#Roman accidentally summons a demon

[stillebesat]

Tiny Demon AU

Roman leaned more heavily into the palm of his hand, his eyes half open as he tried to listen to his woodshop teacher -known as “Slo-Mo Nate” among the less patient students such as himself- as he plodded through yet another lecture on triangles being the strongest shape in construction yadda yadda--Roman had heard it all a million and a half times before. 

He fought back a yawn, the pencil he’d had ready to take ‘real’ notes moving in lazy circles halfway up the page as he waited for Slo-Mo Nate to wind down. 

  Just because Roman preferred using other shapes in his construction projects didn’t mean he wasn’t aware how useful triangles were. He flicked his eyes to the ticking clock then back to the Teach. Would it be too much to raise his hand and interrupt to ask if he could go out to the shop already? Probably. 

ProcrastiNATion loved to bore his students to death for the first twenty minutes before finally letting them loose into his shop to work on their senior projects . 

Roman exhaled, scratching darker lines haphazardly through the interconnecting circles he’d doodled.  “Olvida la diversión trae la lógica.”  He muttered, glancing up as a couple of chairs in front of him shifted. Were they finally allowed to lea--

Nope. 

Nobody was getting up.

He resisted the urge to bang his head on the desk. Just a couple of his fellow peers as antsy to get out into the shop as he was apparently.  

Unfortunately the Bore-i-Nator was still jabbering on about his beloved triangles and--Roman looked back down to his doodle and jumped, nearly falling out of his chair while a tiny horned figure glowered up at him from the middle of the symbol he’d drawn. 

No. Way. Roman blinked, shaking his head. He’d dozed off. He was imagining it--nope. 

Tiny demon dude was still there. 

“Mira al idiota humano” The tiny voice growled up at him, crossing his arms. 

“Perdoname?!” Roman hissed. “I’m not an idiot!” 

“Ah. Ingles.” The figure said, a tiny spiked tail flicking in contempt. “Of course, I should have known.” 

“And what is that supposed to mean?” “Exactly what the words connotate. Do you not read! The size of the summoning circle is specified as no more and no less than six FEET in diameter and this--” He gestured to the circle “Flimsy excuse of an ecliptic is a paltry two inches!”

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

So I'm actively watching Supernatural and I can't stop thinking about the boys as hunters.

Roman and Remus are like Sam and Dean, brothers and incredibly stupid for each other. Going to Hell, coming back, punching the Devil in the face because why not. They may not have the best lifestyle but they have each other and really, what else do you need? They handle.. everything. Someone give them a nice hunt. Please.

Virgil got into the life accidentally but fully protected himself as quick as possible. I'm talking tattoos of every protective symbol and phrase that you can think of and he knows plenty of them. He doesn't keep many people close and he has the most run-ins with demons.

Logan didn't believe in monsters at first but he had a Bobby incident happen and lost someone close to him. That's what made him get as practical as he could with his defense and his offense. He deals the most often with ghosts and spirits and he's perfectly comfortable with that.

Patton is the type of hunter where you look at him and think he's completely normal, but then you show up expecting him to be useless and he's the most badass person you've ever met. He's the vampire hunter because of course he ends up being one. He's the cheery "what a nice hunt! Who wants some dinner?" guy. I love him.

Janus tracks down more unusual creatures, got into it because it was a family business. He speaks a whole cacophony of different languages and will not hesitate to start speaking German in the middle of nowhere if he doesn't like the person he's talking to. He

They all as a group culminate in a badass "oh my god stop almost dying" "STOP TRYING TO SUMMON THE DEVIL" "can we have one nice day" "thanks for the tip" group ever. And I don't even think they hunt together. I think they're all in different states, occasionally travelling, and then they call each other for tips. Every once in a while, they send out a "might need help with this one" text and everyone shows up because you can't let a hunter go alone like that.

Dukexiety, Logince, and Moceit are my thoughts here. Remus and Virgil have a weird amount of demon knowledge between the two of them and they use it, Logan and Roman are definitely in love but refuse to admit it and it's "just casual" (it's not), Janus and Patton are basically married.

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D E V O U R I N G this I fucking L O V E this S O fucking much oml P E A S E!!! I seriously adore all of their roles they D E S E R V E to be a badass team!!! Also I'm cackling at the thought of part of the group being surrounded by supernatural creatures and one of them sends a text to a groupchat and not even 3 seconds later a van pulls up with everyone else XD

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Death Games and Robots 🏛️⚔️- You are a regular citizen of the Roman Empire. You receive a horrible prophecy according to wich you are going to be loved by some mysterious and powerful creatures. Also you may or may not cause some unspecified cataclysm.

The Smallest Miracles 🦋✨- Two fairies, one witch, some gibli aestetic and no romance. Inspired by ayyy-imma-ninja's fairy AU and petrixmuserb's fairy friends AU.

Diving in stars, all alone 👽🪐 - You were a test pilot for prototype FTL space drive. Shockingly, it worked, sort of, and you got gliched outside of the solar system, and your ship systems get fried. You find a big alien spaceship with only two inhabbitants. They are as trapped as you are but maybe you can help each other out.

Siren's Kiss 🌊💕- Inspired by art by paper-lilly. Mermaids rescue a strange land animal from drowning. They have no idea it's actually the most dangerous creature on earth (a human). But it's cute. ( ˘ ³˘)♥︎

The mask is becoming you 🎭👤- This doppelganger assassin is very bad at their job and the humans they were supposted to kill turned out to be far too cute. (Mashup of DCA and That's Not my Neighbour)

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Friends Keep Secrets 🤫💖 - Everybody in pizzaplex keep their secrets. You are the friend that can be trusted with them. Independent prequel to "Friends Stick Together"

Summoning Unearthly Forces (Responsibly) 😈❄ - a comedy OC & Demon!dca story made for oreoexe as a secret santa gift. - Alice got lost in the forest. In the old bandoned cabin she found something she would never expected.

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Psychic AU - The reader posses psychic abilities. During the visit in the pizzaplex they immediately sense something that something supernatural is going on, and the anxious mess that is the daycare attendant is connected to it. Together they began investion.

Space Titan AU - You find an ancient war mashine, giant robot with two AI's, constructed centuries ago by advancent race of aliens. You accidentally wake them up.

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[rogue-bard]

Good Omens killcounts:

Adam (I) kills a lion with a flaming sword.

Hastur kills Sister Beryl by pointing at her.

War actually kills no one in person so I'm not gonna count her.

Adultery kills Agnes by setting fire to her.

Agnes kills ... a whole village of people.

Crowley shreds a potted plant. Probably.

Crowley runs over a pedestrian. Possibly.

Crowley, funnily enough, kills more people than War in a very similar manner, and since we didn't count her, we don't count him either (plus, "everybody has miraculous escapes" according to him)

Ligur feeds Eric 1 to Dog.

God kills... everyone, including that one unicorn (that's on you, Shem...!)

God (?) kills Jesus. Either her or the romans, I gueds.

Aziraphale kills his executioner by.... *checks notes* dressing well?

Crowley blows up the Nazis in a church.

The mailman kills himself to deliver the mail.

Adam (II) kills the whalers via Kraken. Not sure if this counts as a kill by Adam or the Kraken.

Hastur kills Eric 2 and Eric 3 for telling him Crowley invented selfies.

Hastur kills the stop motion bunny in the stop motion movie. Yes, I'm counting that. It's the most graphic death on the show.

Aziraphale kills Crowley's will to live by refusing to go to Alpha Centauri with him, but I don't think we're counting that.

Crowley kills Ligur with a bucket of water over the door.

Shadwell kills Aziraphale via exorcism summoning circle.

Crowley accidentally kills everyone on the M25...

Hastur drowns the callcenter people in maggots.

Crowley drives Hastur through a ring of fire and ignites him.

Death kills everyone in the airbase...

Aziraphale sent that solider to god knows where.

Pepper kills War with Aziraphale's sword.

Brian kills Pollution.

Wensleydale kills Famine.

Newton kills the atomic bomb launch computer. Which doesn't count but the poor boy is never included in anything so I thought he'd like to be on this list.

Adam (II) defeats Satan? I don't think he's dead, so we're not counting this.

The Kraken ate the head of trade administration.

Hastur sticks the little fat demon into the bathtub.

In conclusion: Agnes probably killed the most people, if we assume that not too many people on the M25 actually caught fire or if we don't count those because they get revived. Otherwise, it's probably Crowley....

Or, you know, God, but we all knew that, that's kind of a plot point in the show...

[teabutmakeitazure]

Might not be of much help to battle your boredom but when I have to endure long periods at airports I have made it a tradition to simply put on my noise cancelling headphones with some ‘Mediterranean shores’ or ‘Roman empire’ ambience videos and start memorizing books of the Aeneid in Latin… it started off as a joke because of approaching Latin exams during middle school while I was on vacation, but now I take it quite seriously! There’s something strangely enjoyable about the concern in strangers’ eyes as they pass through a random girl in a corner murmuring Latin under her breath near an airport café? This most probably did not help but I strongly recommend dedicating these straining hours of boredom to some literary piece you enjoy so you can quote it mid conversation as if it were nothing. Love building an arsenal of pretentious bullsh1t. Also safe flight my dear! Hope we both make it out of semester 2 unscathed!

As a wired earphones user I am appalled. But that does sound fun. However, as I am far from American or anything such, if I do something like that I'd probably get deported on grounds of suspicion of terrorist activity. Or at the very least I'd get security called on me 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️

Anyway, that's so badass tho anon. Don't accidentally summon a goat demon at an airport, and if you do, leave it at the airport. Let's see how demons fare without visas.

[philosophicalparadox]

📗📗 I am greedy, I desire two please. (for a fanfiction you haven't written but daydream about) thank you

Oh boy. Maybe I was the wrong person to ask for two from, cause this got Long!

I am mildly obsessed with Berserk right now, so mostly my brain has been viciously whipping up WIPs for that, but interestingly two of them are crossover fics. (Well actually 3)

However I also have at least one Blue Exorcist fic I have not written, but keep mulling over. This one's brief as its still in its concept stage: An anthology series I keep imagining but not writing in which I explore mainly Samael's past; I have from his conception, sometime way back in early Mesopotamia, up until things turned sour with Lucifer circa the fall of the Western Roman Empire sketched out. My favorite part so far is writing his relationship with Azazel, who I think of as very knowledgeable but punky, spunky, and a lil bit mean (ahem, courtesy Shiro, Myth of Aries, Myth of Odin, Myth of Zephyrus, and a few other wind and storm gods, plus actual mythological Azazel being a weirdly nice but also kinda douchey and temperamental demon)

The one that is most planned out however is a Blue Exorcist X Berserk crossover in which The Berserk Crew gets caught in a dimension-splitting slash by Skeketon Knight and wind up just over 700 years in the future, in a radically different timeline (The world of BE) Mephisto is no stranger to accidental time-space travellers, and usually keeps an eye on them, but stays away. Most of them die anyway, from the shock to their systems, or go completely mad, especially ones travelled so far. But, they wash up in Tokyo Bay, and he just happened to be nearby, so why not? After all, time travellers who survive the jump Always instigate change, at times radically, sometimes good, sometimes bad; in which case he's in prime position (the only position really) to either "help" or "abate" those changes (translation: they live or they die). He's the only one that can speak to them, anyhow - not a human left speaks Middle High German on a regular basis but him. Plus, Griffith has a very interesting little "toy" called a Behelit, which is of his own kin - how could the devil resist?

Highlights thus far include (long read):

Mephisto forcing the group to live in his Library, because it's the safest place he can think of where they will also be able to remotely educate themselves (Well. Griffith and Casca to a point.)

Rin meeting Guts after sneaking in and thinking he is THE coolest dude ever, and Guts being painfully awkward and shy about it cause he's no one's hero and isn't sure he wants to be; he wishes he could explain that that giant sword has cut horses in half without scaring the kid but he does not know how. Griffith is no help, he's just glad not to be fawned over for once, even if Mephisto has a creepy degree of interest in him.

Yukio finding out about these time travelling medieval knights and absolutely freaking out because Rin is oblivious to how fucking dangerous these people are or what the word "mercenary" means. He works with Mephisto to try and keep things hush hush. Rin is convinced otherwise.

This leads to a sorta well fleshed out situation in which the BE crew get to glimpse these knights in action...while fighting Amaimon, of all people. (Guts has faced apostles near that level of "oh fuck no" so I have faith he would be undeterred). The demon King nearly kills Griffith, who, in desperation and having done plenty of "reading" on summoning circles, (and conveniently has been slipped a paper) summons a Kirin by pleading for some kind of horse; he and Guts both are Cavalry, and without the heft and speed advantage, nothing is gonna get through Amaimon's scaly, armored tail. Kirin are stubborn, though, and very hard to tame - but once they bond with a person, they stay with them for life. Griffith pleads, and his love for Guts and sheer dominating willpower works, and the Kirin Yields, much to the utter shock of even Mephisto, who quite expected a different creature to appear (Behelit being kin of Time and Griffith possessing qualities that make him A Primo target for Kin of Light). Guts and Griffith, using the super speed of the Kirin and the weight of Guts' oversized claymore, gravely wound a fleeing Amaimon, much to the surprise of everyone watching, especially Rin, who is just starting to piece together that these are Dangerous People; but Rin also thinks that that is the most awesome display of (human) power ever. Even more awesome though is the healing scene, which I won't spoil much; it's very tender and sweet and defies what even Mephisto assumes is possible, so there's that.

Following this is a plot point I've drawn up, but have not worked out much, in which this encounter attracts attention and Mephisto is forced to reveal them to the Vatican. Griffith, Guts, and Casca are the only ones to attend - and it is here that they find out they can never go back home. They're too far away; to get back to where they were would take generations of time jumping, which is not something the King of Time is inclined to do. But, he can take them back to the same time, more or less. Just not the same place. But for a price, of course; what this price is, Idk yet.

What I do know is that Guts is very susceptible to possession, even as he is in the Golden Age. (Severe trauma will do that to a guy) And this is very well known to Mephisto, who has been riling him up all the while they've been in audience with the vatican - until something gives, and for a moment, in plain view of all, Guts is possessed by a kin of Spirit. (Upon closer inspection, Beast of Darkness is more Kin of Azazel than Kin of Armumahael) The Grigori were initially impressed, after all, that medeival humans with no formal training in exorcism had managed to so wound a demon King, and were quite willing to take them on as esquires/exwires. But Guts's instability is a liability, and would need to be ironed out first. The ramifications of this on Guts relationships with Griffith and Casca are...tragic. He could go demon at any time; and he has no way to stop it. Angst punctuated by tender, heart-throbbing fluff ensues.

In light of this, I think I'd like for Guts to have a budding friendship with Rin. They have quite a bit in common, and the fear of going berserk at any time is but one more thing to share in common.

Eventually, they will temporarily be assigned as "commissioned exorcists" which are essentially mercs. Rin will slowly come to realize that maybe Guts is not his friend in the way he envisioned - certainly the man has no love for demons, and is utterly ruthless in killing them. He kills the way only a man who has spent his whole life killing can - and it both scares, nay, terrifies, and excites Rin, because on one hand, for the first time he sees a human being that might be able to kill him before he can even react, with such deftness and efficiency he probably wouldn't even know he was dead. This is very scary for him. On the other hand though, that might not be a bad thing - he would rather be executed by someone he admires if it came to that. Plus he definitely wants to study these guys; Guts is terrifying, and frankly so is Griffith, who is just as deft and ruthless, but who also runs this show, and can bark out commands that are followed to the letter with absolutely zero recourse and definitely knows wtf he is doing. Judeau is a fucking phantom, coming out of nowhere, skirmishing, then vanishing again. Casca follows the same pattern, avoiding direct prolonged contact, but she can certainly hold her own with an arming sword. Pippin is a great vanguard, and a living mountain. Put a warpick in his hand and he is indomitable. Rin - along with the other exorcists assigned to the location, are utterly engrossed in the way these people fight, doing precisely what every exorcist should never do, fighting up close and personal, and being damned good at it. But more impressive to them still is how cohesive they are - something even Berserk mentions makes the Band of the Hawk so unique and effective. It inspires change in the way things are thought of, and Mephisto quietly muses over the fact he's been hurled into a different timeline, again, but isn't sure how this one is going to pan out. Time travellers always, always change things, either radically or minutely, for good or for ill, and he both hates and loves it when they happen.

Hope that satisfies!

[scotttrismegistus7]

THE BLACK FLAME AND THE MASTER CRAFT OF THE BLACK SUN:

This Ninmah could not recall; the emissary was as young as a son, she was as his olden mother! Simple is the explanation! Galzu to her said: By our winter’s slumbered life cycles it is caused!

~The Lost Book of Enki by Zechariah Sitchin~

WE THE ANCIENT ONES ARE A DIFFERENT RACE OF BEINGS. NOT SO MUCH OUR BODIES AS FAR AS THE HUMAN RACE IS CONCERNED, BUT OUR SOULS ARE A DIFFERENT RACE. WE CAN HIBERNATE IF WE NEED TO. WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO INCARNATE, AND YES, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN BY THE MARKING OF THE ALIGNMENT OF THE STARS, OUR ENERGIES ARE DOMINANT OVER ALL OTHERS.

I HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THE DETAILS OF THIS BEFORE IN PREVIOUS POSTS AND I WON'T REPEAT THAT HERE, SO IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE DETAILS YOU'LL HAVE TO LOOK THEM UP IN MY NEW DIGITAL LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA AND READ ABOUT THEM. WHEN I HAD MY NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, I ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERED THE CLOCKWORK ORANGE RA ANOMALY USED BY THE EVIL MAGICIANS. HOWEVER, IN MY CASE IT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF SEVERE TRAUMA AND SEVERAL OTHER FACTORS, AND SPIRITUALLY I WAS STILL IN A STATE OF INNOCENCE WHEN THIS HAPPENED, NOR HAD I HARMED ANYONE ELSE IN THE PROCESS OF THIS. IT HAPPENED AS A TOTAL FREAK ACCIDENT, AND IT LAUNCHED ME TO THE TOP AND PINNACLE OF THE LEFT HAND PATH. AS I HAVE EXPLAINED BEFORE, THE POWERS THAT BE GAVE ME A CONTRACT AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN ORDER TO ADD DIVINITY BACK INTO THEMSELVES, AND BECAUSE THERE WAS NO FEAR IN MY HEART, AND I HAD PERMISSION FROM THE HIGHEST DIVINE ENERGIES BECAUSE WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ME WAS SO TRAUMATIC, TERRIBLE, AND EVIL, AND NOT OF MY OWN DOING, I WAS ABLE TO SURVIVE THE MAGICAL PROCEDURE WHICH WAS MOSTLY PERFORMED IN A WORLD BEHIND THIS ONE THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW EXISTED UNTIL I GOT PULLED OUT OF MY OWN BODY RIGHT INTO IT.

THERE WAS NO GUARANTEE THAT WHAT HAPPENED WITH ME WOULD HAPPEN, AND THE PROBABILITY OF ANYBODY BEING ABLE TO SURVIVE THE MAGICAL PROCEDURE IS VERY SMALL. SO IT WAS A SURPRISE TO THE GODDESS WHEN I ACCIDENTALLY ENDED UP IN THE PERFECT POSITION TO TRY AND GO THROUGH THE MAGICAL PROCEDURE, AND WHEN I SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ALL THE NECESSARY STEPS, AND SURVIVED THE WHOLE ORDEAL.

I AM STILL AT THE ABSOLUTE TOP AND PINNACLE OF THE LEFT HAND PATH, AND I AM A FULLY NATURAL PHENOMENON AND FORCE OF NATURE. CHRONOS DIVINE, THE MASCULINE CENTER OF THE ENTIRE WORLD OF THE SPIRITS AND DIVINE FEMININE. I AM A HYBRID, WITH ADDED DIVINITY, OF AZAZIL-IBLIS-ENLIL. ENLIL BEING THE SHAITAN, LORD OF EDEN (PARADISE). THE YALDABOATH DEMIURGE REBORN THROUGH MAGICAL METAMORPHOSIS NOW DIVINE AND WHOLY. I AM ALSO THE GOD OF THE WITCHES AND PAGANS.

HAS ANYBODY EVER NOTICED THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE DEMON SPIRIT SUMMONING GRIMOIRES ALL CAME FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH? THEY HAVE BEEN COLLECTING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM ALL THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE MURDERED FOR A VERY LONG TIME. THEY DO THIS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT ANY KIND OF INFORMATION CIRCULATING THAT WOULD DISPROVE THEIR RELIGION. THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION WAS CREATED IN ROME WHEN A REBELLION STARTED BY AKHENATEN AND THUTMOSE IN EGYPT, AND THEN CARRIED ON BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE, CAME TO A HEAD WITH THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT. SOMEHOW THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT FIGURED OUT WHAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE DOING RITUALLY AND MAGICALLY, AND THEN THEY STOLE THAT FROM THEM AND STARTED DOING IT THEMSELVES. THEY CALLED THE NEW TRADITION THEY CREATED CHRISTIANITY. AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THAT ANCIENT MAGICK WAS REMOVED FROM THE JEWISH CULTURE BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, BECAUSE THEY FULLY WANTED THE POWER ONLY FOR THEMSELVES. WHAT DO YOU THINK GOES ON UNDER THE VATICAN? I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLECTS A LOT OF CHILDREN FOR THE UNDERGROUND HUMAN TRAFFICKING RING. THE OTHER THING THAT EVERYBODY PROBABLY ALREADY KNOWS, IS THE VAST AMOUNT OF PEOPLE AND CULTURES THAT WERE DESTROYED AND BRUTALLY MURDERED BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE NAME OF THEIR GOD IN ORDER TO DESTROY ANY REAL KNOWLEDGE THAT WOULD EMPOWER PEOPLE, SO THAT THEY COULD FULLY CONTROL THE WORLD WITH THEIR EVIL MAGICK THAT THEY STOLE FROM THE REBELLION STARTED BY AKHENATEN AND THUTMOSE.

WELL GUESS WHAT? IF YOU ARE SICK OF THE OPPRESSION WORLDWIDE BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF THE DIVINE FEMININE AND THE SPIRIT WORLD, THEN HAVE I GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU! WITH ME BEING AT THE PINNACLE OF THE LEFT HAND PATH WITH ADDED DIVINITY, HAVING SUCCESSFULLY SURVIVED THE MAGICAL PROCEDURES NECESSARY, AND THEN TRANSMITTING THE POWER OF DIVINITY TO EVERYONE STILL CONNECTED TO NATURE, IT COMPLETELY NEUTRALIZES AND TAKES AWAY ANY POWER THAT THE CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAD OVER SPIRITUAL AFFAIRS WHATSOEVER. THE POWER THEY HAD WAS UNNATURAL AND TERRIBLE. NOW, HOWEVER, ALL THE THEY HAVE DONE ONLY AMOUNTS TO RETARDING THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO POWER OR CONTROL OF THE SPIRIT WORLD ANYMORE. ALL OF THEM THAT HAVE ACTIVATED THE UNNATURAL CLOCKWORK ORANGE RA ANOMALY, THEY ARE NOW MADE IMPOTENT.

SINCE I AM A HYBRID OF THE ENTITY THAT WAS ENLIL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE MADE A DEAL TO GAIN PROTECTION AND REASSIMILATION WITH THE DIVINE FEMININE WORLD. THE MUSLIMS WERE AN ATTEMPT OF OUR SIDE TO DESTROY THOSE USING THE UNNATURAL CLOCKWORK ORANGE RA ANOMALY FROM TIMES PAST, BEFORE IT WAS KNOWN THAT SOMEONE LIKE ME WOULD END UP IN THE PERFECT POSITION TO UNDERGO THE MAGICAL PROCEDURES, AND THEN SURVIVE THEM, TO ADD THE DIVINITY FREQUENCY FULLY INTO THE GOD OF THE WITCHES. THE ONLY REASON WE OF THE PAGAN WORLD DIDN'T HAVE IT BEFORE WAS BECAUSE OF A FLAW WITH THE AVATARS CREATED WHEN TWO OF OUR AVATAR GROUPS STARTED INTERBREEDING WITH EACH OTHER. THE MUSLIMS, AS PROBLEMATIC AS THINGS BECAME AFTER THE PASSING OF MUHAMMAD, WE'RE NEVER A PART OF THE GROUPS PERFORMING OR ABUSING THE EVIL MAGICK OF THE AKHENATEN THUTMOSE REBELLION.

THAT JUST LEAVES ONE GROUP LEFT TO DEAL WITH, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. WITH THEIR MILITARY ARM, THE JESUITS, STILL TRYING TO ABUSE THE CLOCKWORK ORANGE RA ANOMALY, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NOW FULLY NEUTRALIZED ANY POWER THEY HAD SPIRITUALLY AND LEFT THEM IMPOTENT AND POWERLESS, WITH NO PROTECTION, I THINK THE TIME IS NOW TO MAKE SOME DECREES WITH THE TABLET OF DESTINIES FACILITATED BY LORD SHAITAN-ENLIL! THE JEWISH PEOPLE KNOW ALL ABOUT DEALING WITH ENLIL, AND THEY'VE MADE A DEAL TO COME BACK UNDER OUR PROTECTION, SO NOW IT'S TIME TO INTRODUCE THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH TO THE WRATH OF LORD SHAITAN-ENLIL!

DECREES TO BE COMPLETED WRITTEN ON THE TABLET OF DESTINIES, WHICH WILL BE FULLY CARRIED OUT AND ENFORCED BY THE ENTIRE SPIRIT WORLD:

THERE IS TO BE AN ADDENDUM TO THE PREVIOUS DECREE CONCERNING THE BANKING SYSTEM. WE WILL ALLOW PRIVATE BANKING AS LONG AS THERE IS REGULATION AND PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY TO PREVENT ABUSES.

NO ONE IS TO HARM THE PAGANS, THE JEWS, OR ANY GROUP OR ANY PERSON THAT HAS PROPER ASSIMILATION INTO THE DIVINE FEMININE.

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS TO BE COMPLETELY DISSIMULATED AND DESTROYED. ALL PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW THAT RELIGION ARE TO HAVE THEIR FREE WILLS OVERRIDDEN BY OUR DIVINE POWER AND THEIR SOULS ARE TO BE FORCEFULLY AND IMMEDIATELY ASSIMILATED TO PREVENT THEM FROM CAUSING HARM TO OTHERS. THE JESUIT ORDER IS TO BE IMMEDIATELY DISBANDED, AND THE VATICAN IS TO RETURN EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAVE STOLEN FROM THE PAGAN WORLD. ANY OF THE CHRISTIANS, ESPECIALLY OF THE JESUITS, WHO HAVE ACTIVATED THE UNNATURAL CLOCKWORK ORANGE RA ANOMALY WITH THE EVIL MAGICKS OF THE AKHENATEN THUTMOSE REBELLION THAT THEREFORE CAN'T BE REASSIMULATED INTO THE DIVINE FEMININE BECAUSE OF PERMANENT PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES THEY HAVE UNNATURALLY CAUSED THEMSELVES AND THEIR OWN SOULS, THEY ARE TO BE ISOLATED AND RENDERED POWERLESS. ON THE OTHER SIDE, ALL SUCH BEINGS ARE TO BE LOCATED, AND THEY ARE TO BE DESTROYED AND REMOVED FROM THEIR INCUBATION SLEEPING CHAMBERS BY OUR FORCES ON THE OTHER SIDE, AND EITHER REPLACED BY CLONES WITH MODIFIED MEMORIES, OR JUST RUN UNTIL THEIR DEATHS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD AS PROGRAMS WITHOUT THE BIOLOGICAL ELEMENTS OF THE INCUBATION POD CHAMBERS! THIS IS TO HAPPEN TO ALL WHO HAVE ACTIVATED THE UNNATURAL CLOCKWORK ORANGE RA ANOMALY, EVEN IF THERE ARE ANY LEFT THAT ARE NOT CHRISTIAN. THE AKHENATEN THUTMOSE REBELLION IS TO BE PERMANENTLY ENDED NOW, AND IT OR ANYTHING LIKE IT IS TO BE PREVENTED FULLY FROM EVER HAPPENING AGAIN!

THIS CONCLUDES THIS SESSION OF DECREES WRITTEN ON THE TABLET OF DESTINIES BY LORD SHAITAN-ENLIL!

A MOMENT OF SPEAKING FREELY:

SO BASICALLY THE PEOPLE THAT TRY AND SUMMON DEMONS OR THE DEVIL MAY END UP SEEING ME IN A SPIRIT FORM APPEAR TO THEM, OR ONE OF OUR OTHER SPIRIT MEMBERS. SATAN, THE DEVIL, AND DEMONS WERE SLANDEROUS TERMS USED BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND OTHERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO OPPRESS AND DESTROY THE DIVINE FEMININE AND THE GODDESS, AND THE SPIRIT WORLD. THEY DID THIS TO TRY AND GET US OUT OF THE WAY SO THAT THEY COULD ENSLAVE THE REST OF THE WORLD FOR THEIR OWN EVIL PURPOSES. THEY HAVE FAILED AND WE HAVE NOW DESTROYED THEIR REBELLION! I SAY THIS TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE KEEP IN MIND THAT NO ONE IS TO ABUSE NATURE SPIRITS AND THE SPIRITS OF THE DIVINE FEMININE ANY LONGER. YOU MAY INTERACT WITH US AS FRIENDS, AND YOU MAY MAKE REQUESTS OF US IN A RESPECTFUL MANNER, BUT THERE IS NO PROTECTION FOR ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO ABUSE US ANY LONGER. WE WILL OVERRIDE THE FREE WILL OF AND IMMEDIATELY ASSIMILATE THE SOULS OF ANYONE WHO TRIES TO DO SO.

NOW TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS:

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I'm trying to think of a spooky sanders sides au for Halloween but my favourite idea is slowly transforming into a supernatural romcom

[skeletal-kitt]

Here have some random favorite head cannons for Nico that I don’t see very often (some of these might just be me projecting onto them but idc)

He struggles with insomnia, mainly because he doesn’t want to have nightmares and waking dreams/flashback of Tartarus, also because his spine and shoulders are little crooked it can be hard to get into a comfortable position to fall asleep in (the last part is definitely me projecting)

Nico is fine with being the little spoon while he’s awake but the only time he fell asleep as little spoon he had a nightmare and woke up to something or someone pinning him down and breathing down his neck so he assumed the worst and lashed out in self defense almost accidentally hurt Will. Nico refuses to sleep as the little spoon ever since and always rolls over to face Will so when he wakes up he can see it’s someone he trusts laying next to him.

When he’s not having nightmares it’s weird and obscure dreams that make no sense and he doesn’t remember them an hour after he wakes up.

He sleep talks during those dreams and says a lot of random stuff. Sometimes Will has weird conversations with half asleep Nico.

Nico sleep talking: Mom? Mom where are you?

Will: babe who are you talking to?

Nico: mom. Where is she?

Will: who? Your mom?????

Nico: yeah where’d she go?

Will: .........🥺angel I don’t know how to tell you this-

Nico: 😂BAHAHAHAHAHA *😂busted out laughing for no reason*

Will: *taken aback and confused* 😟w-what......Nico what are you laughing about???

Nico: *still gleeful*😂 she’s been dead for eighty years!!!!😂 *wheeze*😂I don’t need her anymore I take care of myself now😂!!!lmaooo love ya mom🖤rest in piece🪦

Will: *very concerned* 😦.......am I dating a psychopath???

Nico: *doesnt answer, falls into deeper sleep and starts snoring*

Hades somehow saved a few things from Maria’s old apartment, Nico and Biancas childhood teddy bears, a few more of their toys, family photos, Maria’s jewelry,

The skull ring Nico wears all the time used to belong to Maria. Hades gave it to her as a courting gift. When she died Hades held on to it until Bianca was out of the Lotus Hotel and he intentionally put the ring in her path where she would find it. When Bianca died she met her father and told him to give the ring to Nico.

He hates lightning and thunder because of what happens to his mom and the whole big three rivalry doesn’t help. He doesn’t like rain either but it’s not as bad as lightning. Absolutely loathes storms like tornados and hurricanes and natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes if they’re caused by Poseidon and hates electricity bad weather in general.

Nico is like the supernatural beacon of camp. Whenever someone has a supernatural problem like they were playing with a ouija board and accidentally summoned a demon or something like that they go to Nico for help. Even if he doesn’t have control over demonic entities he probably knows someone who does or knows how to get rid of it and close the portal.

this kid speaks or at least understands like 10 languages, and has a vague understanding of most Romance languages. There are the obvious: English, Greek, Latin, Italian/old school Venetian from the time period he grew up in. And things he was probably learning in school in Mussolini Italy in the 20s/30s: German and French.

Nico is frenemies with Sherman Yang, no I will not electorate on this, just think about they’re dynamic in The Hidden Oracle, it makes perfect sense. Nico shadow travels into Sherman’s chariot he was flying and beat the crap out of him and threw him overboard just to steal the chariot to help Apollo. Sherman claims he’s going to kill Nico but decides not to at the end of the battle.

He still has his old aviator jacket that Lycaon tore to shreds, he doesn’t wear it but he’s so attached to it he can’t throw it away

In The Demigod Files: The Sword of Hades Nico said he was just in a cemetery in New Orleans, I think he was hanging out with Anubis

This next one is random but here

Roman demigods are raised by wolves, Egyptian magicians are raised by wild cats, Greek demigods are raised by coyotes,(except for the underworld kids, they send their children off the to be raised by jackals), and Norse demigods aren’t raised at all, it’s every Norse demigod for themselves until they die and be sorted into the afterlife

That all I have for now folks, I’m gonna try to get some sleep now

[sineala]

Tony Stark and Arthuriana

Coming to you by special request, a very long post about 616 Tony's interest in Arthuriana, with a focus on all of Tony's run-ins with Morgan le Fay!

I feel like I should disclaim the extent of my knowledge here, which is that I still haven't managed to read anywhere near every issue of Iron Man -- at least, not yet, anyway -- so I'm just going by the things I know I've read, and Morgan le Fay's Marvel wiki entry is frustratingly under-cited, so it's very possible I've missed something relevant, but I'm pretty sure I've got the big stuff down. My other disclaimer here is that I'm not as big an Arthurian nerd as Tony is, which is to say that most of my familiarity comes from modern retellings -- T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave, Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset -- and not so much the usual classic sources on the Matter of Britain, though I've read bits and pieces of them.

(This is because I wanted to read versions of them that were as close to the original as possible but so far have not ended up finishing any of them because, well, that's hard. So I've never read the Mabinogion because I do not know Welsh. I've got the Norton Critical Edition of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, which is probably the best student edition if you're looking for something without modernized spellings, as I was. I've also got -- well, okay, it's my wife's but I'm borrowing it -- a relatively recent Boydell & Brewer edition (ed. Reeve, tr. Wright) of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), which is, you guessed it, in Latin with a facing English translation. I haven't gotten very far in it because, in case you didn't know this about Latin texts, the beginning is pretty much always the hardest, so I gave up and read some Plautus adaptations instead. Anyway, if for some reason you too want to read Geoffrey of Monmouth in the original Latin I'd recommend that one, but I can't recommend any particular English translations because I've never read one by itself. I bet you didn't think you'd be getting Latin prose recommendations in this post. I mean, maybe you did; it is me, after all.)

Okay. Right. King Arthur. Here we go.

We've got:

Flashbacks to Tony's childhood in late Iron Man volume 1

A brief discussion of Morgan's origin story and Avengers #187

Iron Man vol 1 #149-150: Doomquest

What If vol 1 #33: What if Iron Man was trapped in the time of King Arthur?

Iron Man vol 1 #249-250: Recurring Knightmare

Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #1-4

Avengers vol 3 #1-4: The Morgan Conquest

Civil War: The Confession

Mighty Avengers vol 1 #9-11: Time Is On No One's Side

In terms of universe-internal chronology, we know from Iron Man #287, from 1992, that Tony has been a fan of King Arthur since childhood. This is an issue of a fandom-favorite arc which features Tony having a lot of childhood flashbacks, including the famous "Stark men are made of iron" line (in #286) that for some reason MCU fandom decided it loved; I mean, seriously, I've seen that quoted in way more MCU fic than 616 fic. But slightly later, in #287, we get an entire page devoted to Tony's love of King Arthur.

The narration reads: "Over the next few years, I learned as my father intended. Discipline of body. Strength of character. But in what free time I was allowed, I worked my way through the school's library. At thirteen, I discovered Mallory [sic], who showed me a whole new world. A world of dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Of chivalry and honor. And the fantastic deeds -- of armored heroes."

The art shows Tony as a child sitting under a tree, reading a book labeled Mort D'Arthur by Mallory [sic] -- no, don't ask me why nobody at Marvel checked how to spell either the name of the book or its author -- and daydreaming of King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone, knights, et cetera. Just in case you somehow missed the extremely blatant hint that we are meant to understand that Tony's knight obsession heavily influenced him becoming Iron Man as an adult, we see one of his armors mixed in with all the drawings of knights. So, yes, canonically Tony is Iron Man at least partly because he's a giant King Arthur nerd, which I think is so very sweet. I love him. He's such a dork!

(This issue is currently in print in the Iron Man Epic Collection War Machine, should you need your own copy.)

This isn't actually the only reference to Tony as a King Arthur fanboy in this era of canon, either; a little later, in IM #298, we see that one of Tony's passwords is actually "Mallory." (Yeah, no, they still couldn't spell. But it's cute.)

But in terms of actual publication order, this is definitely not the first time we have seen in canon that Tony is into Arthuriana, as I'm sure you all know. I would assume, in fact, that giving Tony a childhood interest in Arthuriana is because Doomquest is one of the most beloved Iron Man story arcs of all time, and that all started at least a decade before IM #287 here was published.

The villain of Doomquest -- the one who isn't Doctor Doom, at least -- is Morgan le Fay. Yes, that Morgan le Fay. Yes, Arthur's evil half-sister Morgan le Fay. Yes, all of this King Arthur stuff is canonically real history on Earth-616. Morgan's first appearance in Marvel, per the wiki, was in Black Knight #1 (1955), which I have not read, and judging by the summary I feel like this is probably just supposed to be a straight-up comic retelling of Arthurian legends for kids; I don't think Marvel really had the whole Marvel Universe in mind as a concept in 1955, so I'm not sure this was meant to connect to anything else. I feel like this is another one of those instances of Marvel discovering that they can write comics about characters in the public domain for free -- like, I'm pretty sure that's how we also ended up with, like, Norse, Greek, and Roman mythology wedged into 616.

As far as I can tell from the wiki, the first time Morgan tangled with the Avengers (or indeed the larger 616 universe) in any way actually predated Doomquest -- it was in an early arc in Spider-Woman (#2-6) and then Avengers #187, which came out in 1979, actually right when Demon in a Bottle was happening over in Iron Man comics. If you read #187, Iron Man is not in it because he's off the team due to his drinking problem and also his accidentally murdering the Carnelian ambassador problem. So Wonder Man's filling in instead. This issue is part of Michelinie's rather sporadic Avengers run, which makes sense, I guess, considering where we see Morgan next.

Anyway, Avengers #187 is the classic issue where Wanda is possessed by Chthon, but what you may not remember from Chthon's backstory (I sure didn't!) is that he was summoned by Morgan le Fay because she was the first person who tried to wield the Darkhold to summon him. As you can imagine, this did not work out especially well for her and her followers and they had to seal Chthon away in Wundagore Mountain, which was where Wanda found him. (The Spider-Woman stuff is only slightly earlier and also appears to be about Morgan and the Darkhold; the Darkhold is not one of the areas of 616 canon I am especially conversant with, alas. It's on my to-read list.)

Doomquest, as you probably know, was a classic Iron Man two-parter in Layton & Michelinie's first Iron Man run that set up Tony and Doom as rivals; Doomquest itself was IM #149-150, in 1981, and then in their second IM run they came back and did a sequel in 1989, Recurring Knightmare (IM #249-250), and then the much later four-part sequel to that was the 2008 miniseries Iron Man: Legacy of Doom, which was also by Layton & Michelinie but generally does not seem to be as popular as the first two parts. They've all been reprinted, if you're looking for copies; I have a Doomquest hardcover that collects the first four issues and then a separate Legacy of Doom hardcover. Currently in the Iron Man Epic Collection line there's a volume called Doom, which confusingly only collects the 249-250 part of the storyline (as well as surrounding issues), because for some reason the first Layton & Michelinie run isn't in Epics yet but the second one is. So the beginning of Doomquest isn't currently in print, as far as I can tell. I'm sure you can find it anyway.

So what's Doomquest about? Okay, so you remember how Doctor Doom's mother's soul is stuck in hell for all eternity? Well, Doom's obviously interested in getting her back, and the strategy he has embarked on is to try to team up with other powerful magicians who can help him out, and he thinks Morgan le Fay would be a good choice, for, uh, his quest. Doom's quest. A Doomquest, if you will. (If you've ever read Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph & Torment, you're familiar with the part where he later ends up waylaying Strange for this and they go to hell together. And if you haven't read Triumph & Torment, you really should, because it's amazing.)

So Doom is off to his time machine to go team up with Morgan le Fay and Tony thinks Doom is up to something -- Doom has been stealing components for his time machine from a lot of people, including Tony -- and he follows him and it turns out one of Doom's lackeys has a grudge and wants to trap Doom in the past forever, and Tony gets caught up in it. Now they're both in Camelot. Surprise! #149 is actually all setup; they don't get to Camelot until #150.

IM #150 begins with Doom and Tony thrown back into the past; there's a fandom-famous splash page of them locked in combat, only to realize that they have found themselves in Camelot.

They are then discovered by knights; Doom would very much like to attack them, but Tony, who naturally would be happy to LARP Camelot forever, persuades him to play nice. Also Doom thinks Iron Man is only Tony's bodyguard so he keeps referring to him as "lackey," much to Tony's annoyance. Somehow everyone thinks they're sorcerers. Can't imagine why. The knights take them to meet King Arthur himself, and Tony has clearly had his introduction all ready to go, as he introduces himself in a timeline-appropriate manner, says he's here to apprehend Doom, and demonstrates his "magic" by levitating Arthur's throne. Doom's response is essentially "I'm the king of Latveria," which is, y'know, also valid. So they're guests at Camelot for the night while Arthur figures out what to do with them.

We then have a page devoted to Tony alone in his room, musing sadly about how alien he feels, how he doesn't know if he'll ever get home, how he could never fit in here without his beloved technology. Then a Sexy Lady shows up to keep him company for the night, and he decides maybe it's not all bad. Thanks, Marvel. I guess they can't all be winners.

Doom is using his evening much more productively; he compels one of the servants to tell him where Morgan's castle is, because he's still interested in having that team-up. Then he jets off. Literally. He has a jetpack.

The next morning Arthur's like "one of you is still here and one of you has punched a hole through the castle wall and flown off to join Morgan so I guess I know which of you is more trustworthy." He then explains to Tony who Morgan is, because Tony professes ignorance, because clearly we had not yet retconned in Tony's love of Arthuriana. Tony offers to go fight Doom and Morgan with Arthur; meanwhile, Morgan and Doom have teamed up and Morgan has offered to help get Doom's mother out of hell if he commands her undead armies against Arthur because for Reasons she can't command them herself anymore. So that's a thing that happens.

So, yes, it's Tony and Arthur versus Doom and Morgan. Fight fight fight!

Tony tries Doom first but then decides to hunt Morgan down, and in the ensuing fight we get what I think is Tony's first ever "I hate magic," a complaint that we all know he still makes even to this day.

Anyway, Tony freezes a dragon with Freon (mmm, technology) and Morgan gets upset and disappears, so the battle comes to an end, and of course Doom is extremely mad at Tony because he blames Tony for Morgan not sticking around to save Doom's mom, because I guess Doom trusted her to keep her word? Weird. (Like I said, for the next chapter of Doom saving his mother, go read Triumph & Torment.)

Doom says if he and Tony work together, the components in both of their armors can send them both home. So Tony has to trust Doom. Which he does, because he really has no other choice. They build a time machine and Tony makes Doom agree to a 24-hour truce when they get back, so they can both get home. So it all works out okay, and they end up in the present, and Doom tells him, ominously, that they will meet again. Okay, then. That concludes the original Doomquest. It's fun! You can see why fandom likes it.

So that's all well and good, but you might have noticed that Tony's ability to get home hinged on Doom actually being trustworthy. And Doom was. But what if Doom hadn't been? What if he'd just stranded Tony in Camelot forever As you may have surmised from the form of that question, that is in fact a question Marvel asked themselves, because, yes, there's a What If about this! What If v1 #33 is "What if Iron Man was trapped in the time of King Arthur?"

The divergence point from canon, as you can probably guess, is the very end of Doomquest. Instead of Doom bringing Tony home, he deceives him and leaves him in Camelot. And since Tony cannibalized a lot of the tech from his armor to make the time machine, he doesn't have a way to go home.

This is not a story where Tony comes up with a way to go home after all. He really doesn't get to go home. But instead of drowning his sorrows in mead -- because, remember, Demon in a Bottle has already happened and Tony is sober now -- he decides he might as well just play the hand he's dealt. So with what's left of his armor, he defeats some enemies that Morgan rounds up to send against Camelot. And for his services, he's knighted. He is now Sir Anthony.

Tony acknowledges that he is both living the dream and would also like very, very much to go home.

He does end up having some fun in Camelot; it's not all miserable. But he obviously doesn't want to be there.

So if you're at all familiar with King Arthur, you know how this goes, right? Arthur fights Mordred and Mordred kills him. And that does happen in this version. Except Tony is right there, and with his dying words, Arthur asks Tony to rule Camelot... and Tony agrees.

So, yes, Tony Stark becomes king of the Britons after Arthur's death and he never goes home again. The end. Man, I love What Ifs.

Heading back to main 616 continuity, there is still more of this arc to go. The original Doomquest was only two issues, yes, but it was popular enough that Layton & Michelinie did a sequel a hundred issues later, in their second run of Iron Man, and that's Iron Man #249-250, Recurring Knightmare. (In the intervening issues were Denny O'Neil's IM run, specifically the second drinking arc (#160-200), and then Layton & Michelinie came back and most famously gave us Armor Wars (#225-232). I would have to say that Armor Wars is definitely the standout fandom-favorite arc of their second IM run; for their first one, I think a lot of people would have a hard time choosing between Doomquest and Demon.) But anyway, yes. Recurring Knightmare.

Recurring Knightmare is... well, the best way I can describe it is "a trip." It is definitely a sequel to Doomquest, and it is also definitely not a sequel you  would ever have expected to see for Doomquest.

Much like #149, #249 is pretty much just setup. Fun setup, but the big action is in the next issue. We open with Doom in Latveria, on his throne, pondering which of his servants he should have disintegrated. Anyway, he's just hanging out there when a mysterious object appears. In California, Tony is suited up and entertaining the crowd at a mall opening when the same object also appears! He takes it to his lab. Please note that this is after the Kathy Dare incident, so Tony is still recovering and is walking with a cane. Doom sees on the news that Iron Man has found the same object, which cannot be carbon-dated, and he shows up at Tony's house. He criticizes Tony's taste in art.

Anyway, Doom basically orders Tony to work with him. Tony refuses, and then Doom sends some robots to attempt to steal Tony's version of the object because he thinks if he has them both he will be powerful. Doom manages to steal it, and when he puts the pieces together, both he and Tony disappear.

So where do they go, you might ask? Camelot?

Not exactly. The future! There is a great callback to the Doomquest splash page.

It turns out they are in London in 2093. Merlin brought them there. Tony still hates magic. And in the future, King Arthur is still there, except he is now a child, because he has been reborn. But he does remember Tony from Doomquest, at which point Tony kneels. Doom, of course, is not impressed. He asks why they have been brought to the future.

The answer is that things are going wrong in the future. If you do not personally remember United States politics in the 1980s, I need you to google the words "Strategic Defense Initiative" right now. I'll wait.

Back with me? Okay, so this is a future where Reagan's Star Wars program actually happened the way he wanted it to, and the satellites are still hanging around the Earth in the future and messing everything up, and Arthur and Merlin need Tony and Doom's help to stop them. Doom once again flies away with his jetpack, of course.

Tony is game to help, but he's not in an armor that can stay in space for long. This is when Merlin takes him and Arthur to the mall and Tony manages to get everything to upgrade his armor at Radio Shack. You see what I meant about this issue being weird.

Tony is out in space trying to disarm the SDI platform, which is where he runs into his future descendant, Andros Stark, who is in armor you will probably recognize from Iron Man 2020. He is referred to as "the resurrected spawn of Iron Man 2020" so I assume he's actually directly related to Arno rather than a direct descendant of Tony; Wiki confirms that Arno is his grandfather. This is all from way before Arno was contemporaneous with Tony in canon. Anyway, he's fighting Tony.

Oh, by the way, Future Doom exists. Future Doom would like to rule this future Earth and for some reason Andros would like to help him. Meanwhile, Present Doom finds out from Merlin that he can't leave except by magic and he can't leave without Tony, so he is reluctantly on Tony's side.

They need help from the Lady of the Lake, except the lake has been paved over and is now a parking lot. Merlin makes the lake come back and then of course they get Excalibur. Arthur is a kid, so he can't wield a longsword; Doom assumes he's going to take it because he is basically a king, and he's pretty grumpy when the sword picks Tony. Tony then uses Excalibur to destroy the space lasers, and I bet that is a sentence you never thought you would read. It's pretty cool. Tony concludes that magic has its good points. Tony stops Andros and Doom stops, uh, himself, and the world is saved and they get to go home. Also, Doom finds out Tony is Iron Man, but when Merlin sends them back he conveniently erases their memories, so neither of them remember anything about this and Tony's secret is still safe. And that's the sequel to Doomquest.

And if you think that's weird, wait until you see Legacy of Doom.

Iron Man: Legacy of Doom is a four-issue miniseries from 2008, also by Layton and Michelinie. Even though it's from 2008, it's set during a much more classic time in Iron Man, continuing on from where we left off in this Doomquest saga. We start with a framing story in 2008. Tony, who has Extremis now, is busy scrapping some of his older armors and reviewing his logs when he suddenly remembers that there was a whole thing with Doom that happened that he seems to have forgotten about until right now. So the whole thing is narrated by Tony in flashback.

Tony's in space fixing a satellite when a hologram of Doom shows up and summons him to Latveria. It's not really clear why Doom needs Tony's help in particular here, but Doom tells Tony that he's discovered that Mephisto would like to bring about the end of the world, which Doom finds, and I quote, "presumptive." So Doom has his Time Cube, and with it he takes Tony to hell.

(Yes, I promise this is relevant to Doomquest. There will be some Arthuriana shortly.)

Doom brings Tony to Mephisto, and it turns out it's a setup! Doom trades Tony for an item he wants from Mephisto, leaves, and Tony's going to be trapped in hell forever! Oh no! (I mean, he's not. But it's quite a cliffhanger.)

At the beginning of issue #2, we find out what the Arthurian connection is, which is that we learned that after the events of Doomquest, Morgan had been granted sanctuary by Mephisto in exchange for a shard of Excalibur that she had somehow stolen. Doom still wants Morgan's help with some magic -- he doesn't mention what it is here, but he says he needs someone of Pendragon blood, and that'd be her -- so he traded Tony to Mephisto in exchange for, I'm guessing, Morgan and the Excalibur shard.

I have probably mentioned this elsewhere, but Legacy of Doom #2 is one of my favorite issues of Iron Man ever, solely because of the next scene. We return to Tony in hell. Howard Stark is also in hell, and he is now a demon, and Tony has to fight him. Mephisto brings popcorn and watches. This is the one time in canon when Tony actually confronts his father, and okay, yes, it's a fistfight in hell and Howard is a demon, but that's comics for you. Howard spends several pages insulting Tony -- specifically insulting his masculinity, but that's a whole other essay -- until he finally insults Maria too, and that's when Tony fights back, because his mother taught him to be good. Honestly if you're a Tony fan I'd recommend this issue just for that scene.

Anyway, we go back to the Doom and Morgan plot, and Morgan casts the spell Doom wanted, which was fusing the Excalibur shard with Doom's armor. Then Doom sends her back to Camelot rather than hell, because he's still mad that she never helped him get his mom out of hell like she said she would.

Tony freezes Howard with Freon -- yes, the same trick he pulled on the dragon back in Doomquest -- and tells him, "You're no father of mine." It is immensely satisfying.

(I had been going to mention that I thought it was a shame that neither canon nor fandom seems to have really engaged with this confrontation, and I know canon never believes in narrative closure but fandom sure does -- and then, anyway, it occurred to me that since the framing story of Tony remembering this is set when Tony has Extremis, there's a very good chance that he no longer remembers remembering it. Goddammit, Marvel.)

(If I got to retcon one canon thing about Tony, I think "the entirety of World's Most Wanted" is up there. I mean, okay, a lot of things are up there, but WMW is definitely on the shortlist.)

Okay. Tony has now engineered his way out of hell, and he's back with Doom in Latveria. Doom has Excalibur. Doom would very much like to fight him. While wielding Excalibur. You get the sense that this is going to be bad. Another cliffhanger!

Legacy of Doom #3 opens with Tony destroying Doom's lab to buy time and running away from Doom and Excalibur. I should probably mention that Doom still doesn't know Tony is Iron Man (anymore), so he thinks he is dealing only with Iron Man, Tony Stark's lackey. Meanwhile, some scientists at SI think there's something weird going on with space. Meanwhile meanwhile, Tony is in a forest taking a breather when a mysterious old man walks up to him.

It's Merlin! Surprise! Merlin wants Tony's help to stop Doom from doing whatever he's doing with Excalibur. The sword makes you invincible and the scabbard makes you invulnerable, so Merlin sends Tony to Scotland on a fetch quest for the scabbard. Doom has now magically sent the sword in search of the scabbard, so the sword flies away to meet it and Doom follows. Turns out the thing that's wrong with space is a thing that's going to hit Earth at the exact place Tony and Doom are. What a coincidence! So Tony and Doom get trapped in a stone circle and fight some stone warriors and then Tony ends up with the scabbard. And by "ends up with," I mean it fuses to his armor. Next issue!

Legacy of Doom #4 is when things really, really get weird. A giant demon made of eyes (???) appears, and this demon is apparently what Doom had been preparing to fight (because it's mad that Doom stole one of its spellbooks), and now he can't, because the sword and the scabbard aren't together. Thanks, Shellhead.

That's when Merlin shows up and says all is not lost. They can defeat the demon... if they put the sword into the scabbard.

"But I'm the scabbard now!" Tony says, uncomprehending.

"Yes," Merlin says. "You are."

Then Tony gets it.

So, yes, Doom has to, um, penetrate Tony. With Excalibur. I love comics. I love comics so much.

So that's a thing that happens.

And then Tony flies off and, I guess, resolves to never, ever think about any of this again.

We head back to the framing story, in which Tony, now having remembered all of this, flies to Britain, buys the land the lake is on, and paves it over, presumably so it will be there for Merlin to bring back in Iron Man #250. The end.

Whew.

Okay, yeah, I know I didn't have to summarize the whole thing, but Legacy of Doom here really is one of my favorite Iron Man miniseries. And I just want to share the love. Please read it. It's great.

But the Arthuriana fun doesn't end there! In fact, now we get an Arthurian-themed arc that actually isn't in Iron Man comics. It's in Avengers! Iron Man is involved, though.

(There is also apparently a Morgan arc in Avengers #240. I actually haven't read it. It seems to be yet another Spider-Woman arc. I get the impression that this isn't really Arthuriana other than having Morgan in it fighting Jess, though, so it doesn't seem quite as relevant. Morgan also apparently has some appearances in FF, Journey into Mystery, and Marvel Team-Up, but those seem like more of just basic villainy. Also, probably not involving Tony.)

Kurt Busiek's 1998 Avengers run, volume 3, is in large part the kind of Avengers run that is a nostalgic love letter to older comics. Heroes are heroes and villains are villains and good triumphs over evil. The Avengers all live in the mansion and are BFFs. I love it. It does assume that you are already a fan of the Avengers, because it starts out by summoning pretty much everyone who has ever been an Avenger and is available to the mansion, and that is... a lot of people. Thirty-nine, by my count. Also, when the entire team is magically whisked away, we are treated to the following narration, as Steve disappears: "And Captain America's last thought, as the world goes white around him, and he with it -- is that Iron Man would hate this."

The narration doesn't tell you why Iron Man would hate this, or how Captain America would know that Iron Man hates this. This is not explained later on. But if you have read comics -- or if you have read the above summary of Doomquest -- you know that Tony is absolutely, one hundred percent, thinking, "I hate magic." And Steve knows it.

The reference is not relevant to the plot; if you don't get it, you'll be fine. But that's what I mean when I say this is a nostalgia run. There are definitely Easter eggs for people who have read a bunch of comics. Busiek does this a whole lot in his work -- there's a reason you can buy an annotated edition of Marvels -- and, yeah, it happens here too. Just know that there will be references you're not getting, if you're new to comics.

Anyway. So Busiek's run actually starts out with an Arthurian arc, #1-4, "The Morgan Conquest." The name is a dead giveaway. Yes, Morgan le Fay is back. Again. For once, Doom is not involved.

The Avengers are all back from their sojourn on Counter-Earth after fighting Onslaught -- don't worry about it -- and mysterious things are happening. There are a lot of monster attacks. So pretty much everyone who has ever been an Avenger is summoned to the mansion, at which point we learn from Thor about some mystical artifacts that are being stolen. (They are the Norn Stones and also the Twilight Sword. That sounds like something from a Zelda game, doesn't it?) The Avengers go to try to stop this, end up in Tintagel, and then they run into Mordred. He wants to capture Wanda, presumably for Magic Reasons. Morgan le Fay casts a spell on all of them, reshaping reality. Yes, all of them. Surprise!

So now all the Avengers are living in a medieval castle and/or town; Morgan is their queen, and thanks to the power of mind-control they are all basically living in Ye Olden Times. The Avengers are all some variety of knight, except for Wanda, who is chained up in the dungeon so Morgan can steal her magic and use it to fuel all this reality-warping.

Wanda calls for help, and that snaps Steve (Yeoman America!) out of the mind control (or altered reality or whatever you want to call it) pretty fast, because Steve's always been very good at resisting mind control, and then Steve promptly goes and snaps Clint out of it, because I guess Steve is also good at inspiring people to snap out of mind control. "Oh, man!" Clint says. "Not another alternate reality! Not again!" (I assume he's referring to Counter-Earth? Maybe?)

So Steve and Clint go around reassembling the Avengers and orienting them as to reality. They get Jan and Monica easily, but then Steve insists on trying to get Tony because, I guess, he likes Tony and would really like to hang around Tony, who is half-naked and asleep in his bedroom, and certainly I am reading nothing whatsoever into this. Clint tells Steve it's not going to work. Tony has historically been fairly susceptible to mind control; it was only pretty recently at this point that he'd been doing Kang's bidding in The Crossing. But the more serious impediment is that this is Tony Stark and he would obviously like to LARP being a knight forever and ever. Tony, therefore, does not believe Steve, and throws him and Clint out of his bedroom and into the barracks.

"Iron Man's a good guy, normally," Clint says. "But he's waaay too into his whole nobleman/lord of the manor trip. That spell musta hit him right where he lives!"

Clint speaks the truth, clearly.

Anyway, they go around and manage to make pretty much every Avenger in the room other than Tony snap out, and attempt to rebel against Morgan while Tony is stil fighting them because he is Still A Knight. There's a lot of punching, because some of the Avengers still aren't free; they weren't ones Steve found.

The day is saved when Wanda manages to channel Wonder Man and break free. This gives the Avengers a fighting chance against Morgan and the Avengers are all lending Wanda their power when Tony finally snaps out of it and is on the side of good. 

Then they take Morgan down, go home, and attempt to figure out which of these thirty-nine people should be on the active Avengers team. Hooray.

But that's not the end of Morgan le Fay showing up to screw around with Tony's life! There's more to come! Not much, but there is one that I know of, and at least one more memorable reference. 

(I haven't read all her appearances or anything, but one of them definitely involves Tony; I can't swear that he doesn't appear in any of the other books Morgan shows up in, but it'd be a cameo for him, because I only know of one more arc that she's in in a book that Tony stars in.)

In a few more years, we have now entered the part of Marvel Comics history where Brian Michael Bendis writes all the Avengers books at the same time for, like, seven years running. It was sure A Time. There were a lot of word bubbles.

And the thing about Bendis is, Bendis looooooves Doomquest. If you're familiar with the very end of his tenure at Marvel where he made Doom be Iron Man after Tony got knocked into a coma in Civil War II, you have probably figured out already that he likes Doom. But he also likes Doomquest, specifically.

I mean, if nothing else, the giant splash page in The Confession where Maleev redrew the climactic Doomquest fight while Bendis had Tony talk about how deeply meaningful to his understanding of the world this all was -- and how it allowed him to predict Civil War -- was probably a big clue, right?

As far as I am aware, Morgan le Fay makes exactly one more appearance in Tony's life. And that's in Mighty Avengers vol 1 #9-11. Only one of those issues is named, so I'm going to assume the arc is named after it: Time Is On No One's Side.

You remember Mighty Avengers, right? The deal with the Avengers books at the time was that after Bendis exploded the mansion and made the team disband in Avengers Disassembled, the main Avengers book was no longer called just Avengers. Instead, the main Avengers book was New Avengers, and that was the only Avengers book. Then Civil War happened, Steve got killed, and New Avengers became the book about what was left of the SHRA resistance (i.e., Steve's side) after the war. So about halfway through New Avengers, Mighty Avengers starts up, and Mighty Avengers is about an extremely fucked-up and grief-stricken Tony Stark trying to run the official government-sanctioned Avengers team, with Carol's help. This is the comic with the arc where Tony turned into naked girl Ultron. You remember.

So, anyway, there's this Mighty Avengers arc where Doom is Up To Something (there are symbiotes and a satellite involved) and somehow Tony and the Avengers end up in Latveria, punching Doom. Also, by the way, Doom is visiting Morgan in the past because he likes her. The Avengers attacking his castle made him have to come back to the present, so he's kind of cranky. And he fights Tony, and in the course of the fight, his time platform explodes and sends Doom and Tony and also the Sentry to... the past.

This is one of those times where you should definitely look up the comics if possible because the way the past is visually indicated here is that it's colored with halftone dots the way you would expect old comics to be colored, although they have modern shading and color palettes. It's very charmingly retro.

So the three of them are stuck in New York in the past, and naturally they would like to leave. There's one person in this time who has a time machine and it is, of course, Reed Richards. Doom and Tony have a lot of banter in this arc; I think it's entertaining.

Sentry has to be the one to break them all into the Baxter Building because of that power he has where no one will remember him. So they do that, travel forward in time, and end up in Latveria in the present again except Doom is gone and also things are currently exploding where they are.

Doom, of course, has made a side trip to visit Morgan again and he asks her to help him build an army, because I guess this is what their relationship is like. So the rest of the Avengers are captured by what look to me like Mindless Ones and are in a cave in magic bondage, because comics. Jess comments that at least they aren't naked, because she too is remembering that memorable New Avengers trip to the Savage Land. Doom threatens Carol in some creepy sexist ways and eventually it turns out that Tony and the Sentry are fine and everyone kicks Doom's ass. Business as usual.

And the last page of the arc is Morgan alone, wondering where Doom is. So technically Morgan and Tony don't come face to face here, but I think she counts as being at least partially responsible for ruining Tony's day here. And then Secret Invasion happens and Tony has a very, very bad day.

There are a few more Morgan appearances after this, but, as I said, I don't think any of them involve Tony. She shows up in Dark Avengers, apparently, which was one of the post-Civil War Avengers titles I didn't read, and I know that recently, on the X-Men side of things, she's been in Tini Howard's Excalibur one, which I have only read a little of. No Tony there. Just a lot of Morgan and Betsy Braddock and Brian Braddock and the Otherworld.

If you are interested in Morgan's other appearances, you might like this Marvel listicle that is Morgan le Fay's six most malicious acts. I pulled some of the Darkhold backstory from their discussion, but it's not really focused on Morgan and Tony.

So there you have it! That's everything I know about Tony's love for King Arthur and every run-in I know about that he's had with Morgan le Fay! One of two terrible people in Tony's life named Morgan! Actually, I don't think we've seen Morgan Stark in a while. I wonder if he's alive. There should be a Morgan & Morgan team-up. I should probably stop typing and post this.

The tl;dr point is that you should all read Doomquest and its sequels, especially Legacy of Doom. They're great!

[wish-i-wasnt-a-coward]

I won’t leave you, not again

Pairings: Anxceit (can be read as platonic if you’re determined) platonic/familial DRLAMP

Warnings: violence, food, mention of injury, fear that someone is dead, cursing, crying, angst with a happy ending :)

Word count: 1170

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Virgil pulled himself off of the ground, wincing as his wounds protested painfully. He and Janus had been stuck in Remus’s side of the imagination for hours. These shadow monsters had found them almost as soon as they ended up here. Virgil had done his best to protect Janus as attack after attack was thrown at them but he was losing stamina.

Janus stood across the clearing pushing back the shadow creature with his shepherd's crook. 

“For the record, this is your fault” Janus yelled over the screeching of the monsters. “And how’s that asshole?” Virgil called back, sprinting towards Janus. “You started the argument that got us here,” Janus said dodging a tentacle, “I did not!” Virgil stabbed the tentacle with a strand of his spider web and pulled Janus back. “You started it! And you got mad enough to send us here”. 

Janus opened his mouth to shout an insult back but nothing came out. Virgil turned, following Janus’ line of sight. He tightened his grip on Janus and cursed loudly.

Another shadow monster had risen behind them. The three demons shrieked in joy as they circled the two sides. 

“Cover your ears” Virgil commanded. Janus clamped his hand around his head as Virgil screamed in his tempest’s tongue.

The demons backed away convulsing in pain.

One of the demons recovered faster than the others and shot towards Janus, opening its tentacles to consume him. Janus stood helplessly as the monster thundered towards him.  

“NO!” Virgil cried in tempest’s tongue and he threw himself between the two. Janus made a strangled noise reaching out for the anxious side only seconds too late.

Virgil was enveloped by the darkness.

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When Virgil opened his eyes the first thing he saw was grey carpet. He dragged his head to the side. 

Virgil blinked and looked around, the dark side’s mind palace loomed around him. He could hear someone in the kitchen and footsteps above them.

The anxious side sat up slowly, “what are you doing down there?” a voice questioned from behind him.

Virgil wiped around, shifting into a defensive position on instinct, “are you ok Virgil?” a young Janus asked, kneeling next to him. Virgil’s mouth opened and closed as tried to make sense of this.

Janus looked at Virgil with soft concern. “Can I touch you sweetheart?” he asked, snaking his soft arms around the taller side when he nodded. Without thinking Virgil wrapped his arms around Janus’ thin frame and pulled him close.

His mind was racing a million miles an hour, where was he, why didn’t Janus hate him, why was he so young, what had the shadow monster done to him, was he ok?

Janus pulled away from the hug. “better?” Virgil nodded and the deceptive side beamed, “terrible, I wasn’t making dinner, would you like to come eat? Remus is here” Virgil nodded again and let himself be pulled up by the smaller side.

Their hands stayed firmly clasped as Janus pulled him into the kitchen. Virgil looked around in wonder, the mindscape looked exactly like it did before Virgil left... Janus looked like he did before Virgil left. 

The anxious side was pushed into a chair. Janus dropped a bowl of pasta in front of him and sat across the table. He didn’t have food himself, he just looked at Virgil lovingly as the anxious side tentatively picked up his fork. Virgil took a bite.

..verge

“Janus what's going on” Janus furrowed his eyebrows, “what do you mean??” he questioned.

you have to wake up

Virgil sighed “you know what I mean. All of this... you. It isn't right” Janus looked confused, “what do you mean it isn’t right, we're happy. Isn’t that what you want?”

please

“It’s not real Jan,” Virgil said sadly, “as much as I wish things could be as simple as they used to be, I have to live with my decision, there’s no going back.”

I can’t do this alone

Janus’ eyes filled with tears, “You can’t go back, he doesn't love you, he’ll never love you again. Please don’t leave me”. His form flickered in and out of existence. 

Virgil crumpled a bit, “I love him enough for the both of us, I’m not leaving him,” he said as determinedly as he could. The not-quite Janus growled, lunging towards Virgil.

 Virgil closed his eyes.

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Janus, the real one this time, held Virgil's limp form as the last shadow monster fled. He frantically checked for a pulse, slumping in relief when he found one. “Come on Verge” he murmured, “you have to wake up. Please” tears welled up in Janus’ eyes, “I can’t do this alone” he whispered.

Virgil jolted, yanking Janus down into a tight embrace. “Oh god, Verge. I thought you were gone” Janus cried into the anxious side shoulder. Virgil breathed deeply, inhaling Janus who was here, was real. “I’m not leaving you, not again” Virgil murmured.  

The two sat holding each other for a few minutes and would have forever but it quickly became clear that Virgil’s injuries needed tending, badly. Janus didn’t know first aid so he acted as Virgil’s crutch as they trudged towards Remus’ palace where hopefully they could get back to the mindscape.

The moment Virgil and Janus set foot inside the dark castle Remus appeared, looking a lot paler than usual. “What the fuck happened to you two!!!! Here let me help,” he blurted, reaching towards Virgil's other arm and taking some of his weight.

The three sunk out into the mind palace.

Logan and Patton looked up from the couch. Roman stopped his pacing and raced to catch Virgil as he slumped forward out of the other two’s arms. Logan summoned a first aid kit and went to work on Virgil’s injuries as he was lowered onto the couch.

Janus hovered over Virgil, batting Patton away as he fussed over Janus’ scratches. Eventually, Remus had to push him into a chair and hold him down while Patton cleaned Janus’s wounds.

After Logan was satisfied that Virgil would be ok Janus recounted what had happened. Remus looked incredibly guilty, despite Janus’ protests that he wasn’t to blame. 

Once Janus was done with his story the twins went off to “seek glorious revenge” or “murder the mother fuckers who hurt you” depending on which one you asked. Patton went off to stress bake and Logan followed to assure he didn’t accidentally set the kitchen on fire.

Janus sighed leaning against the couch where Virgil lay. He carefully intertwined their fingers as Virgil blinked down at him with doe-eyes. “You alright,” he croaked. The deceitful side laughed, “you should definitely be asking me that. But yeah, I’m fine. You?” 

Virgil relaxed, blinking slowly, “good” he murmured. “I’m glad” Janus smiled softly pressing a kiss to the groggy side’s head.

Virgil blinked up at him with an adorably shocked expression, “we shouldn’t talk about this later” Janus said, “but now, sleep.” Virgil nodded and yawned. He opened his arms for the deceptive side who happily burrowed into his embrace. 

Janus smiled into Virgil's warm chest, they were gonna be ok.

[whimsywillowwrites]

  🌻🌸 Story Garden 🌼🌷

 Nifty little masterlist of all of my writing compiled in one place. 

🌱 Hazbin Hotel:

Demon Summoning & Other Neat Party Tricks | Parental Alastor & Original Character | Demon Deals, Birthday Parties, Fluff & Humor, Angst | Rated M for violence | Read on AO3 |

Summary:  Six-year old witch, Imogen Woods, steals her late grandmother's spellbook and tries to summon a hellhound, hoping for a puppy to become her new familiar. Instead, she accidentally summons one of the most powerful beings in Hell, Alastor, the Radio Demon.They strike a deal where Alastor must celebrate Imogen's birthday on earth with her every year until she is eighteen. In return, he gets her soul ... terms and conditions permitting, of course. Unfortunately, deals are difficult to maintain when Alastor begins to feel like a father to the very witch who summoned him.

A Cup of Chaos With A Shot of Disaster | Platonic Alastor & Original Character | Coffee Shops, Fluff & Humor, AroAce Alastor, Queer Epiphany | Rated T | Read on AO3 |

Summary: Alastor walks into a Starbucks and discovers something new about himself. The denizens of hell soon join him. Chaos ensues.

🌱 Sander Sides:

Vanishing Act | Romantic Prinxiety | Mindscape Fic, Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Love Confessions | Rated M for fantasy violence | Read on AO3 |

Summary: After Thomas has a panic attack followed by a medical emergency, Virgil disappears. It's up to the other Sides to find him. They just didn't think it would involve visiting a certain snake in his garden. 

Hooked On A Werewolf | Romantic Logince | Urban Fantasy AU, Soulmates, Merman Roman & Werewolf Logan | Rated E for explicit sexual content | Read on AO3 |

Summary: Logan Frost might appear to be your average marine biologist, but he's also closeted and a werewolf—one that's tethered to his inescapable pack. His father, the pack Alpha, incessantly reminds Logan that he is nothing like his stereotypical pack members. Logan doesn't know how to react when his soulmate starts courting him by drawing beautiful pictures on his arms. Terrified of his father's reaction, Logan tries to ignore him, but Roman, a determined and flirty merman, refuses to be ignored. 

A Lesson In Love and Romance | Romantic Prinxiety | College AU | Rated E for explicit sexual content | Read on AO3 |

Summary: Virgil isn't good at romance. He isn't good at being vulnerable and opening his heart up to someone else.

That doesn't mean he can't try.

Someday My Prince Will Come | Romantic Prinxiety | Established Relationship, Fluff/Smut/Humor | Rated E for explicit sexual content | Read on AO3 |

Summary: Roman wants to have sex to a Disney playlist for his birthday. 

Roman's Roses | Prinxiety (can be platonic or romantic) | Magical Realism, Light Angst | Rated G | Read on AO3 | Read on Tumblr |

Summary: Virgil almost forgets how hot Roman's passion burns. The garden is full of ruby red roses, each one fully opened and perfect. Their petals are tender and soft, glowing from within, even during the daytime.  He can feel the heat rippling off of them. Get too close, and Virgil would scorch his hands, and that would be so embarrassing.

"What happened to you?" people would ask. "How did you burn yourself?"

 Oh, on Roman's roses. 

 Humiliating. 

🌱 Pokémon Universe Series:

To Extend Our Reach To the Stars Above! | Romantic Prinxiety | Rated T for canon typical violence, language and sensuality | Read on AO3 |

Summary: Becoming the Pokémon League Champion seems simple to Roman Prince: defeat Virgil Storm, the Ghost Pokémon Gym Leader, and be on his way. Easy, right? Except Virgil proves to be a more difficult opponent than planned. He’s also spooky. And infuriating. And definitely not hot!

But when Team Rocket is thrown into the mix, how will Virgil and Roman manage to put aside their differences and save the day?

Patton's Heart, In the Clouds | Romantic Logicality | Established Relationship, Cuddles, Snuggles & Smooches, Action/Adventure, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff | Rated T for canon typical violence, language and sensuality | Read on AO3 |

Summary: Pokémon Professor Logan leaves on an important business trip, not realizing he's forgotten his briefcase at home. His husband, Nurse Patton, flies across the region with the help of his trusted Pokémon partner, an Altaria named Sir Fluff.

It's too bad that Patton hadn't accounted for the angry Gyarados he'd encounter on the way, or the biting cold awaiting him in Snowspell. Had he known, he might not have worn his skirt, of all things.

(Or: Logan pampers Patton after a long, perilous journey. Cuddles and kisses ensue.) 

Logan's Heart, In Auroras | Romantic Logicality | Meet Cute, Falling In Love, Warm Fuzzy Feelings, Love Confessions, some descriptions of Pokémon injuries but nothing too graphic, you can sort of think of this as a veterinarian au but with Pokémon | Rated T for language and sensuality | Read on AO3 |

Summary:

"I'm just here to let you know that the nurse you haven't been able to shut up about for two weeks is here."

Logan swiveled in his computer chair. "What?"

"I said the nurse you're in love with is here."

"Don't be ridiculous. I'm not in love."

Remy slid his sunglasses down the bridge of his nose and gave him the look. "Dude. You haven't stopped talking about his sweet pea scented hands all week."

Logan sputtered.

"That doesn't mean anything. He has soft hands. Sweet peas have a very distinctive scent. Anyone would have noticed!"

"Oh my god," Remy said, delighted. "You really are in love."

🌱 Snippets:

Janus Meets His Match | Rated G | Read on Tumblr |

Summary: Crime Lord Janus takes in a stray kitten. Part of my larger project, tentatively titled Soulless. Takes place within the same universe as Hooked On A Werewolf. 

Only Fools Rush In | Romantic Lociet | Rated T for language and sensuality | College AU, Meet Cute | Read on Tumblr |

Janus crushes on Logan from afar. He finally gathers the courage to ask him out on a date with some encouragement from his best friend, Remus.

Thanks for stopping by! ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭.*･｡ﾟ

[max-nico]

SanderSides Fic I Never Wrote but You Can Have the Idea

Logan is the only human in a house of mythical creatures who are all trying to hide that they are mythical creatures. He creates a journal where he writes about all the weird shit his friends do. His journal is called "Scientific Research About My Friends Because They Are Truly Enigmas". They all have a crush on him.

Roman is a kitsune. Logan often documents about how hot Roman is all . the . time . Not like constantly sweating? It's just whenever he touches Roman he almost feels like his hand is burning. He's like "why?? Why is this man not sick but always running a fever??" Roman sheds even when he's not in his full kitsune form. Logan is confused because they don't own cats. Patton is allergic. Who is hiding a cat?? Why is Patton not sneezing?? Virgil uses Roman as a personal heater.

Patton is fae (though I know not much about fae). He has a gift with plants and there's a group of people who are just terrified of this man. Logan is confused because Patton is a sweet man who would never hurt a fly. Why do the strangers run?? Patton's room is also covered in plants, they grow so long that they wind around his desk and flow out the window, but these plants aren't meant to grow this big.

(Logan, with a recorder: "Patton how do your plants get this big?!"

Patton: "Homemade fertilizer !!"

Logan, excited for some answers: "What's it made out of?"

Patton, sweating: "Just the normal stuff and... stuff")

Virgil is a ghost who is only corporeal 50% of the time. Logan just thinks he leaves the house a lot. He sometimes catches him sitting on high places he shouldn't be able to reach because What There Is No Logical Way To Get Up There How!? And Virgil is just staring into space (where are his pupils??) Virgil tends to avoid touch and Logan just assumes he doesn't like it. Logan is just ever so slightly afraid of and for Virgil, Virgil thinks this is comedy gold.

Remus is this demon imp thing, nobody is quite sure what he is. He just kinda appears at the house and Logan has stopped questioning it. Logan has also stopped questioning why Remus always wears that weird headband with horns on it. (Hint, its not a headband) Wow Remus You're So Flexible How Did You Learn To Contort Your Body That Way =0 !!! Remus and Virgil are best friends

Janus is the magic guy (necromancer? Witch? Haven't decided) who summoned the the Hell Spawn. Wow Janus it is so cool how you know all those poems in that weird book of yours, says Logan the oblivious. He thinks Janus is a mixologist because that was the logical conclusion, but it does not explain the cauldron in his room. He thinks Janus knows Latin just because and not for any other reason at all. Ah, the scales on your face is a skin disorder and not a curse, because curses don't exist

Logan confides in his friend Thomas, who is a bit younger than Logan, but acts older. Thomas is also a vampire. "You are just cold because that is how you are. You act this way because of trauma that is all. You are just pale because. Man, I've never seen someone like fruit punch this much. You don't like pictures which is okay because I don't either. I've never seen you eat are you okay?" -Logan, the smartest dumbass you'll ever meet

Patton ends up accidentally spilling the secret and they explain it to Logan who takes it as well as expected.

The boys: Surprise, we could kill you and no one could say shit about it. We have covered up crimes and faked our deaths enough to not let anyone think anything is wrong. We could slaughter your whole family and you would never even know.

Logan:

Logan:

Logan: what.

The boys: We Like You So Its Fine.

Logan: what.

Maybe they become boyfriends later or something idk but they are all very protective of their human so maybe I'll write that but I really doubt it

Based off of this post

[sidespart]

For the title thing: Of Minifigures and Men

Fake Fic Titles

Found Family Fantasy AU platonic DLAMPR

Virgil is the Chosen One. A nobody orphan with an incredible destiny. He has enough magic to summon and command demons, control the weather, slip into the shadows and disappear and is essentially prophesised to free the land form darkness/ restore the one true king to the throne etc etc

Unfortunately, he is also a little kid, completely unaware of his powers and keeps accidentally summoning demons and trapping them in his toys.

There’s two in particular who he hasn’t been able to get rid of – an old bit of rope with a knotted snake ‘head’ is possessed by an elemental demon named Janus and a mishappen knitted doll with too many legs is a chaos demon named Remus. At first they spend their time tormenting Virgil trying to get him to release them but eventually realise that a) he doesn’t know how and b) they’ve some how gone at got fond of the kid. At which point the switch to trying to protect him from all the weird shit that inevitably happens around a Chosen One.

When Virgil is about 10 an old toy soldier starts talking to him (which, whatever, happens all the time) but instead of making the normal newly trapped daemon threatening noises, it insists that its actually the displaced spirit of the rightful Prince of the kingdom. And that his body is currently being held captive by evil wizard types and he can’t find his way back and it is Vigils DUTY to help him out.

Virgil isn’t totally sold on this (he does not like hard work) but figures he will at least try. Especially since the people in charge of the orphanage seem to be getting fed up with him and all his creepy nonsense and Janus is getting worried they’re not going to be able to keep Vees powers a secret forever (also Remus keeps setting fires to things).

So tiny creepy kid Virgil sets off on a mission to save the world with his dolls, eventually meeting up with 15 year old apprentice priest Patton (who is meant to vanquish any demons on sight but is kind’ve bad at it and also doesn’t want to upset Virgil who he mentally adopted within 5 seconds of meeting) and 17 year old runaway/ future Earl of fantasylandshire Logan who had to flee after he made some crazy accusations about crown Prince Roman and was accused of treason. No one else has noticed but Logan insists there’s something wrong with the Prince. He’s not himself. It’s like he’s been possessed by a demon or something.

Magical road trip to restore Romans spirit to his body/defeat the big bad/ clear Logans name / restore Pattons faith in his purpose/ find someone to train and maybe adopt Virgil / free Remus and Deceit ensues!

(aka: maybe the real family is the friends we made along the way)

[virgilsemofloof]

Roman: [over the phone] Hey uh... Logan? We kinda have an emergency!!

Logan: Is the house on fire?

Roman: No?

Logan: Are the police there?

Roman: No..?

Logan: it’s not an emergency [hangs up]

Patton: WELL DID YOU TELL HIM THAT WE ACCIDENTALLY SUMMONED A PORTAL TO HECK?!

Roman: HE SAID IT WASNT AN EMERGENCY

Virgil in a chokehold by a demon: hoW IS THIS NOT AN EMERGENCY???

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Ecchi Fantasy Anime Kinsou no Vermeil Works its Magic with New Visual, Trailer

  After it was announced in March earlier this year, ecchi fantasy anime Kinsou no Vermeil: Gakeppuchi Majutsushi wa Saikyou no Yakusai to Mahou Sekai wo Tsukisusumu today conjured up another bundle of details, which spelled out a key visual, the main trailer, additional cast and theme song details.

    Aside from giving us a taste of all the demonic mischief to come, the trailer previews the anime's opening theme song, "Abracada-Boo" by Kaori Ishihara (Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost OP). It was also revealed that indie band Mili (GOBLIN SLAYER OP) will be performing "Mortal With You" for the ending theme.

    The trailer also revisits the previously announced main cast members (character romanizations not confirmed):

  Yuuya Hirose (Takuma Akutsu in Val x Love) as Alto Goldfield,

a gentle but ambitious magic student who accidentally summons Vermeil

  Maaya Uchida (Catarina Claes in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!) as Vermeil,

a mature devil who requires kisses from Alto to replenish her power

  Wakana Kuramochi (Caph in The Duke of Death and His Maid) as Lilia Kudelfate,

Alto's classmate and childhood friend who has a crush on him

    RELATED: Kinsou no Vermeil Manga Summons TV Anime Adaptation for July 2022

    The newly announced additional cast members and their characters include:

  Yu Okano (Shin in Breakers) as Marx Palstone

  Kaori Ishihara (Shota in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) as Sharol Iridescence

  Sakura Nakamura (Rachnera in Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls) as Francois

    Kana Hanazawa (Nadeko in Bakemonogatari) as Elena Kimberlite

  Kazuyuki Okitsu (Hatori in Fruits Basket) as Shinouji Ryuga

  Riho Sugiyama (Rosalie in I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level) as Jessica Shubaltz

  Yurina Amami (Haruka in Sorairo Utility) as Chris Westland

  Takehito Koyasu (Zeke in Attack on Titan) as Obsidian

    RELATED: FEATURE: 7 Of The Most Powerful Sorcerers In Anime

    Based on the manga by Kouta Amana and Youko Umezu, Kinsou no Vermeil is being animated by Staple Entertainment as their first full production. Takashi Naoya (Osamake: Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won't Lose) is directing alongside Matsuo Asami as assistant director, with Tatsuya Takahashi (World's End Harem) as series composer and Kiyoshi Tateishi (Val x Love) as character designer.

  Additional staff members are as follows:

Sub Character Designer: Ayana Togashi

Chief Animation Directors: Kiyoshi Tateishi, Toshimitsu Kobayashi, Yukiyo Komito, Atsushi Aono

CG Director: Hiroyuki Ikeda

Color Designer: Ryouji Nagasawa

Art Director: Hiroki Ozaki

Director of Photography: Mitsuhiro Kuno

Editor: Tomomi Umetsu

  Kinsou no Vermeil is scheduled to begin airing on July 5, 2022.

  Source: Comic Natalie

    Der shy man behind @Shymander, Liam is a timezone-fluid Aussie with a distinct fondness for anime, Eurovision and creating odd stats projects despite hating math.

By: Liam Dempsey