented only on herself, not out of fear of harming others, but more out of a desire to feel the results, even if it hurt and was bad. She is probably the most successful of scientists - she accomplished her goal.
I apologize for the amount of text! Adding my old art with Rom: (just because)
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Amnesia Was Her Name
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Series
Chapter One: Goat Boy
- Tommy wakes up with a throbbing pain in his head and a lack of memory of what caused it. Luckily, a friend is there to help. -
Chapter Two: Crater
- Helping Tubbo clean up L’manhole is easier said than done, especially when you keep forgetting shit. -
Chapter Three: Tomato Farm 🔪
- Tommy decides to pick up a new hobby, but finds himself washed away in the process. -
Chapter Four: A Second Chance 🔪
- Tommy wakes up on a frozen beach after… shit, he can’t remember. Oh well, maybe this stranger who appears to know him will help! -
Chapter Five: Meetings
- Tommy’s body is stuck in the realm of the gods and XD is NOT happy about it. -
Chapter Six: North 🔪
- Tommy finally goes home, but meets someone new along the way. She’s nice and all, but…she’s also kinda a bitch… -
Chapter Seven: How to Sex—Totally Not a Suspicious Name
- Tommy has the great idea of making a diary to help with his memory! Shenanigans ensue. -
Chapter Eight: How to Sex
- Tommy’s first personal note to himself. -
Chapter Nine: A (Platonic) Marriage
- Tommy doesn’t want to do anything, but Amnesia won’t let him sulk. -
Chapter Ten: How to Sex: Entry #2
- Tommy writes in an attempt to cope with his problems. -
Chapter 11: Pay Back 🔪
- Tommy wakes up to a brutal beating; it’s a shame what’s given up to make it stop. -
Chapter 12: How to Sex: Where Did He Go?
- Drista gets curious and writes her own entry in Tommy’s diary. -
Chapter 13: Ghosting 🔪
- Dream teaches Tommy a lesson or two, including the ground rules for his new home. -
Chapter 14: Hook, Line, Sinker 🔪
- Tommy struggles to feel peaceful despite the calm, and Drista argues with her brother until they both come to an agreement. -
Chapter 15: Prey Must Adapt If It Wants To Survive A Predator
- Maybe exile isn’t all that bad, and who the hell is that? -
Chapter 16: Christmas Brings Everyone Together
- A lot of things can happen at Christmas. For Tommy, he was scared of what could happen. Luckily, Phil is there to help him. Only issue, who the hell is Phil?? -
Chapter 17: How to Sex: Entry #4?
- Tommy doesn’t know what to think about his old friend, but he does know that he misses Amnesia. -
Chapter 18: Happy Christmas?
- Phil reminisces on what used to be, and hopes for what could be. -
Chapter 19: Buenas Noches Prostituta
- The struggles of having to keep control of a stray man who’s just trying to get back home to Tijuana. -
Chapter 20: How to Sex
- Maybe writing will help Tommy? -
Chapter 21: We Are All Just Prisoners Here Of Our Own Device 🔪
- Tommy can’t remember what the holiday is called, but it’s the season of mercy! No, wait…season of giving! That’s what it is. -
Chapter 22: Living It Up At The Hotel California 🔪
- Tommy struggles to realize what’s real and not real. Luckily, Dream is there to help! -
Chapter 23: Such a Lovely Place, Such a Lovely Face 🔪
- Hallucinations are a bitch. -
Chapter 24: How to Sex
Chapter 25: The Edge 🔪
- Tommy tries to find a solution to his issues, and succeeds. -
Chapter 26 (Alternate Ending): You Can Check Out Anytime You’d Like, But You Can Never Leave 🔪
- Alternate ending from chapter 25. -
Epilogue (Alternate Ending pt.2): Man Am I The Greatest 🔪
- Epilogue for chapter 26. -
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- Divider credits to @issysh3ll -
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