#also my weakness: drawing both eyes 😔

[eiseryn]

That's not your hoodie, Lei, whose hoodie are you wearing there? 🤔🤔🤔

I really love the clothes sharing/ clothes "borrowing" trope because it's super domestic and cute 🥺🥺🥺 She's totally going to steal that hoodie until it doesn't smell like him anymore.

Clothes borrowing/sharing well work quite well... one sidedly XD because Vail's SIZ is 65 and Lei's SIZ is 50. Vail is supposed to be a short king though, only a few cm taller than Lei (who is 159cm) so we'll say Vail is 165cm (a few cm is relative, right?) Anyways to account for this gap in size it still works pretty well cuz I've always thought that Lei would have a very thin/narrow build -- kind of like a stick. Meanwhile, Vail has a STR of 70 and he has abs/muscles sooo this must mean he be THICC (LMAO) So this will be able to account for the difference. This unfortunately means he is not going to squeeze into any Lei clothes 😔

I don't know why she's acting shy though LOL because uh certain events occurred for this clothes borrowing to happen XD. I was also going to draw bite marks but uhmmm I tried and it didn't look good...

She is both babygirl and girlboss. Get a girl who can do both 😎

(TBH I also didn't wanna draw hands LOL)

BONUS: A slightly more suspicious version of the same drawing.

I will be drawing more slightly spicy art soon 👀 These two are on my brain and they bring me so much serotonin please bear with me as I go through this lei x vail phase... THAT WILL NOT END ANY TIME SOON CUZ I'M NOT PLAYING CAMPAIGNS ANY TIME SOON XD

Very important detail (no it's not) but Lei's thighs are one of her best features 💅 Very squishy and good to rest your head on. Her other nice feature is her natural green eyes which I think Vail is just a liiiitle weak to (IN MY HEADCANON)

[heartvisor]

quick akiyama scribble drawn before going to sleep 🌙

[kylermalloy]

Your last answer got me curious, what’s your opinion on Marcel? His relationship with Klaus?

Pretty much the same as all the other Mikaelson dynamics and characters—Marcel is a complex, well-rounded individual. He’s a terrible person. He does good things. He cares deeply for his family and would do anything for them.

His relationship with Klaus is fraught, tense, Freudian in the best of ways, and sooo interesting.

I remember when we first met Marcel, I was dubious of the way they were presenting him. Like I said in my response to Christina’s ask, I was afraid the pilot was setting Marcel up to be The Monster Klaus Created Who Is Worse Than Him. But they weren’t, so my fears were unfounded!

I was also wary of his backstory—were they trying to tell me that of all the atrocities Klaus witnessed (and committed) throughout the ages, slavery was where he drew a line? And in a universe where mind compulsion exists? But again, this show proved me wrong! (Yay, Klaus…isn’t against slavery? Well, he’s Problematique. Get over it.)

Although our first impressions of Marcel are of a loud, showy, charismatic version of Klaus with way more friends—that’s not who he is. The tyrant we meet who tortures witches and murders them in public is merely punishing them for the wrongs they committed against their own children. That’s not who he is, fundamentally—although he can draw on that side of his personality easily, having grown up with Klaus.

Speaking of Klaus! Marcel has grown up to be a slightly more mentally healthy adult than Klaus, despite them both having horrifically abusive childhoods. I don’t want to give Klaus too much credit, because he created as many problems as he remedied, but Marcel did have an adult in his life who cared for him—more than one, if we can count Rebekah and Elijah (😔). While Marcel clearly has Issues with his surrogate family, he takes lessons he learned from them and uses them to build his own community, his own kingdom. Some lessons he borrows from the Mikaelsons, and some he does the exact opposite. He trusts people. He makes alliances. He kills (mostly) as a last resort. But he’s still ruthless toward his enemies. He punishes those who step out of line. He’s conniving and manipulative and he can do it all with a big smile on his face.

I do think there’s a fair amount of projection going on with Klaus when he takes Marcel in. He wants to give this kid (also an abused bastard child) something he never believed he had—someone to look out for him, someone to care for him and protect him. But as he sees himself in Marcel, it’s hard to give him the unconditional love Klaus can never believe he’s worthy of. (It’s complicated.)

And of course, the people Klaus cares for become possessions in his eyes. He expects everyone he considers family all to revolve around him. This is why he resents Elijah for showing Marcel too much kindness—they shouldn’t be allowed to have a bond separate from him! This is why he daggers Rebekah for winning Marcel’s affections; in his eyes, they cannot love each other and him.

This is something Marcel carries with him throughout his life, I think—he tries to treat his own friends as their own people, allowing them much more agency and freedom. (see: him allowing Thierry to date a witch, even though Klaus exploits this connection—it’s a worthy price, if that’s what they want. In the same vein, he allows Davina out on the town when the witches are hunting her.) Though he does not always succeed—he still uses Davina for her powers, lying to her about the danger the witches pose. He is still part Mikaelson.

1x20 is still my favorite klarcel episode, because So Much happens. So much is said, and unsaid.

“How did I fail?”

“Maybe the scars just ran too deep.”

(Is he talking about his own scars, or Klaus’s? You decide.)

But then:

“You didn’t fail me. You taught me everything I know. You taught me I can’t be weak, not when my enemies are stronger. […] And I will fight until I’m dead.”

Because underneath the war they’re waging against each other, they genuinely care about each other. They consider it unfortunate now, but Klaus poured himself into his little Marcellus, for better or worse. Marcel grew up with Klaus. He knew what kind of person Klaus was. He knew firsthand, and he chose to become a vampire like Klaus anyway. Because just like Klaus, immortality can be terrible and awful but it can also be beautiful.

Gonna go cry.

Let me skip ahead to season 3, where their dynamic changes fundamentally again. Some of the narrative choices made in this season were iffy, so I am still on the fence about Marcel’s turn. Part of me thinks it was justified, part of me thinks it should have happened differently, and part of me thinks it was a big misstep.

Marcel turning on Klaus and demanding he answer for his crimes would make sense in a different narrative than the one we were in. The events that turned Marcel against the Mikaelsons this time were committed not by Klaus, but by Freya and Elijah. Having Klaus be the target of his vengeance would’ve made sense…a season ago. Not now. Not with the moral code we’ve been going with.

But I digress.

I think this is a perfectly natural turn for the klarcel relationship to take—Marcel positions himself as a moral arbiter, above Klaus in every way, although…well, he’s not. Marcel has aided and abetted, he’s slaughtered indiscriminately before. There’s some truth to how he condemns Klaus, but there’s also some self-righteousness—as any conflict on TO should have. (These are all still, fundamentally, terrible people.)

Unfortunately, though, this conflict is much more about Klaus than it is Marcel, and their interactions during the trial are rather underwhelming. It’s not about Klaus relating to Marcel as the boy he raised, it’s about Klaus using his wits and his awfulness to stay alive.

I do think there is a certain poetry to Marcel *leveling up* and becoming more powerful than Klaus, and immediately becoming judge, jury, and executioner. Only he is powerful enough to punish the Mikaelsons for their crimes, and he will do so. Oh, he will do so. There’s a certain Mikaelson-esque arrogance in that. The god-king of New Orleans.

I shan’t go into how in season 4, Marcel has apparently ruled the city peacefully for five years now that the Mikaelsons are gone (what happened to the gang wars? Factions committing terrorism on each other?) and by then the show has strayed a lot from its original atmosphere. And its characterization.

I’ll say I like Klaus admitting in season 4 that he was not a good father to Marcel, but like. Come on. We knew that. He knew that. It seems more like a step in the writers’ plan to dismiss all Mikaelsons forever as Evil And Bad Because We Can’t Promote Bad Messages For The Kids On This Show About Murderous Immortal Bloodsuckers. Like, pick a lane, guys!

…okay, this ask has rather gone off the rails. Suffice to say I adore the angst, the ambiguity, the love/hate of klarcel. Wish there had been more nuance in the later seasons.

[sk3tch404]

I gotchu fam, us Ren'py users must stick together after all, even when our code doesn't wanna cooperate with us and throw the computer equivalent of a temper tantrum, just because we forgot a line break or a : 😔✊

As for the aforementioned OC, uhhhh

https://imgur.com/a/6Fz9hff

Full credits to my friend for the drawing, cause she's also the co-creator of our boy 🙏

Infodumping time: he's basically part of a whole batch of animal hybrid OCs for a hypothetical game and yk what I'm just gonna copy paste a discord essay I wrote about him on "why he can't be a yandere in my eyes" <- literally what I wrote last year

Mosquitö

Haha, look at this lil chuunibyou motherfucker, also has a case of weak twink syndrome who doesn't and refuses to work out, he claims that gaining muscles would make him look less like an evil seductive vampire, but everyone knows that it's actually because the dude can't even lift the lightest of weights at the gym and was too embarrassed to return to the gym for a second time because of said incident. Would also be too intimidated by you after your first encounter because he genuinely just doesn't rlly talk to anyone for more than 30secs, and that's with the old ladies in his neighbourhood if anything he just gets excited that ur not put off by his behaviour and already treasures the fact that u still put up with him and don't just straight up leave after the first encounter like most other ppl he's met.

I think my friend also has a doc w his general character info but I don't have it at hand rn so 🤷‍♀️

Hope ya enjoy!

-Ren'py anon

Oh

my

god

HE"S HOT?!?!?!?!?

tbh I was expecting a hacker nonny situation.

YOUR FRIEND IS SO TALENTED

FUCK HE"S SUCH A VAMPIRE ANIME BOY I LOVE IT

IDC IF HE"S A MOSQUITO HYBRID HE CAN SUCK MY BLOOD ANY DAY AND THROW ME AWAY

I love this little character summary! It's way different than from the whole, 'hot 18th century vampire that looks down on mortals'. He actually has issues and has a effective comedic effect on him.

And it's kind of sweet that he only talks to the old ladies lol

He's so anxious that he's even scared of talking to the elderly people around :o that's so me

Wow both of our vampire OC's don't go to the gym 😍😍😍 I just blame my OC's muscle on vampire genetics, but yours is way more fun.

We can literally overpower him if we have some sort of constant past physical activity, so i guess that means he's more of a nice and docile yandere? Or maybe he has a short temper now that he's a itty bitty obsessed 😫

The OC's route I'm working on is kind of like yours! He's anxious, doesn't talk much unless player heavily starts the convo, and gets obsessed because player is one of the only people who was REALLY nice to him.

They should hang out tbh.

Yandere playdate!!! 🥺🥺🥺 Awww they're so quiet and akward... Oh wait. Oh shit they're conspiring together.

AW FUCK DON'T BUST OUT THE ROPE-

Please hand the character info over if you can! I would love to draw my OC and yours together sometime!

[bottomvalerius]

Okay actually fuck it more random tid bits of information about them featuring Namar as they’re a packaged deal okay

As soon as Sam was appointed Duke, Nasrin immediately began digging into his history (or like ya know…. Having other people do it lol) Sam is Not Trust Worthy, but also he can’t really do anything to her as she’s That Bitch, hence why she even allowed him to buy his title.

Knows that he had served under Mara and knows that Mara was an outspoken anti-loyalist, which Nasrin finds more interesting than distressing. Mara is dead and Sam is now in her court; she could easily snuff him out if he ever did want to try anything, and the two both know this.

Also has an inkling they’ve met before, and it draws her closer to him. That and his very open dislike of her make her go 🥰 “I wish to observe you under a microscope…. I wish to know what makes you tick… I want to shake you around a snow globe.”

Namar just thinks he’s hot and wants to A) tap that ass and B) take that strap however he likes ya know 🥱🥱

More stuff under cut that’s spicy in nature lmao CW for D/S dynamics/discussions

Sam is much more at ease with Namar; he’s just a consort, and he’s objectively funny and charming. Whenever Sam’s summoned to the palace, he spends his free time with Namar and the other consorts. Nasrin keeps him out of the main parts of the palace (especially from her kids lol), but Sam doesn’t mind this: he knows when he’s called there it’s not really for official matters but so that he can be something Nasrin can let out some steam on lmao

Namar totally did Sam’s makeup on his first stay at the palace and is also why Sam now wears it in his day to day. Sam denies this but Namar always makes sure to rub it in that he got his halo-eye skills from him 😘

Nasrin and Sam’s dynamic is very much a “You’re not built like my other consorts; I want to break you” vs “Just try and fucking break me” dynamic 🤭 But at the same time, she dotes on him quite a lot, which Sam begrudgingly accepts. Very hot and cold dynamic, but at the end of the day, Sam is mainly just a very fun distraction for Nasrin, and Nasrin is a (though he’d never say this) nice break from normality for Sam.

Also like. She’s objectively very hot and he’s a weak, horny man at the end of the day 😔

Unlike with other people, Nasrin doesn’t have to engage in hand to hand combat to dom Sam the Man lmfao it’s pretty much unspoken that she’s always going to take the reigns, and Sam is at his most submissive and passive with her.

Nasrin activates Sam’s repressed Mommy issues and he just. Has to deal with it. LMFAO their visits always leave him feeling Some Sort of Way and he needs like at least two weeks of isolation to recover LMAO then immediately goes back to “the empress isnt shit” and the cycle starts again :’)

been thinking a lot about younger Sam days and by proxy also younger Nasrin/freskly crowned Empress Nasrin and out of all the thoughts stirring in my head, I just..... really enjoy the thought of Nasrin actually having hot pink hair in her youth to match her Barbie Dream House Palace :')))