#I love writing little Leif

[petraevesplace]

More lovely art from kuohsan, this time of the boys and Finn

Of all of Leif’s friendships, Leif and Asbel is my favorite and the one I imagine is the closest. Asbel’s devotion to Leif from trying to find him again for years after they were separated to staying by his side through the entire war and everything about their reunion conversation; Leif admitting he left without Asbel as a last attempt to keep him safe when he didn’t expect to survive himself and Asbel’s anger because of how seriously he takes their oath to live and die together made their friendship stick with me despite the little screen time it had. Then Asbel’s Forging Bonds conversation in FEH went ahead and had Leif, who doesn’t believe he’s a legendary hero as a Legendary Hero, say he believes Asbel will be one. Their admiration and care for each other is really sweet and it feels like they’d go to the ends of the earth for each other. Their matching titles in their endings, Asbel the Sage and King Leif, the Sage Lord, is also peak friendship goals.

[asrielarchive]

Okay speaking of scars and reader insert headcanons um. I'm making this a general ask so that I don't show bias but also because maybe there are other enjoyers who are too shy to ask so I'm going to see if I can get that ball rolling but ALSO no pressure to do this or answer at all, and i know you're working on other things so please take your time and don't feel pressured okay onto the question so-

Ahem. Uh. Daemos reactions to having their scars admired and potentially touched/kissed maybe if they're comfortable with that? And also if you're comfortable with writing that no pressure though-

Of course <3 Let me write those up for you!

Asch 🔥

Asch doesn’t understand, and finds it stupid, but begrudgingly lets you, because a caress means you love him, right? He’d probably mumble something about how he would’ve totally defeated Rhal if he wasn’t older and had authority. After a minute, he quietly murmurs a “Thank you..”

Rhys 🌊

“Well.. I uh.. I wasn’t the best at magic yet, I’m not sure why you’d care for my mistakes so much.”

Rhys would explain the ins and outs of every scar, but despite his rambling, he’s just trying to hide how enamored he is with you. Humans truly will find beauty in everything, won’t they? He’s embarrassed, and a bit guilty for how little he initially thought of you, but he truly finds it amazing.

Pierce 🩵

“…Yes.”

He would slip off his drape, and miiggght slightly lean towards you as you kissed him. Caressing injuries is a strange tradition, but a part of him can’t help but want it. Somehow it took away from the pain of when it happened to him.

“You are kind.”

Afterwards, whenever he notices you harmed in the slightest way you KNOW he’s running up to kiss you lightly, to help in whatever way he could.

Noi 🐈

“Really?!? You- you think so?”

Noi is blushing and stammering like crazy, everytime asking you if you really mean it. He gives you a caress back, because he’s happy to be included. You two would probably end up asleep in a pile soon afterwards.

Leif 🌿

“Hah, yeah, that one was a doozy.”

Leif would brag about his scars, I have no doubt. He’d still be shocked about you loving them, but he loves that. You’re his favorite human, only you could see so much good in a daemos like him.

[brights-place]

i need more of t h o s e headcanons for the MID boys🕴️on my desk by morning

[My Inner demons ] Daemos x Reader (seperate)

Warnings: NSFW, SMUT, MINORS DO NOT INTERACT

A/N: Sorry for being late to write this anyways! as usual I am not your parent I am not your gaurdian if your a minor and continue to read this with warning that it is minors DO NOT INTERACT NO MATTER WHAT it is not my job to look after a minors action for continuing to read this as we are ONLINE and I have no control other then a warning. Tt isn't my issue I am not a parent I am not in charge of a minors action. I write and that is what I do I write so again if your a minor and are reading this and not respecting or understanding that this isn't for you GET OUTTA HEREEEE other then that I hope you enjoy the My inner demon smut headcannons and sorry for again being late please enjoy this hell hole of a writing piece!!

Summary: My inner demons but Nsfw/ smut hc’s and small scenes ideas it's only a small amount though because I'm tired

DAEMOS MEN FREAK IN THE SHEETS

Asch Smut Headcannons

- Bite marks on your body as he leaves marks pampering you with lust - Has such a huge breeding kink. Like he’s downright obsessed with how pretty you look all cockdrunk with his cum just leaking out of you. Makes him feralll. - Male or Female he doesn't care he wishes to breed you - He gets so Pussy/Dick drunk that he can't think straight as soon as he’s sinking his cock into you, repeating and slurring over his words and cursing in a different from daemos before he bites into your shoulder - If you were a girl he has you teach him how to use his tongue all over your cunt eating up your juices yet his fangs make it slightly more harder as he notices how you shiver at the fangs

Rhys Smut Headcannons

- Think he'd love to fuck you till you go dumb thats where the dumbification kink comes from loves fucking you until you're so dick drunk that all you can think about his him and his dick pulvarizing you - The more you two get intimate, the more he learns to please you, still unsure about what he’s doing he has you to teach him - If you were AMAB he'd copy what you have done to him and grin excitedly always watching your reaction to know if he did good or wrong - loves seeing how flustered you get by him just doing the smallest things, like when he flexes his arms or lowers his voice a little just to see your thighs clench and face get all red

Pierce Smut Headcannons

- He looks well maintained and calm but this man is a FREAK calling you pet names praising you while he dry humps you over your vanity -He loves your moans especially when he leans up and pushes up your thighs, and his huge, veiny length is hitting a certain spot that had you drooling - He has to grip onto the headboard nails digging in and is close to breaking it yet he would focus on your reactions heaving - Kisses your thighs before he eats you out grinning quietly to himself - He has a thing for whenever you touch his hands or muscles, like when you massage them gently and tell him how pretty they are or how nice they look - Cumming in you worries him so cumming on you is his choice. He can't help but smile slightly when he sees his seed shot across your stomach or thighs. Your flushed skin and post-orgasm twitches getting him so turned on he can’t focus.

Leif Smut Headcannons

- Loves watching you try to hold in your moans and whimpers, the way your face gets all puffy and hands start shaking and squeezing him desperately makes something primal awaken in him - Sobbing into his arms like a giant mess as he degrades you while enjoying seeing you suffer because of him in many ways how you grab anything you could hold onto before trying to cover your moans with a hand - Orgasm denial/control and spanking are his go to's. 'He just loves how needy and whiney you get from him not giving you what you want. - When you start whining and whimpering from the overstimulation, he’ll just cup your face giggling and not even bothering to slow his pace

Noi Smut headcannons

- Noi is the typed of guy that would be gripping your thighs panting heavily flushed face staring down to your messy and dishevel appearance before he grins at you asking if your alright - Wrap himself around you swiping kisses and nuzzling into the crook of your very sensitive neck while his cock continuously pounds into you - Noi gets so greedy sometimes that he’ll be too impatient to even take your underwear off first toying with your fabric covered clit he pays no mind to you gasps when your dripping with such a delightful treat - When you both do small quickies with him just putting in the tip it becomes a inch, then another and then there's the two of you trying to keep quiet - He whimpers, like he’ll bury his face in your neck while holding you in a mating press and whimpers in your ear.

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Secret Admirer - Margaery Tyrell 🌈

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Longing - Jorah Mormont 🔥

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Bound To You - Aemond Targaryen 🤍🔥⭐️

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A Taste of Forbidden Fire - Eris Vanserra 🔥

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Blue Jewels - Azriel

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Unholy Waters - Athelstan 🔥

How the Viking men would look at you after inviting them to your bed 💋

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LORD OF THE RINGS

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HARRY POTTER

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[dooblebugss]

Some very general buggy headcanons for Bug Fables, focusing on the Main Three and the Explorers Association. Spoilers for the game.

Kabbu: (Rainbow Scarab Beetle)

- being a dung beetle (despite the name he's perfectly happy with mushrooms and leaves and everything else, he's actually quite diverse in his diet), he is very good at digging. He actually really likes digging too! Take a little dirt nap

- related to the previous, he loves being COMPRESSED. To mimic the feeling of layers of soil, he'll pile on blankets and pillows until he's satisfied. (During cuddle sessions he is at the very bottom of the pile)

- when it gets cold, his tunneling instinct increases ever so slightly. Not enough for him to start acting different, but he tends to hoard blankets.

Vi:

Leif (Technically a Fungus running on moth hardware, but sometimes old habits die hard lmao), Mothiva, and Yin:

- Bees don't need to 'dance' in order to communicate anymore, but Vi still uses a lot of hand gestures and moves a lot when talking, especially if she's frustrated or feels like she's not communicating well enough. If you bring attention to this, she will get mad.

- When cold, Vi will try to huddle up to bugs nearby. Typically Kabbu, but she's also done it to Maki, Zasp, Celia, and Stratos. (Leif is very jealous of this, but he's already cold, so-)

- they groom their ruffs, wings, and antennae frequently. For starters, this acts as a grounding experience that calms them down, and secondly no one likes having dirt on them. Yin isn't super good at it because she's so young, but she's getting better. Mothiva uses specialized powders and perfumes while doing it, but Leif does it the 'old fashioned way', aka with his spit, lol. Mothiva nearly fainted when she first saw him doing this.

- bright lights (especially artificial ones) can really mess up with their internal clock and GPS. I'd imagine Leif and Mothiva getting really really really lost in the Termite Kingdom and Bee Kingdom because of this.

Maki and Kina:

- they both have amazing reflexes, and they can go from a standstill to moving very quickly in what seems to be an instant

- they will track quick movement instinctually, especially from smaller bugs and critters. Most bugs assume this just shows how observant and skilled they are, when really it's a hunting trait. The two actually find it very embarrassing to suddenly interrupt a conversation when they see something move very quickly out of the corner of their eye and NEED to turn their head to see what it was.

Zasp: (I know the game says he's a potter wasp, but for my writing he's a paper wasp. He doesn't know this though, and assumes he is a potter wasp)

- when anxious, he will grind his mandibles against one another. It almost looks like he's chewing on nothing, and it would kinda be like chewing your lip or grinding your teeth. Chewing on things also helps.

- loves sleeping in little nest-like formations with blankets and pillows. He'd gather up all the bedding material, form a little "wall" with them, and climb in the middle to sleep.

Celia, Gen, and Eri:

- The three of them still use their antennae to help with direction, location, and general senses. This can lead to issues; Gen and Eri have accidentally followed each other for hours (cough cough ant spiral) and Celia, having a broken antennae, is terrible with directions. (If blindfolded, Celia will slowly go in circles)

- Ant Strength baby!!! The three of them are surprisingly strong, and can carry really heavy stuff! To compensate, they're a bit frail (it's why Celia has a shield, and why Gen and Eri rarely get into actual fights).

Levi:

- My man fucking loves Aphid Eggs. Due to the tension between the Ant Kingdom and Ladybugs, he actually doesn't like buying them in public. He usually settles for mushrooms.

- his blood is actually toxic, (something Delilah learned the hard way during a spar) and is sort of a 'last resort' defensive maneuver. If a target can get over being covered in blood, they definitely can't deal with the toxins.

Stratos: (I believe he's a Hercules Beetle)

- He's a technically nocturnal, so he's a little groggy during the day. To others it looks like he's being lazy, when really he's just tired and a little out of it. During the night is when he really shines as a fighter and explorer

- he can dig like Kabbu, but isn't very vocal nor enthusiastic about it. Stratos prefers a shallow little ditch to lay in, which is something he might do if he's really really tired.

Delilah:

- She only actually drinks blood during fights as an attack, or if she's seriously injured and needs a pick-me-up (Stratos will usually step up to the plate for that). She's totally fine with nectar and plant juices and berry juices otherwise. Delilah is aware of the stereotype, and she just kinda rolls her eyes at it.

- Delilah can actually fly like Vi or Zasp. But she prefers to keep this information to herself, as she's worried it'll have people ask her to do more work.

[kayla-kloudz]

my inner demons angst!!! if you could do leif or asch that would be great!! maybe childhood trauma that shaped them??

Hi anon! Thank you so much for your request!! I love it! Leif's backstory absolutely breaks my heart so I chose to do him! This is my first time writing pure angst so I hope you enjoy! 💜

TW: childhood abandonment, emotional flashbacks, panic, trauma response, panic attacks

Leif has spent his entire life trying not to feel anything at all. He’s never been good with emotions—especially not the kind that claw at his throat, and that squeeze his chest until it feels like he’s choking on his heartbeat. He hates it. He hates how familiar fear feels.

The silence in the apartment is deafening. Every tick of the clock is a countdown to something he doesn’t understand. The rooms are too still. Too empty. Ava said she’d be back soon. She was just running errands with Pierce and Rhys. Just a normal afternoon. She promised.

His fingers dig into the countertop, white-knuckled and trembling. His breath is too fast and shallow. It shouldn’t matter. He shouldn’t be so freaked out. He knows she’ll be back. She has to. But his brain is already unraveling, latching onto every second that ticks by. What if she’s not? What if she left? What if she’s gone and doesn’t care enough to come back? Just like the others.

He grips the edge of the counter harder, like if he lets go, he’ll fall into the past all over again. But it’s too late. The memories crash down onto him like a wave, cold and merciless. It drags him back to the place where everything first broke.

He was a kid. Just a scared, desperate little kid who thought he’d finally found a family.

The alley was wet and dark. The air stunk of metal, rot, and magic gone wrong. It was supposed to be a simple job. In and out. Something they’d done a hundred times before. But the second things went wrong, they were gone.

He remembers how the shadows moved. They danced around him, slowly moving further and further away from him. He didn’t even realize they were gone until he was standing alone, panting, blood caked on his hands that wasn't his, staring at the spot where his brothers and sisters had just been. The thought of maybe if he just held on long enough, they’d come back, crossed his mind. They always came back. But they didn’t this time. Leif was left alone in the cold and damp ally way. The creeping silence filling his ears instead of the usual cheers and laughter.

He searched for them. Everywhere. He ran until his lungs burned and his legs gave out. When he finally got back to their hideout, the fire was out. The food was gone. So were the clothes. The maps. The notes. No laughter. No teasing. Not even a trace. Just... silence. The pit in his stomach grew so deep it felt as if it would swallowed him whole.

He waited there sitting in the damp dirt. He sat there for hours. Curled up on the floor, fingers digging into the cold dirt like if he held on tight enough, someone would come back for him. Anyone. "They’ll come back," he whispered to himself. Over and over again. Voice cracking until the words were just sound.

But they never did. They never even looked back.

He stayed in that forest for three days before he realized it. He was alone. Utterly, completely alone. Because love, trust, family—those weren’t real. Not for him. He was used as just another weapon. A tool. A liability. And they had left him behind. Just like his parents did. He should’ve known better. Should’ve never let himself believe he deserved more.

The memory shatters, and suddenly he is back in the apartment. Chest heaving. Hands numb. The silence here feels the same. Empty. Mocking.

"She said she’d be back," he whispers. Barely audible. Like it hurts to speak. But she isn’t back. And his heart won’t stop screaming that she won’t be. A bedroom door creaks open and footsteps fill the quiet kitchen. Leif doesn’t turn around. He can’t. His gaze still fogged over staring into space.

Noi steps inside carefully, his voice soft. "Leif?"

No answer.

Noi swallows, his eyes flicking over the tension in Leif’s body, the way his shoulders shake, he knows what’s happening, he’s seen Leif like this before. "She’s probably just stuck in traffic," he offers gently. "She’ll be home soon. You know Ava—she always comes back."

Leif’s breath hitches at Noi’s words. "No," he says, barely more than a breath. "No,” his voice grows sharper, louder, more desperate “she’s not. She’s gone. Just like the rest of them." His voice cracks.

Noi flinches. But Leif doesn’t sound angry, he sounds broken; scared. Like a little boy who waited and waited all alone, and no one ever came.

Maybe this time is different, maybe she really is coming back. But when you’ve been left behind enough times…

you stop believing in maybes.

[yandere-daze]

I see your writing for fire emblem engage and I really love that game and I just finished it for maddening. I don’t know if this is a request or not but may I ask in the context of the base emblems, can you rank them based on how extreme they would be as a yandere like I think I would rate emblem Celica as 12th cause even if she turns yandere she still very passive and more so she’s just clingy but I would rate Byleth a 4th due to him being extremely manipulative and overprotective

Hii, welcome to the blog! I´d say normally I would consider this a request but I´m kind of in the mood to write for fire emblem right now so I thought this would be a fun little thing to do ^^

Now I must confess that for most of the lords ( which the majority of emblems are) I have some difficulty with trying to think of them as a yandere or in a self-shipping context in general. Don´t really know why that is. I also haven´t played all of the games yet so I can´t say too much about some of them, I hope that´s okay!

Also because I have a real hard time ranking things in order, here are just some thoughts on most of the emblems as yanderes ☺️

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gn reader

tw yandere, obsession, worshipping, self-sacrifice, kidnapping, possessiveness

Characters: Marth, Celica, Sigurd, Leif, Roy, Lyn, Eirika and Ephraim, Ike, Micaiah, Lucina, Corrin, Byleth

How are the 12 base emblems like as yanderes?

Marth

Now I´ll have to be honest, I actually haven´t played any of Marth´s games yet so I´m not very familiar with his character. But as with most FE lords, he strikes me as a very kind and heroic character. In Engage he kind of takes the role of a supporter and protector of the Mc and we can see that in general, he is pretty gentle.

He probably wouldn´t be a very bad yandere to be stuck with, I can´t see him ever getting violent with his darling. He strikes me as a protective yandere (something that can be said for most of them) who will do whatever he can to keep you safe while trying to make your stay with him as comfortable as possible.

Celica

I haven´t quite finished Echoes yet because I´m very bad at finishing games but I agree with your take that she also wouldn´t ever harm her darling. She´s a very devout follower of Mila and I think that same mentality could also apply to her darling. Slowly but surely, she starts seeing them as a divine being worth worshipping. She´s been completely alone for most of her life and after she had to leave Ram Village, she´s been craving more human connections. So when she finally met you, it was like Mila had sent down an angel for her. You were so kind to her, so trusting and good-natured, Celica was immediately fond of you.

She will do whatever she can to aid you in your daily life, she has to repay you for everything you gave her. She´s not very likely to attack other people, even as a yandere, because above else she wants peace. Nonetheless, if a monster or a criminal were to try and attack you, she would kill them no questions asked. No one is allowed to lay their hands on someone as divine as you, she won´t stand for it.

Due to a certain spoilery scene that happens in Echoes, I believe that Celica would also be willing to sacrifice herself for you. If there ever was a point where she would have to choose between your or her own life, she would choose yours without any regrets.

Your survival is of the utmost importance and if that means giving up her life in exchange for yours, then she is happy.

Sigurd

I have only played the prologue and chapter 1 of FE4 and ragequit when Jamke was killing my units in the forest because I couldn´t get them out in time to recruit him. Oops.

Well from what I know with how his story with Deirdre develops, I believe that Sigurd would fall for you much in the same way: Hard and fast. And if nothing else, Sigurd is stubborn. Once he has his mind set on wanting to make you his, he won´t give up until he finally has you, no matter the consequences. I mean he was literally forbidden from getting with Deirdre and he still did it. He doesn´t care what anyone else says, he doesn´t care if you already have a lover. He knows that the moment you two shared together at your first meeting was magical for both of you. He knows the love between you two is true. And he´s willing to risk it all for you.

It´s a good thing if you actually do feel the same way about him and are single! Because even though he isn´t a bad person, he does conquer several territories in Fe4 without any specific orders to do so. He may not like doing it but if it means he can have you, he would be willing to kill any romantic rivals there might have been ( or any he might have imagined).

Once you´re actually with him, he naturally is very protective of you and doesn´t let too many other people get close to you.

Leif

Now I have to admit, Leif is probably the character I know the least about here. As I said, I never played Fe4 to the point where you would get him and I haven´t played Thracia either. So most of this is just the vibes I get and a few lines from Heroes.

Now Leif has quite a tragic story and has been driven out of his kingdom when he was still young. Ever since then, he had made efforts to try and reclaim what had been taken from him. Because of that, he also strikes me as someone who would fight for his darling. He knows what it´s like to lose people that are important to you ( his parents) and now that he has clawed his way back from the brink, he doesn´t want the same to happen to you, the person he has decided he wants to spend his life with. He´s pretty desperate to protect you actually.

Still, he´s pretty young and so the love he feels for you very much still is a puppy-love kind of thing. He likes talking to you and finds it comforting to do so. He´s very nice to you and you aren´t really in any danger when being with him. I think being with him isn´t all too bad, he´s just a bit over-protective if anything.

Roy

I´ll be honest, I know almost nothing about Roy so I´m sorry if this is short😭 Predictably, I haven´t played Binding Blade yet.

He´s also one of the younger emblems here and that shows itself in how hard he tries to impress you. He´s usually pretty dense when it comes to romance but he knows what he feels when he sees you. You make him happy. I feel like he could be a bit hot-headed because of his age but as far as I know, he´s actually one of the few lords that can potentially make peace with the final boss of the game so there definitely is quite a lot of kindness to him as well. He doesn´t really want to pick any fights with people he trusts, all he wants is to be with you and if you don´t resist then honestly, it´s all going to be okay.

Lyn

Finally, after quite some time, we get to some more games I´ve actually played! And here we go with Lyn! Fe7 was actually the first Fire Emblem I ever played and it really hooked me even back then <3

Now Lyn actually doesn´t strike me as the type of person who would really actively be looking for any sort of romance. She´s lived alone for most of her life and so she does crave some companionship, but romance is something she really doesn´t have any experience in.

When she meets you, she does feel a bit strange but doesn´t put a lot of thought into it. Quickly as you two spend more time together, she really begins to take a liking to you. It´s nice to not be alone and you´re good company. The more you stay together, the more she grows attached to you. If you can fight, she´ll want to fight along your side, if you can´t or are frail in some way, Lyn will prefer you to stand on the sidelines, where it´s safe. She doesn´t know what she would do if you were ever truly harmed. The attacker definitely wouldn´t be living for much longer, that much is sure.

So to sum it up, Lyn is very protective of you and only trusts a select few people with you, anyone else could be a potential danger and she doesn´t want to risk anything.

I think it would actually be kind of tough for darling to figure out that Lyn is obsessed with them. Lyn doesn´t strike me as very physically affectionate. Only if you watch very carefully can you see the way her eyes soften when she gazes at you or the way her hand around the handle of her sword tenses when a particular troublemaker starts hitting you up. She definitely won´t tolerate anyone trying to flirt with you. She´s known you for way longer than they possibly could have, who do they think they are?

Eirika and Ephraim

I know it´s mainly Eirika and Ephraim is only really present in the special attack but I thought this was more interesting.

So having one person obsessed with you is bad enough but two of them? And they´re siblings too? Things are about to get quite a bit more complicated. The thing is, you´re not really sure if this is better or worse than only having one of them?

Of course, having two people focus all of their attention on you is very overwhelming. It stresses you out, the way they both fuss over you, the way they look at you.

Eirika is definitely the gentler one of the two, speaking to you very softly and taking great care of you. She makes sure you aren´t lacking anything (except your freedom). She also isn´t very fond of conflict and would prefer to avoid it altogether.

Ephraim is the brash and more hot-headed of the two, always picking fights with people he deems a threat ("He doesn´t pick fights he can´t win" or whatever) and generally being bolder with his affections. He doesn´t hesitate to throw his arm over your shoulder to show off to others that you´re his while Eirika prefers to simply hold your hand in her own.

Them being siblings also causes conflict from time to time. After all, what kind of siblings never have any petty squabbles? Suddenly one of them believes that the other has been getting a bit more attention from you than them and the arguing begins. Wild accusations from Ephraim that Eirika is coddling you too much while Eirika complains about the brutish ways in which Ephraim disposes of rivals. It can get annoying really fast but it´s also something that you could potentially try to use to your advantage.

Playing clear favorites with them might make them argue with each other, potentially giving you an opening to try to make your escape while they´re distracted. Do be very careful with this though because once they realize that you´re gone, they´ll quickly get over whatever argument they were having and work together to find you again. Siblings tend to have petty fights with each other but they will have each other´s backs when it comes to the important things. They *will* find you again, who knows what dangers you might be getting yourself into?

Ike

Similarly to Lyn, I can´t really see Ike as someone who is very interested in romance. In Radiant Dawn, he only has two paired endings, which isn´t a whole lot honestly ( and they´re kind of vague on how romantic they actually end up being). So maybe he would be more of a platonic sort of yandere? He cares a great deal about his friends and his family of the Greil Mercenaries and he tries his utmost to protect them. It would be much the same for his darling.

Ike wouldn´t be very physically or vocally loving in the traditional sense, he strikes me as someone who would struggle a fair deal with expressing his feelings, especially if we´re talking POR Ike where he is still fairly young. In the end, his confession would be pretty blunt, a simple "I like you." or "You´re important to me." maybe but nothing flowery or dramatic, that just isn´t the kind of person he is.

That being said, Ike cares a great deal about your well-being, even if he isn´t all that great at putting it into words. So to show you that, he does the one thing he does best: Protecting you. Ike is a very strong and capable fighter and so he will be quick to dispose of anyone that tries harming you. I don´t see him as someone that would try to isolate his darling however, especially not the Greil Mercenaries. These people are his family, he trusts them dearly and he would want you to grow connections with them and enjoy being around them. It would shatter his heart if you didn´t like being around them.

Micaiah

Micaiah I see as another worshipper type of yandere. She´s had a rough life so far, only having very few people around her that she could call friends in the Dawn Brigade while fighting for the liberation of Daein. It´s a lonely life, even with Yune whispering into her ear that one day, she will meet the partner of her dreams, the one to make her happy.

And then, on a day like any other, she finds you. It´s a very unremarkable meeting, one you wouldn´t have thought much of afterwards, but to her, it was like all the stars aligned, as if all of her life and past suffering suddenly had a purpose. She was completely starstruck, a loud pounding in her chest when she laid her gaze on you. At that very moment, Micaiah knew that you were the one Yune had been telling her about all along. And so, she vows to let you know just how much you mean to her.

As a yandere, Micaiah is very caring and thinks of you as a higher being, someone who has more worth than any other mortal walking this earth. You are special to her and so she will be damned if anything were to happen to you. She refuses to allow it. If you were ever in any mortal danger, Micaiah wouldn´t hesitate to use Sacrifice on you to transfer over her own life energy to you.

But while she is very nice and caring with you, Micaiah can be quite a bit more snarky and ruthless than you might have initially thought. She doesn´t shy away from making negative or rude comments to people she thinks you spend too much time around. (Remember that scene where she snarkily calls Ike "the father of Sothe´s children" because Sothe talked about him so much? Yeah.) She´s also willing to do bad things if she feels like she has to. If it´s for you, then no crime is bad enough for her not to consider it. She doesn´t like hurting people but she will if her hand is forced.

Also, can we talk about her having a goddess on her side? Yeah, you´re going to have a very difficult time trying to get away from her anytime soon.

Lucina

Lucina is someone that I think actually has great potential to be a yandere. She comes from a ruined future, a world where all her loved ones and friends died and the entire world is doomed. Now she has travelled back in time to change fate and make things right.

A particularly tragic possibility would be to have her witness the death of her darling in her future. It was an event that deeply scarred her forever and one that she is now desperate to avoid. She can´t allow you to die again, she can´t let it happen a second time. She wouldn´t be able to go on if she ever had to experience that amount of grief again.

So when Lucina finally makes it back in time, her top priority is finding you again. To do that, she has to go back in time quite a bit. Maybe she makes it back to a time where you two aren´t dating yet, or maybe even back to when you hadn´t even met each other yet. You´re so overwhelmed and honestly confused when you´re just going along with your day when suddenly, a young woman rushes towards you and engulfes you in a crushing hug as she cries into your shirt about how much she has missed you.

It´s quite terrifying honestly and you don´t know how to react other than trying to rip yourself out of her grip, which only makes her cling onto you even harder. Her explaining to you that she´s from the future where the entire world has ended and you, her lover, had tragically died and that she now traveled back in time to make things right, doesn´t really put your mind at ease either. I mean, who would honestly believe that?

But no matter what you say, Lucina is determined to not repeat past mistakes. She had been too careless, letting you roam around freely without her at your side, it´s what led to you dying! She won´t let it happen again!

Lucina will try and be sweet to you, knowing how hard this must be for you to believe, but she won´t give you a choice in this. She´s going to stay with you and keep you safe no matter what. She´ll follow you wherever you go with her blade at the ready, prepared to strike at anyone who tries to take you away from her again.

Corrin

Corrin has lived a very sheltered life for the most part, never really leaving the Nohrian castle. Because of this, they had many opportunities to picture what life outside the castle could possibly look like. What else was out there? What adventures or new experiences could wait for them there? Yes, they were always loved by their Nohrian siblings but they couldn´t help but yearn all the same.

Maybe being read some romance books in their childhood led to Corrin developing a fantasy of one day meeting their ideal partner, the one that would shake up their entire world, the one they would spend the rest of their life with. They had dreamed about it a lot in the comforts of their own room, delving into daydreams about what meeting you for the first time might be like.

And then they leave the castle for the first time and they meet you. And just like they had always imagined, Corrin feels themselves immediately lovestruck when you send a smile their way. This was it. This is the person they´re meant to be with, they just know it!

They´ll immediately be very friendly and way too trusting of someone who is basically a complete stranger. But they just can´t help it, their sheltered life hasn´t really helped them in growing a healthy sense of suspicion. No, instead the thought of you possibly doing something shady is completely off their mind.

Ever since that first meeting, Corrin would want to see you again every day. It´s the first real human interaction they had with anyone outside of the Nohrian royal family and the servants in the castle and they´re hooked on you. Listening to you talk about your mundane life is so exciting to them, both because they love listening to you speak and because it is genuinely interesting to them to know what a normal person´s life might look like.

And soon enough, they just won´t leave you alone. They´re sweet and their curiosity is kind of charming, but they are so very annoyingly clingy. They will pout and beg you to stay around for just a bit longer when you tell them that you have to leave. After some time they start inviting you over to the castle and you can´t really refuse to go when a royal carriage is standing before your home one day.

And then suddenly, one day you just aren´t allowed to leave anymore.

" The servants have set up your own personal room for you. I made sure that everything was just to your liking! Now we can spend even more time together, isn´t that simply wonderful", Corrin will simply tell you one day and then it is a done deal. Whatever your life was before, you will have to abandon it to fulfill Corrin´s dream of a happy married life alongside the person they adore the most.

Byleth

Honestly, I´ve kind of strayed completely away from trying to rank them as yanderes ( sorry about that) but I agree that kind of everything about Byleht makes them a scary yandere.

First of all, they´re a trained and experienced mercenary, they have all the fighting prowess they might need to keep their darling in check or make sure that nothing happens to them.

Then, they have their affiliation with the church and a certain position of power. Whether you are a student or not, Byleth is still a respected figure in the monastery and has all the benefits that might bring. She has connections to the Knights of Seiros and even with Lady Rhea herself. If you ever were to run away ( or rather, if you were to be stolen away by bandits, is what they would tell everyone afterwards), several knights or even their students would be sent out to look for you. And do you really think you could get away with so many people looking for you? You´ll be back right by their side within 3 days.

Then there´s also the whole... a goddess is in their head talking to them and them having the ability to turn back time thing. Yeah, you´re very much screwed here. How are you supposed to fight back against someone who can simply turn back time? With this ability, they have so many chances to choose the right words when talking to you or to get rid of someone in secret, without you ever knowing these rewinds even happened. In-game we might have a limited amount of uses but I don´t think it´s ever been confirmed that this is actually something that Byleth needs to adhere to in the story.

And then last but not least, there´s the fact that Byleth is just impossible to read. They don´t show any emotions in their facial expressions and their voice is mostly monotone. You would not be able to tell just how obsessed they are with you from interacting with them. You think you´re just having a friendly tea party with them and suddenly you find yourself drugged and locked up in their room.

And even when they finally have you, they´re just kind of creepy with them staring at you for long amounts of time while not saying anything. They´re not very affectionate either.

But what help could you possibly count on now when everyone at the monastery loves the professor?

[theconflictedwriter]

I dun care of no one reads it, it's my "writing doodle" and I'll post it anyway. Once more inspired by @sooplale's SatAM Fables stuff, cause I can't stop wanting to make it my own in my heart. In particular, this is inspired by their idea that Leif ought to be like Shadow. Which. Like. PERFECTION, muh dood.

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He gripped the key halves tight, on in each hand. "No more," he said, knees shaking where he kneeled.

Hoaxe chuckled, squeezing the throttle of his machines flamethrower, moving the end closer to where Kabbu and Vi struggled in his foul vehicles claw grip. "Then you know what you have to do. Return to me, cybug. Become mine once more. And maybe, if I'm feeling good, your friends will go free. It's what you are, after all. All you'll ever be… mine."

"D-Don't listen to him, Leif!" Kabbu shouted.

Vi swallowed. "You're way more than some cybug, or fungus or whatever! You don't belong to anyone, you're your own bug!" She then gasped as the claw pressed on her and Kabbu.

"Silence, vermin," Hoaxe hissed, his machine matching his cadence as its engines growled.

"You always made it so simple…" they mumbled, staring at the two keys in his hand and understanding, at long last, what they'd been missing. "I should have listened sooner."

Hoaxe turned to Leif from his cockpit. "What are you blathering about? Give me the keys, now!"

Again Kabbu grunted, but found the strength to shout, "T-Take the keys and run, Leif! Do not surrender to him! Bugaria's hopes matter so much more!"

Vi whimpered. "T-Tell Jaune… I love her, okay?"

"Silence!" Hoaxe shouted. "You are MINE, cybug! Do as I say, or else!"

"No," they said, standing up.

"No?" Hoaxe repeated, as if it were a foreign word to him. "Do your friends matter so little to you? You're colder than I thought…"

"You misunderstand. We won't let you have the keys, or our friends. Because we do no listen to you anymore. We are not yours and never were."

Hoaxe chuckled. "And what do you think you are, then? Because soon, you're going to be sssssssssscrap."

"I… am a machine." He held its key half close in his metallic grasp. "I was built by the roaches, in an attempt to gain immortality. I was made to preserve life everlasting, at the behest of the cruel roach scientists. No longer will I assist in making endless mechanical suffering. But I will preserve the lives of my friends."

"I am cordyceps," he said, wriggling under his carapace to make the fingers hold tight to his key half. "I am an envoy of nature itself, meant to set right the world when its been damaged by those that would destroy it. But mother nature no longer commands me. I will no longer destroy those I love. I will keep what I want safe, and save this world for them."

"I am Leif," he said, moving his hands, the key pieces, closer together. Their crystal parts began to glow and their metal pieces began to shift, as if revealing the edges of puzzle pieces. "I was once a scout to the old ant queen. Then, I served this land to help protect it in the name of my family. And I will keep doing that, except I will be even more. I am not longer merely Leif. I am a seeker."

"This-!" the machine shouted.

"This-!" the cordyceps shouted.

"This-!" Leif shouted.

"-is who we are!" They brought the key halves together, slotting together as though they were always meant to be.

Hoaxe growled, his frustration mounting evermore as they continued blabbering. All that hope, all that joy… disgusting. His eyes burned with fury and he cared not what it meant he'd lose as he aimed the flamethrower of his devilish machine directly at the moth and unleashed a torrent of flame that matched the seething of his hate. "Die," Hoaxe growled in a deep, drawn-out note that resembled someone gently telling another to "hush".

Kabbu and Vi shouted, wordless cries of anguish as they watched the flames erupt.

Hoaxe only began chuckling after a few seconds had passed, when the moth would have been reduced to ashes. He finally released his grip, the flames beginning to die down. "A pity," he mumbled. "He might have still been useful to me. Oh well. I'll enjoy picking through his ashes." A foul noise that resembled giggling left Hoaxe. "Now, for you two," he said as he turned back to the rest of Team Snakemouth. "Where were we? Ah, yes. You were about to die, pointlessly. Well, while I have you here… there's a perfectly good roboticizer juuuuust down the hall. I'll get it warmed up for you."

"L-Leif… no…" Kabbu said, biting back his tears.

Vi sniffed, preparing to shout, to scream at Hoaxe. But instead, her eyes widened as the glow from where the flames had blown did not die down. Instead, they intensified as a figure emerged. "K-Kabbu! Look!"

Hoaxe furrowed his brow and turned back to the raging fire, only to see it was no longer raging. A wave of ice and snow was billowing around a golden moth that shone far, far brighter than his flames had. "What?! No! Impossible! You should be dead!"

They stepped forward, clutching the Ancient Key, now one whole piece, like it were a wand. The metallic hand that that held it glowed in a silvery light, gently sweeping it about to direct the brewing icicle storm. From his chest spilled a mass of writhing tendrils, the strongest source of the cold as what flames remained, they absorbed.

Their wings fluttering, Leif rose into the air. "We don't care what we "should" be," they said, pointing their biological hand at Hoaxe. "We told you; This is WHO WE ARE!" And in a blinding flash, he struck.

[chemicallywrit]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! It’s a beautiful day in the vacation spot where I find myself this weekend, and the week was full of beautiful audio fiction. Shall we?

🐭 I am a firm believer that everyone is sleeping on Counterbalance. This is a high fantasy story that starts out with a magical scholar trying to fix a tear in the fabric of magic, and then you realize this magical scholar is a feathery mouse person when she meets someone super weird-looking: a human. The worldbuilding is superb, the sound design and acting gorgeous, and I didn’t even get to the third member of the trio, Malaki! This week’s episode was especially meaningful. A huge sacrifice, a revelation, several moments of honest vulnerability. I’m crie. Go listen to Counterbalance.

🍔 Midnight Burger is always. So good. Look, the sheep this week were great, but that wasn’t even my favorite part. David is everything to me, and I’m desperate for him to stay in Casper’s life, although not as desperate as Casper. The revelation about Gloria’s past was PROFOUND. And I am literally always here for Leif throwing down with the federal government. Please shoot DARPA. They deserve it.

🔥 Hey @theheartpyre, thank you for this bonus episode about Logan and Finn. I love them. They should kiss maybe?

🌊 What do you even SAY about @thesiltverses? That the culmination of Faulkner’s hubris has finally come to get him, and I don’t feel sorry for him even a little bit? That HR Owen’s performance as Sibling Rain was absolutely chilling? That I want to see Carpenter wreck shop but I Fear??? How is this going to end?

🐲 How we feeling about Inn Between? I’m so proud of the finale and so excited for what’s next. I’m maybe…a third of the way done writing season six? We’ll see how the rest goes.

🧟‍♀️ This week we start recording our new story for The Dead! I’m also privileged to get to be a producer on @shelterwoodpod, and I’ll be doing some work for them too this week. Keep a weather eye out late this summer for their premier! This show is going to be so good.

See you next week!

[fan-of-most-doms]

Honestly I’d love to see how the events of Amphibia would play out if it was Barrel or Andrias who saw the vision instead of Leif

Like imagine Andrias manages to grab the music box from mid air when his friends are tossing it around but in the process he touches the gems and sees a vision of the future destruction of his and his peoples home dimension, after it ends Leif and Barrel ask him if he’s okay and all he can stutter out is that he needs to speak to his Father.

He bursts into the throne room, his friends trailing behind him as silent support despite not knowing what’s going on, and says that they have to stop using the box, Aldrich is surprised and disappointed to say the least, he expected this sort of sentiment from anyone else BUT his son, frog he expected this from the two on on either side of him but certainly not his own blood. He demands to know what he’s thinking, and his son tells him of what happened and what he saw, Aldrich laughs and tells him that he’s being foolish and reminds him that of their duty and when Andrias tries to speak he silences him and once more reminds him of their duty and leaves.

After Aldrich leaves Leif and Barrel ask again if he’s okay, which he he says he is and asks them to help him steal the music box and get far away from Amphibia, his friends are shocked and Barrel asks if he’s lost his mind but Leif looks contemplative, and Andrias pleads with them to help him with this, Leif agrees Barrel looks at her and asks if she’s lost her mind too and she argues that Andrias saw the destruction of their world and they should trust him to know what he’s talking about and what he’s doing, Barrel relents and reluctantly agrees to help, Andrias sighs, thanks them and tells them his plan.

I’m not sure what the plan is but I know that they end up successfully hiding the music box on Earth, end up founding Wortwood together and living as a polycule and all dying peacefully. And obviously because Andrias is no longer there to take the throne Aldrich will still be there as king, however I feel like unlike Andrias in canon reading a letter from his son won’t really sway him into doing the right thing so in the finale it would be a little bit more difficult to defeat him and the Core.

But yeah that’s just my thoughts on what might happen if Andrias saw the vision instead of Leif, I don’t have any ideas on what would happen if it was Barrel tho so if anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them.

And if anyone wants to write a fic with this premise please tag me so that I can read it.

[cro-dinoo]

Who are your favorite Bug Fables and Hollow Knight characters? I love Leif (and all of Team Snakemouth really) and Hornet, Cloth, Ghost, and Broken Vessel/Lost Kin.

(took a little while to answer, sorry/not sorry for the wait AND sorry/not sorry for the lenght and messiness)

HK: all cast is incredible. i'd write more as opening but, really, just playing and experiencing the game with its people is self-explainatory.

the protagonists already, facing such disaster but keeping on... it's quite inspiring. i can't really choose, but the most impactful to me was the knight (i published a small work on them and i had more planned, but i guess it can wait)

BUT i'm a sucker for good villains, so the radiance and pale king (a battle against two lights? and both are wrong??) and white lady (i know she actually helps but she has other intentions in mind and she's really selfish and apathetic, all good point to love her lol) take a good spot actually, i've actually been super invested on the moth tribe, i think i posted something about one or two headcanons in the blog? also the troupe can be super interesting-

i'm ALSO a sucker for pre-canon/headcanon stuff, and Isma takes first place alongside Dryya (i imagine them having a love/hate friendship, but it get complicated), plus the other great knights (ok if you saw my notebook it would be obvious). they're just great friends

but ye, i like many characters of this game and the lore is creative that i get many new ideas every time i examine it (i had to create a doc in my pc to keep all ideas n hcs and AUs in check) i should replay the game for sure, the problem is when lol

BF: (gonna write less stuff or this answer will reach you next year so-) team snakeMOUTH WHAT THE F-

they're the craziest trio of friends? they so different, met just because circumstances and they somehow made it work?!?! and they work so well together and improve each other?!!? ORO doesn't help the fact that you can make them talk to each other about so many things, especially trivial stuff. all three are incredible and first spot to me, but if i have to choose one of them... kabbu would win, he's such a good bug and all

aside from them, the royals in general are super-interesting (but i guess you could've guessed already)

i should replay this game, too (never had much time to do that lately, though i managed to draw and write ideas, dunno if or when i'm gonna do something with them but i'll keep gathering stuff)

thanks again for the ask, thanks for waiting! have a nice day!

[brights-place]

Hi! I was wondering if you could do a little angsty fic of Leif or maybe Peirce? Something like how they accidently hurt reader or something?

It's okay if you don't do it, I love ur writing btw! 💜

[My inner Demons] Leif x Reader Warnings: Blood, Angst, Snapped body parts, Abandonment issues, mentions if murder and dead bodies A/N: Sorry for this as it is short but I was in a rush and I'm trying to get all requests out! thank you for the request it means alot that you and many others love my writing thank you once more for being patient oh and uhm I’m not sorry about what your reading.

Summary: Leif Hurts you his loving partner and can't help but stare at your expression

Leif was known as a highly trained assassin, a man whose hands were forever stained with the crimson blood of his victims.

Yet he was the same man who cradled your face with those very hands. The same hands that held you warmly against his chest.

He was someone who could kill you in less than a second without hesitation if he so desired. A predator capable of cutting down entire groups effortlessly, a Daemos who stood atop the lifeless bodies of those who had fallen beneath him.

Flesh rotted, blood trickled from open wounds, and mutilated corpses lay beyond recognition all torn apart by the sickles he wielded with terrifying ease.

Yet, somehow, he would never hurt you. Not even a scratch. In solitude, he held you close, his warmth a quiet, unspoken promise.

In the presence of others, his fingers would subtly intertwine with yours, pinkies locking in secret. Even when his voice dripped with venom and threats were thrown at Ava and you, they were never truly meant for you.

That alone made you worry for your friend. But when you and Leif had started dating, he had made a vow one he had never sworn to anyone before.

He promised never to harm you. Never to let you see the kind of fear in your eyes that he had seen in countless others. The same fear that haunted him, reflected in the eyes of humans and Daemos alike, whose lives he had stolen without remorse.

And yet, despite the blood on his hands, he couldn't help but look down at you with something different. Something softer. Love. Fondness. A feeling so unfamiliar to him that it scared him.

Still, he always reminded himself of one thing: he had to leave before the other did. Leif had known abandonment all his life.

His parents had left him as a child. His so-called friends had discarded him when he was a mere teen during a mission, leaving him to die when he was still a young assassin. But he had survived. He had clawed his way back, hardened himself against the world, and learned never to trust.

Yet you made him feel safe.

When he held your hands in his own clawed ones, he felt warmth. When he pulled you close, listening to the steady beat of your heart, hearing your voice he knew you were there. You weren’t going to leave him. You weren’t like the others.

Not like the lonely boy he once was, fists clenched at his sides, standing alone in a barren camp. A child abandoned in a dark forest, left with nothing but silence and the weight of solitude.

You kept him intact.

And then, one day, you were gone.

For an entire week, you had disappeared without a word. Leif’s reaction was immediate and violent.

He lashed out at those around him, defying Asch, his voice echoing through the halls as he shouted and threatened Ava, demanding to know where you had gone.

His rage was uncontrollable, his chest heaving as his glowing green eyes burned with fury. His shark-like teeth ground together, breath coming in quick, ragged gasps as his pupils narrowed into slits.

His room bore the brunt of his anger objects shattered against the walls, furniture overturned, glass crunching beneath his boots.

A rage that rivaled Asch’s. And then the door creaked open the sound causing him to grow alert.

His piercing gaze locked onto your familiar e/c eyes, soft in the dim light. The sight of you rooted him in place, the lamp in his grip slipping from his fingers, shattering upon impact.

You had barely stepped inside before he was gone. In an instant, the white-haired assassin reappeared before you, teleporting with inhuman speed. His hands were on you before you could react, clawed fingers grasping your face, tilting it up as his venom-laced voice poured over you.

"Where were you?"

His eyes burned into yours, sharp and unrelenting. His hold tightened not enough to hurt, but enough to demand an answer. His presence wrapped around you like a coiled snake, suffocating, waiting for you to break.

"I was on a trip—" "You left me."

His words were spat like poison, his grip tightening slightly as you instinctively pulled away.

"Leif, I didn’t—" “What do you mean you didn’t?" His voice was rising, raw with something deeper, something more desperate. "You swore you wouldn’t leave!" Tension crackled in the air, suffocating and heavy.

You tried to explain about your business trip, about how you had to leave but Leif wasn’t listening. His sneers turned to growls, his voice escalating, words clashing against yours in a battle neither of you were winning. His glare was something you had never seen before, sharp enough to cut.

His fingers curled tighter around your arm, his claws digging into your skin. You winced. You tugged against his hold, but he wasn’t letting go. He kept talking, kept yelling about how you should have told him, about how he could have known, about how you should have understood.

Not until you screamed.

The sharp, pained cry that tore from your throat made everything stop. Leif’s grip loosened immediately, his gaze flicking down to your arm.

Your wrist bent in a way it shouldn’t have been. The deep, embedded nail marks in your skin. The crimson liquid dripping onto your s/c flesh, trailing down to the floor below.

His breath hitched. His fingers twitched as he pulled away, his eyes widening for just a moment a moment where something unfamiliar crept into them.

Panic.

For the first time, Leif felt something akin to fear. His mouth parted slightly, his mind trying to process the sight before him.

You.

Your expression twisted in pain, your chest rising and falling with sharp, uneven breaths. One hand clutched your injured wrist, attempting to stem the bleeding, while the other trembled at your side. Every wince, every noise you made, echoed in his ears.

Leif reached a hand out calling at your name. Then, your eyes met his.

They were glossy, brimming with unshed tears. You were shaking.

Like them.

Like the countless lives he had taken. The realization hit him like a blade to the gut. In that instant, he vanished.

Teleporting away without a word, gone from the room in the blink of an eye. Now, he stood alone in the dimly lit hallways of what they called their ‘home.’ His breath came in sharp, uneven gasps, his hands clutching his head. His vision blurred, but he wasn’t sure if it was from exhaustion or something else.

For the first time in a long, long while, Leif felt something new. He leaned against the cold wall, eyes locked on his hands. The familiar crimson liquid dripped onto the floor below a sick feeling gnawing at his chest.

[lace4forest]

The Five

I made a fun little team of Heroes.

Basically The Five awaken with no memory, they meet people who seem to know them, and everyone wants to know if they have killed a War Lord that's been murdering people across the Kingdoms. It's a search for their missing memories and the hunt for what happened to the War Lord.

Side note, I've been calling this a "Modern? Fantasy" So, a Fantasy world but it has tech and air ships and so on. Sooooo like, FF9, but not.

From left to Right we have;

Ridge Lift: She is a Cloud person from Sun Vail Villain. After learning about the horrors of the War Lord, she decided to take it upon herself to try and help the people of the Kingdoms.

Monti Pora: A Salt Water person from Eukaryote City. His home was in the process of being destroyed when Ridge showed up, in the end duo teamed up.

Spruce Leif: A Tree person from the Redwood Forest of Giants Reach. Forest fires had broken out because of the War Lord. In the end, they became a Trio.

Rowdin Mia: An Amethyst person from the underground City of Quartz. The trio had gone to warn the people, but were only able to recruit Rowdin to help defend his home.

Vesper Voltz: A Blue Lightning person from the destroyed village of Crackle Canyon. Years ago, this village was one of the first the War Lord destroyed, all the people seemed to have been killed. What could have happened to the Villages last survivor. :)

I had started to write an entire "Wtf happened" but decided to keep it short. There is a LOT more. Idk if I'll ever do anything with this, but I love The Five.

Side note, in this world, people are states of matter, We have Air, Liquid, Solid and Plasmas. Ridge is an Air. Monti is a Liquid. Spruce and Rowdin are Solids. And Vesper is a Plasma. They can just be any type of these states of matter that occur in the natural world. (Our War Lord is a Light person, so a Plasma.)

[semper-legens]

59. Leif and Thorn vol 7, by Erin Ptah

Owned?: Yes Page count: 187 My summary: Just when Thorn thinks his life couldn't get any more complicated, a new wrinkle in his life plans drops from the sky in the form of a child - his younger self from an alternate timeline, a magical boy with no idea where he is or what happened to him. Looking after his own teenage self is going to be a challenge, especially as the poor kid just wants to go home…but that kind of magic is meant to be impossible. My rating: 5/5 My commentary:

Yes, folks, it's Leif and Thorn time again! Long-time readers of this blog will know that Leif and Thorn is one of my absolute favourite webcomics - it's a dramedy set in a fantasy world, about the relationship between an embassy guard (Thorn) and an indentured servant working as a gardener in that embassy (Leif). It's also got an ensemble cast of characters, from Thorn's fellow knights to vampires and teen mages and tiny engineers and much more. I love it! This is the newest paperback collection of the story, collating the arcs from Side Hustled to A Bridge Too Far, mostly dealing with Magical Thorn being isekai'd into the main universe and the fallout of that. It's got some really good stuff, and once again, I'm thoroughly enjoying the ride.

I read these strips as they went out live, and I remember my jaw just dropping when Magical Thorn was plunged into the main story. For the uninitiated, Leif and Thorn has several semi-canon AUs that run occasionally with the main storyline, usually as bonus stories on weekends, like a vampire hunters AU, a household pets AU, a Star Trek-style space AU…and the magical boy AU, where the world is that of a magical girl anime and all the characters are teenage magical girls. This is the AU that gets the most focus, and the reason for it becomes immediately apparent when Magical Thorn is pushed by Magical Kudzu into the real world. In typical Leif and Thorn fashion, this is played in a realistic style, with the young Thorn being shellshocked, confused, and disoriented, but still showing the comedy in it, with everyone else being baffled as to why Thorn is a teenager and also a magical boy now. It toes the line really well, showing Magical Thorn being realistically overwhelmed and defensive, everyone around him treating him like a threat, and how Leif and adult Thorn manage to get everything calmed down and help the poor kid out. I've said before that one of the strengths of Thorn's characterisation is how he's just a really nice guy who's trying his best, but the writing makes that interesting. He gets things wrong, he gets angry, he does irrational things, but he's trying his hardest to be the best he can be - and that's contrasted well with the younger Thorn, from a world where magical girl logic is rampant, who's a bit more erratic because of his situation and age.

One of the other arcs in this volume is an arc where Ivy, the young magical girl in charge of disaster relief due to her immense water magic, Cedar, a new magical boy and teen superstar, and Holly, their friend who is in herself a powerful mage, all test a new defense strategy. There are these little bots that work on AI that are meant to hold back tsunamis and other strong weather hazards that, usually, Ivy would handle - as it turns out, they're not as good as advertised, and mostly are there to protect the wealthy rather than people as a whole. I have to hand it to Ptah here; my personal views on AI are complex, but basically my stance is that generative AI is not in itself a problem, it's just a tool. People who misuse it, don't understand it, and would use it as an excuse to harm people (be it by laying people off in favour of AI or using AI to generate nonconsensual porn of people) are the problem. All that said, I think Ptah does a good job here showing the downfalls of AI in a way that doesn't make me roll my eyes. The problem with the bots is that they are 1. advertised as being better than they are, 2. snapped up by a government that wants to feel innovative without looking into the drawbacks fully, and 3. used by someone unscrupulous to protect the interests of the rich while leaving the poor to die. That's some of the actual problems with AI, not that 'a computer can't love so don't let it write a story' or whatever. Also, seeing Holly and Ivy come up with a plan to unite some magical teens and stop the storm is great.

Meanwhile, this volume also contains a bit of information that's been dangling since the start of the comic. Leif and Kale have a chat about Kale's backstory, and Leif understands and sympathises - and tells us something he's never told Thorn. His parents were behind a disaster that led to a bridge collapse with a high death toll. That was the original debt that had his parents jailed, and Leif himself pressed into indentured servitude when he came of age. And Leif believes that his parents were guilty, either of deliberate sabotage or of using worse materials than they were meant to and pocketing the money saved. Kale…immediately doesn't buy it, which leads to an altercation between them, Kale even sardonically noting that he immediately gave Leif something to be mad at him for when Leif was sympathetic to his past. It's such a tragic little scene, made bittersweet with their reconciliation at the end. And again, it's one that had me on the edge of my seat when I first read it as the comics were coming out. Poor Leif. Poor Kale. I just want to drag them out of the story and hug them.

Next, a view on the Caribbean.

[z-and-the-space-child]

my head is all currently midnight burger podcast so here's everything i like about this wonderful piece of media:

it's pretty fun and very funny!! i smile like an idiot on public transport and on my way to class at least once a day listening to this.

the characters are so. idk how to describe them but theyre so full of life and you can tell that they are loved greatly by the creator(s)

the WRITING. i could seriously pluck a quote from damn near every episode to carry me through the day. i don't need affirmations i need gloria to talk me through my problems.

i was doing a lil analysis of the themes in this show and i came up with "the best thing you can ever do is the best thing you can do right now" and it is FUEL, babey.

The el triste monologue. also just gloria being a POC and being proud of herself and her culture. there's a lot of cultural mish-mash in podcasts, so this is very refreshing.

It's very, very sweet and heartfelt. kind of like wolf 359 if they communicated more instead of dodging their issues until they came to a peak (love them for it.)

the PHYSICS of it all. i'm a physics/astrophysics major because i think space and looking at the stars is my lifeblood so i won't shut up about it. i don't want ava and leif (certainly ava) to shut up about it ever. HOW much reasearch did they have to do to get this kinda grasp on it. im in awe, i'm LEARNING actual things from them. i could go on. the gravity waves, the stellar nuclear fusion, the time dilation of it all. and all without using over-flowery language!!! i can actually follow a good chunk of the time. are we sure ava didn't take one of those science communication seminars. maybe 5 phds does it. when she and leif talk i vibrate like an electron in a lazer. wonderful.

star sequencing??? stellar nucleosequencing??? right up my alley. thats my kinda stuff. the romanticization of space, i've seen. the romanticization of physics, however, is not something i haven't seen in such a beautiful modern fashion. (Ie, not oppenheimer or even richard feyman)

and it's not too science-y to the point that they think they can't have fun. yes they discuss the implications of gravity waves and wax poetic about space and pulsars. (it beats for you, berts) but they have FUN! they meet their parents because they can. they get a plant drunk. there's an atmosphere(?????) around the diner that allows them to fly around and mind-numbing speeds and look at the curvature of spacetime and also sit on the roof. (I imagine the entire place is the temperature of a summer night.) they have a whole wild west planet. leif builds things inexplicably. how? where does he get the materials??? shhhhh don't question it just let him have the gravity wave detector. nobody actually knows what engineers do, not even engineers. let him be. also time crystals??????

ALSO ava being a woman in stem and being so blunt yet covert about it. she's been dealing with it for so long. why are all (recognized) physicists a)white b) men c) both. it's such a sucky thing to work into because of the outward appearance. ava is a proud mad scientist which i aspire to so much. i am keeping her in my little arsenal of people to think about when i don't want to study. (picture the do it for her meme but it's pics of ava) I don't think i aptly put how much i love her. i'm not all the way finished yet but i've heard she was forced to marry someone? i think it would be a thing for sure if she cheated on him. so many physicists cheated on their spouses (wives ): ) and i think ava should also do it. as a treat. if that's what she'd like.

when people have done bad, bad things but show/are capable of redemption upon reflecting on their past/current shortcomings is just something that gets me so much directly in the heart. the hiddenness of people. the tragedy. we contain MULTITUDES and this show demonstrates that so well. how they support each other! they are everchanging and that's good for them. Leif the engineer the ex criminal the diner cook.

leif exploding a man in cold blood. if i could draw i'd draw that. maybe i will anyways.

food as a form of affection/way to bond. grief. doing your best. making amends. using the time you have. death is inevitable but that's okay.

And if time and tide roil you too harshly, or diurnal courses leave you with no safe havens, just remember we’re out there, somewhere, lookin’ for ya’

they open at six

[talesfromaurea]

Tales from Aurea - Session 22 Now Posted!

Hello! Session 22 - A Mother's Love can be read right now on Royal Road (link here) Enjoy!

Chapter summary: In their search for other survivors from Kaja's village, the companions finally reach the sacred glacier, Dusanek. What awaits Kaja in the icy depths?

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Chapter preview under the cut

Leif drew in the line of the makeshift fishing gear and examined the untouched bit of jerky on the other end. “Guess the fish aren’t hungry,” he said, disappointed. He had done exactly as Amale had instructed him to and the gnawing emptiness in his belly was quickly depleting the last of his, admittedly limited, patience. He turned to Kaja, who sat on a nearby log, kicking her feet idly. “Maybe it would be easier to find a couple rabbits,” he suggested. “Or, gods willing, a boar.” His stomach growled loudly as he imagined slabs of bacon crackling over the fire.

Kaja listened in awkward silence. It had been a few days since the companions left Ainchalez behind and set up a temporary campsite in the saddle between two mountains, with their destination, the sacred glacier Dusanek, tantalizingly close on the westward peaks. Jo had tried to keep pace at first but it soon became clear that their trials in Ainchalez were more damaging to her injuries than she originally let on. Amale warned the group that she needed rest and so they picked a relatively sheltered location to wait out her recovery, despite her protests. When the little food they had became scarce, Leif volunteered to go search for more. He specifically requested that Kaja come with him, which was why she was now sitting by the water’s edge as the pink light of dawn sparkled across the crystalline surface.

“The fish go to the bottom when snow falls,” Kaja said quietly. She didn’t understand why Leif had wanted her to come with him, but she resolved to be useful now that she was here. “I can go get them.” Before Leif could ask her what she meant to do, she had shed her outer clothes and waded into the icy water.

She dove gracefully below the surface, the fins on her tail flaring out to propel her through the water. The pond was still and the water clear, so it was an easy thing for Kaja’s sharp eyes to catch sight of a mountain carp lying motionless on the rocky bottom. As she slowly approached it, careful not to alert its dulled senses, she flashed back to a memory of diving with her friends as Matus looked on with pride. She remembered Feodor grinning ear to ear as he held up his catch, the largest fish in the group. Would they be waiting for her at Dusanek? She shook the thoughts from her mind and refocused on her task.

Just as the carp’s fins shuddered and its tail flicked, she struck. Pushing herself forward with a powerful whip from her tail, she simultaneously rimed her fingertips into icy claws and clasped the fish, piercing its soft flesh as it struggled. Without wasting a movement, Kaja swam to the surface and took a gasping breath.

“Here,” she said, throwing the half-frozen fish onto shore. Leif looked at the carp as it flopped weakly then lay still.

“Wow, that’s amazing!” he said with a good-natured laugh, once the shock wore off. “Think you can find another?”

Kaja nodded and disappeared below the water again. When she was done, they had three good-sized carp on their hands.

“I’m still hoping we see a boar on the way back,” Leif said as they secured their catch and began the trek to camp. “Not that the fish you caught aren’t good enough, mind you!” he amended quickly. “But you just can’t beat crackling pork fat, you know?”

Kaja had never had crackling pork fat, so she didn’t know, but she doubted it was better than a nice, frosty fish, the ice crystals in the raw, unspoiled flesh crunching between her teeth. Now her own stomach was growling. “I like fish,” she said.

Leif smiled, elated that he had gotten Kaja to speak with him about something other than business. “Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “I like fish too. Salt fish is a specialty of Stielheim, you would love it.”

“Is it hot?”

“Nah you can eat it as is, although some people like putting it in stews. Next time you’re in Aurea, I’ll search the market for some so you can try it.” He stroked his beard and twisted a lock thoughtfully. “Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I went out on a fishing vessel for a couple weeks? Well, it wasn’t exactly my decision—I was drinking one night and. . .”

Leif’s story carried them all the way back to camp, where Amale was tending to Jo and Sakrattars was reading by the fire. “. . .and that’s how we slew the great northern kraken,” Leif finished. “The island ate grilled squid for weeks!”

Amale’s ears perked at the sound of Leif’s voice, but quickly flattened again when he heard the words coming from his mouth. “The food?” he asked skeptically.

“Yeah okay. Got it right here.” Leif plopped the fish on a nearby stump. “Thanks to Kaja. She’s a good little fisher.”