#Delmane

[ameasureofseperation]

So I went a little into it and made face cards for a playing card deck with most of the PCs from the current Bad Decisions Club campaign.

I had fun finding a sort of half way point between my usual style and the more traditional depictions on playing cards.

I still need to add in the jokers.....

[classichorrorblog]

Deadtime Stories (1986)

[frosted-hyacinth]

𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒

Yandere!villains are destined to die x f!reader

notice! This book can be read as gn or m reader but I personally envision the reader as a female, however, there are no particular pronouns but maybe some actions that are more feminine.

synopsis. You wake up as a maid for the Eckhart house, the only thing is, you're the adopted daughter's maid. Penelope Eckhart. You had been playing a game 'Daughter of the Duke, Love Project' you'd finished normal mode and started hard mode yet you died, being accused of Yvonne's murder. You felt confident that you could breeze through this, living but there was something off. Penelope Eckhart's personality has completely flipped.

You shocked up from the bed, panting heavily. You looked around. You hadn't been here before yet it felt familiar. You looked more closely at your surroundings, stepping out of the bed to look out the window.

It's the empire from that game... No... This can't be

You shook your head, half expecting this to be a dream and that you would wake up. But you didn't, you were still here in this dark, small room. You lightly slapped your cheeks and when that didn't work either, you hit harder. You wanted to feel the comfort of your own room, your own bed. Instead of that, all you felt was the sharp stinging of the impact slowly fading away leaving you with only the hard reality. This fictional life, one that did not belong to you was now the one that you are in.

- ♥ -

After a while of trying to fall back asleep, you realized that you couldn't, so you decided to be productive. You lit a candle, deciding that you would be productive and decide how you were supposed to behave at this house, a house that seemed to be noble. You'd looked in the mirror a while back and after a while of staring at your reflection, a shard of your memory drifted back. You were a minor maid at house Eckhart.

The maid who's body you were in was a minor character, not much mentioned but the part that this maid played the most part in was with the character Penelope Eckhart. You were the maid that had stood with her even after she had been accused of poisoning the Duke's youngest daughter.

So, in order to survive without either of the male leads or your mistress killing you (not that they could kill a maid before you were charged for maligning nobility and all the other laws in the Eorkan Empire), you must simply play your part and serve the lady Eckhart as you were meant to.

Soon after you had scribbled your thoughts down, the sun had risen. So you stood up off you desk to prepare for the day.

- ♥ -

"Miss, it's time to wake up" The brunette maid spoke to the pink head still sleeping on the bed as she slowly woke up.

knock knock

"... Come in."

You slowly walked into the room, you had arrived to the side of the brown haired maid, Emily, if you recall correctly. Once you finally started taking in your surroundings, you noticed the quality of water that laid on the table beside Penelope. You instinctively reached to change the water but stopped at the sight of your mistress flinching. She rolled up her sleeves just for the three women in the room to be met with the sight of needle marks on her forearm.

You let out a small gasp before stepping forwards towards Penelope seemingly concerned.

"Miss! Are you alright?"

She didn't answer you but she shot her head in Emily's direction. It looked like she tried speaking but stopped, still in a state of distress.

"The bath is ready. Do wash up please, Miss." The brunette haired maid spoke calmly, looking down. Yet when she looked up towards her mistress, a mocking smile was found on her face.

Ah... Did I just get ignored...? You sighed eternally. You hoped that you could have done something yet ended up being completely ignored by both Emily and Penelope, and now, you'd have to leave the room to let your mistress wash up.

From the outside of your mistress' room, you found the food that Emily was about to serve to Penelope. There really wasn't much that you could do but you could at least try, so you put on a calm face and faced the brunette.

"Emily." "Yes?"

"Are you planning to serve this to our mistress? This food is not proper for a duke's daughter. The duke Eckhart could punish you." You said, maintaining eye contact with your fellow maid. A sound of the door beside you creaked open. "Is there a problem?" "No miss." Both maids replied, heads bowed down. You tried grabbing the plate of rotten food away from Emily's grasp but at this point, it was too late, you could no longer stop her from serving the food.

Emily neatly put the rotting food along with a cup of tea on a red checkered cloth.

"Here Miss, sit down. You must be hungry."

With the personality that you'd known the Daughter of the Duke Eckhart had, you expected that you'd have to clean up a fork from the floor or pick up a table after she threw a tantrum. You were definitely mentally prepared for anything but this. She sat in silence and ate the food as you merely stood there in shock, watching her gag slightly as she ate the rotten food.

When she reached the point where she almost vomited, you moved to a spot behind Penelope's chair, grabbing her wrist lightly.

"Miss, you shouldn't continue eating this." You said, brows furrowed, looking at her in concern. You really did hope that she would eating, this wasn't at all good for her health but right at that moment, the young lord; Reynold Eckhart walked in to the room.

"What's going on here?"

He walked up right behind you who was still softly gripping Penelope's wrist, from an angle where he couldn't see anything on the table, he said,

"Hey, what's wrong with..." His voiced trailed off as the table reached his view.

"What in the... ?!" He stared at the food placed on the table with a few small bites in them. He looked up then glared at both you and Emily.

"You were feeding this to her?" His tone was cold enough to freeze your blood on the spot. You had done nothing and you weren't prepared to die yet! You closed your eyes prepared for the impact of either a sword at your throat or guards grabbing you, your ears completely filtering out other words. When you opened your eyes, you were only met with Emily screaming.

"Young Master, no! It wasn't me! I-I wasn't!"

"Get out. Now."

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So we are waiting for the VADD covers with Callisto and Derrick and their colors!

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue March 15, 1955

Charlotte Payne in a white lace dress interwoven with sky blue silk organdy encircling the chest and leading the skirt into a delicious tumult. By Ceil Chapman. Satin Buckle Satin Slippers: Delman. “Tinted Beige” stockings: Strutwear.

Charlotte Payne dans une robe de dentelle blanche entrelacée d’organdi de soie bleu ciel encerclant la poitrine et entraînant la jupe dans un délicieux tumulte. Par Ceil Chapman. Chaussons en satin à boucles en satin : Delman. Bas "Beige Teinté" : Strutwear.

Photo Horst P. Horst vogue archive

[penelope-regulus]

Crying at the realization that Reynold barely had a role in the story-

Was he even mentioned when normal mode was being discussed? As I recall it, Callisto was mentioned killing Penelope and falling in love with Ivonne and making her empress, Winter was mentioned to have turned back time at the end and brought her to the estate, Eckles was loyal to Penelope but switched to Laila's side and took care of her, Derrick... Well his role was also minimal if I recall correctly, but!

...But then there's also the route Penelope's taking in the current timeline, following the plot. So little is mentioned about Reynold!

For example, what are his ambitions? Penelope wants to survive, Callisto wishes to be the perfect emperor, Winter wants to save the world, Derrick wants to be succeed and become a duke that can care for and protect his family Eckles wants freedom, Laila wishes to become immortal and rule the world, *the empress wants to throne her son*, but what of Reynold?

Unless he really, truly, just wanted nothing more than to bully Penelope at first and have her kicked out of the house, and then be one of the babygirls that take care of her without end...?

I try coming up with headcanons about his life during and after the main story, but there's so little to work with (Although it's not just with him for after the main story, but also all the other mls) 😭

I've seen him training, so perhaps he wishes to become a swords master? But it's highly likely it's just because he'll eventually become the commander of knights and he has to do this-

Maybe, he'll work to protect commoners better after learning Penelope's story in the attic scene? Since he's compassionate? Like Robin Hood, as someone once said to me?

Or he could build a fortune gambling-

But I need more about him!!!! Or my life as a Reynold stan will be incomplete-!

[manhwa-animated-cover]

[the-black-sheep-in-the-dark]

The Eckhart family goes to take out the trash (Derrick, of course), but they are ambushed by a pack of dogs of questionable hygiene (Eckles and Yvonne)

[brotherslayer]

target practice

[doffysflamingo]

Eckles Delman (Thoughts)

Oh Eckles... you cute, lovable, horrible, cruel little thing. (ಥ﹏ಥ ╬)

I have a lot to say about this man in particular. As someone who is feral for the toxic yandere trope (iykyk), Eckles hit a lot of my personal checks in the checkbox. He's got this deep sense of loyalty towards Penelope, but he's also just this dark, brooding mess of jealousy and protective longing that makes him... borderline psychotic?

There's one scene in particular that really cemented this for me. It's when Penelope was in the garden speaking to Callisto, and it was hinted at that Eckles had been watching from the shadows. (Typical Yandere behavior tho, what can I say?). That made me wonder just how much he's been spying on her. Does he have ears and eyes everywhere? Just how much has he caught on about her life outside the Eckhart walls? Given how unhinged he has the capacity to be, I wouldn't put it past him if he's just been spying on her everywhere.

Anyways, all that is fine and dandy, like I said, pretty run-of-the-mill yandere type stuff.

HOWEVER. (ᓀ _ᓀ)

Without spoiling anything for anyone, let's just say much later in the manhwa he makes a VERY... VERY bad choice for the sake of his deep, undying, unconditional love! Ahahahahahahaha... BAD ECKLES! VERY BAD.

I think we all saw that this was coming. He was the easiest love interest. Just breathing in his mere presence was enough to shoot up his love meter like 20%. But it didn't make it any easier to accept when it happened. ┐(シ)┌ (My heart literally dropped in my chest, lol).

On one hand, I can understand why he did what he did. After all, he's only seeing things from his point of view. In his mind, the only person in Penelope's corner is, well, him. Everyone else is a threat to their bond, everyone else is something that takes her attention away from him, that takes her time away from him, and thus it's something he has to eradicate somehow.

BUT ON THE OTHER HAND GAH. (ﾒ﹏ﾒ) It was a very frustrating decision that I'm sure had everyone else lowkey pulling their hair out.

Eckles, you dug your own grave and buried yourself inside it.

(￣～￣;) and frankly, I don't know what redemption would look like for him at this point, especially from Penelope's point of view.

TLDR; Yikes.

───✱*.｡:｡✱*.:｡✧*.｡✰*.:｡✧*.｡:｡*.｡✱ ───

Disclaimer: All these personal (and by no means "popular") opinions are based only on what has been shown in the manhwa thus far (~130 chapters as of 04/07)

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Deadtime Stories | 1986  🐈‍⬛🕰️

[ameasureofseperation]

Last session was fun, we met a lot of new people in Baba Yaga's hut! Also, the horrors, y'know, like you do...

[an-angel-so-called-satan]

Regardless of Winter's color, NONE OF THE MEANINGS OF THE COLORS OF THE OTHER MALE LEADERS ARE CONFIRMED!

I was supposed to post this a long time ago, but my academic duties prevented me. Whatever, since I have your attention let's get to the point:

This should be pretty obvious, but I keep seeing people asking for spoilers on the meaning of the colors and only getting spoilers that others found on Novel Updates or on some Naver blog, BUT THEY ARE ONLY THEORIES MADE BY FANS.

THE ONLY CONFIRMED AND EXPLAINED MEANING IS THE ONE THAT BELONGS TO WINTER, even the character himself is in charge of giving it a meaning.

The author never explained the others, she left them to the interpretation of the readers. The only reason that certain fans gave meanings to the affection score colors was because they relied on Winter's explanation. Let me explain it better:

They deduced that the purple rose was related to the color of Winter's affection score, therefore the other colors of the male leads should be related to the meaning of the roses.

Then, the theory was quickly accepted by mostly fans and they started spreading it around as spoilers. BUT the author still does not confirm the meaning of the colors.

Personally, I don't know where they get the meaning of Eckles's color and therefore a dark red rose means "you'll always be mine"… WHERE THE HECK IS THE SOURCE THAT CLAIMS THAT???

Sorry, I exploded, but it really bothers me to see that they continue to share that meaning without having a source to confirm it.

So, yeah that was all I wanted to share. I keep hoping that maybe, at the end of the manhwa, the author can explain the colors better. I know that some color meanings make sense with respect to the language of roses, but there are others that I have doubts about. I really look forward to an answer in the future.

[frosted-hyacinth]

𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒

Yandere!villains are destined to die x f!reader

synopsis. You wake up as a maid for the Eckhart house, the only thing is, you're the adopted daughter's maid. Penelope Eckhart. You had been playing a game 'Daughter of the Duke, Love Project' you'd finished normal mode and started hard mode yet you died, being accused of Yvonne's murder. You felt confident that you could breeze through this, living but there was something off. Penelope Eckhart's personality has completely flipped.

And I thought that I could depend on knowing your secrets and yet... you're different... - ????

note! I think its a slow burn and the Yandere is mild

Chapter one - I

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"Now... you have a new mistress, Eckles."

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue January 1, 1957

A strip of pink satin, its back, a blooming rose, with silk petals, emerging from the finest green stem of the heel. The effect? ​​As if a small garden had followed you to the party. We see her under a floating chiffon or organdy skirt - carrying the tropics in her stride. Order from Delman.

Une bande de satin rose, son dos, une rose épanouie, aux pétales de soie, sortant de la plus fine tige verte du talon. L'effet ? Comme si un petit jardin vous avait suivi à la fête. Nous la voyons sous une jupe flottante en mousseline ou en organdi - emportant les tropiques dans sa foulée. À commander chez Delman.

Photo Karen Radkai vogue archive