#Witherborn Classic

[ant1quarian]

Can I have uhhhh… Witherborn Classic and Nightmare for the ‘SO being used as a hostage’ ask, please?

Classic's elusive and light-footed. If you've been taken, all hell is going to break loose. Not only is he absolutely hunting that fuck down but when he strikes it'll be swift and lethal- and very likely highly painful.

Nightmare's going to commit genocide.

[ant1quarian]

Cryptidverse

Contains:

Avians

Fae Folk

Bats

Lycanthropes

Naga

Vampire (not the "I Want To Drink The Sexy Neck Milkshake" kind lmao)

Wanderers

Will o' Wisp

Witherborn

Mothmen

Sirens

All of which include these variations of Sanses:

Nightmare

Cross

Killer

Dust

Horror

Farmer

Epic

Fresh

Error

Outer

Classic

Fell

Fatal Error

Geno

Reaper

Swap

Dream

Ink

Blueberror (Goes by Blue here)

They're all very much goobers- feel free to ask about them! Whether it's about them as characters or their worlds, environment, world building, societal norms, or in an x reader context!!

Tags are:

#Cryptidverse

#Arian's Cryptids

#Cryptidverse [Species

#[Species] [Sans]

[ant1quarian]

On a scale of “feasible with some minor dismemberment” to “Will require too many respawns to be worth it” are the Witherborn boys dateable as a human?

Depends entirely on who you're talking about!

Really depends on just how devoted you are to them, because they do remember scents and SOUL frequencies, so they'll know it's you.

Classic is probably "run for your life a couple times but you'll get away mostly without injury"

Red is probably "yeah you could do it- just expected to be attacked a couple times (I hope you have netherite gear and some pretty damn strong shields and God Apples if you want to live though)"

Dust is very likely closer to the whole "you will die several times, but eventually he'll just get tired of it and let you hang around (aka, he likes you)"

Nightmare, though, is very near the edge of "Will require too many respawns to be worth it."

So is Error and also likely Killer, but everyone's worth it if you hang around for long enough.

Feel free to ask more specifics on other Sanses if you wish :]

[ant1quarian]

How about someone using their datemate as hostage to get around the nether? Like a sword to their neck or something.

(All Witherborn Sanses or just some if you want)

NO I LEFT THIS IN MY DRAFTS FOR SO LONG HELP /silly

I'll do as many as pop into my head :D

Classic is. . . usually just a chill guy. Doesn't really lash out, not super territorial, but if you're in danger? This silly guy is pissed. The fact that your life is on the line worries him, sure, but he's hell of a lot faster than any measly human. He probably waits until the kidnapper is near their nether portal and then he strikes. I'd imagine there's quite the bloodbath.

Red is immediately pissed off. His keen senses pick up on the panic and worry radiating from your SOUL and he tracks you down instantly. If you're being actively threatened at that point he may silently stay in his festering rage for a bit until he sees an opening. The kidnapper dies, and you're going to have trouble leaving him for at least a day.

Dust is elusive- far more sneaky than any other out there- so he'll be right behind your kidnapper before anyone realises it. It's an absolute bloodbath, and Dust will keep them alive long enough to feel their limbs burning off from the lava he slowly dunks them into.

Killer is a sneaky little shit. Key words being: Little Shit. He'll probably turn up all nice and curious and non-threatening until your kidnapper turns their back and suddenly, they find themselves launched into a pit of lava.

( Feel free to ask for more/others! )

[ant1quarian]

Hello! Hope your day is going well!

This can be for either your Wither boys or the Avian boys, but in either case, if their partner was human there might be decent gaps in when they see each other again. (If I understand right, the Withers would typically prefer to stay in the Nether and the Avains have duties to preform for their flock.)

How would they react when they see their partner again? If they get lonely or miss them, how do they deal with it?

Thank you! (I hope your writs feel better, also! Take it easy when you can :] )

Why thank you! And I have been having a wonderful day!

I'll be answering this. . . semi-vaguely. Not super in depth but enough to give you a general understanding of how they'd feel.

With Witherborn, it's not always that they don't want to leave the Nether- it's usually that they can't. Unless they were initially summoned in the overworld, they will suffer extreme pain and burns from any form of water that touches them outside of the nether. Which means snow, water, ice, vapour, etc.

If they were summoned outside of it, that means they have this funky lil' ability to sort of "switch" between a more. . . skeleton-like creature and their usual witherborn self. Some even get human disguises.

Now, Witherborn are usually solitary creatures- save for a mate (or mates- it's not uncommon for them to have poly relationships) and maybe a couple kids.

But if that mate weren't to always be around, they would probably feel loneliness for the first time in their lives.

Killer, Error, Classic, Dream, and Swap are especially bad when it comes to missing their s/o. This does mean they will smother you in affection (in their own ways, as Error is still haphephobic here) as soon as you return.

Others like Nightmare, Horror, Fresh, Cross, Ink (who is a platonic mate) and Epic can go a bit longer without feeling too lonely, though they will still very muchly relish in your return and likely "kidnap" you for a while.

Dust, believe it or not, can actually go the longest without missing you. He'll still definitely remember you (and perhaps spiral down the thought process of "oh fuck did I do something wrong are they leaving me? are they even coming back?") but he isn't... overly lonely. He's used to being alone. He's been alone for a long while, after all- but whenever he's around others, they'll always comment that it seems as if he's missing someone. He always stands a bit to the side of the room as if he's making space for another someone to be. He doesn't get so much as lonely as he does melancholy and a bit bittersweet. When you return he'll be happy, but you won't notice too much more affection from him.

Make no mistake, he's definitely happy to have you back though.

( I'll reblonk this with the Avians' version later on)