#but they did accidentally upset him by asking him if he was joking about liches. oops. he forgave them though

[selunesfavouriteprincess]

what a great trip. just me, peepaw, and the disembodied necrotic hand that haunts my waking nightmares

[vikkirosko]

Hi! How Finn, Jake and Bubblegum reacted to the reader, who is the wife of the Lich.

Platonic headcanons Lich's wife

🎒 Finn Mertens x fem!Reader 🗡

Finn learned from his own experience how dangerous Lich was. Their first encounter did not go unnoticed for him, but sometimes he wondered what the life of such a frightening creature had been like before. No one could answer this question, because very few people knew anything about Lich. That's what he thought until he accidentally met you

You were somewhat similar to him, to an ordinary human, if not for the fact that in places you were still different from ordinary people. Your distinctive features were not very noticeable, but they were there all the same. At first, you just talked. You were smart and knew a lot, it would seem, even what Bubblegum did not know. Once he voiced his thoughts about Lich aloud in your presence, expecting you to tell him some theory, an old legend, or just keep quiet, but you spoke as if you were telling about some of your memories, and your words were surprisingly accurate. He just couldn't help but ask you how you knew that. Your answer startled him

You were Lich's wife. These were the most unexpected words he had ever heard. At first, Finn thought you were joking like that, but looking at your face, he realized that you were serious. You reassured him by saying that you don't share your husband's goals and you're not going to set him free. You understood that what he did was terrible and that it would be better for the whole world if he never came back. He wanted to believe your words, because he had become attached to you and did not want you to become enemies

You continued to live the same way as before. You already had your own life and you weren't going to lose it for the vague chance of reuniting with your husband. You were even ready to help stop him if the need arose, and while it was peacetime, you could calmly communicate with Finn and teach him what he could not learn himself. You were really glad that there was a new person in your life with whom you could share your knowledge

🐶 Jake x fem!Reader 🥪

You and Jake have known each other for a long time. At first he thought that you were human and that you could get along with his brother, but then he realized that he was mistaken. You weren't human, but that didn't mean he couldn't make friends with you. You saw each other a lot, talked about various topics. You could support different topics during your conversations and were ready to listen. Even when he was telling you about his family, about his children

You listened to his stories, but honestly admitted that there was little you could do to help him with this, because even though you were married, you never had children. Your words surprised him. You've never talked about being married before. He was interested in learning more about it and asked a lot of questions. You told him about your family life, that you hadn't seen your husband for a very long time, but you weren't too upset about it. You talked about your husband as if you doubted you'd ever see him again. But when Jake asked you who your husband was, you were silent for a moment, and then you said something he didn't expect. You were Lich's wife

He wasn't sure what he was more surprised about, that Lich even had a wife or that a good person like you voluntarily tied his life to Lich. You told him that you didn't like to tell others about your husband, because you didn't want others to think you were a villain because of who Lich was. You knew perfectly well that he had done terrible things and you did not think to justify him. He got what he deserved and you intended to live your life without him, but he was still your husband

Jake's opinion of you hasn't changed. You were still his friend and you still had a great time together when you had the opportunity. You didn't talk about your husband, but you were still always ready to listen to his stories about his children or his beloved. Even Lich couldn't destroy your friendship

🍬 Princess Bubblegum x fem!Reader 🧪

Princess Bubblegum was one of those who knew a lot about Lich. She made sure that he didn't get free for a long time, and when he was, like, finished, she hoped that she would never think about him again. But she didn't expect to meet someone who knows even more about the Lich than she does. It was you. Outwardly, you were quite ordinary, but you knew a lot, as if you had lived for a very long time. The princess liked talking to you and you discussed a variety of topics, but the fact that you knew a lot about Lich bothered her. That's why she decided to ask you how you know so much. When she heard your answer, she was shocked. You were Lich's wife

She demanded an explanation from you and you calmly told her that your relationship with Lich was the events of days gone by, that you had not seen him for many years and, frankly, did not want to see him. You were well aware of the atrocities he had done and wanted to do, and you were not going to have anything to do with him. Besides, he cursed you in a way. It was because of him that you were still alive, even though you should have died of old age many years ago

You knew Bubblegum was a scientist, so you asked her if she could rid you of the curse of eternal life. You've been trying to find a way to get your normal life span back, but your search has yielded nothing. She promised you to try to look for some options, but immediately warned you that it was far from a fact that you would be able to find something. You understood that, but you were still grateful to her for agreeing to at least try to help you

You didn't know how long you would be alive, so you decided to help the princess. You told her what you knew, wishing that even after your death, your knowledge would be useful to others. Your immortality had its own advantage, because it was thanks to this that you were able to learn so much and meet so many new people. You didn't regret that you could live so long

[creative-cauldron]

Inter-party Conflict, the Horrors of Bleed, and DM-Style

I know I promised more on Cardinal but I got a few specifics to figure out and something happened that I wanted to talk about. So, I’ve been participating in some one-shots recently and what happened occurred at the one I played in this past weekend. It was D&D 5e with the DM running a mystery-horror setting, basic set-up being a random spooky mansion in the middle of the woods filled with death traps and strange magic. Fun right. It gets better because it turns out the place is a home to a lich who is trying to bring back his long dead family through various necromantic experiments. We were a party of three; me a halfling arcane trickster, the elven trickery cleric, and a human fighter (forget the subclass). All character were pre-made by the DM at level 7.

Me and the fighter had good banter going with both of us playing our characters as sort of goofy characters who are constantly making jokes. I think we both just subconsciously decided that we were going to play that type of character that makes light of any situation. The cleric though was being played by a player who had only played in few one-shots and didn’t keep up with our character’s humor. Whether it was a a character choice or not I’m not sure, but I don’t think it was. Not a big deal though me and him formed what seemed at first to be some fun friendly rivalry, when I told him to go first walk across a trapped puzzle floor citing age before beauty. The fighter also joined in on this but kept repeating the more targeted jokes and started only referring to the cleric as age. Why didn’t I disable it as the rogue you asked, well because it turns out that my rogue didn’t have thieves’ tools, something the DM made sure of when making the character. 

This was the first flag, and issue that I had with the DM. They designed the characters with the goal of making them unsuited for the one-shot. Another example being that there was Deep Speech everywhere and they said they made sure that none of the character options knew Deep Speech and no one had access to Comprehend Languages. Now there might have been some item or something in the mansion that would allow us to read Deep Speech but I kinda doubt it. Our characters were almost designed to fail, something I felt especially when I realized that all of my spells didn’t work against Undead or Constructs which were all that we were fighting. The exception was Invisibility which when I cast it on myself was useless because the creature I was running away from didn’t rely on sight. I was frustrated but it was a one-shot. Our cleric was not so accepting go. It didn’t help that this was his first time playing a full caster and he blew most of his spells on a homebrewed golem with magic resistance. 

Things got worse for him when we encountered the Lich. I had maintained my invisibility and was scouting but it didn’t matter because I forgot that Liches get truesight. So I was captured and, using my brains, suggested he question me about why we were in his house while being magically prevented from lying. The reason why was because well we had technically done anything that wrong, we were a little railroaded with the way our characters were designed and surprisingly, our characters were invited into the house by a mysterious voice, we didn’t just barge in. After that the rooms were basically just one after another each with really only one door, and no details were given about the room until we asked to perceive the room. We didn’t even know there was a door, just that this was a dining room, a parlor, or whatever have you. Anyway during the questioning I accidentally lied because when he asked had I touched this NPC boy he had kidnapped I said no because I forgot that one round of combat when another player “put him on my back” before taking him back the next turn. 

So I was in the hands of a deranged Lich who I just accidentally pissed off as he marched after the aforementioned child. The fighter was in another room with the child who we find out was getting the soul of the Lich’s son put into him and the two souls were fighting but the Lich’s son had just one. The fighter had been really good about building a relationship with this boy before the “personality change” and then went on to build a great relationship with the new child in the few second before the Lich arrived, somehow (mostly dice rolls, but also a little of the DM’s showing a slight bit of favor). Due to his relationship with the boy and the fact that he had actively worked to keep the child unharmed, the Lich was okay with him, and you guess it, the fighter starts to betray the party. The cleric meanwhile, was in a little girl’s room and soon discovered the zombified daughter of the Lich, then starts playing dolls with her, then realizes that the dolls were former intruders into the mansion who are still kinda sentient but tortured. Then when the Lich entered, with me in his grasp and the fighter following behind, the daughter decides she wants the Cleric as a new doll.

This is were things really go downhill especially for our. The Cleric is put in a cell, the Fighter got the Lich to let me and him leave, but I don’t want to leave the Cleric behind. So the Fighter is talking with the Lich and the Zombie while I try to get the Cleric out of the cage (I eventually found Thieves’ Tool in the mansion). However, as the Fighter is talking he officially accepts a job as the the kids nanny, which means he’s gonna do whatever it takes to make the kids happy. If you haven’t put it together yet that means stopping me from getting the Cleric out of there. So now I and the Cleric are fighting our Fighter while the Cleric is still trapped in a cage which the Fighter is keeping held shut. I’m happy at first because I can start using my spells since they work on the Fighter, but get annoyed when they don’t really work. The sleep was my fault for using it too early, but the charm person was him trying to find a loophole which I’m a little upset the DM allowed. Basically I told him to stop holding the cage door closed and let the Cleric out. He stop actively holding the cage closed and instead just leaned up against it. 

Meanwhile, the Cleric was having horrible rolls to attack the fighter and was getting frustrated. Luckily the Lich wasn’t paying attention to us because it got distracted by his ghost wife who had been helping us. So our boss battle was us trying to kill the Fighter while he tried to keep us distracted long enough for the Lich to turn the Cleric into a necromantic doll. What was annoying was the whole time Fighter kept making jokes about how he was trying to help the Cleric achieve immortality. When the lich finally got back to us he decided he was done playing around with us. I got my soul put in a gargoyle which was apparently always sitting on fireplace mantle which was always in the dining room we walked through before. The DM was running theatre of the mind, which is fine, but my problem with them is that they never truly painted a well enough picture of the scene to do that. I eventually managed to escape back to my body and get out though. Meanwhile, the Cleric was sent to a room we have never been in before and strung up awaiting to be turned into a doll. He does manage to escape and after asking to perceive the room notes that there is a closet and hides in it. The fighter eventually comes in following the daughter and immediately goes for the closet. 

This is when the player playing the Cleric gets real mad and start telling the Fighter to stop meta-gaming, claiming he had been doing it all night. Had he been, a little, nothing major. It made sense for Fighter to check the closet when he found the room empty, but he did have the luxury of not having to ask if the closet was there in the first place. He was getting the benefit of slight favoritism from the DM because he was a source of constant weird and interesting ideas. The problem ultimately was poorly managed bleed. If you don’t know bleed is when emotions, skills, and thoughts carry over from player to player character or vice a versa. The Cleric was feeling betrayed and so the Cleric’s player was feeling betrayed. I picked up on the favoritism the DM showed to the Fighter’s player and it annoyed me as a player and I’m sure the Cleric’s player picked up on it. That frustration mixed with the in character frustrations, the frustration at the poor rolls he’d been having, and he boiled over. The DM did defend the Fighter’s player, which I wish wasn’t the first thing out of their mouth, but ultimately they helped the Cleric deal with their frustrations in character by coming up with creative solutions to their situation. Luckily the session ended soon after and we talked a little about the tension before packing up. 

Ultimately, emotions are weird and difficult. People have enough trouble with emotions when they only have their own to control. I don’t hate the DM, they had a style that worked with players who are used to them but if you aren’t it is a little clunky to work with. Narrative heavy which is great but super fluid, they didn’t even use initiative for turn order so that it doesn’t break the narrative flow of the scene and everything was time sensitive so if you want to stop in think, you can’t. It was cool to play with I just wish they toned their style to the table and were a little better at reading and addressing the problems that were forming. All-in-all though not sure I would have done better but I know I would have done it differently and maybe our Cleric needed different, maybe not.